Nonsense.

Dave: I love you.
Me: I love you more.
Dave: I don't think that is possible. You see *dramatic pause* I am taller than you.


Glad we cleared that up.

HotDogFork

Adorable

Just found this photo on my phone!

You should have seen what I deleted...

There's an app for that!

And I downloaded it months ago (or yesterday, or a week ago, time has no meaning to me apparently)

The plan was to blog more, clearly that hasn't happened. Maybe my phone will magically update my life. Maybe I'll make this a priority again.

We will see.

I'll leave you with this all magically sent to you from my phone.

Random Rant

I just spent over 2 hours on the phone with AT&T (they don't suck), MedCo (they don't suck), and Nicor (they kinda suck a lot).

I know that the gas company regularly does estimates instead of actual readings. I understand the practice. I do however find it ironic that I just got a massive amount of attitude from the CS lady because I asked for an actual reading on our house in IL. I find it a bit shady that after 6 months of paying $4.95 a month for ZERO gas usage they decide to do an estimated reading of $115 for January. She then repeatedly urged me to call back after they do a reading because I will probably still owe money. Yes ma'am I understand...it will be $4.95, how about I don't sit on hold with your ridiculous company for another 37 minutes and just guestimate the $4.95. She kept insinuating that I was CLEARLY mistaken and how silly of me to think I'd be getting off paying so little. I mean...I've only been doing that for 6 months. I must have just been mistaken.

I just very much appreciate shady business practices. I highly doubt that the company looked at my history and decided to just do an estimate after 6 months of inactivity. The estimate of course was based off of last years usage, when we lived there. I'm assuming that some people don't even think about this and just blindly pay the bills and thats why I was getting attitude from this woman, but wow....I am REALLY not in a take crap sort of mode today.

And now back to your regularly scheduled blog inactivity.

Christmas Stockings

Our move from Chicago to Cleveland was by far one of the craziest experiences in my life....and I didn't actually lift a single box. I packed almost all of them, but when it came to the physical moving I INSISTED we hire a company to move us. As with most things that I INSIST on, my stance on this subject wasn't even given consideration. You'd think I'd be mad about this (and I mean clearly I have some issues haha) but in this situation it saved us about $4,000. Which you know.....I had just hanging around in my back pocket. The kids and I moved home and stayed with my parents for a few weeks and then with Dave's parents for a few weeks till we could move into our house. Maybe if I'm bored in January I'll actually get around to showing you all the house. 

Back to my point. Our moving was done in stages, and trips back and forth. My Father-in-law and Brother-in-law took a trip, and then my husband and FIL took a trip, I think there was another trip...I don't recall I lost count and lost a few bits of my sanity. Each trip was riddled with problems, amusing stories, and death defying experiences. Running out of gas, typhoons....Can you even experience a typhoon driving through Indiana? During the trip my FIL and BIL made with our stuff the weather was so unbelievably bad that some of our items actually flew off the truck. We are certain we lost a plastic bin, and a basket of which I can't actually place in my mind. 

Two? of our Christmas boxes went flying off the truck as well. The Christmas boxes that were damaged of all things, held our special ornaments, the personalized ones and those reminding us of events or occasions. They also held our stocking holders, picture frame holders that we bought when we first got married. 

My FIL and BIL collected everything they could from the side of the road and had them all drying out in Cleveland by the time I'd seen them. We packaged them all up and moved them into the house, I figured I'd just manage it all once Christmas came around. 

Last week I got everything out and set up, Christmas tree all ready for ornaments and finally looked through the whole box. I kid you not, every special ornament was preserved and in perfect condition. None of them broke, none of them were water logged (like a majority of the packaging). They were all perfect (save the pickle...we lost the pickle and OJ will tell you about it nonstop if you ask her). 

The generic plastic bulbs and old hand me down glass bulbs that we had tons of were all completely destroyed. I swear it must have been some crazy Christmas miracle that we got all our special ornaments here in one piece. 

The stocking holders faired okay for the trip, they need polished which the Martha Stewart in me insists on, and the lazy Lindsey in me won't be doing, but the photos were destroyed. The photos are not a great loss to me; in fact they were downright creepy once they were water logged. We hang a stocking for Jesus because heck it's his birthday! And...well if that creepy water logged photo doesn't put the fear of God in someone I don't know what will. My photo looked like I had some sort of disease; it was all just beautiful. 

Anyway I ordered new photos:

And I've totally realized now....that Dave and I are TOTALLY loosing ourselves to parenthood. I couldn't find one recent picture of the two of us, or of us individually. So our stockings will be: OJ, 3D, 2D&3D, and Me&OJ. My goal for 2012 is to have more photos of just me, and just Dave and just us. This whole 'parenting thing' is SOOOO ridiculous. All these pictures look like we must like these children....which is clearly not the case. 

I'm just outraged. 

Life is getting away from me

I'm so overwhelmed with how fast this year has gone. It's already November and I'm just floored, what did we do this year? It's been insane. And the truth is we've done SO much.  I'm hoping 2012 will be a quieter year, especially now that we are home, and can visit family more regularly.  We only have one trip planned next year and its for a friends wedding. Otherwise everything should be local. I'm starting a little early reflecting back on 2011 and I have a feeling I'll spend the last few months of it just trying to catch my breath.  Life is moving forward whether I want it to or not.

OJ recently turned herself into a fairy and has yet to convert back. She gets increasingly more distressed every time we get in the car and I tell her they have to come off to put her seat belt on.

The weather has been amazing, either sunny and comfortable or pouring rain (which leads to puddles). Our new backyard is AMAZING. It's completely unlevel but also flat, which means there are LOTS of places to jump in water. Our old backyard slanted downhill, you couldn't even put lawn chairs back there. let alone our grill or fire pit etc etc. I'm fairly certain a night around our fire pit is planned for this weekend. It might be our last chance before cold weather is upon us.

And then this happened.  I'm seriously just an amazing story teller.  I know...I hear it all the time.

Have I mentioned this guy. He's  9 months old and in the last 3 weeks....FOUR teeth.  So you know, that was pleasant. He's standing on his own, without holding on to things...because he's insane. He's growing so fast, I dont remember OJ growing this fast. Maybe I could tether him to the ground and he'll grow slower?


Cuteness:

 Ridiculousness:

Gah annoying cuteness:

OJ had no interest in being seen in her Snow White costume but she has insisted on wearing it almost every day since Halloween so maybe if I EVER update this blog again you'll see that.

On that note, I'm going to shower for the first time in 36 hours...I.AM.SO.EXCITED. I lead a very exciting life.

Peace out dudes.

Yes Dudes......welcome to 1991.