Simple things for simple minds

I love kitchen gadgets. I guess its hereditary. My dad is an infomercial whore when it comes to kitchen gadgets. He tries it if its good, I get one or will be getting one, if its nasty, back it goes with a note saying why its a piece of sh1t. Thats my dad.

One of the other bloggers posted about a cool cooker thingy and I just had to have one. I searched for that thing and no where could it be found. Husband was tired of being dragged into kitchen stores every time we went some place...even if we went to the Circle K to buy beer it was "Oh, lets go by here and see if they have that egg-cooker thingy". Finally in desperation I emailed Manadajuice. It was a gift over 2 years ago! She didn't know where it came from! OH NO!!!! Dammit!

Then today daughter called right in the middle of payroll and said "Ma, Mandajuice posted where she got her egg cooker thingy." I stopped payroll and quickly logged in! THERE IT IS!!!! OMG! OOOO! Mandajuice came through, on a FRIDAY no less.
Immediately copied link and sent to daughter and husband pleading for Birthday (6wks), Thanksgiving, Christmas any kind of present just GET ME ONE!!!
Husband said "order it cause I love you". Now how about that?!
Now, I'm getting the.....are you ready.....KRUPS Egg cooker thingy!!! Hot damn! Life is certainly good for me. I'm so excited...simple things for simple minds I guess.

I'm adding Mandajuice's blog site and the egg-cooker thingy web site at the end of this post.
Her site is great, she is funny and real but she cooks and always posts her recipes and menus so you can see if they are eating anything you like or might want to try that week, with the recipe. She has an awesome meatloaf recipe hmmmm. Go check her out....
A special thank you and hug to my daughter who is always looking out for her ma, to Mandajuice for being nice and my husband for saying "Order it!"

http://mandajuice.typepad.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Krups-230-70-Egg-Express-Cooker/dp/B00005KIRS

Don't make me cry........

Lets just say its been a rough few weeks, months, years whatever its all been rough!
My emotions are somewhere around my feet and my tits hurt and I have no patience for stupid people. Which in my mind I am totally surrounded by and find myself continually having to explain to them that they are stupid.

I've been to the "tit" doctor and he has very nicely explained to me that I am in the begining stages of MENOPAUSE!!! Which on the way home made me cry. Why? Hell, I'm pissed! Why is it OK? Its NOT OK!!! Nothing is OK!

Women are totally screwed while men skid through life with only a "crisis" a Mid-life crisis. They want to be young, act young, drive fast little cars, have young women clamouring for them. What do women get?
We get periods, we get child birth, we get anxiety, we get stressed out dealing with lunches, homes, husbands that can't find their socks or underwear, kids, paperwork, jobs and then we have our period and start the ugly ass schedule all over again. What do we get? We get "she's being a bitch". What do men get? "Oh, he's having a mid-life crisis he'll get over it soon enough". Why isn't he an a$$hole?

Why can't we have bad comb overs and plaid pants? Why do we get to deal with everything, then we get slammed with the period of all periods MENOPAUSE!!! Where everything stops and the only thing raging are our hormones and our temper. We wake up one day soaking wet with a "go ahead f$&k with me" attitude and it goes down hill from there.

Only one of my friends has been completely through the cycle and she was totally honest. "Your emotions are on your sleeve and it pisses you off. You cry, which makes you mad, so you cry harder then some a$$hole asks why your crying and you rip off his head and sh1t down his neck. You feel much better so you cry". The end. I will be 51 in 6wks. My husband hasn't talked to me since Friday because I was "being a bitch", I apologized, which he didn't accept because he was pissed, so in all my menopausal glory I told him I could also not talk to him for weeks, suited me just fine...one last thing to do on my list since I did everything else around this GD (yep I said that)house!
I then went to the bedroom and cried. Why? Because he is being an a$$hole and I really hate us being this way and I just want someone to say it only lasts a week then you feel all better and thats the end of menopause, just like your period 5-7 days and dude you are done!

I'm told this is only the begining. That my night sweats will get worse...how much worse can it be when I wake up feeling like I forgot to dry off after my shower? That I will cry and fly off the handle a whole lot more, over smaller things, like dropping my toast face down this morning which caused a flood of tears. The urge to kill people. I kinda like that one. In the middle of my tearful tirade I had a flash back of a show I thought was totally funny at the time,I didn't understand why all my moms' friends kept saying "did you see All in the Family? How true was that"?
Little did I know....
I hope this link works, if not, don't tell me, you'll only make me cry!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj-TV-O5A_0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_cUVfYUuf0&feature=related