I think I really am 5

I just made up myself a sticker chart.  Yes, I said sticker chart.  Okay, I don't really put stickers on there...because I don't have any.  And  then I'd be putting stickers on my screen and then I couldn't see.

I am the kind of person who needs to write things down, many times in many places, or I just straight up forget.  So, with getting my life transitioned to a new chapter in just a few weeks (sounds so short when I say it like that) I thought I needed to make goals and lists of things to do.  I'm sure people do "to-do" lists all the time, but do they call them sticker charts? I didn't think so.  So now I have a nice set of daily chores to do, along with my other things like working out (yes I have to schedule that too or I won't do it), blogging, reading, food stuffs now that we have changed our habits, and more as I think of them.

You might say, "well if it's a sticker chart, you must have a reward at the end if you do them all."  That I do.  I have big rewards.  If I finish all my chores, I get to take myself shopping! But! I have to finish them ALL.  If I skip doing laundry or scrubbing the toilet I might as well ground myself.  That's it missy, no wine for you Friday! *looks concerned* That was mean of me.  I gotta go wash out the kitchen sink.

Book challenge attempt #2

Uh. I failed big time last year. So I am gonna try this again! Here we go, 50 books by the end of the year.  Try harder this time girl!

1. Dark Visions, Jonas Saul
2. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien ( I read the first third of the book to get a refresher before we went to see the movie)
3. Deadlocked, A.R. Wise
4. Loose, Coo Sweet
5. At The End, John Hennesy
6. Murder on the Mind, L.L. Bartlett 

7. The night everything changed, Kristopfer Ruft 

8. Sail, James Patterson

9. LZR-1143: Within, Brian James
10. The Stand, Stephen King

Three year old wisdoms

After a particularly loud afternoon:
"All this yelling! You guys are giving me a headache"
"When we leave, you can just take a nap. Calm down"
PG pats my knee "You can take a rest now, we will watch you."

PJ: "Ohhhh man, you gotta come see this."
*points to the sewer dudes outside doing maintenance, pulling off a manhole cover*
"That guy, just broke the road!"

"Bri, I'm going poop, okay?"
(twenty seven seconds later)
"Bri I am done, come wipe my butt real good!"

Speaking of poop:
PJ: "You know something I know?  Mommy poops, daddy poops, my sissy poops, bubba poops, Charlie and Tookie poops, Tobi poops, PG poops, baby O poops.  They do it every day!...Hey do you poop?"


PJ: "It's snowing outside! Yay!"
"No, I think it's just rain."
PJ: "Uh, no. I saw a snow, you just lied to me Bri."
Well. Okay then, but it's still rain, I say. :D

PG: "Do you work Bri?"
"Yes, when you are here at my house I'm working to take care of you."
*thinks*
PG: "Babysitting is hard work, Bri.  You gotta clean all those dishes all the time!"
"Yes, that's exactly it."

New challenges and changes!

Well. It's a new year, and my PC has finally seen it's last days.  I had much to blog about and I just couldn't. That is, until the Goose fixes it for me. Not to mention the trackpad on my chromebook is out. Luckiky it's under warranty and I'm sending it back in. Til then I am on this phone!  so.fun. Anywhoo, here we are in a new year. And what a new year its gonna be! We are going to be making several changes around here and the first one started yesterday. We started our 30 day paleo challenge which you can find here in this post more information and a link if you dare try it yourself!

My next challenge that I totally flopped on last year was my book challenge. Life got in the way and I forgot for most of the year. Gonna do better this time. In fact, I already completed one yesterday and am gonna finish another today! Whee! Right on schedule! I'll make a new post with the list in there, to see if I do any better than my last years self. *shakes fist*

Another big change coming this year is Goose is graduating college and we are moving outta here! I have already started packing. Over achiever much? Maybe. But our last move we had three weeks to be moved here, so I am gonna get what I can done now! So packing the Christmas stuff was bittersweet. No more Christmases in this house, and super annoying that I had to actually pack things away. Like with lids! Ugh! I never! I have 10 medium boxes and three Christmas tree boxes if you like to know trivia. I had already had a mini meltdown when packing the wall decor away for Christmas,  as I had planned to pack that away for good too. All my photos and albums and some other decor is gone and it feels naked in here!  Of course the life of breezy wouldn't be without some delimma. I ran out of packing tape and I had done such a good job stuffing that tree back in its box only to be defeated by the evil packing tape! So the tree, in its open box, is still on my entertainment center where I suspect it will stay til I am reminded I need tape.

