Uh oh…I’m feeling a rant come’n on!
As anyone of my Facebook friends have read on my status, this may come as a repeat to you. But not in as much detail!
I was picking up Miss J from kindergarten today and like all of us parents do, we all wait outside the gate until they unlock the gate at 12:08 and we all stampede like a herd of cows through the gates to sign out our kids (I swear my flip-flop gets stepped on every damn time, it never fails!).
But today while waiting, this older lady walks by with this overabundance of perfume. TOTALLY NOT OKAY! I mean my nose hurt so bad after taking a few breaths in, I had to resort to breathing through my mouth and just deal with the taste of this womans perfume. Now this could have been a really nice expensive perfume but to me it smelled like the dollar store version of “Sunflowers”, member that perfume (I know someone with the initials with JJK remembers it), now back when I was 15 I loved that perfume, but come on, half the bottle on one person?
Well as I was walking home with Miss J I started thinking about guidelines for wearing perfume, and I really hope everyone in the world will read this so we can all save each other.
1) Perfume IS ok!
2) BUT the person 5 tables down from you should NOT be able to smell it.
3) You should be the only one who smells it the strongest.
4) Your Husband/boyfriend/Partner should be able to smell it.
5) And lastly, ONLY people you hug or people who are in your ”personal space bubble” should smell it.
I don’t think those are unreasonable guidelines. And just think, you could be reading this and YOU may be that offender! So you’re welcome. 
Out of Touch
Wow! I have been so out of touch with my blogging! I feel like a total loser. But lots of stuff has been going on. We went on vacation to Disneyland. I became an Aunt again. And I am now on a long 1 month Vacation/Helping stay at my sister’s house to do as much as I can with the new baby and my nieces.
I’ve said it before, one of my most meaningful jobs other than being called “mommy” is being called “auntie cole”.
There are a few formal blogs I need to do so keep an eye out for those, but for now I just wanted to do this quick catch up.
Take that! High priced fruits and veggies!!
Since last year I have been bugging bugging bugging bugging (get the idea?) hubby to build me an above ground planter box. I could be one of those “I can do it myself” type of wifes. But honestly….I dont like to sweat!
FINALLY my super awesome, strong, handsome, beautiful, sexy husband built my box!! Now when hubby builds something. He gets all manly and BUILDS something. I just wanted a little planter box like this cute little planter box. Nope I got this manly 11 foot monster!!
(told ya he was sexy….meeeeowwww!!)
And since hubby is the greatest. He gave me free access to get whatever plants I wanted. But I do believe it had something to do with the guilt trip fact that I was unable to start from seed since I wasnt sure when he would get to my box. 
We did a potting soil, compost, manure (but if you say it man-errr, and fast, it’s so funny, that’s all we were doing yesterday!), and then on I put some black plastic mulch on top. Those bags are heavy, so we used our child laborers…….
I’m not sure how much Miss J was helping, but she sure was grunting up a storm and throwing around a lot of “oh my gawd’s”
After hubby got all of the ground level and grass gone. He placed the garden box in for me. I laid newspaper down, reading in that link above, that it helps with weeds and then just naturally decompose and enrich the soil. It was kind of ironic going to the store to buy a few newspapers to use at the bottom of my garden, the checkers thought it was funny…..the cover stories were about the killing of Bin Ladin. So I was going to bury him in my garden….ya ya…ha ha. Me too, I’m over it.
After getting all of my yummy dirt mixed up in my box. I was ready to plant!!! WOOOOO HOOOOO!!!!! Here is what I bought to plant and with any luck I WILL be able to say “TAKE THAT! HIGH PRICED FRUITS AND VEGGIES!”
- Cantaloupe
- Watermelon
- Strawberries
- Artichoke
- Zucchini
- Bell Peppers
- Corn
- Tomatoes
- Pumpkins (outside the box)
I am so proud!!
Mama Dalton where art thou?
