Writer's Workshop Today I Will...

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Today I will work hard to get done what I need to
Today I will eat Pei Wei Spicy Chicken, and remember that I could eat it every day!
Today I will smile
Today I will laugh
Today I will talk to my sister
Today I will hold my babies and tell them I love them
Today I will go home and pack for beautiful San Diego
Today I will get frustrated with Reese
Today I will forget I was frustrated as soon as she does something cute
Today I will pace and look out the window 20 times when it gets close to the time Kielee is coming home from her dad's, because I still miss her terribly when she's gone
Today I will do MORE laundry
Today I will get irritated with my Hubby when he tries to fondle me while loading the dishwasher
But then I will laugh, because I should know if I'm going to load the dishwasher I'm going to get fondled...it's just my husband
Today I will enjoy my "quiet day" which is what Wednesday's are at my house
Today I will water my new garden cause I'm an awesome gardener
Today I will notice the little things I love about my life
Today I will have a drink cause it just sounds good!

Writer's Workshop ♥ Why did I do it?

Writer's workshop week 2! Yes I am staying committed to something!! Yay for me!! If you want to see the rules and other topic's visit Mama Kat's page
So now, on with the show.



Yes that's right I have taken on QUITTING SMOKING Finally! Hey now, I'm only on day 2 with the patch, so I can't say I have actually quit, but I feel really good about it this time. So Why did I do it? Well for the first time ever I can say I DID NOT do it for anyone else. That's a big plus. Every other time I tried to quit because Kielee's dad said I "had" to, it didn't work, cause...well I suppose because I hate being told what to do lol, so then I just became all pro at hiding it. Not good.

so why did I do it?

Well for the first time since I started smoking, I really WANT to quit. I'm done. Actually I've been done for a quite awhile, but scared to take the challenge. I hear so much about how hard it is...and I've smoked for a really long time, so yeah I was scared. And then the big News hits on April 1st cigarette taxes are going up, and that means they will now be $7 a pack! EXCUSE ME!














So there's the REAL trigger for the entire thing. That's A LOT of money.

Yesterday though I discovered something that I think is really going to help me. It really means a lot to my kids that we don't smoke. They were all so excited when they found out I was going to try. I know they've made comments about it forever, but I always just brushed it off as them repeating things they've heard in school, or on the tv, or radio commercials. But I realized that they really do want us to be healthy, and freaking ALIVE for many years to come. And they know smoking isn't good for you, and it does matter to them. So now there is a someone else involved, although it's not FOR them, it is really good to have that weighing on me. They are one of the most special things in my life, and being a good mother is very important to me as well (also something I have been thinking a lot about lately, but that's a whole nother post) Anyway, I want to make my kids proud. I want to be an good example, I can't tell them to NOT do something because it's bad for you while I sit there and puff away myself. I mean I CAN but seriously, how serious are they going to take me at that point. I think this is really a good realization for me, to help me keep my goal. That and if Kielee keeps it up, she might guilt me into it anyway. The first thing she said this morning when she woke up was "MOM...did you smoke?" I'm like dang girl, I went to bed and woke up, no I have not smoked lol...but thank you for your support, in your round about little Pookie way.

Kielee is such a a goof

So I was looking through my pictures and I ran across this one. It's a little old, but I felt like I had to post it cause it made me laugh. This is My Kielee Panty head (Come on they're clean, hell some of them are probably brand new cause that's how we roll at my house! With 3 girls, and 2 so close in age, things get buried sometimes). Kielee is such a strange little soul, but she's defiantly a lot of fun and full of personality. See Reese had a tendency to find the big girl panties, and for some reason she thinks they look like hats. So Kielee, being the little attention seeker that she is, when we laugh at Reese about something she automatically goes into "Well I can be funny too!" mode. On this particular day, she went above and beyond and even looking back at this picture, I remember she had me laughing so hard I had tears running down my cheeks. And the big ol' ham that she is, i got some good pics. She's still beautiful, no matter how goofy she tries to look.

Writer's Workshop!

Over at Mama Kat's blog I found that she does a weekly writers workshop. Since I am trying to be better about blogging, but have a hard time getting my creative juices flowing sometimes, I decided that I am going to commit to do at least this every week. If you want to check it out...go over to Mama's Losin' It!

My chosen topic this week...Your friend tells you he can pick up any girl at the bar, no matter what he says. You bet him $100 he can't. Create the world's worst pick up line and send your friend off into the crowd. What happens?

This my friends is hilarious! Because this truly happened not too long ago. You see we have these friends named Kerrie and Mike, and they have this really love hate relationship. Sometimes they just need a break from each other, and this little story happened during one of their infamous 1-2 week break ups.

A bunch of us decided to go to dinner together, as couples, it was Us, Brandie and OD, Sean and Angie, Nick and Kristine, and Mike...because he was at this very moment in time, staying with Brandie and OD, so he got to tag along. Mike is a very social guy and I swear he has NO SHAME. He will do or say anything, and he'll do it for $1, not $100. Hahaha. So we're having dinner and out comes the challenge. Mike's challenge of the night is to go up to as many girls as it takes and use the following pick-up line, and he has to keep doing it until he gives up, or gets a phone number. If he actually got a phone number, I really do think the bet was for a pack of cigs or something. The pick up line, which I think would definitely be classified as the worst EVER was this

"Hi, I'm Mike, I'm 34, I have no job and I'm living in my friends spare room, do you think you'd want to go out sometime?"

So we have this really cute little waitress, who you can just tell is really shy. He decides to make her his first target, I guess we should have set some ground rules cause after he completely humiliated her, she avoided our table as much as she could the rest of the night which really made it hard to keep my alcohol flowing to maintain my happy little buzz I had after that first Margarita. I &hearts Presidente Margaritas! I finally got another one though, and the greatest thing about them is that they are good for about 3 drinks in 1. Thank goodness. So as the buzzes got bigger Mike started getting more and more diligent about getting a phone number, or embarrassing everyone at the table I can't decide which. But he started offering up all of us. Like Come on! My friends Jaime and Shane over there just asked me to find someone for them to take home tonight...Or Brandie and OD really want me to find someone to help me pay the rent I owe them. It was hilarious and none of us could stop laughing, but believe me, we did walk out of there with one very good lesson learned. Do not bet Mike anything that could be potentially embarrassing. Cause if the bet is that he has to get a phone number, he will do anything to get that phone number! Plus, as with anything I've ever seen when everyone thinks we'll all get a good laugh at Mike's expense, it usually backfires.

The other thing we learned is that we probably don't ever want to put him and Jessica in a public situation together... although that could really make for some great laughs.