And to continue on from my last post, don’t you DARE suggest I use exercises and exercise equipment as a way for me to get warm. Getting warm should only ever involve hot bubble baths, warm blankies, tents over heating vents and a nice strong man to cuddle up with. If it makes you sweat it’s TOO hot.

I have two pairs of socks on right now, and I’ve done the hot shower thing. Next up on my list is to make a tent with warm blankets over the heating vent and to cuddle up with my man.

OR HEY! HERE IS AN IDEA! LETS HAVE SOME WARM WEATHER FOR A FREAKING CHANGE!

Did that sound bitter? GOOD! It was supposed to, becuase I am very very bitter that I am this cold, ZOMG!

Omg I am so cold people! It has been raining and gross and disgusting and cold for like three, maybe four days now, and I really need it to stop.

Tomorrow is going to be so horrible, we have our shopping to do and the rain is not supposed to quit at all. How am I supposed to go outside if its raining? I’ll melt ala wicked witch of the West..East? Whichever witch it was who died from water anyway! That will be me tomorrow.

I will log on to twitter or facebook or one of my blogs and you will me all oh look! It’s her, but in truth, I will be a zombie.

I think I need to study all night and then get my energy auditor certification in the morning and in the afternoon, instead of shopping I will sue mother nature for not watching her temperature gauges properly. It is not supposed to rain this many days in a row.

Sigh.

Gonna need an ark soon, I swear. Plus! When I picked up the kids after school today, I stopped at the mailbox, which is like 100 feet from my house, but it was raining, so i took advantage of me being in teh car and stopped on the way home, but the mail hadn’t come so I still have going out int he cold shivery rain to get the mail to look froward to.

Bet you are glad you aren’t me right now, aren’t you?

I dug out my “summer” purse today and was dismayed when I saw it. I had forgotten that I spilled coffee all over it and that even though I had washed it, the stain was still there.

It means, of course that i need to find another purse to lug all my crap around in!

I’m not in the market for marc jacobs handbags, or anything, I have a track record for spilling things on my purses, for catching them on chairs and snagging them on crap.

So yeah, I tend to stick to a purse that costs less than twenty bucks. But you know what? I hate buying purses! I had a nice one, I posted about this on Paint, It has a freaking HOLE in it. How does that even happen? So now not only do I need to find a bag to drag around with me this summer, I need to find one for the winter too.

some days I hate my life.

Tonight, finally, I am feeling tired at bedtime. See, my husband had two weeks off from work and We took a advantage of those nights off to stay up late and sleep in all freaking day. It was glorious!

Unfortunately it is hard, very hard to get out of that stay up super late routine. But finally tonight I wont be laying in bed, drooling over the idea of the best sleep aid in teh world and how fast it could knock me out cold, becuase I am tired.

TIRED.

Finally.

Micah has been back to work for a week, and this Monday was day one of week two back at work, so dammit, its about time. I am encouraged to see that both Micah and myself are yawning as we wait for the clock to strike 12 and bedtime to roll around.

But you know what? in July, Micah will have yet another two week unpaid shut down and we will do the same damn thing!

And when that happens, you feel damn free to make fun of me!

So I am trying to save money to buy an iPad when they come out, but its not going to well. Ebay seems to keep track of what i buy and look at and keep sending me emails full of crap they KNOW I would love to own.

Today i got an email with a photo of this dress:
and just like eBay knew I would I bought it. I tried to rationalize it with the old well, I don’t actually have that many simmer clothes for the summer (a painting accidents plus a chewey puppy took care of 98% of my summer wardrobe) Annnd I rationalized it by saying that the internet liked it and the price was certainly right!

I love the dress, I do, and I do need the summer clothes, that’s for sure, but i am worried about the boobal area! I have given up on the whole lose weight fast (mostly becuase I cant seem to put down the cheezies and chocolate) and my boobs are super nice (super nice meaning big) LOL

So I’m worried that the dress will come and my boobs will fall out!

And I’m worried that the iPad sale date will come and I will be broke, thanks to my eBay addiction.

I find it interesting that now that I am drinking more water I am losing weight. I have a cold sensitive tooth, my upper left front tooth, and it had gotten to the point that I couldn’t drink anything slightly cold at all. I started drinking water with a straw and am drinking more water than coffee now.

The size of water glass I use holds three cups of water, and i drink, maybe 15 of them a day, more when it is hot. Maybe I found the secret to my very own quick weight loss? I don’t know but I do know that drinking more water is good for you, except the part where I pee twice as much as normal LOL.

And it isn’t a huge weight loss, maybe 5 pounds over the past month, but for the first time in quite a while the scale is moving in the direction that I want it to move in!

