Lazy Ass Wife!

Well, it’s Sunday night. I don’t have to work tomorrow, although I do have to go “to” work for a short while. I can’t tell you what I have to do there, or that would be disclosing “company operations” on the internet, or particularly my blog, which I can’t do. But suffice it to say it’s quick and painless.

I am still in my pajamas (yes all day) and I feel kind of guilty that I haven’t gotten dressed…. And that makes me feel guilty that I haven’t accomplished enough this weekend. As I started to feel guilty, I decided to make a list of what I have done, so that I hopefully would find something productive.

Friday Night after 6pm:
Vacuumed Living Room/Dining Room/Bedroom/Office
Moved Recliners out of living room to make room for guys to bring in treadmill
Picked up Christmas Presents and wrapping stuff. Found homes for everything.
Unloaded the Dishwasher
Hung Curtain Valance in the Living Room
Cleaned off Dressing Table
Washed Windows in the Living Room
Fed the Dogs
Setup and Completely washed the Treadmill when it arrived
Read 4 chapters in “Goodnight Nobody” By Jennifer Weiner
Picked up Bathroom
Dusted Living Room, Dining Room
Watched Gangs of New York

Saturday:
Slept till 11:30am
Called Anya and Arranged for Evan to pick up the Dryer
Talked to my sister for over an hour on the phone.
Talked to my mom for an hour on the phone.
Loaded and Ran the Dishwasher
Fed the Dogs.
Unloaded the Dishwasher again
Put away a counter full of hand washed dishes
Hand washed 2 sinks full of pots and pans
Hand washed 5 pieces of stoneware
Gathered the laundry
Washed 5 loads of laundry
Fed the Dogs
Helped Move the Entertainment Stand and all the electronics back into the living room
Dusted all the electronics
Brought speakers down from the attic, lamps, Electronics, etc.
Made the Bed
Vacuumed the Spare Bedroom
Moved a Dresser.
Picked up in the Spare Bedroom
Blogged
Looked through two catalogs
Cooked and Ate a pizza
Went out for New Year’s Eve Drinks

Sunday:
Slept till 1:45pm (YES!!)
Made myself brunch
Went to work for my short time
Planned meals for the next three weeks, copied ingredients, prepared Grocery List (that probably took 2-3 hours in itself)
Washed 4 sinks full of dishes
Vacuumed Dining Room and Kitchen
Cleaned up Dog vomit in two places and dog snot in 4 places
Fed the Dogs
Did 5 loads of laundry
Made the Bed
Emailed 10 people
Blogged
Copied 8 recipes onto recipe cards
Drank hot cocoa with marshmallows
Dusted the Bedroom
Looked at the Checking Account and Online bills
Checked my email
Read two online articles
Took out two bags of garbage
Bagged up Recyclables
Put notes on the doors for UPS man
Talked to mom a few times for about 5-10 minutes each
Looked in the mirror accidentally about 5 times and thought “YOU need a shower!”
Recorded the bears game for Evan
Watched Two episodes of Clean Sweep, a rerun of Extreme Makeover Home Edition, and the stupid Desperate Housewives recap.
Watched the 10pm News (note to readers, when playing college women’s basketball, never smack a fellow girl teammate on the ass. Unless you are a lesbian and want the entire viewing audience to know it)

And this, is an Adventure in My everyday life, and a particular weekend which ALMOST ended with me feeling like a lazy, guilty slob, who didn’t do hardly ANYTHING productive all weekend. Until, that is, I decided to bore you to death by listing my activities here. And the kicker is, I will probably be awake and productive for another 2.5 hours, until at least 1am when I finally collapse, and that on my “day off tomorrow” I will do tons more.

For Example:
Picking up the scrapbook table and the bedroom again
Cleaning off the desk in the office
Picking up the front porch
Fixing a friends computer from 2-4 tomorrow
Going to work tomorrow for a short mission
Getting Groceries
Buying Jeans and Socks
Cleaning out the fridge
Putting away groceries
Doing 5-8 more loads of laundry
Putting Away all that clean laundry I have done all weekend
Balancing the Checkbooks
Taking a Bath (tonight, I hope, before I crash)
Writing an 8 page newsletter in Publisher for Tuesday’s Princeton Computer User Group Meeting
Writing a Photo Editing Topic for Tuesday’s Princeton Computer User Group Meeting

Please tell me not to feel guilty because I was productive enough this weekend?!?!

