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Does anyone still read this thing or have they given up on me all together?

Short & skinny of it...

I'm behind on blog posts & will still catch up. I just need to get this outta my system... ready, here goes:

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!

UGH! I wish stupid people would stop calling my office! Like I know the answer to all of your little problems! Stop talking to me! Seriously! Can't people just give me their name & number & call it a day? Like I care what they saw at Home Depot! UGH!!!!! Sorry, I had to get that out!

OK, now to get back to work... or maybe Facebook, I haven't quite decided which yet...

Bye Bye Tonsils

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Today is the day Princess loses pieces to her anatomic puzzle. We had strict orders that she could have no food or drink after midnight. So, I treated her to a small iced coffee - blueberry & decaf - last night. Also, a bag of fritos with dip. I then allowed her to stay up later than Angel so that Princess would sleep later. Princess is a crazy kid... she doesn't like to stay awake. She likes to sleep... odd, right?

Anyways, Angel & Princess go to sleep followed shortly after by hubby & myself. We woke up just in time for me to get Angel to school, drop something off at Princess' classroom, and go home. I never ate breakfast. I think it'd be pretty rude of me to eat in front of a 5 year old, u know?

So, we left for the hospital around 9:45 or so. We had to be there for 10:30. We sat in the waiting room and waited and waited and waited and then we (Princess, hubby, & I) were brought into the room to get registered. That was when we learned that they misspelled Princess' name so we stayed there waiting while EVERY piece of paper was re-stickered with her correct spelling. While the nurse was printing out new stickers, Princess was to strip down to a hospital gown and hospital jammie bottoms and hospital socks. And, since I chose to be the one by her side, *I* got to dress in a big ol' marshmallow suit. When we were done registering, Princess got to choose what scent she wanted her sleeping gas to be. She chose Watermelon. I would have chose the frosting one (yes, they had that scent!) but, I'll have to wait for my next surgery LOL.

We finished registration and was brought back to the waiting room. To wait some more. Finally, it was time for Princess to go in for her surgery. I followed everyone back to the sleep/surgery room where they put her watermelon mask on her face and had her try to pop the balloon. She never popped the balloon, but fell asleep, nonetheless. I didn't believe she was sleeping though because her eyes were still open. I don't know why I didn't believe it though, have seen her father sleep? Yup, you guessed it, with his eyes open! Scary!

So, now that she's sleeping, I'm guided back to the waiting room where I can finally rid myself of the big ol' marshmallow suit and we wait. While waiting, I went down to the gift shop and purchased Princess a Webkinz and a gift bag. I also got to read some of New Moon (book 2 of the Twilight series) in the waiting room and then, after all the familiar faces left and a bunch of new faces appeared, the phone finally rang for us. We were guided down to recovery where Princess was waking up and drugged up. She proceeds to tell us that she didn't feel anything (man, I love anesthesia!) and then dozed off. She was pretty hilarious on that bed! She'd wake up, make a few funny comments then go to sleep. But then, she decided she really didn't want to be there anymore. She just wanted to go home.

And, we were allowed. Her surgery was scheduled for 11:40am. I don't know exactly what time she was put to sleep because there was no clock in the waiting room and I never looked at my cell. But, I DO know that we were home and her resting on the couch by 2pm!

By dinner time, Princess was feeling pretty good... they drugged her up like CRAZY before we left... and had a melt down because she really wanted a french fry... poor princess!

This may be a long 2 weeks of R&R and SOFT foods!

Oh, and also, since they were already in the area, they removed her adenoids too. Which means she wont snore anymore! She never kept me up with her snoring tho, only hubby on a stupid drunken stupor night!

So you think you can sew

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

So, the school that Angel & Princess go to has an All School Theme every year. Last year it was all about this town *well, now city* that we live in. The year before it was the Solar System (or was it just the planets) which ended up being a PERFECT fit since that was when Pluto lost its title of 'planet' that year as well. And the year before that it was about the ocean and lakes and other bodies of water. This year is Princess' first year but Angel is a veteran with it. This year, they chose Going Green. Princess' teacher (was also Angel's teacher when she was a K-Kid also) REALLY took to heart this theme. It is something she feels SOOOO strongly about.

Remember way back when when I made the quilts for Angel's pregnant teacher? Well, I made mention to K-Teacher how I made the quilts and so K-Teacher automatically volunteered me to help sew a project for the class. That project happened today, 5/13! I sew ONE thing in my ENTIRE life and the project she has in mind is for us to sew shopping bags! For EACH kid in the class. She's certain it'll only take 1 afternoon for 3 of us to sew a total of 21 bags plus have time for special snack and a special story from Moi cuz Princess is Star of the Week and her week ends today instead of Friday because she is going to have her tonsils removed tomorrow (5/14). Below are pictures of pictures of me sewing.





