In The Mind of A Thirtysomething Mom

Wow, Wow, Random*

*My apologies to Wubzy.*

This is the last I'll mention this.  It seems that you are leaving/trying to leave comments, but I'm just NOT getting them.  They seem to vanish into cyberspace, never to be seen again.  I've put in a request to find out what is going on from the Typepad techies, but haven't received a response yet.  In the interim if you find yourself having problems leaving comments, you may email me your comment (Heather) and I can post it for you, or I won't post it but just bask in the knowledge that someone was still reading my blog.  :)
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Thank you to those who left questions/emailed them to me inresponse to this post. I'm still open for any and all questions.  Ask away please.  Obviously with the comment trouble some people are having, it would be easiest to email them to me.  I promise to answer them at the beginning of next week. 
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I must have eaten something truly frightening to my digestive system last night because I had the oddest dreams.  First I was living next door to Lindsey Lohan and she was helping/hindering me from cleaning out my garage.  It was floor to ceiling boxes and I have no idea why.  Now if you read this post, you'd know why that would never happen. The second dream I can't remember right now, (I knew I should have written it down for this post)  but I know it was really weird too.  Something about meal worms, snakes and Sam's Club.  It's starting to come back to me, but I'm trying to forget it.
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The color on my nails right now is OPI's Glamour Game (um duh, it's only right there in the left sidebar).  I. Hate. It.  It is not what I expected, and just doesn't look right.  I thought it would grow on me, but meh not so much.  It looks like this on:

If you like it and want it, let me know.  I'll gladly send it to you.  I don't have that many cooties, and it was only used once so it's practically brand new.

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Hip Chick over at Hip Chick's Home gave me this sweet award:

For those of us who don't speak Spanish as well as we used to in high school, it reads:

"This blog invests and believes the PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships. These blogs are extremely charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly written text into the body of their award."

Now, here are my 8 bloggy friends who so richly deserve this award:

Ronnica over at Ignorant Historian

Angie over at Keep Believing

Michelle over at Honestly and Truly!

Tammy over at One Step at a Time

Sasha over at Barely Keeping it all Together

Kate over at East Coast Girl in the Midwest

Heather over at Nobody but Yourself

Shannon over at Welcome to the Nuthouse!

Thanks guys for being my bloggy friends!
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On that note, the girls are making WAY too much noise upstairs.  It sounds like world war 3 is breaking out.  Plus it's nap time and I K so needs a nap right now.  :)

Catch y'all on the flip side!

Family Time Fun

Last night, my girl Huckdoll challenged us to "shut off your computers and TVs for one hour and do something".  The idea was to power down from 9-10 EST.  Being the non-conformist I am, I asked if doing it from 8-9 EST would be okay.  The main reason for wanting to do it at a different time was K.  My plan was for us to build the massive fort that came in Monday's mail.  K goes to bed between 9-9:30 and she would miss some of the fun (trust me people, she has to go to bed then or she's a total bear in the AM.  No matter what we're doing, it's gotta be over by 9).  I didn't want her to miss it, so I altered the time to fit our family.  :)  Huckdoll said she was cool with it, so away we went!

Now since we weren't doing anything X-rated, I wanted to provide photo proof that we were all together having fun as a family.  Enjoy the following pictures (with some commentary) showing our fun!

First off, I was wrong.  It wasn't bigger than K.  It sure looked like it was, but I was just a little off:

Ya know if she didn't have feet, it would be taller than her. Just sayin'. :)

Anyway.

The set is wicked easy to handle and assemble.  It's all magnetized and K was able to put the wall "studs" in place.  The instructions are easy to follow and provides 6-7 different ideas for construction (for those of us creatively challenged).  We started with the basic fort shape and moved on from there.  Here's the first fort we assembled:

Here are some shots from when the fort was occupied:

If you look closely at the above picture, you can see the 16 yr old peering through the porthole in the back. :)

We had to deconstruct the first fort in order to assemble the super ship when this happened:

So not only are they great fort building walls, they make great light sabers too!  DISCLAIMER:  That is NOT what the foam tubes are made for.  There are hard plastic pieces at each end of the tubes that house the magnets.  Those hard plastic pieces do hurt when they come in contact with body parts (as Mr. Smoochiefrog and M can attest to).  Please don't try this at home!

Once the carnage was cleared from the room, building once again commenced.  Here's the completed super ship with it's crew and rowing wench:

They look too happy to be pirates though.  :)

The best part about this toy is this:

It all stores nicely in it's own little carry bag!  It could easily be taken on a family trip for hours of fun for the munchkins.  B was upset that we didn't leave it up all night, but I told him we'd build again tonight.  We had a lot of fun and enjoyed our time together. 

Thanks to education.com for the great product and Huckdoll for suggesting powering down!

Help A Sister Out, Please!

See that cute new button at the top of my right sidebar?  The orange one that looks like this:

Well that's the brainchild of the dear Joeprah!  He's a SAHD with 3 beautiful girls (the youngest is featured on the button above).  His site is great and wicked advanced compared to mine (shoot, tiddlywinks is advanced compared to my blog) and he has a community!  As an idea to launch the community, Joeprah decided to hold a contest to see who would get the most referrals.  I entered the contest, but people I'm getting pwn'd!  I've only got like 4 referrals and I need your help!  Would you please be so kind as to click either the above button OR the one on the sidebar to let Joeprah know that you love Smoochiefrog (or at least that you like me enough to click a button)?  The prize is $25 and the cost of gas right now, every little bit helps!

