Mind Your Manners

Maggie is a genius! I wish I had this last Monday to pass out to all of the violators.

Three Down, One to Go

I finished the third book in the Twilight series, Eclipse.

This one was just as good as the other two. The difference being that at some points I had to put it down, even if only for a few minutes. I was so mad at 'Bella' at times that I just wanted to shake her! She put her self in terrible situations at times. In the end it hurt her and the two she loves to make a choice, the right choice in my opinion, the one I would have chosen.

The Husband stopped by the store this evening to pick up the last of the series, Breaking Dawn. I know how this one starts, but thats all I know. I cant wait to see how it ends.

dilemma

I have a new minor dilemma.

Do I play with my new laptop tonight? Or do I finish reading Eclipse?

Read or play, read or play?

I think I'll read.

And on to the next one

And on to the next one. By that I mean the third.

I read Twilight in 5 days, only two days longer than it took me to read the final Harry Potter. I finished it on Saturday afternoon and was reading the second book about two hours later.

I have never cried more while reading a book than I did New Moon. It is such an emotional story, and it was told extremely well. I could almost physically feel her pain; my heart skipping a beat with hers. I read it in about 22 hours. Only stopping to eat, sleep, pee and snow-blow the drive way.

These books are great. But I’m not going to tell you that I am in love with a 17 year old vampire, I’ll leave that for the more dramatic. I just love the love story, the unconditional love. I don’t know how to adequately explain the way these books make me feel without sounding obsessed or crazy. They’ve touched me.

The Husband and I went to see the Twilight movie this evening. I guess it wasn’t too bad. I wish the acting was a bit better though. I knew what was supposed to be going on in the characters’ minds. The emotional struggle he was going through was depicted well in the book but on the screen, he just looked like he was going to throw up. The love story was not well developed; they just sort of skipped to the professing of their eternal love without all of the falling in love. I guess you could say that I am a bit bummed by it. I wanted it to be better.

On to the third, Eclipse.

admitting

I am almost embarrassed to admit this...

I've been reading Twilight, and I like it.

I feel like I'm betraying Harry Potter.

Thanksgiving Excitement

I am excited for Thanksgiving. I am hosting at my house for the second year in a row. This time my mom and brother are coming where as last year The Husband’s mom and grandparents came.

It’s the preparation that I’m excited about. I love creating the menu, setting the table, deciding what dish the potatoes will be served in and the general tradition of it all. I am excited to take some of the traditions that my grandma had while I was growing up and carrying them on at my house.

I can’t wait. I know I will be in my element. I love cooking for others. I am actually a little bummed that my mom is making as much as she is. I selfishly want this to be my thing, my day, and my achievement. This is the kind of attention I like. Making other people happy makes me happy. My brother would say making other people fat makes me happy with as much food that will be on my table.

I told The Husband that we will be hosting Thanksgiving dinner at our house every year from now on. We’ll just rotate between my family and his and maybe some day we’ll have a house and a kitchen big enough to have both of our families. Sure it’s a little cramped and the dinning room table has to be taken apart and moved into the living room just so that nine people can eat but I don’t care. I love having everyone at one table, its important to me. No kids table needed, they are part of the family too you know.

Maybe after it’s all said and done, I’ll still have enough energy to go bowling with my dad’s family later that night. And if I’m really lucky, early morning shopping on Black Friday.

Cannot Freaking Wait

Thanks Erin of "Seriously?" I would not have seen this without you posting it first.

The Haunt

I said it last year, and I'll say it again. I'm not paying someone $9 to scare the shit out of me, make me pee my pants and sleep with the light on! I'm just not doing it.

Stacie isn't either, Tim!

Right Here in the Middle

I love hanging out with the girls but for some reason I couldn't handle all of the, "since we've had kids we... fill-in-the-blank" conversation this weekend. No offense girls, I needed to get away. I have always been the type of girl that would rather hang out with the guys.

Missie said it best, I'm stuck in the middle, I just can't get involved in the motherhood conversations but its not always cool to get wasted anymore either. I'm stuck between being a newly wed and motherhood. I love these people. I haven't felt this close to friends since high school. It's just that sometimes I don't feel like I fit in.

Stacie Was a No Show

Nope, Stacie didn't show up at the get together this weekend, and that's a good thing. We didn't get to see Hans either. We did all have a great time, even the kids. The hay ride was a blast and I got a lot of cool pictures of the fall colors and of my friends and their families. The Husband and I got some good pictures taken of us as well. I really enjoyed myself, I hung out with the girls inside and then the guys outside. It was a nice cool clear and crisp night, I wish we had stars at home like they do.

We Can Make Plans

I'm so excited, The Husband and I have plans for the weekend.
Maybe a football game at my old high school tonight, they put in a new 'stadium' a couple years ago and I haven't seen it yet.
Then Saturday morning, we're going to see my niece and nephew's soccer games. This is the only Saturday that all three of them play at different times. We can actually watch all of their individual games without having to run across the field at half time of one to catch the next one.
Early Saturday afternoon I get to make food because we are headed to a friends house. The Lake friends are getting together for a hay ride and a bonfire. Woot, woot! I can't wait to see all of them, maybe even Stacie and Hans can hang out. (Hans is my friend's drinking name, he has been known to dance on his own table.)

