So What Wednesday

Oh Shannon, I love this post and haven't done it for so long.  So What If:

1. I watch Teen Mom and Teen Mom 2 even if I don't approve of any of their antics.  
2. I can't stop thinking about how much I want a job.  I love spending time with LB, but like working.
3. It takes me a full week to do the laundry because I get lazy.
4. I am ridiculously excited for The Challenge: Battle of the Exes.
5. We still have our tree up.  Don't give me the side eye. Some of you all put your trees up in like August ;)
6. I'm thinking about doing a Fitness Friday and making it a link up, anyone interested?
7. I'm still tired even though LB has slept from 7:30-4:40 the past two nights, which allowed me to sleep from 9:30/10:00-4:40. 
8. My child is a giant - 19 lb 10 oz and 26 inches.  He's bigger than some year old babies, but healthy and happy and wonderful :)
9. Chelsea from TM2 should not have blonde hair, she just shouldn't.
10. I still have a DVR full of stuff - some of which is ridiculous - but I stopped recording the Kardashians and that makes B happy.
11. I just realized that my 10 year high school reunion is next year.  B wants to me to be pregnant again at that time, but I want to be able to drink.  Maybe AFTER the reunion we can try lol.
12. I have 3 half eaten cupcakes in my car.  They were all dry - ICK!
13. I'm considering going to get another massage (had one on Monday) because the muscles around my shoulder blade really hurts after being so tight and then manipulated and worked out.
14. I didn't want to end on #13.

Now go link up with Shannon :)

Just Call Me Lassie

So, I've never owned nor even been around collies, but I suspect that they probably shed a lot.  Like a LOT a LOT.  Well, you may as well call me Lassie because my hair is falling out and out and out and out.  No, I'm not going bald, I just don't have the hair keeping in hormones going anymore.  I have a serious attachment to my hair.  I love it and seeing it fall out freaks me out.  I seriously have to clean out the shower drain like 2-3 times a shower.  And my brushes, don't even get me started.  TMI?  I don't care.  My poor, poor hair.

Not here, but there

Have you checked out Ms. Nicole over at Table For Four?  If not you should go over and see the sweet mama of two precious little guys.  Oh and while you're there, check out the guest post she asked me to do on "What I've Learned Being A New Mom." 

Some of my favorite things

• Urban Decay's Naked palettes - I will splurge on makeup.  I love love love UD's eye shadows and the Naked palettes are the best.  I bought the Naked palette almost immediately after it came out and loved it.  Then they came out with the Naked2 palette in November 2011 and I had to have that too.  Naked palette has really gold colors and Naked2 has more taupe colors (and a kick ass matte, non-glittery black).  If you're looking for some great neutrals, go for one of these.  They are the best!

• Blow - No, not what you're thinking.  Blow is a great haircare line.  The products are sulfate and paraben free and do wonders at volumizing.  I have a lot of hair, but my strands are pretty thing which tends to mean that my hair doesn't do much besides lay flat on my head.  SUCKS!  Blow's products are great and, while more expensive than drug store, not too terribly expensive.

Mousse not pictured

• Clarisonic - I LOVE my Clarisonic.   I have serious problem skin.  I believe that I have used just about every single acne treatment out there and nothing works better to keep my skin clean and smooth than a little benzoyl peroxide face wash and my Clarisonic.  It makes my skin so smooth and is the best exfoliate ever. The best part of it is that it tells me how long to wash my face and when to move to a different part of my face (it beeps and then you move it).  I got mine for Christmas last year and it was really a great (totally requested) gift.  If you don't have one, just let me say, it is worth the money.

•  Holiday Groceries - I have a confession, I am a holiday grocery hoarder.  I love the holiday goods. My fridge is stocked with creamers.  I have a ton of pumpkin bread kits and a pumpkin bagels.  Fail!

• Jumperoo - B loves the shit out of this thing.  He will bounce in it for so long and he just laughs and squeals and bounce, bounce, bounces.  What's awesome is that he can stay in there and I can then go make some lunch or fold some clothes or just breathe for a second.  It's awesome.

