Did someone lose two pounds last week?

Because I think I found them on my thighs this morning.

Kinda makes you want one, right?

OMG, I almost died laughing when I got this in an email today. Thanks for the smile on a Back to Work Monday, Buster!

Do I need a receipt to return these neighbors?

Dear Inconsiderate Neighbor,

Do you not see your trash blowing all over the freaking cul-de-sac?!

I know that you are home today because school is out, your garage door is up and I saw your husband taking out still more trash earlier this morning. I understand that you have a bazillion children and that Christmas generates more trash than your already over-worked container can possibly hold, but can't you at least secure the overflow on what is clearly a very windy day?

If I wanted to decorate my yard with styrofoam peanuts I would have done it with my own trash.

Sincerely,
Peeved in Indiana

Home, Sweet Home

Returning to our house tonight I realized I have never been so content to come home from a vacation. We had a wonderful time and I miss family already but when I walked inside tonight I was overcome by a wave of gratitude for our beautiful home and the many blessings we have in our life here. I am one lucky girl!

I love me a Langer Christmas...

Because Christmas dinner wouldn't be complete until someone spits liquid through their nose.

Late night + Early morning = Stupid Sara

As always happens when I am at home in SC, I stayed up late into the night spending time with my sisters. By the time I got ready for bed, I was bleary-eyed and sleepy and ready to hit the sheets.

Unfortunately I don't have the vacation time to take this whole week off, but at least I can take my work with me and log the time from here. Thus I was up at 6:30 this morning quietly going through my morning routine so as not to wake the rest of the house. Suddenly, there is a five alarm fire in my eyeball! The tears are immediately flowing full force down my cheeks and I am writhing in pain in front of the bathroom mirror. Clearly, there is something wrong with my contact but it hurts so bad, I can't open my eye to get it out!

I finally pry the contact out and desperately flush my eye with water, contact solution, anything that might help the burning, pulsing and swelling. As I reach for my contact solution, I suddenly realize that is not my contact solution but Nate's. Which is totally different than mine and contains hydrogen peroxide. Which I used to refill one side of contact case last night. Which then soaked my contact all night. Which I then inserted directly into my eye. I basically attempted to dissolve my eyeball this morning with hydrogen peroxide.

Needless to say, my eye is not a pretty sight today. After much flushing, it still burns in the corners and the red is still very noticeable. Luckily, I packed my glasses as an afterthought Friday morning as we were walking out the door. Let's just say, glasses will always be on my packing list from now on, just in case. At least I am getting some good mileage out of my new glasses!

My Dad's a Ninja

My dad just left for the office where he will check the Secret Computer, for important government secrets. I am 27 years old and I still think that's pretty cool. My dad's cooler than your dad. (Don't be jealous).

Happiness is...

Wrapping Christmas presents while my little sister sings and plays her guitar. I love that kid.

At home in the Dirty....

We made it to South Carolina safely last night. It took 11 l-o-n-g hours with lots of rain, but at least it wasn't snow or ice. We had a book on CD from one of our favorite authors so that helps the time pass a little more quickly.

It is 70 degrees here today! WTH? A whole suitcase full of clothes and I have nothing to wear! Guess I'll just have to go shopping.

Just in the knick of time!

The gifts are finally wrapped with not a second to spare! I wanted to have it all done last night so tonight I could focus on packing everything else. Between our own two suitcases and myriad doggie accessories, I'm not quite sure where we're going to put all this in the car!


I had a little help from Lola. I was 'protecting' her from the big scary vacuum her daddy was using in the living room. That's why she looks so terrified!

And the hits just keep on coming....

As if one cranky car wasn't enough for this month, Nate's car decided to stop running on his way to work this morning. Like literally stop running while he was driving it. That was after the window fell in yesterday for the 6,543,762nd time.

The bad news? It's the alternator. The expensive alternator.

The good news? They can actually get it fixed by the end of today. So we don't have to leave town with a car in the shop.

Guess it's time to get serious about some new car shopping for poor Nate. I think we've nursed that stupid car along about as far as we can. One place we won't be looking? The Pontiac dealer!

I (heart) Peyton Manning

....oh, and the rest of the Colts football team, of course!

So Sunday I got to go to my first NFL football game. We did the tour of the new Lucas Oil Stadium a few months ago and Nate got to go to a preseason game, but this was my first live Colts game. We had nosebleed seats and could barely see the ball moving around the field, but it was fun and exciting nonetheless.

Pre-game warm ups.


That tiny person on the 30 yard line in the middle of the picture is Peyton Manning!


This is the face Nate usually makes when I ask him to take a picture with me.


And to be fair, here is a bad one of me, too.


Eight pictures later, one we can both live with.


Here we go! Get excited!!


This as close as we got to the action.


I have to start plotting now to get to more games next season and hopefully, maybe better seats. But I can't complain, I got to go and I had a fantastic time (and cotton candy, which makes anything more fun!).

Here I am to save the day!

Just in case you are a slacker and haven't finished your Christmas shopping, here's a little extra online savings. You can still order now and receive it in time for Christmas (or go the easy route and send it straight to Mom and Dad's, like I did!).

Not Me Monday

I have not, in the last 18 days, polished off two entire cases of Cheerwine. I most certainly have not justified this two-a-day gluttony by reasoning that since one is diet (and therefore calorie free), it basically doesn't count. That would be self-delusional. And I am definitely not self-delusional. Nope, not me!

I did not substitute brown sugar for white sugar when making short-cut lasagna, because I somehow forgot to buy white sugar at the grocery store. I mean who forgets a basic staple like sugar? Not me!

I did not openly gloat when Oliver had an accident in the house, because that wouldn't make my dog (Lola) the 'good' dog. I mean, who is secretly not too unhappy about an accident in the house? Not me!

I did not scream like a school girl and otherwise make a general idiot out of myself when I discovered a huge slimy something-or-other under the wash-out drain in front of the house. That would be silly and embarrassing to do in front of the neighbors. Who was that raving lunatic on my driveway? Not me!

Just in time for the holidays....

Bad news - no raise for me this year. Announced via conference call just in time for the holidays. Merry Christmas to me.



Guess I should concentrate on the good news - I still have a job (for now).