Squirrel!

As I sit here, staring at the wall of odd things listening to the fish tank needing more water, I realize that I rarely have an actual topic in mind when I start these convoluted typings. I look at other blogs frequently that are well formatted and designed. They have great colors and topics and STAY on topic. I must admit, I can't seem to DO that without PLANNING to and, in my mind, that defeats the purpose of a "Blog". Obviously, these well organized, put together people are ahead of me in life, or they have a separate one where their minds explode in a spewing squirrel too. I'd SOOO love to see Bakarella's squirrel blog. Or Pioneer Woman's. The one where they DON'T get a bajillion people reading every single word the instant it is posted.

That IS one of the joys of having a very limited audience. No one cares that this is a squirrel blog. If I suddenly want to talk about how my kid randomly shoved her leg under her bed and scratched it to all heck.. Then I can, and most likely, the people who read it probably know me and realize.. This is just going to happen. 

I wonder how much money they make of those giant ass blogs too. I mean really, they HAVE to have some sort of "what's in it for me". Either by sponsorship from a product or money or SOMETHING. Curiosity man... It killed the cat..

Hoarders..

So, I'm watching Hoarders and I'm about to DIE laughing at this one comment this lady made. She said that "One day I got behind, and then it just got like this." The "this" was her house being completely impassible with her 4 kids living there. Really. Behind for 1 day!???! I'm behind by 2 weeks and MY house certainly isn't coming CLOSE to that level on nasty. I am still capable of putting my clothes in the hamper and my trash in the garbage can. And I can't walk right now. So THAT is suuuccchhh a bogus excuse.

OHHH or how about the one I saw last night where there were dead cat carcases EVERYWHERE. Like not freshly dead, but dry and crusty dead. One was even crustified to a power cord in it's deathedness. (Yup, just made that word up.) It was NASTY. And when they were cleaning up, a live possum -hissing with rage - came shooting out from under a dresser. It was AWESOME. How do you have a possum living in your house and not notice??

As you may have noticed the broken foot thing has left me a lot of time to watch odd TV shows. See.. This is what happens when Bethie gets bored. I watch Hoarders..



Anyhow, I go back to the orthopedic doctor tomorrow for more x-rays of the foot to see how it's healing. I'm HOPING it's done something. I've been SOOOOO good. Eating nasty yogurt - 3 of them a freaking day actually- haven't walked a single bit on it, taken the 4 calcium supplements per day, gone completely off the prednisone. I admit I'm gonna be a little sad if there isn't any change at all.

Then, as far as I know the plan right now, is they are going to re-cast the sucker in another big cast. If they do, which I'm pretty sure they will, they Tweedles have voted I choose a nice green color for it to be. *Rolls eyes* If it makes them happy. They've also requested to color on the new one as they have this purple one. Silly monkeys..

Obnoxious BUT.. Cute..

I know.. An oxymoron. But it's true, my children are obnoxious but cute at 5:30 a.m. Especially when I roll over, in the odd limited way I can with a giant cast on my leg, and realized I just elbowed The Girl in the head. She had snuck into my bed and plastered herself to my side at some point during the night. Then, in an attempt to give her more room, I nudge over to realize I almost tump The Boy on the floor on my other side who apparently has ALSO snuck in at some point. Now. I do really enjoy snuggling with my bunnies, but I didn't realize they had snuck into the bed and have NO idea how long they were there staring at me. THEN I realize there are 3 cats on various parts of my body lounging, purring, cuddling and doing the belly snuggles. I was fully covered in love. Now C had NO love. It's safe to say, I felt truly loved and yet.. WOW that was somewhat obnoxious at 5:30 a.m.

I wouldn't trade these morning cuddles for the life of me, and yet to be surprised and not know how I ended up with an extra 130 pounds in my bed trapping me, staring at me, laying on me is a little bizarre of a way to wake up.

Not The Winner.

I didn't win today!!! WHOO HOO.. I've not broken, twisted, mauled, wounded, or otherwise injured myself. Unfortunately to make someone else the winner, that means that said person has. A friend has a detached retina. She wins. There isn't any prize, but she still gets the title of "Winner".

I've decided I want to start doing a cupcake of the month type thing. The only problem would what to do with said cupcakes after making them. I really don't like to EAT what I make. It's a rather odd conundrum.. I'm talking fancy cupcakes, not just plain cupcakes. Like these smore cupcakes. I don't really want to EAT them.. Just make them. I may convince my friend she NEEDS some and then make them when I can get around a little bit better. This foot thing is reaaaaaallly throwing a kink in my baking obsession.


