arbitrary things

March 25, 2008 · 6 comments

Lots of stuff in my head the last couple of days, figured it was time to pour it out here (heh, i just pictured a bright green cup full of random words tipping over and landing on the counter, forming sentences on their own…)

  • Bad news, again in my family (really, how much more can we handle…wait, never mind, I don’t want to know). My uncle died in the wee hours of Monday morning. The uncle that was married to the aunt that just passed away? Yeah, I know. Took a spill, bumped his head very hard and had internal bleeding in the brain that couldn’t be stopped. I can’t even imagine the devastation of my cousins losing both parents within two months. I. can’t. imagine. Talk about having to be a grown-up for real and from now on…
  • Made plans to go to an indoor water park with the neighbors and their kids in a couple weeks. It’s actually pretty funny…it’s about 30 miles away and we’re staying the night! πŸ˜€ Just one night, play both days, then home. Strikes me as seriously funny for some reason.
  • Looking so forward to the NY trip in a couple of months! Still need a place to stay, so any suggestions of a hotel greatly appreciated. OH, and if you know someone awesome in New Hampshire who is trustworthy, safe, loves kids and isn’t a serial killer of some kind and would be willing to babysit my cousin’s totally adorable and very well-behaved kids for the weekend, let me know. πŸ˜‰
  • Good news! On the day we found out about our uncle, my other cousin let me know that she’s PREGNANT!!! Circle of life.
  • I have serious anger issues with Matt and the potty/pooping/nighttime potty issues. It’s wrong and I totally don’t say the bad things I’m thinking to him, but man, I certainly want to! For example, he’s moaning and groaning today, needing to go and totally holding it in. Seriously, we’ve been down this road too many times. And screaming for me? Please. I can’t poop for you. And then later? He’s sitting on the toilet, trying to go and he’s peeing ALL OVER THE FLOOR. And I’m like “ARGHHHH!!!! Push your peepee down!!” and he cries “I want you to!” UH, NO. I’ll just clean up the freaking pee, thanks. I’m sorry, it’s probably wrong, but me holding his boy parts down while he pees just skeeves me out to no end. I have no problem wiping or washing him, but that is just icky to me. Am I out of line, here?
  • On the same note, we were at Jungle Java today, and he had to go and so did his friend. I was holding Preston, lamenting the getting up and taking all 3 of them, when Matt says they can go on their own. Since we were sitting literally next to the men’s room door, I let them. And they did fine. Alone. Of course, I’d never let him do that at Target or anything, but it was a nice little break!
  • I’m more annoyed than inspired by Orpah these days. She actually kind of annoys the piss out of me, and I haven’t seen her show in ages. Her favorite things show used to totally rock, but now it’s pretty lame. And the whole big give thing? Please, just let people do good things with your money, why does it have to be a competition?
  • My halfathon training? Not going very well at this point. Every time I get started, something seems to come up. The latest is this crappy lung-cough thing I have going on when I try to breathe deeply. Unfortunately, I can’t run and not breathe, so that’s not working for me. And if the weather would warm up or at least not be crappy, I would be seriously motivated.
  • I (only) have 2.8 days worth of music on my current iTunes playlist in my office-room. In my case, that is 1062 songs.
  • By the time I get the guts to do the self-portrait truthiness challenge, it’ll be old news.
  • I don’t use a feed reader to read blogs. I go through my blogroll and bookmarks (blogs not added to my roll yet) and read them all. Pretty much every day.
  • I despise email forwards. Please don’t send me stuff about seeing something amazing or my wishes coming true or my life becoming perfect in every way if I send said email to 5 people in 5 minutes. And please? Check snopes before you send me those spider under the toilet seat/boycott starbucks/kid is missing email. Please. Thanks.
  • On the flip side, I absolutely adore email (unless it’s from my dad’s wife, in which case just seeing her name involves involuntary eye rolling and cursing under my breath) and text messages. Love them.
  • Preston is smart.
  • Fun web stuff: Pants in a Pinch! You know how you always need an extra pair of pants for your little one when you don’t have any? Well, check these out! A perfect solution!!Next, what my newest sewing project will be (well, once I finish my Easter bags, little stuffed things I’m making and the wallet I want to make…). Of course, mine will be a road / city scape instead to hold cars, but the idea is awesome!
  • And from a post I started compiling forever ago, some really silly and lame quotes from tv shows. It’s ok if you don’t laugh, I know I’m a fruitcake. πŸ˜€

From Entourage (I forget which episode):

– “What’s up?” (Turtle, I think!)

– “My budget. Take us to 90210” (Johnny Drama)

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From Grey’s Anatomy 3/22/07

Izzie: “How do you know it didn’t feel so right because it’s God’s plan?”

Addison: “God wants you to be an adulterer?”

Izzie: “God got a virgin pregnant by magic; God is not playing by the rules.” πŸ˜†

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From Grey’s Anatomy 5/3/07 (Though this could have been said in my house on any given day)

Addison: “You’re using FART logic?!”

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Addison: “Hey, what are you doing?”

Tim Daly’s Character: “I’m gonna kiss you. I’m gonna kiss you with tongue. I’m gonna kiss you so you feel it. Ok?”

Addison: “…Ok….”

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From According to Jim, “Deliverance” episode. Ok, the whole episode was freaking hilarious, but here are some of the lines from just one scene. Yes, I have that sense of humor!! You have to read it as it’s pronounced. Wait for it…. πŸ˜€ I seriously was laughing so hard I couldn’t even tell Mike what I was laughing about.

Andy: Hey Jim, did you know there are over 800,000 people living in Djibouti (Pronunced Jabooty)?

Jim: Hey look at this, You know what Djibouti’s (Jabooty) leading export is…Natural Gas.

Jim: Alright,Alright, Alright, We know this is tough, we are trying to lighten it up a little.

Dana: Well don’t, It’s not funny. My husband’s stuck in Djibouti (Jabooty) and can’t get out. (Jim and Andy crack up)

Dana: Stop it! There’s a civil war going on, Djibouti (Jabooty) could be split right down the middle.

πŸ˜€

Ok, that’s enough random stuff leaking out of my head for one night…

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flutter March 25, 2008 at 7:11 pm

I am sorry about your uncle, love

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alejna March 25, 2008 at 7:14 pm

There sure has been a lot of stuff in your head. I'm with you on the email business. The forwards are irritating. Snopes is our friend. I'm so sorry about your uncle. What a shock. I feel for your cousins.

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Loralee March 25, 2008 at 7:38 pm

I am SO sorry about your uncle. His poor kids. I really feel for your family.

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christine March 26, 2008 at 4:29 am

i am so sorry about your uncle, really. how awful. and i get really agry mad at my sone for his potty training issues. i feel like an a class jerk. and good for you training for a half marathon–cool!

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capacious March 28, 2008 at 8:17 am

Bad things often seem to happen all at once. Dunno why. It makes a person feel like the sky is falling. The good news is, then you will be DONE for a while. How do you possibly get to run when you have such small children? God bless you, sister. The weekends are the only time available to run at our house. I am perpetually jealous of runners. I give them all the finger when I drive past, damn fit people out enjoying themselves. Just kidding. Really.

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Ivy Brown March 30, 2008 at 10:30 am

So sorry to hear about your uncle. You're in my thoughts.

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