Everybody has secrets...

It's true, everyone has secrets. Some you tell to your closer friends, some to only your spouse or BFF, and some you tell noone. I've been busted. My secret has been exposed. Sorta. It recently came out. And then it was Dave that busted me so it was even worse! But then in a quiet, ashamed voice so quiet I had to strain to hear him, he admitted that he shared the same secret. Floored. How could we be together so long and I not know this about him??????????????? So now, we are together in our ashamed, closeted secret...... We're Maroon 5 fans. Seriously, this is a HUGE problem. See,...

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I'm Taking The Remote

Not sure how (but I have my ideas) but my kids have become huge fans of Toddlers and Tiaras. WTF? Oh hell to the no. I'm locking that mess out on the remote st...

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This is Our Normal

 So we went on a little roadtrip.... to the farking mall. Cause when you live in the boonies, you have to drive about 80 miles to get to a mall. Poor Dave! But they wanted to spend some of their Christmas money at stores there so here we went. But it's a long drive, and honestly I put my ipod in and jammed all the way there alternating between reading and napping. Cause he's the driver yo. And well the kids? They take after their momma.  Including the constant red ears in every single...

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Strolling ....

There are times when the house is quiet and I'm working away when I have my music on shuffle. It's rare but occasionally I get hit by a bus. You never see it coming but it's those brief little walks down memory lane. Every memory I have is somehow tied to a song. I think it's pretty clear now that I'm a huge music junkie and my tastes are wide and varied. My ipod is an eclectic jumble of things that make me happy and probably looks like itunes threw up to anyone else. I don't care, it makes me happy. So I'm sitting here humming along minding my own business when a song comes on. It brings...

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Do I need to explain this?

I'm tenacious sometimes lol...

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Christmas 2011 ~ Griswald Style

So the holiday season is in full swing here in Griswald land! We are thrilled and blessed to be spending the entire holiday together, no waiting on Dave to fly in and me having help with every step of the process. I am getting a little spoiled that way, but I like having a full time partner again. I think he's kinda digging it tooo...... So without too much ado, here's a breakdown on the last few days.   Sleepy Santa passing out the goodies. Since we wanted to make the 10 am church...

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Timeless

So as usual, I'm running behind on blogging about life events up in this mug, but today is special. While we never celebrate it.... today fourteen years ago, Dave and I were married in a tiny little Oklahoma church. He was in the Navy and we'd been engaged for some time but it was on this day a long time ago that we made it official. It's been a really wild ride that is no where done and I'm thankful for my man, my marriage and my life. So happy anniversary baby, I love ya and think you're hot so really what is there else to say? (See I could say stuff about naked and etc but I reframed, proud...

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My kid, middle school choir

Since there is no Spanish, no computer science, and no art.... She got choir. Time in bucket is all I can say here. But here we went...

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I was wrong

Not only forgiven but forgotten... Sweet Jesus, the Yummiest sound on earth.... The slight vibrations upstairs from him beating the shit out of the punching bag in the workout room downstairs. Lord have mercy.....Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4GLTE smartph...

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Three things

If my husband is talking shit, he's happy. It's when he's serious that you run, and run fast. But sometimes in the middle of a story or something the Smartass comments get to me. For example tonight, I'm trying to soak in the tub and read. He comes in and wants to chat. We chat, he moves the curtain to try and perv a peek and manages to spill my drink in the tub. In frustration, I ask him.... Name three things u love about me quick, hurry....He didn't miss a beat...Supper, Sex, and SilenceI'm gonna hide all his socks and underware, trade his good pillows for the kids and then .... Have a headache...

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Makes My Heart Hurt

It's times like these that I'm reminded that I DO have a heart. It's a tough morning for me, not me personally but because my heart is bleeding for someone that was close to me once, someone that I care about even if I can't be close friends with, someone that is a friend just in a different sense of the word. She lost her husband last night to a work accident. All I can be thankful for is that the family was together the morning before, attending church together and spending those little moments that seem so small and unimportant but really are everything. It reminds me of how much I have...

