what i did today

Today was so frustrating.  We just moved servers on my OTH site and it has been CRAP since we moved.  SO slow and errors to the point people were emailing me complaining.  And you know I can’t handle that!  I wanted to ball up in a corner somewhere and cry.  I finally sent my host the “this is ridiculous and you better handle me ASAP or I’m moving” email and that seemed to jumpstart them a little.  With the help of a genius friend of mine, wordpress forums, and a lot of googling, the site is plugging along just fine right now.  And if you need to set your open_basedir in your php.ini file on your Apache server, I’m your gal.

My kitchen junk drawers to be exact.  This post is all in honor of my sister Heather.  She will be so proud.  Heather, look!

You could hardly open ANY of these drawers due to papers getting jammed.  In fact, the papers had started falling out the back and down into my pots and pans.  Nothing like finding a receipt in your small sauce pan!

I bought the drawer organizer in the second picture while I was with Heather at Wal-Mart the other day and it was just the thing I needed to jump-start this project.  Tonight I was just going to do one drawer.  I figured if I could just do one drawer, it would be a start and not be so overwhelming.  But in true Type A fashion, I had to do the entire project at once after getting started.  And really, it only took about an hour or so to finish up.

LOOK!  An (almost) EMPTY drawer!  NO papers.  This was the worst drawer for the papers jamming up and now, the papers are all put in their place.

And look! I even went through all my current to-do papers and organized them..

Yay for the organized kitchen drawers!

If you haven’t downloaded the Jesus Mii and you have a Wii, please do.  It’s hilarious to hear things like

“Jesus just passed me!”

“Daddy, what if Jesus passes you?”

“Jesus is doing step with us!”

“Jesus is throwing you a hula hoop!”

I finally have one of my own.  I feel like doing a victory lap around something seeing how hard it was to find one of these things except for the fact that I kind of feel sore and don’t really feel like running at all.  If I were to actually DO the Wii Fit every day which of course I plan on doing *ahem* you really could get quite fit. 

Apparently, however, Mr. Balance Board doesn’t think I’m so fit at the moment though with messages like "your lower body is lacking strength" and "i can tell you fell off the board, work on your balance".  Mr. Balance Board wasn’t very nice to me.  At least I have something to work on I guess.  Let me show you the excitement from tonight…and no, I did not make one of those crazy little hula hoop videos.

We opened the UPS package…I love mail!  Especially boxes!

They got IN the box while I installed batteries

Then got all comfy in with snacks to watch

While I got ready and prepared to hurt.

But it didn’t take long for them to join in…

Let me pause here to apologize for my outfit.  And yes, I did change because I couldn’t get my leg to stay in the yoga Tree pose with the pants on.  And no, the top and pants don’t go together but I was too lazy to completely change into a matching outfit.  It’s not like I was going to get someone to take pictures and post them on the Internet or anything though sheesh.

Here’s the yoga Tree pose. I love how Lexi has her foot on her knee in the front.

We hula hooped.  I seriously wasn’t going to post this but I love Emma’s mouth in this and the fact that she looks like a mini me.  If I were to post the other pictures, you’d see she was following perfectly.

And wow, the RUNNING. I barely made it!  I know I look like SUCH A DORK.  In fact, it looks like I’m about to punch myself in the face.  Can I just say the soccer head butting thing was hilarious when you got hit in the head with a shoe?  I could barely concentrate I was laughing at it so much.  But we really had fun exercising together.

Looking forward to using this thing more.  I really do miss going to the gym and haven’t gotten into my elliptical.    Maybe with this, it will jump start me back into it.  Then again, I think it all depends on how my relationship with Mr. Balance Board pans out.

Alrighty, moosh in indy won a crazy amount of money for caulking and drawing in her sink and has decided to share the love and hold a contest.

The winner will be fast tracked to the FRONT! OF! THE! LINE! over at Hair Thursday (you know, the little hair site that has been in the NY Times and on Nightline? Yeah that one, the one with a massive waiting list?) Sarah herself will decide on a new style for the winner, readers will vote, off someone will go to a salon chair somewhere in the world to get a fabulous new do that they will come back and show off on Hair Thursday-all paid for by me and my cock caulk money (up to $140 USD).

Just yesterday I got my hair cut and I was SO tempted to chop it off and go back to a short style.  I decided I might cut it off after my birthday this year so this is GREAT timing.  I’d love to get a second (more like 10th) opinion on whether to keep it long or cut it short and then start my 30s with a FANTASTIC hair cut.  So in order to win this award of awesomeness, I have to show you 3 pictures of my hair…at it’s worst, at it’s best and currently. 

Now, brace yourselves.  I’ve decided to share my afro of a hair cut back in the day for this.  This includes me pre-braces as well so hold on tight.  This alone is why any compliments make my DAY, WEEK, MONTH and YEAR.  I’m still getting over this…

That was middle school, probably 1990.  Still channeling the 80s obviously.  The shoulder pads, the belt, the color, the fabric, the bangs, the perm, the swoosh on the side.  What can I say except let’s move on?

As for my good hair, I’ll share my short good hair although everyone seemed to like my long hair picture in the last post.  But if I go back to short hair, this is the hair I want:

and a month later a bit longer and poofed out for a date night

The best I’ve liked it long is probably from this picture I posted yesterday

As for my current look, here’s my picture from yesterday after my cut..actually as of about 5 minutes ago. 

It’s clearly the very opposite of my afro. Well, not complete opposite.  It is about the same length.  So there ya go.  Hopefully this will win me some mad advice from Hair Thursday and a paid hair cut (because let’s not even discuss how much I paid for my hair cut).  If not, I’m welcoming all advice..what say you?  Long? Extra long? Short? Poofy? Flat?  Permed? Shoulder pads? Ha, just checkin.

ONCE AGAIN I missed an appointment for the girls.  This time it was Emma’s second tooth filling at the dentist.  And now we have to wait over a month until she gets another appointment.  Just hold your L-shaped hand to your forehead and call me a Loser.  I don’t know why I can’t get these appointment things down.  I’ve started putting everything in my iPhone calendar and adding reminders.  Apparently I didn’t put one on this one.  I started printing out the calendar and taping it on cabinets.  That lasted one month and then the kids lost my tape.  If anyone is successful at doing the calendar organizing thing..HOW DO YOU DO IT??

I’m wearing this t-shirt right now.  Just because I’m classy like that.  Actually, it fits me to a tee (no pun intended and I actually mean the graphic, not the t-shirt).  Scott’s convinced the more intelligent you are, the less common sense you have.  Or maybe it’s just us.  Anyway, Lexi walks up to me just now, points at it and says, “He has a big butt, Mommy.”  Yes, honey, actually he does.

And yes, we try to use the word hiney or bottom. Apparently we need to work some more on that.