Zombie Killer

May 152012
 

Last Friday night Chris and I went shooting again.  I tell ya, it’s one of the funnest date night things that we do.  This time we decided to bring our own targets with us instead of using the plain, boring ones that the range provides.  I found some really cool Zombie targets at Walmart when I was shopping one day and I just had to have them.

All I have to say is that when zombies take over the world, I’m totally going to be prepared.  Check it out…..

50 rounds…..all to the head.

For those of you who are also my Facebook friends, you’ve already seen this picture in all its awesomeness, but it’s so badass that it totally deserves a second look.  Well, at least I think so.

I’m Not Ignoring You….I Swear

May 092012
 

Yesterday, as I opened yet another email inviting me to some fabulous event (an event in which I have no intention of attending), I realized that I’ve seriously been out of touch as of late and owe lots of people an apology and/or at a minimum, an explanation.  I mean, blogger events that I have been invited to have been going unattended, I haven’t met up with any of my friends in weeks (with the exception of a quick, unplanned run-in at the gym) and frankly, I feel like I’ve been neglecting my blogging lately, too – or maybe that one is all in my head, but the other two definitely are not. Continue reading »

Cold Feet

May 042012
 

Do you ever get cold feet?  Literally?

Sadly, the state of my tootsies has become a major issue for me lately. It all started a few months ago when I got put on meds for high blood pressure, which I am positive are causing my BP to run really low these days.  I was always the type of person that ran hot, but ever since I started those pills, I am cold all the damn time.  My poor tootsies get so cold that when they do finally thaw out, they sting like a son of a biscuit.  Oh, and that’s not to mention that my frozen feet have been keeping me from falling asleep at night.

But after about two months of suffering…..and I do mean suffering, I have finally found the solution.  My husband, Chris.

What I do is wait for him to roll over on his side that faces away from me and as soon as he does, I quickly stick my feet in the bend of his legs behind his knees.  It’s SO nice and warm in there and it’s almost like that spot was made especially for thawing out my tootsies. Continue reading »

Death is Part of Life

May 022012
 

Last Saturday, I received a call from my mother in which she informed me that my grandmother (my dad’s mom) only had a few days left.  She stopped eating and was basically unresponsive.    She died on Monday.

Her and I weren’t close and to be honest, I haven’t seen her in years.  When I was a kid, my dad would take my sister, my brother and me to go visit her and I truly loved going over to see her.  But over the years, she made it blatantly clear that she could not care less about not only the three of us, but my children.   I mean, no acknowledgement what so ever on her part.  No phone calls. No Christmas presents.  No birthday cards.  Nothing. It would have been a much easier pill to swallow if the three of us weren’t painfully aware of the fact that my grandmother was very close to our two cousins and they got all the cards and acknowledgements that we didn’t.  In fairness, she did buy us Christmas and birthday gifts when we were kids, so it wasn’t always like that, but I’m in my mid 30′s and I haven’t gotten so much as a phone call from her in at least 12 to 15 years.  I’ve gone to see her a few times (before I had kids) and my dad has taken my boys to see her a few times, but those visits were all at my fathers insistence request. So after years of being treated as a second-rate grandchild, I pretty much wrote her off (as did my sister & brother). Continue reading »

My Favorite Board Games

Apr 262012
 

I love playing board games.  Sadly, these days I don’t play them as much as I used to.  With all the kids activities, work, Zumba and everything else – games honestly don’t even rank anymore – unless it’s Candy Land, Hi Ho Cherry-O or Chutes & Ladders.

But when I do play, these are the ones that I like the most:

The Game of Life.  I remember playing with my sister when we were younger and both of us would cheat relentlessly to try to land on one of those spaces in which we would end up with a set of twins.  Clearly, neither of us had any clue how much work babies were back then, otherwise we would have cheated relentlessly to avoid any spaces involving the addition of little pink or blue pegs to our vehicles.  The thing about this game is that it never gets old….and that’s why it’s a classic. Continue reading »

Zumba Whore

Apr 172012
 

Remember last month when I told you about how I survived my first Zumba class?  I took my very first class at my gym and I really liked it, but they don’t offer as many classes as I’d like.  Well actually, it’s more like the times they offer them don’t coordinate with my schedule – and they don’t offer any weekend Zumba, which hugely bums me out.   So, I had to seek out Zumba elsewhere since I can only make it to a class at the gym once or twice a week…and Zumba is much too much fun to only go once or twice a week.

