TOTAL DIY'ER :)

thats "do it yourselfer" for those not familiar with the title :)

this is yarn I made and a hat i made with the yarn that i made. geez there sure were alot of "made's" in that sentence. Can ya keep up? I dont think I can.

I have an answer!

I have severe sleep apnea. For those of you that dont know, I stop breathing in my sleep. Not just once or twice.I do this enough to make my oxygen levels drop to the low 80's. Around 95% is the lowest they'd like to see.

Finally I have an answer to all my medical problems from weight gain to headaches to high blood pressure and the recent high cholesterol. I FINALLY HAVE AN ANSWER! It feels so good to know that I'm not lazy. I really honestly just didnt have the physical energy to do anything. All I wanted to do was sleep but my sleep was horrible. The insomnia is from my body trying not to go to sleep because it didnt want to have to struggle for air.

My tech described it as being in water and diving. You hold your breath until you need to come up for air. Now the problem is that my body was doing this for 6-7 hours straight. I'm suffocating myself slowly to death. Scary.

I have to go back tomorrow and get fitted for a CPAP. Its a machine that will help keep my airway open while I sleep. I cant wait to feel good!!

However, I do believe I scared my poor tech away. He had to try and strap me with an elastic band across the bust area and I didnt have on a bra. He started to stretch it across me and I said, you better let me do this. These girls arent tied down and they're liable to knock you out if you get to close and they dont know you. He turned so red and laughed but I was serious. If my girls aren't locked up in their cages there's no telling what damage they might do to unwanted attention.

on my way.

Okay. Heres the 411 on the sitch at hand. I am off to sleep. No seriously, I am.

The doc said "excersise" at our appt today. I have high tryglycerides or whatever. Its 201 which is bad. I have to like, give up, fried chicken, french fries, fried everything. I hate hate hate it.

I have to put my trusticles in my Doc and myself though. For those of you that dont know, trusticles is the balls to put your trust into something.

Trusticles-cool new word of the day :)

SO I'M A MEDICAL MESS.

I got a call this afternoon from a bippity boppity nurse at my Dr's office.
"Mrs. Mullins, we have recieved your blood tests back and the Doctor would like to speak with you about your Cholesterol levels and a few other findings on the tests."
"Um, thanks? Can I get a shot of Jack to ease my mind for this wonderful little bit of information that you have delivered to me?"
"Excuse me Mrs. Mullins?"
"Nevermind" I growled and hung up the phone.

And then to top it all off, I have to go have a sleep study tomorrow night to make sure I'm not fighting for me life on the odd chance that I might actually fall asleep during the night. Have you seen what these people look like getting ready for a sleep study. I'll be sure to take a picture. it wont be pretty. what If i pick my nose in my sleep or fart all night long?

What do you think she found in my blood? I'm hoping for sparklers and glitter because I'm just that fabulous.

For you Judy...

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 10 Confessions about you. At the end, choose 10 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.


1. I am not a natural platnium blonde. As if you couldnt tell from my 2 inches of dark blonde roots peeking through.

2. I think fat people should get special discounts. I am fat so i can say that. I dont care what kind of discounts, just help a sistah out!

3. I hate water. Water sucks.

4. I love soda. I only drink soda. Oh and coffee if it has lots of vanilla flavoring in it.

5. Cow juice is gross. I'm not drinking anything from a titty. I'm not in diapers anymore.

6. I craft therefore I am.

7. I photograph therefore I am.

8. I have a fear of balloons and all things that pop. I will seriously run away crying if you touch me with a balloon. My children cant even have them at their birthday parties. Seriously. its that bad.

9. My house is a disaster. I clean and clean and they destroy, destory. *sigh*

10. I think back hair is sexy.

ONE OF MY HEARTS..

I'm infected.

I have an earworm. It totally sucks because its bore straight to my brain. Its this song.



Someone please turn it off before I have to perform a lobotomy on myself. I like the song but I keep hearing " my my my my boogie shoes" overrrr and overrrrr and overrrrr. Just put on the freaking shoes for cripes sake. Boogie with whoever it is you want to boogie with. Just do it outside of my head and far away.

My kids think I have lost my mind. I'll be deep in thought and look up at them and go "my my my my boogies sho-essssssss".

Theres a cure right? For earworms? I'll try and see if I can rotate the infection with another song that way I can have at least 3 or 4 different strains going.

W.O.W.

