Took the First Step!

 

Yep I am that old...Yep I remember this show...Well my Hubby Wubby and I are like George and Wheezy (did you ever wonder if she had asthma...) and we are movin' on up!

We took the first step to selling our house. We called our glorious, wonderful realtor who has helped many in our family and sold us our current home, and told her that we are going to start the process of decluttering our house.

Yep that's me!

No it's not really that bad, but sometimes that is how I feel!
So we are going to get the storage building to move some extra furniture in, pack our personal crap up, you know like all those shows say to do in order to sell your house. No we wouldn't have to do this if we had enough room for our 3 kids, and our own crap. Yes I know I am thankful for a home. I am thankful that we have jobs.

1. Why don't you purge your house and get rid of things?

We have done that, every other year when my family all gets together and has a big ol' Texas Garage Sale. People, I still got alot of crap.  

2. Why are you getting the storage building?

Have you ever watched one of those sell my house shows? Where do they put all their crap?! Seriously?! Are they like throwing it away? Donating it? What?! Like for real, we don't have a garage because my husband's shit has taken it over for his "hot rod" or what I have termed, "The Real Pain in my Ass." Plus even if we had room he wouldn't let anything go in his garage. A bicycle can sit in my living room but he will swear up and down that it does not belong in the garage...

Yeah makes no damn sense huh....


Anyways. We have paid all the old "I was young and dumb and didn't know or care what a credit score was so let's sign up for credit card to get a free tshirt or not pay a bill so we can go drink beer!" charges off. All but one because I honestly think that company is crazy....
So now we get to go through a new experience in life. Selling a home and all that it entails. Selling and buying all at the same time. This scares me. More then anything because I don't want to end up with everything in a storage shed and all of us in a freaking pay by the week roach hotel listening to cumbia music and people getting drunk on what is in their paper bag!

Oh goodness here we go!

It's inevitable

You are sleeping soundly, you have an hour or two before the alarm goes off for work, and you hear "MOMMY" and you belt into your child's room and they say the words that makes every mommy cringe: "My tummy hurts." First you wish and pray that it is just that they need to pee, or fart but then they do the face and it is a race to high tail them to the bathroom before they stain and mark up the carpet, the bed, and leave a trail for you to clean on the way.

This isn't my first rodeo folks. Many a time, I have not made the trip to the potty, and we have had spots, and messes to clean. When the kids get bigger, the messes get bigger. Depending on the kid they may just do the freeze barf. My oldest daughter is a good example of that, bless her heart. She just stops where ever she is, and unloads. It doesn't matter if you are standing in front of her, you better move.

My son is like me, he thinks if he talks to his stomach, and ignores the problem that it won't happen. So he tries to reason with it, promise things like that he won't ever eat that cereal again or drink that many cokes.
It never fails though. He barely makes it the toliet because he was talking to himself. I was the same way, and still am. Hate to barf, try to breath like they teach you in lamaze class, and promise God all sorts of things. Yes I realize I am going to hell for that but dang people, throwing up is bad.

So here we go with another stomach bug. Kind of like spin the bottle and wondering who it will point to next. Coming from a germ crazy person, I feel horrible as a mom that I am not cuddling and loving on my child in their misery but dang people, throwing up is BAD!!!!

Negative Nelly in the HOUSE!

Not in mine but totally in others! I get really bogged down with negative attitudes. Through work, I find that when one person is negative it spreads like wildfire. No one else can understand that you have a life, and that you live your life the best you can...so when you are not able to live up to whatever expectations they have they become negative. I try very hard to push out positive. No matter what, I put out positive. Many years that has been hard because of my job. I am now in a position where I can help others, not only kids but teachers and staff try to see silver linings. I just don't know how long it will take me to develop the force field to constantly defend myself from the negative.
I like to try to understand someone's reasons for their crappy attitude, or their stress. I like to think that there is a reason that they are acting the way they are. I think that is just the counselor in me. I have always been that way. If you talk to anyone in the profession, they will do the same thing. We are NOT excuse makers, we are practical, and we try to understand and see all sides of a story. You have to because you do not understand what that person is going through. Love this quote from Pinterest

Says alot if you think about. So the next time you want to ream someone out think about what they are going through. You may be having a bad day, but their day may really be worse!

