I Think 'Cloud' is Like Religion

No one can actually give it ONE perfect definition and stand 100% confident in their less than perfect statement.  Define Statement: a communication or declaration in speech or writing, setting forth facts, particulars, etc.*  I guess I don't think it would be a statement then, do I?  Because with statement, one would be setting forth facts.  So, with today's development of the ambiguous 'cloud', I will define a new industry term:  Cloud Religion.  The term used when someone defines what cloud means to them.  To me, cloud is more a private internet most popularly offered in 1 or 10G packages w/ a Mbs of some sort to connect to your illusive and quite exclusive cloud.  Done.  Next stop: The White House; as I was voted most likely to overthrow the President in High School, I might as well give it a whirl.  Albeit, I am fond of our President but questioning the world's biggest arms deal to Saudi Arabia that he just had something to do with...  Happy New Year to all!!  Please drive safe, and don't get too crazy.  Your mother could not go on without you.

*Dictionary.com 

Good Food That Tastes Good Too?? Noooooo.....

So as a 2 time marathoner, I know food.  I know food that's good for me and I know why and how it's good for me.  Like, what it will do for my body and at which extent.  However, I have eaten more turkey bacon, whole wheat, whole grain toast, organic baby spinach and beans.  The hard part is that I love Christmas sugar cookies!  I love all cookies!!  So I was told by a colleague of mine that if I don't eat sugar for 1 or 2 weeks, that I will no longer crave it.  Not sure I can even get there!!  Whatever, I'm in hibernation.  I don't think it has so much to do w/ whether I eat a turkey brat or a hot dog, I'm wondering if my issue is the fact that my indulgence in wine  sky rockets this time of year.  Again, I'll have to say whatever.  Santa would want me to be a happier, more relaxed version me right now anyway.

Happy Christmas Eve Eve Eve!!!!  

How Many Social Media Sites Do I Need???

Answer: ALL OF THEM!!  If I intend on keeping up with the ways of the world, I will require the following:
Facebook
Skype
Twitter
Google+
These are the minimal requirements.  I wonder when my subscriptions to social media and my presence in the social enterprise world will negate a need for my resume.  I'll tell you what, my social media presence looks better.  While I may not be on board for that 100% yet, (and I know I will be) I will keep striving.  Whats more, I need all of my SMS (social media sites) to communicate to each other.  For example, Salesforce.com will soon communicate with my FB profile (looks like I'll be creating a professional profile).  The feature I like about Google+ is that I won't need to create both my fun profile and my work profile; I can have "Circles"!!  Now I know where I can post those 'too risque for my boss girls night out' pictures!!  That's the smartest thing they've done yet.  I just wish Google and SFDC would play nicer together sooner.  But for now my blog talks to my FB, talks to my Yahoo, talks to my Gmail, talks to my iPhone.  I think I'm good.  Are you?  FYI, my 92 year old Grandfather text messages me.  He doesn't LOL but he does when he calls me.  Which brings me to another point.  Text messaging is the new morse code.  Get w/ that.  I just had a conversation w/ a friend which lasted for 2 days that was neither had on the phone nor via SMS.  All social media.  I can dig it.  I can sooooo dig it.

Time to go get ready to meet a friend for coffee.  I made this date via Skype.  Ha ha ha.

"Groupon Is A Disaster" | LinkedIn

"Groupon Is A Disaster" | LinkedIn:

'via Blog this'

I wondered how long this would last. I've gotten a few Groupons, all of which I had to push out my date of 'pure enjoyment' because the vendors were packed. Then I wondered how they made any money knowing that each vendor pays an inflated price to use a credit card machine for one and then to factor in the overhead..... I have never been back to the place I had tea, the place I tried to get a mani and a martini, or the spa where I will pay a reasonable amount of money for a microderm abrasion. Two more points: a majority of these businesses are sooooooo chic (not read like boho chic), and I don't intend to go back to a salon to get a microderm in this economy for one, and I'm paying 50% less than what I would had I not gotten a Groupon and I think that's almost reasonable. I'll just try to be more diligent in washing my make-up off before I go to bed.... No seriously... Anyway, it was a great idea but I really need 50% off an oil change. I hope they pull out of this disaster. Thirty something tech billionaires are so chic.

