To Have and To Hold

ok.... perhaps not quite the best title... but given a chance to win free stuff???


you know I'm in.



Thanks to Stacey for tipping me off to Cool Mom Picks. They're hosting a little giveaway for any blogger that posts their button on a blog. So yeah. sign me up!

really.. go visit.. I won't mind!


speaking of visiting.. my folks are gone, so you SHOULD be seeing me on the regular again. updates to come this week.. including PICTURES!!! I know.. try to contain yourselves.


and hey.. if you haven't left a comment/song for this weeks mix... please do!!! Suser got cranky on me cause some of you were e-mailing me your song suggestions.. so please.. just go and actually leave a comment. it really is more fun when there's more songs, too.

alrighty then. I'm off and running again.. while the caffeine is still working.

Hurricane Alley

I suppose that isn't the best title given all the weather issues the gulf states are having....


but what I mean to say is that today is going to be a busy day for the Fever.


My folks are currently en route.... and while this makes every clock in my house look a little larger and tick just a tweensy bit louder..... and every little mess seem to have magically GROWN overnight.... yes.. while this means I will be as busy as a one-legged man in an ass kicking contest today (and please notice I DID say MAN.. cause you KNOW any one-legged WOMAN in an ass-kicking contest could do THAT, drink coffee, AND write thank you notes and pay bills at the same time....)


so yeah. me? busy. but very excited.



excited to have the folks come so we can hang out and just BE. oh, and of course, the free babysitting should not go unmentioned. I'm for SURE gonna pimp them out so I can go to dinner and maybe a movie with troy. and you know.. get some basic stuff done like GO TO THE EYE DOCTOR SO I CAN STOP WEARING THESE OUT OF DATE GLASSES.


Did I not mention that yet?

oh yeah.. TOTALLY ripped the shit out of my contact, irritated my eye to no end.. and yeah.. no more back-up contacts.


anyways. today we're gonna hustle to get this place in tip-top company ready shape. and get creamer. I'm drinking my coffee this morning with danny's whole milk cause I'm out of creamer. If you know me in any capacity... this substitute for me is just about the same as ordering a fillet Mignon in a steak house, and getting a White Castle burger instead.

exactly.

alright... have a great day, gang.


and listen.. if you HAVEN'T made a donation yet??? PLEASE go to my page. EVERY dollar counts, and every PERSON on that honor roll offers a new surge of hope for SO MANY FAMILIES. Don't believe me? check out any one of the +2500 pages of the tribute book.

Grrr.

so I was just typing up a post about how doing a favor sometimes comes to bite you on the ass, but about 1/2 way through, I starting boring MYSELF.


now, the kids are up from their naps, so blogging will have to wait.


I do have another post to write tonight, so check back later.

and by later, I think I mean tomorrow, cause by the time kids actually get settled around here and whatever regularly scheduled thunderstorm finally passes, it gets kinda late.


but whatever. I WILL write something of content soon!

in the meantime... JUST in time for the balls-ass-hot summer everyone seems to be having...

one of my favorite foodie bloggers is hosting another contest for a free cookbook.... filled with.. POPSICLE RECIPES!

all it takes is one comment and patience til she does the random drawing next week....

so go check it out. and even if you're a scroogey-mc-no-fun and don't like to win free cookbooks or GASP! don't like a good ice pop.... go enter and give that junk to ME if you win! (yes, that means YOU, mom and Dad!)

so yeah. go. leave a comment. you'll thank me come august.

I'll share

so ok.. I know I've been out of the loop for a while... and I still will be... got a lot of stuff going on around here, including rhena's last week of like EVERYTHING. school, dance, memorial day, upcoming road trip... we's busy.

but not TOO busy to share....


Erin Cooks is sponsoring a contest. she's the one that I got all that AWESOME free ice cream from.....


all it takes is one comment and a dream, and you could win a cookbook. if you don't cook, you could STILL win it and send it to me. only one entry per person.. so MOM... overcome your fear of leaving comments and hook a daughter up, will ya??

http://erincooks.com/2008/05/21/an-erincooks-contest-win-cakelove/

so yes. go. comment. win. bake.

oh, and yeah... save me a piece.


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ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!

yes... I'm gloating. ok, I admit I bordered on begging with the offerings of humps (sorry, Suser).. but c'mon... I said earlier I'm PMSing.

momma needs her some ice cream.

Sorry if you're just now hearing about the contest. I was trying not to ruin my odds. though, if I'm being perfectly honest... I ALMOST blogged about it thinking I might get one of the winning prizes for making the most referrals to her website. but then I thought about it and said hells no cause ... say it with me... momma needs her some ice cream.

yes. yes I do. and now I can live out my fantasies of 'getting some' and not even have to rally for sex.

ok, sorry about that. was just thinking about ice cream being DELIVERED to me. during the DAY. when Troy's at work, and I won't have to share!!! ((insert happy smile here))

If you haven't yet.. do check out Erin's site. she posts amazing pictures of her delicious creations, and I have to tell you... the majority (about 75-80%) of her recipes ARE doable. at minimum, the pictures encourage even the most novice cooks to at least TRY. seriously... she makes food look GOOD. like LICK-your-laptop-GOOD.

dude. ice cream in the mail. I'm so excited!!!

thanks again to Erin!!! I'll let y'all know how it is!!!

rockin' around the clock

1, 2, 3 o'clock rock. 5, 6, 7 o'clock STOP!

people.. the poor sleeping has returned. between danny and rhena, I seem to be catching the hour hand on just about every number each night.

