random factoid of the day

graham crackers taste better just a little stale...in my opinion. Finding the pack in the trash must mean my husband does not agree

random cuteness memories

-I do miss going to see santa followed by a trip to build a bear during the holiday season
-C used to get into to his "jamamas" every night before bed time
-he would also "lebel" up on his video games

random factoid about me #822

I love have my nails polished. Must be something I picked up from my grandmother she always had her nails done and that was one form of "make-up" that did not seem to fall under the strictly forbidden rules of the parochial school I attended from 5th thur 8th grades. Sidebar: the no make-up rule no joke I once I had to throw out chapstick after being caught as part of a gaggle of girls hanging out in the bathroom by Sister Janice. So this morning I painted the nails orange to support UT this evening C is going to his first ever Vols game, it should be a fun night!

weird craving

I am so very NOT with child I am however having the weird apple juice craving this morning...last time I had that was just before we knew I was incubating

file under things my mom never cooked

sloppy joe's and I love them as an adult!

fingers to keyboard

is not nearly as poetic as the phrase pen to paper

trending topics

clearly some of them make sense something in the news or in entertainment but 1/2 the time I think somebody is pulling all of our legs putting up a weird topic or person and then we all click on it because why on earth would that be trending thus causing it to trend....

Sunday randomness

-dear neighbor who always leaves your garbage can at the curb I have once again resisted the temptation to knock the can over..is is so much effort to walk it to your house and then back down to the curb once a week...like all the rest of us do?
-dear lady in the grocery attempting to shop with 4 kids in tow thanks for reaffirming my decision to only have the 1
-dear parent who was no where in sight while your 2 boys were acting stupid and running around in the grocery maybe you should have stuck with none or maybe just control the 2 'ya got
-does it not figure meet the teacher day would be on the afternoon I will be out of town? not that 2-3 in the afternoon is a golden time for me anyway... much thanks to MIL for being able to pick up my slack
-dear work I do regard having to come in for an hour long meeting today as ruining my entire weekend. I have been at this job for over a decade and then some these meeting tend to be the exact same meeting no really the exact same meeting. and trust me they stopped being fun when alcohol was banned several years ago

lots to do this weekend

lots and lots my friends!
-I have a lab assignment due tonight by midnight, another one due tomorrow by midnight and a third one due by Tuesday at midnight. Plus I have to study for the lab practical on Tuesday and start organizing my notes to start work on the unknowns. I am kind of looking forward to that one we will get a test tube with 2 organisms and we will have to do all sorts of tests to figure out what microorganisms they are. Cool huh?
-Let's see school related I also have to write a short paper that is not due till the 14th but I would really rather not have to write a paper while we are in Chicago
-have to get ready to travel to Chicago
-work today & tomorrow
-would love to get a hair cut & a pedicure
-NEED to color my hair at the very least
-laundry because we always have a ton of it..where does it all come from
-Bourdain tomorrow evening!!! I am looking forward to a night out with friends
-and I am sure there are at least 1/2 a dozen things I have to do that I have not even thought about yet....

spring break part deux

C has his turn at spring break this week. Gee wouldn't it have been nice if we would have had the same week?? alas that didn't happen...The kid started break with a sleepover at a friend's house including a trip to see Race to Witch Mountain followed by a Saturday of shopping then Sunday it was his turn to host a sleepover, only 1 friend I may be crazy but I am not nuts! The boys had all day to play on Monday. Poor boring all day Tuesday he went to daycare but then spent the night at his Mee-Maw's house and I guess he is spending the rest of the week there near as I can tell. Pretty sure MIL is taking C & cousin Z to Chuck E Cheese along with their aunt who is a big kid herself! Then Aunt S is taking them to do something tomorrow not quite sure what exactly but she planned on going or doing something. No flashy trips or big plans but a fun break nonetheless

