it's friday...

so it MUST be funny!

This was almost more than I could bare. This dog could be one of my very own. If any of my dogs still had their testicles, that is.

just makes me wonder...

what did this piggy see that took him by surprise? Feel free to take a guess in the comments section.
From personal experience, I'm guessing this little piggy's person had the AUDACITY to take his pigloo away. The pig probably turned around and caught his person in the act right as she was replacing said pigloo with something ignorant... like a cardboard tube. Just a guess...

bloom where you're planted...

i didn't get to appreciate this last spring. I was wonderfully surprised to find out that one of the trees in front of our house was a flowering tree. I've never had one, but always wanted one. It had approximately 3 blooms on it, and then we had a wind storm and suddenly, no blooms. I never got to see it in full bloom. This year, it is bursting with blooms and making me ever so thankful for Spring and this place I am currently planted in.

peeves...

since i have nothing much exciting to say, i'll just keep borrowing from other people's ideas this week. MZed listed her pet peeves and asked for everyone else for theirs. I'm not letting her off the hook however. She still owes us her 5 things list. I can't wait to hear 5 things I don't know about her :)

So my pet peeves?? They change day to day actually. Most often on my list?

1. people who drive down country roads with their brights on. And don't turn them off for oncoming traffic. Matt, I'm looking at you.

2. Business owners who don't check the spelling on their outside signs. Seriously, no matter how much I like your food, I can't go into a restaurant that keep trying to sell me "really graet food" or "yumy chiken sandwiches". And BP down the street? I'm counting you in this. You've been try to sell me a $19 corn dog for 2 weeks. I have to assume it's really $1.90 or something like that. But, advertising a $19 corn dog for 2 weeks? Not even the world's finest corn dog is worth that much money. Pay attention to your signs. It makes some of us twitch to have to pass by those things every day.

3. People who assume I live the life o' leisure because I don't have a job. Oh yeah. It's all bon bons around here. Believe me.

4. The girls in the locker room at the gym who are fixing their hair and makeup BEFORE they work out. Really, girls? Get over yourselves.

5. Cell phone users with the ear buds. MZed, totally with you on that. I really hate to look like an ass when I answer someone who isn't talking to me. Also, the people who are sitting in restaurants with their friends, talking on phones. I divorced the friend who always did that to me. It's so rude. Unless it's an emergency, don't talk on your phone when you are out with other people.

6. People who honk at green lights when the light has been green for approximately 2.3 seconds. Really, are you in THAT big of a hurry? R-E-L-A-X.

That's my list today. Tomorrow it will be something else.

5 things...

i've been avoiding this for a few days. Jen tagged everyone for a list of five things that few people know about you. I haven't done it yet, because I'm having a hard time coming up with 5 things that ANYONE would find interesting.
Here goes nothin'

1. I can also tie a cherry stem in a knot with my tongue. And Jen...the coincidences just get creepier :) Although in my defense if someone forces me to prove this, I haven't done it since college and I'm guessing my tongue is out of practice. But...how about that for college money well spent?

2. I once held a mountain lion (a sleeping one) for an x-ray of his broken leg. I also held a wallaby (a not sleeping one) for an exam on his infected ear.

3. I can still do the splits- all 3 ways. No one will get this unless they are a former dancer.

4. I cannot fathom a life with no coffee. I just can't. Don't ask me to.

5. I once rode in an elevator with John Black from Days of Our Lives.

There you go. Now the rest of you have to do it too. Mel? Janet? Tee? Elle? MZed? I'm looking at you!

best ever birthday party...

so most of ry's buddies are of the preschool variety. DUH, since that's where he hangs out, it should come as no surprise. I don't know many of their moms, so I felt a little odd having their children come to an event. When the rest of my children were turning 4, they had friends that had come about because I was friends with their mommies. Convenient that we were all having babies at the same time! Ry is a different story. He left all of his built-in friends in Michigan and had to start fresh at the beginning of the school year. I have become friends with one of the moms in his class (she's not in the class, her son is actually, but you get my meaning?) and as luck would have it, her son is one of Ry's best buds. I decided in lieu of a party with children and parents I didn't know all that well, that we'd take Ryan and Joe (his bud) out to lunch and to a movie. We left the older 2 chiclets at grandma's house (because Hannah doesn't have the capacity to allow her brother a day that was about him. She would have spent the day showing off and doing things to bring attention to herself. Since it WASN'T her birthday and all. But I digress...) and Matt and I took the 2 boys out for a day. We went to Steak and Shake because the boys were all about a giant milkshake, and then to Horton Hears A Who. I ADORED the movie and the boys did too. It was a wonderful day and Ry had the time of his life! Best part? It didn't involve any soul- sucking, light-blinking video games, nausea inducing noises, or germ infested party facilities. It could have been one of my top 3 favorite kid birthdays of all time.
Horton got 8 solid thumbs up from us. It will definitely enter our DVD collection ASAP!

four years...

ryan's fourth birthday was this past week. We celebrated in normal style, birthday cake for breakfast, all that good stuff that earns me mom of the year status, even if just for the morning.
Again I find myself in shock that four years have come and gone since my little man of mischief has come into my world. He makes me laugh at least twice a day. He also makes me cringe once or twice a day. It all evens out! I can't imagine the world without him in it. He's a ray of sun, a mess of laughter, all underneath his crazy curly hair.
Happy Birthday little man :)

fresh...

that's what i feel. I love the first few days of spring in Ohio. Those first days of back-to-back 60 & 70 degree days. When you can leave the house and not have to pile on jackets, gloves, hats, boots, etc, etc, etc. My very favorite thing hasn't happened yet, but I think this weekend, I'll get it. The first fresh cut grass. I can wait a few more days. In the meantime I get to open the windows, let the breeze blow in. Spring has o-fficially arrived. Thanks Mother Nature :)

because i *heart* joy...

i forgot how much i missed 'my name is earl' until it aired again last night. I cannot express how very much I love Joy's character . I found this Earl outtake to share. Laugh away.

no fair...

i'm sure in the fine print of the mommy contract i signed there is an illness clause. I'm positive I saw it somewhere. Because ***I*** do not have time to be sick. I got hit by a flu bug Tuesday and yesterday was spent in complete oblivion. I slept about 22 of the 24 hrs available to me. I guess that means I needed it because I feel marginally better today and am not a pool of whiny human like I was yesterday. Thankfully Matt was able to work from home yesterday as I don't know what I would have done if I had to be responsible for my 3 chiclets.
But...in better news...it is warm enough to open windows!! Release germs into the outside world!! Smell the fresh air instead of blah inside air!! Look at the buds peeking up!! It's totally spring!! Do you hear me Mother Nature??????? IT. IS. SPRING. This means no more snow, cold weather, ice, etc. Got it? GOT IT???