2007

Well 2007 is almost coming to a close. I hope it was a good year for all. Alot changed this year for me as my DH works out of town all week, every week for the last year. Has a company paid apt. that isn't all that decorated yet. Mainly nothing much on walls so it doesn't feel all that homy yet. But I'm working on it, slowly. Now that I have a new sewing machine for Christmas, I plan on making curtains for both bedrooms. Anything to block out the lights coming from the parking lot.

This is what I can remember off hand on what I got for Christmas being I'm at the apt. and most of my stuff is at home.

Sewing Machine from DH

Carry Case with wheels for the sewing machine from DH

2 CD's from DH

4 DVD's 3 from parents, 1 from DH

iPod player for the car from DH

USB Flash Drive/Data Traveler from DH

Stereo from DH

6 Turtle Neck Shirts 3 from parents, 3 from DH

Boots from parents

2 pairs of jeans from inlaws

Head Phones from niece

2 Ear Ring and Necklace Set from DH

2 Sets of Purfume from C

Kohl Gift Card from sister

Angels with Candle from D

ipod wrist carrier from D

Mouse rest for mouse pad from D

Mini Refridge with little freezer from C

Wall/Picture mounted Jewelry Case from N

A 16x20, 2 8x10, 2 5x7 of the kids from all 3 kids

Socks from N

Nail Clipper set from N

D, DH and I came back down to the apt on Christmas Day so we really didn't get a chance to play with all our new stuff....lol. DH and I went out and got a new mattress 2 days ago and I tell you what, it is killing my back. My back hurt before the mattress and now it hurts even more. I hate buying mattresses. So, this was my thinking, I'd go back to the house with DH for New Years and then ride back here for the short work week and sleep on that back paining new mattress. WE have 30 days to try it out. I do know that it will take a week or two of using it to know if it is the right one but if I'm not here, how will I know....lol. DH slept great on it last night....lol

For New Years Eve DH and I are going out to dinner with his 2 brothers and their wives. Then we usually go back to one of the houses and play cards till it is time to watch the count down.

So for New Years, what do most of you do?

I'm Home

What a long day yesterday was. Packing to come home, wrap a few gifts, clean up apt. then the 2 1/2 hour drive home. But, I'm here safe and sound. After getting home, DH, N and D went Christmas shopping for me. I was sound asleep when they got home. I need to run to the store yet, I forgot a gift for C. Bummer, don't know how I missed it...lol So, N will take me later since I left my car down at the apt. and came home in DH's truck. I figured since D and I are going back down there Christmas night, why waste the gas to bring it home. Now we will have something to ride around in while DH is working.

Since Then

Since I last wrote I came back down to DH's apt for a company Christmas party. Which was last night. Small but very nice compared to the company Christmas they give for the works back home. Three of the bosses came down. I find it strange to work for a company and a few of workers have never met two of the bosses. It's not like some big company that no one knows anyone....lol I was going to leave this morning but decided to wait till DH gets done working 2nd shift today and ride home with him. This way my car will be here next week when D and I are down here. Saves a bunch on gas. So, after DH leaves for work I will run to the store and pick up a few groceries we need for Christmas Eve, Christmas morning and Christmas Day. Plus I still have a few stocking stuffers to get for DH.

Really Stessed Now

I thought I was in such good shape for Christmas. But I got stuck at DH's apt because of snow for an extra day. Which all in all we didn't get the high end of the snow but somewhere around 8 inches, same at home. I guess when my daughter went to work this morning,the roads were still covered, when she came home from work 7 hours later, they were still covered. Lots of school closings for tomorrow. So far we have school, if we don't have school, they won't call it in till the morning. But I still have nothing wrapped for Christmas, no cookies baked, I have 2 exchanges to do, I have DH to finish up and I still need to make a list for DH to get me. I will make 3 gifts easy for him, I have the data traveler for the computer, I have the small stereo and I'll go look at a cheaper end of sewing machines. I have lots of curtains and seat covers I want to make and my sewing machine doesn't work well anymore. But then again it is 25 years old now.

Friday night we went shopping and I got a few more stocking stuffers and then we came home and got ready to leave to go to a coffee house to listen to the wife of a guy DH works with. They did pretty good, not really my style. But it was nice doing something with a few people he works with for a change. We need to do that more so I'm not just sitting here in this apt doing nothing all the time. Friday night is the Christmas party down here and as long as the snow that is suppose to come in on Thursday isn't bad, I'll come down then, if not, it will have to wait till Friday morning. Pretty much get done here, shower and get ready then leave for the party if I have to wait till Friday. Then leave Sat. morning as long as th snow lets us to go back home.

The Estate

Well I'm here at the estate now, made it safe and sound. The apt. is all decorated and now there is nothing to do. I guess I could read a book, watch tv or just go back to bed. I woke up before 6am this morning, but now I'm getting tired.

Today after DH gets home from work we will go out and do some more Christmas shopping. I do want to get some wrapping paper and wrap up a few empty boxes to put under the tree. I think it will look better. I can always use more paper at home. Speaking of paper, when I get home I really need to start wrapping all the gifts. I will only have 3 full days at home before I come back to this estate for the work Christmas Party. I will go back home 2 days before Christmas so there isn't alot of time to get things done. I still have to finish off DH gifts and I have no ideas what else to get him. I haven't gotten him much yet...lol Somewhere in there I need to make cookies, man, that might not be happening. I thought I was doing so good this year but now I feel so far behind.

To Tired

Went shopping with N and my mom today. I have a bit more to go and then I'm done. Then I'll have to start wrapping things up. I still have to finish the Christmas tree which is something I'll do tomorrow. I need to go to walmart and pick up an item that I ordered online. I don't think I'll be doing that tomorrow since we are suppose to get some bad weather. Wed. D and I have a dentist appt. so I might have to run to the store in the morning so he doesn't see what I got. Then either wed. after the dentist or Thur. morning I'll be heading to DH's apt.

Still lots to do

I still have so much to do for Christmas yet as each day comes and goes I just don't feel like getting things done. My tree is still half decorated and I don't feel like doing any more. I have to decorate the tree at DH's apt this week and I don't feel like driving down there...lol. No cookies made, not one gift wrapped. I'm getting out of the Christmas Spirit. I had more Christmas Spirit at Thanksgiving time then I do now.

Snow

This is the second time in the last week that I have woken up to snow. Why does it always have to do that on the days I have to go out...lol. C just went out to get his blood work done and had no problems getting out of the driveway, thank goodness. I have to get a prescription done asap so I called to make sure my pharmacy had it in stock, of course they don't. So now I will have more running around to find someone that does.

I'm not happy with my Christmas tree, I feel there are more lights on 3/4 of the tree and its the top half that looks like less lights. So before I put more ornaments on the tree I will add some more lights up top. Not sure when I'll get to that with all the running around to do.

Tomorrow is the last craft show and all us girls were suppose to go to the movies. Then my sister says that her daughter really wanted to see the movie with her but can't make it tomorrow during the day time. Mind you there are 5 of us that can and only 1 that can't....lol. My sister talked about doing it in the evening, well that doesn't work for me, I only get to see DH on weekends and I'm not spending my evening gone. Plus DH and I have to go Christmas shopping, we are running out of time with him being gone all week long.

Beyond Tired

I'm beyond tired tonight. After a full day of Christmas shopping with my sister inlaw and mother inlaw I'm still up. I have no idea why. I think it is because I have so much on my mind with all that I need to buy yet. I know I'm 2/3 of the way done and I'd just like to finish up with most of it by this weekend. I still have to go shopping with my mom yet and I'd like to get that done next week if I can. I ordered a couple of things off of walmart.com and I seen on the website that one of my items is at the store, but I haven't gotten the email with the bar code yet. I will just wait for the second one to come in first before I go pick them up. A video game that I ordered off ebay came in today, but I got a better one with a 3 game bundle off of walmart.com, so I will sell the one that came in the mail today on ebay...lol

Ok, going to bed now

Stupid Tree

Ok, I think I want to kill the Christmas tree, well maybe just kill the lights on the stupid Christmas tree. 3/4 of the lights aren't working, so later when I'm in the mood I will take an extension cord down there and mess with each string of lights and see if I can pin point the problem.

C didn't get home till this morning and sound like he is in a bad mood. His phone woke him up at 9am and has been talking ever since. Don't know with who and I'm not asking. But, if he goes back to sleep, I'll be quiet for a few hours, after that, it isn't happening. You want to come home at 5:30am and sleep on the sofa and think I'll be quiet, it is not happening, and if he don't like it, he can find his own place to live and come home at that time and sleep all day.

