Woohoo! My exciting life!

5:36pm: Luke the Jedi Goldfish aka Luke the Wonder fish.
Okay, so my fish was sick, then I nursed it back to health and I guess he thought it'd be funny to watch me wring my hands, wibble and flail all over again, because he's not well again. The pet shop guy said he has fungus which is secondary to fin rot. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrreaaat. I told him I took the fish out of his tank and put him back in the bowl to which he declared that the fish would die with no filter in the bowl. I told him the fished had survived wonderfully in the bowl with no filter for about 5-6 months. The illness set in with the tank. I always kept the bowl really clean and the tank, as well. He just shook his head in amazement after repeating again, "Really, no filter at all?" He does have a filter in the tank, but I've never seen anyone put a filter or air pump in a goldfish bowl. Oh well, so I bought all the stuff he said I needed and came home for the great tank clean out/start all over again and am proud(and exhausted) to say that Luke is back home in his newly cleaned, medicated tank. I really hope this works. It breaks my heart to see his tail vanishing before our eyes. The other night we were sure he wasn't going to make it through the night..he was so listless and seemed to be struggling, but the next morning he was all perky again. Luke, the wonder fish! So, I will be drugging him up and cleaning the tank repeatedly(as directed) over the next few days in the hopes of making Luke well, again.

Wish us luck.

10:50pm: How can I possible be this bored?!?!?!
Ugh, I have the whole internet at my finger tips and all I can think is that I am soooooooooooooooooooooooo bored!

I will amuse myself by posting this epic work of poetry by Steve Martin

Pointy birds
Oh pointy pointy
Anoint my head
Anointy nointy


Nothing like a little deep thought brought on by such cryptic verse to scare the boredom way.

11:40pm: We love you, Luke :(
Well, despite all our efforts, I think that our goldfish Luke is trying to move on from this earthy plane. :( Poor Luke, he's still with us, but just barely. I really, really hope he's not hurting. I know a lot of people would say who cares, it's just a goldfish, but I care and he's our goldfish! I thought I had nursed him back to health as he did seem to be getting better, but in the last few days he's gone downhill. I highly doubt he'll still be with us in the morning unless he decides to be miracle recovery fish and bounce back from the brink. That'd be awesome! Kelly told him tonight that he'd get up early to check on him, so I'll be getting up early, too. Don't want him to find Luke alone. Luke the Jedi goldfish, we love ya.

♥♥♥♥♥LUKE♥♥♥♥♥

11:45am: Just because it's funny and yes, I am a freak...tyvm

9:11pm: Back at work...
Made it through the first day back at work. The kids all did really, really well. Usually we have at least a few who cry off and on all day, but today two cried for about 3 mins in the morning and that was it. :D Friday might be a little bit different, because some on them think that one day was it and are not thrilled to find themselves being left again, but at least they'll already know that we're nice and loving and do fun stuff. Is it possible that we're going to have another easy group? Hmm...I'm not going to count my chickens just yet. I'll just enjoy the fact that our first day was really, really easy.

12:31am: I needed a laugh...


Just what the doctored ordered. :)

8:43pm: Just call me Dr. Fin, Medicine woman.
Luke is feeling out of sorts. I would say he's under the weather, but maybe saying he's feeling like a fish out of water is more appropriate.




So, today I got to play doctor to our Goldfish, Luke. He's named after Luke Skywalker because Kelly had been watching Star Wars right before we got the fish. Anyway, Luke is a Fantail and hasn't been acting himself the past few days, sitting on the bottom of the tank, seeming to be pushed around by the moving water. I got online and started looking up his symptoms and thought I had an idea of what he might have. Wrong...late last night I looked at him and suddenly I noticed.."Wow Luke, where'd most of your tail go?" So, we are looking at fin rot. I can't believe I didn't notice the shape his tail was in til last night. I think I was too busy being worried about his sitting on the floor of the tank . Anyway, today we went to a fish store and got all sorts of advice and treatment supplies for Luke. I hope to God I don't kill him with the treatment. Poor Luke, I just can't stand to see anything suffer and he sure doesn't look happy. Fingers crossed that this treatment regimen works.

