Germaphobe

Am I weird or is this normal? I think it's gross that most bathroom faucets you have to touch the same place to turn it off and on. What's the point of washing your hands if you are just going to touch the same handle to turn it off that you used when your hands were dirty? Usually in public restrooms I will use the paper towels I dry my hands with to turn off the water, because I don't want to touch the dirty knob right after I washed my hands. Please tell me I'm not the only one who does this lol.

Sensitive Eyes

I really need a new pair of sunglasses. My eyes are sensitive to light and sometimes it is really hard to drive when the light is a certain intensity. A few days when I was driving to my orthodontist appointment, over an hour away, I had a really hard time, I had to keep squinting. I wish Hubby's sunglasses had been in the car. I have no idea what happens to mine, they just seem to disappear, kind of like socks in the dryer. I usually buy cheap ones, I don't need fancy ones like RayBan or Wiley X or anything, but just something that looks ok and does the job. I think my last pair was only $7. Anyone know a good place to buy cheap sunglasses?

Friday's Feast

Appetizer
Describe your laundry routine. Do you have a certain day when you do it all, or do you just wash whatever you need for the next day?
- I try to get a load done each day, just whatever needs done most.

Soup
In your opinion, what age will you be when you’ll consider yourself to truly be old?
- I'm not sure. My parents are 52 and they are getting older, but not really really old. I'll just have to see how I feel at each age.

Salad
What is one of your goals? Is it short-term, long-term, or both?
- Get to heaven, preferably long-term lol.

Main Course
Name something unbelievable you’ve seen or read lately.
- It's almost midnight, I can't think of anything right now lol.

Dessert
On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being highest, how happy are you today?
- Probably a 9, I had a fun night out with some friends, would be a 10 if I'd come home to a spotless house lol.

Off to work we go

Hey everyone,

This is Kara's Hubby talking here. I am writing this post to talk about my day at work. If anyone has held a job for very long, they can know how monotonous it can become. Mine has been that way for the last two days at least. As s software engineer, I do have some freedom in what I am able to write and create. However, that comes with a price. Maintenance is usually that price. That seems to be all that I have been doing at work is just maintenance on existing software and fixing bugs on new software. It has gotten quite boring. I was just curious to know what other people do when their job starts to turn into a very monotonous schedule.

Things You Shouldn't Say Around (blank)

I was tagged by CrAzY Working Mom for this new meme. This meme comes to us from Frank of Honk'n'Holl'r. Here are the rules, as he states: Rules are simply fill in the [blank] in "Foxxfyrre's: Things you shouldn't say around [Blank]", and write at least eight phrases you shouldn't say around your [blank]. To make it interesting, when you tag someone, go to their memes and add a phrase using their [blank] topic. Send your list of 5 tags back to the person that tagged you so they can follow and play with their [blank] topics also.

Things You Shouldn't Say Around Toddlers
1) Any swear word. They will repeat it immediately, even if you've tried to get them to say Mama for months and they still can't say that.
2) "Vegetables are yucky."
3) "Cleaning stinks."
4) Anything having to do with intimate relations with your spouse, unless you want your neighbor to hear about it next time your kid goes over to play.
5) Any word that will sound like a bad word when coming from a Toddler, like ditch, graham, ash, and stick. It will invariably come out sounding bad, and the more you try to correct them, the worse they will make it sound.
6) "We should go to the park sometime this week." Do not say this unless you really plan to go to the park immediately, or you will have meltdown on your hands.
7) "Ice cream." Same as above. Unless you are getting ice cream at that minute for your toddler, do not say this out loud or you will get a fit.
8) "I need to go to the bathroom." When at a restaurant do not say this, unless you want your toddler loudly proclaiming "Mommy go poop in the potty!"

Wow, that was harder than I thought it would be! Here's my tags:
Lorie
Michelle
Dawn
Beth
Kimberly

Just everyday life

Today I have an orthodontist appointment. I've had braces almost 2 years now. I've forgotten how my teeth feel without them, or what it's like not worrying about everything I eat getting stuck in my brackets. Some days it feels like I will have them forever, I see no end in sight. Every month I go in, the do a check and tie and send me on my way. No "Looking good!" "Not much longer and you'll be done" or "Let's take those off today!". Sigh.

