Hey... Haven't I Seen You Before?

LOL

So, there I was . . . just relaxing

in front of the T.V.


and then the kids yelled,


'Hey Mom, come see the kittens.'

Makeover!

You would not believe how fun this website is!!! I have a hard time changing the way I look because I am so Plain Jane. I guess I stepped a LITTLE out of my box...

  

 

 

Fun hu? Which do you like?  If you want to give it a whirl go to www.taaz.com. But if you do it, I wanna see. So shoot me an email, mirandacarmenwilcox@gmail.com.

What the heck is her name?

I laughed sooooooo hard that I became her number one fan! Can someone find out her name because I want to use it as an adjective?!!!! For example; "Man, I really "Bethed" that up!" Lol

This is my favorite quote!

We can be rich in cotton and mining metals and silkworms and we can makes things, we can make things cars, the machine can make it for us...on the East Coast they have slaves and they believe in slavery and made in China, but on the West Coast, the new West Coast, we don't believe in that. We believe in the union and that's what we are.

Is This The Stupidest Person Ever? (VIDEO)

Thanks to a dear old friend

Yesterday was not our day here in the Wilcox residence! One thing after another was just not going our way. It all started on a warm summer morning.............

Miranda woke up and decided to blog about her crazy hospital bill that she got in the mail. Steven, her husband, and Tanner, her son were sleeping soundly in bed.

Miranda finished blogging, took a shower and all of a sudden a knock was heard on the door, "Knock, Knock, Knock!" She did not know who that could possibly be so she hurried up, got dressed and opened the door, only to find it was her annoying neighbor who is loud like a mariachi band.

The Mexican lady had her grandson with her to interpret to me, "Sheeeee seid that syour carrrrr........" Miranda looks at them irritated because it is taking him 10 hours to spit it out. The little boy continues, "syour usbands carrrrr........ ets amos 8:00...... they r cumming......" Miranda thought, "What the heck were they talking about?" Then the grandmother said, "TICKET!!!!" Since Miranda had a baby about two weeks ago she had forgotten what day of the week it was. In Glendale if a car is parked on the wrong side of the street, on the wrong day and time, tickets are given to every car parked!!!

Miranda rushed out to find Steven's car to be the only car parked in the street with a bright green ticket stuffed in the door jam! Miranda said, "50 freaking dollars just to park a car on the street! OH BLLLURGG........"

Miranda came back into the house and left the ticket on Steven's chest so he will have a good morning present when he wakes up.

The day continues somewhat okay, Miranda is busy cleaning and Steven comes in and said really slowly, "Do you remember anything happening to the computer?" Miranda said,"What do you mean anything happening?" Steven replied,"I can't opened any of my projects! I think I am going to be sick :X!!" Steven and Miranda run to the computer to find all of his projects that he has been working so hard and diligent on for the past three months and been all corrupted! None of the files will open, and they all say there is no content on ANYTHING!!!

Just then the door bell rang,"DING DONG!" Miranda, feeling pretty sick to her stomach, woozily walks to the door to find her best friend and standing there with her three kids! What a sight of relief!!

Michelle Palmer is her name! Miranda has know Michelle for about 15 years and she had been there for her through thick and thin. For months during Miranda's pregnancy Michelle was waiting for the day to throw Miranda a baby shower but to no avail she was beaten to the punch! During the time of Miranda's baby shower, given by another friend of hers, Michelle's life was been pretty hectic and unfortunately had to miss her shower!

Michelle and her kids greeting Steven, Miranda, and Tanner with a warm hello. They made themselves at home and Michelle announced, "I was SOOO upset that I could not throw you a shower! I was ready to bring out my crystal plates and would have given you the best shower in the world! SOOOO we drove an hour to come see you guys and to also bring the shower to you!!!!" Miranda laughed soooooo hard in appreciation for this wonderful act of kindness. Michelle said,"So.....I will set up your shower while you are feeding Tanner!" Michelle pulls out items from her bag of many tricks, she describes, "We have a light snack (chips and dip), fun and games, presents, and desert!!"

We start snacking on the chips and the fun and games begin.....

The Palmers showered Miranda and Tanner with many gifts

Miranda's heart swelled with much appreciation for this wonderful shower! It was the best shower anyone could ask for! After the shower they all reminisced about the good old days of playing buttons and stinky feet! What a joy to finally feel after having a rough patch in the morning! Sadly the time came for them to go home, but there presence, no pun intended, there will forever remain!

