Chewing Issues

I haven't bought gum in the longest time but had a craving for some bubble gum the other day so I bought a pack of Extra Classic Bubble Gum. I had so much fun getting a piece of gum because inside the pack there was this message:




I love getting compliments from my gum! I had to share my gum with everyone so they could see my fun gum and I quickly went through that pack. I went to pick up another pack with the hopes that it will be just as fun....it was! The inside flap on the new pack says: Try explaining the taste of bubble gum to someone who has never tasted it. I will never buy any other brand of gum again.


Jordan loves sprinkles on food, especially on ice cream. Yeah, I don't get the appeal either. Anyway, we made brownies the other night and she wanted sprinkles on them. We put dinosaur shaped sprinkles on our brownies then proceeded to eat the brownies saying, "Nom, nom, nom." The brownies tasted so much better eating them that way. It is really fun to eat your food while audibly nom nomming.

I Blame My Mother!

Alright, pop quiz - how many of you answered "Hey, me too!" to my title? Okay, how many answered - "well duh!"? Wait, that was strange, I'm pretty sure I didn't punctuate that last phrase as a question properly. I'm not sure how to punctuate it though since it was an exclaimed statement posed as a question. Consider me officially baffled.

What I was going to say is that after my last blog my mom asked me where do I come up with these things? Like how the last blog entry I was talking about the Freightliner version of the Pushmi Pullyu. She also said that she agrees with deanna's comment about my brain being odd. Which of course she followed up with "and you just go on and on and on and on and on." I don't know if I was just insulted because the crazy never ends with me or if it was a compliment that I can come up with creative stories on a regular basis. I'm choosing to believe it was a compliment but that could just be the crazy taking charge again. If it wasn't a compliment all I have to say is...Like Mother Like Daughter!!!!

As I'm sitting here amongst Jordan's food hoard of a string cheese wrapper with mushed up french fry on it, a cup of water that the cat keeps trying to drink, a container with 2 day old uneaten chocolate cake frosting, an empty McDonald's bag with the empty french fry container next to it and a half eaten giant sized dark chocolate bar; I just re-read this entry and I've decided that it would be really cool if I could record my voice reading it and then you read along so you get my voice inflections and what-not. Although I'm not completely certain what what-not is or is not.

Best Jordan quote EVER - "You're weird so I'm going back under my blanket!"

Pushmi Pullyu by Freightliner

We had tons of books growing up; we had the Dr. Seuss collection and the Walt Disney collection. These were a series of books that you sign up to get a couple new books each month. They were great! I read them over and over and over again. I didn't like the typical Disney story ones such as Cinderella. My favorites were the crazy not so well know stories told with Disney characters such as a Disney spin-off of the best story ever - Pimbanonis as told by my Grandma Norma. EVERY time we went to visit her we had to have her tell us that story. I think we probably threatened my cousin within an inch of his life to go ask Grandma to tell us the story knowing she wouldn't say no to him. The Disney version has Goofy doing all these things completely wrong like carrying a loaf of bread tied to a string dragging it on the ground behind him. That sort of thing. One book that had great illustrations was the Dr. Doolittle story where he and the animals outsmart pirates. I liked the idea of the Pushmi Pullyu. It seemed like a very practical set up for survival skills if they could just agree on a way to run - at least my 6 year old brain thought so. It wasn't my favorite character in the book but it was intriguing to my underage brain. To put it in perspective - the pirates in the book scared me and I wouldn't read the book for about a year. I always wondered how the Pushmi Pullyu got into the Crow's Nest of the ship to be able to spot the approaching Pirate Ship and they always looked really uncomfortable up there with all four legs being crammed into that little area.

The other day I'm almost home and the freeway started slowing a little. There is a big semi truck next to me and as I get ahead of it I see this gigantic white semi truck cab FACING THE WRONG WAY!!! I think to myself that must be why we are all slowing down, the truck is flipped around on the freeway and that lane is having to merge with the outside lanes to get around it. Then a split second later I see that there are two other semi truck cabs being towed on the same truck that is pulling the gigantic white truck cab. These other two cabs are raised so only the back wheels are on the ground and the front wheels are up on the rack. The gigantic white semi truck cab is too big to fit on the rack so they were towing it backward. Ok, brain reset, that makes more sense. Phew! Then I get a little farther forward and see that the truck pulling all these is the EXACT same gigantic white semi truck cab! First thing that pops into my head...It's the Pushmi Pullyu of semi trucks!!!!!!!

Productive Day

I have finally made my car Tennessee legal. So what if it was due in 2008... I am now a lucky conformist. I also had to take the day off to do it since the office to register your vehicle is only open Monday thru Friday 8am to 4:30pm. Public servants my a%#!

My son considers himself lucky too.....

HE GOT HIS LEARNERS PERMIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:) for him

:( for me and the extra gray hairs

:) for the hair dye company

Baby Post-It Note

Exactly how nerdy am I that I write down blog topics on a post-it note? I usually think of something to write about while I'm at work so I jot it down to then discuss when I get home and can get to the computer. Unfortunately I can't find the note I made that had a couple good topics on it so you get my rambling babble instead.

I have come to the realization that while I really enjoy 3-D movies, they make me dizzy. It could also be my super bad eyesight but I prefer to blame the movie and the weird glasses that don't sit on the bridge of my nose but rather they sit on my nostrils. About half way through the movie I get a little self conscious about my protruding 3-D glasses holding up nostrils and wish the movie was over so I wouldn't feel like I have gigantic flapping in the wind nostrils. I did not enjoy Alice in Wonderland in 3-D as much as I liked Avatar but the 3-D thing is really neat. When I was a kid there was some swamp monster wanna be scary movie on TV and if you got the TV Guide then there was a pair of paper 3-D glasses to watch the snot green swamp monster movie. They didn't work. The paper glasses did cut into the top of your ear when you were wearing them and usually ripped when you tried to punch them out along the perforation. I really tried with the glasses, I had such high hopes. It was my first 3-D movie and I wasn't supposed to watch it so I was thrilled to see the scary TV movie in 3-D! I was ready to be scared in 3-D! But alas, it did not scare me...it did not seem like the monster was coming after me. It did seem like I was looking through a red cellophane lens and a blue cellophane lens watching a blurry green monster. I'm still not sure where the 3-D of it was. It was rather disappointing to sneak and stay up to watch the forbidden movie and it wasn't even scary - it was just green.

Typing this is hurting my thumb which is overly sore from affixing cards for my cousin. The kids and I did seven thousand. Maybe eight thousand, no, seven. Either way, my thumb hurts.

Super Powers

My invisibility super power is working! Twice last week people didn't see me! :) Now to work on my ability to fly...

Ooohhh, brownies!!!!!!!!!!!!! yummy to my tummy


later tater!