Wacky Wednesday... Random thoughts..to get you thinking!

It's Wacky Wednesday! Are you ready to get your mind thinking? 

I love Wednesdays, especially when it is almost 40 degrees out at five a.m. Its HUMP Day and we are ready to get over this one and move onto Friday. (Sad that I always am counting down to Friday!)

I love to have fun on Wednesdays with my Wacky Wednesday - Random day! This week I am introducing things that are Wacky that you probably never even thought about!

My first one is a question that my Kiddo's ask often!

1) Why doesn't McDonald's serve Hot Dogs? - have you ever really thought about that? My Kids LOVE hot dogs, we have really cut back in the past few months (Thank you God!) but they also love Rudy's Hot Dog- and since we now live so far away from Rudy's, the question still remains, "Why can't we get Hot Dogs at McDonalds, Mom?" in which I reply, I don't know, because they are not Rudy's! LOL

<<<Oh yea, I have you thinking, don't I? I am just getting started!  I have a whole list- ready, set go!>>>

2. When your are at a movie theater which arm rest is yours?- this is probably why I try to always sit in-between someone or on the isle. 

3. Why do doctors leave the room when you change? They're going to see you naked anyway.- I guess they want to give you privacy but the reality of the situation is that in the end they see it all anyways...

4. If you dug a hole through the center of the earth,and jumped in, would you stay at the center because of gravity?- Hmm. I am pondering it!

5. If a person dies and then springs back to life, do they get their money back for the coffin?- There are SO many of these freaky stories coming out lately and I want to know!

6. Do they bury people with their braces on?- such distrubing questions!

7. How far east can you go before you're heading west?

9. How does a Real Estate company sell its office without causing confusion?

10. Do dentists go to other dentists or do they just do it themselves? 

11. Why is it that everyone driving faster than you is considered an idiot and everyone driving slower than you is a moron?-  I am guilty of this!

12. Why does grape flavor smell the way it is when actual grapes don't taste or smell anything like it-  If they were artifically flavored they would be even Yummier!

13. What's the difference between normal ketchup and fancy ketchup?-  Yes, I have noticed this- it is better ingredients?

14. Is there a time limit on fortune cookie predictions?- I keep mine just in case- and have some from years and years ago! (and now I want Chinese Food..)

15. Since bread is square, then why is sandwich meat round?- Right! If they were both square, sandwich making would be SO much easier!

16. If ghosts can walk through walls and glide down stairs, why don't they fall through the floor?

17. Why is vanilla ice cream white when vanilla extract is brown?- Try explaining Vanilla Ice Cream to your kiddo who wants to know why we have chocolate syrup and strawberry syrup but NO Vanilla syrup! (she thinks that ice cream is flavored by adding syrup! LOL)

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18. Why aren't drapes double sided so it looks nice on the inside and outside of your home?- Yes, this is how my Mind Works, don't judge me!

19. If money doesn't grow on trees then why do banks have branches? -  did the plan that?

20. Why does the Easter bunny carry eggs? Rabbits don't lay eggs.-Unless you could the little chocolate marbles they deposit everything... I want to tell my Kids that the Easter DUCK is coming to leave a basket.  I don't think it will go over well.

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21. Do you yawn in your sleep?

22. Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?

23. Do stuttering people stutter when they're thinking to themselves?

24. If you put a chameleon in a room full of mirrors, what color would it turn?

25. Why do we press the start button to turn off the computer?

Are your minds reeling right how? I have tons of crazy questions, thanks to having kids! Their little minds come up with the funniest stuff ever!

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Happy Hump Day everyone!

~KEL~

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Tuesday... My dog ate my book review? Let's talk news..Flight MH370...

My dog ate my book? 

The wind blew my book review out of my hands? 

OK, OK, I am a slacker! This week has been hectic.  I know, typical story! I really haven't had time to get into a good book, and besides, I have a new one coming out next week.. Honestly, the new Nora Roberts book: Shadow Spell is out on March 25th and I have it Pre-Ordered. Plus, the news lately has been packed full of Hot Topics. 

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Let's talk about Flight MH370, the Malaysian Flight that is MISSING. 

Honestly, this is all over the news. I am finding this story fascinating and tragic all at the same time.  There are even speculations, some so absurd, that are all over social media outlets.

Here are some of the news stories that I have picked through to catch you up, if you have been living under a rock:

YOUR RECAP- in my words:

A flight carrying 239 people disappeared while traveling over the ocean between Malaysia and Vietnam. 

