Today in my regular mail:

Hey there dear readers,

I promise I’m okay. I promise I’ll be back.

A real life friend called last night, I think she was genuinely worried that something had happened to me… It reminded me that there are (or were!) some real life friends and virtual (but very real) friends who might be wondering the same thing…

Everyone is busy at the holidays right? So I’m no different. This is my first year running a ‘sales’ business during the holidays! And it’s fun and crazy and wild and exhausting… I have filled all the orders I promised. And I’m almost through with one that I only partially promised… and still crossing my fingers that I can get it in the mail AND it will ship in time for Christmas!

Plus we now live in a town that isn’t afraid to hold Christmas concerts… in fact they are pretty bold about it, don’t even say ‘holiday concert’… and I’ve been to three of them so far and 3 class parties coming up. And the snow and cold weather finally hit here (they’ve been warning us about it.. but we were all.. oh? we can handle it, lived in Utah for Pete’s sake…! Ahem.. had to go get STUDDED tires for the van.. what? I didn’t even know there was such a thing. Now I do.)

Oh and a little thing that I managed to co-create… that little thing called #GNO over on Twitter.com? Yeah, well. Due to the vision of my Biz partner Jyl, big things are happening, and bigger things seem to be coming down the pipeline every day. Stuff like this comes out of my mouth, “I have to run, cuz I have a business conference call…” I love saying that!

Yesterday we found out that the great Sugar Jones, had chosen to award MommyGossip-GNO with the $6,000 worth of HP magic she was giving away! Talk about hyperventilating…

We are so excited and we have great plans for what to do with ALL THAT STUFF!

We have been shaping our vision for several weeks now, and we really want MommyGossip-GNO to be a force for good, yes, in the most cheesy way… We want to change the world, one mom at a time. Can we do it?

We think so. We think Moms Make a Difference.

All photos taken with 11yrold’s camera.

All photos are cheesy.

And of course we MUST take photos of the piles of stuffed animals that litter our room.

And the cat. Of course. Right after we make her a bed under our bed, we must take her picture. Of course.

Finally I get to play along over at Angie’s House again!

Did you see the awesome children’s book below? Did you?

Well…..
I did.

The good kind. NOT the kind where you fork over more than would buy two boxes of Costco Diapers.
NO.
The kind that you can wear every day. Wear IN. Make a mess of, throw in the laundry, wear the next day -rinse and repeat.

I had a pair like this. I wore them out. To holes. Plus. They didn’t fit anymore. Sad huh? They were all baggy in the butt? The what? I know..where did my butt go? I had to wear a belt? That’s impossible isn’t it? They stretched out right? Oh RI-AAAAght, that must be it. All the spandex.

So I shopped. At Old Navy for fancy pants sake. And THOSE Jeans didn’t fit either. Huh?

My size, the size I’ve been for 4 years? Was TOO large. Again with that…
TOO large.

I had to try on the size SMALLER. Yeah, RI-aaaght?

I wasn’t this size in HIGH SCHOOL people. Much less after three babies?

We call this the secretary syndrome. The stores are now sizing things so they appear to be smaller? Hubby’s secretary from eons ago, would walk into office and proclaim, OH MY HECK, look at my new outfit! It’s an 8! When the poor lady hadn’t been anywhere near a size 22 for the past 22 years. Much less an 8?

A Marketing Lie. Must be. Ri-aaaght?

You tell me.

SHARE YOUR WordFul over at ANGIE’s Circus!!

PS. From comments, this phenom is called “Vanity Sizing”! –Mamarazi
Oh my heck, I didn’t know it had a name?

Jello is a floppy thing.
It can be any color.
It can be yellow.
My Jello is yellow.
Look at that lumpy bumpy thing.
Is is a yellow little fellow.
Say hello little Jello.

By Sassy, my 7yrold.

Hosted by Cecily and MamaGeek

Does this ever happen to you…?

It starts out like this:

FIRST. You have to pee.

I mean you REALLY have to pee! And when you get there…erm…there’s Cleanser in the Toilet!

Crap. You think. (No not literally)

Hubby put it in there and then LEFT! And then while cleaning it out, you remember (Oh yeah)? You told hubby to dump some Ajax in before he left for work.

And he did, (what a good guy) But you end up nearly peeing your pants while you clean it, first!

And then.

You get in the shower and you turn on the nozzle and you realize, doh! Set to hubby’s height. Which is perfect for him and perfect to SPRAY you in the face!

And then.

After. Realize. DIDN’T bring in your towel! Have to drip all the way to the closet to get it.

*Wow, this is Gonna be a great day.*

I typed:

Email me your dang phone number!”

Cell phone typed:

“Email me your Fang phone number! ”
(She is all that with Stephanie Meyers you know?)

OR

Trying to reply to a blog comment via cell phone:

“Hey where are you, I can’t find your blog?”

Cell phone typed:

“Hey where are you, I can’t Dung your blog?”
(Some sort of online practical joke it must think?)

He was SO mad! It was PINK! He knocked it out of my hands! I was sorta taken aback at his violence. He looks at me with these puppy dog eyes and in a sing song voice says,
“Mom, what if they say…–you’re a gir-irl, you’re a gir-irl, you’re a gir-irl!?”

Who I wondered? It’s just me and him at home?

TK after eating his lunch:

“I’m FULL of it!”
Mom: You ARE full of it!
TK: I’m full of my noodles!

Let’s Take a SkinnyScoop Poll:

Okay… Srsly? AM I THE ONLY one who cleans first and asks questions later…?

See the comments….

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To the tune of folding laundry….

Me: I think House is turning all Picket Fences…

Hubby: What?

Me: You know. Picket Fences was weird and funny and new and fresh…and then it just wasn’t anymore. I think the writers ran out of weird. Maybe the House writers ran out of snark?

Hubby: Oh? They already made up a phrase for that.

Me: What?

Hubby: Yeah. You say: this show has ‘Jumped the Shark’.

Me: Who jumped the what?

Hubby: Go google it. From Happy Days. The episode where Fonzie is waterskiing and ‘jumps the shark’, was the beginning of the end for that TV show. (Srsly click that link..The Fonz with leather jacket and all).

Me: Fonzie? From like 200 years ago? THAT Fonzie? How in all that is holy does Fonzie compare to HOUSE??

Am I showing my age or what?

YOU go google ‘jumping the shark’. Sounds like a naughty sex act if you ask me.

UPDATE:

Robin just informed me that there IS in fact a website all about this. You can go vote whether you think House has ‘jumped the shark’ or not… I already told you how I voted…

http://www.jumptheshark.com/topic/House/

Let me know if you do!

I’m still in love with Hugh for the record.

Any guesses What the Heck this was for? Nope, wrong! Guess again.

I could barely keep up with everything going on and I think everyone figured it out VERY quickly. You can too. Try to make it next Tuesday! We’ll be there at 8PM Pacific time…That’s 11PM EST for my East Coast pals (JiggetyJig that means you) 9Pm Utah time, and 10PM for Arkansas friends (I think)? Jocasta? I’ll wait up for you….

So much for the movie?

I posted this one already, but you understand don’t you?

Hosted by Cecily and MamaGeek