Cravings and other lazy parents....

It's highly inconvenient to be craving a Filaberto's burrito with all that I am worth right now; especially considering I'm nowhere near Phoenix. Also considering that the cleanliness of the resturant makes it somewhere a pregnant lady probably shouldn't frequent! My other major craving is Peanut Brittle... having some trouble tracking that down in the middle of July. I've also been craving the original chicken sandwich from burger king, but considering it has like 30 grams of fat I've been trying to avoid it like the plague. Although I think I've been craving a blue bag of skittles, is there even a blue bag of skittles? Maybe that's starbursts.... but I think there are tropical skittles?

Anywho;

We've been going to the park a ton lately; while there yesterday we ran into one of my favorite topics; completely lazy inadequate parents.

Keith and I had just finished unloading the girls out of the car and started walking towards the playground. There is a dad at the park with his two children. The dad is sitting on a bench facing the playground while the daughter is playing behind him. Of all things the daughter is doing: Throwing the peet rock at a flock of about 50 wild geese that wandered over! With no reaction from the father. Then after the little beach is done aggravating the geese, the dad gets up and asks his son (approximately 2) if he wanted to pet the geese! Then father and son move across the playground leaving the daughter (6 at the most) on the otherside near the geese, where she thinks it's an awesome idea to run screaming into the sea of geese. The dad is lucky his daughter didn't get attacked, because I'm sorry to admit it, but I would have stuck around and told the responders that she deserved every single one of those bites! Eventually we decided to leave and find a safer park for the girls (where large wild birds weren't being agitated.)

Lazy parenting is one of my biggest pet peeves!

Rah Rah Rah!

I've not been a very good blogger since I re-started blogging.

This Minnesota weather is gorgeous lately and we've been outside enjoying all of it! We've been getting the girls out to the park every single day, then mix in all the family barbecues, get-togethers, and city wide garage sales there hasn't been much time for anything else!

Not to mention this whole Avon business; I signed my first recruit today. I had to have my UL go with me because it was my first and it kind of seemed like maybe she was trying to steal my recruit from me (kept giving her all of her information instead of mine etc) but it doesn't really matter, this girl contacted ME to be a Rep, got locked in under me for now, and I don't need my UL on any future sign-ups. I'm not sure why I started basically selling crack again, other then we need a little extra money in our household, and I've been successful at it in the past. It's 7:30 here and my plans yet tonight still include getting the girls outside some more and purging 140 books into the economy.... heeheehee. Anyway if you know of anyone needing Avon, even if they live far away direct them to my site www.youravon.com/amandaholcomb . I love sending freebies / welcome packs when people place their first orders.

Okay enough pimping of the crack. Ha.

With all the playing outside, not drinking soda, not eating Fast Food I am starting to get healthier. I couldn't give you an exact number until I see my doctor, but I do know I'm breathing better which is funny because I'm getting more preggo. I had someone ask me today when I was due, I told them "January, but a lot of this belly is all me to start with." I looked in the mirror though and my pooch is getting bigger, it's just not natural to look 8 months along at 3.5 months... lol. Transitions.

The girls are being little F*ckers lately! It's an infuriating. If they find a piece of paper, plaster, mattress it needs to be colored on immediately. Who cares if it's important or not. I'm starting to believe that the Color Wonder markers did me a dis-service, because the girls learned that "hey this shouldn't show up on anything but MY paper" and now are doing experiments with other pens /highlighters to see how they compare.... UGH. And naughty and cranky... my gosh. Trying to teach the baby that it's not an "uh oh" if you intentionally do it, still working on training the most potty resistant child ever, she's 3.5 what the frick am I doing wrong!? I really think the baby is going to potty train before her! I guess it doesn't matter as long as one of them has it down before the newest/lastest baby makes their appearance.

That's all I have today, I'm working on 5 hours of sleep and have nothing of wit/importance! I'll try to blog more frequently before the good junk leaves my head!

