I’ve been complaining about my craptacular memory to friends and family for a while now. In fact, four years ago I had the boys birth years tattoo’d onto my leg so that I could remember them. But, what I did yesterday makes me think my memory has located the exit signs and has left the building!

I was making dinner and talking to my father on the phone. I had put on my oven mitt and reached into the stove to remove a pan. I placed the HOT pan on the stove and started putting the ham I had been frying into the pan so I could put the ham into the oven to stay warm while IO got the rest of the dinner ready. Halfawy through putting the ham in the pan, while still talking on the phone with my dad, I used my BARE hand to move the pan closer to my frying pan. My bare hand.

But THAT is NOT the “forgetfulness” I am speaking about.

What happened when my bare hand touched the burning hot pan was that my hand immediately released the pan and moved from the danger. Still on the phone with my dad I had one of those WTF moments. and grabbed the pan again. Dammit, I wanted the pan closer to the frying pan. I had Forgotten what PAIN felt like and had NO clue why my hand, seemingly of its own accord had released the pan I needed moved.

How in the hell is it possible to forgot the sensation of BURNING FLESH?

So. Every few weeks my six year old brings home piles and piles of papers of work that he has completed in Grade One and no longer needs at school. While I enjoy going through his papers, I also do not need them at home. I hope no ones heart breaks over this, but there are approximately 12947128934 pieces of paper colored and written on by my sons in teh recycling plant north of here. I DO look through their papers before I toss them, just so that I can keep up on what they are doing at school.

The other day, Blake brought home a folder full of stuff. the last page in his folder was a section about the letters SH, and more importantly, the sound SH makes. Blake was asked to name and draw six things that start with the SH sound. He drew a SHirt, A Sucker ( naming it SHugar), A bottle of SHampoo, and SHeep, SHoe and a SHamwow.

Yes. Really. ShamWow. and when I saw that, I cracked the Eff up. I cannot wait till Wednesday when we have PTI’s so I can ask his teacher what she thought of that.

Speaking of teachers, I over heard Logan’s Pre-K teachers discussing unlocked phones. It bugged me. Not so much the topic, but that it was “quiet time” for the kids in class, (me and a few other moms were waiting outside the class and the door was cracked open a bit)and they were talking so loudly. I heard one little girl whisper something to another child and the teacher barked at her to be quiet. Well lets leach by example here, why should she be quiet duiring quiet time if  YOU, the teacher cannot be quiet?

Will the hair ever end? I am of course, referring to the Hair that out Border Collie, Smokey sheds. All year long she loses tonnes of hair, every day, but oh my LORD, the amount she loses in the spring is UNREAL. And it’s not like she has a huge, thick winter coat on, we keep her indoors all winter ( except for potty breaks) So where is this hair coming from?

The Hubs took her into the bathroom ( to keep the hair contained) and brushed her two days ago, and still today I spent a very large portion of my day vacuuming, sweeping and washing floors as well as having to wet wipe the tv stand, the DVD case and the computer desk becuase her hair statically sticks to it.

This evening, Hubs took Smokey back into the bathroom and got another HUGE pile of fur off her, and yet, I KNOW that tomorrow everything will be once more covered in fur. On the positive side, I was talking to our little dog’s groomer tonight and she told me that she can use air to get Smokey’s winter shed out alot faster. She tried to explain to me why the air brushing (lol) works better than using a hand held brush, but I got lost halfway through our conversation. In any case, Our little pup has her groomer appointment ont eh 16th, and now Smokey does too!

I have a secret.

SHHHH. Don’t tell a soul! This is just between You and Me.

I’ve fallen off the 30 day Shred bandwagon. Seriously people, if I had actually done the exercises as I was supposed to, I could have done a sixty day shred by now and be looking svelte! Instead, I am EXACTLY where I was two months ago when I got the video.

It’s April now. it;s time to Up My Game, as it where. Tomorrow, April 3, I will begin taking my weight loss pills, Drinking WAY more water and most of all – EXERCISING. Every Day. Even if it is just walking to the school to get the children.

I WILL lose this weight and I WILL do it before Summer.