My cats are truly loving my broken foot. The have made a rotation schedule of who gets my lap when.. And what part of my lap depending on what time it is and how many are out. They like it because I have not a lot of things better to do than sit here and pet them. It sounds like I'm turning into the crazy cat lady, but I'm not, I swear!

A Day of Joy - At Last..

So they always doing something for others will make you feel better. I've always found doing something TO others tends to cheer me right on up. Twisted, yes. Wrong, undoubtedly. Amusing, WHY YES.. Yes it is..  So it was our dear friend Christy's birthday yesterday. And that means.. Prank time. We've been prank each other every birthday for several years now and it's just her turn to take the lumps... It was put together on short notice because I've been to self consumed wallowing in my own pity to remember it was her birthday coming so we only had a 2 day lead time but given the short notice I think we pulled it off nicely..

A lovely bottle of wine called '7 Deadly Zins" got completely encased in a 5 gallon bucket of Jello.

A gift card was submurged in... Jello..

And candies that look like strawberries dipped in chocolate were also completely encased.

Why do we do these things you might wonder? We don't know. Mostly because otherwise life is pretty dull and boring and we get rather consumed by our own misery at times. BUT.. If you throw a rather harmless but darned funny prank in there it tends to lighten the mood a little. Because really who DOESN'T need 75 pounds of Jello for their birthday?? I do owe credit to others for their input, assistance, delivery services, creation services, and co-creations. This was in NO way only ME.. :)

A Double Post Kinda day..

Because that's just how darn fantastic it was.

You know your day was GREAT when:


As you are duct taping a trash bag to your leg to take a shower and you comment to your spouse how you've never felt this lousy about yourself in your entire life he NODS in agreement shrugs and walks out of the room because he just doesn't give a damn.

Your shoulders burn like fire from hopping like the white rabbit all over the freaking world on crutches from said broken foot.

The cat chow commercial makes you start crying, because why the heck not.

You ask your spouse why he's being an ass and he replies "I  can't help it, I'm busy at work." as you watch him surf the internet.

Said spouse wakes up child listening to QUEEN.

Your house is a mess and you can't do a damned thing about it and you KNOW no one else is going to either.

There are no shoes near by to throw at said "person". (Notice the quotes there.. Yeah..)

For your anniversary of being married to said "person", he doesn't mutter once Happy Anniversary nor any other term of happines nor love. Yeah.. Glad I am married to you too. Conveniently  it is also the same day as Valentines Day. Guess what. Nothing there either.

Yep.. I'm in a good mood today can you tell? And I'm loving life to the fullest..

Casts

Nope not the kind you have for a play. The kind they put on you at the doctors office. I now have one. It's big and purple. T1 REALLY wanted florescent pink. Like- can see you 3 miles away pink. I nixed that one and let her pick purple instead. I have, apparently, broken said foot REALLY REALLY good in a bad, bad place. I will be sporting a cast of SOME sort for about 10 weeks according to the lovely orthopedic doctor. The ONLY good thing I've managed to muster about this is I'm going to have really toned shoulders come summer. Crutches are good for that.  Now another interesting problem is the pants I have that will go OVER my new "fashion accessory" are too big around the waist.. REALLY too big.. and kinda slide down some as I'm bunny hopping so even if I wear a longer shirt (the crutches make the shirt ride up, the pants slide down..)  I end up flashing my ass to people. It's really rather undesirable. I'm currently working on a solution for said issue. I really don't want to be mooning everyone for the next 2 1/2 months.


We started the new listening program for T1 this week. It's supposed to help regulate her vestibular system. I'm not entirely sure how exactly... It's a little mugguly (yup sure did just make that word up..) on how listening to classical music with other sounds mixed in would help things like bed-wetting and attention BUT.. It's also supposed to help desensitize her some to other sounds and frequencies - which she has a BIG BIG problem with. Soo even if I don't fully understand the logic behind it, I'm good with it if it gets us there. Now the down side. It is time consuming. I mean CONSUMING. We have to do it 2 times a day, EVERYDAY, for 30 minutes each time. While she's listening to it with the headphones there is a list of things she shouldn't be doing. But in general the list of no-no's are things we don't do often anyhow so that's not really  that big of an issue they are things like watching TV and playing video games etc. I must admit that it is a little hard to get both times in each day. Ideally she should be doing something "artistic" or "crafty". *sigh* have you ever tried to think of 2 - 30 minute craft projects EVERY DAY? Yeah, it's a little challenging. Micheal's and Hobby Lobby will be our friend.