My Turn to Finish The Sentence

I don't know......why I am still blogging.

I talk......with a lot of "likes" included.

I love......eating.

My best friend.......is my husband although sometimes I think he wishes he didn't have the title.

My first real kiss.....was in college (sad-huh) given to me by my husband (this part not sad).

I hate it when people.......are mean.

Love is........unconditional.

Marriage is.......hard but well worth it.

Somewhere, someone is thinking......they need to change.

I'll always.....be insecure.

The last time I cried was.....last night watching "America's Next Top Model"-I told you I was hormonal.

My cell phone......is more business then I would like.

When I wake up in the morning..... I want to go back to sleep.

Before I go to sleep at night.....I think about how much I have to do.

Right now I am thinking about.....how much I have to do.

Babies are......very much on my mind.

Today I ....had the best turkey and gravy.

Tonight I will......watch Grey's Anatomy.

Tomorrow I will.....go to work and pray for a lot of business.

I really want......some money in savings.

Too Funny

I received these pictures from my mother-in-law recently and I just now viewed them. I had to share this one of Haley because the creativity made me laugh. It dates back to her broken arm obviously. My mother-in-law didn't want her to be excluded from the swimming so she fashioned this contraption for her arm. It looks like Target comes in handy in more than one area Tara. Also notice the beautiful Christmas ribbon as well. At least it worked!

Never Fails

So I don't know if it is the same with all families but in ours our children are definitely different personalities. Haley is outgoing, loves the spotlight and pretty much will do anything to help me out. Ella on the other hand beats to her own drum, does not like performing in front of people, and pretty much does the opposite of everything I ask her to do. Although 9 times out of 10 it will be Ella who says the sweet thing that makes you pause and appreciate their love in between all the chaos. Here is the most recent.
I had been working all morning so when I got home I approached Ella to ask for a kiss. After obliging she ran off to play. About 20 minutes later she came over out of the blue and asked me " Does a hug come with that kiss?"

I have no idea where she came up with that, but whenever I want to scream in frustration I am going to remember that moment.

Such A Sucker

One of the things I hate the most is when I feel like a sucker. That happened last night. I was spending too much time on the computer and came across a secret shopper offer. You know the phrase "If it sounds too good to be true it probably is". Well this certainly proved that. It was a company that hired people to secret shop for them and in return for filling out a survey on the company you got to keep what you bought plus for signing up you got a $1000 gift card to the store of your choice. I should have turned off the computer right then. Instead I continued on my journey and registered with RetailReportCard.com. Part of registration, however is to answer 6 advertiser promotions. I wasn't sure what this meant but I really wanted my $1000 gift card. I was already having visions of paying for all my Christmas purchases, new wardrobe, etc. The first set of advertisements I was instructed to select two. These were free trials but when you read the fine print you had to make sure you cancelled or they started charging your credit card each month. I told myself I could use a free trial of acne cream and teeth whitening and I would make sure I called in enough time not to be charged. So I continued on... The next set again I had to pick two. This time I ran across Blockbuster online which I figured I could easily cancel my Netflix (even though I don't like Blockbuster- I think they have made a small fortune off of late fees from me). At this point I was getting frustrated so I decided I would skip to the last set of offers and see what my choices were there. Again I had to select two but I was so close to being done. This is when it all went bad. The last set of offers were major. I didn't even read past the $1500 minimum purchase, $800 minimum per person, etc. These weren't annoying free trials these were major committments. So in the end I have no gift card, I am not hired as a secret shopper, I have a new subscription to Blockbuster online that I don't want, not to mention I will be receiving a free trial of acne cream and teeth whitening system in the mail soon. And I bet they won't be very easy to cancel. I wasted two hours on the computer that should have been used cleaning my house, and worst of all I feel like a sucker. Not a good evening!

You Know You Are Hormonal When...

So I have been noticing lately that I get choked up about pretty much anything I see or hear. Mostly on TV. It has always been easy to do for me. But come on! It has gone past normal now. I was driving to work today and had the radio on. One of those OnStar commercials came on. I don't know if you have heard any of those. It is usually someone locked out of their car and they need OnStar to unlock their doors for them. Magically they give them their code and a miracle occurs. Well today it was a lady whose car was submerged in water and she needed emergency help. As I am chocking up, trying to hold back the tears I am wondering why she didn't just call 911 but then I tried to use my brain to realize it was just an advertisement. OnStar needed her to call them. Good thing too because they called 911 right away. Anyway I will try to keep it together but even everyone's blogs make me cry. I am not sure how much more I can take.

