Sammi is nine pounds. I know this becuase we recently tried to weigh her here at home on our scale and were unable, so we took her to the vet to get an accurate weight. Anyway. She is a tiny thing, full grown, nine pounds. She eats like she was a nine hundred pound dog in another life, but must be taking Lipovox on the side becuase she has eaten like this since she was a puppy and doesn’t have an ounce of fat on her.

Just now though, Im pretty sure her nine pounds felt like 900 to my middle son. She was curled up on his lap, sleeping when the doorbell rang. she jumped straight up and pushed off his lap to run to the door – only she pushed off on him in such a way he doubled over and began talking a few octaves higher!

of course, becuase she IS so slight, it only hurt him for a few seconds, but it was hilarious!

maybe you had to be there. i generally don’t laugh when my kids get hurt, but in this case, he was not really hurt, and was fine enough to tell us in a fake screechy girl voice that he was in “agony”

LOLZ

Wow. Blogher fever much? in the past week, I have seen THREE different bloggers do full body underwear shots and put them up on their blogs…apparently they are dieting or something, and these photos are their before and after shots.

One girl, she didn’t need to diet in the first place, looks gross. Her ribs and crap are sticking out like a skeleton! How does any woman think that looks good?? The other two women. Well…they are insane to be publicly posting pictures of themselves looking like that. How freaking embarrassing! I mean, if they had taken a top rated diet pill or something and actually ended up looking skinny – even toned, take the picture and post it, but these lumpy bumpy bodies are just not pleasant to look at!

In my opinion. My undressed body is for me, my husband and my doctor to see. No one else should be looking at me in my underwear, but hey, thats just me. If their husbands dont mind the entire internet staring at their bodies, i guess it shouldnt bug me.

But from now on, at least tuck the pictures under the fold so others dont have to see!

(pee ess: not linking to the three, its really not pleasant!)

So my mother in law is scared of moths like i am scared of spiders – in a word, terrified! The otehr night she was in her home and a moth flew right at her face. In fear, she jerked from it, falling, twisting her knee and hurting it very badly. They know there are torn legiments for sure, they just don’t know how badly they are torn yet, she goes back in on Tuesday for more testing.

Im just thankful that it happened this week and not four weeks ago when they were off on one of their trips! (they go by plane to different states and drive vehicles home for a family friend who has a dealership). They have the run of the mill leaving canada insurance, but it covers rather skinty. They dont have specific to the state, like NC health insurance or anything, so if she had hurt her knee like this, the run of the mill insurance they have wouldn’t really help – especially in terms of the pain pills prescription!

it sucks that she is in pain, but I sure am happy it happened at home and not away!!

When i was researching quitting smoking, i read on nearly every site that I needed to expect to gain at least 5-8 pounds during the process. Sunday is day 14 of no smoking and I weighed myself this morning and have lost three pounds.

Im gonna assume that it is directly becuase I keep eating. LOL. confused? I am constantly snacky. I keep getting up with the urge to smoke and I occupy myself by eating. But, I am eating carrots and celery and nectarines and spitz, I am chewing gum and drinking so bloody much water that i am getting up at least once a night now to go to the washroom!

I honestly figured that I would be shelling out for the best weight loss pills i could find at this point, becuase i really want to lose 20 lbs not gain 8!

So dude, losing 3 pounds WHILE quitting smoking is the best thing EVER!

LOLz.

Micah and the boys are sitting down to watch a movie. he keeps teasing them, pretending to hit play but never does. Finally our ten year old must have given him some sort of look because Micah told him “Don’t look at me in that tone of voice” and hilarity ensued. Now instead of watching their movie (X2) they are all three testing their daddy with different looks!

At ten, our eldest is a pretty good kid, he gets little moods, and sometimes rolls his eyes (I fucking hate that!) but over all, he is a damn fine kid. He is unbelievably helpful round the house too! In a few years, the story might change, I might be sitting here reading acne products reviews while he and his daddy argue for real about some tone or other snotty look, but for now, I like to sit here, fooling round on my blogs, checking facebook, and listening to the kids giggle with their dad!

A few times over the last year or so, I have thought, fleetingly, that I should give this URL to some family members. Thank socks I didn’t! I’m not sure if I have ever needed a private place to vent more than I have in the past two weeks!

OhMiGawd! The drama!

