Not Me Monday - Expensive Jeans

For more Not Me's visit McMamma's blog!
I was visiting 3 of our fitness centers in one day last week. Suprise visit! I love those! I walk in to club #1 and I was walking around inspecting the cleanliness. We have mirrors that line the walls in our free weight area and I almost feel like I'm following myself as I walk by wall after wall of mirrors. So, as I am following myself around in the mirrors I notice that my jeans are so yesterday! I was horrified. My favorite two pairs of jeans were terribly wrinkled in the laundry basket waiting to be folded, so I donned on an old favorite. The length was all wrong, the knees faded, the tapered cut unflattering. UGH!
I did not call my husband and ask if I could go buy a pair of expensive jeans. He did not say,

Sure, if they look good on your butt.

I did not high-tail it off to my favorite women's boutique, Audie Mechel, that was conveniently located on the way to the next club. Luckily, the fashion savvy owner was in and we picked out a huge stack of jeans for me to try on. 30 minutes later, she cut the tags off and rang me up, and out I walked, looking fashion savvy myself, in my new expensive jeans. When I called to update my husband, I did not learn that "expensive jeans" need to be defined to husbands! I really did not do all of that, because that would be too vain of me!

Not Me Monday

Join the fun! For more Not Me's visit McMamma's site!
WOW, what a week I've had. lots of ammo for a Not Me post. I was in a mood last week, which, unfortuately coincided with Valentines Day. Oh well. Enjoy, and may we all have a better week!

I did not skip planning my sales meeting, ignore getting the #s for the week together, or put off grading school work and use that time to blog, watch tv,or play on the internet. That did not include looking up cool hotels for a vacation I might just not decide to go on in a few weeks. I don't need to get away, and Mark really doesn't! Vacations are a total waste of time. When we were discussing open weekends, I did not totally forget about the month of March, meaning we may go sooner than I thought we possibly could. Not Cool.

I did not get mad at Mark and gave him a card and gift for Valentine's Day. I also did not stop talking to him during dinner. Stay tuned for the make up for that one! After our romantic dinner, I did not ignore him at Barnes and Noble and then insist we go grocery shopping because my favorite web site alerted me to a too-good-to-pass-up-deal. My sweetie, choosing to let it affect him (Not-what a great guy!) quoted the David Letterman interview Joaquin Phoenix (which was so not funny. I did not watch it four times!) Sorry you couldn't make it tonight! HAHA! My frustrations did not stem from vain origins over him running late, leaving me to straighten my hair by myself. Being angry while straightening hair equals a wonderfully smooth job!

I did overextend myself and plan a birthday party for 20 boys and then plan a dinner party for an hour later, including a 93 year old woman, who although the party overlapped for 30 minutes, was so overwerwhelmed with the action, couldn't eat when dinner was ready. Brilliant! By the way, the birthday party was not cool at all, and was very difficult to plan. I am not patting myself on the back for that one and I'm not showing pictures of the cake to everyone.

This one takes the cake: I did not go to the wrong location for the basketball game, causing the team to forfeit. We did not have grandparents in town for the only game of the season they would be able to make. The kids did a scrimage and Robert scored a basket, but no real game for grandparents.

Not Me Monday

For more great Not Me's visit McMamma's blog

I did not skip every workout this week, stay up late every night working. I did not work way too much. I did not do anything else worth mentioning this week because I was just too busy, totally neglecting my blog.
However, I did not open the gate to the back yard right as I was going to go out to eat. I did not notice that my dog was in charging stance and do it anyway, thinking karma was with me because we were about to go out! I'd never admit to that, anyway. I did think it was hilarious that we had to wait and wait for him to come home so we could leave (NOT!) Where was my brain on that one?

Not Me Monday

For other great Not Me's check out McMamma's blog!

