Stars!!!

So a sad day for the world, both Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson pass, and both too soon... And as morbid as this is, I have some new rising stars to show you!!!! MY BABIES!!! Grin got a summer job... She works at Wild Rivers. Smirk got a job too, she is working at the Fair.. But Grin... She went to work one day and the PR person for Wild Rivers asked if she would like to be in a commercial for the water park! Of course my little actress said YES!!! Then she asked if she could bring her sister (what a good kid!!). The PR person said great, we need more extras! So the two actress went to the water park and filmed a commercial! Exciting? YES? Even more exciting...SEEING YOUR KIDS ON TV!!!! Check the link below and watch really close, it isn't that long, but they look fantastic!!!! I'm so proud!!!

http://lnk.ms/0crWW

What is sometimes green and currently invading my house?

MOLD! It is so disgusting! All right, so I have been told it is not mold, but it is mildew. Mold, mildew, fungus... Who cares it is still absolutely gross! It has taken over the back wall of my pantry. I reached for the oatmeal and noticed some green spots on the wall. As I searched to figure out what could have splashed on the wall, I saw it down on a shelf below too... As I frantically pulled things out of the cupboard, I noticed it smelt really gross. I chased down the maintenance guys and asked them to come over and check it out...

Come to find out I have a leaking water heater. And it has been leaking for a while.... But not in the usual way, flooding into the house, which is great I guess!! So now we have taken apart the kitchen, stored things in the garage. And everywhere else... So now we are just waiting for the guys to come to start ripping out the drywall, the water heater and then the repairs will start! This could be a really long weekend with out water!!!

Why I will never do dishes again (at least for a week)

So after a lovely day of working, nice dinner of tacos, there was a pile of dishes in the sink. Dishwasher being on the fritz, I decided to wash the dishes by hand, like I was taught as a child. Fill up the sink with hot, soapy water, put dishes in, scrub, rinse, repeat... No way!!! No more...

I did everything right... Until, I picked up a mason jar glass that had apparently cracked in the heat... Why look at the item in your hands, just plunge in and scrub...Ok so in goes the sponge, and my hand, up to the area between my pinkie and ring finger... Turn the glass for maximum cleansing and hey look, why is the water turning red... Cuss out loud, grab and towel and announce to the shocked kids who are looking at their mother who just cussed out loud, that I had cut myself... Jokingly Smirk says do we need to go to the hospital... Uh yeah, I said and quick, get the keys... Grin, freaks out and starts asking questions... I calmly grab two clean and my favorite dish towels to stop the arterial spray and walk to the garage, forgetting that oh so important wallet and fact that I cant drive since I am applying pressure... The girls start grabbing things like an expectant father... Do you need towels, where are the keys, here is your wallet, find the insurance card... Meanwhile I am calmly strolling to the car, blood dripping down my arm and onto my white shirt... Now, it was after dinner, I had been working from home so I was in my grubby sweats (grubby = huge hole in the knee), hair a mess and no makeup, no shoes and now a blood stained shirt. Girls rush past me and tuck me into the car... Grin is freaking out mildly. Smirk is driving. We get to the hospital and the triage nurse asks me to remove the towel... As I start to do this I realize that the bleeding has stopped and the blood is clotting, to the towel. As I remove, it starts to pump blood again. The nurse slaps some gauze on my hand and says more pressure... Hospital is packed so they ask me to sit in a chair in the hall way... 45 minutes later, someone takes my xray's... 30 minutes after that they found me a room... By 9:30, I have 5 stitches and have lost a quart of blood! I could feel it pumping from my the palm of my hand while the top was numb. There was blood on the bed and the floor...It looked like a warzone! All from a cut in my hand! Finally cleaned up and gauze stuffed in between the fingers so it looks like a really warped Spock-like- live long and prospers sign, I am allowed to go home. Now two days later, I can take the bandage off and can use the fingers just not over use it... So does that mean no more typing or working for the day??? Of course not, I just cant use my pinkie... Typing has gone from 90 wpm to 10!! Not fair!! And painful... But at least the doctor of my dreams did not show up while I was looking scuzzy... I know he is still out there and next time I injure myself (and I am sure there will be a next time) I will not be wearing scuzzy clothes, I have now vowed to constantly wear ball gowns and tiara's while doing everything, including vacuuming, laundry, gardening....

Happy.....

Taco Tuesday!!

