ya know, i must enjoy the things most folks don't. i dunno. who needs to go out of their way for entertainment? i mean really.
between karma and irony...who needs anything else?
karma keeps me calm when people are hopeless. i can move on b/c i know everyone gets their come-uppance. irony, well i mean what else can you really do but laugh at it?
case in point, and what has prompted this pointless blog post at all;
we've not had outside water for almost a year. yeah rock on crappy ass landlord, rock on. :| jack ass. but anyway.... we finally got that situation recently. it took DRASTIC measures for something seriously as simple as we thought all along. um, anyway... mike has been dying to handwash the cars. they needed it pretty bad too. it's shit spreadin' time in norfolk! i.e. there's mud and crap everywhere and it reeks of muck and carcass all over the entire county. especially on awesome days like today when it's windy!
so obviously our cars are filthy and really really needed the wash. mike and the boys scrubbed both our cars, cleaned the wheels till they were sparkly and shiny. or..."squeaky clean" per cody's words. :)
so today i ran to base for a quick grocery run. about 10 minutes into the trek i had to call mike b/c i couldn't stop laughing at one of the most disgusting things to happen to one of my vehicles ever. twice as funny that it was funny to me if you knew how i was about meat... oh yeah it's going THERE.
so there's a big truck, and then a bmw SUV in front of me....
then there was this road kill.
the big truck rolled over the road kill, then the bmw trudged it up off the road apparently and what else could it do but slop a huge hunk of animal carcass right on my hood? yes, i mean really...who the HELL does that happen to? so now i have this gross slimy, old rotting hunk of God only knows what meaty furry something on my hood. just waving at me as i'm driving. i mean really, what the hell was i going to do about it anyway? so trying to not look at it so i don't barf or wreck, and then wouldn't ya know it??? another set of big trucks rolls the opposite way and sprays shit dirt all over my car, and kind of did a tarred and feathered number with the carcass chunks. yeah...awesome i say.
i'm not done...
so then the opportunity arose to pass the first offender, so as i'm flying by him guess what??? ooooh yes the blinding speed once again lifted the meat chunk and it flew from my hood right into my windshield and tangled all up in my wipers.
how awesome is that??? and again i ask...who the HELL does that happen to??
so of course, i had to call mike and laugh. all that time he spent making my car sprakle and squeak...to end up covered with guts, goo, fur, carcass, and shit-dirt.
ya know...i DID tell him that i wasn't going to bother washing the car until it was staining our clothes by getting near it or until about june when all the poop spreading was over. that's what he gets for being sweet and productive i guess....
so anyway. that's my monday in a nutshell. well, add in that my blackberry is still not back and i'm really not the least bit patient about it this time. i have full intentions of annoying the crap out of them until they either replace it or give me something else. as in....daily. i just don't care. okay and then i went to get groceries and the salad bar was out of cheese AND ranch. lame. and then i got a call to come get kade a few minutes early b/c he was not feeling well in his tummy. that's as far as i will go to remain sensitive to my boy. :( so yeah...but ya know? i'm STILL in a good mood. :)
i'm working HARD on my calorie counting again. gotta get this no smoking weight off. and i just cannot be in a yucky mood when awesome hair is but a couple more days away. :)
i'm stoked!!!!
be glad that i do not have my blackberry b/c i'd have totally photographed my nasty car and plastered it all over facebook and here. b/c that's the sick sense of humor i have.
well, i need to get mario and luigi lined out here before WWIII breaks out in my living room. maybe if they keep messing with me i'll make them go clean my car........
Nearly there....
