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  • Trivial….but fun!

    So here is a quote from an interview Palin did…I think with Sean Hannity on Fox news or something. Anyway, she was being questioned about clothes that were bought for her and her family…..

    ""If people knew how Todd and I and our kids shop so frugally. My favorite shop is a consignment
    shop in Anchorage, Alaska, called 'Out of the Closet,' and my shoe store is called 'Shoe Fly' in Juneau, Alaska. It is …
    not 5th Avenue type of shopping," Palin said, adding that the RNC purchases will either be returned or go to charity."

    I so have shopped at that store! I adore Shoe Fly!
    This, in the grand scheme of things is really dumb, but I thought it was funny…..and it goes to show you how small Alaska is. LOL

    Shoe Fly is the store everyone shops in for higher end, nicer shoes. But it's certainly not ridiculously priced. It's just the only place in town for good, fancy shoes….they have everything from trendy stuff, to sexy and to sensible….it really is a great store! lol.

    It made me miss it, actually.
    ha!

  • I suck….

    really!
    I feel like I suck, anyway.

    I so have not created anything in ages….I am being awful with birthday's and other stuff…..this year is just…..creatively lame…my mind has just not been "there" for very long and the withdrawal, I suppose, is taking it's toll.

    I have got to get into my spot tomorrow and do SOMETHING before I go crazy…..

    I feel like I'm boring….I'm a lousy writer, lousy artist, defunct lyricist…..just blah, blah, blah…..

    Tomorrow will be better. I am so making something, if I have to tie my son to a chair, I am so making something!

  • Family…

    Last night me, my sister and my mom went to a deployment party for my cousin's son.
    It was awesome to see everyone.

    Here's a picture of all of us….

    Deployment party 2
    Deployment party 2

    What a crew, huh?
    So love them….

    This is what I love the most about being back here. Getting to go to things like this. We grew up around my mom's cousins, we were pretty close to them growing up and it's so nice to see how they are doing and see their children and spouses and getting to be a party of my family again. I felt so removed from everything and everyone when I was in Alaska and when you only get to come back on vacations….you tend to spend time with your immediate family and close friends, your extended family, while you adore them and miss them, doesn't ever seem to fit into the rush of vacations. So for years and years, I have missed so many of these parties and it's so nice to be able to go again!

    At one point a bunch of people were out on the dance floor, some of the younger ones, and I had to ask Billiejo.."Okay, who am I related to?" LOL Some of the teen/early 20 year olds, I really have no idea!!
    It made me laugh…

    Next weekend, we are going down to the cape to Billiejo's and Auntie's. I am so excited, I haven't been down there yet, since we've moved here and I can't wait to go spend some time at her house. Plus, there is a kick ass scrapbook store on the Cape that I love going to, so I can't wait to go browse around in there.
    Yay!

  • Gillette Stadium

    Re/Max put on some big sales rally at Gillette Stadium today and Zachary went.
    I was sooo jealous!
    I could've went and it's my own stupid fault that I didn't. I had people that would've gladly picked up my kids and watched them. But I just knew I would stress out about it and not enjoy myself and I'm sorry, but the first time I go to Gillette Stadium I want to LOVE it and have a blast…not be all stressed out about if the kids got dropped off and picked up okay….and are they doing okay…blah, blah, blah….so I opted to not go and it's a good thing, actually. Poor Zak is sick and he wound up only staying about an hour or so and then left, he felt like such crap. But he did stay long enough to check it out and tell me how that we are so wrong that the high up seats are crappy. He says they may be high up, but the way the stadium is set up, you feel like you are right there at the field, even in the nosebleed seats. YAY!!  THAT is cool and now I cannot wait until I can go check it out….

    And in my defense, I wasn't being an anal uptight mom. No one but us has ever picked up the kids before and whoever watched them would've had to go to the school 3 times for drop offs and pick ups. And I just know I would've worried, not that people aren't capable but Thing 1 and Thing 2 aren't quite as capable sometimes and I just didn't want to worry.

    Zak is laying down and I hope he feels better when he gets up. Steve is taking me and Shelly out for chinese food and I won't have as much fun if I know poor Zak is suffering at home with the kids. So hopefully all he needs is a nap and he'll feel better! 🙂

  • More Pics…

    I'm still working on getting all the pictures from over the summer, posted.
    Here are a couple of Jaime from her first day of school.
    When I took the pictures, she says to me….

    "Mommy, will you send this to my teacher."
    Me: "Jaime, I don't know your teacher's email yet."
    Jaime" "No, Mommy…Mrs. Zwingleberg. She will want to see me on my first day at my new school."