I’m here……
Busy cutting my own hair, dyeing it, redyeing it, recutting it, coping it, freaking out, crying, and at last dealing with what I did to my hair.
Oh wait...that wasnt me.
I also did a quick trip to visit my mom and sister for my sister’s baby shower. It’s a 5 hour drive one way. I left on a friday afternoon and left there on a sunday afternoon. Not only was it a physically draining trip (even though I was just driving), but totally emotionally draining. I think that is why I now want to spend a month with my Mom, sister, niece, and newborn nephew.
There is one job I take very seriously on top of wife and mommy, and that is being an auntie! I love it! Nothing can melt my heart faster than hearing my niece call and say “Hello, Auntie Cold, its me”. Oh I love that girl!
Me and my sweet niece. Thanksgiving 2010
Shake your groove thang…
Do you ever hear a song on the radio and start thinking about what that video should be? I have always done that. Or placed pictures I have taken in the past to songs I hear. Am I weird? hahaha
On the ride home from picking up Miss J from school there were 3 that I placed images to with parts of songs….(its okay, you can say I’m weird)
This one has to be obvious…..
Firework by Katy Perry:
Cause baby you’re a firework
Come on show ‘em what you’re worth
Make ‘em go “Oh, oh, oh!”
As you shoot across the sky-y-y
Baby you’re a firework
Come on let your colors burst
Make ‘em go “Oh, oh, oh!”
You’re gunna leave ‘em fallin’ down-own-own
(obviously those are not all of the lyrics but the way my game works, you just use a picture from a part of a song)
Ready for song #2?………
Eff’n Perfect by Pink:
Pretty pretty please, don’t you ever ever feel
Like you’re less than f*ckin’ perfect
Pretty pretty please, if you ever ever feel
Like you’re nothing, you’re f*cking perfect to me
You’re perfect, you’re perfect!
Pretty pretty please, don’t you ever ever feel
Like you’re less than f*ckin’ perfect
Pretty please, if you ever feel like you’re nothing
You are perfect to me….
(There were many many pictures that came to mind during the course of this song, but the one of Miss J getting caught with her hand in the coco mix was just the best, no matter what she does she will always be perfect)
And the final song in our 20 min drive because we got lunch on the way home…..
E.T. by Katy Perry:
Take me, ta-ta-take me
Wanna be a victim
Ready for abduction
Boy, you’re an alien
Your touch are foreign
It’s supernatural
Extraterrestrial
Your so supersonic
Wanna feel your powers
Stun me with your lasers
Your kiss is cosmic
Every move is magic
(I know 2 songs by Katy Perry in 20 mins, I’ve learned to deal with it)
Well I hope my blog didnt bore you too much. I deleted my facebook, so I guess I will be blogging more. Or actually be doing housework. 
Friend say whhhat?
Growing up having tons of friends equaled popularity. Along with that popularity came drama, and catty girl drama. I for one was not interested in drama growing up, so I selected my friends and really tried to stick with just those select friends. Back then it was easy to weed out “shady” friends. You tell them a secret (pssst, I think Fred in our second period class is super cute, but don’t tell anyone!), and then that secret becomes lunch time gossip. So you learn through embarrassment not to tell that “friend” anything else (unless of course she says “oh my gosh Nicole, that totally wasnt me! I bet Jane over heard what we were talking about.” And then you become bff’s again. Awww).
Now only if adult friendships were that easy. As we become adults our secrets become much deeper than the school girl crush. Being able to trust friends becomes more of a difficult task, we find ourselves not wanting to open up like we would when we were younger for the fear of not being accepted, being judged, and looked down upon. And then you have to consider the fact that when you tell your friend your secret they will more than likely tell their significant other, so your friend with 2 eyes is now a friend with 4 eyes that could look down on you. I don’t frown on that, I tell my husband everything, you become one when married.
