6:20 is TOO EARLY

That's what time my children have been getting up the past few days. Yesterday, I slept instead of going to the grocery store in the morning once I got them off to school. I think its a time that should only be seen by highschoolers, not preschoolers. but my kids like the morning...I used to. Oh well, I guess my life is starting a bit earlier now.

I've been feeling a lack of ambition lately. I'm not sure if this has to do with the fact that we've gotten a lot of projects done lately or the fact that some of them aren't working. I sold my first year of playboys on ebay only to find out you can't sell playboys on ebay. Other people list them on Ebay but every time I try I get an email telling me that you can't sell explicit erotic material on ebay. so I have no idea what were going to do with that many playboys....anyone want them?

I also have 3 boxes of comics upstairs I need to go through and get them listed and photographed. I have a NWN project for Tomeweaver (www.tomeweaver.net) and a house I have to build for my nephews there. I have several games that I adore lately and would rather do those than ANY of the above. I also have two very needy little boys who seem to be catching every preschool bug known to man. All in all, leads to a lack of ambition. Then I turn around and complain I'm bored. Its not that I don't have things to do, but like that little kid who also complains they are bored, I have nothing FUN to do at that time.

Ah well, I try to stay optimistic, but it fails me sometimes. So theres where I'm at. Up too early, changing too many diapers and not playing enough games.

The Tumbling Bird Slayer

Yes, it has been a busy few days. Oh where to start? *laughs* Dramaqueen's cleaning lady did a great job on my house. It looks and smells fantastic (well, till someone had a dirty diaper). It's nice to have a clean house again. The bad thing was, while they were cleaning, they had cords up and down the stairs and in my haste to get to a child, I slipped on one of them on the stairs. I don't think I made a totally successful tumble check, for I had to grab the metal railing with my hand to avoid going down more than half the stairs. I have a nice bruise on my hand to show for it. My body also feels like I've been mauled by a rather large bear. Which, in fact is what I dreamt about last night. It also had nothing to do with the fact that I killed and skinned like 20 of them on World of Warcraft. *shakes head adamantly*

As far as the bird goes, no...I'm not talking WoW speak again. I went downstairs at about 8am to stick the boys laundry in. As I opened the laundry room door, I was met with a fast flying object and almost freaked. It flew AWAY from me, thankfully, but it still needed NOT to be in my basement. We have some vent thingy that we need to cover with mesh. We've had mice get in this way too. Notice it's still not covered with mesh. Mainly because Master has a busy week at work. We'll get to it this weekend.

So, we get the kids off to school and head downstairs armed with laundry baskets to catch the speedy bird. Its harder than it looks. Esp when there are all kinds of places for it to fly and land in in the celing. Pipes are good for that. So we finally start throwing the baskets at it, and that isn't working either. Master finally smacks it with his, stunning it to the floor...or so we thought. Apparently, it killed it. We got it out of the house and stuck it in the neighbors bushes. That'll teach them to let poison ivy grow on our fence! *grin*

So I killed an innnocent creature and am paying for it with mass amounts of pain from my fall. Cest la vie...life does go on.

Current Mood: OUCH!
Current Song: Ob-la-di Ob-la-da by the Beatles

Volume is a FLIRT!

So, we started taking swimming lessons last week. Its on Saturdays from 9-10 about 30 min away. Its worth it, because they both LOVE the water. So far, its been play-around-in-the-water-time more than anything else. Our second trip in, we had a new instructor, Heather. She came over to talk to us and I was holding Volume in my arms (my turn for the spaz in the pool). She was talking and he just turned and jumped into her arms! He was giggling and playing with her hair and she could see we were pretty shocked. We mentioned the autism before that, and she said she taught the therapeutic class right after this one and she would check on if they were old enough for it or not. Through out the lesson, he did this 2 more times, jumping into her arms. I think our Volume has his first "crush" on his teacher *grins*.

In other news, we have been on an organizational trip lately. We have the comics done, a few closets, went through the kids toys, and have made several trips to goodwill. All in all, if we had to move right now, we would still have a ton of stuff, but less of it. *laughs* It's been nice for making the house look better.

