Chit Chat pt. 2

Thanksgiving is over and Christmas is on its way....
Why does it seem that Christmas is always around the corner and you feel like your going to be ahead of schedule and next thing you know its 4 weeks away and nothing is done and your calender is filling up.
Thanksgiving was good, we stayed home and I cooked for the family, my dad, and Brandon. We watched the Ghost Hunter marathon and Pirates 3. Yes, some of us in the family is addicted to Ghost Hunters.
Ray and I went Black Friday shopping and we actually got up at 4a.m. to go to Ft. Wayne, which was the most ridiculous thing we ever did. I usually stay in town and go to Wal-Mart, JC Pennys, Big Lots, and Ace Hardware (for rebates!!). It isn't to bad staying in town and we can sleep in a hour or so longer. This is the first year Ray got up and went with me, and I decided to make him drive to Ft. Wayne. What an Adventure!! By the time we headed home, I felt really defeated. On the way up, we passed Menards and we noticed their parking lot only had about a dozen cars. So we were going to head their on the way back, if we had time and money left. We get up to Circuit City at 5 (when they open), I about died. The line was clear down the mall, into the parking and ended at the back of the parking lot. Dicks had a small line forming also at that time. We passed the front door of CC and they were counting heads, because of fire code. So we gave up on CC real fast. I noticed the mall had a small line waiting for the doors to open, but the parking lot was packed. Not sure if everyone went into Sears and was waiting in there or what?? We went over to Toys R Us, because they had a deal on Zunes, plus we could look for the Boys toys. The line was clear down the mall and zig zag a couple of places. Yeah, that Zune deal wasn't that great to get out of the car and fight Mothers/Shoppers with Attitude crowd. All I wanted to really do was find a Radio Shack, they had the best Zune deal. So, feeling a little defeated, we decide to go back to Menards. Well, in the 20 to 30 mins. that had passed, Menards was quit the place to be now. The parking lot was packed and the line went around to the back. Was there really anything that spectacular I wanted. NO, I just want the Zune deal. So we go past Jefferson Pointe to go home and we see a Radio Shack sign. Yeah!! It's not 6 yet, they open at 6, just maybe we can beat the crowd!! We pull in and only about 10 or 12 people are in line and the doors open in about 30mins. Yes (Napoleon style)!! We get out and freeze or buns off...By the time it opens there is a huge line behind us and I am feeling good about the situation. I figured there would be about 20 to 30 Zunes and we would be able to get at least one. As we are going inside, I tell Ray to go one way and I will take the other way. We decide which way we are going, we get inside, it's a mad house, but manageable. We are close to the sales clerk to ask her where the Zunes are and we hear "I'm sorry we only had 4". What!!??? Did I hear her right? NO WAY, they did not let us stand out there and freeze our buns off for nothing? Why on earth could one of the sales people not tell us, they only had 4, why did they advertise the darn thing then? I wanted so bad to scream......
A guy came in and asked about them, I cut him off and told him "To late they only had 4, yes 4!!" Needless to say we went to Office Depot for some rebate items and of course by after 6, the store really wasn't to busy and we actually made the trip worth it. Next year, I am either staying in Huntington or shopping online.
Now on to other news, Olivia is finally off the doctors restrictions and she can start playing basketball again. She had her tonsils taken out a couple of weeks ago and she couldn't do any physical activities for a couple of weeks after the surgery. It's been kind of rough for her, because she really hasn't been active for awhile and she huffing and a puffing right now during practices. The coach is actually starting her the next game, at least that is what she got at practice today. I figured she would have to earn her position back. We'll have to see on Wednesday whats going on.
Eric, poor Eric, fell down the stairs today. I think he did something to his wrist, but I can't really tell for sure. I was going to take him to the ER, but I wanted to see what it was going to do exactly (like swell or bruise). I gave him an ice pack and propped his hand up. He fell asleep and when I woke him up to see how bad it hurt and looked for signs on whether to go to the ER or not, he said it didn't hurt to bad. After he was up and around to eat and do his homework, it started hurting really bad again. So at this time it was to late to go to the ER, so I gave him a Tylenol and more ice. There is some bruising, I can't really see any significant swelling, and he can move his wrist (but not grip anything), so we will be visiting the doctor in the morning, unless a miracle happens and he wakes up better. lol
Dancing with the Stars tonight was kind of a downer, I wasn't really impressed by any of them. They are all so good and I figured their freestyle would be alot more of a WOW factor, especially Mel B.'s. I like them all, and I was kind of bummed to see that Jenny was the one voted off. I liked her too, I am a big Beverly Hills 90210 fan!! She was one of the weakest, but Marie can be to at times. I don't know, I can't believe this was the finals and nobody really did anything exciting. It's anybody game, because they are all so good and defiantly crowd pleasers. If you go by the judges votes throughout the whole season and who really had improved on the technical side. It will be Mel B. Her and Maxism Paso Doblas ROCK!! Helio is so cute with his smile and personality. He has improved so much. Marie is always dancing for her fans and she has improved tremendously!! I feel like her partner trys to be to careful with her sometimes. He tends to try to play it safe, so she won't get hurt. WoW, she looks good, way to go on trimming down. She didn't look bad before, but now she looks like a Hot MaMa!! lol