I'm Running Faster Now

After the initial shock but lack of surprise of Steve Jobs' death at 56 from cancer, I will run faster, harder, stronger.  Not just because of that but because after having heard of his death, I didn't know that the next person I would meet tonight for the first time has blood cancer.  Her name is Carol.  Carol is proud and thankful that she is a stem cell transplant survivor.  She's not especially thankful that she's a stem cell transplant survivor, she's thankful that the transplant gave her 7 more years with her now 16 year old son.  She is "mad as hell" though.  That's not because she has blood cancer.  That's because of her divorce.  =)  I get mad as hell at the sheer thought of something threatening a relationship between parent and child.  I miss my friend Matt.  You miss your friends, family members.  I miss my cat Bucky who died of cancer when I was 10.  I am not a fan of cats but you get my point.

Training is done, it's the final countdown.....  Put the air guitar away until after you're done reading, I had to.  I want to thank the incredible people at The American Cancer Society - DetermiNation Team for landing this opportunity in my lap.  I have to admit, I didn't join this team in 2010 so I could swallow my pride to collect donations for people with cancer.  I joined because I was too late to register for my first full marathon.  I am so grateful that I found them!  On Sunday, I will be running my 2nd full marathon for The ACS and I couldn't be fortunate to be such a tiny part of something SOOOOOOO BIG!!!  I have met great people who give me encouragement and don't know me very well.  You guys rock!  Thanks for letting me be a part of your team 2 years running!!  Punny, I know.  If you haven't donated and can't, don't worry, I get it.  If you haven't donated and have .50 left until your credit card limit is reached, we could really use it.  If you have someone close to you that you've lost to cancer, give me their name, I'll proudly wear it on Sunday.

We will get you cancer.

Proceed to rip air guitar off the air guitar stand and sing it with me people.....
IT'S THE FINAL COWWWWWNNNNTTTT DOWWWWWWWWNN!!

DONATE HERE:  http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/DetermiNation/DNFY11National?px=17929717&pg=personal&fr_id=35201

Training to Train Has Begun!

Training for my second full marathon begins on 4/19/2011.  I need to be running 25 miles a week to begin said training.  Hmmmmm, I'm training to train.  Why do I feel like I'm planning to plan.  ...that's because I am, I guess.  So I started this TtoT last Friday.  I ran Cherry Creek Res. last time and saw a huge, fat snake.  CC is riddled with them so it wasn't too shocking however.  It is the beginning of April though, isn't it too early to dodge snakes?  The boys and I went on a walk in Lakewood on Sunday though (it was actually an adventure if you ask them) and the guy in front of us convulsed as he dodged a much smaller snake.  So sad.  He clearly suffers from snakeaphobia like my buddy Chris.  Cracks me up!  That's not nice.  I'm not that nice.  So with the notion that it's too early for the animals to come out to play while I run past them is a farce; I know this because yesterday I saw 2 inch worms (waaaayyyy bigger than an inch), a squossom (this is a squirrel hanging downwards from a tree like a possom for my friends who can't make that connection), and 8, yes EIGHT deer.  I filmed them but am too afraid to post because I think I sound like a dude.  I'll work up the courage.  I saw some huge birds but know nothing about birds so we'll just call them huge birds.  Seven more days to go so I can say that I'm just training.  Here is a picture of the deer - more like a Where's Waldo pic but for deer.

Thanks to my great friend Amy who took the boys (their first!!) and I to the Nuggets game last night, so much fun, picture to prove it below!

This Machine...I Mean 8 year Old Is Insane!

Thank you TOC for sending this to me!  I will be putting my children in ballet and croquet lessons on monday morning.  Wrestling, however, is in their blood as they come from a long line of wrestlers and are built like brick sh** houses.  They also find that when I bend down to pick something (probably their mess) off the floor, that it's an open invitation to climb on me in an effort "to take this broad out!"  My angels also eat twice as much as I do at all meals and wash it down w/ an 8oz glass of I'm Going To Break You when they're finished.  Check this out and have a great weekend.

Pint-Sized Pin Machine: 8-Year-Old Wrestling Champ | ThePostGame
http://shar.es/3kS9E

I dedicate this to you Mike Huckabee

Because if there weren't douche bags like you, I'd still have nothing to blog about for 2 weeks.  This segment of Planet Rex comes to you today from a true, uneducated, broke, jobless, uninsured, nanny-less, single mom.  I thank gawd for idiots like you, Mike, and sit at home wondering why I'm not a republican voting for more ignorant rants to be regurgitated from the bowels of Fox News!  If you missed this, I applaud you and envy you as well, but here is what he said in regards to an engaged Natalie Portman:

"I think it gives a distorted image that not everybody hires nannies and caretakers and nurses. Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and would not get healthcare."