We are all well, finally, and DramaQueen decided to do me a favor and purchased a house cleaning for me. Hence why I can blog today instead of spending this free time cleaning. They come tomorrow morning and I could NOT be happier. I've been on clutter patrol today to make sure they can do the GOOD cleaning and not spend most of their time picking up stuff. It'll be nice to have that deep down clean in Jan without having to do it.

So thats the main news here. Kinda boring. For January, not half bad.

Current Mood: Happy
Current Song: Peaches - &#@( the pain away

BLAME CANADA!!!

Ok, blame them for making some really cool people. My shout out today is for a handful of them, but so far, most I've met are pretty ok. *grins*

In Alphabetical order, so no one gets upset ;)

Maven (her real name fits here). My sister in geekdom, my partner in crime, my phone buddy that I can sit on the phone with and have us both dealing with our kids for 40 min! We may have started from the humble beginnings of the MUD, but we've come OH SO FAR!

Andrew. My favorite Canadian mechanic. You came from geeky orgins, though you deny it now. We met on a MUD and then at Maven's Wedding and then re-met about 8-9 years later and figured out we have more in common now. You can always make me smile. *hugs*

Em. We met through Maven and Drew and while were not always close, I've found that when we seem to need each other the most, we pull through. Its not something I find in most people I know. So thanks for being there when I needed you. I hope I've done the same.

JobThingy. Met through Maven as well, and are partners in freakdom, tallness and special needs kids. We may not talk much, but your in my thoughts. If we lived closer together, I think we'd hang a lot more.

Geekster (again, real name fits better here). I think I actually met you first on the MUD, in those olden days *grins*. When we once called you Nergel and you were the god of chaos. I miss those days, but glad that I got friends like you from them. Your steadfast, true and HOT. *winks*

Zac-Attack aka Lawless! MUD buddy again, you can always make me smile as well. I'm glad, unlike Drew, you have not lost your Geek roots. We should WoW it out together sometime *winks*

So there, Canadians...hollering for a shout out. You know you are loved. Your kids are loved and I wish that you'd move Canada further south so I might actually want to live there *giggles*

Current Mood: Silly
Current Song: Blame Canada (Southpark The Movie Soundtrack)

Snow flakes and Green things

So its snowing here. After raining for 5 solid days, NOW it's snow. I'm not complaining, at all. It stops the dog from tracking the oh-so-spring-like mud all over my house. So we have snow flakes and Volume's nose is leaking green and has been for a week. SO off to the doc we go. Trouble has it as well, but his nose is clear to the occasional yellow. This will be oh so fun, since I am sick as well. The Master, who can take drugs, is meeting us there to help reign in the twin terrors. I cannot take drugs because decongestants KNOCK ME OUT. in fact, I get laughed at for taking day quill at bedtime rather than NyQuil to avoid sleeping for 13 hours AND having a NyQuil hang over. I'm not meant for the hard stuff, people.

Shout out to Elfiekins (smurf) and Chance for getting us started on our WoW (world of warcraft) addiction. Thanks ever so much ;) . And to Elf for getting Piglet and I hooked up with Vaxia (http://www.vaxia.org/) characters. Now my life is complete!

Shout out to Maven (Kraft Dinner) because she thinks she deserves one. For what? I'm not sure. For having 3 holy terrors of her own? For dealing with my inane ramblings on the phone? For being in Canada? I dunno...but quit whining, there's your shout out :P

Current mood: SICK *coughs*
Current song: PJ Rooster by Outkast

Things that go bump...at school?

Monday, at the grocery store and I was loading things into the van. I checked my cell, because for some reason, I can't get calls in Meijer. I can MAKE them, but they never seem to come to me. low and behold, a missed call. It was school, so I called and checked in on the boys. They broke out in bumps and they were calling the school nurse and could I come get them. Sure, of course, I'll be right there. (stop at Aldis for 5 and get the last things I needed...THEN right there).