So I have come to the conclusion that if you can not tell your friend your deepest secret without the fear of being judged, ask yourself why you fear that from your friend. I know for myself I have a few friends that I probably wouldn’t tell certain things to because I fear being looked down by them and their significant other. I learned recently that a very close friend of mine (one I would consider a bff) feared my judging eyes. Whhhhhhat?
My eyes don’t judge! (ok maybe sometimes)
But man, what a kick in the face! I couldn’t believe it.
So now I find myself sitting here not knowing how many friends I really do have. I don’t have someone that I could just pack up all my kids, go to her house, and just sit there together and listen to screaming kids, while sipping on our coffee, looking at each other and laughing.
Ahhhhh fantasy friendship.
But here I am, blogging and fantasizing about a friendship (how sick is that? lol).
In the end, I would like to say that I could have that friendship if I didn’t live over 300 miles away from this person. One day Fer, one day…
Holy braces batman!
Are you flipping kidding me?! Here is the MONSTER of all RANTS….right here, right now!
Lets talk about unappreciative kids. I NEVER had even 1/4 to what these kids have. And do you think that they actually realize how lucky they are?
With my husband’s insurance we were able to get all 3 of the older kids braces and the insurance covered a total $6,000. Let me tell you, braces for all 3 kids at once wasnt cheap. The boys both went through Phase 1, and will have to go another round in a few years (MAYBE!!). Mr. J has managed to lose TWO sets of retainers, we refuse to buy another one at $200 because he is obviously not responsable enough to care for one, so his teeth have moved back. Mr. S has done quite well with his stuff, I don’t have much to rant about with him. OH but Miss B, she is on Phase 2 and I swear she has had the damn things on for 3 years. Why you ask…..well because we are on the SECOND time the Orthodontist has refused to work on her because of her dental hygiene! Really how hard is it to brush your damn teeth after each meal? So now we are faced with 6 weeks of waiting till her next appointment to see if her gums improve, if not then the braces will come off!!! Thats right $4,000 down the fricken drain!
So I am yelling at her on the way home about the whole situation. Trying to explain to her how blessed she is to have all that she has, because I didn’t have a cell phone, a laptop, a flat screen t.v., a Playstation 3, or even my own room growing up!! And I tell her that I still don’t have things of my own because I have kids, like not having my own clothes because SHE takes them. And her response, “Well I’m sorry I’m fat”. REALLY? REALLY? Out of all of that you think this is me calling you fat?!?!?! O-M-G!
I need a vacation. A mom vacation. No husband. Just me.
My 2011 Challenge
I’ve decided I want to blog more. Rather than just thinking about doing it, I’m starting right now. I will be posting on this blog once a week for all of 2011.
I know it won’t be easy, but it might be fun, inspiring, awesome and wonderful. Therefore I’m promising to make use of The DailyPost, and the community of other bloggers with similar goals, to help me along the way, including asking for help when I need it and encouraging others when I can.
If you already read my blog, I hope you’ll encourage me with comments and likes, and good will along the way.
I am really excited to be doing this. And I will really try to blog more than once a week, but I will commit to at least once a week. 
Love
I am sitting here listing to my kids play their video games, smelling my meat loaf cooking, and enjoying the warmth of my feet that my doggie is providing.
With all of that I feel blessed. I am not a huge religious person, honestly I’m not sure what I believe. But I know when I’m ready I have my 2 very best friends with strong religious faith that will walk me through it all. Okay I got way sidetracked there…
Anyways, I am blessed because my children are happy, healthy, and alive. I also sit here with such sorrow in my heart finding out that the missing 4 year old, Juliani Cardenas, was found in the water canal that officers feared he was in. What the mother, Tabitha Cardenas, wouldn’t give to hear her child laugh, cry, or repeat mommy over and over again when she is on a phone call trying to pay attention to the phone call (we have all gone though that). I don’t know this family, but it hits so close to home also having a 4 year old. Life without Miss J, Miss B, Mr. S, and Mr. J wouldn’t be worth living.
