FUCK YOU parents that think you need to parent me. I’m 37 years old and I get to watch whatever I want and choose to watch and listen to what I want. Welcome to America.

So not only am I excited to watch this show. Shatner reminds me of my Dad. Dad doesn’t even try, they could just be brothers I swear. But now I want to go buy the book. Kick ass parent group, you just brought attention to the exact opposite of what you wanted. I didn’t know about Sh*t My Dad Says until they complained and it hit yahoo. I thank you for bringing it to my attention

Brendon is a moron, yes ma’am, gotta have love boy. Man, looks and brawn, some brains for conversation, but obviously only wants boobs in his life. Good for you, this show produced them for you.

I don’t predict who will take BB, never really have. I don’t tend to actually “like” players on it until it’s getting much closer to the end. Liking their bio’s is completely different than liking them after a couple of weeks in the house. Man that house can just break you. But there are always definite people I fucking hate from the beginning. All Rachel had to do was say “HI” and I hated her. Head tilt, fake smile, and fake infliction in the voice. Has no one called her out yet? She’s pretty old not to be told how fake she is. Hilarious thing is that every where I go online they hate her too. I wonder if there has ever been a more hated player on big brother?

Some more blogs and sites are going to be sold off. Dead weight of these sites not being worked on keeps me unproductive as well.

But I’m really missing just posting about random shit here. Movie’s, books, kids, food, whatever. I need to get back here regularly and let it all out. Have a feeling it would help tremendously to do so.

But it’s impossible to believe she’s hit 15. As a summer baby, it means she only has 2 years left before graduationg. BLEH, OMG, WOW, UGH, YAH lol We’re working on her getting a lot of college courses completed before graduation and she won’t get into drivers ed until Novemberish. We’re doing ok I think.

But with her bday and the week of her on vacation I’m in a fit of denial. My oldest is 15 at 1:26pm. I’m way too young to have a 15 year old, R U Kidding me?!!!

We have a fun evening planned just the 4 of us which will be expensive as hell and FUN AS HELL! I’ll try to remember to take pics, I’m horrible at that. Then we’ll have a family BBQ that my aunt and her hubby are in town to attend so they’ll bring their grandbabies My parents are coming up and bringing her laptop for sure. Can you imagine your grandparents giving you a laptop for your bday? I can’t and yes, I’m jealous. But, this is why we never moved away. My parents want to be and ARE the grandparents I never had. It’s very cool. My parents are there for way more than just stuff. My kids have a completely sick relationship with their grandparents that I can’t even relate to. One of so much joking and they know each other so well, definitely not what I grew up with.

Anyway, I’m excited for my daughters bday. I’m excited to plan her sweet 16 next year even though hubby has no idea what is necessary. lol I’m happy with what we got her and I can’t wait to take her on her family day

Alas, as far as following the books and even the fun theme of the books, it’s a total fail. BUT, if I hadn’t read the books then it is great. I force myself to ignore the fact that it’s so completely different than the books and just enjoy. I was angry after the first season because they changed so much and didn’t have characters look anything like their descriptions in the book. But season 2 is SO different that I’m having an easier time.

I’m on episode 7, I think of season 2. So far they have thrown a lot of stuff in and taken a ton of artistic liberty with the story. But they have thrown a few of the funny spots in from the book.

I just wish they had stuck to the books more as it’s a very funny series. Usually this much rewriting seems to happen because it needed more action, but this isn’t the case. It hasn’t added more action at all, it added more bloody, vampiric gore than was actually in the books.

I’m now enjoying the True Blood series, but it could screw up at any time. Their choice of actor for Eric sucks and by rewriting his character so much they’ve ruined it for me. Sookie and Eric’s relationship is huge later in the series and them screwing up all this early stuff just sucks. They’ve really done a rewrite of Sam’s character as well. Not for the better. Then, don’t get me started on how they’ve changed her brother The Jason in the tv series is NOTHING like the books.