Nurse is baffled "Doesn't look like pox or an allergic reaction" she says, oh so helpfully. "But I'd take them home anyway and watch it." I did, they faded and came back and then we were hit with a fever. So I called and made an appt for Tuesday. Since they MIGHT be chickenpox, our Pediatrician takes us through the back door and right into a room. They come in and look em over and no, they aren't pox (they DID have the vaccination for them). She says "Its a virus, I hesitate to say hand foot and mouth disease, because its NOT that, but like that." Of course, as you all know, not much to do for a virus. They aren't contagious if they don't have a fever for 24 hours. So home again today. No fever yesterday, but they slept in till 830 and volume is STILL out and its almost 9. So I'm figuring they need their rest and won't nap for me, so this is best.

Thats been my life. I was supposed to start taking pics of the playboys to sell, measure some swords, bag some comics, and clean the house this week...that all went out the window for Einstein and books and computer books...mommy! so tomorrow, I may get something done, I may prop my feet up, drink a coffee and read my book. I dunno yet. We'll see what kinda mood I'm in.

Current Mood: Fried
Current Song: If your happpy and you know it

Catchy Blog Title Here

I couldn't think of anything exciting to title this, mainly because I have no clue what I'm even doing blogging today except that everyone else has and I want to contribute to the "look we have stuff to read". I should be writing last weeks Buffy recap (yes, I run a buffy RPG and yes, we post up little summaries like you would read about an episode and YES I'm a geek) but I have to think of a catchy title for that too. So I'll do that next.

Shout out to Justin this week, who once again proved why on that day in the 7th grade on the bus home when he turned around and said "I'm Justin Lynch, who the hell are you?" that we became such fast friends by sending me the following email after seeing me on Saturday (I said something about drooping the autistic bomb on him):
"it would have been a bomb if you gave birth to toasters i think or maybe smelly socks, but you having kids is pretty fucking cool and it's not so weird that they're autistic cos they're gonna grow up and realize how unweird, boring and irredeemably normal their parents and their parents friends are...so you see were the bomb... justin "
So the shout out goes to my favorite lead singer of my favorite band and my favorite friend from the 7th grade. I so adore you and you make me smile. welcome back to my reality. Hope you like the sky being purple as much as I do.

Its Friday...and its Girls Night Out this week...Piglet, Smurf and I are heading south to Chancy's house. We have to figure out what were doing for dinner on the way. I'm hoping for Fondue. Then these geeky chicks that we are (Piglets the main girly girl of us) are going to soak in the hot tub (if it stops raining), play video games on the big screen TV and play the OOTS (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0001.html) card game. Wake up late and make a big breakfast and have NO KIDS for me and Piglet. It should be a fantastic girls night out that any man could enjoy. Of course, some wanted to come *cough*kyle*cough* and even offered to wear a dress, but we try and keep these things to the estrogen based life forms. Even if I barely meet the requirements. the point is I meet them.

So thats my weekend plans. I also have to make my character for the Jedi's game that starts next week. The Master and I are going to play one character and alternate weeks. We decided that our mom was pregnant with twins and was a magic user and some spell went wrong. Two souls got stuck in one body. That way we can play "two" characters and still only have one of us there at a time. Grace will be my name and his will be Hope. Should be interesting, to say the least. It makes for less in the way of babysitters :)

Current Mood: Excited
Current Song: Counting Crows, Accidentally In Love

2007....wow

I can remember when 2000 seemed so much like a "future age". Oh well, its now 2007 and my kids will be four this year in 3 months, in fact. amazing that *I* have four year old twin boys!?! anyway, they went to Grandmas for new years and The Master and I had a nice quiet weekend. Full of meals out, Computer games and lots of time in bed....and various other places around the house. *grins* yeah yeah, TMI, I know. But we started the new year off with a bang *snickers at her own joke* it was fantastic.

On Saturday, I went to finally see one of my favorite local bands live (finally) now that the bars are smoke free (much to Justin's dismay...hes the lead singer, smoker and a longtime friend of mine. As is the bass player, Aaron) http://worldwidewojo.com/ They were fantastic, as always. I adore their stuff. Live, "The Master" got to hear Justin's self-deprecating sense of humor and loved it. Aaron has a new wife, who I got to meet as well *hops*. All in all a good night. I SO need to pick up their new CD.

Hope this year is much better than 2006. It started off well, lets hope the trend continues!

Current mood: Hopeful
Current Song: 7hills by Wojo