Wednesdays are great for Wordless and Wordful posts, but we decided to go a different route and create our own Wednesday fun. We figured what the hell. That’s how we started What The Hell Wednesday. Who are we kidding? That’s pretty much how we decide on almost everything. If you want to play along, grab our button on the sidebar, link up to us in your post and don’t forget to sign in to the linky below. Really, what the hell?

Stacy

I went out a little bit ago to throw out the recycling, and was shocked when I walked outside and saw it was snowing! What the Hell??? I know it’s February, but still, after the winter we’ve had, it’s weird when you actually see snow!!

I drive my boys to school every day. And there are 2 teachers that do the “Crosswalk Duty”. Meaning that one holds up a big STOP sign, and stands in the middle of the road while the kids cross the road. It had been fine until these 2 new teachers starting doing it. Now it’s one teacher who suddenly jumps out in front of your car, not holding the damn STOP sign up in the air, but instead holds her coffee up, while the other one watches drinking her coffee probably secretly hoping someone will run the other woman over. What the Hell?? I’m about ready to bump her with my car to teach her a lesson. I can see the kids coming, but don’t suddenly jump in front of me and not even hold up the STOP sign!!! At least hold the sign up, then walk into the road! I think Thing 2 wants me to hit her just so he can go into school and tell everyone that I ran over a teacher. I won’t of course, but I may just roll my window down one day and give her a bit of advice……

My allergies are crazy!!!! I don’t know what it is!!! I thought it might be the new place and maybe there’s something there I’m allergic to, but it’s bad all the time right now, even when I’m not there. What the Hell? I don’t usually have problems like this. Could it be the mild, no snow winter we’ve had this year??

The alarm went off again at work today. It is soooooo loud, like ear piercing, you can’t hear anything else for hours after kind of loud! What the Hell??? Maybe it’s just to wake us up if we all look sluggish or something. It definitely makes me jump!!!

Elle

Sunday I did my big 2 week grocery shopping at Wegmans. I had a ton of items but had managed to keep a rough estimate in my head of the total. Our cashier was polite but he was trying to ring up everything as fast as possible. I know they keep track of IPMs (items per minute) and this kid was trying to go so fast he was constantly ringing up items twice by accident and then voiding them as quickly as possible. When I heard the total I was a little surprised because it was more then I had thought. I paid it then when I looked over my receipt I realized he had charged me for two 12 packs of beer when I had only bought one and two boxes of crackers instead of one. WTH??!! I did get my $16 back from customer service but am still a little peeved. That’s a lot of money to be overcharged and I hope my complaint was passed on. I wonder how many other people have been charged for items they didn’t purchase because he is trying to go as fast as possible. I don’t know about you, but I’d prefer accuracy over speed. Especially when it comes to my money.

Speaking of lazy cats  (not that Oreo is lazy), here is our Mean Coon Cat Kimmy. If the basement door isn’t open enough for her to fit through, she will sit there until one of us walks over and opens it enough for her to fit her emormous self through the door. It seems that it’s too much effort for her to reach one of her huge paws over and push the door open wider. We could just ignore her and let her figure it out for herself, but her litter box is down there and I don’t want anything standing in the way of her using her litter box.

Today’s Pet of the Week from Lollypop Farm is Tobi.

Wednesdays are great for Wordless and Wordful posts, but we decided to go a different route and create our own Wednesday fun. We figured what the hell. That’s how we started What The Hell Wednesday. Who are we kidding? That’s pretty much how we decide on almost everything. If you want to play along, grab our button on the sidebar, link up to us in your post and don’t forget to sign in to the linky below. Really, what the hell?

Elle

Here we are this morning dealing with homework issues again. J-Man was out sick last week and now has homework to make up. He has 2 tests this week, a complete spelling packet (that he only got yesterday) and math. Plus, he is supposed to be practicing his math facts each night and reading for 20 minutes. He was working on homework last night and I went out in the kitchen for a few minutes, came back to the room and he was sound asleep next to his homework. Now I am trying to get him to finish the homework and be able to catch the bus. I truly hate mornings like this because both of us are upset. I’m trying to push him to get it done so he doesn’t miss the bus and he is grumpy from being pressured and it all makes for a very stressful morning. Definitely not a fun way to start the day. Ugh!

