Took my phone to Verizon today and I had warranty!! I get a new phone just like what I had! Can you believe that! I was going to have to use an old phone or go without because I was NOT paying 300 bucks for a new phone. That’s absolutely insane! Do people really buy them that way? We were actually thinking it’d be cheaper to add another line to the plan and get a free or super cheap phone to get by until my 2 year contract was up and I could get a different phone then. But it all worked out, after I finished talking to she who was DUMBER than a box of rocks. I’m not exaggerating. At all. And it was the owner’s daughter. I talked to another lady who was much smarter and much nicer and she fixed me all up. Thank goodness I didn’t just walk out after talking to the first girl.
life without my cell…
It’s been approximately 15 hours since I had a cell phone. The world hasn’t ended… yet. I’m shocked. Although I’ve been a basket case. I can’t text! I didn’t have an alarm clock this morning! I didn’t have my reminder to take my pill! I can’t call anybody long distance because I don’t have long distance on my house phone! What’s a girl to do!? I walked to the store earlier in hopes of fixing this problem but they were closed. NO You can’t do this to me!! I’m hoping they can just hook up my old cell phone again. I don’t want to spend money on a new cell phone right now. I guess this is what I get for letting baby play with my cell. He always packs it around home so when I locked it and gave it to him last night while at Gramma’s I didn’t think twice. BUT…. something else caught his attention that was far cooler than Mommy’s cell phone and he threw my cell phone onto the cement pavers. I opened it to find a pretty white screen with some cute stripes on it. Okay, so it wasn’t very pretty at all and maybe the stripes weren’t all that cute either. He has MANY cell phone that he plays with out of his brother’s room. He collects every body’s old cell phones and chargers and then plays with them. Problem is, those are only cool when brother has them all charged up so they make noise. You know what else sucks… I JUST bought a holder for that cell phone about 2 weeks ago. Total waste of 20 bucks. This also will mean I have to go back to the old way of texting. You know where you only have 8 # buttons with letters. I had a full keyboard! See. I’m telling ya’, the world may end yet.
why i should have stayed in bed today
My morning started off good, I’m a morning person, I love morning time, I love waking up, I love everything about morning time, I loved (today) that baby had slept in his crib and when he woke at 4 am he went back to sleep in his crib after I was up with him for about half an hour instead of coming into bed with me, which meant I didn’t have to balance on the very edge of the bed like I have been doing for the past few nights. And then… the parents started showing up. That’s not the part that was bad. It was when one of the parents just kinda lost it. First she threw my cell phone holder across my living room while screaming at her oldest to leave her alone. Then her oldest went and sat on the sit and spin quietly and was playing nicely when his little brother decided he wanted it. He started screaming wanting his big brother to get off it and when he wouldn’t Mom grabbed him, THREW him aside and gave it to the little guy. Then when her oldest started crying because he had it first she kept yelling at him to shut up, knock it off, put that lip in or I’ll rip it off. HOLY SHIT MAN!! CHILL!! Then my baby had gone to play on the sit and spin, but he stands on it and pushes the music buttons on top, minding his own business when her youngest walks over pushes him backwards off it and she laughs! Are you freakin kidding me! Not only was I completely pissed off at her behavior but I was SO embarrassed as I had another parent sitting here. After he pushed my baby off I grabbed him and sat on the couch next to the other Mom and her little girl and tried to ignore the screaming and throwing going on below us. It was such an uncomfortable situation. After I got everybody settled down around here I called the Mom who had to witness that horror and apologized and told her I promise I’m not throwing things or scaring your kid during the day! She said she knows and it wasn’t my fault and to quit feeling so bad about it, but holy crap how could you not feel bad about that. I’d be thinking…. get the crazy lady out of the house before I leave my child here today! She was embarrassed and didn’t know what to do or say either. That’s why we tried to have our own conversation with our kids on the couch and out of the way of danger.
Then I was curling my hair this morning (this actually happened before all that craziness) and baby was playing under me in the bathroom in the drawers and I dropped the curling iron. Not wanting it to fall on him because he’d just reach out and grab it or it’d land on him and he wouldn’t know to move or whatever other horror you can imagine involving a baby and a HOT curling iron I grabbed it however I could. I now have this yucky mark on my chest. I trapped it against my body with my arm and it resulted in a yucky burn. 
Nice huh. It looks better on here than it does in real life.