Not a Great Day So Far

Today hasn't started out on a good note at all. I didn't get to sleep till after 2am and then it was a fitful sleep. D woke me up at 7:30am and needed a ride to school. I'm getting alittle upset about him not setting it up the night before and riding the bus if he needs too. So, I asked him to go down and ask C to take him. So he did and C says NO, he of course didn't sleep all that great he says. Says it isn't his job and that I'm trying to push my job off on him. Why is it when I ask him to do something in the morning he always says I didn't sleep good last night. Hello, my job??? You live here for free, your 26 years old, HELP OUT.

So, I have started some of the decorating around the livingroom with my little snowman figurines. I still haven't put a thing on the tree yet. When I turned it on this morning only 2 strings of lights came on from the bottom and the angel on top. I thought crap, I'm going to have to take the thing a part. But one of the strings must not have been plugged in really good. It worked fine last night, no one has touched it since I turned it off, so I don't have a clue there.

Its freezing outside today, with the wind chill it is only 14 degrees out. I'm hoping I don't have to go pick D up from school, it was bad enough trying to go uphill to the road on a icy driveway.

Long Day!!

Today felt like such a long day. I'm still up even though it is after midnight. Talking with Dee for a bit before bed. After getting up this morning, relaxing in front of the computer for awhile, it was then time to get to work on the insulation in my livingroom. I knew if I didn't help my DH I would never get the Christmas tree up before he left to go to the apt. We did get the tree up and the lights on it before he left. Tomorrow I will put the ornaments on it. Finally one less step for Christmas.

I have been doing some online shopping and I finally see a dent in the things I need to buy. I will still have plenty of things to purchase at the stores, but I'm getting somewhere.

Last night it started to snow and I was getting so worried about N's drive home from work. She works at the mall and normally takes 25-30 minutes to get home. Well not last night, finally after an hour she calls and says she made it safe and sound. Around 1am it started to rain and has rained off and on most of the day today, with alittle freezing rain in the mix. It is suppose to freeze up and start snowing again tonight. I'm so glad she doesn't have to work tomorrow. But yet with all this rain, we still have snow on the ground, better to look at then the dead grass and leaves.

Insulation

Today DH is putting insulation on the brick walls in the livingroom. Anything to warm up the house for the winter. After that is all done I believe we are putting the Christmas tree up. I still have to dig out all the ornaments from under the stairs. Now might be a good time since no one is in the family room to get in my way. Other then that I don't know what else we are doing.

C is still a grumpy butt, still trying to quit smoking. He stormed out of the house all mad and I'm hoping he stays away from me for the rest of the day. I'm hoping D keeps his 2 cents out of everything, but so far he seems to have words to say and I'm not going to listen to him all day either.

Update

In the end I did get all the Christmas stuff out and have figured out what is staying here and what is going down to Portage. I have a mess all over, but after DH finishes the insulation part then we are going to work on getting the tree up tomorrow or I should say today. DH and I went shopping and picked C and D a Christmas gift, so I'm one step closer to the end....lol

I'm going NUTS!

I'm going nuts, does anyone want to join me? I'm ready to murder a child about now. C is trying to quit smoking, wants things done like 1 year ago and won't do a darn thing I have asked him to do. Like clean up my downstairs from all the hunting stuff laying around, dirty clothes. He just keeps telling me what he needs to do first, blah blah. Then tells me he doesn't do anything till afternoon when he isn't working, hello, I want it done this morning so this afternoon I can do the things I want to get done down there. Ok, so I'm not in a great mood about now. Plus it is snowing out, its cold and I have to run to the bank. Wonderful!!

What a Day

What a day I had today, I did NOTHING...lol. I watched stuff on ebay, stayed in my PJ's, watched TV and you wouldn't believe how tired I am....lol. I did sweep the stairs down and swept the bathroom but other then that, nothing. I have no idea why I'm so tired, it isn't like I got up early even, went to bed early last night. Oh well, I'll be heading to bed in a minute.

As each day passes and Christmas gets closer, you can just feel the temps. getting colder. It was kind of funny today. I asked C what it was outside today while he was standing by the livingroom window. He says, "man, its 50 degrees out, I didn't know it was going to be that warm." I told him to look again because there was no way it was that warm, I was freezing. So, he opens the front door, takes the fastest peak ever and says, "man, its freezing out there, its only 30 degrees." then slams the door shut. I told him he needed to either get new glasses or he needed to go back to school and learn his math again....lol

Winter

I really do hate winter. I know I say it every year. Its so weird to listen to people who say they love winter and I think, what, they love to freeze, I don't get it...lol But of course I had to go out into the ice box this morning and take D to school. Again his ride didn't show up.

I will be going back out in the ice box with my sister to head to a store that has snowman figurines. We go to this store every year and she missed it during the candle walk. Well she didn't get to go to the candle walk is more what I mean.

I have many things I want to do this week but of course I won't get to them until C gets all his hunting stuff out of my way. I don't see that happening till this weekend, so about the only thing I can do is my laundry. But, we will see, it is still early in the week.

My Niece

Yesterday I went to my sisters house to give my niece her Christmas gifts and to visit for awhile. We had a really nice time. I learned a new card game that will be fun to play with other people. We didn't get to stay as long as I would have liked because DH needed to get on the road and head to the apt. Before we left my nephew and his wife showed up so we seen them for a few minutes.

Today I will be meeting up with my sisters, mom, niece and N for lunch before my niece flies home tonight and then I'll try to start on some Christmas shopping. Sure wish I could do it all from the internet...lol

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Bowling

Today my family went bowling with my niece as I stating earlier. We had a wonderful time together. I didn't bowl worth beans tho...lol. I'm sure I will be a tad bit sore tomorrow. After bowling we just came home and ate dinner and watched tv. I will go out either tomorrow or Sunday to get my niece' Christmas gift.....I have only been talking about this for a week now. But now I know what she wants for Christmas. Then I'll take it to her on Sunday when I go to my sisters house. Then the talk is that my mom, my other sister, my niece and my sister, and me will go out to lunch on Monday. My niece flys back home on monday night.

Tomorrow the plan is to put more plastic up on the windows and the ceiling in the livingroom and kitchen. Anything that will help keep it warmer in here for the winter. Then around 6:30pm we are going to a candle walk in the next town over. We usually go every year and I pick up a few snowmans. In between the plastic getting put up and the candle walk my DH and son are planning on going out deer hunting.

Happy Black Friday

Thanksgiving was nice but I ended up with a upset tummy half way through my meal and stayed with me the rest of the day. But still had a nice time. In the evening we went over to my parents and seen my niece from out of town. It is always so great to see her, just wish she had more time home. We watched her wedding video since none of us could make it to her wedding. Very nice

Today we are going bowling with the whole family to spend more time with my niece. I still don't have her Christmas gift but at least I know what she wants and will get it to her sometime this weekend. Just won't be today....lol I will not be going to any store on black friday. People are to rude and pushy for me. So I'll just wait for some good sales some other time but this weekend. But, what she wants N can get it since it is in the store she works at...lol

Happy Thanksgiving

I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. I will be going to my inlaws for dinner and then to my parents house for dessert, only because my niece is in town....lol. Its not my parents year for us to come over. Tomorrow is also my son C's 26th birthday. Man, I can't believe the kid is that old. Where did all the time go...lol

Christmas Tree

Today I helped N get her Christmas tree up since after Thanksgiving she will be very busy working at both stores. The tree turned out very nice. We did have to run to the store to pick up some more lights.

I've been so tired today, spent most of my night awake in a half awake, half asleep state. Sitting up in bed thinking there is a war going on all around me and I couldn't lay down till the war was over. Mind you I have been watching the movie North and South...lol, so I guess I just took the movie and ran it right into my dreams....lol, and I remember it all...lol

The Movie

Today I went to my sisters house and watched the 4th DVD of the North and South movie. It felt like it was the last part but it says there is still 1 more DVD to watch. I have no idea what will be on it. Its been years since I seen the movie and it was great watching it again. I do feel a tad bit tired tonight and it is still early. I'm having sinus pressure behind my eyes that is giving me a headache.

Tomorrow I need to go out and get my niece a Christmas gift since she will be coming home for Thanksgiving and won't make it for Christmas this year. I do want to get a few more things out to decorate the house. Its weird, I'm not really in the Christmas spirit yet but I do want to get things out. I guess I need to figure out what goes out here and what will go out at the apt. too. I'm sure N will want to come over or go with me tomorrow since she didn't see me today on her day off. She has tomorrow off too.

