I am 38 years young today!
The Saint shaved his Fu Man Chu. He didn't say it was for my birthday but it was an awfully good present. Now I get to kiss that sexy clean shaven face!!! Yummo!
He may even quit smoking for me!!
It don't get much better than that.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
I am a big weaner!
So I am trying to slowly wean The Bug from nursing. It is hard, she loves it way too much. In fact it is like having a pint sized crack addict in the bed (don't even get me started on co-sleeping, that is our next challenge!) with me. I let her nurse before she goes to sleep (and sometimes to sleep when I just need her down) and then that is it. No more middle of the night stick-the-boob-in-the-mouth-to-quiet-the-baby-and-get-some-sleep feedings. Apparently those were her favorite.
First, she starts rooting around in her sleep. Then when the boob is not readily available, a panicked fumbling begins where she tries to get work her way under my shirt, pulls on my face, scratches at my chest, and sometimes tries to suck on my nose if she is close enough. This is followed a kicking and scratching fit, where she kicks off anything that touches her legs, and scratches her belly furiously. The next step is the loud wailing and yelling, "mommy!!!", she truly sounds like she is in pain. She grabs onto my face and stares at me like she is trying to will me to release a boob. At this point, sometimes, I can get her a drink of water and cuddle with her and get her to sleep, sometimes, just touching her at this point, she starts back at the first step!!!!
This whole process can last 10 minutes or 2 hours!! We have been working on it for 2 weeks now. I can't just go cold turkey on her, I think her head would just shoot right off her body!
So yes, I am a big mean weaner.
Peace
First, she starts rooting around in her sleep. Then when the boob is not readily available, a panicked fumbling begins where she tries to get work her way under my shirt, pulls on my face, scratches at my chest, and sometimes tries to suck on my nose if she is close enough. This is followed a kicking and scratching fit, where she kicks off anything that touches her legs, and scratches her belly furiously. The next step is the loud wailing and yelling, "mommy!!!", she truly sounds like she is in pain. She grabs onto my face and stares at me like she is trying to will me to release a boob. At this point, sometimes, I can get her a drink of water and cuddle with her and get her to sleep, sometimes, just touching her at this point, she starts back at the first step!!!!
This whole process can last 10 minutes or 2 hours!! We have been working on it for 2 weeks now. I can't just go cold turkey on her, I think her head would just shoot right off her body!
So yes, I am a big mean weaner.
Peace
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Kroger Deals
I went today and this is what I got:
19 4-packs of Cottonelle
5 Boxes Fiber One Bars
1 box Nature Valley granola bars
12 Bottle Powerade Zero
3 cans Spaghettios
3 bags of Chex Mix
My total was over $50 I paid 9.xx!!!
AND I got $4 back from the Powerade which I will roll into more Powerade Zero!
Peace
19 4-packs of Cottonelle
5 Boxes Fiber One Bars
1 box Nature Valley granola bars
12 Bottle Powerade Zero
3 cans Spaghettios
3 bags of Chex Mix
My total was over $50 I paid 9.xx!!!
AND I got $4 back from the Powerade which I will roll into more Powerade Zero!
Peace
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Deals
SO I am laying low this week but I am doing a quick deal at Kroger as I have some coupons getting ready to expire.
There is a deal running at Kroger that if you buy 15 specially marked items, you get $3 off you total order. Of the items that is rumored to be working are the Cottonelle Toilet Paper 4-packs that run for about $1. I ordered 20- .50 off coupons on Ebay that will double to make the TP free! THEN when I buy 15, I get $3 off! I am going to combine this with a Nature Valley Granola bar deal (buy 5 get $3.50 off your next order and I have 2 .50 coupons). So I will get 20 rolls of TP, 5 boxes of granola bars, and 5 cans of Campbells chicken noodle soup (to make my item total 15) for 10.95 and $3.50 off my next order.
I am going to turn that around and do the Powerade Zero deal, (buy 6 and get $4 off your next order) they are .79 a piece. I have a .75 off coupon for one and will use the $3.50 off from my previous transaction so my total for 6 should be .49 and I will get $4 off my next trip. I might just roll it into more Powerade Zeros.
Peace
There is a deal running at Kroger that if you buy 15 specially marked items, you get $3 off you total order. Of the items that is rumored to be working are the Cottonelle Toilet Paper 4-packs that run for about $1. I ordered 20- .50 off coupons on Ebay that will double to make the TP free! THEN when I buy 15, I get $3 off! I am going to combine this with a Nature Valley Granola bar deal (buy 5 get $3.50 off your next order and I have 2 .50 coupons). So I will get 20 rolls of TP, 5 boxes of granola bars, and 5 cans of Campbells chicken noodle soup (to make my item total 15) for 10.95 and $3.50 off my next order.
