Moo.

So, I'm fat. Still. Again. More. Went out and bought a scale today so I can start WW for the 94567th time tomorrow. Highest weight ever. Ugh.

More pictures, if you can stand it.

Was actually warm enough to get some outside pictures with actual light. :)

Fun With Photoshop

So I recently discovered the fun which is actions and downloaded a bunch. New versions of yesterday's photos:

AM Photos

Look what an overachiever I am... have already had a photo shoot this morning.

From the highlight reel:

Adventures at Subway

I hardly ever go to Subway. As much as I love their subs, everytime I go there, I leave with a blank stare.

Last time I was there, I ordered 2 identical 12" subs for GWH and I. Except one with regular mayo and 1 with lite. I realize that a 12" BMT with LITE mayo is a lesson in futility, I just don't like regular mayo, so back off. Anyway, she hands me the bag and I ask her which one is which. She replies "I have no idea". I should have had her remake them, but I couldn't wipe the deer in the headlights look off my face to do it.

Tonight, I went again. Different Subway. 2 hours from the other one. When will I learn.

I walk her through GWH's sub. 12" BMT, lettuce, tomato, onion, jalapenos, mayo. Then mine. Lettuce, tomato, green pepper, onion, mild peppers and lite mayo.

She grabs the same mayo container and puts a tiny bit on and says "is that good?"

I think I stared at her for 5 minutes before I realized what the hell was wrong with her.

Next time, I guess I have to spell it out. L-I-T-E. Not light.

Sigh.

To GWH

For still sleeping next to me even when my farts smell like dead old people.

For not only believing in me when I said I wanted to open a store, but for supporting me physically, mentally, emotionally and financially so that I could.

For ordering take out without complaint when I'm too lazy to cook dinner for the 3rd night in a row.

For letting me spend $30 getting clean shirts laundered just so that I won't have to iron them.

For looking at every single scrapbooking page I do with great interest, even when you couldn't care less.

For mushrooms. You know what I mean.

For never complaining about having to raise 4 pre-existing, demanding, expensive and at times difficult children.

For being you, and being with me, and making me happier than I've ever been.

Thank you. And Happy Anniversary.

I love my little town.

They just do the coolest things, right downtown less than a mile from me.

This is my town square. Well, one side of it. And when it's warmer out. I didn't take this picture, but whatever.



A couple weeks ago, at the fairgrounds, they had a chocolate festival. Yes, that's right, a FESTIVAL of CHOCOLATE. HELLO? Every year. Love this town.

This weekend is the ice festival. The streets of the square are lined with these really cool ice sculptures. The downside is, it's really damn cold outside. But, as ever so smart GWH pointed out, the ice festival wouldn't be much to look at if it were warm. So we braved the elements and went. Of course, my camera battery died right as we got to the center where all the coolest ones are. And damn cars kept getting in my way of the others. Next year I should take my rolling backdrop with me and make the kids wheel it along. Haha.

Anyway, here's a couple pictures that didn't turn out completely crappy.



Did you know that Spongebob lived in Medina? It's true. I can prove it.



And my ice angels. This went the opposite of how I planned. There were 4 of these angels. I cropped the other 2 out because my bozo older boys were over there acting like idiots. I had this vision of the 4 of them playing along and looking like little ice angels and me taking the picture. But my battery was dying, and rabid old people that were afraid they weren't going to live til the end of the day were waiting for their turn for pictures of the ice, so I had to get what I could.



Medina Ohio, where Christmas lasts through February.

Migraines (update)

Hi, my name is Angie, and I'm a migraine sufferer. If you've never had one, I hate you consider yourself lucky. They suck big hairy crusty gorilla balls, that haven't even been dipped in chocolate or anything. I usually only get them a couple times a year, and usually in the evening, so I can just escape to bed and leave dh to tend to the tendees.

