Laura Vegas

for my long time blog readers, i'm sure you'll all attest to how often i would do my "random" posts. where i would just spout out totally random things and thoughts. i sort of got away from doing those sort of posts on the blog over the last year or so. and i'm starting to think that facebook is to blame. on an average day, i update my status 3-6 times. sometimes less, sometimes more. and it's random stuff. updates on what's going on, or what i'm doing that moment. something funny the kids did or said. or total nonsense, that no one probably cares about. lol! and then friends will comment, and some funny conversations come out of it. so i really am getting all my randomness down. it's just on facebook, and not my blog. so i thought i would share a handful of my facebook status updates from the past few weeks. an easy way to give you a peek into what sort of randomness has been going on around this joint.

sarah and i found the cutest decorative wrought iron green owl, while out shopping today. he was filled with some potpourri in fabulous colors of brown, white, and yellows. he had to come home with me. now i'm realizing how stinky that potpourri is (duh, laura. it's potpourri). my pounding headache has decided that i might have to send him back to the store he came from 😦 for the record, he's still here and not so stinky anymore. lol!

that is the most absurd PG&E bill ever. it's $230 higher than it was last month. tell me i'm not the only one that this happened too. or tell me that i AM the only one, and that this has to be a horrible mistake 😦

i played the part of cinderella tonight, complete with a bucket of soapy water and a scrub brush. 1/3 of my kitchen floor is now cleaner than it's been in years. we'll see if i get to the other 2/3's of the kitchen … and the laundry room … and the entry way … and the 3 bathrooms.

facebook has been suggesting that i be friends with someone for months now. so today, i give in and send a friend request to this person. turns out … this person has too many friends already, so i got denied. kind of funny 🙂

we are now fully stocked up on bath & body handsoaps and antibacterial soaps. gotta love a good sale, combined with a great coupon, and even an extra freebie tossed in 🙂

someone remind me to take some matches with me the next time i go go the post office. someone needs to light a fire under every single tush working there. seriously … i didn't know it was possible to move THAT slow, when the line is 12 people deep 😦

i think phineas and ferb is the most hilarious show. although the girls think it's strange that i laugh at things they don't. like "mad map folding skills". or everytime they say "danville" 🙂

i just love this time of night. it's 1:00am, and it's so quiet and calm. the rest of the world around me is sleeping. there's just something magical about being a night owl 🙂

we survived a long day at great america. rode all the roller coasters, and even managed to get joe on a few of them. lol! he had to go straight to work and work the night shift … so i hope he can stay awake all night. as for the girls and i … we're beat and getting our sleep 🙂

orthodontist. bank. target. load up on school supplies. extras to donate to the teachers. icees for the girls. starbucks for me. lunch is on the stove and then we can relax.

i can't decide what to work on tonight. editing photos, scrapbooking, writing up my project that needs to be mailed out, typing up a blog post for tomorrow, filling out alyssa's high school paperwork, laundry, or sitting and doing nothing at all? i have a feeling it will be a random mix of all of those at once. lol!

i had to put myself in a time-out to chill out a bit. spent way too much time in the car, driving and waiting at the high school. told the girls to give me half an hour, and i'll be ready to do the back to school clothes shopping 🙂

i'm bored. don't get me wrong … i have plenty of things to do. just don't feel like doing any of them.

joe and sarah left for soccer practice. i'm taking alyssa to the high school for round two of mini band camp. back home to figure out dinner. back to get sarah, and then we're headed to the parent part of band camp. we think it's crazy now … just wait until school starts next week. lol!

we made it through round-up day at the high school. got her schedule. and saw way more freshmen in one spot than i can handle. i'm so glad that my girl has great friends, with good attitudes and respectful manners. if they stick together, they'll do just fine 🙂

our new little girl molly came today. molly took out a zillion toys and seemed very excited about each one of them. we think she's pretty cute 🙂

sarah just pointed out the fact that i seem to have shared a lot of layouts about alyssa on my blog. so we went back and searched … the last layout of JUST sarah, was back in march. she's quite annoyed by this disturbing fact. i am to share NO more layouts of alyssa, until i make 3 new ones of sarah 😉

i'm so, so, so close to finishing a new digital layout of sarah. was hoping to stick it up on the blog tonight. will have to wait until tomorrow.

alyssa made it through freshman orientation. now we just have to wait until 5:00, for the class lists to be posted for sarah's school. crossing our fingers she has some of her best friends in her class 🙂

getting ready to put together 2 kitchen chairs. crossing my fingers that these aren't wonky and wobbly, like the last ones.