Anyway, here's wishing you the best to sorting out the difference between what an average lifestyle is like and that of a celebrity.  Because obviously Huckabee is finding that difficult....

Happy Friday!  What are you doing this weekend?  We're going bowling!!  Can't wait!  Also going to wish lil' pumpkin Mitch a Happy Birthday!  Happy Birthday to Kimmy this week too!  Love ya, doll!

Almost Friday! Are You Incredibly Busy?

Because I am.  So Valentine's Day has come and gone.  Another 1 day out of the year when you're madly in love.  Phewwww!  Glad that day is over, go back to disliking and loathing people.  Just kidding, please don't loathe anyone.  I do have to wonder if it's true that it takes more energy to hate someone than to love and appreciate them.  Let's discuss.  Hating someone makes you mmmmaaaaaaddddd, causes you to yell and sometimes throw things.  I run when I'm mad.  I throw things too, LIKE KNUCKLES!!  Just kidding again.  I just run a couple of miles whilst plotting my vengeance!  LOL.  Okay, I don't do that either.  I do know that I get hot and that my body does physically change when I'm upset or mad.  And many people do blow off steam by way of exercise.  However, on the flip side, being in love is a huge workout.  Mystery solved.  Love uses more energy.

The boys are getting better at hockey.  So much better, in fact, that last night, I actually thought to myself, they're skating good enough that it's not as funny as it was...  :(  They are messing around w/ each other though.  That can be  funny.  (I'm not using their names anymore because I google image'd my sons and found them so I will call them Boy A and Boy B just like the hospital did.  If you know my boys, you know that Boy A is the lover and Boy B is the fighter.  Boy B has had stitches 3 times and a broken leg if that helps)  So last night Boy B jabbed his brother in the face mask w/ the blunt end of his hockey stick.  Not to be outdone, that  jab was met w/ a yanking of the hockey skates out from under the jabber.  I took them to Target the other night and when we left, the boys were in disagreement as to where we were going next.  They stood angrily in front of the shopping cart and would not move.  I realized at that point that some day soon, unless I run them over w/ the cart, I will not have much in the way of argument.  These two gorgeous and incredibly sweet angels are a force to be reckoned with AND THE KICKER YOU ASK?  THEY KNOW IT.  A scene in "The Social Network" comes to mind: "I'm 6'5", weigh 220 pounds, and there's two of me!"

Happy Thursday

Ugggghhhh Happy Monday

Last week was a brutal end of month.  How 'bout that Superbowl?  Sorry Steelers, too bad Ben.  I wonder if his breakfast that morning was an apple turnover.  Just sayin'.

Anyway, does anyone out there actually like Bill O'Reilly?  If you're it, do you think to yourself while he's verbally vomiting, "yeah Bill, you tell 'em!  That was a brilliant comment, Bill, nice work!"  Do you?  Chime in here then, because I get you like I get Bill.

So our snowiest month is coming up, and Feb. is already a  doozy!  Did anyone drive to Castle Rock on Saturday late afternoon?  That was a mess.  And for our SUV or large Pick-up driving friends who again failed to read this note or didn't hear someone yelling at you, here you go again: BECAUSE YOU HAVE AN SUV OR LARGE AUTOMOBILE, DOESN'T MEAN YOU WILL NOT SLIDE ON ICE.  IN FACT, YOU WILL SLIDE FURTHER AND HIT THE UNSUSPECTING DRIVER IN FRONT OF YOU HARDER!  Slow your larger automobile down and quit causing all of these accidents.  Here's another note while I'm on my soap box rightfully entitled "public service announcement soap box", IF YOU ARE SCARED TO DRIVE IN IT, STAY ALLLLLLLLL THE WAY TO THE RIGHT OR BETTER YET, STAY HOME.  If you need emergency services, dial 911.  If you're out of wine, call one of your friends to bring some over.

And now here are some pics of my wonderful angels at their school party this weekend:

Their faces were stained and I did think that they would stay like that.  Shouldn't there be a disclaimer in place from the clown like, "hey lady, I'll gladly paint your child blue because he asked for it, but don't plan on getting this Sharpie-ish paint off his skin for days."  Lesson learned.

