need an excuse for a nap?

i guess i need to add "nap" to my to-do list!

whose side are you on?

**mom, you won't care anything about this post (and probably won't know who many of these people are)!

i read enough people and us magazines that i felt the need to give my thoughts on whose side i am on in some of the celebrity news stories:

team kate - yeah kate gosselin nags and is very bossy and controlling. you know, secretly maybe that's why i like her (because she reminds me a little of me). if jon had acted like a decent human being after their split, i probably would be on his side (or at least neutral) but now i think he is one of the biggest tools on the planet! with his huge diamond studs and his tacky ed hardy shirts and traipsing all over the world with his bimbo of the week and hanging out with his new buddy, michael lohan (who is another douche bag). i mean come on! if you want to garner any sympathy points go get a nice normal job and get a place to live (somewhere near your eight kids) and don't go telling anyone who will listen that you "despise" your kids mother and that you never really loved her! those kids will see that someday!

team jessica - okay, maybe jessica simpson was controlling and needy but come on tony romo, you dump her the day before her 29th birthday! even if he did want to break up with her, couldn't he have waited until the day after! unless she was cheating on him, i see no reason that it couldn't have waited. not only did he dump her - he took away her birthday! not to mention the fact that she gave him a $100,000 boat for his birthday a month earlier!

team anyone-but-speidi - i can't stand these two fame whores - spencer pratt and heidi montag totally deserve each other! i wish they would go live in some remote jungle - oh wait, they did that. maybe this time they can go and never come back! they say the stupidest shit just to get publicity! now that lauren conrad and whitney port are no longer on the hills, i don't know if i will even watch it. i guess i'll find out in a week when the show starts back up again!

team taylor swift - well, duh! what kind of ass clown would really take kanye's side?! if "george bush doesn't like black people" maybe kanye west doesn't like white people!

sometimes He shows Himself in the simplest ways

i was paying bills today. every month i write a check to "the center for cancer and blood disorders" towards my balance due. today though, i really looked at the words as i was writing them and i got to thinking "i sure am glad that i'm writing this for my 'blood disorder' and not for 'cancer' treatment"! i may gripe because i get charged $100 every time i go to get a treatment (even with insurance) but really i have it pretty good. they are letting me make monthly payments (which i will be paying for the rest of my life because i will always have to get treatments), but really $25 to be healthy is well worth it! i started thinking about all of the things i have to be thankful for: i have insurance, we have the money to pay for what insurance doesn't cover, my medical problems are relatively minor, i'm not in any pain, my husband and kids are healthy, etc. after being in so much pain this summer, i really empathize with people that have to deal with pain all of the time: my uncle battling cancer, my dad having to use a walker, my grandmothers arthritis, my great aunt who just had her hip replaced, and an acquaintance of mine whose baby girl just passed away. i may not always show it (or even realize it) but i am so thankful for God's blessings!

where does my day go?

as a stay-at-home mom, one thing that really ticks me off is when people ask "gee, what do you do all day?" grrr! but even i, myself, sometimes lie in bed at night (exhausted) and wonder where my day went!

i always have a million little jobs that i need to do - they don't necessarily take that much time or energy but it is lots of little things that add up. i don't have enough time to do everything i need to do even once so one of my biggest pet peeves is having to do the same thing two (or even three times)! when a computer malfunctions and i have to redo something i've been working on or i call a doctors office and they never call me back so i have to keep calling them. these kind of things are small jobs but when they happen a lot (which they do) they definitely add up and it stresses me out trying to remember everything! that's one reason why i love lists - because the satisfaction i get from making that little check mark is priceless! (i know, i'm sad!)

and i get so distracted throughout the day. example - i needed to return something i bought online so i went to get the book from the laundry room, i get in there and think "i should put the clothes in the dryer" so i do that and then think "i should start a new load" so i go to gather the clothes and as i get in the bedroom i notice that there are lots of cups on the bedside tables "i should go put those in the dishwasher" so i take them to the kitchen and remember "i haven't laid anything out for dinner yet" and so on. by the end of the day, i haven't returned the book, haven't started any more laundry, haven't run the dishwasher and don't have anything to cook for dinner! throw a kid in there asking me for something and my day is shot!

okay, i have to go and try to return a book now!