just a day

a rainy kind of lazy but also kind of productive Saturday. I had the benefit of not having to go into work (um yay!) but David did and so the alarm went off at ugh 5:15 this morning. I got up made coffee and the decided what the hell I am going to back to bed and did, luckily remembering to set the alarm so I could go get the kid from his sleepover. Sleepover being a total oxymoron in this case. After pickup we headed out to do some clothes shopping and even after swearing up and down that all C needed was shorts and a belt he wheedled 3 new shirts out of me as well. We then went and finally spent some of the gift cards he got for Christmas on a memory card & a new game as well as a new watch & I warned him the alarm had better not go off at 3 in the morning or the watch we be so gone. The kid is notorious about playing with any watch, clock or in fact anything with a timer so it goes off in the middle of the night not waking him of course just me & David. We then hit Five Guys Burgers finally and well hell yum great burgers and loads of fries. It'll be added to our repertoire I am sure. Then swung by grocery to pick of a few things and home again C played video games and I managed a little cat nap and some mindless magazine reading. David came home and we enjoyed a little pasta with clam sauce for dinner-thankfully we still had a bottle of wine to enjoy! caught up on Bill Maher, managed some laundry in between it all..it has been a good day.
now tomorrow on the other hand is going to suck as I have to go to work at 3 to do inventory I hate inventory I would rather have my appendix out than work inventory

when on earth did I become a bag lady?

seriously it took me two trips to get to the car this morning-it's ridiculous.
1. my purse. It's a larger purse I carry a lot of crap, I can get by with the cute little purse for an evening out but normal everyday I need a bag. Even when C was a baby I carried a diaper bag & a purse. I tried the whole toss everything in the diaper bag it did not work for me. And really the idea of a Kate Spade or Coach crack me up, these are diaper bags people! have you seen what comes out of babies-from either end-it is not pretty and my utilitarian green canvas diaper bag worked fabulous, plastic coated and easy to clean. It was also unisex so David did not need a special "Daddy" bag
2. My cute Nine West tote(courtesy of Ross) with my textbook, notebook & binder plus some water for my lecture this morning.
3. another tote a freebie from a movie studio(courtesy of John and his swag purge at the Christmas party) with my lab text, binder, lab coat & goggles for class this evening.
4. a cute Ralph Lauren tote(also courtesy of Ross) with enough junk I probably don't need to be lugging around but an equal amount of junk I very well may need so I carry it to work every day
5. and last but not least a World Market canvas tote with my lunch, something to drink and my stash of plastic silverware

I am just not that interesting..

so after coming up with 25 random facts on facebook I got tagged for another 8 by Random Ramblings ack! okay here goes and yes I will most likely repeat some but I think I can manage more than a few new randomnesses(hmm spell check saying this word is good)

1. when we were dating my horoscope one Sunday read something along the lines of the letters D & Y will have significance in your life. Coincidentally David's initials. It was a NY paper so I don't think he paid anyone off or anything but I wish I had saved that paper. That was not the reason I married him.
2. I am horrible about letting friendships fade however I must make friends with similar sorts of people because they weren't exactly keeping in touch either. I love FB because I have reconnected with folks. With some we have picked up right where we left off, others whom I never had anything much to do with in high school seem to be becoming fast new friends and a few other I would have considered some of my really good friends are content not to rekindle much at all.
3. I am addicted to Target. Seriously I bet other customers would recognize me. hell if I walked in wearing red & khaki people would totally think I worked there.
4. for as much trashy television that I like to watch I really like to read a lot. In fact I frequently have 2 books going at once except when school is in session I find books to distracting and switch to magazines
5. I wish I had been able to stay home longer with C when he was a baby but I think I would have been crap at the SAHM gig. I was blessed with a helpful MIL(even in all her craziness) and a husband who spent a year as Mr Mom
6. I only moved down south for a year, just out of curiosity, A year in TN. That was almost 17 years ago I suppose I'll stay
7. I absolutely love going out to breakfast or brunch and rarely do. Life gets in the way all to frequently.
8. my favorite Saturdays are the ones where we spend the day in pajamas and watch bad movies. Sometimes I think I could be totally happy as a hermit.
not going to tag anyone specific but please join in the reindeer games if you wish

