Ruling the world!

So last night I actually stayed up past 9:30pm on a Friday night – what can I say I’m no youngin anymore!  Me, the little sister and her bfriend decided to play some board games – which is always fun.

They pulled out the Disney Monopoly which seemed to magically appear in my game closet – really didn’t know where it came from.

We started the game – took awhile, but I made it my goal to purchase every space I landed on.  Rae and her bfriend kept finding themselves in jail, so I seemed to get ahead a bit.

I found a rush of excitement as I was passing Go and colleting $200 time and time again.  Pretty soon my cash flow and real estate was surpasing the others and I begain building castles (since it was the Disney version) on my land. 

Me:  Haha that will be $550 please!

Rae:  OMG – I don’t want to play anymore

Ren:  You have taken over that side of the board – look at all your Monopolies

Me:  *malicious powerful laugh*

Rae:  I need another shot

All in all I won the game – and it just reminded me how good it is to be a tyrant.  It was good to take over the world.

Digging for Gold

Some things just can’t be expressed with words or descriptions!

Marriage Advice from a Newbie

Well I’ve been doing some research lately on marriage. We’ve been married a year now this September, but dated for 7 years prior so we’re not that fresh out of the bag.   Yeah i don’t know what i mean by that either

Anyways, I’ve learned about several words of wisdom from various resources and I thought I’d share one of them.

Lesson #1 Commnication comes in all forms.

1. Adult –> Adult

Talking to an adult as an adult is when full respect for the other person comes across and is a healthy method of exchange.

2.Parent –>Child

If someone speaks down or in a commanding way then the natural response for a person is to respond as a child.  Now that child may be compliant or rebellious…but regardless this is not an ideal communication method.  However I know I’ve seen myself go along this road when dishes are left or the bed is unmade

Child –>Child

Another form of communicating, however if you are both responding back and forth like children you can imagine how much really gets resolved.  My sister tends to play the not it rule with her husband which would line up with this method.

Lesson #2

I can only control my own actions/emotions…

Yeah, I’ve come up with this theory about married life versus dating life.  Let me know if you agree…it goes like this:

When dating – the boy (and the girl for that manner) are on excellent behavior with eachother…no farting in front of eachother, cleaning up after themselves, putting their best foot forward at all times.

Well, when one gets married the boy then doesn’t have to pull out all the courting tactics.  They got the girl, they have the ring…and they are now free to be themselves 100% completely.

Let me tell you after dating someone for 7 years or so…(long distance and all)  it was a bit of a shock to me to not have the 100% full adoration 24/7.  All of a sudden everything I was doing wasn’t so perfect anymore.  And his clean bedroom wasn’t so spotless anymore.  And that unmessy bedroom of his became ours. 

(Yeah we were one of the few who didn’t live together before marriage)…

Lesson #3 (spawning off of my thoery) – It’s all about the approach.  Utilization is a psychological theory having someone help you by pulling on the theories and ideas that they love.  For example:  My husband is an avid lover of sports…football, baseball, basetball.  But especially football as of lately with his underdog Cardinals team go to the SuperBowl as of late.  So this was one of the things before we were married that showed up after the fact.

Before marriage, big game playing:  I come over to visit my boyfriend and his eyes light up and he shuts off the tv at the drop of a hat and takes me out on a to lunch and a movie.

After marriage, big game playing:  I walk into our family room and husband doesn’t hear/see me because the game is on…

So being that the sport is such a love of his…I can use the utilization method and pull on that love of the sport mindset and use that in our marriage.  AKA chores.  I divy it up, make a goal for us to meet, then applaud our teamwork after the fact.  It connects the dots for him…I get want I want out of my hubby and he gets  the satisfaction of feeling like he’s doing someting he loves too.

Let me know your tips you’ve learned throughout the years…I can always use more

One year later...

RIP Mr. Snowman

Poor Sydney, her favorite baby died today…

See for youself…

Here's the last of his scarf and hat

 

Here's the final struggle. Sydney trying to save his life,Pooh putting up a good fight.

 

Poor, poor Sydney with what's left of her baby.

 

You were very loved Mr. Snowman...Rest in Peace

Huh?!?

