Seriously been inundated with people wanting to be “my friend” on my space (which I only set up to find someone…thanks a lot JESS lol). Bands, groups, people… I am POPULAR! Why did I ever want this in High School, it’s kind of annoying lol. Ok, so I’m not really “popular”, but my request box at myspace makes me feel like I am. So now, I get to be what I always promised myself I wouldn’t be… a snob. UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Archive for October, 2006
This is how I feel… right… now…
yeah, I have to study, I don’t want to… not that I have something else better to do besides sleep because btw, I don’t! I love this child welfare class, but I gotta say, it’s not something that I’m ever feeling like I can’t wait to sit down and do the reading! Becca came down this weekend (honestly, I think that it will be several WEEKS now that we have to go without seeing each other). Friday night was our crapbooking night. We stayed up into the wee hours working on ONE page. I think she actually might have done a layout, but I can’t remember for the life of me what she did. I went and found my prehistoric scrapbook I made when Michael was a baby and took out all of the good pictures and made them into one grand page in Michael’s book. This was no small undertaking… start to finish was… well, to avoid the laughter I’ll just say it took me awhile, but I had it done by Saturday morning lol. During the day on Saturday before the trunk or treat at church, Becca and I were sucked in the sale vortex at Hobby Lobby. My heavens, they had stamps and punches and stickers for 50% off… it’s just not fair! lol I had to leave Becca there and head on to church. The plan was for her to meet me at the trunk or treat, but she never quite made it there after getting sucked into yet another vortex at the Salvation Army quarter day. I can’t blame her, I do it myself. Once home the children just seemed overwhelming (though there were only 3 of them, and 2 were mine) and I just coulnd’t wait for their bedtime. Unfortunately, due to the late night of Friday, I could not stay up late again and went to bed after completing one quick page. In the morning, Becca and Elena went home and we prepared for church. It was primary program Sunday and the kids did GREAT! I could see both of them behaving (for the most part) and singing! It was fun. Later in the afternoon Chris took the kids out of the house for awhile and I was able to study for awhile, which was great. I went visiting teaching tonight, but now I’m back in the studying saddle… and I guess I should surrender the fantasy and just get back to work!
So today was Michael’s first Hawkeye Football game. We started off the morning by getting a ride from Kate to the train “station” on the Hawkeye Express. It took about ten minutes to get there. We got off and went to a tailgate party at the Hawkeye Village. There they had brats, “barbeque” beef, marinated chicken, pork cutlets, potato salad and pasta salad. There were also brownies and carrot cake, as well as pop and water.
On a scale of 1-10, how awful of a mother does it make me that my daughter know, loves, and sings most of the words (keep in mind… no naughty words lol) to Call Me When You’re Sober by Evanescence? And… in a related poll… how much of the blame can I incure upon my husband for introducing, loving, and repeatedly playing said song?
LOL! Seriously, it was just on and I kid you not, she knew sooo many of the words (words that even I had been unsure of before lol). Is she a genius? Or, am I just a bad parent? You decide!
While I was googling my name earlier, I came across this Geocities page, which was the first web site I ever created. I did it in October 2000. It’s a piece of crap. Check it out!
As my wife posted on her blog, our pet fish Nemo has passed away. I won’t bore you with all of the details; if you’re really interested you can read Kate’s entry.
It must have been sometime on Monday that it happened, but we didn’t notice until the kids were already in bed, so we didn’t say anything. I meant to tell them sometime Tuesday as soon as they got home from school, but I forgot. It wasn’t until we sat down to eat dinner, and I was munching on my fishsticks that I remembered. I wasn’t sure how to bring it up, so I said “Hey, did you guys see Nemo?” They ran over to look at him and thought he was playing like he normally did, but I told them he wasn’t. They didn’t believe me for a minute, but then they realized it was true, and they started going nuts, Michael especially. He said he wanted a get a new fish that night, while he was bawling. I hope when I die he waits a while to replace me.
…and FINALLY I’m near the top of the list. I’ve been googling my name for over a year and would always find my site on the 5th or 6th page or even worse. But not any longer!
Check out the Google results:
chris wheeler - 3rd place
christopher wheeler - 2nd place
christopher a wheeler - 1st place
UPDATE: Yesterday when I googled “chris wheeler” I was in 3rd place. Today, not even a full day later, I am at 7th. I’m not sure why.
Dinner?!? Didn’t you just have
lunch 5 hours ago?!
Ahnah was right,
I feel like this everyday lol!
Yep, I have a big test coming up and I have several large presentations to get finished and in all honesty I figured tonight would be a good night to get things done, but as so often happens life gets in the way. Our family fish Nemo has passed. We noticed on Monday evening that he was not playing dead in his normal spot on the top of the water. He was playing dead in a whole new area… and he was no longer playing. Chris told the kids this evening and they both were sad, but Michael took it especially hard. He would sway from hysterical to normal in no time flat and with no warning. When I got home from class a funeral had been planned and this evening in a private family service in the lavatory, we said goodbye to our dear Nemo. It was a good lesson in discussing what happens to us when we pass away and while Michael was very sad that we would not see Nemo here on Earth anymore, he was very happy to know that Nemo will be waiting for us (yes… I did this with no real scriptural basis so I hope that it holds up).
So tonight, even though I had lots of things to do… I laid with sweet Michael until he fell asleep because that is what he needed from me. It’s not often that I have a nice mommy moment, but knowing that I was forsaking my free time to be with my sad little boy who just needed extra cuddle time…made me feel like a good mommy.
So a report out of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University found that more than half of men think about sex all the time, or at least several times a day.
I’m not exactly sure how this is news. I think I knew about this before I even understood was sex was.
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Report finds sex always on men’s minds
