Been tagged

Well this may be difficult to come up with 5 things at all. I'm not too private of a person. lmao Good thing I can keep this tab open and think about it for a few hours.

My friend Retta hit me in the middle of the night with this one. I went to bed late, so she must have been holding it in laughing as we were chatting through the night. lol So here's to finding something interesting that you don't know!

1. I've had the same best friend for almost a quarter century. Even though she moved out of town, we remained good friends growing up.

2. I have a tattoo of a ladybug with some daisies. It's just the first of many, but I can't seem to justify the money to go get the others right now. lol

3. St. Patty's day is my second favorite holiday. Green is my favorite color and I'm Irish, what can I say. Oh then to top it off it was the first real date hubby and I went on. ;)

4. I have a turtle that is a bigger bitch than I am. I fill up her water and she immediately dumps it out and stares at me. Then in the middle of the night when she's thirsty, she pushes the water bin against the glass. OVER AND OVER AND OVER...

5. I was one of those odd little girls that actually had a pony. lol We were poor, but we got him for a very low price from one of my Dad's friend. For all those little girls that want a pony, DON'T. They are a lot of work unless you have the stable hands to take care of them for you. lmao

k, I hit 5 and that was difficult. lol Now here's 5 people that have to do it!
Lauren
Carrie
Beth
Dianne
Kara and Anita

Too Tired

Well I'm too tired to be posting, but I'm on a freakin' mission and must finish it. I had to post to all 4 of my blogs and then the 2 that I post to occasionally TODAY. And this means that I have completed my mission. I've left this blog until last cause this is my easiest blog. But alas, I was up way to late last night and lost my mojo now.

I got to stay home today since work asked me to leave yesterday. 2 days earlier than I'd planned on, but hey, being home is much better for the holidays. lol So I had a big list of all the things I wanted done and I did a bunch of them. Woohoo me! Vaccuuming, dishes, and webstuff. I'll hit the rest of it tomorrow.

I knew I was going to be working online so I let the kids each have a friend over for the night. We even went and got movies. Well hell if they aren't all wound up! So instead of having 2 kids driving me crazy running and wrestling, I have had 4. WTF was I thinking? Aha, couldn't think. PMS and not enough sleep. I can not be held responsible for my own stupidity.

Changes at work

Well the bomb has to have been dropped at work, but my friend hasn't called me yet. I feel bad not telling her ahead of time, but he asked me not to and I feel bad enough that I'd talked to who I had about it. I'm no longer working the crazy schedule. I will now be working whatever schedule I set at the new gym! YIPPEE for me and my family. Money will probably be tight as we adjust, but I know I will see it come in. We are sitting ok right now for bills and I have complete confidence that I'm doing the right thing.

So the new gym is going to be fun. I get to set my own appointments. Don't have to be there if I don't have any appointments. I literally, have no boss. They just ask me to do some free workouts showing new members how to use the equipment correctly, once a week. Such a sweet trade. Since I want to meet all the members anyway. That is how you get new clients. lol Win, win.

I can't wait to be a part of my own community again. Be a part of my friends lives again. But most of all, be around for my family.

So here's to total self-employment!

Bleh

I gotta find some energy. Maybe it's time for a doctors visit. I'm just in an awful funk and have no idea how to get out of it. It would probably help to get a good-full nights sleep. I'll try that tonight first.

Good day

So not much to report right now. Life is going really well and I don't want to jinx it by talking about it. lol We have lots in the works in the family and within the next week I'll post. But there's just no telling who is reading this in my little world.

I have a jam packed day off tomorrow as usual. Fitting in lots of web work, but this house is a sty and needs cleaning. Then my daughter made honor roll! Huge deal! So I'm going to the assembly tomorrow for that. And stopping at the gym on the way home. I love the new gym, it takes away all my stupid excuses.

Am I sarcastic?

You're Totally Sarcastic

You sarcastic? Never! You're as sweet as a baby bunny. Seriously, though, you have a sharp tongue - and you aren't afraid to use it. And if people are too wimpy to deal with your attitutde, then too bad. So sad.

How Sarcastic Are You?

New day

I started the day off right by going to the new gym. I'm not used to the equipment not being the top of the line, but I love that I can go whenever I want. I hit the weights hard like old days and I'm sticking with that plan cause it makes me feel good. If I don't lose all the weight, so be it. I'll be happy and a little bigger. lol

Then went and grabbed movies and sushi. YUMMMMY! Ordered a different one and it was the bomb baby.

Got home to a voicemail that the fire chief wanted hubby to give him a call. He did a good job of disguising if it was good news or bad news. Hubby of course wasn't answering his phone at work so had to wait. Not long though cause they got off work early for the Christmas party tonight. See, there are no coincidences and I do notice how all of them line up cause I'm looking for them. lol And I say thank you after them as well.

ANYWAY, I ramble. Me? Really? OK, you want to know what happened with the phone call? They offered him a job. It's conditional on getting through the background check and the medical eval, but those won't be a problem. Our credit history is the only thing we worry about cause it sucks. But we have never filed bankruptcy, we are doing the honorable thing and paying off our stupidity from youth. SO hubby will be a paid fireman next year. I'm so proud of him! He's worked really hard and has wanted this really bad. It will be amazing to see him happy to go to work. lol

Bad place right now

Well I can remember being at this point before. It has been a few years now, but I understand what's happening. I'm burnt out again. I knew it was going to happen, but I didn't know it would hit all at once. I got 10 hours of sleep and only got up once cause I was hoping it was snowing and not raining. lol So I should be refreshed right? Nope, big black bags under my eyes and no energy.

Lots of little stuff has gone down this week and none of it was very big or life threatening. But I just can't deal with any of it right now. I think last night was the final straw when I had to leave work early cause the kids had been home for too long alone.

Well it's off to work again right now. I have tomorrow off thankfully. I didn't get to write all I wanted, so I'll revisit this later tonight. I do have some things in the works to make a change, but that will mean some stress while we pay bills during the transition. :(

I'M SO BURNT OUT!!!

REVISITING:
Well I did a full 12 hours at work yesterday. Hmmm, any wonder why I'm burnt out? No, there is no wondering. I know and am just waiting for the transition to come full circle. Yesterday sucked and I didn't get back on here. I didn't even have the energy to watch tv and we know that is a sad state of affairs when that happens.

But I hate to leave focus on negatives, so I'll tell the happy story of coming home last night. Everyone was asleep of course by the time I got home and I was throwing a pity party in my head. :) I'm good at those if you ever need ideas. I get towards the front door and see that they put the Christmas wreath up, but notice that there's no ribbon on it. Odd, but thought maybe it looked like crap so they took it off. Nope, I totally forgot that hubby ordered a wreath and centerpiece from a friends kid. So I stood there with my face buried in the evergreens. It was heavenly. Brought tears to my eyes and was exactly what I needed to finish off the night in a better state of mind. Enough about yesterday, I'm going to start a new post about today!

SNOW!

Man oh man do I want to be on the mountain. We drove over yesterday and the pass was full of snow with only one of the resorts open. But our fav. resort www.skicrystal.com has been open for over a week now. They got over 69" in the last week alone! AHHHHH, me want to be there.

It even snowed here this morning. It's very wet and will be gone by mid day if even that cause the kids are playing with it all. lol But it's crazy that we've gotten a dusting this early. It's supposed to be a great season and this just may be proof.

I'm sure they are right about it being a hard core season. Hubby won't be going since eh may be on probation for his new job. It's taken him 5 years to get hired on and the last thing we want is for him to get an injury playing. I'm going to have to take the kids up by myself this year. :( Won't be as much fun, but we'll make it work. I just gotta find a friend to go with me. lol I don't know any other women that board or that will get up as early as we do so we can be first. Stupid girls!

Where'd today go?

Well I've done a lot of nothing today, but I've been really good at it. I made breakfast, for myself. Kids were gone and hubby didn't want any. I stood my ground and said no I didn't want to go to his buddies house. It would have been fun, but I didn't want to go anywhere. I did mask my face and shave, so that's cool. Oh and took a long shower also. lol

I've advertised on a site with all 4 sites and searched around on here a lot. roflmao But realistically I haven't done all that I wanted to. Oh, I've blogged on 2 of my accounts, so that is really good. AND I found this really cool free mom makeover ebook and posted it to everyone I know. lol DUH, I forgot to post it here, so I'll get it on here for you later.

I'm redoing a lot in the coming weeks. I'm overworked and underpaid. Oh wait, that's over 3/4 of America. But seriously. I could have 9 clients a month and make the money I want. That would be working 18 hours a week. Instead of working 45-50 hours a week and making half the money I want. Hmmm, is there a choice? Fuckin' A NO!

Lost today

I've had so much on my mind and so much to do, that today just skipped past me. But, a huge thing happened. My desk is clean! Also I went and reorganized my books and notebooks from school and many notebooks I have for biz. I'll try to keep track of how long it takes for me to destroy the desk. It's usually a few days, but since I'm gone most of the time now, maybe I can make it last a week. lol

I still have a little pile next to me that needs to be put in appropriate places. But with all the dust, I'm beat. Allergies suck! Oh and I vaccumed so that's not helping.

