Oh I have football & cheer pictures back. I will try to remember to bring them in & scan them in tomorrow.

I have either a head cold or my allergies are really acting up. I'm voting for the allergies. I hate being sick. I hate blowing my nose all the stinkin time. Dayquil isn't working. Advil Cold is kind of working. I think I just wanna go home & relax. But I have too much work to do. The office is moving on Friday and I have to pack it up yet. Internet is being installed on Thursday in the new office and the phones are SUPPOSED to be moved Friday after we close. Notice the big supposed, we haven't had much luck with the good ol phone company on any prior move and I am having a hard time getting ahold of anyone at the phone company to confirm everything for me. I'm trying again.

If this is not a head cold then I have this to look forward to until the first frost. It's this time of year that I pray for the first frost!

Saturday we had football. Our first game was Lil'Man's. It was a 45 minute drive to the game, they had to be there an hour early and kick off was to be at 9am. We left the high school to car pool/caravan over at 7am. 7AM on a SATURDAY! It was a horrible game. The other team was HUGE! They had 7, yes 7, 5 or 6th graders that weighed more than 150 pounds! They were not allowed to carry to ball but they were allowed to tackle the snot out of our little guys, we have 1 boy over the weight limit. & they were allowed to break one of our best running backs! Poor little guy. He suffered a season ending blow. They broke his collar bone. He is in very good spirits however & is still excited about being able to be the waterboy & to help the coaches out. Another boy suffered a blow to the head. He was out for the rest of the game. Lil'Man was surprised when the other team started to push him around. He has never had another football player actually push him back before when he was rushing forward. They pushed him around like a rag doll. It was horrible! But this is amother talking, so of course I thought it was horrible. Atleast Lil'Man didn't get hurt.

Beanie's game was at 5:30 in Grant, much closer to home. However it started raining at 5:30 and at the end of the first quarter it started to lighting- so they called a 30 minute weather delay. The cheer coach (who is pregnant for child #5- has all girls & thinks this is another girl) decided it wasn't worth the chance of any of the girls getting sick so she sent all the cheerleaders home. We went to my Dad's, where he filled my kids up with all kinds of junk! We then headed home, where I had homemade chocolate chip cookies, homemade apple muffins, and some other junk-ah- goodies waiting for us. Charlie called me before I got home & asked if he & his 2 kids could come over. So I had extra kids at my house all weekend. Did I forget to mention that KK (a player on Lil'Man's team) was over at 6:40 am to ride with us & didn't leave until after my brother came over? KK came back -this time with his brother- on sunday & stayed the afternoon. I had a migraine all weekend. It finally went away just in time to go to work on Monday.

I updated somewhere. Must have been that other site. Oh well. Not a whole lot of new going on in my life. Lil'Man won his game on Saturday 20 to 0, however the week before they lost 26 to 0. They have another big game this weekend, we have to be at the game at 8am and have a 45 minute drive there! No sleeping in for us. Then Beanie has to cheer at 5pm, so it's another day of nothing but football! Good thing I like to watch football, only like to watch it in person- don't like to watch it on tv.

Speaking of TV watching, Grey's Anatomy is on tonight and not another rerun either! I think I am going to have liked it better on Sunday night, it will take a lot to get used to it being on Thursday night for me. I guess it's a good thing Joey didn't come back this year cuz then I would have to decide which show I was going to watch. Apparently I was the only one that watched Joey (spin off from Friends), I thought it was a funny show, I must be a party of one.

I did get one drama taken care of. My office is moving in one week and one day. As of yesterday we didn't have any internet service lined up (& we really need internet too). We were "too far away" for SBC DSL (we are moving three tenths of a mile down the road from where we are now & we currently have SBC DSL- go figure!), Comcast Cable would have had to run a line under the road in order for us to get cable internet (& they were going to charge us the cost of said cable). Dial up is too slow for us to use. But today (thank you Comcast Site Survey Dude for telling us about this place!) I have found internet service! Let the light beams from Heaven shine down on me! We will be getting wireless internet from a place called FreedomNet. I haven't experienced their service yet, but their customer service on the phone is awesome. I will so recommend them to anyone that asks me! They are $39.99 a month with an installation fee of $95 (before the $40 rebate!) Not bad after I have been looking at T1 service for $300-$700 a month!

Gomer's birthday is 25 days away. She is counting. I have no idea what to get her, or what to do for her. I am thinking no parties this year, except for the usual cake/ice cream with the g-parents. I think instead for each kids' bday they can have a friend or two spend the night. I didn't have a party each year. Heck I had a party for my 6th bday and I do believe that is the only one I can remember! It was my "golden" birthday. I had a party for my 30th. A bunch of us met at the bar & had a good ol' time. Similar thing for my 21st too. But my 6th was the only one that someone else planned & did all the work for.

