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Why is it when I have money to shop I can’t find anything I want or need?  When I don’t have a dime to spare I see a whole lot of things I’d like to take home with me.

I went to spend a gift card I got from a friend at Charlotee Russe.  I really need jeans.  I wear jeans constantly and since I’ve put on the weight I lost almost 3 years ago I don’t fit into all of my jeans anymore.  Of course I was also motivated by this episode recently at the bus stop when I realized I wore a hole right through my jeans at the exact spot where my inner thighs touch and since the bus was pulling up I didn’t have time to go home to change.  So not cool.   Yet, I laughed and got my son off the bus like there was no hole there at all.  I really don’t understand how that happened either.  It’s not like I’m the road runner and my legs are going back and forth so fast it would warrant burning a hole right through my jeans.  I couldn’t even make myself feel better by salvaging them and cutting the jeans into shorts because the hole was so damn high up.  If I would have tried, my ass cheeks would have been hanging out of the bottom. 

So here I was on my quest for jeans.  Normally I find all kinds of stuff there.  Not this time.  The jeans all had either a patch of some sort, they purposely had patterns in the shape of a triangle worn out in some spots or they were ”skinny” jeans. <— I really want to beat the person that designed those.  They should be called stick figured jeans or twiggy jeans.  I know that’s my jealousy talking because best believe if I was skinny enough to wear a garment of clothing that actually described me as skinny or slender in ANY way, I would be wearing it. 

Anyhow, I couldn’t find a plain pair of jeans in the place and the ones that were plane weren’t the wash I was looking for.  The plain ones were darker ones that I would wear with dressier shirts.  I was looking for more casual ones.

I figured, ok I’ll buy a couple shirts then.  They had a sale going on called the $6.99 “green dot” special on shirts.  I found 5 shirts.  Not a single one of them looked good on me.  I wound up buying a pair of much needed sunglasses that were only $5.99.  I can’t buy expensive glasses.  Any sunglasses I own are pretty much gauranteed to be broken or lost.  It’s inevitable.  It’s a curse.  These glasses I found were Divalicious glasses.  They were big but shaped nicely.  Funny how accessories can change the look of a person and funny how they can make you feel about yourself.  About 5 minutes before I found them I was sadly handing the shirts I tried on back to the girl in the dressing room.  Five minutes later, I was boldly admiring myself in the mirror, sucking my cheeks in and all.  No…really…I was.

Math has never been my favorite subject in the world.  I did get to take honors classes in math, but that doesn’t mean I was excellent at it.  My best friend tutored me through it.  In a minute, you’ll see why she had to.

We haven’t had to use our checking account lately.  Any outstanding checks or charges have had time to clear.  For several weeks the account kept showing that we had more money than what I was calculating.  This has been bugging me to no end because I check things off in the register as they clear and only two things totaling roughly $70 didn’t clear.  The online banking kept saying I had about $450 more than I should have.

Thankfully this is a newer account and I only had to go back to July.  We rarely used the account so there were only a few things to see in the first couple months.  After that though, I had to go through each and every statement and check off each and every item in my registry for a second time thinking I might have missed something.   It took me  two hours of my life to do that.  Nothing  was missing!!  The only thing it could have been was my math.  I have done it before where I have miscalculated so maybe this time it was in our favor.

It was.  

I went through every single line of my check registry and did the math all over.  When I went to subtract a charge I must have pushed the wrong button or something on the calculator because we have $470 extra.  This is just another classic example of my air-headed-ness at times.  One has to ask, when I was doing the math and only had to subtract about $180, did I not notice the sum I got was about $600 off?    I do confess, I do stupid stuff like that all the time. 

Do you know what I could buy or what bill I could pay with $470?

I find my son to be a straight shooter.  If I bust him doing something he doesn’t try to lie about it.  He fesses up.  I try to reiterate how fibbing is wrong, blah, blah, blah.  Today he lied.  It was right in front of me no less.

We went to McDonald’s for a quick dinner.  He ate a burger and when he was done he asked for another.  My husband asked him if he was sure that he wanted another one several times and Jordyn said yes each time.  So, he bought him another burger.  While he was eating the burger we all decided we wanted dessert so my husband left again to order it.  I heard Jordyn say he was done with his burger and when I looked it was half gone.  Before I could say anything he quickly ran to the garbage can and threw it out.  When he came back to the table he said, “Don’t tell Dad because then I’ll get in trouble and won’t be able to eat dessert.”  Again, before I could say anything my husband comes back to the table and says, “Here’s your dessert.  Wow!  You finished your burger?”  Without hesitation he says, “Yep!”  and then takes his milk shake happily.