Cafemom.com

My friends at work told me about the website cafemom and I went to browse it, decided to signed up and now I'm addicted. It is a great site for moms. You can join all kinds of groups that have the same interests you do. I joined 3 photography groups. Some garage sale groups,an speech disorder group and a sports mom group.
The photo group has tutorials on editing through paint.net. I was so freakin' excited about paint.net!! I am learning how to blur backgrounds and doing b/w with some color. Awesome!
If you haven't found this website, Google it right now. It's Cafemom.com!!
I also got my photos back from Dotphoto.com and they were really good. I got 50 free photos when I signed up, so I caught up on some photos I needed developed.
Olivia is doing real well with her recovery. She should be back at school by Mon. She still doesn't have much of a voice. She is eating some solid foods. Each day is better for her.
Now back to cafemom......

Surgery Went Well...

Olivias tonsil and adnoid surgery went very well yesterday. She was a little nauseated after the surgery and complained of a bad headache, but all in all she did an excellent job. Today, she woke up with a terrible sore throat, but she said she felt alot better than yesterday. She ate a whole can of chicken soup and some jell-o. She is drinking tons of water and Sierra Mist, which is good on the throat.

I am a little shocked, she is up and around more than what I thought she would be. I'm thinking she might be alittle stir crazy already, since she missed about the whole week of school last week from strep throat. I am glad shes a good student and picks up on things easily, or she would be soooo behind in school. She already is, but she will get it made up eventually with no problem. (Hopefully)

We had a blast this Halloween!! We actually carved a pumpkin, it was a vampire pumpkin. Trevor got bored and grossed out by the inside, so he was done with it in about a minute. Eric helped and had a good time. We actually handed out candy this year also, the neighborhood we are in now has tons of kids. The bummer part was most of the people were out the day before Halloween and that is when we went trick-or-treating. Halloween night in our neighborhood was kind of dead. The kids did see some of their friends and I think they had a good time, but next year we will have to hand out the day before and go trick-or-treating on Halloween.

Liz was a Colts fan, Eric was a cop, Trev was a bloody ghoal/vampire, and I was the grim reaper. Ray didn't dress up the first night. I actually dressed up for work in the grim reaper costume and freaked out a number of people. Poor Olivia couldn't go out either days because she was sick with strep. I felt bad, because she was suppose to dress up with a friend and go out. Yes, I still dress up and my two teenage daughter do too. Some people have concerns about it, but I say your only young once. The girls are polite when they go up to the door and they are good role models to the younger kids that go with us. I don't go up to the door, but I have fun dressing up. We went with our friends and their kids. They loved that we were dressed up. I bought them all glow sticks to put around their necks, wrists, or shoes.