User Friendly Room

Okay okay…I have not BLOGGED lately.  I’ll have to say I’ve been a little busy.  There is Christmas shopping to be done, decorations to be put up and in the middle of all that I am re-arranging my craft room AGAIN! I keep junking it up which doesn’t take much since only half of that room was dedicated to my scrap stuff.  But I wanted a nice space so I’m trying again to make it more “USER FRIENDLY”.  I wish we had a bigger house so I’d have room for all my junk!!!!!   Although I haven’t had any time to scrap I’ve had a lot of ideas and would at least like to get some projects started one evening.   My laptop got buried so I haven’t even been on the computer.  I’m here on my husband’s computer and trying to get one post in before I get caught!  *evil laugh*

We had a nice Thanksgiving. We went to my sister-in-law’s on Thursday and then Wednesday I cooked a little meal for just the three of us for our own Thanksgiving.  I say cooked….I ordered a mini-ham from Honey-Baked Hams…..but I did make the sides and a dessert.   I’ve been off work since Wednesday and little boy has been out of “school” since Thursday.  He’s been staying up later which is another reason I can’t get anything done.  We have decided to order him a RACE CAR twin bed for xmas.  He’ll be 3 in March and I think it might just be time for a big boy bed.  Of course I know we may have some hard nights ahead of us but I think he’ll really enjoy sleeping in a bed that looks like a RACE CAR.  He’s already drooling over the Cars sheets I bought for the bed.  I decided to just get a red race car and not get the Disney Cars Movie bed.  I figure he may tire of Lightening McQueen but he’ll be loving race cars for a while.  I will of course put a Lightening quilt or bedspread on it and of course the Cars sheets….he’ll be in Speed Heaven!

The Christmas tree is up but we have not done the outside lights yet.  I believe a trip to Target tomorrow will help get that started.  We are missing a few items and if we are going to compete with our neighbors we better get them soon…LOL

Texarkana Corn Casserole

We had our annual Thanksgiving feast at the office today.  I need a nap now but that will have to wait.  I ate wayyyy to much.  This is what I brought….

Texarkana Corn Casserole

1 can cream style corn

1 can corn (drained)

1 half  large onion or 1 small onion

2 eggs, beaten

1/2 cup yellow corn meal

6 T. wesson oil

1/2 t. garlic salt

2 jalapenos, chopped or jalapenos to taste (I add a bunch because I like it hot)

Mix all together and put in a greased casserole dish or casserole aluminum pan.  Sprinkle some shredded  cheddar cheese on top.  Bake for 45 minutes at 350 degrees….Yummy

I call it Texarkana Corn Casserole because I got the receipe in Texarkana.  A friend of my aunts brought it over when my papaw passed away.

I dreamed…I was a fat pop star

I dreamed last night that I was fat (except I was Christina Aguilaria (who isn’t fat)or however you spell her name).  Then I woke up and although I was just me…I was still fat.  It got me really depressed.  I know that I’m overweight but I just have trouble sticking to something if I don’t see results right away.  It’s all through my middle and right now I look like I did when I was pregnant.  I’m just waiting for someone to ask me if I am.

Earlier in the week I almost asked one of boy’s former daycare teachers if she was pregnant but then decided to ask one of the other ladies since I didn’t want to offend (she was a chunky girl to start with and I wasn’t sure if she’d just gained some weight or was pregnant).  Turns out she is pregnant (with twins) but still it’s better to ask someone else first…LOL

Years ago I had a hair dresser that I just started going to ask me if I was pregnant the last time I was in……I told her no and that I’m not pregnant now……  Back then though I was not nearly this big.  It was the style outfit I had on and the fact that I have a bigger top part….still insulting though.

When I did get pregnant I remember some of the ladies telling me that they talked about me during one of our luncheon meetings.  One lady asked another was I pregnant and the other lady said I had probably just gained weight since I was still fairly newly married…LOL

But alas, I am not preggo despite my bigger belly.  I just don’t know where to begin to get rid of it…I want to stick to it even if I don’t see results right away….and I’m lazy…..

Sorry for the friday morning whine.  That’s what happens when you dream you are a fat pop star and have trouble getting into your friday jeans. 

This is what I deal with every day…..

This morning while I’m struggling to find something comfortable and professional to wear to work(which is sometimes hard for someone knocking on the door of obesity), my 150-pounds-soaking-wet husband asks me where my “You-On a Diet” book is. 

He claims he wants it because he’s worried about his stomach being fat and his arteries clogging up.

Damn….. I wish I had a big stick at that moment!

I gave him an evil look and told him he ruined my day and how insulting it was for a skinny person to complain about being fat to someone who is overweight.  This didn’t phase him at all……and yes this is what I deal with in my house.

Happy Veteran’s Day

Today I’m home from work because it is Veteran’s Day.  I should probably go get little boy from daycare and take him to the parade downtown but today is also picture day at school and we wouldn’t want to miss that.  He missed last picture day because he was sick and this time we even went and got his hair trimmed.  That was tiring enough.  I took him to HEADSTART next to Petsmart so we could go in and see the animals afterwards.  He was not too keen on a hair cut and wouldn’t even get in the chair unless I sat in it and put him in my lap.  The lady did the best she could since he was looking all around and pointing….and saying “what’s that momma?”.  It’s trimmed and not as long as shaggy and the curls are still there.  Hopefully we’ll get a good picture today.

