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I am also wearing strawberry lip gloss. Kissy, kissy!
Yep. Pretty juicy, eh?
Who can resist the POWER of my strawberry pillows?
Mr. Snuggles is not into the strawberry pillows as much as I am.
He prefers to lie on the "strawberry" red blanket.
I still manage to convince him to pose for a second with one of the strawberry pillows.
Mr. Snuggles thinks the flash bulb is a bit too much! "C'mon, Val, give it up."
I can't help myself. My strawberry pillows are so soft and they smell like Strawberry Shortcake (the doll not the actual dessert) and I just had to share them with you all!
Yes. I realize I am a bit much at times.
Mr. Snuggles winks and licks his whiskers at you.
How was that for a tease? (Yes, I was very bored this weekend).
This is how my week unfolded... backwards. The first five photographs are of the view outside my living room window, but in reverse. I want you to see how different things appear now that we have several feet of snow after a few white-out snow storms. The fifth photo shows the little dusting we got before the dizzying madness of those white flakes. That dusting took place just a mere 24 hours before the onslaught on Saturday. Photos four and three were taken during the storm, just a few minutes before everything got dark. It was a sloppy mess and I don't think these photos really document how bad it was! And of course the way things look now are pretty enough for a holiday postcard. Don't let it fool you. It's DAMN cold out there. So I've been staying inside as much as possible.
One thing we Wisconsinites suffer from during snowy days is boredom. My mind usually runs on dirty thoughts, so a few nice pillows in my friend's store remind me of really big boobs. I had to try them on for size. See it? If they didn't have those red buttons in the middle, there'd be no nipple reference.
Next I BRING YOU THE HEAD OF ELVIS. Yes, I captured this at the local Wal-Mart. Can you believe they are selling a singing head of Elvis? The shame!
And the next few are me trying on headdresses and showing off my sparkling cherry red nails. Don't hate! I'm only here to please you. Love!
Now I go back home to sit in front of the fire and watch some cheesy movies. Wish you were here...!!!! And, yes, it's my three year blog anniversary. Aren't you glad I'm here?
Oops I used the word that is getting Santa in trouble! Get over it! If your a ho, not my problem, My title is in reference to the Seven Dwarfs going off to work!:D:P
Well things are slowly settling down around here-knock on wood, throw salt over my shoulder, cover all the mirrors with bubble wrap, find a 4 leaf clover, and allow a black cat to cross my path (in the old days it was the White Cat that was bad luck not the black cat!-Tis why I make sure I have at least 1 to 2 black cats as companions at all times! Got three now!)
So Daddy O Grump is on his second day of treatments! Yay! He is tolerating the blood treatments. Still not out of the woods because we won't know for a while if the treatments took. Mom is still staying home because Daddy O Grump is still staggering around like a Sailor on Shore Leave. Thank Macha, that my Moms is a gov't worker of 20 plus years and has all that leave time she has problems using up normally!
The kids are so happy to have started Taekwondo again. We are even learning the form we missed this last go around on top of doing the very first form we learned. We are going to be tested on different things on the old form and since we are taking the time to learn the form we missed before we come back around to it with more things, Mr. Johnson said he might let us test on that form also when the time comes. I am actually glad we took the time off because it got a lil boy by the name of Kobe into the next rank. He had some massive issues with Coltin over DeLaney. Kobe is the same age as DeLaney and has a crush on her, Coltin is already showign the signs of being one of these brother's that if he likes ya, you can tease his sister, but if he doesn't then he is going to make your life a living hell. On top of that Kobe, ALWAYS tried showing Coltin up on everything and no matter what Mr. Johnson, Kobe's grandfather or Mr. Jones said to him about him being older then Coltin didn't take. Mr. Johnson had to go out of his way to give Kobe attention over the other kids because if he didn't get picked for something he made Coltin's life hell right back. For some odd reason, Kobe actually listened to me and LOVED talking to me, so I was usually paired with Kobe and ended up doing a lot of things on my knees so we were the same heigth. Now that he is in the next ranking class we won't have to deal with him until next testing. And then when we get up there, a lil boy from the school district we go to is in there and is very protective of Coltin and DeLaney.
I am dealign with my water pressure being almost none existant. The joys of haivng Tribal water and the Tribe only having a few guys on the utility crews. My girl Tab came out to help me with some things around the house and she is also having issue with Tribal water at her house in town. She had the choice of town water or Tribal water and she choice tribal water much to her disgust! So when she couldn't get a hold of anyone on the phone at my place, she called her dad at home. Her dad is one of the guys on the utility crew and had the day off. There was two Elder tribal deaths with in two days which means the majority of the Omaha Tribal members wont' be at work due to funerals, but Daddy Rudy was going to call Millard the main guy and let him know after getting done at Tab's place to get out to the water tower because it sounds like they either have a main line broke thus why I have no pressure or the electrical is acting up again on the pump! Daddy Rudy doesn't like any of us girls going with out, especially as he says we got his Grandbabies at home and my man is gone and Tab's man is usless with "guy" things!