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Well I Can't Call Them Back, Ever

So while Dave was doing some urgent business travel this past week, the kids were in school... and I was having trouble with the satelite. So I called and they promised to send a tech to the house from the nearest large city 52 miles away... (not be confused with the walmart city 35 miles away) and he'd be here between 12 and 2. So at 11am after cleaning out the pellet stoves (ashes dudes, lots of ashes) I needed a shower badly. Now because this house was apparently built for some rich guys grad student kids there are four bedrooms and NO master. So my bathroom is across the hall from my bedroom....

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Dead hookers and syringes

Dead hookers and syringes - the name of my new band. So today was fun. (Sarcasm people) I managed to get a little work done and then the kids off to school, Dave off for a last minute flight to deal with some shite going down at one of his sites and then BAM. No power. For seven hours. No internet, no lights and NO FARKING HEAT. My phone was fully charged but it's a droid so that bastard won't stay charged that long (I blame angry birds). So I had to baby my phone. At first it wasn't a biggie. I did some school work until my laptop died. I thought about going to town for a soda and snack,...

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Excuse me while I drool

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This Week: Catchup Yo

 So we Christmas shopped for Dave, Prin busted up her knuckles good trying out punching bags. Seems somebody needs her own set of pink boxing gloves. Dang girl was all about it.  We tried the local eatting spot. It was YUMMY. Homecooked food! Yes, when you have as much homework as my kids have here, sometimes you just gotta eat out. This is the ONLY eatting place in 35 miles. Forget drivethru, they've never heard of it.  Duchess is having a Christmas pageant next week. Sniff,...

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Just Me, the Dog, and the Deer

So the kids are in school quite a bit during regular school week, so once the bright yellow bus pulls away and the sun rises over the extremely tall mountain to my east.... well it's just me, Murphy and the local deer. There are about seven that like to hang out between my and my neighbors (who aren't full time residents) and the road. It's quiet as a church mouse... normally. Except this morning, the cows down the valley were raising hell. And being a canyon really, every moo was echo-ed about seven times. It was hysterical and I'm pretty sure Murphy and I wasted about an hour sitting outside...

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Still breathing....

Just swamped. Be back tomorrow, swears...

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Effort

So we have a four day school week. Seriously different. We've done traditional obviously, also year round and even lately a stagered schedule but its our first short week schedule. The babies are a little tired. We get up later than in Texas but that extra long learning day at school is wiping the floor with them. Poor babies. This is that sweet moment when I just gaze at them before turning on LMFAO full blast in surround sound. We b rocking this house in T-minus 4 and counting....

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Is this illegal?

Child labor laws?...

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Obviously not my doing....

Huge day. LSU kicked some Georgia ass to win the SEC. Geaux boys! And we girls went into town, 30 miles away to grocery shop. I'm whipped. We got home and unloaded just in time for Prin to head over to a friends. Yeah that was fast huh? Not even a week here and she's all the rage. I decorated the house and Duch helped me attack the tree without injury not counting multiple stabbings and scratches. Then while doing my homework, Prin comes home and proceeds to do my hair. Regardless of what she says,...

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Life in Idaho

Well we're settling in nicely, I think. Okay that is a total lie: I'm not settled in at all, lol. I have the main floor pretty put together but there are still crap to hang on the walls and boxes to figure out where it'll go. I'm behind on laundry. The kids need curtains hung and I've yet to find my curtains for my bedroom. But we did pull a cool parent move: we gave the kids the whole lower level. True they have to deal with parents coming through to the storage area and laundry but the rest is kid city. They have a huge livingroom with their own wood stove to keep it toasty, they also have the...

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We are here....

I had the tween and the dog. At one point I put her in the car equilvent of a corner but otherwise 1600 miles of jamming out. We got here and promptly I fell on ice and busted my ankle. Bagged snow is useful, who knew...

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