Monday, March 15, 2010
stair climbing and cliff diving
yep, that's what we did this weekend. er...okay we did one and avoided the other one with our lives. literally...
well it's almost 2am and i do NOT function worth a crap keeping these hours anymore. however, i've just dosed a little boy with some motrin, so i wanted to wait a little bit to see if it makes any difference before i pass out. hopefully i'm not creating a second wind by blogging. that's all i need...to kick the insomnia back in again.
anyhoo. be thrilled, be ecstatic, be all that you can possibly be if you have nothing else on earth to do. we did something this weekend. can you believe it? yeah. well it was somewhat/mostly spontaneous and would've been more spontaneous than that had we made arrangements for the mutt and had passports on us. at any rate, we were going to go somewhere else, but... i read up on it some more and wasn't so pleased with the way its done. LAME.
so mike's been wanting to go to dover castle. sooo....why not? what else were we going to do? sit around here and do laundry? Oh! wait, no we could've gone to the base and wasted money in the BX and then maybe hit the bowling alley! (*YAWN*)
shockingly we got a bit of a late start (it wasn't my fault this time! woohoo!!!) but really, with a spontaneous trip, it just doesn't really matter much does it??? the only problem is that we're still on winter time (and rightfully so but it seems there MIGHT be hope yet now) so the castle was to close @ 4pm! eek! it was about a 3 hour drive and we still had to hit the base for some gas and lunch! we made it though, in perfect timing actually. the boys had tiny bladders for the trip, but hey it's better than in the seat, so whatever. traffic was minimal.
so off we go jamming out to patsy cline down the m20 around the edge of london on our way to dover. must make note of the oddities of life you know. ;)
we made a death defying race across the world's tallest bridge. okay so i don't know if it was the world's tallest, but it really seemed like it. while i don't particularly care for great heights, actually it's only getting back DOWN that i don't like, bridges don't ever bother me. this one...well it was actually a little bit on the freaky side. tina would have passed out. i have no doubt. i did not take a photo either. sorry.
(on the way back though, apparently no one finds it freaky b/c it was jam packed bumper to bumper from one end to the other with rush hour. i think i WOULD have been totally freaked to be stuck on it w/ no way out. remember i AM the statistic. so it's best not to be in my presence in the chance something statistical can happen....).
anyhoo.... we made it in plenty of time. got our potty breaks out of the way and hit the castle grounds. first thing was first, up to the look out to see france. crazy sometimes the things we do that you'd never have thought you'd really be doing. okay so there's all those world travellers out there and great for you. sure i was certain i'd do and see things when i was younger, invincible and "destined" to be famous. Um...okay but back to reality. so here i was standing on a platform at the edge of the english channel looking at france across the water. cuh-raaaazy!
the boys were so good, thank goodness! HOPEFULLY, hopefully, HOPE-FUL-LY we are getting "there". There being, that good place where we can FINALLY get beyond the reclusive stage and get out and do things! my big boys have a lot they need to see and do.
so we saw the english channel, france, ferries, teeny tiny trucks and cars way down below us and behind us....a big ass castle. i mean pretty cool for a couple of little boys with such cool parents. ;)
so on to the castle we went. now we've been in a few, obviously, since we got here, but DAMN none compared! this thing was ENORMOUS!! i'm sure we missed a couple of rooms. it was a maze! i'm undeniably certain i'd have NEVER wanted to be a princess. i knew i didn't, but there's certainly NO question about it now! how DEPRESSING can a castle be? yuck!!!! such poor lighting, dreary surroundings. yep...i'd have been much happier living in the stables or some peasant's dump in a field somewhere. absolutely. you know it's true too!
we went all through it and the boys thought it was pretty cool. they were doing some re-enactment and cody was absolutely not interested in watching it at all. it was the "king" up on his throne doing some king stuff. he left the room and said he did NOT want to see the king. i asked him why and he said, "because i don't LIKE the king!".
well fair enough i suppose, most of them weren't too likable anyway i'd say.
of course we had to hit the gift shop on the way out and hey guess who got two more wooden swords. this time their DAD bought them the biggest ones imaginable. *insert sour expression here*
from there we drove up to the white cliffs of dover and did a very quick walk out to see them. it's now after 4 in the afternoon, the boys were up at 5-ish and oddly did not nap a single wink all the way there. so as you can imagine they were getting a bit sleepy.
