awesomeness

This past month has been purty stinking good to me. It can possibly even justify my extreme overusage of the word awesome. I don't even know where I picked that word up but I can not stop saying it. So what is so awesome you might ask? (Or you may not ask but me being me, I'muh gonna answer anyhow.)

First of all this was getting so long on just the first thing I was rambling about that I went ahead and gave it it's own lil post (http://pbrambly.blogspot.com/2009/08/visit-to-our-own-world.html).

Second awesome thing this month, I won twenty dollars. Ok, that's maybe more swell then awesome. I won it for being runner up for Birthday party idea of the month. I'm not gonna lie I was really really hoping to be the winner and so kind of bummed out about the runner up but I read the winning entry and I have to admit it's pretty stinking swell. Still, I have won three times before, twice actual winner and once for runner up but when I was the winner the prize the first time was like 20 dollars and a certificate for ice cream, the second time was either 25 dollars or three birthday/recipe books (I chose the books), this time the prize was 50 bucks. I really wanted that fifty bucks. But ok, its just an honor to be nominated or some such thing right? By the way, fyi to any of ya'lls that don't know I totally want to be a childrens' birthday party planner when I grow up. Oh, also if you're interested, here is a link to my runneruppy idea - http://www.birthdaypartyideas.com/html/new_reader_ideas_3.html and pictures are here - http://fentrio.blogspot.com/2009/06/bens-6th-birthday-may-31-2009.html. And the winner's idear is here - http://www.birthdaypartyideas.com/html/winners_0.html.

Ok, awesome thing number three, if you don't know I'm obsessed with Twilight. I stinking love Twilight, and I am very very much Team Jacob. As such I designed a whole bunch of Team Jacob tshirts and whatnot on zazzle.com www.zazzle.com/teamjacob108*- It's very nifty because all I have to do is put the shirt up for sale, they make it, they ship it, I get a 15 percent royalty. It's not nifty in that it takes ages and ages for them to actually pay you. But I am due for my first payment, 47.27 this week and have 19.66 earned towards my next payment. So basically I'm getting paid (albeit very belatedly) for loving Twilight.

Which brings me to awesomeness number 4, which happens to be my favorite number and very very very very stinking awesome. A few battery charging hours from now I'll be able to add a photo to my very awesome, very autographed TwiTour poster. Did I get to go to TwiTour or TwiCon or any of the like? No. Does that royally stink? Yes. But do I have the most unpsycho bestest most awesomest sister-in-law ever? Um, yeah I do. Though I know in reality she actually came to Texas to get her 100 Monkeys concert fix, I like to think she came just to hand deliver my poster to me. I may or may not have gotten a lil flipped out, I'm really not sure, but there was very nearly tears, and there was definitely hugging involved, it was not pretty. So I now have a TwiTour poster with photos and autographs of...(Hi Lisa -) Billy Burke aka Charlie aka Bella's dad, (To Lisa - ) Ashley Greene aka Alice Cullen, (To Lisa...) peter Facinelli aka Dr. Carlisle Cullen, Catherine Hardwice aka the twit director, and Holy Stinking Crow! (Lisa I *heart* U!) Kellan Lutz aka Emmett ridiculous hotness Cullen. How happy am I about this? So happy that I am also about to be the not very proud owner of an autographed Iron Maiden poster hanging in my living room. Whatever Adam, tape your silly lil poster up. It's not like anyone will even see it with my on the shelf with a wooden and brass apple autographed awesome TwiTour poster.

Overuse of the word awesome justified. Awwwwesome.

*Batteries charged*...

visit to our own world

So Adam got switched back to night shift. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bummer.

He "temporarily" started having to leave for work at 4:30 pm and not getting home till 6am when Ben was a baby. Ben is 6 folks. Temorarily my boot. But whatever, I goes with the flow. Or something. Make it work (oooh when will project Runway be back?).

Then school started and night shift it just flat out sucked. The boys would barely get home from school and it'd be time for Adam to leave for work. If it wasn't for their car rides to and from school he'd basically never see them. Stink suckitty stink stink. But there again, we just kind of got used to it and hey they did have some interesting little doozies of conversations on their lil car rides.

Then Adam got to switch to days and he was getting home right after the boys, they were on the same school night bedtime, up early on the weekends. I never realized quite how much I hated nights till he got switched to days.

Then bam the LeBus gods frowned down upon us this summer and tada Adam's back on nights. A big stinking ack and phooey on that. But then as the boys and I stayed up later and later to catch some time with Dadam, Josey had a straight up brilliant idea.

Back in the day those hours were pretty sweet. Midnight grocery shopping, hide and seek at 3 in the morning, when we'd go out to eat or to a park it'd be nearly deserted because of the hour, it was just this crazy magical feeling of just us. I was telling Josey about those times one day and he said I wish we could do that now so *poof* the fellas and I officially switched to the night shift.

We have gone out in the pool at midnight, drawing with chalk in the carport at 2am, Spongebob Bash till who knows what time in the am, charades at 3am, brownie baking at 5am, some just regular ole boring stuff made ridiculously swell just because of the hour. We went to a yard sale at 7am the other morning, then got a late breakfast/supper at McDonalds before finally going to bed at 9am. We went to the last show of G Force the other night and were the only ones there (we may or may not have danced around like maniacs, talked really loud, and let Jake run around all over the place just because we could). To quote the always brilliant Josey "it's like it's our own world".

There have been two downsides to these hours though. For one, woohoo, the boys are up late too so we can do all kinds of stuff with them is also um yeah we can't watch this movie because it has bad words and the whole crew is awake. But clearly some of Josey's brilliance has worn off on me because I have ever so brilliantly created Kid Island. Kid Island is a king size mattress on the floor of our bedroom. The fellas have a plank (aka broken closet door) brought in onto the island. On Kid Island nights only they are allowed snacks and drinks in there. The first time Kid Island opened I was trying to get Jakers back to sleep and I heard Adam back there talking all pirtey and talking about loot and swashbucklers. He took them their drinks in a little wooden treasure chest. Once I got Jake settled he took them a "little stowaway". Meanwhile over on Grownup Island no one is fake coughing to cover up unexpected curse words. No kids are allowed on Grownup Island except in an emergency or Kid Island gets shut down. It is totally completely awwwwwwwwwwwesome. So problem one, solved.

Then there's woohoo, we're the only ones up, very cool on the weekends but on the weekdays when Adam is at work and the fellas and I are homebound its no we can't call so and so and no no one can come over an no we can't go to the library. But alas just as that one is really starting to stink Adam is supposedly getting switched back to days next week. It's midnight now and Jake went ahead and went to sleep (after pouring out a bag of shredded cheese in the hamper) and the boys look like maybe they could go any minute, so it looks like we are all headed back to the real world.