I Got You on MY Site!

This past weekend I had the best weekend I have had in a LONG time! It was my sister inlaws 21st birthday and we celebrated it in Chi Town! I think I celebrated like it was MY 21st birthday! Anyway, we were at this bar call Lux something or other and this guy comes up to us with his iPhone out asking us if he could put us on his site. Of course we said no. But guess what buddy...you're on mine!

Soon after taking that picture, I was able to convince him to let me borrow his phone. And then I started calling people in his contact list. I spoke to some guy named Tony...it was TOTALLY not cool of Tony to hang up on me. Does he know who I am? Oh that's right...he didn't!

My most favorite part of the night was when we were driving back to the hotel and somehow got stuck behind a horse and buggy. I didn't want too spook it so I did the only thing I could think of to get that horse moving. I stuck my head out the window and yelled "Giddy up!

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Beer Bread and Lube...Tonight was a pretty good Night!

So I had this business expo that I took part in tonight. I set up my table of Creative Memories stuff and was prepared to tell everyone how wonderful Creative Memories is and how awesome it is to celebrate your memories. I mean, who doesn't want to get their pictures into albums and look at them? Why take pictures if they are going to sit in a drawer?? I got a couple of contacts tonight, which is a good thing...but get a load of my night!!

The expo started at 6:30pm. The first person to walk through the door was a man...alone. Not really typical of these business expo events. Business expo is another way of saying "Calling all Women Shoppers". So this guy walks up to my table and proceeds to talk my ear off for like 45 mins. Telling me how he has a HUGE drawer FILLED with pictures that he doesn't know what to do with. At first I thought he was pulling my leg. I mean, one of first conversation starters you use with people who approach you is something like "so where are all your pictures?" or something like that. So to have this guy come up to me and just tell me...it was kind of odd.

Anyway, the rest of our conversation is even better. I show him our Power Sort Box and tell him out nice it would be if he could get is pictures into something like that because the Power Sort Box will protect the pictures from turning yellow, etc. He then asks me if I would sort them for him. His exact words were "if I brought you the drawer, would you be able to organize them for me" to which I said "I can do that but I wouldn't know what goes together"...and what was said next made me kinda dirty.

"Well maybe you can come over or we meet and organize them together"...wait for it...and I said "that's fine. I do charge hourly for that". I paused after saying that, realizing that I just made myself sound like a hooker. A memory celebrating hooker. He took my card. We'll see if he calls!

One one side of me I had the Tastefully Simple lady and her beer bread was to die for. In fact, she sent me home with bread she didn't set out and this really good tomato and pesto dip. Mmmm!

On the other side of me, a few tables down, was the Pure Romance Lady. I have to say, I have never laughed so hard as I did when I saw an old lady pick up the Tingling Nipple Balm. The look on her face when she read the name of it and then when the light bulb clicked as to what you do and what it must feel like...priceless. I spoke with the Pure Romance lady for quite awhile and she sent me home with free samples of lube. Gotta love free lube!! After looking at the catalog, I have to say, the Like a Virgin cream is rather intriguing to me!

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I Gotta Do This More Often!

Last night I fell asleep before the kids went to bed. We were all laying in my bed together and I fell asleep. Usually it is Dan who falls asleep. But this time it was me. So Dan put the kids to bed and came back to our room, fully prepared to wake me up so we could go downstairs and watch television. But he said I was so out, snoring and all (I think he's lying on the snoring part), that he didn't have the heart to wake me up. So he went to sleep too!

Well I slept from 7:30pm last night to 7:45am this morning. That's a lot of sleep! I felt AWESOME when I woke up. It was some much needed sleep after two weeks of Dan being out of town and me not having any breaks whatsoever.

But man oh man...I need to sleep like that more often. I had some WILD dreams! In one of my dreams, I was dating Patrick Dempsey and I had a body to die for. I mean, I was hot. My boobs were in pre-kid location, my butt...it was cute, and the dress I wore while on the arm of the hottest man in America...it was freaking hot. Plunging neckline, hugged my curves...and Patrick couldn't keep his hands off me. And I couldn't blame him!! But the bad thing about having dreams like that is the fact that you wake up. And wouldn't you know, I was woken up by my son telling me he wanted to go downstairs and play right BEFORE Patrick and I were going to do the nasty! Talk about needing a cold shower!

So for those of you that burn the candle at both ends, I HIGHLY recommend taking one night and just getting a whole lotta sleep. Cause not only do you feel awesome the next day, but you walk around with an extra spring in your step after dreaming about the hottest guy in America wanting to do the nasty with ya!

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If She were Born First...

I swear. My daughter may look all sweet and whatnot, but that child...I'm telling you, if I would have had her first...it would have been a LOOOOOONG time before I would have considered having a second child.

She is 3 and while I don't really think the 2's were all that bad, the 3's...they should be called the "horrifying three's". Zachary threw tantrums for like two weeks and then he was done with them. Bella...she throws herself down on the ground no matter WHERE she is and throws the mother of all tantrums. What do I do? I stand there and watch her for a second and then calmly walk over, pick her up and stick her in the cart and tell her "that is not a choice at the moment. You will sit here until you calm down. It can take the whole shopping trip or it can take 2 mins. THAT is your choice". I almost scare myself with my calmness. But it works.

