Be Yourself

So my morning started at 5;48am. I know. That's early. Good thing I went to bed at 9pm, right? Anyway, some Sgt from Captain Americas work accidentally called the home number (my cell) instead of Captain Americas cell number. Sigh. He was already awake and in the bathroom getting ready for the day. Me? I was slumbering nicely, until the phone. I passed the phone over, and tried to sleep. But my head hurt. Not so cool.

After Captain America left at around 6am, I went out, got 2 big glasses of water, took a migraine pill, and went back to bed. My alarm failed to go off, or I failed to hear it, and I didn't wake up until 7:15. That was cutting it pretty close. I still felt nasty. I asked Tom, pretty please, to get Joe ready to go (luckily his homework was done!), I helped tie his shoes, and they were out the door. A bit late, but out the door. Jimmy watched a few episodes of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Jake started on School, and I slept in till 9am. Sigh. I did feel SO much better when I woke up, though. The pill did it's job :)

My mom called at 9am, and we chatted for almost an hour. Love ya, mom! We used to talk ALL the time on the phone, but with my new crazy busy life, it's only every few days now. As soon as she hung up, Andrea called, and we chatted for almost an hour :) It's good to have friends!

When I got off the phone with her, I called Laurie, cause we'd made plans to go to Fallas today. She'd never been, and seriously, that's just a crime - ROFL! Jake was all done with school for the day, and it was only 11am. Way to go, Jake! He'd earned some Wii time :) I took Jimmy with me.

Laurie and I and the little boys were at Fallas for WAY too long, but just couldn't leave - hehehe. I ended up with new curtains for the living room (a shade of brown and a shade of teal), couch pillows (teal and red), curtains for Emes room (purple and green), curtains for Jake and Toms room (blue and green), decorative boxes for our Wii stuff (one for the games, one for the small stuff, and one for the accessories), and a few shirts for me. I just LOVE that store, but need to stay away, I think - LOL!

We were SO late at Fallas, that as I was nearing the house, I called Jake and told him to meet me out front to give me the directions to the Speech Clinic for Tom. I dropped off Laurie and Rowan and even Jimmy at her house, then headed to the school to pick up Tom. I wanted to be at the school at 12:45, but it was 1:10. Sigh. I'd be cutting it close. It was 1:20 by the time I got Tom and we were on our way.

The appointment was across from one of the hospitals in town. Actually it was across the street from the same "urgent care" place I'd taken Eme to when her "fast acting inhaler" ran out. Who knew ;)

We were about 10 minutes late, but the lady assured us we were fine. Sigh. I don't like to be late.... ever :) Ha! I filled out some info, and we were called back to chat with the SLP (Speech Language Pathologist). OMGosh, she was AWESOME! I really liked her. She told me to just sit there, and that she was gonna talk to Tom. That I could say yes or no, but not to talk. Not in a rude or offensive way. Anyway, I'm not a big talker, but I was finding it hard to not pipe in with me two cents. I was only reminded to not talk once - hehehe.

After the 30 minutes, she said that Tom only had problems with his "r" sound, in all positions. But that was it. That he was a very smart kid. She said that she wanted 50 sessions for him, and that was what she was gonna submit to the insurance. She said he'd be "fixed" in 12, but that she had a WONDERFUL reading program that she thought that he'd benefit from. The last kid who did it advanced 3 reading levels after the program. Sweet!!! Tom seemed to really like the lady :) So, now we wait to hear from the insurance, and the SLP.

She also mentioned that he had a hard time maintaining eye contact. Hmmm, I hadn't really noticed that. I'd noticed it in Jimmy, but Tom? I'll have to look now. Do any of your children do that, and if so, what have you done about it?

We went to Burger King right behind the clinic for lunch. Well, Tom for a snack, and me for lunch. At 2:30. I was STARVING. I got a Whopper Jr, a side salad, and Tom and I shared a fries. That's not too bad, right? No dressing on the salad. Tom got a plain side salad, a 4 piece nuggets, and 1/2 the fries (small). I felt much better was we headed back to post.

