Oh, a nice steamy candlelit shower. What a way to start the morning. Too bad I was in the shower by myself and I had to use candles to see cuz we had no power! I woke up this morning at 6:30 to the dog barking at something outside. I glance over at my alarm clock & it is blank. Great, must have come unplugged. I get up, go to the kitchen to check the time on the microwave, blank. Panic sets in as I realize I had a shut off notice and I haven’t paid it yet. I franticly look through the pile of mail on the kitchen counter and find the bill. Pay before May 24th to avoid extra fees. OH GREAT! CRAP! That’s an extra $145 I don’t have to get my power back on. I try to call the electric company; they don’t open for another 30 minutes. I sit & stew in my own stupidity for the half hour, while stewing I can hear the neighbors yelling at each other “Hey- you got power?” Oh, there is hope that my stupidity hasn’t cost me anything extra! At 7 am I get ahold of the power company and find out they haven’t shut me off, I made payment arrangement so they don’t shut me off. YEAH! Atleast I can shower- one good thing about having city water. On my way to work I see all kinds of work trucks at the end of the road. Apparently a tree fell on the line & broke it. Most of the blocks at the top of the hill are on the same grid (3 of the 4 schools are on the same grid), the kids had a 2 hour delay. Gomer was mad, she got up for nothing, she could have slept longer. Lil’Man didn’t know what to do for the 2 hour delay, no power meant no PS2, no cartoons, no computer. He & Beanie ended up playing Uno Attack. When I left Beanie was up 2 games to 1. Gomer talked on the cell phone until it died. They forgot to charge it yesterday.

Oh, remind me to show you a copy of the letter Gomer wrote me. She says it’s for class. She is trying to get me to get her a cell phone. I had to write down 4 reasons why she couldn’t have one, and then she wrote me a letter explaining why she should have one. I found it very hard to come up with 4 different reasons. When I was a kid the only reason I needed was that my parents said no. I might have asked for one reason other than that, but 4? I came up with “you’re 12 years old.” “I’m the mom & I said no” “you would abuse it” & “cuz I’m the mom & don’t need to give you any more reasons”. Do you really think I need to come up with any more reasons why? I don’t.

We didn’t do much this weekend. It was hot. Friday the kids, minus Gomer- she went to Whiskey Creek (no it’s not a creek flowing with whiskey) with a friend, and I went to White Cloud to drop off some paper work, then we drove through the Hardy Dam area, went to Croton, and stopped at their Gparents house so Lil’Man could check his fish trap. He had 6-10 minnows and 2 crayfish. Then we headed home. Dork finally (been gone 3 weeks) made it home Saturday late morning early afternoon. We went down the hill to the arts/craft show. Walked though an old house that was for sale. It is very pretty, lots of details like only turn of the century homes have. Then we went to the Gparents house again. Lil’Man wanted to go fishing. The kids did get to go for a little boat ride when they put the boat in the water. We left there on Saturday with the promise of a grill out & boat rides the next day. So Sunday after church we headed back to Gparents house for grilled goodness and boat rides. The kids had a lot of fun. Dork left again Sunday around 5. The kids & I headed to WalMart after he left and got home around 8. Gomer called shortly after I got changed into my boxers. She didn’t feel well & I needed to come get her. They would meet me half way if I could come get her. So Beanie & I head out to get her. It was about a 35 minute trip- one way. Gomer had way too much sun and was on an antibiotic, I don’t think the 2 things mix very well. Monday we didn’t do much of anything. We did go back to WalMart cuz I forgot something during the first trip. I had evicted the cat on Sunday and needed to get some Odorban to rid my house of his stinkiness. He stopped using his litterbox. I had no other choice but to make him an outside cat. He still has his claws, just no balls, so we are good there! Beanie was so upset, she cried and cried. She thinks he ran away, even though she saw me put him outside and she got to hug & kiss him before I booted him. Then he hung out under the deck for a while before he ventured out into the yard. He will be fine, he’s a big boy & he was an inside/outside cat before we moved. Now he is just an outside cat after being an inside cat for 2 years.

