Here's Your Sign

OK. so I had a Jeff Foxworthy moment today at the movie theater. After High School Musical 3 was over I made a b-line to the bathroom to do a little number 2, (had to hold it 'cause I didn't want to miss any of the show) anyways so when I get it in there I saw both of the BIG stalls were open, so I went in the first one and closed the door to find that it had no lock, so I moved on to the next one and in there I saw on the floor a plunger and alot of wetness around it. **RIGHT HERE AND NOW I SHOULD HAVE TAKEN THIS AS A SIGN AND TURNED AROUND AND LEFT THE STALL, but NOOOOOOOOO. I though that if the plunger was wet then it had been used recently and some nice person had fixed the problem. RIGHT? Well, I guess that wasn't the case as you will find out. SO I did my business and flushed the toilet. What I saw was not what I thought should have happened since the PROBLEM had been taken care of RIGHT? WRONG! So bubbles were coming up and the water was rising. SO I grabbed the plunger and put it back to work. Nothing happened. I thought that maybe I would just abandon it and leave, but how nice would that be. Not nice at all (although it would have kept the next person from having the same issue, because they would have just looked in and them left the stall instead of seeing the wet plunger and thinking that the problem was fixed) Anyways so I tried to flush it again and plungered with more vigor and more bubbles came up and then success! The blockage had dissapeared. YEAH! But if I had had Jeff Foxworthy there to point out THE SIGN for me the whole thing could have just been avoided. LESSON: SO next time you go into a stall and see a wet plunger just say Oh, there's the sign and turn around. Even if the water is clear and low.

The Joys of Preteenhood

We went to Courtney's choir concert at the school tonight. They got to dress up in their Halloween costumes. Her and her best friend Colby decided they wanted to be "FREAKS" this year. They have been putting their costumes together all this month. They ended up costing like $30 each. I told her she could have bought one of the nice store bought costumes for only $20 or less. But they were set on their idea. So I am attaching a picture of them. It is a big step for Courntey as she used to be so concerned with how she looked and used to worry alot about if she looked goofy or not. So I am proud to say that she is learning a good lesson in not worrying so much about what people think about her and her appearance. She is so sweet.

It brings back memories from back in the day when we didn't care much about what people thought of us. We had alot of fun trying to be our own unique selfs. We went through some weird phases, but such is life for everyone. So we will see what is to come as she approachs the teen years in the next couple years. Wish me luck!

So just in case anyone is looking for some used clothing or thongs(not the flip flops) here is the blog I was referring to in my last post.

Lisa's Online Garage Sale

http://onlineg-sale.blogspot.com/2008/10/undergarments-size-l.html

Selling Used Clothing on Blogger

Ok, so I just realized that you can scan through blogs from all over the world with the button up top. I saw blogs in Spanish some with indian folk and some with all japanese writing, then I saw one called Lisa's clothes or something like that so I thought 'oh what a good idea to sell stuff'. I scrolled down and there I saw that she was selling a group of used underwear. That is wrong but what made it worse was that about half of the lot were thong underwear so you ask is there anything worse than buying used underwear? Well there is and that is buying used THONG underwear. I'm sorry but maybe if I was broke and really needed some new skivvies the thought might possibly cross my mind to look for used ones, but I think I would rather go skivvieless than to wear someones used undies not to mention thongs. They don't just touch the unmentionable part of your body they kind of touch the part where the sun will never shine. It is like saying ""hmmm I'm running kind of low on dental floss maybe I will run over to my neighbors and see if she has some used dental floss laying around in her bathroom that I could buy off of her for .50 cents or so. Yuck! But I guess the good thing is that the whole lot of about 8 pair was only $2.00 so maybe you could sew them together and make 2 NORMAL pair or unders.

Weight Loss or Face Loss?

Well as I continue to try to get off the last 11 years and 4 kids worth of baby weight I finally realized that my face must have weighed 20 pounds. You see I have lost about 22 pounds in the last year I guess. I have gone down a pants size or 2 and a shirt size and was feeling pretty good about it. (I only have 3 more pounds to go until I weigh less than my husband. I have never weighed less than him.) Anyways when I started this adventure of losing weight I took some before pictures: in a black bra and swim bottoms. Vivid picture huh? And so last night I decided I wanted to take pictures again to compare my progress. Well to my surprise my body looked exactly the same as before. The only vast difference was my face and neck. So how frustrating is that. So I have decided that my face must have been really heavy. And a word of advice. NEVER take a picture of yourself from the back. It is very frightning. Maybe my eyes are just deceptive. But when I look in the mirror each morning I don't see myself that wide and not to mention the waves and dimpling going on back there. That must be why God made our head only turn so far. Because if they could turn all the way around and see the back view of ourselves I think Utah would have a much higher rate of prozac or whatever the depression medicine is.


Well, I am still going to try to keep losing weight and I just hope that I don't look like the man with the shrunken head when I am done. My head can only lose so much weight then it has to start coming off somewhere else, right? (Oh, I forgot my fingers have gotten skinnier, my wedding ring keeps threatening to jump off every time I shake my hands.)

I wonder where it will come off of next. Probably the boobs since I would like to keep those. My legs will probably stay the same size forever. Gotta love the pear shape. Hmmm maybe it will become the next big thing. You gotta have something to put those applebottom jeans on, right? I don't have any applebottom jeans but I have heard the song about them (hope you have heard the song so you know what I am talking about.) It talks about the apple bottom jans and the reeboks with the strap, someone turning around and givin' "that big booty a slap" anyway, I'm rambling so I will end it.

When Everyone is Away Me and Cristian Play

Well when everyone else is away(at school or work) me and Cristian can play.

Today we played GO FISH and OLD MAID then we went for a bike ride.

We ended up taking a lot of pictures on my phone.

This is fun because Cristian is normally the kid that hides his face when you pull out the camera but not today. Boy he was a poser.

I told him I wanted to take a picture of him on a rock at the mortuary by our house. And he did it willingly. Then to my suprise he stood by the side of the rock and said "Ok now take one of me here on the side" He kept doing this until we had a picture of him on every rock with his cowboy hat on and then off, by the side of every rock with his hat on and then off and by a bunch of different trees with his hat on and them off. I finally had to tell him that I wanted to go home.

Wow this is different for him. But it is fun!

Here is a video of him riding his bike and some pics of the bike ride.