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And just flat stay away. I’m sick of you. I’m sick of the mud and the being wet every time I go to do anything. I’m sick of wading through the lake that is the driveway at the preschool. I’m sick of the thought that tomorrow they will hunt Easter eggs, inside. Just as I suspect we’ll be doing most of our hunting on Sunday, in the house. We rarely ever get to do this outside anymore. I feel like the seaons are off and it’s making my mood off. I’m ready for summer. Don’t get me wrong, I love summer. I love it from a well air conditioned place. I loathe the heat and the sunburn and the damn humidity and the sweat. The sweat is my most favorite thing ever! The only good thing about Summer is that it’s almost Fall, the best season of all. So believe me, when I say I’m ready for summer it means I’m truly sick of the mud puddle that has become Indiana.

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I think this super flu finally got me. I’m feeling really, really bad lately. Last night and sort of all day yesterday I was feeling pretty crappy and today the sore throat happened. It’s like we went out to the store and got some stuff and it’s all nasty out there and I got home and BOOM I’m sick. My throat is a little sore, my head is a little hurting, my stomach is a little messed up. I’m just wanting to know when the whole sort of goes away and I get the full blown flu happening. I should take something to ward it off or try to make it not as bad, but I just feel that crappy that I don’t even feel like opening the bottle. This flu season is a pain in my rear. If it’s not me it is Sydney and if not us then the husband.

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Well Perez (gag me with a pitch fork) says it’s not happening, but according to every media outlet on the face of the earth and the official NKOTB site it is. What am I talking about? New Kids On The Block coming back and recording an album. I have to add that I’m going on the word of the 2 radio stations I was listening to yesterday that read the news release, logged onto the site while on air, and read from the website. However, Perez says that The Monkey’s official myspace page sent out a bulletin that said differently.

Normally I wouldn’t care about such issues. Normally I’d chalk this up to what it’s being pass off as which is taking a page out of the Spice Girls book of etiquette and doing a comeback tour. Hey it worked for the Spice Girls so it could work for NKOTB right? I’m not going to question them, I’m obsessed with the Becks so I say go for it, if Posh can do it so can you.

However, yesterday was my birthday. Did you hear? I got in my car and took the child to preschool. I mean I remembered doing that much. I remembered brushing her teeth and putting her socks on and climbing into bed and tickling the piss out of her whilst demanding that she tell me Happy Birthday Dear Beautiful Mommy and actually sing to me. She was so tired, I had to dress and tidy her up.

When I get in my car after dropping her off and hear Hangin Tough on the radio and The Right Stuff I start to question if I’m 32 or 12. I have flashbacks. I wonder if someone is dead? I hear the news. I literally tinkle in my panties at the prospect of actually being old enough to rent a hotel room, hang out in the bar area at 2:00 am and have cocktails beside Jordan Knight instead of being wisked away by security after a middle aged mom beats the holy crap out of me with her elbow so I can’t touch Jordan and her snotty nosed little brat can.

So I’ve decided to go on the search for the real answers. I’ll have to actually visit their site later, visit various other sites, and of course see what the word on the street is. I also pledged my love for my husband and told him that I’d love him forever for staying with me after I lost all control trying to get concert tickets so I could relive my childhood, drove me to the show, sat through it with me, and bailed me out of jail. I’ll still love you I said, I hope you’ll still love me.

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Wow, so moms who either who work at home contribute nothing to society. I really feel sorry for those of you who don’t do anything but MOM with your days, because you must be lower than I am. What am I talking about? The idiotic rantings of Crys.

Aren’t you missing your opportunity to be neutral and tell him that like yourself I’m a mother and I contribute to society in so many ways?

I’m sorry Ranee, but I have to say it. Call me a TGO ass kissing fence rider if you want… but blogging for money doesn’t contribute anything to society. Its just another waste of space on the internet. And being a mother doesn’t mean you are contributing to society. Remember Shelly from what ever the hell that site was? She was a mother and she didn’t contribute anything to society.

Am I neutral, maybe not as much as I should be. Because Yes, I do think TGO is a dickwad and should keep some of his opinions to himself. But he’s right, if you dont want someone picking on you for stuff you write or pictures you post, THEN DON’T DO IT!