I've been going through a lot of biz stuff lately and I hope it all calms down soon. Nothing to post about for it yet cause the internet world is small, but some changes are in the works.

On a very sad front. I left a comment on the BuckCherry myspace last night. Woke up this morning to a friends invite to Josh Todd's personal myspace. WAHHHHH, what happened? This crazy bitch is a nosy bitch and wants to know WTF! K, so Josh's new album


Is out. It sounds great from the spots I listened to on myspace and I can't wait to get it. But, where's Keith? Some of us just gotta know! If he's doing something else too, then I want that cd. So I was bummed when I saw the new album cause it leads me to believe that they are no more. Hopefully that isn't the case, but yeah right.

Well off to eat dinner and put the rest of these papers where they belong before I work on sites.

still feeling icky

Well maybe I over did it yesterday. I was able to keep food down by Sat. evening, and was starving yesterday, but now my tummy hurts and I have a headache. :( I have to go to work today, can't afford another day off. Plus, I don't know what is on my schedule today. I feel really bad for everyone that I did a no show with on Sat. But unfortunately, I didn't care on Sat. I would have had to be awake for more than a few minutes to care. lol

So no working out today. That is 4 days in a row. But I'm sure I lost weight because of the flu, so we'll see how much in a little while.

Oh to top it off, we had a really bad windstorm come through last night and I didn't get any sleep. That helped me a lot. NOT!!! Off to slop on some make-up and get out of here. I hate being responsible somedays. (sniffle, poor me, sniffle)

Carry-over from yesterday

Yesterday started off really, really well. I went to a corporate wellness expo and talked to a bunch of cool people and even made some new sales. So it was great. Then along came time for the kids to get home from school and my Mom to pick them up. They had half day and this was the third one in a row. I'm not going to go into what happened, cause I really only know one side of the story, but it was bad. WTF am I supposed to do over the cell phone? Especially when I said I need to talk to him and I hear my Mom ask him if he wants to talk to me. WTF???????!!!!!!!!!!!! You do not ask the 8 year old if he wants to talk to him Mom when you are having a problem. You TELL the 8 year old that his Mom wants to talk to him. Needless to say, after he hung up on me everything got worse for them.

So I've only been given what happened by the 8 year old and we talked about it for 1/2 an hour last night. He and I understand why it happened, but it's still not ok for him to get violent. He needs to eat every 2-3 hours or his emotions get out of control for him. Here at the house we haven't had a problem with it in about 2 years. But I forget that others don't fully understand how important it is for him to eat since they haven't been witness to the mood swing that can happen.

I said my nephew could come over today, forgot I said that. lol But kind of figured it wouldn't happen becuase Mom wouldn't want to deal with whatever happened. No such luck. So she asks if hubby told me what happened and I said no, because we only saw each other for a few minutes last night, but that son and I had talked about what happened and what needed to happen in the future so it wouldn't happen. She then proceeds to tell me that it's not ok for him to lay hands on people in anger. NO SHIT!

She proceeds to tell me some more about how it's not ok and I explain the whole food situation and how that doesn't make it ok, but the fact that he really loses his control. I think this is about when the conversation got me cranky and defensive.

Her: "he needs to understand that it's not ok".
me: "he does understand"
her: "well he obviously doesn't"
me: "if you ask him right now he will tell you it's not ok"
repeat a few times


I tell her that he does know right now if you talk to him about how wrong it is, but that he gets so frustrated after he hasn't eaten that he can't use that good judgement he has. BLah, blah, it's not ok. I finally asked her how she wanted me to handle it differently. Does she want me to beat him? No of course not, but wtf does she want me to do differently than what I did? I didn't get an answer about what I should do differently. This is how living in that house was, no wonder why I moved out 2 days after graduation. Nothing I've ever done is good enough. Which is fucking ironic cause I'm not the single parent that has never moved out and is 30 years old! Don't tell me how to raise a son, you fucked up with yours! Oh oh, I'm getting super pissed now. Maybe it's time for me to eat?

I guess hubby and I will have to talk about it tonight and ruin our evening. I can't have this hanging over me now and I want to hear what my Mom's side of the story wass. I just didn't want to hear it from her this morning. I'm sure I should have asked, but just wasn't up for it. The conversation was long enough as it was.

On a great note, hubby passed the first fire dept. test and will move on to the other tests now. That was a major accomplishment and another reason why I didn't want to talk about the issue last night. It was supposed to be a night to celebrate. It's only 11am and I want a martini bad now!

Oh and it all that isn't enough. My mother lovin' hosting won't let me update either site. I rarely have time to do updates, so to do them and then not be able to update it sucks! I can't put my newsletters out either until I get those updates online. WAHHH, let's do over!

working a sunday ;(

Well it can't be helped. Or I guess it could be, but I want a piece of the money. lol Tonight is a big fundraising event at the mall and our gym is hosting the pre-party for all the shoppers. So I'm off to work tonight from 5-11pm. UGH! Tomorrow is going to be a long day with such little sleep, but if I get a piece of the 40-50 memberships that sign up it will be worth it.

The main problem is I have a new committment to working out, so after work I am going to do 20 min. of cardio. I figure I may as well, everyone will be asleep when I get home anyway. So that gets me home sometime around midnight. Then back up again in the morning at 6 to get kids off to school and get ready to go to work again. :( It will all be good. I also have to leave work early wed. and thurs. because of conferences, so the extra hours today work out.

This next commission check will be Christmas and I have to remind myself of that. lol

Right now I'm doing the everlovin' laundry. I knew I should have done my load of pants last night. One pair isn't supposed to be dried in the dryer, but I'm going to have to anyway cause I want to wear them tonight.

Off to make lists of chores for the kids. They aren't picking up the slack this week. Does anyone else have the annoying knats in the house? I know they are always around this time of year, but they still drive me crazy! Time to deep clean the house so they will die sooner. Off to get ready for work and watch The Break Up.

Unproductive

Not sure what's up, but I've been so scatter brained today. And I guess it actually has been more this week than just today. I have no idea what is up. I'm not normaly like this and if I am it's only for a day at most. I have no memory right now for the little stuff. One of those "if my head wasn't attached..." kind of feelings. lol

I'm sure it will be better tomorrow. When I was at work today it was actually better than normal. Of course I was only supposed to be at work to work out, but there was a new joiner that needed a tour and I figured why not make some money while I'm there. lol So I toured him with no make-up, messy hair in a ponytail and my workout clothes on. He still joined with me looking so scary. He must be committed to losing the weight. rofl OH and btw, I didn't steal a sale from one of the trainers that was working today. The receptionist had called 3 times to get someone when I walked in the door. It was just karma that I got there at the right time.

So today though. I had a bunch of stuff I really wanted to get done today, but couldn't focus on any one thing. I had a bunch of different windows open on the computer and never really finished any of the projects. I think tomorrow I will work on prioritizing my list while I'm at work. Then I will hit one thing hard on Sunday morning and finish it. Newsletters are probably the biggest one to hit. So I'll put those first and get them out asap.

k, better go and get some sleep. It's a long day tomorrow!

up to late

[gasp]Like that's a shocker. I'm usually sitting here too late with my farting dog under my feet!

But I really meant to go to bed around 9:30 tonight. I am going to blame it on Loretta. Yes, that's the problem. I don't get to talk to friends and she is online chatting with me right now, so it's her fault. roflmao

I have to be alert at work at 8am and I know I won't be very alert right now. I will have to grab money from hubbies wallet for the morning. I see a very large sugar-free rockstar in my future. lol

Many new ideas are flowing for my scrapsite and it's pretty exciting! If you are a digi kit designer wanna-be, then send me a line. Just put kit designer in the sigline so I see it. :) I'm really looking forward to working with some other home-based Mom's that want to make some extra cash. Oh and if you'd like to moderate some message boards please also send me a line!

Miss my old blog

I'm feeling sorry for myself. I'm missing my WP blog tonight. I'm very thankful that I got a bunch of the posts pulled out of space. But I actually miss the better organization of WP. That's saying a lot for this unorganized soul!

So I'm hoping that blogger beta will sharpen up and let me sort by catagorie soon! I sent it off in my comments when they asked. lol

January 31st, 2006 Whining

Yes, it’s more of a whine, than a bitch but shut-up. When I was prego with my youngest my doctor gave me the choice of being induced on the 3rd or the 4th. The 4th being my bday I asked if we could do the 5th so I wasn’t in the hospital on my bday like the 2 generations before me having their youngest child! WAHHH, never before this year have I felt the loss of my birthday. I’ve always had pretty crappy birthdays, so I don’t hold a lot of stock in them. But this year in order for him to have his slumber party they need to be here on my bday. There’s no question of that and I’m ok with it, but I still need to whine about it.

I think I’m also pmsing, so that’s not helping me cope with it. Next weekend we will have my parents (the best in the world) watch the kids so we can go snowboarding together on the big runs. I really, really selfishly wanted to move son’s bday party and go on my birthday. But, I will play the martyr like always and do what is right for the kids. God knows I don’t want them ever to think their bdays aren’t special, like I do!

