I need to but a limit on my ramblings

3-12-09

I went ahead and trimmed my bangs last night. When I had brushed them out before the cut, they were almost at my chin. As much as it was fun when I swept my bangs to the side, they truly were just a smidge too short to put behind my ears, and really too long to just leave there. My hair grows so fast that having the bangs shorter will really only be for a couple weeks. It is nice that when they are the new length they don’t part anymore and it is a new look. I am pleased. Now I need to look into trimming off a few inches off of the main hair. I think I may do that first before the grand hack. If I get rid of some of the split ends and nappy part, perhaps the long hair will still be ok.

A package came yesterday which contained the coolest shoes ever! My mom in law had these sneakers that were for her singing group. They had pretty spangles sewn all over them. She had gold, silver and red, which of course I feel deeply in love with. I opened the box and there gleaming back at me was a pair of the red ones in my size. I felt like Dorothy! The boys gawked at them and I was happy that my offspring was equally as impressed with my shoes. I planned an outfit around them for today. I really just wanted to wear all black so they would stand out, but I opted to wear a read shirt. Only one person has seen them and she loved them. I feel magical today.

Some of my magic, though, was dampened when I got to work and found that my lunch had leaked out of its container. So my lunch bag is all wet with spaghetti sauce. To make matters worse, it also dripped on my chair and I didn’t notice it until I sat in the wet. Bleah! It is all cleaned up, and thank goodness for black pants, but still, uncool. Some even got on my ice. I guess I am using a different bag tomorrow!

I seem to have eyeliner or something under my thumb nail and another finger nail. I can’t get it out since I really need a nail brush. Very irritating since it looks like I have chocolate under my nails and am a slob.

Ken got the net back up and running. Apparently the Main Tivo, which has been having issues, crashed hard yesterday. So hard that it actually crashed the network. Uncool. But Ken got it back up and running. It does mean that the new hard drive that we had recently gotten was not ok. We will need to send it back to get a new one. This of course sucks since once again, we need to record all the kids shows. This really sucks when we just got a bunch of new Backyardigans and things like that. Oh well, we will manage. We lucked out really, since this season we are not watching very many shows, so there wasn’t much on the main Tivo that we lost. Ken is going to try to transfer some of the stuff to this other Tivo, but we know that it may not work.

I have decided to not wash my hair every day. I always read that you are not supposed to. I will take a shower, and I will add conditioner, but I will only shampoo every third day I think. This is day one of no washing. My hair does feel softer. You figure I am just building up on the conditioner, so maybe I am on to something. We will see. It may actually make the color last longer, too. Added bonus! Not that my hair color is expensive. LOL! I still have some of my $2 boxes. I think I have like 3 more. It does mean though, when that is gone, I will need a new hair color. Mine was discontinued, hence the $2 price on them. I wonder what I will use. Should be interesting.

We went to Target last night and managed to only get vacuum bags. I am so proud! There were a couple of other things I considered, but we were good. I looked for my tattoo Barbie, but they didn’t have her. I looked her up on Amazon. She is $40! Plus, when I looked last night, there was only 2 more in stock. I have a feeling I will not be in the possession of one of these dolls for some time.

I have a fun video of the boys dancing that I need to upload. I hate dealing with YouTube, but I think that will be the easiest way to do it. So I will do that this afternoon. I don’t think that there is anything on tap for today, so yay! Maybe when I get home I will do the uploads.

Tammy is right. If I had a little girl I would be a mess. She said that I would have to get her matching red sparkly shoes and I would end up having a mini me. Not that this is a bad thing, but it would be crazy. I spoil my boys. I would be out of control with a little girl, especially after having 2 boys. It would be nice to be able to afford another go around. I tried playing the lottery last night. They didn’t have the scratcher I wanted. I want the one where I get to go on the show. I may need to walk up to 7-11 tonight. Maybe I will load up the boys in the wagon and take a walk. That is crazy ambitious, so we will see how I feel later.

I think that the boys should have some comic books. If they like those, we can also show them Ken’s program that you can make your own comic books. I think they might enjoy that whole creative process.

We are working on trying to get Bobby to be more independent. We keep bribing him to get dressed before he comes out of his room. Really, I would be happy with him just getting dressed without being told, even if he comes out first. Today’s bribe is that he will get to go to work with Daddy if he does it. It was an easy offer. It is a bad day to take Bobby, but Ken knows that Bobby probably won’t do it.

I am in the sleepy state again.

