Last night I was in my small group and there was a dog barking and barking and barking. One of my friends had a terrible time concentrating so when I saw this I had to post it. Here’s 7 Facts about Dog Barking.
Yes file this under random!
7 Degrees of Cars
September 1, 2011 By 21 Comments
You know how they say you can know everyone by seven degrees of people. I can connect to Matt Damon by 2 degrees, the woman who bought my dog, is also a co-worker/friend of my neighbor, and she is part of Matt’s inner circle of friends. Not that I care about things like that.
Anyways, I was thinking about cars while I was trying to fall asleep last night, a pretty weird thing to be thinking about right? Yeah, the things that keep me up could be a blog post every day but I usually forget about them as I’m falling asleep but today I didn’t. I’m trying to think if I’ve known someone or had something to do with every car dealership out there even though I’m only 30 something years old.
We currently have a Toyota, but before we bough our van we purchased our previous van from the Dodge Dealer in Tacoma. So that’s two right here. My husband’s sister owns a Jeep from some Jeep dealer down in California. And my sisters have a Nissan, and a Honda, well she had a Honda now I’m not really sure what she drives. It’s one of those little cars, a mini cooper maybe? My grandmother has almost always had a Ford, and my mom has a Yukon which is a GMC vehicle while my dad drives a Toyota like me. My first car was a Geo Metro, no longer made I hear, while my husband’s first car I want to say was some type of Chrysler he got at a Chrysler dealer. Now I’m sure that just by extending those people closest to me and extending out by seven degrees we would hit every type of car company out there, what do you think?
So yes, this is the craziness that I fall asleep to at night. That and all the e-mail that’s still in my inbox every day.
A Peak at Last Week – Random Tuesday
April 6, 2010 By 6 Comments
Last week was quite a stressful week for me. Some of you that know me well or read my blog between the lines know that my husband had a Staff Infection and was hospitalized for three nights. Well, just last week, my daughter contracted it somehow and I have been a basket case worrying about her getting worse or someone else in the house catching it.
I wasn’t sleeping at night and every other night I had to take something to help my nerves so that I could get a good night’s sleep. I was supposed to meet with Simon Malls last week for Moms Night Out on May 6th and wasn’t able to do that until today. They seem pretty open to whatever way I want to contribute I just need to figure that out. Crazy!
Anyways, I took Zoe to the Doctor on Wednesday and we can never get in to see her regular doctor. The doctor I did see didn’t seem to think anything of the fact that Zoe had a staff infection. We just don’t understand why sometimes it’s like, no big deal and then when you’re in the hospital they quarantine you away from everyone. I had to take her back for a recheck on Friday to make sure the medicine is working. it’s working but I can’t wait until she is completely better because we have a bit of grumpiness with her and mommy while she is complaining.
Zoe seems to be doing better but we had a lot of messes to clean up last week. My house is a disaster and when I had a conference call with KitchenAid the social media rep could tell that I sounded exhausted and I was terribly embarrassed. Since I’ve been so tired when I finally did make it to a MOMS Club event I picked up a cold. Now my head is spinning, and all I can think about is the schedule of posts I have to write up and my confusion as to where they all came from. I wanted a light month this month and all I have is a huge mess of posts to get through this week. Maybe I should just keep pushing them off and post them all on Saturday. That would be mean to the Sponsors huh?
You know who reads my blog, PR reps. Some of my most loyal readers are my PR peeps that give me all of these wonderful opportunities to write about. Thanks, but thanks to everyone who reads my rambling psycho babble too. I need a nap I am so tired and my head is really spinning and I feel like I’m underwater. The kids are going to get up from their naps soon. What just happened to that last hour. How in the world did it take me an hour to write this post. Grrr!.
Random Tuesday – Too Much is just Too Much
March 9, 2010 By 8 Comments
Sometimes too much of a good thing is just too much and less can be more. Just saying!
