Not Everyone's Mama

I want to win the HP Mini 110-1100 by Studio Tord Boontje with Windows® 7 Home Premium. It’s going to make my life easier! It’ll change diapers, give baths, dress the kids, cook dinner (breakfast and lunch I MIGHT be able to manage.), feed the gerbil and the parakeet, clean their cages, vacuum the floors, wash the dishes, clean the toilets, do the laundry AND put it away (we’ll let Pato keep on ironing for himself, wouldn’t want to overload the poor thing!), get the oldest 2 dressed and on the bus, and even make me a Starbucks frappucino……..hold on, someone is trying to tell me something.

Blushing What do you mean it won’t do all that? Are you sure? Not even wash the toilets?

Ok, I’m back. Sorry for that interruption!

Well, if can’t do all that, it still can simplify my life by helping me stay organized when on the go (I live by my Google Calendar and I haven’t found a way to sync it to my Blackberry), tasks that don’t require the Internet can be done while sitting at soccer practice, although, I think my Blackberry has Wifi, so I might even be able to take care of business at soccer practice, you know between the youngest 2 kids begging for me to pushing them on the swings and keeping rocks out of Christiano’s mouth, when I want a recipe, I could take it to the kitchen instead of printing out every recipe I want to try and stashing it in a messy drawer in the kitchen (told you it would help me cook dinner!). It would fit in my purse so I could take it to doctor’s appointments and keep on working (my DR has wi-fi, ain’t he great?). That is something that should only be attempted at my own DR’s appointments when I’m by myself, because if I do at the kids appointments, Christiano will pull all of the Kleenexes out of the boxes and empty the 5 gallon water cooler in no time flat with Alyce’s help. And it’ll help me find that Starbucks to get my mocha frappucino! I’m directional dyslexic. Dear Abby told me so.  I could even jam to music in my bathroom when I lock myself in to hide from the kids.

When I’m not on it, I might even be willing to set it up next to me on my desk and let my kids play their Webkinz on it. Maybe. If they beg are good. Really good, because mama don’t share her electronics well, ask daddy.

Plus, it’ll make me look cool. And the good Lord knows that I need all the help I can in that department these days. I keep telling me kids I used to be cool. Then I had them. They don’t believe me about the cool part too much.  Seriously, look at that thing!  It’s stylin’. It’d be the only fashion accessory I need, which is good because I don’t spend much on fashion accessories these days – that whole 4 kids thing and all thing.

Ok, so they are giving away 3 of these nifty computers to people who blog about it right? Guess what else! Anyone who comments on my blog is entered to win one also! That’s 6 HPs they are giving away. 3 to the bloggers and 1 to 3 random commenters on the blogs who entered. So, make sure you leave me a comment here, you’ll be entered to win if I win (or even if I don’t win), you know you really want me to win right? You do, I’m telling you, you do. I know, you really probably only care about me winning if by chance your comment is chosen to win too, but we’ll pretend like you really do care if I win or not. It’s better for my ego. And my ego is fragile.

Hey! While you’re here! I need some more Google Friends —->

Over there, to the right. I follow back. Promise!  Another thing I could do  on the HP! Read all my friends blogs and find new ones to follow!  I could follow you all around my house.  Not being tied to my desktop?  So much simpler!

Now that you know how to enter this giveaway, head on over to my other blog and find more to enter!

ETA This will end on January 20, 2010 at midnight ET and they will draw winners on January 29.  Go here to see official rules of the giveaway.

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Winter in Iowa is perfect for making my kids sick.  Alyce started coughing last night and was crying until I gave her some Delsym and Tylenol.   I know the bottle says 4 and up, but before the FDA changed the stuff on kids’ medicines my DR had me give it to Kat at 2 or 3.  So, I gave Alyce half the 4 year old dosage. (She’s 3.) She finally was able to go to sleep.

Katiana got up this morning and told me her ear hurt and she’s coughing.  Tylenol for her and some ear numbing drops from her last ear infection.  And Nano is now coughing and sneezing.

Joy of all joys I’ve got a house full of sickies.  Jordan is still at his dad’s.  Maybe if he stays there long enough he’ll avoid the germs that would contaminate him too.  I think his dad said 5 days.  He left Friday afternoon, I think that gives him til Tuesday.  I kinda wish he was here to empty the dishwasher for me miss the little poo.

Now I just watch them for a bit and see if they stay the same, get better, or get worse.  If they get worse, off to the DR.  I’d take them in, but you know, I get tired of my DR telling me to watch them for a few days.  So, I do that first.  He’s usually right, but it still is annoying don’t tell him I said that.

I need to get up and clean my kitchen good.  I’ve done surface stuff over the busy holiday weekend, but haven’t done the deep down stuff.  One of those I know I need to do it but I so don’t feel like doing it things.  Blahhh.

I’m really lucky that we have mostly soft flooring (carpet/linoleum) and not something hard like tile flooring right now.  Christiano is really trying to walk, more than the 2 steps that he has taken since 9 1/2 weeks.  But he hits that diaper butt and his knees so hard when he falls.  Not to mention his little knees are getting rough because he crawls out of his pants.  Another reason to clean the kitchen really good today.

And I need to get some duct tape out and tape my vacuum cleaner back together.  I’ve had the thing for 3 years and about 3 weeks ago the switch stopped working.  Pato had a switch in the garage so he jimmy rigged it back together.  (He calls it a Mexican Invention when he does that stuff.  He’s Mexican, he can do that. I’m not so sure I’d get away with it.)  Then he was vacuuming and the handle snapped in half.  I don’t know how he and Jordan have been using it with only half a handle, but the living room needs vacuumed and neither are here, so it looks like I’ll have to figure it out.  I really want to win the Oreck Halo that Feisty, Frugal, and Fabulous is giving away.  Have you see the Oreck Halo?  Freaking sweet!  It’s got this UV-C light that  kills bacteria, viruses, dust mite eggs, flea eggs, lice and mold. Not wanting any of that to live in my carpet, but if they did, a vacuum that killed them would be nice.  Ok, I know we don’t have fleas and lice (my kids have not had lice yet, and no pets that crawl around, mine are in cages) in the carpet, hoping no on the mold, you’d know if you had mold in your carpet, right?  Lord I hope so.  And doesn’t everyone have bacteria, viruses, and dust mites floating around?  Die sucka die!  The question is can I wait until January 15 to see if I win before buying a new vacuum when I probably won’t win? There’s already 1180 entries.   I probably shouldn’t wait, but that won’t stop me from trying to win the Oreck.  It’s too cool not to try.

On that note, I really should go start cleaning while the kids are being good.  I’m trying to motivate myself, not working.  Still need to do it.

Have a great day!

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