There's a hanger on my butt!

The funniest thing happened just now. I was watching TV, eating supper, and working on the grocery list, and the dogs (who were sleeping on their beds in the dining room) started barking and howling and jumped up from their beds and there were claws all over the floors and when I got there, they had chased a mouse into Evan's closet. They were clawing at the crack under the door, and howling and barking and sniffing under the door. I opened the door and they continued to dig deep into the closet, behind the bottom row of clothes and through everything, cornering that mouse. I gave up watching them, and went back to my cheeseburger, and pretty soon Boyd comes walking into the bedroom- WITH A HANGER ON HIS BODY! he had sniffed right through the hanger to get to the mouse, and was wearing the hanger like a belt, although an uncomfortable. He wanted that mouse so bad he went right back into the closet to get the mouse, wearing the hanger. I snapped a couple of pics with my camera, but he wouldn't sit (must have not been comfortable) and he kept turning around to look at the hanger. I laughed so hard! Check it out!

Happy 2006

Well, it's 7:45pm New Year's Eve. I am doing dishes and laundry and lounging around in my sweatpants and a Hooters T-shirt. Pretty Festive. Dogs are sleeping and Evan is in the basement cursing at the cable that we can't get to work in the new living room. We got the TV stand moved back into the living room, first time since August we have had TV in the living room, and it won't work. Evan has been working on it for a couple of hours. He has replaced all the cable ends and rewired it, he has done just about everything and it still won't work. We have a cable guy coming on Wednesday, but what will I do on Sunday for Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy, and on Monday for CSI Miami, and Tuesday for My Name is Earl? It's terrifying. I try not to think about it. All my previous digitally recorded shows could be MISSED! The drama.

So we are supposed (were supposed) to be going out with John and Amethyst, and I was pretty excited, but sense I woke up yesterday with about 19 zits (now I blame microdermabrasion and haven't done it since Day 3) And today I really haven't done too much in the line of fabulous acheivements, and then John and Amy haven't called and it is almost 8pm, I am feeling pretty unmotivated. The new year can ring in on it's own and I really don't give a flying fuck. Is this what it means to get old and crotchety?

5 Points

I SLEPT TILL 11AM! WHOO-HOO!! God did THAT feel good. The dogs slept till 11am right with me, which made it even better, and ultimately possible!

I watched Gangs of New York Last night, I had it DVR'd, and it was a gory, good movie. I hated all the fighting but I loved all the sex and mystery to it all. Worth watching. What is even more interesting to me, is that the whole story time matches up to other stories, although at different times, such as FrankMcCourt's books and Malachy McCourt's books. And to the civil war. It's helps me to put things into perspective. And to think that we thought all the massacres were happening in the south, but I have never ever recalled hearing any of that about New York, about Irish Catholics being dragged off the boats straight to war, and about the political and social upheaval of the 5 points. 5 points was never even MENTIONED to me before, although it was notoriously known as NYC's slum and was written about by such visitors as Charles Dickens and Walt Whitman. That's just another example of things they don't tell you in history books. I did find this small site on the 5-points, describing how urban archeological digs actually found the remains of the 5 points. A documentary was done on the 5-points that would probably be interesting to see.

Other Resources for the Interested: http://urbanography.com/5_points/
This site has LOTS of drawings and excerpts from actual newspaper articles in the 5 points in the 1850's. By Gregory J. Christiano. Gregory also reviewed the movie Gangs of New York.

RecommendedBooks In Print
The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld, by Herbert Asbury, Jorge Luis (Forward).
Five Points: The Nineteenth Century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance Stole Elections and Became the Worlds Most Notorious Slum,” by Tyler Anbinder
Empire City: New York Through the Centuries, Kenneth T. Jackson and David S. Dunbar, editors.
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, by Edwin Borrows and Mike Wallace.
New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches, by George G. Foster, Originally published in 1850, edited by Stuart M. Blumin, 1990

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Maybe 30 won't be so terrible?!?

