not me! monday

welcome to not me! monday! this blog carnival was created by mckmama. you can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

first of all, i have NOT been MIA. i have NOT neglected my blog for a day shy of two weeks. and i do NOT have perfectly good reasons. you know i love my bloggy/online family, but my real family comes FIRST! so let me be the first to apologize if my blogging is sporadic for the next few months.

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and now for the embarrassment. you know how you're a better driver when there's people riding in the car with you, right? well, apparently that doesn't make a difference for me. a week and a half ago, my sis-in-law, my beautiful niece (hi ricci! i love you!), ryan, and i went to sonic for ice cream. i pulled into the drive-in diner, ordered our ice cream, we ate, and then we were gonna leave. but i didn't want to drive with my empty ice cream bowl. so i spotted a nearby trash can (about 8 feet away), and when my sister volunteered to get out of the car and throw it away i did NOT say, "no, i'll just drive over there." so i pulled out of my parking space, and drove up close to the trash can so that i could throw my bowl out the window, and BAM!!! i did NOT hit the trash can. said can did NOT start to tip over. we all did NOT start laughing. i quickly backed up, the trash can stopped rocking, i tried again (this time staying far away from it), threw the trash out the window (thank goodness it went in the can!), and then i drove off, blaming my mishap on all the ice in the parking lot...

at our next stop i got out but couldn't see any damage underneath the filth of my car. so i have NOT refrained from washing the car just so that ben won't see any scratches!

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well you know you have good neighbors when they'd pick up your trash for you. i do NOT know this firsthand... as i was taking the trash out the other night (at midnight) i saw my neighbors just getting home—a mom and her high school senior daughter that we'll call breanna. we started talking, so i walked over to them on my way to the dumpster. and right when i got over to their car, one of my trash bags did NOT rip open at the bottom, and trash did NOT spew everywhere!!! oh just wait for it—it gets better...

it was the bathroom trash.

i don't know about you, but in my opinion, bathroom trash is the most embarrassing. spew junk mail and food scraps any day, but bathroom trash?! diapers, snotty kleenexes, q-tips, etc...

i did NOT scurry and start putting the trash in my other bag (which conveniently had enough room), and then breanna did NOT bend down to help me. i did NOT almost yell at her and say "NOOOO.... this is bathroom trash. please, you don't need to help!!" she did NOT help me anyway. i was NOT incredibly thankful when i thought of the other stuff that could have been in there had it been a different time of the month...!

ahhhh.... happy monday! tune in next week. maybe i'll air my dirty laundry—literally!

not me! monday

thanks to mckmama, it's not me! monday. go stalk visit her blog like the rest of us and please continue to pray for baby stellan who is starting his 4th week in the hospital.

this has been a fun week full of not me moments, so lets get started!

we were NOT busily cleaning the house this week since my sister heather was coming for a visit. and when we got done with said cleaning, samantha did NOT say "IT'S A MIRACLE!!!!"

since heather was not supposed to get here until 10:30pm on wednesday, i did NOT let samantha stay up just so that she could see her. she did NOT got to bed until 11:30pm!

heather, di (ben's sister), and i did NOT go to phantom of the opera on thursday night. i was NOT so excited to go that i wanted to throw up. i did NOT enjoy phantom soooooooo much that i cried. four times. i did NOT have tears rolling down my face as we left. and when we got home i did NOT look to see if there were still tickets available for the next night. go read heather's post about how great the opera was!

after leaving phantom i did NOT weave in and out of the pillars (while driving my dad’s van) in the parking garage just to annoy my sis-in-law. don’t worry dad, i did NOT hit anything. hehe!

after a big fiasco (which made me really mad) with the walmart photo department a year ago, i did NOT go back there this week to get some graduation pictures printed out for my niece. after i got all the pictures printed out, they wouldn’t let me purchase them because i didn’t have a copyright release (saying that i give myself permission to print out the pictures that i took. ugh.). but instead they said that they would put my name on them and i could get them when i bring back a copyright release. my whole conversation with them (that was much too long for this already long story) did NOT make me very mad! so i did NOT decide to give them my name with the intentions of never picking up the pictures. and just so that they couldn’t track me down, call me, and make me pay for the pictures i was not going to pick up, i did NOT give them my maiden name…

when we were all done with the photo department we exited the store and in front of us was a mother with her probably 2 year old twin girls and 4 year old daughter. as they were walking out she was yelling at the oldest girl “when we get home i’m gonna…” they went down one row in the parking lot and we went down the other. we got to our car and heard a bunch of yelling/cussing. i looked up and the person parked right in front of us was yelling out her passenger window at the mom saying that she was sorry and she didn’t see them. the mom was NOT cussing back at the lady saying about every word you could imagine. and NOT in front of her girls. nice one, mom! we did NOT just stand there and watch for a couple seconds because we were shocked at how the mom was acting. she did NOT then cut through the parking lot over to her car which was two spaces away from ours. she was NOT still loudly cussing at the lady, now in front of MY kids, so i did NOT politely say, “hey, my kids are listening.” she did NOT then turn to me cuss me up one side and down the other. samantha did NOT start digging through her purse for a God loves you paper to give the lady. no, I didn’t let samantha give it to her…. on our way out of the parking lot, the lady did NOT give me the finger (after I honked and waved at her of course!!). and after we left the parking lot i did NOT keep checking my mirrors to make sure she wasn’t following us!

i did NOT make a picure/diagram of the walmart parking lot while riding to MN just so my story would be easier to understand. (yes, the ovals are cars. you can only do so much in a car!) it was also NOT a good way to pass time….. there goes 100 miles…

also on our trip i did NOT get one of those microwavable ham and swiss sandwiches at the gas station for our dinner. and the microwaves were the type that just had a dial and went up to 6 minutes with 15, 30, and 45 second markings. i totally did NOT read the dial incorrectly, thinking that it only went to 60 seconds. so i did NOT put our sandwiches in the microwave and turn the dial to 6 minutes thinking it was only 60 seconds. after the dial got to the 4 and I thought only 20 seconds had gone by instead of 2 minutes, my sister did NOT come to my rescue and tell me to take the sandwiches out before they blew up! thanks, heath!

i am now NOT at my parent’s house in Minnesota. and my dad did NOT finally get high speed internet this year, so hopefully i WON’T be able to keep up on my blog for the next 2 weeks!

happy monday! what have you NOT done this week?!

8/52 photo challenge

one for the road. that is, signs, streets, traffic, etc.

i had a good idea for this category, but our 3 inches of snow this morning threw a wrench in my plans...

until we went out and drove in it. what a perfect opportunity to show y'all what happens to the traffic around here when we get a measly 3 inches of snow!

when ben went to the post office this morning, this car had apparently just gone in the ditch since the driver was still in the car.


it must have been a little fender-bender that sent this car into the snow. all i saw was a broken tail light...


...and a 30-day temporary tag in the back window. youch! too bad he was driving a new car!


the category for next week's photo challenge is objects that tell something about you. oh boy, where do i begin?!


have a good weekend and drive safely!