There is this song that I have heard them play on 104.3 (I was going to call it KBIG, but then I remembered it is MyFM now, right?) that sounds like this one dude on America’s Got Talent names Cas Haley from a couple years ago. It was this kind of Jack Johnson, reggae style song. I really enjoy it, but I don’t know it well enough to be able to even begin to look it up. It is frustrating. I may listen to 104.3 today after Kevin & Bean. I have been listening to Jack, but they don’t play it. I looked up Cas, and it isn’t him (I was really hoping it was since it would mean he has done an album!) so now I have to figure out who it is. I bet it is one of those that I will only like the one song. Now that I think about it, though, I think American Idol sang it, too. Hmmmm…So it is a big song if my memory on the AI thing is true.

I found it!!!! I think….I just looked in my EW and looked at the top albums and found a name that wasn’t familiar. I looked him up. Jason Mraz, and he sings kind of Reggae per the Wiki entry. And the name of one of his songs sounds like the song!! I am all jazzed! Now I need to get the song. I think I can manage that now that I found the dude.

Where the hell is my rain??

I need to get hot chocolate. That tends to help.

I started watching Be Kind Rewind yesterday. I was hoping for funny and light hearted. Instead, I have depressing Danny Glover and this huge back story that seems lame. Jack Black’s part of the movie is almost like another movie altogether. I almost threw in the towel, but then they finally got to the part where they are refilming the movies. Thank goodness! It is actually funny so far how they are trying to recreate Ghostbusters, so I am hoping the rest of the movie picks up. I am going to let Ken watch it from this point. I figure I took a hit for him on the beginning.

We just got Iron Man yesterday, so that is way cool. We will watch it at some point this weekend. I also still have Superbad. I would say we could watch that tonight, but I need to catch up on American Idol. Really, I don’t do well on shows that are real time. I already know who was voted out, so it almost seems pointless. But I will keep trying. Now that they have changed the time to 9 instead of 8, which effectively also kills our new favorite show Lie To Me by putting them at 8 instead of letting them have the AI lead in. But the point I was trying to make is that 9 is too late for me to start watching it. I may need to suck it up, though. I could watch the actual performances, but then I would have to waste 2 hours which sounds all kinds of bad.

I made an omelet this morning. So yummy.

I have this strange craving for some rice krispy treats. I may need to make some with the boys. I think they would love the hell out of them.

So a couple months ago I saw a commercial (or I think I did, now I am questioning myself) that was for Rice Krispies. Not just any Rice Krispies, either. They were Mega Krispies. Each Krispy was this giant thing that looked awesome. I may have been seeing things. I have not seen the ad again, nor did I find anything online. I wanted them to be real. I love Rice Krispies and for them to be in a giant size would have been fun. I wonder where I saw this. I wonder what I was smoking when I saw it. I would do more extensive searching, but I can’t at work. I may need to do some hunting when I get home.

Mmmmmm….AM/PM hot dogs. I must be hungry. Lot of food talk. I think I would rather have a Weiner Dude hot dog.

3 years??? Dude who threw his shoe at Bush has 3 years in jail. Unacceptable. He should have gotten a parade, not jail time.

What is my obsession with parades?

The boys really want to get Pinocchio. I don’t know how to explain to them that it is so not going to be as good as they think. It is evil. Pedophile Gepetto makes him self a doll who grows when he lies. Can’t you hear him saying, “Lie to me Pinocchio, lie to me!” Ewww! Ok, then cut to him being kidnapped and given to creepy guy number two. Makes the poor doll dance. He gets away, then goes to another creepy place where they are turned into donkeys. It is like some kind of creepy child slavery. I have not seen it in ages, so I don’t remember how the whale comes into the picture, but that whole thing is terrifying. Everyone is eaten? It all works out in the end, and he goes home with original creepy dude. Then he becomes a real boy? What the hell? Why in the world would Gepetto want that? Shoot, a puppet kid has all the potential with none of the hassle. I will rent the movie for them to see if it is worth purchase. I have a feeling they won’t make it through more than 10 minutes.