It seems that the Plane's Communication Systems were shut down, including the transponder, which reports location and altitude, at about 1:20 a.m. on 3/8/2014. The plane was picked up by Military Radar as it turned back towards Malaysia and passed above the Peninsular Malaysia before heading into the Strait of Malacca. A tid-bit of information is that around 1:07 a.m. Kualal Lumpur's air traffic control tells the plane's pilot that they are heading off to air traffic control based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.  The pilot responds, "All right.  Good Night."  (from ABC news)

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At 1:22 a.m. the MH370 should have come to the navigational way-point called Igari Point. Before it reached this point, Vietnamese air traffic control noticed they had lost contact with MH370. 

1:30 a.m. is the last moment that the plan was seen by Malaysian radar.

1:38 a.m. Air Traffic Control in Ho Chi Minh City tells Kuala Lumpur air traffic control that flight MH370 was no longer showing a signal. Ho Chi Minh City contacts two other planes to see if they can reach contact with MH370, without answer, just a buzz signal before losing the signal completely. They report no voice activity.

2:15 a.m. the Malaysian military defense radar picks up a plane that is hundreds of miles west of the MH370's last location, but can not identify if this in face the MH370 plane.

The the hours after the last contact was made with the MH370, it has been reported that several "pings" were made to the satellite several times but it is not clear if the pings contained data revealing the planes location.

At 6:32 a.m. Kuala Lumpur's traffic control sent out a broadcast call on all emergency frequencies asking MH370 to call into the tower. They repeated this procedure at 6:51 a.m.

Since then a lot of speculations have been brought to the public's attention.  Was this a suicide by the captain or first officer?  Would that help explain the plane's dissappearance?

There has not been one trace of Flight MH370 to appear since its disappearance on March 8th. This has caused investigators to believe that the plane was diverted thousands of miles off course by someone with deep knowledge of the Boeing 777-200ER and commercial navigation.

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Suspicions of hijacking or sabotage are where the investigators minds lie since officials say that the Sunday when last radio messages took place from the plane, the "all right, good night" comment was spoken after the system known as "ACARS" was shut down. It is also believed that it was the Co-Pilot who spoke those last words that were recorded on tape. This leads to the fact that something was going on with the Pilot. 

There is a lot of speculation that this is Islamic terrorism, but neither pilot had any ties to the militant groups. It was also disclosed that neither requested to fly with one another on Flight 370. 

There were also two Iranian men on the flight who were traveling on stolen passports, but after further investigations, it was determined that the two were trying to sneak into Europe as economic migrants and had  no terrorist links.

The investigation team thinks that the only way to know what really happened is to know what was going on in the cockpit, and the only way to find that out is to find the plane. 

According to the Satellite data, said plane could be anywhere in either of the two vast corridors that arc through much of Asia: one stretching north from Laos to the Caspian, the other south from west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra into the southern Indian Ocean west of Australia.

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Other Aviation officials in the surrounding areas are cooperating, but report that they knew nothing about the whereabouts of the plane, which is bizarre, considering that if the plane flew through Indian airspace for several hours, no one noticed? 

The Taliban in Afghanistan  reports that they had nothing to do with the missing plane also. (would they really admit it?)

China has been a helping hand in rescue efforts. Two-thirds of the passengers aboard the MH370 were Chinese. 

So what do authorities think? 
Malaysian authorities think that the plane crossed the northeast coast and flew across the Gulf of Thailand, someone on board shut down the communication systems that turned sharply to the west.

Are the Crew behind this?
This is when the investigation started on the pilots, looking into their backgrounds, then evolving through flight and ground staff to see if they could determine a motive. They started looking at the Pilot's homes and found a flight simulator in the Captain's home, that he had built.  So far, it appears that this simulator is a normal one that allows practice on flying and landing in different conditions. This turned investigators back to connections with Militant groups, of which, thus far, none can be found.

The plane has enough fuel to fly for about 30 minutes after the last satellite transmission.  

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This disappearing plane has brought 26 countries to get involved in the search that is currently stretching a crossed much of Asia.  Some believe that the Plane turned south and ran out of fuel over the Indian Ocean.

The newest development states that when the aircraft was diverted, it was a deliberate action and it was not done manually, instead the MH370's path was altered by typing seven or eight keystrokes into a computer that was between the Captain and the Co-Pilot. 

This computer is called the Flight Management System and it directs the plane from point to point based on the plane's flight plan. The only hiccup is that officials are unable to tell if the plane was reprogrammed before or after take off. 