Actually, after reading this, I am probably already acting 30. But I still don't wear red lipstick. That's just not for blondes and redheads. But a man wouldn't know that.

This was written by Andy Rooney from CBS 60 Minutes.

"As I grow in age, I value women who are over 30 most of all. Here are just
a few reasons why:

A woman over 30 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask,
"What are you thinking?" She doesn't care what you think.

If a woman over 30 doesn't want to watch the game, she doesn't sit around
whining about it. She does something she wants to do. And, it's usually
something more interesting.

A woman over 30 knows herself well enough to be assured in who she is, what
she is, what she wants and from whom. Few women past the age of 30 give a hoot
what you might think about her or what she's doing.

Women over 30 are dignified. They seldom have a screaming match with you at
the opera or in the middle of an expensive restaurant. Of course, if you deserve
it, they won't hesitate to shoot you, if they think they can get away with
it.

Older women are generous with praise, often undeserved. They know what it's
like to be unappreciated.

A woman over 30 has the self-assurance to introduce you to her women
friends. A younger woman with a man will often ignore even her best friend
because she doesn't trust the guy with other women. Women over 30 couldn't care
less if you're attracted to her friends because she knows her friends won't
betray her.

Women get psychic as they age. You never have to confess your sins to a
woman over 30. They always know.

A woman over 30 looks good wearing bright red lipstick. This is not true of
younger women. Once you get past a wrinkle or two, a woman over 30 is far sexier
than her younger counterpart.

Older women are forthright and honest. They'll tell you right off if you
are a jerk or if you are acting like one! You don't ever have to wonder where
you stand with her.

Yes, we praise women over 30 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately,
it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed hot woman of 30+,
there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with
some 22-year-old waitress. Ladies, I apologize.

For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for
free?” here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage,
why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig, just to get a
little sausage."

Make Your Own Magazine Cover!

So this is a cool site. You can make your own magazine cover! With your own text, colors, pictures, etc. How cool. Check it out.

Now, I had to figure out some "cover-worthy" news so I decided to blog about my friend Carrie (Freeman) Stokes, who lives in Utah with her husband Jay. Carrie and Jay are expecting a baby in July, and since I have kept my lips sealed for a month and a half, and now most people know, I decided that I can finally spill the beans online.

Um, I didn't ask Carrie. So we will see how long before she sees this and what she thinks. But I thought her news is well worth the cover of a magazine. So I made one. Click on the cover to see it full sized.

:) Grow Baby Grow! Can't wait to see Belly pictures....

Lisa Makes the News Too...

Damn Tabloids. No one is safe from their investigative "reporting"

Amish Times

So, if you are new to this place, This probaby confuses you. But that is my dad. No he is not amish. Yes these are real exclusive photos. To see more visit this page of my website. Click on the Cover for a Full Sized View.

FRIDAY!

Friday! Hell Yeah!
I am so so sosososososoososoooooo glad it is Friday. I can't wait for another 3 day weekend, although I will have to go into work for a few minutes on Sunday and Monday. Pajamas here I come!

Tonight we will get the treadmill, and move the entertainment stand back into the living room. Assuming we can get some strong men to help with the moving. Then we can hook up the cable in the living room.

ya'll know how much I hate Cindy....

Cindy Sheehan is no Rosa Parks.

New Close To My Heart Spring 2006 Idea Book!

Today I got my new Spring 2006 Idea Book (catalog) from Close to My Heart. How cool is that? I belong to a club, where like 10 of us purchase $15 a month and take turns being hostess. You can tell that I have almost everything under the sun to scrapbook with, because I found less than 10 things that I marked in the book that I wanted. Not because there was not much to choose from, but because I either have the stamp sets and accessories already, or because I have one or more stamps sets that covers the topic, and really don't need anymore.