Todays Craft Shows

Today was one of the crafts shows that I have been looking forward to. I ended up getting another cabinet door, shovel and sauce pan, all with snowman on them. I will have to take a picture of them tomorrow. Then we went to a private owned craft show, which I didn't get anything. We also went to a apple barn/craft store. They make there own baked goods also and I picked up a 1/2 dozen cinnamon/apple donuts. Very good stuff...lol

I had problems today with a headache since I got out of bed and pain behind both my eyes so when the shows were done I came right home. I just finished up watching some more of the North and South movie. Only 2 more DVD's to go....lol

Talked to all the guys tonight and so far no one has gotten a deer. The only thing C got was a big big big whole in his checking account that could take him some time getting out of. Man, what is up with a few people I know going in the hole this week at the bank.....{D} hugs

I'm Home

Just wanted to drop by and tell all that I'm home now. I seen my first real snow fall yesterday. Came down like the size of dimes. Very pretty but of course it didn't stay on the ground because the ground is still to warm. DH and D didn't get a deer yesterday but D did shoot at one and missed. My mom said that my dad got a 5 point buck yesterday morning. I haven't heard from C yet so I don't know how that bunch is doing. I left wed. afternoon and when we got to the apt. we found out that DH didn't bring D's gun down there with him like we thought and never gave it another thought to ask or look to make sure before we drove down there. So, DH, D and I drove all the way back home to pick it up and the boots that D forgot too. Drove back to the apt. All in all it was almost 8 hours on the road...lol. So, when Thurs. came I just didn't feel like driving home.

Beautiful Day

I can't wait for this day to begin today, it is suppose to be full sun and 62 degrees. Now for November that is way above the normal temps and I want to go out and enjoy the day.

Yesterday I went to my sisters and watched the 3 disk/side 1 of the North and South movie. We had a nice time. I was going to go there today and finish it up since we only seen one side of the disk but I want to get a few things done outside instead.

Tomorrow after D gets done with school, I'll be taking him down to the apt. to go deer hunting with my DH. But I don't plan on staying for the 4 days, I'm coming back home on Thursday. DH can bring him back home on Sunday....lol, I have craft shows to go to Saturday...lol Chris left this morning for the deering hunting camp with a friend/co-worker, so I will have some peace and quiet when I come home. That is as long as Nicole doesn't stop by every time she goes by the house....lol

Learned The Hard Way

I must say I learned a lesson the hard way this morning. I came across a link to one of my old blogs on here that I had deleted and found the blog still somewhat there. It had my picture and all my old info and links, but the blog entries wasn't mine at all. When I deleted the blog I thought it was gone so I never deleted the info first. Once you delete a blog sometimes spammers get a hold of it and that is what happened in my case. So, if you delete a blog, delete all the entries, user info and links first before finishing up the delete.

Disappointed

Yesterday was the 2nd craft day that we have all been to this year and I must say I was very disappointed. The craft show I really wanted to go to got canceled. They were planing on 2 shows this fall so I'm hoping they don't cancel the Dec. 8th one. They never even put a sign outside or anything, we had N go in and check on it since there wasn't very many cars in the parking lot. The other 2 shows we went to was rather on the boring side. Same kind of stuff, just different places. After the shows were done we all went to Olive Garden for soup and salads. I hadn't been there in years. We had a nice time just sitting there and talking. This time N got to go eat with us and she even paid for mine. She had just enough time to eat before going to work. Then the rest of us went to see a movie. It was a pretty good movie. We all enjoyed it.

While I was gone for the day my DH and brother inlaw worked on getting his brakes taken care of and had to cut up and package the deer that he hit on Friday night.

The Poor Deer

Last night I get a call from my DH about the time he was suppose to be getting home from work with some not so great news. He had hit a deer with the company truck. After waiting for the police to get there, do the report, he finally makes it home about 1 to 1 1/2 hours later. So upon pulling in the driveway I went out to take a look at the damage. Pretty good job, no grill, no left head light, radiator was messed up, not a pretty picture. But the good news for the company was, the airbag didn't go off. Went to the back of the truck to tell the poor deer I was sorry he had to get hit by the big mean truck. Then I told the little button buck that he should have stayed of the roads like his mom showed him....LOLOL

Today is craft shows day and a movie. So who knows what time I will make it home today. I hope it is early enough because I want to finish the cd of North and South movie. There are 5 cds and I'm only on number 2 with the 3rd one coming in the mail at anytime.

Craft Show Season

It past weekend was the beginning of craft show season. My mom, my 2 sisters, my niece, my daughter and I took off early in the morning for several shows. My daughter didn't get to do a full day of it because she had to go to work. After leaving her we all went to a few more then to lunch, which really ended up being lunch and dinner...lol There are more the next two Saturdays, so I will be busy. After the shows were done for the day, I went back to my sisters house to wait for my son to come home with my brother inlaw and nephew. After they came home my DH came and picked us up because he had my car for the day fixing my brakes...lol. If it isn't one thing with my car it is another.

Yesterday my inlaws came over for a short visit but that visit ended up being the wrong time of the day for us. We were right in the middle of putting some plastic up on the windows and by the time they left it was almost time for the race to start. So, not all the plastic never made it up. Its really hard to get everything done with the short amount of time my DH is home. Which is only 8 days a month.

Today I have a headache so not much is happening at home. Just a few things got picked up and cleaned up. D is on his way home from school and N will be coming over to watch a show I taped for her last week. That will be my lay down time for this stupid headache.

The school called today and I have PTC on wed. at 11am, which I know D had a good report card so I'm not worried about it.

She's Leaving

It sure ended up being a very interesting weekend. DH came home from his out of town work with flowers and pizza..lol He knew I was mad at him all week.

I got information from my sister that her exchange student was leaving and going back to Norway. She should have never came in the first place, she wasn't ready to do so at this time. She was missing her family and boyfriend to much. Really it was the boyfriend, he was hounding her everyday on what was going on in my sisters house. My sister has a son that is the same age as the her and the boyfriend was having a problem with that. They would be on the computer from morning till night on weekends and after school. She would have the mic on so he heard everything that was being said even tho he doesn't understand English. Pia the exchange had to tell him what was being said. But anyways, she is flying home today at 3:30. In a way my sisters whole family is very much ready for her to go. It hasn't been a fun time since she has been here. I went and said goodbye to her already so I won't be going to the airport when she leaves.

I'm having a little car problem again. This time its the brakes, just the stupid squeakers and it is really loud. Why does everything have to happen right after my DH leaves on monday for his out of town work. Go figure. I knew I needed new brakes, been telling him for months now that I needed new ones. Maybe now he will fix the stupid thing. I still smell some gas so I know that problem has not been taken care of totally.

Not my week

Its not been a week that I really want to talk about. Just the normal cleaning. Been depressed and see no way out. Thats all I have to say.

This Weekend

Yesterday turned out to be a busy day. My brother inlaw came over and my HB and him worked on one of my cars and sons truck. Then my other brother inlaw came over and talked business. Then while the two worked own my car, my son and I left with the last brother inlaw and went to my sisters house. From there my sister, her daughter and I went to the movies. We seen The Heartbreak Kid, it was a cute movie, we really enjoyed it. Then after the movie we went back to her house and my HB came and picked my son and I up. We stayed there for a few hours and then came home.

Today is race day and the day my HB leaves and goes back to the apt. I'm thinking that D and I might go with my sister and her kids to a haunted house after my HB leaves. Not sure yet on that. Its a 2 story house, 8,000 sq feet. My sister and I don't go through them so we will watch a movie while we wait for the kids...lol

So Boring

My life seems to be so boring, there is nothing new to tell....lol

My sister inlaw that had open heart surgery is doing wonderful.

My car (Rivie) has new tires on it and is ready to be driven.

My daughter is coming to terms with me not wanting 100 phone calls a day from her.

My son is doing good in school so far.

My other son is still sleeping on my sofa...lol

My DH is still living in another town during the week and home on weekends.

Nothing is broken in the house as of today...lol

Same ole thing

Well nothing really new is going on. Same things just different days. Had a pretty busy week last week, mainly cleaning. Hubby came home Friday night and Sat. morning got up to work on his truck. The water pump went out on him. He managed to get it done just in time to go to my cousin's daughters wedding. Had a very nice time there. It is always wonderful to see my cousins. We all just never get to see each other much through out the year. Sat. was race day, but I did get a few things done before the race started. Hubby took off Sunday night for his weekday home.

My son bought a car Sat. and he got it all licensed and insured yesterday. But it needs a few things taken care of before he can drive it. So for now, he will use my hubby's truck that just got the new water pump. My son's truck isn't work either...lolol

Yesterday my son took his cat in to get fixed and declawed. It is going to feel wonderful not to get all scratched up anymore. Matter of fact, he is on his way to pick him up right now.

As for the rest of the week, I really don't have much plans. Laundry got done yesterday so maybe I'll start going through the clothes that I want to give to the "Planted Live" drop off box.

