Sugar Heaven!

I just finished checking the kids Halloween candy for impurities and such and they made out better than any other year before.  We went to a friends house for a party before trick or treating and it was amazing.  The kids had a scream off contest...funniest thing I've heard/seen in a long time.  I wish I could express in words their facial expressions when they were screaming.  After the pizza, pinata and party games (including the race to make a friend a mummy out of one roll of toilet paper), we went trick or treating around my friend's neighborhood.  And just let me say, my neighborhood gives out crappy candy!  Sorry if you're a neighbor of mine, but pretzels and totsie rolls are nothing compared to the candy my kids got in my friends neighborhood.  There is such a variety I couldn't decide what I wanted to eat first.  Should I have the Fun Dip or the big soft Sweet Tarts?  Or maybe the Butterfinger?  Of course the full size Reese's Cup might hit the spot too. I think we got about 20 full size Reese's Cups. Oh, the choices!  I'll go with the large Hemon head, it's small, sweet and doesn't have many calories.  How am I going to keep my hands off of this candy Lord?  I am in Sugar Heaven.  Really! I imagine my Heaven being a large shoe closet filled with 4 inch heels and the shoes are filled with candy.  And in order for me to be able to wear the shoes, I have to eat all the candy in them first.  And of course because it's heaven I don't gain a pound or have to work out or get a stomach ache from sugar overload.  In my Heaven sugar is the main food group.  And because of this wonderful holiday of Halloween and my friends gracious neighbors, I am half way to my Heaven! 

Lucky me..

On Sunday my friend is having a Halloween party for the kids.  She decided to do this because she and another friend held a large, very decorative, all adult Halloween party at her house last weekend and she thought it would only be fair to allow the kids to enjoy the decor as well.  I told my friend I would help her out with the party.  I said, "This is a great idea!  I'll bring caramel apples and a pinata!"  No problem, right?  Wrong.  First off, I went to my favorite store to get a pinata and caramel apples and it didn't have either.  Then I went to my least favorite store only to find they also didn't have a Halloween pinata or pre-made caramel apples.  Now, anyone who knows me knows that if I can't find something, I'll just make one.  I couldn't find a good Zues costume for my husband, so I made one out of a sheet, curtain tie back and curtain rod.  He was a great Zues to match my Aphrodite costume.  Naturally, since I couldn't find the pinata or carmel apples I thought, "I'll just make them".  Making a pinata is actually easier than making the caramel apples.  The problem is, I couldn't find balloons to make the pinata.  Really, I went to 3 different places and couldn't find regular large birthday balloons.  This made me wonder what in the world had gone so bad that common stores wouldn't sell balloons?  And why are these stores depriving our children of the joy of balloons?  Is there nothing better than filling balloons with water and throwing them at our friends?  Or sitting on balloons to pop them and annoy the people with whom we want to annoy?  What kind of birthday is it going to be if there are no balloons?  These were the things going through my head when I left work early to hit one more store.  I thought I'd go the the local grociery store down the street from my house to get apples and caramel and check for balloons, although since it's a grociery store I didn't think they'd have the balloons.  But they did!!  Not only did they have balloons, but they had a Halloween pinata!  YES!  And to top off the trip, they had pre-made caramel apples!  YES AGAIN!  Who'd a thought that my grociery store, where I go 4 to 5 times a week to pick up toilet paper and cheese would have the 2 things that no one else carries?  Lucky Me!  And to top off the evening of not having to make a pinata and caramel apples, my husband called and said he's going to get a movie and a bottle of wine on the way home.  I love wine almost as much as I love my husband, so when he brings home a bottle of wine... well, let's just say...Lucky me!

Crazy night

Well, I spent Monday night skipping class to take care of my 9 year old who caught the flu and was vomiting every 30 minutes for 6 hours or so.  I really thought that my 11 year old would start getting sick right around the same time the 9 year old stopped, but lucky me, she hasn't caught it yet.  He's not so bad when he's sick, he just gets sick and says "the flu really sucks mom".  Now her, on the other hand, when she gets sick it's drama, drama, drama.  She's crying and throwing things and taking a shower after every time she gets sick.  So, let's keep praying she doesn't catch this flu, for her sake and mine.

And that was my Monday.  Tuesday night, my neighbor's house caught fire around midnight and this caused our street to be lit up like a Christmas tree from 4 fire trucks, 1 ambulance and IPL truck.  Luckily, her house is in tact, no structural damage.  Her bathroom exhaust fan was left on for hours and started to smolder and smoke.  It caught fire just before the fire trucks got there.  I guess it's good to live less than a mile from a fire station.  She has to replace the ceiling in both her upstairs bathrooms and all the insulation in the attic, but it could have been much worse.  She said the smoke alarms woke her up and the smoldering and fire spread so slowly that if it weren't for the smoke alarms they may not have made it out.  Note to self, make sure all smoke alarms in house have working batteries and don't leave the bathroom fans on for a long period of time.