I am going to turn that around and do the Powerade Zero deal, (buy 6 and get $4 off your next order) they are .79 a piece. I have a .75 off coupon for one and will use the $3.50 off from my previous transaction so my total for 6 should be .49 and I will get $4 off my next trip. I might just roll it into more Powerade Zeros.
Peace
Monday, September 15, 2008
Douglas Williams
My Father In Law, Doug passed away early this morning. Keep my family in your thoughts.....
Friday, September 12, 2008
A little politics for ya.....
Eve Ensler, the American playwright, performer, feminist and activist best known for "The Vagina Monologues", wrote the following about Sarah Palin:
Drill, Drill, Drill
I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seenone in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.
I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.
But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.
I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.
Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, "It was a task from God."
Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not. She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.
Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.
Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.
Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in His name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.
I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal-burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free, open, tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.
If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, "Drill Drill Drill." I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.
Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?
Eve Ensler
September 5, 2008
Drill, Drill, Drill
I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seenone in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.
I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.
But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.
I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.
Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, "It was a task from God."
Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not. She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.
Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.
Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.
Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in His name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.
I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal-burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free, open, tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.
If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, "Drill Drill Drill." I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.
Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?
Eve Ensler
September 5, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
A quick Meijer run.......
So I hit Meijer on my lunch break today.....
2 Hunts Pudding/jello snack pack ($1 each, used a .35 off 2 coupn that doubles)
4 Bags of Combos $1 each (used 1.00 off 2 coupons)
2 Green Giant Steamers ($1 each used a $1 off printable)
4 boxes Green Giant frozen vegetable ($1 each used 1-.25 off and 1-1.00 off 2)
1 Bottle Arm & Hammer Essentials (2.69 - there is a Try Me Free Rebate for this)
1 Lysol Toilet Bowl Cleaner (1.04 forgot my coupon!!)
3 12-packs Coke Zero (3 for 11.00, used 1.00 off coupons from Vocalpoint)
Markdown Meat, chicken and pork (12.00)
Kraft Twist Ems Cheese Sticks (3.50)
Box Cheerios (4.99 used a free coupon!)
Bananas (1.60)
Pluots (2.00)
2 dozen cupcakes (12.00, for the office, I will be reimbursed)
1 pair of sneakers (clearanced to 8.49 but free because I bought $10 worth of Coke products!!)
The grand total was 50.03
I will get 12.00 back for the cupcakes
2.69 for the Arm and Hammer rebate
AND I have a Miller Rebate slip for $20 back on a $40 grocery receipt!
Total after being reimbursed and rebates -
$15.36
Pretty Sweet!!
Peace
2 Hunts Pudding/jello snack pack ($1 each, used a .35 off 2 coupn that doubles)
4 Bags of Combos $1 each (used 1.00 off 2 coupons)
2 Green Giant Steamers ($1 each used a $1 off printable)
4 boxes Green Giant frozen vegetable ($1 each used 1-.25 off and 1-1.00 off 2)
1 Bottle Arm & Hammer Essentials (2.69 - there is a Try Me Free Rebate for this)
1 Lysol Toilet Bowl Cleaner (1.04 forgot my coupon!!)
3 12-packs Coke Zero (3 for 11.00, used 1.00 off coupons from Vocalpoint)
Markdown Meat, chicken and pork (12.00)
Kraft Twist Ems Cheese Sticks (3.50)
Box Cheerios (4.99 used a free coupon!)
Bananas (1.60)
Pluots (2.00)
2 dozen cupcakes (12.00, for the office, I will be reimbursed)
1 pair of sneakers (clearanced to 8.49 but free because I bought $10 worth of Coke products!!)
The grand total was 50.03
I will get 12.00 back for the cupcakes
2.69 for the Arm and Hammer rebate
AND I have a Miller Rebate slip for $20 back on a $40 grocery receipt!
Total after being reimbursed and rebates -
$15.36
Pretty Sweet!!
Peace
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Musings
I am working on some good Meijer deals, will post when I get it all worked out. There is a 10 for 10 get the 11th free sale going on and I may try the sneakers deal one more time.
Funny Bug conversation:
Bug (pointing to her lady parts) – this my butt!
Mommy (not knowing what we want to call those parts, yet) – no that’s your vagina
(I realized that I a not quite ready to hear my 2 year old say vagina quite yet, gotta come up with a new word!)
Bug – my china?
Mommy – your VA-gina
Bug (spreads her leg and looks down “there” and looks back up at me confused) – where pandas come from?
