Well I am sitting in the real estate office about to close on our home/investment property. This has been quite the…experience My mother has warped into GiGi in her cool new wig – (I’ll post pics forth coming) and the weekend went much without event. The tuckpointing guy didn’t show up… twice… the electrician didn’t do all the work we wanted – ran out of time – still got paid the same..figures. Don’t know when the plumber is gonna show, but we’ve budgeted his money into close. Daddy came by and showed Jerry the fine art of spackling and sanding. So the hall way will get painted. We fixed the screen, and when I say we I mean Jerry. He imerged as Wonder Hubby – able to fix all his pre-wifes meltdowns before they even occur. Able to juggle a manic mother-in-law, a grandmother who knows everything and a wife who’s bouncing off of walls with one infant on hip! Randomly I post reasons why I love that man – closing this house provided me with like a hundred. Makes me want to do sexy things for him – like laundry.
Am I turning you on baby? Yeah I thought so – gimmie that downy!!! YEAH BABY!!!
Monthly Archives: May 2005
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Jerry and I were reading parent blogs and ended up on Wil Wheaton’s blog (he’s a stepparent) and he blogged recently thathe has mono. Jerry the compasionateone that he is, tried to expain to me just how horrible mono is, Saying its like the really mild form of rabies in that you feel so thirsty but can’t hold down any liguids. Then he burstinto operatic song
“I want a drink” in high pitched Bugs bunny opera voice
“I can’t have it!” in low register Elmer Fudd opera voice
Repeat three times.
And you wonder why I’m marrying him? His entertainment value alone makes him worth it.
P.S new pictures of the baby online on the Yahoo link look for the album titled May photos.
I say all of this because I am pleased to say Usher has climbed a little higher up my list of “he’s not so bad” artists out there. I know, I know, I too saw the VH1 Fabulous Life of…Usher. From the shows web site and I quote:
When Usher hits the hottest spots in Hollywood, Hotlanta and
NYC, he never travels lightly. He always packs an army of bodyguards, a doting
entourage, the finest cigars on the market and a pocket full of serious cash.
When it comes to parties, this playa spares no expense. From exotic animals to
masquerades to free-flowing Dom Perignon, his star-studded soirees make history.
And when he needs some down time he cools off in his five bedroom
Georgia estate, tricked out with a recording studio, luxury pool, fully-loaded
guest house and driveway crowded with the ultimate fantasy cars. Even when he’s
far from home, Usher stills lives like a prince in presidential suites at five
star hotels. At the $3,800 a night Beverly Hills L’Hermitage, he is pampered by
staff that know how treat their elite guests.
Yes, that’s a 3-year-old boy.
In his PJs.
Sitting inside a toy vending machine, the kind with the claw that picks up toys.
In Walmart.
Somewhere in Indiana.
During the 3 o’clock hour.
In the a.m.
This is how The Washington Post reported the story:
“ELKHART, Ind. — A 3-year-old boy upset that his mother wouldn’t let him use a crane vending machine to try to win a small stuffed animal took matters in his own hands. He climbed up the chute to get the prize himself.
Danielle Manges said she took her eyes off her son, James, for a moment to pick up a juice bottle he threw. When she looked up, he was in with the plush toys. ‘I bent over to clean it and within two seconds he had climbed through the hole, into the chute and pushed the door shut so we couldn’t get him out,’ she said. ‘He climbed up in the toys and was in there for a good hour.’”
Some key questions:
Why were they shopping at 3:30 in the morning? The mother told reporters that she decided to do the super-early shopping because the boy’s sleep schedule had been off-kilter due to a recent illness. I can identify for me since college the best way to shop Wally World is the middle of the night – tha why they leave them open 24 hours anyway .
Mom was looking away and this happened that quickly? Mom says yes. According to a BBC report, the mom said that this child “had become adept at climbing out of his playpen, doors and even windows. I can identify I swear kids can move at the speed of light as soon as you stop looking at them – See Cammy fly down stairs at 10 months old….
How did he get out? The fine folks at the local fire house broke the kid out after store managers couldn’t find a key to the vending machine.