Here we go again

So for 2 mornings in a row D was late for school. Its been a pain in the butt on a ride to school this year so far. He over slept 2 mornings in a row. Yesterday he asked his brother to take him and his brother told him no and to walk AND not to wake me up. Which this has made me mad. This morning he woke me up 3 minutes before school started. So, for not being late at all since school started he has gotten 2 days in a row down. School is about 2 miles away from my house. This kind of set me off in a not so good mood. Plus on top of it all, I came downstairs and it smells like Chris' cat has been spraying in my house. He hasn't been fixed yet and that better happen really really soon.

This week hasn't been a very busy week, just went grocery shopping and that's about it. Spent some time at my sister in-laws house yesterday because 2 of her dogs got into a fight and landed one at the vets in pretty bad shape. Then last night I went to my sisters to see my nephews senior pictures proofs. He took some really good pictures. I'm not doing D's pictures yet till I know he is going to graduate. Like in the spring...lol

It took awhile

Finally I decided it was time to put the pictures I took at my parents anniversary party on my computer and I'm very disappointed. I hardly took anything. I never took a picture of what all the decorations looked like. I didn't take pictures of my most of my family. I guess I just wasn't thinking very well. I will have to get pictures from both my sisters if they have some good ones. I don't even like half the ones I did take. Nicole didn't take her camera because her memory card was full so I won't be getting any from her. Bummer

Its Over

I'm so glad my parents 50th wedding anniversary is over. It was stressful and draining. It did turn out very nice though. Everyone seem to enjoy themselves. But, everyone left way to early, we had music for dancing if people wanted too, but in the end it turned out to be my family and both my sisters families was all that was left. So since we had the hall for the whole weekend and stayed till 10:30 dancing up a storm...lol. We all had a great time together. We cleaned up almost all of it before we left but decided to keep all the food there in the fridge and pick it up the next day. So in the morning we all headed over there to do the last minute cleaning, grabbed all the food that was left and took it all over to my parents house for an afternoon meal. Then we divided it all up from there.

Yesterday I took the key back for the hall and came home and did nothing. I napped off and on, played on the computer and that was about it. I don't seem to have anymore energy today then I did yesterday...lol But at some point and time I need to clean this house. We have another 50th wedding anniversary to go to this weekend. Man, that makes 3 of this year and some that will be coming up next year along with the 8 graduation parties.

I haven't made it to the apt yet. I have stuff that I got in FL that needs to go over there. I'm hoping to take a weekend at the end of the month. The car dying almost 2 weeks ago put me alittle behind of things that needed to get done and one of the things was go to the apt over the weekend. In the 2 1/2 weeks I have been home from FL, my car died, the toilet wouldn't flush, water wouldn't go down in the tub. Once the car was fixed (fuel pump) the oil light came on, I gave it a drink of oil..lol, something else happened, I can't remember and my internet modem stopped working. I had to take it in the cable company and pick up a new one. Then it wouldn't work so I had to call and have the tech guy help me with it. So, its been a crazy few weeks.

Life is Crazy

Things sure have been crazy in my life in the last week. Last Wednesday evening I went out to my car to take pictures over to my sister for my parents anniversary party and wouldn't you know it, it wouldn't start. After several people looking at it, we figured it was a bad fuel pump. So, I got stuck here with no car till Friday night. Saturday morning my new fuel pump got here and was put in the car. Started right up. So, I go on my way to a party Saturday night, all is well. Didn't go anywhere Sunday. Monday morning I took D out to lunch since I couldn't give him any lunch money till I went to the bank. But before I met up with D I took a shower and ended up standing in water. Then I noticed the toilet wasn't going down. Oh great now what. I didn't have time to deal with it just then. After lunch I headed over to my sisters house and the oil light came on just before I got in her driveway. So after checking the oil, I find that I needed not just 1 qt, but needed 3 qts of oil. So, got that taken care of, all is well, so I think. D trys the toilet when he got home from school, it started going down but very strangely. Still no time to deal with it. We had to be to Nicole's for dinner and then I had to head back to my sisters for more anniversary stuff. So, this morning, the toilet is going down after a bunch of plunging, but still not just right. Still no time to deal with such things because it is Nicole's 23rd birthday and we were going out to buy her a gift for her apt. Ok, while gone I realized that my gas gauge has not moved at all since the new fuel pump, toilet still isn't working. Are you getting the point to my crazy life since last week. I'm not getting into this hubby working out of town during the week and only home on weekends. All things go to pot while he is gone and at the beginning of the week...lol. As it was, my brother inlaw had to fix my car.

I woke up today, so life is good. The rest has all gone to pot. So, don't ask me how I feel, you might get an ear full.

Now what?

I'm home and find so much to do but yet I just don't feel like doing anything. Its to hot and to hot in other ways...lol

I know there is so much to be thankful for in my life and at the same time I have so much out of control things. Right now the biggest thing is my car. It died last night, no gas going to the motor. Why can't these things happen on the weekend when hubby is home to fix them???? So, I get to wait till he comes home this weekend to look at it. I so needed to go grocery shopping today, but I guess we can eat soup or something for dinner...lol. Its just me and D here till this weekend.

I got my hair cut short this week. The way they styled it is cute but something I won't be doing every day. I'm the lazy kind of person when it comes to my hair. I just want to wash it and go. But now that it is this short, it isn't working out like I had hoped. The reason I got most of it cut off was because the hair was all dead and straw like feeling. Its been a long long time since its been cut. We will see how this goes. Maybe I should have waited until after my parents 50th anniversary party which is the 15th of this month.....lolol

School has started, so now the other stress begins. I'm sure I will be complaining about it real soon. Like, D, will you please say in your afternoon classes?????? lolol

I'm Home

I'm home now. Its been a tiring few days. Come Tuesday when school starts things will settle down again. I hope..lol

Almost Time

I can't believe it is almost time for me to take Auntie back down to FL. I leave next Wed (Aug. 15th) and fly home on Aug. 30th.

There is so much that I have to do yet and so little time. I've been down at the apt. this week and will go back home tomorrow. But a much better week for it was at a much slower pace.

Hubby and I took the boys to the movies Wed. night. Was a pretty good movie, alittle to fast pace with the camera for my likings.

Well if you don't hear from me for awhile, you will now know why. Everyone have a great Aug.

For The Last Week

Well the weekend for the race was a long weekend that turned into one long week. It was wonderful to see one of our friends, but the race, thats a whole different story. I can say I have been to the Brickyard, but as for going back to that track, I don't think so. One of the stupidest set ups I've seen yet. So this is how the last week went.

Friday: Come home from apt. go to my sisters 40th birthday party.

Saturday: Meet sisters in the morning, come home and drive back to the apt. shower and head for IN to friends house. Get there around 8:30pm

Sunday: Go to the race, drive back to the apt.

Monday: Get up and drive back home, rest the rest of the day.

Tuesday: Get up and go to my parents house to visit, pick up the slides pictures and the machine to view them from. Go to sisters to go over the pictures but the light bulb didn't work. Had to order one, sister and I go back to parents house to see if there is a bulb in one of the other machines, yes find one, go back to sisters, start looking over pictures. Went through half the reels before going home in the evening. Oh, started calling halls to rent for the party.

Wed: Get up, go to parents to help mom with vcr/dvd player that I connected the day before. Head back to sisters to go through the rest of the slides. Have 134 slides picked out to make into pictures. Didn't get home again till evening.

Thurs: Finally cleaned up the house, went to the store to start on the school clothes shopping. Went and paid on the hall we decided to get.

Fri: Get up and started packing up the rest of Nicole's bedroom and putting her crap in the closet. Got out some of my workout stuff, set up to use. Went back to the store, needed pants for dinner plans I had in the evening with 3 of my girlfriends. We go every year for our birthdays (all in July).

Sat: Meet sisters again to go over the food list. Went shopping for prices, have that all taken care of. Picked up a few things here and there for the party. Took the slides in to get the pictures made. Went back to sisters house and my nephew put some movies and games on my ipod for me so I have something to do when I fly back home from FL. Never got home till 9pm.

Sunday: Went to Aunties house for a visit, came home packed my stuff up to go to the apt for the week, cleaned up some last minute things in the house.

Monday: Went to the doctors at 7:15am and drove back down to the apt.

So that is what the last week has looked like. I leave for FL a week from tomorrow, so this is the last week to spend time with hubby and boys. Not sure what day, but we are going to the movies one day this week. I will leave for FL on the 15th and fly home on the 30th of Aug.

This Week

Its been a very long week. I am under the weather with a nasty cold. But on the brighter side, I get to go to a Nascar race in IN, the brickyard on Sunday. I just love getting free tickets plus we have some friends that live about 10-15 minutes from the track, so we are going to their house sat night. So for today I have been cleaning the apt and will leave for home tonight. I have a meeting with my sisters for my parents 50th wedding anniversary on Sat. then I'll drive back to the apt and head to IN from here.

