To fight the tiredness of getting up in the middle of the night with Brodykins and running around after the other two, I have become a caffeine fiend! Fiend I say! Whenever I feel tired, I pour myself a glass of Diet Pepsi Max. That stuff is the shiz! Seriously.

Although, some of my friends love Starbucks coffee, I haven’t tried it yet. Or rather developed a fetish for it.

What are your favorite caffeinated drinks?

It is my FAVORITE day of the week! Fridays ROCK! Especially Fridays that fall on a long weekend! Husb will be home at 5 and then our weekend can truly start!

There are so many fun things going on this weekend! We (my group of friends) and I have some awesome surprises for one of our friends within the group who is getting married! All of the girls and I have worked so hard on this! I can’t wait until it happens! One of the things we did is rent a hotel room for the happy couple. There are some more surprises too, but since she reads this blog every once in awhile, I don’t want to ruin the surprise. She already knows about the hotel room part but only so that she could get a babysitter for the kids.

Then Saturday, more surprises for the bride that includes a fun day and then everyone getting dressed up for her wedding reception!

I have to go out and get some things this morning from the store (groceries, dog supplies, hair stuff, etc.). If I don’t do it now… i’ll never be able to find the time to do it this weekend!

YAY! Friday!

The nights are getting cooler and the days less scorched.  Pretty soon, it will be time to think about Halloween costumes and Christmas invitations. I don’t know about you… but I don’t feel quite ready for the season yet. No… I take that back. I feel ready for autumn because I absolutely LOVE the time of the year. What I am not quite ready for is the snow that seems to come down in buckets over here in this state.

As beautiful and enticing as fall is to me, there’s something just a bit sad about the fading of summer.

Things have been going well over here on the compound.  Dare I say…?  I feel at peace with the universe right now.  I have felt inspired to start taking better care of myself and inturn it has made me happier.  There is a semi-famous quote miling around out there and i’m sure that 99% of you have heard it…. “if momma aint happy, no one is.”  This statement is extremely true!

We women are the backbone in our relationships at home.  Since we wield the emotional sword, the household reflects off of our moods.  I have always felt that walls in a home soak up the energy being put forth.  When we moved here, I vowed that the walls would soak up only positive energy.  What you put in is what you get back out, right?

I almost hate saying that I feel totally at peace.  The cynic in me is just waiting for the proverbial “other shoe” to drop or bad things to come in threes.  Sometimes it feels like the moment I say… “Hey world!  I am HAPPY!”, something happens to test that and otherwise throw me in a tailspin of unbalance.

I know… I know… think positive.  It is hard sometimes to keep up such a cheery demeanor.  I feel like so many people in my life soak up my energy that I must keep it positive.  When I am in a bad mood it’s like a dark rain cloud descends upon everyone.  They reflect off of the energy I give out.  Especially the kids.

Still, it’s nice to feel positive and happy.  For sure no one enjoys being depressed but some people like to dwell on things.  I myself am a dweller!  I think too much and drive myself batty.  This is probably the reason for the disorganization or as I like to call it… organized mess.

Right now I have a few monetary ventures that I am trying to cultivate.  One is a small business opportunity that entails web development. The other is to do an internship for the company my husband works for to gain more experience. I am excited about both opportunities and really hope they work out well!

If it is one thing I have learned, the universe has a strong way of telling me (telling us) where life is meant to be.

So, in an effort to take good care of myself I have started purchasing little odds and ends in makeup and nail care. Like for instance, a couple of weeks ago I loaded up on new makeup and threw the old stuff out. On Sunday (in addition to the grocery shopping), I bought a pair of Rubis nail scissors to help with toenails and fingernails! My cuticles need reshaping badly!

The next thing to do on my list of recovering my outer beauty is to color my hair and give it some much needed highlights!

As soon as i’m done, I will have to take a picture and show you guys!

Husb and I recently received our adjusted insurance bill that adds on the new van. All I have to say is … yikes! Our rate went up $100 every month. We have been with our current insurance company for about 8 years and feel that it is time to shop around a bit. I have been trying find good deals by shopping for auto insurance online.

Where do you get your insurance and do you feel you are getting a good rate?

So, I started my “getting healthy” plan this week! I am completely motivated and feeling extremely positive about this experience! Tomorrow I plan on walking the trail by our home with my son Owie. It is time to drag the ol’ exercise bike out of the garage because the end of summer is near and cooler weather continues to roll in little by little. It makes me want to buy an elliptical and set up a home gym downstairs in our basement.

Shopping for groceries last Sunday went rather well! I paid close attention to what I was buying and ate lunch before going so that I didn’t shop hungry. It made a wealth of difference!

I’m off to a good start and feeling amazing!

I should be going to bed but I can’t seem to pull myself away from the computer tonight. Brodykins got 7-1/2 hours of sleep last night! WOOT! Hoping for the same to happen tonight is like doing a rain dance…. it may or may not happen.

Despite the extra Zzzzs, I found myself a bit zombified today. I’m not used to getting 6 hours of sleep and then another 4 on top of that! I don’t think my body knew what to do with my rested state!