now imagine...steep cliffs, sleepy jumpy floppy whiny children. yeah, it was far too horrendous to take another step really. they were not being "bad" at all, but just...tired little kids. tired little kids on a sheer cliff side is not such a good mix, especially when you add in the other people walking by. beyond the terrifying idea of one of my kids falling off, i was also scared they might knock someone else off. so we stopped. we took a photo. we got back to a wider ledge. that was good enough for now!
at any rate, it was neat. it was just awesome to get out of the house! to see something new! for it not to be -35 degrees and windy and wet and icky! okay it's not THAT cold, but it's been damn cold and horribly dreary even for england. while the clouds were jerks and ruined the "sunny" part of the forecast, it still wasn't that bad. especially being on the water like that.
so we had a great time and we are all ready to go again somewhere new!!! now we've got it worked out with our neighbor and gotten them a spare key should we decide to stay over, they can come grab oscar for us! poor girl, she was so lonely!
we've got a friend staying over with us this coming weekend and if we don't go on the school trip the following weekend, i bet we're out of here again!!! :)
needless to say, the cabin fever is getting us all crazy and we're getting the hell out of here as much as possible!!!! (not to mention i really feel like we're quickly running out of time to see/do things b/c we ARE!!!).
at any rate, i'm feeling a bit more lively i guess. since we had a fairly uneventful long day out with the boys. that in itself is worth HUGE celebration. then i'm going to do something that is LONG LONG LONG overdue. i'm going to have a take care of aimee week! yep. gonna go get some of that waxing done to get rid of my harry henderson outfit, a pedi to get rid of my frodo feet, a cut and color so i can lose the amy winehouse hair and i'm even on the lookout for a somewhat conveniently located tanning salon so i can get a little color back on me. perhaps i will feel like myself again soon! this winter has done us ALL in and maybe all of that coupled with the 50 degrees i see on the useless forecast will have the wit and charm flowing right out of me. ;o)
until then....yep.
photos ;)
well it's almost 2am and i do NOT function worth a crap keeping these hours anymore. however, i've just dosed a little boy with some motrin, so i wanted to wait a little bit to see if it makes any difference before i pass out. hopefully i'm not creating a second wind by blogging. that's all i need...to kick the insomnia back in again.
anyhoo. be thrilled, be ecstatic, be all that you can possibly be if you have nothing else on earth to do. we did something this weekend. can you believe it? yeah. well it was somewhat/mostly spontaneous and would've been more spontaneous than that had we made arrangements for the mutt and had passports on us. at any rate, we were going to go somewhere else, but... i read up on it some more and wasn't so pleased with the way its done. LAME.
so mike's been wanting to go to dover castle. sooo....why not? what else were we going to do? sit around here and do laundry? Oh! wait, no we could've gone to the base and wasted money in the BX and then maybe hit the bowling alley! (*YAWN*)
shockingly we got a bit of a late start (it wasn't my fault this time! woohoo!!!) but really, with a spontaneous trip, it just doesn't really matter much does it??? the only problem is that we're still on winter time (and rightfully so but it seems there MIGHT be hope yet now) so the castle was to close @ 4pm! eek! it was about a 3 hour drive and we still had to hit the base for some gas and lunch! we made it though, in perfect timing actually. the boys had tiny bladders for the trip, but hey it's better than in the seat, so whatever. traffic was minimal.
so off we go jamming out to patsy cline down the m20 around the edge of london on our way to dover. must make note of the oddities of life you know. ;)
we made a death defying race across the world's tallest bridge. okay so i don't know if it was the world's tallest, but it really seemed like it. while i don't particularly care for great heights, actually it's only getting back DOWN that i don't like, bridges don't ever bother me. this one...well it was actually a little bit on the freaky side. tina would have passed out. i have no doubt. i did not take a photo either. sorry.
