"Let's Get Physical, Physical..."

I had a very busy day today.  Check it out.  Suz, I was going to take more pictures/video, but then the neighbor came out to talk to me, and I forgot.  But, we got more snow!  Woo hoo!!  There is one VERY happy penguin around here lately. =)

2/4/13

Monday, February 4, 2013
Tell us about your first crush.

Hmmm...I believe this would be a boy I grew up with named JP.  Ok, those are actually his initials, but in the interest of keeping his anonymity, I'll just use his initials.  I was so helplessly in love with him for basically my entire childhood.  It started in kindergarten, and continued all the way through high school.  He was a super athlete, which made him even more attractive.  He came from a family of wrestlers, so he was already doing it in kindergarten.  When I look back on some of the things he had to do, it was borderline child abuse.  (I'm mostly talking about the workouts, and the having to "make weight" at such a young age.)

My sister's favorite embarrassing story she like to tell people about me is how she found my diary (yes, I was one of THOSE girls) and found an entry that said something to the effect of "I hope one day to be Mrs. JP!"  There were a few more, but I'll save myself the shame of sharing.

Now the best part of this love story is that when I went to my 10 year reunion, JP was there, and man, he did not age well.  I spent the evening wondering, "What the hell was I thinking?!"  I also found out that night that HE had a major crush on my MOTHER all those years!!  How funny is that?  He told me that he LOVED that my mom was always the chaperone on our field trips, and how he used to purposely act up so he'd have to sit with her on the bus.  How hilarious is that!?  It made my mother's day when I told her.

I've heard from other friends I've kept in touch with from high school that these days, JP is fat and bald  now.  We ARE middle aged now, so it's not like this is headline worthy news.  I've never been one to really care about a guy's physical appearance, anyway.  But, there's just something about that that makes me chuckle.  I think it's because for so long, I put him up on a pedestal, and viewed him as some sort of Adonis, and it turns out he's just a regular, average guy.  Does that make sense?  Well, it does to me!

There are going to be LOTS of boys who have a crush on this little cutie patootie, I'm sure!  You know I'll use any excuse to share pictures and videos of her, right?

I'll warn you now, this is a seriously boring video, and I'm sure I'M the only one who thinks it's worth watching.  But, just to give you a little info about it, she's watching a video on YouTube that she absolutely ADORES.  It's a song about 3 Little Fishes that her mommy has been singing to her almost since she was born.  She does the cutest little thing with her hands, making a fishy, which you can almost see here.  What cracks me up about this video is that based on how excited she is, you'd think it was the first time that day that I put it on for her.  In actuality, she has probably watched this damn video about 30 freakin' times at this point.  (you can tell by how dark my kitchen is in this video that the sun was already setting.)  She was still so excited every time I hit "play" that I had to try and capture it. 

My poor baby is getting some molars in, so she's been chewing on her fingers all week.  Thank God she's such a happy baby, and even teething can't make her crabby.  Oooo, I just want to eat her up with a spoon!!

I'm a day late...

...with this post, but here it is anyway.

 We FINALLY got some snow around here!!  Yippee!!  Check it out. 

I was SO happy all day yesterday.  I didn't even care that the temperature was in the teens.  I actually took a little video to show you.  Ok, it's mostly for Suz, but I don't mind sharing it with all my Bloggy Buddies.  Even though I seem drunk.  And stupid.  And maybe a little high?  Eh, whatever!

Right now my weather widget says it's 8 degrees outside.  Sounds like a good day to snuggle down and watch some movies and/or catch up on my magazines.  Man, I live a wild life, don't I?

I forgot...

...that there are only NaBloPoMo prompts for Mon-Fri.  Weekends are on your own.  I actually had something I wanted to write about, but it involves uploading a video, which I'm too tired to do right now.  I promise to do it tomorrow.  I just had to stop by and do a post to meet today's obligation.  I know, I suck.

Night, night!

Let's start this NaBloPoMo thing!

Friday, February 1, 2013
When was the last time you said, "I love you."?

Ummm...about 2 minutes ago when I went into Stud's room and kissed his head.

Naturally, he rolled over, grumbled about me waking him up, and then started snoring again. =)

Ok, I hope the rest of the posts are as easy as this one.

This week I had the pleasure of spending a couple of days with my little Monkey.  I probably said "I love you!" about eleventy-billion times!!

