Monday September 28th 2009

The day was mostly nice and quiet and the only thing that really ticked me off was the fact that we have to take the van in again (for the freaking 3rd time) since something is still wrong with it. I am so pissed about it, yes I said that. It should show how angry I am. I mean do those people actually work on the car or just keep it in their shop for days sucking money out of us? :o What also bugs me is that I have a way to nice husband. He doesn't get mad at idiots like that or at least not that quick. I wanna scream: "Let me deal with it, I will kick their behinds real good!" But I am sure he won't he doesn't like it when I embarrass him. But to be honest I couldn't care less what those people think. :P
Anyway, tonight we took the boys to their check-ups. Well I actually drove the boys there and met Nick there right after he finished work. And guess more things for me to get ticked off about. Josh had to get shots but not just one no 3 freaking shots in his arms. I mean what's going on over here? Do people actually think about those poor kids? Isn't one shot already bad enough? In Germany they have usually one combined shot with different vaccines in there. Why torture the kids more than necessary? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I discussed that with the doctor and told him what I thought of that but apparently nobody seems to care but me. :( Luckily Josh was super brave and didn't cry at all.
I told him beforehand it would hurt and I did what my Mom used to do with us when we were little. I poked him with my finger nail in his arm and compared that with the shot coming up. Obviously it isn't completely like that but it helped a bit and as I said he was extreme brave. :D

But it didn't end just there. No while we were heading to the pharmacy. Nathan started running, tumbled and fell on his face. See the fat lip in the picture. Yep poor kid.

I am telling you the crazyness that has been going on takes over the kids too. :(

Ok well I hope I can write more positive stuff again soon. But right now I have to get all of that out of my system. I don't need anymore lectures from anyone or well-meant councels I just need to get through this to get back to normal or I am going to explode.

Saturday September 26th... Crazy day...

What a busy day! First I had a doctor appointment, then we went shopping and when we finally came home we had to rush with lunch and then get ready for the missionaries come over with... THE CAMERA CREW! Yes that's right.

I am normally a pretty tidy and clean person but we just didn't have enough time to do everything I wanted to have done before everyone arrived and come on when you expect cameras, you want your place to look even more nice, right? Well since I still had some stuff laying around and we just came home from shopping I had to find other solutions. Do you want to see what I did? Here we go:

I decided to hide all the groceries (I didn't have time to put away) behind our kitchen counter. Well you just need to know how to help yourself. :D

Also I had a few pots that needed to be cleaned so I opened the oven and stuck them all in there. I am so smart!

Besides that I've just had a crazy day. I am a kind of person who doesn't talk much about her feelings and when I do the other person doesn't always like that. I guess with me being german and being pretty direct, most americans can't really handle that so I just have to learn to keep my mouth shut and not talk about it. A lot has to do with the fact that I can't really impress myself and that comes across as direct or even rude even though that's absolutely not what I meant. But oh well I kept so much inside of me, I will survive doing it again some more.

So yeah life is interesting. Sometimes pretty tough and bitter, but it has good parts too.

Wednesday September 23rd...

I can't believe it but my oldest baby started preschool today. He did so well and even though he came back with big time attitude, I know he enjoyed it and so did I. ;) He was just so excited to go.

Our puppy Josie had to go twice in "time-out" today. I made her sit on the "chair" and our boys thought that was hilarious. It actually worked though. :D

Now I am waiting for my friend Elizabeth so we can watch the 3rd night of "Dancing with the Stars". :D Whoohoo so much fun.

She actually suggested I should write an american-german cook book. Hmm I actually consider that. I don't like those boring normal cook books but maybe it would work if I add my dry-sense-of-humor-attitude in it. Let's see what happens with my newest blog idea first before I start the very next project. :D

Hubby just returned home from the temple and our boys enjoyed a little swim in our bathtub tonight. Life is good.

Sunday September 20th...

Today was a nice day with great dinner guests and just hanging out as family and my friend Elizabeth. :D
Also Josh said a few funny things today. Elizabeth said to me that she thinks it is great, that he has been eating so much more lately and I said: "Yes he eats like a pig." Josh turned around and said in german to me: "Ich bin kein Schwein!" (I am not a pig). hahahahahaha I didn't say that but something like that I guess. ;)
Later another friend came for dinner and he likes to make fun of our cute little dog. Well he came in and greeted our puppy with the words: "Hello Sissi dog..." Josh looked at him and resonded: "That's not Sissi, that's Josie!" Clever, huh?
Anyway, everyone is asleep already so I better finish this off. I played most of the day "Nerds" with Elizabeth and that was tons of fun. Games are so great.
Good night!

Saturday September 19th...