So today I’m just hanging around the house trying to clean and do some scrapbooking.  I just ran out of 3×5 photo paper and ink so the scrapbooking might be a little difficult unless I decide to leave the house.  I was trying to organize my photos and print all “scrapbookable” photos and print a bunch on regular 8×10 paper and keep a book and decide which photos to scrapbook, mark them off when I do etc.  One of my scrapbook buddies does it that way.  I think it might help because sometimes I forget which ones I’ve scrapbooked or planned on scrapbooking.  But alais I can’t finish that project…so as soon as I do a little online stuff…back to laundry and cleaning..blah!

General update on things around the scrappy house.  The letter the lawyer sent the class reunion-problem-maker must have done the trick because she actually cashed her refund check.  I think she must have realized how much it would cost to pursue and gave up.  Or at least I think it’s over.  To me cashing the check is acceptance but I may be wrong.  Hopefully, the crap won’t hit the fan when we least expect it.  We know only have one more check to clear besides one written to me for the balance on what I am owed then we’ll have $40 in the account.  I had planned to close it but since we do have a little left after one gal returned her refund check…I guess I’ll keep it open.  If I’m involved in any other type reunion it will purely be a small part and I will not have my name on anything…..I learned my lesson.  I had emailed the reunion chair and asked her to send me a copy of the letter the lawyer sent but have not gotten on yet.  I’m just curious as to what it said.

Things at work have settled down for the moment which leaves me time to think about my future.  As many of my readers know I go back and forth about my job every so often but thursday I found out that with the big  re-org in my office and addition of personnel that that might mean more higher positions but none in my area.  I think I will have a sit down with my boss next week and see what’s going on.  if there is no future then it is time to move on.  I’m especially upset by the rumor he wants to bring back this arrogant little intern that we had in the office only a short time and now she had rotated to another office.  She started out nice but we quickly learned what a user she is.  That’s one thing I can’t stand…..of course the boss doesn’t see this and he one of the ones she is using.  I would just soon she not come back….I know that’s petty but we have a good work environment now and I hate for that to change. 

Guess I better get back to cleaning.  Happy Veteran’s Day and thank you veterans for your service and thank you current service men and women for yours.

Ready to Retreat Again

I walked over to the other building yesterday and stopped by to visit my scrapbook buddies.  We discussed our next retreat which is scheduled for March (the weekend of little boy’s birthday) and talked about this new retreat that just opened.  It’s a beautiful place that overlooks a lake and is full of amenities but it was decided that if you are going to go scrapbooking you don’t need all those amenities….movie room, hot tub, etc because you are there to scrapbook. Besides after a month of operation they raised their prices almost $50…..which makes it about $200 for 3 days/2 nights.  Which isn’t too bad but alot for a place we’ve never tried.   I think they are going to stick to the place we went last time unless it gets even more hard to reserve.  It will be hard to beat that place…food is great, plenty of room, enough amenities, food is great…….:-)

I actually can’t wait till the next retreat and hate that it is so far off plus the weekend of boy’s birthday.  I should still be able to be home for his actual birthday and if we have a party we can either do it on Sunday or the next weekend.  It was still cold for his birthday this year which isn’t fun when planning an outdoor event.  Besides…he’ll be three and probably just as happy to have a party at school with his friends(of course that will take some planning as well since I would be at the retreat on the Friday before….)  We’ll work something out.  It’s usually just family anyways.

With all the talk of scrapbooking I got to looking in my scrapbook room last night at all the unfinished projects.  I really need a day to myself to just scrapbook.  It seems every day I get by myself I’m either cleaning or running errands.  I’m still not getting any time to myself in the evenings since little boy is staying up later and if I did try and do something while he was up…of course he’d be in there with me and getting into stuff…”What’s that Mama?”  LOL

“I’m Batman!”

We had a pretty good Halloween.  Little  Boy got right into the swing of things and it was hard to get him to come home.  We started out the evening by going to the church’s “Trunk or Treat”.  It was a small affair with maybe 10 cars and a hayride but he got to see some of his classmates and teachers since they all go to tha church or live nearby.  We had thought about going over to a neighboring church which threw a much larger Fall festival with jumpy toys and a petting zoo but this year I think the smaller one was best for his age.  When we got home we had planned on maybe going next door and across the street but little boy quickly learned what this holiday was all about and insisted on going to more houses.  I think we went to almost all the willing houses on the street and then some.  Between the trunk or treat and the neighborhood he brought in quite the haul.  He didn’t say “trick or treat” and I had to say thank you but he sure got the looking cute down pat.  Today he wanted to wear his batman costume again since we were going to my mom’s. I managed to get him out of it by mid morning but he was back in it later when hubby and I decided to run to PetSmart and for ice cream at Coldstone.  Ask him who he is and he’d say in his 2 1/2 year old voice…”I’m Baatman!”