Untitled

A few days ago I was browsing around the itunes music store when a song popped into my head. I quickly typed "Domestic Problems" in the search engine and hit enter. I didn't expect the song I wanted to be listed, after all it wasn't this past spring. As I anxiously scrolled through the listed songs I found it. I played the preview (why is it a preview, I'm just listening) and was disappointed, not the version I wanted. Then I sorted the songs by title... there in the list was the title of the song I was looking for, three of them. Three versions of my second favorite song in the world. One of the three listed had that all important word behind it, acoustic. Without hesitation I bought the 6minute and 40second song "Untitled". I was elated, I jumped up and down, I did 'the-happy-white-girl-dance' then I synced my pod. I promptly marched into the living room plugged the pod into the stereo, cranked it up and sang along...twice!

I can tell you the story
battles never won
people standing blindly
out of reach of the sun

And I'm telling you
that I am in love woah
I am in love
I am in love
with a girl that
holds me with her eyes

voices surround me
bicker and i shame(?)
I wish with a passion
why can’t she feel the same

and I'm telling you that
I am in love woah
I am in love
I am in love
with a girl that
holds me with her eyes

trying to be a friend
and maybe that it'll be
I know what i feel inside
please see the beauty in me woah
please see the beauty in me woah
please see the beauty in me...

my heart feels empty
soul shakin' pain
I wish I could hold her
man I lose but I gain

and I'm telling you that
I am in love woah
I am in love
I am in love
with a girl that
holds me with her eyes
and I'm telling you that
I am in love woah
I am in love
I am in love
with a girl that
holds me with her eyes woah
holds me with her eyes woah
holds me with her eyes...

Domestic Problems Untitled

My friend Patti and I would sit in her mom's hot tub and sing our favorite songs. This was one of the songs we would sing often times more than once. I don't remember the first time I heard it or how long I've known it, I just feel that I alway have. I sing it in the shower, I sing it when I shovel snow, rake leaves, or while mowing the lawn. I sing it when I am in a hot tub with or without Patti. I, like Patti, write the lyrics on my note pad rather than doodling. This song is a part of me.

Collar Bones

I'm just a little excited! I can see the outline of my collar bones! Do you have any idea how long its been since I've seen them? I don't even know if I can see them in my wedding pictures! just one of the awesome side effects of loosing 18lbs!

Stacie Was Here

Stacie is not my real name. It is a nick name that I picked up a year or two ago. I am Stacie when I am drunk and I talk about Stacie like she and I were close friends. There is no way I would do half the things Stacie does.

Stacie was here. It even says so on the pavement outside of my friends trailer in white side-walk-chalk. Holy crap Stacie had a good time! I think she kissed a girl, in front of my husband, I also think she showed her boob. Most importantly she and I learned some valuable lessons:

1. Do not head bang after doing three tequila shots. Stacie may have enjoyed it and she may have even thought she looked good doing it. I on the other hand have had whip lash ever since. No good.

2. Don't mix many types of alcohol. If youre gonna drink tequila, drink tequila. Don't start with homemade kahulah, then take a swig of Rum Runner, then a swig of Apple Pucker, back to the Rum Runner, and oh, Tequila Rose, Rum Runner! Three rounds of lick it, slam it, suck it, then lets sprinkle some more kahulah in between all of that. And top it off with some beer. Again, no good.

3. While I may know my limits, Stacie does not. Stacie got sick in my aunt's yard. Then I got sick in R&L's yard. Then I got sick on some one else's yard. Why is it that Stacie threw up once and I had to deal with the rest? This is a first for both Stacie and myself, we have never thrown up from too much alcohol. No good.

4. Did you know that if you down a bottle of cold water, 20 minutes later, when it comes back up it's still cold?

5. I believe that if Stacie and I didn't throw up I would have been so hung-over. I really wasn't, I just downed a bunch of coffee and then gator aid and I was good to go.

Its nice to see my friend Stacie every once and a while but I'm pretty sure she wont be back for a few months or so. The thought of beer or liquor makes me want to gag.

Sweat Pants and Shirts

I feel like I have been waiting to put on my comfey pants and a sweat shirt forever and today I can. I love it. Its cool outside, raining and it feels so good to comfey up. My tea is steeping and I am ready to sit down, watch some football with The Husband and knit.

Yes, I said knit. I don't know how to read or even follow a pattern, its all trial and error. Lately Ive been knitting felted purses. I've done two of them and have not been to ecstatic about them and am hoping I have learned enough from them to have my third come out looking cool. It has to, I've spent too much on yarn for it to suck.

