Gripety Gripe Gripe

I am opinionated. Everyone knows this about me. Feel free to disagree, but just know that here, on my own blog, I AM ALWAYS RIGHT!

I am pulling out the soapbox for a minute. Is that fair enough warning? :)

See that picture above? It is a moneybag. (thank you jessica'ssweetnothings) Last time I checked, these do not grow on trees. Wouldn't that be nice though?

(thanks to Isabel Mendez for this tree that just makes me smile. I hung the money bags on it, which makes me smile even more!!!)

Anyhoo, back to the soapbox, the kids have had the flu for like 2 weeks. Of course, they never get it all at once, but that is not my gripe. I love my kids. (If I have to clean up barf to be a mommy, as much as I hate it, I'm there!) But, since the yuckies are going around Superman and I have been on alert. We have been only mildly ill here and there, which could be anything from lack of sleep to seasonal allergies. But yesterday I was feeling like a needed a boost, so despite the fact that I am supposed to be behaving (yeah right!) I went through a certain drivethru and ordered a shake to soothe my irritated throat. I used to do this a lot, but have not done it in quite a while because of said good behavior :) I added pecans for um...protein...yeah that's it!

DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH A MILKSHAKE IS??
Seriously.

Had I not been feeling a little crappity and really wanting that smooth creamy coolness to slide down my throat and make it all go away, I might have tossed it at her! I know she didn't set the price, but the temptation is still there.

What are we supposed to do? I mean if prices keep going up like this I am going to have to buy a cow and slaughter my own chickens! (While there is a certain appeal to that, don't get me wrong, it hardly seems...likely.) So there's my gripe. Thank goodness I did not attempt to buy one for each of the kids or I would have had to take out a loan.

I'm kidding. Sort of.