I made it in time to pick up the kids, and we all headed home. The house was messy, so we cleaned. And cleaned. And cleaned some more. I know a lot of you probably think that my house is spotless, because all I do is talk about cleaning. Yeah, right. It's not. Not let me give you the impression that we have a clean house. Seriously, it's one of the things that Captain America and I regularly fight about. How messy I am - ROFL!

Anyway, the kids did their chores, I hung up the new curtains, which looked FABULOUS, by the way :) The curtain rod that used to be in the living room was a super long one. And the kids pulled it down. Broke it in the middle. I figured that I could put 2 small ones in place of it. But I only had one small one. ROFL! So my living room has 1/2 the curtains up. I'm such a dork :) The pillows look really nice with it.

So I was on a roll, and decided to take down the tree. I found one box of Christmas Crap, but couldn't find the other box. Hmmmmmm, I know that there was another box with the holders for the new bulbs that I bought. Good thing they're plastic. And small. I put 10 small ones in a sandwich size ziplock bag, and 6 big ones. I know, I'm a freak, with the counting thing - LOL!

Anyway, I pulled off the bulbs first, then the unbreakable stuff, then wrapped the breakable things, then all the random crap. The tree was bare. I pulled off the lights, wrapped thm up, and put them in the box too.

Next, I got the tree box, and low and behold, I found the bulb box. Sigh. I wasn't gonna unpack what I'd just done, so I just threw away the bulb holders. The were just long tubes anyway. The baggies were easier for storage, I think.

Tom helped me take apart the tree, and get it in the box. Well, kinda get it in the box. It's still sitting in the laundry room. Come to think of it, the 2 boxes of Christmas crap are still sitting the dining room. See, messy.

At 5:30, I started on dinner. We had pancakes, and sausage and eggs. Everyone got 2 smallish pancakes, and some sausage and eggs. I saved out 1/4 of the meat for Tom and I, and sauteed it with onions and tomatoes and green peppers and celery. Then added our portion of eggs, and cooked it. It was SOOOO good. And we had our pancakes with spray butter and splenda. Pretty healthy, I think :)

At about the time I was cooking Tom and my eggs (I'd cooked the regular stuff first), Captain America texted, and asked me to bring him his "shakes" dinner from the freezer. Sigh. So much for getting off early today, like he's talked about this morning. Monday and Tuesday, he'd worked 35 hours alone. He didn't get home last night until 11pm. He talked about working a few hours after noon, then heading home. It was 6 when I got his text. Sigh.

So at 6:15, I brought him up his food, and hurried back home to get ready for scouts. Andrea was dropping off her 2 little ones for me to watch, and picking up my 3 big ones to take to Scouts/Activity days at church. I get 4, she gets 4. Great trade, eh? LOL! Andrea is Toms Webelos leader, and running the den with a 20 month old isn't always fun. This works out great for both of us.

We played some, watched TV some, the bigger little boy went in the garage an shot off cap guns, and just had a relaxing evening until she got back. That was about 8:45pm. I put the kids to bed at 9pm (they're gonna be tired tomorrow, i think), and Captain America got home at 9:15pm. I guess that's early, if you consider that it's been 10 or 11 yesterday and the day before..... Poor guy - he works too hard.

Acutally, speaking of "poor", the speech teacher said that we shouldn't say that to people. It makes them feel sorry for themselves. If you say it, you should turn around and say 10 things that they're "rich" in. I'd said "poor Tom" at one point, and she was like, "You're not poor, are you Tom. You have a mom and a dad who love you, you live in a nice house, you have enough food to eat, you are smart, you love to read books and have lots to choose from..." and went on and on about all the ways that he wasn't "poor". I really liked that. I'm gonna try and eliminate that one from my vocabulary. I over-use it, I'm afraid :)

So, I'm either off to bed with my sweetie (my head is kinda hurting, but i took another pill, so I should be good in 45 minutes), off to a friends house for Game night, or off to Andreas to work on my craft. I'm gonna spray paint it (or buy ribbon) the same color as my new teal curtain..... Can you see the wheels spinning already - hehehe.

This WordArt request is from Cyndi. I thought it would be PERFECT for WordArt, and thought it turned out nicely :) I just LOVE the font of "Yourself". ATCitadel. SO pretty :) Anyway, I LOVE to be myself. I don't wanna be anyone else anyway :) They may be taken, but really, they're not as fun as me - ROFL!

