Come on Life put em up!! We are duking it out

Yesterday I got some great news, our mortgage co is working with us to help us get caught up in a way they never would have before. In a way we can work with and not be screwed, yesterday was great, I was happy and relived.

Then last night comes with making 2 Baked Zitis one of which my hubby was taking to work for a Pot Luck. The other was our dinner. All he could do was complain there was not enough meat in it. I just don't see how he can not see this comment of "Its good but not meaty enough" as not being insulting after all I just did for him. But ok we got over that, not so off the typical for us to get into it over something like that.

Now fast forward to this morning. I walk out to the garage to get his uniform and notice water on the floor coming from under the washer. (I am immediately getting a flashback to April 06, 4 months after we bought the house and had mysterious water coming out onto the garage floor from a crack between the garage floor and foundation of the house. It was a leak under our kitchen, under the foundation :( ) Ok so I am now assuming we have a new leak in the same vicinity and will have to have the floor under the fridge jack hammered yet again and have more pipe fixed. So there goes the break we are getting from the mortgage co sigh. I'm gonna have to get like a $400 - $500 loan from my boss and get this fixed but we can't do it till next Friday as no one is gonna be around till then to be around all day for our plumber to come fix this. SOO until this time we get to have fun with keeping the water off to the house until we desperately need to run water. Turn it on get all our stuff done and get it turned back off for a week, sigh this will prove to be a huge PITA

Thank you Karma for kicking my ass once again but I will prevail, I will beat you back down.

~Mom with a Scattered Mind~

Tags: life, drama, FUBAR

This is BOB

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This is Bob. Copy and paste him everywhere to help him rule the world.

SORRY LOL I saw this on a forum and just thought Bob was insatiably cute lol.

~Mom with a Scattered Mind~

Tags: funny, humor, silly

RECIPE - Savory Meat Loaf

This is the recipe I follow for meatloaf that has become a true family favorite. It comes from my Betty Crocker Cookbook that was given to me by Grandmother when Hubby and I got married. Some modifications done that adds the EASY in the name.

SAVORY EASY MEATLOAF

2 pounds lean ground beef
1 cup milk
1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1/4 teaspoon dried rubbed sage - (looks kinda fluffy in the jar)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground mustard
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
1 egg
1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs
1/4 teaspoon minced onion (equals 1/4 cup fresh onion)
1/2 cup ketchup, chili sauce or barbecue sauce

1. Heat oven to 350°F.

2. Mix all ingredients except ketchup. Spread mixture in ungreased loaf pan, 8 1/2x4 1/2x2 1/2 or 9x5x3 inches, or shape into 9x5-inch loaf in ungreased rectangular pan, 13x9x2 inches. Spread ketchup over top.

3. Insert meat thermometer so tip is in center of loaf. Bake uncovered 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes or until thermometer reads 160°F

I suggested serving with some Mashed Potatoes for a full happy family ;)

Serves 4 - 6

~Mom with a Scattered Mind~

Tags: recipe, meatloaf, dinner

Um Yeah Happy Birthday and such

Ok so today is my 30th Birthday, I usually am quite excited for my birthday and up until yesterday I was my usual excited self.

THEN... It hit "OMFG I'm going to be 30!!!! " Driving down the interstate I'm bawling my eyes out over the fact. And now today while everyone is sending me big wonderful greetings and my email box was full of greetings from forums I just want to go back home go back to bed and not think about today. I keep welling up over the idea and I really don't get it other than for the fact that 10 years ago I saw myself having some college under my belt which has not happened and I'm still afraid of the process.

I'm in a decent job, I don't get raises as often as I should or without asking and right now I can't bring myself to ask for one due to the current economy. I suppose I should just be grateful to be employed.

I'm driving a car that hasn't had a working A/C for over 2 years now because the mechanic wants over $1000 to fix it. (Thanks Suzuki for making your parts non OEM)
Oh and now it sounds like the front end is going to fall out from under it. Hubby is trying to figure out a way to get me a Mini-Van or a small SUV but who knows how that is going to go. I just know he plans on giving up his Pickup for it.

All in all I just don't feel I'm where I should be at 30. I feel like my life has been running backwards since High School and like I will do what I should have done fresh out of High School when I'm to old for it to matter.

So anyways YAY Happy Birthday to me sigh "I treated myself to Panera for lunch hehe"

Toodles
~Mom with a Scattered Mind~

Tags: birthday, down, depressed, blah

Family Dirty Laundry, New Toys, and an IKEA Visit

My life currently has been filled with a bit of drama. My 20 yr old sister in law for starters was dumped by her boyfriend of 1 yr, he was perfect for her. Granted a bit older than her but none the less was perfect. We all thought the world of him, he treated her wonderfully. He had asked her to marry him at Christmas even.

Well he being a man of 26 - 27 likes to go out a few nights a week to the play poker with his buddies and at least once a week go to the bar after he gets off work at night. Well she started bitching at him for this. She felt he wasn't taking her anywhere (When it fact he took her everywhere she wanted to go during the day.) Well of course he got upset over it and after asking her not to bitch at him for stuff like that and of course other issues he dumped her, sent her back home to live with Mommy and Daddy. Well a week later she realizes she isn't feeling right, her period was late and low and behold she takes a pregnancy test and its positive. She tells him, they get her into the dr and the test there is negative. Dr sends off for blood work and it comes back positive. I then get her more test and she takes them and they come out positive. We get her to an OB/GYN which she now would be 10 weeks along and the pee test there is negative and they have taken a blood sample now and sent that off so we are awaiting that and she goes in on Tues for an Ultrasound to find out whats going on.

This has been so much drama over the past 6 weeks it ended up making me late LMAO I get the daily updates of her puking, crying, nasty texts between them. Whatever.

I have a sneaking suspicion that she probably lost it. She did have some odd bleeding recently.

Ok done with the dirty laundry, now onto the cool stuff LOL

My birthday is FRIDAY and I am turning the big 30 aggh. Well I had been on this mission to get my hands on an iphone preferably and I was gonna unlock it and jailbreak it and use it on T-Mobile. I was even willing to buy a cracked one at a highly discounted price and fix it myself.

Well my hubby surprised me 2 weeks ago with a iPod Touch, he got it as a refurb directly from Apple and it is SOOO Nice.

I have downloaded so many apps LOL. And yes I did take the time to upload my music to it also hehe.

Oh hey and how cool is this, I am turning 30 this week. The big Apple keynote is today and WWDC 2009 is this week and there is all sorts of buzz that the 3.0 OS for the iPhone and iPod Touch will release this week hehe. Coincidence hummm

For hubby whos Birthday was June 1st I got him an Sidekick Slide so we both have new toys hehe.

Oh an yesterday I took my first trip to IKEA, I am so in love with that place LOL. But I learned never to go again with the squirt in tow OMG.
my Hubby has been wanting a shelf by his desk for a while. I found one that I liked and it was only $20, then I realized the color I wanted was not in stock. So I figured I would come back another time.
We get downstairs and are ready to leave and see a section called "AS IS" basically a scratch and dent area. Low and Behold they had my shelf there and for only $5.50 so that is my first visit to IKEA Experience. I LOVE THE PLACE.



~Mom with a Scattered Mind~

Tags: gossip, gadgets, toys, ikea, furniture