05.30.08
Different parenting styles
How is it possible for my sister and I to be biologically related, have the same set of parents (who are still married), have lived together in the same home for years and still have nearly different parent styles?
As you know I’ve got two girls and she has one, with one on the way. My girls are almost four years apart and hers kids will be eight years apart. I’m strict with my kids, to an extent. I can speak to them once and correct almost any situation thats stirring. My sister had always had issues with my niece and her tantrums/temper. And only this last year I think they’re finally ending.
My kids are the MOST grateful kids you will ever meet. Seriously. You can buy them a bag of chips on Tuesday and Saturday they will still thank you for those chips! I can get away with buying $200 worth of Christmas gifts per child and they’ll have a stack of gifts to open. Where my sister has spent $200 on one gift and gets annoyed when my niece starts asking for more elaborate gifts.
Next week is my niece’s birthday and instead of a party my sister, her boyfriend, my mom, my girls and I are all going to Disneyland. (Last minute invite but hey they’re getting my kids and I in for free so I’m not passing it up! lol ) Well my sister just texted me that my niece made her a birthday wish list that consisted of a jump rope, something else, a Ripstik scooter thingy & a fricken Wii! My sister can’t understand WHERE this sort of list comes from! Um could it come from the $200 electric guitar they bought her for Christmas that she doesn’t play with? Or the talk of getting her her own pink dirt bike, riding suit and helmet with a pink Mohawk so she can go dirt bike riding with her step-dad. Do ya think?
When my sister talks of these sort of purchases/wants Mister and I just sit there and listen. We really can’t get over spending money like that on an eight year old. Maybe it would be different if they lived in a rural area where she could get on the dirt bike and ride it for HOURS daily. But they don’t. They live in an upstairs apartment in the city. Her boyfriend plans trips to go out dirt bike riding.
My Drama Queen girl LOVES making jewelry and other little creative things with beads and craft items. She has TONS of that stuff in storage containers all over her room. Both my girls LOVE to color, write and draw (you should see my fridge! lol) so needless to say I’ve made the Crayola factory rich. They got a lot of those things for Christmas. Guess what? They’re STILL using them, five months later.
We thought about getting The Snitch a Game Boy thingy for her birthday, this past April, but decided against it because I told Mister Our kids don’t play video games as it is so why start them on it now?
I don’t know. I don’t know what rubs me the wrong way most is the stuff they buy for her that doesn’t get used or her elaborate list of things she’s asking for! Oh man, and this is just child #1. Wait til child #2 gets here. They’ve opened up an expensive can of worms! Ha! I think I’ll take my kids to the grocery store tonight and let them pick out a couple of rubber balls! lol
05.28.08
Open letter time
Dear PMS water pill making company,
I have to say that your water pill with PMS relieving ingredients have been the best thing to cross my lips since tequila. I love how within thirty minutes I’m feeling much better, less pain, cramps or irritability. Not to mention my jeans begin to feel more welcoming than they were when I was housing eight pounds of water weight gain. Thanks a million!
However, (and I really hate to be the however girl but I’ve got no choice) why in the fuck would you make a PMS relieving pill and put it in individually DOUBLE wrapped foils? What the fuck is wrong with you? Yeah yeah yeah don’t give me that tamper proof crap line. Oh! Oh! Oh I think I KNOW how that came about. This company is owned and operated by men, right? By men who probably sat around a product development meeting, drinking beer and smoking cigars, saying Hmmm its to ease the pain and suffering of women, but how can we fuck with them? How can we get pay back on the species that our wives belong to and NOT get bitch slapped with a frying pan when we don’t call her honey at “that time of the month”? What can we do to OTHER women and not our wives? That’s when some man came up with the idea of DOUBLE wrapping EACH pill individually! You bastard.
