Coming soon

I am still here and will be doing some revamping to my blog and coming back to do some updates!! In the meantime I missed you all!

Coming soon>>>

Hello!!

It has been a long 6 weeks. We have said goodbye to a cherished grandmother and welcomed a beautiful new life into our extended family.

One of our very close and loved friends was in a devestating car accident. I have started a new job and spare time has been spent loving the moments we spend as a family. Life is short we all know that but these past 6 weeks have just confirmed that life can change in an instant.

Enjoy every moment.


I am very excited about tomorrow. We welcome a new President one that we all hope can change our world. I will be spending the evening with family and friends watching this historic moment. The time has come for change. Here is a little recap from Nov 4 just to recapture that feeling.

Vomit & Madi's Birthday

I did not make back yesterday but I do have a good explanation. I have been sick with the vomit comet flu since wens and yesterday it infected Ms. Madi. She put me to shame with her vomit comet skilz. WoO hOo that girl can hurl.

We tallied it up today on a trip to the grocery. I counted 4 and she said 2. I had to explain to her that the number of times hurled is counted by the number of areas in which you mar with vomit. Luke's bed & wall count as 1 because the wall was caused by splatter from bed. The complete masking of the toilet in my bathroom counts as #2. The 3rd was the floor of the bedroom and the 4th was the masking of their toilet. See logically it was 4. She counts it as the number times she got up to run for the pot. So she counts 2. Hmm kid logic I bet $100 when it is her kid doing the hurling on her floor it will be 4 not 2...bet me...

In other news it is Ms. Madi's 9th birthday today. 9 years ago last night I was enjoying a beautiful pan of lasagna with friends and watching movies. I remember being a bit aggitated we had been to the hospital that morning and was sent home because I was not dialated. WoO HoO a little vagina talk sorry guys:) But damn I was uncomfortable just little twinges of pain all day and evening and a desire to pee every 3.2 seconds. After our friends left Brent went to bed and I sat up because the pound of noodles and gooey yummy cheese was not sitting right. I was feeling a little funky about 3 hours later and woke Brent up cause I knew something was not right. This was my 1st time of going into labor unassisted so the signs were unknown to me until I was really in dire need of being at the hospital. With Lillian I went from a 4-10cm in less than 5 minutes and then had a baby 2 pushes later. I had no clue what transition was I just knew it was a bit painful and we should move it along. I remember Brent telling me the entire trip to the hospital "Do NOT push Melissa, BREATH" we arrived at the hospital and in less than an hour we had Madi. A fierce screaming red head that had big clear blue eyes and the pinkest lips.

9 years later she has faded to a delightful strawberry blonde with freckles and sparkling blue eyes. She is a spitfire with that red head temper is still going full speed. She is my mini me. My sweetie, Maisi Pie, Trucker Mouth Sally, Lil Bit and Diva Brato Supremo. Happy Birthday Madi!! I love you babygirl:)

Momma

Birthday Girl!!

It's my birthday......I am 32.........back later to give you the details. Until then feel free to lavish me with love & good tidings:)

I had an amazing holiday with my family and friends. The food was excellent and the wine bountiful. I am lazing the day away in my jammies. Today is a day of rest for me. I did some black friday shopping but a slight hangover helped me back into bed at 7:30am until 1. Now I am feeling relaxed, my mom sent me this video and I had to share:o

beyonce single ladies guy dancing

Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday weekend!

What the F*ck Friday!!

******************WARNING ADULT CONTENT***********************
My friend Theresa started this a few weeks ago and it was fabulous. Today is WTF friday and this has been a week plum full of them.

I am looking for a job in a town that is laying people off left and right. WTF people quit firing your employees it is the fucking holidays assholes. Some companies need to do some internal reorganization instead of firing people, it is a week before Thanksgiving and instead of a turkey people are getting pinks slips…WTF!!