Well I suppose I should get some work done. My boss will be here soon.

Whiney Wednesday

1. It's only Wednesday, I want it to be Friday.
2. I'm tired of sleeping alone, I just want to snuggle up to a nice warm body that isn't my kids'. (ya know, an adult male would be nice!)
3. I am broke. I want to be debt free but haven't gotten the winning lottery numbers yet.
4. I need a hair cut very badly.
5. I am hungry.
6. I need a vacation.

Okay, that's all I can think of right now to whine about. Give me a few minutes home tonight with my kids & I'm sure I can come up with more reasons. There are days that I fully understand why some species eat their young.

Eyes

Just had a client leave my office, the whole time he was talking to me I wanted to shout “THOSE TWO THINGS YOU ARE STARING AT ARE NOT MY EYES!!!!  My face is north of where you are looking by about a foot!”  Geezch, Men!  I don’t think they would leave their houses if they had the same parts we have; they would be too busy looking in the mirror & playing with themselves!

Another day

The other day Gomer & I were out for a walk.  Here is a portion of our conversation:
Gomer: Hey, I might  have a boyfriend.
Me:  How can you “might” have one?
Gomer: Well, Niki is going to ask Scottie if he likes me & if he wants to go out with me.
Me:  How Jr High!
Gomer: I. am. In. Jr. High!
Me: What’s his last name?
Gomer: McDonald
Me: Does his dad have a farm?
Gomer: No (pause)- (groan) MMOOMM!
During the pause I said: Is his dad old?
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Sunday night the kids and I were lounging on my bed watching tv.  Somehow we started talking about their futures.   I told them that I was going to have 2 Nuns and a priest.  Gomer tells me that she isn’t going to be a nun because she is going to have sex something in her future, but not until she is older.  She then tells me that I am going to have 1 normal person, 1 nun and a slut.   Apparently she believes that she is going to be normal (whatever that is), her little sister is going to be a nun and her brother is going to be a man slut.  How she figured that out I don’t know.

Tuesday night just Beanie & I went to Fremont, on our way home she informs me that she isn’t going to be a nun when she is older.  She tells me she is going to be like Kim, their old DCP.  (little history on Kim- she is about 32 years old, has 3 boys- all have a different daddy- she has been married  atleast 4 times now.  Okay, this is where you need a sheet of paper to keep it straight- Hubby #1 she had her first boy with, divorced him. Married Hubby #2- no kid with him, divorced him for Hubby #3- who is old enough to be her daddy- had boy #2 w/ him. Divorced Hubby #3 for Hubby #2 (now also Hubby #4) and had boy #3 w/ him.  Divorced Hubby #2/4 for Hubby #3 before boy #3 was born and is now looking at re-marring Hubby #3/5- confused yet?)   So I just had to ask Beanie how she was going to be like Kim.  “I’m going to be a babysitter”.  Huge sigh of relief from the driver’s seat!

Whiney Wednesday

Okay, I’m starting with the Whiny Wednesday.

1. I am tired


2. I am cranky


3. I haven’t gotten any in 11 days!  So Duchess when you talk about your “streak” I am rolling my eyes and whining and calling you names.  I still love ya, but I am calling you names cuz I am not getting any!


4. I am hating my job today.  Please I am only one person doing the work of three.  Don’t bitch at me because it is taking me so long to get stuff out in the mail, give me help!


5. I still haven’t heard if I will be waitressing/bartending at a certain bar this summer as a second job.  I need a second job desperately.  It will cut into my going out time, but I will already be out & getting paid for it.  Now I just have to get my friends to hang out that that bar instead of the one we usually go to.


6. I don’t know what to do with my life.  I have done something that could put my life in danger & I don’t know what to do about it.  Please don’t ask what I have done, I’ve told the people that I can tell- I can’t tell anyone else.  It was just something that I should not have let happen.


