The Ugly Is Gone

Good News - If you read my last post, you are probably thinking that my house is completely going to pot.  I try a project, it doesn't work to my liking, I make a huge mess, and then I move on.  Well, that part is true.  The GOOD NEWS, is that my husband lent a much needed helping hand last night and the caulking is once again under wraps.   It took Chiki a few hours to clean up my disaster but all looks 100% better.  I am thankful for his help, but am a little worried that he will never let me live this one down :)

Now onto my next project.  I know I can handle this one:  decluttering

WOW ... What Was I Thinking??

Sorry, there are going to be no pictures of this one.  Ok ... since Chiki is gone most of the time and there are things around the house that are in need of getting done, I thought that I would take some of those projects on.  Task #1 - caulk.  How hard can it really be?  I ran to the Home Depot and picked up a few tubes of caulk, along with some smoothing and scraping tools that "were" supposed to make this project alot easier.  I read a few of the instructions, but figured I didn't need to read all because heck this is going to be easy.  I put the 1st tube of caulk in the gun, and start my way around the kitchen sink.  Shoot, a little more came out then I would have liked but looks alot like paint so I am sure I can make my edge and clean everything else up when done.  I moved around to another area of the sink ... shoot what the heck??  Another mess  but oh well I will just clean this up along with the other, when done.  I then moved to the front of the sink.  Some of the caulk shoots out onto the cabinets, and also into the sink.  As I am trying to wipe it off of the cabinets, I realize ... this stupid @#$$!@ stuff doesn't come off.   Needless to say, I didn't stop there.  Still thinking to myself that anyone can do this and there is a little trick to it that I just need to figure out ... I moved onto not one of the bathroom sinks, but yep both of the bathroom sinks.  I would squirt a mess out onto one of the sinks, get frustrated and go into the other bathroom.   I went back and forth for about an hour, until I realized that this was hopeless.  After two wasted tubes of caulk, 3 sinks looking like a total mess because my brilliant self decided to try and clean the goopy mess up, and many, many not so good words later ... I gave up.  As of right now, none of the projects on the to do list have gotten done and I could care less

A Little V Day Fun

Valentine's Day is always lots of fun.  Especially when you have 2 little girlies who already take a liking to the colors pink & red, and love anything placed in front of them that is heart shaped.  Since Chiki was scheduled to work the crappy night shift that weekend (10 pm to 6 am), V Day started a day early.  He surprised all of us ladies in the house, with our own bouquets of flowers.  It was the cuttest thing ... the girls didn't want to put their own down and insisted on carrying them around most of the night.  

The next day was V Day.  Since Chiki was sleeping most of it, me and the girls had lots of time to put things together.  Hannah & Olivia "heart attacked" the house with their pink, heart shaped post its (thank you very much grandpa & grandma :)), and we got heart shaped balloons - one being Hannah Montana, and the other Winnie the Poo.  As for Chiki ... he got some hot wings because I am "HOT for him."  I know, I can't help that I am so creative - haha!

Later that evening per Hannah's request, we all went on a date to Red Robbin.  We were lucky to end up there because Hannah really wanted Chuckee Cheese.  Our good friends Matt & Nicole joined us.  It was funny because after we had all sat down in our spots, I looked to the side of me and there was Chiki.  Me & Chiki never get to sit next to each other, usually having at least one of the offspring sitting between us.  Matt was a total trooper and insisted on staying where we were all at.  He would never admit it out loud, but I think he really liked sitting between the girls :) , and I just have to mention that they were the best they have ever been!

We all had a GREAT time!

OCD

OCD - The older I am getting, the worse I am getting.  That or what I used to think was normal, I am finally discovering isn't so normal afterall.  Here is just a little taste of some of the strange things I have to do:

          

      1.  I cannot eat on just one side of my mouth.  I put a piece of candy in on the right side, when done I must put another candy in on my left.  I have to eat in even portions.

     2.  I cannot leave the house without making all of the beds and cleaning up the bathrooms.  I would rather be late then leave a mess.

     3.  Everything is a race.  If Chiki is driving the other car to the same location as myself ... I must beat him there.  If I am doing cardio at the gym ... I must go at least .1 higher then the person next to me.  This can sometimes be exhausting - haha

     4.  I am constantly wiping my girlies hands with wet wipes, and putting hand sanitizer on them.  

     5. When going out to dinner, I secretly dissect my food with my eyes.  I have gotten lots better at this over the years, and Chiki didn't know that I still do this one.  

Oh heck, I must be really messed up because that is just a few.   Anyhow, now it is your turn.  I would love to hear the funny things you do, and why you do them!

 

NYC Indian Style

Oh heck, no more procrastinating for me. It has been one week since Chiki and I went to NYC, and I can't put off blogging about it anymore. Last weekend, Chiki had a really good friend from the Navy get married. This wedding was totally awesome. First it took place in NYC, and second it was an all out traditional Indian wedding. Before I get to much into the wedding details, I must first mention for those of you who have yet to visit ... it is so difficult to drive around in that area. According to mapquest the hotel we were staying at was about 20 miles aways. It took me and Chiki 2 1/2 hours to get to our destination. Mapquest totally sucks and was telling us to take a lefthand turn, in areas where there was no landhand turn to be taken. On the plus side, I ended up getting that GPS unit that I have been trying to talk Chiki into getting for awhile. Yeah me!!