Speaking of the holidays, where did the year go? I swear it just flew by. I am not ready to go shopping and fuck I don’t have a job & that just blows monkeys balls. WTF

We have 0 children tonight and instead of going out and doing something we are home. For like the 3rd time this year he has to work sat at 6am….WTF!!


I have a pound of ground beef, 6lbs of pork shoulder and 20lbs of turkey in the fridge and we are eating Chinese takeout for supper…WTF…lazy much?


I do have a serious love affair with Crab Rangoon they are wonderful yummy creamy crunchy bits of heaven.


I have ruined every single batch of chocolate chip cookies I have made this week….really what in the fuck is up with that…..I am concerned….WTF

I have gained 4lbs this week...WTF…oooh may be all the stuff I have been baking…note to self give more away….WTF is the point in baking then.

Ok my food is getting cold now, I have had some interruptions on this post. Now my food is needed reheating…WTF

So please add your WHAT THE FUCKS for the weekJ

Sioux Falls, SD

If you are in my area or will be for Thanksgiving. I encourage all of you to attend this wonderful event!

Thanksgiving Day

Run For Food

Thursday, November 27 8:00 a.m.

The Banquet is very grateful to be the recipient of the "Run for Food" event.
Runners and walkers are gathering at The Banquet on Thanksgiving morning to get in some exercise before feasting on turkey. You may chose from a 3 mile or 6 mile run or a 1 mile walk.
Organizers suggest a $10.00 donation to The Banquet. There is no registration, no t-shirts and no frills. This is just a time for runners to get together.
The run starts at The Banquet at 900 E. 8th St. The route goes to Falls Park and returns to The Banquet. Last year’s run raised $3,570 for The Banquet.

I was shocked I have not blogged for a week thank goodness I did not sign up for NaBoPoMo this time I would have failed.

Well there have been some interesting happenings since I was last here. Obama won the Presidential election and I am thrilled. I will not go into more detail as I have spent the past week debating with uneducated people who would rather spread hate and rumors than get to know our new President and truthfully I am fucking exhausted by it. If your view is different from mine lets agree to disagree and move on. I am sick of people bitching about it. DONE.

I am looking for a job. I know I said I was going to wait and just go to school but nope have to do something before I become a certified lunatic. BORED BORED BORED. I have been baking my buns off and found myself unable to come up with something new so now it is time to walk away from the kitchen for a bit. For some reason I come up with better recipes when I am supposed to be doing something else...hmmm...go figure.

Other than that I am addicted to Facebook if you are on it and want to be added to my friends list shoot me an email. I am reading everyones blogs just been lazy commenting. Hello I have been using my facebook chat like a mad woman though. OK I will be back later. I know this post sucks...deal with it...my boobs are being smooshed right now by my VS Very Sexy push up so I am losing the bra and going to the couch!!

Time for Change

I started this post as a little encouragement to get out and vote tomorrow but decided to head a different direction. If you do not vote in the election I do not want to hear a flipping word for the next 4 years about how any one thinks the president sucks. My philosophy is "Don't Vote Don't Bitch" by not voting you take away the right to have any opinion on what our countries next 4 years are like. Got it?

Tammy, Theresa & Tash if McCain & Palin win I am moving in with one of you. Please pray you do not have a 4 year house guest!!

I am in a pretty good place this morning...sitting here listening to some Marley and nursing a super sized headache. I infiltrated the man cave last night and ended up staggering to bed after a few to many beverages. It has been so long since I drank a few to many was 3...sad fact is I am old. I will return.............................

In the interim this makes me sick!! There are some seriously sick fuckers in this world.

Sunday Fun Day!!!

This weekend was amazing. Perfect baking weather cool crisp and a perfect 2 days to fill the house up with yummy smells. Yesterday I made new biga in hopes to have some flavorful enough for sourdough by Thanksgiving. Last night I tried out the first round of bread with the fresh batch and it made a heavy crusty wheat with a good nutty flavor. I was impressed with the texture. I did leave Ms. Maddy in charge of the kneading while I had a beer in the garage and she did a very good job. I made some sandwiches for the kids with it and they liked it. Brent well since it was a healthy food he will not touch it.

