Fall Out Boy - I am full of disappoint...

I had my SiriusXM disconnected last month because we weren't too fond of paying $40 every three months for essentially glorified radio. As I was driving to Boaz I decided to play some old cd's, enter Fall Out Boy: Take This To Your Grave (2003). Listening to it made me realize how much I have missed listening to FOB and I embedded into my mind to find some of their newer songs for my phone. Bad idea. Fall Out Boy... WHAT THE CRAP?
Patrick Stumph (<-- THAT'S THE NAME I WAS USED TO!) has gone "solo" and he sounds like the rest of the auto-tuned fags out there. WHY?! He changed his name to Patrick Stump, his new cd is SoulPunk, and he looks like a queer. Honest. I will show you. Went from this:

To THIS THING:

It hurts my heart to see such a great sounding (and not too hard on the eyes) musician go from awesome to gay in less than 10 years. And his new music is crap. There. I said it.

I just want to be lazy...

You know... I just sat down and tried to think of the last time I was lazy. Not just lazy, lazy, but GLORIOUSLY LAZY. It hasn't happened in months! Yeah, I go to sleep early (think 8:30) twice a week, but then I wake up at 5:00 in the morning to go to the gym and kick my own ass. Besides working out, I have work and school. If I'm not at work, I'm home doing homework for one of my five classes. If I don't have homework then I am going to a class at the gym or taking a walk/run with Mylie to keep her from getting cabin fever from being inside the house all the time. I want to be so lazy that the next day my body will want me to run miles because it is so rejuvenated. But will this happen?
Probably not. Not til I am receiving a nice retirement check and have a pimped out walker while screaming at kids to stay off my lawn and turn down the blasted music. I will be the crazy lady with the blue hair and glasses thicker than coke bottles. I will wear those pants that make that noise when you walk, just because the neon colors they come in happen to match my hair color.
I. CAN'T. WAIT.

Lee gets to be lazy. And sleep in a lot. Days he doesn't get to sleep in, he gets to come back home and nap. NAP! Then when he finally passes out on the couch, I get to take pictures of his funny sleeping face. Like this:

Hurr, hurr.

So I'm honestly considering backing down some hours at work once Lee graduates and can support us a bit. I would love to have time to breathe and not have to stop writing something (like this blog) and pick it back up hours later when I have a second to myself.
The good thing about my schedule at work is that it allows me to have enough time for the gym in the morning and my school work at night and on weekends. But this weekend I have a four day weekend! I am going to finish all of my homework and tests tonight, Saturday morning go to the gym, then have two days of uninterrupted laziness. Oooooooooh, aaaaaaah. It will consist of making blankets and hanging out with my favorite pharmacist, Samantha, and her beautiful babies! Exciiiiiited me!

I hope everyone has a safe and fun Labor Day and will also have fun watching lots of football and getting beer bellies. Just don't forget to enjoy it with family and friends and take lots of pictures. Memories are relived through photos, take a ton, remember them all. <3

Fold laundry - Acquire goods

I came home from the gym this morning to this:

Yes. Mylie was folding laundry. At 6:30 AM. I just stood there trying to make sense of what was happening in front of me, and Mylie looks at me and says, "I put your panties in your room!" What did she get for folding laundry at the butt-crack of dawn? Doughnuts. She was so excited, but I assume that she will be up every morning to look in the dryer so she can fold laundry and get some doughnuts out of it. She is getting so big, it kills me.

Leila has been awesome in school for an entire week! She talks a lot. A lot is an understatement, but it will do. On Leila's first day of school I met the teacher and explained to her how much Leila talks and how to keep her busy, did the teacher take my advice? No. My advice to the teacher was brilliant if I do say so myself. I asked her to just give Leila a "difficult" (think 4.5 reading level) book and have her read it to herself, it will keep her preoccupied while the teacher helps other students. They brought all the children to the library (Leila calls it the lie-berry) so they could pick out books, and the librarian makes Leila get a book with an A.R. score of 3.0. Leila's A.R. score is over that level. Make sense of that for me, will you? Are they going to dumb down my child that uses books to quiet her mouth and occupy her mind? Now Leila is assuming her librarian thinks she is "too stupid to read higher level books". One size does not fit all for teaching, teachers!!

Lee and I are officially back in school full-swing and are not stressed out yet! *Applause* Thank you, thank you... we will see how this is going in a week. Considering my accounting class is a mini-mester, I may be a little bit frantic in about two weeks.
Does anyone have any tips to tackle 5 courses with grace? Let me know.
I think I may have a handle on what I want to do when I "grow up". My big girl job will remain in the medical field, but I am currently considering becoming an LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse) and enrolling at JSU for their STEPS program to become an RN (Registered Nurse). This requires an additional 3 years in school on top of what I have to finish at Snead. I am supposed to be graduating from Snead next summer (YAAAAAAAY!), and hope to be enrolled at Gadsden for next falls line up for LPN classes. Keep your fingers crossed!

Lee still hasn't figured out what he wants to do after college. I may be an RN before he even figures this out and he has been in college for a long time now. He started back in 2005 and has been dragging his feet ever since. His feet have turned to nubs. He has honestly dragged them so far that he has no lower phalanges. Someone think of something brilliant to make him perk up and get pumped enough to finish school!

