I briefly saw a snip-it on the news today about this woman.  So I decided I had to google search her. Her name is Sheyla Hershey, a petite actress/model and she wants to hold the record for the largest breasts.

So apparently last year she traveled to Houston to have a breast enhancement.  Eight surgeries later and a gallon of silicone she achieved a 34 FFF.  Now that is big….

Well she wasn’t happy with that size.  Her boyfriend had asked her to stop and so she broke up with him.  WTH!  Funny enough, the state of Texas cut her off.  Not literally but told her she couldn’t get anymore surgeries there.  Bound and DETERMINED to hold the record for the largest breasts, she searched high and low for somewhere that would perform the surgery. After much research, Brazil would be her place to go.

Now holding a total of 9 surgeries she has hit her goal of a 38 KKK!  OMGoodness.  To me that is just not attractive.  I mean one day I might want a boob lift, mine got a little stretched out with all the kids I have had.  They need a little youthful lift.  But, 38 KKK that is just insane.  I am in no way against a breast enhancement or reduction but be realistic.

This woman’s breasts, IMO, look absolutely NASTY!

I am a little torn on my opinion of the mom in California who had the octuplets.  She is a single mom, 33 yrs old, living at home with her parents.  If that is not enough but she had 6 children already.  So now she has 14 children.  She chose to have in-vetro fertilisation to have more kids when it seemed as though she couldn’t even take care of the 6 kids she already had.

So where I am seeing the problem that bothers me is….well lets just start by saying that when she was in the hospital, just after having her babies, she didn’t want to be in the news, she wanted to remain anonymous.  I thought that was really great, she did not have more children just to be famous.

Well now she wants to “cash in” on the new additions to her family.  I think she completely planned this all out.  She knew when she first got pregnant that this would make news.  She kept her story secret right after because she knew people would pay “big bucks” to hear her story.  The babies are 1 week old and she already has an agent.  Her interviews are going to pay upwards of $2 million.  That to me is insane.

I don’t understand how and why people would think her story is so amazing.  She had 6 kids, went through in-vetro fertilisation (which in most cases results with multiple babies) and now she is a mother of 14 living at home with mom and dad and trying to make millions off her kids.

I mean who am I really to be that judgmental about this woman’s decision to bring more children into this world.  I LOVE children and if I could have 14 kids, I would.  The thing that bothers me is she can’t really afford to take care of the ones she had, let alone add 8 more to the bunch.  Honestly, I think it will be really hard to find a man to accept she has that many children and want to get involved.  Maybe there is someone out there but coming from experience, it was difficult to find Mr. Right with having one child already.

NOW, she is about to make MILLIONS off these babies.   I don’t know I just think she completely planned this whole thing, knowing early on the pregnancy that having 7 babies at the least would make news.

I truly believes she loves her children, at least I would like to think she does.  I just think she strategically planned how she was going to come out and tell her story in order to “cashin” as much as she could.

Read the full story here!

At this point in our financial slump I feel pretty lucky to not own a home.  Not only because of the horrible economy but now State Farm Insurance is no longer selling home owners insurance to to residents in Florida.

Apparently they had $5 billion in loss last year and they are unable to get decent prices.  In the Tampa Bay area alone there are about 120,000 policy holders.  Getting a decent price on insurance in Florida is just crazy anyway.

When Tony owned his home a couple years ago, it was a small 2 bedroom 1 bath home and he paid thousands in insurance premiums.  I want to say it was over $2k every 6 months.

This economy has obviosuly not hit rock bottom yet.  Circuit City is closing down some of the stores, Home Depot is closing a bunch of their Expo stores.  7000 people will be out of a job.

I have to be thankful that Tony still has a job, however, he received an email the other day that pretty  much let him know that his restaurant is having tough times too.  They slashed his bonus plan, crazy style.  Even if he hits all of his goals for the month, he will make about 1/3 of what he did during the months of 2008.  I am trying to remain positive that when we get out of this economic crisis, that they will change the bonus plan again.  They have changed it several times since he has come back to work for them, 1 1/2 yrs ago.

I am just hoping for some relief for the whole country.  Everyone seems to be affected somehow, everywhere.

As if having 7 babies at once wasn’t enough but SURPRISE you actually have 8 babies in there!  LOL!  A woman in Bellflower CA delivered not 7 babies that they originally thought but 8.  She went the whole pregnancy thinking she was going to be a mom of septuplets and on delivery day they found one more.

Really though, if you are already having 7 at one pop, what is one more.    The smallest weighing in at 1lb 8oz to the biggest at 3.4 lbs.  Thankfully all of them are doing really well, breathing on their own. Read the story here.

