MOOvers, Huggers, and Pixie Dusters!

[cyjmhill]

Lex: Sorry about your trip.

Cyman: My name is not Pot. You know I prefer kettle

Snarkgirl: Do you want nice, sweet, drive by bbn or smartypants bbn? both? I am a dichotomy after all (can i get a gym?)

Moo: Smart woman, not to want to mess with a bbn. lol

Wendy: Sorry I missed your chattiness yesterday. Wanna know where i was?

alright two places

1. hottie dentist day.

2. Jonas Bros. concert

See it all started when dd decided I need to dress the part for the concert. So after my shower, she walks into my room and starts going through my clothes and finds her favorite shirt for me to wear. It's the skull and crossbones shirt. (see TR for details) I call it my pirate shirt. I have now worn it 4 times in my life. To WDW, to dd's school-at her insistance, to New Mexico, and now to the JoBros concert.

But as I stated earlier, dd and I had dentist appts first. (nothing says girls night out like getting your teeth cleaned???)

so the gal cleans my teeth, and then hottie dentist walks in and stops in his tracks and he is just kind of looking at me. I say "Hi Dr. X"

He says "You have skulls and crossbones on your shirt"

I say "Yes, I do"

He says "There is a whole other side to you that I never knew about"

I say "well, that is on a need to know basis"

he says "I like it"

and I ALMOST said (b/c you freaks have infiltrated my life!) "ya never know what a bbn might do" BUT I caught myself and said "I like to surprise people"

he said "I am surprised, but it's a good surprise."

and after he checks my teeth, he says "Feel free to wear that shirt anytime"

I say "Ummm. Ok?"

and then I go to the lobby and grab dd's hand and say "You owe me! I am never wearing this shirt again!" and she thinks it is hysterical.

so, we drive three hours to the Avril Lavigne/JoBros concert. And for you posters with preteen/teen girls that chick from camp rock Demi (the main girl) opened for both of them. I hate to say this, but she was very off key. Felt kinda bad for the girl. But the hundreds of SCREAMING girls around me never noticed.

anyway, we are at the concert, I'm behaving pretty well. The jumbotrons are set up. You can send text messages for people to read while you wait between acts. (I love you Nick Jonas. Scream if you love the JoBros. etc) It's pretty late in the concert, (right before the JoBros come out) I am getting bored. I figure, why not play around a little? Now to be honest, it's late in the concert, I figure anything I might send would never make it up on the screen in time, right?

So I'm fiddling with my phone and a few minutes later. The crowd starts laughing. I look up at the screen. Well looky there right there in front of thousands of people are the words "I have to pee" WHO would do such a thing????

Moving on, I live through the concert, we are heading out. We are about to cross the road into the parking lot, when security stops us and says "wait right here" Dangit, I'm trying to beat the crowd! So we wait and the crowd starts getting bigger behind us and security is keeping everyone off the road.

And then I see it. The JoBros bus. Coming right at us. I brace myself.

Then all the girls see it and a unified scream is let out. Shrieking, shrill, prepubescent, blood curdling screams.

We are at the front of the line. The bus stops right in front of us. Dd JUMPS on my back! The moms around us start laughing. She screams "KEVIN!!!!" There they are standing in the steps of the bus, literally a few feet from us. She screams "KEVIN!!!!!!!" again. He looks at her, smiles, and waves.
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my eardrums are still bleeding.

By the time we make it to the interstate, it's midnight. She says "I have to call daddy!"

But before I can say "he probably just feel asleep", she is on the phone in near hysterics. KEVIN! was a few feet from me. He saw me. He heard me scream his name. He smiled at me. He waved at me. blah, blah, blah, blah. I can hear dh laughing on the other line.

She puts the JoBros CD in and turns it all the way up. I allow her to listen to it. once. Then I tell her to put it away, go to sleep, mommy and Michael Buble are going to have a moment. alone.

There ya go folks, just another day in the life of a bbn.

Wow, you can be a good person - who would have thunk it

 

[babynurse1]

Twink! Shield your eyes!!


