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8 months pregnant with Sammy There are many things I don’t talk about on here.  Mostly because they are depressing… and I try to stay away from that sort of repertoire.  Sure I share an occasional bad day, but only the ones that I can look back on and laugh about some day.  But the struggle to get pregnant isn’t something I think I will ever look back and laugh about. We had been trying to get pregnant for about a year and a half now, and it just wasn’t happening.  Which was hard for me because the first two times it was so easy for us.  We thought about having a baby and BAM we got one.  This time, though, thinking about it was just not enough.  Wanting it so bad we could barely stand it wasn’t enough either.  But I tried really hard to have a good attitude and knew that it would happen when the time was right. Back in June when we started the whole 120 mile challenge, I felt really good about... Read the rest of this entry »

I read an article recently about how men (not mankind so as to include women, but men) love war. They love the thrill of pitting their manliness against each other, just to see who’s the toughest. Each wants a turn to prove that in a real life and death situation, he would pull out on top… or at least alive. My first thought was that the whole idea was bologna. I’ve never been a guy who likes the much physical “pitting.” Take wrestling, for example; who wants to wrap their arms around a greasy sweaty guy in spandex – I mean really?! I’d rather pin a bald goat. And as for the grunting manliness of the all American football game? Let’s throw a ball at someone and then pile as many people as we can on top of them – while wearing a helmet, shoulder pads… and yes, spandex. And this is a national pastime? So when it comes to the real deal, with guns, utility belts, and assault weapons, I’m not big on the idea. (At least they wear real pants, but... Read the rest of this entry »

Who says nothing happens in August?  This is the month that makes its own news, and most of it is weird! Filed under: Bizarre, Current Events, Election 2010, Humor, Politics, Religion, The Economy AKPC_IDS += "244754,";Popularity: unranked [?] Read More →

Do your kids speak their own language? One that ONLY you understand maybe 80% of the time on a good day? My kids are that way more often than not.  Sometimes I have no idea what the heck they are talking about!  Take today for example.  I told them we were going to go run some errands and the first thing that pops out of their mouths is what they want to do once we leave.  After much commotion, I calmed them down, and they seemed to agree on two things they wanted to do. 1.  Eat big strawberry and 2.  Go to K Now, I had no idea what they were talking about and they got really angry at me when I told them I didn’t know.  So my plan was just to ride around town until they pointed and let me know what it was.  Which worked. K equals K-Mart.  For some unknown reason they really love this store.  Which turned out great because they had some excellent prices on the back to school stuff. About the eating of a big strawberry, I was really... Read the rest of this entry »

Will Rogers once famously stated “I belong to no organized political party, I’m a Democrat.”  The most recent flap between White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and the progressive wing of the party provides a perfect illustration of Mr. Roger’s humorous description of political reality.  While the Tea Party movement has injected an astounding degree of chaos and distemper into the usually rigidly disciplined Republicans, such chaos is all too familiar for Democrats, we see it any time we’re not in the minority. Mr. Gibbs faux pas was recorded in an interview with the Congressional newspaper The Hill, airing his frustrations about the “professional left” a nebulous group involving the left-wing blogosphere, as well as activists ranging from Michael Moore to Cindy Sheehan.  Mr. Gibbs is recorded to have declared that those on the left comparing President Obama with former President George W. Bush “ought to be on medication” and complaining that these individuals would... Read the rest of this entry »

Last night I was pretty sure someone was trying to break in the Nutshell. There were several contributing factors to my over-imagination, so I feel that my foolishness was a little, just a little warranted. 1.  Ben is gone for a few weeks training. 2.  I get a little loopy when I am woken up in the middle of the night, and I tend add a little of my dreams to the waking world. and… 3.  Nighttime is a little scary anyway when you’re alone!  (two little guys sleeping soundlessly in the next room don’t count.) We live on a bottom floor apartment and open windows in the night are a must without AC or a swamp cooler.  It has always made me a little nervous too, even when Ben isn’t home.  It isn’t like we have a trove of treasures here begging to be burgled.  There is no neon arrow pointing to our place blinking “come take our stuff our windows are opened!” And in the day time, I know it’s silly... Read the rest of this entry »

