What's new?

Too much to tell you now, so let's just fast forward through all the winter/holiday whining and start ova!

This is a goal year for me. I have goals that I don't try real hard to attain, and I want to change that! SOOOO, I WILL be writing more, I WILL lose 20 lbs-in a row ( I have lost 30, but in 5lb increments that I gain right back-someone come up with a negative calorie beer STAT!), and I WILL have that yard sale, dammit!

So, that is the top 3. I had other things that I wanted to get involved in, and have actually been participating with them! Can you say "go getter??? I have become more politically aware AND active, which has been such a fun experience! Fun politics??? YUP! It is tremendously frustrating to watch all the corruption, strong arming, and loonacy, but when you actually get out there and fight for your rights, well, it's just plain exhilarating! I have met some very cool people and I am looking forward to helping our state, and our country, get back on track.

I also signed up for a stand up comedy course. I am ALWAYS cracking myself up, so I figured that could be a good way to possibly get paid to amuse myself! Even if they don't pay me, if anybody actually tells me I made them laugh I can ride that ego boosting wave for DECADES!

I have also become more aware of my food consumption. Do you know where your meats come from? Did you know that the corn based diet, designed to fatten cows, pigs, and chickens, is the cause of much of our food contamination? The mass "production" of animals leaves them physically incapable of walking or standing for long periods, and these poor creatures get no exercise or sunlight. They are packed into small areas and spend their days standing in their own excrement! Then they take them to slaughterhouses that employ illegal immigrants, who get arrested in small raids during the night so that the companies that employ them do not get investigated. (We will talk about the cleanliness of these buildings on a later date!) I am VERY lucky that a friend of mine told me about the Mass Local Food Co-op. The producers associated with the co-op grow locally grown, organic, and pasture raised meats, cheeses, vegetables and dairy! I just had my monthly pick up and was delighted with my selection of breads, like the super delish cinnamon loaf from Maple Heights Farm, and I can smell my pork ribs groovin in the crock pot all the way up to my room! Got meat???

I am also going to school, but right now I am just taking math. It sucks and I don't want to give it any more attention than I have to, so let's just skip that lame ass chapter! (I will NEVER forgive you, linear equations! NEVER!)

So, thanks for visiting my blog. I promise to spend more time recording my journeys and that future posts will (probably) be more funny than this one.

Just forget it

So, I thought I was going to be like my friend, Katy, and post pics and stories of my kids here and the whole world was gonna read it and see how wonderful we are. Didn't happen. So, I have decided to take my blog in a different, and probably more "R" rated direction. So I will try to be more consistent, but I am not making any promises. I have commitment issues you know.

If you don't dig "R" rated, then feel free to hang out at my PG 13 Facebook page.

I would like to thank anybody who actually still checks this link. You are truly a faithful friend.

Stay tuned for more of my insane ramblings....

An Update - finally

Amazingly we all survived this winter. We did experience an unusually large number of illnesses and trips to the doctor - let's NOT talk about how much money we spent on meds- and now the we can move on to sunshine & flowers. Yay!

I am realizing that it is very hard to get a picture of my son. He is NOT a fan of the mamarazzi! I may have to dress up as shrubbery, or get pics of him sleeping. This is a very dangerous mission. I may have to look up some Navy Seals maneuvers!

I hope you like these pics of Erin. I like the top one because it is so close to an eyes half closed pose - a lovely trait passed on by daddy, but being the amazing photographer that I am, I managed to get the snap! (there are, however, 3 eyes closed pics I am not sharing). Please do not be afraid that Erin is out in the woods at night scavenging for her meals - that second pic is merely a post-Elmo cupcake frosting face. We do provide food to our kids.

It's a grumble day

I am cranky and irritable! I think that's all I should say today.

Though I am very grateful that my son & daughter are feeling better.

I'll check in later.

Hello again!

Thanks for reading.

So, we survived all the holidays, and have settled into the January doldrums. I HATE doldrums.

The kids are doing well. Jake is growing up so fast! He is cool & funny & handsome. He's a great kid. Gearing up for the big transition to high school next year. YIKES!

Erin is soo funny, and getting smarter every day. SHe is starting to recognize her letters and numbers, and she is so social! She loves the kids at the gym, and is starting to make little friends and interact. She is also busting out a couple of 2 year molars. Not so much fun, but she is taking it well, and it will be over soon - I hope!

Tim is keeping busy, which is good for us, because we know many people aren't even doing that. We ARE beginning to mourn the end of football season. Hopefully we can survive a few weeks with Celtics action, then baseball! Baseball = sunshine and happiness here!

Back to school for me this week. Can't wait to learn and grow. Well, grow my brain, but shrink my butt. Please pray to the God of your choice that I can "do it all". It goes against my lazy nature to do it all, so it may not be pretty.

Tim & I are also coming up on 1 full year of marriage!!! Only 3 more years until our first anniversary! GO TEAM COUGHLAN 2-29-08!

Peace out.

imagine me & you...

It is just us. Just my laptop and I. Just my hope for the future. Just Windows Vista. It's kewl.

This laptop is more to me than checking emails and bank balances. There's a freedom to laptop that I am fully embracing. No sharing. No expectation. Just the love I want to share.

Thank you, Santa. Laptop = true love.

This posted pic is of my BIL Tom, and Christine's bird, Cricket @ Erin's bday party. This is posted because I am able.

Have to believe I am Magic!

Think I can do it? Will the new year give me the ability to actually post a pic of the kids?!?!

Oh BOY! There it is. My pantless daughter and her adorable "Boo" 'do!

Maybe my new laptop is giving me magical abillities to do things I have never done before!

Stay tuned to new and even more magical moments with the Coughlan clan!