Thursday, June 28, 2012

Everybody's working for the weekend

Or at least I am!

It's a glamping weekend!  YAY!

We're off to Canoe River tonight as soon as John and I get home from work.  Can't wait.   Susan is joining us tonight, Rob and Georgie will join tomorrow.  Janet has her own campsite so she'll be with us this weekend as well.   Weather report this morning says high 80's and sunny all weekend.  Mama will be working on her tan.  YAHOOO!   You know that's all I need for a good time.  Well, that and camping with my family, my BFF and her family of course.   Um, maybe a little booze.  My girlfriend, Tiffany, was kind enough to call me Tuesday night and share that she has tried Three Olives "Loopy" and it's to die for.  Bitch was half in the bag and bragging about how good it was and I had to try it.  LOVE HER.   LOL.

I'm so grateful that we are blessed enough to do this with / for our kids.  Camping is something I never did with my family growing up.  My Mom just wasn't into things like that.  Aside from the fact that she was a single mother raising three children.  She worked full time - she did it all on her own.  I know how hard it was for her.  I'm not faulting her.  I'm just saying these kinds of things totally weren't her bag.   That's okay.   But I love doing it and I love that our kids and our friends love doing it with us!

The kids are all so excited.  They are SUPER excited that The Taskers are coming with us.  Erynn has been talking about them all coming for days.  I love it.  I love that my kids love them as much as I do.  I look at Susan like she's my sister. I'm definitely closer to her than I am to my own sister, so it means a lot that my kids love her so much.  Warms my cold little heart.  *wink*

I fully admit that starting off this weekend with the midnight premiere of Magic Mike isn't making my day any worse either.  HA.  Lord almighty I can't wait to see this movie. I posted on Facebook the other day that I bought Lux Level passes to the midnight viewing and someone commented about lowering my expectations and I should be fine.  Um, expectations?  It's a movie about male strippers LMAO.  I have no expectations.  I don't care if there is NO plot.  Have you SEEN the commercials?  Have you seen the men that are in this movie?   I just hope to keep the drool at a respectable minimum thankyouverymuch.  Bring on the half nekkid men......yeah buddy!

Just in case you are living under a rock and have no idea what I am talking about I am happily willing to share the trailer with you.   Enjoy!!!

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Migraines = Hell

Yep, I still have them.
Yes, they still effect me.
Yes, they still suck.  Big time.

The good news is, in taking better care of myself, I have started seeing a neurologist again and I'm back on the daily migraine preventative meds.  Topomax.  I have definitely seen an improvement over the last few months.  But, the last two weeks have been really bad.  I'm not sure what changed but the migraines have definitely increased and intensified.  No bueno.  I went back to the neuro for a check up on Friday and he's upped my Topomax to 125mg per night.  He gave me a week-long course of Steroids to try and break this cycle and I'm having an MRI today.   I haven't had one since before Aidan was born.  I honestly don't remember much about it.  I do remember them giving me headphones and asking what station I wanted to listen to.  I remember it being useless because I couldn't hear a damn thing over all that banging and knocking.  I can't remember how long the MRI lasted.  I can't remember if I wanted to freak out.  They did ask me this time around if I am claustrophobic.  I said no because I don't think I am.  I've only done this once and it was a long time ago people.  I can barely remember last week nevermind nine years ago lol. 

I must admit I am a *teeny* bit nervous.  Dr. Kulla said MRI and I said sure, no problem.  Then he called it in and said "Brain scan to look for a mass."   Oh, um, okay.   Maybe I should have left the room for that part.  It hadn't even occured to me.  I was blissfully clueless and just saying oh sure, you can send me for a scan, no biggie.  But the mass part didn't even click.   I'm sure it will be fine though.  Positive thoughts and all that. 

I'll come back and update with the results once I hear back.   Wish me luck!

Update - MRI went well.  No results, will have to call Dr in a week or so. 

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Angry Bird Recap

I can't believe Ryan is already 6 years old.  Where did the time go???  I love this little man.  He is the sweetest little boy with the devil in him.  You know how it goes.  He is fresh at times but if you yell at him or tell him he's in trouble he'll burst into tears because the thought of you being mad at him breaks his heart.  I just love him to pieces.  He has his moments (hello, all kids do) but for the most part he's pretty damn good.

He decided he wanted an Angry Birds party so off I went! I found some things on Pinterest (of course because you know I am addicted to that website!) that helped me out a bit and then I was able to come up with some things on my own as well. He had such a good time and I think everyone else did too!!

Favors














I found these at the Dollar Store and then colored the faces with Sharpie markers. Artist I am NOT but the kids loved them lol.

 












Cupcakes



























Ryan's special cupcake - this one was an extra large one














Food bowls
















Food labels















The balloons - I think these were my favorite. We tied them to the mailbox so ppl knew where to go since our house is set back off the road. We also had them tied to the front porch. Ryan loved them and they were SO easy to make!!! Cutting the faces out was a bit of a pain but after that it wasn't bad.














The birthday boy and his special balloon














The Kids - almost all of them.  I think the grand total ended up being 22!
Thank God it was nice out!  What a difference from last year.  Almost every kid he invited this year came AND the parents stayed as well.  Last year it was okay, here is my kid, nice to meet you, we'll be back in two hours!  














My big boy - Happy 6th Birthday Ryan Joseph!!!

Here we go again

Trying to play catch up.  Again.
Let's see if I can keep this short.  Probably not right?  It's been a month.  A month already?!   I was called out again.........thank you PB lol.   

Short and sweet.  Like my hair that I never fully caught up on.   That has finally been fixed.  Completely this time. Not that I have a final picture but I do have an almost final picture.  I can do a recap of that really quickly.  

Started off here if you remember:










 


Middle looked like this:













Ended up here:













Almost.  It's actually two inches shorter now because I cut it again on Friday.  But I'm done now.  I love it, I'm happy and I'm committing to getting BACK in the SALON!!  Yes, I said it.  I really don't do a whole hell of a lot for myself these days.  I do anything for my kids, they come first.  The only thing I have to maintain is a pedicure and honest to God that is because I have an ingrown (SORRY, gross, but true) and I can't take care of it on my own.  That's it.  So I said to John every six weeks I'm going to the salon for a cut and color.  NO more of this bullshit of begging and waiting around for someone else (cough my sister in law cough) to come and do my hair.  I deserve a little something.  So it's back to the salon I used to go to as a kid.  Yes, literally, the very same.  It's changed names about six times since then but the owner is now the same girl that cut my hair back then!  She actually did my hair this past week.  It's SUPER inexpensive so there really are no excuses.  The cost of the color includes a cut and blowdry so it's about time I invest a little money in my appearance.  I'm finally feeling GOOD about myself these days. Yes folks, I put that in writing.  For those of you who really know me, pick your asses back up off the floor.  I know you aren't used to hearing me say that about myself.  But I'm down 22lbs and I am feeling pretty. damn. good. these days so I'm going to keep on doing what I'm doing and that includes keeping up with my hair.  

End of rant!!!   Still need to post pics of Ryan's kick butt Angry Birds party..........I'll do that in just a few minutes. 

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