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Ain't I Cute?

Holy comments, Batman! Dang, you guys! You guys really know how to leave some comments - hehehe. It was SO nice to read all of your New Years resolutions, or goals, or one word life changes, or what not today. It really brightened me day, all day long, as the comments just kept coming and coming. I sent out some WordArt packs to a few of you! I hope you enjoy!!!

I was up and getting the kids ready at 7am, but was dragging. Andrea had a sinus infection, so was going to the doctor, but Laurie came and walked with me. We were a bit late leaving, but we still walked. At a brisk pace, even. It felt real good :) But it was SUPER cold outside.

I came back home, and spent most of the rest of the morning on the computer. I had 2 more WordArt packs to design, and package up, and such. I must admit, I did spend a bit of time on Facebook, and checking emails. You guys keep me busy - LOL!

At around noon, I got a call from the Speech place, confirming my appointment for tomorrow for Thomas. Which reminded me that I had a nutrition appointment for Tom today. Crap! I'd totally forgotten about it! Good thing it wasn't until 2pm. I had time for a shower, and I went to pick him up at around 1:15pm. We were out of the school by 1:30, and to the hospital by 1:50. We were in the nutrition clinic right at 2, 15 minutes early to fill out paperwork. Dang, I timed that just right - LOL!

The nutritionist told me things that I already knew. More exercise is good. Walking to school is good, and Tom can play 30 minutes of Wii fit after school. We were doing a lot of things right. No sugar drinks (juice, soda), we drink skim milk already, use light products or fat free for mayos and sauces, stay away from cooking oil and fried things. Eat more veggies, he said, and maybe more fruit. Sigh. Yeah, we know all this. It's just a matter of actually doing it, right? That's always the trick.

We stopped at Sonic on the way home, and got a Rt 44 Diet lemonade. See, I was listening. LOL! It was tasty, and we shared with the other kids when we got home. Andrea had picked up the 2 other school kids and brought them home. We got home just a minute or two after them.

I loaded all my products in my store for Friday (Tues nite is my deadline), helped Joe with his Homework, did some dishes, got Jake back on tract with school, cooked dinner, got kids situated with Wii Fit time (everyone wanted to play at once .... sigh), and left with Andrea.

Her kids have Piano on Tues nights this month, and I went with her to keep her company while they were at their lesson. It was a nice hour chat in the car. She's such a great friend :)

Back home, kids to bed, a load of dishes, and blogging. I'd already designed before I left, so there wasn't much to do. I'm feeling like I'm either gonna get a migraine, or a sinus infection again. Sigh. I think I'm gonna tie this up, then lay down with some drugs and Breaking Dawn (mp3), in the dark, and see how it goes. It's 8:30pm, no sign of Captain America (he didn't come home for lunch, either...), so maybe I'll just go to bed early tonight. But definitely with the drugs - LOL!

I saw this sayings/title, and just thought it was ADORABLE! So, you get it in WordArt form - LOL! Hope you like it!

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Your Goal

Well, it was back to normal life today :) I was up at 7am, getting kids ready for school. Tom and Eme were already up and dressed when I got up, but poor little Joe was still snoozing. I woke him up, and helped him get dressed and fed. Poor kid. He was SO tired.

I sent the kids off to school, and Jake and Jim were still sleeping. I went back to bed. But Jimmy was awake 3 minutes later. So I had him come and join me, and we watched a bit of PBS cartoons. About 20 minutes, Andrea texted, and asked if i wanted to go walking. We agreed to go at 8:20am.

At about 8:10, I started to get ready for the walk. I threw on some exercise clothes, a sock hat, a scarf, a jacket, some gloves, and got Jimmy ready, and headed out the door. It was a nice walk. Cold outside, but nice walk. Buuurrrrrrr!

After the walk, I hurried home, and got ready to go grocery shopping. I was supposed to go tomorrow, but Andrea was going today, and I figured that I could go one day early, and have company. Sounded like more fun to me. Hehehe.

