Beautiful Weekend

We have had beautiful weather here lately! It has been fabulous! We had a pretty low key nice weekend. Friday night I had 2 of the girl scout leaders over so we could plan our bridging ceremony and build a bridge for it. It went pretty smoothly and the bridge came out pretty cute I must say. It will be a very simple to the point but nice and sweet ceremony. I say that but we still have to practice it with the girls. Hopefully it goes as smoothly as we have planned. One of the leaders 2 girls spent the night. They are both really good kids so I wasn't worried, well not until she told me that the youngest (she is 6) has never spent the night with anyone before. It was all going well, I put them all to bed and they were all playing games, the 2 oldest had their DS' and the 2 younger girls had the leapster. They started to get a little loud but I did really think anything of it, as that is typically how little girls are. Next thing I know the oldest girl is crying and I hear "I wanna go home!" OH LORD. So I go up and talk to her and she is crying telling me it is too wild and she wants to sleep and blah blah blah. I tried to talk her into staying but she just kept crying saying she wanted to go home. So I had to call her mom. The youngest was like no way man this is my first sleepover and I am staying. She did great. Her mom was shocked that the oldest wanted to leave cause she has never done that at a sleepover. Turns out they were all dancing and acting silly and she got hot and tired and wanted to stop.... but she wanted everyone to stop NOW. And they didn't, so she got mad. At one point I had all 4 girls crying, she wanted to go home, Kaylee was crying cause she was getting blamed by Mykenzie of being crazy, the youngest was crying cause her sister was sad and Mykenzie was crying because she didn't want her friend to go home! OH MY GOD!! I could have been out drinking and hanging out with my friends! It was insane. So the oldest left, the youngest stayed, they were asleep not 10 minutes after the oldest left and they woke up and had a fun morning playing. I gave up alot of things for that and it sucked. Girls = Drama now you know why my blog is named what it is. How am I going to make it through the rest of my life?

The rest of our weekend went pretty well. I ran to the grocery store Saturday while Travis pressure washed the front of the house. We just hung out, played out side and the girls wanted to eat dinner outside so we did. Had some smores, yummy! And then Sunday was more of the same, church in the morning for us girls while Travis pressure washed the back of the house, some yard work, playing out side, dinner outside and smores :) Nice, easy and relaxing aka perfect.

OUCH!

I am soooo sore! My arms, shoulders, and back are KILLING me! My legs are sore but the pain in a zero in comparison to my upper body. Wanna know why? YOGA. Yeah I said yoga. WTH? Never in my life would I think yoga would mess me up so bad. Ah, did I mention that this is from yoga I did yesterday! I have been in pain since yesterday around noon. It has gotten worse. So sore! I don't think I have ever been this sore in my life, certainly not from exercising! I am doing good though. I have worked out 3 times this week, including today through my serious pain. Monday I did a yoga core work out (boy that'll set your stomach muscles on fire in about 45 seconds) and a yoga end of the day wind down (it was 11 pm when I did this). Yesterday I did an 11 minute yoga workout that was I using as stretching basically, followed by a 22 minute yoga workout to target buns and thighs and then to top it off I did a 22 minute fat burn that consisted of cardio and some strength training. Know which one messed up my arms? The BUNS AND THIGHS work out, WTH? I promise though that's what did it. Today I was trying to not work the arms since they hurt so I did the yoga core work out again, followed buy a short cardio workout and some strange stripper dance thing that is supposed to work the booty. I was not a stripper in a former life and could never be one now. There was nothing sexy about me trying to do those moves! LOL It did make my thighs burn though, not the booty so much but since I probably wasn't doing the moves quite right that could explain that one ;) Now I am done, till Monday that is hopefully my poor achy body will feel better by then. I swear I am going to keep up with this but I damn well better see results if I am going to be in so much pain everytime I move my arms. Seriously all I could think about last night while I was whining about my pain is how in the heck do the people on the Biggest Loser do it? They clearly haven't been a friend to any type of exercise and they have these people in the gym for 6+ hours every day! How can they walk?!? I bet I won't be watching them while eating ice cream anymore. I feel really bad for them now! OUCH!