That was my day...exciting, huh?

Ps: I'd like to note that almost without fail animal medical emergencies at my house occur when my husband is out of town. How does he do that?

12:37am: Third Grader...wow!
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world" - Albert Einstein

Tomorrow I must, once again, entrust my most precious gift to someone else and hope they realize what they hold in the palm of their hand. I know all parents think THEIR child is the most wonderful, precious, intelligent child ever, but mine really is!!! LOL. I just really hope that at the end of this year, he's able to look back on third grade with a smile and feel ready to move on to the next adventure in learning with all his special talents intact. Nobody better squash my baby's imagination, sense of humor and love of learning. I think he got a good teacher and I have high hopes for this year.

There he goes growing up on me...lil' stinker! :)
Love you so much Kelster McPhelster McPhee...show them how 3rd grade is done, buddy.

11:24am: Welcome to procrastination station...

6:34pm: What songs make up the soundtrack of your life? Songs that consistently bring up a memory of a signifcant time in your life. Here are a few of mine.

What a Wonderful World-Louis Armstrong

Beautiful Brown Eyes-sung by many artists, but my dad is the one who sang the chorus to me all the time

Yesterday-The Beatles

Just another day-Oingo Boingo

Your Song-Elton John

Leaving Me Now-Level 42

You Learn-Alanis Morissette

What I like about you-The Romantics

Lovesong-The Cure



Just a small sampling.

All My Life-Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville

All I ask of you-from Phantom of the Opera

How You Remind Me-Nickelback

I knew I loved you-Savage Garden

You Are My Sunshine- sung by me for Kelly...because it's true!

5:42pm: I'm sure everyone already knows about these sites, but...
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ Twitter acct: @postsecret

http://www.secretregrets.com/ Twitter acct: @SecretRegrets

I just came across these two sites yesterday and I'm hooked. The submissions just blow me away. Sure gives you a new perspective in some cases.


Check them out if you haven't already.

12:48am: I'm so very tired.
Not really much more to say than that. I'm tired and not sure if it's all worth any effort.

11:16pm: I don't understand people.
I don't understand people who bitch, moan and whine when you're standoffish and then completely ignore you when you make an effort to be closer and more available. This is my family. It hurts much less to just keep to myself.

8:32am: A vent.
I would love to get my hands on the person who filled Kelly's little classmate's head with tales of a man who hunts children in the night!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....of course, she went to school and shared this story with all her little friends and of course, she holds more weight with my son than I do. Nothing I can say or do will convince him, in the middle of the night when he's sure he's seen a man with a net outside his window, that no one is coming to get him and that he's safe in his house and that his Dad and I will never let anyone get him. Of course, his friend knows better than we do. I don't know why people tell their children these things, but should you ever feel the desire I hope you will think before you speak. Try to remember that what you tell your child will FOR SURE be shared with all their friends and then there will be sleepless nights and vent-y posts like this one.

4:06pm: OMG, Im going to be bald at this rate
Someone please, please tell me this is not my life. I so wouldn't be surprised if the aftermath of Brad's mom's death caused the end of our marriage. Uuuuuugggggghhh!!! I want to just scream at the top of my lungs, but it wouldn't help anything. When did I go from being considered a decent person to an uncaring bitch? When did I go from mattering to not? I'm sooooooooo just, I can't even...I don't have the words. Hello reflection, remember that little tiny iota of self worth we managed to scrape together over the years? Wave byebye now...it's gone. :(

