God love my pooch...

Chino in Man eating Halloween Costume


My darling Chino has been banished from Grandmothers.. She must now spend her days at home and not venture out to doggie day care. I really feel bad for her because she gets up early every day.. hoping that this may be the day she gets to go .. My mom says her building went.."NO DOGS"... It is very strange that this ban came about the time that my dear Chino ate my mothers teeth.. HOW YOU ASK? Well, my mother.. My dear mother.... works nights and she often falls asleep in the AM in front of the tube.. One such day, she took her teefers out to wash em up (I spose) and fell asleep.. She had them in her hand .. and as she fell deeper into sleep, her grasp softened .. and the teefers fell to the floor.. Little Chino thought she hit the jackpot.. and went to town .. All the crunching and muching woke my mother.. She quickly realized what was going on and when she attempted to extract the teefers from my little dog, Chino growled and claimed the yummy set of teeth for herself.. When Chino was finally done.. little was left... Poor Chino

Hey YOU! Yeah YOU!

I know, dear reader, that I have been neglecting you.. But so very much has happened.. My normal hum drum life has been shot into outerspace. The most important event, of course, is the birth of silly billy Jilly..

I love this girl.

I apparently have a reputation of making her cry.. Everytime I hold her she starts to wail.. I think it has something to do with the bond she has with her ma. ...I can totally respect that.. I love me ma.. and would often cry when someone tried to keep me from her..

You can't ever break the bond between a person and their Ma. I am pretty sure its a lifes lesson or a rule somewhere..like in the Bible or The Oprah manual.

Thou Shalt not come between someone and there ma..

Stop right there, dear reader.. I know exactly what you are thinking... "How can the delightful Meghan say all this about MOTHERS when she hates her MIL??" I must tell you.. I do not come between Vic and his mother.. Just the opposite.. I give them all the time together they need/want.. etc. She can cook all the fish sticks his little heart desires.. (ew) I just had a one on one with the good Lord and told

him that he needs to assign me a new cross to bear, because she is way tooo much.. even if I was a Mother Theresa type.. NO ONE DESERVES TO DEAL WITH ALL THAT! (AMEN SISTER GIRL!!!!)

Sily Billy Jilly... AWAKE!

More Jillian..

With Mommy...

Jillian Susanna Kuehnel

I am in LOVE!!!

She is my new obsession.. !!
Isn't she fabulous!
9.6lbs! Kudos Shannon.. Natural childbirth if you can believe it!

I want dreads now, too!

Pando

I do hate L.A. and think it was a fluke that they won.
One GOOD thing is that Pando is the one that scored.. I have always liked Pando.. I think its his way cool hair.. So, to recap... not happy that New England didn't win.. (love Joesph) but am happy that Pando, my least hated L. A. player, scored the goal.. and Landon WAS shut down..

Oh Baby

No baby yet.. We were sure it would be Friday night .. as the contractions were different..... but they subsided... Shannon is getting a little tired of being pregnant and wants the next phase to start. (doesn't she just glow?)I think at this point, lil Jilly is just getting bigger .. so the whole idea of coming out of my sister's cooter is freaking her out. Tomorrow is induction.. so the ball will get moving ..regardless if Jilly is ready or not.
Today is the MLS cup.. I will sadly be watching it.. I pray that the L.A. Galaxy will lose horribly.. and Landon will be shamed and ridiculed.. all the way back to the Redlands.. and his pathetic "actress" (judgement call) girlfriend can soothe his broken ego..

Dont be cONcerned.. BUT I might have BrAin DamAge..