7. Beanie keeps having night terrors, which contribute to my being tired.  She is tiny but she takes up my entire bed.


8. I wish someone would just return a phone call!

Okay, enough of that, on to talk about GA!
So tell me, why did Burke leave by chopper to return through the front door to get shot? What did he take a cab back from the other hospital? That would have been an expensive cab ride. The other Dr said it would take an hour for him to go check on his patient (Denny). So that would be..what.. 20 minutes there, 20 back & 20 w/ Denny?   Or 25 there, 25 back & 10 with Denny?  So why did they need to take the chopper in the first place?  Maybe I shouldn’t look at it that way.  If Burke had taken the chopper back then he wouldn’t have gotten shot, then were would the story have gone?  I am glad that Christina FINALLY got her act together & was there for her man.  It’s about frickin time.  I like her, but she can be the Ice Queen!  I don’t want to see Izzy leave the show.  She has to come back.  I too cried when Alex scooped her up and comforted her.  Had he been that manly in the first place he would have never lost her.   Oh, and the sex scene!  See # 3 above.  I would LOVE to have a man do that to me!  It was a great scene, maybe a bit much for Prime time but still a great scene.  I wonder who she is going to choice.  The safe dependable man that hasn’t broken her heart, or the risky, broke her heart man that she has been in love with the entire season.  When she hugged the Vet in the office after talking to him about Doc I knew she wasn’t referring to the dog when she said she loved him so.  
I loved how when the Chief had each one of the interns in his office, how all of them turned it around to the problems they were currently going through.  & just how was the Chief to respond to Meredith’s question?  I would have ended the talk too!

Okay, gotta get some more work done.  I have too much of it to do.

Warning needed!

Okay, Ms Duchess. You needed to have warned me that your DD would be chatting with me!  I had just left you a message that really wasn’t for her eyes.  It was “hee, hee.  Size Matters is playing on the radio right now.  & Yes it does matter!”  And the reply I got wasn’t what I was expecting.  I got “Hi Aunt Michelle, this is Hewey”  Well not the exact name she used, but you know who I am talking about.

To find out who this is go here.

How we both had a crush on this guy is now beyond me. His big glasses didn't look all that bad in 1990!

Instead of going into my weekend, I've decided to post some pictures. I am still going over my weekend almost every second still wondering "What the Hell was I thinking!!!"

Anywho. Here is my favorite one of Jenn's senior pictures. Isn't her hair oh so pretty and not too incredibly high? I have the entire set (all five pictures) so if anyone wants to see the rest, just let me know & I can email them to you.

Jenn & I had a blast in high school. We met when she first moved to Grant. I was in 7th grade & she was in 9th. We used to make the nastiest water balloons and throw them out of her attic window, or my bedroom window, at the neighborhood boys. One is my brother, the other one I ended up marring & having children with. Maybe I should have gone with my first impression on the boy. I thought he was the biggest idiot ever! That entire first summer whenever I saw him he would grab himself. Apparently he wanted me to know what a big package he had. All I thought was "What's wrong with him? Is he worried it has disappeared or fallen off?"

Here is (from right to left) Lauri, Jennifer, Sherry and myself. This was taken in the summer of 1989, Sherry & I were 15, Lauri 16 & Jennifer was 17. We had a blast that day. We went to Michigan Adventures (an amusement park in Muskegon). I came home that day with a horrible headache. Lauri & I rode the Spider together and we spun from the second the ride operator shut the door on our cart until he stopped it at the end. Lauri's long blonde ponytail was sticking straight out of the back of her head and was swinging around like a whip! It could have been deadly if it were any longer! Point of note, Sherry has the biggest hair!

Here is Lauri, isn't she pretty? I love her hair, always have. My hair would never look that nice. It has a mind of its own- damn natural wave!