• Maybelline Dark Circle Eraser - This. Shit. Rocks.  LB is teething.  LB is not sleeping at night. Mama is not sleeping at night.  Mama has some killer dark circles.  Mama needs to get the circles covered.  This shit does the job.  It is nice and smooth and covers and rocks my world.

• Origins Vita Zing and GinZing - Along that same line of the above, this stuff is great.  The eye cream (ginzing) really brightens and moisturizes while the Vita Zing acts kind of like a tinted moisturizer (only it doesn't have a specific tint) and evens out my skin.  I've started wearing the moisturizer in lieu of foundation most days.  It is all especially helpful in the horrible way my skin looks these days.

Scatterbrained

So I've been wanting to do a few posts on a few things, but none of them ever really seemed to merit its own post. So, please just bear with the randomness of what is about to happen as I dump my brain.

• Being home with LB has reminded me of a lot for thing.  For example: I really freakin love Will and Grace.  When I was in undergrad, my roomie, Aubrey, and I would stay up all night watching Will and Grace reruns. We could watch like 3 hours of Will and Grace a night (I think 3 channels had hour blocks).  Since I've been home with LB, I've started watching W&G again and it makes my life so great.  As an added bonus, I just saw on the screen that Dance Moms starts again on Tuesday.  Anyone else love this show?  Anyone?  Anyone?  Bueller?

Bitches be crazy

• In other reality tv news, while watching Teen Mom 2 this morning, I saw a preview for the new season of The Challenge. B and I love this show and when I saw the preview I almost peed myself with excitement.  BATTLE OF THE EXES!!!  Hello!  We're talking CT and Diem (bitch has a rocking body and great hair - color me jealous), Abram and Cara Maria (crazy+crazy), Mark and Robin (she's even more unstable now than she was in the past-plus I thought Mark "retired"), and many more!  I also realize as I am looking at the cast list that the term "exes" is being used very loosely.  While there are some on there who were legit couples (I really thought CT and Diem were meant for each other), most seem like hookups.  Also, I'm totally bummed that Kenny and Johanna and Danny and Melinda aren't on there.  I guess Johanna is rolling in it after her Claritin commercial (she's totes Claritin Clear) and I guess it would be bad taste to have an actual divorced couple.  Whatevs.
• My kid makes noises in his sleep.  Like he whines in his sleep and makes noises like he's crying/starting to wake.  It's really annoying at night because it will wake me and he'll do it for a solid couple of minutes before he stops.  This sucks because he does the same thing when he is legit waking up.  So, especially at 2 am, I sometimes go check on him and probably end up exacerbating the situation by actually waking him up more.  MOM FAIL!
• I went to the dentist this morning.  I specifically did not have any coffee before I went so that I wouldn't have coffee breath and it just didn't seem like the right thing to do before going to the dentist.  So, I get to the dentist and then the receptionist says "Miss Suzanne, we have fresh coffee there if you would like some."  Now, is it just me, or do it not seem to make sense that the dentist would give you coffee before going in for your exam.  Just sayin'.  (oh and my teeth were prefect!)
• I'm now watching The Price is Right.  They had a YSL bag, glasses, wallet and key holder.  A girl bid $400.  I just shook my head.
• I'm going to do a random favorites post and hopefully it will be ready for tomorrow.  
• I realized yesterday that what I see in the mirror is probably not what is actually there.  Crazy enough, I think that I am seeing myself smaller than I actually am.  Last night, I saw some video from Christmas and HOLY SHIT! I look pregnant in some of those shots!  Note to self - kick it up a notch and get your ass in gear to lose the freakin weight and get your body back.

Hello 2012

2011 was a year of both wonderful things and frustrating things all at once.  I was hugely pregnant through the hottest summer on record.  I gave birth to my sweet angel boy.  B had so health issues to overcome (nothing serious, just frustrating things).  I lost my job and B got a big payday.  Through it all, the only thing that I think of when I think of 2011 is my sweet little boy. 

