Aloha Friday #12 Goin' Fishin

Play along at An Island Life for Aloha Friday. In Hawaii, Aloha Friday is the day that we take it easy and look forward to the weekend. So I thought that on Fridays I would take it easy on posting, too. Therefore, I’ll ask a simple question for you to answer. Nothing that requires a lengthy response. If you’d like to participate, just post your own question on your blog and leave your link at An Island Life. Don’t forget to visit the other participants! It’s a great way to make new bloggy friends!

My question this week…..

What have you had to fish out of your toilet?

I have little kids so I am sure you know where this is going. LOL… The other day my 5 year old is going potty when the one year old heads into the bathroom and picks up the 5 year olds “NEW” yoyo-ball and chucks it into the toilet. Now Luke is having a serious meltdown because his yoyo-ball has been dropped in the toilet and peed on. His meltdown is so bad you would have thought we just flushed a diamond ring down the toilet and it is just a $2. yoyo. Of course me being mom I have to go fishing and dig the ball out. Yuck!!! I put it in the sink to wash it but it has an enclosed center and water had made its way to the inside. I can’t clean it properly so I have to through it away. We had an evening filled with drama over this stupid ball.

Merry Christmas

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas!!!

I am working until noon today and then I am off until January 5th. I love these holiday breaks.

(Don't worry I will find lots of time to blog between now and the new year.)

The Ringing Heater Duct

In my house we have two cordless phones that we can never find. We have one hook in the kitchen and one in the office but there is never a phone on either hook. This drives me crazy when I am running around the house trying to follow the ring and can’t find the phone. I can’t blame anyone else because I am just as guilty about putting the phone back on the hook.

So the other day the phone is ringing and I can here it down on the floor somewhere in the living room. Thomas is notorious for putting the phones under the sofa or chair. So as it is ringing I am digging around under the sofa and chair and can’t find it. I here it but it is just not their. Well then I here my dad on my answering machine saying, can’t find your phone can you…. I hate that they know I haven’t picked up because the phone is MIA. After my dad finishes leaving his message I go push the phone locater button. I am looking all around the chair because that is where I here the ringing but still can’t find it.

I look up at my husband and say, “I think it is down in the heat duct”. We have this 100 year old farm house and some of the things about this house are really stupid. We have a big bay window in the living room that goes down to the floor so we have a chair in that space. The heat vent sits right in front of this space so it sits out in the room in front of the chair. Side note, this makes a great winter time seat with a blanket on top the vent blowing up in your blanket.

Eric pulls the cover off and sure enough the phone is down in the vent.

Thomas has found something new to play with. We would have never known he had been in it because he put the cover back on. Now about two hours later we walk in the living room and find about 10 toys stuffed down the vent and a toy sword sticking out so we new he had been in their that time. It never ends with this child…..

Oh and now my TV remote has been MIA for about three days. It is not in the heat vent, at least not that heat vent. I have about 6 others I should probably be checking.

Tis' the Season....

So this year I have been dragging my feet on the shopping and everything related to Christmas. I have come up with every excuse possible not to have to get out their and go shopping. Well I finally got myself out shopping to try and get some of it done. Let’s just say it has not been a pleasant holiday shopping experience.

I took both boys to Kohl’s one evening to get a few things on my list. My mom wanted a can opener that you mount under the counter. They had a really nice one at Kohl’s but they only had the display out. Do you think I could find a single sole to help me? Nope, not one… I thought I will go back to customer service and ask for help, the line was forever and a day long so I wasn’t doing that. Finally after about 30 minutes I gave up and went home. I can’t deal with that especially when Luke is begging me to buy him some Sketcher’s tennis shoes. He has new shoes and they fit fine so he doesn’t need new shoes. He has a big fit over the shoe thing and it made for a not so fun trip.

Friday afternoon I pick Luke up from school and we go to Meijer to do a little shopping while his little brother is at the sitter. We find a few things and then Luke tells me he needs to potty. Meijer’s restrooms are between the front doors of the store. So I park my cart off to the side and take him potty. We go back to our shopping and not even 10 minutes has passed and he tells me he needs to poop. Seriously, were we not just in the bathroom? I was not a happy parent so I tell him we are checking out and then he can go. I quickly check out (not finished shopping) and then I take him potty again. Well at this point I am done trying to shop with kids and we just go home.

Now for all the crazy shoppers out their… two crazy ladies tried to run me down in the Meijer parking lot. One was just oblivious to who had the right of way… that’s OK my breaks work so I will be happy to slam on them for you. Then while at Kohl’s I got lucky and got a good parking spot. As I am leaving some girl wants my spot. As I am backing out she keeps pulling up closer, not giving me an inch to get out. She is right smack in the center of the lane and still moving forward… hello you can’t get in the spot if I can’t get out. Seriously people… a little patients’ goes a long way.

The trip to the grocery store… I pull into a spot and another girl is pulling into the same spot on the opposite side of the lot. She calls me a Bi@#@ because she can’t pull through. Obviously she doesn’t know how to back out of a spot because that was just uncalled for. So then she backs up and parks in the spot right next to that one. Makes no sense to me and she didn’t need to call me a name.

Took the boys to see Santa on Saturday and the line was nice and short. I spent $10.00 on one 5x7 picture that was not very good but they wont let you use your own cameras. When did Santa becomes so commercialized? When I was a kid we saw Santa to tell him what we wanted, not to take over priced pictures. As we are leaving we are going through JC Penny’s. It was a pretty busy store and some lady is in standing right smack in the middle of the isle talking to someone standing in the cloths. She get’s all pissy because she has to let people walk through. If I could have recorded her it would have been great. The attitude she was reflecting was so childish it was almost funny. Then I have a big mouth because after we walk past her snotty jesters I say to my husband, “I didn’t know we were being such an inconvenience needing to walk down an isle. Someone needs to grow up!”

Needless to say, I have had my fill of shopping/shoppers and I am still not finished. I am going to head out at lunch time today, freeze by butt off and just get it done. I can’t keep doing this. Hopefully everyone is a little nicer today.

Have you experienced the crazy shoppers or unpleasant store help? Have you just experienced something totally bizarre this shopping season? I hope for all of your sakes, you comment with good shopping experiences because I have to believe there is good in this world and everyone isn’t this uptight.