Needless to say, since the fire trucks kept me up last night, I'm exhausted.  And I have class tonight.  Maybe I can skip out early, but probably not.  We have partners for this project so I doubt I'll be able to leave early because then I will be accused of not pulling my weight in the project.  I always pull my weight, just not always in the classroom.  Our instructors say, "it's your money, don't you want to get the full 4 hours out of it?"  I say "It's my money, if I want to leave early then I'll leave early."  I wish I could take morning classes, I'm a morning person. I'm actually quite perky in the morning.  I can't think at night, I just want to curl up on the sofa and watch something funny.  Since I get up a 4:45am, I'm usually done for the day right after I eat dinner.  This is why I feel it's necessary to leave class early.  It's a 35 minute drive home and I might not make it home if I stay at the school until 10:00. Sometimes I fall asleep in the car, even when I'm driving.  Hence another reason to leave class early...

Cheese

     I love cheese.  I could put cheese on almost anything.  I say almost anything because there are some things that cheese just won’t go on.  Bacon, for example, is only good with cheese if there are eggs involved.  I also don’t believe that cheese and chocolate would be a good mix.  When I was young my dad would say “well, you like this, right?  And you like that, right?  So you’ll love them together.”  But this is not always true.  Case in point, we were at the state fair this summer and my husband decides he wants to try the chocolate covered bacon.  Yes, I love bacon and yes, I love chocolate…but together it was ridiculously nasty.  If it doesn’t sound like it would be good together, chances are it won’t be good together.  Like black and brown.  I love black and I love brown, but if your stylist is telling  you to wear black pants with brown shoes, fire him/her right away! 

     Back to the topic…I love cheese with almost anything.  Right now I am eating a garden salad with ham, turkey and cheese cubes.  It has ranch dressing, which is alright I suppose but I’d much rather have French dressing.  French dressing and cheese cubes on salad is heavenly.  Ranch dressing and cheese cubes on salad is boring.  But I got a great deal on this salad at the store this morning and the dressing was not optional.  I’ll take what I can get when there is cheese and a sale price involved.  When I go out for lunch or dinner I very rarely order something that doesn’t come with cheese or have cheese on it.  At burger joints I get cheese burgers.  At Mexican restaurants I get extra queso on my beanless burrito.  And at chicken places I get cheese to dip my chicken into.  Last night for dinner I had tortilla chips with melted shredded cheese on top.  It was delicious.  Now, what will I have for dinner tonight?

3 followers

I'm super excited to see that I have 3 followers!  I have no idea why they would want to follow me, but I'm sure they have their reasons.  2 of them left post on my blog yesterday.  This makes me feel...important?  It also makes me feel a little anxious because now every post has to be funnier than the post before...oh the pressure!  I guess everyone needs a goal though, therefore my goal is to be the "best and funniest blogger of all time" (read the quotation as if it being said by a boxing announcer just before the big fight).
Right now, I am sitting with 5 children (2 of which are my own) in my windowless Colts room with the lights off watching a PG movie.  We just got back from the park where we had a lovely picnic as we held down our plates and shivered from the cold wind.  Needless to say we didn't stay very long since noses were running, eyes were watering and someone had to use the bathroom.  You'd think that living within walking distance of a play ground would be great fun, but not so much when the weather is colder than it looks and there are no restrooms.  We were going to go to the zoo, but I can't fit them all into my car.  They are being very quite watching the movie and to be honest, I can't believe that I got 5 kids to be quite...dumb luck or genius mom?  You decide.
By the way, the one diet is out as I have had 1 brownie, 1 pancake, and 1 bag of popcorn today and I'm starving.  Really starving.  My pants are actually getting bigger as I sit here and type.  Oh, wait, I guess that's the point of the diet, now isn't it, to make my clothes fit more loosely.  Maybe I will stick with it after all.  Of course it is only noon and I have the rest of the day to eat 1 box of anything in my kitchen.  I'll keep you posted.  I have to, now that I have followers...

Today's Diet

Today I thought I would try the one diet.  This is when you can eat whatever you want as long as you only have one.  So, this morning for breakfast I had one brownie.  Then for a snack I had one rice crispie treat.  Then for lunch I had one "Smart One's" meal.  Then for a snack I had one regular sized container of Pringles.  We have a busy night planned with meetings and gymnastics and I like to make something quick on nights like that, so we are having pizza.  Knowing that there is no way one piece of pizza is going to fill me up, and to make sure I stay in the guidelines of the diet, I will eat one pizza.  And then I'll drink one bottle of wine.  I'll do a full hour of yoga and some extra stomach exercises and then go to bed around midnight.  I'll let you know if I plan to continue this diet tomorrow, as now that I've said it out loud, it just sounds ridiculous.