Lost on Lost

I know some of you are Lost fans so I thought you might be able to help me out after last week. I didn't get the whole second island thing. Now I know I am not super bright but wouldn't they have known if they were on a different island? They would of have to been taken by boat. Also when Sun,Jin and Sahid (sp?) went in search of them I don't remember them saying anything about another island? And have they been there all along? What about all the times they were on the survivor's island? Remember when they were all over there when they had Kate and they confronted Locke and John? Did they come over in shifts or do they have a lot of boats you think? Anyway the show's title is appropriate at least for me I guess.

Ella

I am going to have a lot of posts about Ella. Everyone's description of Ella is a "free spirit". One second she will be throwing a tantrum and the next she will be a sweet angel. If I didn't know I would have a hard time believing it was the same person. We were having one of those days where everything I said she said the opposite. Fighting me at every turn (I am sure just for the heck of it). Anyway I said the only thing I could say at a certain moment of frustration and that was "What am I going to do with you?" Her response as she looked up at me with that sweet face, "Just love me!"

Isn't it amazing how they can break it down so simply for you? Although my husband thinks ringing her neck should still be an option too.

Money Vault

My kids keep telling this story so I thought maybe it would be a good, entertaining post.
We had the Oktoberfest street fair a couple of weeks ago and near our store was a radio station booth. Haley was obsessed with this booth mostly because they had a money vault. Haley loves money. It was a perfect babysitter for her. She just stared at that money all day long. It is one of those clear boxes where the money blows all around and you have 30 seconds to grab as much as you can. Anyway she became friends with the radio reps ( mostly due to the fact that she was there for hours on end, they didn't have a choice). On the first day she signed Daddy up to see if his name would be drawn. Sure enough he was chosen to go in the money vault (they call a name every 1/2 hour). Any of you that know Chad know that he is very competitive and he really likes winning money for sure. So he had his plan of attack on how he was going to get as much as he could. The catch was that you not only had to grab it but you had to stick it in this tiny slit to actually win it. Otherwise I guess you could stick it in your pants, pockets, etc. They had to make it a little difficult. Well Chad won $61 which was quite a good amount I guess. They mostly have ones in the vault and a few $5's and $10's. Most people won around $30.
On Saturday Haley and Chad conspire to sign me up but I never win anything so I didn't think much of it and anyone who knows me knows I wouldn't do it anyway. And I told Haley and Chad this as well that I wasn't doing it. Talk about my worst fear. Tons of people staring at you while you perform. NO way!!! On Sunday Haley put my name in again and had also been chosen as the designated name drawer every 15 minutes. Guess whose name she chose? Yep, me. They come running over all giddy and happy that my name is on the board. My reply. "I am not doing it!" Chad's reply " You have to -it's free money" My nerves went crazy I think I was starting to shake. I went over to the booth and asked if Chad could do it instead but of course since he had already gone they wouldn't go for that. So I had no choice! I wasn't happy at all and it didn't help that Haley was jumping up and down screaming "GO MOMMY" Which I think attracted at least 50 more people in and of itself. I think one of my biggest fears was that I would fail miserably, not catch any money, and be a laughing stock. Chad decided he would give me as many pointers as he could since he considered himself a master with his $61.
So I went in the box. Had 30 seconds. Tried not to look up at all so I couldn't see who was watching me. Guess what? I got $66! I not only beat my husband(which never happens) but I held the record for the whole weekend. I was quite proud of myself mainly because I did it in spite of my fear and it paid off -literally. I tried rubbing it in to Chad but he decided it was because of his pointers that I got so much. Maybe! But I still won!

Top 10 inventions

I am on a roll now. I am sure you are all bored reading my posts. I am too that is why I keep creating top ten lists. But this one is of inventions that I could never imagine my life without now.

#10 hand sanitizer
#9 Easy Mac n cheese
#8 Magic eraser (I totally agree Steve)
#7 Lime away
#6 Body pillows
#5 DVD player in the car
#4 groutless counters, bathtubs, showers, etc.
#3 Netflix
#2 memory foam
#1 DVR

Top 10 Favorite Food Items

Okay so I am a copycat. Of course my top ten is about food.

#10 Breyers Vanilla Ice cream
#9 Hershey's chocolate covered pretzels
#8 Canasta's uncooked flour tortillas (believe me you will never go back to already cooked ones)
#7 Miguel's jalepeno cream dip
#6 BJ's pazookies
#5 Outback's spotted dog sundaes
#4 Ranch dressing made from the packet
#3 Fuddrucker's hamburgers
#2 Chik-fil-a chicken nuggets (little morsels of heaven)
#1 Lido's spaghetti (a hole in the wall place on Broadway)

As a bonus I need to add two items from Disneyland that I am obessed with (we have passes so we go alot)
*Caramel corn at California Adventure
*Chicken Alfredo pasta from the Pizza Port by Space Mountain
Try them the next time you go.