Rules of grocery shopping....for dummies

Grocery shopping was hell today. HELL I TELL YOU! I even went during the Steelers game today...in Pittsburgh that is like working on Christmas Day. Usually the stores are empty so  I figured I could run in and run out. WRONG! The only thing I got was a bad mood. These are my rules that should be followed in every grocery store...if these simple life rules were followed grocery shopping would be a stress free happy place!

-Walking up an aisle and seeing something you want to look at and just STOPPING OUT OF NO WHERE.

This is something one should never ever do when in the grocery store, not unless you want your ass hit with my grocery cart. I love doing this...and I will do it to you (and make it look like a complete accident of course). When you see something that you want to stop and look at, always make sure there is no one behind you...it is just rude...and make sure you look especially if the aisle is packed and there are people coming from the opposite direction.

-Reaching over me when I am stopped and looking at something

When I am stopped and parked on the side of an aisle doing something...anything from reading a label to twittering (yes I do this) DO NOT REACH OVER ME! Did your momma not teach you the 2 words of life...

"Excuse Me" Seriously....I will move...I promise to never be a bitch to you....as long as you please use those 2 words.

-When you see a person stopped and moved out of the way (such as standing far enough back from what I am looking at so carts can get by) DO NOT stop in front of me and start looking at the same stuff I am looking at....

Ever hear of "you make a better door then you do a window" ya...what makes a person do this, I will never know. I don't know if they are that dumb or just that rude. This seems to always happen to me...I just do not get it. When it does happen I will make sure you hear about it...usually with big "sighs" or I will use the rude toned "excuse me."

-Stopping in the middle of everything for a family reunion. 

This is a grocery store...I do not care if you are seeing your grandma that you haven't seen in years...do NOT NOT NOT stop and just talk in the middle of an aisle and reminisce. What gets me the most, when this happens and I politely use the 2 words of life "excuse me" I get the rude looks for interrupting their conversations. Seriously? What gets me is when this one is mixed with seeing someone and just stopping w/out looking behind you and I have to hit your ass with my cart!

okay....lets pretend all the shopping is done...let me go to the one rule of the parking lot that everyone must read....

-Waiting for someone to put their groceries in the car to get their spot! 

This is the number 1 rules that a person needs to follow...if you do not follow any of my other rules...please please please follow this one. If you are that lazy to either drive around a few more times to find another spot, or just want mine because it is close...DO NOT WAIT! I love it when someone does wait (and yes, if I do see someone waiting I do move like a snail) then beeps and gets mad because when I get in the car I do not leave right away. I like to get in my car, get comfy, find a station on the radio, check my twitter/phone, and maybe even open my water and have a few sips. If I know someone is waiting these steps go slow. How can you wait for someones spot when you do not actually know if they are leaving. How do you know they are not waiting for another family member to get done in the store? I will sit in my spot as long as I have to until your lazy ass moves. IT IS MY DAMN SPOT UNTIL I MOVE.....not until you want me to move!

Live by these rules and life would be so much easier!

40 + Ways to Kill Stink Bugs!

"What is a stink bug?" These little bugs (I have many terrible names for them) come from China...they are annoying bugs that you can not kill. "Why can't you kill these bugs?" That is simple, you squish them, the stink is soo bad it makes you sick. Also....their funk attracts their family members, so killing one brings more. How lovely. They have become such a problem in the area that I live in, it is really starting to get gross. I never heard of these little bugs until about 2 years ago when they starting invading the area my parents live at...about a half hour away from the city where I live. Well, they come out around the end of summer and last til the first frost. Lately they have traveled more towards my area and are becoming more and more pests in the area. My mom was on the phone with me earlier this afternoon and she was complaining her and my dad could not even go out on their deck, she counted 60 and she stopped as she was on the phone with me. People around this area (Pittsburgh Pennsylvania) have now made it funny to figure out what kills these little bugs. Seriously, nothing kills them....if these things get scared, they let out their "funk" and it stinks...attracts more. Vacuum them? Then your vacuum is filled with that smell. Literally, these things are taking over slowly...! I am praying for our first frost because that usually takes care of most of them. Now...like I said there are many ways people have tried to get rid of them. I haven't tried killing too many because luckily we have only found 4 in our house this year. I thought it would be fun to list 101 ways to kill a stink bug...I am going to list all the ways I have heard that works to kill them.....please leave me any feedback that I might miss. Tomorrow at my moms I told her I am going to find something that works...we will see!