Baby dropped my cell phone on my computer and broke one of the keys off. I need to get something little and push the little plastic piece back in, it’s on my laptop, and then try getting the key back on. Which… I’m not even sure how it goes on.
Last night I went down to do laundry and my water/washer is stinking again 
Damn thing. Every time we do something thinking we’ve fixed it, it’s good for a few days and then right back to stinking. I’m going to try tearing into it, you may hear me yelling “Dad! Help!”, and see if maybe some clothes got lost and are gross. I don’t know what it could be. My water doesn’t stink anywhere else in my house.
So far my smoke alarm I hung has stayed put! Hooray!! Next I’m going to try putting up a new light on the outside of the house. Dad said I should (keyword) be able to do it. Just take down the old one, hook up new wires and voila! We shall see I guess.
It’s actually a nice cool day here so I don’t have to run the air conditioner! That’s makes me VERY happy. It dries my eyes out so bad and the fresh air is needed with all these bodies in our tiny house.
I’ve been thinking about a way to spruce up my kitchen. It’s so dumpy, I think that’s a good word for it. It’s not dirty and gross, it’s just outdated and needs some major help. I thought about painting my cabinets, but I don’t know what color I’d like to make them look nice and not, well, painted and cheesy looking. I also thought about taking my upper cabinets down and putting my bracketless shelves in that I want so bad, that would really open it up. I could make it all modern and stuff. I’d have to pack all the food downstairs into the pantry but that wouldn’t bother me a bit. And that would give me a super good reason to buy my Buddha Bowls I want so bad because people would see them. As for my counters I need to think of a way to cover my lovely yellow/white laminate. I’ve thought about trying to tile over them or something. I just want to do something. Ideas? Something cool you’ve done if you have an older kitchen to help it until you can get a new one? Tell me your ideas!
Okay well I’m making this one really long post so I better quit rambling because if you made it this far after reading all my random thoughts… kudos to you! As for me… I’m going to find something to do. The kids are sleeping and the oldest is getting ready to go to swimming lessons, and freeze! HUGS TO ALL!
first birthday almost here!
Baby’s 1st Birthday is RIGHT around the corner. July 2nd. We’re having his big birthday party with family and friends on the 5th. I don’t have a theme, it’s not like he’s “into” anything. So I picked this plate 
and only bought one pack of them, trying to save money and all, which didn’t work out so well because I spent it else where anyway…. oops, my bad. I bought lime green cups, extra lime green plates, light blue forks and the darker blue napkins. That’s a great way to save on all that stuff, because does anybody really care what plate they have? No. I only wanted fun plates for pictures with baby, even though that wouldn’t actually matter either. But these have a big 1 on them and I really wanted that for his first birthday. See…. I’m justified! hehe I also bought a huge number 1 pinata. It’s a pull string pinata, I didn’t figure I needed 8 or so kids swinging bats, sticks, brooms and whatever else they may find, around. Just have to make sure I get a picture of baby pulling the string and getting into the pile first. We have to find a way to hang it also. I’m hoping a rope of some sort strung from my garage to my house will work. The pinata is filled with suckers, candy necklaces, lightning bugs, crackers and gummies. I tried finding something for everybody, hope it works out. I’m searching now for little pails for the kids to put their treats in. Which goes with my cake I’m making. Bucket of sand cake! How fun!! Bake a cake, tear it apart, layer it in a pail with (those cute little plastic ones that everybody has) pudding and then add fun gummies and snacks to make it all beachy and cute. My invites don’t match the lime green and blue colors I have going on in the plates, but do I care…. No. Here’s my invites I made and put them on magnet paper. 
Like? Hopefully the weather is nice as I planned on doing this all outside. Squeezing all of us into this house would be scary for sure. I’ll make sure the garage is cleaned out in case we have to hide in there due to weather. We bought baby a wagon and the Song and Story Learning Chair. His brother bought him a pool which he already set up because he couldn’t wait for his birthday. Baby doesn’t have much to do with it, he’s happier on the outside throwing things in and splashing with his hands. But his brother is sure having a blast laying in it and making waterfalls down the slide that’s in it and spraying water everywhere with the little palm tree sprayer.
i rule.
See that?! I did it! One smoke alarm installed and ready for use willing to sit there and look pretty for years to come. Sorry smoke alarm, I don’t want to have to use you.
