Category: Diary

i just burned myself a tiny, 2nd degree burn on my finger with the hair iron and it hurts like a bitch! i was gonna write a lot more, but apparently typing makes it hurt so never mind im going to go lie on the futon and whine

tonight i made jenns chicken with sauteed mushrooms and onions dinner. here is what i learned and my results:

– i subbed red, yellow, and green peppers in for the mushrooms because mushrooms are slimy and gross

– i’ve never cut a pepper before.i know i’ve bought them for recipes before but i guess i never cooked them and they just rotted because i had no idea what i was doing. you cannot use an apple corer on a pepper.

– my knives are very dull. this is good because at one point i missed and hit my finger and it didn’t even cut me…but it took forever to slice the veggies. these are the super expensive, cordon bleu cooking knives i inherited from lauren when she moved out of the 1960s era public housing projects back in like 01. i think i should get one of those choppy thingies i saw on an infomercial.

– use lots of excess foil for when you rip it while folding over (which i did multiple times because i kept checking on the doneness of the chicken)

– i did not use butter to cook the veggies, just PAM and i did not use lemon juice as i didnt have any. i’m not saying skip those parts, just that i did.

– the cleanup was way easier than i was expecting…it only took a sec to wash the one pan which was a major plus

– the total cook time took over an hour. 1/3rd of this is because i was taking care of a toddler. 1/3rd was because i had no idea what i was doing

– i accompanied my dinner with a salad and sweet potato fries

– the chicken came out moist for the first time ever and the veggies were quite good. i think it all turned out rather well except that i didn’t find the chicken to be very flavorful. paul thinks it is because i use prepackaged frozen chicken instead of fresh chicken si the chicken didn’t do a great job of sucking up the juices. if i knew even a tiny thing about herbs i could have seasoned it, but i don’t so i’d have probably just screwed it up.

– end conclusion: this meal was definitely easy to make since a noob like me made it and didn’t screw anything up. i think i would make it again sometime if i had a way to chop the veggies faster because i think i made it take 3x as long as it should have.

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Today Lucas started spinning. I’m not really sure why or what brought it on, he just started spinning in circles until he falls over and then laughs about it, gets up and spins again. ive held him up and spun him around before, but not any time in the last week, so i have no idea why he has started spinning today.
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today im downstairs working on girl scout paperwork and lucas and paul are upstairs. i heard a noise of something clunking down the stairs and when i went to look, i found that lucas was taking his magnets and shoving them thru the crack under the basement door because he knows i’m down here.

Saturday: Lucas’s 1st Birthday!! this event should probably require a post of its own, since i’d like to type a lot about it, but right now i’m too tired to do so.

Sunday: Mother’s Day – mom, ron, and i went to the Fox Theatre to see the musical Mary Poppins. it was sooo good! it was better than the movie. it was basically the same story, but they changed a bunch of stuff to make it a little more adult/deeper. like the mom had a bit more of a role/ issues of her own, there was an evil nanny bad guy, etc. i was so impressed with the special effects – i still can’t figure out how they did her magic carpet bag! afterward, we ate at a Thai restaurant called Tamarind Seed. i had something similar to Indian chicken korma. it was really good except lacking the yummy naan bread that i feel completes korma.

Monday and Tuesday: nothing exciting, just a Girl Scout leader meeting Tues night for me to pick up all the troops’ registration forms. I’m the Registrar and Troop Organizer for our service unit, so I process all the forms for the Acworth and some Kennesaw schools.

Wednesday : First of all, wednesday is a weird word. its spelling makes no sense. it’s like someone meant to spell it wendsday but typoed it and it just stuck. anyhow, wendsday morning we dropped off Eleanor Erin at the shop to have the AC fixed and the stereo replaced. later that afternoon we picked her up and she is finally all better and i can drive her around again, yay! wendsday night i had girl scouts. we worked on the activities to bridge to Juniors. as usual they were obnoxiously loud and misbehaved. this summer i’m going to work on coming up with ideas to make them behave bette, because while on the one hand i think working with them is fun, they are always so rowdy that i never look forward to the regular meetings and i’m relieved that we only have one meeting left.

thursday: in the morning the 3 of us went to walmart to exchange some of lucas’s toys. i got a bunch of new stuff for him, including: a mini basketball hoop and ball, a bowling set, wooden blocks, a leapfrog drum, some popup toy thing, a tiny baby swimming pool, and some other little things. in the afternoon, mom and i went to the scholastic book fair and i went a little nuts on buying books for lucas. some he’ll have to grow in to, but he has a ton for now, too, including two star wars books.at the book fair i saw Kelsey from high school. i haven’t seen her in like ten years and i didn’t know if she’d recognize/remember me, so i felt all weird and didn’t say anything to her. then i was mad at myself the whole way home that i don’t even have the confidence to speak to an old friend.

friday: lucas’s one year old checkup. not much to say, he got more shots which he totally didnt love. did you know there is a vaccine now for chicken pox? i have his stats written down somewhere, but off the top of my head, he was 23 lbs 4.5 oz which is the 54%; i think he was 32 in tall? which was the 96%! they did a blood test and his iron count was 13 when you want to have at least an 11…maybe that’s why the kid is so darn strong. on the drive home we saw a sign in front of the house a couple of houses down from us that said “free stuff” and had a bunch of baby stuff sitting near the road. it looked like it had all been sitting out in the rain for awhile because it was kinda muddy, but we grabbed several items anyway.