    How cute is that? I just love the confidence in that. I think that such a big testament to her old teacher. Mrs. Zwingelberg was so good with her, that Jaime just knows, of course she'll want to see pictures of her starting her new school! lol. So cute.

    I promised her I would. So I have to send these pictures to Mrs. Zwingelberg, too.

    Enjoy!

    First day of school Jaime 2008 (3)
    First day of school Jaime 2008 (3)
    First day of school Jaime 2008
    First day of school Jaime 2008

    Don't mind the trash bag in the background….I should photoshop that out….lol.
    Meh….I'm all about being "real", right? Trash and all…..LOL

  • AHHHH–HAAAAAA!!!! YESSSSS!!!!!

    I. LOVE. FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!

    What a fanfuckingtastic game that was tonight!!!

    I have discovered that I love watching the Giants get their butts WHOPPED almost as much as I like seeing my team win.

    I LOVE THIS NIGHT!!!!!!!

    THE GIANTS LOST.

    God, I love saying that…..

    ha!!!!!

  • An offer….

    Whooo-hhooooo!!!!

    Guess what my most awesomest husband did today?
    Wrote an offer!!!  Yay!!!!

    It's a low ball offer…but hey, it's an offer!

    Suhweeeet!
    We'll see tomorrow how it all turns out, but I'm excited….lol.

    I know everyone has been curious on how Zachary is doing and so I just had to share.

  • in a mood…

    a thousand thoughts…..a thousand emotions….a million memories….and why, why, why…over and over and over.  Why, what?
    Do you have all night?

    yeah….didn't think so.  Nor do I.

    the best you give….is not enough.  No matter how awesome, how great, how wonderful, how loyal, how considerate, how kind, how empathetic…..just no matter how great you are, you are letting someone down. You cannot be all things to all people all the time. And the more people you let in, the higher the likelihood is that you are disappointing someone….it's just inevitable…..and the more people you let in, the higher the likelihood that someone will break your heart. That is inevitable too.

    Hurt.
    Hurt is inevitable.
    How you deal?
    That's another story.

    I'm good…..I just can't reign the emotions in, yet I can't seem to write them out either… too much at once and I can't make anything make sense. Or make it so it belongs in the same song…lol. I think I've got about 10 different lyrics in my head….ugh.

    Love Takes Time Live at Tattoo Club

     
    This is the first song that made me cry over you, without the aid of alcohol. lol.
    You know who you are…..I'm remembering……you have always loved me exactly the way I am. You have never wanted anything to change about me. No matter what anyone thinks or says……you are a true friend and I know you are there for me, no matter what. Thank you. For being you…for being there. For letting me be me and not expecting more than I could ever give…..you waited. Patiently. Why, I'll never know….but thank you.

    and on that note, I think I should go to bed.
    The wobbly pops (that's a kirk word, by the way) are working and I need to weeble wobble my fat ass to BED.

    nighty night!

  • Answer.

    I realized that I never gave the answer to that question on this post…

    Cogshall Park quiz.

    The reason I took the picture of the memorial stone is because of the the quote on it….
    "Oh, how he loved Cogshall."

    When I saw it, it gave me goosebumps….my love of words and my love of Cogshall Park all rolled up into one sentence….sometimes it's the littlest things that touch you.  I guess it reminded me of me. To have a quote like that on a memorial stone is just so something I would want….if I had my way, my house would be covered in lyrics and quotes.

    And I think part of it was the fact that I know the emotion that memorial stone must evoke in people that really knew that man and loved him. When you read that and you know the person, I can imagine a flood of memories comes rushing in…..and that's cool. I love when words evoke emotion….memories….feelings. I love when you're not just reading something, but you're feeling the words and physically reacting to those feelings. It's amazing to me and definitely where my love affair with lyrics and love of writing stems from.

    If you can write something and make people feel it….you're doing something right.

  • Simply irresistible…

    I took Ben to the mall the other day to take him to the candy store. A real live candy store. They sell bulk candy there for pretty cheap and I knew he would love going, so I wanted to take him. He did love it and he picked out a little bit more than I would've liked…but oh well, he's never been to a candy store so I couldn't say no. Plus, he wanted to share with Jaime! How do you refuse that??

    Anyway, while at the mall we walked by the Children's Place and I spotted a shirt that Ben simply had to have.
    Just had to. In fact, it would've been a sin if I didn't get it for him. Here's a couple of pics of him in it. I took them with my phone, so they aren't the best, but they are cute nonetheless.

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    Can you see what the shirt says? Here, let's go closer……

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    ha!!!

    I so love this shirt!!!!! I love it so much that I bet I'll hardly let him wear it because I'm afraid he'll ruin it and I so want to keep it forever! It's just too perfect….:-)

    I know Ceci and JR will so totally get a kick out of this….love you guys!!!!!