I don't know what's up with me but I keep getting one cool idea after another. I am surprised with myself since I never was that creative before. :O
The newest idea I have is doing a hobby-baking/cooking-business for friends and their friends. I have been told that I do a pretty good job with that and since I enjoy it as well and I can do it from home I figured I might as well offer it out to the world and see if anyone is interested in it and that way I can make some money with it. I don't want to open a real business because for that I need to have money and it also would be way to time-consuming. But as soon as I found out if people are interested I will either do another blog or something where people can tell me when they want to order something and what. So far it is just an idea. But I hope it will wake some interest because once I do get excited about something I want to see results right away. I know that is just impatient me. That's probably why my acting hasn't really picked up yet because I need to learn some more patience. :(

Anyway another thing that came into my head was due to the fact that someone tried to break into my friends house yesterday. :( I just can't believe what's up this week. It seems to hit her really hard because that was the second time that something happened and to be honest with you, I am getting sick of it. She is my friend and I am starting to get really angry. :(
So I kept thinking about that all day today and I just remembered, that I have one thing that would kind of work as an alarm. I have a christmas decoration (santa claus head) for the wall. It is pretty cool but if you turn it on and walk by the sensor, it say's: "HOHOHO, Froeliche Weihnachten euch allen" and then it starts playing some christmas songs. But the crazy part about it is, that it is so freaking loud that it scared my kids so bad that they don't even want it up. It scared me a few times when I passed it and forgot that it was there and it will definitely freak the crap out of people who try to break into a house. :D It will totally wake up the whole house. Maybe I should give that to my friend. Seriously it will give everyone a heartattack. :O
hahahahahahaha that would be so funny to see how robbers pee their pants. :D

Ok I guess that was my thought for the day. Nick mowed the lawn earlier, I had fun at my class last night and I actually have another audition coming up on the 10th. Exciting stuff. Maybe my persitence will pay off eventually and then I can show it to that butt-agency! ;)
Let's hope the rest of the day will go well and we can start a nice new week tomorrow.

Thursday September 17th...

What is it this week? People-Freak-Idiot-Week? Or is it just called Week-Rudeness-Week? Seems like there are a lot of those people out there at the moment. :( Man it is crazy. It is just as I said before some humans can't handle fame or a little bit of power because it turns them into jerks and they forget all about manners they must have learned sometime in their life. :O
I grew up with a certain saying: "Think about what you want to say, then count to 10 and then say it" but a lot of people talk first, then count to 10 and then they realize what they just said!"
My very good friend Elizabeth just told me today about the Video Music Awards and what happened to Taylor Swift. I can only shake my head and say: "HELLOOOOOOOOO! Do you have a brain?" I have never been a big fan of Kayne West but come on treating another person like that always stinks. At least he apologized but still. (Maybe he is from the agency who wrote me that sweet e-mail at the beginning of the week. ;))
My Mom always told me that nothing is so sharp and hurtful as the tongue. Once things are said you can't take them back anymore.
I still have things slip out now and then but I try my hardest not to get carried away and swallow things I shouldn't say.
There is a big difference between sarcasm and rudeness and if people can't tell those apart then they should better keep their mouths shut. :D
Also one of my friends car got towed yesterday because someone decided to be a jerk and couldn't wait for the 10min. she was there. I heard once that you have to give people at least 24hours notice but that obviously only apply's to those tattle tails whenever they are in a situation like that. :( Punch them too.
So yeah this week isn't over yet so let's hope there aren't anymore stinkers out there trying to make other life's miserable.

Wednesday September 16th...

I finally feel a lot calmer. I still want to smack those agency people good, but I am not as mad anymore.
Have you ever had a really angry/ strange feeling inside where you have to do something or you feel like you are going to explode? That's how I felt yesterday so while doing my dishes I couldn't stop thinking about that e-mail so I knew I had to do something about it. ;) I grabbed 2 pillows and screamed in it. :D My boys looked weird at me at first but then they thought it was funny. Anyway it did make me feel better. At least for a little while. And then I was able to go to class last night and that helped too. I love going there it is always fun and learning new things is great too.
Here is a Video from our boys where they play nicely with each other. They can do it when they want to but they also can fight pretty good.

Today should be a more quiet day I hope. Nothing big besides a physical therapist appointment for me and hopefully Nick will be able to buy a second car for us. He spend a lot of time on the internet finding one that is still good and cheap. :) I actually drive more now and even though there are still areas where I won't drive to it will be good to have a another car so we can actually leave without having to ask friends all the time to drive us around. In fact I could even take my friends with me (as long as I feel ok with the area). :D

So yeah fun stuff. Let's hope today is going to be a good and not stressful day and I don't get anymore e-mails that make me mad. I have a pretty exploding temper (even though I learned to control it) and making me angry isn't a very good thing to do. :P

I know, life has it's ups and downs and that is a good thing because that makes us appreciate the good times even more.

It is afternoon now and I just worked with Josh on a few letters. I took a picture of it since I am so proud. He wrote his name all by himself. It doesn't always work yet, but we are getting there. :D