After we ate some breakfast of scrambled eggs and toast, we tried pushing my van out of the car port to no avail. So we backed the truck up and crawled on the ground and hooked up one of the tow straps to the van and with Tab in the Van guiding it and me in the truck pulling on the van, we got it out of the car port. Then we took a half hour trying to get the hood open to jump the van so I could get it in to the mechanic. Yay. We couldn't doit. Not with the screw driver, the pilers, or the hammer. So I said fuck it! I called Kramer's another mechanic but also the main tower and had Sonny come out and tow my van into my mechanic. He was laughing at me because I was cursing that Van like a sailor on shore leave!:D:P Thank GODS! I use to drink and party with his boys and went out with one of them! He only charged me 30 bucks to tow it into town! I felt bad though he had to go get his rollback truck which just got out of the painters to come get my van! Oh well at least my van is now getting the doors fixed and now the hood fixed so I can get it licensed. The truck is going on the fritz now! The coolant tank is leaking, it needs an oil change, i have the parts for the fuel filter and air filter. And once I get that shit fixed on the truck, I have to have a new vaccum pump put in for the brakes and have my Randy or my mechanic Randy order in blow plugs get them paid for and have the blow plugs replaced! If it isn't one thing or another on vechiles this year it is another! The problem is the weather guys are saying snow either Sunday or Tuesday. Either way if I dont' have a decent working vechile I am farkered!
Well I started taking my sugars again. My A1C's were still decent but they did go higher. I am sitting at a 6.1 so I can stay on my same dosage of meds. I was a very good girl. While Tab was here, I loaded her up with one cloths basket of food and two HUGE walmart bags of food. I left enough food in my freezer and cupboards to get me through till Thanksgiving and all my Thanksgiving supplies. So I can start the low fat, carbs, and basically NO taste diet for Alli! I joined www.myalli.com and got all my items set up so when I start the program after Thanksgiving I am ready to go. I have my menus printed out and a shopping list prepared so when I go grociery shopping tonight after takwondo I can buy up the foods for the menus. This should be interesting. I am sure not having what junk I did put in my body cleansed out will make me one irritable than normal bitch from hades! DeLaney and Coltin already asked if they could go spend the night at the grandparental units for the first week or two! Smart ass kids!
I am working on laundry today because this weekend the kids and I are preparing the dinning room for 11 adults and 9 kids to come eat at our house Thanksgiving. I have all the ingredents to make home made white and wheat dinner rolls, 1 choco pie (diabetic version thank you very much!), a couple of pumpkin pies, and deviled eggs. I will make everything but the deviled eggs this weekend that I listed and can put in the freezer or fridge till Thanksgiving. All I have left to buy for the foods I am making are the taters, milk, veggies to put in my stuffing and a few other added in to cooking items!
I can also get my hallway completely painted now that both coats of primer are on and I can also get my newly sewen kitchen curtains put up. I have to finish out the kids blankets for Winter Solistice and sew together their pillows and then stuff them. Since my mom is so board being home babysitting the Daddy O Grump, I am giving her teh pillow material and having her sew and stuff the kids' pillows!
So now I am off to do some more picking up and dusting around the house! Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Hooooooooooooooooo It's off to work I go!
*said in valley girl stupid voice*
Like WOW! The weekend is LIKE SO OVER! I have like no time to do anything for myself! It like soooooooo sucks!
*coughs*
Okay so yay the weekend did go by extermly fast. The small lil get together friday night at the parental units house for Coltin's actual birthday went okay. Coltin was having a melt down from being over stimulated, hyped up on sugar all day long, and very very tired. When I get around to posting pictures you will see how crabby the birthday boy was opening his gifts that night.
Saturday we cleaned up the house, made plans to meet again at the parental units to have supper with my anal retentive pruddy sister and her similar behaved family before heading up to the city for ice skating for said birthday party. It was okay until Randy torked me the fark off! If I was a tv show at that time I would have been Jackie Gleason from the Honeymooners saying: "TOooooooooooooooo the MOON ALICE" to Randy that evening before we left. One of the formans from another job site called Randy up and asked him to get to the shop ASAP so one of his guys could get a part needed for Sunday morning. Of course the owners of the farking buisness were no where to be found so that meant Randy had to actually do it. Would have been fine if he would have consulted me as to when he would meet Brent the Man Ho to pick the part up. As it was we ended up picking up two of the kids that were riding with us a half hour to 45 minutes early to get to the shop by 6 pm. Which ment we were EXTERMLY early to the rink.