GOALS for 2012:

1. Lose the baby weight and get back into shape.  I have about 7 pounds left to go (my holiday sweets vice probably has not helped the process).  Before I got pregnant, I worked out at least 3 days a week, and that was on a really busy week.  I love to exercise and have just been lazy about it lately. No more!  Time to get healthy again.
2. Find a new job.  For as much as I love staying home with LB, I miss working.  I really like to work and I like to have a sense of accomplishment.  Not that raising my boy isn't satisfying, I just miss working.
3. Live in the moment.  I have a bad habit of wishing life away.  I am eager to see my boy grow, but I need to get better about living in the moment and soaking up every single second with LB.
4. Make more time for B.  It is really easy to make LB our lives and not take the best care of each other.  It is now a priority to make B a priority again.
5. Cook at least 3 nights a week.  It's hard for me and B to eat the same thing (I like lots of fish and cooked veggies, B does not like those things), but we do have a few dishes that we both like.  
6. Keep my house clean.  B and I get pretty lazy on the cleaning sometimes.  While I am unemployed, I am going to make it a priority to get my house clean and the maintain.

I am sure there are a lot more things I'd like to do in 2012, but those are what comes to mind off the top of my head.  I hope everyone had a wonderful NYE!
Well I am sure that there are 

Christmas Time is Here (well it was)

Oh life, how you get away from me!  Christmas came and went and we had a really nice time.  B and I really enjoyed LB's first Christmas.  My family came to Tulsa this year and we got together with my mom's side of the family on Christmas day.  Well, the day started as most do, LB woke up around 6:30, which means I was up at 6:30.  My brother and mom were sleeping in the living room (on the couch and air mattress respectively), so LB and I snuck into the living room and laid down on the air mattress with Mom to wake her up.  Oh she loves her grandson.  Mom got up with me and we played with LB for a little while (Bro slept, like he always does).  And we also admired the Christmas tree and the presents under it.  We were awake for an hour and a half and then it was nap time for LB, which means it was shower time for me.  So, I hopped in the shower and got ready.  At this point everyone woke up and we had some bacon, eggs and rolls (Cinnamon and Orange) for breakfast.  Then we heard a little stirring from the baby and it was game on for opening gifts.
Lucky for LB, we figured out how to get him to rip open his gifts because big, mean B said that he can't have gifts he couldn't open.  LB got lots of fun gifts.  He didn't have many toys or books, so he got a lot of those.  He got some sensory balls, teethers, stacking cups, a music table and various other toys. 

B and I took care of each other, too.  B got me a spa package and a baby feet pendant.  I got him a gift certificate for his first ever massage (how the man is 31 and has never had a massage boggles my  mind) and some family photos for his office.  B and I got a new camcorder from my parents.  My parents also got me the Harry Potter box set.  Nerd? Yep, and totally cool with it.  The family pretty much got photos from us (that's all they wanted) and my brother got a lot of DVDs, including the Johnny Bravo first season.  You don't know what Johnny Bravo is?  Consider yourself lucky lol. Later, we headed over to my Aunt's house for family Christmas.  We did a gift exchange and B and I came out with wine, coffee, a mug and a nice fleece throw.  We called it a night after that because LB was getting fussy (and sleepy).  So we headed home, and got some stuff put away. 

On Monday, the 26th, we headed up to Joplin to celebrate with my Dad's family.  This is the first time I've been able to get together with this side since 2007.  It was so nice to see all of my cousins and my dad's brothers and their wives.  B and I got a cookbook and gift card.  LB got a sock monkey (traditional first Christmas gift from my Grandma) and he LOVE it.  We had another gift exchange and B got a dart board (really?  and it's going where in our home?) and I got a bag of chocolates and a container of cashews.  My dad's side is interesting.  After that, we took some photos and headed back to Tulsa. 

The next day we got LB's gift from my in-laws, a jumperoo and he loves that thing like crazy!  He will bounce around in it for HOURS!  My in-laws came up for the day on Friday and gave me a gift card and some pearl earrings and gave B some Under Armor cold-gear.  The other thing that we got was a bebePOD. It's like a bumbo, but with bigger leg openings and safety straps.  LB actually fits in it (and he does not fit in the bumbo). 

 

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas :)