I'm bored of you Blogger

I'm not sure I'll be back.

I'm surprised I still remember how to use Blogger

Sometimes when TheOldMan gets medical journals in the mail, I like to (try to) read them. He is a Clinical Laboratory Scientist. I was reading something about pharmacogenetics and realized after I couldn't get past the first paragraph, that I am happy that I'm not the smartest person in the house.
I grew up smart but didn't apply myself. I'm glad my kids have a parent who is smart and works hard to learn more and be his best.
I like it when he talks about lab stuff. I like to follow along for as long as possible.

Snickerdoodle has a good throwing arm. If he turns out to be good at sports, awesome. But I'm very glad he has a dad who is good at science. Hopefully, he'll be smart and good at sports. He'll be unstoppable ;) Plus he's cute.

That's all I have for now. Since I haven't blogged for awhile....Here you go

Park and Haircut Day

Freedom

A blog about my shower curtain

Yes, about my shower curtain. Ridiculous excuse for a blog topic? Yes but it's my blog so I shall blog what I want to blog!
OK, here's the deal. I really like my shower curtain. It is clear at the top and doesn't have hooks.
It looks like this:


You can see through the top but still have privacy. That's nice for several reasons.

1. Today I took a shower in the afternoon and because it was sunny outside, there was enough light coming through my shower curtain that I didn't have to turn on the lights. Yay for saving energy!
2. You can see if there is someone hiding in the shower. That's just good to know when you're home alone.
3. When you take a shower, you can know if someone is coming into the bathroom. No Psycho-like surprise attacks. It's just good common sense to have a see through shower curtain.
   

PLUS this shower curtain doesn't have hooks! How awesome is that?! I'm pretty sure I got our shower curtain at Walmart (boo) but I didn't see it at walmart.com so if you click on the picture, it should link you to bedbathstore.com. You could get it there.
So that is my blog about my shower curtain. I like mine and I'm not ashamed about that.

Daddy's Little Helper

He kept saying "I push?"
It cracked us up

Being this awesome can be a burden

"The Gang" is all together this weekend so since the group includes some big guys and 3 preggos, I decided to make an indulgent dessert.
I borrowed my new friend Hilary's Pampered Chef Trifle Bowl (thanks Hil!) and concocted an easy but fancy dish.
I used a boxed devil's food cake mix and threw in some chocolate chips. To cut down on the fat and sugar (haha), I used ff/sf vanilla pudding and light whipped cream. So cake on the bottom layer then pudding then whipped cream. Then in the food processor I chopped up some Thin Mints that were in the freezer and then sprinkled that on top of the whipped cream. And then repeated the layers.
I only used 2/3rds of the cake because that was all the layers I could fit in there. I wish it was a little prettier but who cares what it looks like when it tastes that good.
So right now it is chilling in the fridge and in a few hours, hopefully, we will all be enjoying it.
We don't get together that often so we are celebrating and eating well.

Joy

Motivation makes me hungry

I'm counting points again.
I don't want to but I need to.
I've gained about 8 or 9lbs since November. I'm 6 over goal weight.
It was fun eating like Fat-Emily for the last few months but I have a pair of skinny jeans that don't fit and that bums me out.
I get 20 pts a day. I've been good so far today. Still have 9 left.
I stuck to my plan even at Cracker Barrel.
My problem hasn't been lack of self control. It's been an extreme case of not giving a crap.
For the last few months, I've eaten what I want, when I want it. Even when I knew I was doing it for the wrong reasons.
So I'm back on the program.
I also bought Dancing with the Stars Cardio Dance DVD....it kicked my butt.
I only made it through 10 minutes the first time. I need to do aerobic exercises more often. I have the lungs of a 65 year old smoker. Well probably not, it just feels like it. I was fat all through out puberty and my 20s, so my lungs are weak. very weak. It's very annoying.
So now it's time to fix that.

Eating is more fun.

Please Don't Go Girl

Ipod QuizShare Guidelines:

1. Put your iTunes or Windows Media Player on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your next answer.
3. You must write that song name down no matter how outrageous it sounds!
4. Tag friends who might enjoy doing the game as well as the person you got the note from.



