The Crazee Chick's View of Life

Last year when our school PAC put on the Welcome Back BBQ we were all new members of the PAC and didn't have a clue what we were doing. Not so this year. We were amazing! Last year we fed about 565 people--this year the number was closer to exceeding 800! Oh yeah!! This year we rocked. The whole event ran like a well oiled machine. Jilly Billy ran the BBQ pit with Hubby, Rob, Keary and Jilly Billy's mom. The BBQ crew started cooking burgers, hot dogs and smokies well in advance of the expected crowd with the result that no one waited more than 3 minutes from the time they opened their bun until a burger was slapped on it! Just to give you a perspective--last year the wait at some points was 2 hours!  We used 2 4 ft grills, 2 regular BBQ's and 'the pig' --that's a lot of fire power! Miss K, Mazz, Jilly Billy and I began the morning at Jilly's store where we sliced tomatoes and lettuce for the condiment tray. After we finished at...

Prepare yourself. The shock could potentially be fatal. Yes, it's true--I am going to update my blog. It's been a while, and frankly, I just haven't had enough sarcasm in me to make the effort of typing words on a little screen worthwhile to you nor to me, but today something is different. I have had a splurt of energy. The most I've had in ages. I even came home from work and vacuumed, cleaned the bathroom and did two loads of laundry! Maybe it's because I ate meat. Nah...that can't be it. I've eaten meat twice this week and had only one burst of energy. (quite the vegetarian aren't I?) Don't judge. Anyhooo...since I am so far behind, I am going to attempt to only partially get caught up. I'm going to spare you most of the details--or else I'll just surreptitiously stick it all in on the next couple of posts and catch you completely unaware...ugh, digressing again...so soon. So, here are some pictures of the first d...

9:30pm Thursday "Hey Kiki, I bought your birthday present today and  I know you're going to love it!  I'm so excited to give it to you  right now as an early birthday present, would that be okay with you? (*wiggling with excitement*) "No Mommy!  I want to wait!!" "Oh c'mon Kiki...PLEEEEEEEASE?" "Well....okay!!" "Here you go, baby, happy early birthday!" "No, mommy, I changed my mind...take it back.  I want to wait!!" "Seriously, Kiki?!!....c'mon....PLEEEEEASE?  I can't wait until October and I'm pretty sure that you're not going to want to wait either..." "OKAY!!! I'll do it!!" (*wiggling with excitement*) "Oh my gosh!!" "I'm so happy!  I've been saving up for over a year to get an iPod after I accidentally fried my other one!  I can't believe you got me an iPod Touch!  Holy smokes!!!  AAAAAAAHHHH!!!! "Mom, I'm so glad you made me open th...

You may remember our Black Friday escapade last November? (If you are a new reader, or have a short memory, click HERE for a recap) Anyway, last November as we parked our very hungry butts in the booth at Maggiano's Miss Kay came up with the amazing idea that we should all re-assemble in July, take a three hour drive down to the US, shop and have dinner at Maggiano's to celebrate our birthdays. All 5 of us agreed...because really, July seemed soooo far away that it was easy to say "SURE!"...and we all forgot about it. But not Miss Kay who, I might add, has a memory that would make an elephant hide it's brain in shame. June rolled around and out popped an email from Miss Kay reminding us of our plan. Well, we all juggled our schedules to make things work and in July we found ourselves breaking out in the early dawn, armed with Starbucks, a catchy music CD, a van and a lot of excitement. Yes, we shopped 'til we dropped, yes we all got schmexy pedicur...

I was just tidying up the kitchen desk when I stumbled across the card my hubby bought for our anniversary next month. It is so beautiful and the words just melted my heart that I had to wake him from his afternoon snooze to kiss him and tell him I love him. ....and then I put it right back where I found it so that on our anniversary he can write his special words in it and make it even more beautiful. Oh how I love this man....

My FB status update today read: Good morning, Morning--after being very clear yesterday about how I loathe thee, I'm surprised you had the audacity to show your face around here again. I'm assuming you'll be here again tomorrow? Ugh... I find mornings, especially waking up, extremely painful. It feels like someone is pulling me through layers and layers of jello until I reach the consciousness 'layer.' After literally being dragged into awareness, it then becomes imperative that I open my eyes to quickly glance at the clock to determine if I have any time left to sleep. Happily, some mornings there is more sleep time alloted but most mornings there is not and then I must begin the painful process of keeping my eyes open. Oh the pain!! The light is blinding! My eyes are as dry as the Sahara dessert...and they refuse to stay open....partially because my brain wants to go back to sleep and partially to avoid the intense pain! Does this happen to us all? Do...

Picture this scenario: Time: 5:00AM Sound: frantic footsteps in hallway; little boy trying to outrun a nightmare. Object: closed bedroom door Result: little boy hits door face first, goes flying, breaks door. Face: unblemished. Unbelievable.