Happy Wednesday - I'm Trying To Be Nice

I'm sooooooooooo grouchy this evening.  I love love love having the boys in hockey though.  I can honestly say that I have produced very cool people.  I was so proud to see them get up with the most ginormous smile on their faces every time they fell.  We talked about how they were going to fall alllllllllll the time but as long as they could get back up and still have fun, we'd be happy.  They blew that theory out of the water.  K has put his skates on if he's been awake.  I have to let them carry their skates into school and then they give them to me and I put them in the car and that is the only way I can get the boys to go anywhere....  Weird?  OCD?  Probably more of both than I'd like to admit.  I'm just glad that they have an undying love for a sport that beats the crap out of them.

Powerball tonight.  Again, size 4.  Maybe 6 since my  leg injury.  Nahhh, 4.  And diamonds.

Monday puts the FU in Monday...er... wait...

So I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!  I went to the rodeo, and no lie, the beers were $6.75.  That's insane.  A Coors Banquet!  One would think that we Coloradans would get a deal on beer made in our own state...  I had a diet Pepsi.  Thank you, Pepsi for not raking me over the coals as much as Coors does.

So how 'bout dem Bears.... I wanted the Bears to win, not sure why but I think they're cool fans.  Either way, I failed to get what I want, didn't I?  So I'm sure you and the rest of Colorado agrees with me when I say, "Wow, Cutler didn't cry?!?!"  But that's not nice.  He did take his team to the semi-finals....  Look who's not crying either, that sissy McDaniels.  I wish he'd cry.  I'd like to make him cry.  Either way, Packers?  Stillers?  I have way cooler Stillers fan friends than Packers....  I think now I probably have less friends too...  The proof?  I know exactly who of my friends is a Steelers fan.  I know that they carry their terrible towel in their lunch box and I have proof that two of my friends had 'Terrible Towel' on their guest list at their wedding.  I can't name more than 2 people that I've ever known that are Packers fans.  I do know that Packers fans are fanatic and love their team but who are you???  At the end of the day, I think I'll root for those Steelers.  After all, I like you cheese, both sharp and american alike, but I eat you and you're gone.  Steel cannot be eaten.

Congrats to my friends in Greeley, a 7' baby girl born at 4:14am today!  All our love!!

Here's a rodeo pic from the weekend:

Go Colorado! Continue To Cut Those Budgets Because I Can Afford My Breakfast

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/education/26571381/detail.html

I'm not happy about this.  This is crap.  A budget cut by people who have no problem feeding themselves and their children.  Because come on, what's 30 cents anyway?!  I tell you what, $.30 is a ton of money to a family that doesn't have it.  And that said, how many of these families that currently have children benefiting from this free meal, only have one child?!  I'll admit, I've licked my chops at my piggy bank before when I wasn't sure I had enough gas or cash to get thru the week.  If you say you have never done this, then I applaud your privilege and maybe you could loan a buck fifty to some folks who won't even attempt to look under the couch cushions because they know there's not a penny under any one of them.  Go find a charity to fund this project, he says!  Yeah, right, go do that.  Who in the eff is this guy?  My sister had a bumper sticker that read "I Vote For Kids". I'm proud of her.  I vote for kids too.  Keep cutting our education budgets, and places where we need it most Colorado, and we will gravely pay.

It is soooooooooooooo Friday

Here is your Friday movie quote of the week:  Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master.
This one is easy, you should be able to guess it.


Who's going to the rodeo this weekend?!  Yeeeee Haw!  Can't wait.  Just as soon as this day gets over and I have ensured that my angels have made only "gooder" choices in school today, I will be prepared to get st00pid kinds of excited for a fun filled weekend.

This is a very organized picture of the boys and I at the Peach Festival last summer.  I've got to get better at taking pictures...

The Corleone House is For Sale

I think that this would be the ultimate relic!!  For $2.9M, you can have this compound, the fake wall that goes around it AND, wait for it.....MARLON BRANDO'S QUEUE CARDS.  I have to check my piggy bank but I think this would be a cool purchase.  I wonder if it smells like the dog food factory on I-70 what w/ all the dead horse heads that were manufactured on those grounds....

Speaking of which, Black Swan.  Who saw it?!  Could it have done w/o the 'intense' scenes?  I think so.  I was uncomfortable...  I'm trying to picture a scenario (w/ my sisters, w/ friends I've had for years) that would not have made me uncomfortable.  I think if I were alone I'd have been uncomfortable.  Or is the issue w/ me?  I shudder to think......  ME?  Noooooooooo.....

