90's hip hop, working out, cleaning house, and scary stuff

Not particularly in that order.

Who remembers the 90's? I was in my tween/teenage years in the 90's. I've been on a Pandora 90's hip hop kick lately; Biggie, Tupac, Puff Daddy, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Salt N Peppa, TLC...Luniz. I mean, come on. You know what I'm talking about. I don't think they make hip hop that good anymore!

Don't get me wrong, there were plenty of good rock/alternative songs out there too! I mean, Dave Matthews and Green Day. Need I say more?

I haven't worked out in almost 2 weeks. I went once. I'm so mad at myself. I'm never going to get back in shape if I keep slacking off. But once you throw in a full time job, and wife and mother duties, time is slim and I have a lot going on. Even if I plan to work out when Chase goes to bed, I still can't get there. I'm determined tonight to go, if it kills me!

One of my "things I have too much of" (and no B...it's not shoes) is house work. It.never.ends. I feel like I clean, and 5 minutes later it's a mess again. It's hard to keep up. I feel like everything turns into a catch all. Especially my kitchen table. Keeping my house clean is a full time job within itself and there is no paycheck and don't even get me started on laundry, that's a separate job and it doesn't even come with benefits.

I was checking the weather today...apparently, it's supposed to snow on Friday...(da eff?) While I was on Weather.com, I came across a link called: PHOTOS: Creepy Abandoned Theme Parks (you can look for yourself here). It immediately sparked my interest. I think stuff like this is so cool. I would love to travel just to see abandoned/haunted places. In my younger years, I was really into going to see "The House With No Corners" in Bully Valley, IL. I also walked around Bachelor's Grove Cemetery which was cool. I think old stuff like this is pretty neat, even though I get freaked out about it. LOL


Well... I better finish my chores, so I can finish my chores, so I can go work out.

Later
-e

*grumble, grumble*

I'm so glad tomorrow is Friday.

My friend was admitted to the hospital on Monday.

Her water broke.

And while normally, this would excite people...it's too early...12 weeks to early, so she is on bed rest an hour away....

Did I mention she watches C?

Oh, just that "minor" detail.

The call came in at 6am on Monday morning, which happened to be April Fools Day. However, there was no follow up call to remind me of the day and to say they would see me in an hour...

I frantically started emailing every daycare center I could find. I didn't know what I was going to do.

Oh....did I mention I had to take B to the dentist? Did I mention that we were at Walgreen's Take Care Clinic and the ER on Sunday? Did I mention, I kept sneezing? Guess who felt like crap by 3pm? Guess who was making dinner for Easter? :-/

(sorry for all the questions)

So Monday, while I was emailing every daycare in the county and feeling like crap and taking B to the dentist and feeling awful because C didn't get a real nap, I checked my Facebook.

And there was my epiphany.

My dear friend who stayed at home...maybe she would watch C for a bit until everything went back to normal.

I messaged...she said yes.

Thank GOODNESS!! I'm forever grateful!

And that sums up my cray cray week...

Maybe tomorrow, I'll go to the gym.

Peace
-e

Polyvore and Pinterest

I'm addicted to both....


Re.dic.

I was unable to play on Polyvore for a while, because I didn't have a working computer. I was so sad.

I can sit on Polyvore all.day.long.

For those wondering what Polyvore is, its a website that you can create outfits from clothes they have in their database. Each piece is linked to the website where you are able to buy the item if you are interested in doing so (I found these amazing earrings...they are $9 though...still trying to decide if I want to pull the trigger on those...) You can follow me here.

I'm seriously obsessed....Polyvore makes me think I could totally be a stylist. Truth or not, I feel like *I* have some cute outfits made up.

The cool thing about Polyvore is that I can now directly pin it to my clothes Pinterest board. Pinterest is a virtual idea board. Basically, you find something awesome, recipe, shoes, cars, drinks, etc., you can "pin" a picture to the board of your choice. In turn, you can go back to said pin, click the picture and it will take you back to the original site...genius I tell you. You can follow other people's "boards" for inspiration, or because you have similar likes, repin their pins, so on and so on....pure.addiction. You can follow me here.

So. I've spent most of my Saturday morning creating outfits that I would wear and pinning them on my clothes board.

What...a time suck.

Maybe I should review my Things to try board, and clean my house.

OR....I could review my Kanye's Workout Plan board and exercise.

Or I can just keep creating outfits on Polyvore like its my full time job (this would be an amazing job...(hire.me.))


Later -e

Where's the heat?

Ain't this the truth!

Last year, I'm pretty sure I wasn't wearing a winter coat right now. On St. Patrick's Day, I know for a fact I wasn't in a coat and neither was my son.

While this has been mild winter for the most part, I'm ready for winter to be over. I want to take C to the playground. I want to be outside!!! I need bonfires this year for sure!!! I don't want to wear a coat anymore!!!

I NEED TO TAKE OUT MY SANDALS!!!!! I NEED THEM!!!

I.NEED.HEAT!!!

I need Sunday Funday patio time at my favorite bar. And a flippy cup tournament there too!