I have a big year ahead of me and I am going to live it one month at a time. This month I am focused on my paleo challenge and reading more. And maybe fixing one of these interweb devices.

New word of the day.

Shrub

You there

me

here here!

Shrub

2 nine pound whole sheeekins for $50 USDA organic

Hm

me

shipping?

i need to start saying advantageous

me

My being the oldest has been advantageous to my ego.

me

Being able to eat dark chocolate is advantageous to keeping my sanity.

Having me for a wife has been advantageous for Lucas.

FFFF

TEDDY WILLIAMS

bees classy

Shrub

Ajajajajaja

Karrie

I like that last

me

all that

Shrub

Advantageous sentence

me

you had to spell check it aye

Tea Party Wedding Shower!

I hosted my first ever wedding shower in October.  It was so. much. fun.  I decided on throwing a tea party. I totally got into it, I could have tea parties all the time so long as it was in the afternoon!  Immediately, I shopped for teacups and saucers.  I found an adorable set at goodwill and stumbled upon some awesome decorations there too!  I put the rest of the fam on the task of finding more cups and saucers but I was so obsessed, I went to the antique outlet one weekend and stocked up on some more because I am going to have more tea parties, someday.   I got excited about a tea sandwich recipe.  It was so fancy, Waldorf Chicken Salad.  I knew I wanted to make Greek Pinwheels.  I happened to have ALL THE TEAS at my house already, like seven different flavors but I narrowed it down to five plus iced tea and coffee.  What? I figure people want to drink while they are there at.the.teaparty.  I made banners because it was just so cute!  PJ's mom made deelish mini cupcakes that had me panicking more than driving with a baby in the car.  Only one mini cake was turned on its side.  YESS!

The downside of my traveling is that I CANNOT sleep at someone else's house. So, baby seester, who had brought some super cute decorations helped me set up the table the night before...it turned out as adorable and I expected it would.  We had it pretty much figured out right away.  Though, when she went to bed I laid  there til seriously 3 am before falling asleep and was wide awake at 7am...oh well.  I woke up to Mom pilfering around with coffee and she approved of the table setting.

 

Just look at all this cuteness! Just look at it!
Also, Baby Seester did NOT wear a dress like she was sposta.

I had a surprise for my mom, and had to run and get it.  And napkins.  Well, napkins was the excuse but A and B happened to be in Sand Springs for a band competition for B, and A was going to surprise Nonnie!  It couldn't have worked out better:

They totally cried and I totally had to leave the room or else I would too...spoiler alert: I still cried.

It was a small but adorable turnout and a wee bit of dramatics due to rain and such, we went to go eat at MAH FAVROITE Mexican restaurant, Ricardos!  The weather took a turn for the worse and by the time we left, it was a torrential downpour.  Baby Seester and I went in my car, to try to find in the rain a liquor store.  This is where I often forget that Missouri spoils me.  I'm all, hey we can just get wine or whatever at any gas station.  Oklahoma is like HAHA.NO.  So, Saby Seester and I took off with nearly dead phones in the torrential rain trying to find our way through town with no GPS signal.  After we went about 5 miles out of the way, we found a liquor store only blocks from the house and got a bottle of vino so MAYBE I could get a decent nap in.  However, when we got to Middle Seester's place, we noticed that SOMEONE STOLE HER HOUSE!  I drove up and down that road 6 times, and said, "Seriously, that house was just right there when we left! Wasn't it right there?"  Baby Seester agreed with me, and we confusedly called Middle Seester to tell her that her house was stoled.  Turns out, there's two streets right next to each other called 37th.  One's pl and the other is st.  Whoops.   We got on the correct road, and there it was.  When we came in, it looked like Mom and Middle Seester had just gotten out of the shower...apparently Sir P had driven off right at the second they ran out in the torrential downpour and left them to soak.  I sure did miss not getting to see that...