I had bouts with strep throats and ear infections as a kid. Not fun, and in the end all the ear infections (even with having to wear the ear plugs in the pool) lead to me being hard of hearing. Now for those of you that don’t know my family. It goes back for many generations. Even my pop would be told one thing and hear another. And even know in my old age (27 going on 80) I find I do the same thing.
Me: What did you say, pomegranite juice?
Husband: What?!? No, I said What are we doing for lunch.

Yeah it goes like that. Even my sister growing up would torture me with her mouth moving and no words coming out. And i’m pretty sure there was a distinct time in my life when my hearing was that bad that I would question if I would hear anyone again. So you know she was taking advantage – how rude goodbadandugly2!

Anyways, so you know how there is that theory of if one of your senses isn’t as keen another makes up for it?  Well, I do have a secret heightened sense, and it’s my sense of smell.

Seriously though, me at work:

Me: Do you guys smell that?

Cube Mates:  No, what do you smell?

Me:  It smells like Dominos pizza!

Cube Mates: (10 minutes later):  Ohmygosh now I smell the pizza

Me:  Yeah and it smells like Dominos – you know the scent.

Cube Mates:  *startled* umm, i guess so

Yeah, I pick up things sooner then the next.  So you could understand my concern when my husband’s cologne ran out.  I told him everything smells so bland lately.  So in my recent confession, we picked out a new scent…which is just the way a man should smell, fresh, musky, manly, outdoorsy all in one.  But the weird thing is ever since he’s been wearing the cologne Sydney (our yellow lab) seems overly excited to see him around.  Ok, I know what you’re thinking she’s a lab, and they are excited all the time anyways.  But it’s a little different – she lingers now  – and has to be practically in his lap lately when the cologne is on. 

We are starting to wonder if Sydney appreciates the new cologne as much as I do!

Here she is...in her younger years...

**Health Alert**Dinner Update

So, just in case someone’s pulls my recipe and tries to make it themselves I would advise them to brown the chicken first.

Yeah, so I looked in the crockpot and the now thawed chicken was looking liquidity.  Yeah it had 6 more hours but I kept thinking we  might get salmonella. 

So if you’ve already started your recipe and see the liquid junk from the chicken here’s my suggestion:

Take the chicken out and brown them on the stove top with some oil/ butter so you get the start of the carmelization.  Dump the crockpot cream of broccoli and frozen broccoli remainder that was cooking in the uncooked chicken liquids.  Start fresh with whatever cream of soup you have and new bag of frozen veggies.

So total loss:

1 can of cream of broccoli ~ $1.50

1 bag of frozen broccoli flourets ~ $1.99

Starting fresh with cream of chicken and bag of broccoli and cauliflower = new flavors and no one dying from sickness

We’ll see how it goes; I just didn’t want to be responsible for anyone getting sick off of the recipe.

Common sense and me…yeah I have issues! haha

Weekend update

So, I skipped the weekend blogging…unlike the sister…I feel like an unfaithful blogger, but when you have a turbulent weekend I guess that’s what you do right?

There is one story I wanted to share with you though…cause i did have unusual event over the weekend.

I’d like to think of myself as a passive, intelligent, well thought out type of person…sometimes paranoid, and sarcastic most of the time, but not too crazy.  So when I went to my bff’s bday party and had several drinks in me, my alter ego came out it seems.

Before we go into that though, let me tell you about some secret skills I gained over my bachelorette party 1 year ago now.  I had the very clever idea to have all my girlfriends over and take part in a class.  I wasn’t a fan of the strip tease male dancing historically.  And I wasn’t looking for that type of embarressment on my day so instead we hired a Pole dancing instructor.  It was a beautiful thing, we set up the pole smack dab in the middle of my bff’s living room and all had a informative session.  Needless to say we all loosened up with the jello shots, and it was just a good time overall.  Feel free to use my idea for any future parties of yours .;)

So this weekend when I had one two many beverages in me, and some suggested words whispered in my ear at the site of a pole in the middle of the “upscale” bar we were at…without even a second thought I went for it.

There I was, handing my drink off to my bff, jumping up on the little soap box, grabbing on to the pole and doing the double spin with my thighs wrapped around it.  And can I just say at the time, it was amazing.

Now that i look back, it may not of been in the best of taste, but what can I say…it was one of those weekends.