I printed out my list, and crossed off all the stuff that I already had. I went to Andreas house, and we drove to the commissary. Jimmy and Luke came with us. I left Jake at home, undisturbed, to complete his school.

We shopped, and got all the stuff that we needed. I was even $50 under budget. I'll save it for the end of the month. Sounds like a plan.

After shopping, we went home, and Jake helped me carry in all of the groceries. We ate lunch, put away groceries, and Jimmy and I headed back out with Andrea. We went to Wal-Mart this time. I needed Blistex for Captain America, and she needed a few things. We found Christmas stuff for 75% off, and I got some gift baskets for SUPER cheap. Lotions and bath soaps and such. Should be good for a "fast" gift. And under $2 is a FABULOUS price :)

We went back home, and Jimmy and I went to lay down for a little while, before the kids came home from school. At 4pm, the kids came home, and Laurie invited them over to her house to play with her kids. Jim and Joe and Eme and Tom went to play for a few hours. Jake was still working on Homework (he was doing SO well without the distractions of Jim and the rest of the kids), and Andrea and I went out to JoAnns Fabric. We wanted to do THIS craft. Here's a pic of it:


Isn't it cute? We got the foam wreath, and we'd already bought the lima beans earlier at the commissary. I'll keep you posted on the progress :) Should be a lot of fun. I think that after our walk tomorrow, I'll go over to her house and work on it. Which means that I need to find my glue gun and glue. I wonder where that is......

The kids came back home at around 6:00pm, and we had dinner. Crock pot chicken, and salad with croutons, and green beans. Mmmmm, tasty. I cleaned up the kitchen (washed ALL the dishes by hand), Jake did school, Eme played Wii fit, the little kids took a bath, and Tom, um, er, well, I'm not sure what he did - hehehe.

I put the little kids to bed, Jake finished up school, Tom and Eme went to read, and I designed. I got 3 new WordArt packs designed. One about friends, one all Mark Twain quotes, and one about the past. I think they turned out pretty good. I did notice a typo in one, but I still have time to fix it. I just need to remember to go and do it - LOL!

I took a nice hot bath, and relaxed for a while before Captain America came home. He and I chatted for a while before bed, and here it is, 11pm. I'm gonna shut this computer off, and listen to Breaking Dawn for a while. I'm already on chapter 9. Dang, it goes fast when you listen, not read. hehehe.

OK, I thought that this one would be PERFECT for the New Year. Maybe you can scrap a page with your New Years resolutions or goals. What do ya think??

And, while I'm talking about New Years Resolutions, I have an idea. Leave me a comment, with your New Years resolution (and an email address), and I'll come back and give out a few of my new WordArt packs that are releasing on Friday. Sound like a plan?

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TYPO IS ALL FIXED. The downloads have been updated as of 1/5/10 (12pm MST) And yes, I know that the preview is STILL wrong.....

Stupid Together

Hey, just thought I'd let you know that Scraporchard is up and running again! Remodel is ALL done. It looks FABULOUS! Click HERE to go and give it a look see. AND, later in the month, we're gonna be having a Twitter/Facebook tag, so you need to be signed up with the designers Facebook fan page, and Twitter page. Click HERE for my facebook fan page, and HERE for my Twitter page. Hopefully I can figure this out - ROLF!

Another Sunday come and gone... I didn't even hear Captain America get up and leave this morning. Either I was totally out, or he was extra quiet - hehehe. The kids and I were up at 7:30am, getting ready, and out the door at 8:30am.

Church was good. Sacrament for an hour, Junior Primary for an hour, and Senior Primary for an hour. Then home. Lunch. Captain America was home at 2ish, and we took a nap. Well, I listened to Breaking Dawn on my MP3 player, while napping. It was very pleasant. hehehe.

I woke up at around 4pm, and got the kids some cereal. We did chores, folded laundry, and watched the Doctor Who special part 2. I'd already seen it, but they hadn't. I laid on the couch with Jimmy, and listened to Breaking Dawn. SO relaxing. That was the theme for the day, I think - LOL!

