If you're weird and you know it clap your hands....

Lo Lo tagged me. I have to name five weird habits that I have.

I actually share a few with Lo Lo, but I will attempt to not repeat. Here goes.....

1) When I go to bed, whether summer or winter, I have to sleep with undies, socks and p.j.'s. It drives my husband nuts, but I have to. When I was a child my Dad would come in my room to tuck me in. He always made me take my socks off because he said I would overheat. Every night as soon as he left I would put them back on. Can't help it, I likes me socks and undies!

2) Not sure how it started, but whenever my stepdaughter (Jen a.k.a Momma Janks) sneezes, I tell her to shut up. She totally knows that I mean God Bless You, but sometimes she sneezes like way too much! LY, MI.

3) When going to bed (not sure why all my weird habits are around bedtime) I always say to my Husband "I love you." He then says "I love you, too." My response is always "No you don't" and his response is "yes, I do." Then I can go to sleep.

4) When I shower I have to do everything in the same order or I get all thrown off. Start with shampooing my hair with right hand while soaping up with the other (upper half of body). Then rinse shampoo and put on conditioner. Once conditioner is on I soap up the bottom half of body. After that I wash my face and whilst washing my face I begin to rinse the conditioner. Once face is done, do a final rinse and out of the shower. I then have to (in this order) blow my nose, clean my ears and then brush my teeth.

5) Can't really do this anymore due to the fact that I am the driver, but when I was young I had a very weird habit when passing cemetary. Hold nose, close eyes, cover ears and raise feet up off the floor of the car. This apparently kept the spirits from the cemetary from entering me and possessing me. Also, when I was a kid I had to put all of my stuffed animals in a blanket, with my Bible, and place them under my bedroom window. Obviously, this was so that I could easily throw them to safety out of the window in case of fire. I was in kindergarten.

I could go on and on, but I have already given you 6 when only 5 were required.

I tag:
Brian
John
Nancy
Spirit
and Cheyenne (if he even still reads this!)

Course all you non-Bloggers are more than welcome to reveal your weirdness in my comment section.

These are funny.

Every year my stepson gets the purple one for Christmas. Every year he screams, throws it, and we laugh our asses off. Is that wrong? Who cares, it is effing funny. Did I mention my stepson is in his mid twenties?

One year we gave the kids Red Rider b-b guns. The purple one was target practice. It has a pellet stuck in its belly. Good times.

I love Christmas memories.

Merry effing Christmas

**editor's update: Dave found the check for $50K in the desk at home. No idea how it got there, but thank God we have it.

WE ARE SO PHUCKED. WE ARE AWAITING A CHECK FOR $50,000 WHICH STILL HASN’T SHOWN UP. THEY TOLD DAVE IF IT DOESN’T COME TODAY THEY WILL CANCEL IT AND SEND ANOTHER ONE….TAKES ABOUT 5 DAYS. NOPE, THEY DON’T DO WIRE TRANSFER. NOPE, THEY DON’T DO OVERNIGHT UNLESS DAVE OVERNIGHTS THEM AN OVERNIGHT ENVELOPE.

DAVE (GUESS I DID TOO) LOST TRACK OF THE DATE AND DIDN’T ACCEPT THE COMPANY’S OFFER ON OUR HOUSE UNTIL YESTERDAY. THEY CALLED TODAY TO CONFIRM THAT THEY RECEIVED THE PAPERWORK AND IT WILL TAKE ABOUT 5 DAYS TO GET THE MONEY.

AT THIS POINT WE HAVE NO PHUCKING DOWNPAYMENT AND WE ARE SUPPOSED TO CLOSE ON MONDAY.

SO, SURE WE CAN PUSH BACK THE CLOSE DATE, BUT WE HAVE SO MANY OTHER THINGS SET IN MOTION SUCH AS MOVERS, UTILITIES, ETC. THAT IT WILL BE A GIANT PAIN IN THE ARSE.

OH, AND THE MASSIVE BUILDUP OF ICE ON OUR ROOF IS PROBABLY GOING TO CAUSE SOME NICE DAMAGE. STUPID PHUCKING MOTHER NATURE BULLSHIT.