Have you ever seen a woman suffering from cramps, bloating, headaches, irritability and backaches at the same time trying to fold down the stupid perforated corner of the packet, while trying to peel the first layer of paper off to get to the SECOND layer where the pretty purple pill is imprisoned beneath? Its not a pretty sight. Leave her there long enough, struggling, one of two things will happen either you’re going to find a floor full of half open pill casing because she wasn’t able to get to the magical pill or she’s going to tear the medicine cabinet apart looking for the tiny scissors to STAB the back of the pill wrapper just to get to it as quickly as possible. And trust me, if she resorts to the scissor method I hope there is not a man in the house because she’ll go looking for him, manicure scissors in hand.
In conclusion I’d like to say, again, how I love that beautiful purple pill but I’m making a suggestion to put all the damn pills in an easy to access bottle!
Love,
PMS’ing Cece
05.27.08
Brrrrr!
It rained Friday night. Heavily. I’ve never camped in the rain but we maned up and did it anyway. Well, mostly.
Since I left work at 5:00 on Thursday I was not going to be a happy camper. I drove home in crazy ass rain to find Mister, my dad and grandpa loading up the truck for camping. You’re shitting me, is what I said to myself as I got out of the car. Nope. No one was shitting me. We were going to camp in the rain. Great.
Friday we got up to the lake and it was a little sunny, but not Memorial weekend sunny like its suppose to be. We set up camp, cracked open a couple of beers & chilled. Then it began to rain, lightly at first, on us. No big deal. Then came the black clouds and POURING rain. Luckily we had the Quick Shades up so we took cover.
Us girls ended up driving into Hesperia, a town about 30 minutes North of us, for a Kmart run to buy blankets and water proof jackets. Um, do you know how hard it is to find shit like that at the end of fricken MAY??? Yeah, not too easy. Luckily we found a clearance rack in the women’s department that had $2 rain jackets! Then we found some nice blankets, also on clearance, for $5. Sweet.
When we got back to camp Mister had pulled the tarp from under our tent and draped it over to prevent further leakage. Oh I didn’t tell you about that part? Yeah, we had a few small tent leaks and our shit got wet. Important shit, too, like pillows, sleeping bags and air mattress! That’s it! That’s it! I’m done! I made an executive decision for my family, we were going home. I told Mister I’m taking my girls, his daughter and my grandma home for the night. Told him he could stay, and be big and bad (while wet) or go home with us. I didn’t care. But WE were going home.
And home we went. We dropped Mister off with all our wet stuff, took grandma home then went to get Chinese food! Hot meal, hot shower and some Gray’s Anatomy on the dvr is how we spent our rainy Friday night! Then back up to the lake at 7am the next morning. The rest of the weekend was much better, no rain at least just wind. We rode the hell out of the Sea Doo, too. That is until my step-daughter and her boyfriend flipped it on Sunday! lol
All in all it was a good weekend. My cousins and their families came up and camped next to us. It was good to see them. And wouldn’t you know it, this coming weekend is suppose to be HOT up there! lol I’m going to try to get Mister up to the lake on Sunday, just for the day. I need to start on my tan.
Oh yeah, I’ll share pictures later and a video my cousin’s wife took of my kids totally wiping out on the wagon coming down a hill! LMAO
05.22.08
I’m out of here
We’re heading out to go camping tomorrow morning. Normally I’d be excited as all get out but guess what? It just started fricken RAINING! RAIN, people, on Memorial Day weekend. What the hell is that about? We’ve got thunder & rain right now. I just checked our camping place & its suppose to start raining tonight til 3am tomorrow. WTF are we going to do? *sigh* I know we’ll still get up & go to the lake, fine, but then what? I’ve got to go home & talk Mister into agreeing with me that if its all muddy and continues to rain that we come home. I’m NOT camping in the rain when my house is only 45 minutes away!
Talk to y’all when I get back.
05.21.08
I need a drink!
