5 things....

I was doing this in response to Friday Blog party here but could not complete it until Saturday. I am tardy. :( Better late than never, I guess....

In no random order - 5 things I love - beyond obvious answers like God, family, pets, etc....


Bright pink painted toes - mine or otherwise (my feet are probably the ugliest example...sorry....). The only thing that would make it better would be a touch of sparkles in the pinkness.


Our ceiling fans. Yes, I know these are design no no's but when you live in the Sunshine state these are heaven sent to circulate the air.


My itty bitty surprise bday laptop. Allows me to be on the 'puter no matter where I am with out the massive beastie laptopedness of the old guys.


My "dress" flip flops. These are Clarks and the picture does not do them justice. These are my go-to work shoes and I love that! Crocs are my second choice. :) This is a twofer then as I also LOVE the fact that I am allow to wear such items as work shoes!


Lastly for today, I love the view from my balcony. Very serene to look at as well as hear the fountain (which you can't see in this picture...again, sorry). Ahhhhh.......



Hope you have enjoyed my peeks....

Slump...

I have been in a major slump this week. A rut that has me feeling blah. It could be because I returned to work from a good spring break. It could be because we are sacrificing financially big time until the house up north sell. It could be because my red headed auntie Flo is visiting. ;) I am just ready to be happy again. If I had the $$$ I would buy some fake happiness (aka alcohol) to help me out of this funk. Today I will get my Friday serving of $1 Margaritas but not enough to impair me from driving so only partially happy. lol I have also decided I am going to be productive this weekend instead of whiny to get back on my exercise wagon and put on my big girl panties and deal with the life I have (cleaning, being Mommy, grading papers, planning for butthead who don't appreciate my efforts, etc.). I am going to partake in Nester's challenge and do a picture/info post about the top 5 things I love. I am going to exclude the easy choices of people (sorry, girls - I will probably take your picture though....). I will make it out of this hole. I will survive!

Just my usualy randomness.....

Been on spring break this past week - LOVED IT! I wished they would continue to send me the paycheck and let me stay at home with my lovelies. This week, well the last couple days of it anyway, I had a preview of the summer to come. I am really going to have to be motivated to get out of the house with all the girls. The middie and the lil' little were the only ones home with me yesterday (the oldie went to see Hannah Montana with a friend) and I totally vegged out! lol The little one has learned to open doors so I need to get those annoying doorknob covers for all our doors. While I am baby proofing I might as well get the fridge lock too as she now gets in there when she pleases too. Such a smarty pants, independent thing!

Middie got her tonsils and adenoids out and seems to be healing just fine - if only I can keep her resting. She is loving all the "free" Popsicles though. :)

The g-ma and niecey were down for most of the time and I really enjoyed having them around. I wished they were here all the time. Niecey just needs to up and move down here so she does not get sucked into the black hole that is our little hometown. The G-mas has an open invited anytime but she is not going anywhere no matter what. The G-ma really pitied us in the food department other wise our "Easter dinner" probably would only be Ramen Noodles. The house up north just needs to sell. We are drowning.....I wished we had been living extravagantly so that I could easily cut things out to save our budget but we have really been simple folks. Other than deciding to starve, we cannot cut anything out. It really depresses me as I don't even rally know the magnitude of the numbers since DH deals with all that (much stronger mentally than I am). St. Joesph is now buried in our yard there so according to my Mom that will help?! I wonder if he can help me find my lost necklace too???? :( I don't even want to talk about that.

I have now read the first in the Twilight series and am halfway through the second one. I have the other two awaiting me in pdf form as well as the 5th one not yet released (Twilight from Edward's perspective). I am actually liking to read them but hate having to cut off the outside world to really enjoy the reading as well as starting/stopping when I am needed by the girls - that is almost WORSE that commercials! lol

In more hopeful spirits...my NB entry is complete and waiting to be packed. Waiting to be sent. I will retest the 13th of May. Hopefully God is keeping his blessings in that respect flowing to me as he gave me the knowledge to pass that Chem test.

I guess one last thought and worth while one to end on is He is risen - regardless of my money issues and all other things I am saved.

Today was a good day...

Other than annoying Toyota service people, today was a good day. I ran. I played the Wii (both active like stuff and Mario Party). I shopped a minuscule amount but still the retail therapy felt good. I played tennis (well, did the best I could to play....). Hung out with the family and fell dead asleep by 10 pm. I was hoping for some total adult time but I was zonked. Maybe today??? Goals for today are to do some NBC stuff and scan some school stuff. 5 days until Spring Break. 4 days until Felesha and Mamaw get here. Still can't wait to get middle b's tonsils out. She doesn't sleep well at all. No matter she acts the way she does. :(

Random note: The next computer I get needs to have a lighted keyboard so I don't type like the hunchback of Notre Dame.

PS: Pic is in reference to an Ice Cube song titled "Today was Good Day" for those who are not down. lol Didn't want want any one to thing I had totally lost it. :P

And still more randomness...

Again FB is winning my 'puter time over but that doesn't mean that I haven't thought about blogging b/c I have but when I actually get in front of the keyboard to do it....all witty thoughts, thoughtful insights and snarky remarks are gone.....So here are some recent random thoughts/happening here in the house of the dubbas.

Middle B gets her tonsils out over my spring break which has prompted the Mamaw to come down to play nursemaid along with my spring breaker niece. The help will most certainly be appreciated and the wild one will assure that I get my beach time in too. Speaking of sicky, I visited Urgent Care last night and now am taking a Zpack and some wonderful cough medicine that actually worked. My hacking was so bad I actually took Buckleys (EWWWW!). Tomorrow I give the nine weeks exams which means tomorrow and the following day I will be grading the nine weeks exams. Sometimes I wished I could care less and give multiple guess tests instead of higher level thinking type assessments like compare, design or support type questions. Less grading for me but I feel the students would not get the chance to really show what they have learned. I bet they'd be fine with it but me, not so much. I did pass that pesky state test and I thank God for that as he was my guiding force in picking answers b/c some of them I had NO CLUE. Now just to finish NBC stuff.

The toddler b is very demanding. In fact I did over half of my Wii work out this evening while holding her as there was no way around her. Yeah, I started working out too. Sunday and Tuesday I did week 1 of the Couch to 5K run/walk intervals. The second time it was easier and made me want to do it more but I had to pick up a sick kiddie (middle b) from day care so that foiled the running plans and engaged plan b of Wii Fit and Wii Trainer. I am not fond of the trainer. To me it is just like any workout like video but she has supposedly tailored a workout for me. Whatever.

I am being bombarded by all 3 b's and must go referee now.

Needs...

I NEED to blog....I NEED to release all this stuff floating in my head BUT I NEED to pass this damn test today so for now I NEED to study! (grrr) I promise to blog later today.

Trying to blog anyway...

Since my recent addiction to FB, I haven't been blogging as much. :( Some random thoughts I have been meaning to at least post if not write about.

How did America get out of the great depression? I think that is what we need to do now.

My school not supporting a gay-straight alliance club. Why not give students an outlet for their feelings with others who are accepting?

NBC being a PITA! All I am doing this time is one little entry...you think I would do it and get it over with but I cannot get into it at all.

Wondering how to eat right and exercise when I have no spare money or time? Healthy food = expensive. Can't join anywhere to work out = too much money for us right now. So, I stay fat....:(

Baby b is feeling better....almost forgot how annoying she was when she is well....lol Let me go corral her.