My "Brother" Is Out!

I wanted a job to save for more of a down payment of a home when we move to So Cal. We're going to need huge down payments from here on out, with the markets the way they are. I've been looking for something to keep me busy and working while the kids are in school. I've been Mommy Trak'd...on the off ramp for a while. The market is killer. I'd be willing to for 1/2 of what I used to work for back in the day, just to get the feet wet. Well after over 50+ well written resumes I haven't received one single phone call. It was depressing. I shook it off. Hey, I could always eBay...right? I'm not sure that's what I really want to do these days. So, what is a creative girl to do? I'm choosing to BLOOM! I'm going back to business. I'm out of my slump. My creative stuff is flowing again and I'm going with one product! I've got it going and I'm going with it now! My "Brother" is out on the table waiting for me. First, I must visit Jo-Ann and get the basics!

So Excited!
XOXO
Christie

Favorite's Friday!

My Friday Favorites!

• My babies.
• Of course, my morning coffee.
• My Tivo'd Grey's Anatomy....worth the complete wait!
• Mocha snuggled next to me as I type.
• My sisters and girlfriends! You all know who you are!
• eBay...(even though I'm an educated woman, with a great looking resume...I am unable to get a job because I decided to stay at home with my kids. Soooo, therefore, there's a huge gap in my resume.)
• My sense of humor. (see above...lol)
• My husband and his great job. (see two above..lol)
• Snuggle fabric softener sheets. YUMMY YUMMY!

Happy Friday Friends!

Austen

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

JANE AUSTEN, Mansfield Park


Austen is to be read and cherished. It transcends to now. This is one of my quotes highlighted and noted. I love it.....
XOXO
Christie

Things I've Learned The Last Few Days...

I have learned a few things in the last couple of days.

• If one is to have their wisdom teeth removed, then it's better to have it done when you're in the teens. Being 38 and undergoing the procedure isn't such a great idea. My jaw is in the most excruciating pain these days. It's still not better. Ugh.
• My mouth hurts too bad to even talk today.
• Throwing a little diet ginger ale in smaller glass of wine takes away some calories and only counts as 1 point for my weight watchers point totals. LOL. Yep, 1 point.
• Having worked last in the year 1999, causes difficulty in getting back into the job market. I believe in the concept of having it all, but just not all at the same time. Now it's time to figure out the next part and having it. :)
• I don't "Want" to be near my family and best friends. I "NEED" to be near my family and best friends.
• Finally, my kids hear EVERYTHING.

The Pips...

Hmmmmm...Happy Friday.

Well, let me start by saying The Pips....I love The Pips. I love to sing The Pips part and not in a whisper, either! SO crank it friends. I love crooning with Gladys and the Pips. Making my Friday with Music today.

I finished Judy Blume's Summer Sisters. Yes .... Judy B. It surprised me. The connection, betrayals...love for the damaged. Couldn't put it down and I've had it in my shelves for a few years without even picking it up to read.

I'm cleaning today. Single Momming it up a storm lately. Once again, I bow down to the single moms doing it every single day.

Here's my Obama plug for the day...a repeat, because I love this one!


Love you guys...
Christie

Sunny and Puddle Jumping....

Does your music playlist or your iPod's mode played tell your mood? Join the club. I've been trying lately to stay in the sunny spots. I do have to skip through the puddles that the clouds bring, but at least I'm trying. I'm not doing the whole faking happy bit anymore. It makes life much easier. Those I love know how that goes. :)

The jaw is still in a state of chronic pain. Kids at school and errands have led to me not making it to the oral surgeon this week. Soooooo I will be there on Monday and hopefully we'll get this figured out soon.

Do you dream and it's as real as anything you do in your day? Crazy Crazy....Sweet and lovely though, at the same time. I'd love to be the one who woke up with the roses in my hands...:) Song 2... Sigh.

No, I'm not dumping any youtube's on you today. Lucky you guys. :)
Just a few pics of the lights of my life....
Next near she's in HS! She's my girl...

Wonder Twin Powers activate....form of Beach Babies...

Ok my loves...Be well and enjoy your weekend.
XOXO
Love,
Christie

The Jaw and Sarah Palin

Well I'm guessing the jaw is fractured from the surgery I had. I am not going to the ER. I'm just going to wait until Monday office clinic hours on Monday. We all know how the ER works, so I'll just wait until my oral surgeon tells me the corner is coming. Oh you know the corner that I'm supposed to be turning to feel better. The corner is no wear near. Anyhooo....

I know I'm on the whole Sarah Palin thing these days, but she boggles my mind. She is a great speaker, but she scares the hell out of me. So, I will be posting Sarah Stuff on here when I feel like it....read or not. I'm never political, but the time has come to avoid Bush 3!

Register To Vote.
XOXO
Christie

Matt Damon on Sarah Palin....click click click

I want to know if she's banned books or believed dinosaurs were here 4000 years ago too! She's going to have the nuclear codes. Matt Damon said it better than I. Let's talk about this and how someone running for the President of the US could either have such horrible judgement, or two be so far in bed with the far right zealots that he succumbed to this!

Courtesy of Jon Stewart!

This is just tooo classic and great to not post! Not only is it funny...it just completely hypocritical.