What's On Your TiVo?

A year and a half ago is when we got our TiVo, I wanted it mostly because a lot of our shows were on at 8:00 and we weren't able to watch them because Jordan was still up and he was taking up our time, those gosh darn kids. Now it's amazing how many more shows we have to watch, and we still don't have the time. Here's a list of some the shows we're hooked on.

Days of Our Lives - Yeah, this is my soap opera. I've watched it since I was a kid and I'm sorry I can't stop watching it. Even though I do TiVo it, there's many times that I skim through to the very end just to see what's happening. And don't tell Darric I told you, but he'll sit down and watch it with me and he gets right into it.

Nip/Tuck - This season just ended. Don't ask me why I like this show, maybe because it's just so out there. You never know what they're going to do next, or what they're going to say.

American Idol - I'm having a hard time admitting to this one, but yes I am an American Idol fan. I'm not sure why really. Every season I say I'm not going to watch that crap this year, but here I am again getting roped in. I will say I can't stand to watch the sucky auditions, but now that's it's getting to the good stuff when they're singing with actual music, it's too late now, we're sucked it for the entire season.

Dirty Jobs - Did you know this show is on ALL THE TIME? It is because I have 15 shows to watch and they just keep adding to list. Of coase the only reason I watch this show is because it's interesting to see what other people do for work, makes me appreciate my job and Mike Rowe, after all, isn’t entirely difficult to watch, especially if you imagine him disrobing after one of his DIRTY JOBS to wash off all that dirtiness. Gwrrrr!!

Then there's Jordan's shows which are a whole category themself. There's Blues Clues, Super Why, Curious George, Dora, Clifford, Wonder Pets, Backyardigans and the list goes on and on.

A great feature that TiVo has is that it trys to figure out what you like to watch and will just randomly record shows (religiously might I add) and this is how we get hooked onto new shows. One show we watched the other night is the new show 'Moment of Truth.' This is another one of those reality shows that could ruin someones life and they do, all for money. This show did get me thinking about how crazy people are. It's their own fault they put themselves up to it, but Why, may I ask Why.

So, now that the writer's strike is over maybe we can get some of our better shows back on. Tell me though, what shows are you currently hooked to? Come on pile up my comment box, it's looking lonely these days and making me feel lonely too.

Highlight of my day = Vacuuming.

It's now 11:30 in our household and you should hear the silence....ahhh it's so nice. There's a sweet, innocent toddler sound asleep in the next room, a dog asleep at my feet and a husband a hundred miles away. It was boys weekend away snowmobiling and while I'm totally jealous and I do miss my hubby, well a little, it's been a nice break, but one hectic toddler wrangling day. It's so funny how I wake up with a plan of daily tasks and end the day not accomplishing half of those tasks. I think it has to do with the fact that a toddler just takes up so much of my time. Gosh, they have to eat, they have to sleep, they have to be told to use the potty, they want you to play with them, they're so demanding.
But one thing I did get accomplished today, and the reason I titled this blog the way I did is vacuuming. Anyone that knows me knows that I'm a fanatic when it comes to vacuuming. I love it and I'm not satisfied with the cleanliness of my house until the vacuuming is done even if it has to be done in the middle of the night, which I've done many times before, just so it would get done. So, why was vacuuming the highlight of my day today, well for the past week and a half my vacuum has been out of service. I realized a couple weeks ago that the reason it hasn't been working well is because the brush had no bristles. So, Darric took the part into the shop and they had to special order a new brush. Well after going a week and a half without a workable vacuum cleaner (don't tell anyone, but I was desperate enough to vacuum what I could with the hose...a nightmare) the part finally came in and Darric was nice enough to put it back together before he left for the weekend. And today as I pushed down the on button and gave the sucker a push across the living room floor, oh sweet mother of god. It was amazing. Not only did if fluff up my carpet as it sucked up all the dirt, it was a total different machine then before. I use to have to use so much muscle to push it agaist the rug and it was like it was doing all the work. I just had to hold it upright. Oh how I've missed my vacuum.

I can't believe I just wrote almost an entire blog about vacuuming, am I crazy lunitic or what?

Here's to the Fourth member of our Family

Don't worry, nothing's wrong with Bubba, besides a broken heart. A broken heart from being neglected and from losing a close friend whose practically been a mother to him. Bubba's pal, neighbor, soulmate, whatever you want to call her, Mindy (Darric's mother's dog) had to be put down tonight. We've been noticing that over the past couple of weeks Mindy hasn't been acting herself. She's been moaping around, she wasn't eating which was making her loose weight and she was looking real thin, and today Darric's mom took her to the vet and they said she was just full of cancer, so they put her down. Mindy Sue was 13.....