8:11am: Whew!!! Color me relieved and de-stressed.
What, you may ask, was the source of all this worry and stress? Why, a 2nd grade school project, of course! Hahah, I'm so ridiculous, but really I have never, ever done a diorama. It was just not what my school did as projects and this was for a MAJOR(eep!) Science grade. LOL We, I mean Kelly, had to do a habitat for the Great White Shark. I will have to say it was a group effort. The majority of the effort coming from Dad. Well, Kelly read all the info for his oral report and got that all together and helped look for the stuff to put in the diorama, but Brad busted out his train modeling/layout skills and whipped out some quick plaster molds of rocks and a plaster sandy ocean floor. Kelly helped to stain it all and oh yeah, Brad just happened to have this long grass he uses on his layout for landscaping. Voila! Instant sea plants. I covered the box in this cool  "water" patterned paper and printed out some ocean fish for Kelly to put in with mounting tape so they stick off the back of the box a bit. He applied all the fish and another great white shark  and these adhesive letters spelling out "Great White Shark" and we were done...or so we thought.  This morning, while putting the sticky fish in the diorama our good ole shark figurine broke his glue bonds and came off his perch. Eeeeek! No problem, Brad has all sorts of adhesive stuff for his models and layouts. I just needed to call him for advice on which would be the fastest drying, best bonding one, no prob. Well, no problem if he would answer his phone. Grrrrrrrr...him and his actually working at work. Doesn't he know there are  more important things going on that need his attention?!?!?! Hehe...neighbor to the rescue. I work with my neighbor at the pre-school and knew she had a hot glue gun and she let us borrow it at 7:15 this morning and so ended the "My very first school project" saga. A sigh of relief was released by all involved. How many more years of projects do we have? It scares me to think about it. ;)

Good luck to Kelster Mcphelster McPhee on his oral presentation. *fingers crossed* I hope he can deny his natural comedic/goofball ways and pull it together for the report. Heheh, he's one funny dude and loves the spotlight, so it may be a futile hope, hahha.

10:31pm: Welcome to the jungle...

Omg! Our backyard is...out of control.  We kinda, sorta let it go after the hurricane ripped it up and I don't mean Ike, I'm talking Rita.  We are so...procrastinate-y.  :(  Anyway, we'd been saying that we were going to take care of this winter while we could stand the temperature and then today I mentioned that discussion and how winter had just flown right past and how we'd already experienced some  spring like temps and we never did anything to the backyard. Well, Brad disappeared for a little bit today and just after asking Kelly if he could see Daddy in the front yard from where he was, there was a knock on the back window.  Sure enough, Brad was out there working on trying to tame the beast that is our backyard.  This meant I had to get off my big ol' booty and help him.  One of the reasons, for me anyway, that I've not done anything before now is fear of the wildlife that has been known to creep,slither and crawl back there.  I've seen snakes there before and you know, don't like them at all!  So I was not thrilled with this new development, but I had to do it as I couldn't just leave Brad to handle it all.  We got a lot of stuff cut back and pulled up and discovered some stuff that was just full on uprooted by Ike but that we didn't even notice because it was overshadowed by other plants.  There is a crazy, creeping vine that had managed to creep and climb pretty much EVERYTHING back there and the fun about that discovery was when I grabbed it in my ungloved hand and found it to be covered with teeny tiny very sharp thorns.  :(  Good times.  :)  The good news is there was  no creepy critter sighting!!!!!  Yay!  Not to say they aren't back there because I'm sure they are, but all our stomping probably kept them in hiding which is FINE by me. Anyway, we got a start and there's still a bunch to do, but it's beginning to resemble a backyard again. I'm no longer afraid to say, 'Kel, why don't you go play in the backyard." Although, the last time I let him go back there and play with a friend I found out they spent the time picking our lemons and throwing them over our neighbor's fences. Yay! Haha...free fruit and home delivery service? Awesome. Ha! 

That's how I spent my first day of spring break...in the jungle taming the beast. I feel like I've worked out and I'm itchy from all the little flying bugs that feasted on me, but, it was worth it...I think.

9:51am:
SPRING BREAK is ON!!! :D

Let the lazing about begin.