It never fails, just as I’m a mere two days away from being out of the office, relaxing and having fun with my family work gets hectic! Why is that? Why? Why do my reps suddenly become mindless, helpless beings that can’t do shit for themselves? Why is it that my phone can go almost an entire week without ringing but two days from a four day weekend I’ve had more voice mails than I’ve had all month? Why is it that my Outlook is constantly full this week? And on a completely different topic, why the fuck am I cramping like a PMS woman when I JUST got off my damn period five days ago? WHY WHY WHY?
It really sucks that I can’t walk to the break room fridge, reach in and pull out a beer. It sucks that I can’t drink at my desk, even if its only for two fifteen minute breaks a day! Hell I wouldn’t mind if they ONLY let us drink beer at work and not the hard stuff! That’d be nice huh?
Oh man, I could only imagine the conversations I’d have, while buzzed, with my customers: What? You don’t want to buy our house brand products? *thinking I’m whispering* Between Me and You I don’t fuuucken blame you! They’re really not worth it! I got to (insert competitors name here) to buy my (what we sell) because I know how cheaply made our shit is!
Or something along these lines: So what did you do this weekend? *not really listening* Well, this weekend my husband and I got TORE UP in Vegas, again! BAWAHAHAHAHA *because I get loud when drinking* This time I talked him into visiting a male strip bar with me! Hey! Its only fair since he took me to a female strip joint once! What’s that? Oh yeah! He sure did buy me a lap dance! Then we went back to our room and… Oh shit..I just spilled my beer on my damn keyboard again! I’ll have to call you back, ho!
Now that I think about it, it might be a good policy that we’re not allowed to drink at work, huh? But that still doesn’t change the fact that I’m thinking about a nice cold Margarita with dinner tonight.
05.19.08
I love summer time!
Wow its been hot here. We’ve had some great, warm weather the last few days and its totally CA summer-like outside right now. Thankfully the temps’ll drop a bit by the time we go camping this weekend.
Speaking of camping, its time for our annual family Memorial weekend camping trip. We’ve been doing this trip since I was in high school! And over the years we’ve become better campers and more together with everything. Love it. We rented a nice big Sea Doo for the weekend so now we’ll have 3 out there to ride on the lake! Woohoo
I was just going over all the upcoming events and man we’re going to be busy! Let me share with you:
Camping this weekend. Disnelyand in 2 weeks for my niece’s birthday. The guys are going fishing in Mexico over Father’s Day weekend. The 3rd weekend in June is our wedding anniversary and we’ve decided to hit wine country and get a room and relax, child free of course, and just enjoy our time alone. The 5th of July we’ll be in Mexico for a week. After that is my 35th birthday so I’m sure we’ll do something. Sometime this summer we’re signing the girls up for swimming lessons. Then later this summer we’ve got some special visitors coming to town for almost a week and the girls and I will be tour guides to all the fun places in LA! Lets see, what else? We have a couple of birthday’s and school starting, too. Finally we’ll end the summer with my sister’s baby shower. Phew! Talk about busy, huh? But that’s how we roll! lol
So how will you spend your summer?
05.17.08
Holy crap its hot!
Its 10:30 here and almost 100 already outside! I love living in CA. Last night Mister was a good husband and went out to kick it with a couple of friends so I could jam my music, wash, clean and drink beer in between. lol
So today’s Saturday, its the weekend and you know what that means, right? BBQ time! Right now Mister is prepping his smoker and is about to start smoking some ribs for tonight. Oh heaven on a plate that’ll be. We’ve also got chicken, steak and shrimp. Tomorrow is my mom’s 52nd bday so we’re having dinner for her here tonight. Last night I made two pitchers of Sangria to serve to the ladies tonight. Now that’s some good shit right there!
Well I’m on my way out to make the hour drive to pick up my step daughter from work, go shopping then bring her back to stay with us tonight. Have a nice weekend!
05.15.08
“That’s too late!”