I didn't do much on my to-do list yesterday. The only thing I did was dishes, so I still need to do some laundry, vacuum, and whatever else was on my list. Plus I'm going running tonight. I went last night but only ran a few laps because my back hurt too bad, hopefully it'll be better tonight.

Well, I think I've wasted enough time while I ate lunch, I should go do something like clean my living room.

Heads or Tails: Beginnings

Barb at Skittles' Place has started a new weekly meme called Heads or Tails. Every week you get to post on whatever the topic she chooses. Fun, eh? This weeks theme is "Beginnings".

There are so many things I could write about that have to do with beginnings. I had thought up this big long post about all the major beginnings in my life, but then decided that was too much work. Why should I begin to change my lazy habits now? So I decided to go with 2 major beginnings that I cherish: the births of my children.

Toddler- In the beginning, there was me and Hubby, and then I managed to nag him long enough about having a baby that he finally gave in and we conceived Toddler. The beginning of my pregnancy wasn't too hard. I had a little morning sickness, I couldn't eat chocolate without feeling sick, and I excitedly told everyone I was pregnant (whether they wanted to know or not). I began looking pregnant about halfway through, about the time the morning sickness began to fade. We didn't do much to get ready for the baby, but slowly began to collect items we needed from family and friends. Finally I got to the point where I just wanted it to be over. Beginning about midnight the day before I was due, I started having contractions. About 1pm that day we checked into the hospital and about an hour later they began my epidural. I began pushing at 7:30 but after 2 hrs he still wasn't coming out, so they began prepping me for a c-section. When I heard my son's first cries I began to cry. Although his beginning was not quite what I'd planned, it was still amazing.

Baby- His beginning started right after I had Toddler, when I started thinking about having a VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean) for my next child. I had a miscarriage 6 months after Toddler, so in the beginning of my pregnancy with Baby it was hard not to worry. Luckily nothing bad happened. I was surprised when morning sickness wasn't as bad, and I began to look pregnant a little earlier. The whole time I researched VBAC and began making plans for this birth so that it might turn out how I wanted. From the beginning I felt sure that it would be a girl, so I was completely shocked when we found out it was a boy! We were happy Toddler would have a little brother though and we began to try to help him understand about the baby coming. He didn't really begin to understand until it was almost over. Contractions again began the day before my due date, and continued throughout the night. We arrived at the hospital around 12:30 and I began laboring without pain medicine. Around 4:45ish (I didn't really care about time through all my pain lol) I began pushing, and at 5:15 on his due date, out came Baby. He didn't really cry in the beginning and they had to give him oxygen but he was fine. I was able to begin nursing withing 15 minutes of his birth. His beginning was so empowering and wonderful.

OK, I have officially over-used the words beginning and began and they're starting to sound really weird, so I will finish up.

Tuesday To-Do

Today I should:

* Do dishes

* Vacuum (yay for our vacuum being fixed!)

* Sweep, and I guess I should mop too

* Do a few loads of laundry

* Try to get a nap

I think that's all I'm going to shoot for today :) I'm really hoping I can get all the boys napping at the same time again today so I can try to nap too. Last night was terrible, we're trying to get Baby to sleep in his room and it did not go well. I finally got him to sleep at 10:30 after over an hour of trying. Then he woke at 2 and wouldn't stay asleep until I finally brought him to bed with me at 4:30, I was pretty much awake that whole time. And I had to get up at 6:50 like normal. Hopefully it'll get easier!

Monday Madness

Boy I'm tired today. Normally Hubby sleeps on the couch with Baby at night. I don't make him sleep on the couch lol, it's just cooler down there since I can't sleep with the loud a/c going in our room and Hubby gets really hot. And Baby will not sleep by himself longer than an hour, so he stays with Hubby. Baby is a light sleeper, like me, and very wiggly, but Hubby is a deep sleeper so it works perfectly. He is better at getting Baby to sleep and doesn't get woken by every toss and turn. But last night I ended up with Baby because Hubby didn't want to get up when he woke up screaming for milk. It took me over an hour to get him to sleep and then I got woken up probably 10 times during the night whenever he would move since I'm such a light sleeper. It was not a fun night. We really need to work on getting Baby to sleep better by himself. I really don't want to do cry-it-out, but I'm not sure how else to teach him to sleep by himself all night. I will try to get the boys all napping at the same time today so I can at least lay down a bit. I need to do a few loads of laundry today, but not too much cleaning since we cleaned a bunch yesterday. Maybe I'll get the bathrooms cleaned.