So when I said that about being a mom I was trying to relate to her. I wasn’t attempting to say I’m a mom praise me. I don’t think that at all. I also barely really do blogging for money either so you can get off that kick Crys. It’s been said, it’s been hashed out with many of us, and it’s a mute point. Don’t jump on that bandwagon now, way after the fact.

I honestly could sit here and tell you the reasons that I don’t think being in the military is a wonderful contribution to society, but you happened to pick that one career that everyone is supposed to respect. Actually everyone contributes to society unless they sit in their basement and type all day long. Or lay in their bed and do nothing. It’s my personal opinion that everyone has a contribution because it takes all types of people to make this world work. From the president to the guy making your McMuffin in the morning. If one of them decided to quit then well, someone would have to take their place because they are needed.

I Crys, have chosen to devote my life to children. You know when my child who I want to stay home with goes back to school I’ll be doing the same. I’ll be going for Social Work to work in the system. Not in a school, or a hospital, or some easy little job somewhere. My goal is to actually go remove children from disgusting situations that would make grown men cry and work with their parents and them to make the best thing happen FOR THE CHILD.

I don’t to put myself into school right now and take the last year of Sydney being home with me and write papers all the time, research, study for tests, etc. So I guess I’m contributing nothing to society. Ok, fine with me. You kinda have to lump a bunch of us into that category don’t you? Jenn, Lindsey, etc. We contribute nothing to anyone. Except our kids need us to thrive and our spouses/significant others love to have us around.

Humm I guess if I’m not churning anything out at a factory, slapping pickles on a burger, or sitting at my desk job in the military then I’m worthless. Somehow in my spare time sitting here doing nothing but paid blogging which you’ve done too and stated that if you could make a living doing it you’d gladly sit home with your kids, I am pretty productive. Oh did I mention that the reason I do paid blogging is to be able to shop constantly? Yeah. My shopping habit is out of control and I like to buy clothes, toys, and educational things for my child. I also manage to send the same items, along with daily care needs like soap, tooth paste, and freaking always maxi pads to a 14 year old orphan who from the sounds of her letters thinks I contribute a ton to her world, and that’s enough for me.

My “sitting on my ass and posting for cash” has allowed me to be able to start doing the same thing for a little boy that lives at her orphanage as well. It will also let us sponsor a child to come to our home this summer, and next Christmas, and maybe adopt her. I’m sure if you ask that little girl she’ll tell you that I contribute NOTHING to society.

Can we not forget about the group I started and continue to run for families who are adopting and having a hard time raising the money? How about the cookbook that I wrote, published (with recipes from people in my group), put together, distributed, and sold successfully. Do you know how many people have emailed and sent me photos of the child they brought home with proceeds from that cookbook?

Whilst I’ve done all this I’ve fought like hell for the justice of my child which is a full time job in itself, actually was. That was over a year ago. So excuse me for not running out and finding the first really mundane desk job I could or burger flipping job that would have me. I didn’t really need the money to survive so I didn’t even think of leaving this child to do that. IHOP is hiring, I considered going there to flip pancakes, but why? Just because your version of contributing to society is different than mine?

I’ve uh had a pretty fulfilling life so I’m sorry you don’t feel the same way about me. Sure, I could have left this at a simple, Ok Crys whatever you say. Then, you’d have not had to read the whole damn thing would you? Pleas though, tell me this. What would you like me to do to contribute to society? Would you like me to find some random person who is talking about a girl named Ranee and say she’s stalking me? Would you like me to go back to finding everything I can about Jenn and picking her apart telling her how worthless she is? Or perhaps it’s as simple as me letting Michael have the run of my website again?

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I have cleaned, shopped, baked a cake, wrapped presents, and went out to eat until I’ve exhausted myself completely. Tonight we had our Christmas thing with Kevin’s family. There are not many of us so we went out to eat and then came to our house to do presents. Sydney was pretty excited. I started to get really, really tired towards the end. I felt bad yawning all the time, but hey I’m tired.

Not I’m so tired my eyes hurt. I can’t keep them open, but I have things to do on the net so duty calls. Well, at least for about 5 more minutes. Tomorrow it will be a whole lot more of the same. I’ll be baking goodies, Kevin will need to finish up shopping for me. Of course Monday is Christmas Eve and we’ll head to my aunt’s house. Tuesday it’s my grandma’s then my mom’s house. All followed of course by the big Christmas Morning here.