Just a bitch bitchin'

So I finally went to the doctor and spoke to her about meds for my pms moods. She agrees with me that it sounds like I probably need some and tells me I have PMDD and wrote me a script. So I call my insurance company because getting the meds through them is cheaper for us so for a long term thing it makes more sense. I had to talk to several people because the name of what they had to send me was different than what the doctor prescribed. After a while we finally got it figured out that it is the generic for what she gave me (she told me the generic was something else) great fine, whatever. They tell me it will get to me in 7-10 days.

Fast Forward to yesterday and there it was in my mail. Now I am PMSing and now is the time I need those magic little pills, perfect time to put them to the test, right? I open the package and it is a totally different prescription that what we discussed!!! So I call and it turns out that my insurance company wanted the prescription changed because it would cost them less money! They contacted my doctor for the ok and went with it. Never was I the patient and policy holder notified! The meds they sent are an ANTI-DEPRESSANT, I DON'T NEED AN ANTI-DEPRESSANT! Not only do I not need it but I don't want it in my medical history that I was on one. Not there is anything wrong with it if you actually need it but since I DO NOT I don't want it on there.

So I in my PMS pissy-ness told the man on the phone that I didn't give a shit what the insurance company wanted and I had damn well better be consulted before my medication gets changed again ever! Ridiculous! So they are going to fix it and send me the right stuff but it is going to take another 7-10 business days. Bastards. I have to go in to the doctor in May for a 3 month follow up. Um yeah I won't have been on it for 3 months thanks to these jack offs. When I asked if they would express ship it because of this, I swear they were trying not to laugh and told me I would have to pay $17 for that! I told them I wasn't paying for anything since they are the ones who fucked it up. Really? Do you think it is smart to mess with a hormonal woman who has been prescribed medication to deal with PMS symptoms? Fucking men.

I just want to lock myself in my bedroom and come out in a few days when this is over.

I do have another story with a good ending but I am gonna leave that one for another day

Estrogen Overload!

OMG! The hormones are going to just kill me! Seriously my kid is 8. Should I be dealing with mood swings and melt downs already? They have been picking at each other all day which is always followed by a loud whiny mooooooooooooooom _______ did _______!!!!!! I am tired of listening to it so I sent both of them to their rooms for so quiet time. Mykenzie totally breaks down crying, screaming "I don't want to go to my room! This is my last day of vacation and it isn't fair!!!!" So then I told her if she didn't go she could just be grounded from the computer for the week. She stomps off crying as loud as most people can scream, slams her door and has now been in her room for 25 minutes still hysterical crying and talking to herself about how I am such a mean mom and how she doesn't want to be in her room that it is her last day off. And of course how it is all Kaylee's fault (even though she has been the one picking on Kaylee all day)

OMG! I am going to need to be tranquilized to make it through the teenage years! Just kill me now~ I don't even want to know what it is going to be like when they are both hormonal! Geeze!

"We're gonna have to check with the general manager on that ma'am"

I had a girl scout project planned out for last nights meeting. And by planned out I mean I knew for a month (probably 2) what we would be doing but the procrastinator that I am didn't have any of the stuff actually ready for the meeting. Fast forward to 4:30 yesterday afternoon just 1 hour before we have to leave for the meeting and see me scrambling around the house getting everything ready trying to make the things the girls would be making so they could see the final project ect. Then I realize that I never went and got those straws I have known for a month I would be needing for this project. DANG IT! So I decide that on the way to the meeting I am going to go through the McDonalds drive thru and convince them to give me the straws rather than me going in with both kids and teaching them to steal straws from McDonalds. Here is the conversation that took place at the pick up window.....

Me: Is there any way you would be willing to donate 20 straws for a project for a local girl scout troop or that I could just buy 20 straws from you?

Girl: Ummm. Let me go ask

The manager is right behind her so she turns around and has a 2 minute discussion with him right in front of the window rather that him just speaking to me directly all the while we are holding up the drive thru line at 5:45 pm..... you know fast food rush hour.

Girl: Yeah I just spoke to the manager and he said for us to be able to make a donation we would have to get in contact with our general manager and check with him.

Me: You have got to be kidding me! That is the craziest thing I have ever heard!

Girl with a sympathetic look: I'm sorry

Me: Look. I am not asking you for 20 boxes of straws I am simply asking you for 20 straws. In reality all I have to do is park my car walk in there and take 20 straws off of your counter or you could make my life easier and just hand me 20 straws. I mean come on it is 20 straws.

