If you’re a Jodi Picoult fan, her book The Tenth Circle has been made into a movie and it premiers on Lifetime this Saturday night, June 28.    We won’t have TV, but I’ve asked Kaci to record it for me.  Check your local listings for the time!

My kids are getting used to going to bed with their shoes on.  Ughhh!!

Translation: Man Lingo

Now this is funny! Wiki Man Code

Manly Tools

A man should always pick the most complex, dangerous, and/or cool- looking tools he can when doing a job. Manly Tools: V8 Chainsaws, Acetylene blowtorches, dynamite, etc.

WHY MEN ARE NEVER DEPRESSED:

Men Are Just Happier People–

• Your last name stays put.
• The garage is all yours.
• Wedding plans take care of themselves.
• Chocolate is just another snack.
• You can be President.
• You can never be pregnant.
• You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park.
• You can wear NO shirt to a water park.
• Car mechanics tell you the truth.
• The world is your urinal.
• You never have to drive to another gas station restroom because this one is just too icky.
• You don’t have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.
• Same work, more pay.
• Wrinkles add character.
• Wedding dress $5000. Tux rental-$100.
• People never stare at your chest when you’re talking to them.
• New shoes don’t cut, blister, or mangle your feet.
• One mood all the time. !
• Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
• You know stuff about tanks.
• A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase.
• You can open all your own jars.
• You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
• If someone forgets to invite you, he or she can still be your friend
• Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack.
• Three pairs of shoes are more than enough.
• You almost never have strap problems in public.
• You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes.
• Everything on your face stays its original color.
• The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades
• You only have to shave your face and neck.
• You can play with toys all your life.
• One wallet and one pair of shoes — one color for all seasons.
• You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.
• You can “do” your nails with a pocket knife.
• You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache.
• You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives on December 24 in 25 minutes.

No wonder men are happier - thanks Des for sharing this with me!

THE NEXT SURVIVOR SERIES

• Six married men will be dropped on an island with one car and 3 kids each for six weeks.
• Each kid will play two sports and either take music or dance classes.
• There is no fast food.
• Each man must take care of his 3 kids; keep his assigned house clean, correct all homework, and complete science projects, cook, do laundry, and pay a list of ’pretend’ bills with not enough money.
• In addition, each man will have to budget in money for groceries each week.
• Each man must remember the birthdays of all their friends and relatives, and send cards out on time.
• Each man must also take each child to a doctor’s appointment, a dentist appointment and a haircut appointment.
• He must make one unscheduled and inconvenient visit per child to the Urgent Care.
• He must also make cookies or cupcakes for a social function.
• Each man will be responsible for decorating his own assigned house, planting flowers outside and keeping it presentable at all times.
• The men will only have access to television when the kids are asleep and all chores are done.
• The men must shave their legs, wear makeup daily, adorn himself with jewelry, wear uncomfortable yet stylish shoes, keep fingernails polished and eyebrows groomed.
• During one of the six weeks, the men will have to endure severe abdominal cramps, back aches, and have extreme, unexplained mood swings but never once complain or slow down from other duties.
• They must attend weekly school meetings, church, and find time at least once to spend the afternoon at the park or a s similar setting.
• They will need to read a book each night and in the morning, feed them, dress them, brush their teeth and comb their hair by 7:00 am.
• A test will be given at the end of the six weeks, and each father will be required to know all of the following information: each child’s birthday, height, weight, shoe size, clothes size and doctor’s name. Also the child’s weight at birth, length, time of birth, and length of labor, each child’s favorite color, middle name, favorite snack, favorite song, favorite drink, favorite toy, biggest fear and what they want to be when they grow up.
• The kids vote them off the island based on performance.
• The last man wins only if…he still has enough energy to be intimate with his spouse at a moment’s notice.
• If the last man does win, he can play the game over and over and over again for the next 18-25 years eventually earning the right to be called Mother!

Thanks Linny, this was funny to me this morning!

For the last 19 years he has waited.

Captive in the land of the Sooners.

Last night he was vindicated.

Rock Chalk Jayhawk.

DadUnscripted is on cloud nine.

We went on a date to watch the game.

I didn’t have my camera last night to capture the Mr’s excitement. But he was hooping it up.

Not quite like he used to….

or even….

and I’m not even sayin’….

Party on Jayhawks!!