the wearing of dead animals

I am not taking any sort of moral stance here come on I wear leather, am a meat eater, in fact my favorite meat is little milk-fed baby cows that aren't allowed to walk so while I have zero desire to own one the idea of a mink coat does not offend terribly much. I am however curious about the when & where of well wearing them. the Kroger? or perhaps the full length mink on campus this morning? Now maybe she was going to a lunch
or something but the coat just seemed a little out of place on the campus of a community college. I'm thinking if I owned a mink it would only get worn on special occasions, out to dinner, social functions maybe church not just roaming around town but who knows if I had one I might indeed where it everywhere...

random Saturday

-looks like the baby is actually going to make his arrival this weekend luckily much closer to his due date. Niece #1 is dilated to 5cm had a few contractions yesterday but her water has not broken yet. Her husband is on his way from Oklahoma today. She was keeping her legs crossed or something to prevent giving birth last night
-it must have worked we did not get any middle of the night text messages or phone calls
-MIL is very happy she can't wait to send everyone on their way and have her house back although personally I think she will miss the chaos
-C is doing better at his school work & managed an A on a social studies project. He also did a little report on tigers for extra credit that turned out really well. Big thanks to his teacher for giving him the opportunity
-I on the other hand should have studied better for my last exam-got a C but lowest exam score does get dropped and she is giving us extra credit so I will take advantage of that.
-the lab practical I rocked-very happy with that grade!
-my brother mentioned his 9 year old(she would be niece #4 chronologically) has a email so I asked C if he would like one and signed him up this morning.
-thinking about letting him start a blog
-David's birthday was kind of quiet he was suppose to go to Florida again but with the recent job change it was not possible
-we are planning a Sunday brunch with the family but baby birthing may throw a wrench into those plans
-my birthday is next and I am thinking something girly like a spa day
-wish I was headed to blogher with missy & cathy! But I am seriously entertaining the idea of the possibility of blogher 2009. maybe.
-my house needs a good fall cleaning
-I still have way to much laundry to do
-C is trying to convince us wesss is a curse word, but as David said is is just the opposite of east. We think he might be going for wuss? but who knows C certainly doesn't

random vacation Thursday

-girls night out last Friday was fun! caught up on lots of old & new gossip
-someone should have brought a yearbook we totally forgot a few folks here & there
-talk even made it's way around to our 25th reunion in a mere 2 years! really 25?
-if there are only 2 pieces of shrimp calling it chicken & shrimp piccata is misleading in my opinion
-my hometown is so very different and in some ways still the same
-Bronx Zoo is still fun this many years later
-don't have a burger at the zoo seriously yucky stuff
-C of course got an airbrush tattoo, panther this time
-I have no doubt what he will do first thing on his 18th birthday
-luckily is has not been too hot here-no central air
-read 3 1/2 books so far
-have enjoyed doing very little all week even though it drives my brother crazy
-miss D & superpug and I look forward to seeing them tomorrow
-still hate living so far away from my parents!
-don't check your work email on vacation unless you want to be annoyed!

where did the weekend go?

