Random Tuesday Thoughts……

You know how to play the game. Head on over to Keely’s and grab her “fugly purple button” and link up and post your own random thoughts. Here are some of mine…..

I had a dream about SallyMay and Bubba last night. I dreamed I woke up to a commotion outside. I went to investigate. (This would never happen in real life, I’m a huge chicken.) I find them in my backyard, jumping on our trampoline. Not only are they jumping away and having a good ‘ole time…they are also smoking pot! Why are they doing this? SallyMay and Bubba never surprise me anymore…in dreamland or reality.

My EA Sports 30 Day Challenge is going well. I work out for two days and rest every 3rd day. They didn’t specify about what all I should be resting from so I wonder if that means housework as well? I’m thinking dishes and laundry and cleaning of any sort is probably too much exertion for me on my “rest day” , right??

Speaking of working out, I am officially down 20 lbs from where I was around Christmas time. I’m happy about this. It’s taken me since 2006 to finally get the momentum up to workout and keep it up to make the weight go away and stay away. The thing that is bothering me? My boobs! They’re still huge! The plastic surgeon said that losing weight would make them go down. Either he lied or my boobs are stubborn because nothing has changed…size-wise.

Apparently, I’m a fuddy-duddy. I’m going to be enjoying the 4th of July holiday with my kids and husband. We will be cooking on the grill and setting off our own fireworks. We will take the kids swimming during the day and then going to a few parks at night to watch a few big displays at night. I won’t be leaving my kids with someone so I can spend the holiday getting s&*%-faced and driving home with the rest of the dumbasses that swear “I just had a few, I can drive.” Sorry, that’s just not me. I love my family time WAY more than any excuse to leave my kids and get drunk. If that makes me a fuddy-duddy…..Hi! I’m Ashlee, the fuddy-duddy!!

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the mannequins at Old Navy creep.me.out! I walk out of there with goosebumps every single time. I love the store but those things put a damper on the whole experience. I don’t know who’s idea it was to incoporate them into the store/commercials but I wish they’d get rid of them. I might need to write a letter. The only thing more unsettling than the creepiness factor is that my children adore the nasty things! Love them! They want to shake their hands, wave to them, talk to them…everything. Weirdos!!!

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Momsomnia?

I’ve decided something. Rather, I’ve diagnosed myself with something. ‘Momsomnia‘. I don’t want to confuse this with actual insomnia because I don’t belive it’s the quite the same. It is a form of inability to sleep but it’s different. I think I have it. I didn’t coin this phrase. You can find it here and here and probably many other places if you keep googling. I take no credit for it but I do think I have it. Any Mommy who thinks about it can honestly say she’s had a case of it. I happen to have a ongoing instance of it here lately. It’s making me nuts! I get the kids to bed at a decent hour. The hubs drifts off to snoring slumber and I lay there awake….unable to get comfortable…unable to halt my racing thoughts. “Did I put that last load of laundry in the dryer?” or “Did I turn the dishwasher on” or “Did I feed the dog” or “Do we need toilet paper?”…random Mommy thoughts that surely could wait until morning but won’t stop bouncing around in my head. I’ve tried just about everything I can think of: reading to calm my thoughts and nerves, taking ibuprofen to relax myself, turning the tv off so I won’t have any distractions other than the bliss of sleep; nothing works! The more I try to stop the thoughts, the more they seem to mock me by continuing to mulitply. I start thinking about Sass starting school or what Frink and I will do while she’s gone. I think about when Frink is in school and how I won’t have the excuse of “I’m a stay-at-home-mom” and I will have to tackle school again for the first time in almost 5 years with a bunch 18 year old college kids. I worry about the economy and the world that my kids will grow up in…you see how this would make it difficult for any person to fall asleep? I don’t know what to do but I know this ‘Momsomnia’ is making me angry, upset, bothered….! If any Mommy out there has “been there, done that” and conquered this evilness and would like to tell her tale….I’m all ears….or…um…eyes..as it applies here! I’d love to hear anything anyone has to offer. I’m losing my mind, one brain cell at a time and I’d like to keep some of them to be able to help with Algebra II when the kids are in high school! HELP!

