Da BEARS!

WOOHOO! Bears are going to the superbowl! Then to top it off...Prince is singing at halftime! Did I mention that the superbowl is on my bday this year? Fuckin' A RIGHT baby! I'm in heaven!

I've decided that we are having a crab fest for the event. I haven't decided who all will be invited to come over, but I do know they will be required to bring bottles of crown with them ;). The superbowl is usually late now and I don't want everyone here all evening. lol Hubby will have to go to work for the second day on that Monday and the kids will have school in the morning.

Did I mention that Urlacher is going to the SUPERBOWL BABY! Now that's hot!!! Can't wait to see him with a ring on.

Another freakin' snow day!

Ummm, I'm pretty sure someone keeps talking about global warming. You sure haven't been able to see it here. Yes, we had a gorgeous long Summer. But we have had more snow days this year than any year ever. I've lived here all my life and the most snow days we've ever had were like 3. Usually 2 is a heavy snow year. lol With the 2 weeks off for break in Dec. we haven't had a full week of school since the beginning of Dec.

Have no idea why it's canceled. Pissed me off cause they waited until 8:55 to cancel it. I'm pretty sure that the 2 hours late start would have been just fine. We are now going to school on June 27th. This sucks!

Thankfully I work from home and set up my own appointments at the gym. I only had 3 set up for today and 2 of them have rescheduled already. I have to get ahold of the other guy. Even if I can't get ahold of him, hubby will be home by then to watch the kids. I can run out there for an hour appoinment. :) I'd prefer to stay home, but a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do to get paid. bahahahaha

FREAKIN' ICE

K, I have noooo problem driving in the snow and some ice here and there. But yesterday our district made the horrible choice of going to school on time. It was bad, realy, really, really bad! Never driven on so bad. Now we went to college over in Spokane with a beater car and I never had a problem driving. That's how bad it was yesterday.

We have fun sliding around on our road, we are used to that. But then I got onto the main road and it was a complete sheet of ice. It looked like snow was in there, but alas, it was compacted into ice. Some moron was stopped in the middle of the intersection. Brakes of course don't want to work cause of the anti-locks, so can't even pump them a little. Thankfully no one was in the other lane, so off I go to try to change lanes and go around if possible. Oh, guess I won't. Guess the kids and I will go sideways down the road in the suburban. La-la-lala I didn't even have time to panic. Makes me feel good that I didn't, proves I'm a freakin' awesome driver. ;)

Should have turned around then, but figured what the hell, I'm already half way to pick up the other girls. Main hiway was stopped up because of a wreck. Needless to say my friend and I kept the kids home for the day. I can't believe we didn't atleast go 2 hours late like everyone around us.

Today was no school because it is even colder. Doesn't look good for tomorrow either. I've been so unproductive! Not because they are home, but because I'm just off my schedule. lol

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Kick off is in 2 hours and 35 minutes. I HATE THE COWBOYS! I hope we stomp the crap out of them. K, gotta go finish cleaning before everyone gets here. Everyone wants to watch the games on my big screen. Imagine that! ;)

Busy day

But what can be expected from busy Momma, huh? We actually got up on time this morning so I got my emails out of the way early. Loved that! Went and worked out immediately after dropping the kids off. Double loved that! Home for a shower, then off to the salon. I can't freakin' wait to get my hair done. Full treatment again baby. Highlights, color, cut, the whole damn deal. I've missed my beautiful red highlights. I promise to work on pictures as many people have been waiting for an updated picture of me. roflmao

I am so excited right now I seriously feel like puking. Hopefully it doesn't happen, but the suspense is killing me. As I'm sure I've posted, don't have time to read back and check this minute, hubby has been offered a conditional job. We are just waiting for the background check to go for him and the 4 other guys. We know everyone on his has been contacted and most of the other guys too. Well the Chief called and left a message a few minutes ago. I'm sure it's about the job and I can barely hold my lunch down. Damn it, I just ate and it's sitting in my gut like a lump of crap.