I’d work on the new site, but I can’t find a graphic I want to use. For about 10 minutes I combed the graphics at istock, but I was so preoccupied I couldn’t find anything. If anyone sees anything just super cool, cute, and lovely, show it to me. I’m just too damn tired to even try.

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I just purchased a new personal domain. If all goes well it will be ready by the weekend. I mean layout and all. We’ll see though. I called Kevin and asked him to take me shopping tonight and much to my amazement he said that sounded like a great idea. So yay! He doesn’t know I’m planning on dragging him to The Children’s Place. Or at least I’m going there and he and the child can go other places. I’ll mention to him that he needs to go to Borders and see if they have a Gordon Ramsay or Tana Ramsay cookbook, etc.

Today has been a heck of a day already. Some woman tried to run me over, I had to rearrange the presents under the tree because there are so many, etc. etc. So you’re probably wondering why the new domain right? Two reasons really. I want a personal domain that doesn’t include paid posts. So while there will be some double posting, the new site will be the place where my actual juicy blog entries will be.

Speaking of juicy blog entries I hold back a lot on this site because I use it for income. There are certain people, or at least one, who is out to get me as you witnessed when the site went down for about a week in August. I’ve had a lot to say since then, but I’ve also had major trollage. Like when I accidentally violated the TOS of a wonderful company and a troll who was also affiliated with the company turned me in, almost immediately.

I’m not speculating, the company informed me it was a fellow blogger from the company. All was easily repaired as I have a wonderful relationship with this particular place and they let me fix the problem and let them know. I’ve done bonehead things before and had friends say oh, you need to change that because of such and such rule. This person must have been sitting on my site waiting.

So I wasn’t about to take the chance of making any affiliates mad over petty e-drama. However, with a new completely affiliate free site, I’ll say what I want when I want. Have me shut down, I don’t really care. Apparently it’s the practice of the hosting companies that unless you put someone’s phone number and address on your site you are A-Ok. Then again, most companies would warn you, or suspend you until you took the information down, most companies.

I’ll post when the site is up and running.

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Ok so I calmed down, but I sure as heck am not any cooler. For some reason it’s 140 degrees in here.  Oh guess what? Sydney got a Barbie Jelly Camera from school because Santa was there. She’s driven me nuts with it. It had 14 photos on the roll I think. That lasted 1.4 minutes and believe me that was only because she couldn’t figure out how to use the stupid thing. It’s impossible to break, just like the Fisher Price Kids Digital Camera that my mom and bf got her for Christmas. At least that doesn’t run out of film right?

Kevin’s going shopping. Then we are both going shopping. I’m going clothes shopping after I oogle my newly put in bags because he can’t wrap anything Christmas presents. I need clothes like nobodies business. Apparently I’ll pick up the 3rd set of gloves for the kid this year as well since her last ones are MIA!

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Let me first start this by saying it’s 19 degrees out. I attempted to wrap some presents last night that were in funky shaped packages and decided I’d throw in the towel and go get two gift bags instead. I’m all about saving myself the misery you know? I don’t want them lying around, so I hid them in my bedroom, got up called the school to see if they were open today, got Sydney ready, and dropped her off.

Maybe it was because it was already one hell of a morning not being able to find matching socks, again, or because she lost her gloves, again, or because it felt like we were in Tahiti because the house was so freaking hot? She could have stayed home, but word on the street is that Santa is coming to school today. Goody Goody Gumdrops.

The roads are ok, but not perfect so I decided to run up the road to Kmart instead of trekking to Walmart. I know, my choices are limited right? I wish they’d burn Kmart down and put a Target there. A super one at that. Not going to happen though. Our Kmart is pitiful, the rumor is that it’s going out of business, but that’s been the rumor for at least 10 years.

I see the one wench that works there is at the counter. That just helps me along into a bad mood because she’s such a witch and my grandma was telling me how badly she treated her the other day. Her name is Angie. When you walk up to Angie she has a habit of not speaking to your or addressing you whilst she is at the customer service desk. If she’s out in the store working she’ll just flat walk away from you.