Now I'm feeling really bad for Bubba. Bubba was our baby before our baby. She use to be able to get up on the furniture, heck she use to sleep with us, under the covers. Now the thought of that grosses me out. Now bubba is just a dog, who scritch, scritch scritches up and down the floors and sheds everywhere and acts super needy and obnoxious all the time. I still love our Bubba James, how could you not, I mean just look at that pathetic beagle face, I just don't have a shred of patience for him. After a long day of toddler-wrangling, I cannot stand to have one more creature doing something annoying nearby. If he's licking himself, I howl to stop; if he's padding around the kitchen, I yell for him to GO LAY DOWN . Then Jordan imitates me: "Bubba go lay down, WIGHT NOW." Shaking his little finger at him, while he wags his tail apologetically, unsure what all the fuss is about.

Oh, Bubba. I'm sorry I've been impatient, that we haven't shown you the attention you deserve. I'm sorry you're getting old and you don't have the energy you use to. I'm sorry lately the only attention you get is from a toddler who likes to chase you around the living room on his 4 wheeler and pull on your ears as you try to sleep. I'm sorry you've just lost a dear friend very close to your doggy heart. I promise I'll be more nice to you. I promise that in the very near future (when it gets warmer out) that they'll be tennis balls, beggin' strips and long walks in the park. I promise.

Guess What This Is...

Well, here's the story that goes behind it. Yesterday Jordan and I played hookie. He has an awful cold and I totally didn't want to bring him out in the nasty Maine weather we were having. It was nice really, snuggling him on the couch all day. Listening to his pitiful voice ask "Dwink of watah Momma." And is was especially nice to be able to make a nice supper and sit down as a family at a decent time to eat. Anyways...on to the story. I made mashed potatoes, corn, banana bread and deer steak from the deer that Darric shot last fall. We were just finishing up and I was cutting into the last piece of steak I had left. I cut into something hard, and I could see something silver in the meat where I was cutting, my first thought was that my fork was bent and I was cutting into the fork, but the more I moved my knife around it dawned on me.....and I looked at Darric and said is this what I think it is?.......

Yup you guessed it, I bit the bullet. In all the years I have been eating game this has never happened to me. Oh, but the smart ass comments that were shooting out of our mouths after were hilarious!

Found This Today

I think this is an older Ikea Commercial, but it's so funny. Thought you might enjoy a laugh.

And Monday's here already???

Is it me or did it just seem like Friday 3 days ago....oh wait it was. Why is it that we all, or most, love fridays because the weekend is here, but if you think about it, it's just that much closer to Monday again. A co-worker recently shared that you shouldn't dwell on wishing for the weekend because then you're just wishing the days away of your life and I think he was right...but I still hate Mondays and I wish it was Friday already!
Can you tell I'm having a Monday? It's not the worst of Mondays, I guess I just feel like I didn't have a weekend. Saturday was the usual house cleaning, with a broken vacuum cleaner might I add, but don't get me started on that. Saturday night I had to work. And I don't mind working weekends really. It's easy, I'm one of the few in the building so I can get some work done without getting interupted, and the people that are with me are the coolest and let's just say they're the type of people that make work enjoyable. But, I was at work and not with my boys.


Sunday we went snowmobiling. This was the funnest part of my weekend. We went about 80 miles (that's not a lot for us, we usually do 100-150) for those reading this that know the area, we went from Newport to Dover-Foxcroft. We were going to attempt Greenville, but had a sled break down and that took some time away from us so we had to cut it short. It was still an enjoyable ride. Nice trails and because it was snowing, it was so pretty everywhere. I haven't got brave enough to bring my nice camera with me on the trails, so I don't have pictures, sorry.


Last night it had just started snowing out and it was also kind of nice out so I decided instead of getting some laundry and dishes done, and putting supper off for a little while we played in the snow. And Jordan and I (mostly I) made his first snowman.
Oh we had so much fun. It was funny to watch Jordan's expression as the snowman came alive as we gave him some hands, eyes and a nose, and somewhat of a mouth.
So, you're now probably wondering why I'm having such a case of the Mondays. I'll tell you why. It just sucks that I have to work really. I love work and I love the people I work with, well most of them, but I hate HATE having to leave my son with someone else to watch him, especially since I didn't get to see him much this weekend. And today I realized that Jordan never went through the stage of crying when I left, maybe he will eventually, but I don't see it happening. Most times he seems happy when I leave him. "Bye, Momma," as he pushed me out the door. I guess I just want him to miss me. I want him to be a Momma's boy. His grandmother sees him more then I do and I worry he's going to start thinking of her as a mother instead of me. Last night when we picked him up from his grandmothers he was playing and fell and I immediatly picked him up, but he didn't want me....(sigh) he wanted Grammie to kiss his boo-boo. He also favors Darric more often then me. From the first words out of his mouth in the morning "Daddy, oh daddy," to whenever the phone rings he insists that it's Daddy and he MUST talk to him. I know it's a sin to be jealous of others, but I feel as a mother shouldn't I get the appreciation from my own 2 year old? I am the one who gets up with him all hours of the night, I feed him, I give him his baths, I dress him, I read him stories, I spent very long hours of pain in labor with him after carrying his body inside me for 9 months and living with heartburn, jimy leg, being totally uncomfortable and not being able to consume alcohol or even coffee for that long.......RIGHT?
Well, I know I just need to make it through the day and everything will be alright. When I walk through the door tonight I'll be greeted with a great big bear hug. It's still early yet and I know my day will be complete when I hear Jordan's new favorite phase as we put him to bed:

Mom & Dad: "Night Jordan, see you tomorrow."

