What Happened Yesterday?

by Amy on May 27, 2009 in Daily Journal with 2 Comments

Ever wake up in the morning with a splitting headache or your whole body is sore and think, “What happened yesterday?” That’s me. My whole body hurts. Even my abs (on the sides), which is good because I was starting to wonder if I even still had any muscles there. I did yoga yesterday morning after like months of not doing it at all. It felt really good, though. A lot of snap, crackle, and pop. Guess this is my body telling me I should get back on it regularly.

I didn’t get much sleep last night. I had to keep getting up to do things. I may have gotten about 6 hours. I’m pretty exhausted right now and I’ll more than likely need a nap before the day is up. Trying to get some stuff done first, though. I took a picture of the disaster my living room was left in last night, but sadly the photo doesn’t really portray the chaos that went on in there. It looks much worse in person. There are little pieces of plastic because while we were at the park the puppy decided she was bored. Then when I was taking the boys to school this morning she ate up a stuffed animal. I try to get her toys, but she’s so rough with them and rips them open. And then Carmen starts pulling the stuffing out. I can’t spend $20 a week on chew toys. Wanna donate to my doggie?

I was very upset yesterday to find some of my favorite clothes ruined, yet again, by my dryer. They get caught on the lint trap and twist until they break. Sometimes they get caught up with other clothes and ruin multiple things. In this case it was one of my favorite shirts and my favorite Three Days Grace hoodie. My favorite shirt was caught up in it, but wasn’t destroyed (*phew*). So I called and of course since it’s out of warranty, all they would do is tell me companies that could fix it. So I called one up and it’s $75 just for them to come out. Then it’s $60 per hour + parts. The lady is going to call me back with the price of the part, based on what she thinks it could be, and I’m starting to wonder if it’s not just time to buy a new dryer. It’s 4 years old, which isn’t incredibly old, and I really don’t have the money to buy a new one. But it sounds like it’s going to cost so much to fix it, I’d benefit from a new one. I’ve always wanted a Maytag Neptune. It looks like a replacement for my dryer is going to run me $700. That’s $100 more than it was when I got it. Anyway, I guess it all depends on the price of fixing my piece of junk.

What A Day

by Amy on May 26, 2009 in Daily Journal, Family, Star, WTH? with 7 Comments

Today was interesting. I tried something new with my to do lists, which I’ll get into later.

Today after the boys got home, I had them clean. I wanted to go to the park because there’s been a lot of threats for rain and there were more clouds than I knew what to do with. Before we left a neighbor kid came over and he went to the park with us. I also called my friend and invited her, but she wasn’t interested so her 2 kids came along (count it, 5 kids so far). So we get there and I pull out the D60 and I’m shooting pics, then it stops. I notice it says the card is full (thanks Jay) so I switch it out for the card in my Coolpix. I try again. Now the battery light (which was previously 2/3 full) is flashing. So I moved the card back over and proceeded to snap shots with my sucky terrible Coolpix. I really hate this camera.

After about 40 minutes of this, I was ready to move on and go home. Thankfully, one kid was covered in mud (and ready to go), another had caught a crab he wanted to take home (ready to go) and the baby was ready, too. So once I finally got my own kids on the path home, it took an extra long time because someone thought it smart to give the baby a play sword and, well, you just can’t run with a sword that’s taller than you.

When we get home, 3 more kids show up. From where? I don’t know. So I’m sitting at the computer thinking about how hungry I am and the little girl brings in a slice of pizza. Then a little boy comes through with a slice of pizza. Okay, time to cook. I had 7 hot dogs and they were supposed to be for the 5 of us (me, my boys, and my friend’s boys). Everyone wanted a hot dog. So one kid went home to get some from his house, another went home and came back with some hamburgers. My husband also ate all our Mac N’ Cheese 2 nights ago, so I had to make-shift it with varieties of Easy Mac. During all this, I have the 2 year old and the 4 year old running around doing .. who knows. And the dogs are fighting, the kids are fighting over who gets to play XBOX 360.. At one point I actually texted my friend “Help!” to which she called me back  and laughed at me. LAUGHED AT ME.