Mommy – huh???
Bug – China?
She is too smart for her own good, I tell you!
Some Whatever logic:
The past few weeks Whatever has been wearing a heavy sweater to school. It is freaking 80-90 degrees. I keep questioning her on it and she tells me her school is freezing. I drop her off and no one else wears a sweater or jacket. Today I take her, it is actually chilly this morning, and she is not wearing the sweater. I asked her why on this day of all days, she chooses not to wear the sweater, it is actually chilly. She is stumped for an answer. After much prodding, she doesn’t like the way her polo shirts fit. She has been sweltering in the name of fashion. I am not sure I am going to live through the teenage years.
Funny Bug conversation:
Bug (pointing to her lady parts) – this my butt!
Mommy (not knowing what we want to call those parts, yet) – no that’s your vagina
(I realized that I a not quite ready to hear my 2 year old say vagina quite yet, gotta come up with a new word!)
Bug – my china?
Mommy – your VA-gina
Bug (spreads her leg and looks down “there” and looks back up at me confused) – where pandas come from?
Mommy – huh???
Bug – China?
She is too smart for her own good, I tell you!
Some Whatever logic:
The past few weeks Whatever has been wearing a heavy sweater to school. It is freaking 80-90 degrees. I keep questioning her on it and she tells me her school is freezing. I drop her off and no one else wears a sweater or jacket. Today I take her, it is actually chilly this morning, and she is not wearing the sweater. I asked her why on this day of all days, she chooses not to wear the sweater, it is actually chilly. She is stumped for an answer. After much prodding, she doesn’t like the way her polo shirts fit. She has been sweltering in the name of fashion. I am not sure I am going to live through the teenage years.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Open Letter to Jean's Companies
To Whom It May Concern:
Why am I the only one who does not want my child to dress like a slut?!?!? And why are you so hell-bent to make sure she does? I am so tired of seeing pre-teen and teen butt crack, I could throw up! In fact, I did a little in my mouth on the last shopping trip. You guys and gals are killin me! What is with the “low” and “lowest” rise jeans?? Why can’t you make a pair of jeans that falls somewhere between stripper and Mom jeans?!?! If I have to see my kid’s butt crack with her Fruit Of The Looms hanging out one more damn time, I might just go postal! I surely DO NOT want anyone else seeing her butt crack. I can’t take one more minute of the changing room discussions, tears, and frustration. Those damn rooms are hot to begin with, add teen angst, a screaming toddler, and a dozen pair of jeans on the floor, and you have a veritable sauna. You guys are really killing me! Are you perverts, do you like seeing my kid with her rear hanging out? How do you expect me to spend $30+ dollars on something that doesn’t cover everything a pair of pants is supposed to? Help me out here.
AND while I am on the subject, why on God’s Green Earth is it necessary to make plus sized jeans in “lowest rise”. Come on, really. Who wants that?!!?
I guess I should think you for making my toddler’s jean s actually cover her diaper.
On the brink of a nervous breakdown,
Charming Calamity
Why am I the only one who does not want my child to dress like a slut?!?!? And why are you so hell-bent to make sure she does? I am so tired of seeing pre-teen and teen butt crack, I could throw up! In fact, I did a little in my mouth on the last shopping trip. You guys and gals are killin me! What is with the “low” and “lowest” rise jeans?? Why can’t you make a pair of jeans that falls somewhere between stripper and Mom jeans?!?! If I have to see my kid’s butt crack with her Fruit Of The Looms hanging out one more damn time, I might just go postal! I surely DO NOT want anyone else seeing her butt crack. I can’t take one more minute of the changing room discussions, tears, and frustration. Those damn rooms are hot to begin with, add teen angst, a screaming toddler, and a dozen pair of jeans on the floor, and you have a veritable sauna. You guys are really killing me! Are you perverts, do you like seeing my kid with her rear hanging out? How do you expect me to spend $30+ dollars on something that doesn’t cover everything a pair of pants is supposed to? Help me out here.
AND while I am on the subject, why on God’s Green Earth is it necessary to make plus sized jeans in “lowest rise”. Come on, really. Who wants that?!!?
I guess I should think you for making my toddler’s jean s actually cover her diaper.
On the brink of a nervous breakdown,
Charming Calamity
Friday, September 5, 2008
RUN, Don't Walk.......................
to Lexington, KY K-Mart!!!!!
They are doubling all coupons up to $2.
Just save me some stuff, I can't get there until tomorrow.
Peace
They are doubling all coupons up to $2.
Just save me some stuff, I can't get there until tomorrow.
Peace
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