Random Tuesday – Rain, Peckers, Laziness and Awards

Random Tuesday Thoughts is hosted by Keely @ The UnMom…. go check it out for more randomness!!

The damn noisy, irritating, oops I mean, adorable little woodpecker that has been living in the grove across the road has decided to move into the tree closest to my bedroom. And he has started going to work on it earlier and earlier every morning. Is it really illegal to shoot those things? How about throwing rocks at them?

I’m actually happy about the rain, because it shuts him up for a while.

I thought April was the month we were supposed to get all of the rain, so why has it rained all of June? My entire garden and all of my landscaping plants are drowning, our swimming pool keeps overflowing and flooding the playset area, and my driveway is washing out something terrible…

I broke my over thirty five day exercising streak by sheer laziness this weekend. Which sucks big time, because now I haven’t worked out since, and I always have a hard time finding the motivation to pick it back up… Well, until my cialis normal dose jeans stop buttoning again… My hubby wants to get one of the Nordic Track ellipticals to keep in the living room, he thinks it’ll help us both stay focused on our workouts, because we can use it while we watch TV. I think what will happen is that the first week we’ll fight over it in the evenings, in that one hour or so that we spend watching TV a night, and then after that we’ll go back to sitting with our laptops instead. The machine will be pushed out of the way to gather dust and be tripped over, until we get fed up with it and haul it down to the garage with the rest of the home gym equipment, but then it might at least get some more use.

Jodi over at Bargain Central has graciously graced me with these two awards:
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Which I’m happy to accept! Thank you Jodi! And to pass along to some of my favorite bloggers!

1. Anne @ Small Town Mommy

2. Keely @ The UnMom

3. Jamie @ Me, Kids and Raw III

4. Sue @ Farvel Cargo

5. Katherine @ Katherine Unabridged (http:// internetfruit . type pad .com – remove the spaces, for some reason whenever I try to link to any type pad blog, I get an error message I can’t even type in the word without the space without getting it…)

6. Metz @ Empty Streets

7. Julie @ Momspective

8. Maria @ Conversations with Moms

9. Michelle @ Memories of You

10. Jenn @ The Coupon Coup

11. Shauni @ Juggling Teens

12. John @ Gay Dads In Munchkin Land

13. Kristin @ My Art and the Mom in Me

14. Brittney drugs online without prescription @ Not Your Everyday SuperGoddess

15. Kelly @ Kellyology

You all have amazing blogs! Thanks for keeping me entertained for hours!

Welllllll….. That’s All Folks! (Yeah, I’ve got the woody woodpecker crap stuck in my head thanks to that damn noisy bird, I hope it drowns in all this rain!)

No, fly on over to Keely’s and read up on some more randomness!



  1. Anne (73 comments) on Tuesday 30, 2009

    Thank you so much for thinking of me! How kind, generous, thoughtful, etc. I am sorry to hear about the woodpecker, but I think it is perfectly legal to throw rocks (as long as you don’t accidentally hit a neighbor). Of course, the rock probably wont help since you will have to get out of bed to throw it.
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  2. ~Jamie (2 comments) on Tuesday 30, 2009

    Ahh, Thanks. I whole heartily accept. I luv me some awards! Thanks for thinking of me and all my foolishness.

  3. Metz (11 comments) on Tuesday 30, 2009

    HI Leigh,

    wow am so speechless i love the awards yayyy will definitely be passing this on with a huge thank you to you :) yayyy will work on posting it as soon as possible. Keep cool and healthy always :) xoxo

  4. Becki (2 comments) on Tuesday 30, 2009

    All of our exercise equipment is out on the enclosed porch where we don’t have to see it and feel guilty.
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  5. andy (2 comments) on Tuesday 30, 2009

    i didn’t have the woodpecker laugh in my head until that last line.

    ugh.

    although i suppose anything is better than another michael jackson song being played to death.

    (pun not intended, but appropriate)

    and i don’t think i’ve ever purchased a piece of exercise equipment that got used for more than a month. then it was a laundry hanger upper;)

    andy
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  6. Michelle (6 comments) on Tuesday 30, 2009

    Thanks so much for the award. You’re a sweetie. I feel truly honored. It’s been raining like crazy here too. It’s freezing today. It’s almost July and I feel like summer hasn’t got here yet. What’s up with that? Uggg! Thanks again for the award and stopping by my place.

    Hugs
    Michelle
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  7. Eileen (1 comments) on Tuesday 30, 2009

    Exercise is evil Go eat brownies quickly!!!
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  8. Keely (6 comments) on Tuesday 30, 2009

    That is precisely what happened to our elliptical! Then we freecycled it and got gym memberships.
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  9. Brittany (1 comments) on Tuesday 30, 2009

    Aww thank you! That made me smile so big. I hear you about wood peckers they use to peck my old house in St. Louis all the time. Its charming like the first time, and then you are over it.
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