I am a Christian, tattoo loving, paranormal believing, pierced up, supernatural watching, vampire diaries adoring, soccer coaching, animal helping, Earth saving, twimom to 4 living a crazy life I love. I am definitely Not Everyones Mama.
Almost through January. I can’t believe it. But I’ll be glad to get through January, then February, and possibly March, through the snow and on to spring!
This is not my most dazzling picture, it’s just another snow picture. That snowbank in front of me? It comes to my waist. I’m tired of snow.
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My son told me he had his hat and gloves today. I was holding Christiano as they left and he swore he had them.
5 minutes later (roads are semi-bad and the bus was late) I handed Christiano to Pato to go outside and find something to take a picture of. There’s my son – FREEZING – with no hat and gloves. The bus was pulling up and I didn’t have time to go and get them.
And how ’bout them orbs? Proof that spirits revolve around my son? Ok, in this case I’m thinking it’s snow on my lens. 
Though I have seen some funky orbs around me in pictures. Kinda fun guessing who they are.
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Told you I’d have a comparison picture with the ice today compared to the frost on the trees yesterday.
Without getting my camera wet, that’s the best I could do. I wanted to get a picture of the snow that had a sheet of ice over it, it didn’t come out pretty. Too dark even with my flash. I’ll work with it and see if I can’t fix it up enough to recognize what it is for my blog post today.
I think if I left the house today I would need good life insurance quotes. Accidents everywhere. I’m staying home.
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I didn’t have a lot of time to take a picture this morning. Christiano is running a fever and throwing up. I hurried outside, saw this tree with the ice crystals hanging off of the branches, snapped a few pictures, hope that I could work with whatever I got and came back in to hold my cranky little guy. It took a bit of color editing because it’s dark and foggy out, but I like the end result.
I’ll have to take a picture tomorrow and compare the ice. We’re supposed to have an ice “situation” starting tonight with up to 1/3 of an inch of ice to be expected by morning. Fun fun.
Now might be a good time to check on the life insurance statistics. Or do like me, don’t drive on the ice. I hibernate.
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I’m into black and white lately if you can’t tell.
And this is why I need some relacore. Iowa winters. Too cold. Too snowy. Too icy. Can’t get ouside and do anything. When I try to work out at home, I have kids climbing all over me. They are “helping” you know. I’ll just start shoveling the snow for the apartments, that should burn some fat.
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And boy was I trouble when I got home. I took off yesterday at 11:45 AM to go to the casino with my mom. Pato asked how long I’d be gone and I said, 3-4 hours. I stopped and got cash out, then went to the gas station to put gas in his car. (I had to leave my car because it has the car seats in it.)
Then off to the casino I went. I had so much fun, partly because I wasn’t losing all the money I brought in the first 20 minutes. I was staying even. Having a wonderful time with my mom and dad. My dad cracks me up at the casino. I can’t even think of anything funny to tell you, he just makes me laugh (with him, never at him) with all his tricks that I wish would work. Love ya dad!
I didn’t come home a big winner, but I didn’t lose everything either. When I was down $15, Pato called me to see where I was. I said, what time is it? He said, almost 4. Crap. I told him I was going to eat something because I hadn’t eaten anything all day and then I’d leave. Mom and I went off to the snack bar where I got a swiss mushroom burger and she got a reuben and we both got breaded mushrooms. We sat a keno machine while we ate, and I got my $15 back and went up $15 (I know, it’s not a huge amount, but I was happy because I always lose). I had promised the kids if I won some extra that I’d get them a little something something. I told my mom I had to go and went outside. Man, casinos are tricky things. I went outside and it was dark. Uh oh. I looked at my phone and it was 6 PM. I called Jordan (he knew better than to wasn’t going to yell at me) and asked him if Pato wanted me to bring home anything for supper. I heard Pato all snippy in the background, like a housewife who has been sitting there for hours waiting for her husband who is really late coming home (hmmm, I resemble that), no I’m making supper. Ok then.
You have to remember, Christian nurses still. I fed him really good before I left, and he’s almost 11 months, he’s fine without me for a few hours, he eats what we eat, but in order to go to sleep, he still has to be nursed to sleep (I don’t do cry it out, just my choice, no looking down on those who do.), if he doesn’t get nursed to sleep, you have to cradle him and walk the floor.
Pato gets snippy when I give him grief over his never wanting to put Christiano to sleep. He snaps back with, I don’t have a boob that I can whip out and magically put him to sleep. Lovely. So, if Christiano won’t go to sleep for him, everyone will be happy (not really) when I get home.
I walked in the house at 6:30 and Pato was in a crap-tastic mood. I looked at Christiano who was covered in spaghetti, pulled off my sweatshirt, took him out, and gave him a bath. Hoping that Pato might be happier knowing that I was home and that he wouldn’t have to do it.
I also split my whole $15 winnings between the oldest 3, each getting $5. They could get themselves a little something something later.
He still walked around in a bad mood, telling me Nano had only slept for 20 minutes the whole time I was gone. Finally I threatened to take away his um, long talk (as we call it around here when speaking in code in front of the kids) that evening if he didn’t stop trying to ruin my good mood and relaxed state from being childless for 6 hours. He perked right up at that and even offered to go grocery shopping – and take 2 kids with him.
I put Christiano and Alyce to sleep while he was shopping and had a few more moments to myself.
It was all and all a wonderful day. To my cranky husband I say, thank you for my once a month get away that was much needed after 2 snow days, the weekend, and an email to myself from my google calendar reminding me the kids are off from school on Monday too.
and the Ricky Martin Tweet Of The Day – since I missed posting yesterday.
(How did I get started on that?)