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My Thoughts:

I think that there is a lot of speculation taking place in this case. My gut feeling is that this plane was hijacked. I am unsure if that is because I am hyper sensitive from previous terrorist attacks and the way in which they chose to get their point a crossed. 
I also know that America is not the target, but I think that this was a big enough thing, a strange occurrence that was sure to get our attention..

I also have this funny feeling about the Captain. I think that he might have been smart. Smart enough to keep the Militant influences that he was under, off the radar.

I have heard stories about people in the cockpit, which really only makes this story that much worse.  I do think that whoever is behind this , it being a terrorist mark, knew planes, was really smart and had to be a part of an airline, which makes my speculations about the Captain even more credible.

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I just feel for all the people on the plane. I think they are dead. I actually hope they are, instead of being tortured somewhere. I know that sounds cold, but I think that if I were on the plane (and yes, I do realize a few American's were among the passengers), I would want to go out with the plane, quick, no suffering. I could not handle being tortured. The thought makes my stomach knot.

All in all, I think that this will buckle down air traffic control officials, and if it doesn't, it should. They should be on alert just like a 9-1-1 dispatcher is with the Police Force.  Keep your eyes on your guys at all times and do not lose radio contact, ever!

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OK, I am officially off my soapbox on this topic, but I will post as new developments happen. I am quite fascinated with this story and although I hope for a positive outcome, it has been almost 2 weeks. that is a long time, even if the passengers are lucky enough to be alive, they are living a LOST  rendition and are probably terrified.

~KEL~


 







 




 

 

Marriage Monday...Husband Vs. Kids...

Do you ever find yourself torn between spending time with your Husband versus your Kids? 

My Hubby and I started our relationship as just the two of us. We spent years like this, until we welcomed our third party, then our fourth. During our journey, it has become more and more complicated and finding time for one another is sometimes non-existent. 

Life is funny.  I say this because over the course of twelve long, beautiful years with my Hubby, I am still amazed when I just can't find time for him. I know what you are thinking, "Did she really just say 'find time for him'?"  It sounds terrible, I know.  I know.  We have two amazing little girls, who occupy more than their share, let me tell you. At the end of the day though, it just seems like we never get time together. 

I can say that it has been getting a little easier. My girls have been playing on their own a lot lately, which is wonderful! But, then comes the complicated life of an Automotive worker!  He is on that odd ball shift from dinner time to early morning and I am on the other odd ball shift of early morning to early afternoon. He is sleeping when I get home, I am sleeping or getting ready for my day when he gets home, that leaves a chat or two and that is about all!

How do we find time for one another? 

I have been seeking this answer since he started this shift and I am still not coming up with a solid solution. I moved my hours back a little in the morning, but he wants to chill and unwind instead of waking me up. I try to get home after work by a certain time, but he is getting up later and later because he is dealing with the girls and coming back home and having a hard time sleeping.  All this, does not make life any easier!

I want to say it is this new schedule, but the reality is that what once was, is no longer. Does that mean I stop trying, hell no! I keep trying, I will find a way to make that time, but it does create lulls and loneliness within me because essentially, I am a single parent most of the time, which means that when he is around, our girls fight for both of our attention, leaving little to none for ourselves.

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I keep a reminder that there is a bigger picture here! He is working for our family and I am eternally grateful and amazingly proud! We have been crawling out of debt since he started this job and that is a feat that has been a battle for over six years. We knew coming into this house, that ultimate goal was to get ourselves debt free and we are so close. But the price has been tough. Does that mean we won't get through it? No. We have and will continue, finding a way somehow to keep our connection strong. 

I feel like the ultimate solution is to do what I am doing, and find a way to be a stay at home Mom. I will be working, but remotely. I will make this happen because the benefits are so great for my family. This will allow the time we are not getting to be there, the income to remain the same and I will be able to participate more in my children's lives.

I don't know the answers or solution to our issues. I don't even know if anyone else is suffering the same kind of struggles that we are, but I know that we are remaining patient and with our eye on the prize, eliminating our debt, and paying our dues to get to the end of that road. Life is good. We are not struggling, we have everything we need and want right now.  We are just learning all over again how to connect with one another. 

So, what are we actually doing?  I think that they key to any relationship is communication. Try that when you are opposite schedules! We manage though. There are text messages that come through all day long, we talk before I leave for work and before he leaves for work and we definitely do not waste any time fighting or arguing (well most of the time!)

We also have found a way to get some *couple time in, on early mornings.  It is a little tricky, since our children have a 4 a.m. built in alarm clock, but that is why God allowed us to have a lock on our door!

