Just My Daily Notes

Impending Illness

2012-02-01T14:32:00.000-08:00

The boy has been a snotty, coughing mess for a couple of days now. And when he doesn't feel well we all suffer. The whining. The complaining. The coughing in my face despite numerous times of saying, "Bug, please cover your mouth."

And this afternoon... I'm not a happy camper as I am starting to feel the scratchiness in my throat and that familiar rundown feeling of an impending illness.

This is not a good thing!

I must hold it together! I must think only positive thoughts and will my body to not get sick!

And I really must find some way to get Bug to understand the nastiness of coughing in someone else's face...

Husbands, Pee, Crazy!

2012-01-31T20:23:00.000-08:00

So my Husband is watching a show where a guy and his wife are stranded in the wild for about a week. In this particular episode they had no available water so the wife actually drank her husband's pee.

I know!!! Nasty!!!

So the Hubby asks me, "Babe, if you were stranded and had no water would you drink my pee?"

Yeah, I can't believe we actually had this conversation either. Baffling!!!

I looked at him in total disgust, because it's a disgusting subject, and quite clearly said, "NO!"

And you wouldn't believe this... He got offended!!

Seriously!!

Offended because I don't want to drink his pee - and this is all based on a hypothetical situation.

Good grief!

Game Over

2012-01-30T21:05:00.000-08:00

I deleted two of my other blogs. It felt freeing to let go.

The first one I deleted was my Fat Mom Thin blog. Every time I looked at it I found myself getting angry. I felt like I was calling myself fat. Like hey world, I am fat and I am just trying to get thin. It was depressing! I couldn't take it anymore so I deleted it.

The fact is, I was fat. But I am not fat anymore and just that word in the blog title was like nails on a chalkboard to me. I am still battling my weight. I haven't reached my goal, but I went from 205 pounds down to 165 pounds - that is a 40 pound loss! I am not fat anymore.

The second blog I deleted was my Blogging Obsession blog. I have tried many times to revive that site, but I just can't find my groove for it. Rather than feel obligated to do something with it, which only produces stress in me, I deleted it.

I'm happy about these choices. I like this blog as my little space and I like my Momma's Time blog for all those reviews and giveaways and mommy things and I like my Educating My Children blog for all my homeschooling stuff.

Yep, this is making me a happy blogger.

Chop Chop

2012-01-29T17:25:00.000-08:00

I whacked my hair off today.

I do that every so often.

I generally get to just about my shoulders before I can't take it anymore and I cut it off. That's what happened today. I just couldn't take it anymore so I had the gal cut it up to my chin.

Short hair just feels good. To me, it's freeing.

I don't go boy short - definitely not brave enough for that, but a nice bob does me well.

Taking the Spanking

2012-01-27T13:34:00.000-08:00

This morning Bean was listening to her brother talk about God and Jesus when she got very confused about why Jesus would die for us and what all that means. At first I tried the normal explanation of how He died as to take the punishment for our sins. She just looked at me like I was from outer space. Then I decided to try something more on her level...

I told her that "Jesus got the spanking for all the bad stuff we've done" - She totally understood that!

It made me laugh.

Oh geez, and I used that word... "spanking" - oh dear...

For all those who may hit up this post from a search engine, it is not a post about spanking and whether it is right or wrong. That was just an illustration I used with my daughter.

How sad is it that the world is so full of nut jobs that I would even need to write that previous paragraph?

Anyways.. my daughter makes me laugh, but I think she understands a little better now why Jesus died for us.

Yell Louder

2012-01-26T15:46:00.001-08:00

It really irritates me when parents go off about things in front of their children. What I mean is like when they start yelling at a total stranger because the stranger did something they didn't like. For instance, yelling at a stranger who cut you off in the grocery isle. What's the point in that? All you do is make yourself look like a turd in front of your kids.

It also irritates me when parents go off on their children in public. As if public humiliation will suddenly correct your child's behavior...

I've been known on many occasions to walk up to people and say, "Hey, yell louder next time." It really irks them when you do that, but usually wakes them up to their ignorance at the same time.

A New Spot For Me

2012-01-26T13:49:00.000-08:00

Maybe I'm blog fickle... I don't know. All I know is that my other blogs just aren't working for me at the moment. I feel on the spot with them - like too many people have access. And that is kind of stupid because blogs are public unless you actually make them private. I don't want my blogs private, I just don't want them... What's the word? Advertised. Yes, I needed at least one that wasn't advertised. One where I didn't make a stink out of the need to keep it up. One where I just said what I wanted to say and didn't worry about the rest.

I just needed that spot so I created it.

I could have taken to a regular journal I suppose, but there is something about putting it out there. Something about a blog that draws me in. Well, that and I just prefer to type.

So this is my spot. My spot for whatever, whenever.

And quite literally whenever as you can blog from your phone and the new Blogger app makes it much easier than any other apps I have tried. No, I'm not selling anything, it's a free app and I just got it the other day and it works well.

Anyways... Sometimes I think of random things that I just want to get out and I don't want it on my other blogs because I feel they are too advertised and I just sometimes don't want certain people reading certain things, and, and, and...

You get the point.

So welcome to anyone who may stumble upon this. If you stuck around to read, well, thank you.