I better leave it at that. Truly, I like both for different reasons and am enjoying the series. However, I’m going to now reread the stackhouse series because I need a good laugh and they are good for that!

photo credit: NomadicLass

My youngest is a little over 12.  I’m sure he’s officially taller than me, but I refuse to measure until tomorrow so I can blog today/nite with no official knowledge that I hit shortest like I always knew I would.

I’m 5′6″.  I’m was shortest in my immediate family growing up.  No idea why as my male cousins are tall, it’s just us female cousins that are shorter than our parents.  WHAT?  There’s a chromosome study ready to go!

But hubby is 6′3″ at his tallest and my cousins and brother are over 6′4″.  I know son will be tall.  Cool thing is he’s comfortable in his skin.  But right now it’s hurtin as he grows.  It’s just so fast.

Old moment happened when he told me that he couldn’t believe he was taller than me and he never thought it would happen.  WHAT?!!! Holy shit, I’ve known it would happen and sometime around this age as well. lol  Did I not pass that on well enough?  Guess not or he wouldn’t be surprised by it.  DUDE, you are going to be tall.  It’s why we talk about your weight training.  We’ve got to add the muscle to your speed, agility, endurance and height you already have.  Very few can put it all together at 12!!!  Yeah, that’s my sports star in the sideline

Whether getting home from work, running the kids to activities or getting to our own evening meetings, dinner can sure get in the way. It’s not easy to find a schedule on some nights that is perfect for everyone to eat, let alone a time to cook that meal.

I do enjoy cooking, it’s just that being such a busy mom I don’t have the time most nights or I’m too tired to enjoy it. Menu planning and once a week cooking have changed this.

Each week I take a few hours. I head to the grocery store with my pre-written shopping list and then get cooking my main dishes. I can enjoy cooking again and have found I love it even more. It feels great to have all the dinners cooked up and ready to go for later use.

I always toss a couple of the meals in the freezer for the end of the week. This way there’s a quick answer to, “What’s for dinner?” I keep the week’s meal list on the fridge and cross them off as we eat them. It also helps to let one kid pick which meal will be next. Less arguments about eating said meal.

Plan for the week and spend less time in the kitchen!

Very few of the 56 deaths couldn’t have been prevented.  Adrenaline junkies wanted to be there and if they hadn’t been there we wouldn’t have the awesome shots and commentary we have.  However, they lost friends that were trying to do the same.  And who could forget the crazy old man Harry Truman who said he’d lived there for over 50 years and was going to die there.  Damn idiot did! Truman of St. Helens : The Man & His Mountain was written by his niece and I’m going to have hubby order it. He was a WWII vet and an old rum runner. You know that guy was a cool grandpa. I have lots of ornery relatives like that I wish I had their stories. lol

Wikipedia has some cool quick facts about the eruption and the mountain itself. I’m having a hard time finding a dvd copy of how the eruption hit us here in Washington state, which is a very sad thing, but a great book to check out is Ecological Responses to the 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens. I see a definite need to hit some of these people and tell them to get with the times and upgrade those vhs tapes to dvd!

But on to me.  I was 7.  We were on one of our many weekends over at our best friends house in Brewster, Washington.  It was 8:32 and we kids were out playing in the sunshine already (eastern Washington gets sunshine, lol) and our (probably) hungover parents were inside cooking pancakes and drinking bucket loads of coffee.  It was Sunday morning so that meant we would leave soon to head back to the west side of the mountains as Dad had to get to work.

We heard the mountain blow.  We were somewhere around 200 miles northeast as the crow flies from it.  I will tell you that I told my parents that the mountain blew up.  This isn’t the closest mountain to us by any means, but I told them the mountain blew.  I need to talk to my brother and see what he remembers about the event.  I know I knew the mountain blew.  We couldn’t see it at all.  I just knew.  We were in the middle of the redneck Eastern Washington and they all laughed and said that it was a gunshot.  I knew better.