So here we are, all done for the day, and I’ve been working on my websites. I uploaded some photos, got things straight. Realized that, while my to-do list did work, I hadn’t done it all because I hadn’t listed everything I needed to do and I did many things not on the list. But that’s what tomorrow is for, right?

This brings me to my apology. I want to apologize for the rude comment I left on a blog today. This blog ticked me off something fierce. Why? I don’t know why. I mean I can tell you what all bothered me about it. I think I will. Jenny IMed me a link to a super cute site where I read a post about microchipping kids. The post goes on to talk about not having to worry about your kids being out of your site because you microchipped them and they’ll be easy to locate. So I watch the video and it’s not a GPS (so it can’t locate your kid), it’s just like the dog microchips that show its owner’s name, etc. So I mentioned to Jenny how stupid the post was. I read further down that it was actually taken from [link removed]. I scrolled through a couple of pages looking for the post, but never got far enough because of my pure disgust at this site. I think my main issue is that she seems to be posting without knowing fully what she’s talking about. Like that video, she probably watched the first 30 seconds and then posted about it. There’s another post where she says something slightly funny, but misspells the words in the punch line. Another post where she talks about Flickr and refers to it as ‘download[ing]‘ to the website. You don’t download to a website, you upload to a website. That’s like me saying I’m going down to Canada. The site is also ugly and ad-ridden.. and I’ll just be happy to never go there again. So I’m sorry to the owner of that site if you were offended by my blunt, yet obvious comment.

What Are You Doing?!

by Amy on May 23, 2009 in Daily Journal, Family, Work with 2 Comments

Gah, I was so bad yesterday. I’m at my computer, so I can’t help but answer the emails and tickets that come in (it’s nice for a momentary break, too) but I seriously did nothing yesterday. I did not work. I did not walk my dog. I barely even ate. So what WAS I doing?

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I spent the whole day working on a design for a new portfolio site. I decided to take an old domain name and turn it into a portfolio and move my mommy-ish blog elsewhere. I started drawing it in the morning and before I knew it, it was afternoon. Then I coded it. Then I put it into WordPress. Friday night is our family night so I took 3 hours and went to go see the new Night at the Museum movie at the drive-in. I love drive-ins. I think it’s one of those Americana things that should be kept for historical value. And you can’t beat the prices.

Anyway, so I’ve spent all day yesterday working on that and it looks like it will be ready to release after just about another 3-4 hours of work. But I’m such a perfectionist that I keep fixing little minor details before moving onto bigger details. It’s definitely going to be a work in progress, like most sites are. I guess my plan is that when I’m done with the design and put up a new one, I release it as a free WordPress theme.

I’m starting to feel like maybe there’s a fine line between what I’m doing on Lala Land and what I’m doing on Radkitten. I think I’m going to have to expand Lala Land’s content a little. I’m ready for a new design there, too. The one I have now is just kind of annoying and has a slight issue in Chrome that drives me up the wall. But I seriously need to finish 1 project before taking on another or I’ll never finish it, and I’m really excited about this one. If only I could get inspired for E-Starr’s new design. Oh well, I guess it’ll come in its due time.

Getting The Job Done

by Amy on May 20, 2009 in Meme with 4 Comments

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So Jenny turned me on to this fun little Meme where you give a tip for something that works well for you. I pondered quite a bit before I decided I would share with you my secret for getting things done around my house. A really important part of keeping my house from looking like a tank just rolled through is getting the kids involved. Despite my brother’s claims that my children are “out of control”, they’re pretty easy when it comes to doing what they’re told. They don’t seem to do things on their own at all, but if they’re told they don’t give me any fuss. So usually when the house starts getting out of hand I’ll tell them on their way out to school to look for a note of chores when they get home. They always remember.

noteSo now when they get home they’ll have a list of things they must do before they play. I might or might not catch them trying to play on the computer, but all I have to do is remind them and maybe even shut off the monitor/TV, but they get to it. The lists can’t be too long, they’re only 9, but the jobs can get pretty big. Jobs can range from things they have to do anyway, like homework, to jobs they only do certain days, like taking the trash to the end of the driveway. Each kid has jobs that are expected of him and they never switch unless they agree upon it themselves, which is okay.

Now, if only this little list would work for my husband.

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