Captain America woke up at 6pm, we got the kids some dinner, and the big boys and Captain America hopped online with the Uncles in St. Louis to play battlefield. The little kids popped in a movie, and I started blogging. I need to go and put them to bed, since it's almost 8pm, and there's school in the morning. I think I'm gonna finish this up, then lay in bed, in the dark, and listen to my story. Life is good sometimes, you know :) hehehe.

I just thought that this was SUCH a cute saying :) Sorry, I can't remember who requested it, though - hehehe. It was from facebook, I know that much :) Click on the link below to go to my account to download the PNG file, and leave some love if you like my work. Thanks!

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Seek God

First off, these are for Grandma Ida. So Mom, or Aunt Sue, yoohoo, you need to show her these :) Pretty please, just for me??? This is what the kids used their $$$ from Grandma Ida on :)

Tom and his ship

Joe and his Skateboard with Helmet

Jim with his Car

Eme with her oven.Jake just pocketed the cash. ROFL! And here's me on my Friday night date with Captain America :)

Hey all! Hope your last Saturday before the official end of the holidays was a good one for you :) Mine was pretty good :)

I was up at 8:30am, and got ready for the day. I gathered up my things for the Primary "Meet your Teacher" brunch, and Eme and I headed to the church. Captain America was gonna come up at 10am and deliver the rest of the kids.

Eme and I helped set up chairs, and get the food together, and get it all together. It looked pretty good when we were done.

And dang, we had SUCH a good turn out. There were a TON of people there. 90% of our teachers were there, and a majority of the primary kids. Gotta love it when a plan comes together. The kids met their teachers, ate food, and had fun. It was such a simple activity, but such a successful one. We're gonna have to do that next year too :)

I had lunch when I got home, fed the kids, and laid down for a nap. I was feeling really tired. I was trying to stick to the diet, and maybe that was why. Anyway, the nap felt good :)

I folded some laundry after I woke up, and helped Captain America wash the cars. Well, "helped" may be used loosely in this case. I did vacuum Captain America's car a bit. A little bit. Mostly I chatted with my neighbor across the street, and my neighbor Leigh. Those girls are a lot of fun :)

At around 5:30, Captain America and I headed out to the Verizon store. Captain America's phone had been acting up, and mine hadn't been doing too hot either. Kept shutting off all the time. Sigh. Anyway, we got on the "waiting list" to chat with someone, which was 20 minutes. We walked next door to Subway, and had dinner. I had a Grilled Chicken Breast 6 inch sandwich and a soup. And a diet lemonade. Yummy!

When we finally got to chat with someone at Verizon, the dude said that he'd needed to trade out our phones. Because ours were faulty. Hopefully this new one (it's the 3rd exact same phone....) will work better than the previous ones. The dude approved a different phone for Captain America's replacement, but it would needed to be mailed to him. I think he said that it would get here on Tuesday. He was pretty excited about it.

Captain America dropped me off at the movies at 6:45pm, for New Moon. Again. With the girls. We had SO much fun! Including me, I had 12 girls there! I must admit, there was a lot of whispering, ooohing and aweing, catcalling, and woohoo-ing. Yes, that's what happens when you get 12 females together - hehehehe.

Leslie and her daughter and her friends and kids were sitting a few rows ahead of us, so we didn't get any photos of them. Sorry, girls! Next time :) But here's the pictures that we did get :)

Lets see if I can get everyone. We have Helen in the glasses and red sweater on the left, then a girl who's name I can't remember in front of her, then Wanda with the dark, shorter hair behind her (that space between Helen and Wanda was my seat), then Jessi in front of her (with the popcorn), then Karen next to Wanda, then Hillary, and Heather is standing up with the stripes. I think that is all you can see in this picture :)

You can see Laurie behind Heather in this one. Sit down, Heather! ROFL!

Here we go! That's Leigh next to Hillary, and her friend that she invited too (don't know her name - sorry girl!)

Yeah, there was WAY too many people and too much talking to get everyone looking the same direction with their mouths closed - hehehe.