Do you ever like to “test” your kids? You know, sometimes just mess with them to see what they will say or do?  Oh, come on, I know I am not the only parent that does it!  Just admit it… even though we get older, there is still a kid inside begging to come out and be immature every once in a while — and there is nothing like kids to bring out that side. Today, for lunch, I was making up a Mexican-style salad (which was absolutely fabulous by the way) and I was chopping up cilantro when I came up with one of my little “tests” for the boys.  I stuck one of the pieces of cilantro to my front teeth and went into the living room to confront the boys.  I called out:  ”Hey guys!!  Mommy needs a kiss!” Both boys came running in with big smiles on their faces… until I smiled back, that is, reviling the piece of cilantro between my two front teeth.  You should have seen the look of absolute horror... Read the rest of this entry »

Lately with the heat, water turned off every so often, and the constant battle of fans, I have been feeling a little crowded in our little nutshell.  Closed in, I guess you could say.  At first I thought maybe I was just gaining weight and filling in the space, making it seem smaller… but a quick trip to the scale disproved that theory. I am pretty convinced that it is that I am quickly approaching the big three-o and still live in student housing… we have been living in little places like this since we got married nearly 6 years ago — and worse there is no light at the end of the tunnel right now.  We still have 3 years left here… THREE years!  Can I survive!?  Well, I had better, because we don’t really have any other options. I try not to complain too much, because I know that Ben is working hard and doing the best he can, but my heart longs to have a house of our own!  My hope lies in the fact that sacrifices,... Read the rest of this entry »

I think we can all admit, that one of the battles between husband and wife that probably started with Adam and Eve, has to do with air flow dynamics in the home.  Come on, what couple doesn’t argue about the placement of fans, or what temperature the thermostat needed to stay on… ?  It’s one of life’s big jokes on humanity to make man and woman with different body temperature at different times and stages of their lives… and luckily for us, come summer or winter or any season, we get to battle it out with the spouse.  What a joy! With Ben and I, we are like any other couple.  We argue about the heat in the winter, and we argue about the fan placement in the summer.  Neither one of us ever wins, because the other is just to stubborn to give in… but then again, who isn’t stubborn when it comes to one’s comfort? Last summer was our first whole summer here.  And guess what?  Ben... Read the rest of this entry »

Poor Jane Austen, just a few years ago she was the poster child for reserved, sophisiticated period pieces dealing with the issues of women, a kind of chick-lit for the thinking person.  My how times have changed, what with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, or Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters and (my personal favorite) Mansfield Park and Mummies, Prime Minister David Cameron could probably fix England’s Energy Crisis by just attaching a turbine to the poor authoress’ coffin, considering all the spinning she’s probably doing. Nevertheless, I love a good and irreverent spin on the classics, hence I present to you the work of yet another mad genius at Youtube:  Jane Austen’s Fight Club. Filed under: Bizarre, Humor AKPC_IDS += "235075,";Popularity: unranked [?] Read More →

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Growing up on a small farm, I was spoiled when it came to good water.  We had our own well that would fill with real mountain spring water, and it was fabulous to the taste!  I loved our tap water… it was WAY better than any bottled water I had tried, and it still holds true when we go down to visit. But now that I am spoiled, other tap water makes me gag.  I mean, sometimes it literally makes me retch, it’s so gross.  Don’t get me wrong, I always try to give it a go, but I just can’t do it.  We even once got a filter for our tap, but it was so big in our little apartment sink, we had no room to put our dishes or even to fill a pot full of water… it was just silly!  Our fridge is small too, so we didn’t even bother to buy one of those filter pitchers either.  Oh, well, we resigned, we’ll just buy bottled water… And I loved the Sam’s Choice brand at Wal-Mart and that is all the water I could bare to... Read the rest of this entry »