I'll let everyone know how it goes.

Have a great weekend!

Long Day

Man it was a long day today. Nicole and I got up and didn't take us long to be out the door for a day of shopping. Now some of you already know that I hate to shop, so it felt longer then it was in the end...lol She had plans of going to 2 different malls. One is here in town and the other is about 20 or so minutes away. We went to the one that was 20 minutes away first. We did find a few things but that mall was a big waste of gas. It was a nothing mall....lol. So we head back into town, go to the mall here and find a few more things. By the time I got home I was tired of walking, hungry and needed a nap. Ok, so I didn't eat anything and I didn't get a nap in either...lolol. We watched some tv and then Nicole decides that she is going to paint my toe nails and then she goes to the fingers. Mind you, Nicole don't like feet at all, don't touch them and don't touch her...lol. So to my surprise she touched my toes and painted them...lol

I didn't get my sewing started yet, but maybe I can do some tomorrow, at least cut them out and have them ready for sewing.

Poor Girl

I feel so bad for Nicole, she took a bad week off from work. She is on vacation with us and wouldn't you know it, its the first week that it has rain in the forecast for 4 out of 5 days since I've been coming down here. Really her vacation is 5 days off. Yesterday we waited for the rain and thought any minute now it was going to start because it was so cloudy and rain was in the forecast for all day. By 6-7 pm the sun was out, never rained here. Bummer, wasted a day! So I wake up this morning, its pouring out and she wants to go to the mall that is about 20 or so minutes away. I hate going to the mall, I hate shopping in the first place....lol

D went home with Chris last night and is coming back tomorrow morning for my Birthday Day. Chris is going to spend the night tomorrow so he can spend the evening with me...lol. So the whole family will be together.

I need to get my seat cushions done for the dinning room chairs and make the bread that I didn't do yesterday...lol Sometime this week I will tho.

I'm not sure I'm even going back home this weekend. I really don't see the need to. Nothing is going on there and the following two weekends we have a few parties to go to, so is a must then. Why waste the gas.

Hump Day!!

I'm still at the apt. I didn't have to go home yesterday after all. I will leave Friday morning for the weekend. I will run out of pills by then so it is a must that I leave. N has a doctors appt. Friday and she wants me to go with her. Sears is coming on Sat. to take a last look at my washer before the warranty runs out. So that is the plans for the weekend. Then Sunday we come back to the apt. and N will come down here after she gets out of work to spend her week vacation here with us. Of course there are malls she wants to go to, do some fishing and just relax...lol

There isn't much to do the rest of the week. I have done all the cleaning that needs to be done in this small apt. So it is play time, computer, reading, what ever I want....lol

Apartment Again

Just thought I'd let anyone know that I made it safe and sound back at the apt. again. Now that I have a computer here, I will be able to write me.

Now you see me, now you don't

I'm home for a short spell. Have a party to go to for my sister in-law becoming a citizen of the US today.

Not much going on down at the apts. But I do have a new toy down there. I have a new computer so I can finally go online, yay!! The only other thing we need is a bed, still sleeping on the air mattress. That will be fine for now. So this weeks take back down there will be a very very old rocking chair that I got from my grandma. Its been in storage in a junk room for years. Thought it would be nice to put in the bedroom to sit on and watch tv instead of laying down.

Besides going to the party, Dh and Chris have to work on DH's truck, the brake line rusted out and part of it was replaced last week. But on the way to work yesterday morning the brakes went out on it while Chris was driving it, so somewhere else must be rusted. Plus they are going to work on Chris' truck, it would like to work on 8 cylinders instead of 7....lolol, so new plugs, wires and what ever else goes with it will be in done today too.

As for me, I don't have alot to do today, while Chris was home from work yesterday and his truck keys locked in my computer room, he decided to clean the house and cut the grass. So play time for me...lol Maybe I COULD throw in a load of laundry....lol

Hello

I'm home for a week as of right now. I have mixed feelings about being here. Nice to be home but I don't want all the cleaning that comes with it. I seen that no one did any of it while I was gone to DH's apt. So, I will leave it like it is till monday, then DH and son Chris will go to the apt for the week. That only leaves me with D here and I'm sure he will be gone enough. It needs such a good top cleaning and deep cleaning after that...lol But as I look around, I just don't know where to start. Sometimes I feel like just running out the door and never come back. I don't feel like this is my job to do anymore. I leave a house, I'm not in it for a week, there is only ONE kid here and he is old enough to pick up after himself. My daughter brought D home on thurs morning so I'm sure he as alittle bit of a mess in here. But I sure didn't make none of it, why do I have to clean it...lol

Ok enough on that, I just wanted to make sure everyone knew I was home now.

Well

Well I was home for a short amount of time...lol. I spent all last week down at DH's apt and came home this weekend. We had my nieces graduation party to go to today and then off to my parents for Father's Day tomorrow. My nieces party went really well, then we went to the after party which is usually a few beers and bomb fire. Didn't get home till after 2pm. Then I thought I better cut up the potatoes for the salad so in the morning is all I have to do is cook them. The eggs are cooked and ready to go so it won't take me long to do it. Then tomorrow night we are heading back to the apt in the evening for another week.

I still haven't figured out what I'm going to do about computer Internet there. I have the same server there is here but the cable TV part comes with the apt free. So, I thought maybe since they are the same that I would take the old computer down there this week and see if it will work or not. If not then I guess I will look for a laptop the following week since I'll be home all week long.

My sisters exchange student will be leaving on the 30Th and she is having a going away party on the 26Th so that is why I'll be home. This is all going to be interesting.

I just wanted to make sure everyone knows what is going on in my life. I'm very bored down there with no computer. The library doesn't let me do a lot, just check my email and surf the web, that's about it. No instant messaging at all. Got to get that figured out and soon. There is so much you can clean and I get tired of making the doilies. I need to look for a TV for in the bedroom so there are other TV shows that each of us can watch instead of figuring out who gets to watch which show and who gets to miss out. D has his own in his room and the other one is in the livingroom.

Take care to all!!

Going Out Of Town

Going out of town again with no computer. Will be back in 8 days.

I'm Home

Happy Birthday Deana!!

I'm finally home from FL. Just in time for the last day of school for D. Now the fun begins with going back and forth from here and hubby's apt. I thought maybe I'd go tomorrow but my niece graduates from 8th grade on Wed. and I have a dentist appt. on Thurs. So I guess I'm in town for a few days. I also figured I'd better spend some time with Nicole so she don't go to ballistic....lol The weather was nice in FL, in the upper 80's, no rain. The drive home went well, had a lot of road construction. Almost all the way through TN on I-75. We also got into the wild fires, well, not seen the fires but drove through the smoke from them for about 100 or so miles in the upper FL and GA.

I came home to a house that was trashed, go figure since no one was really suppose to be here except to come back after school to feed the dog and wait for Nicole to pick him up after work. But Chris ended up here doing laundry and staying the night and he don't like to pick up after himself to much either. And of course D made his own messes....lol. So today was suppose to be cleaning day and laundry but the nascar race got rained out yesterday and is on today...lololol Nicole hasn't gotten all her stuff moved out yet. So I started packing up misc. stuff yesterday for her to take or me take over to her apt. I wanted her room cleaned out before I got home but I see that never happened.

So, that's about it for now

For Deana

I have to write on my blog because Miss Deana says it has been to long...lol. But really I couldn't help that, I have been down at my hubbies apt. just got home yesterday for a dentist appt. for D and me. So, I'm home, tick free, not that I didn't have any crawling on me after my walk, and one crawling around on the carpet in the apt. I've never had to deal with ticks where I live. Only if I went down to the southern state of the USA. I'm thinking, hello, this apt. is only 2 1/2 hours from here, I don't have them here, I shouldn't have them there....lolol

So anyways, I leave for FL a week from today, there is so much to do, so little time. I haven't even started thinking about what to pack, what I have to buy. Bills that need to be paid first, food for the weekend here, food at Nicole's place since D will be staying with her during the week, home with dad on the weekends....lol, One week, that's all I have. Plus, I'm making my Mom doilies for Mother's Day, so I have to work on them too. Clean the house and make time for computer fun since I don't have a computer at the apt. as of yet.

So, that's all that is going on here. I hope your happy now Miss Deana...lol

Going Away

No blog updates till Thurs. Going down to DH's apt.

