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That btw is one of my favorite songs that stutter. How many songs that stutter can you think of?

This is how my mind works when there is a sucky task at hand. Today is garage cleaning day, shoot me now. I hate my garage, it has never been clean or well organized and most likely never will be. When I walk with TOF I admire other peoples garages, Fred's next door, meticulously clean. Henry's next door to him, clean and organized! Miss Evelyn's across the street...woohooo, a bigger mess than mine. YESSSS!

Any little thing to distract myself from that garage! My incentive was a nice breakfast before I started. Unfortunately I woke up at 4:20 and waited three hours for that breakfast. What is with waking up at the crack of dawn on the weekends? DO NOT SAY PERIMENOPAUSE! So anyway, we did breakfast. I had a delicious omelet with ham and tomato and some bacon. MMM. We got home and I had to take a nap, I could not keep my eyes opened. I did manage to remodel this here blog a bit before my nappy. You like? I really want to figure out how to have three columns. You know, without paying for a blog makeover.

Hey I should have a contest! Only those people who design blogs could enter and as their prize they get to make me up a BEEEE U TI FUL new blog layout. Ha as if! But it never hurts to put that out there, I mean I'd shout it from the roof tops and maybe get you some actual paying clients.

Ok so now it's ELEVEN am people and I have a killer headache. (and that disgusting garage beckons) Whilst I napped I had this dream that my SIL came over and was making fried eggs for Whynot. A whole dozen. I said to him (in my dream) you just ate. He replied, they're not all for me. Ok whatever. I peeked out into the garage and (insert that angelic music) IT WAS CLEAN and ORGANIZED. But on Whynot's side instead of his car, there was a maroon Astro Van and 4 cars parked behind it. My Vue was not to be found. ACKKKKK, I think that's what woke me up.

Back to real life, I popped an Ibuprofen (my cure all) and peeked in the garage, nope the cleaning fairy didn't come and work her magic. TOF's daddy (hmm, need to make up a suitable pseudonym for him) came over instead to help me put up some sort of contraption that I bought at Menard's last night. So now at least the shovels and other yard crap are hanging up and out of the way. That's as far as I got when I decided I needed a break.

I suppose break is over now and I must return to the garage and finish up. I might be back LOL I still owe you some pictures of the new Vue, who knows, I might toss in some of the CLEAN garage for good measure.

TTFN

T G I Double G F

Or something like that.

So it's Friday here on The Avenue, probably everywhere else too, and I should be cleaning the garage to make room for the new vehicle in there. But it's hot and humid and the garage has southern exposure making it even hotter. So I was thinking of popping out there and moving all the crap on my side of the garage to Whynot's side. That would solve MY parking problem and create one for HIM.

It's mostly TOF's stuff, strollers, tricycles, Little Tikes vehicles, sidewalk chalk. good grief, you think I went a little overboard when that child was born? I can't help myself, I did the same thing when Big Mouse and Glittergirl were little. They had to have toys and lots of them! My mother didn't believe in toys, I had a handful of stuff. Seriously, I had 2 or 3 dolls, Tinkertoys and a couple Barbies . But mom did let me play with Playdoh, something I'm just not ready to let TOF do at my house. Instead we have a sand table outside. Baby steps people, baby steps.

Anyone want to help clean a garage this weekend? You're welcome to take some stuff home.

WTF Wednesday!!!!

I had to do it, I just had to. I had to have a WTF Wednesday of my own. WTF WTF WTF WTF. I got my period S E V E N days early, say perimenopause and I'll bite your head off. Well at least that would explain the bitchiness last week, maybe, and why my belly looks like I'm 7 1/2 months pregnant and why the potato chips are all gone even though they sucked. Note to self never buy the Lays or maybe they were Jays Kettle Cooked......ewwww gross and greasy tasting, but yeah, I polished off the entire bag last week. Ruffles used to be the chip of choice for PMS, but they are gross now too. I've considered plain Lays with perhaps a chocolate dip.

But even more to WTF about. Tampons, I had THREE left this morning! Who does that? Saves three and doesn't buy a new box? I can't even blame Glittergirl, cuz she's not here. Where are my damn tampons? I used to be the Queen of Paper Products! Toilet paper, paper towels, tissues, napkins, tampons, pads. I bought in mass quantity so I would never run out. WTF happened to me!!????

Say perimenopause and I'll bite your head off!!!

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On a happy note, Aunt Flo will be all gone for my romantic trip to Cincinnati with Whynot next week. Wink wink ;)

The one where we have lost our minds......

Wow, I haven't blogged in a whole week. Things are a bit crazy here on The Avenue, I've taken on a little more work and I'm trying to adjust things to run more smoothly. To bring you up to speed, I'm going to blog about the happenings of last week.

Monday-I blogged, about Henry's balls.