Halloween in July

We have some VERY interesting new neighbors. Last Friday when we were leaving for my doctors appointment we noticed the nice choice in lawn display. They have statues. The zombie goblins digging out of the ground type of statues. That's not even the part that is getting under my skin ... the dangling bloody severed heads I do have issue with. Not the type of thing my babies (or the other children in our building need to be seeing).

I'm willing to wager also NOT the type of thing the two war veterans who live next door to me want to see daily (I'm imagining PTSD flash backs.)

And it's NOT just me, Keith is very laid back about letting people do what they want to do, and even he thinks it's completely inappropriate. If it was their own house/sole yard then whatever, but blech.

I'd take photos for you; except for I'm afraid of the possibility of getting some kind of voo-doo hex!

I don't know if there is anything management can do. But we do live in a very nice complex (you need key fabs to get in)... they are pretty strict etc. We pay too much for rent to be living in Chris Angel's basement!

Frick, we really need to get busting on finding a house.

I'm back again; you know ya'll missed me!

Here's a super long post!

I'm remembering back to the days I had 100s of posts and a few followers.... then I went all scary psycho and deleted every single post right around Christmas time.... Dumb ass! Mostly I'm missing my previous pregnancy posts because I'm wondering if I felt like such an emotional wreck during my first two, but I really don't think I was this bad. Maybe that's a sign that we're finally going to get Keith's coveted boy?

Anyhow; I've been learning a few things this week.

First - People really WILL surprise you, if you give them a chance. I never would have expected a person brought into my life last Fall to shock the crap out of me last night like they did. I've been under the impression that this person was an old fuddy-duddy, super boring and super bland. I guess it's kind of bad that someone scored points on the hip meter with me for participating in a little illegal activity (nothing as bad as you're thinking!)

Second - The show "Dance Your Ass Off"? LOVED IT! It was inspiring to see how much weight the contestants were losing just by practicing for the dance competition and eating better. Not to mention actually watching larger people move their asses that way, maybe me realize I can do crap like that too! --- Fat or skinny, I recommend getting your butt to the couch to catch this one!

Third - First-trimester screen today went awesome! Baby is super healthy and on track, I've lost some pounds without doing much of anything aside from not eating greasy fast foods and cutting back on soda, being outside and moving more. My blood pressure was actually pretty low too, which surprised me because hubbs and I had just spent the morning walking around the mall.

Fourth - I'm still in desperate need of growing a back bone. While I'm better at not being manipulated by my brother in prison, he still sometimes gets me to feel a little bad for him ... "oh maybe I should just mail him $22 for that fan" Let's not stop and think that $22 is an entire package of diaper.
He is the one who fixed the bed he's lying in.... but that's another post for another day, when I'm actually more bitchy!

Spent some time down at my moms this week which is a few hours away, we lit off fireworks last night (HUGE GIANT FIREWORKS!) then Keith and I headed back home. The girls are spending two nights (last night and tonight) at Grandmas, and then I get to make the 4-hour round trip alone tomorrow to get them!
Who knows... maybe I'll bring home even more funsies with me this time!

For tonight, I'm enjoying my time alone in blissful quiet. I painted my nails up, wrapped up some customer orders and *gasps* I'm catching up on every sinful episode of Paris Hilton's "My new BFF" so what if the beach is scrawny and needs to eat a hamburger (or 20), I can't help but love her!

OH... if the douche bag who has been milling around my moms neighborhood got released from jail today (after peeping in neighbors windows last night) and has been peeping at my daughters, I'm going to find the little rat bastard and do some major pregnant ex-security guard bitch crap to him!
This loser had a jimmy stick and everything with him and was looking in lit houses, which makes the neighborhood wonder if he was waiting for the 12 year old girl at the house to go to sleep or what. BLECH.... her neighborhood is suppose to be safe, it has ALWAYS been safe ... and it's messed up that after we got home from Fireworks last night, she thought she was going to need to leave her home and take the girls someplace safer!