The first day I had her (Tuesday) I brought a beanbag up from the basement for her to sit in, and watch The Little Mermaid.  I think she liked it.

 The next day, she wanted to watch the movie again.  She was still in her jammies here, and it was really cold in the house.  (Tuesday, it was about 66 degrees here, Wednesday it dropped to the low 30s.)  So, I bundled her up to watch the movie.  She actually sat like this for quite a while, much to our delight and amusement!

I know it's been a while since I've posted anything, so maybe I'll give you a quick run-down of what's been going on.  After an almost 3 year hiatus, I actually worked at the bar this past weekend.  My poor brother has been really sick, and something was going around the bar.  He was totally short-handed Saturday night, and too sick to work himself, so he broke down and called me to tend bar.  I gotta tell ya, I had a BLAST!

I felt a bit useless the first hour or so, since I hadn't done it in so long, but once I got my groove back, it was fun.  It was just like riding a bike!  I really miss it more than I thought I did.  A bunch of people who used to be my regulars actually came in that night, so that was awesome.  The funny thing is, they all said they hadn't been there in ages.  Fate, I tell ya!

Then, I worked again on Sunday.  My brother threw a party for his employees, and some of his best regulars.  I already knew I would be working that night, and helping my brother with the party.  What I didn't count on was being there until about 5:00am Sunday morning (after working Saturday night) then only getting about 4 hours of sleep before having to drive all the way back out there to set up for the party, and get all the food going.  Yes, in crock pots!!!  (Shut up, Suz!)  We spent a couple hours getting ready, then I went back home to shower and change, so I could come back and work.  (In weekend traffic, it's close to a 45 minute drive EACH WAY!  Ugh!)  It was a LONG night!!  I finally had to leave at 2am, cuz I couldn't keep my eyes open another minute.  Plus, I figured I'd be getting Monkey the next morning, since her daddy was going to be there way later than I was!  I believe he was there until nearly 5am.

Monday morning, I got up about 7am, after getting to bed at almost 3, because I didn't want to miss the call from Monkey's mom about taking her.  Yeah, well, I finally texted her around 9, only to find out she took Monkey to her parents' house.  WTF?!  I tried to get a little more sleep, but it wasn't happening.  Thank God I got to have Monkey for the next two days, or I'd still be pissed at her mom!

Although I was exhausted after this weekend, it was great to make a little cash.  I made almost a week's worth of unemployment in those two days, so it was well worth it.

Ok, this was way too long and rambly.  Sorry.  I'm going to try and stick to just answering the prompts for the rest of the month, I swear.

**woo hoo! Got the call at 7:45, I get a THIRD day with Monkey this week!!**

Phone Photo Dump

I took these last week to share with you.  Nothing spectacular, but I love a pretty sunrise/sunset.

 

This was taken at the red light while I was waiting to turn to go to the gym.  Usually, it's still dark out when I go to the gym, but I was running a bit behind on this morning.  You can barely see the Planet Fitness sign, but it's behind the White Castle sign.  Yep, there's a White Castle next to my gym.  Thank God I've kept from giving into the temptation!

On Monday, my niece and I went out together for lunch.  Well, lunch in my book, breakfast for her, since she woke up at 11, then called to see if we could "go to breakfast."  Anyway, I  just HAD to take a picture of this sign in front of the fire station that's down the street from her house.  I think I've mentioned before that we've been having a "snow drought" around here.  We broke all kinds of record this year for going so long without any snowfall here.

Well, now it's Wednesday.  Look what's FINALLY happening around here!!!
(This is really crappy video.  I don't know why I always let you guys see my white trash yard, either.)

Yes, Buster is still alive!!! I'll bet some of you were wondering, but afraid to ask.  This is the view out my living room window.  I've been watching for a couple hours now as the beautiful snow swirls outside my kitchen window.  I feel like I'm in a snow globe!!  It's making me VERY happy.  I could use a little happy around here right now.

22 years ago today...

...this happened.

It's been a hell of a ride since then.  I'm tightening my seat belt in anticipation of what our future holds.

(Maybe I should have told Magnum to buy me a new scale for our anniversary, cuz I think mine is broken.  I'm down another 2lbs this morning.  How is that even possible?  Maybe my body FINALLY realizes that I've been bustin' my ass at the gym for 2 hours a day for the past 5 weeks!)