I can turn this into a bitch real quick though. Here goes: My parents forgot my 16th birthday. I’d assume by now that this is a figment of my imagination, but I’ve had the same best friend since I was 8. lol And they didn’t even have a good excuse like on 16 Candles of a wedding or something. I was just forgotten. K, now I feel better. I would much rather bitch than whine!!! See, top that birthday crap. I have more if you can take them. roflmao

May 3rd, 2006 Rock on

It’s been really busy around here. I have 2 weeks and 2 days left of school and I’m working real hard at getting most things done this week. I have my final over the whole years worth of anatomy physiology on Monday, so lots of studying going on there. I’m only half way through the study guide and I spent 4 hours on it yesterday. :( I want it done today so a friend and I can compare our notes. lol

So, only 2 1/2 weeks until some money will start coming in. Boy this is much needed. I’m ready to start doing the summer play but we are broke. lol I’m dropping weight, therefore it’s time to get clothes, but we are broke. Damn it! Gotta get to marketing and get my sorry butt down to the gym to talk to them about training people there.

But on a side-note we had a blast last weekend with some friends. It was 75 here last friday and I was at work just dieing to BBQ. So I called everyone up and only one couple could make it. Good enough for a party for me. lol It was great to get together with friend. Haven’t done that much since school started. Sat. we spent the entire viciously raining day nursing hangovers and then sunday it was gorgeous again. We watched a ton of movies and did a lot of nothing. I was completely rested.

Since it’s been forever since I’ve been on here I hadn’t posted my good luck. I was trying all weekend 2 weeks ago to win tickets to the KISW rock girl gala and was having a heck of a time getting through. The phone rang a few times and had my hopes up. Then that following Monday I actually got a person on the line. HOLY CRAP! I’d won the freakin tickets. I couldn’t stop jumping up and down, the kids thought it was hilarious. Yes, they know that Mom is a freak. As long as they don’t think I’m normal I’m ok with that. :) Tomorrow we will be up at the showbox (21 and over club) for a huge deal. They are picking the rock girls for the radio station (don’t care much), but Buck Cherry is playing, Evans Blue and the New Originals. I LOVE BUCK CHERRY! You can’t even get there album around here. It’s always sold out. But you can hear the entire new album on their website, so guess what I’ve been listening to over and over. lol Oh did I mention I won these, so it’s a free date with hubby? At a damned rock concert in a small venue! Holy crap I can’t wait.

My friend went to the Tool concert last night and I can’t wait to hear how that went. The album went on sale yesterday and they chose Seattle to kick off the new tour. At a small venue as well I might add. Yes, we are still the center of the universe for many things that are good.

May 7th, 2006 WOOOOOOOOO

Hey now, you’re a rock star, get your game on, go hey! Oh wait, wrong band. lolololol

The concert was awesome and I have the bruises to prove it. I was front and center the entire concert. I am so bruised and I know that I need to thank hubby for my not being even more bruised. Hubby was behind me, literally covering my ass. So I know that he kept the moshers and the surfers off of me, God love him. lol
I spent the entire concert right at the guitar man! I was at Keith’s feet the entire time. Fuckin’ A he’s hot! I’m pretty sure the kids are all hungry by now and of course that will be my job to feed them. lol Damn responsibilities! When are they coming back in concert? Better go check. I’d travel quite a ways to go see them again!

June 27th, 2006 Buck Cherry again

Sick of me yet on this? TOO FREAKIN BAD! So hope everyone caught them on Jimmy Kimmel live on Wed. night. It wasn’t the best performance, sound was pretty off, but it was them on national tv!

I’m not happy that every time they are in the northwest now it’s a bad time to go. Next time they are in portland is my daughters bday party. Can’t runaway that night. lol So I’ll keep checking their site for more dates to show up. But they’ve got to come around soon!!!

June 27th, 2006 Black Crowe’s

I can’t believe I forgot to post about this. Good grief. So I got my triple 999 club newsletter one monday morning and it had a link for tickets to go see the black crowe’s for 9.99. I thought, yeah right, they will be out on the grass. Still good, but not sure if hubby would want to go.

So ended up working that day and he calls my cell phone back. Says hell ya he wants me to buy them. Didn’t really have a doubt, he really likes them and we just couldn’t swing full price. So I call him and get on ticketbastard. Low and behold, these are good seats and undercover. In WA you really do want undercover in June, you never know what the weather will be.

His buddy at work couldn’t believe it. I knew I should have bought a few more tickets and sold them. But then the concert is on Sat. and hubby tells me on Sat. morning that his buddy got a free ticket and we are meeting up with them to ride the shuttle to the concert. Good times. We all got unexpected tickets. NO other wives are there of course, why am I the only one that loves this stuff? Can’t I find a friend?

Concert was awesome. We saw some other friends from high school that have a band and are going to go watch them this weekend. Hubby had come to realize that I can’t sit at a concert no matter how far away from the stage we are. ;) It’s just not possible when you feel the groove man! And we then went out to breakfast at the casino. Didn’t get home until a little after 2am. Felt like a baby again! We slept until afternoon and woke up to a beautiful day. It was a truly wonderful and fun weekend. Thanks Black Crowes!

June 27th, 2006 Searching around

And found some articles about Buckcherry. I know, I know, shut up right? lol NO! It’s my damn blog, so there. You can read a cool article from Keith here

And on a side note, I got my myspace account set up. It’s really just for my friends to check out and bug me. :) But it’s fun to load blinkies and graphics on there and you can change the layout super quick. Oh and load music on it. I like that option too. For those of you that do read this blog it will mostly be rehash of any good info on myspace. lol

March 9th, 2006 MIA poster

yes, I’ve been MIA and yes I don’t care. lol I had 2 weeks off from school and it wasn’t nearly enough. This week is pure hell trying to get back into the swing of things when I don’t wanna anymore! 11 weeks and counting until graduation, none too soon. If I can’t find a nutrition program online there is no way I’m going back to school this fall. I just can’t take all this anymore while trying to work. Especially since I’ve got my 2 clients to train and I’m working at the espresso stand. BURNING OUT FAST HERE

On a happier kind of note, my computer is not broke. I’ve been without it for almost4 days when the screen faded to black. I’ve been trying not to cry for 4 days and done a damn good job of that I must say. Then today it dawned on me that the computer would come on and there was just nothing on the screen. DUH, maybe it’s my 16 month old flat screen monitor that I FREAKIN love and now HATE! It was of course the problem because here I sit. So now I’ve got the older than dirt, hugest monitor in the world, back on the computer. Pissed off because the good one is broke, but this old one came from the boeing surplus for cryin’ out loud and has seen more hours of work than can be imagined. Technology sucks! But…I’m back on! YIPPEE

January 23rd, 2006 Are you KIDDING?

Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap. The Seapigs are going to the Superbowl! We still can’t believe it around here. We are always the bottom of the league and it’s just amazing we didn’t choke. I am a fair weather Hawks fan and wish them luck. But, I am a Steelers fan and love Bill Cower. So, whatever the outcome it’s all good in our household! lol It’s finally going to be an awesome Superbowl. We’ve had so few of those lately. I just can’t wait!

It’s my son’s bday that day so he’s excited and thinks we should go to the game for his bday. lol I tried to tell him that the game has been sold out for quite a while. Then he said that we should call them and have them say happy birthday to him on the air. He thinks he’s the only one with a birthday on that day. lol

(on a side note, my bday is super bowl sunday this year. lol)

May 18th, 2006 Friends (favorite post)

Well I’m not sure where this post should go. Not even sure if I should be posting it. But I will. I have a feeling a changing of friends is on it’s way. This makes me sad and happy at the same time. Enough said on that.

Here is what I look for in a friend. BTW, I usually hang out with hubby’s friends because I get tired of the crap from women. Just in case you haven’t been reading past posts.
1. No whining. Bitching is just fine. It makes us feel better to get it off our chest. But whining means that you want to rehash it and rehash it and hope that everyone feels sorry for you. I don’t have time for you.
2. No guilt trips. If I’m busy, I’m busy. I will call you. But don’t spend the first 5 minutes of the conversation laying a guilt trip on me. I probably only had 5 minutes for the conversation.

3. Respect that I want to hang with hubby. Yes, I do love to go out with the girls. But, I don’t want to go out and check out guys. I don’t necessarily want to go out and dance with many other guys. I married my hubby for a reason. I know it’s a novel idea, but (shockingly) he is my best friend and we (gasp) enjoy each others company.

4. Get out of the mall. I don’t do malls. The only malls I will walk around and waste time in, have my daughter in them. I will go and spend time with her cause she wants to be there. Otherwise, 4 stores is about my limit. I don’t have enough time to do the mall all day and I definitely don’t have the money!

I’m sure there are a few more, but those are the real one’s that matter. It’s no surprise to most that I’m not a girly-girl. It’s just me. Don’t gasp because I’ve used the same purse for over a year. lol My daughter has a ton of purses already, so I’m starting to use hers. I will be ok. Meet me at the top of the ski lift and we’ll chat on the way down. Oh wait, you’ll have to catch me. I’ll meet you in the bar for a pitcher. I don’t do just glasses of beer. ;) Toast to my new friend!