Yesterday I started my attempt at posting all of my giveaways on one day and the rest of the week belongs to me an my blog. I’m not sure if it’s going to work. Because, it’s just too much. Some of the giveaways aren’t receiving any traffic and the others are getting it all. It’s like there is too much to choose from and everyone wants the same prize, There is no surprise that everyone wants the free batteries.
It’s going to take me forever to figure out how I want to do my blog, but that’s why it’s mine and I can do it how I want. Ugg, that’s all I ever talk about isn’t it. Mine mine mine!
I’m still fighting the potty training and thumb sucking. We’re starting to make progress but I feel like this is going to be a very long road. The dentist is going to yell at me next month because she’s still sucking on her thumb. Well, if you want kids to stop sucking why do you take the things that help us get them to stop off the market?
Sick again in this house, man, my husband looked like a train wreck yesterday and I was thinking poor man. Now, today it’s my turn. Oh, but it’s time for more medicine, I need to go take some before I feel like complete crap instead of just a little crap.
Tone, I’m starting to figure out what my readers are actually interested in, can you believe it took me almost a year an a half to understand metrics of my blog? Oh, you guys leave comments when I post pictures of my family or kids so that means so much to me. You leave comments when I ask you to pray and that makes me want to cry with surprise. When I write a post about feeling sorry for myself you either ignore it appropriately or you tell me not to be so hard on myself. I’m shocked when you know exactly what i need. Esp since there are so many of you that peek in on me and my life.
Dora is on today since I’m sick, she’s a great baby sitter. She even teaches the kids Spanish, my two year old speaks a little bit of Spanish. He speaks it better than I do, crazy little man of mine.
Ok, maybe my randomness is done, but if I don’t get it out, you’ll just see it in a review here or there. Which reminds me of all the work I need to get done. I need to start charging for posts again. And Juice Box Jungle, when are you going to pay me for February, and I mean that you forgot to send me a payment for the 90 days back which would be November’s payment. Hmm, maybe I should send you another e-mail.
La La La!!!
The Woe As Me Files
March 6, 2010 By 2 Comments
I woke up in a terrible mood and didn’t want to get out of bed. Last night before I went to bed my husband said I could sleep in. He said he’s get up and make breakfast and take care of the kids.
He’s sick today!
It’s not his fault and I’m not mad at him, I’m just upset because I wanted my day off. Or morning off rather. My kids felt my grumpiness and just mirrored it back onto me which made my morning even more grumpy.
Finally, Zoe said I want to go to the park and with the sunshine outside I thought what a great idea. I ran upstairs and got dressed and by the time I was dressed the kids were yelling, pushing and grumpy again and no one wanted to go outside. Ooooohhh.
I’m at my breaking point, wanting to pull out my hair and scream, so I just popped in a movie, (hit play on the DVR) and we sat and waited for daddy to feel better. It wasn’t until snack time around 10 AM that everyone felt like going outside again. So we went to the park and I think my day has turned around.
Zoe played outside until lunch time and Miles had to go back home with Daddy to take a nap, but now they are both down and we’ll see how the afternoon goes. It can only get better.
My Plans:
Go to Home Depot and Michaels for Room Decorating Ideas
Go back to the park and blow more bubbles
Go to the grocery store and pick up a loaf of bread, gravy and black olives.
It can only get better from here.
Random Tuesday – Thumb sucking, more Potty Training, and no chocolate
March 2, 2010 By 7 Comments
I’m out of chocolate today, it’s more of a blessing than it is a curse at the moment. I’ve only maintained my weight loss because I can’t stop gorging on the chocolate goodness that was my life last week. My DH bought me Godiva and to top that off I made and ate a whole batch of brownies. Shame on me. The scale says the same thing, but I’d be interested to see what it says today since I ate one of those Angus burgers at McDonalds.
I’m in serious need of making a grocery list, and I have to use coupons. I think I haven’t clipped any coupons for two months now. Shame on me all that wasted money. I’m just out of the habit of matching sales, and my meal plan. If you’ve been looking at my meal plans they have been very boring and basic, just trying to get by without going shopping at all.
