I’ve started letting Chase watch cartoons.

Clearly this is the beginning of the end for him. He is destined to be a TV watcher like me.

He likes the TV and it holds his interest, allowing me to do things like bathe without listening to him scream for me.

Prior to having children I was adamant about what I would and would not allow my children to watch. Don’t misunderstand, I’m not saying I’m all about him watching educational, healthy cartoons or anything, I just think most cartoons these days are dumb as shit. Examples; Pokemon, anything involving anime looking characters, teletubbies, Barney, trust me the list goes on and on.What happened to good cartoons like Fraggle Rock, The Care Bears and Tailspin?

Anyway I have relented and throughout the morning I flip through all the cartoon-ish kid channels trying to find the least annoying thing on. Let me just say that sometimes it’s a challenge. Most of the time we rotate between Yo Gabba Gabba, Wonderpets, some silly show with a small Chinese girl and Dora.

I’m going to have to rethink being in the room while he is watching these cartoons because yesterday I found myself searching the cartoon channels for Wonderpets. What’s wrong with this you ask? Chase was asleep in the other room. I just wanted to hear the phone song. Clearly I wasn’t embarrassed enough when I realized what I was doing because I found myself searching for it on Youtube. Oh yes, I did.

May that song be stuck in YOUR head now.

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I would TOTALLY wear this shirt.

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In four days I will be here:

I will be this drunk:

and I hope to win this much money (again):

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So I got one of those funny “tagged” notes on Facebook the other day where you answer a bunch of questions by setting your iTunes to random and listing the songs that come up. I never did follow up on it, but I’ve been thinking for a few days that I could have had some doozy answers due to my eclectic music tastes. Here is a list of my “favorite” songs, at least those that have the highest play counts.

“Pretty Vegas” by JD Fortune

“Heartless” by Chris Mann

“Womanizer” by Britney Spears

“Slow Me Down” by Emmy Rossum

“Hallelujah” by Kate Voegele

“Hallelujah” by Paramore

“Me and Bobby McGee” by Janis Joplin

“I Can Love You” by Gary Allan

“Big Bad John” by Johnny Cash

“Hardknock Life” from Annie soundtrack

“Rebel Yell” by Billy Idol

“Move Bitch” by Ludacris

“Raise It Up” from the August Rush soundtrack

‘We Both Reached for the Gun” from the Chicago soundtrack

“Copacabana” by Barry Manilow

“Daughter” by Loudon Wainwright

“Hate My Life” by Theory of a Deadman

‘Kyle’s Mom is a Bitch” from the Southpark Movie soundtrack

“Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss” by Bloodhound Gang

“Teenagers” by My Chemical Romance

“Fly on the Wall” by Miley Cyrus

“American Witch” by Rob Zombie

“Stuck in the Middle with You” by Steve Miller Band

“Popular” from the Wicked soundtrack

Is that not one of the weirdest collections of music you have ever seen. Trust me that barely scratches the surface. After all I left off the Trans Siberian Orchestra….

I am such a tool sometimes.

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This Thursday, the topic is Your Five.  Not the top five books on your shelf or the top five places you’ve done it.  These are the five individuals you’re totally allowed to boink outside of wedlock or any sort of committed relationship.

I realize that not to long ago I did a top ten list but you aren’t really going to complain about eye candy are you? Please note that I am including some different “faves” in this list but my top three will NEVER change.

Here we go…

1. Jason Statham – Have you seen the Transporter movies? Holy Hell Batman, this man is something to be ogled. The fight scene where he covers himself in oil, I can’t even form a coherent sentence about it. Look here for yourself. As Angie would say, it makes me warm in the nethers. I think I better move on now.

2. Forrest Griffin – I ADORE him. He is tough as nails and funny as hell. I think I could even get past the wonky ears all those UFC fighters seem to have. Yes I like him THAT much.

3. Timothy Olyphant – He is so pretty it almost hurts to look at him. I fell in love with him in the movie The Hitman, which is surprisingly a really good movie.

4. Heath Ledger – Specifically from his 10 Things I Hate About You days. He is just so adorable. Also, I think he has the same smile as an ex-boyfriend of mine. I refuse to see any significance in that. The scene where he sings…what I wouldn’t give for someone to do that for me. Actually I’d probably be beyond mortified but all the same.

5. Clayton Mitchell -Who? Well my friends he is the lead guitar player for Kenny Chesney and good lawd can that boy play his guitar. He also wears tight jeans better than most any man I know. He makes me drool. A lot.

There you have it.

That’s my list.

Want to play along? Hit up Girl Talk Thursday to link your Top Five post!

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So I was talking with a friend today and I have realized that the rest of my summer is JAM PACKED I mean freaking busy busy busy. This is a small list of things that we/I have going on…
*One last baby shower
*Fourth of July (which at my house is the biggest holiday of the year)
*Blogher (OMG its getting fracking close)
*Baby’s Baptism (ok so one mention of aforementioned baby)
*A trip to the Harry Potter exhibit in Chicago
*Trip to Vegas
and this is all going to happen by September 15th – HOLY CRAP!!!

All of this has me freaking out a little bit for the following reasons….
*when am I going to get my “house to-do” list accomplished
*I need to shop for Blogher and Vegas (my post baby size is actually slightly smaller than pre baby size, a good problem to have but a problem none the less) (shit second baby mention)
*but most of all…good god I hope we can afford all of this with having a new baby and me not working….