In addition to knitting I also cross-stitch and crochet. I have been working on the same cross-stitch project for about two years now, about a total of 30 hours on it and I am still not done. I was making it for a friend's baby and then realized that she would no have a clue as too how much time I put into it so I quit working on it. Later I picked it up again, I thought I would keep working on it for my self for my some-day baby. Then I realized I made a mistake and can't find where. So, again, I stopped working on it. It is about 2/3 of the way done. I wanted to take it to my favorite yarn and needle work shop for help but the shop went out of business. Maybe some day I'll pick it back up and actually finish it...

Today, I'll keep working on the latest purse and hope this one turns out. Gatta go watch the Packers kick ass without Bret Favre, one can hope right?

This Reminds Me

This weather reminds me of the summer of 2002 when I worked for the City Parks and Recreation department. I was a grounds-keeper seasonal with another seasonal and a grounds-keeper level 2. The three of us took care of 9 city parks. Toward the end of the summer the other seasonal was painting murals all over the city in areas that were usually tagged with graffiti. On rainy days like this in the late summer and early fall B and I would sit inside the office at our main park drinking coffee, reading books, eating doughnuts and smoking. Not much to do in a city park in the rain. I miss that job.

Yogurt

How to Annoy Me:

Put fruit chunks in my yogurt and don't tell me on the label. I hate chunky yogurt!

Note To Self

The key-less entry for the Ford doesn't work on the Toyota.

Give it up already!

A Few Things I've Learned

1. Kayaking is fun

2. Cell phones don't enjoy Kayaking as much as I do. Well, at least not when they are in a plastic grocery bag in a cooler with melting ice.

3. Cell phones that did not enjoy their trip down the river in a plastic bag in a cooler with melting ice rebel and refuse to work. Each in their own way. One may not receive or send calls while the other may refuse to stay on once you open or close it.

4. Kayaking can lead to some NASTY feminine complications.

5. When tween-agers attack your vehicle with shaving cream, silly string, cotton balls, toilet paper and plastic grocery bags it can be funny.

6. The parents of the tweens my not find it as funny and for some reason that makes it more funny (to me).

7. When the tweens apologize for their vandalism in front of their parents don't say, "that's OK, I thought it was funny." Apparently, that sort of statement hinders the discipline process.

To My Friend L

I want to thank you for all of your insight, your encouragement and your strength. Thank you for being blunt and at the same time being gentile. You have a wonderful way of listening and understanding. Thank you for not making me feel foolish, or childish. Thank you for giving me a voice. Thank you for opening my eyes to things I hadn't seen before, I will try not to take those things for granted. I feel that I have found a friend in you, someone I can trust.

Oh, and thanks for the pickles!

Slippers

Slippers, house shoes, if you will, are for wearing in the house, right. Even if they have soles on them, the intention is for them to be worn in-doors. When you wear slippers out side they then become shoes. If you are one to wear slippers I assume that you are one who does not want to wear shoes inside because you don't want to track dirt and such into the house. Slippers are to be worn inside not out side. Everyone can agree on that right?

What I want to know is why can't GP get that. He doesn't understand the basic slipper code. DON'T WEAR THEM OUT SIDE! Dude, she wants you to wear slippers inside not your shoes for the reasons mentioned above. Don't take the dog out in your slippers. It rained yesterday evening. It was foggy as hell last night, the grass is wet. And just so you know, you stepped in my dogs pee on your way back through the yard. I guess you didn't realize you just tracked all of that in. And another thing, don't get snippy with her when she points out the fact that you tracked dirt and wet-ness in. You were the one who wore your fucking slippers out side, you dumb ass!

give me another half hour

Just give me another half hour and I've got it figured out.

A friend showed me baby rabies
One of Baby Rabies' favorite listed sites is dooce.
Dooce's husband is Blurbomat. Together they run The Blurbodoocery
Dooce also linked up The Daily Coyote
The Daily Coyote introduced her readers to her grandmother Svensto.

I should point out that Dooce is one of my favorite sites/blogs I read. She is one of the reasons I wanted to start this blog. She has also linked the way to many other sites I check regularly. I'll link them up later.

Getting to know you

So this blogging thing is so new to me. Don't get me wrong there are many blogs that I read on a daily basis. Its just that formatting my blog is not something that I have been able to figure out. And I even gave myself a whole 10 minutes to figure it out before I got frustrated and quit. You know when you go to other people's blogs and they have a list on the side that says something like, "the blogs I like" I want to know how to get that on here.
here's some thing else that I should admit. I don't even think I am that great of a writer either. I don't always feel confident in my writing. I don't feel that I create a decent picture of what I am trying to describe or a feeling I'm trying to convey.
I just feel like I have all these things to share with you, I just don't know how to get it all out in an understandable sort of way. And yes, I know I have horrible grammar and spelling, sucks to be you, the one reading it. Thank goodness for spell check.

Susie Home Maker

Susie home maker that's the name I'll go by today. I am trying to save a buck on groceries this winter and while home grown sweet corn is $2 for 6 ears I am freezing it. I first blanched the corn on the cob and then cut it off and now it is in my freezer in the basement. I'll let you know how it tastes in January.

Hello Internet!

Who am I? That is a question I hope to find the answer to with this blog. I hope that writing to the internet a sea of strangers, I can find how I fit.