Cute story :)

If any of you are familiar with the book series by Laura Numeroff, "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie", you will certainly like this. A woman from my MOPS group wrote this. It's based on that series...and it's great! Just had to share!

If You Give a Mom a Muffin

If you give a mom a muffin,
she'll want a cup of coffee to go with it.

She'll pour herself some.
Her three- year-old will spill the coffee.

She'll wipe it up.
Wiping the floor, she'll find dirty socks.

She'll remember she has to do laundry.
When she puts the laundry in the washer, she'll trip
over boots and bump into the freezer.

Bumping into the freezer will remind her she has to plan dinner.

The cookbook is sitting under a pile of mail. She will see the overdue
phone bill. She will look for her checkbook. The checkbook is in her
purse, being dumped out by her two-year-old.

Approaching the two-year-old,
she will smell something funny.

She'll change the two-year-olds' diaper.
While she is changing the diaper, the phone will ring.

Her five-year-old will answer and hang up.
She'll remember she wants to phone a friend for coffee.

Thinking of coffee will remind her that she was going to have a cup.

And chances are, if she has a cup of coffee,
her kids will have eaten the muffin that went with it.

Written by: Kathy Fictorie

Not much to update

Haven't had much to post about this week. It's been a rather boring week. I have had a stomach bug the last 2 days so I haven't been up to doing much.

Yesterday was just a bad day all around. Ryan was in a bad mood, I wasn't feeling well, Bob ran over some road debris on the way home from work and it punctured his tire. It also ruined the bearings or something or other like that. Cost $300 to get it fixed. My SIL is in the hospital..for what I don't know yet, and then there's the whole situation with my brother. So it wasn't a good day.

Today has been a bit better at least!

I think I O'd a few days ago. I will probably check my temp tomorrow (just because I'm curious and it's hard to stop!) to see. But I think I O'd on Monday...which I think was CD 14. I haven't looked at a calender or my chart lately...but I'm pretty sure it was CD 14. I have NEVER O'd that early before. Not that we have much of a chance this month anyway...since the only day we BD'd was Friday, which would be CD 11. Fat chance I'll be pg. But anything can happen.

That's life in a nut shell for me this week. Boring week! LOL Aahh, the life of a stay at home mom.

Rabbit jokes

Here are some of my favorite rabbit jokes :)

How do you catch a unique rabbit?

Unique up on it!

How do you catch a tame rabbit?

Tame way!

What did the rabbit put in the computer?

a floppy disk!

What did the rabbit give his girlfriend?

a 14 carrot ring!

What do you call 99 rabbits hopping backwards?

a receding hare line!

Donkey's receipt

This is one of my favorite jokes....I cleaned it up a bit though to make it a bit more clean :)

When the ark's door was closed, Noah called a meeting with all the animals.
"Listen up!" Noah said with a demanding voice. "There will be NO sex on this trip. Not even the wetting of the tip of your penis. All of you males, take off your penises and hand it in with my son's. I will be sitting over there and write you a receipt. After we see land, you can get your penises back."

After about a week Mr. Rabbit stormed into his wife's cage and was very excited. "Quick!" he said. "Get on my shoulders and look out the window to see if there is any land out there!" Mrs. Rabbit got onto his shoulders and looked out the window."Sorry, no land yet." "Darn!" and out went Mr. Rabbit.

This went on every day until Mrs. Rabbit got fed up with him. "What is the matter with you? You know it will rain for forty days and nights. Only after the water had drained will we be able to see land. But why are you acting so excited every day?"

"Look!" said Mr. Rabbit with a sinister look on his face as he held out a piece of paper. "I got the donkey's receipt!!"

Spring is a'comming

My goodness, I think Spring is finally approaching! I just checked the weather forecast and it's going to be 47 degrees today! However, it's supposed to rain. Figures.
Thursday and Friday it's supposed to be in the 50's....though Thurs it's supposed to be pretty windy and rain on Friday. Typical Wisconsin for you. As soon as we get a warmer day, it has to be windy or rainy so I can't enjoy it anyway. I'm dying for Spring already!

Vintage Portrait

Here is Ryan's Vintage Portrait pic.

Isn't he just adorable?! It's definitely my favorite pic of him right now.

Decisions on pictures

I'm so proud of myself! Ryan had his picture taken a few weeks ago for a Vintage Portrait. It was a fundraiser for my MOPS group (Mothers of Preschoolers). I wasn't planning on doing it, since I tend to go overboard on pictures (I LOVE pics!), but one of the ladies offered to purchase the ticket for me to do it. I figured why not? It would be fun. The problem....I would only get 1 8x10. Anything else I would have to pay for, and mind you, the prices are NOT cheap. The smallest package size, which includes 6 sheets plus a portfolio of color pics, is $100! Are you kidding me??!! That is so pricey, and we can't afford to spend that much on pictures. *sigh* no matter how much I like them.

