Not gonna lie

I could've gone without yesterday and my life would probably have been better for it.

Are we always not going to have anything to say? Have we really exhausted all possible conversation lines in the last 4yrs? Is this what the next 4yrs is going to be like?

If I had recorded all the time I saw my husband in the past 12 months, I wouldn't be surprised if that only added up to 6 months of family time.

Not him coming in at 2am and me waking up long enough to register he's home before passing back out. Not phone calls. Not him rushing home to pick up something he forgot and getting an extra "I love you" as he ran out the door. Actually family time. Even if all we did was lay around the house for an hour.

We always neglected our own relationship to ensure that the kids had solid bonds with us. If someone was sick or scared, they'd sleep in bed with us, even if it was our anniversary. We put off date nights alone for trips to the zoo for the 3rd time or to the beach, just so the kids could play in the sand and eat seashells (I still find sand piles in the van).

I guess I'm just being selfish. But I miss my husband. Even when he's not physically gone.

Recall Roundup!

Just in case you don't get the email alerts like I do, here are some of the most recent recalls out there for children/baby things.

Phil&teds strollers due to brake failure.
Disney-branded pogo sticks due to fall and laceration hazards.
Little People Builders' Load 'n Go Wagons due to laceration hazard.
Non-Slip Bathtub Pads due to fall hazard.
Prime-Line child safety latches/outlet covers due to screws breaking.
Target's Children's Desk Lamps due to laceration and fire hazards.

So, make sure to read the pages carefully to ensure that the the product in question is the correct one. Here's hoping none of these things are in your homes and if they have, they haven't caused any trouble.

Laundry day is a very dangerous day.

Concert was fantastic last night! We turned it into a girl date, got sushi before hand and frogurt afterward. Well, the concert itself wasn't all that great (Sublime was, though), so up until the sun set we sat and people watched.

If you're familiar with concerts, you could almost take a bingo card with you and find the same manner of people at every one. (Taken & compiled from my posts to Facebook last night to keep track of them all:)

Old guy, guy with kid on his shoulders, man ponytail, black guy, I just got hit with a beach ball!, drunk peoples, tube top as a skirt, and weed! Lesbian, white girl dreads, white guy dreads, black guy with dreads to his ass, belligerent drunk guy in red shirt is now shirtless. Belligerent guy grinding on belligerent girlfriend. Ginger! SOMBRERO! Jersey Shore by default.


Package call for yesterday: My free/free shipping Handbook for Family & Friends of Service Members: Before, During and After Deployment, my Cavallini Birds and Animals postcards, and the second seat  for our Britax stroller. And nobody stole them off the porch while we were gone (which is always a good thing!).

Woke up this morning to great news but it's secret news. At least for a while. And that means it could be any number of things. So, if you ruin my day, I'll disown you.

Now that I can make the stroller into a double and stuff Allie in there so she won't have to walk with me, we're going to the park later to walk. Hopefully I can do 2 laps (3mi) without getting too worn out.

Fair winds!

Mail call!

I love signing up for coupons/samples online and then forgetting about them until 4-8wks later. It's even better when I forget whether or not I got the mail the day before and decide to wait until the next day to get it. :]

Today, I recieved my Altitude stickers ("Self-esteem is bad for the economy" and "Debt is good for the economy"), a 10ct of Tide stain release pacs and a 1-load packet of detergent, BJ's coupons galore!, Hardee's coupons, and a Redplum coupon insert!

Also, I forgot to mention that I won my tickets from FM99 WNOR today. I was too excited to think straight! lol Getting a babysitter & finding out where to get my tickets was at the front of my mind!

Fair winds.

I WON CONCERT TICKETS!!

So, about 2wks ago, my friend Stephanie told me to text a random code to a random number. Blindly, I did. Afterward she told me it was to win 2 tickets to see 311 & Sublime in concert.

Fastforward to about an hour ago. I miss a call because I'm dragging Jason out of the bathroom to get him away from the toilet. I check my voicemail to discover that I was the winner of the text contest to win the tickets!

So, providing I can get a babysitter and get the headlights working properly on my van, Stephanie & I are totally going to see 311 & Sublime in concert tomorrow night!

Mikey's going to be SOO jealous when he finds out. Of course, I'm going to think of him the entire time and maybe get him a shirt or something (read: get him a shirt that I will then wear until he's physically here to wear it himself). :D

They're lawn seats, we can get it at 5/5:30ish, and it starts at 6:30. It's going to be awesome! This totally beats the Hell out of that $50 I won on a pulltab that one time and then spent mostly on Ricker pop and cigarettes. 

FAIR WINDS! <3