I did make a 7lb pork loin and did my Georgia pulled pork. There is pretty much nothing left. The kids and guys devored it. Makes me feel good when I cook and there is not even a crumb left. Then I know it was goooooooooooood!

I am done now for the night with baking I swear the oven sighed in relief when I turned it off.

We have unexpected company tonight Brent's cousin Jeremy is here from Denver and is going to stay with us. He is back until wens the guys are going to try and go riding Tuesday for the last time before the snow flies. Currently they and another friend are sitting in the garage bonding as males do. I am not allowed out there. That is fine by me, like I want to hang out with 3 grown men that act like they are 12....no thanks.

Other than the baking I did get to read a ok book this weekend. I read Dean Koontz's The Darkest Evening of the Year. It was ok not one of his best. I have also been looking at tat designs I have the itch bad. Something has to be done prior to my birthday I have a good idea of what I want just working out placement. It will be in black I think I am good with color but like the black. My wrist is healed and surprisingly I have had alot of remarks from people on it. Who thought putting believe there would be so noticeable. It is. My Dr at my appointment Friday thought it was very appropriate.

Believing in yourself is half the battle the rest is up to God.

Life....

I really need to get a job...This is seriously my life right now. I laughed through this whole song. You have to listen to it all it picks up at .30....LOVE IT!!

Oh Vey!!

I was really a good blogger today. I took lots of pictures to post, that documented the day I had. Right on down to the start of the day. Lets just say this, running 10 mins late-freezing cold-raining-grumpy kids and drum roll......a flat tire. What a lovely surprise this am. I think I have tire gremlins because some days I go out and the tire is flat, Brent has taken the tire off and did the tire diagnostic (fill and water bath) to check for leaks. No leak so really WTF...gremlins I tell ya. You get no pictures though because the gremlins stole my camera cord when they flattened my tire.

I did however get to spend half a day home with my hubby because he got rained out at work. It was great and fun until 4pm when I needed a 20 min power nap. I snuggled down in bed thinking that I was in heaven and started to drift off into dreamland then......he shoved me....and asked me to cook some dinner. ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME??!!?? He continued this every 5-7min for about an hour intermittently inquiring about what I was making with the chicken I had thawing. I believe I gave him 10 different answers because each time I told him he said "Nah not that".

His choices were chicken parm, stir fry, chicken & dumplings, potpie, cordon blue, rice stuffed, baked, BBQ or fried. He wanted none of them. I finally flew out of bed in a temper leaving in my trail a string of trash talk that would have made a sailor blush. I was pissed I needed that damn nap. Instead I was up making 2 step fried chicken in olive oil with paprika, garlic & ground pepper. For side dishes I made garlic mashed potatoes & stuffing. I feed the kids and Brent comes out and has the nerve to ask where the bread was. Hello I did not make bread today he was pouting because he had to use store sliced bread. I will be making bread in the morning now obviously. I am going to make some Harvest Bread also I am in the mood. It has been raining steadily here for the past 18hours.

*Update on the whole previous post. The friend of a friend I contacted was male and never did contact me back. OH well. I did however do some more looking and found another one of my good friends from that time in my life and I am happy to say he did email me back today. That was really cool he is married with 3 kids. His family is opposite mine 2 boys 1 girl. I think it amazing to see how we have all grown up. I am hoping that we can rekindle some of the friendship we had all those years ago.

Don't worry Theresa you did not make me feel bad at all. I will bet there are some girls from my life that get a little ill thinking of me. I am the type to rip people to shreds if they mess with me or my friends. I am not proud but I have made many a big ego girl cry cause she got a bit big in the mouth. I am still that way I am an excellent verbal sword thrower...some would just say I am a bitch...oh well it is what it is. Happy Birthday I hope you found time to sneak out and pamper yourself. Hugs from SD to Estonia!!! Happy 30th!!