March 22nd, 2006 Still bad attitude but…

Someone above has granted me some help. ;) I was still in a bad attitude when I went to internship today. First appointment was a no show, big surprise, so I decided to go to the circuit class and have my ass kicked. Boy did she! She was great. I wrote down the whole thing and plan on using it many times. We ran lines, did wall sits, side stepped the length of the gym, both ways! YAHOOO, I’m going to be rolling out of bed in the morning. lol

So, then I had down time. Went to dinner with a friend and had a good time chatting. Really wanted to go home still, but had a 9 o’clock appt. It was another guy. Did anyone miss that I want to work with other Mom’s? K, this is actually really good because I’ve had to break out of my comfort zone. Not only were both my appt’s that showed up guys, but they were also both 59 years old. lol Both in shape though, so that was cool

Anyway, I’m taking this guy around. He is telling me more and more about why he wants to build strength. Showing me the moves he has to make for his sport sailing, so I’m frantically trying to jot stuff down. Now we didn’t start off the appt. knowing anything about the sailing. lol I did know that he had some bone density issues, but he said he was on medication for that. But, I still changed up his workout to help build some back up. He was happy to hear that was possible. So yada yada, he kept telling me he was happy about all the new stuff he was learning. Stroking my ego, yep, I do have one. :) I didn’t have the calculation or a calculator to figure out his target weight, too many numbers in my head. So I told him I would get it to him next week, no problem. We did it real fast and I went up to where he was working out, gave him the number which was about where he likes to be anyway and he starts chatting more.

Come to find out, his doc didn’t tell him anything about exercise to improve bone density. He’s merely put him on medication. Come to find out, this guy quit the medication 4-6 weeks ago because he found out one of the side-effects was depression. He’d been on it for a year and a half and was having issues with depression and he’d never before had problems. So we chatted about that a little and he told me how happy he was to hear of this alternative. He has some other things, but we are going to tackle them at a later date. I was not looking forward to this appointment and I really almost passed it on to someone else. I wanted to go home. But it’s amazing how things are put in our space to help us. I am on top of the world right now that I just helped someone feel like there is hope with out medication!!! ON TOP OF THE FREAKIN WORLD! This is why I’m in school. To help educate.

April 16th, 2006 Easter evening

The baskets are stuffed and the eggs are out. It’s freakin’ 35 degrees out. Yes, very below norm here in the Seattle area. The ski resorts have incredible snow still. And I’m sick that we have spent as much money as we can up there. Tomorrow is the last day of ski season and we can’t go. WAHHHHHHHHH Anyway, everything is set and I know they will be happy about it. They each got 2 new pairs of shoes and a new outfit, plus candy. I went to 3 stores to find the damned chocolate eggs with the peeps in them. I don’t think they even know they exist, but I saw them on a commercial and knew they will love them. So I had to have them so I could be the bestest easter bunny ever. lol

Hubby went and hide 70 some odd eggs. Yeah, I know you are supposed to keep count, but I’ve had a couple of beers and don’t give a crap. lol Anyway, I filled the plastic eggs and set the bag for him to put them out and he immediately said, “Finally the best part of the holiday!”. OOOOOOHHH, I’m teary eyed. Daddy loves to hide the eggs and then make fun of the kids while they try to find them. No wonder why I love him so much. tee-hee-hee These kids are going to be so wonderfully twisted as adults. We may actually still want to hang out with them when they get older. lol

On a side note, (see above that we are broke from snowboarding so much this year) our anniversary is today. This is the exact opposite weather of our wedding. It was almost 70 on the day we were married 12 years ago. Tomorrow we will be lucky to hit 50 I hear. Since it’s actually on Easter this year we won’t get any time to ourselves. But we have plans to runaway in May after my graduation. I’m already planning plates of oyster shooters at FX McRory’s in Seattle. bahahahaha

July 9th, 2006 Garage saleing

My daughter and her best friend (neighbor) came up with the idea to sell a bunch of their barbies. They made signs and BF’s dad went and put them up. They’ve been out there for only a day and a half and the little turkey’s have made $30! I never make crap at my garage sales. lol Their signs merely say Doll Sale too. Who would have thought it would bring in this kind of traffic. We had cars driving by at 8 and the girls posted 11. roflmao
Needless to say, I have now taken stuff across the street for them to sell. I told them I’d split it 50/50 with them so they are excited. I had planned to take stuff over to my friends yard sale for her to sell, but why bother? Hubby doesn’t want to drag the dining room table back and forth, but I just might have the girls help me. We want that and a coffee table gone too. Boy wouldn’t they be excited to sell that! lol
Moral of the story is if you want to make money at your next garage sale, have some kids do it for you! I’m pretty sure there is a guilt factor in there.

beware sporadic posts coming

I am going to go through the cached pages in google and copy and paste old posts before I lose them. I seriously hope to get my wordpress back up and running someday, but for now I just have to get them back on here for personal reasons!

So beware of the posts being dated super weird. lolololol

Must be PMS

Well I think it's going to be a bad one. I have even less patience for stupid people right now. I was hit by a minimum of 3 morons at work today. I was ready to bite someone's head off if I had to deal with another one! And it's the little things that set it off. ARGHHHH!

Now that said, I had some great laughs with the great members and my clients today. So I know it's the stupid fuckers that got to me. I hope tomorrow will be better. I have a stacked day so at least it should go fast if it sucks. lol

LOST is on tomorrow and they keep playing all these teasers that we are going to find out so much info tomorrow. YEAH right! I'll believe that tomorrow night when I see it. lol I'm always more LOST after watching the show than I was at the beginning.

I have to get to a ticketbastard location tomorrow. My daughter wants Jinglebell bash tickets for her bday present and the online charges were horrendous. I'm hoping a couple of them will be dropped by going. Of course I guess I better figure out where the closest one is. I know Freddy's sells through ticketbastard, but not sure if somewhere is closer. The kids at work will know. ;) Here goes over a hundred bucks in tix and fees!

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Boards, oiy!

I love my boards, but they are a lot of work. I love being able to go in there and make multiple posts in a day and know that many people that don't post will benefit from my posts.

But alas, they have been down for about 2 1/2 weeks! WTF? Yes, that long. It's sad and sick. It was a little thing to a great web guy to fix, but I'd tried a few things along the way and couldn't do it. Why try to fix it when a professional can go in and fix it in seconds?

So other updates are on the way for the boards and I will hang out on phpbb.com so I can keep better up to date on how to do things myself.

K, the kids have gotten along way too well up till now and I hear major lauging going on in the bedroom. Never a good sign. I don't see the dog either, EVEN WORSE SIGN! BRB


K, dog is safe, kids are dorks. Time for them to go to bed. They want a sleepover in daughters room and that looks like it will work ok. We'll see 10 minutes from now where I stand on the issue.

Work was long today. Even with the 2 1/2 hour break so I could run back up here and go to little one's football game. I'm super glad I did and I need to figure some things out. I really don't like not being more involved. I don't know any of the parents on our team and I'm not ok with that.

wasted day

It was my day off today and I got it off for the most part. The kids were home from school so that was cool, no getting up to take the oldest. I still needed to go train a client and grab a few groceries, but that was only a couple of hours.

But I've wasted most of the day looking for and putting up new skins on my blogs. lol I really should have put new boards up, but alas that is not as fun. UGH, the wasted time I'll never get back. It's already 6:30 and dinner hasn't been started, the kitchen is a mess and I have to get up early cause I have an 8 am client.

I guess it happens, at least I got to sleep in. Oh and we have the movie Click to watch tonight.

I really have to start working on tracking down my old posts in google and copy and paste them in here so I don't have them lost forever.

rough start to morning

UGH, I was running around this morning and I usually have breakfast at 7:30ish. I was too busy to grab something and I was really good and took my vitamins earlier. YIKES! I'm finally eating now at 8:20 and my stomache feels so bad. I wasn't paying attention to the time factor and I know better than to take pills on an empty stomache. I'll feel better in a few minutes, but boy it's not the way to start the morning!

So I went to post to my weightloss blog and it's having problems now too. I'm just going to forget this hosting on my own anymore. From now on I will just stick to my blogger accounts so I don't have to hassle with it anymore. I'm so done with trying to log into my blog and haven't it not connect. Now that there are a ton of blogger templates to choose from I don't have a problem with it at all. So see ya WP, I loved using you, but I'm tired of the hassle. Now I just have to search around a little and find a cool template for the other blogs.

My boards are still down and I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that. I'm tired of messing with them and I don't really want to hire someone to go in and fix them. But there is so much info on them that it makes me sick to just start over. I guess I better just suck it up and hire someone to help out and fix them before I lose all of my visitors.

So let me know if there are any good blogger template sites you have out there.

Bye bye salon day

I have been looking forward to my salon day this Friday for weeks. We've been broke while we paid bills ahead and I've waited (as usual) til my hair looks like crap to go in and get a cut. We'll see how big my check is today and then I even was going to get color again. :) I miss my red highlights!

I get the daily email bulletin from the school and went to change the 1/2 day date that they sent me and figure I'd better go look at the school lunch menu and put other days off and 1/2 days on the calendar too. Well good thing I did, cause low and behold, no school this friday!!! WTF :( I already have my day off taken over by a 2 hour training session at work. So now I won't be able to go enjoy an hour in a chair doing nothing. I don't want the kids at my parent's when I could actual spend some time with them, so salon is out. RATS! I don't want to end up at supercuts on Sunday either damnit! WAHHHHHH This mop can't go another week. Hopefully they have an opening on Thursday. I guess I could take a long lunch, but that still won't be as relaxing. Good thing the salon is in my work. I don't even have time for a 10 min. commute to somewhere. WORKING FULL-TIME SUCKS! But my check today will be good. lolololol

My day is pretty stacked which is good. I prefer that to being on the phone all day. I guess I'll have to do that anyway though cause I think I have quite a few openings on Thurs. So another workday is about to begin and I have 2 appt.'s first thing when I walk in the door. I had one mug of coffee, but by the way this day has started, I can tell I'm going to need a rockstar in a couple of hours. lol I'm going to work on making sure the rest of my day goes awesome. It's all about positive thinking damnit!

PG for myspace

NO, not here, I said PG for myspace. Here's the scoop. I let me kids get myspace accounts. But alas, this means that they and all their friends are now linked to me. Ok, I have most of them as my friends too, I'm a loser and wanted more friends. Fuck, that means I can't vent and I really shouldn't say FUCK! Cause I don't want them to right? Damn, that sucks.

No, it's cool. My daughter is spending the second night in a row at her good friends house. I haven't seen her except for about 10 minutes today, but they are sending me messages through myspace. Is this what I have to look forward to? BTW, my daughters friend lives 2 doors down. roflmao It's walking distance even after a bottle of wine. Hmmm, there's a thought. I'm sure her Mom would love to sit and chat, the girls would hate it. Good thing it's cold out and I don't want to find my shoes or I'd be all over it. I'll keep it in mind for the summer. Her Mom's cool and I really need to get some more friends. SIGH, but it's so much work to be friends with girls.

Now that could be a whole subject in itself. How to be friends with girls. Someone can send me tips. I prefer watching football or wrestling with the guys anyday. I don't care about hair and make-up. Yes, I spend a lot of dough and time on my hair and I do wear make-up, but I don't want to TALK about it. Jeesh! Then you have to get all uppity because I haven't changed my purse in 2 years. Yes, it's lime green, and yes I like it. I know it's not summer anymore, leave me the fuck alone! I hate changing out my purse, this is why I usually go for black leather and leave it that way year around. roflmao

K, I need more friends, but you can see what I'm up against. I need a cool chick that will tell the guys to shut up during the super bowl and might want to work on changing her purse during half time. I'm willing to compromise a little. ;) Oh, if her and her husband would go extreme mountain biking with us, that would be extra cool! No I don't mean biking with a motor, I mean pedaling your ass up the hill.

TV show addict

k, the season has begun. Not only do I have my old shows to be addicted to, but I've found a couple more. Did anyone see the nine's last night? Thought it was great, hope they keep up the potential there. I was so damn happy to have LOST back!



Sawyers my fav. I've always been attracted to the bad boys. lol That daughter rebelling from strict parents thing I think.

Then tonight was Grey's and it was all that it should be. YuMMY McSexy is back for quite a few episodes I guess. I look forward to seeing much more of him.

Survivor has been a disappointment. I just don't like anyone on the show this season. I think this happened in like season 3 or 4 and I didn't watch for a couple, then got hooked back on it. Not sure why all the characters suck so bad. :( Usually I'll like at least a couple of them. I like the roller girl, but you know she won't last long. :( Maybe I'm just jaded to the fact that the people I like will go home. lol

I've stayed up watching tv wayyy tooo late tonight. I've got to get up early and get the kids to school. At least tomorrow I don't have to go to work. I have a ton of work to do around here though. Friends are coming over on Sunday and tomorrow is the only day I have to clean. CHick flicks and cleaning tomorrow baby!

Sinus crap

UGH, didn't realize I was coming down hard with it. Youngest stayed home from school yesterday and I had to clear out my schedule and come home. I got home, ate 1/2 a sandwich and then slept for 2+ hours. Hmmm, maybe I was coming down with it too? All I know is my headache and sore throat are gone. I'm still sneezing, but I can deal with that. lol

Last night was LOST and I'm still lost. lol Always am with this show. Glad they are finally starting to get into the bad things that Jack did before the crash though. It seemed odd that he was the only one that wasn't really horrible. I have a suspicion he went over the edge and killed the ex's boyfriend. I guess we'll have to wait and see on that.

Tonight is survivor and Grey's. It's my friday night so I will probably stay up and watch them even though I should go to bed early. :) I still have to catch up on the biggest loser from last night. I couldn't stay up any later and watch it. Usually I would, so I must have still been really tired last night. K, off to work. I need to be there a little early on Thursdays now. No biggy, since I have tomorrow off! WOOHOOO

The addicts back

K, I got a cool new skin up. There is still some tweaking to be done, but it will happen. I think hubby is getting drunk cause he is way over explaining life to the kids. I gave up not making fun of him. Now I'm just laughing hysterically and telling him to shut up. roflmao

It's almost 8pm and we still haven't eaten dinner. Is there any idea why he might be getting drunk by now? DUH, we need to eat. Oh and to top it all of I'm getting the look and lots of comments because I've been on here all night. TOOO FREAKIN BAD!!! I work 50 hours a week and I rarely get on here. This is my only day off for 11 days cause I told them I'd work the desk if they canned this moron at that moment. lol Obviously they did so I lost my day off.

K, he's getting up to look over my shoulder. Better go put the leftovers in the microwave!

Here I am again!

Well my blog has been down for months. I deleted my sql for it and then by the time I emailed my host it was too late to get it back up. WAHHHH, I got over it and then started working 50 hours a week so there has been no time to get it back up and running. I totally miss my blog. I tried to get it back up and it's still not showing, so I have no idea what I'm doing wrong with it. Before I just clicked instal on fantastico and it went in. I have a feeling I deleted too many files in my account and that is why it won't go to the blog. ARGHHHH!!!

My friend sent me her blogger link and it dawned on me that I could go back to this one at least until I get things straightened out. Maybe since I have SOOO much time on my hands I should just stick with this one. I know there are a ton of free blogger skins out there now. I love wordpress, but here at blogger I don't have to mess with anything. lol Easy is better as a working Momma.

Oh and let's not even get started on the fact that my message boards are down and I've sent like 8 clients from work to my website this last week. I've also heard that my email account (the business one) is returning one clients emails to her. WTF!

So today is my day off and I have all of about 2 hours to try and figure some stuff out on here. I want to freakin' play on the computer for a while. :( I guess I better go and change my domain name so it will come over here again. I don't want to lose any of my loyal following. That's you BTW, you know, the lurker that doesn't comment. ;)

Follow the domain

K, I hope that no one has gotten stuck here looking for me. That would really suck! You can see my blog at www.busymomma.com. I've been a decent blogger and post frequently. Click on over and see what hell I'm raising!

School day

Well it's back to school today. I think I'm ready? lol I only got a couple of hours sleep last night, total insomnia and now I will pay for it. I'm already starting to get tired. I'm drinking a diet dr. pepper right now and will have one more, but I want to make sure I sleep tonight. It's a busy week with school again and working extra hours. It's supposed to snow tonight, so we'll see. The sky definitely has that look to it.

Family pics

We took some family pics today. I hope they turn out great. I was bummed that it was raining so hard we couldn't go outside, those are the best pics. But, we needed them taken and I know everyone will love them for Christmas. The house is pretty clean because of it too. BONUS! Now I can get to work on the extra bedroom and packing up some stuff to take to the crop on Sunday. I'm excited to cook turkey dinner here tomorrow. Hubby's going to go play flag football in the morning and the kids and I will work on making dinner. Too bad they are both not feeling well. :( Hopefully they will be better tomorrow.

Week is almost over

It's almost back to school for me. I really don't feel like I've accomplished much. Just like the last break. lol But the house is cleaner and the laundry is caught up. So, I guess that's enough. I plan on scrapbooking tonight after I get the house picked back up. We have family pics on Friday and if it rains we will have to take them in here somewhere. Since we don't really have the house fancied up, I have no idea what we will use as a backdrop. Oh well, it's not the background that matters. Off to clean as always. WHere's my Diet Dr. Peper?

Monday

Boy, today was a Monday. If I didn't drop it, I threw it. There has been no extra time and then top it off with horrible cramps. I'm glad the day is over. I think I will go take a shower and hide in bed. lol

Made it through the night

Two of them have left for church and I put football on my big screen so they have all gone to my daughters room. Hey, my Raiders are on and this is the first game that's been televised up here this season! There's just things a woman's got to do. So we'll see how bad we get beat here, but at least I get to watch them lose. lol All in all, there haven't been any real problems. Just the normal bickering between girls.

The house just needs a little pick up and I will spend the rest of the day scrapbooking and watching football. Doing some laundry in there too. Low key day:) I wonder what hubby is going to make for dinner? Cause I sure ain't cookin'!