Anyway, Ryan rarely ever takes a bad picture, so I knew it was going to be hard to pick one out. Last night was the appointment to pick out the picture. I went preparing myself for it. I almost didn't take my money with me, just so I couldn't pay if I was tempted! But I had to go to the store afterwards, so that wouldn't work.

But I lucked out! I was so proud of myself for it. I walked out with just the one free 8x10!! woo hoo! Luckily for me, I didn't like all the pictures. Many of them his smile was not very genuine...he tends to smile too big when he knows he's supposed to smile. And with the black and white film, his teeth seemed to stand out too much. At any rate, I narrowed it down to just 3 pictures. I normally like the smiley, full body type of pics, especially since he was wearing the really cute vintage knickers and all. But I surprised myself and went for the serious close up pose. But it's so adorable!

Anyway, I will take a picture of it and post it. I don't have a scanner so a pic of a pic will have to do! LOL

Great pairing

I just found a concert I really want to go to!!

Bon Jovi will be coming to Chicago in July! I have seen them once a few years ago in Milwaukee, and let me tell you, it was one of the best concerts I've been to! They were incredible, not to mention Jon Bon Jovi is pretty nice to look at! hehe

Anyway, they will be touring for a few dates with Nickelback! I would love to see them! Talk about a great pairing too! That would be something to see!

Not sure if I will be able to go; it all depends on finances and how much the tickets are! But it sure would be cool to go.

Another site..

I know, I've been posting a lot of my favorite sites lately. What can I say...I'm addicted to surfing the net!

One of my favorite bands right now (I mean other than the obvious Great White, Def Leppard, and Bon Jovi that I have ALWAYS liked) is Marty Casey and the Lovehammers. If you watched Rock Star: INXS at all last fall, you would remember Marty. He was the runner up on the show. He has amazing talent, incredible vocals! I was so impressed with the way he transformed "Baby one more Time" from a bubble gum pop song to a dark, grunge type of song. He also did a wonderful rendition of "Wish you were here". I was hoping he would win the competition on Rock Star, but now I'm glad he didn't. I don't think he would have fit in quite as well with INXS, and I knew he would make it big!

Anyway, I love his music. Check out the website. They even have a web diary of the tour they just finished up.

Great Friends

Today I took Ryan to my parents house so they could watch him for the afternoon. I had a really nice, and much needed, girls day out! I got together with my good friend Amy. I used to be best friends with her since grade school/high school. She was my maid of honor at my wedding. We used to get together or at least talk every day back then, but when I went to college we drifted a part a little. She is 3 years younger than me, which now is no big deal, but back then it was hard since she was still in high school while I was in college. We had our own group of friends and were at different places in our lives. We still kept in touch and got together a few times a year though. Anyway, we finally got together today.

I had a blast! I love hanging out with her...I can tell we are still best friends because when we get together, no matter how long it's been since we last saw each other, it always feels like no time has passed since our high school days when we were practically joined at the hip! We talked and talked, about old times, new times, future times, our men in our life, and so much more. It was a blast. We went out to eat, had great Chinese food- I ate way too much as always. LOL After lunch we went shopping! woo hoo! I actually bought some stuff...mostly for Ryan. I at least bought one thing for myself...I nice pair of jeans! yay! Then we went back to her place and chatted a bit more.

It was so much fun. We promised to get together again soon. Hopefully we can fulfil that promise this time! I really miss her.

On another note though....both Bob and Ryan are now sick. :( So I have both a whiny husband and whiny 3 yr old to deal with!! LOL Good thing I had that break today! haha

2 cool sites

These are 2 of my favorite sites at the moment. Just wanted to share!

This is a really cool site I found when I was working on the song. I needed to find words that rhymed and was having a hard time coming up with ones in my head. I never knew you could find a rhyming dictionary online! Very cool...you should check it out if you ever need to find something that rhymes.

Here is another site I have found useful in the last few days. Ryan has finally gotten out of the Robot song (for now) but is now into a different song. Now his favorite song is Wake Up by Hilary Duff. I don't have that one on CD anywhere, but I did find a great site online that plays the song. Check out the song...it's actually really good. I'm becoming a Hilary Duff fan! LOL Just click on one of the windows options to hear it. Ryan calls it the "Wake up on a Saturday night" song. LOL

This weekend

This weekend was another busy weekend. Friday night Julie came over, but only for 10 minutes. She didn't realize she had to work at her part time job, so she ended up having to leave early. Poor Ryan was so upset that his Auntie Julie had to leave.

