The Barton Experience

Buttercup is marry Humperdink in little less than half and hour...

hee hee hee!  How can you go wrong when you start out a Blog post with a quote from one of the BESTEST movies of all time???! ;)

I was doing so well on this whole blogging thing!!!  *sigh*  Then a seriously nasty gahmbu hit our house...you gotta "love" it when a sickness includes barfing, congestion, coughing, and headache...so wonderful...
urgh.  It has juuuuust as of last night been passed around to our whole family!  I thought that poor Amanda had gotten away from it...until she puked off of the top bunk bed last night...nice.  So, needless to say it has been a busy and INSANE month.  This post will be alot like my junk drawer, full of random stuff, totally disorganized, and full of about 400 pens...well everything but that last part.

1.  Amanda's first Science Fair Project:


2.  Josh read the ENTIRE Twilight series...*sniffle* 

I am so impressed that he waded through ALL that terrible angst JUST FOR LITTLE 'OL ME!!! ;)  I haven't really pushed for him to read them because he has had NO extra time with the whole being a Med School Student and all...but I  knew that if he could cope with the angsty-ness of it he would really enjoy the story!  While the angst was painful to him, the overall storyline caught him hook, line, and sinker. :D 

3.  Our garden is growing ACTUAL FOOD!!!


4.  Sam is still TOTALLY obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine


5.  and of couse Izzy is STILL as evil as ever!!!

For some reason I have really been slacking updating my blog for the past couple months. There are several reasons for this:

I can't believe that I have to wait for two weeks to see the season premiere of CSI (the original one) I don't usually pay attention to, or remember when, TV shows are on- (especially since whenever I get time to catch up on shows- I can see them on the internet and be able to pause them when the kids bug me) But usually the first and last episodes of a season are really great. I have been waiting all summer to see if Warrick Brown lives on CSI. Yeah, yeah, I know...I have no life! He probably won't. Stupid TV shows. What will I have to distract me from my lack of life after the season premieres?
Whoa, rereading this really makes me feel lame. *sigh*
Tonight they killed Pratt on ER, Warrick will probably die on CSI...at least Horatio Caine faked his own death on CSI:Miami. Loser=me.
Anyway.
Last night I proved that I am not as uncordinated as I usually feel. There was a stupid disgusting cockroach climbing up my front room wall- way up by the ceiling
(oh how I loathe them)
I couldn't try to reach up and squish it, because, well...1st I'm not quite tall enough, B- there was a plant in the way on the floor and lastly what if it flipped onto my head? Ugh, ewwww, nasty, gross, dirty, disgusting...I would be still be screaming if that had happened. So I picked up a couple of the girls flip-flops and started chucking them across the room at the disgusting creature...AND I HIT AND KILLED IT ON THE THIRD SHOT!!! Now that might seem a silly thing to be happy about, but only to those of you who have never lived in an area where these filthy little buggers abound, they are really hard to kill. I don't know how many times I have squished one only to go and pick it up and have the little #$!#%^&()#$#@!*(&#@!# come back to life and scurry out of the tissue at me.
Oh, I hate them so much.
But I hit it perfectly and it was 'dead as fried chicken'. That will teach it to crawl around my house.
Wah-HA HA HA HA!!! (that is an evil laugh...just so you know)

OK, I know that CC&R's are to keep a community nice and neat. But far too many nazi's are upholding these often ridiculous rules. We just got a letter in the mail stateing that since we haven't fixed the spotlight (yes one lightbulb- oh, that we replaced last Saturday) our presence is requested at a hearing on Aug 26th, where we will be given the opportunity to "present any evidence or make any statement relating to the violation". You have got to be kidding me. The maximum fine that may be imposed is $500. Holy crap. Perhaps they need to get a life? huh? And we used to think that Sunset Ridge was harsh, oh how I long for those days. Before you all post your angry comments at the unjust psychosis that sent us this letter, I have already called my landlord, who apologized profusely and said that she has already spoken to the Property Mgmt. and they apologized and said it was a big mistake. Gee, ya think? So annoying, especially since they sent a notice in the mail, and another the same day certified mail that I had to drive down to the really busy post office...with the kids...to pick up...ggrrrrrrrrr. A pock upon them.

Well, here it is my very first blog...Sometimes I swear I am older than 33 *sigh* Perhaps someday all of this blog-o-sphere stuff will be easy for me, but since I gotta start somewhere here I GO!!
I am just finishing my second read of the fourth book in the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn. Yeah, yeah, it has only been out for four days- you can only imagine the state of my house, deplorable- and it is amazing my children are all still alive! I don't know what it is but I really love these books! This last one is so great, the first few seemed like I was reading something out of the Young Adult section of the library...oh yeah I was. Not that I didn't like them...LOVED them. But Breaking Dawn was so much more interesting on an adult level, and I don't mean adult naughty X-rated level, just more grown up. I liked it. Now that I have no new book to look forward to my life feels a bit empty, kindof the same way I felt after I finished Potter #7. Seriously, I have got to get a life. I know I have a crazy busy life with the kids, Josh, and taking care of the whole household - but perhaps this blogging thing will be something just for me. I think us stay-at-home moms don't have enough interests outside of our everyday 'duties'. Not that I am complaining! I love that I get to stay home, sometimes I do feel that my brain is slowly petrifying for lack of use! Yup, this college grad can hardly help Amanda with her third grade math homework!!! AAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH! Perhaps I need to do some stuff for me to be able to balance everything else? You know what they say, if Momma ain't happy ain't nobody happy! tee hee.
Well speaking about everything else- the table is covered in syrup, Sam is still up at 10pm, 'Cars' is still playing on a TV somewhere and there are only three loads of clean laundry piled on my bed- in the same room where Izzy will be waking wanting her 3rd dinner any minute! Goodnight for now!