I've learned over the years, that if I take pills at the first sign of a migraine, and then keep taking them until it is all the way gone, I can generally keep the pain to a dull ache. But this one has been a whopper. I've been alternating ibuprofen and advil for the last 24 hours. I have it back down to the dull ache, after laying on the couch for an hour and a half this morning with the curtains drawn. It's a good thing Sean still naps. I'll be taking advantage of his afternoon nap the same way, in the hopes that I can get this thing gone. If only I were a man. Then I could just go to my room and hide until it all went away. But alas, I was cursed with a uterus. So I have to not only incubate and birth the little assholes, I have to listen to them scream when I have a headache the size of North Dakota. Not to mention do all my other wifely duties like clean the house and grocery shop. With aforementioned little assholes. And speaking of assholes and the shit they spew forth, have I mentioned that Noah STILL isn't potty trained? More on that another day.

Additionally, I have until 2pm tomorrow to drive to the college campus and take my first big exam in Medical Terminology. I really would prefer not to do this with a pounding headache. REALLY. I would REALLY prefer it. Do you hear me, asshole headache gods???

Day 2

http://www.healthsquare.com/migraines.htm

*sigh*

Pictures... I'm still not sure!

From the front door coming into the house:

From the top of the stairs looking down at the front door (this is what scares me, feels like the stairway is going to swallow me whole, but I guess the hallway doesn't have a big enough mouth for that):

From the corner next to the front door looking toward the living room:

Opinions?

Update on the Paint Quagmire

GIGGITY!

I mean... the wall I painted with the sample is dry, and I think I like it. I think I might maybe possibly consider going to get a quart and finishing the job.

Pictures tomorrow, along with the decision as to whether or not I'm going to repaint it. :)

Committment to a Thistle

Yesterday, I finally finished getting the remainder of ugly wallpaper and residual glue off the walls of my staircase.

I decided that maybe I might sorta be considering possibly using a color other than off white on it.

Is this tacky for a staircase? Am I nuts?

I have a test patch up there now. I still can't commit.

Here's the color, Sherwin Williams Thistle



The wall connects to the very sage green living room, and you can see the living room color as you come down the stairs. Since the living room accent color is a darker version of this purple, I figured it might work.

I just don't know!!

3 Reasons I May Kill My Husband

After making a special trip to Walgreens at 7:45 before the dentist to get gloves for wallpaper removal and pick up my prints to finish a contest layout, he grabbed the bag on the way out the door, so now I have to go back.

Ok, that's only one. Maybe I'll just kill him 3 times.

Let the nail biting begin.

3 Bugs in a Rug DT submission has been sent.

Round 2 layouts for Queen of Funk challenge at Scrap Forums have been sent.

This is going to make me drink more than I already do.

I told you my brain was full.

I came here all set to tell you that I was just so clever that I managed to get 2 of those projects done in one layout. Then I realized that I did the wrong AAM challenge. Ugh. Oh well, at least the layout is cute!

Scrappin' ToDo

Don't mind me, just clearing the scrapping to do list from my mind so I can fill that spot with something useful like figuring out what this black crap is that is all over my hands or what color I should paint the laundry room.

8x8 AAM page - Song Lyrics

Letter Z challenge for Scrap Forums

2 more LO for Scrapbook.com contest

2 Christina Cole LOs for CP

Catch up in Scribbles contest

Think I can get all that done today? Guess not.

My-osis-killus-itis

So I'm taking this medical terminology class because GWH seems to think I should get a job or something (like being his goregous and devoted wife isn't enough?) and it is making me crazy!

We're on the musculoskeletal system and the words, the words burn.

I'm supposed to take the on campus test this week, and I can only hope it's easier than the online ones. They give us the definition and we have to type out the word. Where are my muliple choices????

I'm too old for this.

They must have gotten it from their father.

This morning I was washing the wallpaper glue off the hallway since I started this project 2 months ago and figured it was about time. I had gloves on, because God forbid I ruin my manicure!

Noah: "Why are you wearing those gloves?"

