HUH? How does that go again?

In the car on the way home from preschool Carson was singing "The crumb bums and the Indians get together on Thanksgiving day"

Sooo.....I knew those couldn't be the right words and so I said, "I think you mean the pilgrims and the Indians" and he asked "are you sure? I'm pretty sure it's crumb bums...."

He is singing "pilgrims" now but I have to admit the crumb bums sounded a lot cuter!

I laugh. Because if I don't laugh, I will cry. And I hate to cry. So I laugh.

After my last post about the broken stuff in my house, several other things have broken as well! Its just hilarious at this point! Allan and I just look at each other and say "Well, what's one more thing?" I guess not only are we supporting thieves these days, we are also supporting the repair men of America. The Goeser electronics: Job security at its finest. Who needs the bail out?

The list continues:

10. Central Vacuum. However, we did manage to get this fixed on our own, whoo-hoo! It was just really, really clogged. Thank goodness.

11. Our drawer in our kitchen island. The most ironic part of it is that our cabinet maker is now out of business. (Don't feel bad. He was a jerk who cheated us out of thousands of dollars for crappy cabinets that I could have built better myself. They look pretty though.) The even more ironic thing is that the part of the drawer that is broken isn't sold at any of the local hardware stores. So we have a missing drawer in our kitchen until further notice.

12. My sister rents our condo and she called and told us that the dishwasher was broken. Seriously. I guess it has moved on to our other house now. I didn't realize it was contagious!

Note to everyone: Stay away from the Goeser's electronics! It could break your electronic goodies with this crazy ruin everything that you own "virus" that is running rampant at our house! It has now moved on to the drawers in the kitchen. I wonder whats next. Hopefully, nothing! Knock on wood.

There is an upside to my blitching however!

We have fixed our fridge, it was a pretty simple procedure. We are supposed to vacuum the condenser every 3-6 months. Um yeah...lived here 2 1/2 years. So we vacuumed all the crap out and Voila! The fridge is fixed. I didn't realize that our fridge was a high-maintenance drama queen. But I really love my fridge so it is forgiven for making me panic.

I called Wolf about our broken oven and it is covered under warranty! YAY! Well, the part is anyway. We have to pay for the labor which is fine with me. Hopefully, its easy to diagnose and easy to install. Keep your fingers crossed!
I contacted Nintendo about Carson's DS and I got to send it in for free and they will pay to fix it too. Sending warm, fuzzy feelings to Nintendo for standing behind their product.

However, Sony gets the big middle finger! My laptop is 3 weeks out of warranty and they won't cover the cost of my broken hard drive. So if you want a laptop that only runs for a year and 3 weeks, the Sony Vaio is for you! As an added bonus: you can also lose all your pictures from Christmas! The best part: when you call to complain about it the person on the other line barely speaks English because of the fabulous outsourcing that big companies do these days. Long story short: Sony sucks and I will never buy another product from them! Join me in my Sony Sucks ban! It will be fun.

In other news, the white trash fest is over! We took the lights down yesterday. I made the kids help. You would have thought it was the end of the world!! Oh the whining that went on! I'm too tired, I'm hungry, I'm too little, I want to go and play with my friends, boo-hoo-hoo! You would have thought I was making them muck out stables or something! Spoiled rotten kids.

Does anyone else out there wish that when you were your kids age, your life was that rough? Caleb whines when he has to unload the dishwasher. I didn't have a dishwasher until I was like 12! If he had to hand wash dishes I think he might have a stroke. And I would have killed to have a DS, a Playstation (grr..sony) and an X Box. How about an MP3 player? I'm 32 years old and I still don't have one! Rotten to the core, I tell ya!

Good thing that they are cute and funny. If not, I just might give them away! But they would just bring them right back because they are too spoiled. So I guess I'm stuck with them. Yes, I know, its mostly my fault. But I choose to blame Allan.

Christmas Eve...a little early

Since my last devastatingly boring post, I have been one busy lady (who isn't busy right now though!?) My mom and step dad arrived on time and in one piece, thank heavens! It has been awesome to have them here!

On Tuesday, my mom and I went shopping and I finished up all the last minute Christmas items that I needed. We always buy socks and underwear because what kid doesn't want that? My hubby and I do it every year as a joke. We think we are hilarious.

After our shopping adventure, we hauled our butts home to get the turkey (which turned out so delish!) in the oven for our early Christmas Eve celebration. We also had homemade stuffing, homemade cheesecake and all other sorts of good food. Tia, Cortney, Rylee, Stacha, Kenzi, Mom, Dan, Allan, Caleb, Carson and me were there to witness all this wonderful goodness.

Then we exchanged gifts and my mom wins the best gift of the year. On this tag, I complained about how I was completely traumatized about my mom throwing away my blankie. So she took action. I opened up my present and this is what I found....Its Blankie 2.0. Its even yellow gingham like my other blankie. Mom, you are forgiven. I love it!

My parents also bought the boys nerf guns that shoot little foam thingys with suction cups on the end and it has been nonstop entertainment! They had a huge shooting-fest last night. Allan and Cortney were loving them too. We should have bought them one.

Foam thingy stuck to the ceiling. Its been there all day. I have 12 foot ceilings and I'm not getting on a ladder to get it! It will fall down eventually, right?

Rylee was so dang cute! We gave her a doll and she LOVED it! She carried it around all night. I think she named her Sarah. And she also had her turn shooting the gun.

All in all, it was a fabulous night! Life is GOOD!

Insulted? Why would that insult me?

So I was at our local convenience store getting caffeinated this morning and a lady just kept staring at me. She finally stopped me and said "who do people tell you that you look like?"

And I said "I usually get told that I look like someones sister or cousin, why?"

She hesitated "Well, I don't know if this will insult you or flatter you so I'm not sure if I should tell you"

So I said "I'm pretty hard to insult so tell me"

She said "You look like that girl on the Hugh Hefner show on E, The Girls Next door. You look like the one who always pulls her hair back"

(OK just to let you know, I had no make up on and my hair was pulled back because I ran out of time to do anything with it this morning!)

And so I laughed and I blushed and I said "I don't consider that an insult! Those girls are so pretty!"

I'm going to have to watch that show now to see who she's talking about!

I totally had to blog about this because it kinda made my day! Its not too often that I'm compared to a Playboy Bunny!

The Twilight Before Christmas..Enjoy!!