Hubby just called me back to get the number. I threatened him with no forgiveness ever and lots of bodily harm if he doesn't call me right back. lol So now I sit and WAIT. And WAIT. Waiting. Mother FUCKER, I hate waiting like this.

Tonight I am packed with appointments of course. And tomorrow I have 2 more in the evening. So we can't go out and celebrate. I've got to put out lots of prayers tonight. Life is so fucking good right now.

OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG. It's official. He is now a paid fire man. He starts Feb. 1st. I'M so damn proud of him!!! Now I'm going to be a bawling mess all day. lmao

Working today

Hmm, I'm supposed to be. I had too many errands to run and now I'm off. I did make it into work this morning for a few hours and met a few new people, so that is cool. I'm going to go back in later this afternoon and see if I can't get some appointments generated.

So today is supposed to be my newsletter. Guess I will run off and do that immediately!

The kitchen is already a mess and that pisses me off. Here I'm working hard at keeping it clean and there is stuff everywhere. lol I'm sure it'll only take me minutes to tidy it up and a small load of dishes, but still. Then there is the pile of clean clothes that still haven't folded themselves. lmao They'll still be there tonight, so no hurry I guess.

I guess another reason I haven't gotten anything done now that I'm home is that I'm watching The Covenant. lol I haven't gotten to watch movies in quite a while and I really missed it. I'm not going into the gym for very long on Friday, so I think I'll watch some others. There has to be some chick flix that I've missed. BTW, this movie is pretty good. Especially for a movie that is geared towards teens. It's not a waste of time and it's not all gore and no story. Plus there are hot, young guys with their shirts off ;) SO it's all good! Except for the fact that I'm not getting much done with it on! YIKES

Too much shopping!

Like all the money on Christmas shopping wasn't enough, now we are buying up a ton of cleaning and organizing products. We even bought a new vacuum. And I was excited about it dang it! How old and sick am I getting? Excited about a vacuum? K, it's really a pretty purple-blue and it has one of those bins you just untwist and dump the dirt out. It's awesome! It is a great deal at Target and you can use the coupon online for an even better deal. Did I mention I can dump the little canister of dirt and dog hair in the garbage without a plume of dust in my asthmatic face? It's a fact, I've gotten old. :(

I know there is a Target right down the road, but I still shop online instead. I can use online coupons then instead of waiting for what I want to go on sale. If there is a free shipping option it saved me even more because of gas. lol With my suburban, that is a big saver.

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Bloggy New YEAR!

Wow, a completely sober New Year's Eve. I can't even remember the last time that happened on purpose. I mean there was the pregnant year, breast feeding year, then the pregnant year again, then the breast feeding year after that again. I'm sure there was another time in there that I was sick, but can't recall exactly. lol But on purpose to not have a couple. Some serious self-control there. ;)

Alas I am on day 3 of cleaning. We've taken 2 car loads to goodwill and I'm ready to load it back up as soon as he gets home from the gym. We are so boring this weekend. His friends couldn't believe we didn't come over last night, but I didn't want to go anywhere. I'm bound and determined to get this damn house cleaned up. The kitchen is pretty much done now. I need to clean out all the cupboards themselves, but that is just too big a project for me right now. So I'm moving down the hall to the bathroom. I HATE HOUSEWORK! And I seriously hate cleaning bathrooms. My hands feel like sand paper after using chemicals for 3 days. :( Oh well, it will be worth it when I can work on my biz next week with no feelings of guilt.

On a better note, we finally switched the dvd players around so we can watch movies. The one attached to my big screen keeps skipping and stopping. Such a pisser. So hubby switched the bedroom out and we've watched Coneheads this morning. Now my kids have put my Strange Brew in and we are watching that. lolol Good grief I need to walk away and getting cleaning done!

Happy New Year!

