"You can't be that bridesmaid...."

"Unless you start drinking before the reception starts." -me at Trena's wedding. Have you ever been "that guy" or "That girl" at a gathering? I often am that person. Trena's wedding for example. I decided that I was going to get the title of "That Bridesmaid"..and I did exactly that. She still holds it against me that I didn't make it through her "whole" dance. In my defense...usually wedding dances get done at midnight, her's got over at 1. NOT my fault!

I used to often be "that girl" at weddings (I have grown up a little so now I am sometimes "that girl"). Something about the free beer just gets to me. Weddings and keg parties. It's just too hard to keep track of how much beer you consume when you're just refilling your cup. "Never let it touch the bottom!!!" -Docken @Frolic '09

So why am I posting about this? Ohhhh ya know...family baptism party..and my husband becomes "that guy." He just can't understand how he got so drunk off of vodka lemonade. "Well darling...you don't drink vodka and you were drinking New Glarus beer instead of Bud Light. I think that is self-explanatory."  " I just don't get life right now...how am I so drunk?" Sigh..whatever. I tried. He is passed out now..and will be super unhappy when he has to get up early. No big deal. :) I just told him he was lucky that it was his family and not mine. At least I can say that when I am that drunk I just pass out...probably face down on the bathroom floor, but still.

Speaking of his family. I love them. Such a huge, loud, fantastic group of people. There is never a dull moment and I'm really happy they are my family now too. :) I couldn't have asked for a better group of people to be married into. We have a wedding coming up on his side. It may be epic. Each wedding in my new family gets a little more crazy than the next. Instead of there just being "that guy" it will be "those Sutters." How could I not love them?!

Anyways...how was your weekend? Mine was pretty fantastic. Spent some time with my valley loves last night, BW3s and X-Men. I got up early today to get a lot of stuff done and I ran out of the things I needed. Ugg. I suck at life.

Have a great Monday guys!!

Thanks for reading...don't judge me. :) (you know you have all been there at some point!)

<3 Pam

"I Just Had Sex..."

is a really awkward ringtone. I first heard this video from Erika and think it is the funniest song literally ever made. Wait.....woah. did you guys think I would literally post that I just had sex? I am married....we don't do that anymore. Geesh you guys. 

Anyways, I found the ringtone and instantly set it as Thane's ringtone thinking it would be really funny when he called me. Well it is...unless you're in the grocery store. The first time it went off I was in an aisle behind a lady and her like 8 yr old daughter. Dirty looks all around. I have never answered my phone that quickly in my life.

Heehee...I am listening to it right now.. ha! 

When I first got the ringtone something went wrong with my phone and it got set it for all my calls and couldn't figure out how to fix it. NOT cool when your phone starts blaring "I just had seeeeeeexxxxxx" and it is your mom. Shudder.

I obsessively check my phone at work to make sure it is on vibrate bc that is exactly what I need my kids to hear. Not that Thane calls me during the day, unless it is an emergency, but still. That ONE time my phone won't be on silent I am sure the entire camp will be by my phone and I will be on the opposite side of the room. Ugg.

Maybe I should just change his ringtone? Maybe I'll do that..good idea. Here is the video. I love Akon...Akon SNL skit

So I know I haven't been blogging a lot lately. Not ok with me, but weird how sometimes sleep take priority over writing my thoughts for the whole world to read. Sigh. I am clearly working too much. I don't know how I am going to handle having a 40/hr a week job...if I ever get a job. Moral of this paragraph? I need to blog more. I need to not quit on something....I have been quitting a lot lately. Opps.

Peace out every one...hope you're weekend is awesome so far :)

<3 Pam

shut up...

i can blog from my phone but i cant use punctuation

thisblows

should i keep typing or just wait til i get home bc i could just push enter aafter each sentence

why cant i put a question mark

aaaaahhhhhggggggg

ill write when i get home i guess

sad

One Step Closer to Being an Millionaire!!

Look what I did today!!!!!!!!!

My first invitation!!! It looks way better in person. I am well on my way to becoming an expert card maker. Lauren told me to go to a class at Archivers...I just may do that:) I will become a fantastic card maker...and make lots of money off of ETSY. Damnit.

If you don't know me very well you don't know that I am in love with having parties. I loooooove them. I am definitely my mother's daughter here. I am co-hosting my friend Erika's bridal shower, "hosting" Laura's shower (which is at Olive Garden so not much hosting), my friend Staci's baby shower. (which I am ecstatic about!!) I love having any kind of party. I am lame enough to call my parties "pot lucks," but you do what you gotta do. I love having people in our tiny house and trying to find new ways to make our parties not suck. Usually they do anyways...but I do really try.

