#Randombling: @JenSquard

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Randombling: A 5 minute long unedited random stream of consciousness produced by a nerd for nerds.

#nowplaying: Dirrty - Christina Aguilera

Dudes, I totally took this new and all natural energy/appetite suppression pill this morning - and it is AMAZING!  It’s call Zyngular, checky check it out.  Anyways, it is actually working and I have TONS of energy - and I am feeling focused for the first time in years...so I’ll be cleaning my house today as it is a total effing disaster.

Um, yeah, so I have reached my first goal of 2011!  Check them out here...one of my posts made the most popular list!  It’s the one on the truth about pregnancy - bitchin bitchin for sure.  I am feeling pretty awesome opossum right now.  

I am on my way to another goal - booking weddings.  I have booked 5 weddings so far, but not one per month like I want.  I still need one in April and July, but I have 2 in June and two more consultations with brides this week.  So I am on the right track, and I will be filling up in no time!  My dumb dumb website issues should be resolving soon, too, which should totes magoetes helpd a ton. 

Life is good today - and all of this extra energy is not a bad thing for sure.  I don’t even feel like a spaz, which is absolutely unheard of for me.  Yes yes and yes, and, um, yes.  Welp, see ya later!  Oh, and by the way, that picture is how I look when I am turned on.  As you can imagine, I don't need any milkshakes to bring the boys to the yard.  Just sayin.

#ProjectThreeSixFive: Day 31

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Lasagna - YAY LASAGNA!  Now I will go and eat until I burst...

#TrueStory: I fell for a scam

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This is one of the most embarrassing things that has ever happened to me, and I hate sharing it.  But some spam reminded me of it today, so I decided to share.  

A few years ago we had a litter of boxer puppies.  They were registered and pure, and worth $600 each.  We advertised locally and all that jazz, and got a call one day from a communication company that spoke for hearing disabled people.  She said she would read to me what the deaf person on the other end typed in, and act as a go-between for us.  This person was interested in purchasing a puppy, but lived a few hours away.  We communicated several times, and their English wasn’t great - but I had never really interacted with a hearing disabled person, so I didn’t have anything to go off of.  

They explained to me that they wanted to pay to ship the puppy to them.  They wanted to just send me a check, have me take out enough to pay for the puppy and my time, and have me Western Union the rest of the money to the shipping company.  Looking back it is so obvious, but at the time it seemed legit.  Even when they did some strange and shady stuff, I honestly just figured it was because *cringe* the person was disabled, so communications were strained.  Don’t judge me.

One day I even got a knock on the door in the morning - it was my neighbor, and they had contacted them to tell them to come tell me to talk to them, as I hadn’t responded the night before.  Freaky deaky stuff, but again, I was just super psyched to be selling a puppy.  We got the check from them for way more than the amount, cashed it, and Western Unioned the money on to them.  Then I was contacted by another deaf person wanting to do the same thing, through the same translator service....um, okay, no.

I finally got wary after red flag number 87...or was it 88?  A week later the bank called to let us know that the check we deposited and took the Western Union money out of didn’t clear.  We got bent over in a serious way.  We were lucky, in a sense, that we didn’t lose a puppy on top of it.  This is a super common scam, and people are not only losing thousands of dollars, but they are selling their merchandise to these people, so they are losing out on that, too.  

I’m not a dumb person.  My hubbard isn’t a dumb person.  Our real life skills and experience are totally up to par....and we still got dooped.  Or duped.  I don’t know, but it sure did suck.  The fact that someone tricked us so completely is embarrassing, like sooooo embarrassing!  Looking back it’s as dumb as falling for the Nigerian prince crap, but it is what it is.  

*sigh*

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#NaughtyMommy Happenings: Dead or Asleep?

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When you have kids...no, wait...when  you have more than one kid, you start to look at things differently.  With your first baby you are all neurotic and tender.  With number two, well, not so much.  

When my oldest was a baby, I would spend hours getting her to go to sleep, and when I would finally feel comfortable enough to lay her down, I would sneak back in to make sure she was breathing twenty minutes later.  It’s just a part of being a new mom - babies die in their cribs all the time.  SIDS is a real thing, and they can just stop breathing.  And there really is no coming back from something like that, I’m pretty sure.  

Now that I have a hundred kids (or three, whatever), I am less psycho about it.  I still check on them all at night before I go to bed, give them little sleepy kisses and make sure they are breathing.  But sometimes...I let them sleep.  In the morning if one of them sleeps longer than normal, I let them.  If naptime turns into three hours of sleep instead of the normal two, I let it happen.  

But here’s the nutso in the butso part - I worry.  A lot.  I worry more about them sleeping an extra hour than I worry about them doing any other thing.  This is the hard part about being a mom of lots of kids, I NEVER get quiet time.  EVER ever ever.  I can count on one hand the number of times they have all been sleeping at the same time during the day, or even just the two big ones sleeping at the same time during the day.  So any chance I get I take it for sure.  But in my mind I constantly wonder if they are asleep or if they are dead.  Dead or asleep?  I want to go check, but if I do I risk waking them up and losing the few minutes of quiet(er) time.  But if they aren’t breathing, I risk losing those few extra minutes of revival and CPR time.  It’s a constand either or, weighing the options and risks.  Stupid stressful.

No joke, that is what moms think about.  Now you know.

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#Randombling: @JenSquard

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @JenSquard

Randombling: A 5 minute long unedited random stream of consciousness produced by a nerd for nerds.

#nowplaying: If You're Into It - Flight of the Conchords

Oh man, me and technology...not BFFs right now.  I am way struggling.  I spent the better part of the last two weeks completely rebranding and rebuilding my website.  I am changing my blog and site to be all together through one platform.  So I have been MIA from life because I was uploading photos, making galleries, adding content, and my favorite - editing CSS code.  Yuck.

I totally got it perfect a few days ago, but when I tried to redirect my domain name to my new site it totally freaked out.  Totally totally.  After a 2 AM phone call to GoDaddy, he said he reset it and it should go back to normal in a few hours.  Yeah, this was all the night before the wedding expo.  Talk about freaking the freak out.  But guess what?  I didn’t reset.  I called again.  He said it is still resetting.  Could take a while.  He could load my original site on his computer, so it just hadn’t made it to my side of the country.  Um, yeah.  What about the blog site that I just sunk two weeks into?  Yeah, nothing going on there.  

Dudes, I am beyond bummed.  I did the wedding expo yesterday, got my website and blog addresses in front of HUNDREDS of brides...and they have nowhere to go.  It’s 2011, it’s not like they are going to call me.  They are going to go online to see if they like my work, see that there is no online for me, and toss my info aside.  Shit shit shit.  There isn’t a second chance with this one.  I want to start calling people soon to follow up, but without an online presence, is there really a point?  

Aaaaaarrgh!   Seriously, GoDaddy, you are effing killing me!  Like bullet straight through the brain, Bruno Mars style.  Get it together and help a sista out!  I don’t know why I started talking like that, I’ll stop now.

So keep an eye out for my stuff - and if you see it actually work, totes magotes send me a tweet or something so I stop pulling my hair out. @JenSquard

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