I forgot. While I am at the concert, dh calls and says Gigantor just got hit in the face with a football (Hey, he's only 9. He's not Marvin Harrison. yet. But in his defense, Caleb is no Peyton Manning. He aint zackly putting it in the breadbasket, knowwhatimsayin?)

anyway, when he got hit, he bit his tongue. or should I say THROUGH his tongue. Oh yes, he did. But mommy is hundreds of miles away. After diagnosing the severity of the situation via phone. That is dang hard to do, btw. Dh takes Gigantor to the ER to get his tongue sewn up. He had just gotten home and fallen asleep when Julia called with her Kevin news! Oh well, he was a good sport about it. Poor Gigantor, he can barely talk.

Now then, THAT is just another day in the life of a bbn.

Oh and I did find a song of the JoBros that I actually liked. It's nice.


Hello Beautiful
How's it going?
I hear it's wonderful in Indiana
I've been missing you its true
But tonight I'm gonna fly
Yea tonight I'm gonna fly
'cause I could comb across the world
See everything and never be satisfied
If I couldn't see those eyes


Hello Beautiful
It's been a long time
Since my phone's rung
And you've been on that line
I've been missing you it's true
But tonight I'm gonna fly
Yea tonight I'm gonna fly
'cause I could comb across the world
See everything and never be satisfied
If I couldn't see your eyes

 

[babynurse1]

Wow, you can be a good person - who would have thunk it

I am good in all that I do. Except when I choose to be bad, and then I'm even better.

 

[lalijack]

Have you seen Scentsy yet? Really neat electric bulb type warmers and all the warmers are the same price. They have lots of scents in little ice cubes for the warmers. Girl at work is having a party, can't wait to buy some stuff.

Yep, I've seen them. I begged out of a party at my BFF's sister's house just last weekend. Gotta refrain from extraneous candle purchases for a bit, lest my house be overrun with scented wax!

Lynette......Uh-hemmmm....pictures?

Sheesh! I'm getting to it! Pinky promise, even!

Snarkgirl: Do you want nice, sweet, drive by bbn or smartypants bbn? both? I am a dichotomy after all (can i get a gym?)

You say dichotomy, I say bi-polar. Heh. (But I'll give you a gym just the same. Cuz I'm nice like that. )



Okay, so thank heavens today is my short work day. Cuz CBM just came over to my office to tell me that he's going to be in his office for 30 minutes, and can't be disturbed. (Uh, okay. Shouldn't be hard to do, since NO ONE wants to talk to him in the first place.)

The reason? He's going to be "doing his relaxation tapes"! WHUUUUUUT????? Let me repeat (for the people back there in the cheap seats) that he lives 15 minutes from here! If he needs relaxation, can't he go the heck home? We DO NOT need him here, since things are s-l-o-w as molasses lately! This man is out to lunch without a sammich, if y'all know what I mean!

 

[celerystalker]

I love my online friends.
cuz you never know what a babycow might do.
I also sent Lisa a copy of the latest CBM antics.

 

[UtahMama]

Soooo many comments, people!

But, I have to share THIS little juicy morsel.

I often brag how I've never gotten a traffic ticket, right? Not here, but, trust me, I DO brag IRL about that. Or if I drive by some poor shmuck who's been pull't over, I will out loud (to myself) say "HA-HA!"

Well, Karma has a way of righting those wrongs, now doesn't she?

I have gotten pulled over before, true. A few times. FOUR other times, if you must know. And have managed to talk my way out of them

BUT, those particular "skillz" are wasted on straight women traffic cops!

Works well for the dude cops and the other lady cops , I have to say.
(Sorry Celery! LOL!)

Anywho.

A series of unfortunate events all happened within a short time of each other:

1. Got a LITTLE lost, as in took a wrong turn (as in missed my real turn due to whatever distraction)

2. Heard the little man I babysit, who I've literally nick-named "Blow-Out Boy", in his car seat behind me have a VERY loud diaper explosion (some of you know what I'm talking about)

3. Spilled my McIced Coffee (Lg, sugar-free-vanilla, YUMMMM) all down the front of my WHITE top.

4. Entered a CONSTRUCTION ZONE....(you know what's coming! )

5. Decided I may be going a smidge too fast so I decided to slow down--but before I decided to slow down, Miss Straight Lady Cop's radar gun had already clocked me at going 49!!!! FYI, It was a 25 zone.

SO! yada yada yada, it's a $432.00 ticket!!!! Received in front of my kids, even! Who proceeded to laugh WITH me the whole way home.



