My idiot self
…or how I tried to donate big bucks to Victoria’s Secret. Saturday we got an alert from our bank that there was a withdrawal for a large sum. It was a very large sum to Victoria’s Secret. “Holy crap!” I thought, “someone got that Christmas BIG-Wish List catalog from VS and just bought the diamond studded bra. With our money!” Oh no they di-unt! I was instantly peeved that someone was going to steal our information and then go shopping at Victoria’s Secret. At 7:30 on a Saturday morning even. We made calls to our bank. Panicky calls. We made calls to Victoria’s Secret. Panicky

My boots were stolen
When something’s stolen from you, right off your feet practically, there’s only one thing to do. Go shopping. I was notified of an amazing sale on 6pm.com the other day. The RSVP brand was going to list all of their shoes at $6.95 precisely at midnight. It was only 10:30 at the time so I immediately went over there to scope out the situation. I wasn’t in love with any of the shoes I saw, but lo and behold! their boots were going to be on sale too! I could find me some boots that looked half decent for $6.95. The first issue was finding any styles that were still available

What the #?
Twitter is a lot of fun. I enjoy getting everyone’s updates, from celebrities to political figures to homegrown friends. It’s a great way to stay on top of things…until there’s a hashtag party I’m not involved in. Then my twitter page gets filled with all these stupid tweets about crayons and gno’s (girls night out) and Nestle products. Now, I love crayons and Nestle products and definitely girls’ nights out and I like the people who tweet about them. I just don’t want to see all the tweets. Hashtags, for those of you uninitiated with Twitter (yet), are a way for people to find what you’re tweeting

The children’s brains are mush
Alternate title: Sometimes sitting your kids in front of the tv for a multi-day movie marathon can be a life saver. Our girls normally get to watch one movie a day and sometimes they even forget to ask for one. Since we don’t have cable or the new antenna thingy to watch HD tv there’s not a lot of tv watching going on here on a regular basis. Until someone gets sick. Last week Ashlyn was feverish for two days and so I let her watch several movies each day as Reagan and I did school. This week it was my and Reagan’s turns. Tuesday afternoon the body ache started and by Wednesday morning I felt a little like death warmed over. That has cont

Shame on Virginia (and I mean the whole state)
Recently Virginia has been in the homeschool news for refusing to give homeschooled children the H1N1 vaccine. I’m going to rant a little. May I remind the state of Virginia that just because we choose to keep our children out of public school (and that includes privately schooled children, however, I do not know if they faced the same discrimination) doesn’t mean we are exempt from paying taxes. My husband’s tax dollars have a chunk taken out so each public schooled child can receive an average of $9,963 for schooling. We get NONE of that. His tax dollars also go towards the research and development of the vaccine itself. And since when is it