I would say Cinco de Mayo but since that phrase is currently taboo in my household, Happy Taco Tuesday! Anything Spanish is pretty much taboo right now, but just until tonight. See the oh-so-stressed- junior in high school, Grin, has a very full month. She started it off with a lovely trip to the SAT test on May 2nd, today is the Spanish AP test, Thursday is the English Lang AP test, then she has her final for drama, which is just in front of everyone who attends but it has to be something different, so Smirk's best friend wrote a short scene for Grin and a friend to perform... Then come finals, then training for her new job at the water park for the summer...All that in May. She is wound so tightly I expect her curls are going to turn into a fro very soon!

So to keep her spirits up, we are not having a Cinco de Mayo festival tonight, but are having her favorite dinner Taco's...

I cannot wait for school to end, but that of course will not allow the stress to end, then it will be working and shuttling her back and forth to her new job, going to visit colleges on days off, hopefully helping Smirk find a job, and in between all that, studying for Grin's drivers permit... (Mental note: go to store, get hair dye for all the new grays they are giving me and at least a pound of chocolate or bottle of rum... or maybe both)

I am sure life will calm down soon... Maybe next year (HA!)

What do you do for an hour???

So I am now sitting in my office in Los Angeles, there is no one here but me and one other dedicated employee... Why am I sitting here at 6:06pm? I am trying to kill time before I go to an event... A nice event... Where I have to wear nice clothes and make up... Shocking right!

Before anyone asks... No, I did not bring a camera, no there is no photographic evidence unless I happen to get in a shot with the guest of honor. But if that happens I can GUARANTEE no one will be looking at me...

See tonight's event is sponsored by LG (makes sense since I work for the large national wireless carrier) and the special guest is Heidi Klum.. You all know her right? Project Runway, Victoria's Secret, 3 kids and one on the way, amazing body...

Yeah this woman, so I know for sure, between her and the hot new phone, no one is going to be checking me out!

But my question still stands, what do you do for an hour, I can get dressed in 10 minutes, the event is right down the street, they are going to have food, I already did my make up (yes auntie, I am actually wearing makeup, foundation and all) So what do I do?? I guess sit and read blogs, lotion my feet, talk to no one as there is no one to talk to here... I can run up and down the halls but my back hurts already so I don't want to do that... Already talked to the girls... I am bored and I need caffeine! Let's go people, tell me what you would do to kill an hour....

The Woman!!!

Grin is my little star! Alright, she is not so little as she is taller than me unless I am in heels, but she shines bright! The Actor's Rep at school performed a one night production of the one of my all time favorite old movies/plays The Women. This was written in 1937 and adapted for screen in 1939. There are over 130 stars and they are all women. A man's voice is heard, but not one person or even animal on screen are men. It starred some of the best actresses of the time. It revolves around a Manhattan social wife and her husband. She finds he is having an affair and heads to Reno for a divorce. If you can ever watch it, do, it is wonderful.

So my little star played the housekeeper/cook in the Haynes household. The Haynes are the ones divorcing. She and the parlor maid are in the kitchen. The maid is recounting the argument she over heard to the housekeeper while eating pie. Below is her favorite part of the scene...

The last scene of the play is the climax fight scene between the two main characters. Grin now portrays a socialiate who is drunk at a swanky club. I believe in the movie it was the 21 Club. So below is my drunk teen.... She finished the whole bottle... (Luckily for us it was apple juice!)

The world is backwards....

I do not understand the world. I dont want to sound like the world owes me and I am the only one that matters... But I work hard, I have raised my kids to the best of my ability. I try not live above my means. I pay my taxes... Yet my taxes seem to go to a single woman who has the audacity to PLAN a pregnancy while she has NO JOB, NO MEANS OF SUPPORT and also has 6 other children.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-octuplets11-2009feb11,0,1790195.story

I am hopeful that she did not plan to have 8 babies at one time because that would be complete insanity.... But what the hell... She is living off student loans and food stamps... She says she is not going to go on public support, yet she already has... She was on disability, where she recieved $163,000 dollars!!!! OH MY GOD!!! She made triple what I make working my butt off, just by being injured and having 6 kids... Now she has 14!! And the new babies are going to require specialized care since they are so tiny... Who is going to pay for that??? The article says that three of her older children are disabled as well but she hopes that two will soon become not disabled... How do you do that???? What makes a child suddenly not disabled??? The article also says that she loves having babies, but didnt love being married. I love kids too, obviously since my house is always full of them but I dont get any support for them... All I want is enough money to pay off my bills and fix my car, maybe then I will only have a little stress instead of tons and tons of stress.... But that would be asking too much right... Or I could just quit my job and live off welfare and food stamps... That seems to work well for others...