*Sucky-Wife Tip:

If you ever have similar bad-ish news which you need to share with your DH, do this! Call him while he's at work, in the company of OTHER people's DH's. This causes much manly co-miserating and softens the blow of the ticket price quite a bit. Except, he thought I said $132 (not $432!) at first and said, "That's not too bad!" and I thought, "hey, that was EASY!" while silently high-fiving myself. Then I realized he may not have heard me correctly and made SURE he knew my ticket fee. Again, luckily for me, he was with a bunch of dudes at the time. By the time he came home, he was just rolling his eyes at me and calling me a "Bad A_ _" .

And I can no longer brag about driving for XX years without getting a ticket

 

[cyjmhill]

Soooo many comments, people!

But, I have to share THIS little juicy morsel.

I often brag how I've never gotten a traffic ticket, right? Not here, but, trust me, I DO brag IRL about that. Or if I drive by some poor shmuck who's been pull't over, I will out loud (to myself) say "HA-HA!"

Well, Karma has a way of righting those wrongs, now doesn't she?

I have gotten pulled over before, true. A few times. FOUR other times, if you must know. And have managed to talk my way out of them

BUT, those particular "skillz" are wasted on straight women traffic cops!

Works well for the dude cops and the other lady cops , I have to say.
(Sorry Celery! LOL!)

Anywho.

A series of unfortunate events all happened within a short time of each other:

1. Got a LITTLE lost, as in took a wrong turn (as in missed my real turn due to whatever distraction)

2. Heard the little man I babysit, who I've literally nick-named "Blow-Out Boy", in his car seat behind me have a VERY loud diaper explosion (some of you know what I'm talking about)

3. Spilled my McIced Coffee (Lg, sugar-free-vanilla, YUMMMM) all down the front of my WHITE top.

4. Entered a CONSTRUCTION ZONE....(you know what's coming! )

5. Decided I may be going a smidge too fast so I decided to slow down--but before I decided to slow down, Miss Straight Lady Cop's radar gun had already clocked me at going 49!!!! FYI, It was a 25 zone.

SO! yada yada yada, it's a $432.00 ticket!!!! Received in front of my kids, even! Who proceeded to laugh WITH me the whole way home.



*Sucky-Wife Tip:

If you ever have similar bad-ish news which you need to share with your DH, do this! Call him while he's at work, in the company of OTHER people's DH's. This causes much manly co-miserating and softens the blow of the ticket price quite a bit. Except, he thought I said $132 (not $432!) at first and said, "That's not too bad!" and I thought, "hey, that was EASY!" while silently high-fiving myself. Then I realized he may not have heard me correctly and made SURE he knew my ticket fee. Again, luckily for me, he was with a bunch of dudes at the time. By the time he came home, he was just rolling his eyes at me and calling me a "Bad A_ _" .

And I can no longer brag about driving for XX years without getting a ticket

hmmm, I used to be a police officer and I am sure I would not have been giving you a warning, and yes I am a straight guy. I very seldom gave people warnings because the people I pulled over were needing a ticket - usually 15 mph over the limit, blowing red lights way late, etc.

Sorry about the ticket, hopefully your DH isn't too mad at you.

 

[UtahMama]

hmmm, I used to be a police officer and I am sure I would not have been giving you a warning, and yes I am a straight guy. I very seldom gave people warnings because the people I pulled over were needing a ticket - usually 15 mph over the limit, blowing red lights way late, etc.

Sorry about the ticket, hopefully your DH isn't too mad at you.

Yes, I totally DID deserve that ticket, no doubt about it! Construction Zones are serious business. My police officer was actually awesome. If I had to put myself in that hideous position, at least she was funny and somewhat cool.

I normally drive annoyingly slow. The series of unfortunate events made me want to get home. I just can NOT believe I did that!

DH is not too mad about it. More inconvenienced at the extra expense.

 

[monymony3471]

Didn't the stench chase her away?

And did ja get the stain out?

So do you usually have to hose down that little guys car seat?

And did you ever make the right turn and get to your destination?

 

[Bloodhound]

 

[Bloodhound]

Hi All Donald and I are meeting for Beer and Wings...Ive been working at the Antiques Mall today an also tomorrow so if anyone is comming close to Bowling Green tomorrow come say hi I'll be here 10 am till 5 pm cental time

 

[MommyPoppins]

PSA for TWILIGHT BOOK LOVERS:
I got an email from amazon today that "Breaking Dawn" (the story told from Edward's point of view) is now available for pre-order, with a discount even.
It is scheduled to arrive August 8 at my house. Of course I still have 1.5 books left to read before I get to that one, LOL. And it is supposed to be the longest book.
I thought I would share.