Tuesday-I'm not sure I sat down at all, I may have, well I'm sure I did, just not for any extended period that allowed me to blog. Nothing too exciting happened on Tuesday. Three guesses as to what Whynot did and the 1st 2 don't count.

Wednesday-Here's where it starts to tie in to the title. Whynot comes home from work and says, "Hey while I'm at the game Sat, why don't you go over to the Saturn dealer and take a look at those Vues. They have the GM discount for everyone until Sept 2nd." (If your still scratching your head about what he was doing Tues, he was at Wrigley AGAIN. But let's move forward) I just looked at him a little weird and asked if he bought a new car and was feeling guilty. No he hadn't bought one yet, but he has the itch really bad. I guess by offering to get me a new car too, it would ease his guilt. I love the man, but there are times when he is absolutely INSANE! I want a new car, so you go buy one too, so I feel better. CRAZY!!!

I got to thinking about it and I actually do need a new car. My Sportage is 6 years old, it needs brakes and it has this weird gas odor that just gets worse with time. Yeah Mr Serviceman, I did say RAW gas. I'm well aware of what RAW gas smells like, no not exhaust fumes! Sorry, I got off track. Anyway, I started thinking more and more about the idea of having a brand new vehicle. The more I thought about it, the more this crazy idea sounded appealing to me. Big Mouse is married and on his own, he's done with school, so no more tuition payments. Glittergirl is finding herself and will have her Associates after this semester. For all practical purposes, she is self sufficient. It's time for me to splurge on myself for a change. Yahhooooo!

Thursday-I woke up to a HUGE cup of reality. I don't need a new car, there are far more important things that I really need. A new couch, new carpeting upstairs, the living room and kitchen need to be painted, the garage needs more storage space, Christmas is coming, yada yada yada. Whew, I'm sure glad I talked myself out of that! Walked to McDonald's with Whynot for an ice cream cone to make myself feel better. Ice cream makes everything better, unless it's really bad, then only cheesecake will do.

Friday-Whynot and I had a lovely dinner out and I think I was asleep before 10 pm. We are such exciting old farts LOL.

Saturday-Too bad I couldn't stay asleep, I was up from 3-4:30 grrrrrrr. Whynot, Augie Dawgs and Tons of Fun were headed to Wrigley, are you seeing a pattern here? I figured I could take a little nap and all would be well, until I realized I needed to get to the bank before it closed at noon. Get ready, get dressed, out the door to run my errands.

After the bank I figured as long as I am out, I'll head over to the thrift shop and see what treasures they have. I've been finding some awesome puzzles for Tons of Fun for only 49 cents and only once or twice have they had missing pieces. I found six puzzles! A number train, a Melissa and Doug dinosaur floor puzzle, a castle, one from Discovery Toys, oh a Veggie Tales one, the cucumber and tomato...heh heh heh cucumber, made me think of Whynot...oh sorry get my mind out of the gutter. Two more but I forget now what they are. But the greatest find was TWO HUGE bags of Thomas tracks!!!! One for $4 and the other for $6, but wait, I had a $5 off when you spend $10 or more coupon!!!! So the whole works cost me $9.66, um and a little bleach and clorox wipes. Woo hoo!!!

Have I lost anyone yet? Stay with me, it's getting better, I think.

I'm driving home, down the street in Jtown that I loathe (a gajillion stop lights) and what should appear in front of me......insert angelic music.....the Saturn dealership. What's it gonna hurt to take a peek? Let me fast forward cuz I'm losing the people in back, bye folks, come back soon, have a good one.

Ok, for those of you that were polite enough NOT to leave....I talked to Nick, I took a test drive, they didn't have a silver one, they did have a red one, not fire engine red, kinda maroon. With leather HEATED seats...oh my tushy. We talked numbers, I got what I wanted for the Sportage, the payment is doable. Screeching halt, that's the dang reality check again! I hate to sound like um, a typical woman, but Nick I really need to talk to Whynot about this. Now let me explain dear readers, I'm a very independent woman, but I just feel when I'm spending over $20k, I should at least mention it to my husband. $19k would have been fine and dandy, but I draw the line at 20 LOL. Nick understood, yeah sure he did, he figured he'd never see me again. WRONG, cuz I dragged Whynot's buttocks back there the minute he walked into the house. He drove it, kicked the tires or whatever it is that guys do to make sure it's all good, told me I made a good choice. We went in, told Nick we'd take it and we'll pick it up Tuesday. Yeah me! I have car payments for the next 60 months!

So what do you think we did after we left Nick? Uh huh, drove down the street to the Chevy/Cadillac dealer and looked at the Malibu and the CTS.

Shoot me now! We are certifiably nuts! Two absolute lunatics. But on Tuesday this lunatic will have a beautiful new car on her side of the garage and shortly thereafter, whenever he makes up his mind so will Whynot.

Stay tuned tomorrow, for pictures (maybe) and more on the rest of the weekend.

TTFN