SHOES SHOES SHOES

I have a confession.I am addicted to Pinterest! It is full of so many ideas that my wheels are in overload spinning!! I am pinning all kinds of things I need to make whether its crafts or food recipes, fitness tips, smart ass pictures!!! It has something for anyone and everything!! It really can make you a little A.D.D~ so much stuff to see!!! The best part is it's like a big picture book.......... on steroids!

As PC will tell you I am a shoe lover/hoarder ~ of course I wear them all (most) of them all 76 pairs....sneakers, sandals, flip flops, flats, kitten heels, hooker heels, wedges, ankle boots, knee high boots...shall I go on!!! Well now I have found a pair I need to make! Yes I did say make! Comic Book shoes!!! How freaking cool are these...add a little mod podge, cut up some comic books (I can hear the hubster and his brother suck in the air at the mere mention of a pair of scissors  near a COMIC BOOK!) Oh but I am gonna need to hit them up for some comic books so I can make a pair!

And if these aren't cool enough.....check out these glitter-rific DIY shoes! Yes the wheels are so turning!!! Which shoes should I add a little "spice" to......... I may actually have to go buy a pair!!!!

CONARTIST IN THE MAKING

If you ever heard PC carry on about how he hates camp ...incase you forgot....which I can not forget that since I am reminded daily ....you would seriously begin to wonder WHAT kind of camp am I taking him to!GEEEZ he has been very clever getting out of it that's for sure!
 Last Monday he went to camp (not happily) but amazing enough he did survive! So Monday evening he was going on and on with the whole :" Ughhh I hate camp blah blah blah and I want to go to Meme's (MIL) and blah blah blah" more ramblings about camp and how much he hates it! I told him he'd have to go to camp because Meme was busy! But of course when he called her Tuesday at 7:30am as I am ready to take him to the slave camp he comes running out with the phone....
"Oh yes Meme, I would love to come over and help you babysit Parker (really he almost made it sound like it was HER idea and NOT his) . That's exactly why I was calling, I never get to spend anytime with him and I would be so helpful" now he is grinning ear to ear.........because you guessed it he doesn't have to go to camp! Oh how proud am I ....my little con artist in the making! So off to Meme's we go and he gets to spend the day with Parker his 2 year old cousin. Fun times had by all....until we get home that is and now it's all about ...I want a baby brother! WHOOOOOOOOO back up the train buster ~ that is so NOT gonna happen! But WHY?? Really let me count the ways!!!
 So my suggestion  was to pack his bags and move in with Parker, that will be the only way your getting a baby brother!!! And if I didn't think that PC was crazy for asking.....Parker's mom my (SIL) should be committed to the funny farm after she commented that we should BOTH try getting pregnant together and have babies at the same time! Clearly the men in the white jackets may have to come pay her a visit ~ she has officially arrived at  loony-ville if she thinks I will be having anymore little darlings!!
PC only made it to camp one day last week (oh the horror he endured going for one whole day). They were closed on Wednesday for the 4th and of course hubster was home and so he didn't go on Thursday or Friday!

So this week he stayed home Monday ....somehow he sucker oh I mean CON-vinced (see con-artist in the making) hubster to stay home so he didn't have to go to the horrid camp! At least his buddy's mom came and got him and they played and apparently brainwashed her into thinking that it would be a great idea for her to be added to the pick up list at camp and then she could pick him up from camp early some days~ didnt know they meant today already! Okay okay that would be nice, I am sure he would love it! So picking PC up early from camp according to me is after 3pm  I mean I have paid for the whole 10 weeks of summer upfront~ gotta get my money's worth some how)......I guess picking him up early for buddy and mom is 9:30am........mind you he is dropped off at 7:45am!!! Oh yes he was a VERY HAPPY CAMPER today! I can see his wheels spinning on HOW he will get or CON his way out of attending tomorrow..............and we know there is no chance in hell he'll be attending on Thursday or Friday cause hubster's home!

