Doctor, softball, soccer and (of course) yard sales.

We went to the doctor today.

Alex is in the 64^th percentile for height but only 4^th for weight yet she still has rolls of fat on her leg. Weird. She got her last hepatitis b shot (until she’s a year old anyway).

Mahala has a soccer game this weekend. Her coach is kinda strange. He wants them to memorize a playbook (like that will ever happen). And he talks… a LOT. I don’t think having homework at school AND soccer is going to fly with me. I mean it’s Optimist it’s not like it’s a serious we gotta win at all cost league. You know Penn and Teller? He reminds me of Penn a lot.

Looks and sounds like him.

Now it’s the next week. Mahala had their soccer game and they lost 3-1. Mahala played well. I got to meet their coach and he is fine. The “plays” he wanted them to memorize aren’t really plays. It's not as big a deal as I thought when MAHALA told me about it. I can;t imagine a 12 year old making something sound harder than it is to make you feel sorry for her. That would never happen right?

Keri tried out for softball this weekend also and did well. She has picked it up pretty fast. I, of course, got her a new bat and glove and a batting helmet. Had to order a face guard because they need them at this age (8 and under). I also have been picking up softbals at yard sales whenever I can. They are usually .25 as opposed to $4 or more at Target. I had no idea they had fast pitch softball for girls this young. It’s great! Do they do this everywhere or is it mostly slow pitch at 8 years old? Anyway I’m glad it’s fast pitch. Keri likes the faster pitching better anyway.Can’t wait for her first game. She finds out what team she’s on and schedule and all that this week.

Since most of our Saturday was taken up with sports (we did get a few yard sales in) we decided to try to go to a few yard sales Sunday. We found 2 and they were pretty good. Bridget found a bunch of clothes for .25 each and get this, I found a laptop computer for 5 bucks…. Seriously. Not a 20 year old crappy one either. It’s a DELL Intel Celeron Mobile 1.6 GHz with 512MB RAM And a DVD/ CD Writable drive. I think they sold it because it they couldn’t get it to start up but it seems to only need an operating system which is easy enough to do. 5 bucks…. Crazy…. Can you tell I like yard sales a little bit?

Sorry I didn’t call you back Mom. The baby was crazy tired and wouldn’t go to sleep .. and when she went to sleep so did I.

We got good yard sales this weekend cuz it’s a holiday and there will be no practices or games. Might be the last time we get to go this year all day. We better find some good stuff!

10 days and counting. Chantix seems to be working. I wonder how much of it is mental and how much is the pills actually doing something?

Drinking so much you can't see straight

I like that title. I haven't done it in about 15 years but I like it anyway. Time for school again. Bridget is busy getting school supplies and clothes for the kids of course. Dad (or Paw Paw - he answers to both when he's not watching tv) bought the kids new backpacks yesterday. He is visiting but leaving this morning. We all love that he comes down to visit so much. And of course the kids love it.

fast forward a week or so.....

Soccer is starting up also. Mahala is playing in the Optimist league and Keri is playing for the YMCA so it'll be another year of going to 2 different fields for games on Saturday. I was kinda hoping they would both do one or the other but they didn't want to.

Yesterday was our 15th Anniversary. Who woulda thunk it. We might even start sleeping in the same room again to celebrate! Nah...

I really need to call my mother.

We went to Myrtle Beach a couple weeks ago. Fun fun fun. Roller Coasters, swimming and a

really cool magic show. Never seen a big time magic show before. Keri now wants to be a magician. Imagine that.

School starts today. Keri has Mahala's 3rd grade teacher. We were hoping that would happen. She's really good. Her name is Mrs. Schneider.

It has not been a good technology couple of weeks for me. First I accidentally shut my van door on my Blackberry Pearl and screwed up the screen. So I bought a Blackberry Curve off ebay. Awesome phone. Not so awesome when you accidentally drop it outside immediately following a 30 minute downpour BECAUSE, let me tell you, the chances are good that it will land in a PUDDLE OF WATER. Now phones hate water apparently cause it decided to stop working also. Sunday I turned on my Playstation 3 and it will not read any discs at all. I read on the internet that a LOT of people have this problem but since it is out of warranty I am out of luck. So that is almost $600 worth of electronics down the tubes. How nice....

One the plus I let the Curve dry out for a few days and it seems to be working. Yipee....

Mahala got mad and hung up on me the other day.... that was the wrong thing to do... she's stuck in the house until this weekend. I should have taken her phone too...

I love the show True Blood. Don't you?

I have my computer hooked to my LCD TV and every episode of Scrubs is loaded on it so I have my own 24 hour Scrubs network. Isn't that interesting?

Bridget is thinking about doing this Navy Seal training workout. Better her than me. It looks like suicide to me.

Baby Alex can stand up on just about anything. I found that out in the garage when she was in the wagon. It took her about a millisecond to stand up and do a flip onto the cold hard ground below. Well, I had a towel bunched up right where she landed so she's ok and everything. But she is a mess. Oh and as you can see she can't decide if she likes to eat sand or not.

Keri is now wanting to play softball so we are practicing so she can play next spring.

Yard sale finds the last few weeks :

We got a couch for our library (it's really a living rom but Bridget calls it a library... so I guess it's a library). It cost $25. Not bad.

From the same yard sale we bought all the clothes for $35.00. There are at least 8 or 10 huge lots of clothes to sell on Ebay.

A Videonow player with 20 video discs for $3.00 and it sold for $52.

2 Arcade Dance Platforms for the kids dance games. They were $5 a piece. They sell for like $75 or more new so I thought that was a good deal.

We found a lot of little toys for Alex (play cell phones, keyboards ect...). a lot of them were a quarter a piece. Her favorite thing is a stand up toy that is supposed to make noise. It doesn't work but she just loves standing up and pushing it around the room.

I found a bunch of regular and softer practice softballs for me and Keri to practice with for .25 each. I didn't realize how much those damn things cost in the store.

That's all for now ... cya..

suweeee

Get along lil doggy we are ready to go to THE Myrtle Beach. That's like THE Ohio State Pukeaversity or THE worst univeristy in the history of the universe (that would be va tech for anyone keeping score). Anyway, we thought we had everything set. We got one of those luggage things to put on top of the van. Bridget picked it up and asked TWO of the sales people if they were sure that was all she needed. They both said it was all she nedded. Of course it wasn't and we needed crossbars for the top of the van. Now this was Friday, 3 days ago. We went back this morning and the guy says "sorry, we sold the last 2 yesterday." Oh well, they gave us our money back and luckily looked at every side of the box except the one with the BIG LONG scrape on it that I put there dragging it into the garage. The kicker was that the box was $200 and the rails were gonna be another $200 effectively doubling our cost. Hell, we might as well go to the Honda dealer for that price. Well everyone is trying to get ready and since we want to leave at 10 I am sure we will get out of here by at least 2. And now since we don't have a luggave box we will have to pack the van so full the kids might sufficate. Oh well, you if your gonna make an omelette you gotta break some eggs right? Well, baby is now up so I have to go play with her of course. cya.