Fascinating conversation on KROQ. Mike’s wife, Jenny, told him that he could get a massage that had a happy ending. They were discussing whether or not that would be cheating. Obviously not with them since they are both ok with it. But can couples feel this is ok? Is that something that is uncool? Does it mean you are into this chick giving you a massage if you are just relaxed and they just take it to the ultimate in relaxation. Then again, how relaxed are you when they do the part before the relaxing? I suppose it would make a man relaxed after, which is the ultimate goal. I don’t know how I feel about it. On one hand, as long as it wasn’t something that was happening like weekly or something, how is it any different than masturbation? He doesn’t know the chick, and in essence may not even be looking at her. It is purely sexual. However, couldn’t you say the same thing about a hooker or even someone that he might know that he would have sex with? I guess it goes into the question of permission. It also is all about how sensitive your partner is. I think me personally might worry that it was better with someone else. Even just the massage part. There is that wonder that why couldn’t I just massage him? Of course, I am not as good, but there are couples massage classes, and that might be better. I also am coming from a different situation. I hear about the wives that don’t actually like to have a lot of sex. These may be women ok with the happy ending since they don’t feel like having to do that and this keeps their husbands happy. I don’t have an issue with Ken going to a strip club. Shoot, he has ugly ass me as home, I don’t blame him if he wanted to go look at hot girls. I would just hope that he doesn’t feel like he is missing out on something better. I don’t think he would leave me for a stripper. I worry more (when I worry) about him leaving me for some chick that has more in common with him. Like one of the teachers or a geekier chick. I may be a geek hag, but I am not as geeky as some. So when he strikes up a friendship with some chick that is hot and has all the other stuff, it worries me. Like this one teacher who had these leeches that he was helping out. That whole thing worried me. They both like the leeches, teaching the kids, and she was super hot. She seemed like she dug Ken, and this was not long after Bobby was born, so really, I may have been less appealing at the time. Why wouldn’t he go with her, you know? Yes, he would be a damn fool since I am the best thing that has ever happened to him, but it doesn’t mean he isn’t allowed to make a mistake. For the record, I am not worried. I don’t think he is out getting massages with happy endings, and I feel fine with him. I wish I could say I would have no problem with it. Why? Why do I wish that? I guess I don’t. I am glad I am not comfortable 100% with that. If I pretended I was, then he went out and did it, it would be a very bad thing all around. Maybe if I was there with him? Ok, now we go into odd territory. Why does he need to do it at all? I suppose it comes to mind also since I was thinking he needed to go get a massage since he has complained about his back hurting. I also would like to get him back to the chiropractor. He loved the hell out of that. Me, not as much. But maybe that will help him. Now I am rambling. New topic!

I haven’t done a good journal topic in a while. Hmm..I need a good topic.

Why is Bust A Move a song that I can still listen to?

Apparently Bobby got dressed on his own. He did have to be reminded, but he did it all on his own, which is still good. So he is at work with Ken. I know he loves doing that. Ken said that even though today is hectic, there is one class of 4 and 5 years olds that will be good for Bobby to, as Ken put it, “be with his own kind”. LOL!

Ken is going to try and see a movie with Aaron tomorrow. Should be interesting. They are going after his last class, so it is kind of early, so it may work. At the very least, they will hang out, so this is a good thing. I am curious as to how pissy Dax is going to get when we leave Bobby behind tomorrow. He was pretty upset when Bobby went in Ken’s car from there on Tuesday. He just really likes all 4 of us together. Although, he has also taken to saying the phrase, “Where’s my daddy?” which cracks me up. It sounds like “Who’s your daddy” the way he says it. I may need to teach him “What you talking about Willis?” His voice is deep enough for it.

When I picked up the boys yesterday, Bobby actually told me to go back to work so he could play longer. He then informed me I had to stay there for 2 weeks, and then I could come back. I am pretty sure Maria doesn’t want to have Bobby that long. LOL!

I need a new radio. The volume situation is getting out of hand. I now can just wave my hand near the volume and it shoots up real loud or all the way down. Not touching it, people. I was blowing on it a second ago. I suppose I can get the same kind, although I am leery. I have now had two different iPod/radios that have had issues. I may need to just get a small radio and a little iPod speaker thing. Although it needs to be able to charge my iPod since mine is so old the battery doesn’t keep a long charge anymore. I got it before we had the kids, so you know it is old! I am impressed at how long it has lasted. It would be fun to have one where I could watch shows and stuff. You know, since I have gobs of time. LOL! Actually, it would be good at lunch or waiting in the car in the mornings. Plus, I probably could put videos of the boys on it. I may just need that iTouch. I think that has everything but the phone. I don’t really need the phone. I just like the idea of having all my music there, and photos, and videos and stuff. I wonder how much those run. Maybe I will look it up at lunch time. There are more important things I want first. The Wii for sure.