This is Sherry, in the red sweater. Here she has some big hair. It's a lot shorter now, and longer.


I have more pictures. I just might post them later. But for now I need to get back to work.

What a day!

I figured it was an omen yesterday morning when I slopped yogurt in my hair that things weren’t going to go smoothly that day.  

My day at work went smoothly enough, after I licked the yogurt out of my hair that is.  Hey it might sound gross but my hair was clean!  At 3 I had an appointment to get 2 new tires and a front end alignment, on my truck- it’s not code for a boob job!  The day before when I made the appointment they told me it would take an hour.  When I got there they told me one hour and 45 minutes.  When I told the guy that I had been told an hour the day before he said he would put 2 guys on it so it won’t take the entire hour & 45.   It was raining and blowing out so I stayed at the tire place instead of walking across their parking lot to the mall.  Now this is a national brand owned tire place, the company is well know for their good works.  They sponsor a show on ABC every Sunday night and have a hunky guy as the “host” and spend one family a week on a great vacation so they can come home to a new house.  Yeah, that store.  So I’m sitting in the waiting room watching bad TV- Judge Joe Brown was on followed by Tony Danza followed by the news. (Have you figured out yet that they didn’t get it done in less than the promised hour & 45?)  I did learn that Holland beach had winds that were 69 miles per hour yesterday; guess Michigan had its own mini hurricane!   While watching the Judge, I was entertained by a spirited lady that was talking to the TV. “Mmm.. Dang Girl!  You’d had just better live alone.” “You go Judge Joe Brown, tell her the way it is!” “Dang, aint no-one that picky!”  She was quite funny!  During the news I listened to 2 ladies politely arguing over politics.  They have a bit of a difference in opinion on who our governor should be and the quality of performance our current governor is doing.  They would look at me occasionally and ask my opinion on her popularity.  My response?  “Well, she isn’t an x wrestler or a movie star so how popular do you expect her to be?”  The lady that I was silently agreeing with laughed.  By now I have been sitting in the tiny waiting room (which was 12x13 by the way- I counted floor tiles) for 4 hours.  Yes, that’s right.  4 HOURS! During this time I did visit the bathroom only to discover that my monthly “friend” had decided to show up.  Oh lucky me!  I had to dig through my purse to find one lonely tampon.  Everything else was, oh guess where!  Go away- guess.  Yep. In. My. Truck. Which was up in the air having a man playing with her undersides.  Wow, that sounded kind of kinky!  Maybe that is why it took so long.  If vehicles had breasts that is exactly where I saw him tinkering around each time I looked.    
By 4:30 I was ticked, granted that was only an hour & 30 into the wait.  I didn’t want to be stuck on that side of town during rush hour.  I haven’t had to drive in rush hour traffic for 2 years now & I don’t want to if I don’t have to. It ruins your gas mileage, and isn’t that what it’s all about now?  By 7:11 when I was FINALLY back in my truck heading home, the traffic was pretty much gone.  I was starving.  The only thing I had eaten all day was the before mentioned yogurt.  Before I left for the appointment, when I was IM’ing with Duchess, I had told her then that I was hungry.  Even at that point I was so hungry I could taste a Whopper.   I ended up driving through Wendy’s on my way home.  
One good thing, my truck is now driving B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L.  I can drive from zero to 60 with no shimmy shimmy shack shack going on.  My alignment was way off- due to a bad ball joint I had already fixed.  The bad ball joint messed my alignment and balded my tires- unevenly.  Parts of my tires were as bald as an old man’s head.  

By the time I got home it was after 8.  I did get to spend a little amount of time with my kids before I shipped them off to bed.  Beanie had another night terror last night, which meant she ended up in bed with me.  I don’t understand how someone so tiny can take up the entire queen sized bed.  Between Beanie and the cat I didn’t sleep very well.  The cat kept pawing at my closet doors, he wanted in there in the worst way!  I ended up shutting him out of my room.  

