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My achy achy legs.

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

By Beth

The weather has been gloomy this weekend, but today’s weather has turned out to be glorious after a rainy, cool morning, we grilled and ate outside, it was perfection!

The last post I wrote was about picking up sticks in my yard and how tired I was. I had no idea how tired I was going to REALLY be after this weekend. Because we have been working in our yard for many hours everyday and now I can hardly walk. In fact, it feels so good to be sitting down right now, but I know when I finally do stand up, it is going to hurt so bad. My legs, my back, my neck, my legs. After tomorrow, I’m not going to do any yard work for at least three days, you have my word. It’s kinda sad that Brian has been working almost ~~as hard~~ harder than me, so I’m not really getting too much of a reprieve from the typical household crap. But, the end is near, which makes me think maybe I’ll blog more, like everyday, since blogging now means picking up my laptop which requires upper body strength and also requires a little bit of brain power, which I do not have, so with that, I’m going to go to bed, before I fall asleep while writing this ldkjfwoeowaldjvnlakdmvlakdjfalkewdsfja;elirtjuo4iehgvnalkzsfm
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Have a great holiday everyone. Thank you to our veterans, our troops and our troop’s families for all you do, for all that you sacrifice. And most of all, to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. We hang our flag in honor of you.
Thank you, in particular, to my brothers who are currently serving in the US right now.

My brother, Dan, is in the center, third from the right.

Also, if you have an old cell phone, please consider donating it to the Cell Phones for Soldiers organization, which donates phones cards to our troops in exchange for your old phones. Click here for me info.

God Bless America.

all photos courtesy of Jack Gruber from USA Today, who was embedded with my brother’s company during his first tour in 2003.

Categories: Holidays, That's Life

Exhaling

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

By Beth

Finally. All is calm. Well, things are calmer than they have been for a long, long time. These past two and a half weeks have been overly hectic and now things are calmer and I am enjoying the change in pace very much. I could not wait for Wednesday night at 8:00pm, because I knew my overly scheduled schedule would be wiped clean, what a feeling! I even celebrated with my favorite ice cream, I was so excited I didn’t even wash my face before bed. (stupid, yes. Lazy, oh yes.) The past few weeks held trips to LA for Brian, Mother’s Day, multiple meetings, a new job, a day in Chicago, more meetings, fundraiser parties, conference calls, Mommy’s Group (at my house, no less), a trip to Kansas City and a storm that created a massive mess that we are still cleaning up.

See what I did today?

Every stick you see in that pile I touched with my hands today, and they all sat in my backyard, buried by the growing grass. Needless to say, I am very tired and terribly sore, spending the day bent over isn’t very fun. (get your mind out of the gutter.) This pile is after Brian spent two days cleaning up the backyard. so.many.sticks. We planned on completing the storm clean up this weekend, but our forecast looks like this:

So, it was up to me. Luckily the kids cooperated wonderfully and I was able to get this done, I even mowed so it’s almost like we have a real backyard again! What a wonderful feeling. It’s still not quite done, I mean, every step you take you still step on small sticks, you can hear then cracking, but at least it looks better. We won’t be going barefoot for a long time. Now if we could just get the branches of off the roof, the gutters cleaned out and the siding power washed, we would almost feel normal again. Maybe I’m glad it’s supposed to rain all weekend, I could actually catch up on blogs and even comment on one or two, now THAT sounds good to me.

By the way, I love Taco Bell. Do you? I know there are some people who don’t like it, but I think it’s the best dang fast food out there. We treated ourselves to that tonight because I was way too tired to cook, and quite honestly, not finished with my PICK UP ONE MILLION STICKS PROJECT, and if I don’t cook, well, everyone starves, so we went to Taco Bell. And it was delicious and we all ate like kings for ten dollars. And even though Racecar calls it Taco Belt, it still my favorite place. And his, too.

Categories: That's Life, Weather

400

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

By Beth

We finally finished watching the season finale of American Idol. I was terribly disturbed by the amount of Sanjaya that I saw tonight, but I was even more disturbed that he was singing with Joe Perry, from Aerosmith, which is a band I love.