The guy who was helping's sewing machine broke (considering the dang thing was a million and a half years old, I'm not surprised) so he moved over to my machine while I did special snack and read the story. Then it was time to leave. I left my sewing machine for them to use it the next day and, apparently, the following day as well. A 1 afternoon project really turned into a 3-day deal BUT they were all finished and they came out FRAN~TASTIC if I do say so myself...



See that one right there? The one on the left? That's Princess' bag. I made that one all by myself. With her help. She stepped on the foot pedal and it takes about 2 seconds for a K-Kid's foot to stop after I say "stop" but, considering I've NEVER done anything structural, it's still holding strong LOL...

What's the number to 911?!?!?!

Thursday May 7, 2009

OK, as you may remember from my post on 5/5/09, I am sicker than a dog. Well, I went home tuesday and went to bed. But not before I drugged myself up with DayQuil. I couldn't even read any of Twilight, which I really wanted to do! Especially since I had dreamt that I was IN Twilight. Not as Bella or any of the other characters, I was my own character. I was Bella's sidekick and was able to tag along and know all about the vampireism and it was all good!

Anyways, I went to bed, woke up and took more drugs and attempted to eat (OK, fine... DRINK) some chicken broth. I felt better... for the most part... I no longer felt like I was going to die... I took more drugs a little later and went to bed.

I woke up on Wednesday and felt GREAT... a little stuffy but I didn't ache or anything. Went to work and was all happy go lucky. It was a pretty good, actually.

THEN, I woke up this morning *it's Thursday now, play along with me* and I just couldn't breath. I think I now know what an asthma attack feels like. I kept struggling and drinking LOTS of water and figured "If I can just finish up here so that I can go home and call my dr." It felt as though my throat was tightening. My work lasted on and on and on and on and felt like it was never ending. I kept thinking I was going to suffocate to death. Finally, I panicked... I thought I was just going to drop because my throat was so closed up. I told my boss (more like CRIED to him) that I couldn't breath, I had to leave. He was like "You want me to call an ambulance?" where I QUICKLY said NOOOOOOOOO!!!!! BUT, it was too late... he dialed, THEN hung up... Which, as you know, they ALWAYS call back... SOOO my boss says that I can't breathe and they send an ambulance.

So, here's where it gets even WORSE... two paramedics get out of the ambulance and they are FRIGGEN HOTTTTT!!!!!!!! OH. MY. GOD. You think I was having a hard time breathing before? You should see me now that there's 2 REALLY HOT guys pawing all over me (Fine, they were checking my stats and whatever but, so what... they still touched me and they were HOT!)

They do all their tests and what not and my oxygen is great. They don't know what my problem is. I don't know what my problem is. All I know is that I feel like I can't breathe. It's comforting to know that even tho I FEEL like I can't breathe, I really can so that helped lower my panic attack but they bring me to the hospital, just incase.

On the ride to the hospital, I really got a chance to chit-chat with them. They told me how they were JUST about to sit down to eat their pizza. They didn't even get to open their coke when the call came in. Looking into my Fran~tastic crystal ball, I see some peanut butter cookies in their future!

So, anyways, I get to the hospital, where I'm sitting in the hallway on a roll-a-way bed in front of some lady who I eventually find out is there due to chest pains she was having. We are getting quite the show from the loonies in the room that our beds are parked outside of. Apparently 1 of the loonies insisted that the clothes the hospital gave her were not her clothes because they're pink and she hates pink. Then she went to say that her mother brought the clothes to her because she hates pink and her mother hates her or something like that. EXTREMELY hilarous!!!

So, I have to pee so I get up, do my business and as I sit back down, who comes walking down the hall way? None other than MOTHER!!!!!!!!!! Who the hell called HER?!?!?!?

Anyone who knows me knows my mother. For those of you who don't, here's the short & skinny of it. She wakes up, does whatever it is she does, then goes to Bar 1 for like 8 or 9am. Then around 10am or so, she gets a ride and they go across town to Bar 2 and then back to Bar 1 by 11 to watch the Price is Right. They have a daily lottery type thing at both bars and she only goes to Bar 2 to sign the book for the daily lottery thinggie. That's the short & skinny.

So, I ask her 'who the hell called you?' where she proceeds to tell me that for some strange odd reason, she decided to go back to Bar 2 with someone exactly at the same time the ambulance is parked outside my work. Friggen figures!!!!!!!

Anyways, I talk her into leaving since I couldn't talk her into going to get my book (which was INSIDE my car the WHOLE time) and bring it back to me. The lady shows up, takes 4 vials of blood which turns it into an automatic 1.5 hour wait for lab processing time.