As I have mentioned before, Danny's got like 800 teeth coming in. so that in itself has had him not sleeping well. (and drooling and chewing on everything... and suddenly a food critic? the boy who eats anything off the floor is handing food back to me and saying "DAH!" I don't know what HE means by "DAH!", but I hear it as "please let's play the pass food back and forth game for the next half hour to forty minutes until I finally finish this delectible lunch/dinner you worked so hard to prepare especially for me, my sweet loving and oh-so-hip mother!")

around last week, I noticed that what's been coming OUT of the boy is strangely much softer than what's going IN him. and more yellow. and far smellier. (read.. he's had the mustard-yellow poops.) and while it's NOT quite the runs... it's about the consistency of toothpaste (now THERE'S a visual! AAACK!)

I figured it had something to do with all the excess drool from the tooth production... but saturday Rhenie woke up with the drip. as in nose drip. so perhaps mooser was fighting off something last week? a something that seems to be now winning out cause now Danny's nose has been leaking as well.

As for Rhena.. in addition to walking around like Sheldon was in last week's Big Bang Theory... (no really.. the resemblance is uncanny) she, too, is waking up in the middle of the night. and climbing into our bed where she proceeds to sneeze, roll over, sniffle, and ask for water intermittently every other half hour.

so anyways.. that's what's been shaking over here. getting ready for wicked on wednesday night, and troy and I have a date on thursday. so hooray for that!

tomorrow's my morning to work out. bleh! I wouldn't even call it working out at this point. more like "looking like an elephant on a treadmill". but that's alright. we all have to start somewhere, right? anyways.. gotta gear up a playlist to keep the legs moving tomorrow. last week I worked the black-eyed peas and beyonce. I think tomorrow I'll reach deep in the archives and pull out some classic techno. you know.. back in the days when I wore outfits like this and wasn't NEARLY as embarrassed as I am now just looking at it.

yes.

yes I DID.

but the point is that I DON'T any more, and my hair has fully recovered from all that over-processing. and those clothes and furniture are safely back in the garbage with the rest of the 90s.

Divine Comedy

aaah. you know, with Rhena in my life, there never seems to be a shortage of things to talk about. or at the very least for me to share what SHE talks about.


so, I was helping miss boogey-pants get ready for school this morning. When I finished up with her hair, she stood up, spun around, and announced "Oh, I look DIVINE."



yeah. I'd definitely say she has a HIGH sense of self-love.


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today's inspiration? Margaret Brent, the first woman in the North American colonies to demand the right to vote. She and pioneers like her fought for women like me to have a voice. EVEN if it means bringing my children with me to the voting booth. hassle as it may be... there's never a wrong time to teach others (OR YOURSELF) that a voice matters.

Sell-out!!

alright. it's done. well, at least as done as I can be for now.


I got MOST of my consignment things hung, inventoried, tagged and dropped off. I had a total of 99 sellable items, but many of the 'items' were actually outfits that required liberal use of safety pins.

in other words.. my finger pads.. they be a hurtin'.

but... the good news is that despite my VERY LOW pricing, I think my gross total is somewhere close to $570. if all of that sells (oh please oh please!!) my 70% cut would be just under $400. not bad.


(not great considering the physical labor required to prep these things... talk about poverty-level wages!)


but nonetheless. we'll see how it goes. I still have a bunch more things I could prep and try to sell.. but right now.. I'm not feeling it. The sale is 2 weeks long and they have a 're-stock' day next sunday.. so maybe. maybe not. again.. we'll see.


also in money news... I applied to be a blogHer ad sponsor. I know. SELL-OUT!!! BUT.. on the upside.. it's not like I've been doing anything creative with my templates lately, and supposedly if people click on the ads through my blog, I could make like a half a penny or something. I dunno. it's still in the works, anyways. I guess I have to be 'approved' first.

hah. the very idea makes me laugh a little. oh well. provided they don't have a problem with cursing... sorry, I mean provided they don't have a fucking problem with some damned cursing... I might just get approved.

again.. we'll see.


in other news.. I'm going to attempt to make some fish for troy tonight. I figured if I can swing making a chocolate mousse cake from scratch without taste-testing it, I should be able to cook some fish, right? sad.. I don't even have an idea what kind of fish it is. oh well. I'll be making MYSELF some butternut squash raviolis.. he's more than welcome to have some of mine if the fish tastes like ass. at least I can say I tried.

speaking of tried... boy-child is apparently not going to nap this afternoon. so before HE wakes up the SHE... I'm going to get him and play.


happy friday. have a good weekend!

Fright Night

ok.. so if you ever catch yourself living in stepford, and attending a halloween-themed bunco... it is entirely acceptable to dress as a cat.



Might I warn against sticking silver skull confetti in front of your front teeth and trying to pose all ganstah, though....





you'll just end up looking like a retarded bunny. (retarded bunny dressed like a cat, that is...)

yeah... so I'm a sell-out!

ok, ok, ok....


this shouldn't be a surprise, because y'all KNOW I love me some free stuff...


anyways; Tee's running a contest, so in order for me to enter, I have to post the following blurb. go on ahead and do it yourse;f, but if you win, you owe me one of those games, cause Rhena's eyeing up the fish one.


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I am entering a blog contest run by Tee at Spilt Milk. Spilt Milk is a blog about many things, including, a meddling mother-in-law, her Latino husband, motherhood, raising boys, reviews of cool products, books, funny life observations, and her struggle with religion and self esteem. The prize is a 3-pack of popular kid's computer games, and all I had to do to enter was to cut and paste this code onto my blog. I hope I win!