OMG I just hit post and Blogger gave me an error message Thank God for autosave!!

People are strange

Good morning. I am up early after a night of not sleeping so well. Yesterday I attempted to contact an old friend through one of their old friends. I figured that after 16 years of not knowing where my old classmates were it would be nice to catch up and see how their lives are. Well little did I know that an animosity from back when I was a freshman would still burn steady for this person.


I was very nervous to contact this person as I knew that I rated in the bottom of the food chain with them back when I was 15. I figured live and let live I am 31 years old now and honestly could not tell you why this person did not like except that they were jealous. Jealous of the time I spent with their friend. They may have been a little angry that I caused some heartache for the person I was looking for but my God, I was 15 and my parents chose to move back to SD not me. I had to go and when you are 15 getting a job and living alone are not exactly realistic goals. What happened was my parents decided to move to SD to start their own publishing business and I had to leave all my friends including my 1st love, his amazing sister and the friends I had made. It was devastating. I was a mess for weeks and it was hard. We kept in touch as much as possible until life and distance got in the way. That distance is a bitch when you do not drive let alone own a car.


Well yesterday I sent them a friend request on MySpace. I checked a few hours later and it was gone. Hmmm I am so new to using that service I resent it thinking I was technically challenged as usual. Right before I clicked send I stopped and thought damn what if that person denied it and that is why it is gone. So I Googled how to deny a friend and if there is a notice sent....I know I am lame like that. I did resend with a follow up note letting them know that I was not looking to be their BFF!!! Last night I checked again and sure enough email read and request denied.

I was a little shocked and a bit annoyed but not super surprised. I did not sleep well last night, I sat and tried to remember everything about this person and every single conversation to see where me, the queen of democracy and tact went wrong. I am an easy going person, I like people and usually people like me. I have friends from all over the world and have the same best girl friends from 16-17 years ago. I am wondering what kind of fatal character flaw I had at 15 to make someone not like me 17 years later.

Piss Police

“Hold your wiener when you’re peeing” is the latest mantra at my house. The boy has been peeing on the floor, in the trash, on the wall and in the tub. I am Master Piss Cleaner Upper these days. It is so damn annoying to be sound asleep and then suddenly you awaken to the sound of urine alternately hitting water…then splashing on solid surface… then water again. I am not sure how else to deal with this except for yelling “Hold it and aim” I am sick of toilet duty 10-15 times a day.

My favorite is when he does not put the seat up and in the middle of the night I wander in only to end up with a wet ass and bad attitude.

What is the deal? He has been awesome about bathroom etiquette forever and now all of a sudden he is a desecrater and I am the Piss Police. I just do not get it.

Happy Chilly Sat!!!!

I am off to run errands!! Have a great day. If you get a chance stop by an give my girl Bluebella a shout out today is her birthday!!


Until later here is some music

Violent Femmes-Kiss Off


Drowning Pool-Let the bodies hit the floor
Going to see the guys in November!!! So excited!!!


Smashing Pumpkins-The world is a vampire


Korn-Falling Away From Me
Bad ASS song-I missed this concert 2 years ago still pissed!!


Korn-Ya'll Want a Single?
The one video you will not ever see on TV


Rage Against The Machine-Freedom


Rammstein-Feuer Frei



Have an awesome day!!!

I am just in a funk right now. I am feeling a bit on the down side and if you know me I do not go there often at all. So today it is just music.

Linkin Park-In the end



This was on Fabric of Life a Blog I love.




Linkin Park-One Step Closer



REM-Everybody Hurts


Theory Of a Deadman-Bad Girlfriend


Papa Roach-Forever


Free Credit Report Songs-LOVE this guy he is adorable!!