In case you didn’t know which American Idol is on my speed dial - check this out.

See???  I told you he wasn’t just another pretty face.  Although his smile is almost as cute as DadUnscripted’s.

	1 pound lean ground beef
	1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs
	1 cup grated Monterey Jack cheese
	3 tablespoons ketchup
	1 egg
	1/2 teaspoon celery salt
	1/4 teaspoon pepper
	Potato Frosting
	3 cups mashed potatoes
	Food coloring

1. Heat the oven to 375 degrees. Line 12 muffin tin cups with foil bake cups.
2. In a large bowl, mix together all of the meat loaf ingredients until well combined. Divide the mixture evenly among the lined cups (the liners should be about three quarters full).
3. Place the filled muffin tins on cookie sheets and bake the cupcakes for about 15 minutes or until cooked through.
4. Divide the mashed potatoes among three small bowls and stir a few drops of food coloring into each batch to create blue, yellow, and pink pastel frostings. Spread a generous dollop on each cupcake. Makes 12 cupcakes.

I haven’t watched “Secret Life of a Soccer Mom” (Stay-at-home mom (Tracey Gold) is given a chance to go back in time and discover what her life would have been had she not given up her dream career.) - because I’ve lived it in reverse. My lifelong dream was to be a stay-at-home mom - and I graduated to that following a fast-paced, prestigious career with currently #6 globally ranked Fortune “Most Admired Company”.

It might be an interesting twist to take one of these high flying moms and give her a sabbatical at home raising her kids, cooking dinner and keeping her house. A “vacation”. LOL. What WAS I thinking? I’m kidding. There are claims on both sides of the issue and I relate to both. Working and raising a family is hard. Not working and raising a family is hard. There, you have it.

Still, if there was one thing you could do. Anything in the world. Without risk to your present life or body parts, what would it be? Would you live in the White House? Rock out on tour? Be an Olympic downhill skier? Swim with alligators?

There are lots of things I’d love to try, but my secret desire would be a writing/acting gig on Saturday Night Live. What a hoot to unleash all my pent-up, politically incorrect, sarcastic sense of humor with the cream of the crop!! I laugh out loud just typing that.

It should be more like Trading Spaces. Amy Poehler can come homeschool and mop for a couple of weeks at the Unscripted household - and I’ll go Scripted in Rockefeller Center!!

How about you? What would your secret life be?

A virtual tag by MileHiMama…..something distracting and more fun than my failure to be Eve.

The rules are:

1. The rules of the game get posted at the beginning.
2. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
3. At the end of the post, the player then tags  people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

What I was doing 10 years ago: Ten years ago I was very pregnant with my last daughter.  I was teaching Quantitative Management Skills at The Leadership Institute for Federal Express.  In my spare time, I was chasing our 18 month old wild-child, Nicholas.  Ten years ago, I expected to be pregnant another 3 weeks - but actually had only 4 days remaining.  Ten years ago, I took our son to the mall to have his picture made with the Easter “gog”, rabbit, which I think was labor inducing.   Ten years ago I was 40.  Ten years is a long time!
Five things on my To Do List today: (not in any particular order)
1. Cook dinner - something in the crockpot since this evening the kids have an art class.

2. Finish Lexi’s dress and finalize plans for her “American Girl” birthday party on Sunday.

3. Go to the library for this week’s book list.
4. Finish our Geo-Scribe World and USA Geography report inserts/binders (Spans the years through High School)
5. Walk 3 steps on the treadmill. Yea, I’m starting small….but one step at a time!!

Snacks I enjoy:   M&Ms, peanut butter & crackers, popcorn, Miss Meringues, bread anything

Things I would do if I were a billionaire:  Buy a home in Oklahoma.  Buy my church a new building.  Pray.

Three of my bad habits:

1. I’m impulsive and often insensitive.
2. I get too many projects going at one time.
3. I eat junk

Five places I have lived:

1. Oklahoma
2. Utah
3. Texas
4. Tennessee
5. Indiana
6. Kansas
7. Illinois

Five jobs I’ve had:

1. small family grocery store
2. in a flower shop
3. for a law firm
4. for a transportation company
5. sold real estate

TAG - you’re it!

I’m thinking Kaci, Linny, Megan, Sandy, Kim2…just might join in.  If you read this, consider yourself TAGGED - and leave me a comment so I can read yours!