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Do you have any friends that are bad losers?
Always have an excuse for why they lost?
Wasn’t their fault?
Hey it might be even something you did that made them lose…
You know… those would’ve, could’ve, should’ve people?
First let me preface this with I am a very good loser, always have been, doesn’t bother me at all. I will play hard and play to win… but if after that hard work I still lose? I will survive, it has never really bothered me. Good job, congratulations, you won. BUT, I am however, a bad winner. Backwards I know.
Like for instance, if we have a bet going, say over a couple of weeks, and I win this said bet… I will keep reminding you of this over and over, at least for a little while until I get bored. And truthfully, I will only do this to the bad losers. Because if you’re being a bad loser already, I might as well give you a reason right? And bug you even more… I might possibly text you and say, hey good morning, beautiful day isn’t it? You might reply with, yes it is… and then I would have to say, hey remember yesterday? You know when you lost the bet and I umm, won?
Hehe. Sorry, it makes me happy.
Okay, wait I got off subject… bad losers.
What if you’re a gracious winner, and then the loser tries to say, well that’s only because of this, or only because that happened, or I should’ve done it this way, I was going to pick this one… really the list goes on and on.
What if the person that lost says okay okay you won, but only because of this. Or maybe I lost, but that’s only because it was raining, and the drops were in my eye, and it was umm a Tuesday. Or umm, I had a bologna sandwich for lunch, I never work well on a bologna sandwich, yeah, yeah, that’s the reason, you shouldn’t of made me that sandwich, it’s your fault. Like they refuse to admit that you won… fair and square. Simply because you did a better job. You played better. You WON. And they LOST. Period.
And when you are being gracious and dealing with someone that lost like that,
doesn’t it just make you want to rub it in more?
doesn’t it compel you to remind them of the loss?
does it make you laugh every time they come up with a new excuse?
do you think, great, how long am I going to have to listen to this?
Just me?
Just wondering.
First let's start with, we know my children have issues right? Don't think that they act this way and then I grab the camera to candidly capture these moments... no no fellow bloggers... they actually get dressed like this, bring me the camera and say, take pictures mom. So here you have it - a couple days before Christmas:
Then it snowed again... a lot. No talking crap to mother nature right now, I'll try and keep it positive. Jaden had fun, so I guess this time I'll let it pass:
Christmas morning:
...which by the way, was way too early. The boys woke me up at 6... I said try again when you see actual sunlight. So about 30 short minutes later we started opening presents. And then, umm, back to sleepy time for me, while they did this all morning:
Did I say all morning? All morning.
But they do love it, Rock Band for the Wii. Highly recommended.
Then over to friends house for early dinner, umm hello, how else are we supposed to eat good dinner?! Tosha, thank you again, as always.
Then over to another friends house to enjoy family time with them... nice to have when we're so far away from our own family. We would have stayed there later but the boys wanted to get back home to play Rock Band... of course. But we had a good time... Thank you again for welcoming us.
Oh, and finally got a decent picture for the New Year's cards. They have been ordered and are on the way... Yay.
Hope you all had an amazing holiday as well!
Another great weekend with amazing company.
Friday night, I went to see that Will Smith movie, Seven Pounds. If you're looking for a good movie, this is another good recommendation.
Pretty sure laid in bed all day Saturday... that's what Saturdays are for right? Saturday night, went to a holiday party. Again, had a wonderful time.
(As did the children at home while, along with the babysitter, they destroyed the place, but that's another post)
Sunday again, bed all day, football and the random getting up to eat... ahh heaven. And the Giants game last night... Frickin awesome.
I win, you lose... I'm just sayin. teehee
Oh, tried to take a good pic of me, James & Jade for my New Year's cards... if you can believe it, these were the 2 best... sigh, New Year's cards might be late this year until I can get a good pic of children cooperating. Trust me, most pics had James' finger in his nose, Jaden making faces, something, until I said, forget it I quit.
Oh and yesterday... THIS:
Forgive me for a minute but, Are you fucking insane?!
-26
Seriously?!
I'm almost speechless. Almost. But we all know that couldn't happen...
What does it feel like? Don't ask. Weather alerts come on all day at bottom of football to say stay indoors, only go outside in case of extreme emergency. Jaden said, it’s not that cold, Can I please go sledding? No Jade, you go outside, you die, I get in trouble and go to jail... really, it'll a bad day for everyone.
