Spin Cycle - Changes
February 27, 2009 by Chris
Filed under Spin Cycle
When Jen from Sprite’s Keeper announced that our Spin Cycle assignment this week was about change, the first thing that came to mind was diapers. After 11 years of changing diapers it’s hard not to associate the word change with the word diaper.
The last time that Luigi wore a diaper was the day before he turned 3. All of the others took a couple more months. To make things easier, I’m going to use “3 years” as the cut off date in my math problem.
Also, to make the math problem a little more simple, we’ll just use 6 as the average number of diaper changes per day. I know it’s more like 8 (12 for some of my poop monsters) but… we’ll just go with 6.
3 years = 1,095 days
1,095 days x 4 kids = 4,380 days
Frogger was born 102 days ago
4,380 days + 102 days = 4,482 days
4,482 days x 6 diapers a day = ………….. Are you ready for it?
Seriously?? You ready??
Twenty-six THOUSAND eight hundred ninety-two diapers!!
And just think… I still have another 5,000 diapers to go with Frogger.
(Is anyone else thinking about the episode of Spongebob where Patrick & Spongebob raise the baby clam??)
(Is anyone else really jealous of the parents who use cloth diapers? I wish I had that sort of control over my gag reflexes. Kudos to you guys!!)
You Capture - First Installment
February 25, 2009 by Chris
Filed under Pictures, You Capture
Beth, at I Should Be Folding Laundry, has come up with a new carnival called You Capture.
Our first assignment was to take a picture of something we love, without using flash. I immediately started snapping pictures of Frogger. She’s the only one that holds still long enough for me to take a picture without tracers.
Imagine my surprise when she decided to pose for all of you and show you her “I.Am.Rotten” look. This can also be referred to as the “I have you wrapped around my little finger” look or the “Watch how I make my mommy stop everything she’s doing just to come play with me” look.
Frogger is only 3 months old and look at this face!!! I am SOOOO in trouble!
ETA: I think I’m gonna have to sign up for a flickr account. I feel bad for not leaving comments on the pictures that are being hosted there (rather than a blog) for the carnival.
For those who ARE only submitting using flickr… I didn’t leave my mark, but I promise I looked. =D And so far, all I see is awesomeness!!
It’s Interview Time
February 21, 2009 by Chris
Filed under Daily Life, Surveys & More
1) What is your greatest achievement?
I’m very proud of the fact that I can take my children out into the world and no killing will occur. I will not want to kill them. They will not try to kill each other. And I won’t feel like killing myself.
And speaking of kids, I gave birth to all 5 of them without a drop of pain killers. Not by choice, mind you. But I did it just the same. According to the doctor who you can hear in the background of the video that I took 2 minutes after Frogger was born, I’m a very strong lady.
But seriously, my only real achievement that I can think of, is that at age 25, I bought my house outright. That’s right. I don’t owe a penny on it. I also own all of my vehicles.
That chicken I ate yesterday… OMG!! My stomach still hasn’t settled down.
I’ve always wished that I could’ve avoided the whole ex-husband part of my life. But without that part, I wouldn’t have 2 of my children. I also wouldn’t know just how good I have it now. So.. scratch that one.
On that same note, I wish that when I found out the SOB was cheating on me that I had gone ahead and beat the crap out of the person he was cheating with. I swear I’m not a violent person but, I always wondered if I’d have felt better about the whole thing.
Now, had I actually DONE that, this answer would probably be “I wish I hadn’t beat the crap out of her.” LOL And I know that many people will think “Well, HE is the one that promised to love you and not hurt you, so don’t blame her” but in this situation, you’d be wrong. She was my best friend and that little part of the equation makes her just as guilty.
Hmm… Did I actually answer this question yet? Uhm…..
Okay. I can’t think of any life altering changes…
No wait, I just did.
I would go back and make the doctors understand that my grandmother’s pain was not in her head. I would’ve insisted that they did more tests until they figured out what was wrong with her. I would’ve made sure that they figured it out BEFORE the cancer was allowed to spread throughout her body so badly that there was nothing that could be done about it.
Losing Grandma was the hardest thing I’ve EVER had to deal with in my entire life. If there was anything that I could do to make it so she were still here…. that’s the part that I would do over. And if that change resulted in no more ovarian cancer EVER….. then that would be even better.
