Home Grown

I got tickets for the girls to see New Moon from the Twilight saga this evening.

w00t!

I know! I know! I am a kick ass mom according to my Facebook peeps.

What can I say – my girls love boys who sparkle and I love my girls.

I made them personalized buttons to show their team spirit.

I’ll report back monday on our evening and I might even give you my whole take on the Twilight/Bella thing.

Hint – I think Bella is a skank. I think Twilight was written for a very different audience than the one in the books. But that is a story for a different day.

Now, where was I? Oh, yeah!

I don’t buy into all the marketing crap thought of by these people to separate movie goers from their money. It is enough that I paid $8 a ticket to see the show. They don’t need nor deserve even more of our money.

We picked up a button kit that we can reuse over and over again at Michael’s. I hunted down some photos and added some graphics, printed them out, popped them into the plastic button holder thing and voila! My girls have custom buttons to wear. Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy. It cost about $5 for all four instead of $5.99 for one.

I wish I had thought ahead and held on to some of the vampire teeth from Halloween. Doh! I forgot!

So, other than the fact that I rock my girls are going to have a fabulous evening. They are twittering and facebooking and excited much in the way the generation of females screamed and cried and passout when the Beatles came to America.

Have a great weekend!

BTW, I think my readers officially f’ing rock, too.

The past few nights I have slept restlessly. I usually get this way at the equinox for a couple days. It is as if my body is reacting to shift of the planet. I know something is going on in the atmosphere but I don’t know what. My muscles ache and my joints are stiff. I have a headache. When I wake up I feel drugged or drunk. Also I am shakey and can’t get it together easily. Maybe the weather is shifting more toward winter. I just don’t know. Once I get moving I am good for most of the day. Despite the whatever going on I have been super productive lately.

After being sick for over a year, being on 14 different rounds of antibitotics and then dealing with the issues that over medicating causes (rashes, yeast infections, etc) coming off all meds and getting better has been like living a different life. For a while the weight loss stopped. I can only say it was in relation to the meds as they sent my blood sugar wacko.

Five days after the ear infection cleared and I was off medications of every kind my energy level sky rocketed. I put it to good use.

I am ashamed to admit this but – after a year of being sick and not feeling like doing anything most days my house was a shambles. I managed to cook and keep up with laundry and not much else.

Eleven days ago I started in the attic and I have been working my way down. I have cleaned out every drawer, every closet, mopped, shampooed area rugs, washed bed linens, put winter sheets and electric blankets on the beds – if it needed to be done Colby and I did it. We unloaded so much junk and clutter – yet to look around you’d think we didn’t. I can’t even guess how many truck loads Steve took to the dump. We have hauled bags and bags to Good Will and the Clothes Closet Charity. I also have been posting things for sale on eBay and Craig’s List. My dining room is still piled high with things waiting to be picked up or sold. (If you have girls that wear nice dresses at Christmas between the sizes of 10 and 16 shoot me an email. I have some fabulous dresses I am selling for $10 each.)

As we deep clean I have started pulling out and organizing Christmas decorations. We start up stairs and work our way down with those too.

Five full trees upstairs. Four downstairs. Plus all the extras. It is a lot of work but so worth it when I see the excitement and joy of the holidays reflected in my children’s faces.

I have my Thanksgiving dinner planned out and everything is in order.

What have you all been doing?

I feel out of touch since all I seem to be doing the last two weeks is clean and work my fingers to the bone!

Every time I hear Jessie’s Girl I am instantly sent back to 1981 – 1983 and General Hospital on TV after school with Luke and Laura and Dr. Noah Drake. My heart always beats a little harder when I hear this song or see him on videos. I turn up the radio and sing loud and with much fervor.

Who still makes your heart throb from your teenage years?