These are all gathered by word of mouth and things that I have heard....let us know if you have tried any of these ways and if they actually work! Good luck!

1. Soak a pack of cigarettes in water over night, drain and use the water...Stink bugs do not like tobacco.

2. Mint

3. Catnip (mom tried the spray catnip...didn't work)

4. Raid

5. Organic Bug and Pest killers

6. Ax Body spray

7. water mixed with dish soap

8. Bleach

9. skin so soft

10. glade

11. vinegar and conola oil mixed

12. freeze them with canned air (this one my mom did....froze the little sucker til it turned white....it walked away)

13. windex

14. marigolds

15. Racoon Urine (seriously read this somewhere...not making it up)

16. rubbing alcohol

17. mothballs

18. lysol spray

19. Neem Oil (no idea what this is)

20. gasoline (ummm this one scares me)

21. invest in a pet bat...bats eat them! (im tempted)

22. hot sauce

23. fly paper

24. hair spray

25. orange guard

26. Cats (mine will meow when they see a stink bug but wont go near it...fyi)

27. Blue Birds eat them! (might be better then a bat)

28. light traps

29. baygon

30. fire

31. suffocate them in a plastic container

32. drown them in a water bottle

33. spray bombs

34. electronic fly swatters

35. halogen lamps

36. stabbing them with pens (i do not suggest this, obviously it is going to smell)

37. cinnomin oil

38. break cleaner

39. carburetor cleaner

40. Pyganic Dust (which I have no idea what this is)

This is the list that I have come up with....if anyone has anymore ideas on how to get rid of these things everyone would love to know! Post it on here and I will keep an update! 

Also...if you want to prevent these things in your house, make sure you seal up all the windows and cracks, since it is going to be getting cold they are going to try everything to get in! Good luck! 

These things creep me out and scare me so much...funny stink bug story coming tomorrow! 

Learn to keep your mouth shut...please!

I am annoyed but I do not know how to address the situation when it happens. This past weekend I had to go to a baby shower. Of course no one really likes going to those things, but you go to see people and socialize. I didn't bring Xavier because I really just wanted to get in there and get out...and I didn't feel like chasing after a toddler the whole time. Well, a certain family member just thinks they know everything about me and proceeds to talk to people about me, and they do not know they are hurting my feelings while they are doing it.

Let me start by saying after I had Xavier I told everyone I wanted at least 6 more kids...of course I was exaggerating but I love kids, babies, everything about being a mom. Well, a month into being a new mom I developed a Pulmonary Embolism and a DVT and was in the hospital for 12 days, honestly I almost didn't make it out of the hospital. Well, after I got out I still told people I wanted more kids. Then a month after I got out of the hospital I went back in because of my gallbladder...got that out and still told people I wanted more kids. Then came the day I went to my OBGYN check up and she sat me down and said with all my clots and things she would advise me to rethink about having anymore kids. I put on a face and went with it. I talked to my husband and I came to the decision I didn't care about what the doctor said I wanted to try again anyway. WELL, we tried last summer and nothing, and I look at it as a good thing because I woke up one morning and decided that Xavier and Andrew were too important to chance my life just because I wanted more kids. There was other ways of having children that didn't risk my life...and honestly our life as a little family of 3 (6 if you count the cats) was perfect. This was our decision...just between Andrew and I. I then told my close family Xavier was going to be the only child for now, and I was not having anymore children. I thought that my past was enough to explain why I was not having anymore kids.

Well, that brings me to yesterday. We are sitting there and someone asked me where Xavier was. I told them "He was home with his dad...they were having a boys day, and to be honest I needed a little break." This certain family member proceeds to say "Oh yes, when Xavier was born she said she wanted 6 kids, now that he is a toddler she says she is not having anymore." Ummmm...this is not true, and I do not want ANYONE to think that my child is making me not have another baby. I then have to go on to make it clear that it is our decision due to health issues we are not having anymore children. I do not know how to tell this person that my toddler is not the reason we are not having anymore children. I would not like him to grow up and then hear this, because this little boy is one of the best little boys in the world. Yes, of course I vent about him doing things, but its toddler things...nothing I can not handle. If it wasn't for my clots there is no doubt in my mind that I would either be pregnant now, or sitting here holding a baby.

