Juno

So I know the movies I’ve seen lately have been pretty lame due to the small beings I live with being the primary pickers of them. And I realize that means that probably any movie I see that I personally pick has to be great in comparison. However, I really have to say that Juno is a great movie. I saw it in theaters and then we just bought it. I love the writing, the music, the acting, it’s just flippin’ hilarious. The only other place I can think of with as much wit is Gilmore Girls or 10 Things I Hate About You (minus all the dirty talk). The premise is about a teenager who gets pregnant and decides to give the baby to a couple, which may or may not sound very entertaining, but it is. Anyways, go rent it if you haven’t seen it.

Wow, I just reread that post. I should not be writing for anything for real at the present time because I sound like I’m 12 writing a note to my friend. Really, it’s just sleep deprivation, we’re working on the whole sleeping thing at our house. I have yet to resort to benadryl, rum or stuffing socks, I swear I’m coming close though.

Easy or Difficult and Stalking

So it’s said that when you have an easy baby, they turn into a difficult toddler and when you have a difficult toddler, they turn into an easy toddler. Well that definitely turned out true for Seporah. She was a pretty easy baby and has become a rather difficult toddler. And Felicity has been a difficult baby so I’m hoping she’ll turn into an easy toddler.

That sounds fine and dandy in about a year. But right now I have a difficult toddler and a difficult baby at the same time. And I had no idea one could be this sleep deprived for this long. I’m sure this counts as torture. Yeah, being a parent is hard work. No one really has any idea until you get to be one.

Which is one of the main reasons I read mommy blogs, to realize I’m not the only one who finds rotten apple cores in the couch cushions or has a meltdown right in the middle of church (the child, not the mom).

I happened to stumble on a friend of mine’s blog last week and I was like “Hey Ellie!” I found her blog from one of her sisters’ blogs. I went to a church playgroup this morning with Ellie and Ellie’s sister from the mainland who happened to be visiting. I was like “Hey Ellie’s sister Paige, I read your blog.” I can only imagine what she was thinking “Ok, I come to Hawaii for a vacation and one of my sister’s friends is stalking me.” I’d give you guys the link to her blog, but then she might really get worried.

Social Security Office

So we never got either Felicity’s birth certificate, or her Social Security Insurance card. So we had to order one online and it took 7 weeks to get in the mail. Well, we took our birth certificate down to the Social Security office, to get her card, and guess what, a birth certificate wasn’t enough. So I waited over an hour in line to be told that rather than a notarized birth certificate, I need a signed note from Felicity’s doctor. Somehow a hand written note from Felicity’s doctor hold’s more weight than a notarized birth certificate in the eyes of the Feds.

And these are they guys who want to take over our healthcare.

Can car salesmen really be trusted?

Alright so yesterday Jason and I, along with my family, decided to go visit some dealerships to see what they had as far as “newer” used cars went. My car just recently decided that it wanted to die and never be revived again. It was ready to go to car heaven, if there is such a place hee hee. It isn’t always easy borrowing a car to get to work. So we looked… There were a couple of cars that caught my eye at the first dealership but we all decided that it wasn’t smart to just grab something at the first place you look. So we went to lunch, made a call to a guy who normally would be able to give us a good deal on a car. We then soon found out that he didn’t have cars that fit what I was looking for so we made our way to the second dealership. I noticed right off that this place didn’t have quite as big of a selection as the first one but we went ahead and walked around, heard the pitch for every car, and decided that none of them were really going to work. When it was apparent that none of the cars were striking our fancy the salesman informed us that they had another lot just down the street with more cars if we would like to go look at them. I looked at Jason and he looked at me and we thought , why not? So off to the third location we went.

Once again, I wasn’t really impressed with anything they had there. Perhaps I’m a bit picky? That could be but there are two things that I really wanted to shoot for. A NEWER used car so that it would most likely last a while for Jason and I, and secondly that it isn’t black. Why should the color matter? Well come live with Jason and I this summer for week and you will know why I would prefer to have White or some light color :). Needless to say… I was a bit down. I had wanted to go home with a new car but I wasn’t going to be foolish and just pick something that wasn’t good for what Jason and I needed. Right when we were about to leave this third location the salesman brought out some kind of a higher boss to “talk” to us. He then gave his pitch about how he would be able to find a car that would be exactly what we wanted. When he found out that Jason and I were engaged,and really didn’t have any money, he told us about this one car that he would be willing to sell to us since he knew we were in need of something on the lower cost end that was dependable. Here was the clincher… it was back at that other lot! I didn’t really trust this guy’s overwhelming desire to give us a break but oh well, “we might as well look”, I thought to myself.

The car was actually quite nice. You could definitely tell that it was a newer car and it didn’t appear to have anything broken on the inside. Jason and I also took it for a test drive and it drove pretty nice. Was it my favorite? No and Jason saw that on my face so we all had a pow wow. Both Jason and my dad thought that we should first see if we could get the first dealership to come down any on the car I actually liked. So that is where we are now; in the midst of seeing who can come down the lowest.

I’ve got my fingers crossed!!!!!! 🙂