I also realized today that I am my own worst enemy. I come home from work exhausted and hmm wonder why. I stress myself out. I put so much on my plate and have tight time restraints. I should probably work on that. Simplify my life.

Probably not. I saw that Archivers is hiring! and so is Joannes. It would be amazing to work there...minus I would have to work more hours and I probably wouldn't make much money there. I wonder what the discount is. It may be worth it to help fun the card business. Hmm...I'll think about it guys...I'll think about it :) What do you think? Another job..to add to my 2/3 that I currently have?

Ok...I am really really rambling now..I don't feel like blogging. Talk to you guys later. If you made it this far...thanks!!!!

<3 Pam

Sooooooo Tell Me What You Want!

So I was just eating my dinner, a bowl of Fruity Pebbles..the best cereal ever made, and I instantly thought about the time in middle school when we all thought it would be sweet if we made emails that were named after our fav. cereal. Mine was fruitypebbles84@something..probably Hotmail bc that was beyond cool at the time. Really? How lame were we? Literally thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. So thinking about that makes me think about all the other dumb shit we did...

Like the time I bought Spice World the movie and it made me love them even more. I talked my friends into signing our notes by our new "Pen Names" which were of course the Spice Girl names. I know Andrea was Baby Spice and I have NO idea who I was. Sad life. I am thinking I was Sporty Spice? Ugg..help guys!!

We also went though a phase where we were too cool for names. We were like Prince and only had a symbol. In reality this is a fantastic idea bc if we accidentally dropped a note that was super private (ie had the name of the boy we liked that day in it) no one would know who wrote it bc it was only signed with a symbol. Guinness. I am pretty sure I was a peace sign. I was a major hippie wannabe back in the day. Someone else was a ying yang, maybe a heart? I don't remember the rest.

To go along with the "just in case you drop it" idea...we also had code names for the boys we liked. We were so inventive..its a wonder I barely passed math class! This paragraph would be a lot better if I remembered who we named them after? I wish someone was on FB so I could ask them right now. I wanna say Backstreet Boys? Don't quote me on that though...

A friend of mine posted on FB the other day all her notes she saved from HS. I have also saved them..they could actually be blog topics! I could blog for over a year and probably never talk about the same thing...I mean person. I'm sure every topic would include how cute someone was.  :) My friend Katie and I would have competitions on who could write the longer note. Everything was fair game...magazine ads, random quotes from teachers, "MOoOO"!! Seriously had a note that was 20 pages once. I still have it. My children will be impressed.

Have you ever played the "Moo" game? God it is horrible. Katie and I used to play it on the way to volleyball games. When you see a cow you have to be the first to yell out "MOOOO!!!!" first to get points. I mean yell. Loud. I'd like to point out that we live in Wisconsin...and went to a D3 school. There were a lot of cows on the way to volleyball games. I coached two seasons of volleyball and if my middle schoolers had done that I probably would have benched them.

So anyways, I'm going to go make my lunch for tomorrow. A bowl of Fruity Pebbles. We have to go to the park and I swear if I have to eat one more brat from work I will vomit over all my kids. I can't stomach brats right now...I think I overloaded on them at the start of summer. Barf.

Peace out!

<3 Pam

PS..If you didn't know the title is a reference to the best Spice Girl song EVER.

Stay Safe this Weekend...

The polls are closed!!! The one food the majority of you would be ok with eating for an entire week was.....drum roll.......pizza!!!!! Mac n Cheese was a close second, with spaghetti coming in third. My friend Doug is the inspiration behind this weeks question. He has moved into his grandparent's home and has since inherited her extensive plate collection. Grandma Doug has plates everywhere..and this is after Doug has taken some down. I plan to collect Christmas ornaments from wherever we go..mostly bc I love Christmas and this way...the random thing we collect won't always be on display. Only on a special day.

So this blog may be a little more serious than I intend any of my blogs to be, but a guy I know from MH got into a car accident last night and booze was a factor. Someone crossed the center line and the 2 cars hit head on. Everyone was saying he crossed the line, but after listening to the guys talk tonight it could have very well been the other car who crossed. Who knows. Anyways. He is in the ICU and has already had brain surgery. This scares the crap out of me. He is younger than us..doing what we on any given weekend. Who doesn't drive a little buzzed? (I'm not saying he was buzzed, but you know.) I'm not going to stay at someones house after having 4 beers over the course of 3 hours. I worry about our friends more than I do about us. How many of them have driven when they shouldn't have and are lucky enough to get home. I know I have tried several times to get them to stay, and many times I am successful, but sometimes they are just too damn stubborn.

I saw that damn "buzzed driving is still drunk driving" commercial like 8 times tonight. Ugg.

