It never fails. Everytime I paint a wall in my house the dog ends up with it on her. She's been white, dark blue, tan, peacock, black, hot pink, and now she's red! Crazy dog!

Okay, the day of my last post my X had called me. I was taking our oldest daughter and her friend to the Cute is What We Aim For/Plain White T's/Gym Class Hero's/Fall Out Boy concert that night, the X was taking the other 2 kids for the night. The kids had a half day of school that day. In the morning I had instructed the younger two that they were to come straight home from school, do any homework, eat lunch and do their chores because their dad was coming to get them. About an hour after they should have been home I get ahold of my oldest (now 14, she had a birthday on Tuesday). My son is with a friend of his at another friend's house, and my youngest never came home from school. Great! I told her to go find them. Then, not even 10 minutes later the X calls me to tell me he is on his way to get the kids and that they had better be ready to go. So I call my oldest back. The kids are not home by the time their dad gets there. So he call me. Like I can wiggle my nose and make them appear! Geeze. We get into it. I simply said that I guess I am going to have to hire a sitter for the kids because they don't listen to me from miles away at work nor do they listen to their older sister. He states that maybe I should just find a different job. Me, find a different job?! To which I reply "Why don't you find A JOB so I don't have to work TWO JOBS! Or why don't you just be there with the kids when they get home from school and make sure they do the stuff they are supposed to?" His reply "I don't have a vehicle...." at this point I hung up on him. Funny how he always has a vehicle to drive whenever he wants one but uses it as an excuse whenever I ask him to do something out of his way for his children. He is so behind on his child support to his other children that the state took away his driver's license and he has 2 warrents for his arrest for the back support. Soon he will have 3 warrents. There is an order for my 3 kids for support, like I ever see a dime of that! He is ordered to pay a whooping $70 a month for all 3 kids. I hate the system, it seems to work in every females advantage except mine. Maybe because I don't work it, I don't know.

I've got to get to work now, but I will post more later. Here are a few things I will blog about: Fall Out Boy Concert, motorboating, the bar job, basketball game.

Men are stupid.


More to the point, my X is a complete idiot!

My good friend and bar manager has put in her 2 week notice. Now I have to decide if I want to stay there without her. I'm a great server, I could get a job most anywhere. Once I learn what goes in all the drinks, I will be a great bartender. I am quick and make few to no mistakes. I like that bar, but I don't know how much I'm going to like it without her there. She called me last night & told me. She also said I might want to consider putting mine in too. I guess I will see who they have replace her and see how it goes. I know I can make better money at another bar and I would be able to make it to another bar a lot closer to my home on time on a Friday night as well. I know I will figure this out, I just hate the waiting.

I would like to go back to school. Something in the medical field. Either radiology or sports medicine.

When I was in for my ultrasound for my breast issues, I had a strong desire to go into radiology. Which is a field I was going to go to school for between child #1 & child #2. I was even accepted at the local community college, where it is a fulltime 2 year program. Right now I just don't have the time or the money to do that.

Tuesday night when I got to football practice to pick up my boy, there was an injured player. The ambulance was pulling up just as I was walking across the parking lot. As a mother I had that sudden panic come over me until I found the location of the injured player. My boy was about 2 football fields over. The hurt player was a 4th grader, my youngest knows him. He has hurt his neck and they were taking no chances. He was in school the next day, all is fine. When I got over to where my boy was practicing all I wanted to do was devore him in a huge hug. I didn't care that he was with all of his fellow football players. All I could think about was that my son wasn't hurt. Lucky for him, he was out on the field in the middle of a play. He was saved from the ultimate embrassment, the hug from his momma!

I go through the whole sports medicine phase every football season. Everytime a player gets hurt I just think, if I were trained I could help that player. Last night at basketball practice, it was no different. The girls were dorking around & they kept hurting each other or themselves. My daughter somehow managed to fall while she was getting a drink. She hit her little head 3 times on the porclein drinking fountain, all during the same fall! I know, she is so gracefull! I know enough to know to figure out if medical attention is needed or not. Pupils were fine, no double vision, didn't black out etc. She does however have a big bruise on her forehead directly above her left eye. A goose egg appeared immediately, it looked so sore!

I really wish I had gone back to college. I graduated from High School in 1992, went to college for a year, where I learned how to hang drywall & get pregnant. After my daughter was born in 1993 I was going to go back to school. Then a month later my mother died. By the time the next semester came around I was working to support my child. I've been working full time ever since. I married the father, but he was never reiable enough for me to not work and go to school. So now I just struggle to raise my kids and pay all of my bills.

