Cabin Fever

OK it has been 18 consecutive days since I have been to the beach. I am beginning to look as white as my Canadian relatives! I have either not had time To go to the beach, or I have had time, and it is not sunny enough. This week we have thrown one sick child and a sore throat of my own into the mix. So we have been on house arrest all week and it is starting to make me antsy. I have lost all desire to write a creative blog or to be funny. So today I am going to give you lucky bloggers a dose of Alyssa babble. Babble is when I type any thought that comes into my head at any given time. First of all I would like to give a shout out to one on my best friends Marla Denny who just gave birth to a very long awaited little boy last night. His name is Landen Watson Glenn Denny, and I am anxiously awaiting pictures. My baby fever has been sky rocketing lately and I am doing everything in my power to hold myself back from jumping on a plane so I can go hold and hug him. To add some more good news, this sore throat of mine has made it hard to swallow, which in turn has made it hard to eat, which in turn has made me lose 5 pounds this week!!! 5 more and I will get back to my pre-Christmas weight. The sore throat has led to a constant headache all week, and I am starving but you know what they say "no pain no gain" Who are "they" anyway. You always here "well they say" and no one ever questions who they are. Ok now I am babbling and rambling. To add even more great news, I got my new red toaster in the mail yesturday! Now I just have to get the red coffee maker and all my appliances, dishes, utensils, and kitchen walls will match! Next thing I would like to say is TiVo rocks! It has given me a whole new stress free outlook of TV. I am watching my favorite show and I get an important call, and I am torn between answering it or ingnoring it. Well not anymore. I simply pause live TV, talk on the phone, and rewind when I am done. Ingenious! Also you can tape two shows at once and you never have to worry about missing your favorite shows again. Also I would like to rave about Netflix. If you have not tried this company it is awesome! You pay $17 a month and you get three movies at a time. You have a list on there website of all the movies you want and when ever you send in the movies you get three more. The turn over time for these movies have been amazing. I put them in there prepackaged, postage paid envelopes, stick them in my mailbox, and two days later I have new movies. I don't even have to get out of my pj's to go to the movie store. It just gets easier and easier to be lazy.
So on that note I sat and watched 4 hours of Sex And The City last night. So my mind should be good and warped now. I got the whole season fom Netflix and watched the whole thing at once. I just couldn't get enough Carry Bradshaw. It was the last series they will ever do and I got sadder and sadder as I neared the end. However it had great closure. Carry is with Big, Samantha survived Cancer and is in love for the first time in her life, Miranda is happily married with her husband and little boy in Brooklyn, and Charlotte and her husband are waiting to get there precious baby girl from China. Just in case you were wondering. Ben is now driving again, and that is such a great relief. I am sure that through all my constant nagging he will not be speeding on base again any time soon. Just kidding, I would never nag. Also I would like to say congratulations to my other best friend in the world Lisa Campbell who got married over the Christmas holidays. She is my last single friend to take the plunge and strap on the old ball and chain. I mean join this wonderful union of marital bliss. No really marriage is great and I would take it over singlehood any day. You may not get those first kiss butterflies everyday but that unconditional love and security you have in each other far surpasses any weak at the knees feeling. Yet you still get that flutter in you stomach when you see each other after being apart for a week or 3 months. Plus nothing beat being so comfortable in a relationship that you can fart outloud and laugh. So good luck to you Lisa and Dave Harrisko! May you have a loving and flatulent marriage! Well I guess I should get Corben down for his nap, and go clean something. You think being stuck in my house for a week with nothing to do that it would be extremely clean. No such luck. I try but I just can't keep up. It is four against one after all. I get one room done, move on to the next one, and the kids start tearing them up behind me. This blog is much to long considering I have nothing to say. So for those of you who are actually still reading through to the end I bid you a good day! Hopefully I will get some sun rays soon and I will be rejuvenated and funny again.