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Flickr...

nobody@vox.com(Bee) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:10:49 -0500

I am sooooo done messing around with Flickr today... I uploaded a shit-ton of old pictures... They are at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jewjewbee/sets/ if you want to check them out... You have to scroll down to the bottom of the sets to see most of what I uploaded today, though, since I am trying to keep things in chronological order... Or, I suppose you could just check out the photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/jewjewbee/... Whatever works! Later days...

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Witticisms...

nobody@vox.com(Bee) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:43:44 -0500

Boogie often says funny things, and I do my best to repeat them so I can (1) remember for my own amusement and (2) give other people a reason to laugh... So, without further ado, here are three of the best recent funnies:

Me: You have to eat all of your dinner or you won't get any Halloween candy. You know that!
Boogie: Yeah, I know. I'm not having candy tonight. But, I at least I know I can get candy on Thursdays!
Me: Why's that? (wondering if he thinks he'll get away with stuff when I am at work)
Boogie: Because I pound my mac 'n cheese!

[after hearing Clark make fun of me for the billionth time for having lost my wallet in both NYC and Las Vegas] "But, you're supposed to lost things there... It's called Lost Vegas!"

Boogie: [talking to my belly] "Goodnight baby! I love you! I hope you're a boy or a girl... And I hope you come out."
Me: Well, You're in luck! The baby will either be a boy or a girl AND the baby will come out some day!
Boogie: Good!

Yeah... I think my heart will probably explode the first time I see Boogie and the baby together... Don't know how I will be able to handle any more cuteness than I already do... Later days...

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Sleep...

nobody@vox.com(Bee) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:07:38 -0400

Is taunting me... I'm tired, but not sleepy... And I will be doing a lock-in tonight... The official "lights out" will be at 4am... Gawd help me! Later days...

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Freaking...

nobody@vox.com(Bee) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:30:28 -0400

Why? Because my mom is a complete ass-hat... She just called me to let me know that my niece is completely sick, most likely with the flu... Apparently, she is probably sick because she spent the afternoon taking care of the toddlers my mom babysits as my mom puked her brains out on Friday... And yet, my mom didn't say a word about it being a bad idea to have Princess over all day Saturday when she knew I was bringing her to my house to hang out with Boogie... My mom didn't even think it would be a bad idea to go to a wedding on Sunday -- while getting a ride from us... As I sat there trying to process this all, on my way home from a trip to the grocery store where I felt sick to my stomach more strongly and earlier than when my phenergan usually wears off, she didn't even show any sympathy or empathy for my predicament... I said something along the lines of being really scared to get the flu because doctors say that you should not take anti-emetics when you have the flu, and I could end up hospitalized if I go off the drugs even when I don't have the flu... Instead of saying something comforting, or even keeping her stupid mouth shut, she went on to say that it would "really suck" if I got this flu because it's "just violent"... WTF?!? If she had ever been anything of a good mother, I might be able to excuse this as a slip-up... But a part of me thinks that she may be somehow enjoying this and trying to freak me out... Like all of her talk about how "lucky" I am to have the phenergan -- where she goes on and on about how terrible it was to feel sick for her whole pregnancy and acts like I can't possibly appreciate that sacrifice because my hyperemesis diagnosis and subsequent medication... Sure, she may have felt sick all the time, and she probably did vomit a couple of times a day like she claims... As much as that sucks though, I almost ended up in the hospital during the beginning of my first pregnancy... I lost TWELVE pounds in one week -- after getting to the point that I could not keep anything down for more than 5 minutes over the course of about 48 hours -- before they got me medicated... How the hell does that add up to me being spoiled by having a phenergan prescription?!? Gah! I can't imagine being so cold to my own daughter... And I guess that is part of the reason I am afraid to have a daughter... I am afraid that my lack of a good "mom to a daughter" role-model will make me feel even more unprepared for having a little girl... In the end, I will do to best I can, and I am sure that will be a million times better than my relationship with my own mother... But still... I just wish I could scream, or hit her, or pretend she didn't exist... But a part of me wants to try and salvage this relationship because she is the only mother I have... FML... Later days...

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Prayer...

nobody@vox.com(Bee) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:28:01 -0400

Please, please, please let our electricity problem get fixed today... The electrician should be here any minute, but I'm starting to worry that he won't be able to do everything today... Gah... If you pray, please add this to your list for the day... Thanks... Later days...

