Does not surprise me at all!!

Still gracing us with his presence on Dec. 6th!

How do I sign up to participate?

This is something that I might have to watch. It might top the roast of Michael Scott. I have to mark my calendar for Aug 15 and I am sure I will get a laugh of two out of this. Let us hope they do Brandon Frasier next. Please? I would make a date with Jana to watch this together if she was here.

Early nesting or just adult on-set OCD

I may have my lists, have to have CD's/DVD's/VHS's in alphabetical order, eat Skittles in order of yellow, green, orange, red, purple (same with Starbursts but eat yellow, orange, and mash pink/red together), and may have to have all pop cans/bottles face forward in the fridge, but recently it has gone to new heights. If anyone leaves a dish out, I have to robotically pick it up, rinse it off, and put it in the dishwasher. I have been very anal with clothing. Color coded and in order from tanks, t-shirts, long sleeves and so on. I have also had this itch to start knitting. Michael won't let me until we find out the sex which I totally understand. I am not not on for green if I know what I am having. I have no idea if I am turning into an OCD extremist or if I'm nesting 19 weeks early! I am not quite sure. Maybe I have just lost my mind. Speaking of losing minds....

We watched "Shutter Island" tonight. It was scary like I thought it was. I was told it was very intense and suspenseful. I will say the music at the beginning felt like it would be, but didn't turn out to be. Within the first 30 minutes, I figured the movie out. I will not spoil it because it's a good twist, if you don't see it coming. I think what was hard for me was the flashbacks to WWII and the concentration camps. It's a good flick. I still want to see "Inception" but I have heard many mixed reviews on it. It might be a renter. I have a fear the next flick I see in a theater will be "Happy Potter and the Deathly Hallows". I guess we will have to wait and see!

Is it Thursday yet?

Safety extreme?

I received a photo from JaZubimble (deal with it Jana!) down in TX this morning. It made me laugh. Really laugh. Why? No reason. I find things that the Darcinator does just humerous. Her and Jeffy-Pooh made it safely down to TX with 2 dogs and a cat in tow. Upon arriving, they got to see all the "safety" measures the Darcinator took with "safety proofing" the house while retreating in retirementville of MN for 5 months. I have no idea if this is just OCD, way extreme or something normal. I have left on vaca many of times and had never done this. I even have a cat, who would be one to knock it off.  He unplugged not the phone chord or the phone line, but the recevier! I'm still trying to figure this out. Hopefully JaZubimble doesn't have to call 911!

The "Conan" experience

After many years of Josie talking about "Conan", I agreed to watch these "epic" movies. Matt was kind enough to let me borrow his dual DVD edition. I agreed to watch them and I did. I will not criticize them as I was not raised watching these movies and I really watched them to say I did. Same thing as when I watched "The Best of the Best". A few little things. In "The Barbarian" there was no dialogue for 14 minutes. All the typical "Arnold" noises really got to me. All I wanted to do was close his mouth 90% of the time. I don't think his English has improved all that much. "The Destroyer" was better. I don't think I will repeat this two night event. I put my time in! One thing that got to me was Valeria and how much she looked like Vienna from "The Bachelor". I wasn't a fan of either but it made me laugh throughout the entire movie. Today I told Jos and Matt how I felt about the movie. They then proceeded to call me a sucka and a chump. Fine. I'd rather sit here and watch "Willow". 

Now that I am back on the iPod bandwagen, I heard this song today and it hit home for me. I love Matthew West. I have seen him in concert and he has some mad piano skills!

The Motions

By: Matthew West

This might hurt

It’s not safe

But I know that I’ve gotta make a change

I don’t care

If I break

At least I’ll be feeling something

‘Cause just ok

Is not enough

Help me fight through the nothingness of life

I don’t wanna go through the motions

I don’t wanna go one more day

Without Your all consuming passion inside of me

I don’t wanna spend my whole life asking

What if I had given everything?

Instead of going through the motions

No regrets

Not this time

I’m gonna let my heart defeat my mind

Let Your love

Make me whole

I think I’m finally feeling something

Take me all the way

Victorious weekend!!

Another weekend has come and flown by. Yet another weekend that seems busier then the last!

Friday evening we were in a rush. Michael had to install a hot tub at a clients house in Easter Lake which worked out great because I was helping my mom babysit Eli and Caleb. Jake and Eli of course had a blast playing all night long. I will admit it was extremely scary when all the storms came rolling in. My sisters house is up on a hill and you could see for miles. The lightning was insane. It never stopped. We were fortunate and didn't lose power. My dad called and said their power was going in and out. Poor Michael. He installed the hot tub in the pouring rain. He was soaked. I felt so bad for him. We went through town because we needed to stop by my parents house to pick up Jake's blanket. We finally made it home around 10:30ish.

Saturday we woke up bright and early. We had a list of things to do. A list that only got one thing scratched off. We called the bank and asked if we could just use our same loan we had for Ruby. They said they hadn't received the check from Nationwide but they agreed and we headed off car shopping. After a few places we stopped by a place we bought our last 2 cars from. There it was. Everything we needed and more. We really wanted a SUV with 3rd row. We basically just needed room for at least one more person comfortably. Well this SUV had a 3rd row, captains chairs for the middle row which is amazing for kids, leather, sunroof, 6-disc CD changers, the 3rd row could fold down, AWD and more. After 3 1/2 hours later, we gave them their "holding" fee and it was ours. Actually, it will be ours tomorrow but still. We are so stoked! We picked a extremely hot day to go car shopping. I was so thankful to be able to find something we both love. After getting home around 3, I passed out. I slept from about 3:30 to 5:30. I then got up, showered and got ready for our night out! We took Jake to mi parentals for the evening. I am very fortunate to have our parents so close. We headed over the Blue Moon for Jeffery's birthday Extravaganza! Let's just say we got to Blue Moon, parked and I opened my wallet realizing Michael hadn't put my ID back in my wallet from the car dealership. We drove back home and then had a re-do! What a night! We had many laughs and I love these people to pieces. I will not get sappy till later this week. It was a total blast and I loved every second of it! We picked up Jake around 10:30ish and passed out by 11.

I will admit we slept through church. Horrible, but Michael had worked all day and all night every night this past week and was just exhausted. I had also a mini road trip planned for noon. We cleaned up and did laundry and then I headed out with the ladies!! Talk about a great trip! We headed over to Williamsburg. Once again, I didn't buy a bag but I did find a baby bag to snatch up in the near future. We had  a great time and now I'm beat. It's 6:46 and I could pass out for the night.

Here is our new vehicle!

A pic of some of my favorite ladies EVER
S, M, L

Gangsta faces!

Greatest photo ever!