Sleep did not come so easy for me again, but I managed to get home safely and crash a little early.

How much is that boot in the window?

I spied some boots a couple of weeks ago at the tanning salon I knew I needed to have.  They were very similar to a pair I had wanted last year and of course happened to either be sold out of my size or color every place I looked.  I did end up getting a pair sorta similar from my dad, but they were striped and looked like cat in the hat shoes, and tried to kill me the first time I wore them.  What? You never put on a new pair of shoes not knowing they were completely felt lined on the soles, and then step onto a wood floor only to land flat on your back with your skull two inches away from the coffee table corner?  Oh, that's just me?  Probably so.  Anyway I'm kinda scared of them now and I think Dr. Seuss is after me for writing in the Fox in Socks book when I was a kid and reincarnated himself in these shoes, plotting my death.

Look at these cat in the hat boots, now back to me, now back to the boots.  This story is now going to be made of diamonds.  Anyway, I text the Goose "hey I wanna buy some boots, early Christmas gift? OKAY!" and as you should know, that went over just fine.  I probably didn't even have to tell him, but he just so happened to be checking up on me as it were.  I get what I want because I'm the only child.  *shifty eyes*   

So last night after talking with one of the worker bees to make sure they were still there, I went up after work to get them.  When I got there I didn't see them.  I had a small panic attack until I saw them around the corner, being all cute and stuff.  There was ONE pair in the color I wanted and what do you know, MY SIZE!  Well, it was fate.  I had to have them, and have them I would.  New worker bee was working and she started to ring me up...except she couldn't.  She couldn't find where to ring up these boots because, well boots aren't a normal item in a tanning salon.  After a few super confused looks, the computer froze up.  Then things got real fun.  People started coming in to, you know, tan.  

But apparently I shut down the whole system all because I wanted these boots.  By the time the line backed up to four people, a nice man with the salon logo his shirt walked up to the counter to see what was going on.  He was obviously an owner of some sort and just so happened to be there changing the bulbs in a couple beds.   By this time, new worker bee had gotten someone on the phone for help, to no avail.  When the computers froze up for my purchase, that meant it froze up for everyone behind me and they couldn't tan.  I refused to look at them in case they were giving me the snake eyes.  New worker bee was still on the phone with a someone, and bulb guy was now getting on the phone with another someone.  How many bosses do they have there?!

By the grace of the sun goddesses, one of the computers magically started pumping out vitamin D and allowed the pale people of the land to get back and bake.  My boots, however were still the bane of the other computers existence.  Bulb guy was doing everything he could to get this purchase done so I could stop standing in the lobby with my head in my hands.  Finally, the computer allowed him to run the transaction! YAY!  After 50 minutes and trying to run my card in the system twice, those boots were paid for!  For my troubles I got leveled up for 2 upgraded tans.  Of course, I used one right then and there.  I laid in that level 5 bed for my solid 12 minutes and thought about how this could only happen to me, in my life.  I'm sure anyone else buying boots would be a simple short transaction.  I couldn't help but laugh at the thought.

I most definitely did not have time to go get my nails done after all that hoopla so I decided to just run to Aldi for milk and, maybe a bottle of wine.  I pulled up next to a very suspicious looking yellow van, and took absolutely no time getting out and locking the doors and running inside in case a clown or worse came popping out of the van.  I got my milk, and I got my wine in record time.  Suspicious van was still there, waiting to kidnap someone with chloroform coming out of the exhaust pipe so I ran to the passenger side of my car and scooted in.  I totally showed that killer clown what's what! You can't get me! NEENER NEENER!  My mom would've been proud.  Not because I parked next to killer van in the first place, because I was SAFE and didn't get next to the sliding door of death.  Always be defensive, I say.  Okay, I only just now said that.  Lesson of the day? Don't park next to scary yellow vans, and maybe buy your shoes at a shoe store.  Allegedly tanning salons don't like people to wear anything but flip flops, shorts, and tanks.

Totally worth it.