Can we please get some weather that actual humans are supposed to live in? Ya know, people? …that have to live and breath and actually leave the house? I know you think you're funny with the actual double digit weather I asked for, only you made it negative, but really this shit isn’t funny anymore.
Stop it.
Please?
Upon walking into work from the car today I had a thought… If you choose to wear linen pants on a single digit day, you might as well go nakey – it would feel about the same.
This made me think… What other preposterous lessons have I had to learn while living out here in the middle (er, kind of at the top) of this silly place called Illinois. I will share… cuz I’m nice like that.
Gloves are necessary. Trust me on this one. They’re not just something to keep your hands a little warm. They are actually needed to keep you from crying in pain.
Wearing high heeled boots while walking through a parking lot after it just rained and then froze into ice and then snowed… makes you walk comically and awkward as to not fall. I watched a woman walk into the building yesterday morning who had on boots, and I thought to myself, wow I looked that stupid walking into the building just the day before, hmm, note to self… don’t do that anymore. However, should you still decide to try this one, I suggest knee pads and a helmet.
Which brings me to; flats are no better than high heels/boots. They have no traction and the sole of the shoe is so thin that you might as well walk barefoot (but don’t do that, that would be ridiculous). Also, snow creeps in very easily.
There aren't any cute snow boots that actually keep you warm AND keep your feet dry. Just suck it up and buy the industrial navy blue and tan horrors that actually do work wonders.
A car with an automatic start does NOT defrost your car...it just starts the car but will not defrost windows (even if you leave the setting on window defrost).
The statement "Yay, at least all the snow is melted off my car" (which is usually said after a 1 ½ hour commute home) is usually followed the next morning with "Damn, my car is full of ice!"
When cleaning snow off of your car, don’t forget to de-ice your mirrors. I cleaned off my entire car and didn't realize that the mirrors were still full of ice rendering them totally unusable. Stopping to clean them would be silly so it was a sort of Russian Roulette the entire drive home. Also, if you have to use the word de-ice in a sentence, it might be time to move back home to California.
People won’t always give you a ride from the building to your car if they aren’t leaving at the same time as you… even when you say umm, hello, it’s cold outside. Weird. Did I mention it’s cold outside and I don’t want to walk? But to give some people their props (yeah I said props, so?)… when asked for this ride, some people comply. And some even clean the snow off of your car FOR you… awesome.
If you want a pet - buy a cat. Dogs require walks outside and, in snow and this is not acceptable. Unless you want an antsy, fat dog that poops all over your house because it’s too damn cold to walk him...get a cat. (Note: unless you also have children, in which case you can send them to walk the dog and then you don’t actually have to get cold.)
If you talk shit to Mother Nature on a blog and say no single digit weather please, she might think she is funny when she complies and makes it double digit… only negative.
And there you have it … cold weather lessons. If you live here, get out while you can. If you don’t; don’t be stupid, snow is for visiting, seeing, saying aww so pretty and then driving home at the end of the day – not living in. Sheesh
I had a busy and full weekend…
Friday night I went bowling with the boys. Jaden has to work on his whining when not doing so well – but otherwise was a good time had by all. Dang sorry, I gotta start taking my camera with me everywhere again.
Saturday, got nails done, then gasp, ready for this?... I braved the mall. I know, crazy. But got some good shopping done, so it was worth it I guess. I hung out with a good friend Friday evening, and we had a really good time.
On Sunday, I went to see Wicked. It was a really good show… if you haven’t been yet and are close enough – go check it out. You won’t be disappointed.
And oddly, on Sunday it was crazy warm. Like 50. All snow melted. And then, just for the fun of it… it’s this today:
WTF?!
-13 degrees?!
Do you know what that feels like?!
Trust me, describing it involves a a whole lof of bad words.
So the rain from yesterday is now sheets of ice today… and yep, makes morning commute super fun. Oh, and try walking on it… high heels and sheets of ice. woo hoo
I finally decorated.
I usually wait until about this long into December. I enjoy Christmas, I do... but to have all of those extra decorations around the house, a tree in your house (we all know my issues with Christmas trees), and just the clutter of it all... totally screws with my OCD. You have no idea how much.
But I do it for the boys... and I admit, I do like the smell of Christmas.
So I decorated... and it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
And then get this... I get a text the other day from James toward the end of my work day, "Hurry home, I made dinner." Umm, met by by immediate response, being the loving mother that I am, "You better not have turned on the stove or the oven." Which was replied with... "Just hurry home."