Steven, Miranda and Tanner continued on their quest to retrieve any data from the computer but no word or luck was in their favor! :(

That evening Tanner had a bubble in his tummy and was having a hard time resting. Daddy stayed up with him till 4:00a.m. trying to sooth his ache. Finally Tanner calms down while Miranda changes his diaper, when she hears a, "CRASH,BOOM,BANG!" and a "OH, CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Miranda runs in the bedroom to see the full glass of water was knocked over and spilled across the computer table! Steven quickly tries to soak up the water! The little family of three was SOOOOO tired and SOOOOO stressed that they just called it quits and went to sleep!

THE END

(Still no word if the computer is okay)

The heat is too much! It's only May!!!!

It has been pretty warm here in our little place. I have been running my AC and not caring about the bill, well... and plus it drowns out our neighbors, I think it is worth my sanity. Any-who.... I got home from work today and realized the kitchen was a mess, so I started doing the dishes.  We don't have a dishwasher so here I am in the heat while running HOT water!!!!  I thought, "do you think it would hurt if I washed the dishes in cold water?"  To my surprise I cooled off quickly, buuuuuut not so sure about the dishes themselves. So I went on-line to see if it is okay to wash in cold water and I found this GREAT, safe, and  economical way to clean dished in cold water! I am so excited! 

Terry went to visit his 90-year-old grandfather in a very secluded, rural area of North Renfrew.

After spending a great evening chatting the night away, Terry’s grandfather prepared breakfast of bacon, eggs and toast.

However, Terry noticed a film like substance on his plate, and questioned his grandfather asking, ‘Are these plates clean?’

His grandfather replied, ‘They’re as clean as cold water can get’ em. Just you go ahead and finish your meal, Sonny!’

For lunch the old man made hamburgers. Again, Terry was concerned about the plates as his appeared to have tiny specks around the edge that looked like dried egg and asked, ‘Are you sure these plates are clean?’

Without looking up the old man said, ‘I told you before, Sonny, those dishes are as clean as cold water can get them. Now don’t you fret, I don’t want to hear another word about it!’

Later that afternoon, Terry was on his way to a nearby town and as he was leaving, his grandfather’s dog started to growl, and wouldn’t let him pass.

Terry yelled and said, ‘Grandfather, your dog won’t let me get to my car’.

Without diverting his attention from the football game he was watching on TV, the old man shouted,

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‘COLDWATER, GO LAY DOWN NOW, YAH HEAR ME!!!’

Meet Coldwater.

Some random thoughts

1. My neighbors could not be any louder! It seems like the warmer the weather, the more they multiply with children! It is almost 10:00pm and the kids are STILL running a muck around my apartment. My theory is that they all have one bedroom apartments and there are 5 people living in them and it is hard to put the kids asleep because the parents don't go to sleep till midnight! Oh what to do....what to do? I have been blaring my church music trying to drowned them out but.....some how I can still hear them, they must be born with microphones in their throats!!!

 

2. I had a good busy day today :) I reorganized our office so there is room to put a crib! I measured everything out before be moved all the big stuff around. We will put the crib where the ironing board is. 

 The office now looks like two separate rooms! I love reorganizing!! Its a bummer I did not take a before picture :(  But for those who have seen our place you will be impressed, I think. 

3. I LOVE to brush my teeth in the shower! I seem to get a better bush when I do it in there. I think because you can let the toothpaste run out of your mouth like a dog with rabies. It is just soooo much more fun!

 

4. You know how we all have a love for some hobby or sport but you KNOW you have no idea how to do it, or even if you would actually try it. Well, mine is surfing! If I close my eyes I can feel myself surfing effortlessly.  

This is for Allison!

I tried to post this on your comments but obviously did not work. So this blog is just for you! (Don't you feel special?) Think of me when you are in Hawaii! We hope to see you all soon! It is my favorite music video from our one and only Jack Johnson! If you have not seen it yet you will laugh really hard! If you have seen it, its good to laugh anyway!

                

I love funny stuff!!!

Steven and I have been through quite a bit in the short 4 years we have been married. It has taught me SO much! I think the best thing that we have inquired is finding things that normal people would be so mad over and turn it into the funniest thing in the world. This weekend was really funny to me, but for some it may be DISGUSTING!!! So if you think its too gross then BRAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

We have two adorable kitten that have completely different personalities. Immie is an attention whore, if I am in the other room petting Pipper she will run in as fast as she can and push Pipper out of the way and get as physically close to me as possible. Pipper will put her head down and walk out of the room. It is way sad and I don't know what to do about it! Pipper though is my computer buddy! She will sit in front of the computer and watch everything that goes on in the monitor. She is obsessed with shadows and watching T.V.

