And The Price Keeps Going Up...

I bet you thought that I was talking about gasoline....but I'm not. I am talking about the POSTAGE STAMP. It's currently at .41 but in May will go up to .42. I guess its not a LOT of money - but it IS insulting...I would think that the fact that people pay their bills online would be evened out by the fact that more people are SHOPPING online. Getting a package mailed to you costs way more than a letter but evidently my theory is not the case because they keep raising the price. I will not complain if the raise it to .50 a stamp if they would get their stuff together....get mail to the people I send it to on time, hire more employees so that I don't have to wait ALLLLL day in line to mail something....I don't know about you, but somehow I get the feeling they are just gonna keep raising the price and our service won't get better. The only bill I do NOT pay over the internet is the water bill and that is only because they don't have that service available. In fact, last month I took my payment TO the water company....I may just keep doing that...you know in protest of the whole thing.....here is a link of the article I read that informed of the impending doom STAMP.

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Pull Your Pants Up

You are gonna laugh when you watch the following clips from youtube. Basically this guy wrote a song about pulling your pants up - telling all these kids to quit wearing their pants all saggy. In Dallas, they even attempted to put it into legislation and FINE people who wear their pants like that. They spoke about how a big store isn't gonna come in to Dallas because people wear sagging pants...lol...yeah right..money is money whether you pull it out of your skinny jeans or saggy jeans, it all spends the same. Wow. And it has soo much attention paid to this because people don't like the way sagging jeans look - that is a personal oppinion, not something that you should legislate. Can you believe that the government was gonna TELL someone how to DRESS????? Pull your pants up! Ha! Pull 'em down ya'll!! If you are gonna spend your time fighting a style of dress I don't even wanna waste my time with you - how about spending all that time and money and get some real stuff done in Dallas - If you click on the link below the videos you will see the web page on it....ahhhhh, I am tired. I better stop before I get ugly. In a nutshell - the government as NO right to tell me what to wear or how to wear it. Pull em' down!









http://hiphopgovernment.org/

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Mochi Ice Cream

Last night, Carlos and I met my brother and his friend at a sushi bar. I got a bowl of stir fried veggies that were soooo good. Of course everyone else got sushi and made me taste it and I still hate it. (thank you Carrie for the suggestions) BUT we got some ice cream after the meal called Mochi Ice Cream. We chose the green tea flavor that at first had this weird taste to it, but after a bit you got used to it and it was delicious. Carlos described it as a gummy bear with ice cream inside. Pretty accurate description. If you ever get a chance to try Mochi be sure to let me know what you think!! I understand that Mochi is actually the outside shell, that is made from a rice starch and the center is filled with anything from a pastry filling to pieces of fruit or ICE CREAM!!

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Not For the Faint Hearted (carlos and my mom)

So my friends told me they were doing this detox and it sounded really great. I decided to check it out and I found this website: blessed herb. Don't click on it if you have a weak stomach because it shows you what an internal or colon detox is supposed to get rid of. I am using this stuff my friend gave me called Detox 7 and I am doing just fine...no major happenings. I was shocked at what I saw on that site though and Carlos was just freaking out. It was sooo funny....I didn't know that humans could produce what that website has pictures of. Carlos is still trying to be ok...poor guy.....anyway, just thought I would share. LOL!! Come on click on the LINK - you know you want too!! LOL!! DO IT!

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Suushiiii

Doesn't that look good? It looks absolutely beautiful to me....but WHY is it so disgusting??? I am on a mission to find sushi that I like. I know two things: 1)If its raw its gross 2)If it's made with fish its even worse. LOL!! So anybody make a dessert sushi? I am going to try a cucumber and something on Thursday when we go to the Sushi Bar for Happy Hour. Carlos and I went last week....great atmosphere....yucki sushi. My brother would tell me that I need a life....actually, he wants to go to the sushi bar with Carlos mostly...I just get to come because I am a wife...I will let you know if my experience with sushi improves any.

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The Cut

Last night I drove my route, picking up kids to take them to The Refuge...I feel like I can't explain to you what it's like to drive this 15 passenger van filled with kids....and then to share with you the things that they say, it almost sounds stupid to repeat it. Mostly because it's incredibly cliche' and if you watched it on TV, you would groan at such bad jokes....but when it's seriously coming out of a kids mouth it's AWESOME! So here goes....Cody is once again a part of this little story. He gets into the van and says to me, "I got cut from the baseball team today." I said, "CODY! I am sooo sorry. What happened? WHY???" He says, "There are people who are better than me, but it's ok cause I am the manager and I can still go on trips and get a athletic period." I still feel soo sorry for him so I say again, "I am so sorry that you got cut. That just sucks." Dallas turns around and looks him up and down and says, "Where did you get cut at?" AHHHH!!!! I died laughing. Cody gives her this absolutley WITHERING glare and said, "CUT from the TEAM."