Wow, a month

K, I'm a slacker on here. It's been such a busy month. Second term is over. Grades were 3.63, not happy about that. It dropped my accum. to 3.82. :( Oh well, I'll make up for it in the last 2 terms. It's all the fun classes now and practical/application stuff.

I let my daughter have a slumber party tonight. Her bday is in July and the last couple of years have been a bust because everyone is on vacation. So, I let her have a big slumber party and just my luck, all 8 of them could attend! Wow, there's a lot of girl power going on in my house. There's a lull in the radio and karaoke, so my brain is unscrambling. They have found the madlibs. Do those things ever go out of style? lol With 9 ten year old girls, you know there's going to be tears within a few hours. Ahh, the drama.

halloween party

I was having a great time at our friends party earlier tonight. My son had been sick earlier this week, so I was somewhat prepared to leave early. But, my daughter said she didn't feel well and I call BS on that. I know they get bored there and that's cool. So next time I will make sure they stay at grandma and grandpa's for the night.

Debt

Well, I frequent a few boards and found my name on one of them. UGH, it was the finance board. My post had inspired them to post their debt. So, now I will do the same. I hate, hate, hate to do it. But, then again, I haven't balanced my freakin checkbook in a year. Hubby has no clue and no say. lol So, I guess I really should step up and be the adult. Make a budget we can live happily on, no problem, and then also make a point of a list of bills. What if, god help us, something happened to me? Do I really want to leave my family without any knowledge or even a place to start?

UGH, this is a lot for 11:40pm. lol

Sick kid

Was up most of the night with my youngest. Poor guy, he seems fine now, but I'm waiting to see who comes down with it next in the house. Since I ate off his plate last night, I'm waiting for it to be me. :(

Tomorrow is his last football games and I'm glad he'll be ok to play. I'm crossing fingers that hubby doesn't get it since he's one of the coaches.

Oh, speaking of hubby, he just called. They laid him off today. We've been waiting for it as the boss is an ass, but it still pisses me off. Makes me want to go down there and tell the pretty boys how stupid they are. Hubby will have another job by the end of the night, or maybe by the time he gets home. lol I can only hope that these 2 guys love working with out him now. But, ignorant people don't ever get it do they? They just want someone to bough and kiss their ass. Not going to happen with either of us that's for sure. :)

2 1/2 weeks

One week and one day left of new or review material and then one week of finals. I can't wait! This will signify the half way point for the course and I can definitly use the time to get stuff done around here. Atleast the house isn't as messy this term. I guess I must be getting used to the schedule at least a little bit. lol

Bad mood day!

I'm in a no-good-very-cranky mood today. I've put off a presentation that needs to be done tonight. (my fault completely) Then we have the millionth field trip since school started. Pumpkin patch is usually fun, but for some reason we can't go to the best one in the state that is 2 miles from the school. Nooooo, we have to waste our gas and drive all the way down to the valley. So stinkin stupid. I purposely signed up for my presentation tonight because next week is always our school autumnfest. Not this year! Nooooo, they are doing it tonight. Major ticked about that. Hubby has to work, so I will be paying a sitter to go with the kids. Don't mind paying for the food, usually do that and it's cheap good pizza. But, then to find out they are charging for some of the games this year. WTF!

Then the weekend is packed full and I have to go to class on Sunday for CPR/First aid. Wouldn't normally make me cranky, but we had class last Sat. So this is 2 weekends in a row of class. Major cranky about that, no one told me they did that when I signed up! I'm so leaving class early tonight. I need a bubble bath and a good cry. Then I can just get over myself and move on. lmao

Bra sale

We all need them, so why not get them at the best price? Buy 2, get 2 free on name brand bras is an incredible deal. For the best support, new bras should be purchased every 6 months. You also need at least 3 so you can wear one while you are washing the others. Take care of yourself and feel like a sexy Momma ;)

New week starting

I have lot's of stuff due this week at school. And I need to get a lot of site work done. So, the planner is full of times to work on each and I'm going to start the week fresh by going to bed early tonight. bahahaha, we'll just have to see if that happens though. I'm such a night person.

Family is off doing their own thing today and the house is staying clean after I clean it. They should all be home soon, so we'll see how long it can last. Dinners in the crockpot and ready when they are. It's been a peaceful day with just me and the dogs. Now it's time to work on laundry and homework. :( May as well do both of the evils at the same time!

Using the planner

Alright, so the key to owning a planner is to use it. Doesn't matter what kind you get if you don't take it places with you. lol So, it's been going everywhere with me and I think we are bonding pretty well. It's being used and my notes, assignments and test dates, and to-do lists are all in there. It's good to have it all in one place and not on notes floating around the house.

I didn't get as much done this week as I'd hoped, but oh well. I got the important stuff done and there's always next week for the rest. Off to school now for yet another test.

Spread too thin

I've loaded my plate with way too much. It's time to prioritize and enjoy school again. I've got projects going in every direction and none of them are getting completed.

I'm also on the lookout for a good planner. I'm so sick of these little one's that have no room to write in. See, one more thing to add to my list of ideas. Design a planner that freakin' works!!!

Spamming in full force

Well, boy they are just on it here lately. I've never had the spam problems like I have in the last couple of weeks. You guys are incredible. It must be sad to live in your little worlds, with your little minds, all alone. Good luck with all that and give my best to your online girl/boyfriend.

The bar

I went out last night to meet hubby and his new "bosses" buddies from work. I was looking forward to staying home, but it was necessary to meet everyone. Plus, this way I knew hubby wasn't needing to drive home.

It was a good time. We left early because I set it up that way. Remember I didn't want to go. lol So I set it up that I needed to be home by 9. K, it was 9:45. Anyway, my bitch is this. One of the guys was there and his girlfriend showed up. She's cool, but she made a comment that has me completely pissed and steaming. People ask my age and I have no problem saying 32. It's young, and only a number. But, when I said it, she said she knew I we were young. WTF does that mean? I know I'm not immature, I know I'm not ignorant, I also know that I can hold my own in any freakin' conversation you want to have. So what is meant by that comment? I'm sure I'm being a "girl" and reading way too much into it. But, it just pissed me off. Hopefully by typing it out I will be fine now. lol

Happy Birthday Hubby!

I spoiled him this year. He's only had 1 day off since he started the new job on Sept. 5. I bought him the new Ipod Nano. Only the 2GB, because the 4 has a bazillion mile long waiting list. lol But, he was surprised and happy. Now we just need to figure out how to use it. His brother has most of his cd's ripped onto his computer, so we are going to go over there next weekend.

I'm so happy to be able to say I can go to their house during the day or for dinner. I'm going to love this new freedom of weekends off. Our term gets over on Nov. 11 and then I know I will be able to take the cert. test. That is right in time to start taking holiday clients!!!Woohoo!

K, on to waste my mind and finish watching Medium. I'm so excited it's back on. Now I just need my Boston Legal and I'm set. Tivo gets here in the morning;) Just in time for the finally's of BB6 and INXS.

work no more

Well, not completely, but only 8 hours a week away from home. Yippee! I'm so happy. I have 3 sites now that need attention, plus 2 more in the works. I don't have time to leave the house unless it's for school. I'm so excited about all of this. I've found a renewed energy as I've seen the sites form the way I like them.

School started and the kids seem to like their classes. I think we may have found our groove for homework, but we'll see. We have a field trip to the fair on Wed. and it's the last time I'll get to go for school. My baby is in 2nd grade now and it's the last year they do the fair. :( Just one of the facts of life I guess.

Well off to stare at code for a few hours. I have friends spending the night for each of the kids. Lot's of uninterupted time on the computer. lol

Where's august?

And while I'm asking questions, where in the heck is the first week of Sept.? Anyone, anyone? Bueller?

I've been a very bad blogger. But, I have great excuses. My brain turned to complete mush during my break from school, yah! That was a good thing. The kids and I had fun doing about 1/4 of the things I'd hoped to do this summer. At least we made a family trip out to the ocean. We took the dogs and that was a disaster, but all in all, we had a blast and look forward to doing it again.

My last excuse and the biggest one is work. I told them and told them to hire someone, but no! Why would they do that when we can just schedule you for 6 days a week. HELLO! Only one with kids that works here and I'm taking 16 credits of school. No I can't work until 7:20 when I have to leave for school at 5. So, I happily found people to cover my shifts and as of today I may have even less shifts. I may be down to 8 hours a week. WOOOHOOOO! The house may get cleaned again. Hubby started a new job and is working a shitake mushroom amount of hours. So it's all good. I'll just miss my paychecks. Guess I better get those websites smokin again.

So, I'm back. Hope ya missed me!

Cleaning burn out

It didn't take long for it to hit. lol I'm blessed in that everyone that was supposed to come over today had to cancel for various reasons. Woohoo! I've never been so happy. I was looking forward to visiting, but goodness it's awesome to have no worries and I can still not put make-up on. I'm hoping the laundry gets completed by the end of the day.

cleaning

You know the house is a wreck when you're looking forward to cleaning. It is seriously a mess and we have people coming over for dinner tomorrow. Cooking, cleaning, and doing laundry. OK, I watched a movie while folding clothes, so it's not all work. lol Daughter is playing at the mall with friends and hubby took the our son to get bike parts. So, it's nice to clean with just the dogs and I. I don't have to reclean the same spot 4 times in a row. I better go eat lunch though so I have the energy to keep going. Looks like another movie:)

First week off

I've crammed all 4 of my workdays into 3. lol I'm off to my last shift right now and then to my friends cabin for the next 2 days. I'm looking forward to getting away with the kids, but I also want to come home and clean this pit. So much needs done around here in this short time off. Not to even mention exercise...

