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Writer's Workshop, Brought to you by Mama's Loosin' It.

1.) What is your life's anthem? You know...that song that is ALWAYS in your head. The one you'd go to sing first if someone told you to sing a song right NOW. What is it and what does it mean to you?

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"LIFE" Anthem is kind of difficult for me, seeing as I love so much music and I probably have a different song for every point in my life. So I give you my FAVORITE song of the moment. Why? Because I just love the lyrics. I think they're clever, hilarious, and catchy as hell, and I've been walking around singin this song for months and it just doesn't get old. It's fun!

My favorite line..."Do the Helen Keller and talk with your hips"...
AND, "tell your boyfriend, if he says he's got beef that I'm a vegetarian and I ain't f-in scared of him"

Don't know why, but I love it!

To Our Concerned neighbor..Anymore suggestions?

Step 1...the Letter

A couple weeks ago we received an anonymous letter in the mail. With a stamp and everything and no return address. We opened the letter to find something resembling the following...

Dear Resident,

Every time I pass your home I want to cry. If Former owner had ever seen what happened to his Garden of Eden he would roll over in his grave. People would come from all over the area to admire his pristine and wonderful yard. Certainly you could do more with it than you have in order to maintain the yard's image, as well as your own.

Sincerely,
Concerned Neighbor

First of all here is my response to that.
1) We are not 80 years old and retired. We are full time working parents of 4.
2) We are well aware that we cannot keep up on this yard the way it was currently designed. I Am well aware that properly kept this yard is absolutely beautiful, however, It is not possible for us to properly keep it up.
3) And Foremost, if you had the decency of a GOOD neighbor to actually KNOCK on my door and get to know us, you would first of all KNOW all of this, and know that we plan to remedy the situation THIS YEAR, and number 2 you would KNOW how many other problems we have had in this old house recently that would be a perfect reason for us to not embed on ANOTHER project as of yet...

BUT since Concerned neighbor must be appeased, and since said letter made me feel really really shitty about my yard's image, and since hubby thinks any long weekend is the perfect excuse to start a New project...

Here is what we did this weekend!The Garden of Eden has now been replaced with a gigantic freaking dirt hole! I do not know if we will be able to even get around to getting grass planted this year, because it will soon be so hot that it will be hard to start new grass, but I'm sure we will try. We are still not sure as to the identity of Concerned Neighbor, but I am sure that it was one of the 25 people who on their way to and from church on Sunday came to a screeching halt in front of my now yardless yard with mouths gaping a looking as if they were about to have a heart attack...However, since you think that it is your business what we do and don't do in this old house, but it is none of our business who you are, we will be placing a suggestion box in our dirt hole where you can feel free to put any more of your anonymous suggestions. Thank you so much for your concern.
SUGGESTIONS WELCOME
p.s. this is not actually my yard, as my yard has no live vegetation left at this moment.

Lettin it ALL hang out!

Did I seriously do this!

Yes I have hit my all time most brainless moment as a scatterbrained mother of 4. Let me recap.

Yesterday morning I woke up late. 7:30 to be exact. I had all 4 kids, because Austin and Lex are off track, and Kielee had to be to school by 8:10. So I had 30 minutes to dress, feed, brush hair and get out the door for myself and 4 kids. Well on one hand, You could say I'm completely amazing because I made it. Kielee was on time for school, and eveyone was in tow ready to be dropped off at different babysitters (my babysitting woes is a whole other story) So I dropped Kielee off, and dropped Reese off, and drove all t he way out of my way, and dropped Austin and Lex off. I was on my way to work (about 1/2 later than normal, cause of all the dropping off) and I had an itch on my boob. I reached under my jacket, and under my thin tank top cause I had to get under the bra for this one, and lo and behold....
I WAS BRALESS!!!! Yes somehow in my morning rush, I forgot to put on a freakin bra!!!
And, yes I am part of the itty bitty titty commity, so what!