Though I have to admit, this new singing thing she is doing is absolutely hilarious! We were in Hobby Lobby today and the register line was getting long so the cashier got on the PA system and said "Charlene to your register, Charlene to your register please". Without missing a beat, Bella begins singing as loud as she can "Charlene...Charlene...Charlene to your register now please".

I was dying laughing. The customers were laughing and when Charlene came up front, Bella sang louder and louder for her. It was great!

So the moral of the story...find things to laugh at each day 'cause if you don't...your kids are going to send you right to the white padded room.

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Does the Biggest Loser use Diet Pills?

So I was at Walgreens today before picking Zachary up at school and I was STUNNED to see that Jillian Michaels had her own line of diet pills. Now I absolutely love The Biggest Loser. I think Bob and Jillian are amazing trainers, but I have to say, I have now lost some respect for Jillian Michaels. Not to mention, The Biggest Loser for allowing her to represent their show and have a product like that out there. I mean, as a viewer at home, I was always under the impression that The Biggest Loser is all about diet and exercise and basically lifestyle changes. Just irritates me. I really don't think I can watch Jillian the same way now. Now Bob...I can watch Bob any day or time ;)

What do you think about Jillian having her own diet pills and being such a prominent face of The Biggest Loser?

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Wordless Wednesday - 10/21/2009

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Best Week!

This post is going to be a little difficult for me to write because some of the things I am going to be honest about bothers me for saying, let alone thinking it. For the past 8 months to a year I have really had a hard time staying at home with my kids. There is nothing more I want than to be a stay at home mom. However, my son has made this very difficult on me with his behavior. He did really well in preschool but as summer hit and we approached Kindergarten, things got worse and worse making me really dislike the time I was spending with him. His doctor saw him in June and asked me if I was concerned about his activity level (which was OFF THE WALL) and I told him yes, but I wanted to wait until Kindergarten started. I wanted to see how he did in a very structured setting.

Well Kindergarten started and there was absolutely no change at all. My cute little five year old was ending up on red every single day and in the first couple weeks of school, he was at the Principals office every single day. I had a meeting with his teacher, who his truly a blessing to have, and we came up with a plan of action in the classroom. Never once did she tell me, or hint that I should have him evaluated. However, after discussing it with my husband, we decided to have him evaluated. He has ADHD.

We started medicine this week. It made us nervous to do medicine because I have seen kids take this kind of medicine who sit there like a zombie and that is NOT what we wanted our child to be. Zachary is totally not a zombie! His doctor started him off on a low dose and it is helping him tremendously. The first day he took it, I never had to yell once or tell him to get his shoes on a million times. I would tell him to do something, he would do it. I can't even tell you how enjoyable this week has been. We hung out together while Bella was in school and truly had a wonderful time walking through Walmart and talking and laughing.

I asked Zachary how he is feeling and what he said makes me want to cry. He looked at me with his huge brown eyes and said "great mommy! The circle is gone from my head". Now I didn't get what he was saying so I asked him what he meant. He said "the circle in my head that goes around and around is gone" and Zachary was spinning his hands really fast as he told me this. To me, I am interpreting that as him telling me that he feels calm. I don't know any other way to interpret it. I am so glad his circle is gone. The change in his writing at school is amazing as well. Off the medicine you cannot read a single letter he writes. They are backwards, upside down, sideways....on the medicine they are all facing the writing way and you can actually tell it is his name when he writes it!

This has truly been a wonderful week. Seeing my son look relaxed and happy is so nice.

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Wordless Wednesday - 10/14/09

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Sensa the Natural Weight Loss System REVIEW

One of the things I hate most, but need to do desperately is lose weight. My kids are 5 and 3. I can no longer say I have to lose the baby weight. My kids ARE NOT babies anymore. I've tried a whole bunch of ways to lose weight from doing Weight Watchers, exercising, low carb, etc. I stick to NOTHING. So when I was asked if I would like to receive Sensa Natural Weight Loss System in the mail to review, I said "send it my way"!!

I have used Sensa for about a month now. And guess what...I've stuck to it! It is so easy. All you do is sprinkle something that tastes like absolutely nothing on your food. I bet you are wondering how Sensa works. You sprinkle it on your food and your sense of smell triggers your satiety center in your brain (this is the place in your brain that tells you to stop eating...that you are full). So by listening to your satiety center and knowing when you are full, you take in less calories and lose weight!

In my first month using Sensa, I have lost 4lbs. So yes, I need to listen to my satiety center a tad more, but hey...I'm minus 4lbs!

Go to this site and check out Sensa for yourself!!!

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Digital Diva Monday!!

I created this digital scrapbook page a couple weeks ago using Storybook Creator 3.0 Plus. I have been dying to share it, but didn't want my sister inlaw to see it before her baby shower, which we had yesterday! Here is the page I made for her:


Enjoy! Have a nice Monday!

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