My brother and his long time girlfriend have broken up. Again. Remember those two? six weeks ago it was all about running to Vegas for a wedding, four weeks ago it was break up time, three weeks ago it was lovey dovey never be apart and today? who the hell knows!

they SAY they are broken up “for good this time” that its over and they are gonna be contacting lawyers, but at the same time, they make plans for getting out together like old times. Uhm, hello? either break up or shut up, but choose one or the other, and do it now becuase i am sick and freaking tired of the drama!

I wanna lock the two of them up in metal buildings (metal ‘cus my brother has anger issues and regularly punches holes in walls) lock the two of them up, together and refuse to let them out until they have figured it all out.

I am SO SICK OF IT

a few weeks ago I made cup cakes that turned out unsuitable for my boy to bring for school, so I told my brother to bring his family down that night for cupcakes – its damn hard for a family of five to eat 30 cupcakes, yo.

So he said he was coming and we waited and waited, and then I called and lo an behold, his gf of 8 years was pissed off and nope, not coming anymore. then, not even an hour later he called to see if he could stay with me a few days becuase their fight had gotten so bad they ended their relationship.

fast forward. they are back together, and on a wait list for couples counseling. I woke up to my brother asking us over in the evening to play games, i told him absolutely we would be there, and spent the rest of the day looking forward to it!

hubs and I went to a movie in the afternoon and came home to a message from my brother telling us to come round 8:30-9 PM, so I called back to confirm we would be there.

Only, he wasn’t there, his GF was and she sounded PISSED. Fast forward, he calls me back to cancel.

So wtf? she is all happy and chipper to drop her girls off here for free babysitting while they go out on the town, but when it involves me being there she gets mad, starts fights and makes my brother cancel?

One thing i know for sure. the free babysitting? thats done. I will still visit my nieces- at my dads, but if I’m not good enough for HER to be around, she shouldn’t be leaving her kids with me either, IMO.

I spent a fair amount of time last night – enough time that I had to stop becuase my butt fell asleep- researching the world of quitting smoking.

I wanted to know what physical changes to expect from my body, as well as what psychological challenges i would face.

I found a list of 101 things to do instead of smoking and I book marked it, becuase in the days ahead I may just need it!

On average, a quitter will gain 5-10 pounds during the process, but becuase quitting smoking gives you more energy and clears your lungs, it is easier to exercises so you can lose the gainage easily. A lot of websites talked about fda approved diet pills, but I went ahead and bot a carton of gum, a huge bag of carrots and two bags of celery. I plan of cutting them up into thin slices (not the gum) and having them there, in the fridge waiting for me when I need them

I sure hope i am successful this time!

On Monday, only four days ago, we moved the couches, shoved the end tables aside, and set up a work table in the kitchen/living room so that we could seal up the hole in the roof, better known as the sky light.

Since Monday I have not washed the floors, and I have only swept in a sort of kind of way, just to get the largest chinks of plaster out of the way. Why do a big clean when we are just going to be making a mess the next morning?

Since Monday I have watched the piles of dog hair settle in the corners of the room, gathering against the floor fan and molding themselves to the rug.

I’m getting desperate here people, I might even try a hair loss for men product on her! I cannot keep up with all the hair she sheds. We even took her to a groomer to have her hair professionally brushed to get rid of some of the excess hair and it is still so bad!

There is a very real possibility that i might go insane from the hair!

They say, in all the websites and pamphlets, the pharmacist and my doctor said it too, that when you quit smoking you should tell a lot of people so they can support you.

And so, with this in mind, I told my mother and father in law that i had started chantix. They, more than any person I know, want me to quit. So it made sense to tell them, who best to get support from, than the people closest to me who most want me to quit?

Not so much, as it turns out.

Instead I was subjected to a 40 minute lecture on how, in order to stop smoking I need to want it really bad, and if i cannot do it cold turkey, then obviously I do not want it bad enough and I am just wasting my money.

I was told that if i REALLY wanted to quit I would take cholesterol supplement becuase i need more exercises and that if I would only go for a walk a day, my good cholesterol would go to a better level and I would not need to smoke.

FUCK THEM.

I do want to quit, but I am not an idiot. I have been smoking for OVER half my life, I am not ashamed to admit that i need chemical help to break the habit.

I told them becuase I wanted to here “WOOHOO! You can do it!” not a lecture on why I will fucking fail