Saturday: today i plan on sitting home and vegging/working on girl scout work.

Sunday: tomorrow evening i have a scrapbook class meeting

– At 12 months old, babies usually range from 27.75 inches long and 18 pounds (10th percentile) to 30.5 inches long and 23.75 pounds (90th percentile). i guess lucas is still in the 90+% because i think he is about 31in (not like he’ll actually hold still for an exact measurement) and i haven’t weighed him yet but im sure it’s like 24 lbs. (was 23 last month anyhow).

– ive decided to go to cosmetology school and learn how to cut hair. if the definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, my picture is in the dictionary. i was straightening my hair tonight and the front left piece just would.not.straighten. so i got mad at it and cut it off. on the bright side, lucas’s hair has decently grown back to look less stupid now.

– im really excited about tomorrow. i still haven’t finished getting everything together so i should be doing that instead of typing here, but, see above comment about how i’m stupid.

– i have a drinking problem

– i remembered some stuff i had meant to add on yesterday’s post: when paul and i were driving to walmart, a red fox leaped across the road in front of us. there was a second thing, but now i have forgotten again.

– on to sunday: mom came over today and we made a major dent in cleaning up the basement today and paul got the cat room pretty much completely done. those were the two worst areas of the whole house. i still havent had a lot of RSVPs for lucas’s bday next saturday, so i guess it’s going to be a pretty small party. i meant to go get the cake today, but i didn’t.

– lucas: today lucas learned how to climb up on the couch! then he learned to slap his hands! paul was sitting on the couch and lucas wanted up with him, so he grabbed his shirt and hauled his body up onto the couch. i was so excited i said “yay lucas!!” and started clapping my hands. he immediately started mimicking me by clapping his own hands! later we went down to the basement and i called paul upstairs for a sec to help me with the ice maker. we came back down and lucas was sitting on the futon! he’d climbed right up on it and was sitting there playing with his kickball.getting back down is another matter…he seems to think head first is the way to go.

– it really bugs me that when i post these, all the stuff gets smushed up together without any <br>

– today paul was taking a shower. lucas goes over, pulls back the curtain, sees him in there, and crawled into the shower with his clothes on

– paul and i (sorta) worked on the garage today and got it nearly finished. then we went to walmart and got some storage bins for me to start sorting thru the junk in the basement. who knew i had soooo many girl scout supplies. i was going thru a bunch of old papers of his dads that were in the 3rd garage, and i found a handful of old pix of paul as a baby, paul’s mom when she was young, and some unknown kid that i’m guessing is paul’s brother bobby. there was also a graduation announcement and a wedding invitation for bobby.

– i got a new fridge on friday!!

– we are definitely moving sometime in the next 6 months. i’ve started looking at houses. it won’t be the big pretty house i thought i would be moving to next year, but oh well i’ll just have to deal. i’m going to keep a lookout for houses that meet all my criteria over the next few months while we save up for a down payment, and then either when i find something fabulous or we get enough money, we will move. i’m hoping for a foreclosure on a house that is out of our league so we can nab one for cheap, otherwise i’m seriously considering matt and sarah’s neighborhood in brookhaven which is actually a neighborhood i had picked out before they ever even moved there.

for those of you that don’t know about what all is going on with our house, here is an update. we found out earlier this week or last week or whenever that the house is not actually ours, and that giving it to us had been a mistake. the people had transferred it to us based on his dad’s Last Will and Testament that gave us the house. then when the tax assessor was looking things over, she found that they had made an error (or more importantly/specifically, the lawyer that made the Will made an error). The property he owned was split into 3 pieces: a 2 acre, a 3 acre, and a 10 acre. his mom’s house is the 10 acre, our house is on the 3 acre, and the 2 acre is our yard. now the deed for the 3 acre plot that our house is on got switched to a Joint Right Of Tenant Survivorship, which means that if one of them dies, the property automatically belongs to the other person named. apparently this is commonly done when people set up mortgages on houses for paperwork purposes. so, since the house deed was JTROS it automatically went fully to Paul’s mom and is not considered as part of the estate his dad left behind, making the part of the Will saying we get the house void. so the end outcome of all this is….his mom gets the house and we own the damn front yard.

this leaves us with two options:

1. have his mom sign the house over to us and everything is all fine and dandy. unfortunately, paul says there is no way in hell that she will do that. 2. pack up and move

i got a new fridge! it doesnt arrive until friday, but i’m excited. goodbye 17 year old ugly one and hello fancy new one. i got the kind like susan has that has the freezer as a drawer on the bottom.

i gave paul and lucas my cold, but i, however, feel great. i told mom on sat i was sick and she told me to get this zycam stuff to take and by monday i was better!too bad i cant give it to babies.

so this is the londa luck i have:

i started reading this YA vamp series i picked up at the grocery store. i got the first 4 books at the store and just finished the 4th last night at 11:30pm. i was bummed because i knew that there are 2 more that have come out after those, but the store closes at 11 so i couldn’t run out and get the next one. these are those annoying kinds of books that don’t end even though youve run out of pages, so you have to go get the next one to find out what happens. so i had to wait until today to pick up 5 and 6. as i’m walking into BAM, i see a poster on the window that book 7 came out *today*. how crazy is that. id have had to go back again for book 7 if i had gone to the bookstore last night.