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Breaker...

nobody@vox.com(Bee) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:02:43 -0400

This word used to bring a funny story to mind... Back in college when OneUnbrokenBrow took over his girlfriend's CB radio on a car trip and started messing with truckers... Hilarious... This weekend, though, "breaker" means nothing but worry and frustration... You see, a good section of our electrical box is dying... Why? Rain... Rain water is literally following the wires into the house and rusting out some of the breakers in the breaker box (then dripping out the bottom -- which is how Clark found the problem)... When NYSEG did us the "courtesy" of re-attaching the electrical wires to the house after the ice storm last winter, they never notified us that the job wasn't actually finished... You see, it is technically OUR responsibility to do anything between the pole and the house... Well, I know that, but I try not to look a gift horse in the mouth... Had we known that the job was unfinished, though, we would have gotten someone out immediately so that they could attach the "weather head" (I think that is what the guy said it's called) to keep the rain and snow from getting inside via the electrical wires... I am so angry... Now, we have no electricity in the 2nd floor of our house and have to wait until the electrician can come back tomorrow (our neighbors know a guy and he was kind enough to come check it out in the freezing/pouring rain to let us at least know what had to be done and whether it was safe to turn the main breaker back on)... We have no idea how much this is going to cost, and I am really nervous that even the parts are going to be crazy expensive, let alone the labor... This guy deserves every penny for his work -- don't get me wrong... But I wish that NYSEG could be held accountable for their part in this... Sure, they did a nice thing by getting the wires out of our yard -- but at what future cost?!? Is it too much to ask that they let people know when they will need to do more to make their house safe?!?!?!?!?!?!? Later days...

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Monday...

nobody@vox.com(Bee) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:24:09 -0400

Is certainly not my favorite day of the week... And today was no exception... So happy it's over... Ugh... Later days...

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Ready...

nobody@vox.com(Bee) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:12:23 -0400

To present, and possibly to spew... LOL... Fingers crossed that I don't look like an idiot for my presentation in about 30 minutes... Later days...

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Commercials...

nobody@vox.com(Bee) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:19:49 -0400

I saw a hilarious commercial today, and I decided it was so good that I had to show it to my boys... After watching the commercial, we followed a link to see a second commercial about the same thing... And when we were done, Boogie was going, "Hunhhh... Hunhhh... I can't breathe!" LMFAO... So, yeah... Here are the commercials:

Tru TV | "Yelling"

Tru TV | "The Whack"

Later days...

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Wondering...

nobody@vox.com(Bee) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:07:02 -0400

When exactly it was that my mom started smoking crack... Not literally... At least, I don't think she actually is... But, let me elaborate... Today, I had the day off... So, I decided it would be a good idea to get over to my parents' house and finish setting up the computer we passed on to my dad... He has a special program that he needs for work, so I had to have a time to go through the export from the old computer to the import on the new one... I knew it would be simple enough for me, even though I was pretty sure it might have made his head explode... So, after I managed that, I went through and finished finalizing all his settings... Then I started cleaning the living room because OCD + pregnancy = the perfect time to attack my mom's clutter in order to make it possible for the children she babysits to not die from an avalanche... I was in the middle of a toy bin that was full of animal crackers, plastic wrappers, and scrap papers (as well as some toys) when my mom started getting all huffy and asking what happened to her "screen saver" of Maui... Umm... She meant the desktop photo... So, after I calmly tried SEVERAL times to explain to her that it was a whole new computer and that I would have to find that picture to download and turn into the DESKTOP image and also change the setting for the SCREEN SAVER so that it did a slide show of images, I gave up and just did it... Once everything looked like it had been on the old computer, my mom [who is always oh so eloquent] said, "I guess hate is the wrong word, but I hate you for being able to fix that so quickly when I spent a long time trying to figure it out." Yeah... Well... I tried not to be a jerk about it by pointing out that she knows dick about computers, so I said something along the lines of, "Well, I guess I had better have picked up some computer skills with the tens of thousands of dollars I spent on college and grad school." Her answer almost made me shit my pants... She literally said, "I guess I wish that with the tens of thousands of dollars I spent on your education, I would have liked to get a little bit of it through osmosis!" What?!? When the fuck did she spend tens of thousands of dollars on my education?!? She and my father took out a loan for a couple of thousand of dollars for my first semester of college... Maybe the whole first year... MAYBE... And, then she continued on to say that my student loan was one of the things she has fallen behind on paying and it's a good thing that they can't come back and take away my education... HOW THE FUCK have they not paid that off in the last 9 years?!?!?!? Part of me wants to ask my dad if he wants to get her head examined, and part of me wants to ask my dad if there is some way that she managed to take out money "for my college" and then spent it on something else... I just don't get it... She manages to piss me off more than I would have thought was humanly possible for someone who is 1/2 responsible for bringing me into this world... Thank goodness she has that title, or I may have broken down and punched her in the face long ago... I know... I'm all violent and shit... So, sue me... The woman makes my blood boil, and she is the only mom I've got, so I have to try and play nice or I will end up feeling guilty for not trying hard enough... Gah... Later days...

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