This, is my desk. I was coming to sit down today to get to work and took a good hard look around for the first time in weeks. I was kinda shocked at my messiness but not to much because I am by nature a "clutterer". I dont want to say sloppy because thats not what I am. I have a tendency to let things clutter together. I get them out and dont put them away. Or I get them out and plan on using them in the next day or so and I forget about the project and move on to something else within eyesight that I had forgotten was there.

The bottom line is that I need HELP. I have no clue how I concentrate on anything with all of this around me but I do. IF nothing is around me I feel naked and me naked is illegal in 49 of the states. Oh I've organized it. Several times but it just keeps happening over and over. I have 2 lamps on my desk. 1 of them has a blown bulb so I stole a living room lamp and put it on the printer beacuse if it sits to low I dont get enough light to see. YARN. I have YARN everywhere. I work on projects while I'm running batch actions that can take forever with wedding shots.

I just need, something. help? little help here? anyone? One of the first things that needs to go is that GOD awful nascar hood that Spanky put up. My walls are covered in notes, pictures, daily affirmations and other tidbits that i dont want to lose.

Help. Lil help here?

So I have a new look

I changed the colors of the blog. Those frilly little blogosphere backgrounds are NOT me. I'm solids with a bit of accent coloring. I am not frilly. They're the Katie Couric to my Walter Cronkite.


I'll work on a new picture thingy that goes at the top but I cant right now so your stuck with that new title. Its words to live by really. Just breathe. Oh, and try not to step in anything on your way out. I smell dog doodie but I havent found it yet.

I miss blogging...

I do. I miss it. I havent done it lately because I feel like I have pretty much said everything. Although, I feel like something big is coming. I dont know what it is but something is coming. You ever get that feeling? You know something great is about to happen but you have no clue what it is and your totally excited when it does but the getting there to experience it is torture?

Its like your buzzing. Electricity is running through every inch of or your body. Its like being one of those electric fences and you can hear the buzzing and feel the buzzing and if anyone touches you, you'll get shocked. Oh crap wait, thats just static electricity and it happens everytime I get out of the van.

dont mind this post

i'm trying to show pics to someone for something :)

The start of a brand new year.

I didnt make any new years resolutions this year. I'm all about self-esteem and since I am the "self" in the equation, I felt it would be better not to let myself down or put pressure on my "self". All in all, I think its gonna be a good plan. I'm just gonna sit back and be amazed at the things I do everyday because I didnt expect myself to do anything. Every accomplishment like waking up, brushing my teeth and going to the bathroom, will be a reason to celebrate.

I mean seriously, everyone who said they were going to lose weight has probably already cheated. People who said they were gonna spend more time with their family has probably booked themselves solid and I'm sure its not extra weekends with the kids.

Anyhow. We decided to spend the night at Spanky's cousins house for New Years Eve. It was alot of fun. It probably would have been even more fun if I wasnt sick for the umpteenth time this year but I made do with a couple Bacardi's.

We sang, we played Rockband 2. See pic of Spanky and his cousins below. My baby has such a Mick Jagger essence about him doesnt he.


I watched one of Spanky's cousins girlfriends drink herself to puking. "Come do some shots with me Missy" she smiled. "No, thats okay, I dont want to puke." She waved me off and sure enough an hour later, the girl was praying to the porcelain god.This is her below.


I think the highlight of my night was watching Spanky lift his shirt and rub his belly onto his cousin J.R. It was disturbing and intriguing all at the same time.


Then, after ringing in the new year our air mattress went flat and we had to sleep on the hard wood floor. I got some great pictures though.

its all about the memories though right? Yay-memories.
I also have a drinking story of Spanky's Aunts to share with you. Click on the pictures to make them bigger so you can read the words. A and S. I love you. Hey your initials together almost spell "ass" lmao

my shop is up

I have finally launched my Etsy shop. It features my much requested ipod/iphone cozies. They also fit other cell phones as well. I can put my "razr" in there with no problem :)

Right now its just a trial run. I have so much stuff going on right now with editing proofs and stuff that I couldn't stock it chalk full.

So without further ado, here is my shop address. Put a little coziness into your life :)

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6713505

You think you know someone...This is for "YOU".

And the "you" in my subject line knows who they are.

I guess I am just gullible. I really really liked you. I thought you were the one. I feel taken advantage of and you really had me snowed with your words. My children accepted you and would ask when you were coming back as soon as you walked out of the door. My husband accepted you and he NEVER likes anyone but he called you a friend. We welcomed you as part of the family hoping that one day it would be made official. The ring came and then a baby and we couldn't have been happier.