Homerun Hitter!

For Governor Product Sake!

As stated in a previous post I don't follow the typical West Texas line when it comes to politics. Governor Product errrr Perry sorry, the Bush wannabe and man who brings jobs to Texas but can't get one except being a career politician...wait..I went on my soap box. Let me regroup.
This person is running for president. He just lied to millions of Texans about the state of our government, our budget, our livelihood and then did the bait and switch. Once elected we went through an ugly, nasty battle which left schools, elderly, mental programs, Child Avocacy programs, and Texas Forest Services under funded. Now this man is running on the basis that he created jobs in Texas. Um no you didn't OIL did you moron. You gave tax breaks yes but you didn't keep this state going. Also most of the jobs are minimum wage.
What about the millions of children who are suffering because of his itty bitty brain, and will not have the money to learn in the type of school environment that is needed to have them run these companies he is budgeting money for every year? Where will these kids work? What are teachers seen as low class citizens in the career hierarchy? Those who can't do teach? What the flip? Those who can DO IT ALL TEACH!!!!
Governor Product...I will vote for anyone BUT YOU!!!

Never One to Follow Crowds

I sure love baseball. I love every bit of it. I love watching Brayden, I love watching the Rockhounds, I love watching the Rangers. I LOVE THE RANGERS!!!

I fell in love with Gentry's playing style because he plays hard. He runs into walls, he hauls ass, and he moves like lightening because he wants to play well. I looked everywhere for tshirt of his this year and had to order one because he is not the normal players like Young, Hamilton, Andrus, Kinsler...
So I paid extra...

This man is amazing, and while not played regularly as other players, he plays his heart out. Alot of the time that is what is missing in the professional sports. I think that is why I like baseball and college football so much.
For my birthday we went to watch the Rangers as a huge crazy family. 

And yes that's me with my cheesy smile and my Gentry poster! Only person in the whole ballpark! Yeah buddy!

I leave you with an awesome interview I just found with Gentry.



This stupid thing won't play but it's fun to watch if you want to go to mlb.com. I am a member...I'm telling you... OBSESSED WITH BASEBALL!!!

Wiggily 3 year old go to sleep

Seriously I mean it. You're not tired? We've taken a shower, brushed our teeth, braided our hair, said "tears" (instead of prayers), read the Grouchy Ladybug for the millionth time and you have still wiggled for 30 minutes. Your daddy doesn't want you to cry at night, it makes him sad and reminds him of sad times when he was younger. I think a good whine might be good for you but you're the third kid I haven't been able to Convince him.
You started on my chest, going to sleep every night. You were so small you fit on my chest without me having to hold you. Then you began to grow and your legs began to hang over my side onto the bed but you still had to cuddle every night before bed. I guess as a working mama I feel guilty so I have carried this on and used this time to love on you. But I'm tired. You're not tired? You move, and kick and I can't go to sleep until you do because I have to move you into your bed. Where is that man who doesn't want a sad baby? He's slerpin on the couch and I am waiting on you wiggly baby to go to sleep.

A budgeting and meal planning I will go

So budgeting has seriously been my nemesis lately. I just can't get the thing right HOWEVER this week when hubby gets his middle of the month paycheck we are going cash only. No more debit cards. Only cash in this house until we get our spending taken care of. SOOOOO when it's gone, the moolah is gone. Scary thought but oh well, it's time to get this party started.
Next is menu planning. I have never planned anything, even when I did lesson plans they were really just for show because if you came in my classroom I was so not doing what it said on those plans! So meal planning was laughable for me. I think though with needing to control spending, this will go hand and hand. This will help me figure out what I need to get together as far as coupons for the trip, as well as making sure that the kids are not talking me into a bunch of processed yuck all the time which is really expensive.
We have been eating up everything in the freezer, pantry and fridge right now. That is until paycheck comes so I have been getting very, very creative!
So as I fret, and freak I just hope that we end up with enough. If we don't you know what? Oh freaking well. We can just go back to when we were super duper poor and eat alot of Ramen noodes. At least we are doing it in a nice house!