(on the way back though, apparently no one finds it freaky b/c it was jam packed bumper to bumper from one end to the other with rush hour. i think i WOULD have been totally freaked to be stuck on it w/ no way out. remember i AM the statistic. so it's best not to be in my presence in the chance something statistical can happen....).
anyhoo.... we made it in plenty of time. got our potty breaks out of the way and hit the castle grounds. first thing was first, up to the look out to see france. crazy sometimes the things we do that you'd never have thought you'd really be doing. okay so there's all those world travellers out there and great for you. sure i was certain i'd do and see things when i was younger, invincible and "destined" to be famous. Um...okay but back to reality. so here i was standing on a platform at the edge of the english channel looking at france across the water. cuh-raaaazy!
the boys were so good, thank goodness! HOPEFULLY, hopefully, HOPE-FUL-LY we are getting "there". There being, that good place where we can FINALLY get beyond the reclusive stage and get out and do things! my big boys have a lot they need to see and do.
so we saw the english channel, france, ferries, teeny tiny trucks and cars way down below us and behind us....a big ass castle. i mean pretty cool for a couple of little boys with such cool parents. ;)
so on to the castle we went. now we've been in a few, obviously, since we got here, but DAMN none compared! this thing was ENORMOUS!! i'm sure we missed a couple of rooms. it was a maze! i'm undeniably certain i'd have NEVER wanted to be a princess. i knew i didn't, but there's certainly NO question about it now! how DEPRESSING can a castle be? yuck!!!! such poor lighting, dreary surroundings. yep...i'd have been much happier living in the stables or some peasant's dump in a field somewhere. absolutely. you know it's true too!
we went all through it and the boys thought it was pretty cool. they were doing some re-enactment and cody was absolutely not interested in watching it at all. it was the "king" up on his throne doing some king stuff. he left the room and said he did NOT want to see the king. i asked him why and he said, "because i don't LIKE the king!".
well fair enough i suppose, most of them weren't too likable anyway i'd say.
of course we had to hit the gift shop on the way out and hey guess who got two more wooden swords. this time their DAD bought them the biggest ones imaginable. *insert sour expression here*
from there we drove up to the white cliffs of dover and did a very quick walk out to see them. it's now after 4 in the afternoon, the boys were up at 5-ish and oddly did not nap a single wink all the way there. so as you can imagine they were getting a bit sleepy.
now imagine...steep cliffs, sleepy jumpy floppy whiny children. yeah, it was far too horrendous to take another step really. they were not being "bad" at all, but just...tired little kids. tired little kids on a sheer cliff side is not such a good mix, especially when you add in the other people walking by. beyond the terrifying idea of one of my kids falling off, i was also scared they might knock someone else off. so we stopped. we took a photo. we got back to a wider ledge. that was good enough for now!
at any rate, it was neat. it was just awesome to get out of the house! to see something new! for it not to be -35 degrees and windy and wet and icky! okay it's not THAT cold, but it's been damn cold and horribly dreary even for england. while the clouds were jerks and ruined the "sunny" part of the forecast, it still wasn't that bad. especially being on the water like that.
so we had a great time and we are all ready to go again somewhere new!!! now we've got it worked out with our neighbor and gotten them a spare key should we decide to stay over, they can come grab oscar for us! poor girl, she was so lonely!
we've got a friend staying over with us this coming weekend and if we don't go on the school trip the following weekend, i bet we're out of here again!!! :)
needless to say, the cabin fever is getting us all crazy and we're getting the hell out of here as much as possible!!!! (not to mention i really feel like we're quickly running out of time to see/do things b/c we ARE!!!).
at any rate, i'm feeling a bit more lively i guess. since we had a fairly uneventful long day out with the boys. that in itself is worth HUGE celebration. then i'm going to do something that is LONG LONG LONG overdue. i'm going to have a take care of aimee week! yep. gonna go get some of that waxing done to get rid of my harry henderson outfit, a pedi to get rid of my frodo feet, a cut and color so i can lose the amy winehouse hair and i'm even on the lookout for a somewhat conveniently located tanning salon so i can get a little color back on me. perhaps i will feel like myself again soon! this winter has done us ALL in and maybe all of that coupled with the 50 degrees i see on the useless forecast will have the wit and charm flowing right out of me. ;o)
until then....yep.
photos ;)
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