Here they are:

1. IF SOMEONE ASKS "IS THIS OKAY?" YOU SAY …
MMMBop

2. WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Smile

3. WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Rapture

4. HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Decode

5. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it)

6. WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Oops!...I Did it Again

7. WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Groove is in the Heart

8. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Walk Like an Egyptian

9. WHAT IS 2+2?
Heart of Glass

10. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Jump Jump

11. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Sabatoge

12. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Smooth Criminal

13. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
SexyBack

14. WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)

15. WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Bleeding Love

16. WHAT DID YOU (OR WILL YOU) DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Ain't No Other Man

17. WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Say You'll Be There

18. WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
You Get What You Give

19. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)

20. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Crazy in Love

21. WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU?
Vogue

22. HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Jump Around

23. WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Undone (The Sweater Song)

24. WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Genie in a Bottle

25. WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
My Favorite Mistake

26. WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
1979

27. WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
Torn

28. DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Mercy

29. IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Dancing Queen

30. WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
What a Girl Wants

31. WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Please Don't Go Girl

He can dance circles around you

This went on most of the afternoon.

Welch's Mixed Fruit

The Mixed Fruit snacks are awesome. I eat about 2-3 a day. I'm getting a lot of Vitamin C and fruit so it's not all bad. But I am seriously addicted. They're great.

Eating on Sunday part 2

I ate some more fruit gummies (I love them!)
and Weight Watchers Lemon Cake (just 1pt I think)
I need to eat less snacks. I've had such a sweet tooth lately.
TheOldMan is making grilled chicken and mashed potatoes. We're also gonna have some of those steamed veggies that you just have to throw in the microwave :)
Green beans and corn on the cob.
I'm gonna try and not eat anything else. I'm also going to try and NOT drink anymore soda today. I've had too much already.
I don't want to update this so I'm going to try and not eat anything else. We shall see.

Horizons

I've decided to expand mine. I'm trying to improve myself. I'm doing something just for me.
It's all very un-Emily.
I joined a Flickr group that gives out "missions" about once a week where you have to take a picture with a certain theme within 24 hours. I've also decided to take a picture everyday for 365 days. Hopefully, through these I can improve my skills in photography. I love taking pictures.

Snickerdoodle video gems

I don't have anything to blog about so let's see how much I can ramble on about nothing

I miss Lindsay. She's in Uganda. I know God is using her and blessing her journey but I still miss her a lot.
I'm excited LOST comes back in 2 1/2 weeks.
We put away Christmas decorations but forgot the outside lights and wreath.
I'm excited that my new perfume is coming in the mail tomorrow. I'm gonna smell pretty.
I get to see my family and celebrate Christmas again this weekend.
How I Met Your Mother is showing reruns on Lifetime now on Monday nights. That means 3 episodes every Monday! That is really awesome. We didn't watch the first season so it's like watching new episodes! That show is great.
I'm tired of the cold.
I haven't been to a weight watcher meeting since before Thanksgiving. I babysit every Tuesday so I can't go and it bums me out and I need to eat better.
I'm going to have pulmonary function tests on Wednesday so I can't have caffeine tomorrow and that bums me out.
I need to put a sweater on but there is a child sleeping in my room so I will stay in here and complain about the cold on my blog.
If I had $5000, I would have much nicer furniture.
I am excited for everyone to open their Christmas presents. I did a good job buying this year.
I haven't bought anything for Hermano or BlueEyes yet.
I haven't had spaghetti in a long time. That's weird because I love spaghetti. Maybe we'll have that for dinner.
Probably not though. TheOldMan works his second job tonight and if I fed Snickerdoodle spaghetti alone, then I'd be the one stuck cleaning it up.
I can't think of anything else to ramble on about so I guess this is the end.

Nothin' Left For Me To Do But Dance

Merry Christmas

ABCs (Man! I cannot pass up a survey!)

This is basically just a longer version of the last blog but I can't pass these things up!
Here you go. If you actually read the whole thing, you win a prize.

A
- Age: 27
- Annoyance: Misspelling for alliteration's sake ie Kiddie Kollege or Kountry Kitchen
- Animal: doggies I guess. I'm not a big animal person
- Actor: John Krasinski

B
- Beer: is bad
- Birthday/birthplace: July 22 1981 in the capital of this great state
- Best feeling in the world: Love
- Blind or deaf: not sure what the question is but I'd rather be deaf
- Best weather: 70 degrees and sunny with a light breeze
- Been in love: Yes
- Been on stage? yes
- Believe in yourself?: depends on the situation
- Believe in life on other planets: 99.982749% no
- Believe in miracles: Yes
- Believe in God: Yes
- Believe in Satan: Yes
- Believe in Santa: don't remember ever believing in Santa
- Believe in ghosts/spirits: no don't think so

C
- Car: Dodge Intrepid and Hyundai Sonata
- Candy: depends on the day. Snickers. Rolos. Milky Way.
- Color: don't have one
- Cried in school: probably
- Characteristics: informative. generous. awesome. lazy.
- Chocolate/vanilla: depends
- Chinese/Mexican: Mexican
- Cake or pie: depends on the dessert
- Country to visit: Italy or France
- Clothing style: sometimes pulled together. sometimes bummy. more put together than I used to be