Hubby and I also find something funny each day to laugh about. It could be the stupidest thing ever but as long as it makes the other person laugh, it gets put on the table and this seems to help with our connections! 

Life is about having FUN and it is amazing to see how we were living our life before our crazy schedules and how serious we once were, to now, we don't have a lot of time together and are still figuring it all out, we truly seem to be happier people. We laugh more around each other and smile a lot, kissing and hugging is a plus too!  

I think it is crazy how much we can take those little things for granted until we realize that we don't have all the time in the world!  To think back to the days before kids, it was just us. We could talk when we wanted, have sex when we wanted, walk around the house with zero clothes on, scream, yell, laugh, watch movies really Loud, come and go as we please, no matter what time..man I miss those 2 a.m. Walmart or Meijer trips!  I hate thinking back to that better place, when we have so much less responsibilities but an grateful for what I have been given in its place. But those gifts from God also come with a price, they are little time suckers!!!

At the end of the day, when I am going to bed alone, I send him a quick text message, asking about his night and letting him know how much I love him and it warms my heart when he text back that he loves me more...

Quote: Audrey Hepburn *Fav

~KEL~

 

"Say WHAAT...Sunday" hot topic: Do you ever find that you are NEVER invited to anything?

So, you got hitched, had some kids, work full time and are living a pretty full life, one thing, you are NEVER invited to anything going on with your friends and family.. What is up with that? 

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Life has been weird since Hubby and I got hitched. We have lost a lot of friends, for no apparent reason. Maybe I should retract that statement, I think that we have lost ALL our friends.  Yes, they have drifted in and out through the years, but only a small few have remained somewhat present. I have always just let it roll off my back or put it in the back of my mind, but lately, our kids are getting older and it just seems weird! 

We got married seven years ago. We were the only ones doing it, so I think that pushed a lot of people out of our lives, because in a sense, we were growing up and they wanted to remain single and we were taking our relationship to the next step. 

I think that they drifting started when we got our house. The boys that would come for dinner all the time or just stop by, suddenly stopped! 

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But, we had one of those buddies as Hubby's Best Man, and since that day, he just fizzled into space. I totally get that people are in different stages in their lives, but it just makes me so sad to know that I am the type of person who would have made them an Uncle to our kids, loving to have them in our lives. 

But, the other day, our friends, kind of at an acquaintance level, had a party for their kid, who is only a year older than our oldest and everyone and their Mama gets an invite, except us. It is crazy! I would love to introduce our kids, which is sad because they really should already know one another! 

But, I get it, we hear the same old excuses, well we thought Hubby was working, or you live to far and we didn't think you would come.. Blah, Blah, Blah. 

Yes, we are busy, but we are so open to widening our social circles. This goes for Hubby's Family too, they have kid birthdays and parties and such and NEVER invite us. Those are the only "cousins" that my girls are going to have. It just sucks sometimes!

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Does anyone else feel this way?  I have said for years that we need to find couple friends who are like us, with kids, and a couple and all that- but so far, it is still just us, in this bubble with babies!

Hopefully life will change somewhat, to allow us to throw these big parties and get together's that we both dream about! As soon as Good Old Gray's gets a little more together we are having a BASH and inviting everyone who has isolated us to open the door and start fresh!

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Hopefully it works in our favor and brings out people to party for years down the road!

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Well, that is my say what Sunday, hopefully we are not the only ones feeling like this, and if anyone else is, your not alone!  

Time for a change!

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~KEL~

New Blog Hours..

Well, Family coming first is what I preach and lately, I have been so Amped up to get my blog posts on, I have kind of been neglecting my kiddos. (Mom, why can't we play candy land before bed...Not now, Mommy has to blog..- oops!)

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So, I will continue my M-F spots but take off on Saturday and Sunday. I promise to still bring lots of energy and hot topics but just on a Monday thru Friday basis.

Thank you to everyone who follows or is watching. If you have a topic you want me to dissect, feel free to email, I am always open to new ideas/content or viewpoints!

Thanks!

Me- being ME!

KelAmstutz@gmail.com

~KEL~

Schedule Break Down:

Mondays are all about Marriage - MARRIAGE MONDAYS

Tuesdays are all about Books I am reading or have read- BOOK REVIEW TUESDAYS

Wednesdays are WACKY... (plus, it's HUMP day!)

Thursdays are Throw Back Thursdays... Come with me as we dive into memories..

Fridays are FUN or FUMING..depending on my Mood.. 

**Everyone once in a while I plan on switching up with Parenting Topics, Family, Crafts, Gossip and of course Recipes, because we all know I love to cook..