Busy Momma

Well a lot of stuff has gone down this week. One of which is the fact that the only other trainer for both our gyms gave notice. Supposedly he will be there through July, but year right. That NEVER happens. So I will be working both gyms and trying to manage that.

Then online has been awesomely busy! Our Mom Chat Rooms have been super busy. I had to take over doing the scheduling this week and faked the newsletter because my partner Lauren had lightening hit by or on her house and her computer was down. THANK YOU GOD that the modem was the only thing broke and it only took a week to figure this out. I am so thankful!

I had new clients with sites to be completed and also some VA work for a new service I am helping on. Then there is the new biz venture of affiliate managing that my friend and other biz partner on My WAHM Space have started. She will be doing the majority of the work for a while since I’ll be busy offline. But I will be doing a lot of behind the scenes contract work.

That is all just the tip of the iceberg. It’s crazy summer busy around here and I need to bring my laptop around more so I can blog offline more and then just put it up for you all to read.

Happy SUMMER!!! I live for this shit~!

What is up with the no sleep? I’m noticing a pattern here. The longer he has worked with the department the less I sleep when he is gone. I’m not conscientiously worried about him at work. But I’m just not sleeping well if he’s not home. Here it is 1:18am and I’m still up and ready to stay up for hours.

I am working on a possible new form of some serious income. If both new things pan out then I can work all hours of the day and nite with no worries. I know I’ve been doing these morning appointments for a long time now and that is so not like me. I’ve been doing 4-5 days a week of getting up at 4 and 5am. HOLY CRAP! I’ve been doing this for over 6 months. Now some of you are going so what, I do that all the time? Well, I am not a morning person, I’m a nite owl. So I am frequently up until 1 or 3am. An early nite for me is 10:30 lol.

I love my job and I love my clients, but I’m not sure how long I can do these mornings. Although, hmmm, these mornings bring me in $900-$1200 a month for 1 - 2 hours of work 4 early mornings a week. AHHHH, put it that way and I’ll get my lazy ass up. Boy just putting that number out there says a lot doesn’t it? DUH, it’s totally worth getting up and taking a nap later during the day. It’s a weird schedule, but I guess I’m weird so I’ll make it work. Thanks for listening! LOL

If you came to my house…

You would see:
A kinda clean house. I made the kids do a lot of cleaning.

I’d probably feed you:
Grilled chicken, we eat a lot of that. Green salad, maybe some potatoes.

And offer you this to drink:
Diet pepsi, coors light, raspberry lemonade crystal light.

I’d undoubtedly ask if you’d read:
nothing, I don’t generally ask if people read

I’d want to play this music for you:
Well this would depend on if we were drinking or not. lol Probably just the rock station would be on. But if we start getting crazy then the Buckcherry albums will be put on.

I’d want to tell you about:
my puppies that you are probably already in love with. lol

I’d probably suggest a game of:
no games, possibly some texas hold em and if the kids are up Uno

I would definitely show off:
my scrapbooks

I might get on the computer and show you:
nothing, I’m told to stay off the computer when we have company. lol I get made fun of cause I’m always on it.

If it was a long enough visit, we might watch:
talledega nights

What would a visit to your house be like?

How did this happen? My kids are awesome. Yes, they are still kids and we go through crap, but they are truly awesome kids. Neither one of them told Dad happy Father’s day before he went to work today. WTF? They are too old for me to have to tell them to do that.

So I was at my soccer game. Cranky cause the game went to shit since we played the entire 80 minutes with only 10 people and I really needed a sub today with my asthma. I get home and next thing I know he is super pissed off and slamming doors saying bye and going to work. HOLY SHIT, what happened? I know I made him angry, but it wasn’t that big of a deal.

He called me when he got to work and apologized. I then asked him if the kids had even said Happy F Day to him. He said no. AWWW MAN! The poor guys feelings were totally hurt and of course he is in a total funk and not talking about his feelings to anyone so he’d just had it and blew up. I’m happy it looked like he was angry at me.

So we went and bought him the ipod shuffle he’s been wanting and took it to the station. I hadn’t toured that station so we got the grand tour, hugged the guys cause it was all our buddies he was working with today, dropped off cookies and then I made the kids do a ton of cleaning. lol I also had them mow the front yard for him. Course now this just proves that they can do everything and we’ve really raised spoiled brats. ROFLMAO

So it’s better, but still, the poor guy. This will go down as the worst Father’s day ever. OH and to top it off, with all the drama, I forgot to call my dad before he went to work. So now I’m a crappy daughter on top of it! ARGHHHHH, BRATS!!!

Sure I’m a personal trainer, shhhh, most of you are not supposed to know that. lol But some days I just don’t want to think about what is in the food and all the “nutritionals”. Yes, I am human damn it! Now I’m not saying that all the recipes on Shelly’s site are bad for you. I’m just saying that she has put the recipes on Shakin’ & Bakin’ because they are good.

