Arizona always seems to be in the news for the dumbest things. Evan Mecham, Fife Symington ( are you people old enough to remember how their antics were ‘answers’ on Jeopardy?’  We have a crazy sheriff, there’s SB 1070, you can now carry a concealed weapon without a permit…….  I mean politically Arizona is, how can i say this delicately…. weird.

This week our governor managed to make a fool of herself like 3 days in a row.  Keep in mind she’s not the one we elected into the position.  Obama took Janet Napolitano to be his Homeland Security secretary and that pushed Brewer into the governors seat.  In the past week the entire country has been talking about her and her latest TV appearances.  If Saturday Night Live had started a new season, guaranteed they’d be doing a skit of this.

generally I do not like to talk politics at all.   unless it’s with my husband.  I am in the minority where I live.   I believe what I believe and don’t feel the need to push it down anyone’s throat.

The Cardinals let Matt Leinart go, the guy who was supposed to be our star Quarterback.    He was supposed to be the starting QB on our team and was until he got hurt and then Kurt Warner took over and just blew Leinart out of the water.   Warner retired and in pre season games it appears Leinart couldn’t cut it, was let go and is being replaced by rookies.   ROOKIES.

Speaking of Kurt Warner, he’s on Dancing with the Stars this season and I bet you right now he gets talked to about his posture.   He’s kind of a huncher.

Still speaking of DWTS, I cannot believe Bristol Palin is on the show.

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1. What do you do when you have time to yourself?

I don’t have kids or anything so I have a lot of time to myself.   i clean, watch a lot of tv, wander around aimlessly.

2. When you look out your kitchen window, what do you see?

My neighbors kitchen window and our side patio.

3. Who/What would you want to be reincarnated as?

someone with a smoking hot bod, nice boobs and a pretty face.  or a puppy.  preferably a puppy who gets to live in a house like mine.

4. What is your biggest pet peeve about other people’s kids?

how some people just let their kids run wild in public.   example i was getting tires last week and this woman with her two small boys, around the ages of 3-4 came in.   they knocked over multiple tires that were set out as a display.   they shook the candy machine.  they screamed at the top of their lungs.  they started fighting each other.   every once in a while the mom would go, “boys, stop”.  she said it very quietly without authority.  then they started chasing each other around the waiting room screaming.  it only ended when they left.   i almost grabbed one of them as they ran past me, to get them to stop.  but if someone grabbed my child like that, i’d pop that person in the face.

5. Regular or Diet soda?

Diet fo sho.   I know diet soda is not good for you and i know that they say drinking diet soda makes you fat.  but i HEART DIET COKE and really don’t drink that much of it and drink the caffeine free kind.   as if that makes any difference.

Happy Blog hopping!!!

My husband was (is) out of town on an overnight business trip, he’ll be back today.   I was a little sad last night when I was sitting there eating dinner alone without him.  But at least it was only one night!  we’re not joined at the hip but we don’t spend a lot of time apart, if that makes any sense.

the other night our snake threw up two dead mice he’d eaten the day prior.   i only tell you this because if i had to smell that, you have to read about it.  and maybe create your own visual.   i’m just thankful he threw them up just before my husband left because there was no way i was sticking my hand in that tank with a hungry snake.

I don’t know if you guys watch Dancing With the Stars, but this seasons stars were announced yesterday and I am none too pleased.   I am especially unhappy about one of the ‘stars’.   She’s not even a star, she’s there based upon who her mother is and she’ll probably run away with a ton of votes because of that.    Everyone thought Kate Gosselin was a bad pick, this was worse.  As you can see, I’m very passionate about my shows!!

I just got tagged, I love getting tagged for things like this!!!   Thank you  Ann James!!!

What’s this mean? It means I’ve been slated to answer 8 quick questions about myself and to tag some of my BFFs in return. Here goes:

1. Milk Chocolate or Dark Chocolate?
I love both but milk chocolate is my go to.  I eat chocolate chips by the handful.

2. What’s your favorite color?
I don’t think I have a clear favorite.  I really like blue (can you tell by my blog?) but only certain shades of blue.  Like baby blue, ocean blue.  I also like neutrals a lot, if you ever come to my house you’ll see everything is brown.   I need help in that department.  That whole POP of color is not happening.

3. Do you have any creative hobbies?
No, I don’t think that I do. Unless you count blogging.

4. What was your favorite subject in school?
I never really cared much about school, if I HAD to pick a favorite it would be the ‘class’ I had in high school where we worked in the school store.