Saturday we went to a birthday party for one of Ryan's playmates. She turned 4. It was a big turnout...about 20 preschoolers running around! And about twice as many adults. It was a nice party though, not just food for the kids but food for the adults too along with other things. Ryan came home with a helium balloon, a Curious George cookie, a bag of party favors, a bag of candy he picked up from the pinata, and a pretty good sugar high! LOL He had tons of fun though. He's already asking for the next birthday party!

Sat night Julie came over since she felt bad for leaving so early on Friday. We spent the evening discussing the book.

Sunday I went to church and then in the afternoon just hung out at home.

Speaking of my book, it's coming along nicely! I haven't done much with any scenes lately. I spent the last 2 weeks mainly concentrating on the song. I finally have the song written and I feel fairly confident in it! Now I'm just finishing a few profiles and then I think I can get back to the scene writing!

Today I will be going out with a friend of mine whom I don't see very often. Should be fun!

Last weekend

Here are just a few pics of the birthday celebration we had at my brother's house. I don't have many pics, but here are a few cute ones. Sorry I don't have one of my dad!! haha

Here is my brother Darrell playing Rock em Sock em Robots with Ryan. Ryan just loved that game! And by the end of the night, he was pretty good at it!



Here is Ryan helping my brother Don to play Texas Hold 'Em. More like helped him to lose! haha Don didn't win the whole night. LOL

New pics

Finally downloaded the pics from my camera!!

Here is Cally in her favorite spot, right in front of the heating vent. No wonder it's always so cold in here!




Ryan and I stretching before a morning of dancing! He likes to sit right next to me and do exactly what I do.

My weekend

Sorry I haven't updated in a few days. That motivation thing....I'm still working on it. I'm still trying to get over this flu or whatever it is. It went from a horrible sore throat, chills, and aches, to stuffy nose, fatigue, slight cough, to now sore throat again and bad cough. augh. I feel like I'm never going to be back to 100% again. I hate being sick. Especially since I just don't have time to be sick! I'm a mommy, I'm not allowed to be sick!

I did manage to have some fun this weekend though. I went to my brother and SIL's house on Sat. to celebrate my dad's 65th birthday. I was slightly apprehensive at first, simply because you never know what to expect, and their house isn't child proofed. She's a big Disney buff, and she has many things that she collects. Ryan wouldn't understand that of course, so I was just worried about that. But in the end, it all turned out well and we even had a great time! Ryan, even without a nap, did really well. They had some games and toys for him, though I think he was more excited just about being in a different place and getting to hand out with Uncle Don, Aunt Candy, and Uncle Darrell. He had a blast!

It was also fun for me. I took some Dayquil that my mom gave me so after about an hour I was finally able to breathe. My family is huge into card playing, and they wanted to start a Texas Hold 'em tournament. So I figured I'd try it...wasn't too sure I would be able to concentrate with Ryan around and my head in a fog from illness and meds. Turns out though that Ryan was busy most of the afternoon with Aunt Candy or others that were "out" (let me tell you, it felt so good to have an hour fairly child free so I can enjoy some card playing!), and my head couldn't have been in too much of a fog since I won the first tournament!! I beat my brother Don! Too funny. I think he was shocked too! We ended up playing 3 more tournaments, Darrell won 2 and Bob and I were tied for the 3rd. Then we had a nice turkey dinner that both Don and my mom made. YUM! It was like Thanksgiving..turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, dinner rolls, green beans, cranberry sauce, date nut bread. It was good! Then of course, cake for dessert!
It was actually lots of fun.

I also got a USB drive this weekend!! I'm so excited about it! I can now finally save my data for my book I've been writing and not have to worry about it be lost somewhere. I can also now use either my computer or Bob's laptop to write. It also has some cool features on it, and Bob showed me how to organize things into folders. So cool! Now I just have to make sure I don't lose it since it's so small!!

Af showed this morning too. For the first time since TTC, I am not upset or disappointed. In fact, I'm rather indifferent. I'm still carrying the "whatever" attitude. It has now officially been 2 yrs of ttc.

I'm still working on the song. I'm close to having a 1st draft. I'm not liking parts of it, but I'm also my own worst critic. Who knows? Will update again soon!

Lost motivation

I think I've lost my motivation this week to write.

I didn't write anything the whole weekend. I spent that time catching up on my soaps (I watch 2 soap operas). I was seriously falling behind so I needed to catch up.

Monday evening I think I was still floating from the conversation I had with my contact...I couldn't get much written. I wrote about 2 paragraphs in the next scene and a few lines for the song.
Last night I had planned on writing most of the night but I ended being on the phone for most of the night with Julie. She had a very difficult day on Monday and needed to talk. I did manage to write briefly...wrote about half a page on the scene.