Headache

So many reasons why I could have a headache I just don't know where to start. First, I probably had too much caffeine this morning and didn't get enough water until later in the afternoon. Which it's only 4 here now, so it's not like it was that late. lol Second, I'm cleaning. I mean CLEANING! I haven't washed the tops of the cupboards for a couple of years and it's nasty. I'm allergic to dust so go figure I have a headache. Then I figured maybe it was cause my caffeine had worn off. So I just had a few glasses of diet coke. K, I had lots of diet coke. But I'm cleaning for god sakes and I hate housework. HATE HOUSEWORK!

But I'm sure the real reason I have a headache is the reason why I am cleaning to begin with. Yes, it all started with an argument before we even got out of bed this morning. Wonderful huh? I know, gotta love those. I'm too private (I know that shocks you) to put it all in here. Who knows if anyone around locally is reading this. lol But suffice it to say, it got me doing dishes immediately after getting up. After I checked emails of course, don't let's be stupid. That lead to cleaning counters. Which led to trying to clean out the oven. Gave up on that sticky mess, but at least I got the chunks off. Next thing I know I'm on my hands and knees washing the floor. WTF!!! Boy that pissed me off that it had let to that. lol

Now I am half way through cleaning off the gunk from the top of the cupboards. I hope this is the last time I have to do it before we move out of here. No, we haven't sold the house, but I want to. ;)

Alas, my headache is getting a little better now. Funny how venting will do that. It's almost 5 o'clock here, let alone somewhere. I'm going to do this next section of cupboards and then crack one open. Ahhhh, sounds so good right now. So much crap in here is going to goodwill it's not funny!

Ok, it's back. My son just asked if his friend could spend the night and my daughter wants to spend the night at hubby's friends house. ARGHHHH, I've already told why I don't want her down there. I can't stand his stupid bitch of a wife and I don't want my daughter around her. Good grief, that's another 10 posts in itself.

The extra bedroom may end up cleaned today too. It's going to be a very long night!

Ahh, the christmas hangover

The weekend's been great, but now I've got a stuffed up head and a headache. I'm sure it's just the let-down from the holidays. Just in case I took a little nap today and I just grabbed a coffee. So what if I won't sleep tonight? :)

Christmas was super good to me. I was surprised as hell to find the family had bought me a 19" flat screen monitor. Holy cow this thing is huge. I'm in heaven. lol Not to mention the fact that I couldn't get in trouble for surfing the net all day yesterday. I had to play with my new toy after all!

Besides that I got a heart rate monitor to use with my clients, gift certificate to the running shoe store here locally with a bunch of other goodies in it. The movie strange brew and the new gwen stefani cd. Strange Brew is my all time fav movie and I only had it on vhs. The new gwenny cd is good, but I'm a little disappointed in how few dance tunes are on it. Fun house cleaning cd though. Oh wait, what am I saying? I don't clean my house.

The kids seemed to be flying high with their stuff. They still are. lol On Christmas Eve we started watching a Christmas Story which was very appropriate. Hubby bought air soft pellet guns for the two of them for Christmas. So all day yesterday we kept telling him not to shoot his eye out. lol

Daughter is happy that Santa brought her a gamecube. Super Mario Kart is her favorite game, so now she can play it to her hearts content. Not to mention the sweet skateboard Daddy picked out for her. ;) They've already gotten to the age that everything is expensive. Or maybe they just take after us? roflmao We were super impressed with their lists though, cause they don't just have big ticket items on them. Heck, sons list had new shoes and sweatpants on it. Boy my kids are awesome.

I'm trying to figure out when we can get up to go boarding. Hubby said he'd be cranky no matter when we go since we won't be taking him. lol Oh well, he can't go this season and there's no reason we shouldn't! Crystal mountain got 11" over Christmas Eve and it's supposed to totally dump up there all week! I think Friday sounds like a good day to me.

Damn I drank my coffee while typing this and now there is no more. Guess I better go find some a Diet Coke or something. My headache is still here. :( Hmm, maybe a tylenol would work better.

Alright, off to work on work stuff...

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.

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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