Husband showed up about an hour after he got home from work and sat with me for another hour. Five hours in the ER later, I FINALLY get seen by a doctor. Who turns around and tells me EXACTLY what I knew once the really HOT EMT guys told me my oxygen levels were normal... I was fine... He told me that it was just excess congestion or something and had me purchase sudafed and call it a day!

Gee, that's 5 hours of my life I'll never get back... good thing I had really HOT emt's!!!!!!

The time is NOW...

NOW is the time that I catch you all up on my WONDERFULLY crazy life... Be prepared to be awww'd, laugh, or feel blah (which is what you all feel with EVERY post, huh?)

ENJOY!!!!!!!!!

This I promise to you...

I promise to get all caught up here... Boy do I have a LOT to tell you!!!!!!!!

Stay tuned!!!!!!!!

It's the Swine Flu...

... I'm sure of it. I mean, I was fine yesterday... I woke up this morning stuffy, limpy, and achy. Only thing missing is the need to wallow in the mud... Oh, and I'm cold... so cold, very cold, oh so very cold... And, I ate pork chops for dinner... I'm sure it's the swine flu...

I'm infecting the WHOLE office with swine flu and they wont let me go home. Wallow in my swine flu Mr. Boss Guy!

I need rest! And more drugs!

I'm going to bed...

Welp, I cleaned my room... MAJORLY cleaned my room... first time in like 6 years... when we swapped rooms with the child & at the time, child in womb... Have I mentioned I'm allergic to moving dust? That's why I never deep clean... why unsettle something that's going to irritate me?

Anyways, we're gonna be painting our room since I decided that the children can't clean their room properly they can wait on the really cool, pretty, girl room and continue to live in the drabby, boring, wallpapered by an old lady in flowers room... So, since we're painting, we gotta deep clean. I have 1 corner of the room left to do (which isn't easily accessible at the moment) and the closet left to do... we even lifted the mattress & box springs to sweep fully under the bed! My poor nose!

Anyways, room looks GREAT... We'll be stripping wall paper and prepping and painting on a slow process... rushing with the Living Room the week b4 Easter a few years back SUCKED... I'll NEVER do that again... We will strip & plaster and sand 1 wall at a time until it's paint time... and that means 1 wall a weekend too...

I'm off to bed... what's up for tomorrow? Well, I do have like a week's worth of dishes to finally wash... I was on strike this week after a gabillion Easter Dinner dishes I had to wash. I thought hubby would be nice enough to do it...guess not... Looks like I answered that survey question wrong...

Survey question? You ask? Yup... Last week I was completing a survey and one of the questions in the survey was "What's more dependable? Your significant other or your hairspray?" I chose my significan other... I bet my hairspray woulda washed my dishes by now LOLOL

OK, I'm tired & rambling... Night night!

2 things that surprised me this week...

... in a good way.

First, let me start off by saying I TRIED to post yesterday... I really really did! But I couldn't log in for some reason... So, 1st surprise is supposed to be yesterday's blog.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE you Simon!!!!!!!!!!!! Here's why:



I kept sitting there saying "Save him! Save him! USE THE SAVE!" as quietly as I could because the whole house was sleeping... WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE me some Matt Girard! He's really kinda sexy too! YES!

So, that was yesterday's blog... now on to today's blog:



OH MY GOD! She brought tears to my eyes! That was the most fabulous singing I've heard in a VERY long time! I can't believe no one has snatched her up yet! She has got to be the best EVER! I'm ABSOLUTELY speechless with that! I must say, I seen this posting on Yahoo .com that showed her picture and I never clicked on anything and I instantly thought of Drew Carey's Mimi... And, yes, her voice does NOT go with her appearance, but, who am I to judge? She's friggen frantabulous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would SOOOOOOOO buy her album when it comes out!

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Anywho, we had softball practice today... I was done after 40 minutes.... 2 hours later they FINALLY let us be done LOL... I'm pooped & tired & all I can say is TGIFFF and YES I meant to have the 3 F's!

I'm tired, Latah Peep!

ARGH!

I'm cranky, miserable, irritable, and the dog is driving me nuts.

I need to move away! Alone!

The following will sum it ALLLLLLLLL up:



later

Movie night on Idol

Tonight was movie night on Idol. Quintin T. was special guest & here's how the performances rated in my book:

Allison came out and sang Aerosmith's Don't Wanna Miss A Thing. I was excited! That girl is a rocker! She's gonna do some mad vocals on this! So then she comes out and sings... total disappointment. She didn't ROCK it like I thought... it was soft... much softer then it should have been! So sad. But, don't worry Allison, I still love you.

