Takin some time

During the last few weeks, my parents have taken the kids to all of these fun little places and sent me some of the cutest frickin' pictures. (All which took place while I was in school) I have meant to post them, so I will at the end of this. After a lot of thought, I realized that now is not the time for me to be in school. My boys need to have memories with their mommy, so I am taking some time off from school. There will be time later, if not...I'll survive.

Today, I should have had school, but I have the new found freedom of doing whatever the heck I want on Wednesday and Thursday. Pretty awesome. Logan was missing his daddy. He cried and cried. SO, we went to go visit daddy. I played with my dogs for a good hour or so while Layton played with the kids. I discovered, I miss my Lewis and Clark! (dogs) Lewis instantly jumped into my arms. I wish I had a place that I could take them at least on short visits. It was so fun to play with them.

Things that drive me CRAZY!!!

Ok, I've got to say that I've never understood the concept of "limitted time" anything. You would think that if something is successful, if the general public wants it, then a business should offer it all of the time. It makes sense right? Well, a good example of this is the orange creme shake at Arby's. This was at Arby's last year and I became completely and utterly addicted, just in time for them to discontinue it. The withdrawls were brutal. I didn't eat there for an entire year. Not until I saw the giant signs advertising my luscious shake. I love that shake. Well, I pull into Arby's the other night and order my shake. They tell me it's discontinued. WHAT IN THE CRAP! Then the girl says "We do have strawberry shakes" Um, what? I want orange creme! GRR. I've decided that all food I like is limitted time. A few years back lays had a potato chip that was "Dill" I loved that chip. Well they discontinued these chips and brought out this pickle chip that is a combo of salt and vinegar chips and my dill chips. Not so good. I just don't understand in our economy, why a company would remove popular items from their menu. A moderate example of this is the McRib sandwhich, and while I have never tasted the pressed pretend rib sandwich, others rave about it. Why...if it's so darn good, is it taken off the menu! Give me my dang orange creme shake back!!!! Take the McRib and the dill pickle chips, the eggnog shakes, and cherry cordial hershey's kisses. All I want is my freakin' Orange Creme shake...Oh the withdrawls!

Hover Technique

Ok, I'll admit it, I'm kind of a freak. As a result of my short career as a CNA, there are certain things that completely germ me out. One of them is a public restroom. To top off my already crappy day yesterday, I get to school (so late) as a result of the warrant that I had to get discharged or whatever. I get to school and my first thought is "Dang it, I need to pee." Now, inspite of being well versed in the "hover technique" where you don't actually rest your bottom on the toilet seat, I still hate using a public restroom, so I thought to myself, "Eh, it's only 3 more hours, I can hold it." Well, 20 minutes into class, I realized that my bladder was not going to be able to hold up for another 2 hours 40 minutes. I get into the orange 70's themed women's bathroom and make a nest of toilet paper on the seat, just incase my hover technque is flawed...and incase there was a chance my bottom could make contact with the toilet seat below. I pull my pants down and then it happened. Nearly $1.50 in change and my cell phone flew out of my pocket and onto the bathroom floor. I actually screamed. Now, honestly the handfull of change was not worth it to me, as I left it sitting in the middle of the nastiness known as the bathroom floor. I did take a peice of toilet paper and wrap it around said "bathroom floor cell phone" the dang thing is a LG phone (like iphone) and was over $300, so hardly disposable. I used a piece of toilet paper to pick it up. I wrapped it in the paper and used hand sanitizer to wipe it down when I got to class. My teacher was totally mocking me when he said, "I have some alcohol wipes in my desk, would you like a few?" I said "YES!" SO then I wiped the phone down with those..but every time I use it now, I feel like there are nasty MRSA (staph) bugs crawling on my face. My friend Traci called while I was in class, and I related my story and told her I felt like I needed to use hand sanitizer to wipe down my face. She laughed and said "That's weird." So today, I got a text message from Traci that made me laugh. All it said was "I dropped my cell phone on the floor in the bathroom today and I thought of you." I sent her a text back that said "What did you do?" her reply "Nothing, who cares" The tragedy is...I do. (and if she decides to use them, I have a ready supply of alcohol wipes)

Worst episode ever!

Ok...today started out fabulously. I noticed the postman about noon and went to the door to get the mail. (I don't know why I care, all it ever is filled with is bills). I always love getting the mail. I was hoping that it was my year for that elusive "publisher clearing house prize." No such luck. I noticed that the only mail there was from the city of South Ogden. It was from the court. For a moment I worried that I was being summoned for something to do with the kids or something else. Well, it was just a kind letter to inform me that there was a warrant for my arrest. Super.
Now let me explain. I got a ticket a couple of weeks ago. What can I say, I was in a hurry to get home for a date. Well, the cop...who was only doing his job, was a big jerkface and threw the book at me. (No drivers license, no proof of insurance, 18 over the speed limit, and no front lisence plate) So, I called the court and the ticket was like $180. Good frickin' grief. I went to court and the judge cut it in half and said that I needed to bring proof of insurance, driver's license and proof I fixed my front lisence plate. SO...I do that. I got proof of insurance from my insurance company and took my stupid driver's lisence in. I get to the office and the lady says to me "No, that paper is not acceptable, your agent needs to fax us this information." So I call my agent and he agrees to fax the info. I call the city of South Ogden and the idiot ladies are like "Why don't you just bring it down?" and I told her than I was told that it had to be faxed by my agent. The lady said "I don't know who told you that, but they were wrong." So I asked if there was any rule against having it faxed and she said it would be ok if my agent faxed it.
So my agent faxes the proof of insurance to them yet again. Then this notice of a bench warrant comes today stating that I never attempted to prove that I had insurance.

My thought was "Are they kidding me? I did it three times!!!" SO I had to miss half of school to go to court and fight this stupid thing. I got up there and there were 4 other cases (of approximately 10) in which they had never recieved faxed information. How dumb is that city? They double their workload by employing incompitent workers and then try to issue me a $75 fee to take care of the warrant for their stupidness. GRR! Give me a break!

Blahg

SO...All is well in the land of Lauralee. Jonah is walking so well now. He's such a little monkey. Logan is full of the same funniness. Some of the cutest things he's said this week are as follows.

(the day of the snow storm)
Logan: "Where's Jonah?"
Me: "Sleeping."
Logan: "He wants to come out of his room and see the morning."

Logan: "Look momma, Santa brought us some snow."

Logan (to Jonah): "You're such a little treasure."

They make me laugh.
It's back to school tonight.

On to other news...Logan has decided he absolutely can not be a dinosaur for halloween. He has decided that the only thing he can be is....batman. I HATE licensed costumes. SO boring and cliche'. ARGH! I will most likely cave (like a bat) and let him be batman...but, a dinosaur is cuter!

SIGH...The saga continues again

SO...I was changing the background on my blog...and in typical Lauralee form, I forgot to write down all of my friends so...if you're missing from my list...please let me know!!!!

Little Punkins

While I was in school my mom and dad took the boys to a pumpkin patch to pick out their pumpkins. These are some of the pictures that they took! SO cute!!

ALSO...why is it that I only have three followers of my blog???