Last Friday (the 15th) was a very rough day for me. It was the 13th anniversary of my Mom's death. I found this year harder for me than past years. I have no idea why it was so much more difficult. I tried to keep myself busy so I didn't have time to dwell on it. I found if I wasn't doing something or had my mind on something else that I would just start crying. Time goes on, but that doesn't mean it makes it any easier or makes me miss her any less.

30 ThingsSubject Survey time!

1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was your first thought? It’s time to do the hair again.

2. When is the next time you will have sex? I wish I knew!

3. What's a word that rhymes with "DUCK"? Muck

4. Favorite planet? Earth, haven’t been anywhere else!

5. Who is the 4th person on your missed call list on your mobile? I would have to say My Youngins.

6. What is your favorite ring on your phone? It’s called “Walkin’ Around” It sounds a bit like some music they play on That 70’s Show.

7. What shirt are you wearing? Short sleeved black velvet t-shirt

8. What were you doing 20 minutes ago? I was actually working, adding a car to a policy.

9. Name the brand of shoes you're currently wearing? Unlisted. (they are black satin slides)

10. Bright or Dark Room? Dark, if I am going to be sleeping or relaxing in it.

11. What do you think about the person who took this survey? I really like her, just like a sister I never had!

12. If you're in a room with two beds, which one do you sleep on? The one without the wet spot, but look at question #2 and then we all know that would be either one!

13. What were you doing at midnight last night? How sad, I was sleeping

14. What did your last text message you received on your mobile say? I don’t text that often, & it was erased, more than likely a reminder to pay my bill.

15. How do you like your eggs? Over easy, with toast.

16. What's a word/phrase that you say a lot? You’ve got to be kiddin’ me!

17. Who told you he/she loved you last? One of my daughters…

18. Last furry thing you touched? The dog, I gave her loves on my way out the door this morning.

19. How many drugs have you done in the last three days? Just ibuprofen

20. How many rolls of film do you need to get developed? Atleast 15. I’m such a slacker!

21. Favorite age you have been so far? Adult age? 21. otherwise it was 18- Mom was still alive & I had NO responsibilities!

22. Your worst enemy? That would be ME.

23. What is your current desktop picture? Azul (came w/ the puter)

24. What was the last thing you said to someone? Yes, have him call me.

25. If you had to choose between a million bucks or to be able to fly which one would you pick? A million bucks

26. Do you like someone? Of course I do. But do I like-like someone?

27. The last song you listened to? Every time I Hear Your Name, Keith Anderson

28. If the last person you spoke to was getting shot at, what would you do? Step aside so a stray bullet doesn’t hit me!

29. If you could punch 1 person in the face who's in your life right now, who would it be? I have no idea. I’m not that violent of a person, but I do have my moments.

30. What is the closest object to your left foot? The desk.

As taken from Jennifer.

So I'm not that good about keeping up on blogging, so shoot me.