5. What is your favorite season? Why?
In Arizona the winter.  Anyone who lives here knows what I mean.  The winter is the only time you are guaranteed cool weather.  And for about 1.5 months I can use my fireplace.

6. Who inspires you to sing like crazy when nobody is around?
I really only sing in the car, it’s whatever CD i’m currently into.  I’m back on Bon
Jovi now.

7. What’s your favorite dessert? Can you make it?
I don’t really discriminate when it comes to desserts. I do love me a good chocolate cake, but I’m not good at making them.

8. How did you learn to cook?
My grandma lived with us until I was 5 and she was very old school and made everything from scratch.  including cakes, donuts, soups and sauces. I have the basic idea of how to make most anything but there are a lot of things I am not good at.   I can’t cook rice in a pot, I can’t make sausage gravy (but I can make turkey gravy) I am not good at judging when meat is done which is really only a problem when I make chicken and apparently I am not good at baking cakes.  While I can cook all the basics, I wish I was better at it and would like to take a cooking class that teaches you the basics.  How to cook the different styles of eggs, how to judge when meat is done by touch, how to properly chop or dice things…….

And now for my tags!

Cat’s Thoughts

From If to When

The Goodyear Family

Among the Blossoms

Still on the Verge

Hip 2b mom

The Q’s.

1. If you accidently knick a car in a parking lot..Do you leave a note or do you get the heck out of there?

I’m not really sure, I think in the end the guilt would get me if I just took off.  If it wasn’t bad, like i just dinged their door with my door, then I don’t care.   One time my husband and I were in a grocery store parking lot and someone went down the parking lot aisle the wrong way and tried to swing into a parking spot angled in the other direction.   she hit a car no less than 5 times in her attempts to back up and repark.  I mean, we just stood there watching her repeatedly hit this car and then basically pull off it’s front bumper.   She ended up taking off and we ended up calling the police and getting her plate number.  Since she was an out of towner, the odds of them getting her were not good.

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2. Love your body or plastic surgery?

I would definitely get liposuction.  Thanks to genetics no amount of diet and exercise can get rid of some of my fattier areas.    I would never change anything about my face but I think I would get boobs.   not real big ones or anything.   Grapefruits might be nice.

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3. What about your favorite blog(s) continues to drive you back?

some of them because they are actually my friends IRL, and others because we have stuff in common and I feel I can relate to them.

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4. What percent of your blog is BS just to make your life seem more interesting than it really is?

It’s all true.   There are definitely things I leave out, and those things would probably make my blog WAY more interesting.  Maybe someday I’ll be able to write about those things.

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5. If you had to give up one type of meat for the rest of your life, what would it be?

I’m thinking about this one very seriously.    Goat, I won’t eat any goat.  I don’t like it, so I won’t be missing out on anything.

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6. How often to you eat out?

Normally we eat breakfast out on the weekend.

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7. Skinny jeans or boot cut jeans?

Boot cut for sure.   I hate skinny jeans and hate the skinny people who wear them.  Especially teenage boys.

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8. If you caught your spouse cheating would you forgive, divorce, or plan your kill?

divorce.  no question.  

1. How many pets do you have?

Technically 5.   Two dogs, two fish and a ball python.  I pay no mind to the snake, not because I don’t like snakes but because I don’t care about snakes.    At least I’m not scared of it.      My goldfish is just a feeder goldfish but he’s about 6-7 years old.  Pretty sturdy.   The other fish is a betta, I go thru betta’s pretty fast but this one’s been around for about a year I think.

2. If you could switch places with anyone in the world for one day, who would it be?

someone with a really smoking hot body and nice boobs.    And a nice face too.

3. What is your favorite money saving tip?

I bring my breakfast, lunch and snacks to work as well as my own coffee.  That right there saves you a shit ton of money per week.

4. What do you want your kids to be when they grow up?

People with common sense.  Who cares if they are a doctor or lawyer or princess ballerina, as long as they have common sense…..

5. What is your favorite quote?

if you don’t like something, change it.   If you can’t change it, change your attitude.  Don’t complain.  -maya angelou.   I should probably take this advice more often.

Speaking of Thursday, I can’t believe it’s only Thursday.   This week has dragged on FOREVER.