My husband has been off work in a forced unpaid two week shut down – not just him, but the entire company, and he goes back to work tomorrow (Sad) my plan is to try the 30 day shred dvd again, get some physical activity into my life and see if i can help my water move those numbers down!

Some days I wish that we had bought the house on the corner. it was smaller, the layout was weird, and the backyard was practically non existent, but it had french doors leading to a deck.

Oh what I would not give to have a house with a deck. To be able to go and sit outside on a picnic set and have my coffee and smoke int he morning, to have to worry about whether I can leave the outdoor cushions out over the winter and to have room for more than one person up on our current “deck” (if you can call it that) at the same time as the BBQ.

The house on the corner also had a whirlpool tub in the master bath, which I think about a lot in the evenings as I am settling into my perfectly acceptable yet not whirlpooly at all, bathtub.

I’d love to be able to sit out there and play on my laptop but still be able to see and hear the boys playing around the block. Our current back yard is large, but it is not readily accessible. you have to walk allllll the way around the house to get to it and it has no shade at all, which means that we never spend any time in it. The boys do, but me and Micah don’t.

If I had to choose again, which house I bought, I wouldn’t pick this one, as much as I love it, I would pick the house on the corner.

I got so bored tonight that I decided to wash our dog…our BIG dog. She has the kind of fur where she doesn’t really get dirty, however, I couldn’t recall the last time she had been bathed, so I hopped at the chance to curb my boredom.

She didn’t enjoy the part where I got her wet, nor did she enjoy the rinsing. If she could have, she would have purred while I was scrubbing dog shampoo into her fur, but OMG, the MESS when she was done! I had three full sized bath sheets at the ready to dry her off, and started drying her back and tummy before the water was done draining in the tub, I had her jump out onto a towel and dried her feet and to the touch, she felt rather dry…and then she shook herself!

Water everywhere!

LOL, she ruined a full roll of toilet paper, her tail knocked over a bottle of vitamins for acne, the mirror, the walls the floor…well, really, everything int he room was soaked.

I had my husband bring me another dry towel and rubbed at her again until i was positive she was dry enough to leave the bathroom without making a mess, but the minute she stepped out of the room she shook again and we were back where we started from. Oh well, the hallway needed a good washing.

Same with the living room floor, which she also shook herself all over, annnnd the kitchen…LOL

What. A. Mess!

The guys (Guys being Micah and his dad0 are in the basement hard at work getting my central vac installed. We all figured that seeing as Micah is on a forced 2 week (unpaid) shut down at work, we may as well get some crap done around the house.

In early February my neighbor gave me (FREE OMG!) her old central vac as she had gotten a more powerful one. My FIL tested the central vac she gave us and it works A-OK, but putting the thing in is hard work, all the tubes and pipes and stuff have to be put in, even thought he house came “roughed in” for central vac, all that means was they put in a hole in the wall where you connect the CV. Then they covered the place int eh basement where you hook it up with ductwork, AND becuase they are idiots, while installing the rough in, they drilled holes in the pipe. You know, the pipe that needs to have NO leaks for us to have suction? Yeah. That one.

On Tuesday Hubby, our youngest son, and I went to the city to take recycling to the depot and to stopped at home depot and get some Y connectors for the central vac piping, and a few faceplates for the wall. We stopped by the faucets to check prices because I want a faucet with the pull out spray thingy so I can make coffee easier (LOL) and I was pretty pleased to see that the type of faucet I want is between 150-200 bucks, which, after listening to everyone complain about how expensive that type of thing is, was nice to see. Cant buy one till after we get our taxes back, but at least we know what price range we are looking at!

As usual, our boy had to use the washroom while we were out – he is fascinated by public washrooms and uses the many chance he can. I don;t mind a public washroom, but I hate when they only have hand dryers becuase I prefer to use paper towels and kill trees.

The coolest bit about the whole central vac being installed is this:

This is a kick plate, so when I sweep now, i tap the thingy with my foot, it will open up and suck all my dirt down into the central vac canister! i am super excited to have this whole thing set up, but the kick plate just tickles me!

This evening we were talking about getting old, cracking jokes about each others ages, and someone tried to crack an old age joke to me. The problem is, I am only 30. And I don’t feel 30. I certainly don’t act 30, hell I know next to nothing about adult things like RSVP savings, where to find a life insurance quote or even how to change a car tire!

I told them that while I know i AM 30, I most often feel like I am in my late teens to early twenties!

I wonder when I will actually feel my age, or if not my age, just feel like an adult, you know what I mean, I have three kids, I have a mortgage, I’ve been married for nearly eleven years! I vote, I give blood and I according to any law in the world, am a legal adult.

But I feel like a kid!