How's everyone else's Monday going?

Menu Plan Monday

Check out Menu Plan Monday at Organizing Junkie to join in or get some great dinner ideas!

Monday
- Sloppy Joes, green beans

Tuesday
- Garlic Chicken Pasta, salad

Wednesday
- Pasta Roni, peas

Thursday
- Spaghetti, garlic bread, some veggie

Friday
- Leftovers

Saturday
- Hamburger Helper, corn

Sunday
- BBQ Ribs, asparagus

Sunday Saying

"Books only partially represent their authors; the writer is always greater than his work."
- Christian Bovee

I love getting into a good book, and a really good series is even better. Such as The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. I often wonder what the authors are like in real life. I once watched an old rerun of the British "Who's Line Is It Anyway?" and it had JRR Tolkien on it, and I was surprised at how funny he was. I know he must have been extremely intelligent to cme up with the world in his books, but I always imagined him to be very serious, not funny. So it makes me wonder a lot about authors and their true personalities that we don't see in their writing.

SMART Habit Saturday

Last week I was focusing on my laundry goal. I'm happy that I was able to get caught up on the piles, though I still need to work on doing a load a day. I'm still not adding a new goal yet, because I just have too many too work on and not doing well on most of them lol. But I'm going to focus on my flossing goal this week. I definitely need to be flossing more, so that's what I'm going to work on this week as well as trying to get myself motivated to do my other goals. I'm still doing good on prayers, scriptures, vitamins, dinner, making my bed, and bringing dishes to the kitchen. So it's not all bad, but the others I've only been doing ok on some and not at all for others. So I'll just keep working on them and hope they become habits some day.

Goal recap:
#1- Clean 1/2hr a day
#2- Keep up with dishes
#3- Brush teeth once a day
#4- Read scriptures daily
#5- Toddler bedtime routine
#6- Bedtime 11:30pm
#7- 50 crunches a day
#8- Take vitamins every day
#9- No computer for 1hr a day when Hubby is home
#10- 1 load of laundry each day
#11- Daily prayers, morning and night
#12- Dinner 3x during the week
#13- Lotion every day
#14- Floss every day
#15- Bringing dishes to kitchen
#16- Clean office each day
#17- Make bed every morning

To join in SHS go to The Lazy Organizer.

Arg, I just want to scream!

I am in a bad mood tonight. Part of it I'm sure is because I am exhausted and feel sick from running 3 miles on an almost empty stomach (though I did walk a few minutes in the middle). The rest is just because some people make me so frustrated when they make ignorant comments that are obviously not based on facts (and I'm not talking about anyone here, just someone on one of my many message boards I visit). I really need to go to bed and hopefully sleep off my negative attitude, it does me no good to be angry about things I can't change.

It never ends

It looks like a bomb went off in my house! OK, maybe not that bad lol, but I really do need to clean today. There are toys all through the house, I need to vacuum, and the clutter is getting out of control. I better make myself a little to-do list.

* Do a load of laundry
* Clean living room
* Clean boys room
* Vacuum
* Clean counters and table in kitchen
* Sweep and mop
* Clean bathrooms

OK, that's not as little as I was hoping it would be lol. Guess I better get started!

Friday's Feast

Appetizer
What is your favorite kind of pie?
- Chocolate Pudding Pie, mmmm

Soup
Name something that made you smile this week.
- Watching my little boys playing in the dirt together, way too adorable :)

Salad
What do you do to cool off when the weather is hot and humid?
- Turn on the a/c and fans and do nothing.

Main Course
You receive $1,000 in the mail with a letter that says you can only use the money to redecorate one room in your home. Which room do you pick, and what do you buy to spruce it up?
- I would most definitely use it to redo our kitchen floors. Get rid of the old hardwood I don't like, and the carpet under the table, and put in a new wood laminate.

Dessert
Fill in the blank: My _________ says __________, but I __________.
- My body says I need to go to bed, but I am not listening.