So, the weekend after I took my first class at my gym, I was itching to do some Zumba, so I found a Zumba studio near by and the instructor was even better than the one whose class I took at my gym.  Not that the instructor at my gym was bad, because she’s not and I’ve taken her class several times since then, but being with someone new totally changed things up.  In a really good way.

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April School Vacation is Coming – Whether I Like it or Not

Apr 122012
 

Sigh.  Next week is school vacay around these parts and I’m already dreading it like you wouldn’t believe.  The kids have off every weekend, so I really don’t understand why they need a week off in December, February and April – not to mention the two and a half months they have off over the summer.  There must be a place where the kids go to school year round – and when I find out where that place is, I am going to seriously consider moving there.

I digress……

The thing about school vacations is that they are more trouble than they’re worth – at least for me they are.  I have to re-schedule all sorts of things, like my work schedule and a couple of weekly reoccurring appointments to accommodate the kids.  Don’t the people in the school system realize what a burden it is on working parents to have to figure out what to do with the kids all day long for an entire week?  Sure, I work from home, but it’s not like I can really work when the kids are here beating the snot out of each other.  So I’m forced to find things to occupy them for the week.  And that means taking them out in public.  Here lies the problem……every place is packed during vacation week.

So, right now I’m scrambling to plan my week next week and except for a trip to the zoo with a friend of mine one of the days – that’s all I’ve got.  And that’s not good.

There’s a very good chance my brain will slowly  rot over the course of the week and I’m just praying that we all make it out alive.

Any suggestions for places to go and things to do?

Lost in the Woods

Apr 092012
 

Over the weekend, my hubby, Chris, and I were looking for something to do, so we decided to go for a walk.  We usually hit up Massasoit State park in Taunton, MA, but this time we were feeling adventurous, so we decided to go walk at Pratt Farm, which is right in our own town.  If that name sounds familiar, you may remember me telling you last month about my encounter with a creepy guy at the same place that had me scared shitless.  But since Chris was going with me, I figured it would be all good.

Not so much.

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Easter Plans

Apr 062012
 

I host Easter dinner at my home every year.  It started the year after I had my first son and this will be my sixth year of hosting.  Prior to having children, my ex-husband and I used to split our time on Easter (and Thanksgiving) between our parents houses.  My father works the night shift, so my mother made dinner later and his mother always served dinner around 1 pm – so it always worked out for us.  Once we had our first baby, we found out rather quickly that it was more of a struggle to fit in visits with both sides of the family and tend to the baby’s needs (ie nap time, etc).  So, the following year, I told everyone to come to my place and that’s how it was going to be if they wanted to see us, which of course they did. Continue reading »

My Inner Nerd

Apr 052012
 

I was perusing the internet yesterday in search of cool family car decals.  I don’t want the stick figure ones that every one else has, though, so I have been going back and forth between Disney ones and Star Wars ones – hence the inner nerd.  As much as I love all things Disney, and you all know I do, I decided that Star Wars ones were just too cool not to get.  Am I right?

So I started Googling….and came up with these ones on Ebay:

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Foods I Thought Would Be Hard To Give Up – But Weren’t

Apr 032012
 

Since I was hospitalized in early February for extremely high blood pressure,  I’ve really been working hard to lose weight and eat healthier in general.  When I first started changing the way I eat, my brother in law’s girlfriend really helped me figure out what I should be eating and should not be eating.  My problem is that I really like to eat.  Actually, scratch that – I love to eat.  But since I’ve cut out a lot of the more delicious unhealthy foods from my diet, I’ve really never felt better…..well, that and the fact that I bust my fanny at the gym every day.  The thing is, I don’t miss most of the food I used to eat.  If I never ate another french fry from McDonald’s, I’d be totally ok with that.  I am determined not to give into temptation, but to be honest, I have no desire to eat any of those sort of things anymore.

