Meme time!

I got this from The Big Trade-Off, one of my favorite mommy blogs. These are things that I would be (as opposed to things that I like)

If I Were a ______ What Would I Be?

(as a preface, i think that this may make me seem more cool than i am – those of you who know me in real life will realize this quickly; for others, you will probably realize that this is the nature of the beast; either you have to make yourself seem cool, or else you need a self deprecating sense of humor; i’m no good at the self deprecation)

CAR: i think i’d be a VW jetta; clean lines, kind of preppy/weird

Book: i don’t really………….read…no j/k. if i were a book, i think i’d be ‘men are from mars, women are from venus’ — don’t ask why. this is the best i could think of.

Movie: the emperor’s new groove; that’s just my weird sense of humor; i laugh so much at that movie…

Weather: sunny and clear, with passing thunderstorms (migraines)

Drink: dr. pepper – best soda ever; has kind of a fun and DELICIOUS taste, different from all the other colas

Ice Cream Flavor: it’s gotta be moose tracks — i just love it soooo much , that’s what i’ve GOT to be

Song or Genre of Music: classical; i’m a by-the-books kind of gal; probably more so than i’d like.

Shoe: black heels; i’d rather be overdressed than underdressed; i feel like they go with pretty much everything. also, just for the record, i’ve got to mention that i seriously <3 shoes. big time.

Website: homestarrunner.com – i seriously love this site; yes i know i’m a total geek

Food: ICE CREAM: not that i. ‘m cold and spiteful, but just that i feel like there are many different types of people i get along with; i love to meet people who are different from me, and learn from them -

Tag yourself and leave your link in the comments!

what?!?

i’m pretty sure that kids should come with instruction manuals. for instance, last night, my charge says ‘i don’t like my sauce heated. don’t heat my sauce please.’ what”?!? who eats hot pasta with cold marinara sauce? odd. the peculiarities continue. it’s like she thinks I”M the strange one; i tried having the ‘i’m not exactly the same as your mom; we do some things DIFFERENTLY’ talk with her. but….this was clearly ineffectual, as her oddities continue….as we were shopping, she declared that ’sour cream is not good for her, her mom told hr that from the beginning’ (what?>!)……i know she’s not allergic — i think she was trying to tell me she doesn’t like sour cream. but – i’m talkin about sour cream and onion chips, you know?

and lastly, she pretty much had a conniption fit when she couldn’t get to the barbie.com website. while i’m sympathetic to her situation, the i haed jut bonked my head (i’d like to say she was kind when this happened, but actually she laughed) six year olds. this babysitting thing = tough.

monday, monday — so good to me…

it’s been something of a crazy day. tonight starts our short foray into child care. my sister is on vacation, so we’re staying at her house and taking care of her six-year old daughter. so i of course spent most of the day getting ready to come here, packing, cleaning, taking things out to the trash, etc. now we’re here, and i’m coming to you LIVE from my sister’s house! magnificent.

right now my ‘charge’ is playing Sims; yelling at one of her creations to ‘use the toilet!’ earlier, there was a fire in the house, and the dad died. not one to lose any time or emotion over this, she told me she ‘thought she could make another dad.’ well then. i guess so!

all in all, i’ve been feeling pretty good today. even with all the preparations. this is good. thanks for visiting, fair reader.

it’s Friiiiiiiiiiiiiiday!

i’ve taken a little blogging hiatus — i wish i could say there was a reason, but truly there isn’t much of one. one bit of excitement; i found the settlers of catan online; a game you can download, so i’ve played that a few times.

also my husband is going camping for a little part of this weekend, with the church’s young men; on cue, it started snowing this morning. so i’m somewhat concerned about their freezing to death/catching pneumonia….you know.

so if you *really* want to know the reason i’m blogging now, it’s because my kitchen is a mess and i’m putting off cleaning it. there! I SAID IT!

an update for TUESDAY!