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Mimi the Sardine Lunchbag Giveaway!!!

I just entered a giveaway for a chance to win an AWESOME lunch bag here courtesy of Mimi the Sardine. Their products are all so cute. Don’t take my word for it! Check ’em out at the links provided, see for yourself, and enter for your chance to win, too!!!

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Aloha Friday…..

We survived another week of harvest. Yes! It’s almost over. Thank God! I want my hubby back! If you want to join in on “Aloha Friday” head on over to Island Life and link up and join the fun. Answer her question and post one of your own on your blog. It’s that easy! Here’s my question!

What’s your most annoying habit?

My habit is picking at my cuticles. I do it all the time: when I’m stressed, bored, annoyed, pissed! I find myself doing it when I’ve told myself I wouldn’t do it. I.can’t.stop. Help!

Can’t wait to hear about your habits!!!

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Wordless Wednesday….The mistress

As promised…pictures of the mistress!!

And us riding in the mistress……

And the beautiful wheat fields…..

Sorry about the dirty windows….I’m taking my Windex next time we go!

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Random Thoughts Tuesday……

Head on over to Keely’s and play along with her and come up with some of your own……

I have a real problem. I want to fix everything and everyone. I’m not perfect. So. Why do I want to fix other people and other things? Is it because focusing on other people is easier than focusing on myself? Not sure. It’s been bugging me lately.

The mistress is urking me. Now my kids want to meet her/ride on her. I have to take them to ride on her and take pictures of them riding on her. Blah. Blah. Blah. You’re a dirty whore.

The 4th of July is coming up. My favorite holiday. I’m excited about this. I can’t wait, actually.

My back has been giving me problems again. The last time it gave me this much pain I found myself at a plastic surgeon talking to him about a breast reduction/lift. I know I need to think seriously about this or deal with horrible backpain but being out of commission and having someone else take care of me and my kids makes me nervous. Not sure what to do here….

These random thoughts seriously suck and I’m soooo incredibly sorry ahead of time for anyone that tries to force themselves through them. I’m tired. I haven’t been sleeping well. Thanks, if you get this far. I hope you all have a great Tuesday! We are off to the pool. It’s 100+ degrees in the shade here so there’s nowhere else I’d rather be!!!

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Random….Part Deux

Okay. We have a spider issue. I have a spider issue. They scare the @#$& out of me! We have a man that sprays for them every 3 months. I had to call him b/c it’s only been 2 months and I found 3 ALIVE in my house. This probably wouldn’t be that big of a deal but..hello..SCARED TO DEATH OVER HERE! He came and was a total d-bag about it. His work is supposed to be guaranteed for 3 months so I figured at the very least he’d be apologetic? NO! So, was I nice? NO! Not my fault you didn’t do your damn job! No wonder the green goblin wanted to kick your ass!!

I found out something about a neighbor. Not SallyMay and Bubba, for once! This guy is weird in his own special way. For starter, he has 3 pit bulls! Great guy. I drove by the other day and noticed he had rabbit hutches. Nice! I had rabbits as a kid and thought that was cool. I was talking to a neighbor I actually like(there are few) and he informed me that these sweet and fluffy rabbits serve a different purpose. They aren’t used for sitting in your lap and petting or watching them bound around your yard or feeding them a carrot. They are used to feed this man 4…count THAT…4 pythons he has in his house living with him!!! Can we say creeeeeepy??

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Who’s Your Daddy?

I grew up with a great Daddy. He had a very physically demanding job and still came home(no doubt beyond tired) and would spend as long as I wanted playing catch with me out in the yard, taking me to one of my ball games, taking me fishing….pretty much doing anything I asked. When my parents were divorced, he got custody. He didn’t bulk at the prom dress shopping, boy talk, or bra buying like some dads might. He is/was the best kind of father a girl could ask for. 26 years later he still is there for me in every way. The only thing better than that is now he’s here for my kids, too and is doing the same great stuff with them. Thanks Daddy, I love you.