D
- Day or night: night
- Dream vehicle: Jaguar
- Dance: poorly
- Dance in the rain?: don't like to get wet, so no.
- Do the splits?: never even been close

E
- Eggs: scrambled only
- Eyes: hazel. sometimes green sometimes browner
- Everyone has a heart: uh yeah, if they are living
- Ever failed a class?: Yes

F
- First crush: Justin
- Full name: is not something I'd like to put on the internet
- First thoughts waking up: arggughblah ugh
- Food: Italian

G
- Giver or taker: I am very giving but I really like to get
- Goals: to get a goal someday
- Gum: not often. I'm just like my dad. can't stand to chew gum
- Get along with your parents?: usually. they're quite delightful
- Good luck charm: nope

H
- Height: 5'2 1/2''
- Happy: content
- Hair color: dark brown
- Holiday: whatevers next
- How do you want to die?: without knowing it's happening
- Health freak?: not a freak but definitely improved
- Hate: stupid people

I
- Ice cream: not an ice cream fan but like it okay. chocolate usually
- Instrument: none
- Jewelry: cheap fake band to replace my wedding band which is too big
- Job: babysitting and mommy.

K
- Kids: one super kid
- Kickboxing or karate: i'd like to try both
- Keep a journal?: does this count? no? well no then. I've never been able to keep a journal

L
- Longest car ride: Niagra Falls or Miami....I HATE car rides
- Love: is a gift
- Letter: my favorite letter? E i guess.
- Laughed so hard you cried: sure
- Love at first sight: nope

M
- Milk flavor: I don't drink it but if I have to, it's skim
- Movie: not sure, it changes.
- Mooned anyone?: don't think so.
- Marriage: is hard work
- Motion sickness? yes
- McD’s or BK: McDonald's

N
- Number of siblings: 1 sister and 1 brother
- Number of piercings: have had like 5 or 6 but only one in each ear are still there

O
- Overused phrases: Dude!
- One wish: that everybody chooses Jesus
- One phobia: home invasion

P
- Place you’d like to live: haven't found any place I like better even though this isn't such a great place
- Perfect Pizza: chicken supreme personal pan from pizza hut without mushrooms
- Pepsi/Coke: i switch from diet coke to diet pepsi and back and forth at least once a year

Q
- Questionnaires: are my crack

R
- Reason to cry: sick, happy, tired
- Reality T.V.: is annoying, usually.
- Roll your tongue in a circle: not well and not without looking in a mirror

S
- Song: don't have one.
- Salad dressing: Fat Free Italian
- Sushi: never tried it
- Skipped school: in college, all the time
- Slept outside: only a few times and not because I wanted to
- Seen a dead body?: Yes
- Skinny dipped?: heck no.
- Shower daily?: nope
- Sing well?: nope
- Sing in the shower? nope
- Swear? in my head more than I'd like
- Stuffed animals?: still have my pound puppy
- Single/group dates: usually went on singles
- Strawberries/blueberries: neither
- Scientists need to invent: a cure for cancer and AIDS

T
- Time for bed: usually around 11
- Thunderstorms: make me tense.
- TV: I have too many favorite shows. It is embarrassing.
- Touch your tongue to your nose: not even close

U
- Unpredictable: very rarely.

V
- Vegetable you hate: Mushrooms, peas
- Vegetable you love: carrots
- Vacation spot: family

W
- Weakness: poor work ethic
- Who makes you laugh the most: TheOldMan probably
- Worst feeling: having life kick you in the butt and not seeing it coming
- Wanted to be a model?: yes but my height held me back
- Where do we go when we die: Heaven or Hell

X
- X-rays: only dental xrays

Y
-Year it is now: 2008

Z
- Zoo animals: hippos
- Zodiac sign: Cancer but don't give a crap about that

Did you read it all? Well good for you. No prize though. Sorry for lying about that.

7 Things Meme (2 blogs in one day?! Wow!)

Jaymi the Flip Flop Mamma has a get to know me blog and I thought I'd do one too.
Here you go, 7 strange/different things you may not already know about me

1. Since I got married, my middle name and last name now rhyme. It is annoying.
2. I sleep with my Cardinals blanket. TheOldMan calls it my blankie.
3. I've worn glasses since I was 8. My first pair was pink and plastic. (Awesome, I know)
4. I don't wear my wedding ring. It is too big since I lost 60 lbs. Have I mentioned that? ;)
5. I was part of the gifted program in elementary school. I hated it. It was unstructured learning. Couldn't handle it.
6. I puked on old Busch Stadium. I had NOT been drinking.
7. My first job was at Dairy Queen. It lasted a month.