If you were to look at family life like a business, I Really need to work on my business performance management. That or Multitasking!

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Today, December 15th, 2007, ten days before Christmas, Something big Happened at Casa Del Bluepaintred.

Sigh.

Let me back up a wee tiny bit. This morning Hubs and I went into the city! Awesome! 25 feet visibility! Fog And Snow! Yay! (We had shopping to do or no one was eating!) Along the way we stopped in at a gaming store and bought Ratchet and Clank and Sonic with some silver sonic dude for The Boys to give to Hubs for Christmas.

Hubs has been practicing his surprised face all afternoon.

When we got home, and the children returned from their sleepover at Nana and Papa’s I told them to go to my room so I could show them what I had bought for them to give Daddy. With the older ones in my room, Stuperman yelled I’M DOOOONE and just like that, I had a butt to wipe.

Walking back into my room, I could not help but notice the speed that Rainbow Man moved away from my closet. The closet holding all the gifts. You know. The ones from Santa. The ones in their distinctive Santa Wrapping Paper.

Sigh.

BlueBoy, who had been looking out my window while RM snooped, was sent out of the room, and Hubs was called in.

And thus, Ten days before Christmas, I made my son cry by explaining that there was no Santa. I feel we had no choice but to tell him. It was either explain the secret, or have him say “But. I saw that in your closet!” on Christmas Morning, and have him ruin the younger boys naivety.

But it still Sucks.

∗ Posted by bluepaintred on 12.15.2007
∗ Blue Boy, Games, Holidays, Husband, I'm Important too, Mommyblawgin, Rainbow Man, Stuperman, boys
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First of all, Thanks to Sheila for spending some time behind the scenes helping me with wordpress coding. And by helping me, I really mean she went in and did all the grunt work while I went shopping.

Shopping = awesome.

As you know, or SHOULD know, the twelfth of December is a very important day in my life. My Bff Kissy was born on that day. Normally I would put up a cutsey wootsie post about how much she means to me and how I would be lost without her and pleasedonteverleaveme, but instead of spending her birthday behind a monitor I actually ventured out of the house and saw her.

Its actually really hard to see her due to the 14 hour days she works - oh and the no days off thing, that sucks too. Whatever. She managed to get her birthday off so we went out on the town. And by that of course, I mean we went to Wal*mart.

I love Wal*Mart. I really really do.

Other than spending time with Bff Kissy, my mission, should I choose to accept it, and I did becuase it meant shopping, was to get the randomosities that fill up the childrens (and mine) Christmas Stockings.

I dunno how you all do your Stockings, but when I grew up, the staple of my stocking was Socks and underwear, and to this day, unless there is a special occasion (*wink*) I get new underwear the 25th of December and thats it.

Ahhhnyway. I picked up the cutest sock sets for the boys, Cars For Stuperman, TMNT For Blue Boy and Hot Wheels For the eldest, eight year old Rainbow Man - Who wants me to change his name to Dragon Master BTW.

I also Picked up the various packages of underwear. Well Two packages for me because I could not decide between the colors. I got The Bee Movie ones for Stuperman, And Spiderman Boxers for the Two older boys.

So the problem is this, interwebs : While waiting in line to pay, BFF Kissy started crawling up and down my spine and bashing my frontal lobe in about the fact I got Character socks and Underwear for Rainbow Man. She feels that at eight, he should be wearing plain undies and white (or black) socks.

Let me be very clear on the subject of socks for just a moment : No matter how fucking old you are, white socks or black socks have no place in your life. Socks should be fun, colorful and above all, when you look down, they should make you smile.

But What about the Spiderman Boxer Breifs? Is he really going to be embarrased to wear them? He’s eight! I have a feeling that when he and his buds are lined up at the urinals having pissing contests, they are ALL still wearing Spiderman, Super man And TMNT Underwear!

Bff Kissy asked me if I will still be buying him Character undies when he is 13. I told her that providing they came in his size, yes, I would.

(She feels that if he is wearing Character undies at 13 he will be too embarrassed to drop trou for a girl - this is not a bad thing! )

In any case, Interwebs ; I ask you this : Is eight too old for cute undies? Should I be buying black and white, with the odd navy blue? Is it really necessary for me to walk past the cute Optimus Prime and settle on the boring old pinstripe?

∗ Posted by bluepaintred on 12.13.2007
∗ BFF, Holidays, I hate winter, I'm Important too, I'm a Dumbass, Rainbow Man, because snow fucking sucks, boys
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SO… a while ago Miss Ann said she had made me a blankie and was mailing it. I figured, with the way Canada post hates me, it would not be here until after Christmas. For once in my life I am happy to be wrong becuase it came on the very same afternoon I threw out my back shoveling and have been curled up with it all evening on the couch.

Miss Ann teased me with pictures of her Quality Control team (AKA - a fuzzy wuzzy kitteh) So I will do the same to all of you! - plus a post made up of pictures means I can go back to my heating pad and blankie a lot quicker!

I hadn’t even shaken my new blanket out when Tigger decided that the bag it came in would make her a great new home.

Seriously, She has spent most of the night in there!

Smokey Teh Pup is absolutly in love with my new blankie. Right now she is sprawled out so that she covers ever inch of it!

And my favorite quality control group? Mr. McNapper fell asleep within minutes of touching it! Its a magical Blankie dontcha know!

∗ Posted by bluepaintred on 12.11.2007
∗ I'm Important too, Pictures
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You may have noticed things are looking a bit.. different.

God I miss my blogger template.

So With the help of Nobody, and by that I mean he did all the work while I played bubble shooter, Bluepaintred is OFF blogger and onto wordpress.

Let’s see how this goes then, eh?

∗ Posted by bluepaintred on 12.11.2007
∗ I'm Important too, Linkage
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We have multiple email addresses. One I use for signing up with things. I get three hundred spam emails in there a week. Its Yahoo.

One is for my blogging, my gmail account. Me and hubs use that for any email we actually want to receive.

One is for family and Hubs to use. It has a built in spam protector that SUCKS ASS. It takes any email it wants, holds it hostage for a week to ten days and then sends us an email telling us which emails it has stolen and put in quarantien.

This morning I got the Hey we stole your mail wanna see it? email.

Lets see. Spam. delete, delete delete, oh! Youtube comments! Deliver. delete. delete Oh! Another YouTube comment, deliver. delete .delete.. this went on for a while. There were emails from friends and family in quarantine, there were comments from bloggers in quarantein and of course, those two YouTube comments.

∗ Posted by bluepaintred on 12.10.2007
∗ I'm Important too, I'm a big baby
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