Oh....the rain..

well, it was a rainy and pretty boring day. although, the kids have had a horrible case of the giggles over the last few days. we have been trying to do some laundry and house cleaning...get the house in some kind of order before soccer and football and back to school starts. (can u believe it's almost august already) I have also been trying to work on some photography stuff. I need to put a website together and do some advertising this year, in stead of just going by word of mouth. I should really be doing more with the photography. there is so much to do....school supplies....soccer registration....football equipment....getting up early in the morning (i HATE waking up early in the morning) yes, i know, i have 5 kids. 5 kids who have been thoroughly trained in the art of cereal pouring, oatmeal cooking and i even have a few who know how to cook eggs. Most of the time they even put their dishes in the dishwasher when they are done. Boy, I really don't like mornings...lol
Maybe I am just feeling old...I do have on starting High School this year. (maybe I AM old) LOL

Well, this 33 year OLD WOMAN is going to bed! See you next time...

FROM THE COMMAND POST!

Finished The Book....Now What????

Okay....someone needs to ask J.K. Rowling what the _____ are we supposed to do now???? Maybe those of you who have a life know, but I sure as heck don't. I feel like someone in my family has passed on and maybe I should be wearing black for the next year or so! I guess I can wait with bated breath for the last two movies!! Wait!!! I do see light at the end of the tunnel!!! Woo Hooo!
Now don't panic, I am not that obsessed with it, I am just deep and emotional.....ROTFL! I have felt this way when my son's football season was over......when my daughters soccer season was over.....and when my last baby went to kindergarten! :-( What do I do now? Defining one's self is a difficult task and as you can see from my music tastes and styles, even though it seems like Cybil put that list together (check play list at bottom and turn on speakers), I am not sure if I want to define myself. I like that fact that I can listen to classical and reggae and rap. The only thing I have wondered though.....does that mean that I am only scratching the surface? The surface of music...the surface of anything and everything in my life.....the surface of me? Sometimes I feel like some of these little things are very intertwined. The way I am with my music is sorta the way I have been with most things in my life and I really don't know if I care or not. I like not coloring in the lines, I like to be different, but yet sometimes trying to be different makes me the same. I guess that's the trick.....not to be worried about being different or the same or in a "category".
Just be yourself, love yourself for yourself. You can't give something you don't have! So fill yourselves up ladies with something real, something good (and NO I am not talking about chocolate...that's a whole post in and of itself). Till we meet again....LOVE!

I....Can't.....Read....Fast....Enough....

I can't keep my eye's open.....been trying to finish this HP Book #7 (plz don't tell me the ending). I have also been sprucing up my page, although as a photographer I tend to be "extremely overly" protective of my photos. I don't know what I am exactly worried that someone will do with them. I just wish that they were right click disabled or protected somehow. Anyway.....I am on chapter 21 of the new HP book. It's REALLY good!!


I'll write more when I am done!!!

Back From The Beach.......

Ahhhhhhh.....my good ole rolling chair.....the sweet sound of tapping on my keyboard, which of course I am very particular about. It has to make just the right sound and feel just the right way before I will use it. :-) (That's a whole other post about my quirks and things that some may call "obsessively compulsive") LOL

Well, as you can guess from the title, we just got back from (believe it or not) our very 1st Family Vacation!! Thankfully, no one drowned or got sucked away in a rip tide as I had been (obsessing) worrying about for the last 3 months. Oh yeah, we also did not get eaten by a shark, stung by a jelly fish or lose anyone while on the boardwalk. The kids had an absolute blast! I took ton's of pictures, got some sunburn and have been spending my time today trying to peel off a layer skin. *just and FYI..."packing tape" works great as a skin peeler. just lay a strip on your skin and slowly peel off* (PLEASE do not do this if you are an extremely hairy person, use some common sense, and for the love of God, please do not rip it off swiftly...trust me...it hurts) It's amazing to me how the addictiveness of blogging followed me once again, even though I was trying to stay off the computer. I think I need to start carrying around a necklace with a notepad attached so that I can jot down notes or ideas. Sometimes I forget and then when I sit here at the command post I will just start to babble.....and babble. I keep thinking that most people pick one topic to write about and I thought that I had to do the same but I have decided that I will just sit, write until I feel done and then I'll be done. Does anyone else blog this way? I look forward to your answers.
Waiting on my doorstep when I returned was the "pre-ordered" Harry Potter Book. Since I think that I will spend some time reading and I think i probably won't be able to put the book down. I'll be back when i am done reading. (should only take a day or two)
Have a great day and I'll see you next time!

PS Thanks for all the comments!!!

Back From The Movies.....