The mom took pictures? Yes, in a classic Lynette Scavo move (mom of “Desperate Housewives” fame), the pregnant mom bought a disposable camera and took pictures of the entire event, no doubt to commemorate it in a family scrapbook. I would have had my digital I’m sure….
Did the kid get a toy as a souvenir? No, the mom told the Associated Press, unless you count the photos. I would’ve kept one for the scrap book..
Student-teacher matrimonials
Remember that sexual offender and former sixth grade teacher Mary Kay Letourneau well she married her former student (whom she met when he was her 12-year-old student) on last Friday. As you may recall from the sordid news stories, the two lovebirds — now ages 43 and 22 — have two children, the second of whom Letourneau gave birth to while she was serving 7.5 years in prison for child rape. And this is T.V people? Jerry was sickened by the display, Granny thought it was amusing. I after watching seasons and seasons of shows like the bachelor/bachelorette, wife swap, What ever the adoption show was, not surprised unfortunately, then proceeded to watch Amber and Rob tie the knot after proving to be two of the less desirable people on the planet. I had to watch, actually I just didn’t turn the channel – there is a difference.
While some people, once convicted of a sexual offense, might opt to conduct their lives in private, Letourneau and her groom, Vili Fualaau, chose instead to highlight their wedding festivities on “Entertainment Tonight,” which is featuring them as a celebrity couple. I can’t be mad if someone was willing to pay for the right to air Jerry and my wedding we’d do it in a heartbeat. Alas it has been mentioned by Jerry he would have to me a woman recovering from a sex change operation and I’d have to be suffering from some life threatening stupidity that catapulted me into mediocre celebrity – poetry withstanding. Its been on all week they aired each piece of the reception and actually showed you the whole thing in clips then just aired it all continuously one good time and called that T.V. (Remember, this is an EXCLUSIVE!) The “entertainment news” program is prominently featuring the story of this exclusive footage of the sex offender and her betrothed with the online headline, “Mary Kay & Vili’s Wedding!” (Yes, they included an exclamation point.)
Is it just me, or do the words “entertainment,” “celebrity” and “convicted sex offender” seem odd when used together?
Thanks to the other bloggin mom who I saw this posted on first. I just added my thoughts to hers She is my sister in Blogging – I gotta find her again!
Home buying sucks. It’s an endless maze of opinions, in the form of appraisals and payoffs in the form of fees. And the worst part of all of this is I’m not getting what I want out of this purchase. Over a hundred thousand dollars and I can’t get what I want! A home. I get investment properties. My landlord is getting jittery and dramatic but I said that was gonna be his M.O from the very beginning. Our neighbor is selling a unit very nearby for a lot more money and now he’s very very nervous. Feels like he’s getting the short end of the real estate stick, so he’s bad mouthing us to the neighbors he never sees normally because he’s absent tee – unless his old friends are having a party then he’s around – he was totally taken back by all the things the in inspection report. He claims we (both us and the guys upstairs) never told him all the things that were wrong with the house but who lives with moldy walls and never calls their landlord? Really? My real estate agent is my mother – enough said. My future tenant is not being very helpful. And actually he’s not even my tennant he’s just staying with the guy untill he finds an apartment. The guy who lives upstairs is in Florida. This should not be as difficult as it is or has been.
Random thought: I need to rent a rototiller for the gardens.
Don’t get me wrong, it is what is best for our family. Establishing rental income, building wealth, capitalizing on a great opportunity, ect ect and so forth. But I wanted to find a place to call home. I wanted to buy a place Cammy could grow up in. Make memories in – where our family can grow- Jerry and I agree on at least one more child (he wants two – that’s another post) I wanted to find a home we could have that family in and not need to move again when the baby is four- who wants to move with a toddler? I wanted to plant my herb garden and not have to use portable pots because we don’t know hat next year will bring, wanted to mold and fold some home around us. But I guess more than that I didn’t want to move. Which was why I gave my vote for buying our apartment building. I hate moving in general, and I understand why we have chosen this way I really do. I sometimes just want to be regular and not know any better.
Just buy a house and live in it… But I guess that was what renting was for the most part. Just living in it. Anywho, its all neither here nor there. We close soon and can start fixing all the stuff that we know is wrong. Try and make our tenants happy – get the downstairs unit ready for renting and then maybe I can get my home.
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