In other non-topical news…

I have been joining social networking sites like you wouldn’t believe! I joined a mom bloggers network and then I have decided to be more active on Facebook. It’s strange how these social networking sites, message boards, blogs, etc. have become my social outlet. It’s kind of lonely being a stay-at-home mom sometimes so I feel really happy to have found these outlets! Plus, the cool moms I have met and the amazing blogs I have had the chance to read make it all worth while!

There’s a lot of “blah blah blah” going on in my brain tonight. For instance, come December miss Sophiekat will be moving to a big girl bed! Oh boy… not sure i’m ready for that one! I just *know* that her new found bed freedom will have her up and down frequently during the evening hours (at least, at first until she gets used to it). Still, it’s kind of exciting and I am currently browsing through bunkbeds and such.

Also, I am contemplating how I want to decorate the kids’ room. Obviously, it has to be something neutral for boys and girls… but I haven’t decided what. Everything seems very gender-specific. Uh well that and the fact that their walls are orange make it hard to decorate. Until we buy this place the walls must stay orange. So i’m thinking that a Sesame Street theme might work quite nicely. I’ll post pics later on this week and see what you guys think.

Owiebear had his birthday party yesterday and a good time was had by all! It was a Transformers birthday. Pretty much all of his presents (save for 2) were Transformers or Transformers-related. He was in 7th heaven! Husb and I got many hugs and thank yous from him when it was all over. All I can say is …AWWWWWW. I love to see my little guy happy!

Brodykins was one cute little fuzzy baby ducky after his bath tonight! He had adorable little fuzzy footie PJs on and husb combed his baby fuz. He came out smiling and looking so darn adorable!! Gah! Just thinking about it makes me want to kiss and snuggle the heck out of him right now!

Of course, bothering a sleeping baby is like poking at a bees’ nest.

My son, my first born snuggle bear is 4 today!  Where does the time go?  I am excited to see that he is growing into such a neat person.  I love the sparkle of his personality and the fact that he is sensitive, intelligent and witty.

Still… time seems to have slipped by so fast, yet it hasn’t gone unnoticed.  So with a little sadness I say “goodbye” to the baby/toddler part of his life and watch him go into the preschool/schoolage child phase.

Happy birthday little man!  I love you so much and am so proud of you!

As a true child of the 80’s I adored Corey Haim and Corey Feldman movies.  In fact, Dream a Little Dream goes down as one of my favorite movies from that era!  Naturally, when I found out about the show “The Two Coreys” premiering on A&E last year, I was excited.  No… make that… over the moon excited!  It was as if those two dropped off the face of the earth in the mid 90’s and then came back from nowhere.  Where had they been?  What had they been doing while they were in child-actor retirement?  What brought them back?

The first season was extremely funny and insightful.  It was hilarious to see neat-freak Feldman interract with unorganized, goofy Haim.  The magic was there and “The Two Coreys” quickly became my favorite reality television show that I tuned in to every Sunday night.

Of course, after the finale of last season, I didn’t even stand to hope that perhaps there would be a season two.  After Haim called Susie Feldman a b*tch, and Feldman was so angry he was going to punch his lights out… I figured there was no going forward for a long time.  Still, even if it was only meant to be a one season run, it was a good run!

Fast forward to the present season on A&E.  The two Coreys are back and this time they are in couple’s therapy trying to fix their relationship.  What we find out through the course of the second season that unlike the first season, this one is very dark and on a very different plateau all together.

At first, the viewer thinks that Haim and Feldman are going to work on their friendship.  Soon into the season, we find out that Haim is extremely messed up.  So many things are mentioned about past molestation, parental enabling of substance abuse, and in a nutshell… we find out why both men have managed to find themselves out of the spot light for so long.

Feldman is on the right track.  He seems to acknowledge that he has some issues but for the most part has it all together.  Haim on the other hand is on drugs.  I mean, we can see that he is clearly on something as his demeanor is so different from one episode to the next.  Either he has a borderline personality disorder complete with bipolar tendancies or he’s on something. I think he’s on something.

In one episode, Haim was on the Lost Boys 2 set and completely flubbed on his lines.  He was anxious, forgetful, and erratic.  The cameras caught sounds of snorting coming from his trailer.

Flash forward to the most recent two episodes… the Feldmans along with 2 other former child actors (Todd Bridges and Pauly Shore), staged an intervention for Haim.  Haim became angry and explosive and was not receptive in any way to the intervention.  Many angry tones and bleeps later and we are at a point where they are no longer friends.  In fact, Feldman has said that he will not be friends with Haim until he cleans up his act.

Haim is a lost boy in every sense of the word.  He’s had everyone try to intervene and help him realize his addiction, from his mother (acknowledging that he has a problem but blaming it on the doctors who write the prescriptions) to his assistant who in one instance told Haim that he almost killed them in a car about 30 times because he was falling asleep at the wheel.  Even Haim himself admitted that he had “slippy-jigs” sometimes in regards to drugs but that he in no way has a problem.

The whole world at this point (well… whoever watches the show that is)… recognizes that he has a problem.  Everyone it seems… but him.

It is sad to see one of my favorite former child stars fall even deeper into an abyss of drug addiction and denial.

It makes me wonder how many second chances he’ll get until everyone gives up on him for good… or until he becomes another statistic for drug overdose induced death.