Weekend Wrap-Up and Random Thoughts

Wow, I REALLY needed to get out of the house last night. We saw Sarah Silverman's film at Resfest and laughed so hard. You might think I'd feel a little bit guilty for chuckling at comedy that was so insanely far from PC and completely vulgar in every way. (Ok, maybe you wouldn't really think that. I am not easily offended at all.) In fact, there's very little I can think of that actually does shock me. Oh wait, I believe I would take offense with someone breaking up with my best friend of fifteen years when she was expecting to move in together and eventually get married. But I guess that's not the same thing, right? Hmmm.

I'm getting off topic though. I do want to mention that I was very happy to see my old friend Shiow last night at the movie. And since I know now that she checks my blog I want to give a big shout out and say HI SHIOW! YOU BIG BLOG-STALKER! I KNOW YOU'RE READING THIS!

Hee.

Clean Cup, Move Down!

It's 7:30pm on a Friday night and I just finished putting the girls to bed. Yes, I said 7:30. We just finished off a long day of Juliana ignoring me and Ava whining and screaming at me. (Juli was supposed to be cleaning her room and Ava just isn't feeling well.) Truth be told, I just couldn't take it anymore and since it's getting dark out earlier now I thought I'd take advantage of it. "Sure it's bedtime! What do you mean you want to see the clock? Don't you trust me?"

Jason's out with Billy tonight so it's just me here. I'm going to have a glass of wine and watch some television. I am so DONE with today.

Plugging Along...

It's naptime so I'm working on this some more:



Hey, I'm pretty good! Doesn't this kitchen just scream BUY ME?

And Junk Did Raineth Down Upon Me

For quite some time now I have been "clean-sweeping" out my house in anticipation of our upcoming move. If we didn't already produce the most trash on our block, we have most definitely blown everyone away these past few weeks. It has been very liberating to rid myself of years of stuff that has been weighing me (and our house) down.

Over the weekend I had my dad over to help fix a few little things, one being the bathroom fan in our master bath. In order to get at the wiring better, he needed to access the fan through the attic in the girls bedroom. The attic is basically tiny crawl space with a bunch of insulation (or so I thought, having never actually been up there.) Anyway, he ended up pulling out three boxes of junk from one of the previous owners and found a fourth one as well that he couldn't quite reach. The boxes are full of old photos, birthday cards and letters, sports awards, knick-knacks and other junk from about 10 years ago.

Doesn't it just figure that as soon as I finished getting rid of all my crap I had to have someone else's bestowed on me.

The Second Coming?

The president has actually lost the support of Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh, of all people with his nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. The world as I know it is crumbling. Don't. Understand. What. Is happening.

What Have I Been Up To?

Paint, paint, and more paint. No time to blog. Must apply more paint.

The DMV SUX Ya'll! (So What Else Is New?)

Last Saturday I went to the DMV to get license plates for the Cruiser since I'm still driving around with Florida plates. After filling out all the paperwork and waiting patiently in line for twenty minutes (which was REALLY quick for that place, I know) I was told that I could NOT file my registration until Jason signed his name as well, since his name was also on the title.

Fine.

I didn't really want to go there with Ava or Juli so I waited until today to go back. Once again, I had all the paperwork filled out, complete with Jason's signature and a check made out for $143.00 like they told me to do. They are open from 8am until noon on Saturdays so after Juliana's soccer game was over at 11, I popped over there to finally take care of everything. At 11:30 I walked in the door and looked to take a number but didn't see any. There was one woman sitting at a computer doing nothing so I went up and asked her where the numbers were.

DMV Woman: "Ohhhh. It looks like there aren't anymore," she said and proceeded to stare at me.

Me: "Okay... Well can you help me get my license plates? I have everything filled out and ready to go."

DMV Woman:" Well, we're all done doing that for today. You can take it to the currency exchange and have it done there if you want."

Me: "Uhhh, aren't you open until noon? Can't I take care of it here?"

DMV Woman: "No. We're all done doing those today." she says SITTING IN FRONT OF HER COMPUTER WITH NOTHING ELSE TO DO A FULL HALF HOUR BEFORE THEY WERE SCHEDULED TO CLOSE.

I'm usually very nice to people who work in any kind of service industry because frankly I think it must be a pretty sucktastic job but I have to say that after making two attempts to have this fairly simple task taken care of and being shot down TWICE that I did in fact storm out of there. And I took the two pens I had in my hand with me.

Yes, I said TWO pens. So there.

*Side note: This all happened after we spent the early morning drving around Bartlett trying to figure out which gymnasium Juliana's soccer team was having their photos taken at since nobody bothered to tell me that Schrade Gym wasn't the gym at the school where every single game is being played. Apparently I am not as a good a Soccer Mom as all the other moms on the team since every other person knew exactly where to go Oh, and we missed the team photo by literally THIRTY SECONDS. They wanted to retake it once we got there but one other girl on the team had just left as we were coming in the door.

Juli still got her individual photo taken but I have to say I was heartbroken about missing the team shot. Thirty seconds. Grrrrrr.