here it is Sunday night already and I am not sure where my weekend went to...
Friday was good. A late night unusual for us, ok me these days
Saturday was a nice lazy day I kept thinking about getting off the couch and going for a pedicure but that never happened, goofed on the computer some & watched the Lance Henrikson Channel, MIL returned the boy to us with some cash but no new toys for a change. Later on the boys went to see Speed Racer at the dollar theater which is in fact not a dollar at all but $4-still a bargain because that includes the popcorn. I managed to get off the couch and meet some of the girls for dinner at Soho Cafe followed by Ben & Jerry's-Chinese food, ice cream and female bonding what could you ask for? As luck would have it the girls night started early which meant I was home in time for D to head to his poker game so we both managed some alone time.
This morning I discovered the trick to sleeping in till 9-be awake for two hours in the middle of the night-worked like a charm. A charm I hope that is not repeated tonight.
Caught up on laundry-who am I kidding? I did some laundry not caught up though, read the paper, cleaned a little, did my nails, still need a pedicure though maybe next weekend, went grocery shopping and to the dreaded Walmart-don't do that on Sundays-it was nuts! C had a gift card burning a whole in his pocket and wanted to get himself Fate next time we go a whole lot earlier or a whole lot later than 2 on a Sunday. And seriously dude that was waaaay more than 20 items can you not count? The grocery store wasn't as bad and I ran into someone I had not seen in a few months. Could not find knockwurst so we had to settle for brats which were just fine but I am looking forward to some proper German sausage from Karl Ehmer when we are in CT.
Now I've got the Sunday blahs sort of dreading the week ahead....

random thursday

-just plain exhausted the past few days and the mere thought of blogging seemed more effort than I was willing to put out
-managed a twitter or two and plenty of goof off time on facebook, but that is about it
-work is busy which is a good thing
-school is rolling along only 3 classes left 2 of which are exams,
-laundry is still piled up around the house
-the house itself is in desperate need of a really good cleaning but that is not going to happen this weekend
-MIL has a birthday coming up so we will have to put together some sort of a dinner
-Oscar also upcoming birthday and yes the dog does share his birthday with MIL.
-D and I are going to get a date tonight tomorrow, we are still in discussions over restaurant choice
-perhaps even the cinema?

random Saturday

because I missed Thursday
-glad to have computer at home again although I have been accused of "using up" the laptop
-when I'm not on it the boy is I think D might just need to buy one of his own..
-yes the boy is a computer geek in the making( he could log on by himself at 2)
-the walmart is more enjoyable before 7 am on a Saturday
-I don't really call stores the walmart or the target, only in jest, but I catch myself doing it more and more. maybe the joke is on me?
-not a huge fan of working on Saturdays but at least the office should be quiet. I hope.
-I forgot my necklace this morning and it's really bugging me
-I live with boys they are forsaking Hulk for Wall-E or at least that was the plan yesterday the big green guy might just win out in the end
-I hope this one is better I did not care for the last film version..but then again not a big fan regardless. I never watched the tv show growing up although I believe my brother was a devoted watcher
-wow the last Ocean's film was really self indulgent and just well bad they could have skipped making it
-found a new hair stylist courtesy of a friend who I never actually get to see all that much but we do email
-you can generally recognize the married guys easily they will be the first to notice & compliment your hair cut
-at least the ones that are properly trained
-I am grateful for the technology so I can stay in touch with current friends and reconnect with old ones
-guess I need to actually get some work done...

random Thursday

-toothpaste globules? why can the kid not get the toothpaste in his mouth instead of all over the sink? or smeared on the newspaper?
-or on the bathmat? no fun stepping in something sticky that you don't know what it is in the bathroom let me tell 'ya...
-school desks-still freakin' uncomfortable 20 some odd years later
-signs on the back of dump trucks? really you aren't responsible for breaking a windshield? who is exactly?
-can I put a sign on my car not responsible for ramming you if you pull out in front of me and slow down?
-to the idiot who pulled out in front of me and slowed down-don't do that
-glad I left myself extra time yesterday evening so I could run home and check that I had not left the stove on
-sick of the salmonella thing my Quiznos was just not the same without tomato
-the never ending question in my life where does all this laundry come from exactly?
-think Oscar needs a trip to the groomer
-I most certainly need a trip as well, wonder if I could get a sassy bandanna?
-still in desperate need of a pedicure. I making time for that this weekend!
-did anyone know kate spade made jelly sandals?
-even my detergent twitters....
-little jealous boy is off to an afternoon of baseball
-however I am looking forward to lunch with the girls today!