Now tonight I'm not sure I will do much writing. I think I'm coming down with the flu or something. I have a really bad sore throat (to the point I can barely talk) and feel really weak and achy. uagh. I hate being sick. Especially with a very active 3 yr old around!

I guess this makes up for last week when I was cruising along..I wrote 6 scenes in 4 days last week. Guess I need to take a week off for all that effort!! haha

Hope I can get my motivation back again soon. I feel so unproductive when I don't write.

My phone call

I talked to my contact today..the producer guy that gave me his phone number. It was awesome! He is such a nice guy, and very helpful!! I'm so excited!!

I called him (after about a half hour of pacing and 5 tries at dialing the number....Just a wee bit nervous!) and got his voice mail, so I left a message. He called me back about 5 minutes later. It was a little awkward at first, but it always is the first time you talk to someone on the phone. Anyway, we talked about the song I will be writing for my novel. He gave me some tips on how to write it, and offered to write the music for it when I'm finished! How cool is that?! So we only talked for a few minutes and he had to get another phone call. He called me back about a half hour later. We chit chatted for a bit about our kids (he has a 17 yr old), where we live (or lived), the yahoo group, and of course, briefly, about Michael. The coolest thing....he is Michael's childhood friend and has now reconnected with him! He even talks to Michael's mom and dad and brothers! It blows my mind that I was talking to someone who personally knows him! wow! LOL
So anyway, I will write the lyrics, then I will send them to him and he will write the music. Very cool. He also told me I'm welcome to call him anytime if I have a question or anything. Very down to earth, easy going guy. :D

What would be even more cool.....If I can get this book published, to have the CD of the song with the book. So that way readers can hear the song that the book talks about! Something to pitch to a publisher!

So now I need to write this song!! Wish me luck with that! I think I may need it!

I've got connections baby....

LOL I'm in a weird mood today, just to forewarn you!! haha

As the title says, I do have connections! A really exciting thing happened to me yesterday! woohoo!

So I'm writing this novel....it deal quite a bit with the music industry, of course, something I know absolutely NOTHING about. When I started this 2 months ago I didn't even know the difference between a producer and a manager!! I've done quite a bit of research of course, and I found a contact about a month ago thanks to a mom on SM (simply moms) whose husband is/was a bassist in a rock band. I asked him a bunch of questions from a band member's point of view. Of course, I still don't feel I know much about the industry.

Well, a few weeks ago I joined the yahoo group for Michael. (*sigh*). I never anticipated on actually getting to know anyone there. The other groups I have been in for celebrities or bands have not been very positive experiences. But this group is definitely the exception. The people I have met there have been so friendly, down to earth, amazing really. Not to mention Michael pops on once in a while with an update. :D

So anyway, my novel requires me to write a song. I'm so not looking forward to that. I have been struggling with it for quite some time. I have absolutely NO music ability whatsoever, nor do I even know how to read music much less write it. So this has been difficult. Thinking some more professional, experienced people could give me pointers, I posted a question on the yahoo group about it and ask for tips on how to write a song.

A man who was a childhood friend of Michael's and is currently a producer offered his phone number and said he'd be happy to collaborate on this. HOLY CATS! I just about fell out of my chair! Talk about such a friendly, wonderful group of people!! I'm just flabbergasted at it! So now I need to get up the nerve to actually call him! woohoo!!

I'm so proud of myself. I went from not knowing a darn thing about the music industry to havingf several connections now! woohoo! Now all I need is to actually go to LA (Los Angeles) to get the settings down! I don't think that will happen though because the funds just aren't there to take a trip across the country right now. But at least I got the music industry covered! I'm just so excited! Maybe I can even make a career of writing songs! Maybe someday someone famous will be singing a song I wrote! Better yet if I sang it myself! LOL Ok...getting way ahead of myself now. Back down to earth now.

Anyway, just had to share since I'm so excited about it! I'm also about half done writing the book. Yay!!!

Love Song

So I'm getting to the point in my novel where I need to write a song. This should be interesting. I don't know anything about music or writing a song! I've written a total of 2 songs in my life, and both were pretty bad (at least I thought so anyway).
I can write decent poetry...so maybe I should write it as a poem first, then revise it. I'm not sure.

I also need to come up with some really strong lyrics. This is going to be a love song (a monster ballad if you will) about two former lovers who meet up again and realize they are meant for each other. But I need the lyrics to be really strong...making you feel their feelings, like you are one of them. I feel too much pressure to make this good!!

So anyway, that is where I am at in this book. I'm still a few scenes away from needing the song, but I need to start thinking about it. It's coming up quick.

I'm about half way done with writing the book now! Once it's all written, I will then go back and edit and revise. The fun stuff. haha

If anyone has any tips or suggestions on how to write a really good love song, please feel free to let me know!!