But the book was cute, and nothing makes me happier then opening up a fresh book or catalog and creasing the pages over as I start to peruse it. Fabulous. As for the exclusive new "wedding ensemble" that they have, it is very nice, but very generic floral. I hate to tell them, but most modern brides want nothing more than to get away from that generic floral. They want something fresh, funky, new and different. Think outside the box. I think they could have done better. But hey, why not stay on the safe side, right?

Swiss Cheese? No, Swiss FREEZE!

Check this out! Cool.
In a scary, I am glad I wasn't there kind of way.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/icestorm.asp

Million Dollar Homepage

Damn why am I not so stupidly smart?

This kid designed a webpage where he sold each pixel of space for $1.00
There are a million pixels on the webpage, so when he is filled up, he will have made a million dollars. Damn. He's just about there.

Check out the picture of the homepage below, and then go check it out in person
www.milliondollarhomepage.com

*~*~*Bliss*~*~*

So, recently, you probably haven't heard much bitching about my husband. Is it because he is gone? Have I locked him in the basement? Was the marriage annulled?

Nope. Everything is peachy. Really. With some prompting he has been helping around home, going to the office during the week, and vastly improving my mental health.

I can't begin to tell you what a relief it is that he seems to have decided to act like a mature husband. I am proud. I am pleased. And I just felt the need to share.

Betty Crocker Warm Delights

I know it sounds sexual, but I don't think that was their intention. Or was it? The commercials feature a hot brunette curled up on the couch. She lets out an orgasmic moan as soon as the mouthful of chocolate gooey cake meets her mouth. Does that sound sexual?

Well, Evan and I were at Wal-Mart last night and from across the store, my eyes locked on an end aisle FULL of Betty Crocker Warm Delights. That orgasmic moan must have come out of my mouth in the middle of Wal-Mart, or perhaps I was drooling, because Evan took one look at me and said "go, get one." What a nice husband. Well when I got to them, there were 4 varieties. There was no way I could get just one! So I picked out a Brownie, a Molten Chocolate Cake, and a Chocolate Caramel Cake. I made one at work this afternoon.

Firstly, let me explain that it is a cake mix with a fudge pouch (at least the molten chocolate cake had a fudge pouch, it will vary by flavor) and you must add water and mix. It's like a mini cake mix, sans eggs and oil. So you add 1/4 cup of water (which I eyeballed, since I was sans mixing cup at my desk) and then you stir it all up with a spoon. So really, think Easy Bake Oven without the smokin hot light bulbs. Then you microwave for (1 minute 15 seconds according to the package) or (2 minutes 20 seconds according to our dinosaur of a microwave at work)

Overall, it was gooey, warm, chocolatey.... A nice experience. Great for those of us who don't need to bake an entire cake to get that chocolate fix. You see in our house, there's Just Evan and me. The dogs can't have chocolate and Evan doesn't have the premenstraul chocolate cravings that I do.... so it's all me. And WHY would I need an entire chocolate cake? Exactly. So this little guy is kinda nice. I personally couldn't eat all of it. It would be awesome with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Now, being a former kick-ass Pampered Chef Consultant, I have had plenty of experience with microwave cakes, in the mini stoneware bundt pans, and in the stoneware bundt pans. A full sized cake can take between 18 and 25 minutes to bake in the microwave. It will be more gooey and moist, and the best is when you squeeze a can of frosting onto the bottom of the cake (the top of the bundt pan) before baking, and the frosting is heavier than the batter and it runs down through the batter and ends up at the bottom of the bundt pan, so that when you flip the cake out, it is delightfully topped with melty frosting. How cool is that? But most people don't know that you can cook any cake mix in the microwave. Or they don't know that Pampered Chef's stoneware is all microwaveable, or that frosting will sink in an oh-so delicious way.

So try out the Betty Crocker Warm Delights. I was pleased. But it wasn't anything like the commercial. The hard part is that mixing it in a tiny plastic bowl with a plastic spoon, there are bound to be some dry chunks in the batter somewhere, and I found one when I was taking a big bite. But overall, it was good. And, did you know that there have been 11 easy bake oven models since 1963? Check out the timeline....