Today me and my ma drove up to the city to take Shannon to her last prenatal visit before the birth of lil Jilly... Frank-lynn needed to attend a super duper special Nasa meeting.. and we were more then happy to take Shan to her appointment. Lil Jilly is a few days late and everyone is very excited to finally meet her.. Her Ob/Gyn said she was ripe and the big mysterious plug was gone.. (I was completely grossed out at this point and started to hum to myself.. so I am not sure what else we learned).. We then headed over to the hospital for a stress test. The good people at California Pacific Hospital check to make sure there isn't a problem before one develops .. strange concept huh, Kaiser??.. ANYWAYS.. They looked in her tummy with the ultrasound machine.. and lil Jilly flashed her cooter at us.. She is apparently a little flamboyant.. Then they strapped on a heart beat monitor.. and some other dooo hickey that measures her movement and Shannon's contractions.. Everything looked great.. Jilly is just being stubborn..(I wonder where she gets that??) After they unhooked Shannon from all the machines, she stopped in the bathroom for her hourly pee break.. While Me and My Ma were alone in the exam room.. I took the little wand that they put on my sis's belly.. and placed it on my heart.. WOW!!!

What a fabulous ticker I have.. Powerful .. kick ass heart.. I guess I should have stopped there, because I placed the thing on my head.. I am not sure what I was expecting to see.. but the screen was blank..the machine made little pulsating noises.. and I am convinced that it might have tazzed some of my brain cells.. Does anyone have any research on this.. I would have asked the nurse, but then I would have had to admit doing it in the first place.. and I wasn't looking for a stern talking to... Woe is me..

Come on now Jilly!

So, my dear sweet niece Jillian has decide to be fashionably late.
She was due yesterday but I guess has decided to enjoy the warmth of the womb for a few more days. I guess she heard about the bitter cold November days in SF.. so she is holding out.. poor Shannon is READY TO GO! Lets hope tomorrow is the day.. 11-10-05 .. thats a fine day to be born,eh?

My girl is a woman

Little Chino is amazing.. (see photo of her first attempt to drive Mom's car)
She wants to be more independant, So, Rather then taking her to day care I let her stay home with her brother Pepper .. It seemed to be going well until I realized that my MIL has taken it upon herself to join them periodically throughout the day.. I haven't actually caught her IN my house.. but Chino has stopped speaking English!! I am pretty sure that my MIL is teaching her Portuguese.. I believe it is to piss me off ..Pure and simple .Just today I called to Chino and she went the other direction.. I was horrified.. I guess this is what Dr Phil was talking about.. You know.. Kids growing up and pulling away from their parents..I just didn't expect it so soon..
heavy sigh.

To commemorate the passing...

BIG BLUE

Pepper's cherished ballie.. Faithful friend.. I just couldnt save him.. A moment of silence for our fallen friend.

...Amazing grace, so sweet the sound..

We is 3 years legal.. and 8 years total, beyotch.

10-28-05

Can you believe it.. 3 years married? We spent the day as a family at Vasona with the babies.. Daddy and I walked around .. advising Chino and pepper that it would not be in their best interest to charge the flock of geese.. Primarily because they were horribly out numbered.. they were ALL over the place.. Forget about reproducing like bunnies, the new phrase is doing it like GEESE.. or gooses.. Not sure which is correct. I ended up ALMOST drowning.. well, ok.. I might be being a tad bit over dramatic.. (who me?) but Peppers ball went catapulting into the lake and I went rock climbing to retrieve it.. I got it the first time, but the second time it was swept out...

Keith Oberman was right,,

Keith is this way kewl T.V. guy who hosts the countdown show on MSNBC. He seems to genuinely have a good sense of humor and doesn't take things too seriously.. well, the other day he was talking about how Anna Nicole Smith was going to testify at the Supreme Court.. His deadpan response to this statement was.. The apocalypse was here.. I feel that way right now! The Galaxy beat the Rapids 2-0.. they are going to the Cup. AGH!

I have decided that this means NOTHING .. and the REAL result was captured one fine day in October.. (see photo) I think I need to put on those snazzy, sparkly red Star Jones shoes and tap them together.. There is no place like home.. There is no place like home...

Friends are like flowery petals or some crap like tha...

