Had lunch today with a vender, he took a few gals from another office & I to an italian chain resterant. The food, as always, was very good. On our way out I saw this woman with her mother & her child having lunch. I so wanted to tell this woman that the g-string sticking out the top of the jeans had gone out of style about 80 pounds ago. But I didn't. I was nice- kind of. I had to point it out to one of the other gals though. I figure, if I have to see something nasty then so does someone else. Aren't I nice? The other gals were to busy talking about how the belt on my skirt was longer than my actual skirt & the male vender was busy talking about how "you've got legs".

I'm done painting my living room now, just need to get a few spots touched up. Next is the carpet, hopefully it will be installed this week yet. I still have to go get some tile for in front of the slider & the entryway and I need another bucket of mud so I can finish texturing the dining room walls. I just can't wait until it's all done. It is going to look so nice!

My 15 year class reunion is coming up this summer too and I am busy planning that too. So between my 40+ hour a week day job, 16 hour a weekend night job, fixing up my house and raising my 3 kids I also am squeezing in the class reunion planning. That might give you an idea of why my posts are so few & far between.

The X is living out of state now, like 6 states away. He still thinks that I need to drop everything I am doing to talk to him whenever he calls or I-M's me. I don't think so buddy. I might have more motivation to be nicer to him if he would actually pay some support. $100 in the past 3 months for 3 kids just doesn't cut it.

Ok, gotta get back to work now. Bye.

So I guess I am averaging one new post about every three weeks. Sorry about that.
Lots have been going on but nothing is going on all at the same time. I've been working alot, took one day off of the bar job last week due to a major headache/headcold. I've been training a new girl at the day job for the past 2 weeks. I'm glad that is done but for a while it was nice to not be the only one in my office and to have someone else tell me how busy my office is and how I need a second person there all the time. She thinks I am super woman for being able to get everything done. Little does she know that I feel like I am barely scrapping by!

My house is torn up right now too. I am in a very slow process of having hardwood flooring installed in my dining room. I've removed the carpet and moved the hardwood pieces in from the garage. So to date I have a few piles of wood in my dining room yet can't use my dining room. I have carpet waiting to be installed in my living room but don't want that done until the hardwood is done. I also have a new to me bedroom suite on its way, the dining room set that I inherited from my mother and a piano coming. I want my floors done first! I am so tired of having my house torn up too it isn't even funny!

On a happy note, my Dad married the second most wonderful woman he could ever be married to. The first most wonderful he was already married to (my mom) and had 26 wonderful years together before she passed away. All I can say about his wedding is that it's about fricking time! They were dating for 6 years. They got married in a very private cermony on Saturday.

Now on a sad note, my uncle (my dad's oldest brother) died yesterday. He was 65. He had cancer. I hate cancer. Cancer sucks. My grandparents are not doing well. They are in their mid 80's and are not in good health. I am just afraid that losing their child is going to be a huge strain on them. I'm afraid that I will be losing them too before the year is up.

Okay, gotta go before I make myself into a sobbing mess.

I'm back from my vacation and back to work. It was a nice vacation, it's always good to get away. I have, however, now found myself in a bit of a funk. I think I know why but don't really want to go there. Kind-of that if you don't say it, it really doesn't exist kind of thing. I know, De-Nial is a river in Egypt. But hey, it's working for me right now so I'm going with it. It will hit me later, more than likely when I am home alone at night, or more embrassingly when I am at church with both my brothers and end up sobbing like a baby. I really have no one I can talk to about it and could pour everything out here cuz I don't really think anyone reads this. Maybe that is what I will do, but not today.

There is so much to do before I leave on my vacation!

I have to:
1 Get my truck fixed
2 Renew the tabs on my license plate
3 Find homes for 4 puppies (1 female & 3 males) and a home for the Momma too
4 I have an appointment with the city on Monday regarding my property assessment
(they more than doubled it this time!)
5 I need to rip out the carpet in my dining room but before I do that I have to
make sure I have enough hardwood flooring to cover my dining room.
6 I also have a couch I need to drag to the curb for the garage man to take away.

I have already upgraded my cell service so I won't get roaming charges while I am goine. & I have found homes for 4 of the puppies to date. I also have a dog sitter lined up for Kotta while we are gone- Thank you Charlie!- and he is going to check on my house for me too, wonder if he will feed the lizard for us too?

I found out this morning that I also need to get my dryer fixed. It heats stuff up but doesn't tumble them. So now I have a bunch of cloths hanging up in my bathroom drying, how lovely is that? Hopefully I just need a new belt. I'm sure I have a lovely site this morning though. After figuring out that it wasn't tumbling I shut the door to the dryer & then proceeded to kick it. That didn't help so I started jumping up & down whining "my dryer is broke". Not only did my kids look at me funny but the dogs did too.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what we should do while on vacation? Yes Jennifer this is directed towards you. I will talk to my kids tonight to see what they want to do, but we don't live over there so we don't know all of our options. I do want us to go out & party like rock stars though. It just might be like 30 something year old has been rock stars, but rock stars all the same!

Okay, gotta go. Work to be done & no one else here to do it. Luv Ya.