happy birthday!

a friend of mine from grade school (we’ll have known each other for 20 years this fall…YIKES!) is 28 today.
go here and wish her a happy birthday!
also remind her that she will hit 30 before me (by a whopping six days).

at the time it wasn’t funny…but now…

from my twitter:
destroying my teeth on rock candy. soo good.12:10 PM Feb 10th from web
nursing a horrid toothache. will be calling dentist tomorrow.5:05 PM Feb 15th from web
and then
need 2 wisdom teeth removed and screen went out on phone. happy monday!10:22 PM Feb 16th from web

damn you stephanie meyer!

sorry i was MIA. i was preoccupied with….ah…something. i’d really rather not say, because, quite frankly, it’s rather embarrassing. especially when my 11 year old brother in law said the girls in his class were going nuts over the same thing that had me so enthralled. um…yeah.
anyway.
so olivia has stood unassisted a couple of times [...]

who to organize my house?

remember this bit:
“after visiting your abode, what they [your parents] end up gifting you with is (depending on how much they love you how much they can afford) either house cleaning services for a month or a broom, a mop and a bucket.”
from this post?
well my mom stopped by yesterday, and after climbing over the mountain [...]

palo duro disaster….again.

so, it’s kind of a running  joke that whenever we go to palo duro, there is some sort of catastrophe. up until now, it has been weather related.

oct. 2002-the angelo and i visited palo duro for the first time. we woke up after our first night and found water in our tent, and a murky [...]

oooh, i’m late!

if you don’t know why i’m late, then don’t worry about it. if you do, well then, you are not doing your job very well and are therefore FI-YAHD!
oh, and before anyone freaks out and shoots off an e-mail demanding to know why, after declaring i was absolutely not having any more, am i late! [...]

holy mountain of clothes batman!

so i just finished sorting all the clothes that need to be washed…let’s just say i have barely enough time to finish washing them before heading off to palo duro (are you sick of hearing about palo duro yet?) if i go according to the schedule. this brought me to the realization of a couple of facts:

this [...]

to do

we leave on our six day camping trip on saturday (the angelo and my mom leave on friday). here is my list of things to do before we go:

monday

clean living room

clean bathrooms

sort all laundry

two loads of laundry

post office

district attorney

 

tuesday

clean kitchen

clean backyard

two loads of laundry

aidan & angelo haircuts

 

wednesday

clean m. bedroom

two loads of laundry

gather camping gear

erin haircut

 

thursday

clean [...]

the moira and i may be doing a staycation

we (the angelo, the kids, the amanda with the ethan, my parents, the christopher and i) are leaving for palo duro canyon on saturday the 14th and returning home on thursday the 19th.
the last time we were there was two years ago. the moira was 2, the aidan 3.
we’ve discussed camping and the kids are really [...]

internet friends

i just got off the phone. i was speaking to a woman i had never met but whose blog i read daily (well, when she updates it). a post she had written propelled me to e-mail her with my phone number so we could talk (we had communicated several times through e-mail before). we spent [...]