Its so sad to be used like that. I am a person. I have feelings. You stole hope from me. You stole it and stomped on it right in front of me as if it was nothing. I never said a bad word about you. Not once did blame ever get placed your way.

How foolish am I? So, I am saying goodbye to you which is more than you offered us.

Goodbye.

CHRISTMAS DAY :)

Nate crooning on vocals while grams plays rockband at her house!! that game is so much fun!







Hows about a mexican red knee tarantula for christmas?!







He was so happy to get his ipod touch that he literally fell down. It was a christmas classic!





Creepy little robotic spider! What was Santa thinking??






Wii fun at gram's :)

EUREKA!

i fixed it :)

now its just too cute for words :)

someone stop me.

i need help. take away my crochet hooks before i become more than just a happy hooker. I designed this strawberry iphone/ipod case today. it is so freaking cute in person. the seeds need some work though. this is just my prototype.

i made these :)

for ipod touch/iphones. How cute are they??

Say what you need to say....but I really dont know what to say.

Today, or tonight I should say, I did some last minute grocery shopping while the boys were driving my mother in law crazy at her house. I was excited to get to escape from all the chaos that comes with raising 3 men. It took me 3 times to park my van straight in the parking place. After 2 years, I still can't park it. I'm used to my compact neon I drove for almost 10 years. I loved Miss Bertha Blue. Thats what I named her. Man the stories that little car could tell. heeheehee.

Anyhow, after standing in line for 30 minutes I drove to Burger King. I was starved and there was no way I could wait until I got home to eat. I'm a growing girl. I need my sustenance. After I placed my order I drove around to the first paying window and was surprised to see a girl I went to school with working the money window. I recognized her right off the bat and I know she knew who I was but she didnt say anything. I didnt want to embarrass her so I didnt make en effort to converse with her. I'm not saying there is anything at all wrong with working at fast food. I know people who have worked long and hard and built an entire career in the industry. I was just shocked to see this particular girl to end up in this particular choice of employment. But I have to say in this economic times, its lucky to even have a paying job at all.

She was one of "those" girls. I was jealous of her not because she was beautiful. I mean she was okay but she was on the chubby side and she was pretty average looking. I was jealous because she just seemed to have a great home life. Her parents were still married in high school. She worked after school at her moms office. She got a nice car our sophomore year. She has quite a few friends. I wanted her life. I wanted that and I didnt have it. And then it was just so sad to see her so haggard at 30 and working somewhere that I KNOW shes overqualified for.

Then, last week, I saw a friend of ours in the store and she told me how the church adopted her family so that her kids could have Christmas presents. She told me that she has been getting groceries from the food bank since her husband was laied off in September. She said that she was waiting for their electric to be cut off cause they owe over $700 to the power company.

I turned the corner to see another friend who told me about her recent seperation from her husband who left at Thanksgiving. She's having a tough time and depressed and all I could do was offer her shoulder to cry on. I didnt know what to say. What do you say to someone going through this?

I felt so lucky. So lucky to be who I am. I felt wealthy. Not wealthy in the "i have loads of money" sense but in the sense that I have a lot of good things to be grateful for in my life. I was lucky because I was able to give my kids the exact presents that they asked for this year without having to sacrifice a few bills or cut back on groceries to do it. We worked our butts off to be able to do it but we did it.

I really hope everyone has a great holiday. I wish I could visit every single one of you and personally hand you a card myself. I wish I could buy all those kids who wont get something from Santa, a gift. I wish I could feed all the hungry people in the world. I wish so many many things. I wish for good things for every single one of you.

Peace.Love.and Spongy cake.

DEAR GOD,

Dear GOD,

Please help me to keep from harming myself or the kids during their upcoming 17 DAY CHRISTMAS BREAK. Thanks so much for not causing it to snow causing a few snow days sprinkled here and there. No. Now they can have one HUGE break with me! All at one time. With me. Please help me to keep my cool when they're arguing over the last oreo and fighting over the same game deck. I promise that I will not put the children in the garbage for Monday and Friday pick up.

I know that children are a blessing and that sometimes blessings come with a 5 year old who has been sitting on the toilet for 2 hours because he had a "messy one" and decided to wait until it "just dried up" or mysteriously disappearing Dr Peppers that will inevitably get up and decide to drink themselves and leave their empty selves sitting on the counter instead of going into the trash can. And I know that given the chance the dog would probably have painted a bullseye on her butt anyhow.

I also know that I will probably never get the last of anything to eat in the house because I'm sure the boys will have 2 and 3 am gorge-fests. But thats okay. Its important for them to be strong.


AMEN.