Help out there

I remember a few years ago when I first got out of college and moved to another state. I was so motivated to make it on my own, financially. I got my own apartment and paid my own bills. It was not as easy as I thought. I was literally living paycheck to paycheck and my credit card balance was only going one way, up. I had to take on another 2 jobs to climb out of my hole. I was working full-time, part-time and prn'ing in between. I hardly slept. I eat only fast food because it was cheap and quick and felt like crap. Luckily, I recovered and never got a bad credit rating but if I weren't so headstrong about it, it could have easily happened.

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Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day!

Hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Entirely too cheeky

I am laughing my head off right now. I just realized my son is like Annie. Yes, the little sassy, red, curly haired girl from the 1982 movie. He is the male version of course. Like Annie, he is very social and quite an eloquent speaker for his age. I mean, how many four-year olds say things like, "that picture is divine" or "I feel like sobbing." He really does have a great vocabulary! And he talks to everyone, and I mean everyone. The whole stranger talk. He doesn't GET it. He tells women that he likes their shirt, he tells kids that they are funny, he holds doors open for people, he will go up to any salesperson and ask them all about what they are selling; I could go on here. All. Friggin. Day. The kid just has to talk. To everyone.

Anywho, tonight he was a little terror. This is not entirely rare either. There are some days with him where I either send him to bed early just to make it stop or contemplate asking my doctor for a tranquilizer prescription. Yes, those are the days I feel like a bad mommy. Those are the days I yearn to read other mom's stories about their hyperactive, disrespectful toddlers just to make me feel I am not the only person on the planet dealing with this.

Seriously, he has more energy than the Energizer bunny and more attitude than Andrew Dice Clay (only the attitude, not the sex talk). Yet, even amongst all his shenanigans, he is very endearing. Very cute, and knows how to pull at those heartstrings...so much so that other people don't seem to understand when we need to discipline him.

Tonight, I felt like Ms. Hannigan, no, not when she is telling the kids to pick up their floor mops and make it "shine like the top of the Chrysler building," I am not that harsh you know. I am talking about when she meets Grace Farrell who asks to take Annie to the mansion and Ms. Hannigan says, "she's got it comin' to her; and I don't mean 'a week in the lap of luxury!" Seriously, if you think about what Annie did, sneaking out of the orphanage, into the big wide world all alone, then bringing that big old smelly dog back with her into the orphanage. We all felt bad for little Annie but what she did was pretty wrong. Ms. Hannigan was responsible for her and she was more than just mad, she was scared that little Annie could have been hurt. And what if the dog could make the other girls sick. Some kids are very allergic to dogs. Did Annie even think of that?

Now, I don't want to compare myself to Ms. Hannigan (although I do like me some bathtub Gin and pull heads off dolls all the time), I can totally understand why she didn't think it fair for Annie to go enjoy Daddy Warbucks billion dollar pad. She was just looking out of her, after all.

She really wanted that book

Okay, so I got myself energized up again and now I am getting good practice with this! I am so excited. Now I only have another 50 hours of video to to!

What was so cool was looking back at how far girlie girl has come. At this point she wasn't even crawling and that was only a year ago! She clearly wants this book but she just can't get there yet. I only did a few minutes to practice but she ends up dropping down and rolling over towards the book. It is so cute. I love seeing these old videos because it shows how amazingly fast they grow.

Cutting down on phone costs

More and more I hear of teenagers getting cell phones and running the bills up like crazy. I think parents are definitely starting to get the clue that they can't give them unlimited calling fun with their phones. I think prepaid calling cards might be the way to go if you want to be sure to stay within a budget and you can use them anywhere.

Getmecallingcards.com has a whole load of them listed and you can even find international ones for calling to India or China. There is such a wide range all in one place. You can use these cards from any phone, anywhere.

Stamina is going down...

Today was a day of shopping. And when I say shopping, I mean shopping. After hitting Target, the mall, Babies R Us, Ulta, and DSW, I am pooped out. Amazing how fun shopping can be but how exhausting. I think I have all the gifts now that I needed to get. At least I HOPE so! Mom's day and baby showers and more to come. I had all intentions too today to sit down and work on my videos but I am not sure if I have the stamina. I am thinking a nice warm bath and big glass of wine!

Shoe fever

There is really something to be said about these awesome tsubo shoes. Fashionable and comfortable, sounds like my kind of shoe! I am a huge chunky heel kind of gal too and I like the rugged bottom.

I can't help it when I start looking at shoes, I get so giddy. I could try on shoes. All. Day. Long. Yes, I have a few too many already but what is one more pair? I mean when you trying to decide between the seychelles shoes or the minnetonka boots this can be an all day decision. It might require a lot of pacing, possibly a cocktail in one hand and then a few calls to friends for a second opinion. The Valerie shoe is sooo me and by the way that happens to be one of the names I had chosen for my daughter, til hubby nixed it.

I have at least 2 friends that would be drooling over the shoes here. Arizona Softbead is such a Carrie shoe and Macaroon is so my niece. I kind of like the sneaker Mary Jane style myself. Ah, the decisions. Seriously, I know it is not as tricky as deciding who to marry or what to name my children, but it is pretty darned close : )

Let them in

I know this news has been everywhere but it still saddens me to read it. Every time I turn around I see the death toll up another 20,000. It breaks my heart what these people have lost. The Myanmar government should be grabbing at all the aid they can that is being offered to them yet it seems like they are not approving help from other countries. Why? Your people are starving, in need of water, medicine, shelter...help them!

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/08/myanmar/index.html