Long week

This week was finals and I of course came down with a good sinus infection. Amazing how after I took 2 of the finals on wed., my sinus' started clearing up on thursday morning. Amazing what stress does to the body! One more test to go and then 2 weeks of fun!

Coffee quiz

By the way, the sun came back this afternoon. WOOHOO!

You're a cappuccino!


What Kind Of Coffee Are You?
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Rain :(

I can honestly say I jinxed our sun. I was just starting to worry that I should find the sprinkler and water the lawn. So of course that means we woke up to a thunder storm. A very cool one I might add. You couldn't see the lightening very well because of how overcast it is, but the noise was defening. It sounded like 2 fighter jets were going through the valley beside us. Which happens, so that's how I know. lol

I'm plugging away at my new website and have added many pages to my other. It's a great day to sit and watch old movies and write up more articles. Ok, and I'll do some laundry to. Geesh, get off my back! Later!

SUN!!!

The sun is back. It's supposed to be here all week, but I don't trust those weather quacks. Beautiful blue skies without a cloud. Time to run into daughters room and help her clean a few seconds and then get outside. My tan from the 4th is starting to dim. Can't have that happen!

Purple Egg

This site has some of the neatest soaps and party favors. Soap petals in the shape of maple leaves. They also have bath confetti's that are very cute. Gift baskets start at $16.00 and most are around the $20 range. Plus shipping is only $3.99 on all orders. Check them out! Unique Gifts..

Summer school

Both of the kids are in summer school starting yesterday. Yippee! I have time to clean the house and work on websites in the morning now. Plus, my son get's to play with his best friends while on breaks. He came home all excited about how well he did and the new people he had in his classes. I really should email his teacher from last year, I'm sure she had a hand in his going into a seperate group from his friends. I brought it up for him to be seperated from them next year. It will build his confidence to get more friends. We are surrounded by girls and he needs more slumber party cohorts for one thing.

I have my last mid-term tomorrow. I guess I'll be cramming for it tomorrow afternoon. OH and we have 2 other tests as well. [head smack] Why all in one day?

Vincent Black Shadow

Hubby and I are up watching tv way to late. History channel to be exact. And that is because there was a great episode on bikes. I had no idea half these bikes existed. I love the old vincent black shadow. How cool to find out that someone here in the states has decided to repilicate or they are a family member moved here. WHATEVER! Your bike's rock! I can't wait to get more info. When I move within the next couple of years we will need a couple of bikes. I don't plan on using my huge suv to visit my relatives anymore when the weather is nice.

So if you are looking for a woman to give an opinion, here I am! Long line of biker bitches here;) Good girls, gone bad in other words. roflmao

Groove

I've so got to find it. I lost it over the weekend since I had no responsibilities. I only have 5 weeks of classes left before our first break. Easy as pie. Now if the house can just survive until then it will be a miracle!

From busy to busier

We had a great weekend visiting family. Mild 4th of July which was a big culture shock to the kids. I think they'll survive. lol They have been so spoiled with the show our neighborhood puts on every year.

Of course came home and had 2 hours to cram for my midterm. Then, 3 tests today and a midterm on Friday. All while my daughter is going to her first week of summer school so we have to finagle the work schedule around that. Oops, we didn't make the first class. I was thinking it started next week. I guess it's my son's that starts then. I guess I better add cleaning the desk to my to-do list. It would probably be a good idea to have this info handy. lol

Are you a Princess, Enchantress, Faerie, Mermaid or Toad?

You are an Enchantress, somewhat an enigma,
you would love to change the world. You hold
strong views and, would love nothing more, to
use your magic to change the world around you.
When in conversation, you listen, take on their
comments, and fantasise how you could improve
things. Quite the idealist, you think you have
all the answers, whether for right or wrong.
You hold your intellect high, and believe you
can change the world! In a relationship, you
need a partner of high intellect.

The world
and you, often seems at odds, with you
frequently seeing things from a different point
of view.

You have a connection with nature,
often stating, that things will take their
natural course. Nevertheless, secretly, you
would like to use nature to your own
ends.

Your good points are that you are
intelligent, instigative and thoughtful and
your bad points are, you can be single-minded,
misled and remorseless.

You feel that your
superior knowledge should astound everyone
around you; and you wish for respect from your
peers.


Are you a Princess, Enchantress, Faerie, Mermaid or Toad? (with pictures!)
brought to you by Quizilla

As I love faeries so much, I had to take this cute little quiz. It jad a lot of close points. lol I'm definitely not single minded, misled, or remorseless!

Sad today

My Dad called me this morning to let me know that my Great-aunt Vivian passed away yesterday. We found out a few weeks ago that she had Leukemia and wasn't going to fight it. She was in her late 90's and lived a very good life. She was a great lady and I will miss her a lot. I'm glad she went peacefully instead of the disease taking her slowly and painfully. It's going to be a long week helping my Mom and my kids through this.

I'm glad you are free of pain Aunt Vivian. We love you!

Still stuffed up

but atleast it's getting better. The kids are adjusting to school being out. I've actually gotten to sleep in and catch up from being up late studying. My oldest makes breakfast in the morning and that is a welcome surprise! Only 1 week left and we are off to Mom's house for the 4th! WOOHOO, can't wait. I've told hubby that I'm seriously considering skipping school on the 1st so we can leave on Friday when he gets home. lol I'm so excited to see them and to have nothing to do for 4 whole days. Ahhhhh, it's what is keeping me sane right now.

No more kleenex!

I swear my nose is going to fall off soon. My allergies have been horrible for the last 4 days. The weather has been nice and the dogs are shedding. Mandy (golden) has clumps of hair all over the house and backyard. Yuck! Match that with the dust from having the windows open and my house is seriously killing me. I didn't think I would make it through class yesterday. I have serious doubts about it tonight. lol I'm deep cleaning the frontroom right now. So that ought to make me worse before it gets better. Good thing we have friends coming over this weekend to appreciate this clean house. I hate to clean it all for just us. lol

The joys of quizes

When classes started I thought it sucked that we have a quiz every week in Kinesiology. Boy was I wrong. It's easy to remember we have one, lmao, and it means I can get the info out of my head and move on to the new material. Not so with my anatomy/phys, excercise phys or nutrition. Oh no, I have to look at the syllabus and figure out what is due or what class is having a test. So studied and felt great about know the info for the quiz today. Only to get to school and have studied for the wrong class! Holy crap, I haven't even looked at the other stuff since class on monday. We had a good review and I know I passed it, but there might have went my perfect record on the tests. Darn it!

On a positive note, the other test is next week sometime and I will be so ready for it! Bring it on! lol

School's sinking in

I'm still not on a schedule of any kind, and I'm still not happy with my study habits. lol But I'm not feeling so overwhelmed tonight. There are throwing a ton of information at us at once. But, I'm trying to remember, that we don't need to remember all of it. Just study the key points and it will all be good. I even overdid my homework today. Now I have all the questions answered for my practice test. lol

K, boring post, I know. But, it's 11:15 and I just got home from school. My brain is still processing.

Ok, fun note. We bought the ECW pay-per-view yesterday and watched with a couple of friends. Good lord it was lame. We were all excited, thinking they might go out in true hard core ECW fashion. Nope, lame. It was my beloved WWE, minus the drama, minus the people that can speak complete sentences, and minus the beautiful bodies. lol I was very disappointed and am pissed that it we wasted our $35 on it! Thankfully I will have my Batista to watch here in a couple of weeks in Hell in the Cell.

There was that more exciting;)

Backburner

Well, it looks like just about everything will be put on the backburner while I adjust to school. Many things will be waiting a year to be done correctly. lol It's just going to be a lot more of a time commitment than I had thought. Plus, I really do need to sleep. lol I'm a natural born "sleeper" so this 5 or 6 hours a night doesn't cut it. I took a nap after the kids went to school today, but they get out in a couple of weeks. I better start planning around this now. I'm working on getting more organized:)

What desperate housewife are you?

Yep, it's a cheesy quiz for my beloved cheesy show. lol


Congratulations! You are Susan Mayer, the divorcee
and single mom who will go to extraordinary
lengths for love.


Which Desperate Housewife are you?
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First day of school

Nothing like jumping right into things. First night of school and we go right for the jugular: Kinesiology. Hmm, one of the major reasons I didn't go into this profession back 13 years ago at the university. Bring it on! My mind is full right now, but it's not overwhelming YET. lol I love my instructor, she created the program for the school. Very hands on oriented. Just my way of learning. Tomorrow we meet the other instructor. I'm sure if they work this closely together, than she has to be pretty cool to. I'm happy I'm doing this and I think that in itself is a big step.

