Casual Friday

I love Friday. This top really looks so cute on, although in the pic it looks vaguely like a scrub shirt! Got my first listing this week, yeah me!

Date day!

Coach and I finally had a date day today! The minis were with a friend and we had a GREAT time. Went here for lunch and then went shopping. Got these cute pants and top from Ann Taylor, it's really silky with an empire waist, but you can't really tell from the photo.. I adore the shoes, yes?

It's officially true...I am BACK! Off to NAP!!! Yeah, me!

I realize you are...

hanging on tenterhooks waiting for me to post. I'll tell you something, I am too damn tired to post anything funny tonight I worked 4 days this week and had 4 little boys overnight on Friday. 2 tee ball games today. I am tuckered out.

Seriously folks, working is a b when you have kids. I had no idea that my BRAIN could be so tired. More after a nap on Sunday.

Today's Karaoke Song is: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.........oh, sorry, I fell asleep. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Unrequited Love

I love love love these peep toes and can't find them in my size. My shoe size, by the way is HUGE foot. Seriously, I am 5'5" and wear a 9 shoe!!!! What the? When did that happen? Oh yeah, I vaguely remember something about a couple of pregnancies and babies or something...

Still "playing" work. Hopefully some of my "playing" will come to fruition and I can buy better shoes... Happy Wednesday, I am off to sleep. This working girl is ti-red.

Playing Dress Up

Ok, so I'll be honest. Not that I am not always TOTALLY honest with you. Part of the fun of working this week has been getting to wear something other than "the suburban mommy uniform". Don't get me wrong, I LOVE LOVE LOVE getting up and wearing trainers everyday, but eventually that had to end. And so it has, at least a few days a week.

Went out tonight and bought another 2 dresses and ordered these. Going to try them all on and make some decisions. (Please don't be a boy and say that they are all the same. If you look closely, they are CLEARLY different. hee hee) Also got a chocolate and pink dotted one that I can't seem to get a photo of. Needed something for those pink espadrilles. Have I mentioned that I work with all men? Surely they are planning their clothes as I am, no?

The minis are doing surprisingly well, they just plain love school (must have gotten that from their dorky mama). J literally cries on Friday when he doesn't have preschool. He swears he is ready for "kindagaaarden", but alas not until Fall of 2008. Tonight I had a sitter here for 2 hours and I spent them blissfully alone in the grocery store. I avoided the pharmacy though. I thought I looked a little happy to be needing all the meds I have on file. Didn't want to raise any suspicion...only kidding. I am much better than I was this summer though. It appears indeed that time does heal all wounds. That's not to say that I wouldn't like to go "Jenny from the Block" on a couple of people, but I certainly am moving on.

Anyhoo, today's Karaoke Song is: Red High Heels by Kellie Pickler (guess I should order some!)

baby i got plans tonight you don't know nothin about
i've been sittin around way too long tryin to figure you out
but you say that you'll call and you don't and i'm spinning my wheels
so tonight i am going out in my red high heels

i am gonna call up that old boyfriend you sais still has it bad for me
i'm gonna take him into town and follow him around for everyone to see

oh you said watch yourself, yeah you know the deal
nobody holds a candle to me in my red high heels

you can watch me walk if you want to want to
i bet you want me back now don't you don't you
i'm about to show you just how missin me feels, in my red high heels

all those games you try to play well they ain't gonna work on me now
i put a barbed wire fence around my heart baby, just to keep you out
well you thought i'd wait around forever, well baby get real
i just kicked you to the curb in my red high heels

you can watch me walk...in my red high heels

I am sooo confused

as to why no one has purchased this for me. Does no one love me? Does everybody hate me? Should I go eat worms? Seriously folks, I am really disappointed in all of you. There is nothing I love more than the TIGERS and cooking. OK, not the cooking part, but I HAVE to cook, so I might as well look cute doing it... Get on this people. Have you no respect for my undying and unwavering school spirit?



Today's Karaoke Song is: Material Girl by Madonna.
I am NOT posting the lyrics. You know them, don't lie to me. If you
don't, we are officially not friends.

Officially Official and Dang Cute Shoes!

Woo hoo hoo. Passed my exam on Friday morning (and OBVIOUSLY headed straight out to buy 4 new pair of shoes and 2 new bags!) Seriously, I must admit I did more than pass it. I woke up in the morning and... *^%$ed excellence... I killed it. I slaughtered it. I made it my...well, you know. At least if you've seen Talladega Nights you know. (don't worry I watched some new movies this weekend, I'll be quoting from them before you know it.)

No more time to post today, I MUST clean the casa de chaos, but wanted to let you know.

Looks like life is about to change around here...

The Ballad of JE

In an ode to Talladega Nights, perhaps one of the stupidest, yet most hilarious movies ever made, I am calling on the "grace" at the dinner table scene to get me through my exam tomorrow. I need not tell you how much I want this to be over with and do NOT, repeat do NOT want to have to retake this exam and/or pay for it again...so in that vein...

Dear Lord Baby Jesus, or as our brothers to the South call you, "Jesus"....
Dear 8 lb, 6 oz newborn, infant Jesus

Teenage Jesus, Grown-up Jesus, Party Jesus, Jesus with the tuxedo tshirt or Jesus singing lead for Lynard Skynard...please, please let me pass this exam...

And thank you for my "smokin' hot" husband, and the 28.2 million dollars...(woo, LOVE that money)....

:)
PS We are NOT having KFC, Dominos or the always delicious Taco Bell for dinner...

I am sooo NOT "that mom"...

Seriously, I really am not the mom who is all overly excited about children's athletic ability. I would be just as happy with an athlete as a debate team captain, but I must say that R"wowed" me tonight, keep reading, it's not what you think. He played 3rd base at his game, normally he is relegated to the outfield with all the other under 35 pound little ones. He played so well, made a couple of outs and hit 2 really great hits off pitches. After the game, the coach awarded him the game ball and all the coaches signed it. Great, but what really impressed me was what R said. When given the ball he said, "When do I have to give it back?" The coach reassured him that it was like a trophy and was his to keep. R turned to me and said, "That was really generous of my coach. Baseballs are really expensive." I love that little boy...

We're baaaaack

Please, please don't be fooled by the smiles in these photos. The happy, cheerful, delightful children you see posing for the camera were NOT, I repeat NOT on vacation with me. The little punks just love to get photos taken. The 2 minis on my trip were crabby, vomiting, 103 fevers, Gatorade drinking fools. Indeed, not our best trip. Although we did make it through 4!!! movies. Not much else you can do with them when they are weak from not eating. Seriously, we did make it on a couple of mini-adventures. Went to the beach for shelling at 5:50am...um, yeah, you read that correctly, 5:50am. Also, went to the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens on J's bday with Diane's bestest and dare I say "funnest" friend. I finished a couple of beach reads and several magazines, got familiar with my Palm Pilot (so cool!) and watched a few movies. J is now offically 4 and is loving all the groovy owl-themed gifts from Granny and Papa. I'm off to supervise the installation of the playset, need to order a big ole CLEMSON flag to put on the top, like Miss Nell's! I need to get a little competitive with my University of Georgia Bulldog neighbors. I mean seriously, a dog? Tigers EAT dogs!

Edited to add: Just returned from J's 4 yr appointment. Unbelievably he was 75th percentile for height and 25th for weight! He also got 3 vaccinations with NO TEARS. He is one tough kid. Of course he did burst into tears this morning when I told him he had to get dressed instead of going naked to preschool, but hey, it's a wash right?