I just sat there looking at him thinking, okaaaaaay, are you going to feel guilty and fess up now.  I kept looking.  And looking.  And watching.  I quietly ate my apple pie and just kept waiting for the moment of truth to come out so I could gleam about how my son is a truth sayer. 

That moment never came.

I didn’t say anything because I didn’t want to embarrass him and I also didn’t want him to lose his milk shake.  I mean really, he did eat a double burger and half of another in addition to the fries.  It was just the principal of the matter.  Thing is I can’t sit here and say I never lied to anyone.  I have lied if there was something I knew I was going to catch some flack for but didn’t want to hear it.  Sure.  I worked around it somehow. 

I can’t quite put my finger on it.  It was just weird and slightly disappointing.  Thing is, I wasn’t disappointed in him.  I was disappointed in myself.  I felt like that decision he made was a reflection of my own parenting.  Having said that, I am hyper aware that he spends 7 hours a day with other children.  We all face those moments where we have to make a choice between truth and lies.  I would have lied too to get the milk shake!

You know you’ve been together a long time when the following conversation makes sense to the both of you.

I was making my rounds before bed, checking the locks and turning off lights.  My husband was in the bedroom.  I heard him turn the T.V. on.

Him:  “Hey!  It’s that movie with that guy in it that was on earlier that we wanted to see.”

Me:  “Hitman.  Oh it has that same guy from that movie with what’s his name.”

Him:  “Die Hard.”

Me:  “He reminds me of that dude from that show we like that got cancelled.”

Him:  (As he laughs) “Las Vegas”

Me:  “Do we even need to talk anymore?”

The kids fell asleep a while ago.  I was sooooo tired before they actually fell asleep.  As soon as they fell asleep I got my 4th wind of the day.  It’s been a little harder than usual for me to get back into the routine this week after they went back to school.  They completely spoiled me for 2 weeks without even knowing it.  With the exception of maybe 2 days they slept in everyday until about 9ish.  A mom getting to sleep until about 9ish is the equivalent of a person without kids sleeping until noon. (just in case you didn’t know)

What I think is so weird about that is we don’t get up all that early.  I have to wake up around 7:45 in order to do my prayer time and walk the dog before I get them up and going.  It seems that extra hour and fifteen minutes was something that I was just so used to not getting that at a certain point my body didn’t care.  All week I’ve been working late because of trying to get Kind.tv done.  A couple nights my brain just wouldn’t shut off so all week I’ve been up even later than normal.

Why am I sharing this? Not to whine.  I don’t whine.  Never.  Not me. <shakes her head, trying to be convincing>  I’m sharing to comiserate with the other tired moms that did a happy little jig this week when their kids got on the bus in the morning at the beginning of the week.  I did do a jig.  There are witnesses I believe.  A few of those witnesses joined me in my dance of joy.

I better pop a Tylenol PM or something so I can do some catching up on the zzzzz’s.  I am no coffee drinker but, I will need an I.V. of caffeine hooked up to me soon at this rate. 

Good night then!

I know losing 30lbs in 2009 is one of my goals but, technically I didn’t say when I was going to start that battle.

Anyway, I don’t have a long drawn out post.  I just wanted to share that I stopped drinking soda last week and I have  lost 3lbs.  This is very encouraging for me.  Can you imagine if I actually got off my butt and did some exercising?  I might have lost a couple more. 

Not today.  Monday maybe.

I am very excited to talk to you guys about a project that my husband and I have been working very hard on for several months.  We created a video site called Kind.tv. 

Kind.tv is a video site about kindness.  It’s a do-gooders haven if you will.  The idea of the site is to record yourself or others doing kind things for someone else and then posting the video on the site.  Kind.tv is meant to encourage and inspire people to perform random acts of kindness for one another to bring happiness and joy, even if for only a moment. 

There are so many people suffering for many different reasons whether it be the economy, their house being foreclosed on, a natural disaster, a job loss or anything else causing strife in their life.  You can volunteer your time, special skills you might have or money to so many different people and causes.  Kind.tv is meant to capture some of those moments, not to glorify yourself and get credit for what you do, but to show others that you don’t have to be filthy rich to make a difference in someone else’s life.  I firmly believe when you do good for someone just for the sake of doing good, it comes right back around to you.

I’m excited about this project because I know it can evolve into something really great with time and effort.  On a side note, any sponsorhsips or donations we recieve get divided into an 80/20 split.  80% of all monies will be given to charity on a monthly basis and the other 20% is kept for site cost and improvements.  It cost over $400 a month for hosting fees on that kind of site alone.

Soooooo, go watch the welcome video.  I personally have a video up of a donation drive that I ran in my neighborhood.  Give me your feed back here on the site.  I plan on doing more good deeds, recording them and posting them up there.  Now that the site is done and I can go do something else.

I want to thank everyone that helped to make this happen.