The manager is still standing there the whole time this conversation transpires. With a very distressed look on his face as though he felt as if his job could possibly be in jeopardy finally gets a bag and tells her to go ahead.

Seriously you would think I was asking for all the money in the cash register with the reaction I got over 20STRAWS!!!! Ey yi yi

Moral of the story. If you ever need McDonalds straws for something leave the kids at home and just walk in and take them off the counter. Yes I am telling you to steal. If it makes you happy leave them a quarter on the counter to cover enough for them to buy back those 20 plus an extra 1000! For petes sake!

Shame on you!

If you are reading this blog without my permission by logging on with someone else's identity you need to back yourself right back out of here. If you would like to read try asking ME! I don't have a problem with people reading but don't be sneaky about it. I made it private for a reason. If you are giving out your log in info out to people, shame on you. I wouldn't do that to you! You know who you are, I know who you are, my suggestion... get a new password and don't give it out again.

How small can they go?

Is it just me or are all the toys coming out these days getting smaller every year? They have teeny tiny Barbies that come apart in three places to swap out pieces making them even smaller. Tiny animals (by Bratz, Littlest Pet Shop, My Little Pony,ect) that are already small but then they come with a million tiny accessories. Great for storage purposes,not so much for the mess factor. I have tiny toys all over my house, and they just keep coming out with new ones and making them smaller! Too bad the price doesn't go down with the toy size, that is the only thing getting bigger.

Can a girl catch a break

Seriously, this is ridiculous. I woke up Tuesday morning with some leg pain. I don't know how it happened but somehow I pulled a muscle in the back of my knee and my calf on my right leg. After days of whining, Travis went to the store and got me some Icy Hot sleeve's as well as some Ben Gay (yes, I am old, whatever) I put the second icy hot of the pack on yesterday afternoon. It helps the pain. Well the having the actual sleeve holding that muscle tight helps more so I left the thing on. Before bed I put some Ben Gay on and put the icy hot sleeve over it. I now have a horrific rash, seriously I look totally diseased it is nasty! Of course it also itches. Lovely. Oh and my leg, it still hurts, though it is feeling a little better.

I may be giving up

On trying to cook that is. I swear, every time I try something new, something I actually follow a recipe for it turns out awful. I try and make things that friends recommend and have tried first even and it still comes out awful for me. I just can not cook. This week I will be attempting to fry fish. I have never done this before so it should be interesting. I am also making a recipe that the Publix lady was making last week that was really yummy. I took the card and walked all around that store searching for every ingredient, and there were a freaking lot, most of which I had never heard of so surely wont use again. I spent a ton of money buying everything that I need. If that and my fried fish do not turn out yummy, I am done. We will have pre-made frozen foods or stuff from a can. This is ridiculous. I mean really, I am a housewife you would think I would be a good cook. I generally have more luck throwing things into a pot and cooking them than I do following a recipe. Don't get me wrong now I have had luck throwing things into a pot maybe 3 times ever and could never repeat it. That just goes to show you how often I have recipe luck. Now if it is something desserty I can generally pull off a recipe, except cookies I still can't make a really good cookie, though not for the lack of trying. I need to find some other "homey" skill since I have yet to come across something that a stereotypical housewife is good at. Maybe I need to blow the dust off my sewing machine and give that a try, it was one of my new years resolutions after all.

signed~ the Truly Undomestic Housewife

Nothing happening

Nothing much going on here. We are going to Kaylee's school tonight to meet her new teachers. We just found out one of her little friends (Avery) won't be in her class this year, so hopefully Addison and Sailor will be still. She is excited and can't wait for the big day tomorrow. And neither can I! I am going to lunch with friends to celebrate my freedom.

The girls have been getting along decently. Still fighting some but playing better together. The proof is all over the floor in my loft. OMG it is horrible! I took pictures, but I am not sharing them till I get it cleaned up. I am on mission search,sort,trash,give away. Today I got my downstairs toy basket done (there is currently only 1 thing in it and I may get rid of that too) and I got Kaylee's room done. I have a 1/4 of a bag of trash and an entire trash bag of stuff to get rid of. Next is Mykenzie's room and last will be the loft. I like to just pretend that room doesn't exist, it is that bad. It is amazing the mess 2 kids can make in a short amount of time.