We’re out of water, well, we’re out of bottled water. My husband loves using bottled water on the bus to work, he said that while I was gone he used my re-usable water bottles but now that I’m back home he’s not using them. Hmmm, I have enough to share I think, and it would be cheaper and nicer to the environment if he would just use a re-usable water bottle like me. Hmmm.
Thumb Sucking and potty training are my biggest challenges right now. My daughter is habitual at thumb sucking, and it’s not like a pacifier, I can’t just take it away, even though my uncle told me the best method would be just to break it. Then she wouldn’t be able to suck on it. Yeah, he did say that.
I post too much for such a small profile blog. No one can keep up with me and my crazy posts. Ugg, why do I do so much?
Self esteem is low this month, I’m worried about needing my anti-depressants again.
Potty Training was making me want to tear my hair out and I actually thought my husband didn’t think she was quite ready to do it, well on Saturday he suggested that I adjust the timer to go off at 30 minute intervals instead of 20 minute intervals, Two days in a row she did everything in her potty. I was so happy. Then on Monday, I had to take care of Miles and well, we didn’t do very good with potty training. She doesn’t want to go when we’re out in public? Not sure what to do? Do I need to take a portable potty?
I love you guys. Those of you that come and read, and I know you don’t always leave comments and that’s ok. I’m just glad you stopped by.
OMG It’s Tuesday, Here’s to being Random, Sleep Tips, #pottytraining and brownies
February 23, 2010 By 4 Comments
Today started off well for me. I did the laundry, I did the dishes, I had a clean house and baked a batch of brownies that now I’m addicted to eating all by myself. Oh how I love anything with chocolate, I never should have made the brownies. They are so good, Ghirardelli from Costco.
Then we preceded to potty training as we are trying to work on really hard this week and my daughter came up stairs and said I went poo poo. Oh man, I was in the process of taking off her Pull Ups and then I found that no she had not. So we went into the bathroom and she went on the potty. This was a wonderful day. She then went potty on the potty again, but then we had to accidents and needed new clothes. Then for the rest of the day any time I mentioned potty she threw a big huge fit. She was rolling around on the floor for 20 minutes. I know because I set the timer for when it was time to try to go pp again. You can watch the woes and joys of other mothers by following #pottytraining.
Do you ever think that the things we write about your children will come to haunt them when they go to school? I write a lot about my kids, but I try to only post happy photos. I’d hate to scare/embarrass my children too much, you know!
The bed company Select Comfort has been sending me sleep tips and I asked them if I could give one of their beds away. They were kind enough to say, well, your stats are good but not quite good enough. I’m actually missing a zero at the end of the amount of unique visitors they want a site to have every month. So instead of 25,000 they want 250,000. WOW, I’m out of their league but I’m going to pitch something to them anyways. The worst they can do is say no. 
I don’t hear no very often and I’ve always wondered why? I finally found a site where I can compare my stats to other sites and WOW, i’m in shock of where I’m standing. People do read me!!!
Wait, where are those sleep tips. Here they are:
Nine out of 10 couples do not agree on mattress firmness. In fact, men usually prefer a more firm mattress than women, which can lead to one very happy partner and one sleep deprived partner. Below is a way to overcome mattress firmness issues for a better night’s rest for you and your partner.
Mattress Firmness
According to Sleep Expert and Select Comfort’s Director of Sleep Innovation and Clinical Research, Pete Bils, your bed is the most important piece of furniture in the bedroom and has the greatest impact on the quality of sleep you get each night. If you prefer a softer mattress and your partner requires a firm mattress, consider a bed that allows each of you to choose your own firmness preference for your side of the bed.
What does your partner do that keeps you from getting a restful sleep? Please share it with us as a comment on Beds.com , on our Facebook page Sleep Number, or on Twitter @SleepGeekPete.
Remember:
Select Comfort’s Presidents Day Sale: Sale ends February 21, 2010. 50% coupon below for all who missed it. Look for more deals and coupons on beds.com, via the Sleep Number Facebook page, or on Twitter @SleepNumberSara.