Here are a few things that I thought would be really tough to give up, but weren’t.

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I Finally Took Zumba – and I Survived!

Mar 302012
 

Anyone who knows me, knows that I’ve been dying to take a Zumba class.  When I go to the gym, the majority of my time is spent walking or on the elliptical, so I have been thinking that it was time to add something new into the mix.   As I am walking at the gym on Thursday nights, I see the Zumba class in action and it looked like a really fun way to get in a workout. To be honest, I had been really hesitant to take Zumba at my gym, though.  Remember a couple of weeks back when I told you about the second floor walking track at my gym?  Well, I really didn’t want any of the other regular walkers gawking at me from up above – especially when I was fumbling to keep up – and that had been totally holding me back.

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Hi My Name is Robin and I’m a Blistex Addict

Mar 292012
 

If anyone were to ask me what item I just couldn’t live without, hands down it would be my Blistex. I specifically use the kind in the little blue tub, which is seemingly harder to find than the kind in the little pink tub (which doesn’t work half as well by the way).  I currently have about ten tubs all over my house – and one in my car- because I just never know when I’ll need my fix.

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Packin’ Heat

Mar 262012
 

Last week, Chris told me that he planned a surprise date for us.  Because I am an awful nag, I got it out of him and was super excited when he told me that we were going to the shooting range.  I haven’t shot a gun in several years and even though he’s in the military, he had never shot a hand gun (he usually shoots with the big guns…think M-16).

Because of the fact that Chris has never shot a hand gun, and since it’s been a while for me, we took a beginners class.  The instructor taught us basic gun safety, showed us how to load the guns, how to stand correctly and how to aim properly.  I’m right handed, but left eye dominant, so I have to turn my head to the right in order to get anywhere near the target.

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Important Life Questions

Mar 232012
 

It’s been quiet around my house this week.  The weather has been gorgeous here in New England this week (thank you Mother Nature….or should I be thankful for global warming?) and the kids have been outside every day.  And we all know what that means, right?  They’re worn out from burning off all that energy, so they’ve been really chill all week.  I’m not really sure what the reason is, but I guess since it’s been such a relaxed week around here, I have had a lot of time to think.  Not necessarily about anything in particular,  but all kinds of random goodness.  And I know you expect nothing less from me by now.

Here are some of the burning thoughts/questions that have been on my mind the past few days:

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BUSTED!

Mar 222012
 

On Monday night, my husband, Chris and I put the kids to bed and then sat down on the couch to watch something that came in from Netflix. It was about 8 pm when all of the sudden my four year old called me.  He had already been in bed for close to an hour and I was surprised that he was still up.  I asked him what he needed and he asked me when Chris & I were going to bed.  My response was “in a little while” and then I told him to go to sleep because it was late.  A little while later he calls for Chris, so Chris goes into his room and tells him the same thing that I did.  About a half hour later the same exact thing happens.

I have no idea what he was doing awake so late (he normally goes to bed at 7 pm), but around 9 pm he calls me again.  He still wanted to know when we were going to bed.  I told him that Chris was already in bed and that I was going in a minute.  Chris wasn’t in bed, but I thought that if I told the little guy he was, it would put his mind at ease and he’d finally go to sleep.

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Spring Cleaning

Mar 202012
 

I’ve caught the bug.  The spring cleaning bug that is.  I was upstairs in my bedroom about a week ago and I didn’t like I what I saw.  At all.  I’m not sure why, but my bedroom seemed to become a dumping ground.  Whenever we had something that we didn’t know what to do with, it ended upstairs on the floor of my room.

Since my husband, Chris, was away for the military this past weekend, I busted out the trash bags on Friday night and went to work.  I tore the room apart and got rid of all the crap that we didn’t need or want anymore. It took me hours, but I finally have my room back.  I would have taken pictures of the mess, but it was so embarrassing that I didn’t want the entire world to know just how bad it was.

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