Jordan: "Night, momma & daddy, see ya tomorraw, wuv ya, proud ya."

Mom & Dad: (laughing) Love ya Jordan, Proud o ya."

I know isn't it cool? I made a new blog header graphic, up there...see it? I'm pretty proud of myself really. I was going to have someone else make one for me and I googled all kinds of sites, but then I said to myself "self, you work with photoshop all the time, just make one yourself, that way it'll be the way you want it." So I did and I LOVE IT! So the conversation going at my work now, after showing them my new blog header is coming up with captions for what we think Bubba (the dog) is thinking. I'll let you come up with a few of your own before I tell you what we came up with.

In other news, yesterday was the one year anniversary of Darric's major back surgery. Yup, it's been a year. Last year at this time I was sitting in a hospital room playing suduko by my husbands side while he slept and every half hour moaned because he was in so much pain. I'll never forget seeing him in so much pain. I'm the type of person who loves to watch those Discovery shows that show actually surgerys. I can stomach any surgery on TV and I've seen tons of people in a lot of pain on Trauma: Life in the ER, but I tell you when I saw my husband for the first time after his surgery and saw how much pain he was in I was immediatly nausious. I guess it's different watching someone you don't know who's in pain, then it is seeing someone you love who's in pain.

So his back is a lot better now. It's funny, it's actually been hurting him a little this week, imagine exactly a year after his surgery and he's complaining of back pain again. No, I actually think it's due to the fact that he's doing too much. He's a typical man when it comes to being careful at what he's lifing and how he's lifting and so on. I do still constantly worry about him hurting it again and I'm also constantly reminded of the fact that he did have back surgery at the age of 27 when I see the 6 inch scar on his back. But he's now a 27 year old that can play with his son and he can pick up his son without being in total agony.

Just another day...

Sorry I haven't written all week, it's amazing how hectic it can get around here sometimes. I actually shouldn't be writting now, but I'm taking a break from my saturday house cleaning, and trying to be quiet while Jordan attempts to fall asleep. Right now I can hear him in his room, tossing around in his bed, talking to himself about being a bad boy. That's been his new thing lately, he always thinks he's a bad boy. It makes me wonder what I'm putting into his head. I have been getting a little frustrated with him lately with the whole potty thing. For some reason I can not get this kid to poop on the potty. He'll pee everytime we bring him in there, although he doesn't tell us he has to go, but he won't poop for nothing. And he knows what he's done when he does go poop in his pull-ups. I've tried taking stuff away from him for the rest of the day after he poops in his pull-ups, and I've tried bribbing him to get him to go on the potty. But like I think I've said here before if only myself and my MIL are the ones really trying with him, then I can't really blame him.

So, let's wrap up my week shall we? On Monday I got flowers from my hubby. For what you ask, well the card said "Sorry for being inconsiderate, Love Darric." Let's just say last weekend we were fighting a lot, I won't bore you with the details though, I'll just tell you he was being a dink. But I got flowers and all is well now. He's no longer on my shit list. I will tell you though, sometimes I don't realize it, but I am very lucky to have Darric. After I got the flowers I found out from a couple of friends that their husbands never send them flowers. What's wrong with these men?

On Tuesday Jordan and I went over the Bangor Rec Center and had preschool play time with some new friends. I found out from my Maine Mom Site about this open gym that the rec has everyday. Jordan had such a blast and it was amazing how much it affected his mood for the rest of the day, so I told him if he was a good boy we'd start going every week. I had a blast too meeting some new mom friends.

Wednesday & Thursdays I was just straight out at work, as well as Friday. My gosh, I literally never stopped Friday. And it sucks because days like that when I get home and I actually get to spend time with Jordan and Darric I'm tired, I'm cranky and I just want to go to bed. Last night I felt bad because I hadn't seen Jordan all day, so since it was Friday I let him stay up until 10:00 and snuggle with us on the couch and watch Caatoons.

Super Bowl Sunday tomorrow. GO PATS!!!

I think we're going to stay at home, possibly have some friends over to eat chinese food and watch the game. My predictions for the game are 28-13 Patriots of coarse. I hope you all enjoy the game if you plan to watch.