Anyway, I felt completely violated! Here I am sittin in my car, all alone, nobody knows I'm not wearing a bra, and I am so embarressed. So I pull over to the first place I see that sells bras. I go walking into Target, arms folded across my chest, head down, praying that no one is looking at my unconfined boobies! I go, pick out an inexpensive over the shoulder boulder...I mean pebble holder, and standing in line, I just KNOW everyone knows that I am braless, because why else would I just be buying a bra. It's like going to the store and JUST buying tampons, OBVIOUSLY Aunt flow is visiting.
THEN I go out to my car, drive to the far side of the parking lot where NO ONE is parked, and proceed to put it on. Then out of no where, with a MILLION other parking spaces, all of them closer to the actual store comes one of those "my car is too nice to park by anyone else" people, and parks RIGHT NEXT to me!! OMG! Can I just get a break. I think I pulled off the whole looking natural thing, when I suddenly pretended to be straitening my shirt,with the bra buckled around my stomach, looking like some freaky person waiting to do some kind of drug deal or something (I am so paranoid huh) Needless to say when said person finally got out of their car and walked away, I put that sucker on as fast as I could and got the hell out of there.

I guess the moral of the story is, I now have a new addition to my morning routine...check that I am wearing all nessecary undergarments!

DUH JAIME!

Our New American Idol!!!

Congratulations Kris Allen!!!
I ♥ You

I know there is a ton of controversy over Kris winning last night. And I know there are a lot of disappointed Adam Lambert fans out there. But just let me tell you exactly why I am so happy with last nights results.

I LOVE KRIS, I'm a huge fan of boys who play the acoustic guitar and have that grungy voice and sing songs with awesome lyrics and messages (ie: Dashboard Confessional, Second Hand Serenade) It is no secret that this is my FAVORITE kind of music. And when Kris started showing his true abilities, I was in love.

I started out the season IN LOVE with Danny Gokey. I thought he had it in the bag every time I seen him, until they got down to about the top 5 or 6, then, he started to bore me. It was the same old Danny every time. Sure he is a great singer, and will probably go on to make a good album, but he just started to bore me.

I also have been a HUGE Adam fan the ENTIRE show. I think that Adam is definately one of the most, if not the most talented and conditioned performers to hit the Idol stage EVER. He is refined and at an entirely different level than ANYONE else in this year's compitition. This is why many people think he should have won the whole thing. And I'll tell you, if he won, I would have been fine with that too. I think he's absolutely amazing.

but let me tell you MY opinion to why I think America made the right decision last night...

Did you HEAR the song that was written to be the winning Idol's first single... That would be a disaster for Adam. I think Adam needs to have a little more freedom and his album needs to take a differnet direction than the Idol winner would be provided. I think Kris, is a good fit for what they do to the Idol winners. He fits the kind of music they like to fill Idol Winners first albums with. Adam on the other hand is one of a kind. He needs to be embraced and marketed as just that, the ONE AND ONLY Adam Lambert. His style, and vocal abilities can take him far, if they pair him with the RIGHT writers, and music style. But rushing him to the studio to put out an AMERICAN IDOL WINNER album right away I think will do him no justice.

Take David Cook for example, he was my favorite contestant last year. He is a great singer, musician, and song writer. I think, by listening to a lot of his album, that although I like it alright, so much of what I LOVED about him was lost in the main stream transition that IS Idol. David Cook put out his own album, before he ever went on Idol, and I heard the songs off of that album, and the writing, musically, and lyrically was perfet. (imho) I think his passion, when performing HIS OWN music, shows through so much more than when he sings the songs you know where hand picked, pre-written, by some one else (just look at last night's performance for example, no doubt he wrote that one). Although I do realize that he wrote/ or co-wrote ALMOST every song on the album, I think it's apparent that a lot of artistic control was lost when he won Idol. He went from being so original, and now MOST of his album is so much like every other "rocker" out there.

Adam on the other hand cannot be just lumped into the "Idol Rocker" category. He will go on to do bigger and better things as the Idol Runner up, than I think he could have done as the Idol winner. So there My friends, I have shared my piece. I hope I haven't offended any Adam fans, because I stress it again, I LOVE Adam!

So to both of the Idol Finalists....

Congratualtions! You were BOTH the right choice!!!