Well, let me start this off by saying that I have see all 4 of the previous Harry Potter Movies without reading the books. My oldest son used to go for his birthday, since it was in November when all the other movies came out. For this movie, The Order Of The Phoenix, I got the brilliant idea of "preparing" for it. While meandering around my favorite consignment shop last summer I found the book on tape and a light bulb went off! I have a tape player.....the kids and I could listen while in the car on our way to doctors appointments.....baseball games.....soccer games. Now, we started to listen and it was so good that we wanted to listen in the house, but being so technologically advanced (heheheheh) we did not have a tape player. Yet again, I found myself at a thrift store this time and for 6.95 I acquired a perfectly working tape player/ karaoke machine (came with a mic and the echo effect). Now, we started to listen every night after dinner with the lights dimmed low. It was an amazing story, but I still wasn't satisfied....I had to read the book.....so I get the book and stay up till who knows what time ever night reading....I read in the bathtub, in the bathroom (or as my best friend and I call it....."the office"). FYI: "the office" is usually where I make my phone calls from as there is guaranteed privacy via the bathroom door lock.
Okay, back to the story. It was such a good story that I could not stop reading and when I finished that one I cried and then realized that I also had the next book, The Half Blood Prince, in my possession and proceeded to read that one in one weekend (maybe a little more). Finally....all I had to do was wait! Wait for the movie to come out and I just knew it was going to be GREAT! Now I know that can't put EVERYTHING from the book into the movie, I guess I just hoped that there would be more information into it. I wonder if I hadn't read the book would the movie been better?
Overall the movie was entertaining, but if you have read the books and fallen in love with the series it was kind of like going to dinner and only getting an appetizer and side dishes with no dessert. The meat of the characters was gone, in my opinion, and the relationships throughout the story were not connected as in the book, which changes the whole feel of each character. I just wish the movie would have been a little deeper. I would give it a 7/10 wands.

I encourage all of you to read the books because you have no idea what you are missing! Well, I have to get back to real life a go shopping for groceries! See you next time and have a great day/night!

In Control....at least I think....

So many important decisions to make.....which kind of font....which color font.......where do you want the font.....how big do you want the font.....which shade of that color. Maybe this is so much fun because we have so much "control" over it! There is so little in our lives that we do have control over. Or maybe I should say, since I know better, that there are so few things that we realize that we have control over that we spend all of our time exercising control over the small things, sometimes the things that don't count as much as we'd like them to. Sometimes, after dealing with children all day and a husband who sometimes doesn't talk or listen as much as we'd like, it's so nice to sit down and do what I jokingly refer to as "dominate" the remote control to the TV the computer or other crafty things we like to exert our power over. (no offense to my lovely scrap booking neighbor...that was surly not a stab at scrap booking) lol.

Wow....it's amazing how my mind can wander.....my husband put on movie to torture me with. (The Messengers) I can only imagine how bad this is going to be. I will let you know tomorrow, or maybe the next day. Glad you could stop bye and I will see you next time!

PS. thanks for all the comments!

Well, I am back already. It's 12:42am, yes I am still awake, and I have not been able to stop thinking about blogging. I think I should have read the label before I started...someone should have told me..lol. Addictions run in my family, you know! I just hope that I haven't traded my recently kicked Diet Coke habit for a new, carpel tunnel syndrome inducing habit. I guess we all have our vices. It's just hard being on of those people who needs to try them all :-) So my command post is as comfortable as ever despite a minor avalanche earlier in the day when I was unloading some pics on to my computer. The fallen solders include a few bottles of nail polish (closed of course...I would never leave those open.....), a tube of toothpaste in a Ziploc baggie and some misc. papers and hair bands. I know what you are thinking and yes, I have a large purse and I would probably win those little contests that they do at parties and showers. You know the one's where they say..."do you have ________ item in your purse?" And when I carry a small purse, I always bring a tote bag.
I guess that maybe I should tell you a little bit about myself. I am the mother of 5 children (6 when my step-daughter is here). I had those 5 children in a seven year time span (I like a little chaos) and I even had some of those children before marriage (yes, I am a rebel) I wouldn't trade anything, anyone or any experience I have had for anything,including the dream house I wish I could win from Extreme Home Makeover, the 300 Million Dollar power ball I wish I could win...if I ever played, a car that never broke and the perfect "everything" that I used to wish for when I didn't know how much trials and tribulation make you a better person.
My children and I live with a wonderful man that they call dad and i call husband.
On that note...I am off to bed....I will see you next time.

Head First......

You know how people, when getting into the pool, tip toe and slowly try to creep in? Not me....I like to go head first....or feet first. Sticking with my true form, this is how I will be entering the Blogging world. HERE I AM....JUMPING IN BODY/MIND FIRST!!!! WOOOHOOOO!!!! Technically i guess it would be fingertips first, since i am typing, but who cares. I really don't know where to begin...I have so many stories, ideas, thoughts, opinions (most of which will be politically incorrect and sprinkled with bad words) So far, the blogging water feels pretty nice. I guess I should just start with where I am and go from there. Where I am is the "command post" , or at least that's what my friends and my husband call it. It's the place where my computer sits with my monitor and other goodies. the problem is that magically, no matter how many times i clean it off I end up with piles (sometimes mountains) of things that need to get done, be filed, put away, sent out or maybe i am not sure where it goes. Not matter where i sit or move my desk to I always end up with on little path of getting in and out of my chair. No one is allowed to come near the command post for fear of a life threatening avalanche of miscellaneous objects that may poke out an eye or impale you if tipped. Or they may, God forbid, spill something on my photographs or bend a photo. I spend a lot of time at my command post, probably too much, but it works for me now. Hopefully I can share with you my stories about my life/family/love/friends/opinions and thoughts as I sit here at my command post and view my life and the lives of my family. I hope you enjoy my stories and I hope that they are and inspiration to you. At the minimum I hope that they make you think.

See you next time!!! PS. to my neighbor....please email me and let me know what you think!!!