I'm still not happy about the mid-term on July 5th though. I made sure and told her that. lmao She proceded to tell me it was open book. lol A little better, but still, come on!

Longest Yard

Hubby and I went and watched it on opening night. It was even better than I thought it would be. There were so many names. We were really excited to see 3 of our favorite wrestlers in it. They haven't been around for over a year. Well, Stone Cold has been, but not Goldberg or Big Daddy Cool! Those guys are so HOT! It was great to get out with hubby and throw a few beers back, then go to the movies. We had a great ADULT conversation time. Talking about nothing in particular. lol We so need more days like this! Life is just so complicated once you have to be parents. ARGHHHHHHH!

Movie Memes,

got hit by my buddies Chrissie and Retta, but my problem is I don't know any other bloggers to pass it to but you guys! lol


1) Total number of films I own on DVD/video: I'm addicted to buying the previously viewed from hollywood video now. But, I'm curbing the addiction well. We only own 77ish. Not sure what the neighbors have borrowed, or what's in the kids rooms. lol

2) The last film I bought: ladder 49 for hubby

3) The last film I watched: Metallica "some kind of monster" Will be adding it to my collection tomorrow!

4) Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me (in no particular order):)

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
XXX
Fast and the Furious
What about Bob?
Chronicles of Riddick (I know, there's a definite pattern there. lol)

5) Tag 5 people to post this in their blog journal: K, i've thought and thought, but I don't have anyone to hit with this:(

School Orientation

Well, I went tonight for my orientation. I don't feel old and dumpy anymore. There was way worse than me there. I know I will be fit as a fiddle by this time next year, not sure about some of the others. lol But, that's being pretty judgemental, so I suck. My bad. I have a mid-term on July 5th. That is going to seriously cut into my beer drinking that weekend:( We are going over to spend the weekend with my in-laws. I haven't partied with Mom in many months. I miss her! I guess I will have to study hard during the day. Mom won't let me not drink with her. lol Did I mention I miss my mother-in-law? Oh, I guess I did. I know, I'm a freak we are good friends. But, hey next time marry into the right family :) roflmao

To work or not?

This is the question. One of the girls owes me for working this weekend on 2 of my days off. My dilemma is: Take a day off and get some stuff done around here, or make as much money as possible since I will be going back to school next week and on a limited work schedule. What to do, what to do? Tuesdays are usually so slow there.

working on website

Boy am I going to be sorry tomorrow. I'm up way to late looking at this code. But, I'm on a roll. 2 pages of new products added. Woohoo! I'll post when I have them uploaded to the host. Thankfully hubby is home in the morning and can get up to make the kids breakfast. My sugar free red bull is waiting in the fridge for my sorry butt.

Star Wars Rocked!

I'm so ready to go and see it again! Back to old school wars. Great opening fighter scene. Great saber action, less mushy crappy love gunk. They took that way to far in #2. There are some graphic spots and the movie is very dark. But hey, we knew it would be. Did you not see #4? Duh, we know that everyone dies. If you are going to take your kids than I recommend reading this article. It has a couple of very slight spoilers, but if you're a true star wars fan then you knew what was coming anyway. This gave me a great heads up on what to warn my kids about and when I needed to throw my hands up over their eyes. lol All in all, no bad dreams yet and they both fell fast asleep.

I hope my brother sees it soon. I'm dieing to talk to someone about it! lol I think I need to go back and see it again next week by myself! It was sad at the end knowing there won't ever be another one made:( Can't Han and Leia have kids we watch, how about Luke's kids go bad and take over the universe? Come on, give us more!

Off to see star wars

first thing in the morning. I waited way to long to get tickets to the midnight show tonight. So bummed. But the kids will play hooky from school in the morning and we'll be there bright and early! I so can't wait. Bummed that it's the last one:( I will of course give my opinion on it tomorrow!

Won a contest

So I subscribed to this cool websites update newsletter, and I won. Then I got a few choices of what I wanted. Hmm, hard decision, but I'll go with the Mango Body Butter. I've been going tanning and it's good for after that. I get it in the mail and opened it at work. I ran around making everyone use it. lol I was so hungry for a smoothie. It smells exactly like Mangos. We have mangos for our smoothies at work, so I know this for fact. And the texture...to die for. Usually body butters are waxy, but not this. It was like putting my fingers into a jar of whipped butter. Goes on smooth and feels silky. It doesn't wash off immediately like some other products do. I can't wait to order some more products from her. She's made a major customer! Pamper yourself Mom! www.bathandbodycorner.com

And the rain, rain, rain

came down, down, down in rushing rising rivelets. Typical Washington weather this weekend and for the whole week I guess. Nothing to do but clean the house I guess. I can see my weeds getting taller and taller, but atleast I have a good excuse for not digging them up right now. lol

Yesterdays luck was just as bad as Fridays. With the exception that the kids acted worse than ever. I was very ready to sell them off to the lowest bidder! It was one of those days that you are glad you have to go to work. Let Daddy deal with the hellions. lmao But today, they are totally different kids. They even helped each other clean their rooms before we woke up this morning. I guess the aliens must have come and switched them out for us overnight. Thanks guys! :)

Retail therapy

I was in serious need of the new retail therapy I've learned from my best friend. But alas, it didn't work. I only had time to go to one store and there was nothing for me. I got a pair of denim capris and a tshirt. :( But I found a ton for the rest of the family. So now my therapy will have to be moved to the mall. I'm also scheduling a day at the salon next week. I think my ear is infected from my new piercing too.

I always have great luck on Friday the 13th, but today sucks! I've had little thing upon little thing go wrong today. This is always my favorite day. My favorite/lucky number is 13. It's a no good, very bad, awful day. I'm off to eat some worms. Worms from the tequila that is!

Mother's quiz

Ok, sorry if it's getting tiring. But, I've been going through blogexplosion so much and finding tons of info. So here's a cute and timely quiz to take. Loved my results!

You're a girl power mommy! You love to be girly,
but you're no pushover. Your kids are learning
that gender differences don't have to mean
gender inequality. You've taken back pink, and
you don't care who knows it!


What kind of a freaky mother are you?
brought to you by Quizilla

Mother's Day!

Wow, my family surprised the hell out of me. I got a pearl necklace and earrings. Not to mention the tanning gift certificate. They had me in tears. It was completely unexpected as I'm not the jewelry "girly" kind of woman. lol I love them and I can't wait to wear them with my jeans tomorrow;) rofl I went tanning and then grabbed movies. Then we spent the day eating nachos made with homemade chili and watching movies while I scrapbooked. Heaven to me! Now to come up with something tremendous for Father's Day. Any suggestions?

Fun quiz

I really liked this quiz. It seemed closer than the normal boxed quiz to. :) Let me know what you think.

You're One Hundred Years of Solitude!

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Lonely and struggling, you've been around for a very long time.
Conflict has filled most of your life and torn apart nearly everyone you know. Yet there
is something majestic and even epic about your presence in the world. You love life all
the more for having seen its decimation. After all, it takes a village.


Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

School?

Well, I'm excited. I met with the admin rep and it definitely looks like something I want to do. Now I will be meeting with the financial aid people Monday to see if it will work. We can fund this so this is our only obstacle. Poor credit:( Price we've paid for me to stay home with the kids most of their early years. Oh well, it was worth it. I will post more next week. I don't want to jinx anything by posting early.

We had a great BBQ with my parents this afternoon. My daughter made the salads and my son cleaned the bathroom. Hubby cleaned up the kitchen and oversaw it all. What a family! Plan for tomorrow is all day movie marathon or possibly going for a bike ride if the weather clears up. Happy Mother's Day to everyone!

Enough on the plate? NAH

K, since working 30 hours a week and having control of the house and finances isn't enough...I'm contemplating going back to school. I've been in this place before thinking I need to go get a degree. But tomorrow I'm actually meeting with an admissions rep. After I make a decision I will post. I'm pretty sure I will be going, but making it work is another matter. 40 hours of class time and another 22 of work just overwhelms my mind right now!

Birthdate

I found this post on Girl Pants and just had to follow the link. Nothing surrounding my birthday is ever correct. I must have been born late or something. Give it a try and let me know if it's closer for you.

Your Birthdate: February 4

Being born on the 4th day of the month should help make you a better manager and organizer. You may be more responsible and self-disciplined than you realize. Sincere and honest, you are a serious and hard working individual. Your feelings are likely to seem somewhat repressed at times. The number 4 has something of an inhibiting effect on your ability to show and express affections, as feeling are very closely regulated and controlled. You are apt to be much more practical, rational, and conscious of details. There is a good deal of rigidity and stubbornness associated with the number 4.

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

Cleaning bug

I'm so happy it's here. I've got the cleaning bug. Our friends will be here in minutes so I will have to quit, that doesn't make me to happy. But, I've cleaned off lot's of counter space and even used 409 on them. Nothing like chemicals to make everything sparkly! lol

So, tonight I'm hoping to keep up the cleaning. My mom is coming twice a month to do the bathrooms, vacuum, mop and other odds and ends I never seem to get to. I'm so happy about this. She wants the extra cash and with my working 5 days a week, going to the gym and also working on my sites the house is becoming a disgrace.

Cheer's to spring fever!