A couple of weeks ago, drunkenly, the guys all made plans to go out this Friday night. They’re suppose to go race some mini Indy car thingies somewhere in Orange County. I don’t know. But after that I heard plans of a sports bar, too. Cool, they need a guys night out now and then.
That same night the wife (and my girlfriend) of one of the guys going is having a jewelry party at her house. Ladies only, no kids, LOTS of drinks. Sweet! I made plans to go.
Then reality hit me, I really could/should use this alone time on Friday night to clean house and prepare for Saturday’s birthday BBQ for my mom that we’re hosting. Yes, another party. Quiet Ho’s. And then I really could use this alone time on Friday night to start packing stuff up for our camping trip next weekend. Besides, with camping and everything else coming up I reallydon’t need to spend extra money on some expensive ass fake jewelry, you know?
So I decided to get my hair cut after work, pick up some pizza and soda’s for the kids, beer and cigs for me. I planned to turn on the stereo, open up all the windows and doors since its going to be in the 90’s tomorrow, which means tomorrow night’ll be close to 85 while the kids play outside. I’m really looking forward to tomorrow night!
But then I just spoke with Mister. Guess what? They’re not due to meet up until 8pm. WTF? Did you just hear that? It was my bubble bursting. Fook Mi. Now what? I was expecting him to be gone by 6:30, when I got home with pizza and beer. But now it looks like he’ll be there. I was looking forward to cranking the stereo as soon as I walked in but instead I’m going to walk in seeing him smooshing our sofa cushions even more! When he told me they weren’t going out til 8pm I said That’s too late! I sound like a mean bitch, huh? Oh he’s use to it.
So, my few friendly readers, I need your help. How do I get rid of my husband 1.5-2 hours earlier than he’s suppose to meet his friends? I told him he can go sit at my dad’s house but he didn’t go for it. I’m not offering sex because this week I’m off limits. Money doesn’t work…then again I haven’t tried to bribe him just yet. Any ideas?
UPDATE: One of the guys called to say tomorrow/tonight is canceled. I accidentially said a bit too loudly AW MAN! WHY?? lol So now he’s home and there goes my night of the loud stereo in the living room, beer, cleaning, dancing and having some ME time. I’ll end up doing these things Saturday which means I won’t be able to drive out to get my step-daughter that afternoon since Mister’ll be cooking. Ugh. Where can I send him tomorrow night? Suggestions?
05.12.08
What a great weekend
This was one of the nicest weekends I’ve had in a long time. Yeah we were busy but it was still nice.
Saturday Mister and the kids helped me clean house before we rushed off to the optometrist for our annual exams as a family. Mister and Drama Queen will now join me in the four-eyes category and get glasses. lol From there we went to have lunch, buy a quick gift card for a bday gift and went to the cemetery. My family was all there at the cemetery and we hung out for a short time. Later that afternoon my stepdaughter arrived at our house.
I spent the rest of Saturday afternoon at the mall with my girls and step-daugther. We got our nails done and did some shopping. Just the four of us. It was a nice afternoon. That night she went out w/her brother and we went to my grandpa’s house.
Sunday I was bombarded by my girls and their giving me the gifts they made and bought. They got in bed with us and hung out while we watched a DVD in our room. My step-daughter came in, wished me a happy mother’s day then later ended up in bed with us, too, watching the movie.
She spent the rest of the day with us at my parents house and hung out with us the whole time. Usually her boyfriend is with her and they are practically inseparable but she came by herself and it was great. She and I just sat and talked for the longest time. We joked and talked and talked. She texted me, last week when I was in TN, asking what we were doing for Mother’s Day because she wanted to come down to our house. She spent the day with me and not her own mom. Kinda tells you something about her mom huh? And she’s coming back down to us again this weekend! lol I have a feeling we’re never going to get rid of her! LMAO
Progress has finally been made between us and it feels so great. And her relationship with Mister has also strengthen and its great to see him finally have continual contact with at least one of his kids from the psycho ex-wife. Like I said, it was a wonderful weekend.