Everyone has that one car they owned that they just loved. Then one day it is gone, sold, whatever but it's gone. And then you miss it and wonder why you got rid of it. Well I have a car like that. I remember it fondly, I had a lot of good times with that car. Tried to kill someone in that car before, sorry about that Jennifer I really didn't mean it! Here is my "dream" car. I really should not have let my dad sell it. This picture was taken in 1986, shortly after we bought it. For some unknown/unremembered reason we were trying to sell it back then. But we did not sell it. Thank God cuz then I would have never been able to drive it! I loved that car, it is a 1975 VW Beetle, semi automatic (the clutch was in the shifter and Jennifer couldn't work it, so she sat in the drivers seat & I drove from the passenger seat until I turned 16!) My dad sold it in 1994 for $250! I should have never signed over that title. I should have kept the car, restored it and should still have it to this day. That little car got like 30 miles to the gallon! I would drive that thing everyday to work if I still had it! 30 mpg certainly beats the current 17 I get with my Durango!
I put 2 dents in the Bug while it was in my care. The first one was when some friends & I had gone TP-ing. I backed into a tree trying to leave the scene in a hurry, small barely noticable dent under the back bumper. The other dent was in the front passenger side fender. I was backing out of the garage & somehow managed to back into Chinkers back bumper. (there's more to that story but my daughter reads this & she can find out about the rest when she is 30!) Guess I wasn't too good at backing up! I've gotten it stuck a few times too. One of those times was when we had gotten bored at Jennifer's graduation party and decided to take it off-roading. We got stuck in a mud hole in her Dad's back 40. We had to walk back to get some guys to push us out. Oh what fun we had. Another time was in the snow, icy road- turned a corner and ended up doing a 180 and the front end ended up in a big snow drift. 3 guys lifted the front end up out of the snow bank and set her back on the road. They thought they were the shiz cuz they picked up a car. Granted the engine is in the back of the vehicle & they picked up the front of the vehicle and nothing was in the trunk.
I guess I took the Bug off-roading more than once, not by choice mind you. This is the story of when I tried to kill Jennifer. We had gone out to the golf course, where my dad was, cuz we wanted to go see a movie and my Mom said we had to ask my Dad. So off we go. We grab a golf cart (fastest one there) and head off to find my Dad. We are flying around the course, being the totally obnoxious teenage girls that we were, find my Dad- get his permission and then head out. The road that leads to the golf course has a rather sharp curve. Well I was still in "flying" mode from the golf cart (the Bug isn't all that different than a golf cart either by the way) and took the curve a wee bit too fast. We left the road and made our own road into the corn field. It was rather bumpy and I do believe we became airborne more than once. I totally messed up my alignment too. Jennifer hit her wrist on the ceiling of the Bug and bruised it pretty bad- that's the almost killing her part. But we had fun. We were laughing about it for hours. Jennifer, is that the same day that we saw Poison Ivy, the movie we swear my Mom told us to see but afterwards she swears she said for us NOT to see? & was that the same day we took FUBAR to Grand Rapids and that old hag yelled at me while I was driving?
Jennifer, the next time we go see a movie we have to sit next to each other. Watching Navy Seals with you was a trip. When Charlie Sheen said "F* Me" and you replied to him, that is just too much fun. What was it you said? Ok? When? Where? I don't exactly remember.
Okay, gotta stop the trip down memory lane, it's time to get some work done now.

Ok, so it's been a while (a week) since my last post. Not a whole lot has happened during that time either. Just been working and running back & forth to football & cheerleading practice. Gomer had decided not to join basketball this year. But then she was on the fence about it because they needed 2 more girls to join the team. I’m not sure where she stands on it now. It’s her decision and I can’t make her join or not join. She prefers volleyball. I just enjoy watching her play, doesn’t matter what the sport is, I just enjoy watching her. The more fun she has the more I enjoy watching her. I love the look she gets on her face when she does something good and she knows it’s good. I should cheer louder for her, but she has asked that we not do that, it’s embarrassing ya know.

I love to watch Lil’Man play football too. He gets so pumped up. He loves to play. He loves to tackle is more like it. He doesn’t like to play offense cuz he can’t tackle and he doesn’t want to be tackled. I told him to just run faster then. He wants to play basketball this winter too, that will be a first for that sport. He is still thinking about baseball. He has played it in for the past 2 or 3 years but he was very bored with it this year. His new teacher this year is the JV or Varsity coach for the High School boys and he told him it gets more fun as the kids get better, that he won’t be spending as much time just standing around. I had told him that before, but who am I? Just Mom, that’s all & Mom doesn’t know squat about sports, apparently. Oh well, he gets to decided and he has till spring.

Beanie is cheerleading for the first time this fall. She seems to love it. She is doing cheers all the time, much to her siblings’ disgust. For a first year, she is doing very well. Better than some that have been at it for 2 years or more! I don’t know if she will be interested in basketball this winter if it is offered to her grade. I think that it is and she has said before that she wants to play. We’ll see- if/when info is sent home from school. She is still doing Girl Scouts this year too. Hey, if you need cookies in the spring or nuts in the fall you know how to get ahold of me!

The kids are going with their Dad this Sunday and are spending the night with him. I told him they have to be home by 5pm on Monday. Their first day of school is on Tuesday and I want them fed, bathed, cloths laid out, bags ready, and in bed by 9! I’ve been trying to get them up earlier all of this week, but that is a hard battle. I really hope that Tuesday isn’t WWIII in my house! I will have Sunday afternoon to Monday evening all to my self, what is one to do?

Tonight we are going to be going to help my brother out. They are doing hay tonight. It’s been cut and raked; now it’s baling and hauling. It’s a great workout, but it is murder on your skin if you don’t wear long cloths. I’ve picked hay out of my forearms before for a month after having helped him! But dang it, I’d better lose some weight this time. Last time I didn’t, I was so disappointed.

Oh last weekend my girls and I went into Grant for their festival. Sherry was in the dunk dank. Here’s a picture for your enjoyment.