We’re headed to the great Motor City… I should be packing and instead I’m wasting time with you guys… I just can’t help myself.

I am going to kick some more of my little sisters toosh… This time she won’t have Heather to help pull her out of a slump… You all think I’m bad, you should hear her… she’s bad.  Hey it’s all in love… we only resort to hair pulling and name calling once in awhile…

Hope all of your New Years are wonderful. I know mine will be. I’ll be around to check on you all though, so don’t go getting crazy… well crazier… Woody.  Need I say more… Ang

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We have arrived! I don’t mean we’ve made it big, I mean we’re in Detroit. Now I’m wondering where’s my party?

The kids do a four hour drive standing on their heads, now. We had almost no fighting and only a little whining.

Of course I slept almost the whole way so I wouldn’t know if they did.  Now what to do, what to do… Ang

Isabelle enjoying some prefeast munchies.

My cousin K coping with the noise.

Pop with the first batch of steaming shrimp for Christmas Eve feast.

Once again just incase anyone missed it… Angi’s team 4 WINS  D’s team 1 win… enough said.

Okay.. in the spirit of Christmas I have to admit that I get my butt whooped by my little sis on a regular basis…

She can beat me at Dance Dance Revolution with out working up a sweat. Any video game she wins without a contest. I would say we’re equal on the trivia game front… we are both founts of useless information, what can I say.

So the kids have long ago ripped through their presents and we’re off to my parents for more food and folly. This Christmas has been great. I hope all of yours have been as full of LOVE and JOY as mine has.

Blessings to all.

Oh… D will have another chance to rub my nose in something today, and when she does she is going to make it hurt I’m sure.  Ang

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Team Angi and Mat- 4 wins…  Team D and Heather-1 win… enough said.

Trivial Pursuit 80′s edition… My team won again… No… Dannielle was not on MY team… that means *gasp* She lost again!!

Before I so rudely interrupted myself in my enthusiasm for a night out… I was leading up to something. THINKING… all of my previous posts had been on thinking.

Have you ever noticed the wonder of the human mind is that most of us can adjust to anything. We have this ability to justify anything,  THAT,  to me is astounding. We have an inner moral compass that most of us follow, but we can also choose to ignore it and or change it as we see fit.

Lately I have been thinking.

I know amazing isn’t it.

(My brain has a few different centers, instead of rent it would say Mortgage, instead of Diet Coke it would say Mountain Dew, instead of cars it would be ART and instead of Marc Jacobs it would say  ’Do I really want to get dressed at all?’)

 I’ve been thinking about myself. Who I am and what affect I have on the world. I like it. I like me. I Don’t always like where I am. But I have the wonderful ability to change that. After all I am woman hear me ROAR… right?

Alright so once again I was side tracked… O, the cleverness of ME.

My point is that our brains have this ability to accept and change, to adapt. There aren’t many of us that wouldn’t steal if we had to, to feed our families if they were starving. Even though stealing is against what we morally believe. What about killing someone? I can say I would never kill another, but if someone hurt my family or put them in a situation, I would kill if I had to, to defend myself or them.

Thinking… ever noticed too that the wonderful little guy we all have sitting on our shoulder called GUILT… I sometimes call mine Carl, that he’s all in our heads too. I listen to my guilt, I don’t particularly enjoy it but it lets me know when I’ve done something wrong that I have to fix.

 If your someone else and your trying to make me feel guilty, forget about it, Carl only works for me. There’s nothing I can’t stand more then people who try to motivate by guilt.

Finally I’m coming to the crux of this pointless meander. JUSTIFICATION.

Have you ever done anything that you thought was wrong because you had a good reason for doing it?

Just wondering… Ang

Karaoke was fun last night. I started off the evening winning a sweatshirt. I wanted the t-shirt that said ‘hold my hammer while I nail your girlfriend’ but the DJ wouldn’t let me have it. Instead I got the sweatshirt with  The Big Easy written across the front… It was the name of the place we were at, not a description of the wearer…

My friend Angie did  Etta James ‘At Last’ and it was great as usual, I thought by far the best performance of the evening. When her brother’s turn rolled around he was announced and we all started pounding on the table and chanting his name, where’s Chris… he’s up. They started playing his music and Chris slides out onto the stage in a long white dress shirt, white socks, sunglasses and yes, his tightie whities. To the music of ‘Old Time Rock and Roll’… the women in the audience went wild…it was fun to see him shake his stuff, but I’m thinking ‘This is the little boy I used to take frogging???’  His Mom turned to me and said I wondered why he wanted to make sure all of that was washed. This was hysterically funny to me on two levels. 1.) It’s his Mom. 2.) He is 27 and owns his own home…why is his Mom still doing his laundry?