I guess Wendy already knows from her Twilight thread?

I already ordered mine. I can't WAIT for it to arrive. In the meantime I'm going to reread them all. haha


Isaac is 17lbs, 28 1/2 inches. I didn't receive any parenting advice about not starting him on solids yet and they didn't bat an eye when I told them I wanted it put in his file that he wasn't to receive anymore of the roto virus vaccine.

 

[lalijack]

I love my online friends.
cuz you never know what a babycow might do.
I also sent Lisa a copy of the latest CBM antics.

Cel, I'm glad that my misfortune is at least amusing to someone. Hee!

1. Well, Karma has a way of righting those wrongs, now doesn't she?

2. And I can no longer brag about driving for XX years without getting a ticket

1. She shirley does! That Karma is a vengeful .....well, you know what I mean!

2. Yes, but this new story gives you mad street cred!

 

[celerystalker]

Yes, I totally DID deserve that ticket, no doubt about it! Construction Zones are serious business. My police officer was actually awesome. If I had to put myself in that hideous position, at least she was funny and somewhat cool.

Translation: Why couldn't she have been a LITTLE bi?

 

[monymony3471]

Wooooooo Hooooooo Lynettttttttttte!


nice numbers

 

[lalijack]

Ack! Hound, where are you? Are you watching our show? Things are NOT going our way tonight!

 

[Backstage_Gal]

Wendy, yikes on the ticket, that is a steep one!

I only had 2 so far. one for parking in a no parking zone, just running a quick copy of my tax return to mail ($65), and one for speeding in a school zone while the lights where flashing. My mind was elsewhere. I blame other drivers not being around for not making me slow down! That one was $165 (ouch)

Cy, if you are not a police officer anymore, what do you do now?

BBN, wow, what a night. Yikes on the tongue thing, that sounds awful! But how exciting for your DD!

Hi to all my other Moover friends

Some news on the job front, which won't change the price of beer for any of you, but will probably impact my work life. We got a new GM for the hotel. A lady that has worked for Disney for 37 years, all in F&B. She has a great reputation. So we had a meet and greet today for 45 mins with the leadershp team, and I am really looking forward to working with her, she seems really nice and is very excited about her new role. We might actually have business reviews again after 2 1/2 years

Melinda, do you have a clue where Nebo and Smidgy are? No word in 10 days. You can PM me. Or anyone else who has info.

ETA: Speaking of the price of beer, I said something to our Merchandise manager today (ie: $5 for a 16 oz can, $30 for a six pack) This is global pricing policy, not local (heck nothing is local anymore!!. He mentioned that it was consistanly in the top 10 items in sales, which really surprised me. I guess that's the thing to do on vacation, LOL.

 

[lalijack]

BBN, in my post this afternoon, I thought I sent some pixie dust for Gigantor. I guess the DIS ate that part of my reply. Hope he heals quickly. Poor guy!

 

[cyjmhill]

Cy, if you are not a police officer anymore, what do you do now?

Well, that is a good question. Right now I am in-between jobs. I was a director for a Tribal Regulatory Agency (casino regulation). Hoping something will be coming up soon.

I have been pretty lucky with jobs - once they sent me to a Disney Institute Seminar at WDW.

 

[Backstage_Gal]

Well, that is a good question. Right now I am in-between jobs. I was a director for a Tribal Regulatory Agency (casino regulation). Hoping something will be coming up soon.

I have been pretty lucky with jobs - once they sent me to a Disney Institute Seminar at WDW.

Hey, I used to work with the Disney Instite for almost 5 years. Back in 1996-2000, before they disolved the Personal learning part. Actually the Corporate part used to called Dsney University, until it got merged with the Disney Institute, (the faled part they closed down), but it retained the name and then got passed on to Convention Sales from then on (again)

What course did you take?

Hope something turns up for you soon on the job front!

ETA: Funny sidestory here. When they did the Personal Leaning (I can't even remember the official term right now) of the DI, they hired a lady who expensed her expenses driving to and from HOME to WORK and back. Wish that could happen. Luckily that got stopped evetually, and she left the company.