Today Sissy needs to be picked up from school and she has a cell phone so she can text us and let us know when she is ready. This morning I reminded her to take her phone and she said “It died.” Aaargh! “Why didn’t you plug it in last night?” “I didn’t know it was going to die.” Just for the record, she left the phone in her Dad’s car on Saturday and conveniently forgot to mention that she couldn’t find it. He found it yesterday morning when it was buzzing from text messages. So basically it hasn’t been plugged in since at least Saturday morning and it died this morning. Hmmmm….. I wonder why.

Is it any wonder I’m having cake for breakfast?? At least it’s carrot cake. That’s healthy, right?

Update: J-Man finished his homework with time to spare and made the bus. He was very proud of himself!

If it’s Tuesday this must be Random Tuesday Thoughts. It used to be brought to you by Keely at The Un-Mom but she’s taking a hiatus. Okay, it’s been a really long hiatus but Random Tuesdays still rock on with help from Stacy.

Elle

I had been wearing a pedometer on my pants pocket for a couple weeks and getting discouraged with how few steps I take during the day. Then one day while I was working around the house I realized the damn counter hadn’t changed in an hour. Apparently I walk like Frankenstein with no hip action at all. I moved the pedometer to my shoe and then it started counting all my steps. The problem with having it on my shoe is the damn thing always falls off. One day last week I drove out of the garage and stopped in our driveway to get the mail out of the mailbox. I always set the emergency brake because our driveway slopes down to the road. As I got out the pedometer caught on the door and fell just under the truck. As I stood there looking at the damn thing realizing I was going to have to reach under the truck to get it, my thought was “If this was a horror movie then as soon as I reach under the truck it will start to roll forward and run over me.” I’m so glad I survived my brush with horror movie death.

Stacy

The greatest invention at this time is the electric blanket. Okay, maybe not the absolute greatest ever, but it is pretty damn nice to be all warm and toasty every night! Although it makes it really hard to get up in the morning!

I think I’m allergic to the new place. First I lost my voice, and now my sinuses are all stuffed up. I don’t know if it’s allergies or that I got sick at the same time, but it’s ridiculous. I spent all day Sunday vacumming the vents and washing them in hopes that there was too much dust and me removing it would help me. So far it hasn’t.

I wonder if Elle is typing her RTT as I am typing mine. My screen keeps jumping all weird. I don’t think that’ll be a good thing if she is…..someone’s post will not save

I joined a couple Freecycle groups in hopes of scoring some free furniture. Let me just tell you, if you join any of these groups, don’t choose to get individual emails when people post stuff. Your email will just fill up completely! And if you’re one of those people who gets email notifications on your phone….well, prepare for it to go off like every 5 minutes!!

George wanted a special picture in honor of Valentine’s Day

 Also, don’t forget our Pet of the Week from Lollypop Farm!

I’m not one to jump on a bandwagon, stand on a soapbox or get on a high horse. In fact, just this week I was yelled at for being “so neutral”. Ya, call me Switzerland. I was raised to not talk about politics or religion, to not judge other people and if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anthing at all (that last one I stole from Thumper). So it really irritates me when a group that is supposedly speaking for American Families, and Mothers in particular, turns out to be nothing more than a bunch of bigoted, small minded, mean-spirited busybodies.

Honestly, before yesterday I had never heard of “A Million Moms”, but now that I have, I want to stand up and say that “A Million Moms does not represent me or my family.” It saddens me to think of the wasted resources of these supposed million moms. Can you imagine the force for good that could come out of a million moms? They could tackle child abuse, homelessness, hunger in America, but no, instead they have chosen to focus on JC Penney and Ellen Degeneres because she is such a threat to their way of life. Really? I’d let Ellen babysit my kids.