I  think someone is breaking in and filling the laundry hampers with clean clothes..and towels....I am certain that we have a laundry elf creating more laundry by the day! Or that when I put the piles of CLEAN clothes on PC's desk and instruct him to put away your clean clothes in my naggie voice I am sure.......that he may very well toss them into his hamper.....instead of walking the 2 extra feet to his dresser!! I know on at least 2 occasions when I was separating the clothes to be washed  I have found folded clothes in there ...so it's not like I am pulling this idea outta my ass!
And when asked about that one......OH  I folded it BEFORE I put it in the hamper it was really dirty!!! SERIOUSLY? Do I look like I fell off the turnip truck last night?
After getting ALL the laundry done....yesterday ......I turned around to the hubster dropping his dirty pile from his trip....ahhh fudge-nab-it! Okay okay so now ALL the laundry is REALLY done....I go off to work today ...PC stays home with dad, because as you know HE HATES CAMP.....so when I leave at 8am he is in jammies, when I return at 6pm he is still in jammies...........he claims a different pair, because of course he took his shower (humm he almost seemed insulted I would ask if he bathed today~ well if I could still smell you ....you may want to try that again) .....but can we explain how I am on my 3rd load of laundry and I wasn't even home today to play dress up!!! And one load of laundry had 11 towels in it!!! There are 3 of us...plus 3 cats....even if we all used a towel including the cats...that means that we must have had 5 elf's here racing around as well!!

Yummm donuts

I have been very productive this morning I went to bootcamp and made a stop by Dunkin Donuts on my way home, all by 8:30am! The hubster got home late last night while PC was sleeping. I left the house before hubster, PC & his buddy woke up and was off to the torture session....oh I mean bootcamp.....and it's 4th of July so I am sure according to my buddy "Slacker" that counts as a bonus! On the way home I felt the car pulling alittle to the right...humm don't want to wreck so  I just went with it and wouldn't you know I found myself at Dunkin Donuts drive thou window! Might as well get the boys some donuts....after all I am already here and it would be rude to back out with out getting anything!

When I got home the boys had already planted there bum's in the chair and where already gaming, when they heard me come in they stumbled out to see what I would be making for breakfast.....I put down the 6 pack of donuts and said you each get ONE while I poured a glass of milk for them I turned around to only 2 donuts left!!! REALLY???

 We may need to work on math skills here boys! I know during the summer you get "Brain Drain" but I said ONE DONUT each to my calculations there should be 4 left in that box!!!!
They both looked at me and looked at the remaining 2 donuts and said .......Will you be eating those????  YES ....that leaves one for me and your dad now OUT, OUT , OUT of the kitchen!!
So I ate one donut after all I deserved it with my bonus bootcamp class this morning ....on a National Holiday and all! Hubster finally woke from the dead, I guess after 6 days of 16 hour days and the drive home he was a wee bit tired! He grabbed the last donut with his breakfast and took a bite....had his cereal and coffee while reading the paper.

So there it sat...and sat....with one little bite out of it......so I looked up and said "Will you be eating that???? "(of course this is as I had already started to polish it off)  I have no doubt that according to "Slacker" the extra calories from that donut will not count since a bite had already been taken out of it!~

Off to camp we go

The hubster ( my new Pepper-ism - I am sure it's a real word somewhere)  is out of town on business ............so you know what that means! Yep it's just me and PC! Oh the joys of auguring day and night - don’t be all green with envy now!

 

Our mornings start like this:

PC: I don’t want to go to camp

Me: Well you have to I have this whole JOB thing I go to everyday!

PC: But why? I don’t want to go to camp! I hate camp!

**** For the record here I am not sending him off to a slave camp where he is plowing fields all day in 100 degree weather  and pulling weeds...or doing any such  manual labor....he goes to summer camp ....with all his buddies. Who jump out of their parents car with a huge smile on their face and race inside to start their day as they wave a happy goodbye to their parents........not PC.......no we argue as we drive there, as we sit there in the car circle all the reasons he HAS to go to camp....and then he jumps out and slams the door with his "mad face" and leaves me sitting there like the prison warden who took the pudding away at mess hall ****

Me: Again I have this JOB thing I go to daily, I am sorry it interferes with you sitting on your ass all day glued to the computer!  (Yes I say ass to my 11 year old - he can really bring out the best in me most mornings)

PC: UGHHHH just work from home like dad does!

Me: I can't, my job is different and I have to be there in person.

PC: UGHHH all you do is play on the computer and answer the phone.

Me: Okay well I need to do it in person or there won’t be anyone to play on the computer OR answer the phone! And you like having hot showers, food to eat, clothes to wear, a roof over your head with nice cold A/C to keep you cool right? Well then I gotta go to this whole job thing or they won’t pay me!!!

PC: UGHHH dad pays all he bills..............all you do is buy SHOES and STUFF!!!!

Me: UGHHHH OUT OF THE CAR NOW................... OH  AND MAKE IT A GREAT DAY AT CAMP!!!!!!

***As he slams the car door shut I add in the part that he is GROUNDED now so you better have all the fun you can while you are here!!! Of course he missed THAT whole conversation as he was on the other side of the car door and I was driving away so it went really smoothly!!***