next best thing

My computers camera told me that if my life was a comic book it would look like this.
One thing I am thankful for is that my family has never held the tradition of going around the table and saying what we are thankful of. I feel like I need to state the obvious, I'm thankful for child, husband, family, my computer...

While I home I heard an argument with lil sis and my mom...
mom: I need you to do some chores when you get home from scho-

lil sis: (livid that my mom would ask such a thing) Do you think I'm going to want to do chores after I've been at boring school all day?

High school is rough.

I got my hair fixed. The stylist blended the chop into layers. I feel pretty like a wedding cake!

you and who's toothbrush

I was brushing my teeth after Spencer had put Adia to bed.
Here is a picture of me.
Anyway while I brushed my teeth I noticed Adia's toothbrush out on the counter after Spencer told me he couldn't find Adia's toothbrush. What is he talking about, I thought, it's right next to mine.....

Wait a minute....

Which one am I using?


I know this has happened to me a lot.

WARNING may contain swears

In hish school I had this annoying little rhyme my cousin and I would do. I would ask, "What's up, buttercup?" The usual response was "not a lot apricot."
Every time I asked my friend Tony, "what's up, buttercup?" his response was, "not a lot ass face."

dancing with my self.....so lonely

Adia is 100% girl. I tried to get her brown boots, she would have none of it. She wanted bright pink with fur trim.

My friend showed up with a ballerina costume and shoes. Adia is in love.
WARNING: The video is loud!

nightmares

Big Sis: Chrissssiieee?
Me: What!
Big Sis: Can you sleep with me?
Me: No!
Big Sis: You can wear anything of mine tomorrow...

Me:...fine.

I had to sleep on the outside so that I would be captured first.
So that is how my my night went up until my sister was in tenth grade. Then my little sister was big enough to protect her and I was no longer needed.

My older sister is terrified of aliens. My siblings and I were obsessed with watching Unsolved Mysteries, which meant that my older sister continued her fear of ET. Although my dad would chase us downstairs to ensure Big Sis would sleep, we would peek through the railings and watch as aliens tormented humble folk with their googly eyes.

Big sis is still afraid of aliens now, mixed with a fear of Ted Bundy.

Me, I'm terrified of spinal cords. Last night I had this creepy dream that I was laying on top of a spinal cord. I woke up sweating and sighed. What a relief. It was only a dream. It wasn't until I woke that I realized it was not a dream and I slept on one all night. Gah, it creeps me out there is one inside me.

hoop dreams

I was hanging out with my cousin Elliot this weekend. At a farmer's market here in Bellingham, I picked up some balls and started juggling.
Elliot: remember when you juggled Uncle Richards billard balls.
Me: no
Elliot: Yeah you did and one hit you in the mouth and you started bleeding.
Me: oh now I remember!

Later that day I hula-hooped longer than anybody in the world. I am full of talent.

we will just be watching a movie today

Text in movie:
Ode to my hair
When someone says to name my best feature
I say my hair
It's not pristine or full or $30 shampoo
It's usually very messy
I love to curl it
braid it down the back
pig tail braids
my favorite, fishtails
and braiding it around my head
I even like it straight

At 3pm Saturday Nov. 8th
I had it "trimmed"

my beautiful hair, you will be missed


Music:
Samson by Regina Spektor

weight coming off through optimism

Spencer: Chrissy my belt feels tight! . . . I'm just gonna assume it's muscle.

smack down

There is this person who through the election have butted heads with.
They are very pro McCain and I like Obama.
So when the election was over I called and told them sorry their candidate lost.
They responded with, "People voted for Obama because he is black."
I've been hitting my head against a wall all morning because of that.

I don't think McCain is evil but if Obama had McCain's past he wouldn't have made it past Hilary.


What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?

What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?

What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?

What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe
disfiguring car accident?

What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while
he was still married?

What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to pain
killers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?

What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?

What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five?(The Keating Five
were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major
political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s
and early 1990s.)

What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

What if Obama couldn't read from a teleprompter?

What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included
discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?

What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on
many occasions, a serious anger management problem?

What if Michelle Obama's family had made their money from beer distribution?

What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?

Educational Background:

Barack Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in
International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude

Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)

vs.

John McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899

Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters -journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism

Education isn't everything, but this is about the two highest offices in
the land as well as our standing in the world.

Hulk knows about music

I found this beautiful hoodie. Charcoal green with gorgeous stitching. There were more than ten on clearance and this was a Lucky brand (they are normally devoured, especially one on sale.)
Sadly there was a large "Rolling Stones" printed on the back.

"errg," I tell my sister. "Why did they put Rolling Stones on the back? No one listens to them."
"My husband and I love Rolling stones," interrupted a crazy woman. "They are classical music, classic rock. Anyone who doesn't like them doesn't know anything about music."

Had my name been Bruce Banner I would have turned green.

now for a funny story.

My little sister was about three or four when she lovingly carried her goldfish around the house. Her toddling rocked the water and the poor fish soon flopped out onto the floor. Screaming in sheer horror, little sis started stomping on the fish, assuming that water was a drug laced pool which sedated the demon fish who, now on dry land, would seek revenge. The fish did not survive.