My parents decided to go the long way home.  The scenic route.  It was one of the few times we went through Leavenworth which is hubby and my favorite, favorite, favorite town to run away to.  I can remember we stopped for breakfast there and the funny thing is it’s the family side of the favorite little dumpy lounge hubby and I like to be at.  We stopped for breakfast, sitting in a big booth in the front corner window and the waitresses were talking to the locals about the mountain blowing up.  It is the one time I can remember for a fact I told my parents, “I TOLD YOU SO!”

Again, this is why I need to talk to my brother about this.  We never have talked about it and we are very in tune with our surroundings, environment, and hey, we just know shit.  It’s true and more of a post than any can handle.  We’re native american and the mountain blew.  Yes, we did know it was her.

By the time we got home it was slow going across the Cascades.  This was an already slow journey.  Thankfully we had gone so far north to get across or we would have been stopped.  My Dad isn’t native but he knows crap too.  I’m sure that is the reason why he drove us so far north.  We could go there too, but eh, not very few of you are ready for that either.

The next morning I should have been going to school, but I remember it didn’t happen.  We did get up in the morning and collect adh off our bumper.  I know we worried for days about Great-grandma because Wapato had been shut down for days.  It was like a horror movie, dark and dusty for days on end.  They were told not to leave their houses and with good reason.  Of course, over the years I’ve seen a ton of footage of the Mt. St. Helen’s blowing up and the aftermath.  So it’s always fresh in my head how the towns so close to me were in complete shut down at the time.

I wouldn’t give up my mountains for anything, but I do have a  healthy respect for them.  I know I live extremely close to active volcanoes.  But dang they are gorgeous!

I had a tremor so bad I would still spill my water glass when holding with two hands. I felt really stupid. The tremor even went so much as a facial tick and if I didn’t pay attention I could feel my teeth chatter slightly. Not cool and it didn’t show up until around 8 weeks into the drug.

Then after researching the side effect I read the pamphlet and saw that it can cause short term memory issues which was my problem with not being able to complete sentences very quickly if at all. And the reason I can’t believe I was prescribed it is it causes sleeplessness. WHAT?!

I was supposed to be getting off the ambien and only taking it when needed. Well when I’ve taken the wellbutrin no matter how early in the day then of course I have to take the sleep aid to get to sleep at all. Cycle of upper-downer. Jeesh

So I’m not really taking either now. I kind of slowly weaned off the wellbutrin, but not as slow as I’m sure I should have. I just couldn’t stand it anymore. I haven’t used one of the ambien’s in a few days either now.

I’m going to look into some more natural alternatives for the mood issues. I told her I wasn’t interested in trying something different. I will keep the ambien prescription for now and use it here and there. But I also know I’ll be tired and hit sleep when it happens. I’m working on creating some better habits.

So I’m sure my son was surprised when I said we were heading to the movies on Sunday. We both love horror movies and the new Nightmare on Elm Street was just too much to pass up. As a fan of the original movie and all the good and the stupid sequels that followed I had to go see this in the theaters like old times. Now I didn’t see the original in theaters, I’m not that damn old. But my little brother and I would see many of the rest of them together.

I was so glad we went to see the new one in the theater. It was well worth the matinee price we paid. It had way more story line to it than the original and wasn’t near the gore fest we both expected. Both were highly appreciated. Now don’t be mistaken, it’s still a horror movie and Freddy is definitely slicing and dicing. But my son and I expected a lot more gore.

They played the story out very well and gave more details. In fact I’m off to the movie store to rent the original right now. lol I’m just dieing to compare them. It’s been well over 20 years since I’ve seen the original.

I jumped so many times during the movie my son was cracking up. He hasn’t seen any of the nightmare movies, so he went in with no pre-existing ideas of who Freddy was. Well me, of course, not so much. I knew Freddy can pop out of anywhere in those damn dreams and will always be behind them. YET, it still made me jump when he showed up.

I give the movie 5 stars for sticking to the old school and melding it well with the new.

So many movies are coming out this year and even this month that we want to see. I’ll post if we do