Taking Cody home at night is everyones favorite ride. Cody lives down a loooong dirt rode that has HUGE potholes and they are one right after the other. So we drive to Cody's house and drop him off, and then the fun begins....all the boys get on top of the seats. They are actually laying on the back of the seats holding on tight and I drive as "fast" as I can (try 10mph) through the potholes and they see who can stay on....these are like 13-14-15 year old boys doing this....it's always something new or weird happening...keeps me entertained!

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Alfred Hitchcock

I have been watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents on Netflix all evening long. Carlos pops in from time to time and we just stare....not horrified really, because its nothing new, but I think that watching something in black and white that is so obviously old, well you just don't expect the awful endings of them ALL. Shocking. Carlos just keeps saying how WEIRD he is. LOL!!

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Scream

Can you hear this?? It's a scream - and it's very loud!! Isaiah is sick with the flu. I know, I know, you feel sorry for him don't you....sigh....I did too....till it wouldn't stop...we are all just praying that he get's better SOON.

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The Skinny

So I am headed to the gym to work out when it hits me: TODAY is a holiday....that means that the gym will be packed with teenagers with raging hormones....like 14 and 15 year olds with raging hormones. The gym is almost like going to the beach and no matter what the season is there are always little shorts all over the place..so I am like....just go and work out - it can't be that bad....oh my - have you ever been to the gym when kids are in there? Do you know how they "work out"?? First they all come inside in groups of 3 -5. They ALL walk to a machine and stand around it and they ALL use it. OR they SIT on the machines and watch every one OR they get on the stair stepper for 5 min then they leave and go to the bathroom and come back and use the ab machine FOREVER and then walk around and talk to each other in little groups in FRONT of the machine that you really really want to be on...there is this hum in the air and its NOT the treadmill.....it the hormones.....So here I am, an adult, married woman who just wants to get her regular work out done at a time when there are usually only 2 old people in the whole gym. To make matters worse there really was an older woman on the stair stepper next to me SINGING to her mp3 player...can you guess how loud that was??? From there my day just went down hill....My mp3 player died, I had no water because I forgot it and the gym was humming.....so I spent 20 min and then ran for my life. My new philosophy??? Skinny 13 year olds shouldn't even be allowed in the doors......

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Myspace moods....

I am just totally freaked out right now. I was checking my myspace and I saw this little girls profile...well she used to be little I think that she is 18 now, but anyway she just had a baby and I was looking at the pictures....she just updated her profile and it says her mood is: horny.

So like...what do you do with that? Call her man and say - your wife is horny man better get home quick....and then there are all the other weird moods like...virginal??? Understimulated? Overstimulated...sweaty...hot...flirty...I mean...EWWWWWWW. I don't even WANT TO KNOW THIS STUFF!!!! Especially not about little kids that I used to see all the time.

Wow.

That stuff is so weird anyway...like you are supposed to be able to look at someones profile and instead of being like, hey how are you, just look at their mood and see...they are feeling JEDI. Oooo, or how about PIRATE....are you feeling catalyzed today? What the heck is that anyway? I was looking through to see if the Seven Dwarves were in there...sneezy, grumpy....lol

My mood after writing this blog??? ELECTRIC....zap zap!

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Conversation

Last night I was running my regular route, picking up kids for our Wednesday night event. My list was short, only 2 kids. Cheyenne who is in the 7th grade and Cody who is in the 9th grade. Conversation was crazy...you never know what you are gonna talk about or hear when you are in the van. My most exciting bit of convo went like this:

Cody: "I got an i-phone for christmas"

Cheyenne: "Oh my gosh! I didn't know those things were real!!! I thought that they were only on Hannah Montanna!!!"


I didn't even flinch. I let that just go right on by.

The trip home I had way more kids. Evidently ALL the parents were at work and church because they all kept telling me that no one was at their house.....yeah right.

THEN a conversation starts up between a guy and this girl about how they can't remember their phone numbers....like oh my gosh! I just can't ever remember it! I like, totally have to put it in my phone or I forget it! hehehe! Again, I don't say anything and just roll my eyes.

I wonder if it can get better than this?

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Accessibilty

Boooo! I can not get this wireless keyboard to work. So I am using the on screen keyboard to type this.......needless to say, this will be one of shorter blogs......

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My Fake Baby

So I was looking through different news headlines and saw one several days ago about how "fake babies" are becoming more and more popular in England and the US. I was thinking what the heck is a fake baby and so I watched this 5 part series called My Fake Baby on youtube. They won't let you put it on your blog, so if you want to watch it, you will have to go to youtube.com to search for it. Anyway - it's totally possible to see how there could come a point in our lifetimes when technology and artistry meet to the point that someone really could have a fake baby and you wouldn't even know it.

http://www.peachesandcreamnursery.com/adoptedbabys1.htm is a site that features EXTREMELY life like dolls. These dolls can have breathing mechanisims you can put in them as well as squirming and crying mechanisims. It was really amazing. I think that the problem comes when you fill the empytiness or hurts that you have with a THING be it alive or not - God is the only one who can fill us up. Several of the ladies on the video say they know their dolls are dolls but you get the feeling now and then that's not the case....that it just goes too far.