Josh Blue! And if you don’t know who Josh Blue is then, shame on you! You have no idea what you’re missing. Go look him up on YouTube or something.
And if you DO know who he is and you’re rolling your eyes…. screw you & the horse you rode in on. LOL I love that guy to death!!!!! One day I’ll take a picture of my autographed picture for you.
We’d probably end up somewhere like Chuck E Cheese where he would undoubtedly kick my butt at any of the sports games.
But seriously…. No seriously!! Josh Blue is my answer! And if he’s unavailable, then I’d love to smoke a big fat fatty with Willie Nelson. (And no, this doesn’t mean I’m a pothead. But I WOULD partake if Willie was passin!!)
Hmm…. Maybe I would be a dog because I always have my nose in other people’s business.
Maybe a monkey because I like to climb and make weird noises and I’ve been known to throw poop.
The real answer would probably be a fish. I love water and I have the same memory capacity as a fish. “Oh look! A castle! *swim swim swim* Oh look! A castle!”
It would be awesome if one of my jobs would allow hubby to stay home, too. With the exception of trying to feed 7 people and the normal “kid expenses” it really doesn’t take much money for us to survive. So this goal is actually something I can see being fullfilled (if I could stop reading blogs and put some time into working lol)
Now……. If YOU would like to be interviewed, by yours truly, just leave a note in the comments and I’ll send you 5 questions. Or you can drop me a note at textimps [at] gmail [dot] com. If you request an interview via comments and you don’t have your questions within 24 hours, send me an email because APPARENTLY your address is no-reply@blogger.com (oh how I hate that address)
Anyone Up For A Bike Ride?
February 4, 2009 by Chris
Filed under Pictures, Wordless Wednesday
For More Wordless Wednesday head over to 5 Minutes for Mom
Brought To You By The Letter T
January 29, 2009 by Chris
Filed under Surveys & More
Stacie from Stacie’s Madness found a fun blogging game to play and I decided I’d give it a try. Here are the rules as she explained them in her post.
It’s called “Brought to you by the letter…” game. You leave a comment (asking for a letter) on this post, and I’ll assign you a letter. You write about ten things you love that begin with your assigned letter, and post it at your place. When people comment on your list, you give them a letter, and the chain continues on and on.
Stacie’s hat picked the letter T for me. My first thought was “Is it cheating if I say The moon, The stars?” My 2nd thought was “I wish I used my kids’ real names on this blog because that would take care of #1 and #2.
So…. Here I go.
1. Tiny feet. Itty bitty tiny baby feet are one of my most favorite things in the world. There are only 2 left in my house and they will be the last until I become a grandma.
2. Tendrils of hair like my Boogie has.
3. Thongs
3. Thin slices of ham. I hate huge hunks of ham! I really do!
Am I cheating? My Ts seem to be adjectives instead of nouns & verbs. This is way harder than I thought it was gonna be.
4. Toyota Trucks because they remind me of when I met The Ol’ Man and the first time he let me drive his precious truck. Yeah, that’s how you know when they love you. It’s when they hand over the keys to their babies.
5. Text Messages on Yahoo. That’s what I spend the majority of my time doing while I’m on the computer.
6. Toys that find their way to the toy box on their own, without my assistance and without being stepped on before they decide that their place is not in the middle of my floor.
7. Trouble Makers
7. Themes & Templates. Anyone who knows me well knows that I have a huge obsession with searching through templates and creating my own.
8. Tadpole (The Ol’ Man’s real nickname) (I should move this up to #1 or 2 but I’m too lazy.)
9. TV Judges & Crime Shows - Hopelessly addicted to Judge Judy and Law & Order. I especially love SVU.
10. This game
10. Tenacious D - I love Jack Black to death.
Okay - That seriously was way harder than I thought it would be. I spent the last half hour saying “Tuh Tuh Tuh Tuh”
Wanna give it a try?
*ETA - I’ll update this with the links to the completed games. You can either come back and let me know you’re done or just wait until it shows up in my reader and then I’ll add it. And I decided I’d post a comment on your blog and use the first letter of your captcha to assign your letter.
My First Wordless Wednesday - The Monsters Reveal Themselves
January 28, 2009 by Chris
Filed under Pictures, Wordless Wednesday