I’ve heard people say you marry your Dad and in alot of ways I have: Trav is exactly to my kids what my Dad was for me. He is their best friend and playmate. There isn’t anything he won’t do..no matter how silly, for a Sass or Frink giggle. He is an amazing person. He kisses boo-boos, he fixes broken toys, gives the best lawnmower rides,…the list goes on. He tells me he’s lucky that he found me but, in truth, I’m the lucky one. He’s the only person in the world that I can look at and say: “Frink has your butt dimples” or “Sass has your knobby knees” and I love that feeling. It’s like we’re in this secret club that noone else can join.

If you happen to creep my blog like you sometimes do, my love, thank you. Thank you for being the Daddy that, from the minute Sass was laid in your arms, I knew you would be. Thank you, for all the wrestling, growling, tickling, singing, and dancing you do! You have and will continue to put many smiles on their faces just by being you. Enjoy your day. Know that we love you. Happy Father’s Day!!

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A bit of everything….

It’s a ho-hum kind of Saturday here at my house. It’s rained off and on all morning. The humidity is unbearable. The kids, of course, are being crazy passionately excited. Here’s house my day started:

I was laying in bed dozing in and out of consciousness. I must have been more on the side of out at this moment. I was having one of those dreams where I’m hauling ass away from something scary that’s about to eat me, decapitate me, skewer me alive…that kind of thing. I feel something and I immediately start swinging. I hear a scream that’s not mine and I wake up suddenly. As I open my eyes, I see my beautiful Sass sitting on her knees beside me in bed, holding her arm. I.ATTACKED.MY.CHILD. I couldn’t believe what was going on. I started crying right along with her. Then, she said something that broke my heart into even tinier pieces….”Mommy, I just wanted to kiss you.” More waterworks. I’ve been having bad, crazy, weird, off-the-wall, dreams lately. This was the worst because this time..I hurt my baby. I said I was sorry a million times and explained that Mommy was having a nightmare and asked her if she remembers how scared she gets when she has one and she said “yes”. We talked and I kissed her boo-boo about a hundred times. (I didn’t hit her hard and Thank God I’m not very accurate with hitting people.) I still feel horrible and I don’t know if I should just tie my hands together while sleeping or what…but damn! I’m a MEAN MOMMY today!!

Last night, while my AWESOME husband went into Subway to get us some yummy sandwhiches and I sat in the Jeep with the kids, I saw something that made me sick! Subway was right by Little Caesar’s Pizza. We parked and the hubs went in and I glance over just in time to see a redneck screaming at his child in the parking lot. I froze. I didn’t know what to do. I was almost in tears. I was getting pissed. He was intoxicated…that part was obvious. Should I call the cops? Should I stay out of it? What do you do in that situation? I know better than to try to diffuse the situation myself. I watched as the redneck went into the pizza place to order his food and the little boy sat on the tailgate. I didn’t do anything. I watched the little boy. We made eye contact a few times. I didn’t do anything. I just sat there and watched this little boy. I’m not proud of my actions, or lack of actions. I am regretting them today. I should’ve called the cops. I should’ve went into Subway and asked them to call the cops or at the very least gotten the tag number of the vehicle. Today, I’m sitting and thinking and praying for that little boy and I’m hating myself for doing nothing for him.

On a much different note, my husband has a mistress. Don’t worry. I’m not jealous. She’s big. I mean BIG!! He’s promised to only spend about 2…maybe 3 weeks with her at the most. She’s gross! She makes him cranky and dirty and she’s been making a lot of other men mad lately so I hear she gets around. *cough* whore *cough* She makes good money for everyone so maybe she’s a working girl? Not sure. I shouldn’t speculate about what I don’t know, right? I took a picture of the hooker just so you would know what I’m talking about. It’s not a very good one because I took it with my blackberry but tonight I’ll see her again and I’ll make sure to take my digital. Let me know what you guys think of the husband-stealing tramp………

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Aloha Friday…..

It’s Aloha Friday over at An Island Life! Answer my question and make sure you post one on your blog! After that, go relax because today is Friday!!

Here is my question….

Would you say you are a strict or more laid back kind of mom and why?

I definitely lean more on the side of “laid back”. I have my moments where the “strict” comes out but for the most part, I am the unKate kind of Mommy…and proud of it!!!

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