So this is me and Bren.. She is way kewl.
She is the staff associate in our office.. She basicallyis the glue that keeps us all together.
She would sing to me "I like BIG butts..." and I would shake and dance.. but now since my operation, she sings .."I like medium butts..." I try and do a modified cabbage patch.. Meggie style.. I also Love that she changes her hair style all the time.. and every time she does she looks like a completely different person.. the picture above is chic', artistic Bren.. Sometimes she wears corn rows and she is ultra political .. "I ain't gonna take no shit.." Brenda.. and then sometimes she has a "LUCY" comb out and church lady Brenda is born.. talking about how GOD brings you to it and you can get through it.. (whatever) ... ANYWAYS.. much love to Brenda.. And I must say watch out you shirtless runners.. and by all mean no nose picking while you is driving!!! She will call you out FO SHO! (peace out Bren)

Before the game

Look at the happiness on my face! The world was my oyster.. ALL the Quakes needed to do was score 2 lousy points and they could kick the Galaxy to the curb. Ching-y came through and scored the first goal.. but then Landon and Cobi got chippy and we played the game.. and didnt play games.. So, we lost.. well we tied (which ironically held our unbeaten streak at home alive).. but we got eliminated from the playoffs.. The season is over. Brian is most likely back in Hawaaii.. Hopefully they will be back next year. (heavy sigh)

Thoughts about the season

This is Valerie..

I H-A-T-E Valerie..

I had to sneak taking her picture.. because I ignore her and refuse to acknowledge her existence. Victor enjoys talking to her just to piss me off..

It works.

She is what I do not want to become. A scary old lady running after HOT soccer players.
She occupies the seat next to me at all eartquakes games. She use ta bring her freakishly skinny husband.. but now she brings these scary dirty chicks with her. She just annoys me. She talks about the players like they are long lost buds.. And she has this huge telephoto camera .. I have heard her bragthat she takes like 600 pictures at every game.. WHY????
It is kinda funny when she does try and get the attention of one of the players .. they literally run in the other direction...

I am sad that the season was prematurely cut short.. (primarily due to the MO FO Landon .. who called me an idiot?!?!?!) but I AM SO HAPPY that I am done with seeing the evil Val..

SPEAKING OF HIGHSCHOOL...

So, as I was looking at the photo of the HOT HOT HOT Rick... I found my senior photo.. WHat in the heck did I mean by that by line... I wasn't on drugs, really!!!

Here goes the translation..
Long live the Hoover Club.. (Inside joke about a girl who use to sit at PEP rallys with her legs WIDE open and guys would fall into the hole.. kinda get sucked in??? WASSUP Hannah??)
gibbon and scallop were the nicknames of my two best friends.. Tania and Hoey...
Mr london the white courtesy phone.. no idea what this means...
Finally somebody understands me somebody gave his heart to me I stumbled my whole life.. these are lyrics from a song.. meant this to be about Felix.. my twenty something boyfriend at the time.. (thanks mom for letting that happen .. wink wink) and then I signed it, my nick name.. Barny.. (will explain nickname another time) (and no I wasnt into the color purple)..

Highschool love....

I HAD A DREAM LAST NIGHT THAT MY FRIEND TANIA AND I WERE GOING TO OUR HIGHSCHOOL REUNION.. I WAS EXCITED TO SEE RICK SILVESTRI .. I LOVED RICK HE WAS IN A BAND AND JUST COOL. WE SHARED A MATH CLASS AND I PLAYED DUMB SO HE COULD HELP ME FIGURE THINGS OUT. ANYWAYS, AT THE REUINION I LOST MY SHOES FOR SOME REASON .. THEY WERE THE COOL UGGS .. NOT THE OVERPLAYED PINK ONES.. ALL OF THE SUDDEN, AMIDST THE MISSING SHOES I SAW RICK AND I GOT ALL HAPPY.. HE WAS WEARING A SHARKS JERSEY FOR SOME REASON... AND I SAID, YOU KNOW RICK.. I WAS SO INTO YOU.. AND HE SAID HE ALWAYS HELD A SPECIAL PLACE IN HIS HEART FOR ME.. REALLY CURIOUS, BECAUSE I NEVER REALLY PROFESSED MY LOVE TO RICK.. BUT I WAS SOOOO HOT FOR HIM.. I MEAN TOTAL CRUSHVILLE.. I WAS 16.. WHAT DO YOU WANT?? WHAT IS THAT ABOUT? PLEASE TELL ME ... COMPLETELY OUT OF THE BLUE THINKING ABOUT RICK.. (SIGH)