Ramblings

Having a heck of a time getting into blogger lately. I an get to my own blog, but I cant get to the page to add posts. its very frustrating!

Christmas was nice. Didnt go anywhere. kids were up early, unwrapped everything, we ate some cinnamon rolls, played with our new toys. I even made turkey which I havent done in forever. but it was turkey breast in the crockpot. LOL it turned out yummy though! and most of it got eaten. (I tried a new recipe I found online)

at some point we opened up the wii, but I dont remember if it was Christmas day or not. We also got the wii fit and have been having fun trying to beat each others scores on it. I am the ski jump champion! haha i have never actually skiied a day in my life! is it skiied or skiid neither one looks right to me. skii'ed ski'ed hmm

anyways

im a wee bit wii sore. i crack myself up :)


so then New Years came. Tyler and Tanner went to a youth activity at someones house and the rest of us stayed home and watched movies and listened to the fireworks at midnight. there were a lot more around us this year than last! we stood in the backyard and could see them all around us. Abby didnt like them and later when we were walking upstairs so she could go to bed, she told me that she thought that was way too many fireworks for one night.

so its 2009.
I still dont have my Christmas cards mailed. theyre in envelopes waiting for the pics to be put in them and addresses put on..... but my excuse is that the PO has been out of stamps for a loooong time now! how does that happen?

its like when we lived in Maine and the pizza hut ran out of dough one time and pepperoni one time and sauce one time.. ummmm your whole business is pizza.. how do you run out of DOUGH???

it happened here too.. popeyes chicken.. they ran out of CHICKEN!

what the heck!?

the kids went back to school today and I SLEPT most of the day away. i know, its not a good thing but it sure felt good to crawl back into bed after they left!
theyre home now and the house is suddenly very LOUD again. sigh. i love my kids- i really do- but i also love it when theyre all in school LOL

it snowed today.. it might still be snowing.. i dont like it. its pretty to look at but i dont like it anymore. i think living in Maine totally ruined snow for me. maybe if things didnt get slick or slushy id like it more.. i dunno.

i went to bingo again last week. didnt win a thing. susan didnt either and neither of us did last month.. im starting to worry that she will think im her bad luck! hahaha she did win last week.. sort of. she got bingo on both of her cards.. but so did half the room so they had to make it so there was one winner and she wasnt it. bleh. this month was dooney and bourke. next month is vera bradley and i wouldnt mind going again since i must be the only person that doesnt have something of hers yet. i just cant spend the money on a purse or bag or whatever..

tomorrow my friend is coming to visit.. her daughter is a teenager and shes coming too.. they only have one day here and i am stressing over what to do with them! im also stressing a tiny bit about the ride to the airport in the morning by myself. ugh. esp if its snowy still. but really.. what do you do with someone in this area that hasnt been to germany before?????
we could eat all day.. brotchen, ice cream, bratwurst, cake, schnitzel, doner... but i dont think thats the best plan.
i would take them to some castle ruins or something but dang its cold out there!
and no one seems to know when the schnitzelhaus is closed.. of course i dont know how to get a phone number for them. im afraid theyll be closed tomorrow and i dont know where else there is some REALLY good schnitzel. ive found good schnitzel, but not super good.

Abby said something funny to me this morning that i wanted to post, but i cant remember it now. of course. i have zero short term memory.

thanks to susan, im craving hot chocolate.. might have to make some today.

travis has another dr. appt tomorrow.. hopefully sometime soon we will know if hes getting into the AF or not.. this medical run around stuff has been insane.

so i think thats it for now.. i will try again later or tomorrow.. if blogger decides to let me in again.

ooh and i have to come back online tonight because SU is putting out the retiring accessories list at 8 my time.. i think.. its at noon mountain time.. so i think thats 8 my time.. we'll see.
if youre interested in any of it, get it while its available because that stuff goes fast! you can see it on my website later tonight.. www.gingerburke.stampinup.net

and THAT cracks me up that i would post that on here when i havent even told people about my blog! i know susan checks it some.. so susan, now you know! roflol