Other than just getting through each day we haven't been up to much. I had the room meeting at Mykenzie's school last week and I still like her teacher. She is really sweet but will still be firm and I like that. I talked to her about some of my concerns for Mykenzie and she said she will keep an eye out and stay on top of her, so that is really good. Some of the parents I could do without though. Seems like quite a few know each other through church or something outside of school. One mom apparently appointed herself room mother (I personally think she believes she is also queen of the world) which is fine because while I am happy to help out I don't want that job. But what if someone else did? There are new students and moms who are also involved and may have wanted the job. Who the hell died and gave her that title? Just irritating. I hate when people think they are better than everyone else and look down their snooty little noses at people.

Like I said not much going on. I will post pics of Kaylee's first day of school tomorrow. After she gets home of course. I am not wasting those precious free hours blogging!

It's alive!

I put my phone back together and it is working again! I can upgrade in March so I am glad I can wait till then so I can get a new phone cheaper than I would have to pay if I got it now. I am kinda hoping that it's little swimming adventure will have fixed the other problems I was having with it! lol

Now I am sitting here waiting for the dishwasher repair man, so hopefully soon that will be fixed as well. It works, just is leaking so even if he can't fix it today at least it isn't out of commission again.

It is so nice out today, overcast and breezy. It is beginning to seem like fall, even though we are still getting temps in the 90's. I have my mulled cider candle burning and I am in the mood to go to the pumpkin patch. Still have a little over a month for that one though.

My plan after the Dishwasher dude leaves is to see if I can get the upholstery attachment on my carpet cleaner working again so we can scrub the carpets (especially the stairs) tonight. Everything else is getting fixed today hopefully that will too :)

A tiny bit of light

My dishwasher is leaking. Yes, my new we just replaced it in March after going through a nightmarish time with our warranty company, dishwasher. We tried to figure out why it was leaking on our own and though we found where it is leaking we can figure out for the life of us how or why it is. So we did what any hillbilly who doesn't want to pay for yet another repair man, we put a bowl under it. I decided today that there was a slim possibility that it was under warranty and my search for my paperwork. Uh, yeah no clue where it is. BUT, I knew where my receipt was thanks to a little organization for my receipts. So I called Lowes where we bought it who connected me to someone who connected me to someone else and they said, it is defiantly under warranty and they are sending someone on Thursday to fix it!! Yay! And every person I spoke to was super nice and helpful. That NEVER happens! While it is a total pain that it is leaking to begin with at least it is still under warranty and it will be fixed this week! My guess is that parts will have to be ordered so it wont really be fixed this week but the process will start at least and best of all, I don't have to deal with my horrible home warranty company!!

Great at the first impressions

Today we had our first play date with a girl from Kaylee's school and her mom and baby brother. We met them at the zoo and were planning on a fabulous day. We have been around them before at school and birthday parties but this was the first time we actually did something with just them. We made it through the macaws and the monkeys and into the building with the fish and reptiles. About half way through there Kaylee starting whining saying she wanted to go home. When we got back outside I asked her why and she said that her belly hurt. Well she had refused to eat breakfast that morning so I figured she was hungry so we went to the nearby tables and got out our picnic lunches and began to eat. Kaylee ate her go gurt and was sitting quietly. Then she wanted to sit on my lap and for me to feed her. I got her to take a bit of her sandwich and she immediately started throwing up! OMG! People were eating and she was throwing up right next to them. She was laughing and being silly after she calmed down and got cleaned up. Then she got real quiet again. This time we ran to a trash can but the urge left her and she didn't throw up again. So we gathered up our stuff and left. We were all really bummed that we had to cut the day short and hopefully we will be able to get together again soon. I don't know what her deal is with throwing up when she doesn't eat, it doesn't seem too normal to me. At least we know she isn't diabetic. Hopefully I am right and that was all it was and she doesn't have a virus that we have now exposed them to. She felt a little warm when we got home but when I took her temperature it was normal. And for the record she has seemed fine since we got home, she did take a nap in the car on the way too. She still hasn't eaten anything though so it is still too early to say.