B*tchn Baby!

I'm obviously one of those "worry wart" peeps. I hate that. Cause all week I've stressed about my grades for this past semester. So I've haunted the website for three days, obsessively checking to see if they'd been added.Accounting III: Final Grade: A Teacher comments: The only comment I have is that you should be careful using abbreviations and slang like evals or regs in your posts. (Guess you can tell that I worked for the military huh?)Pysch III: Final Grade: A Teacher comments: It's apparent that you have grown through self-awareness in this class. Congrats! (Blood, sweat and internal digging...

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Shake it Before U Lose It

I'm swiftly approaching my 32nd birthday. Damn that went fast. So it's occurred to me that perhaps it's time to start on that list of stuff that I have always wanted to do, things I have always wanted to make time for.Turns out time flies! Bastards!Guess I should start with actually writing that list down, on paper. Nothing like black/white to make it official. You got a list?Now that I've reached my 30's, I wish I had my 22 year old body with my 32 year old brain.I keep telling myself that by 35 I'll have my degree in hand, get the career I want and I'll have that boob job (breastfeeding ruins...

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The Spring Musical....

Princess just rocks....

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Finals + PMS = Sucks

This week I have finals, and PMS.It sucks.Once upon a time (okay last week) I was a stressed out mess. But today, a good friend gave me a verbal hug and a swift kick in the rear. So I'm gonna make it good, gonna have to work through all the lists and all the drama, gonna get my groove back on.Take back control on my schedule.And count my blessings, that at least I have a full happy life that needs my attention. I'm not alone, I have my bestest friend/man who sleeps with me, I have my gorgeous kids who have full content lives and I have my friends and mom who take care of me. They give me a night...

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Sometimes you stumble across the root of the matter

So far away...I cannot touch your hand,I cannot feel your breath,I cannot hold you cl...

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Still here....

Weighed down by finals, classes, work, kids and life.Gotta get my mojo b...

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Irony :)

Yeah baby,I so needed a pick me up! My office full of basketball players and huge fans have a ESPN Challenge pool going on. We were all encourage to enter to win a gift certificate, fun right? So the cajun girl who can't dribble? She's #1 in the office as of right now. It won't last, but damn it's funny.OU all the way ba...

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Living Gluten-Free

The one thing that drives me nuts is how little there is out there for those of us who are gluten-free. It's not a lifestyle choice, but a health necessity. Which is why it drives me crazy trying to find places to eat out.I've noticed that larger cities have websites leading you to lists of restaurants that are gluten free, however even though I'm 40 minutes from a major western city, notta! Nothing! Zip!I've taken to calling restuarants out of the blue on a whim and asking if they are gluten free friendly. If they ask me to repeat that, I hang up. I tried carrying little notecards in my purse,...

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Memoirs of A "Whelmed" Mom

Duchess coined the phrase "whelmed" at our house. Since sometimes she wasn't overwhelmed or underwhelmed (is that a word) so it's "whelmed".And today I'm feeling very "whelmed".I'm in the final countdown of my lastest semester. Which apparently in "teacher-ese" means overload the living crap out of your students. Add surprise assignments, email them follow-up questions, make that hour long test due in 20 minutes! Surprise, work for that A baby!I'm "whelmed" with hate right now for teachers.But I'm writing that extra paper on late adulthood and retirement. I'm doing that essay question on Keizen...

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Happy Birthday Mom!

The girls and I helped celebrate my mom's birthday today, that was fun. I baked all day. Non GF and GF which meant it truly was a special occassion, as I don't normally allow non GF food in my kitchen now. Except her chocolate cake was just that real flour and chocolate, with strawberries. I rock. Princess was in charge of gifts. Duchess in charge of candles. And Mim's was in charge of bringing the party-sass! She rocked ...

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It took seven years to find the perfect piece for my livingroom but I prevailed. Finally. It came yesterday and I must say I'm in love. Perfect color, 85% off on clearance, HUGE, and all solid wood. Be still my heart.... (pant pant)Although it makes my tv look quite puny........ It's perfect. Don't judge my bench, it faces my kitchen and has become the catch all of bags and purses. Fun, handy! Whew-hoo.Although the Murphy boy isn't a real fan of the livingroom re-arrange. He's a hater.Duchess is...

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Mommy "The Hammer:

I've been a big ole softie since The Man went to work in Texas. Well that ended last night. They are getting away with murder folks, they murdered my house, my car and dog pooh is taking over my yard. So I brought out the hammer.We had us a come to Jesus last night about who was helping more around the house..... Who was cleaning out their drawers and putting their clothes away properly. This includes making sure dirty clothes get into the basket. It's not cool when they have to sniff it to see...

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Parole

The Man was paroled this past weekend....well that is to say, he flew in from South Texas where he is working to have some family time. The best weekend ever. Not only was he a little sunburnt (a nice reminder of South Texas sun and heat) but he had safety glasses lines. Poor guy, still looked as awesome as always. The kids were beside themselves. While waiting at the airport for him to deplane, Duchess just couldn't take the stress anymore.....she burst into tears. Such an emotional reaction for...

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Damn

I gotta quit watching that one scene in P.S. I love you. Gonna keep reminding myself that The Man lands tomorrow night. I've done four days of homework in preparation of having a full weekend of fun.Sorry so short, but I gotta go shave my legs, cause my baby is coming home to vis...

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Obviously Not Busy Enough

Since The Man has gone, I've found myself with a tiny window of time. Time that is not best spend staring at the wall, so I have been painting again. When you consider it took me 6 months to finish my last one, I bet its surprising that I managed to finish this one is 2 days. However, it needed something. So I busted into Lowes on my lunch and found some crack glaze for walls. We'll see how this works. I've glazed it up real good. So we'll see how it looks 24 hours later. Then if it's not completely...

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