I’ve returned a memory card for my old camera that just didn’t work and she taped it up and put it back on the shelf. She didn’t care that it was corrupt. I switched it out. The second one didn’t work either, I notified the young girl of the problem and she just took the second return and marked it defective as if she knew it was a going problem. Angie gets pissed if you ask her to return something for you. She sighs and hisses and acts just like you’d expect her to from the look of her.

I go back to the toy isle because it’s right by the gift bags. Now at this point I’m pretty miffed because my two gift bags are the cheapest I can find at $3.00 a pop and they are .97 cents all day long at Walmart, and a lot better looking. I see this baby doll on the Clearance rack that said $19.99. What it actually said was $19.99 and up but the and up was semi covered. I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt here.

I know this doll well. I’ve checked the price, seen it in ads, seen it in the stores. It’s generally around $41.00. I look down the isle with baby dolls to see if someone just sat it there and there is a spot for them so I can check the price. It’s the only one in the store. I think, it’s possible that they put it on clearance because it’s the only one left. They have been known to do stranger things.

So I walk right back to the layaway lady and say can you check the price of this for me? She gets mad. I’m even more miffed at that point. Yeah, it’s $68.97. Oh Wow. Ok, thanks. I just kinda chuckle to myself. Wow, when they said and up they meant it. About $28.00 dollars more than the other retail stores in the area. Considering their parking lot is dead most of the time I’m not sure if that’s a smart move or not.

The more I thought about their attitudes the more disgusted I got. So I parked my cart with two bags of Christmas candy for my dish and two gift bags down the detergent isle and walked out. I thought, well, let Angie do something she’s paid for which is put that merchandise back. What I really wanted to do was walk up there and find out if they honored other stores prices because I think they do. Then I wanted to go home, get my sale paper from either Walmart or Meijer that had that doll in it yesterday and force Angie to give it to me $28.00 cheaper.

Just because, I’m feeling like super wench #1.  I’m not sure if it’s because of the holidays and I think people in retail should be a little more apt to help people right now? I mean it’s almost Christmas how can you not be in a cheerful mood? I loved interacting with people when working retail, there is actually something to talk about around Christmas and you can make small talk with anyone that comes in.

I bet the cashiers are Target are friendly.

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If I were super geeky and I had a clue how to upload the videos from my digital camera to the computer and then share them with you I would. However, I’m not super geeky at this time, nor am I really in the mood to learn anything new. Before I go on, let me say that the headache I had last night is still there, alive and kicking. Nothing is helping. I’m taking the hint and actually going to the optometrist ASAP and going to wear the glasses I get. I’ve had them since I was 14, I just simply refuse to wear them. I think it caught up with me. Nothing a really cute pair of glasses won’t help solve.

We cleaned out cars off, well Kevin cleaned our car and I half assed cleaning one of them. It was fun. I was all bundled up, my step mom dropped Sydney off and her and Kevin had a snowball fight. She made snow angels as well. I video taped it with my digital camera. Like I said not super geeky so you’re getting a photo.

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It snowed a bunch today. It was gorgeous. Maybe I’ll post some photos tomorrow, when my head isn’t pounding and my brain isn’t pretending to come out of my eye sockets. I think the dry, cold weather has really gotten to my head the last couple of days. I purchased some Utter Balm type lotion for my dry skin. For someone who loves winter, it sure takes a toll on me. My skin is DRY!

We went out this afternoon and had lunch, shopped. Then the weather really didn’t do anything else so we went out this evening and shopped some more. We got home around 10:30. All I know is Kevin purchased me one thing, it’s very small. Or it might be smaller than I think or bigger than I think. I’m just really hopping he didn’t spend a ton of money on it. I picked out my own gift bag though, which indicates nothing because he’s known for attempting to put smaller things in larger bags. I’m pretty sure it isn’t a sewing machine, which is something I really, really want.

I got more of the stuffing bears, they are called Little Luvables. I got her a set of three different colored baby bears that are in fake high chairs in the photo and two different outfits for the other bear I got her. I think a bee outfit and something else I can’t even remember. Other than that miscellaneous baking items were bought.

Now tonight I have to wrap the presents from my aunt and grandmother, the bears from tonight, two dvd’s, and a few odds and ends. Fun fun. I’ll sit here and wait on more snow and freezing rain while I do that!

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