So much

I have so much going on in my life these days that I'm not really sure if I'm coming or going. I can't even remember what I have or have not posted. So, I guess if I repeat myself, oh well. My DH is now out of a hotel and into his own apt about 2 1/2 hours from here where he works. Still coming home on the weekends. D and I have been down there setting up house last weekend and I plan on going back down there this week until Wed. There are more big furniture that has to go down there. So as we are trying to do this, Nicole got herself an apt uptown and will be moving into that sometime this week. My niece found a sofabed and loveseat at a yard sale yesterday for 100.00 and picked that up for her. Which of course I paid for...lol. She will be paying me back alittle at a time. My niece also had a set of 3 lamps and 2 end table that she is giving Nicole. I went out the day before and bought 100.00 worth of kitchen stuff for her as a house warming gift. So she is feeling much better about moving out. She really had nothing in the way of things for the kitchen and now at least has something to cook in and something to eat off of...lol

This week I also came to the realization that we will not be able to afford to go to Minnesota for my other nieces wedding. I'm so disappointed, we so wanted to be there. But with all the rest of the stuff going on for those two apts, plus my whole downstairs is all tore apart, needing a new stove, dishwasher, bathtub, front window and door. Then there is my parents 50th wedding anniversary party that us girls are giving them in Sept. A trip to Minn. with the gas prices the way they are, food, hotels we are looking at close to 1000.00. Money I just don't have. Plus my DH probably couldn't get time off. Even if he did, that would be a few days off without pay. Just can't do it.

With all this going on, I leave for FL on the 17th. I'm have not started getting out a thing yet. I'm so not ready....lol. So after I come back next week I will have to local the containers that have my summer clothes and go through them, see what still fits and what I will need to go buy, like shorts...lol I have put on a few pounds over the winter.

So, that's about it for my busy life. There, hope your happy Miss Deana...lol

I know, I know

Ok, so I'm alittle behind on my blog these days, but really I have an excuse. I haven't been home for a few days. Went to the town where my DH is getting a work paid apt. So one of the days was going and picking out which building we wanted for the lake view. Next day was going back and paying the deposit and rent. Its a good thing my DH has a training class at the office tomorrow so he can get a check for the money we paid out on it. So, after his training class is over with (half day) we will be taking a load of stuff there. OH, he picks up the keys today. This apt. is 2 1/2 hours away from here. No more hotel living for him, yayayay!! It gets old after awhile and he has been doing it since Dec. We have some furniture to go in it. Like sofa, loveseat, one livingroom lamp, a dinning room table, but no chairs. We have 2 dressers for the bedroom, but no beds. So a air mattress will have to do for us and a futon for my son. I have some kitchen stuff but there will be things to buy down the line. My son and I will probably spend most of the summer there with coming home on the weekends like he (DH) has been doing since Dec. We have lots of work to do on the house and it still needs to get done.

So today I have some running around to do, bank, store, gas, prescription....lolol, fun fun.

D has a chance to do a computer class at home to make up some credits he is behind in school. During the summer time it is 125.00 for 1/2 credit. The high school is charging 50.00 for 1/2 credit. So it is 2 for the price of one...lol. D's school still needs to get more info. I hope they fill me in soon because the more he can get done now, then I won't have to worry about the one month of summer school for the 125.00 price. Have the whole summer free.

What A Day

What a day it has been today. I'm not sure what is up with my daughter lately but she is driving me nuts. She needs to just move out and make all our lives at home happier and easier. It is time. You get to the point where you feel like your job is done and over with as a parent and then it is just time to leave and get on with their own lives and let us get on with ours so to speak.

I got news tonight that a friend of ours house burned. One of his dogs was in the house with her puppies and they were fine and at my uncles house tonight. But as far as I know, one of their cats didn't make it, not sure about the rest. He had been having some electrical problems and had a electrician there yesterday and found out the whole house needs to be re-wired. No one was home when the fire started, thankfully. I guess he doesn't need to re-wire now. I guess tomorrow I'll take a run over to see how bad it is.

So Sad

I'm so saddened for the family and friends of VT college. I pray for all that have became victims of this one crazy person. I can not even imagine the pain as a parent myself. Its sad that we have to wonder were to send our children to keep them safe while till have them learn. I seem to be glued to the tv and trying to get all the information I can. Then this morning there was something suspicious going on at another location of the college. But now the all clear has been called.

I pray for this person's family and what the angry public may do to them. This family didn't shoot these people, so I pray that people leave them alone. I don't feel bad for the person that did the killing but I feel bad for his family, they lost a trouble child in the worse killing of American history. They are in pain as well as the rest of the world.

I'm Away

I'm away for the weekend.

It's Me

Happy Easter to anyone that may read this. Today was full of family and a great meal. It seems my family just doesn't see enough of each other through out the year. I decided since there is no school this week for D and for my sisters kids that we would get the kids together for a day. There is always so much info to talk about that you just can't get it all in in one day....lolol

My mom called me this morning before all of us came over to let us know that she came down with shingles yesterday and was put on some meds. As long as she was covered, didn't touch the spots and we didn't hug her we should be ok. So, the staying covered and not touching it went just fine, but the "don't hug" part, well that didn't go over to well with any of us.....lol, she got her normal hugs hello and goodbye....lol. She has some joint aches but she found it quickly and got on meds, so she should do ok.

Yesterday DH and I went through all the breakers (sp) in the house and figured out what rooms were wired together so when we are ready to re-wire we know where everything is located. That took alot of our time yesterday, but it had to be done. So, the income tax money is here and next weekend we will probably be ordering the new livingroom window. I can't wait, our livingroom window doesn't even open, it will be nice in the spring to get a breezing going through the house.

Well, that's it for me tonight. Again Happy Easter.

How long must we wait?

That is the question of the day. How long must we wait for warmer weather to be here for good, how long must we wait for the gas prices to go down and stay down for, lets say, years???? lolol

WE had nice weather for a few days but it has gotten just a tad bit cooler again. I see next week there are a few days of highs around 45, to cold for me. Now I realize that is it still March and here in Mi we have had snow the first of April before. But come on, I'm so over this winter now, lets move on.

The gas prices are another thing that have made me so very mad this week. I'm sure I'm not alone at all on this one. But how on earth can this be right? We went from 2.45 to 2.55 and then 2 days later we went to 2.75. How can that not be a rip off, 30 cent in less then a week???? That is why this body is home bound. Why waste the gas. I will run up town today for some groceries, it is a little higher in price but cheaper then the gas I would waste to go to my normal store. Mail to send out and bank to see.

So those are my boring days. Been under the weather it seems for weeks now, feeling a cold might be start back up again. Sinus' are going crazy with the up and down temps. Either it will stay just a sinus problem or move on to a cold. The waiting game begins.

I know

I know it has been awhile since I wrote a thing on here. I haven't been feeling all that great in the last week or so.

We didn't do anything on the downstairs this past weekend because we went out to dinner for D's birthday instead, plus it was Nicole's boyfriends birthday. His is the 25th of March and D's is the 26th of March. Right now the wiring is the next step downstairs. We also went and got our taxes done, so as soon as that comes then some of the work will begin.

We have had some really nice days the last few days. Yesterday was beautiful, 73 and sunny, but the wind was really blowing. Today is a bit cooler, but sunny out and suppose to be a high of 68, so we will see if it gets there or not.

The Weekend of the 17th of March

Saturday morning we get up, sit around figuring out what we are going to work on for the weekend. We decided on getting the rest of the drywall off the ceiling and walls in the kitchen. My kitchen and living room is one open room with a high island in the middle. So really you couldn't just stop with the living room...lol. We did not take the drywall off the the wall that leads out to my laundry room. That took most of the day. I tell you what, my trash guys are not going to like us for the next 3 weeks. We still have to do the dinning room which is off my kitchen. That has some wiring that we want to rework in there also. We went to Home Depot and picked up some insulation, pizza (lol), dog food and back to home. We did get some of the insulation up Sat. night but the rest went up Sunday. Which of course I didn't do any of that. I'm not touching that pink stuff and then itch the rest of the day....lolol. When it comes time where is will be put in for good, I'll go around and staple it up...lol.

Sunday was race day, but I pretty much slept through most of the race. I didn't get a good nights sleep Sat. night. I was having some pain in my left arm/shoulder blade that was leaving my arm, neck and left side of my face kind of a numb/tingle feeling. I think I pinched a nerve or something. I had problems with it last week also. So, I guess if that continues I'll have to head to the drs. Its ok today, still feel some of it yet.

This morning I woke up to snow on the ground and it's still snowing. Hello, it can leave now....lol. I'm sure it won't stay but it never had to come in the first place...lol. I'm so ready for Spring. I see buds are starting to come out, my flowers are poking their little heads out now, I don't want to see any snow. I'm so done with that...lol

This week I have nails to pull out of ceiling and walls, maybe dust the furniture now that the removal of drywall is done for a bit.

Up up and away!!

