Gift to Myself ;-)

In honor of the new movie, I just ordered this for myself.

I'm really more of a cross between Miranda and Charlotte, but I'm a Carrie wannabe.

Ewwww.

I just saw a teen at the gas station with a ring of hickies around his neck. All the way around his neck. Like a necklace. Gag.

I'm bummed

A couple of weeks ago I ordered tickets for Sam to go to the Fox Theater to see the movie The Robinsons. He's never been to the Fox and I love the Fox.

Yesterday ed mentioned that he'd take him and he was so excited to go with Ed. So no me.
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Something to ponder

A cheese burger happy meal is 30 cents more than a hamburger happy meal, but a cheese burger is 10 cents more than a hamburger.

What's up with that Ronald?
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Watch Live Earth

HERE

And now he is

Being stingy with his shake.
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My husband is a putz.

He is giving me a hard time in the steak and shake drive thru so I'm getting revenge by telling the whole internet that he is a putz.
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My Horoscope

Aquarius

July 7, 2007

It may seem like neither side of the bed is the right side to wake up on, dear Aquarius. The only solution you may be able to come up with today is to just go back to bed. Focus on your heart, because it is trying to tell you that it needs some attention. Emotions may be running quite high, so be extra careful of how you treat yourself and others.

I have it in writing that I should just go back to bed!

How to make a reusable shopping bag -

out of the grocery store plastic bags. Check it out.

Cool huh?

I may not sleep tonight!

Sex in the City Movie!!

Oh Carrie how I've missed you.

Live Earth - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Working on my contributions for tomorrow. I'm going to Home Depot later to pick up 5 engery saving lightbulbs, I'm calling to get recycling service (the service our neighborhood uses doesn't offer it), and I turned down our hot water heater.

I switched to washing clothes in cold water a few weeks ago and so far so good. I also try to never wash without a full load. That's not a difficult thing to do around here with this crowd.

I went around the house and turned off the stuff we weren't using like DVD players, DirecTV receivers, printers, rechargers, stereos, etc. Things that aren't being used, but get left on. This will require some ongoing effort on my part because we're bad about leaving stuff on. Did you know that laptop, game, and cell phone chargers left plugged in use energy? I didn't know that, but now I do and I won't leave them plugged in when not in use.

Our biggest waste is the shower. We're bad, bad, bad. This is our family challenge. I'm going to check into a water saving shower head today and possibily a timer to keep us in check. This will cause great resistance from my family I'm sure, but I turned down the hot water heater to 120 so they may be forced to shorten their showers.

There is a video clip here about paper taming - reducing the unwanted mail that comes to your house. This website lets you opt out of credit card offers. This website helps you to opt out of marketing offers.

I also read what you can do to be Earth conscience at work. I'm bad about using disposable cups and spoons so I'm going to take a spoon and cup to work to use and wash. I set up a profile for my computer at work to conserve ink a few months ago, but honestly I haven't been using it enough. I'll try to be more diligent about it.

Gas prices have conditioned me to combine trips, stay home, and buy a gas saving car but we can all use work conserving gas right? I stole this from the MSN site -

Driving Best Practices -

Driving technique has a lot to do with your fuel economy. Avoid sudden starts and stops and go the speed limit.Not only does speeding and herky-jerky driving kill your MPG, it's dangerous. And even if no one gets hurt in a fender bender, how green is it to get a new bumper or have your car re-painted? As a general rule of thumb, keep your engine speeds between 1,200 — 3,000 RPMs, and up-shift between 2,000 — 2500 RPMs. Also, drive wise and minimize unnecessary miles by doing errands in one trip, getting good directions, and calling ahead.

Freaking Tooth Fairy

Unexpectedly, a tooth fell out today. Some sort of accident with the stylus from the Nintendo DS around 5. Fast forward 4 hours and I just realized that I have no cash. I guess I'm off to the ATM in a few minutes, but I'm watching the final episode of the Biggest Loser season III on the Style network. I'm not a loyal fan or anything, but there is nothing on TV so I got sucked in about 4 hours ago because they are showing episodes back to back. Now I've got to see who won before I fulfill my Tooth Fairy obligations. Mother of the Year? No, but I'm not the Biggest Loser either ;-)

4th of July

Wanna know what we did to celebrate?

Nothing. Zip. Nada. And it was Heaven.

But I'm still not into working today. Go figure.

Look What I Found!

Got to stop crusing YouTube and get back to work.

Hot Dog

Ben loves this song. I don't know if he's seen the show, but I showed him this clip and he says "HOUSE, HOUSE" to play it again.

Enjoy!

Mother Earth

So Ed and I have been over the price of gas forever. We talked and talked about getting a third car for my commute with the hope of cutting down on our gas expenses. Saturday, he headed over to the Toyota dealer and bought me an 07 Corolla. Its a five speed, very basic (think Air and CD and nothing else - not even power windows - gasp) and gets a whopping 41 mpg.

So I drove it to work today and I felt so Earth friendly in my compact gas saving machine. Not at all like the gas monger I was commuting with last week. The Pilot gets 17 MPG on a good day. Me, all alone, in my 8 passenger car that used $10-15 in gas a day. The guilt was overwhelming. My Corolla is so totally chic. I feel like I need a World Peace bumper sticker. Me and Brad Pitt in our gas saving Toyota's. We are so hip.

I'm thinking about getting a personalized license tag. Something like "SAVNGAS" or "41MPG". I want everyone to wish they were saving as much gas money as me.

I'm in love with my basic car with no options that is so gas conscience. But I've got my loaded out gasaholic SUV parked in the garage when I need a bit of luxury. Maybe I'm not as Mother Earth as I think I am ;-).

Apparently you can create a blog post from Word

So I'm testing it.

Will this bring more entries? Only time will tell.

The Drive-In

On Friday, we went to the Starlight Six drive-in on Moreland Avenue. Ed was leery because it isn't traditionally known as a safe area, but a couple of people assured me it was totally safe and tons of fun. We got there early to picnic and goof around before the movie started at 9:15. It was a nice crowd and it was a blast. I had never been to a drive-in but was dying to go. $7 for adults and $1 per kid and it was for a double feature of first run movies. A bargain!! Benjamin did OK with it all and Sam had a blast. We only stayed for The Fabulous Four, but the second movie was Spiderman 3. The second movie started at 11 and that was just too late for this crowd. We'll definitely go back and tailgate again. Hopefully the new Harry Potter movie will be playing there.

AAK

A happy meal is no longer enough to fill up my oldest child. He wants to order value meals. Ouch. My wallet just screamed.
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Its been a few weeks...

School ended, Sam, Ben, and I went to Cincinnati for Jordan's graduation, I went to Orlando for Microsoft TechEd, Sam went to baseball camp and vacation bible school, and Ed FINALLY finished up the school year this past Tuesday. Its been a whirlwind around here, but we'll slow down for 2 weeks then Ed starts working again! The kids are already really tan even with 30spf! Ben's hair is really blond from the sun. I bet it turns white by the end of the summer. Its wild with those big brown eyes.

Sam is as crazy as ever and this will be his first week home all day since summer vacation started. Ben is talking up a storm and he hates going to the pool. I'm working like crazy while Ed is home to bank some spending money. And Ed is enjoying a few days off before Summer School starts. Madeline is as snippy as ever and has incidents with Ben every few days. And Lucy is doing much better do to a simple change in cat litter and we're hoping this is the answer for her!

So that's it in a nutshell. I'll try to come back sooner for a real update.