Sleep Number “Winter 2010” Sweepstakes: Go to www.sleepnumber.com/winter and register for a chance to win a personalized bed package worth over $3,600. Sweepstakes ends Saturday, February 27, 2010.
I was not paid in any way to share that information with you, it was just part of my randomness today. Go Branding!
Random Tuesday – In need of sleep, home, and community
February 8, 2010 By 8 Comments
Randomly Random every Monday night and its almost therapeutic.
Just getting out those crazy ideas, like I’m so tired I think i could sleep standing except for the fact that my feet would fall out below me.
Both of my kids are eating too much and Grandma doesn’t care. It’s like, if only I could make her see that when we stay for two weeks the kids put on five pounds, it’s not a big deal for someone my size to put on weight light that but a 2 and 3 year old, it’s a huge difference in weight. Just don’t know what to do about it.
I’ve got to go pick some winners and hand out some prizes. I’ve been spending so much time trying to figure out what to do with my blog, niche, brand that I haven’t been responding to e-mails. But, I’m not home and products are stacking up with my husband anyways. I’m going to be in big trouble so I’m trying to just say nothing, but if it’s really interesting I’ll respond.
In a way, I can’t wait to get home. I’m in such need of my own bed, my husband and my kids in their own beds. My kids love their own rooms and own beds.
I’m addicted to fancast now that I found out about it on-line. I just love All My Children even though I know nothing about any of the characters anymore. WOW, it’s so different. But I can watch it on my computer so it’s perfect. I’ll figure it out soon enough.
Sleep, I wish I could catch up, stock up and then go without. Jennifer James at BlissDom said that she doesn’t sleep, that’s the only way she gets it all done. She is like the queen of community in my opinion. WOW, impressive.
I’ve been thinking about implementing a community on my site but not sure what to do. I was told I could just do a forum embedded in my site and others use The Blog Frog, but I just don’t know what I should do. What do you think?
So many ideas spinning around and no idea what to do or how to keep it all tame.
Random Tuesday What to do today, and what do you think of my new hair style?
January 26, 2010 By 16 Comments
I’m wondering if I should keep the kids home today because they are starting to get sick. It’s usually when kids are starting to get sick is when they are contagious so I’m wondering about getting a whole facility of kids full of sick today or not. We usually go to the Kirkland Community Center with our other friends on Tuesdays but I’m just not sure they can handle it today.
I’m going to be taking a nap as soon as the kids are done with breakfast and I need to take a shower. I’m yucky this morning. My hair is different.
On Saturday I spent the day getting my hair done. I cut it short and got some highlights and lowlights. I had blond and red put in my hair. The blond matches my daughter and the red matches my son. He has the brightest red hair I have ever seen. It’s beautiful.
Here is a picture of mine, what do you think?
Staying home brings up the question of what will I do instead? Play outside in the rain, or hopefully it will be sunny, and get some exercise. I’m in love with my Wii right now because it says I’m down to my pre-pregnancy weight and that I lost 3 lbs last week. It’s not possible that I lost that much weight, so I think it’s broken just a bit, scales are so inaccurate. Depends on water, clothing, and the amount of cookies currently in my tummy. I better at least get some exercise in.
I’m still waiting on my package for Blissdom, I’m very excited to be going on a trip. I’m a little nervous because of traveling with my kids. I’m taking them to Texas for free baby sitting and then driving with my best friend in the whole world to Blissdom. So my trip is going to be excellent in so many ways.
Oh and I need tips on how to get sponsorship to BlogHer2010. I purchased my tickets so now I need help paying for plane tickets and hotel. Anyone want to be my sponsor or give me tips?
No More TV until you pick up the toys
November 9, 2009 By 31 Comments
Today was one of those rainy days in the Pacific Northwest where we ran outside for the five minutes of sunshine and became frozen in the time it took to go to the mailbox and back.
So, as soon as we came back in Zoe wanted to watch more TV. I said no way. Then she didn’t want to do anything. I told her if you pick up all your toys you can watch more tv. She started cleaning immediately. I didn’t think that would work on a 3 year old. Finally after about ten minutes she came over to me, yes I was helping her clean and said,