Thanks bunches and Smoochiefrog's readers rock!

P.S.  As a testament to how awesome you guys are, I've got an award I'll be giving out soon.  It's cute, I promise!

Hammer Time

Oh dear internets.  It's been a busy weekend and boy do I have some stuff to share!

First and foremost, let's give the due props to the Giants for pulling it off!  What a great game!  At the end, I was literally watching through my fingertips.  I was so afraid Brady was going to do one of his coveted long passes and take the win.  I'm not a fan of either team (go Rams, even if you sucked this year), but I wanted anyone but the Patriots to win.  (Sorry Kate.)  This is probably one of the few times I can honestly say I watched the game for the game and not for the commercials (which pretty much stunk this year sans a couple cute ones).  Archie's gotta be pretty proud to have his 2 boys win Super Bowls back to back. 

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I got to see two friends I hadn't seen in awhile yesterday.  I hadn't seen Amy since I left my job in July to be a SAHM.  It may not sound like a long time, but when you haven't seen a friend it is.  It was good to see her and since I know she's reading-we WILL get together soon and do something, promise!  I hadn't seen Melissa since 2004.  They moved to England and just recently moved back to the states.  I knew they were coming back before the holidays, but hadn't heard from her yet.  On a hunch after church, I meandered down to their church and popped in to see if I could get a number for them.  The pastor's wife said I had just missed them, gave me her number and I got in touch with her!  We met up a Tar-jay of all places and visited, caught up, and considering she lives right down the highway from me we will definitely get together soon.  Gosh I've missed her.  You know how you sometimes have friends who will help you devour an entire Molten Chocolate Cake from Chili's and not even think twice about it?  That's her!  I'm so happy she's back in the states!  It was great seeing both of them again.

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After my walk down old friend lane, we made our way back home.  Wanna know an easy way to scare your kids?  Jam to "old music" while in the car.  Loudly.  JackFM was playing their top 102 best party songs of all time in preparation for all the Super Bowl parties.  Talk about a blast!  Something about driving along singing "Brick House" and "Wild Thing" (by Tone Loc) at the top of your lungs it just good times at it's finest.  If you're curious as to the songs on the list, here ya go.  I bookmarked it so I can have a great list to refer to for Ipod music.  (I'm a little bitter my Marky Mark was only #84, but the song wasn't the greatest so eh)

Anyway

We get home and I crank up the tunes to dance to while waiting for the game.  The girls were having a little too much fun and well, see for yourself:

K dancing to "Whomp, There It Is" by Tag Team.  She's watching herself in the TV reflection.

And if that wasn't enough, M and K dancing to "Beat It" by Michael Jackson.

Good times.

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So like I said, I was at Tar-jay yesterday.  I had to get some stuff, one thing being drawers for K.  Yes folks, that's right, we're embarking on potty training.  Please pray for us as we undertake this process.  I figured if she had some she liked, it would be a good place to start.  We went to pick out Dora ones like these: .  Aren't they cute?  We found them easily and then wandered over to pick up some baby wipes (for those times when the potty isn't our friend-and you know what I'm talking about if you have kids).  I spotted more and went for a closer look.  And there, hanging in all their Holy Grail glory were these: .  Needless to say, guess what we ended up getting?  I know, surprising right?  Since there was only one package of the ever so cute penguins (which BTW I'm starting to seriously feel outnumbered by), we got them, Dora, and these gems: and .  Mr. Smoochiefrog laughed when I said that the 12 pairs should last one day.  Little did he know.

Shortly after the above videos were shot, K came downstairs in her penguin ones.  I wasn't ready to start today, but figured what the heck.  We got her the little plastic cover and she wore them.  For an hour.  We tried to get her to potty twice during that hour.  No dice.  As we're getting ready to sit down and eat, we hear this voice say "I Pee-Peed".  Yup, wet.  Nope, nowhere near the potty.  She was in a diaper for the rest of the evening.

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I received my first blog award yesterday too!  Angie over at Keep Believing bestowed upon me the following award:

 

Woot!  I'd like to thank God for granting me the gift of gab, thanks to the Academy for all the...  What?  It's not that type of award?  Well stink!  Maybe one day.  Thank you Angie!  You're the bomb and I really appreciate it.  If you have a minute, pop over and check out her blog.  She's a great writer and I'm honored she found me and continues to come back.  :)

Now I'm supposed to play fairy godmother and wave a wand to distribute this award to those deserving.  I'll give it to...

Sasha-she keeps it real on a daily basis

Mrs. Furious-you should check out her food videos

Kate-she's like a much cooler version of me

and

Angi-she has a very thought provoking blog

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And finally, because I know you're all dying to know, yes Pastor X did respond.  Here it is:

How are you doing today,

You have to pay for the shippment before the puppy can be ship to you.Inother to process with the payment it will be via western unin money transfer within your location,Once the payment received and confirlmed at western union office the puppy will be ship out to you immdiayely.

Are you ready to take the puppy?pls advice so that i can email you payment info.

I look forwrd to hear from you

I haven't responded yet.  I'm not really sure how to respond.  If anyone has any great or witty ideas, throw them at me!  I just can't believe that he really thinks I'm serious.

Until tomorrow!