So I'm almost home and I get this, "Text me when ur almost home so I know when ur here." Again, my loving mother response, "You'll know when I get there cuz you'll see me." Which was replied with, "Mom, pls just tell me when you get close."
So I get close, I text... I walk in and see this:
Ummm, should I be worried? Did he break something that I will find in a couple of months? Did he get in trouble at school and has so far managed to hide it? Has he killed someone?
The suspense is killing me.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Until then, please note unopened bottle of wine he put on the table. I said, umm no James, I'm so not opening the wine. ha
Sometimes, when he's not busy being a 13 year old version of me... (huge sarcasm, smart as heck - yep, that's from me, hehe - plus his "13 year old I deserve the world, why wasn't it given to me yesterday on a silver platter" attitude)... Sometimes, he reminds me why I love him so much.
Thanks James.
Yep, folks, you heard it right… things that shouldn’t exist in life. Things that serve absolutely no purpose, and only accomplish annoying, grossing out, complicating things or otherwise just pissing people off…
Let’s start with today on the drive in, shall we? Is it really necessary to have rain, snow, wind, rain, heavy snow and wind all in one day? Cuz walking to building in a combo of sheets of ice covered by freshly fallen snow, and slush caused by the rain just for the heck of it, is not my idea of fun and really… is there some point to it all? I think not.
Okay, now that I’m done with that one, let’s make the list a little easier…
Dog sweaters
Single digit weather
Stickers for cars (especially baseball/soccer/golf decals that look like the ball is stuck in the window… you’re not fooling anyone)
Billboards – nothing to make stupid people slow down to read please
Highlighters that highlight too dark and now you have trouble seeing the word… the point is to highlight the word
Subscription inserts in magazines
Decaf coffee
Non-alcoholic beer
Wallpaper
Any dogs with special needs haircut… i.e. poodles
Slugs and snails
Crickets
Myspace, facebook, classmates… any online site where pathetic people rummage around for one another
The word irregardless
People that say words differently when they want to sound smart
People that use words they don’t understand to sound smart
Cheap alcohol… why drink if not top shelf? No hangover please
Beer in cans
Men that don’t hold the door for you
Men that hold the door way too early and I have to hurry to the door
Voicemail on cell phones
Moon and stars as bathroom décor… eh, pretty much all bath décor that has a theme.
People who steal your medication and won’t give it back… you know who you are. (okay okay, that actual person should exist, but perhaps shouldn't steal... hmmm)
Long pointless lists… Lol
Have a good week!
A quick recap of 4 days off, otherwise known as 'days I didn't have to go to work in this horrid weather'... that sounds much better.
Wednesday night I went out with friends... we had a great time as we always do.
Thursday I forced a friend to cook. It's Thanksgiving, I want to smell Turkey in the oven... I cannot be expected to cook it myself can I?
Thanks Tosha, you're the best
I forgot to bring my camera of course, but Tosha had hers:
(nooo, don't be silly, I'm not cooking in this picture... I'm simply picking apart the turkey and eating the skin... Mmmm, best part)
Boys were wrestling, pants got ripped off... James then put 9 year old pants on his 13 year old self... Yeah right, like I'm not gonna post those pictures. He always provides the entertainment:
Friday, I did not go shopping... that is usually enough to keep me happy.
Wait, I'm finding these days are too far gone now, and I don't even remember what we did... geez, sorry, short term memory remember? With that said, I don't remember what we did Saturday. Saturday night however, we hung out with friends again. Always fun.
Sunday is becoming tradition, kinda, to watch football at Buffalo Wild Wings with Tosha and her boys... Com'on, a place where every single game is on... and video games to make kids go away? Niiiice.
Wait, I also went to church again Sunday, yay me.
Sunday eve, I attempted to catch up on laundry - didn't work by the way.
Monday I woke up and had to go to work. Sigh. In the snow. People are stupid in the snow, I think we've discussed this before. They don't know how to drive normally, but add in snow... watch out, the stupid people come on strong in traffic.
Monday night, I threw up all night, ugh, I think it's flu... and yet Tuesday morning, my achy body is sitting at my desk at work trying not to throw up and looking out my windows at weather like this:
And that feels like this:
Stupid Mother Nature... you're letter is coming soon.
(okay okay that was a recap of more than four days... so sue me)
