And this time it really was my fault. I turned off the alarm instead of hitting snooze. Last time Pato did it, but both times I fell asleep hard. Normally I don’t do that.
I woke up and looked at the clock. 4 minutes until the bus arrived.
I jumped out of bed, thankful that I gave them both showers last night and ran around getting them up. Last time this happened I actually had them out there and they didn’t miss the bus. The bus is late more than it is on time.
Today, the bus was on time.
But, I got them to school before the tardy bell rang. Yay me! Now, I’m tired. I didn’t get to drink my coffee before the panic mad dash started. But I did it!
@Angela_Woo said it best, Mommy wins!
Yeah I did.
Now I have to get ready to be down by Drake University at 10:30. Someone on ReUseIt is giving me an HP 4.1 MP camera for Jordan for Christmas. He asked for a digital camera at the last minute and I had already spent his Christmas money that we had allotted. If he’d asked for something cheap, I might have snuck it in there, but he asked for a Digital Camera, and not a kid one, mom. I was going to wait til his birthday, but when this one came up, I asked and Tina was so sweet to give it to me for him. I’m excited. A kid doesn’t need to many MPs right? My camera has 8. My first digital camera has like 3 MPs, years and years ago. I don’t think he’ll be printing out any poster size pictures soon. He’ll be fine with 4.1.
It didn’t come with a USB cord, but I got one on Amazon for 1 cent plus $2.98 shipping and handling, hopefully to be delivered on Christmas Eve, but possibly the 26th. Again, mommy wins!
In gerbil news: Miss Snowball has taken to throwing all of her bedding out of her cage. That’s something Hammie never did. Her bedding was all over the entertainment center, the carpet, Jesus. (I have a statue of Jesus standing at the door and knocking, the door has a light behind it giving it a soft glow in the window, it was my grandpa’s and when he passed away it was given to me.)
I told Pato what she was doing and he said, no pones tonto well, don’t put in so much bedding. I don’t. There’s just a couple of inches in there, but she tunnels and works her way through it so that there’s very little in certain spots and mountains in other places.
-On a sidenote, I hate it when he and his family use the word tonto with me. I was always taught in my many years of Spanish classes that that meant stupid/dumb. They use it to mean too/so much. Still makes me think they are telling me I’m stupid. No I’m not.
Between the bird throwing his food out and the gerbil throwing her bedding out, my entertainment center is a mess. And Pato broke the handle off my vacuum cleaner somehow, so vacuuming it up is a pain in the butt breeze.
Speaking of the bird, I bought one of those tube feeders, thinking it would keep him from wasting so much food. No, now he takes all the food out of the tube and puts it in his old dish (which I left in place so he could have something to stand on to get his food) THEN he throws it out of his cage. Dirty bird. (Ok, that’s what my grandpa used to say to someone when they had a good pool shot on him, you dirty bird you.)
I’ve got to get thing 3 and 4 ready to go. Have a great day!
ETA – My Little Reviews is giving away a freakin’ laptop! I need a freakin’ laptop. I know, I know, I blogged a couple of years ago that I got a laptop for myself, but it’s slow and Paintshop Pro bogs it down and I’m tired to my desktop anyway because the batter power is down to about 5 min. Not much I can do in 5 minutes. And she’s giving away a HP dm3 notebook. It’s got Windows 7 and everything. Which, I’m hoping is smoother than Vista was when it first came out.
Pick me Pick me!
If I keep eating raw cookie dough, I’m going to need some weight loss surgery Mexico style. Though, I’m not even sure about what that means. Just that it’s probably cheaper there than here. But if you’re going to do it, get some recommendations and make sure it’s safe!
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