Image is linked to the video. Can I say oh – h-e-double hockey sticks (you know I got in trouble for saying that once when I was like 14 – it’s the intention behind it mom said.) NO! No way, no how, nu uh. How are they not getting frostbite?
On that note, I’ll leave you with a funny picture I took on my phone the other day that shows our own snow here in Iowa.
Can you read what the says? It says MOVE. The snowbanks all the way down my street were painted with that the other day. You can’t see around intersections and out of parking lots to pull out safely and I guess a ginormous dump truck was coming to dump it all in a lake.
Done here? I’ve got a new giveaway posted, my project 365 day 10, and then if you like giveaways I have new ones listed on my other blog.
Have a great day!
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and more snow. I’m a seeing a theme. We got another almost 7 inches last night. Kids are out of school again. Jordan’s school district has never had as many snow days as we’ve had this year the whole time he’s been in school. Heck, I don’t remember having this many snow days when I went to school there. Actually, back then we had a lot of snow days because we were considered rural and there were a lot more gravel roads to go down back then (you know back when you had to walk 10 miles uphill both ways through 6 feet of snow just to find your way home pal!) It’s become more urban there, the population sky rocketed, and the people with money who all flocked to that town wanted to live in the “country” but didn’t tolerate gravel roads.
In 17 years they’ve gone from the 1 elementary, 1 middle school, and 1 high school that I attended to 7 elementary schools, 2 middle schools, and the high school which is new and 3 times the size of the one I attended, which is now one of the middle schools.
They don’t worry so much about snow days the last few years. There wasn’t a lot of snow and the majority of the roads are paved. Then last year we hit record snow levels and this year we’ve followed the same pattern. Heck, last month we got 14 inches of snow in 24 hours. They got to miss 2 days for that.
I read an article this morning that was linked to my PageFlakes home page. (which if anyone knows how to add an RSS feed to that when someone doesn’t have a PageFlakes button on their blog, and you’d tell me how to do it, I’d love you forever!) Anyways, what it said was that heavy snow is depleting Des Moines snow removal budget. Deja Vu. I remember them saying the same thing last year. If we had record snowfalls last year, wouldn’t you plan ahead and budget more money into the snow removal budget? Or were you hoping that global warming would take care of it and we’d just get an inch or 2 this year?
Roughly $2.25 million of the Public Works department’s $3 million snow and ice control budget has already been spent with a couple months of winter weather ahead.
We still have most of January, all of February, and some of March for snow, plus sometimes we get freak snowstorms in April.
Sorry for my rant, I just get tired of government. I have faith in them, have faith in them, have some more faith in them, and they do nothing but screw around with our money, when I read stuff like this, it just makes me mad.
And can I give props to the snowplow drivers out there? Yep, I’m sure you’re thinking what a strange group of people to give props to. I don’t know if you know anyone who works for the city and has to plow, but my brother does. When it starts to snow, he knows he is in for some nasty hours.
He got off work yesterday at 5 PM, then went home, ate supper, spent some time with his kids, and went to bed so that he could be back at work at 2 in the morning. He’ll probably be working at least a 12 hour shift today, which means until 2 in the afternoon. So, if there is a snowplow in front of, driving slowly to clear the roads, don’t get irritated at them, maybe wave at them and offer a smile as you pass them. Those guys don’t get a lot of appreciation and they work there butts off during the winter, getting hardly any sleep to keep the roads safe for us.
And off of my complaining about trivial matters.
(Before I go to a very serious subject, I posted Project 365 Day 7, a review for an awesome teething tool that works, and enter my giveaway to win a copy of Ben Sherwood’s The Survivors Club. Plus, there is still time to leave a comment to win the HP Mini 110-1100.)
Now to something serious for a bit –
I’ve started posting a tweet from Ricky Martin everyday. I’ve been a fan of his for years, but it’s been since I heard about a trip he took to India years ago when I realized he was a celeb to look up to. He is someone who uses his power for good.
Here’s the tweet for today –
Here are the links that he links too –
First one
Second one
Take the time to watch them. And I don’t think it would hurt anything to take the time to write your congressmen. Keep the issue of child trafficking front and center, in their faces. If we don’t protect the children in whatever we can, who will? And if nobody does, what becomes of our future?
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But, it’s cold. How cold might you ask?
That my friends is the frost on the door to my apartment building INSIDE. That’s the bottom of the door. The top is frosted over too. I’m afraid my fingers will freeze to the metal if I touch it, kind of like when you’re stupid and stick your tongue to a metal pole in the middle of winter, who does that, oh wait, I know someone who did. Our hallway is heated. I swear to it. Obviously not enough.
So, the ol’ tongue to the metal pole story. When I was in 8th grade, Matt Wilson (I’d protect the innocent, but it’s a common name and what he did was really really stupid, love ya Matt if by some way you pop back into my world 17 years after graduation, via my blog.) stuck his tongue to the metal railing that led up the steps to the middle school in the dead of winter in Iowa. He lost a good size chunk of it pulling his tongue off. And the rest of the winter we’d all look to see if that was still there. Yep, it’s still cold, there’s Matt’s tongue. Ok, how gross is that. I can’t believe I shared that with you. Everyone is going to be running from my blog to pray to the porcelain God. Sorry bout that.
That’s about as good of a story as the time that Cooper pulled down his pants and lit his current of smelly air with a lighter at a party and burned all the hairs off of there. I, of course, was not at that party because I wasn’t cool and didn’t get invited was a good girl and didn’t attend unsupervised parties.
I don’t know about you but I’m rolling over here, so hard that Christiano has joined me in my laughter. Maybe you just had to be there which of course I wasn’t.
The good old days man.
On the serious side for something important for the Ricky Martin tweet of the day –
I don’t think there is anything more important than that message.
I hope you have a wonderful day!
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