In the beginning of the season, the show would get cut off every week by Tivo, so we’d miss the last minute or so. Finally, I created a two minute buffer, because God forbid you miss that last minute of the poor voted off person singing their Final Ballad. I should have taken notice last night when my boyfriend’s performance was cut off. But I didn’t take notice and yes, I am an idiot, because after watching the finale for two hours and two minutes, Tivo ended the show and we did not get to see won. Two minutes after the show was supposed to end and it still hadn’t ended.

Can I just talk about how irritating that is? I mean, it wasn’t that big of a deal because I can go to www.anywebsiteanywhere.com and find the winner, but STILL, are they just milking the whole two hours and then some for advertisements?? C’mon, end it on time, already!

By the way, this is my 400th post. WOOT. HOOT. HOLLA.

Categories: American Idol, Bloggityville

American Idol–FINAL TWO

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

By Beth

Okay…here we go.

What the heck is Randy wearing? He has charms and gold and bling n’ stuff. dawg.

Where did Paula get all of that hair? She looks like a dog. and apparently she tripped on a dog last night and almost broke her nose. Because she’s always drunk.

And Ryan Seacrest just said "bitch." All of this in the first three minutes. good times.

A coin toss. How cute. Do they do this every year? I’m tired.

Blake Lewis–"You Give Love A Bad Name" I loved this performance when he sang it the first time. It’s just as good, if not better. He’s pretty. I do feel like he was a little flat and out of breath….and Simon agrees.

Jordin Sparks–"Fighter" I can’t even stress how much I love her hair when it’s straight like that. So pretty. just like Blakey. well, not just like him. But they’re both pretty. She sounds good.
She’s tall.

Blake Lewis–"She Will Be Loved" I just think this song is boring, BUT, I think he sang it better than Maroon 5. Well, maybe except for the one part when his voice cracked. And WHEN WILL HE SING WITHOUT ALL OF THOSE SHIRTS ON??? I’m sick of it.

Jordin Sparks–"A Broken Wing" I LOVE her outfit. Very cute and her vocals were flawless. Excellent. I don’t think I’m a huge fan of the song, but her voice really sounded good. (Randy said she was flawless, too. yo dawg)

Blake Lewis–"This is My Now." (a song written by some random people) A ballad. How sad for Blakey. Vocally he sounds really good. I actually enjoyed this performance, at first it seemed awkward, but I liked it, although he did have some vocal snags. He needs some lemon water or honey or something. Maybe a juicy kiss would make him feel better. What? I’m just trying to help.

Jordin Sparks–"This is My Now." (a song written by some random people) This song is much better when she sings it. It’s a vocal match. Wow, she’s crying on stage, she can’t get through the song. Is she disqualified now or something? That would suck.

Who should win????

As long as Sanjaya is gone…I don’t care.

Okay, I honestly think Jordin should win. Blake would be better off not winning. And she is a better singer.

We’ll find out after a seven hour season finale tomorrow night. Seacrest. Out.

Categories: American Idol

Works for Me Wednesday

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

By Beth

If there is one thing I am not good at, it’s deep cleaning on a daily or weekly basis. I tend to do it on a random Saturday or when company is coming over. To help me with that Day of Cleaning when I MUST get every inch of my house cleaned, I create a cleaning schedule. I plan it around kid’s lunches, picking up kids from school, my lunch and naps. This is what my schedule looked like today:

by 10am–plant flowers, fold laundry
by 11am–Clean master bedroom and kitchen
by NOON–vacuum master bedroom, dust living room surfaces, wash windows and mirrors
by 1pm–Clean bathroom, clean living room (while kids eat)
by 2pm–Vacuum living room, mop kitchen floor, wipe down kitchen table and chairs (after lunch)
by 3pm–clean kids bedrooms, clean and mop foyer and laundry room
by 4pm–use weed whacker outside and sweep porch. (during naps.)
by 5pm–shower and relax

It works wonders. I find myself finishing much earlier then my schedule, I tend to clean more thoroughly and I mark off my to-do list after each hour mark, which gives me a tremendous sense of accomplishment.

Definitely works for me. For more tips, go here!

Categories: Works for Me Wednesday

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