Canyon Inn - Utah

 Canyon Inn - Utah

(This is a Mormon Monopoly State....)

This is a mural on a cement retaining wall. It can't be seen from the road. Only from a ski shop next door, or the parking lot of the Inn. But it's made the news here in Utah. Not for the police car the had 'Corrupt ones' on the license plate. Not for the scantly clad woman on it. But for the Mormon Temple burning. Well, we had a Mormon Temple burn down recently, but they are up in arms about it on this mural.

It even Had

"Don't Drink & Drive!"
on it...

It's just a Mural...... Get over it.

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Coffee!

That decadent substance that allows us to energize, get perky, and just plain WAKE UP!

Kids & Parents say the darnedest things....!

So Ray Ray, our 3 year old son,  was in the tub and Ray could hear him grunting. Ray yelled to see what he was doing. Ray Ray told him to "Go away!" So Ray Yelled back, and god knows why, "Are you spanking MR Winky?" as he went to go check on him. Ray Ray yelled back "No! I'm making a Stinky!" Sure enough Ray com around the corner to see little  Ray Ray grunting on his potty making a stinky.

Allergy Time

      Oh yeah! It's that time of year again. Last year I learned that allergies can make you lose your voice on top of making you sick, runny noise, head ache, fever, go into shock... You know. All that lovely stuff we enjoy sooo much. Well This year, I not only lost my voice, but i can't seem to get it back. I sound like someone who's smoked for a 100 years or something. That is when it's not making me sound like a young boy going through puberty. So I had also acquired pneumonia this year at the same time. I sounded so awful, even after going to the doctor, that my boss sent me home with in an hour and a half of going to work. The next day when I contacted him to ask how long I had been 'banished' for, he informed me that he wanted a note from my doctor saying it was 'OK' for me to be working.this was easier said than done. Monday I had gone to the doctor, Tuesday was the day he sent me home, so Wednesday was the day he wanted the note. My doctor happens to have every Wednesday off. So I couldn't call them till Thursday and they didn't get back to me till Friday. I missed the whole week of work.

 When I finally got the note and went back to work the following monday, he asked how I was doing. I said much better, which I was after being on antibiotics for a week. He looked at me not believing me. I looked at him and said. "I was flat out told it's allergies. There's nothing I can do about it." But in all this the doc tells me to take double what I normally take for my allergies. Well as it is, I already take the maximum dose you can take over the counter with out a prescription. So I asked the doc to write a prescription so I could buy 2 boxes at the same time. He did. The pharmacy said it doesn't work that way. I said call the doctor and get it fixed. Getting it fixed turned into a 137$ prescription of Allegra that can be bought over the counter for 20$. I don't get that AT ALL!. ti's exactly the same thing. Well insurance paid for it, thank god, and I now have my double dose. But not before my allergies came to a horrible climax of a migraine, no voice, tiredness, sick, and a mood that went with that to match all MOODS!

My son decided to have a tantrum about coming in the house when we got back to the house before they filled my prescription and while I was at the height of my migraine induced attitude. I had managed to keep my cool till this point they I finally lost it at my sons tantrum. I screamed at him "GO TO YOU"RE FUCKING ROOM!" I don't swear at my son. I never do. Then Ray asked "Is he having an attitude? : I yelled at him too. "NO! I AM! I got stuck in on 5400 for the last hour because of a car wreck, I have a migraine, and they screwed up my prescription yet again!" Now it was kinda his fault I got stuck behind the accident. He told me he was working late then it turned out he was home right after I had picked up the boy. Basically he didn't want to pick up the boy and lied to me about working late. So I picked  up the boy, backtracked to the store and ended up stuck on the road not moving for an hour because of his lie and an accident..
Then I still had to go to the new pharmacy where I had my prescription sent because the other one wouldn't take my insurance. I get there and after I had talked to them an hour earlier they still hadn't filled the prescription. So I wanted to rip the woman's head off, but managed not to. I got home, took my pill and went to bed. It was all I could do because my migraine was to such a point I was unable to anything else.
Now I'm double dosing to survive the end of my allergy season......

Such is Life!..........

We've developed a leak in our roof. Something to do with the water to the swamp cooler Ray says. I'm hoping that's it.
The Hot water heater periodically shuts off and it takes us hours to relight the pilot light. We don't know why. It's from 1999. I suspect the we're going to need to replace it. Probably when we don't have any money.

"Winter Why's?"

     I should be in the joy's of life, instead I'm stuck in my 'Winter Why's?'
As in,
Why is this happening to me?
Why, no matter how hard I try, can't I change it?
Why am I letting them make me so unhappy?
Why can't the snow melt, so I can go where I can best deal with life?
Why can't the mountains and canyons be closer and easier to get to?
Why can't it be about me for once?
Why doesn't it feel like he loves me?
Why doesn't he think about me ahead of himself?
Why do things have to be so hard... all the time?
Why can't I just be happy?
Why?

Potty Training Incentives...

So my fiance' and I have been bouncing ideas on potty training incentives back and forth. We came up with getting a Gumball/Candy machine that he can earn money each time he goes potty to use to get candy from the machine. He loves M&M's and Hershy's Kisses. So we were looking at all these toy machine that took money, but they all would give him candy with out putting money in too. The idea is to make him earn the treat, not let him sneak free candy. 

I happened apon an add on KSL for a REAL machine for the price of one of the toy machines I was looking for. I called, talked to the gentleman and I bought it after seeing it was BRAND NEW STILL IN THE BOX. It only takes quarters, but you can adjust how much candy comes out of the machine. You could even put in nuts and healthy choices (that wouldn't gum up the machine).