Here's Helen and I

And Heather and Jessi :)

Captain America and I watched the 2nd half of the Doctor Who Christmas/New Years when I got home from the movies. FABULOUS, as always. I LOVE Russell T Davies as a writer. I think he's wonderful. I really felt sorry for the Doctor in this special 2 parter. Poor guy. It made me cry a couple of times. I could feel his pain. Does anyone know when the new season, with Matt Smith (that IS his name, right?) starts? I wonder if I'll like him as the Doctor? Christopher Eccleston was SO liked by me when David Tennant took over, but I was hooked in a few episodes. I wonder if it will be the same with Matt?

Well, I must say, I really liked how this one turned out :) That font for Seek is just great :) It's from Font Folio, I think. I like it :) hehehe. Anyway, since this is the January 2010 Theme for Relief Society, I thought it was appropriate. Enjoy!

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New Year's Resolution

Although I did get to sleep in this morning, since I didn't go to bed until about 3:30am, I was still tired when I woke up. But, the kids were 'accidentally" bumping into the door, and it was almost 10am, so I knew that I was needed - LOL!

It was a leisurely day at the Harty House. Kids spent more time cleaning their room (yeah, how messy can it really be? or are they just not working? I'm thinking the latter), and playing with toys, and watching a few movies.

I worked on my laptop quite a bit, trying to get files transfered over. And you know what? I'm not loving the new laptop. I'm thinking that it's defective, or something. It's SUPER slow, I've had to manually turn it off about 10 times already (just in one day), and it just seems buggy to me. I need to get ahold of my brother in law, and see if he knows what the deal is. Or call the company, or something.

Plus, the dryer guy never called back. I'm gonna be SO mad if I'm stuck with a lemon dryer that I paid $70. That's SO not cool. Not cool at all. Still trying to give the dude the benefit of the doubt, but I have 2 loads of laundry that are washed but not dried sitting in my laundry room, and if I wait much longer, they're gonna need re-washed. Sigh.

I watched a movie with the kids after lunchtime. "Penelope". It was a nice movie :) I think the kids enjoyed it :) At 3:30 or 4ish, I started dinner. Since we didn't get Tacos on Christmas, I decided to do them on New Years.

I made the meat, heated the beans, made some rice, diced the tomatoes, onions, lettuce, shredded some cheese, heated the tortillas, and busted out the "christmas dishes" that I'd gotten from Andrea for Christmas :) I was SO excited to use them. Snowman plates - hehehe.

Oh yeah, and I made a fruit salad to go with it, and diet lemonade. Since our big table broke, we put 4 people at the real table, and 3 people at the little coffee/end tables that I'd pulled in. They sat on pillows. I know, bad, but the food was all at the "bar", and there wasn't any room for kids. We made due, you know :)

After dinner, we cleaned up, and got ready for our "date". Captain America and I were gonna go see New Moon on post. Can't beat $2 tickets! It was only my 4th time - ROFL! We got there, and there was a line of anxious females. ROFL! What had Captain America gotten himself into - hehe. Last time he and I went, it was a much older crowd. No young girls. This one was FULL of them.

It really was just as good watching it again. I'm starting to notice little things that I missed the first time around - hehehe. But the love story is still just as sweet :)

I thought it was hilarious, how at the end, people were surprised at how it ended. Didn't they know there were 2 more parts to come? LOL! Captain America thought it was SO funny, all the sighs, and cat calls, and girlie giggling. Too funny :)

We got home at 9pm, and I started baking mini muffins for the Primary "Meet Your New Teacher" brunch tomorrow. 10am at the church. I made so many mini muffins I lost count. Sigh. I'm thinking I have close to 200. That should be pleanty. We're also having fruit and bagels with cream cheese and juice and milk. Pleanty of food, right?

So here it is, 11:30pm, and I'm tired. I've blogged, so that's good. I just need to design a quick freebee, and I'm off to bed. The last of the mini muffins are almost ready to come out of the oven.

We're gonna be doing some projects around the house on Saturday, then the girls and I are going to see, yup, you guessed it, New Moon on post. While I like to watch movies with my man, and snuggle up, it's a TON of fun to go with the girls and be all girlie. I guess that's why we need "female" friends, right?