I know I could go to school part time and still work. Part of my problem with that is I am an impatient person. If it's a 2 year program, I want to be finished in 2 years. If I were to work too, it would take me 4 or 5 years to finish. If I had gone back when I was accepted, I would be finished by now. I would be making more money, have better hours and I would have health insurance.

& I'm trying to win Hannah Montana tickets for my youngest. Anyone know the secret to being the 93rd caller? I've got 2 phones going and all I get is either busy signal or busy circuits! I've registered with 2 different radio stations to win these tickets too. One is having a Mommy Fear Factor contest. I listen to this station everyday. I know the gross stuff they have their interns eat. I would be very worried if I were picked to be in the contest. But she really wants to go tot he show & it is 2 days before her birthday, so I would do it- just for her. Wish me luck.

I'm in the midst of sports overload. We had our first basketball game on Saturday. The girls did much better than I thought they were going to do. However, we are so working on nothing up layups, passing and dribbling this week! It was interesting playing against my brother's team. 2 of his daughters are on the team too. He gave me some nice pointers for my girls. We play them again on Oct 27th.

After the 9 am basketball game we went back home and did yard work. I powerwashed the house, now it looks so pretty. There is a pine tree next to my house, along with an oak tree & a maple. All of that shade causes moss to grow on the siding. It is not very nice looking, but washing off rather easily. The X had decided to spend the day at my house with the kids so I put him to work in the yard too. He does manuel labor for me as he doesn't pay his child support.

And it was parents night for football/cheerleading. Our first game was at 3 and the next one at 5. The 3rd/4th graders (my daughter cheers for this one) won 50 to 28 and the 5th/6th grade team (my son's team) lost 0-12. They played hard but a few penalties cost them the game.

After the game all 3 of my kids decided they wanted to go with their dad for the night. I didn't have to work. So what did I do? Did I go out? No. I went to bed. How sad am I?

Sandwiched inbetween the basketball game, yard work and the football games, I went to visit my grandparents. Grandpa is back at home after his brief hospital visit. He just looks so depressed all the time. I think he is giving up. He told me that it's hard to stay alive and that he would just like to go to sleep and never wake up. He thinks that it would be easier on everyone if he were to do that. Grandma told me that he had said that he wants to die in the same year as Uncle Jim. It makes me sad. I don't want to lose my Grandpa, he's the only one I had. But I don't want him to suffer anymore either. I just hope he has taken Christ into his life again. The doctors have told Grandma that one day she is going to go wake him up and he will be gone. She doesn't want to find him dead. She's never seen anyone die and doesn't want to watch him die either. She wants him to go in a hospital, not at home. When he goes, I just want him to go peacefully and to not be alone.

Now that I have depressed ya'll, I'll change the subject to my schedule for next Saturday.

8 am football game, 9 am basketball game, another football game at noon, need to get Jordyn ready for the Homecoming dance around 4, then I need to head to work around 5:30. Wonder when I can squeeze a nap in there? My favorite band, Chas Blakemore and the Hillbilly Band, is going to be at the bar this weekend, so come on over and party!

Hello everyone. Nothing much new is going on in my life right now. Football is in full swing, my son's team is 2-2. We have our first basketball game this Saturday. I do not think we are ready yet. The girls give me such attitude at practice. I tell them to do something and they tell me no. I never told a coach no before, ever. It simply wasn't done. My own daughter does it to me, so the other girls see it and then they try it. There is a small handful that don't do it. They ran alot yesterday because of their attitudes. I just have to keep telling myself that they are only 4th graders and they are new to basketball. I don't want to make them not like the game but I want them to learn respect and how to play. 6 more weeks and then it's over. There were moments at last nights practice that I was ready to quit. But I'm not a quitter and I don't want to set that kind of example for my kids. I don't allow them to quit an activity part way through. Once they made the commitment, they have to stick it out. So I have to follow that too. Traveling and double dribbling is going to be the death of me!

I tried some yoga on Monday while my kids were at cheer & football practice. I only got to do about 30 minutes though. My body felt wonderful when I had to stop, every ache and pain that I had before I started was gone. They had all traveled north, and settled in the top of my melon. That happens everytime I lay on the floor, I have no idea why but it does. I had the most intense headache for about 20 minutes, then it was gone. The next morning I woke up with a horrible kink inbetween my shoulder blades and I can't get rid of it. Today is day 3 with that kink, it just won't go away. I've tried cracking my back and stretching, doesn't help. It's starting to make me cranky. My oldest tried to rub it out for me yesterday and the neighbor girl about fell over in laughter at the faces I was making so she stopped.

Okay, gotta get to work.