bee and rose

Happy St. Patrick's Day! How about a wee stroll down memory lane?  Thank you to everyone who messaged me about sharing this blast from the past again this year:)  (yes, Maureen...I do read your emails too!)  Even though it was originally posted in 2009, not too much has changed (says Dawn in her "I can't believe I have PMS every single year at this same time"   happy (think Pharrell singing "Happy") voice.  So grab a cup of Irish coffee, Jameson whiskey, Guinness or whatever suits your fancy on this fine St. Patrick's Day and let me share a tale of whimsy with you.  (and may the luck of the Irish be with you if you come my way today!  Don't say I didn't warn you!)    Oops! What's she doing here again? Wasn't she just here a month ago? UGH! The nerve! We had so much "fun" last time she was here, didn't we?  Well, since I have a full day of Irish activities planned, I guess I better be gettin' my Irish on.......

Back in the old days last year, I made up a bloggy thing called "Did You Know? Tuesday" ...It was my very lame and lazy attempt to write a bunch of stuff and pass it off as a post...oops...did I type that out loud???  I meant to say that it was my brilliant way to creatively write snippets of thoughts into one tidy post.  So dear readers, today I bestow upon you the return of "Did You Know? Tuesday" in all it's golden witty splendor....that's right...prepared to be ( bored silly and yawning in about 30 seconds...)  DaZzLeD!....Ready...set...Go!   Did You Know... that my 7 year old daughter received a job promotion today?  That's right!  She was promoted from  "Pack Mule"  to  "Roadie"  for doing such a bang up job carrying her brother's guitar gear to his lesson.  Bravo, Teen Caveboy for offering up such a worthy promotion! (and for promoting child labor...good on you!  High fives all around! That's my...

Oops…I meant to write Bitchy…(stupid Freudian slips…) She showed up yesterday….she's here again today...idiot... At first, I was mad…(well of course, I would be…I had PMS), but then I noticed something weird was going on….She had a visitor…. What the flip was Gene Simmons (aka Dr. Love) doing with my duck? I just shook my head and went to make some breakfast…with chocolate…heck, I’d even settle for some chocolate eggs from Easter weekend, but apparently, those rotten kids of mine ate them already. I couldn’t find anything so then I thought “must have iced Coffee from McDonalds ”…closer to the house than Starbucks…and those Starbucks girls are too freakin’ cheerful…I might have to hand them a piece of my gum and it might hurt their feelings. They might start screwing up everyone’s orders and then the entire universe gets all whack-a-doodle because PMS makes me mean. (This is my gum of choice right now...) Before I left, I grabbed one of my trusty signs in case one of the McDonalds ...

Don't be afraid....It says cloudy with a chance of b*tchy. Oops! How did that pop in here? Don't worry...I'm not growling yet... Although, last night I was sharing my frustration over my new facial hair with Chilly, brought on, no doubt, by perimenopause. I will now share with you his words of comfort... "If you're gonna be a bear, be a grizzly, right?" Oh no he di'nt! Nerdanderthal! Growling will now commence... I knew I was in for a hormonal rough patch this morning when I went in for a morning soak in the tub and found that my cute rubber duckie... had turned into this.... Time to call in the reinforcements! I grabbed my special soap used only for this occasion... There! That feels better....NOT! Ugh! I knew it was time to get the tools to help me deal with the gathering storm. I grabbed these...(because it's really best if I don't talk...because I probably won't be nice...) (the blue one is for emergencies only...) I got some chapstick be...