I'm enclosing the add for the  $35 vending machines KLS ad for $35 Gumball/Candy Vending Machine.

It's one hell of  a deal if you ask me... And a fun idea that teaches your kids to go potty and the value of earning money.

The Lovely Little Religeous & Political views of Utah..... Honestly People, Really?!

    So our lovely little state is trying to sneak yet another removal of alcohol out of the our convenience stores. First it was the malt whine and beverages, now they're trying to take out beer all together from them. Honestly people! Really?! They trying to close all the liquor stores by 5 pm. At least the ones they're not closing.  Now if pretty much 80% of  adult Utahans drink, and 60% plus of the state is Mormon, who are they trying to kid?
Basically a few uptight sphincter talking Hitler wannabes are trying to control everyone else. Just like trying to slip in their little abortion issues that would take away the right of women to have an abortion if it threatens their life, if they were raped, and all the other little lovely things that ain't none of their self important, hypocritical asses think they have say on.

I'm Pro Alcohol & I'm Pro Choice!
I don't run off and drink every day, every weekend, or even monthly, but I sure as hell don't think they have the right to control it if I do.
 

I don't run off and have  abortions, and I have NEVER had one, but I sure as hell am not going to tell someone else they can't. If a man can beat a woman till she loses her child when she's 9 months along, and they don't consider that MURDER, how the hell can you say a woman having an abortion with in the first trimester is?

They just let some child molester who , by the way, refused a second opinion when it was wanted, go out to walk to streets because he's supposedly incompetent to stand trial. Now he's free to go abuse other children. Isn't that nice?  If he's too incompetent to stand trial, he should damn well be too incompetent to be loose on the streets.

Our government can't agree on spending for the government, but they want to tell us how to live our lives? If they can't do their job to run the country properly, I sure as shit don't want them to try and tell me how to run my life properly. I run my house hold budget a hell of a lot better than they run the budget of our country.
I wear patched clothing, hand me down, donated clothing, simply because after keeping my bills paid and food on our table, I can't afford clothing for myself. I take of my son, his father, and by the time It comes to getting me things I need, there's nothing left. Maybe they should cut  their paycheck, drive their own cars instead of us buying cars for them to drive, ...... Let them have to survive on what we do and see how they like it. They , when  and if you do qualify for help, some one comes along and cuts it off?!
Up till 2 years ago, I've been the taxpayer paying for all these things for other people, but the moment I need help the answer is I don't qualify or it's so little help you wonder why you bother with all the hassle and paperwork?

Oh yeah, and TOTALLY for kicking all the illegal immigrants right the hell off our help list at this point, because if I can't get help for myself because we're so busy helping criminals who snuck into this country illegally, You damn right I have no pity at this point. I sit and listen to a bunch of foreigner telling each other at my work how to get around all this shit and get stuff they don't qualify for either. So they drive nice sports cars and trucks, while I'm killing myself to get by.....
I totally jumped for joy when over a dozen of them got caught by the E-Verify with their illegal social security cards. We now actually have Americans getting jobs in our factory.
Yes I'm ranting. Those of us who are legally in the U.S. or born here are getting screwed because of the ones who aren't. We'd be able to get the help WE need if we weren't so busy looking away on illegal immigrants and handing out food, money, housing, and health care.

And then I hear them all saying how American sucks! GO THE FUCK HOME THEN! Sneak you ass right  the hell back out of our boarders!
OK, enough said for the moment.

Monumental Moment!

My son, fell asleep in his Big Boy Underwear, woke up DRY in his Big Boy Underwear, and then went potty with peeing in his Big Boy Underwear!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kids....

Ever notice that the medicine taste good till they start feeling better?

      "I thought you like your medicine?" I said as he made  a face.
      "I don't like it! Kuckie!"

Ever notice that they want to be 'Big Boys' till the potty training begin?

      "You don't want to wear baby panties do you? Don't you want to wear big boy underwear?" I asked
      "No! I want to wear Panties!" He yells grabbing a pull-up.

Ever notice the moment you pass a Mc Donalds....?

     "Mommy! Happy Meal!"

Ever notice when you ask your child to do something?

     "I can't!"

 And when they're in trouble?.....

      "I got an owie mommy!"

     "I'm tired mommy...."

     "NO!"

 When you tell them to do something you thought was put in a way they could understand, you find out they took it a bit TOO literal...

     So I walked into the bathroom and find, then my two year old, taking poop out of his diaper and putting in the potty (with his hands).
"Look Mommy! I put the poop in the Potty!" Big smiles...

And the latest and greatest horrifying thing my child is doing....

We have seen a few mice running through the house as of late. We have a crawl space under the house, and decided the best course of action was to poison under the house where it couldn't be found by our 3 year old. Well a week went by, and a smell came about the house, letting us know that the poison was working. Well about two weeks in my little boy cam running in from the back room with a DEAD MOUSE in his hand.

"It's dead mommy.." he said handing me this freshly, dead mouse.

I flushed the critter down the toilet while he wasn't looking. i then quickly made my son wash his hands.

"Where's the mouse?" He asked looking around, and then looking suspiciously at the toilet I had flushed behind his back.

"I put him outside." I said. 

"I want to see. Let's go get the mouse Mommy." He says heading for the door.

"No honey. He's an outside mouse. He had to go outside."

 There were two reason for this. He was kind of upset about the mouse being dead. And the second, I didn't want him to get the idea of flushing things down the toilet. It's something he hasn't done as a child yet. I'd like to keep it this way.
 He has now found a total of 3 dead mice and  has brought them to me. I do a daily check for the mice, but he always seems to find them before I do.....

 And on that note, I'll let you ponder the lovely little things that your children do. Smile and laugh where they can't see you. I know it's hard.