I need to feel alive!!!!!

I'm tired of the cold!

Pull yourself together Mother Nature!! I need to open my windows!


ktnxbai

-e

And.....I'm back.

It's been a craptacular few months which made things hard to update. *sad face*

But to be fair, I really didn't have a working computer and it's pretty hard/rough to write posts from my smartphone.

So a few weeks ago, everything in my house started breaking. The sewer, the foundation, the sump pump, my computer....ugh. It was a nightmare.

The sewer was a month long ordeal. B usually has to snake the drain once a year, so he rents a machine from Home Depot. This year he was able to borrow one from someone he knows.

It didn't work.

He snaked every other day, and it still backed up. Ick. So after a crappy plumbing company coming and doing it once, not clearing it, and quoting us $4000 to put a clean out in our front yard, we called Roto Rooter and they cleared it completely. Thank goodness.

We actually have 2 cracks in our foundation. I chalk it up to the fact that the temperature extremes here are crazy. 60 degrees one day then 20 degrees the next. B is going to fix these on his own with a kit from Home Depot. A friend of his did their own, and it has lasted.

The sump pump basically rusted out. There was no real bad damage and B was able to exchange it for a new one. I guess ours had a lifetime warranty (5 years old); new ones do not.

Needless to say, I'm really behind on house work....and I'm quite disgusted. :-/

As for my computer. I turned it on one day...and I had a message saying XP was invalid. We tried a few different product keys, but none of them would work. So we went to buy Windows 7, but the salesman we talked to said that there may not be a driver for my old laptop...especially since we rebuilt it from what it was (it had Vista when we bought it, the HD took a dump, my dad rebuilt it with XP) So..we ended up buying new. It was a good deal and we also bought an extended warranty and a recovery disk. And I'm going to make sure to schedule myself to back up my files once a month to be safe. (When my old laptop crashed, I lost a lot of stuff from my honeymoon. Thankfully, I uploaded stuff to Facebook every night, but there were other things I lost that couldn't be recovered.)

So, now that I've brought you all up to date....lol.

Currently, my house is in such distress still. I'm so behind on laundry. I need to clean my bathroom. I need to wash my floors. Yuck.

My bedroom is a disaster. No seriously..worse than a teenage girl's bedroom and I was, at one time, a teenage girl...it's worse than that.

We (B and I) have far too many clothes. FAR.TOO.MANY. I'm stuck in this rut where I want to try to lose weight, so I'm afraid to get rid of my clothes, however, a lot of my clothes are either too big or still too small. Some are so old that they are falling apart. My sweaters are getting holes in the elbows...it's pretty embarrassing. I don't want to buy new though, because I don't want to be this weight...etc....start vicious cycle. I broke down this weekend and bought a few new outfits for work. I was lucky to find one on the clearance rack at Wal-mart. I'm determined to get a gym membership today. As for B...he just can't find the time to go through his stuff.

So. That's all I have for now. *Hopefully* I will write more..

Laterz
-e

I know, I know.

I made pie crust promises....(If you don't know what I'm talking about, Google Mary Poppins and pie crust).

I was SUPPOSED to be writing more... sorry.

My decluttering has come to a stop. We've been going back and forth on re-arranging the living room...buying a new couch..etc. We are getting a new/used couch tomorrow for the payment of my letting people see my son, so....it's worth it. It's a sectional so there will be plenty of seating...and hopefully plenty of room. I'm planning to make pillows eventually for the newused couch (insert laughing here).

I'm doing well on my diet. I'm down 3 pounds from when I started on the 7th. I haven't started running yet, but that's only because it has be extremely cold here. I've been doing awesome with the burpee challenge though, I'm on day 24 today and will also be incorporating the 200 situp challenge starting tonight.

I've also decided to try freezing meals for the month, hoping that will help save a bit of money. It's worth a try and I also hope that it will help B to make dinner, so I'm not having to do it when I get home.

later
-e

Weight loss and 6 days in

Today is the last day I'm eating whatever I want as tomorrow i start my diet. I'll be pigging out on crap food today to a) get it out of my house and b) have one last hurrah.  

Currently I'm munching on bottle caps...theyz mah favz.

I'm going to start running tomorrow. Even if its just to the corner and back, at least its a start. I'm also going to do the 100 burpie challenge.

Its going to be a long hard road, but I'm determined.

In other news...

How's 2013 going so far? Sticking to your resolutions?

I feel that I've been doing real good on decluttering so far. I've rearranged my upper cabinets and need to work on the lower ones. I've also cleaned out the "junk drawer", cleaned out my makeup drawer in the bathroom and the medicine cabinet.

I got a new mixer for Christmas from my mom. I used it for the first time this morning. I made these egg muffin things I found on pinterest.  I also made corn bread.

The eggs came out ok. To much salt and pepper, so I will cut back if I decide to try them again.

I'm making Mac and Cheese today, although, I'm not quite sure if I'm going to it baked or in the crock pot.

I'll weigh in tomorrow and do a post about it.

Later
-e