I really didn't do much in the form of moving around yesterday, but I did get the one thing that I've been needing to get out of the way and that is my airline ticket to FL. I fly out on May 17th and will be driving back home on May 30th, (my anniversary...lol). That's the date we drive out of the driveway and since I do most of the driving I will take 3 days which pulls us into the rented apt. on June 1st. Oh, so this makes more since to everyone that doesn't already know, I drive my 70ish year old aunt back to Mi for the summer, then drive her back to FL and fly back home. Nice little vacation for me.

I did pull out some more nails in the 2x4's in the living room, picked up a few things and called it a day. Worked on my almost the end of the doily thread doily...lol.

This morning was suppose to be a morning of everyone getting the chance to sleep in here. No school for D and Nicole didn't have to work, but our dumb dog outside decided that wasn't going to happen here. I'm not even sure how early he started barking, I know it was before 6am, I woke up to Nicole yelling at him. It hasn't stopped the dumb dog from barking at what ever he is looking at across the street. Which of course I don't see a thing. Dumb dogs!!

A Shock in the Ceiling

When we were taking down the ceiling in the living room we found this paper hornets nest above the drywall. There was this tiny hole to the outside of the house and they were getting in from there. It was an old nest and fell a part when you touched it. Go take a look, its kind of neat looking. Picture

My Weekend

I'm not even sure where to beginning on my whole weekend. It was long, busy, back breaking work. Got up sat. morning and started taking down the drywall off the ceiling in the living room and ended up taken off all the drywall in the whole room, ceiling and walls. First there was half of a drop ceiling and paneling on the walls. The mess, the dust was everywhere. After taking off the paneling and drywall on one of the outside walls we seen that when they built the house in the early 60's they never even put up any insulation. The part that took the longest I think is picking up the broken drywall and putting them in bags, vacuuming. You couldn't place much in each bag or it would be to heavy for the trash man to pick up today. We only put out about 20 bags and have about another 20 more to go out next week. Part of the ceiling is down in my kitchen (all open room), but for now we want to get more of the living room done. DH plans on doing some rewiring and putting in a new window before we insulate and drywall. I still have nails to pull out this week but that won't take long. I woke up Sunday morning to my body just hurting...lol and this morning about all my muscles hurt, I think I need some good drugs...lol. I will not be pulling out any nails today....lol I will post a picture another time when there is more light in the dark living room. Its cloudy and rainy outside today.

It was weird seeing it still light outside at 7-8pm last night, I can't wait till it is light out earlier in the morning as well. I didn't sleep worth beans Sat. night for some reason, but last night was much better. Only woke up a few times from cats trying to play with each other, of course on my bed....lol or one just wanting some loving time. Then, just when I get back to sleep, the phone rings....people just leave me alone for once...lol Today will just be a few loads of laundry and that's it.

So, I blog again...lol

I decided that I was going to blog again today. This is for me, my thoughts, things I want to remember. I'm not liking me to much today. I'm feeling so very fat now. I tried on my shorts that I have been wearing the last 2 summers. I can no longer get them on. I'm beginning to look like I'm PG...lolololol and THAT ISN'T HAPPENING. I sometimes feel I liked me so much better when I was smoking, at least I was thinner. I guess I'm feeling depressed today, I'm fat, I'm tired of winter and I just need a break away from all the comings and going in this house. Maybe all the months of DH being gone all week long and only home on the weekends is catching up to me.

My sweet kitty cat decided to be a little brat tonight. He decided from what I can tell as the first time since he was a kitten sprayed all over my entertainment center. I think it has something to do with Chris' unfixed male cat in my house. Munchkin is almost 5 years old and hasn't done this since he was like 7 months old. So this upset me tonight.

Chris called tonight from his apt. stating that the landlord posted a note on his door saying he was late on his rent. Now why on earth is this man asking for rent since Chris hasn't been able to live in his apt since the first of Feb???? That's when a water pipe broke in the bathroom and it still isn't all fixed yet. Like his toilet is still sitting next to his bath tub, not even where it goes. He doesn't even have a floor in there or the kitchen, just a sub floor and this man wants rent money????? I told Chris to take lots of pictures of the way it looks. Chris is writing the man a letter and putting it on his door. The landlord lives below him in this house. But Chris wanted to know that if he gets kicked out if he can bring all his stuff here for a few weeks. Great, what can I say???? Thank goodness Chris works out of town with DH all week. I just couldn't take him living here every day any longer. That's a sad thought isn't it? Can't handle having your own child around all the time. But its always a lot of fighting when all the kids are together.

Why Blog??

So, I ask what few people read my blog, why blog??? I have nothing new to say, my life is rather boring in the winter time. I don't go anywhere if I can help it. My daily activities range from: Picking up the house, cleaning, computer, tv, doilies, kids, dinners.....lolol What's there to tell??? Oh, I had a fine headache, listen to the kids fight with each other, maybe add a dog in there barking??? So, I guess if there is nothing to blog, there will be nothing to read also.

Where's the Snow

Yesterday I took off to go shopping thinking I just might get snowed in. Last I had heard we were suppose to get up to 6 inches of snow. Now my driveway is an uphill to the road and sometimes making it hard to get on the road. So off shopping I went. After getting home and put my little bit of groceries away I retrieved to the computer room for a bit, then off to watch my afternoon shows.

D came home from school in a very good mood today, which was very nice. We talked for awhile then he went downstairs to do his normal things. Feed and water the dogs and lay on the sofa to watch tv.

As I watched my show I realized I watched some of them through my eyelids....lol I had a headache but other then that I felt better.

The snow did start but was little tiny snowflakes. When I got up this morning I look out to make sure Nicole was gone, she had a dentist appt. I'm thinking, where's the snow???? I think we maybe got like 2 inches...lolol. Guess I didn't have to leave yesterday to shop for anything...lol

Not sure what I'm going to do today as of yet.

Hello

Yesterday my DH, D and I went to the movies to see Wild Hogs. It was a funny movie. Nice to get out for a bit. After the movie went to my parents house, but didn't get to stay long. Got a phone call from a friend that was on his way over to our house to drop off one of our picnic tables. See, we are never gone so he didn't figure he needed to call...lolol. So the rest of the day I watched more movies and worked on more doilies. I got a big big thing of thread for the doilies and I just keep making more until all the thread is gone....lol

Today, I've only worked on laundry and picked up the weekend mess. I have to say I didn't need to do anything in the kitchen. My dh had it all done this morning before he went to work. Must have had some extra time on his hands...lol.

That about sums up my day so far, oh how boring...lol

Lazy Day!!

I pretty much spent my day being lazy. I was on the computer for awhile, then off to work on a doily while watching a movie. Well 1 movie turned into like 3 movies on the lifetime channel....lolol. That's how lazy my day was.

DH went to Home Depot today and ended up buying me a new toy to play with. An electric stapler/nail gun...lol. Nice, but I could think of other toys I'd like to have instead...lol. But it will come in handy. Is he trying to put me to work??? Take the load off his shoulders??? lolol

I'm Still Alive

What a mixed up day we have had today. I woke up to a snow storm, dropping a ton of snow. Slowly the snow stopped but I knew a bigger mess was coming. It is finally here now. It stopped snowing and then slowly we went to freezing rain. Now it is raining heavy with thunder and lightening to go with it....lol. Crazy weather and to think Spring is only about 3 weeks away....lol

Nothing more to report. Just dealing with the normal day in and day out life of a stay at home mom. Still dealing with my daily headaches, some days worse then others and lately they have all been kind of bad. Dealing with one of my pills not working right and bothering me. Other then that, that's about it.

YAY the weekend is over

You have no idea how glad I am in many ways that the weekend is over. DH and Chris are gone, back working out of town, D is in school. The only one left is Nicole, she goes to work this afternoon. But not before D comes home from school, so, there will be no freedom bells ringing my way today. It just seems to go crazy around here with everyone around all weekend. Some still can get along with others, even as adults....lolol. I never thought I would hear my adult kids come up and tattle on each other. Its pretty much, "shut up", "leave me alone", "deal with it yourselves"....lolol. I have no idea when Chris' apt. is going to be fixed, but I wish they would hurry it up so he can go back home to live and just come here for visits...lolol

It snowed yesterday and into the night, but it was more an on and off snow. In the end we missed out on the big one. That's fine with me, but I'm sure D was disappointed when he got up this morning. Didn't get the 8 inches or so like they thought. If we got 3 inches total through out a 24 hour period that would be pushing it.

I'm feeling alot better, but still dealing with a more then normal of a headache. I believe it is sinus headaches. My body doesn't seem to like the up and downs with the temp. Usually make me feel like crap. I'm starting to get that feeling again. But the cold for the most part is now pretty much gone.

Today is a day of just starting the tackling of everyone elses mess from the weekend. You know, go be the maid and pick up everyone elses lazy butts stuff. That is what I get so sick of doing. My kids aren't babies anymore and at this age they should be taking care of their own messes. I did raise them to put their own things away. But they seem to have gotten worse as they got older. Pretty soon, I'm going to make a nice little pile on my front porch and start putting their stuff out there for all my neighbors to see....lolol

So really, I am alive yet, just haven't felt all that great for blogging.