Next came Anoop... He sang Bryan Adams' Everything I Do... I was shockingly surprised... in a good way... I like Anoop... really I do... but he's been sappy for me. Anoop Dawg, you're pretty darneded good...

Then... my FAVE! Adam came out... HOLY COW, I was NOT disappointed! No matter WHAT he sings it's friggen AWESOME... did I tell you that I'd NEVER heard of Mad World by Tears for Fears before? Well, I LOVED Adam's song and then Pandora'd Tears for Fears and Mad World was the song played. Even hubby agreed, Adam was BETTER than Tears for Fears! This week, NO difference. I LOVE Adam... and I don 't care what my dear friend Lainey says. Just because he has black nails doesn't mean he sucks. HE FRIGGEN ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My ALLLLLLL TIME FAVE!

Along comes Matt. My sexy Justin Timberlake twin. I LOVE Matt. I LOVE his sexy, soulful voice. I REALLY loved his performance also! When he plays the piano along with his vocals, it brings out a whole new Matt.

Danny was the 5th to sing. He wasn't wearing his signature glasses... saddened me. But his vocals, OH MY GOD! That boy knows how to pull you DEEP into emotion! I wanted to cry during his performance. SOOOOOO emotional! LOVE YOU DANNY!

Side note, During Danny's performance, Seacrest tweeted his loverly tweets. FYI, if you wanna follow me, www.twitter.com/fran429 I'm just as boring there as I am here, but it's all good!

And then sings Kris. I don't have a CLUE what it was that he sang, but it was BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've never heard the song before to my knowledge. I LOVED it. And TOTALLY disagree with Randy!

Lastly was Lil Rounds. She's been OFF my radar for a while... probably after week 2... It was as tho she became cocky and conceited and full of herself and didn't care about anyone but herself. It probably isn't true and she's probably the biggest sweetheart ever but that was the vibe she was throwing off to me.... ANYWAYS, she sang The Rose... By Bette Midler... EWWWWWWWWWWW.... I HATE that song... She sang it better than Bette but it was still icky...

That was tonight's performance. If I get my wish, I hope Lil goes. She has the voice to get a record label but she doesn't have the intelligence to pick out the perfect song for Idol night.

Well, that's my blog for the night, as promised.

Night night!

My vouge to you...

My vouge to you is that I will try like heck to post daily. Only problem is that I never know what you want to hear... Any suggestions on what I should blog about? Leave me comments on topics to blog. I will randomly pick topics.

Maybe I'll blog about topics to blog about.

More blogs to come!

Happy Easter

I just wanted to say:



My ham is in the oven with the final glaze. Carrots and green bean casserole waiting for the oven. Mashed potatoes waiting to boil. Alls left to do is corn and broccoli and crescents. Was hoping to eat for 1, but it looks as tho I may be about 15 minutes behind schedule. That's because the brown sugar was hard as a brick so I had to find a store that was opened that carried brown sugar that wasn't already as hard as a brick...

That said, I also realized a half hour ago that I forgot the turnip. See what happens when I Easter Dinner shop withOUT a list?

At least there's dessert!

Quilt 1 of 9

Here's the story of how I made my first quilt. Blogger & Charter (or maybe its just Charter) are being dumb and freezing so I have to do this in 9 diff. segments to show you it all. I'm missing photos because I'm not uploading any of the ones I took with my cell because it'll charge me internet LOL...
I started with 2 plain white pieces of cotton fabric:

Pulled out my embroidery threads and the pattern:
Arranged the pattern:

And set off to iron:

The lion ironed good:

quilt 2 of 9

I'm ironing on the stencils here so I can embroider them:

The stencils ironed on well!

I only had to put in a few spots with my blue magic pen:

Off to embroider!!!!

quilt 3 of 9

Some pics of the finished embroidering of quilt 1:

quilt 4 of 9

Here, my friends are some pics of quit #1 close up
A zebra & turtle:

Camels & piggies:

the whole thing:

tigers & the cow:

apparently I repeated myself:

quilt 5 of 9

quilt 1 on left, quilt 2 on right. I am all done embroidering the sheets...

This is the fabric I chose for the 1st quilt. Its yellow & white pinstripe:

closer shot so u can see the stripes:

top sheet & bottom sheet of quilt 1:

top sheet & bottom sheet of quilt 2: its a solid yellow backing:

quilt 6 of 9

I have finally finished embroidering both quilts and decided on the perfect gender neutral backings but made them both differant. The quilt on the left is quit #1:

I have attached the top sheet & bottom sheet along with the batting, trimmed it all and attached the binding. Quilt #1 is ready to sew:

Off to quilt #2 now...