I would love to have multiples.  I know there are a lot more health risks with having more than one baby at one time.  I guess for me though, since I had 2 c-sections already, I am being told I should only have 1 more.  We wanted 5 total children, that would mean I should have 2 more but most doctors say they won’t deliver more than 3 c-sections.

Not to mention I think multiples are adorable, like the children on Jon and Kate plus 8.  I love that show.

Anyways, I hope those octuplets grow strong and healthy and can leave the hospital without too long of a stay.

What an amazing site. It is 21 degrees in D.C and people have been waiting outside since 2:30am. A woman got up and on the road at 3:30am and at 7:30am she was still on 7th street waiting for police to clear the way to the mall.
This is crazy. Planners say attendance could easily top the 1.2 million that showed up for Lyndon B Johnson’s 1965 inauguration.

I however, will enjoy all the festivities from the warmth of my couch….watching it on TV.

Tony and I have only been using one car because his needs a new tire and we just really don’t have the “extra” money for that.  Well actually we are thinking about selling his car, mostly will be used for parts, so I don’t want to put any more money in to it.  He will definitely not get his money’s worth on that tire.

I am pretty much stuck in the house during the day.  That isn’t all that bad because all I would want to do anyway is go to the stores and shop! 

Well, this morning Tony didn’t have to go to work until noon so I took advantage of having the car.  I took the kids and we went to Walmart.  I needed a couple things and then I was going to “look” at some stuff for my scrapbooks I am making.  I say “look” because I wasn’t SUPPOSED to buy anything but I just couldn’t control myself.  I bought some fabric for the cover and I bought some embellishments.  I was going to check out and I thought I had grabbed everything out of the cart.  I have Bubby in the seat and the car seat in the “basket” part of the cart so some items had slid under her seat and I didn’t see them.

I checked out and started to leave.  Ya know at Walmart how they have that employee sitting at the exit to check your bags or whatever…..well she was sitting down so she could see the items that had slid under the car seat.  I felt so embarrassed, I immediately went and paid.  So when I was leaving the nice lady said to me, that I could forget items but just as long as I don’t forget my kids.

What she was referring to is those people that have left their kids in the car and went to work or whatever and realize 8 hours later that their child has been in the HOT car all day and the child is dead.

I am sorry but I don’t know how someone can forget their kids in the car.  My life REVOLVES around my kids.  It is just habit when I am getting out of the car, to hit the door locker so I can get the kids out of the back.  I catch myself doing it even if I am out and about alone.

Statistics show that over 400 children have died since 1998 after being left in a hot car.  47% of hot-car-deaths of children are the result of the caregiver forgetting them in the car.

STATISTICS

• Total number of U.S. hyperthermia deaths of children left in cars, 2008:  42
• Total number of U.S. hyperthermia deaths of children left in cars, 2007:  35
• Total number of U.S. hyperthermia deaths of children left in cars, 1998-2008:  414
• Average number of U.S. child hyperthermia fatalities per year since 1998: 37

I just couldn’t imagine leaving my child in the car.

Here is a snip-it from one of many stories I found:

By Allen G. Breed, Associated Press  |  July 29, 2007

MANASSAS, Va. — Kevin Kelly is a law-abiding citizen who, much distracted, left his beloved 21-month-old daughter in a sweltering van for seven hours.

Frances Kelly had probably been dead for more than four hours by the time a neighbor noticed her strapped in her car seat; when rescue personnel removed the girl from the vehicle, her skin was red and blistered, her fine, carrot-colored hair matted with sweat. Two hours later, her body temperature was still nearly 106 degrees.

I felt sick to my stomach reading all the details of these deaths.  Parents need to be way more careful because hot-car deaths are on the rise.

I look so forward to tax time.  I am not sure how anyone else feels about this time of year but with 3 kids, money gets pretty tight towards the end of the year and some bills get left behind.  By the first of the year I am ready for a pick-me-up.

Now I am not sure how tax time is going to look for us.  This is my first year in 13 yrs that I won’t be able to file because I haven’t worked and Tony will be claiming all the kids.  He made a good deal of money last year so I just don’t know.  I do know that whatever we get back will go to get caught up on bills and any left over will go to our savings.

The last couple months have been really rough. We never go past the 1st week of February and we have our return.  Turbotax all the way with electronic filing. 

I will say that I am thankful we are here in Florida, we don’t pay or file state taxes.  I used to live in Illinois and filed state tax so I do know that I never really got much back, however to say the state is running out of money and that your refund may be put on hold would make me a little upset.

States and the government surely have no problem taking your money or if you owe tax money at the end of the year they are surely quick to collect but to tell hard working tax payers that they are getting an IOU that just seems ridiculous.

I never had any desire to live in California and now more than before I know that I will never reside there.  Not just because the state is in a financial deficit in the 10′s of billions of dollars, but just as a whole, that state never really looked appealing.