Now onto the wedding details. Ajay and Amrita's wedding consisted of two nights. The traditional 2 hour Vedic Hindu ceremony was the first to take place, which was then followed by a traditional vegetarian feast. The saries were absolutely beautiful, along with the people. What an experience!!

The Vedi where the couple was wed

Some of the wedding party

The happy couple Ajay and Amrita. 

Chiki, his friend Pee Wee, Ajay, and Amrita. Pee Wee is not his real name, nor do they pronounce Ajay's name correctly. Apparantly, if you have a hard to pronounce name or one that has the potential to be made fun of in the Navy ... one is made up for you. Too bad I didn't know this until I heard the correct way to say Ajay (Aw - Jay).

This picture is rediculous, but here I am trying a very interesting vege meatball. Did I mention we had to make a Taco Bell run on our way back to the hotel.

The traditional American ceremony was held the second night. There was lots of food, dancing, and laughing.

Totally HOT couple

Poser ... but a cute one

Did I mention I was the palest person there

The party scene.  Too bad I didn't take a picture of the dessert table. It was AWESOME!

Chiki and I are very fortunate to have friends who were born into many cultures and faiths. In my opinion, there is no better way to experience the world!!

NYC cont...

Chiki and I were only in NYC for 3 days, and although our schedules were packed with wedding festivities ... we still managed to spend a little time in Times Square.  Since we have already done most of the tourist activities,  we just wanted to walk around and take it all in.  Since there was no meat at the wedding the first night, we decided to gourge ourselves at Tony's with protein for  lunch.  The guys were not willing to risk two meatless days in a row.   Between 4 of us ... we ate 5 family style meat packed dishes. 

After our meat packed lunch, we headed off to the Toys'R'Us to get the girls a little something.  That is where we saw these totally awesome structures made of legos.  The Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty.  Chiki and I were like little kids on Christmas morning in that store.  The other couple we were with ... not so much :) 

Next, we headed to Hershy World.  They had these gynormous chocolate bars there that weighed 5 lbs. each.  A little too much chocolate for me.   

Our entire stay in NYC consisted of freezing weather and lots of running around.  But we are so happy that we went, and couldn't be more happy for Ajay and Amrita!!

(Only in NYC do you see things like this :))

Big'ol Crappy Day

Crappy Days.  We all have them, but boy some are worse then others.   That was my day yesterday.  Saturday January 10Th.  It all started with Chiki having to work from noon til 10 pm.  Not only was that the last Saturday before classes start back, but also his crazy new work schedule will soon begin.  We still have lots to catch up on, and a trip to get ready for.

Now, onto my day.  Chiki leaves for work, and me and Hannah bake a cake while Olivia takes a nap.  Hannah watches a movie while I make frosting and frost the cake.  What a disaster.  Apparently, the frosting was a little too runny and oozed right off the cake onto the counter. What a mess.  I would have been better off letting Hannah make the frosting from scratch.   Olivia wakes up a little while later, and me and the girls head off to the store in search for size 10 ballet and tap shoes.  Hannah's shoe size must be very popular because not a single recommended store had her size.  Anyhow, realized after arriving to the first store that out of all 4 strollers we own ... not a single one was in my trunk.  That meant that I would have to chase Olivia around each of the stores while Hannah tries on shoes.   Frustrated and annoyed, I decided to give up on the shoe search for the day and headed to another store for make up.  While standing in the check out line, I over heard the store clerk having a discussion with the customer ahead of me about how she wishes that people who have loud kids would just spare everyone else and stay home.  Fighting back the tears of embarrassment, I am trying to shush Olivia who is practicing her high pitched scream.  Came back to the house, and started to make dinner.  Feeling overwhelmed by each of my little busy bees, I burned part of dinner and had a soda explode in my face.  By this time, it is now about 7 pm.  I was thinking that things were going to finally calm down, and thought it would be fun to do the web cam with my parents.  Boy, was I wrong.  The fun didn't stop there.  Right as we were pulling up the web cam, Hannah walks into the computer room reeking of poop.  I lifted up the blanket she had wrapped around her, and realized that she wasn't wearing any pants and had brown stuff down her leg.  I quickly ran to her room, where I discovered she had pooped her pants on her way to the bathroom and took it upon herself to clean everything up.  Hannah had tracked poop from the bathroom into her bedroom, and then left a nice mess in the dirty clothes.  For all of you who really know me ... know what a germ freak I am.  If the carpet wasn't so new, I would ripe it all up - YUCK.   I had one daughter crying because she knew she was in trouble, and the other one walking around pointing to the poop saying "ewe poop."  A few hours later, after 2 baths, 2 loads of laundry, and lots of scrubbing and spraying of Lysol ... the girls were finally in bed and I could take a deep breath.  All of this happened, while Chiki still had an hour to spare at work.  The lucky bugger - ha ha!