Guilty Pleasures Part Uno

Everyone has them...whether it's a candy bar, blogs, trash magazines, or TV.

I have guilty pleasures...oh yes I do...

Yes, I love them. People take this WAAAAAAAY too serious. It's a show, it's funny, it's not real life, no they are not giving Jersey Shore a bad name, I think they are just kids having a freakin good time!

Yes it is Pauly D.

Oh I could take a bath in you.....I even have a special way to eat it. I bite it in half with my teeth, eat the peanut butter treasure inside of it, and then chew up the rest of the chocolate. Oh WOW!

This next pleasure is a multiple step, multiple formatted issue I have...

It all started with this...

Eclipse is my FAV..

Then came.....

Then my world changed when I saw

Because I was blinded by the light on Jacob's abs...

Oh yes...that's nice...

But between New Moon and

Eclipse did not include enough shirtless Jacob if you ask me.

Jacob because legal and I wasn't a pervert anymore..or less of a pervert I guess.

Yes, I own the fact that I am old, and he is 18. I am just looking....wait, what was I saying.

My favorite moment in Eclipse besides the tent scene is

FINALLY BELLA-DUH!

Now I patiently wait for Breaking Dawn...Come on November...

Did you just hear that? That suction cup noise?

That is me pulling my head out of my butt. I am so tired of focusing on this stupid credit report! We need a new house. Our house is bursting with kid crap, my crap, Chris' crap, just alot of crap (except the brown kind). Even when Chris rebuilt the enclosed porch it just wasn't big enough. I thought it would work, well it has kind of but now, not so much.
We bought at the height of home buying. When anyone with a pulse was given a mortgage and a set of keys. I wonder if we should have been one of those who foreclosed? Well we didn't buy over our heads. We bought low key and stayed way below our budget. We have alot of equity now, and so we are in a good place. Our payment however is not so good. Taxes make it go up every year and we had already started high.
This house payment is sucking the Sookie Stackhouse light out of our hands. We are getting more and more over our heads. With my student loans coming due we are getting a bit debt heavy and the house is not helping.

I have been working on budgeting and paying off but as life goes, things go and we need. I asked the wonderful people at the mortgage company to help me figure out what I needed to take care of, and so I was given a list of things to pay and that would raise our score enough to be in a better spot. We can get a loan now but if we did we would use all of our equity to get a house. I would love to take some of the equity and PAY CRAP OFF!!! I want to pay my car off so I can put all of that towards student loans (the thing in my life that takes my breath away-I literally feel the wind come out of my lungs and I get tight chested when I think about it). When Caelynn starts KG in a few years that is more money we can throw at debt. But the house is something that is like quick sand right now and the only thing I can do is work through the credit report, pay down debt and send letters to get bad crap off our credit reports.
It's not even like our stuff is that bad! It is SOOOOOO old!!!! It is frustrating to realize that what you did when you were younger and were stupid is reaching out and slapping you in the face later. I know that I am using this to teach my children! They will see what we are doing now and figure out at a young age NOT to play with their credit score like it is something that they will never need.

Blast from the past...

So I have been blogging in private, kind of without telling anyone. I used to have a blog a million years ago but it was too much pressure to keep it up, and I didn't like feeling like I had to do it so I stopped. It was more of a place for me to come and vent and not really a place to blog. An online diary and I didn't want anyone to know I had it. That is kind of how I feel now. I am going to do the same thing now, and not let everyone know I have it. Isn't that what facebook is for? I already have family on that, why do I have to share this too. There are a few who can handle me on a blog so those will be invited. Think of special invite, or secret status...
Now the only thing that is irritating me is the old blog has merged with my new one..

So my new life...

   

has met my old life...

Gross...

FYI: I figured out why it was merging and fixed it!!! Whooppee! CTRL-ALT-DEL and starting over. Thank you!

A Step to the Right?