Not only does it bother me that I have to make it clear its not Xavier s fault we are not having more kids, when I bring up my health issues it makes me relive everything. Of course I still would love to be pregnant again. I think about it everyday of my life. I wish I would of enjoyed being pregnant just a little more, if I would of known that was going to be my only pregnancy. I wish I would of laid awake a little more at night watching my stomach move.

I have a mouth, I wish people would just leave things unsaid. Sometimes it is not anyone's business.

Can't print in black/white because I do not have color ink....?

I want to know who in their right mind changed how printers are set up! I have not had a printer in years, I had no need for one...if I wanted pictures printed I just uploaded them and forwarded them to Walgreens and picked them up from there...easy. Well, now that I am in school I needed a printer. I like to print out my syllabus for the courses because I need to be able to write what needs done and when. Andrews dad told us he would get us a printed. I told Andrew that I want nothing fancy, I just want a printer...and if it wasn't too much money a wireless one would be great, but I wasn't picky. Shoot, I honestly didn't even care if it printed in color, I just needed one that printed black and white. Whatever. Well, he comes home from his dads with this professional series printer...I have no idea how to even set up. I honestly do not know how I actually did get it set up. Okay, fine...it copies, prints, faxes, whatever. The scanner on it does come in nice to scan in things and send them off for school...but the printer. Oh geesh, you have to buy each color separately. That means I need to go out and but black ink, blue, pink, and yellow. I can't even find where they sell them together, its like $20 per color. EEK! Okay, thats fine, I never print in color so the color ink will last. WRONG. Andrews dad needs pictures printed. When you buy a printer I guess they only give you starter ink which is like enough to print a few pictures. I go to print my stuff out for school and no color ink left! Nice! So I put it to "only use black ink". It still isnt coming out to where I can read it! By then I am fuming. I have black ink, why the fuck cant I print. So I GOOGLE...yes...I GOOGLE....and what does it say about this printer....I couldn't believe what I was reading. The printer will not print...even just using the black ink if the color inks are empty! WTF is that! I JUST WANNA PRINT STUFF FOR SCHOOL. I did not need a fancy shamcy printer...and I sure as hell am not going out and buying $60 worth of ink that is going to sit in there and not get used and dry up...just so I can use blank ink! It just does not make sense to me? Has anyone heard of such a thing!? Am I not hip enough to use a printer and things have changed so much in the 5 years since I have had a printer, so was it always this way and just never noticed?! I need help people because I seriously now do not know what to do. I guess I am going to have to suck it up and get this ink that I am not even going to use. I am half tempted to go out and just buy a cheap ass printer and kick this other one!

Yo Gabba Gabba, You want me to pay WHAT?!

I love my child with my whole heart, and I would do anything and everything in my power to get him the best experiences of his life. That is when I wrote yesterday I would be one of those crazy parents that did anything in their power for him to get up front and personal with Yo Gabba Gabba....ya....that is before I heard the prices!

Prices for this show start at $76 and end at $136 per person. I am sorry, but I would not pay that for a concert, let alone to watch a man in a bright orange tight uniform jump around on stage for a hour. Please, I can see the most expensive tickets being $76 but starting? You have got to be out of your damn minds! Then they say they have VIP packages, which are $80 a piece on top of the cost of a ticket. I am not sure if these prices I am posting include that, but they better! I will keep everyone posted, but as of right now I refuse to pay that much, that is just crazy. C'mon, these are kids...all they want to do is have fun!

I have been so irritable lately. I am usually really good, really patient with Xavier. Do not get me wrong, I still am, but I have been on edge and I do not know why. I am thinking it has to do with my nervousness of my first set of Finals next week. I am trying to study at night but my hubby doesn't seem to be helping. He laid and watched a movie on his computer last night while I was in class...completely ignoring Xavier. Xavier watches TV and whatnot, but he literally waits for his Dada to get home, so when Andrew doesn't get on the floor and play with him and just sits there I get mad. I know Andrew needs his down time too, but sorry, the boy comes first and I do not think men realize that. I deal with crap all day, so when he gets home I feel that it is his turn.

Then last night I came right out and told Andrew that I have been touched by Xavier all day, I cant stand it and I did not want to be touched anymore...no kiss, no nothing...I just really wanted left alone. What did he keep doing last night, anything that involved touching. I was sitting there and he leaned over and kissed my back and I just flipped. Seriously, if I come out and tell you when you get home to leave me alone, do it, I deal with a toddler all day that cant listen, if you come home and cant listen to me we are going to have problems! Seriously. Enough Said.

Okay....bring on the drinks, this is going to be a long day!