I am so glad it is Friday.  I have no plans for the weekend.  Maybe this will be a peaceful relaxing weekend.  Yeah right!

Whiney Wednesday

Whiney Wednesday!

• It’s only Wednesday, it feels like it should be Friday.


• It’s been dark & gloomy - just rain for Pete’s sake & get it over with!


• I am hating going to work lately.  I need an assistant.


• I hate my office; there are no windows, no fresh air.  It’s a dungeon.


• I don’t like my co-workers.  Thank goodness they are in a different city!


• I need a vacation.  Even if it’s just being away from work.


• I have to get a second job.  I have no extra money, hell I don’t even have enough money let alone any extra money!  


• I have to get 2 new tires and an alignment on my truck.  Thank goodness I have a Sears card cuz I have no extra money.


• I miss Jenn.  July is too far away.


• I don’t have many good friends around here.  I need someone to just hang out with and do silly things with.


• I want to be all caught up on all of my bills.  I want to pay off all of my credit cards.  I don’t like living paycheck to paycheck.  It sucks!


• I’m worried about some members of my family.


• I hate my life right now.  Don’t worry.  I would never do anything stupid; my kids need me too much!

Today is International Very Good Looking, Damn Smart Woman's Day, so please send this message to someone you think fits this description. Please do not send it back to me as I have already received it from a Very Good Looking, Damn Smart Woman! And remember this motto to live by: Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"
"You don't stop laughing when you get old, you get old when you stop laughing"

The History of Cinco de Mayo

Most people don't know that back in 1912, Hellmann's mayonnaise was manufactured in England. In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment scheduled for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after its stop in New York. This would have been the largest single shipment of mayonnaise ever delivered to Mexico.
But as we know, the great ship did not make it to New York. The ship hit an iceberg and sank, and the cargo was forever lost. The people of Mexico, who were crazy about mayonnaise, and were eagerly awaiting its delivery, were disconsolate at the loss. Their anguish was so great, that they declared a National Day of Mourning, which they still observe to this day. The National Day of Mourning occurs each year on May 5th and is known, of course...
As...
Sinko de Mayo.
*WHAT?? You expected something educational from me!

Wishful thinking

Here is what I would do if I were to win the lotto:

1. pay off my house & tell the mortgage company to kiss my butt


2. pay off my truck


3. pay back my dad


4. pay off all 3 of my credit cards


5. get my truck fixed (new tires & front end work)


6. give money to my church


7. pay off both of the collections on my credit report


8. go on vacation


9. put money away for my children’s education


10. get the fat sucked out of my belly and a tummy tuck

I know I would do more than just what is on the list, but that is the top 10!
What would you do?

It's in the vault

I’m a vault.  Information comes in and it doesn’t come out, unless of course the in-putter of the information gives me permission to release the said information.  I think I need to convert the info to micro fisch form (or some other small version), I am on the verge of exploding from TMI!  

Okay, I am confused about what is going on in my life.  In the past 10 days I have seen Dork a whopping 20 hours (& that was in a row!).  He was gone the first 7 days with only one phone call to me.  Now it has been another 3 days gone and he hasn’t called me at all.  He did call his mom and she then called me.  I just wish he would make up his mind as to what he wants to do.  I am just biding my time, waiting.  If I were to be the one the end the relationship then he would make my life a living hell and would never let me forget it and would blame everything on me.  I’ve been there with him & it’s not fun.

Ok, more later.  I ‘ve got to eat and I have appointments coming in this afternoon.  Beside, I think Jenn is the only one that reads anyway and she already knows all this.

Oh, she doesn’t know this:  Lil’Man’s first baseball of the season was Monday.  He did well.  He was running funny during the game however and I figured out why.  While he was running from first base to second he ran right out of his shoe!  The shoe did a flip and he  caught it mid air and never lost stride.   It was the funniest thing that happened the entire game!  He ended up scoring too.