Son's Birthday

Today is Savalas' 7th birthday. We went to Chucky Cheese and he and Hadiya had a ball. He got two new DS games and has been like the picture for the last few hours. He is truly concentrating *lol*

Busy, Busy

I have been busy at work and busy at home playing High School Musical Dance on the Wii. Man, that is a fun game. You have to use the numchuck and remote to follow the cues that are giving for the song. It may be for kids but I am loving the game. When I do get games I like, I play them to death and then I will probably be bored with it. *lol*

Other than that, I have been, kind of, wishing that I could make a career change. I really would like to work with children but we can't take a pay cut in our household. But if it is meant to be, God will put the proper things in my path. More on this later.

Savalas will be 7 on Thursday so we were going to go to Kings Dominion and stay the night so the kids would think they were going somewhere, even though it is just 2 hours down the highway but we may have some money issues. *lol* So we might have to stay closer to home and take him around here. He would really be happy at Chucky Cheese. I am the one that always tries and goes overboard. That is my problem now. I need to work on it.

I hope everyone is doing well with everything. Are you? *lol*

Tuesday Randomness

Can I report the people that live above me for excessive walking? Why do they have to walk so much at 11 o'clock at night?!

My mother keeps bothering me about signing the kids up for the library summer program. It is not for a library card but if they read a certain amount of books they can get prizes as they go. I have nothing against the program but it would be easier for me to get them some little gifts that they may actually do something with instead of sunglasses, a finger trap or a Frisbee. They will lose that stuff in one day. Either way, my mother is asking me, EVERY DAY, if I have done it. She will not stop asking me either. Do you know why I know? Because she told me she would. *lol* I love her.

I decided to cut back on partially hydrogenated fats this week. I went to the grocery store and stayed on, mostly, the outside lanes. So many food products have this stuff in it. I found some sugar free bread though. As I have said before, health food prices are part of a conspiracy.

I think the reality show genre has reached a new low or should I say that this is what reality TV has come to. Jon and Kate Plus 8 announced their separation on TV. So the show comes on yesterday and they say they are separating and then it goes to a caption screen saying that papers were filed to dissolve their marriage. Not only that, the show must go on. I just don't know about all that. They are going to play all this out on TV? I tried not to watch but I am a reality show junky.*lol* I felt kind of bad because this is their life but how much do we know what is really going on? I feel for the kids. I know they will make it through their parents getting divorced but the hard thing is that they will see it on TV or hear about it from kids and adults around them and it will make it harder on them.

Speaking of reality shows, Russell Simmons needs a reality show. He always cracks me up when he is on Run's House. Even though he cusses, he is really funny to me. *lol*

I bought a cheese grater a few weeks ago and bought a block of cheese last weekend. My bff said it was cheaper than buying shredded cheese. It turns out that it is also FUN! *lol* The kids and I were cheese grating fools this weekend. I even grating some potatoes for hash browns, since I am cutting back on the processed foods. I bought a potato masher last weekend too since I didn't buy any boxed mashed potatoes.

I was going to get my daughter a kiddie perm/ texturizer because her hair is thick and coarse and she is very tender headed. Poor thing. But we have decided against it because we don't want to start with the chemicals right now, and I don't want to start having to pay $65 every time she has to get one. I will just flat iron and twist it for free. :)

My daughter is 9 and has started wearing a sports bra. Ugh! She is continuing to grow up. Sometimes I look at her and I remember when she was just a little thing and I almost tear up:) She is a good kid though. She is still very sweet and I love her to death :)

The Nissan Cube Car

I saw this car yesterday and it must be one of the ugliest little cars that I have ever seen. It is worse than the PT Cruiser.