Do you ever cringe when your kids do something that affects their appearance? Do you put off family portraits for that reason? I didn't worry when I found a clump of my daughter's hair on the floor last night. I also didn't worry about it when I got a phone call from my daughter's friend's mom saying that she found some of my daughter's hair on the floor, but not to worry, she couldn't find where it was missing on her head. I forgot all about that conversation because she looked fine to me. UNTIL a month later when it looked like she had new baby hair growth at the top of her hair line. Upon further investigation, her friend cut her hair because it was too tangled. There were a few small clumps randomly cut in other places since it was tangled there, too. 4 months later she has bangs, not spiky wisps. Now this. The band was stuck. Big sis was busy, so hello scissors! I'm not worried.Do you ever have the urge, homeschool moms, to read as fast as you can when you read aloud to your kids? Not me! Or what about finding you are a month behind on grading? Or wait until the end of the semester to enter all the grades in? Oh wait, it's past the end of the semester. I better get busy!

Do you ever wonder if your kids notice when you ground them for not cleaning their rooms but theirs is cleaner than yours?

Just wondering if you do, but not me!

Not Me Monday

Make sure you hop over to McMamma's sight to have a good laugh at the other not me posts!

While playing with Polly Pockets, I didn't give my daughter fashion advice, keeping in mind that she's only five, and this should be a time of bonding and encouraging. I also didn't act territorial because her doll's shoes looked so much better with my doll's outfit!

After doing a mass printing for our business, I did not make 99 copies of dipthongs and digraphs(phontics, not fancy panties). Twice!

I did not lay in bed last night thinking about what to post, then forget after an extremely busy day. By the way, I didn't forget the package I was rushing to mail, arriving to the post office arms full of letters that needed stamps and to be sealed- to get in line before they locked the door. I didn't notice till time to pay I had forgotten the most important one!

Not Me Monday

Join in on the fun, visit Mckmama's site to see more Not Me's!
I have had a pretty good week, so not to bore you, (Not Me!)I am going to relive a story I think about when I DO NOT NEED to laugh hysterically because I wouldn't do that at someone's expense, not me! We were looking at pictures from the past this weekend and it reminded me of a story when I was a little girl. When we traveled growing up, my mom would pack a lunch and we would eat at rest stops on the way. On one such stop, I don't know if you remember these or not, there were trash cans in the ground. You would step on the lever and the lid would pop open. I don't remember all the details, and due to the trauma, I don't ask (NOT because of my fear of uncontrollable laughter at the subject). All I remember is that I turn around and my sister is hanging by her armpits in the trash can in the ground. Screaming. And ants are crawling on her. Hanging by her armpits. Like a bobble head doll in a hole. Rest Area stops with picnics and green grass to run in were never as much fun after that. Too many ants.

Not Me Monday

Join in on the fun! Check out the Not Me Monday with McMamma!

I really did not send an email to the Chamber of Commerce instead of my business partner regarding regret that our competitor thought of something we didn't!  How did I know they did that?  They replied back.  I am really not that absent minded!

I did not forget to get our curriculum out of Mark's car before his business trip.  Math and Language Arts don't make for a very full school day. 

There was this really sweet little girl in my Sunday School class who wanted her mom and would not move from where she was standing. I told her that it would be a long time before her mom came back. I very quickly backtracked when those sweet big eyes filled with tears. Really, what was I thinking? But of course, I didn't do that.

I did not skip a work out after kneading the fondant for the birthday cake (see Aced the Cake post), thinking that would suffice for my abs workout.

Not Me Monday

Not Me Monday is a fun blog to make light of otherwise shameful or embarrassing situations. I was so excited when I ran across it on McMamma's blog.

I did not sit down for just a bit to read 4 work emails today and then stand up almost 5 hours later, ignoring Cameron's cries of hunger in the meantime. I finally bade someone else to feed her. I did not snicker when I read my friends' blogs who started back to school today, so relieved that I didn't! I wouldn't do that. And that's just today.

I didn't laugh at a swiffer commercial when I heard the "Baby, come back" music play. Yes, my husband did shoot me a worried look. No, it wasn't the first time I've heard that commercial.

And I really, truly, didn't walk into the room where my husband was reading a book, stare into his eyes, and tell him how blessed I felt, while just standing there, have a loud, obnoxious noise escape my backside. I would never do that! I did roll on the floor, laughing! And I thought that was only a computer phrase. Mark thinks it was one of the funniest moments of our entire marriage.