 No matter what room I am in, one or both of them have to be next to me! Anyway, that is a recap of my sweet kitties. So I work on Saturdays and when I come home I am pooped out and just want to sleep the rest of the day. Saturday night Steven says, "We need kitty litter, the cats have a quarter of an inch of fresh litter." I am in bed WAY too tired to get up and said ,"I will worry about it on Monday." For those who are not LDS needs to note that Sunday is the Sabbath Day and we do not go out shopping or do anything that promotes someone else to work for us, since it is the day of rest. Saturday night I am sleeping and hear a yowl  come from one of the kittens. I have never heard that sound come from them, but decided to keep sleeping. Sunday rolls around and I could not believe the stench that filled air. Since I am pregnant it is 

Steven's job to clean it out!!! I open the windows before leaving for church hoping the smell will just leave and would be able to hold off shopping till Monday. We we come home and it is DISGUSTING!!! I told Steven that WE HAVE to get litter because for one it is making me vomit, and two I HATE a dirty house. So we went to Target on Sunday :( I now know why we all need to keep the Sabbath Day holy, because there are WAY TOO many people out on Sunday. It was worse then trying to see a brand new movie on a Friday night. People were pushy and forgetting about something called personal space. We get home, pull out the litter box only to find a big "block of cement" in there. These poor kittens were so upset that they had no where to "GO." Steven shakes out the rug that catches the little litter beads that fall out and realize they have been "using" my brand new FREAKING RUG!!!

 I'm like okay, this is what I get for being lazy Saturday night. I have never washed a runner rug before so I did not think anything different. Ran that sucker through the wash, put it in the dryer, pulled it out only the find the poor thing has turned into a huge AFRO PUFF! The shag carpet melted together and looks like it needs grease, to get it back the way it looked! 

What makes me laugh even harder is that me and Steven like to sneak up on each other, don't ask why, but if we are wearing shocks and our feet walk across the darn thing it makes the same sound Velcro makes when you rip off the other side. So we will be sneaking down the hall way with one of us in the other room would hear cre, cre, cre, cre. Our ear will perk up and we would say, "I know your in there! Don't even try!!!"

I have been laughing over this all morning, one thing after another! That is why we LDS members get things DONE before Sunday because crap (not pun intended) happens to us when we are lazy!  

Then today I had to get my blood taken. I am still scared of the needle even after having so many blood samples taken. A couple years ago I had a REEEEEEEEEALY bad experience with the needle. I was sitting in the chair, my hands were sweaty, and this trainee came up to me and started to prep my arm. I look behind this women and there was a doctor standing there supervising her.                 

                

I knew right off the bat that this was NOT OKAY! This lady barely spoke english and when she pricked me I flinched and tried to bite my tongue. My eyes welted up with water because she was wigling the needle around because SHE MISSED the freakin' vain! She tried to ask if I was okay, but at this point I was so pissed! When all was said and done I had a huge bruise  and a vain that made clicking sounds when I bent my elbow back and forth. 

                           


Today when I was at the clinic I met the lady that was going to take my blood. I was sitting in my chair and watching people walk by. The people walking by would look at me and smile really big and kinda giggle. After about the fifth person that walked by I got to thinking, "Man I must be really friendly looking.......wait........ I looked at the chair I was sitting in, which was in the corner of the room, and also the way I was sitting in it! Yes, the chair was for taking blood but..... There were 3 arms to the chair and I was completely enclosed. My feet dangled from the seat as I sat with my hands between my legs. So I looked like I was trapped in a high chair. I started laughing to myself and thought, "My life is soooo funny! I don't think it could get any funnier!" Then this nurse walks in with another women who apparently works there. Then the nurse introduced the women to the staff saying, "This is Cindy, today is her first day. She is a "bla bla bla" nurse but she is only going to be taking blood today." My eyes got really big and then I felt REALY trapped! But to my luck original nurse took my blood and she did a great job! It was less then a pinch! After she took 8 vials she asked, "So what's your name?" I said, "Miranda." She looked at me and giggled, "Where did your parents come up with that name?" I was taken back because I have never been asked like that! So here I am laughing again! Maybe being pregnant makes things more funnier then what they really are, if that is the case, I want to be pregnant FOREVER!!! 

Okay...So I Got Board!!

This is what our children are going to look like!!!