Remember this shirt that I wanted so bad?  My husband bought it for me!!!   Except I’m fat and it doesn’t totally fit.  it like 98% fits.  And as stated previously, I spent the last year emotionally eating.  After I figured out that I was doing that, I emotionally ate for a little while longer because I was so sad that I had done that and didn’t care.    In the past year I have managed to cancel out almost all of the good habits I spent a year or two creating.

Hey I’ve had a rough year, cut me some slack!

August was the month I decided to get back on track (minus the birthday weekend eating extravaganza)  and so far so good.   Baby steps.   I am the only one that can control this part of my life and while I still want to be lazy and eat chips and brownies all day long, I know I can’t.  so now I will only eat them half of the day!!

Point being, I mean it, that shirt will fit soon.  101%

This one, who certainly looks innocent and lazy hanging half out of his castle (yes my dog has a castle)

has been barking at one of our windows every night (morning) usually between 2:30am-4:00am.   I am fairly certain he barks at my neighbors kitchen light.  There is nothing else he can see from that window.  SO annoying.

Over the weekend Cat and I did Bountiful Baskets.   I’m enjoying incorporating things i wouldn’t normally buy into my foods.   For instance the red peppers we got, I have been chopping them up and putting them into my salads.   It’s only recently that I can eat any of the colors of bell peppers again.  A long time ago I ate a veggie pizza and later got pretty sick (not from the pizza) and spent the night throwing up.  All I could taste were the bell peppers and after that even the smell would make me gag.   But now I’m over that and can eat bell peppers again with no problem.    I also made out with the champagne grapes, which i’d never heard of before, but they are so cute and tiny and look just like all those wine/grapes themed decorations.

We’ll be getting another basket this weekend, I can’t wait for the season to change so we start getting more root vegetables.

Also went to a bday/graduation party over the weekend, again for Cat.   I limited myself to three beers and then called it a night on the drinking.   I brought Michelob Ultra Pomegranate Raspberry and  Lime Cactus.   Both very tasty but the Dragon fruit peach remains my favorite.

I’m holding off on getting a new phone, it’ll take a charge now but it won’t last very long.  I can suffer thru having to charge it every day if it means I don’t have to spend the money on a new phone just yet.  I had to get new tires yesterday and that was quite a chunk of change.  On the plus side, i shouldn’t have to get new tires for at least 5 years, or ever have to pay for another tire rotation.

my husband bought us a ceramic knife a few weeks ago, weird i know.  but that sucker is major sharp.   I have a love/hate relationship with knives.  that one started about 15 years ago when i accidentally cut the tip of my left index finger nearly to the bone with a knife.  I still have numbness in that finger sometimes.     I also bumped my pinkie fingers second knuckle into a butcher knife and that tiny bump was enough to cut the hell out of my knuckle.  My hands are completely scarred and I will never be a hand model.

Anyway, this ceramic knife is awesome but in the first week i managed to cut off my finger nail twice and then a couple of more times I somehow sliced my nail on the nail bed and the skin on the side of the  nail as well.    Think one big slice across the middle of the nail bed all the way to the skin on the side.  so now i have one very short nail that is also missing a chunk of it in the middle.  thankfully the knife did not slice all the way thru my nail to the nail bed, i’m imagining that would have been extremely painful.

It rained something big last night at our house.   The sun was still shining bright so it was a little confusing.  The wind was so extreme it took on of our heavy patio chairs and tossed it across the yard.     That was the first really good storm of the season.

My phone is dying and I apparently need a new one.

I got my oil changed yesterday and they wouldn’t rotate my tires because your best tires need to be on the front.  My best tires were already on the front.  Needless to say I need new tires.

My car registration is due.

Then there was all that work drama, that mostly got worked out. I’ll say I’m still peeved, and leave it at that.

1. Who has it easier-men or women? Feel free to elaborate!

In then end I think it probably evens itself out.  Aside from guys getting to pee anywhere they want, cleanly.    And then we have to give birth and have PMS.   So wait, I guess men have it easier.  Also when they get older they become distinguished and we just get old.

2. What’s the most scandalous thing you’ve done this week?

I said swear words loudly to my boss!!  oopsies.

3. Worst pick up line you’ve ever heard?

Can I take your picture?   Except that it totally worked and I married that guy.

4. Who’s your celeb crush?

Jesse James was one of them, but then he turned out to be a huge douche.

5. Do you feel comfortable talking about sex?

With who? My mom?  Hells no.

6. What’s your all time favorite movie?

Probably Shaun of the Dead.  Or Dawn of the Dead. Or Can’t Buy Me Love.