I heart I heart radio!

When I was working in the Detroit area, I use to leave at o'buttcrack hundred every morning to get to work on time.  My only saving grace on those long rides was my ability to listen to Mojo in the Morning on a local radio station.  I could get it as soon as I hit the Michigan border, and the signal got stronger as I trekked deeper into the abyss they call The Great White North of Michigan.  Through all the dysfunction and annoyance of driving 48 miles, one way, to work....Mojo, Spike and the others in the show were my little compadres on the expressway between Toledo and Detroit.  So....fast forward to 2009.  I was sick and tired of driving all that way, and actually working to pay my gas bill to GO to work.  So, I apply for, and get a job in Toledo.  I knew I could access the radio show on the computer, so I wasn't so disheartened thinking I wasn't going to get my daily fix.  Insert loud, obnoxious "nope you got it wrong" noise here!  My work computer won't allow streaming of the Mojo show.  B to the OOOOOOO!  So I went almost a year without my Mojo, (except for the rare instances that I was home and had the time to turn my laptop on and listen to it there).  But---then a miracle happened!  I discovered the "I heart radio" app on my Droid.  And Lo and Behold, guess who was listed in the app?  MOJO!!  So now, every day, I can sit at my desk, when I probably should have been working, and sip my highly caffenated coffee, listen to Mojo, and think of things I would rather be doing!  Now, granted, I have to wait a day to hear it, so I can't call in and be one of those obnoxious callers that I so enjoy listening to, but alas...I have my mojo back.  Thank you, I heart Radio!  You've totally made my work environment SO much more bearable!  I can now die a happy girl! 

Meat, meat, and more meat!

SO, I started back on my diabetic diet today with my good friend.  For anonymity, since her initials are KS, we'll call her Kansas.  I'm so tired of looking at my fat, whale-like self in the mirror every morning.  So....I'm back to the land 'o meat, and I've enlisted Kansas in joining me.  At least I have someone I can bitch and moan to when I REALLY want to have a big fat potato!  Actually, it's not hard doing it, I just have to stick to it.  Hopefully, Kansas and I can manage to keep the HoHos and Pizza Bites out of each other's mouths!  You hear me, Kansas?  No HoHos for you.....no Pizza Bites for me.  Oh, and no breakfast burritos, either!  No mas burritos, Sra. Basta!  No, no no!  So, for breakfast I had cheese and pepperoni, a salad with Italian dressing for lunch, a handful of nuts for snack, and a hamburger (sans bun) and sweet potato fries for dinner.  Nice and carb free!

Saturday was a pretty cool day.  Oh, wait...except for the fact that I had to wait in line with the girls for almost TWO hours, waiting for Santa Claus....only for them to spend 20 seconds with him and have Brownie tell him she wants a REAL puppy, and Blondie wants a kitten.  Um, ok....did they gang up on me to guarantee a live animal under the tree?  I asked Brownie, "So um, what are you going to do if Santa doesn't bring you a puppy?"  To which she replies, "Oh, he will! He said he will.  All I have to do it be a good girl!"  Great, so I'm going to have a couple of very disappointed children when they come downstairs on Christmas day, and Santa has brough socks and underwear instead of a puppy and kitten!  Poor kids....they're gonna need some major therapy in thier futures.  But besides standing in line for Santa, the girls and I went to the mall, and we participated in the activities for Santa's arrival.  They had cookie decorating for each child, and they could make their own hot cocoa, and there was a Radio Disney show that the kids participated in.  They loved it.  Gaby even won a Radio Disney tee shirt!  The whole time I was thinking, "great.....just another shirt that lies on the bedroom floor and not in the clothes basket...."  What a horrible mom I am!

'Tis the Holiday Season!

Christmas Card Insert 2010. Blondie and Brownie....appropriately named. If you can't figure out who's who....you have issues and need to call an opthamologist.

Caramel Apple Coffee

Is there anything more delicious that's ever been invented? I highly doubt that. It's two of the most wonderful things in the world, meshed into one, delightfully orgasmic wonder.....caramel apple coffee. Mmmmmm.....thank you, Carnation, for making my Autumn mornings a little more bearable! And trust me, after today, there's nothing that I couldn't love more than to sit down and enjoy a nice hot cup of my caramel coffee. Today was ridiculous. I'll spare you the boring details. Those aren't important. Let's just put it this way...it involved me standing outside in the 20 degree windchill for about an hour, in a light sweater and a skirt. Yeah.....freezing my ass off. LOL I don't think I've ever been so glad to get inside and feel the warmth of a building!

Went to dinner the other night. Blondie and Brownie were with us. We decided on Chinese food. We're sitting there, looking at the menu, when Blondie says to us, "I think I want Beef with Boktoy." To which we reply, "Don't think you'll like that, Blondie." Blondie replies with, "Yes, I will! It comes with a TOY!" It's a good thing we hadn't already gotten our food, because with the way J laughed, I think he probably would have spewed food all over the whole table. He was laughing his ass off. The things my kids come up with crack me up. Sometimes, it takes all my energy to not laugh at them out loud, and in public. That's all I need, is some random person thinking I'm a horrible mom. I already know I am. LOL! My poor kids are going to need therapy well into their adulthood!

Have Parent/Teacher conferences tonight for both girls. I really wish, though, that Brownie's teacher would have asked me what time to come, like Blondie's teacher did. I signed up for Blondie's, but then was just basically told when to show up for Brownie's. So, I have Brownie's at 5:20 and then have to go to Blondie's at 6:40. I guess it's good that I only live a short distance from the school, because I know I'll have an hour in between the two of them. Hmm, what to do in between those two meetings? Maybe some caramel coffee.....