Monday's Muse

Far beneath the surface,
the image I portray.
Lost in the shuffle,
misdirected to the past.
Thrown to the side,
buried in mundania.
Thrust beneath the covers of my everyday life,
like a dirty magazine
under the mattress of my mind.

Ambition, philosophy, creativity.

Reawakening.

Uncovered.

Dusted off and placed
within the light.

9 out of 10 blog readers agree that catchy, fun blog titles are for wusses

ha.

I am alive. I am bitchy and feel yucky but I am alive. The Baby still has not cut his teeth. The Boy is determined to make me insane throught he use of crumbs and licking. The Girl is full of b-day plans and making me feel old old old. DH is working too much at work and not enough at home.

I am just depressed. I can't lose weight. I have no motivation or energy. I feel old. I feel totally un-sexy. And I am tired.

But my house is partially clean. And I have clean clothes. Even if they are not folded and are just in a pile in the livingroom justr waiting for The Boy to decide that he needs to take a running jump while naked and decide to pee ont hem and then they will not be clean anymore. phew.

I will return tomorrow in a (hopefully) better mood with (hopefully) amusing anecdotes to share regarding bday plans and potty training.

Winning and Shopping

So... some of you may remember that back in December I was the lucky winner of a gift certificate over at thismomknows for $25 of merchandise from duck duck goose boutique. If you have never been to their site you should really check it out. They have some great things for kids. I was going to get these really cool shoes for the baby:

But, his feet have grown so much lately that I don't think they would fit him... sniff sniff.

SO, instead, I got this:

This is incredibly cool, it plays music and says the letters as they are placed in the right spots. Basically, I am saving it for his first bday in March. ANd any of my fab relatives who read this blog and want to go shopping on the duck duck goose site? Feel free. There are some really cool things on there that the baby (mommy) would love to have!

In addition to this fabulous shopping spree, I have won two (2!) of the bloggy giveaways! I am so excited!

I won a pair of earrings from Melissa at Ladybugs and the Red Thread which I am very excited about. I will probably give these to the girl. I can't really wear earrings a lot right now. You know. The whole baby pulling them out of my ears thing! I don't know... I may keep them for date nights!

AND, I won some Lindt chocolates and a SURPRISE from Christine over at Good Company!

Jewelry and chocolate. Just in time for V-Day! Now, I just need flowers.....

First of all, Infinity Goods has contacted me and will be getting her set of fabulous jewelry sometime this week. Hopefully, she will let us know what she thinks of it!

Now, on to the meat of the post... duh duh duh.. LOL. The stupid mouse in my house has stolen another glue trap. Kara suggested on my last post regarding the thieving mouse that I use poison but I am too too paranoid about the boys getting into it. Even if I put it in an out of the way place I am scared that the mouse will drag the poison out where the boys can get it. And both of them still stick stuff in their mouths. So... no poison. The glue traps are obviously NOT WORKING. And I don't think regular spring traps are a good idea, either. The boy gets up in the middle of the night and wanders sometimes. I would hate for him to get ahold of one. And the spot where I am seeing the silly mouse is right in the middle of my liviing room. It is by my fireplace. And so, I would nbeed to put the traps near there. So, no. I am running out of ideas. I might just have to call a professional in.

The weird thing is that I have seen no signs of the mice in my kitchen. No droppings. No chewed up food wrappers. I have a bunch of those ultrasonic pest things plugged in around the kitchen area so maybe that is helping. And we did not see the mice until winter. Maybe they will go away when it gets warm? Yuck.

On a brighter note, the baby has almost cut through his top teeth. He has been teething on these things for MONTHS. And making my life hell. He actually has six teeth up top that he is working on. But only two look like they are cutting through soon. I am hoping for tomorrow!

He has also decided to not nurse during the day any more. At all. Unless he is going to bed. He turns his head away from my nipple and cries. Kinda hurts my feelings. I think he is ready to wean. (Obviously) Maybe I can just keep the bedtime nursing for a bit. He does still want that. My baby is growing up! sniff sniff

The girl will be turning 14 in 2 weeks. That really makes me feel old.

Darling Hubby has injured himself. He has a WOUND on his foot! Yuck. So, I get to play doctor in a not so pleasant way with him. LOL

I had a yard sale yesterday. And made $200. Yay, me! I still have lots of junk to get rid of though. Now I have to decide whether I should hold onto it for a month and have another sale or just get rid of it (freecycle, etc). I do still have 2 rooms to sort through as I am continuing the unending chore of trying to organize my house. So I will probably end up with much more for the sale. If I decide to have another one. I probably will. If I could get DH to part with some of his carefully hoarded junk it would be nice.... The Girl finally decided to jump on the bandwagon and went through much of her stuff. I am so tired of being surrounded by things that we do not need or ever use. It is ridiculous! Clutter, clutter, clutter!

And, the spell check is not working on this thing. So, please forgive any misspellings. I think I at least spelled tomorrow right anyway!

Winner!

Thanks so much to the folks over at Bloggy Giveaways for getting all of this going! And thanks to EVERYONE who entered my giveaway! I wish we could give everyone something, but we can't. So.....

Folks, We have a winner!

Jenna is mixing up all of the names in her wizard's hat and getting ready to draw....

And here it is! The winner of this fabulous, one-of-a-kind jewelry set is:

I will send out an email to our winner this evening! If I have not heard from her within the specified amount of time (I think I said 4 days) then I will choose another winner.

As a side note... thank you to everyone for your input regarding the presidential elections. I am having a really hard time deciding who to vote for. My favorite comment on this subject had to be the one from belinda who said, "Can I pick "don't won't any of them" as a answer?". This cracked me up.

Also thanks for the ideas on DH's blog name! I will be sharing these with him. If he ends up choosing any of your suggestions as a title then i will let you know for sure. Some of them were genius!!!

Ok. Once again, thanks for entering. This was so much fun we may have to do it again next month! LOL