Me: "Because I'm using chemicals and I don't want to burn my skin." (shut up, it's not that big of a lie)

Noah: "But you don't have tentacles, only Squidward does"

It took me a while to figure out wth he was talking about.

No, Noah. Not tentacles. Not testicles, either. CHEMICALS.

Racial Diversity

If you read my blog for more than 5 minutes, you'll learn that my daughter is nuts. I mean seriously. I think she might be schizophrenic. She talks to herself for hours on end, says things that make no sense whatsoever and cries at the drop of a hat.

Sometimes, however, her crazy is also funny. Dinner conversation last night:

Lauren: "There's a girl in my class that is half indian and half pilgrim"

Me: "... what? (blank stare)"

Lauren: "No no, I mean half indian and half HUMAN"

Ahh of course.

Today's Creation

Wasn't expecting to work on this layout today, but the mood struck and here it is! I LOVE working with bright fun colors. I should have had 4 girls and 1 boy instead of the other way around. :D

The big decision.

The potential cleaning ladies have come and gone, now I have to make a decision. Hate that part.

They both quoted the same price, so I guess it's a matter of who will do the better job. But how am I supposed to know that??? I asked them how long, roughly, they thought they'd be here. One said 4 hours and one said 3 hours. But maybe she just works faster?

Of course, the old cleaning lady was just here yesterday, so maybe they have no idea what they are REALLY in for.

First Tribal Council Begins!

We're doing a super fun Survivor-type contest over at my site. Sassavivor! The voting started today and I think I'm more nervous than the contestants.

Maybe because I tried to set the polls up at 6:30am before coffee and it would only let me enter 10 choices (we have 57 contestants) so I had to make 6 separate polls. Then I put them in the wrong forum. The public one, not the private one that I painstakingly set up for contestants to use for voting.

Luckily, VERY GORGEOUS AND WONDERFUL HUSBAND, from here on known as GWH, is way more brilliant than I am and pointed out that there was probably an easy way to change the number of poll options I was allowed. There was, and I moved them, and felt like a giant dork. But it's all working as intended now, whew.

Some gorgeous gorgeous layouts in there, I'm glad I'm not the one voting, only the one breaking ties. I also have to pick an Angie's Pick of the Week to award a prize to. Not sure which one that'll be, they are all SO good! Sigh.

As of now I'm just killing time until my first potential cleaning lady shows up for an estimate. I fired the old one. Too expensive and too fast. $75 is not worth 2.5 hrs of cleaning, do you think? I think not! I need someone who'll work for pennies! Ok, not really. I am ok with the $75... if she would have at least stayed 4-5 hours and really CLEANED, ya know?

The light bulb works. Sometimes.

I just noticed that my template matches the sweater I'm wearing in the picture.



I guess I'm not that bright.

This post is as boring as the first 2.

Now that I have a new blog, I guess I should post on it. Today I am obsessing over whether or not I made the next round in the Funk it Up contest at Scrap Forums. I also got word that a layout I created for the Layout Blueprints call was picked up, so at least we're starting off good. We'll see what happens at ScrapForums before I call it a good day. :) It's funny that they picked up that layout, I hated it and thought it was absolute crap. You really do never know what they're looking for!

I also have to go to Noah's parent-teacher conference. They don't have school today because of those. Is it wrong that I told him he's not going to school today because he pooped his pants? Probably, but I'm getting desperate. I'm very tired of poop!!! Next week marks the 13 year anniversary of shit. I've had a kid in diapers non-stop for 13 years now. Kill me. Should that go in the same paragraph as Noah's parent-teacher conference? Oh well.

Cleaning lady is coming today, so I'm about to go clean the house. Shut it.

Nevermind

Wow. I gave up in 20 minutes. That's a new record.

Echooooo

I miss blogging. No idea why, since I have nothing of interest to say. I guess I just like to hear myself type, which I can do at 90wpm tyvm. I'll be back cursing later after I spend 5 hours destroying the functionality of my blog trying to make it pretty just to end up using one of the default templates in frustration!