Daniel

Daniel is feeling so much better this morning. He said he was sweating all night long, must have sweat the sickies right out of him. I'll see how he feels when he gets home. Afternoons the temps seem to come back. I made a doctors appt. for him yesterday for tomorrow if he is still sick. DH's doctors appt. went well. She is keeping him on this wonderful bp pill. He has had high blood pressure since his early 30's and this is the first time someone has gotten it under control. As for me, I'm somewhat better, but now the sinus' are bothering me. Up and down in the temps. outside make me feel yucky most of the time.

Haven't done a whole lot these days. But my day will be coming where I will need some major deep cleaning.

What a Day!!

What a day this turned out to be. Daniel came home from school at lunch time. He didn't have a temp then, but later in the day it came back to a low grade temp. Then the nose bleeds kicked in. Took 2 1/2 hours from beginning to end to get it to stop. I was starting to get alittle worried. So, my day was filled with all kinds of fun. I have gotten rid of the sneezing and have replaced it with a cough...lol

Daniel Temp Broke

I got up to check on D in the middle of the night to find that his temp broke. Not only did it break he was laying in sweat filled clothes. Had to get up and change and put a lighter blanket on. He was feeling better this morning all the way till it was time to leave for school. No temp. no stay home, but then he wanted to add in, well my tummy don't feel good and this and that. Its like go to school. Get your all so important morning classes over with and we will go from there....lol I'm sure there will be a phone call around 11:30am to pick him up....lol I'll update later. I feel somewhat better this morning even tho I'm running on about 4 hours of sleep.

Will it ever end

What a week, and weekend I've had. Ok, I think I have sneezed 1000 times, my poor nose is red and sore, my throat is scratchy. Pretty much still feel like crap. I'm really tired of just laying around in bed, watching tv, crocheting, napping....lol. I have done the little picking up of things, a little here and there. That's it. Now Daniel is getting the cold from Nicole too. Except, he is running a little temp. Oh great, he can't afford any time off from school...lol

So hopefully this week will bring some better days.

Just another day of being sick

So, today is just the same as yesterday...lol. Still sick, still spent most of the day in bed working on doilies. But today I didn't take a nap at all.

DH comes home from work and gives me some flowers for valentines day. Since he works out of town all week, this was the first he was able to give me something...lol. I'm not a big fan of valentines day in the first place. I feel I don't need to show my love just one day a year, it is suppose to be every day all year long...lol

Chris' cat is finally coming around more today. My cats still don't want him here, but they are getting better. I think he has made one new friend tho.....lol I tell you what, at night time, you better turn on the lights to walk around because you will never see him and he is always under your feet. He's a all black cat. I should take a picture for all to see the little one I've been talking about.

Just a reminder for the nascar fans, the Busch Race is tomorrow on ESPN2.

Still under the weather here

I'm still not feeling good, but what can I expect, I just got the cold...lol. I did spend a lot of time napping today, which I think has made me feel somewhat better.

Tomorrow my father in-law goes in for surgery, I was suppose to be at the hospital but I'm now staying away for a few days. That's the last thing he needs after surgery is my germs. He is having a whole shoulder joint replacement. He is going to be at the hospital for a week. Prayers are really needed for him.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentines Day.

Happy Valentines Day

It wasn't all that wonderful today for Valentines Day. DH works out of town and I'm sick. I was just getting over the cold that my son had and now I have a totally different cold that my daughter had. I like his cold better.....lol. Her cold lead her in the doctors with a throat infection on top of it all. I'm feeling just as bad as she was last friday. So for me, today was a day of laying in bed. I didn't even have the energy to pick up any messes that might have been laying around downstairs. My son took care of the dishes for me, made me some soup for dinner. He even cleaned his room up like I asked...lol

So, on that note, I'm out of here and back to bed I go.

Before the Snow

Today I thought I better get out and take my pop cans back so I could buy some more pop. I had a ton of cans and I won't tell you how many, that's how bad it was...lol. I stopped at the bank and then went to pay the taxes. I hate giving them the money for the taxes, I wait till the last minute. I thought in case we get snowed in tonight that I'd have a few things out of the way.

Chris' cat is driving me nuts. He is either walking up and down the hall doing a crying/meow like he is looking for someone or he is running after my cats. My cats are not happy one little bit about him being here. But, he is still a kitten, not even a year old, he wants to play. I have older cats. My youngest is 4 years old, he don't want to play like that anymore.....lolol

Still working on the doilies and will be for awhile since I'm replacing all the ones I have in the house. Fingers are starting to hurt some, but I'll get over it.

Not much going on for Valentines Day since DH works out of town during the week. But that's ok, Valentines day is more for the younger people, not the old folks...lol

Long Weekend

It seemed to be a very long weekend for me. It isn't that I did much, the time was very slow. I have been waiting for a few months for Nascar to start up again and it is finally here. So, the tv was where I was at most of the time. I'm still working on doilies to replace the gross ones I have now.

DH might be getting an apt. where he is working, he is working almost 3 hours from here, company will be paying for it. But it is something we have to figure out. I will still need to be here till school is done and then Daniel and I can spend the summer there. Life sure changes before you even have a since to let it sink in.

Chris' cat will be spending some time at my house. He is working with DH and last week a pipe broke in his bathroom at his apt. So, right now there is no sink, toilet or floor. Sink and floor is gone in the kitchen too. With workers going in and out, we thought it would be better for his cat to stay here. But man, my cats aren't happy about it.

As for this week, I have nothing planned except the normal day to day life or a stay at home mom.....lol I'd like to work on my special project sometime this week. But I really would like everyone gone from the house while I do this...lol

Still Under The Weather

Still feeling alittle under the weather yet. I've pretty much have had a headache all day. I spent some time on the computer before heading off to my bedroom for the day to watch Nascar. I worked on another doily.

Tell me, how on earth do men fall asleep within a few minutes of laying their heads down on a pillow???? I don't get it, it takes me forever without some medicine aid....lol and then it is awake and asleep all night long. My dh was watching nascar with me, within a few minutes of it being over, he is laying there snoring already. Which of course sends me right out of the room.

My life is so boring in the winter time. I just have to keep thinking, summer is on its way as each day ends.

Thanks Deana

This blog is for regular blogging and I have no put pictures on this page of crafts that I have done. But Deana put a link on her home page to the craft page. So after thinking about this, I decided why not. This way everyone knows what craft I have been working on. If you want to review it, you can use the link and go right to the page. So, this is what I have been working on in my spare time. Red Christmas Doilies Hope you enjoy. Thanks Deana, you were one step a head of me today...lol

It's to Cold for me

I'm really very tired of the cold weather we are having, sick of the wind chill that comes with it. I tend not to go anywhere when its so cold like this. I put things off outside of the house even though they need to be done.

I'm still having problems with a pipe or hose that leads to my twin tubs from my washing machine. So therefore I have not done any laundry this week. DH will have to look at it tomorrow.

Nicole woke me up a few times this morning before leaving for work, now I feel unrested...lol I'm not sure why the kids do this to me. Just leave me alone, is that to much to ask for....lol

Again I go downstairs to a mess from the kids. I haven't cleaned anything all week since I'm feeling under the weather here. A shared cold from my two kids. I guess when you teacher your kids to share, you must draw the line somewhere, but I must not have done that when they were young....lolol

Sick

I'm so not feeling very good at all today. I'm getting my kids nasty cold. Nicole went to the doctors today cause she was so sick. Came home with 2 prescriptions.

It's Still Freezing Here

As I sit here, in the cold dark room called "The Computer Room", I think of other people that aren't so lucky to have a roof over their head. Even if it is a gross house I live in, its a roof over my head. What are they doing to keep warm? What about the people that have been put out of their homes due to a fire? What about the animals? These are things that are on my mind this morning. I still have no plastic on the window in here, which I may try to do myself. D was suppose to do it yesterday for me. It feels like -11 out there and there is a good cold breeze coming off the window going to my poor computer.

I started working on another doily in a shape I have never tried before. It isn't a round one. Looks like it might be fun, so I'll work on that while Dr.Phil is on today.

I will have to start cleaning at some point today or at least start picking everyone else's mess up. I did a little bit already, but the kitchen is the worse and it will be calling my name shortly.

I still haven't cut out the fabric for the trunk yet, I just need everyone gone from the house so I can think of how I want to do it. With no school the last few days and Nicole was off yesterday, I just can't get to it. She leaves for work today and D will be about ready to come home from school. So that isn't working for me. But, at least the trunk is in the house and ready for me.

So, that is about it for me