I will end this on a small note: Don't forget to go to your local Walgreens and get your flu shot! I takes your body approximately 3 weeks for the vaccine to start to take effect. I know it sounds real early to get your flu shot, but it isn't! Before you say it, the answer is no. You cannot get the flu from the flu shot. You can get a MILD fever and upset stomach, and soreness at the injection site is expected, but you will survive. Those symptoms only last a few hours and then you're good. I think it's a good trade off to not get the flu! If you have any questions, post 'em up! If I can't answer it, I will get a pharmacist who can. :)

Hurricanes and Puppies

It was such a beautiful day out today! *Thanks, Irene!* We took Mylie out to ride her bike and get some of her cranky out. Lee put her down for a nap since she was up at 6 IN THE MORNING and apparently she was a little bit of a handful while I was out with Emma and Tonya.

While Lee, Mylie, and I were on our evening walk we noticed a howling dog hanging out of a parked car window having mixed emotions about jumping from the window. There was nobody near it and it was half in the car and half out of the car. Who can guess what Mylie did? She called the puppy to come to her which caused the puppy to do a face plant into the concrete. We were then stuck with a puppy on a sidewalk while we waited for the owners to come back to their vehicle to check on it. We waited AT LEAST 15 minutes before we started to worry that this is what the owners wanted, the puppy gone because it was a whiner. Fortunately enough for Lee and I, we found the owner and all is right in the world, but Mylie wants a dog now.
Crap.

I made a new blanket today! It's more lovey-sized, but cute nonetheless. I'm going to start selling lovey's. I enjoy making them and I am convinced people would love buying them from me.
New baby? Buy a lovey! New puppy? Buy a lovey! Feeling blue? Buy a lovey! Have some money that you feel like spending but you don't want to make a new account on etsy? Buy a lovey!
I got this down. BUY A LOVEY!

Before I thanked Hurricane Irene for this beautiful weather we are experiencing here in J'ville, Bamers... but my Poppop, Dad, aunts, uncles, cousins are all up in New York! Stuff is about to get real up there.
-----> Shouldn't the guido's be gathering at the Jersey Shore getting ready to fist pump Irene back towards the Carolina's? I was pretty sure that is how it worked up there, but honestly it would be a relief to get those orange people off of t.v. They scare children and about 1/4 of the U.S. adult population *numbers may be skewed*. <-----

Can I just mention that I can't wait for fall and winter to get here?! I love everything about cold weather. The clothes, the ear muffs, the bogans, the tacky decor, all of it. Summers in the South are sticky. Gross, right? Where would be the perfect place to live where it is always between 64 and 82 degrees? That is where we want to live. Who's coming with us? :-)

Introductions are in order I assume...

We have finally decided to start a blog! Not as exciting for you as it is for me, I understand, but I figured it was about time to show my very scattered family just what we have been up to.
Let's start off with a simple roll call:
First up we have Lee and I. Me and Lee. The sugar to my kool-aid. The love of my life. We are most affectionately known as, Lee and Jessi.

We have been together through thick and thin since 2005 and decided to tie the knot in 2009. 

Next up is Leila, one of my beautiful princesses! She is full of spunk and lots of attitude. That last part needs to have more effect behind it. LOTS. OF. ATTITUDE. She is 7 going on 16, has a lot to say and will tell anyone willing (or maybe not so willing) to listen. We're working on that. *cough* losing battle *cough*

(She was 2 in this pic!)

(5 in this picture)

(6 Years Old)

(Almost 7 here)

(Almost 7!)

She is in second grade and is currently reading at a 4th to 5th grade reading level. So smart it hurts. Another obstacle is she hates school. Not so much school as it is the people. Judgmental people (including teachers) who don't take the time to know the student, but just sum them up in a matter of seconds. She is a great kid with a big personality and one day she is going to be an awesome performer. The singing/dancing type. 


And last, but definitely not least, Mylie. My other princess who happens to love dinosaurs. I honestly mean love. She knows all sorts about dinosaurs, it's impressive really. She knows names, stats, carnivorous/herbivores, land or sea, flying to grounded. But she tells it in her own way. Also known as: Mylieneise. 

(One week old)

(Little over one year old)

(Two years old)

(Three Years Old)

(Almost Four)

<3

Mylie has what is called apraxia of speech. She knows what she wants to say, but her brain and mouth get mixed up in translation and it comes out as a jumble. Mylie has been going to speech therapy in two different locations for a little over a year now and she has made remarkable improvements in her day to day words. She will be tested by Brookwood Medical in Birmingham soon for autism, we are just waiting for an appointment. Waiting, waiting, waiting...
Autism is a pretty big deal. Showing up at the most unexpected times in the most unsuspecting children. Children that don't have a choice, children that don't get to choose the severity of their condition. Autism has many different hats for many different people, I just hope one day we can get a better handle on it. 


Crud. It's late, I have homework, Mylie is still awake, I'm half asleep. Hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it! More to come tomorrow, I'm sure!