After watching the series my sweet husband made me my own fake baby that I named Leroy and he is pictured below. I don't feed him or anything - he is on the Fridge so I guess if he gets hungry he can get down and get his own food.

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Beauty School Drop Out

Victoria came over for me to color her hair. It was my first time to color someone else's hair and I had just spent over an hour with her mom at a salon while she got HER hair done and I studied closely....so for my first time I did an ok job....Alexis was totally into it as well....she did her hair and her babies hair....ummm, so we turned my kitchen into a ghetto salon and got the job done...and like I always say...."Ghetto is as ghetto does!"

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Twas The Month After Christmas

Twas The Month After Christmas

Twas the month after Christmas and all through the house

Nothing would fit me, not even a blouse.

The cookies I'd nibbled, the eggnog I'd taste.

All the holiday parties had gone to my waist.

When I got on the scales there arose such a number!

When I walked to the store (less a walk than a lumber).

I'd remember the marvelous meals I'd prepared;

The gravies and sauces and beef nicely rared,

The wine and the rum balls, the bread and the cheese

And the way I'd never said, "No thank you, please."

As I dressed myself in my husband's old shirt

And prepared once again to do battle with dirt---

I said to myself, as I only can

"You can't spend a winter disguised as a man!"

So--away with the last of the sour cream dip,

Get rid of the fruit cake, every cracker and chip

Every last bit of food that I like must be banished

Till all the additional ounces have vanished.

I won't have a cookie--not even a lick.

I'll want only to chew on a long celery stick.

I won't have hot biscuits, or corn bread, or pie,

I'll munch on a carrot and quietly cry.

I'm hungry, I'm lonesome, and life is a bore---

But isn't that what January is for?

Unable to giggle, no longer a riot.

Happy New Year to all and to all a good diet!

Author Unknown

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Hello 2008! You are MY Year!!!

I feel like this year is gonna be BIG! That it's gonna include alot of changes - but that God's gonna take us to new places and use us to advance His Kingdom. Looking forward to all that He has to offer us!! I am starting off the New Year 2008 by accepting in Faith what the Word of God says to us:

18 But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today.
Deut 8:18

11 But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven. 12 It is a land the LORD your God cares for; the eyes of the LORD your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end.
13 So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul- 14 then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and oil. 15 I will provide grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.
Deut 11:11-15

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My Christmas Gift

I asked God before Christmas for a few things. One thing that I asked Him for was to see the kids for Christmas. Yesterday Frances called me and told me that Juan was going to let her keep the kids till the 6th of January and that she would bring them by to see us. I took over 200 pictures, gave many hugs and kisses and maybe even got lice again! LOL!! Wow. Anyway, sometimes I would wonder if I would ever get to see them again and I would just be sooo sad wanting to hug them and hold their hands again. After 9 long months, I finally got to! What a wonderful gift!!!

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No Sugar Plumb Visions Here....

There aren't sugar plumb's dancing through my head right now....just invitations...stamps...stars...glitter....we are getting ready for Carlos' mom's party and we are making all of the invitations by hand. So Carlos, Victoria and I are tying bows, cutting, and stamping all of these invitations, not to mention the fact that we are addressing and mailing them out. It's a lot of work. Sometimes I wonder if saving all of the money on invitations is worth it when it's 10:51 PM and I am just now getting to bed....good bonding and family time for all of us though and that is....PRICELESS.

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WooooHOOOOO!

You know why I look so retarded? Cause my very first ride at Six Flags was The Titan. Needless to say, I was NOT prepared and all I kept thinking on that ride was my head could just get snapped off if something happened and we flew off the track....the last 6 seconds was fun which is why I am smiling. My hair evidently was jacked for a minute cause this little girl turned around and looked at me while we were coming back and laughed. So did Carlos and I kinda fixed it before he snapped this picture. The rest of the roller coasters were great, but wow....that first one got me.

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A Day Filled With Dance Moves

Living with Carlos is ALWAYS an adventure. I am sure that the kids that we took to Six Flags on Saturday would agree. And any time you are with Carlos your time is filled with music and on a good day - dance moves. Since we were with Eva, Alfonzo and CARLOS - you got triple the dose. On our drive to Dallas we made 2 Cupid Shuffle stops. One of the kids that we took named Trevor makes all these routines up in his head. He likes to show them to everyone too. I thought that you might enjoy watching a bit of what our "dance stops" looked like - keep in mind the dancing throughout the day also included all the music at the park and I WISH I had some pictures of that. LOL!!

I do apologize for the shaking and yelling on the video.....I couldn't help it.

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