I’m just going to tackle one thing at a time, and perhaps I will need to start my prozac again.

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First of all a great big thanks to all the comments and emails I got after my last post. It was all exactly what I needed to hear. On to the randomness…(You should be warned before going further than since I have a 2 and a half week old there is not much on mai brain that isn’t baby related)

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I have never known a baby who can burp and fart as loud as mine. It is apparent that he is already “all boy” and more like his dad than I could have imagined. I’m just waiting for him to realize that these noises are funny and to follow the obnoxiousness with giggles.
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I have also realized that formula burps smell worse than poopy diapers and somehow the really juicy ones always get blown right in my face.
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Admittedly I am one of those girls I used to call bad names. After two weeks I was 10 lbs under the weight I was when I got pregnant. Some friends of my mom’s were commenting on how good I looked and mom mentioned that I was actually lighter than before getting pregnant and one woman said “yeah you look so skinny…I mean you were a little heftier before right”. Umm ok thanks I think….
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Some friends of my in-laws were discussing with me things you do differently with second children and how “less careful” you are. What does it say about me that I don’t do any of the “overly cautious” things with my first baby. Lord my second baby is screwed!

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I put some new pictures in the online album if anyone wants to go look

Baby Chase

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I swear I started this post this morning it just took me all day to get what little is here done. I’m such a blog slacker – yikes!

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By now you know the drill…its Tuesday and that means it’s time for Random Thoughts. Enjoy these and then (if you haven’t already) head over to Keely’s place to check out everyone else’s.
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So its been a while since I have posted, I would apologize, but really what for, I haven’t really had anything of note to say so….Honestly twitter has been my fixation for a few weeks, if you really want to know whats been going on check out my twitter stream. And follow me if you aren’t already, I’ll follow back.
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Today I hit the official 36 week mark of this never-ending pregnancy. The kicker is I could be further along than that, they really can’t tell. Pretty much I think I could go at any time and they wouldn’t be concerned. The real kicker is I am begging this baby to give me at least another week and a half. I’m just not ready.
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Today marks my second day of “not working”. Last Friday was my last day of work and I couldn’t be happier about that. I’m not sure how long I will last as a stay at home mom but for now I’m happy to sit around in my pajamas all day.
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There isn’t a whole lot that will piss me off more than finding fresh cat poop on my brand new kick-n-crawl toy (that I just freaking unwrapped) all because my husband thinks that once a week-or-so cleanings of the cat litter is plenty. The thing is he won’t let me change it because you know pregnant people aren’t supposed to but he had no problem letting me clean up the poopy mess. Thank god toys designed for babies are easy to clean.
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Just to see what would happen I pulled down my favorite pair of pre-maternity jeans the other day and slipped them on. They fit all but buttoning, I’m considering this a massive victory for me. Say what you will but I’m somewhat vain and losing this baby weight is going to be a big deal for me so that made my freakin month.
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The baby’s room is nearing completion finally, all thats really left to do is get the closet organizer in and rearrange the furniture a bit and get the wall decor hung up. The room is filling up fast with stuff and yet when I look at the “must have” list on my registry guide I feel like there is a ton of shit I don’t have yet. Arg! Also, having a car seat in my car just feels frickin weird.
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•  I have been rather blank lately, even my random thoughts are few and far between. This saddens me.
• Recently it feels like the baby is trying to stick an arm out, I’m not sure why, maybe to test the weather. I wish there was a way I could tell him that yes it is in fact warming up but until you are ready to come all the way out keep your arms inside the vehicle currently known as my uterus. kthnxbai!
• As many of you know I am leaving work after the baby to be a SAHM. The person taking my job is mostly doing so because they think that I do nothing all day. Why is it that this person believes I should dedicate 6 hours a day for the next three weeks training them. Something does not compute.
• I’m confused by the Miss USA controversy. So the girl from California doesn’t believe in gay marriage, its not like she said they should be burned at the stake. Perhaps she isn’t against civil unions. I for one am all for it either way, however there are lots of things that are legal that I don’t care for, thats the beauty of being allowed an opinion. Am I being dumb???
• I used to be a big fan of celebrity gossip magazines and blogs, that is until they started to consider Spencer and Heidi to be the biggest news available. Sorry….just no….I do not care an iota about them.
• It’s only 7:30 and yet I feel like today is going to be one of those days where I limit my spoken words to as few as possible because my filter is on the brink of being completely broken.

Head over to Keely’s place and check out all the other random thoughts as admittedly mine aren’t all that great today…

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**Welcome to anyone who has linked over from Mom’s Marbles!** 

Yesterday the lovely Sarah of Ordinary Days asked me to do a guest post for Mom’s Marbles. I jumped at the chance and said yes before I realized that meant I would need to put some coherent thoughts together. Let me explain why this freaked me out. I started this blog not so long ago not because I fancy myself a writer or even because I like to write for that matter. I have never really been good at putting my thoughts to paper (or screen…whatever). I started a blog because for over a year now I have been collecting some fantastic blogs in my reader and have “met” a lot of wonderful bloggers through twitter, I wanted a place to call my own where I could play with memes and throw out random thoughts. I swear to you I think in bullet points, fully constructed thoughts and paragraphs are just not my style.

If you are a regular reader (you know all 6 or so of you) head over to Mom’s Marbles to check out my post, if you are coming from there I hope you’ll come back to visit.

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