So I bet you can guess why I picked this one - hehehe. I'm getting back on my diet. I'm afraid to get on the scales, because I can tell that I picked up quite a bit of weight these last few weeks. Even my fattest pants are tight. That's not good. Good thing is, though, that it'll come off quick, if I still to the program. I'm SO ready for it. And Andrea and I are gonna start walking/running. That'll be good too! We'll be fit for the new year :)

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Fonts:
New, Year's - His Name Is Honey
Resolution - Title Wave

(see, i do occasionally list these - especially if I have the fonts memorized, that makes the process easier - LOL!)

2010

Happy New Years!!! I hope that each and every one of you and your families had a WONDERFUL New Years Eve, and I wish you the best in 2010!!!

I slept in for a while (only till about 8:45am), then hurried out of the room when my mom called. I didn't want to wake up Captain America. We chatted for a bit, then I got on my computer for a while. Housekeeping things online take FOREVER :)

I designed my portion for the Feb 2010 Mega for Scraporchard, and got it all designed and zipped and uploaded. The designing part is the easy part - LOL! It's all the other stuff that goes along with it that takes forever :)

We just spent a lazy morning at home, and at around 1pm, we headed out to lunch. I wanted to take the family over to the west side to try the Chinese Buffet that Andrea and I had gone to last week. I think they liked it :) Jake and Tom seemed to REALLY enjoy themselves. And Joe is a slow but steady eater - ROFL! Just like my dad. Joe is SO skinny, it's funny that he can pack in so much food - ha!

After lunch/early dinner, we headed to the mall to walk around for a while. We weren't buying anything, just there to look. I'll do that every once in a while. Take out ALL the fam, just so that they're used to being in public, and can practice how to act - LOL! And I think it does people good to see families that are SO big - hehehe.

We headed home, and headed out again. Captain America and I went to pick up a different dryer. We'd found it in Craigslist, and it was only $70. We met the dude at the Walgreens parking lot. We were home by 6pm.

We hooked up the dryer, and it didn't work. ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? That's SO not cool. We texted the guy, but he sounded busy. He said he'd call in the morning. Sigh. Great. Now I have 2 broken dryers..... But I have faith that Captain America can get it sorted out. He's good like that. I'll just have to trust in him. What else can I do, right?

Also, the girl who's house we were going over to for New Years Eve called to cancel. She had a urinary tract infection, and needed to go and get different antibiotics for it, since it wasn't clearing up. SO, we were left with no plans for New Years Eve.

I had movies for the kids to watch, but told them that until their rooms were clean, they couldn't watch them. They'd been working on their rooms for the past 3 days now. I heard the vaccuum not too long ago, so I'm thinking that it's getting close. The little boys just finished, and they're watching some Santa puppy movie. I don't know what it was - LOL!

My new computer came today! I'm getting it set up, slowly but surely. First step, install Avast Antivirus. My brother in law, Nathaniel (Fan), swears by it. So I go with Avast. And it's free, so I can't complain :) I'll have to do most of it tomorrow. Captain America and I are headed out to see Avatar. I hate to pay for the new movies, but there's nothing left at the cheap theater that we haven't seen yet - ROFL!

Just got back from the movies :) It was AWESOME! The main bad guy was a guy from the Gettysburg movie that Captain America just LOVES. So that was pretty cool. And we kinda figured that the guys from WETA, from Lord of the Rings were involved, since it was simple breath taking at time. The scenery was amazing, especially since it was probably all computer generated. Fantastic!

The movie didn't start until 10:15pm, so it was New Years when we were in the theater. My watch beeped at midnight, I kissed Captain America, and we went back to watching the Movie - LOL! The kids were at home watching movies. I'd got a few for them to watch that they hadn't seen before.

We, of course, got stopped coming back into the post for a "random" inspection. How random is it if we get stopped every time we go on a date? But I was prepared this time. I'd even worn my new wool socks. LOL! And i had a scarf, and gloves. See, being prepared pays off! But then, I think they were checking everyone tonight. They had a TON of security guys, and MP's, and dogs, and such. I guess security it tight on New Years Eve. We just need a sticker on our car that says "We Don't Drink", so we can get onto post - ROFL!

So, I made this COOL WordArt (well, I thought it was cool - of course, I made it at 2:30am, so maybe I just think it's cool - hehehe) for ya! Hope you like it too!

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