Like the Strawberry Lady Puffs Recipe. OMG this sounds so yummy. But not only did she put the recipe up. There are links to the history of ladyfingers and a link for more recipes that use them. WOW, research and a recipe. OH and then I can make the recipe with the kids and pull the history info out and become the total dorky Mom. I always love to do that. Anything to make them roll their eyes at me. ROFLMAO

Do not puke when Dad isn’t home. It’s not nice. You know Mommy is a sympathy puker and the smell makes me sick too. UGH, have to be a grown up and clean it up. I did it without tossing anything up myself, so I’m getting much better.

Poor son even said, why does this have to happen only when Dad’s not home. Poor guy, he’s throwing up and worried about me because he knows I can’t take it. lol

So it’s cleaned up and it’s official…anyone want a bunk bed? It’s the upperbunk with a desk and shelves below. It is impossible to help change his sheets and when things like this happens it makes a huge mess. That thing is out of here! Where the hell is my stimulus check? I have a bed to buy.

Reading this story that jelly mom sent out today I go between angry and laughing. This is a big reason why I can’t stand shopping at walmart. There are many other reasons as well. But I always worry that I’m going to be leaving the big W in the back of a squad car. lol I get run over by carts and peoples kids are running all over the place driving me nuts.

So it’s great for me to know that I am not the only one battling that issue. Although I’m happy to say I haven’t stepped foot in that store for well over two years. Ever since we got my beloved Target!

Survival of The Fittest Shopper
©Lisa Barker

It happens all the time. People speed and chat on the phone while they eat lunch—all behind the wheel. They have no problem multi-tasking in the car. But put them behind a shopping cart at Walmart and these same people can’t walk and browse at the same time.

You can see the drool dangling off their chins and the vacant look in their eyes and you’re stuck behind them as they feebly try to figure out how to put one foot in front of the other.

Oh, I love shopping in a packed store. My rear end must look like a shopping cart receptacle because people repeatedly try to park theirs in it. It must be an unwritten rule that states that fellow shoppers who stop to look at merchandise are targets.

And it’s not like I stopped suddenly or that I’m being rammed forcibly from behind. I’m reading birthday cards and the next thing I know I’m being sodomized. The corner of a shopping cart is pressed against me even though I’m standing to the side while there is this whole aisle this other shopper could use to get around me.

But, no, she’s looking at the same merchandise as if she can see right through me and continues to push her way to it. At this point I can either start climbing the card racks or ask her kindly if she would like to remove her cart from my derriere. I get that vacant look again.

What, am I shopping with the undead?

People who defy Darwin’s theory of evolution surround me. They are neither stronger nor brighter than a cumquat and probably couldn’t cause any harm on their own, but once they group together, look out.

I am the fourth person in line at one of the crowded registers. I’ve waited patiently for twenty minutes. Suddenly there is a woman with five kids standing beside me edging closer to the front of my cart. She refuses to look at me as if by not seeing me she’s doing no wrong.

Next, her kids start grabbing at candy and gum and she tries to use that to further claim a place ahead of me in line, little by little pressing ahead until I finally block her by shoving my cart directly into the man ahead of me.

I don’t know what planet she’s from, but here on earth line jumping is a universal no-no. She slowly wanders back to the end of the line and I clamp down on my tongue before mocking her feigned mental disability.

Hey, I’ve got a screaming kid on my left and right and neither belongs to me. I want out of there.

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I just finished PS-I love you. Yes, I need a link to that, but I don’t have the energy. For various reasons. This movie is beautiful and I highly recommend it. Yes, it’s sad, but it will have you tearing up and laughing at the same time.

I’m an emotional wreck as usual. Too long hours and no time with hubby.

But the most important is that no matter what I post, I honestly love him. He makes me laugh at all costs, no matter how angry or sad I am. He woke up and told me to go to bed the other night when I was up too late because my great-Aunt passed. He is my everything and I do know this. Now I need to tell him again tomorrow.

He’s going to always frustrate me. He’s my closest family. There will NEVER be anyone closer than he is no matter what. I could never open up to another like he knows, anyone else walking into my relationship would be at a serious disadvantage. Nothing I can do about it, he got me at 17 and it’s forever. lol

But, don’t go thinking we don’t have our issues. It’s just that we have had issues and aren’t talking about them right now. That’s unhealthy and will change asap. NO REGRETS and you get no tomorrow!

Canadian women have launched a campaign that is truly hilarious and scary. It’s amazing that any culture would still live their lives with amazingly stupid traditions. Although it’s obvious that Myanmar is well past stupid in regards to their governments beliefs.

So read the ARTICLE and decide if you have any panties you can send.

Now here is a must have game for my closet. Wineopoly!!! My friend blogged about it and you can read more about the game at her blog. I can see my friends and I sitting on the patio with our bottles of wine playing this game. lol