The Sunday Funnies

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I mentioned to Savvy that her teacher was a vegetarian and so she wouldn't be eating turkey on Thanksgiving.

Savvy said, "Boy, she really is an animal addict, just like she said."

"Dontcha mean advocate?" I asked.

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Thanksgiving weekend provided our family with lots of food, festivities, and games. On Friday evening, we gamed it up for over 4 hours.

At one point, Jordyn was holding my 18 month old niece, Mia. Mia was copying every sound Jordyn would make.

Jordyn would say, "Ummmm."

Mia would say in the cutest baby voice ever, "Ummmmm."

Jordyn would say, "Ah, Oh."

Mia would repeat, "Ah, Oh."

Jordyn said, "Say Grandma."

Mia performed like a trooper and said, "Gammah."

"Say Mama," Jay commanded.

"Mama," Mia repeated.

"Say Jordyn," Jordyn said.

"Dodo," Mia said.

"Hey, Jordyn--tell her to say Dodo and see if she says Jordyn," I said, jokingly.

"Mia, say Dodo," Jordyn said.

"Jordyn," Mia said.

For the love of blogging!

Well, for heavenssakes! I cannot believe I failed to blog yesterday. After such dedication to a month of blogging--even on Turkey day--I gave up the ghost on the 2nd to the last day of my goal.

In my defense...we returned home yesterday afternoon from our fabulous trip to Idaho--only to discover that our computer had the biggest, baddest virus this side of the Mississippi. I'm talking bad news. I couldn't even turn my computer on without getting all sorts of shenanigans.

Whilst I waited for El Jefe to fix the Vunda virus, I decided I would get out the Christmas decor. I lovingly pulled out my two pre-lit Christmas trees, had the kids help me haul up the many boxes from our very unorganized cold storage, put on my favorite Christmas music of all time (a little Bing)--

and only then did I discover that

NEITHER ONE OF MY PRE-LIT CHRISTMAS TREES WORKED!

Frustration beyond belief. I tried and tried to get the stinkin' tree to work and after a couple of hours I only had the bottom section working. Curses! What a bunch of shenanigans.

While I was trying to fix the tree, the kids were watching Santa Claus 2 (it's a crowd pleaser) and so in my sadness and frustration I finished watching it with them. When it was over I got up with a major case of a Christmas-tree-that-never-was-migraine and severe bed-head.

Alas, I remembered we were out of milk, eggs and cereal not to worry..we still had plenty of diet coke. This necessitated a quick trip to the grocery--and since El Jefe was already in his pj's--it was up to me to provide nourishment for our family. So, I hopped into purple pleasure and ran over to our fancy new Harmons.

Now, this particular Harmons is a store that I generally do not frequent due to high prices-- and such a fancy atmosphere that I sometimes feel underdressed. It is a four star grocery store if ever there was such a thing. But, duty called and I was too tired to go any further--after all--who would I see at 9:30 pm on a Saturday night?

Well, first I saw my good friend in front of the diet coke aisle--I felt like this was an omen that we should visit and visit for quite sometime. I knew she would not judge me...especially since she confessed she was worse off than me as she was not wearing any underwire support.

Then, half of my neighborhood entered the store. Dressed to the nines. On a group date. Yes, loyal readers, some people do have lives.

Just as me and my co-conspirator were about to make a mad dash for the meat department, we were spotted and they commenced to walk towards us for a nice little visit.

Awkward.

We chatted with the fancies for a bit, and then they sauntered off to the ice cream department.

Of course, it was fate that I would run into another dear friend, Petal, who also looked lovely in a swishy black skirt and a smashing black leather coat. Since Petal has seen me at my at my absolute worst--I did not worry--as I am sure I looked fine to her. We chatted for a bit, and then it was time to check out.

My 9 item visit to the grocery store--took a solid hour.

As I returned home, (around 1030 pm) I discovered that sweet Savvy had a very bad bellyache from too much jellycake (my M.I.L. used to sing that cute song to my colicky babies--and if a 10 year old could have colic--last night was Savvy's night for it).

She required the tender loving care that only a mother can give--which involved me drawing pictures on her back and seeing if she could guess them till she fell asleep and I could sneak out.

Only problem was, we both fell asleep.

I awoke with such a start when I heard the cuckoo clock chime one o'clock a.m. As I headed down the stairs, in a very groggy state, I realized I had missed my blogging deadline--and my daily goal of blogging for the month of November was null and void.

Curses! What a bunch of shenanigans!

War Games

This morning, at 4:20 a.m. my MIL arrived for a fun-filled day of Black Friday. I hopped into her Explorer and we headed to Jerome--a town I didn't even realize existed until yesterday when I discovered that the nearest Walmart to my brother-in-law's house was about a 15 minute ride away.

We were hopped up on diet coke and ready to conquer the shopping world--Idaho Style. I foolishly thought that Idaho would be less of a rat race than Utah. I stand corrected.

It was a zoo!

{Wall to wall people--there was a point during my Walmart shopping where I did not move for a full 5 minutes--and I was wedged in between a smelly guy and my mother in law and that was just trying to bypass the produce deparment.

It was a disaster!

{We parked at least two blocks away from Walmart--I have never seen a Walmart parking lot maxxed beyond capacity.}

It was the craziest Black Friday experience of my life!

{But, I did get some good shopping done}

I came away from this experience with gratitude for the shopping scene in SLC.

But, it was all worth it--Christmas shopping 2008 has finally begun!

Let the ad-shopping games begin!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Two Thanksgiving Funnies for the Price of One

The Tuesday Funnies: Lizard and Cat

In art class yesterday, Savvy's teacher taught them about comic strips. The kids loved it! I laughed out loud when I read Savvy's--I think she has a future in the comic strip biz.

Lizard: I need a friend

Cat ponders to himself: If I be a nice friend, I can eat him.

Cat says to lizard: I'll be your friend

Lizard: Yay!

Cat: Let's play "Eat your Friend"

Lizard: What's that?

Cat: Gulp

Lizard from inside cat: Oh I see.

An Eye Opening Experience

I wear disposable monthly contacts..and I have been running low on them since early September.

I only had two remaining for each eye--and 4 months to go before I could go to the eye doctor and load up on some more.

This was a puzzle to me, because I know I ordered plenty back in February--so I shouldn't have ran out so quickly. But, I figured I had torn a few here and so I must've been off on my count.

This means I have been wearing the same pair of contacts for two months.

It has been uncomfortable.

Gritty, Red, Smudgy, Burny, Watery, Ouchy.

And all because I was not good at properly distributing my contacts.

This morning, I decided enough was enough. I threw all caution to the wind and switched out my old contacts for a new pair. I looked in bottom drawer where I keep the new ones and couldn't find them anywhere. Looked in another drawer...nothing there either.

Finally, I looked in the bathroom closet and found not only the last pair of contacts..but another box full of contacts--a 5 month supply to be exact.

I was so happy! Although I've been kicking myself all day for not realizing this before I endured what feels like a permanent fingerprint on my left eye--for the past month.

Have you ever misplaced something without realizing it was misplaced only to find the unknown misplaced item you misplaced?