My poor little baby!

Averie had her first ear infection today. Both ears. While at the ER (its Memorial day so nothing is open) she turned to me and asked if she was the saddest thing I have ever seen in all my life, and yes she was. Her palms pressed so tightly against her ears and the tears rolling down her cheeks totally broke my heart. I am a sucker for my kid.

Give me a sign

Averie: Mom, I really wish someone would give me a sign that I was going to be able to play at Cassie's today. I just really need a sign, Mom. Will you buy me a sign?

Jealous of my husband's boyfriend

I have, literally, 2 friends. Both of them live in states other than the one I am in. Brad has no problem making friends and getting invited to do man stuff all the time. Right now he is at some meat smoker extravaganza with some dude. When Brad is off of work I want to hang out with him and it makes me totally jealous that he has other things to do and other people to do them with. I need some freaking friends.

School, schmool.

Class is pretty cool so far. I REALLY like my Criminal Justice professor. He is like an uber Conservative used-to-be-a-badass-in-the-navy Alan Fick look alike. Should be awesome.
Also, I have found out that my little brother (who was SUPPOSED to be the "great white hope" of the family) is getting worse grades than I did in high school! What's going on dude? Is he on the dope? No. He's on the P.S. 3.
To clarify, I got some pretty crappy grades my freshman and sophomore year due to inherent laziness, and excess of boyfriends and smart-ass-ery. Junior and senior year, I ruled because I figured out exactly what I needed to do to be on all my teachers good sides, granting me the privilege to smart ass my way to graduation and still manage to be pretty rad. I was like a female Zack Morris.
Now, I just get the good grades out of spite. Nothing more. I try extra hard in class just to "show them" (Yeah, you!). I think because I have made so many stupid choices and have a lot of dumb tattoos, I feel like I have to at least do well in school so I can be that girl who did well in class even though she (obviously) was the mess up of the bunch for most of her life. This is also the reason why I am such an awesome Mom(Okay, Averie does most of the work, but still I did birth her). I just feel like I have something to prove, you know?

Singe and a haircut-no charge!

I just had to have barbecued chicken for dinner. Brad is usually the one who man's the BBQ but he was working. I turned on the propane, hit the ignite button and nothing happened so I shut the lid and turned the propane up a little. After I hit the ignition I lifted up the lid and flames (back draft style) shot out at me! I singed all the hair around my face, my eyebrows and the hair on my arms!

FAIL