I'm HUNGRY!!!!

Just bear with me for a second....I'm so hungry....but my mouth/teeth hurt too much to eat anything substantial. You can only eat so many smoothies, bowls of pudding and soup....I'm so ready for something substantial....something that I can crunch and chew....crum, I'd be happy with a piece of toast, but even that is a pain, literally. Last night I was taking graham crackers in little pieces and sucking on them until soft....just because I wanted something like a cracker....it was sorta gross.

Why did post about the lettuce wraps? I can't bite into one, so I decide to torture myself?! I guess I can just do the rice version...

If any of you have a good idea for something soft, yet substantial and filling I could try, throw it at me. In comment form, you Smart Alecs!

Unless you really want to come over, make something, and throw it at me...I'll try to catch it and not complain about the mess! ;)

ow. ow... OW!

Well....another thing check off of the orthodontia "to do" list. I got my bottom brackets on today. So now I need to head to the store to stock up on soft foods...pudding, jello, assorted soups, and, of course, ice cream....that's what you do when something is sore right? Put ICE (cream) on it?!

Ouch. No pictures though.....it isn't that interesting!

Here goes....

I may be exposing a little bit more of my unstable personality than I want to the world with this, but I need to vent.

I do not like our dog....loathe, detest, want to give him away type of "do not like."

He needs a haircut, and since I refuse to blow $40 on the ding-dong, I do it myself. But I hate it. It takes f-o-r-e-v-e-r because I wait until he is covered in long hair and needs to be shaved. I have not had a good 2 hour block to sit and do it. So he is shedding this freaking long hair EVERYWHERE and it is driving. me. NUTS!

He also needs his toenails clipped. He paces through the part of the house he is allowed in, which is on the tile, and the clickety-clickety of his nails is driving. me. NUTS! Oh, and he also whines/moans for no apparent reason. All the time. Like a squeaky door. Maybe he senses my hostility.

He emits a sickening green cloud of noxious gas frequently from his nether-regions that is pretty bad. I may hurt the next person I see feed him people food because it gets worse after that.

He pukes. Pretty frequently in my opinion. Ron always says, well, you should be glad he does it on the tile...HUH? I should be glad I get to clean up dog puke? Oh yeah, sign me up.

In the winter, he poops on the deck, and I hate this behavior. I want to load him up and take him to the pound whenever I see a new pile out there.

I shouldn't complain about him. He doesn't bark, except at birds and UPS men. He doesn't chew things up. He is house trained....except for the gas and puking.

But I don't like him.

Did I mention he sheds....and if I see another dog hair on my kids Sunday clothes in church I might cry?

Anyone want a dog?

Thanks. I feel better now. Maybe I'll go cut his nails so I can cross the clickety-clickety off my list of complaints!

Oh joy....

T-minus 18 months and counting....


I hesitated to put these up, because I am not photogenic, and these pics downright scare me. But, it's all about the reality of life! Hope these don't break anyone's computers....

I WILL have straight teeth! I just hope having these put on doesn't mean I develop acne as well...but if they make my gray hairs disappear, that would be nice! At least the worst of the soreness has gone away, and the inside of my cheeks no longer resemble ground beef.

I sure hope I can still get a date to prom!

shut up.....

Does that countdown say 17 days til Christmas?!?!?!

Crimony! I'm in trouble! And not just because I'm 3 days behind in my daily December journal.

And not just because the cards aren't ready.

Mainly because if this keeps up, my kids aren't going to have much to open on the morning of the 25th....

I better get going.

A visit to the Vampires

The American Red Cross loves me! They call, alot, to set up appointments for me to come donate blood. I set the appointment up, but for the last year, I get to the point where they measure my hematocrit, and then I get the heave-ho. Apparently they have certain standards for their blood donations....like they want you all nice and healthy with lots of oxygen carrying capacity. I almost felt guilty one time because the happy lady who scheduled the appointment cheerily told me that I'd (well, my blood) had been approved for pediatric use. Then I of course got rejected for my crit....great, some kid that needs blood isn't gonna get it, but I got over it. Oh, and you don't have to be special or anything to be approved for ped use, just CMV negative.

So today, another appointment comes for the blood-letting. We got through the preliminary stuff, and the guy opened the centrifuge, read my hematocrit, and I steeled myself for yet another goodbye, try again. But then he told me my crit was 39%.....WHAT! Thirty-nine percent! No wonder I've been feeling so good! Hooray! I finally got to donate. I know, I'm weird, only I would get excited about having a 16 guage needle jabbed in to my arm and a pint of blood allowed to drain into a bag! So the vampires got their wish, and they got their blood from me, and I am happy because someone out there is gonna get something they desperately need, my blood.

Even better, look at what I got after I donated! BLING! I have now officially donated 1 gallon of blood. Not that I'm gonna go around wearing it....but I am kinda proud of it. :) I'll put it in my jewelry box next to my bone marrow donation pin. Just to look at. Maybe I'll collect them all! Here I come 2 gallon pin!

NEW LOOK!

Holy COW!!! I feel so smart and accomplished when I look at this blog template!!!! I DID THIS!!!!

Of course, it was only with the fantastic step-by-itty-bitty-step tutorial that Crazymamaof6 sent me!

(THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU CRAZYMAMA!!)

So now I am feeling a little more computer savvy....I've learned how to download digital scrapbook papers, and then use them to create a festive Halloween look for the blog, all without erasing all the info on my blog....which I was indeed worried about. Now if I could get a step-by-itty-bitty-step tutorial about how to actually scrapbook with these awesome and cute kits I've downloaded I'd be set.....oh, how I wish I were closer to AZ and I could take onehm's scrapbooking class.

So, obviously, we have returned from CA, all in one piece, although all very exhausted! We are just now starting to feel normal again, except I may need to visit a chiropractor to fix my "hotel room bed" neck...ouch!

My five brain cells are now fatigued from the blog template creation, so I'll be uploading our pictures from the trip tomorrow....there will be some fun ones in there, so check back!!! :)

Pepto-Bismol?

**Edited...I can no longer stand the pink background, so it's been changed...just to explain the now nonsense of the post to follow!

**2nd Edit...I went back to a brown background...I still don't like it, but it isn't as dizzy as the pink...I need to get to work and try to make it really cute. There are just too many choices; title color, background, border, post, side-bar....ACK, stop already! I'm overwhelmed! :)


Is it just me, or does it look like I spilled a bottle of Pepto on the background of my blog?! Just trying to infuse a little color....I think I failed. I tried brown with some pink....it didn't look too good either. Now I have a headache so I should stop trying to do anything with it! I just need to bite the bullet, print out the fantastically written and very difficult looking tutorial that Crazymama was so kind to send me about how to really personalize it....but I think I'll close my eyes here for a minute and dream about the 44 oz Dr. Pepper that I'm going to go get as soon as Ellie wakes up.