1:38am: Yahtzee!!! (It's spring break board game-a-thon)

tSo tonight Brad, Kelly and I played Yahtzee for the first time. Not only Kelly's first time playing it, but mine and Brad's,too. How is it that he and I missed out on this game when we were kids? I'm pretty sure my older sister had it...hmmm? In any case, we played it tonight and it was hilarious. Kelly was obsessed with trying to get a yahtzee and not only did he have to shake the dice for 4 years before releasing them, he had to give them a speech and declare his love for them while ending the speech with a promise of severe repercussions if they let him down. Hehehe. The long warm-up dice shake routine was Brad's fault as the first time he had a turn he decided to do some complicated shaking pattern that involved shaking the dice in the cup while hit the cup to his hip, head, chest and belly. When it came to my turn, in the interest of keeping things moving, I pretty much just shook the dice and told them what I wished for,ha. It was so funny because at first it looked like Kelly was going to win and Brad was going to be the big loser, but Brad trounced us with a 295 to our 148, 146 scores. He must have cheated..yes, I'm sure of it. Oh and Kelly and I never did get a yahtzee. Brad, the traitorous cheater, was the only one to get one and he didn't even scream out YAHTZEE! like the ad always shows. See! Didn't even deserve to get one.

Anyway, we are no longer Yahtzee virgins, it was a long, humorous,and relatively painless deflowering.

5:18pm:
Grocery shopping completed! I'm so glad to be done with that and proud of myself because when all was tallied at the end, I had saved over $30.00!!! Usually I leave feeling like someone must have been sneaking items into my cart as I shopped because the total is so much higher than I expect.  Those are the times I go to the store to pick up a gallon of milk and some pasta and end up spending $200.

We have food, yay!
Now, who's gonna cook this stuff?

3:12pm: <3 XO <3

HELLO!!!

 

*waves*

 

9:54pm: Should I stay or should I go.
Brad and Kelly are driving to San Antonio tomorrow to go to a train show and Brad asked if I wanted to go along. I'm feeling guilty for saying no. I mean, it's a train show and I will be bored to death and Brad is fine with me not going. It's 3 hours away and ...I don't know, I get nervous whenever they go that far off without me. This is funny, because they flew to CA just last weekend and I was fine. Ugh, I guess I'll see how I feel in the morning.

In other news, we had fun today. My good friend had a birthday party for her twins at one of those places with all the bouncers(moon walks?). Anyway,it was fun. Brad could be seen climbing the huge inflatable slide and going down with Kelly. Heheh...hilarious. Kelly had a blast playing king of the mountain in one of the bouncers. I don't think he was ever king for very long, but he didn't care, he was too busy laughing.:D

My life is boring, but good. :)

10:58pm: My addiction
Hi, my names's Theresa and I'm a cheez-it-aholic..a cheez-it addict? You get my point, I'm sure. I love them and I CAN NOT stop!!!! Today, they are what I ate for lunch,the cheddar jack variety. My favorite is white cheddar, put a box of those in front of me and I cannot be held responsible for my actions. Somebody, please...help meeeeeeeeeeeeeee! ;) hehehe. No really I eat way too many.

10:07pm: Happy Valentine's Day!!!
Today was very nice, indeed. We slept in, Kelly and I a little and Brad a lot. When Brad finally dragged his lazy bones out of bed, he announced he wanted to take us to breakfast. So off to IHOP we went. :) After breakfast, we went to Target and BestBuy, just to look around or well, no...I needed a new kitchen timer. We spent the rest of the afternoon at home just lounging around. Oh and Kelly made Brad and I card and wrote us a letter inside the card (they just learned about letter writing in school. Brad and Kelly got me a box of candy, the softest stuffed puppy dog EVER and a gift card to Starbucks..wheeeeeeeeeeeeee. I love how they encourage my coffee addictin. My boys...so wonderful.They both seemed to like their lil gifts, as well. :D Brad let Kelly decide where we'd have dinner and he choose the Mongolian bbq we all like and then Brad took us to Dairy Queen afterwards. It's been a lovely day.

Tomorrow, Brad is taking Kelly on a day trip to CA to check in on his mom, so I will have the house to myself.:)

I hope everyone has had a wonderful Feb 14th.

1:51am: Fish heads, Fish heads....
It's almost 2am and apparently I am still up and looking up the lyrics to a old, classic Dr. Demento song. Needs help and fast! This all comes of putting together Kelly's teacher gifts late at night. Tomorrow is our 2-3 yr old class Valentine's party. Wheeeeeeeeeeehooo, we are gonna get craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy and partay like it's 1999. Ha! Hahahahahahaha HA! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, I do believe I have obtained slaphappy status.

Goodnight.