Nice Matters…a lot

Okay. so Erin from the Looney Bin thinks I’m nice too! Woohoo! I’m glad I’ve found an outlet for my empathy. I guess somehow all those lectures about being nice and caring about other people from my mom sunk in. It didnt take more than once, I guess, even if I gave being snotty another … [Read more…]

Fun Monday – blog blog blog

Lisa has our next Fun Monday exploration! She says: I’d like to know more about you, what makes you tick. I’d like to know how you started blogging. Did you keep a diary under lock and key safely hidden as a child? Do you still? Do you share the same things on your blog that … [Read more…]

I love cardinals…

For those of you easily grossed out, skip this one. Okay, so we hear this loud buzzing noise, and look outside. There perched on our patio is a papa redbird pecking at the noise. A locust. It was protesting loudly. And it should have. First one wing, then the other was pecked off and devoured. … [Read more…]

I got an AWARD!!!!!!!

Oh how I have coveted me some bling for my blog! Yes! Thanks KT for that. And by the way, I always knew you were awesome. You are nice in so many ways, and only beyatchy in ways that everyone would be: people being mean to your children, or to you, that sort of thing. … [Read more…]

Work day 2

Don’t worry, I won’t blog on and on about my work, I just wanted to let people know that I work for a large Aerospace and Defense organization in Cedar Rapids. It’s temporary because some lady fell down some stairs and broke her leg. So she’s recovering for at least 2 more weeks. I’m supposed … [Read more…]

Hi Ho Hi ho work day 1

Well, here I am through one day of 8 weeks. It wasn’t tough, but I really didn’t get a lunch hour. I got a half an hour, for a lot of the time, I was slurping soup out of a cup while trying to schedule appointments, so I only counted the half hour. However, they … [Read more…]

Fun Monday-White Lies

The otherbear is hosting Fun Monday and wants to know: Share with us a little white lie that you may, or may not, have gotten away with. Perhaps it’s something more sinister than a little white lie – maybe even a deep dark secret that you’ve kept buried for years! All the better! Now’s your … [Read more…]

Dud

The weekend was a dud. I didn’t get to use that hard sought swimsuit after all. It was 63 degrees when the cold-blooded among us got in the water. I had to help carry all their crap around for 5 hours. By the time it was actually warm enough to get in the water, the … [Read more…]

Bedding and nursery themes

hmmm so I took a friends suggestion and looked at Babies R Us online at nursery bedding. Wow! you can’t buy the pieces separate, and the sets are near $200 to over $250 and that seems a little outrageous to me. I am a little disappointed because I saw from Walmart and a brief trip … [Read more…]

And the award goes to…

Okay so the award for husband of the summer goes to…. Matthew. The man just went shopping in the mall and other stores to help me find a swimsuit. Granted, we are going to go to a water park, with his family. So he owed me. I had to get a swimsuit. I havent had … [Read more…]