Weird...

This week has already started out as a weird one.. that's all I can say at this moment.  More on it later I'm sure.

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Chocolate Chip Cake

This is what I made for dessert tonight...

Too bad I really don't like to eat cake that much... I love to make/ decorate them but not so much into the eating of them.  Don't know why.  My husband on the other hand... this cake will be gone in no time.  I bet half of it disappears with his morning coffee.

I used one yellow cake mix, about 1 cup of mini chocolate chips, chocolate frosting, and homemade buttercream frosting.  Oh, and candy pearls.  I'm no Martha Stewart... that's for sure.

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Got some catching up to do...

So with all this wisdom tooth pain (I know - you're sick of hearing about it already) I have been ignoring (not intentionally) my blog again.  So I thought I could do a 'catching up' post.. and this shall be that post.

So on Black Friday I went to town with my sister (and my children) we needed to pick up a few things and I needed to drop off some photos to a friend.  We did not get up and go at the crack of dawn.. and I wasn't even about to stand in line waiting.  Nope.  Just not my kind of thing.  Last year we went at 7:00AM and town was a madhouse!  We didn't even get anything that great... it was so not worth losing sleep over.  Anyway, so this year we were going to the good ole' Walmart after some laundry soap or something (can't remember exactly) but it was about 3PM or so and we had missed most of the Black Friday shoppers.  I mean there were still quite a few people in there but I imagine nothing like it had been earlier in the day. First, we went by my friend's house to drop off the photos prints that she had ordered.  She surprised me with this super awesome bear that sings "That's What Friends Are For".  It is so awesome and I think it's probably going to get used as a prop in lots of photos! (There will be more about this awesome gift later.)  We didn't stay long as I was the only one that got out of the car since E was asleep in her carseat.  When I got back into the car - as soon as I sat back in the car seat, I heard rrrrriiiiiiiiiipppppppp!  I thought, oh great.. what now?!  The front of my pants had ripped!!!  Right where the zipper is sewn in... on the outside seam!  Ugh... and we still needed to go into Wally World.  Well, the rip wasn't that bad and luckily I had worn a shirt (actually two shirts) that were long enough to cover my zipper.  I just pulled my tank top down over my pants so no one would notice... although it wasn't that noticeable - I knew it was there.  I was so self-conscious and kept tugging my shirt down constantly.. and of course I insisted on pushing the car to further conceal my ripped out zipper seam.  Okay well it was more of a little hole at this point.  Finally.. we were done and got to go back into the car where I didn't feel like everyone was staring at my fly.  As soon as I sat back down into the car, RRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!  Yep... more ripping.  This time it was the whole length of the zipper plus.  Why oh why do these things always happen to me?!  Okay, maybe it's because once I get a pair of pants worn in... I will wear them until they literally fall to pieces.  Excuse me for wanting to be comfortable.  So maybe these pants had been washed over and over for the past 6 or so years (yes, that long... possibly even longer).  And maybe, just maybe... I shouldn't have had all that turkey, ham, stuffing, and desserts at Thanksgiving.  My pants... were giving me a sign.  It's time.  Time to get off my keester and get moving.. get some excess tubby off of this chubby.  And maybe I should buy some new clothes too.  Ugh!  That means I would have to go shopping... everyone knows how much I hate shopping.  *wink, wink*

So to push assist me in my weight-loss/ getting fit process I have been begging my husband to get a Wii.. well he finally gave in and he bought Mii and Wii!!!!!!!  I am so excited.  I played it the first day and I'm already addicted to the tennis.. The next morning, though.. I paid for all those fancy moves.  I was so sore I could barely roll out of the bed.  I have given up soda... even diet.  I have had one diet coke since Saturday.  Giving up soda is a big deal for me... switching to diet soda was a huge deal for me as well.  But now.. I'm drinking strictly water... and I'm actually okay with it.  I'm usually not a water drinking person but I'm actually craving it lately.  Weird.

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Do you remember Pee Wee Herman?  If you were alive in the the 80's you surely do.  When we were kids, my brother and I used to get up on Saturday mornings and anxiously await the Pee Wee Herman Show.  We loved Pee Wee.  Years later, he streaked on TV and became even more weird.  But apparently he's back... he was on Bonnie Hunt's show last night - he don't look like he has aged a bit.  Weird.

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My baby is almost four years old.  I can't believe it.  It seems like just yesterday she was just a newborn cooing and drooling.  She is so much like me... she's my Mini (but more tan) Me.  She always wants to do everything that I do and she always wants to go everywhere I go...

 I couldn't help but take these photos after she fell asleep on the couch last night... she was waiting for me.

She has grown so fast.

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Winter shminter....

Bleh... I despise winter.  Now, I haven't always hated it.. just these last 4 or 5 years.  Winters with chilly weather and snow are fine but a winter with wind so cold it feels like it's slicing your skin and so much ice that your power goes out for a week... yea, that really makes me hate winter.

I love a good snowball fight as much as the next person but being hit in the eye with a ice ball is just not the same.  (I speak from experience - I wore a shiner for two weeks!)

When it's this cold... our outdoor thermometer says that it is 9.7 degrees out right now.. it doesn't seem like I can ever get warm.  Our indoor thermometer says that it is 82.6 degrees... but I am STILL freezing!

Bleh, I hate it.  Wake me when Spring gets here.

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Oh the humanity!

My husband is the greatest! Really! He bought me a Wii this weekend!!! I am so excited! Can't ya tell from all the exclamation points?! bwahahaaaa!

I am looking forward to getting Wii Fit to go along with it... going to be my New Year's plan - shed some weight. Ya know, that extra weight I've been carrying around from since after my son was born.... ELEVEN YEARS AGO! I have been playing around with the Sports pack that came with it. They should include a warning: This game is very addicting. Especially for stay-at-home / work-from- home moms. You will never get anything done. And hosing the kids down with an actual hose, instead of taking the time for a 'real' bath almost seems appealing. After all, you don't want to lose the stamina and get a Wii age of 90.

The downside of the Wii... after two days, My. Body. Hurts. I can barely move today. You see, the past two days I have been doing moves that I swear I haven't done since at least junior high. (that's a long, long, long, long, loooooooooong time ago)

The other downside was that my already aching wisdom tooth seems to throb even when I'm kicking some Wii people bootay at tennis.

No Wii for me today... I couldn't even swing that remote if I wanted to. Ouch!

I'm off to cover my entire body in some Icy Hot. I'm sure that will clear my husbands sinuses for the night and maybe he wont snore.

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A Million Little Puzzled Pieces

So I mentioned yesterday that I was reading A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (it was on the Oprah Book Club).

Then a commenter notified me that this this was the book the caused all the drama on Oprah. Well I had no clue about this, I mean I don't really get to watch Oprah all that much. I immediately had to go Google this and get any information that I could...

Well, it turns out that a lot of the book is fabricated - not a completely true story after all. I'm really disappointed and now I have decided that I will not continue to read the book. As you read it, you can't help but feel for this guy and all these tough things he is going through to get past his drug and alcohol problems... but then you find out that he didn't in fact go through them and the things that he actually did were not to the extent that he put in the book.

There were probably a lot of people with the same addictions that read this book and were inspired, but then when it came out that it was a sham... what about those people now?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that it's not a good read. From what I have read so far, it's heart-breaking and gut-wrenching.

According to the publisher, there is a statement in the new books that will be/were printed after all of this came out. I looked inside my book for this... nope. I have a FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, May 2004. Whatever that means?! lol

Anyway, thanks to my awesome commenter who told me about this... I learn something new every day. I need to watch Oprah more often. ;)

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