We had about 9-10 kids show up. I did very well on my knee. Not one fallage on the ice for me or Randy. He wisely stayed away from me for fear of a body check into the wall. I was feeling festy especially since the skate rental was all hokey skates:D (Ice Rink is the home of the City Juniour Hokey League) My kids fell on their asses a few times. Coltin finally picked it up enough to catch the wall but DeLaney yay...........the poor girl takes after her daddy on the no cortination with ice skating. Poor thing couldn't stop introducing her body to the ice! My neice picked skating up like a pro and my nephew after a meeting of ice and his head did really well. He went home with a goose egg but had the time of his life. Now my girl Teri's oldest boy who is a Freshman, he didn't fare so well. First it was his first time on ice. Second the idiot (must be a man thing to try and show off right away!) was trying to skate backwards on ice that was basicly ready to be smoothed out. Thrid he also had a meeting of the ice and his head. The ice won 9 stitches to none! Yes the boy cracked his eyebrow wide open! He is okay. But his mom is yet again convienced ice skating is an evil evil sport! The one and only time she went she blew her knee. The rest of the kids fell a few times and then picked it up pretty well. My sister actually did pretty good on her first go around on ice also. She kept sitting down though because for those of you that have never used hockey skates, they HURT if you A don't have thick enough socks on and B don't use them enough to build up a tolerance to them. They are non flexable and hard!
Sunday came. A day of rest my cute chubby ass! Got up. Got the kids off to church. Fixed biscuts and gravy for breakfast. Kids came home and I got torked with Grandma. She didn't inform me that it was Coffee and Roll day after Mass. So I had a butt load of biscuts and gravy and nobody to eat it! From there we did a bit of house picking up, took Dooley (the great dane puppy of mine) into my girl Tab's to live. Tab and I made an agreement. Her old man Joe is home more than Randy (Joe is stay home daddy) and has more time for Dooley then even I do as a stay home mamma. And in exchange for a Great Dane Pup, when Tab breeds her second Female Rottie, to my Rottie's brother (the one I had to find a new home too), I get second pick of the litter. Tab's cousin Ed, who is the human pet to Anubus the Male Rottie gets first pick. Works out great because we can see Dooley anytime we want to and he is my big scaried cat baby so he still does what I want of him for the most part. Joe has realized he isn't going to hurt him!
After taking Dooley into Tab's, Randy and I did manage to watch Death Proof. We kicked the kids out of the living room and closed the pocket door to the hallway. So even if they did attempt to wonder in they got kicked out as soon as they hit the dinning room! After Death Proof, we went outside, loaded a full bed of wood into the truck and unloaded it for the parental units. Then we helped my moms clean out my brother's gun cabnint to move it fromt he basement to the upstairs. Next we came home and watched Panet Terror. I perfer Death Proof over Planet Terror. I think I get off on those chicks beating the crap out of Kurt Russel! Made me horny:D:P And while we were watching that move the kids were destroying the upstairs and got yelled at when I wondere dup there before I cooked supper!
Today Tab jumped in with us on the way to school, so she could get to the dentist at the hospital. (Yes Tribal Dental prog is in the IHS hospital). They couldn't get her filling fixed while we were there so we came back to my house, drank a pot of coffee, put the baby down for a nap and made 6 pillows or what Tab calls 6 Peyote Pillows. They are for folks that go to Peyote meetings. They like to sit on the ground but it gets hard so we made the pillows with vinyal aka fake leather backing for easy clean up. Tab also filled out our application to get the pillows into the Art Gallery. This week I have to buy 2 bulk boxes of filling so we can stuff them and some more vinyal backing and another skeen of fabric. We are also going to get a hold of some plyboard and have my dad show me how to use his old ass table saw so we can start making baby boards.
Tomorrow instead of finishing up laundry and vaccuming, I am driving my dad on his work runs for his business. He is barely walking and gets the results of his MRI on what is going on with his spine Wensday. Don't ask me for the dignoises all I know the condition is that it pinches the nerves of his legs and feet. And my daddy isn't getting around to much. So I take the kids to school, drive back home, grab a few things, and then go down to my parent's place to pick up dad. I get to drive his truck! Heheheheheheh! It isn't as big as Randy's truck but at least my daddy drive's a chevy! I likes me some Chevy Trucks!:D
Good NEWS! It is NOT cancer with my mom. YAY! She is still in remission! She is looking at another surgery though. The lump on her shoulder is fatty tissue though and her oncologist wants to get it out of there just in case it could go to cancer. But it is NOT cancer!
Again I have a butt load to update on and even to get sme pictures loaded up but it isn't going to happen. Your lucky I did this long boring post! It is way past my bedtime!
That, and my sister took up residence in it.
The former makes sense because no one's using it, and I have a rather eccentric method of organization anyways that looks like 'mess'. In addition to this, my room is just off of the downstairs finished basement - whatever you wish to call it. It is in an ideal closet location, unlike everyone else's rooms, which are the level above me.
The latter makes sense because Santas often seems happiness amidst a lair of darkness and mess. She's perfectly capable of being neat and organized, don't mistake me. But when the mess is there, she seems to enjoy it. Extra darkness, and the business of my room being half-underground and therefore slightly chilly, only encourage her.
So, I'm on a mission to try to get this beyond anyone's definition of mess. The butterflies are staying on the ceiling, and that's it. It's a rather daunting goal, because I want it done by the time class starts - I think much more clearly when everything is where it belongs in here.
Today, I was clearing off everything that's come to live on my bed. I live in a family of five. No one has complained of missing a pillow. There were eight on my bed. Would someone please explain this to me?
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