So I have never considered myself republican or Democrat. I have always prided myself in being smart enough to look at the facts and then make an educated vote. What type of person always agrees with what EVERY republican says? Same coin but other side..who believes what EVERY Democrat says? Crazy!!!
So I have always gone against the grain. Been the one who questions. I have lived in Texas since I was 13, I am legally supposed to vote Republican, and send bad Obama jokes by email. I am supposed to have a GB sticker on my car, and have joined that Facebook page with that douchebags picture that says, "do you miss me yet?"
Well sorry..look up a few lines. I go against the grain. I don't vote for someone just because my family does. I don't think that old white dude did such a great job! Yeah, I said it! I think that Obama is being blamed for the Cheerios Bush spilled all over the floor before he left.
I think that people are secretly hating him because he's black but don't have the nuts to say it. I watched parents write notes two years in a row because they were afraid of what he was going to say. What the hell? You don't know what I'm going to say but you still let me teach them!
Now Texas is in crisis because a Bushwacker wannabe is governor. He threw his Cheerios and we are all waiting to see how it will be cleaned up. Oh gosh Democrats, they are the devil! They want to turn this into a socialist country and make us all have healthcare!!!
Well let me just say that the republicans in Texas are screwing the state in every way they can! So let me see...I think I need a Facebook page called, "you voted for him, now your children will be the lowest performing state, your elderly will have no care, and the mentally I'll will run the streets with no meds!"
Yeah I voted for Obama, but at least I didn't vote for Perry!

A Thrifting I Will Go...

So thrifty decorating blogs have been my favorite lately. I have 20 bookmarked, and have joined pinterest because it is awesome. I get all these ideas, loooooove to go Thrifting (secret passion of mine) and find awesome deals but then when it's time to do something with the stuff I. GET. STUCK.
Are people born with that? They see a bottle in a thrift store and think, "oh yeah I could put that on a shelf in my kitchen and it would look perfect with marshmallows in it."
Well that gene has never made it in me. I have been a comfortable type of decorator. That's how my mom was. My house is comfortable blends of tan, and brown. I don't know how to make that beautiful blue pillow I bought at Big Lots work...
Got back from the Goodwill today with lots of really cool bottles, frames, and some clogs :)
Now I have it all sitting out from being washed and I have no idea where to put them.
Since graduating with my masters a few weeks ago I have been trying to figure out a hobby to help me break my habit of working too hard on everything. I want to find something that I enjoy that the kids could even help with.

Now I am just stuck with bags...should have just bought the Adidas running shoes and started running.

Dreams of a child

As a little girl I started out wanting to be an astronaut. I had watched that movie Space Camp,and oh how I longed for Kelly Preston's hair and even tried to chew my gum how she did in the movie! Then I was confused on how they took showers and went to the bathroom so I decided the Air Force was a good idea. I could fly F16s! I could spin around in the air and if I got lucky enough to meet a Moose or Maverick like in Top Gun then I was in better shape!
I sat for the test, and scored very well. Then the came and told me I'd have to cut my hair...ummm yeah well nice to meet you thanks for the pen.
I had always wanted to write. I used to pretend I was a writer when I was younger and write books. "Story of a Unhappy Teen" or "The Love Story of C and blah blah blah" (basically whatever wiener had dumped me at the time. Then I decided that I wanted to not only be an author but a counselor. Wait...Oprah is a counselor...I'll be the next Oprah!!!! Yep, when she kicks the bucket or decides it's time to move on she will hand the ropes over to me!
Dreams of a teenage girl with nothing to do but sit in her room, and listen to sad country music. A girl who dated jerk butt boys to feel better about herself, and pushed away the few boys that did actually care.
What we have now folks is a driven girl who has decided that in life you either grab it by the balls and get busy or wait and let it take you down. I would much rather drag some nuts. This blog maybe crude sometimes. Definitely not something I will pass out to family.This blog will be a thirtish woman who has been through alot of mess and is still kicking ass. Got her masters degree after living her twenties thinking that her only position in life would be mother and doormat.
Take heart dear readers, I have a voice and an opinion and I have no qualms about using them.