The good, the bad and the perky?

I wasn't going to post today as I really didn't know what to say. I have lots to talk about, but having difficulty articulating what I want to say. Some good, some not so great. Guess I'll just start and we'll see where this goes.

I am excited about this weekend. Everyone is coming to my house to bake Christmas cookies. It is a tradition we started last year and it is wonderful. I love having my family and friends all around me in my home. I was hoping this year we'd be in the new house with the double oven, but that didn't work out. No worries, this will be our last big event at the old house. Fine by me!

We get our keys to the new house Wednesday, December 21, 2005. I cannot wait. However, I'm completely stressed out. Due to the fact that my step-kids want to be able to see their other families on Christmas eve and Christmas day, they asked us to move up our dinner (which has traditionally been on 12/24) to 12/23 so that they can do their visiting. Normally, not a big deal. This year, extremely stressed as the movers are coming 12/22 and we will be unpacking 12/22 and 12/23. I know what the kids will say (Jen will likely comment on here herself!), no big deal, we don't care if the house is unpacked, etc. etc. etc. And to an extent they are absolutely right. The big deal is that we are all together to celebrate. Anyone who knows me knows that this is a big deal as I like to have things a certain way. Guess I just need to suck it up.

Oh, and did I mention that I haven't finished my Christmas shopping? Well I haven't. I don't have a ton left to do, but enough that I am stressing.

Did I mention that I have to write an enormous check to the bank on 12/19 and that $50,000 of that money is missing in the mail? Yep, good times.

Oh, and I'm hoping Santa will leave a baby under the tree for me, but that ain't gonna happen. Let's not beat that dead horse though.

I am, however, having a good hair day today and I did manage to get some sleep last night so at least I have that going for me. And my boobs look perky today. Count my blessings, right?

HI MOM!

Last night at bowling my Mom got my blog address. Brace yourself, Mom, it gets crazy in here. Seriously, everyone should say hi to my Mom and make her feel welcome. And watch your language for Pete's sake. Sheesh.

Last night at bowling we celebrated my sister Jen's birthday. She is 45 (just kidding). Since mine was the last birthday it was my turn to make the cake. I made her favorite cake from scratch, and made butter cream frosting. Well, it wasn't good people. Seriously. Apparently I forgot to add the sugar to the cake so it was nasty......straight up unsweetened cocoa is not good. The frosting tasted like butter. Like a stick of butter. It was all bad. So, I'll have to make a replacement cake for next week.

Last night at bowling I didn't bowl because my knee/leg are still bad and let me tell you that it is not the best spectator sport.

Last night at bowling Sue bought me a drink and I left before I bought her a drink. That was rude. Sue - I owe you one!

In other news, the annual cookie baking extravaganza kicks off tomorrow at my house. There will be about 10 of us baking our favorite cookies over the course of the weekend. I'm really looking forward to it. Don't plan to leave my house until Sunday afternoon. I will be making spritzes. Got my cookie press primed and ready to go.

Last night in bed Dave tells me all the stuff on his mind - curtains, money, moving, painting the news house, etc. etc. etc. I tell him it will be fine, we'll get it all done. He falls asleep and is snoring in no time. I couldn't sleep. I was up until 3 a.m. washing dishes, straightening up, cleaning my rings, etc. because now all those things were on my mind. Oy.

you ought to be in pictures

Sorry I haven't been blogging. Been very busy with work and getting ready to move. Mostly that means I'm very stressed and drinking too much at night.

I purchased a mini-digital camera and this beyotch is so cool! It is tiny. I'm learning how to use it today. The only crap thing is you can't see the pics until you plug into computer, and no flash. Oh, and it is really small and I'll probably lose it, but other than that it rocks. I found it on overstock.com.

I took a way cool video of Lo Lo on it and can't figure out how to upload it so that you all can see her. She'll be heading off to Hollywood any day now.

So, how have ya'll been?

It is almost that time.....

"Sometimes when I reflect back on all the wine I drinkI feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the vineyards and all of their hopes and dreams If I didn't drink this wine, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this wine and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."~ Jack Handy