We should all take a little extra time tonight to just hug and kiss our children. You may be saying “oh I do that everyday”. But no, no you don’t. Because I know I’m guilty of not hugging or kissing my older kids (because they are too cool for me) daily. And not only tonight, but every night. I know I am going to start making a point to hug and kiss my kids every night again, even if I have to pin them down. Things like this makes us realize all we take for granted.
My beautiful babies 4 years ago, time flys!
As seen on TV
Hubby and I are big on the “As seen on TV” items. Why you ask….well, I’m not sure. We are suckers supporters of the up and coming inventors.
There have actually been a few items that are totally awesome, and of course there have been some flops. The flops always make us say “why in the heck did we get this stupid thing”.
One of those flops was the One Touch Can Opener
We had such high hopes for this thing, and were really excited when we bought it. It is so lame! I swear you have to have a car battery directly connected to it for it to work. We would put it on the can and it would move a smidgen then die! So we thought “maybe the battery’s were bad?”, so we put new ones in. And NOPE wouldn’t work. So frustrating!
Another stupid one (yes, I am guilty for buying it for hubby) was the Fushigi
It looked sooooooooooooooo cool on T.V. My 4 year old would run around the house yelling “Fushigi”, she even wanted one. Well I bought it for one of hubbys christmas presents. And it really is just an eye illusion. It has a metal looking ball inside a clear ball, and you are to learn these moves to make it look like its “defying gravity” oooooooooo. LAME!
Now enough with the negative. Lets talk about some super awesome items! YAAAAY.
First up is my personal favorite…
The Shark <3
This thing makes cleaning my house so easy! I have wood, tile, and marble floors. Could you imagine the amount of cleaning products I would have to buy for each floor? Okay 3. But you get my point. Anyways, this thing uses hot steam to clean your floors. So you have no chemicals to deal with, just water from your sink. Awwwwwwwwwwesome!!!!
Another Fave….
The EZ Cracker
This was one of our most recent ASOTV (you like that don’t you) purchases. My wonderful husband almost ripped his thumb off in a work accident and had to wear a cast for 3 weeks. We figured this would be great for him. Plus I am an awesome kick ass okay cook that at times find myself digging through my bowl for tiny shells. I am so horrible at cracking an egg! This wonderful invention takes all the shell worry right out of cooking! Its quick and easy. And awwwwwwwwwesome!!!
Okay I am getting bored with my blog, so I am guessing you are too. I will end here. But there really are some great products out there. Okay okay, I will make a quick list of the ones I like:
Pillow Pet
Topsy Turvey
Money Maze
Fridge Locker
If you have tried anything I would love to hear about it.
(I in no way was asked, paid or even provided a sample of any of these products by anyone selling these products, this is my honest opinion of the ones we have personally purchased.)
Time to catch up!
I feel horrible, I havent blogged in a week! I know everyone was waiting on the edge of their seats for the next ramblings that flow from my crazy brain!
I had a minor injury the other night. I was in my room, minding my own business playing Black Ops online. Then out of no where, VooDoo (my cat) decides to pop out of my closet only to find Dixie (my Pittador) in the room also. Needless to say they don’t really love each other. My first instinct was to grab the cat and put him out in the hallway……baaaaaad idea! He pretty much pierced my flippen hand with 3 claws. So now I am watching my flaming red hand to make sure I don’t have an infection….
See Picture….
My hand is actually swollen, I really don’t have a chubby hand. lol
My newest adventure will start this week. I am planning on making my own dog food. I have done a ton of research online about it. And I’m feeling pretty confident that Dixie will benefit from it. I don’t think I will really be saving money, but as long as I’m not spending more, and I will now know everything she eats, it will totally be worth it.
My pretty baby…..
I am thinking my next blog will be a tutorial of my homemade laundry soap. I am almost out and need to make more. I wanted to have a laundry soap making party, but I think it will have to wait another 2 months once this batch is gone.
Well time to check on my Chocolate Banana Tofu Pudding. Yep, you read that right! <3