not a lot to say really; for those (few) of you who follow this blog, we STILL have not turned on the heat; salt lake city temp is going strong at 25 degrees; at this time i have two pairs of socks on, as well as a jacket over my long sleeved t-shirt. please don’t worry about us, we’re not so poor that we couldn’t turn on the heat; we are just cheap. soooooooo we’re gonna go as long as we can w/out turning it on. my feet are nice and toasty.

also, i went to the craft store with my sister and picked out wreath makings. i somewhat made a christmas wreath, but truly it was more like assembling parts….now i’m going to for real make a wreath. i enjoy so much having it on the front door; the christmas one is still there! so i’m going to make a spring wreath; it is a twig base, and then will have silk daisies and mini daffodils on it; as well as a blue and white gingham ribbon. sounds cute. we shall see.

currently listening to: lizz wright…a new cd we got by default from BMG. don’t ask. anyways, i am really liking most of the tracks. the girl is seriously good looking. but in any case — rock on.

welcome to monday!

hopefully yours is starting off as well as mine! i’m in a surprisingly good mood today, optimistic and looking forward to getting things done. our apartment is **CLEAN** so i’m sure that has something to do with my elation. i love love love having my house clean; it makes me feel like i can tackle anything!

today what i really need to tackle is just the grocery shopping!

up up and away!

learning something new every day..

well i’m feeling better today; this is good. i read the two weeks’ worth of newspapers that had stacked up. some cool (and not so cool) stuff has been going on. since ya’ll probably read the news, i won’t bore you with that. i also talked to my sister for the first time in a while; that was good. her family is doing good.

spencer and i had ramen for lunch; when i brought it over to him he goes ‘where’s the broth?’ and i’m thinking……broth? he leaves the water in so that ramen is like a soup…..in my family we’ve always drained it out so there was just flavored noodles. neat. love to learn something new about my hubby! sadly, though it meant he got dry noodles.

everything’s here, wish you were fine…

so i’m still sick, but i think i’m improving! i am working on eating really plain, easy to digest foods. for lunch: applesauce and pasta. the pasta has no sauce. soooo hopefully tonight i’ll be feeling better. last night was miserable; if i moved, i felt ike i was going to puke. sometimes even when i didn’t move, i’d think i was gonna puke, so i’d have to run to the bathroom, which only induced more feelings of nausea……miraculously, i never ACTUALLY threw up. i just felt like i was going to a lot of the time.

so hopefully i’m on the upswing.

no car alarms last night, or if there were i didn’t hear them (thank you nyquil)…..

we have also made plans to have friends over on sunday for dinner, i’m excited to see them again. they’re a couple we knew from BYU, and he is undergoing some career changes, so i’m excited to hear about that. and SHE is pregnant, so i always love to hear about THAT! babies, baby plans, etc. you know. girl stuff..

the joys of apartment living….

so last night, right about 3:52 am, a car alarm starts going off outside. in case that wasn’t enough, it went on (uninterrupted) for thirty more minutes. the noise went something like this: BWEEP BAP BAP BAP BWEEP BAP BAP BAP …….ad nauseum. even with earplugs in, i could still clearly hear this car alarm. after about ten minutes, i decided that the owner must be blissfully asleep in the apartment complex, too far away to hear his car alarm. unfortunately for those of us right next to the parking lot, he probably wouldn’t notice till 6 or 7 the next morning, whenever he usually leaves for the day. wow. the full weight of that idea had hit me, and i was trying valiantly to get some sleep when FINALLY someone shut it off. i hope that it was the owner. but if it were someone else…….i hope they didn’t steal it.

isn’t it interesting that car alarms are so different from house alarms? no one goes running up to a car when the alarm goes off, because they go off accidentally ALL THE TIME! people pay no attention to car alarms at all! i’m pretty sure we need something new.

in any case, i’m sick again with what i had earlier this month. at least it seems like the same thing to me. sick.