Here is a picture of ....  I don't even know what I'll add here, I hope you enjoy it nonetheless!

Brrrrrrr, it's cold out there today.  A 17 degree day today.  My eyelashes are shivering...

No Good News on the News - Hopefully You'll Win the Powerball Tonight

So I just checked my local news and it smells of dead fish and trash.  So I'll give you some good news, I won 24 bucks on the Powerball on Saturday!  That's got to be at least 15 cans of Spaghettios!  That's good enough for me!  The PB is up to 96M.  If you win, have I told you lately how much I appreciate our friendship?  My bikini size is also a 4 and I like diamonds.

So Boy A told me that he is not going to be silly anymore and he'd like the same rule to be applied to his brother, because Boy A "is trying to be a dude."  You heard it here first people, no more silly if you're trying to be a dude.  I know a few of you who just lost your dude card.  Here is a weird twin thing, both of the boys have the same exact loose tooth.  We call it a "wiggle tooth" in our household.  Like I needed more ideas of how my sons are going to financially break me off something.....  Maybe they'll fall out at Daddy's house....?  No, I want to be the Tooth Fairy, plus, he'd look so scary in a tutu, I don't want the boys to never let their baby teeth fall out for fear of seeing a very burley fairy.

Happy Hump Day!  Get a powerball ticket, quit being so silly and try to be a dude, maybe make a dentist appointment.  Here is a pic of the dude.

Hockey!!!

I signed the boys up for hockey yesterday and now I hope I can be tough.  If you've ever met the tornado twins, you know they're tough but if you've ever met me, you know I'm just portraying a tough girl who is all smooshy inside.  I can be momma bear and I hope it's not you that brings her out but otherwise I'm what's called a roasted marshmallow.  That's what my mother says at least.  I am gooey on the inside.  So I digress.  I signed them up for hockey - The Colorado Flames!!  They have been on roller skates once.  On inline skates NEVER.  They're much like their father though, they can pick up a sport just by thinking about it.  I am the one I'm worried about.  I will want to yell "honey, are you alright?!" every single time they fall.  What if they cry?  I will want to go out there.  I know that I can't do that but what I don't know is how I'm going to GET A FREAKING HOLD OF MYSELF!!  We all know that Boy B will be bashing through 5 year olds as soon as he gets a load of 'checking' a fool!   I see yet another set of stitches in my near future, don't I?  So any advice that you all can give me, (and it better not be "you can't go, Sarah") I will gladly accept.  Next sport: Gymnastics!  Here is a pic not of hockey twins but just as fun.  There is a turtle in Colorado somewhere that still hasn't come back out of his shell.....

Why go get a breakfast sandwich at 8am when you can just go get a beer?

Thank you for those wise words, Spartacus. At the perfect spot with a good friend. Here is saturdays question: would you pay to go a Superbowl if you had no clue who was going to play in it? I say yes .... I think. Maybe not.

Why do men feel the need to be so manly? After having watched a chic flic, my friend Spartacus feels the need to go box or play football. Why can't you just go knit afterword, we all know you want to.... And it's not wrong!

Friday!!!!

So the Friday Movie Quote:

"You went out six hours ago to buy a money counter and you come back with a semi-conscious Gloria and a bag of fertilizer. Alarm bells are ringing, Willie."

Here's a thought: Should Senator Williams toxicology report be made public? To the family of the victims only? If you are unsure of what I'm talking about, see HuffingtonPost.com or http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/10/suzanne-williams-loses-se_n_807275.html

Also, here's a good read on GREAT MAN: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/clarence-b-jones/in-commemoration-of-marti_1_b_809073.html

Happy Friday, all. Here's a pic of the cutest Yoder cutie pie thus far...his sibling is still baking in the oven...

How Easily Can a Divorce Decree Be Modified w/ Regards To Parenting Time

So I'm wondering if this is an easy task or if it's a bit harder to do. I'm praying for the latter. ....I might have a friend who has a friend who's cousin's ex-husband is a creep and a control freak who is threatening to change the parenting time plan. Has anyone ever dealt with this?? I don't want to get an atty....

Here's a picture of Boy B's first loose tooth for your viewing pleasure.

Friday Movie Quote Trivia (a day early!!) Try to guess before you google it!  "You went out six hours ago to buy a money counter and you come back with a semi-conscious Gloria and a bag of fertilizer.  Alarm bells are ringing, Willie."