 I know for sure that bc of this guy..I put my seat belt on when driving Thane's truck. (This guy wasn't wearing his and he got ejected from his car.) For some dumb reason I feel much safer in the truck than I do in my car and I tend to not buckle up. Dumb. I can still easily be thrown out of truck if we got into an accident. It is not a friggin army tank. So long story short. Sometimes I guess it takes someone elses' bad luck to make you realize you need to get your shit together and be more careful. We aren't Superman..although I wonder if has ever been drinking and flying?

So...if you have a spare second..think about JT and say a little prayer..send some good thoughts..whatever you do, to him and his family.

I am already rambling. I just really wanted to blog tonight. So far it has been a great weekend. Lots of time spent with friends just hanging out. Those are my favorite nights..when we just get to hang out and it is low key. Ugg...I'm dong with this. I need to check Facebook. Priorities people...priorities. I have to get up early to go to the Brewer game!!!!!!!

Peace out homefries. Stay safe.

<3 Pam.

A Few Signs You're Old..

First off..I'm sad I didn't get a chance to write last night. I was at volleyball waaaay too late and had to come home and crash. I hate getting up at 5am...

Anyways. It's Friday!! WOOO!!! Get Crazy!! How did I spend my Friday night you ask? How sweet of you. I cleaned my house. Yes. Cleaned my house. I am currently still doing laundry...and the house isn't totally clean yet. I'm saving the rest of it for tomorrow. I know...I know...pretty rowdy. I should probably take a second to calm my excitement down. .......nope. Not possible. It is just TOO exciting!! Ugg...getting old sucks.

Friday nights have become my least favorite nights. I used to love them, until I got old. They used to be the night that I headed home from Milwaukee to see my boys (Thane and Bernie) and the start to an awesome weekend. Now they are the night that I try to stay awake after 10 because it is the weekend and if I go to bed before 1030 I feel like I wasted part of it. It used to be the night that I would get pumped to go out with my drinking boots on. Now it is the night where I dread having plans because I know I'm going to be tired from the work week. I am old!!!

My cousins and I used to sit at family gatherings and listen to our moms and laugh at them. "Are they seriously talking about that?! God you guys...let's never talk about that!!" Well sure as shit, we started to talk about those things. (Ok Side note. "Sure as shit." What a gross f'in statement. I say it all the time, but today I thought about it...and I grossed myself out. Who started this disgusting saying?! Probably Thane.)

Anywho. Sign Number One you're getting old: You talk about cleaning products.
   This is a big one. Our parents used to talk about cleaning all the time and what products worked the best yada yada. We were appalled. Who the hell talks about cleaning products? Well. Now I do. Mom was just telling me about some product her friend sells that makes your stainless steel sink look brand new again and I was totally interested in it. If it weren't like $50 a bottle I would buy it. Mom says it is worth it though..so I may get it sometime, or just borrow hers. ;)

Sign Number Two: You talk about pine cones.
    Ok, so not necessarily pine cones, but if my cousins read this they will get it. My mom once started a converstaion at a gathering about how she went pine cone collecting and how she was going to arrange them in a basket for decoration. This was at least at 30 minute conversation with my aunts because then they all started talking about random things they decorate with. We vowed we would never talk about pine cones. So, one day I made my FB status about where I could find pine trees to line our fence line with and of course I get made fun of almost instantly. "Oh why Pam? Are you going to decorate with the pine cones?" If I am here long enough for these trees not to die...I just may decorate with pine cones! *Fun Fact: Bernie loves to eat pine cones. He ate several of mom's decorative pine cones.*

Sign Number Three: You go to a craft fair, on your own free will, and buy something with berries on it.
   I swore I would never buy anything that had anything to do with Americana shit. Well...I just bought a "love long, laugh often, love much" sign with...gasp...berries on the top of it. Even worse? I like it.  It is super sweet. So not only did I buy this berry thing, I also went to this craft fair alone..and I liked it. I am also very excited about the Mount Horeb Art Fair. Enough said.

Sign Number Four: You think staying out late is staying out past midnight...and are still hungover the next day.
      We used to be able to go out and stay out til bar time and maybe do an after party, like all the time. Best part: you could do it all again the next night. Nope. Now I have one good night of partying and then I need the whole next day to recover. If I am hungover I like to sleep the entire day so I don't feel like shit. You can't be sick if you're sleeping! At least that is my theory. I plan to stick to it. I like sleeping. Hangovers. Ohh hangovers. I don't have them much anymore, but man when I do....yuck. They are worse than ever. :)

I think I'm done for now. I have to go start my photobook so I can use a sweet Picaboo coupon I just got. (Another sign you're old. Using coupons all the time.)

Hope your Friday night was more exciting than mine!!

<3 Pam