I GOT A NEW CAMERA FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!! I'M SO PSYCHED :)
LOOK FOR MANY PICTURES TO COME :)
p/s yes, I know it isn't Christmas yet but my poor husband (God love him) was worried I wouldn't like it and we'd need to take it back...plus, now I get to take Christmas pictures with it...and it rocks!!!

Are "new-mommy sanity" classes being offered anywhere? Seriously, I'll pay! I am absolutely about out of my head!! My beautiful sweet (although busy) little angel has QUICKLY turned into a little terror. I don't know what happened! I was busy working a grand opening for Chick Fil A all week long so I wasn't home much. I don't know if that screwed her up or what but GEEZ! I need my little girl back!!! I was home almost all day, everyday but I'd put her down for her nap, B would get home, and I'd go to the G.O. until after Little Bit went to bed. Maybe she was acting out b/c I wasn't there but darnit, I've been here the last 2 days and she's still acting horrible!
Case in point:
*Spankings are no longer effective. I might as well be rubbing bunnies on her legs b/c my smacking them is doing NO good. I've even reverted to the wooden spoon and it has done no good. What comes next?
*She likes to climb on the coffee table.
*Even worse, she likes to climb on her leap frog table and STAND. Those things are really small and not at all flat enough for her to balance!!!
*She CONTINUOUSLY does what I tell her not to. I say "no" and she hears "please keep continuing to make me pull out my hair."
*We put one of those baby play yards around the Christmas tree shortly after putting it up (although the picture is shown without the gate) but it doesn't work anymore. She now finds something to stand on so that she can reach the tree...or she'll just hold on to the gate and shake it with all her might in hopes the tree will fall into her reach.
*She has taken up gagging herself in the carseat. For 5 miles last night she did this and then...of course...threw up. Yippee...
*She will NOT stay seated in her high chair, the cart at the store, or anything else that her bottom needs to be in contact with. I had to physically hold her legs down through the leg holes in the cart at the store yesterday...while she kicked me.

I'm losing my mind...I am absolutely going out of my head and I feel like my whole day consists of spankings. I bet I spanked her 20 times yesterday and every spanking was met with an innocent look and a continuation of whatever act deserved the spanking. Does anyone have a suggestion??? And please don't say time-out b/c I seriously doubt that is going to work on a 13 month old.

Things the strangers look for

In reference to THIS post, I decided to check my site meter. I don't have the super advanced version so I don't get to see everything that people google and get me as a result but here are a few:
*disobedient kids (I never SAID she was disobedient...did I?)
*recipe for longhorn's chocolate stampede (from Land O Lakes, Florida)
*LA BELLA SHOES (am I missing something?)
*What wing sauce does Applebee's use (not a clue)
*"spanked by" + "little sister" (please explain if you know anything about this)
*TMX ELMO RIP OFF (I didn't rip them off)
*Longhorn chocolate stampede (from Wilson, NC)
*recipe for longhorn chocolate stampede (from Brookeville, OH)
*ashley belle vista (I think I am quite a beautiful view)
*Chick-fil-a (yea for my great new job)
*2006 october yahoo.com "ASHLEY" (hmmmm...)

More Stuff

Life is just so busy! I really want to blog, I really want to comment on your blogs, but I barely have time to run through and read them. I can't remember what I've written about so if I repeat myself, just skip through it.

I have a new job (and I still have my old job). I am working with Chick Fil A as a marketing director. There were 3 of us doing it but now there are 2 1/2 b/c one girl can't make up her mind if she wants to do it or not. I LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT. It makes me hate my other job even worse b/c I have so much fun w/ CFA. Everytime is something different, and when you are passing out free Chick Fil A, EVERYONE is your friend. So back to my last post (the "I hate people" one), I am a people person as long as it is people I don't know and they are being nice to me. I'm good with the public when it comes to this CFA stuff. I had to be on the radio this morning and I was NERVOUS and talked really really fast. I just hope everyone understood what I was saying :)
Last night I worked w/ CFA doing an event called "Taste of (insert my hometown)" and it was so fun. It was a benefit for the Domestic Violence Interventi on Center and basically, people had to buy tickets for $25 and a lot of local restaurants were there sampling food. I had some good food! It was at a really nice hotel at a really nice golf course but here's the funny part (and I wish I had a picture to post)...Hooter's was there with one of their naked Hooter girls!! I was flabbergasted! I honestly felt like everyone though I was a lesbian b/c I could NOT stop staring at the girl but it was out of UTTER DISBELIEF that this girl would dress like that and feel perfectly comfortable in that environment (not to mention it was 20 degrees outside). I was shocked!

Speaking of our weather--how crazy is this: tonight's low is 24, tomorrow's low is 30, the next day 40, and the next day 50 something. How crazy is our weather??

Weight loss--I'm at 20.5. I said I wasn't going to try and lose during the holidays but just try and maintain but then I went last week and had lost 2lbs. This week probably won't be as good b/c of last night and a Christmas party I'm going to on Saturday. Plus, next week I'm doing a grand opening for Chick Fil A so I'm sure I'll be partaking in some food :)

Christmas shopping is almost done!! Yea! It is a good thing too b/c I'm running out of time and money. I also have a sick baby so I can't go shopping today (or probably this weekend either). I'm excited about Christmas. I'm getting a Roomba...did I say that already?? WOOHOO! Clean floors all the time :)

So that's all...