Well I don’t know who won because I cut out early. I was turning into a pumpkin. Over all it was a great night. I think I’ve had my group activity fix for a couple of weeks… I definitely know I won’t miss the cigarette smoke…

Oh, did not get hit on. But not disappointed… I know I still got it. heeheehee

No pictures guys I’m sorry, my camera does not do well in bars… I know I’m a horrible disappointment as a Xangan…

Don’t forget to  practice the set of pipes God gave you, remember all the world’s a stage… Ang 

I am going out tonight… NEWSFLASH… I don’t mean going grocery shopping… or late night Target trip. I mean OUT!!! I’m going to see my friends sing in a Kareoke (I have no idea how to spell that and I’m way to lazy to look it up) contest. I can’t wait to get totally stupid… I will be drinking water… although the thought of “Bring on the Mountain Dew, Bar Tender!” sounds good to me. I resolve to stand strong… Those of you who know me, know that I don’t need alcohol to get stupid.

So that’s what I’m doing. The prize is a cruise and both of my friends Angie and her brother Chris are in the running… Our job as their friends is to be loud and obnoxious. Of course they said lets invite Ang… lol 

MORE NEWS TO FOLLOW… Oh I wonder if anyone will hit on me besides my friend Kim… lol It’s always nice to know the magic isn’t gone. lol 

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I never said I was singing. I’m strictly cheer squad tonight.

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Shackpacker tagged me and here’s my photo… I have a much better one, but I am so tired that I’m having tired doing anything today… I hope this will satisfy the TAG… until tomorrow and I’ll change it…

I want to tell you ll everything but I’m having trouble seeing straight. lol And it’s not even midnight… all the screaming and excitement has just made me tired. lol  ang

Things I have over heard today that have made me giggle… went grocery shopping first thing this morning…

-floating over the top of the isle…woman’s voice. ” That is so HARD…” (I have no idea what this was referring too, I didn’t really need to know… )

I was standing in line behind two teen girls at the check out … They looked like Farrah Faucett-Barbies. Is that look coming back?

-one girl to the other. ” I really like your hair.”  response “Thanks, I blew it out…”

I know, I am so going to HELL…

I should clarify that I was able to contain myself in the grocery line…I didn’t laugh until I hit the door…

Hope you all are finding your day as amusing as I am so far. Ang

Church went well. I think Heavenly Father knows that a Sunday school teacher without caffeine is a Sunday school teacher on the edge, so all the little kiddies were on their best behavior, especially mine, which really surprised me.

Side note:  Endorphins do wonders for caffeine withdrawal head aches.

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Charlie, who turned eight last Saturday, had a friend over to spend the night as a late celebration. His little friend brought Charlie a present. I thought oh isn’t that nice of his Mom. Since we weren’t really having a party a present wasn’t necessary… It was a giant gift bag and inside it contained two types of plastic swords, a bow and suction cup arrows, a set of suction cup dart guns, and a bag of marbles…
When I first saw the swords I thought okay that’s not so bad… and then the items of torment kept coming…

I stood there and stared at the pile of bootie as the kids started attacking each other with the swords…And my daughter was eagerly opening the dart guns. Some of the things that ran through my head were… What was she thinking!!! What did I do to her?! Why does she hate me!!!

My head was throbbing and the sound level was rapidly increasing… I didn’t yell, I didn’t take anything away… I took the toddler upstairs and said have fun…don’t draw blood…

If there had been blood shed, she would have only herself to blame… I didn’t leave them totally unattended… Ben was there, as I was climbing the stairs a distinctly older male voice floated up the stairwell behind me… It was shouting ENGARD…

When I came down to face the mayhem this morning everything was pretty much in order, everyone’s digits were still attached… eyeballs were all still  intact… the house suffered minimal damage… and I managed to keep the Doomsayer at bay… I think I did ok… Just wait until his birthday…Actually do I have to wait until his birthday?  A have a Happy Christmas Vacation gift may be in order… What do you think?

*SIGH* I miss this…

-my head hurts.

-I’m tired.

-I’m Cranky.  (I hate being cranky.)

-I’m irritable.

I think I’ll have a coke…I’M KIDDING…yesh…

ang