It's time. It's time to get a different vehicle. With the price of gas these days I can't afford to drive my Durango. $70 for a fill twice a week! Agghhh.... So I am looking. I want something 2003 or newer, in the upper 30's for mpg, under $10k, and something that is not white. I know, all the criteria is pretty normal and common until you get to the color thing. I've had a white car and I don't care to have another one. I prefer a black one. I would really like to get a Charger. I was very impressed with the one I had to rent back in March. But the Corolla gets like 40 mpg, that's more impressive! The amount I save on gas would pay my car payment. Car payment, I don't have one of those right now and don't really want another one, but it is going to have to happen. I really want to wait until I get back from Florida in June before getting a different vehicle. There are 6 of us going and we are driving. I really need my Durango to fit us all there, seeing how I refuse to be an owner of a mini-van. I know, I'm strange. I see a mini-van as a soccer mom thing and I'm not a soccer mom. I'm a Football/cheerleading/basketball/volleyball mom. The only plus on a mini-van is that car sex is extreme easy.

I had dental work done this morning. What a way to start your day, getting loopy on the gas and having holes drilled in your mouth. Now I feel like I'm a stroke patient. The entire left side of my face is numb. It's the strangest feeling, I really don't like it at all. My eye even feels weird. I'm just really thankful that in a few hours I will be all back to normal. Just in the mean time, I'm trying realy hard to not have to talk. It's hard to talk when only half of your face does what you want it to do!

Child Support


I got a check in the mail the other day, for child support. The first one in YEARS. It was for a whooping, are you ready for this???? Get ready..... are you sitting down........

$2.91!

Yep, that's right! $2.91 for 3 kids. I think they can wipe their asses now, cuz toliet paper is about all you can buy with that kind of cash.

So how was your weekend??? Let me tell you about mine......


Started out Friday night by going to M's hockey game. It was a good exciting game, they won 8-5. M had 3 goals and 4 assists. Left from the game to get to Detroit where the team he coaches was playing. Got to 275, exit 17 with no problems. Then the trouble starts. I had switched cars with a friend, she needed more seating for the weekend, I wanted better gas mileage for the weekend. About a mile before the exit, it had snowed. A whispy blowy snow. The road commision salted the roads to the point it was like driving on a pretzel! As we exit 275 North at exit 17, the wind blows just a split second too late and reveals the biggest fricking pothole I've ever seen. Note I said, "too late" cuz we hit that sucker and hit it hard. The impact blew out the tire and apparently cracked the rim. We made it to the hotel. We couldn't put the spare tire on, because it was already on one of the rear tires. See my friend had a blow out a few months ago and still had gotten that tire fixed. She had been carrying it around in her truck for the past few months. & dumb me took it out of the truck and left it in GR so we would have room in the truck for our luggage. Stupid move. We weren't able to get the car fix on Saturday due to the game schedule, so it stayed parked at the hotel. Sunday, we had it towed ($90)to the local Sears store to get it fixed. That's when we found out the rim was cracked. The guy at Sears tells me, as he is standing there with his back to a wall full of rims, that they don't sell rims there. I think he meant a single rim that would match the other ones already on the Jetta. So..... we had to take a cab to the airport - cuz that rental car company that says they will pick you up, they lie-($30) to rent a car ($150)to drive to GR, get the other rim, have a tire put on it ($65)and then drive back to Detroit ($40 in gas) the next morning to be able to drive the Jetta home. Oh, then the rental company removes my pre-paid gas @ $2.99 a gallon and charged me $4.59 a gallon for 5 gallons. I have to call them and bitch about that!

Oh, yeah, we had a motorclub plan, but because this all happened on a weekend and we didn't have the card with us, they couldn't verify membership so I had to pay all of this out of pocket. They had better pay me back!

I have found the next vehicle I want to purchase though. The rental car was a 2008 Dodge Charger. It was so nice!!!! So roomy, rode so smooth and got great gas mileage. We left Detroit with a full tank, got to GR, dropped off M and his daughter in Walker then drove to Newaygo, stopping in Grant to pick up my son and left the vehicle running the entire 30 minutes I was there and used less than 1/2 a tank of gas. & it only cost me around $40 to fill it on our way back to Detroit!!! I was so impressed.

Last night my oldest (14) and I laid in bed and watched Dane Cook together. After the show was over, she turned off the tv and then started asking me all sorts of questions. She is a freshman now and FULL of questions. One of the questions was how old does she have to be before she can have sex. She was like "We've never really estiblished an age, so what is it?" I told her "Ideally, I would like you to wait until you are married, but I know that isn't going to happen. So you have to wait until you are atleast 18." She asked why that age, I told her any time before that & I can send the guy to jail. Not that I would, but I know me & I know I will atleast consider it for the guy that does that to my baby!

I love that my daughter can ask me anything. It just scares the shit out of me- knowing what I was doing at her age and what my friends were doing. She's a good girl and I want to keep her that way. She did ask me what I did at her age, what my bff and I did and why did we do stupid stuff like that, and she went on to ask me what I've done as an adult. Who I lost my virginity to, what I did with boyfriends before her father and after. I try to be completely honest with her but I don't want her doing some of the stuff I've done. I was pregnant for her at 19. I want more for her. I want all of my kids to have a better life than I have had and I don't want them to stuggle like I have.

Life with a teenager. It's never dull!

OK time for another coffee break - put on your thinking cap:



There is a very, very tall coconut tree, and there are 4 animals:

King Kong, Ape, Orangutan and a Monkey pass by. They have a competition to see who is the fastest to get the banana. Who do you guess will win?

Your answer will reflect your personality. Try and answer within 30 seconds.

Got your answer? Scroll down to see the analysis.


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If your answer is . . . .


Orangutan = dull/stupid

Ape = foolish

Monkey = idiot

King Kong = moron



Why?


Coconut trees, don't have bananas ! ! ! !

It's obvious you're stressed by your work.

Go home

THE WORLD'S SHORTEST PSYCHIATRIC JOKE


A man walks into a psychiatrist's office wearing only underwear made of Saran Wrap.

The psychiatrist says, "Well...I can clearly see your nuts."

Dear Mr. Thatcher,

I have been a loyal user of your 'Always' maxi pads for over 20 years and
I appreciate many of their features. Why, without the LeakGuard Core or
Dri-Weave absorbency, I'd probably never go horseback riding or salsa
dancing, and I'd certainly steer clear of running up and down the beach in
tight, white shorts. But my favorite feature has to be your revolutionary
Flexi-Wings. Kudos on being the only company smart enough to realize how
crucial it is that maxi pads be aerodynamic. I can't tell you how safe and
secure I feel each month knowing there's a little F-16 in my pants.

Have you ever had a menstrual period, Mr. Thatcher? Ever suffered from the
Curse? I'm guessing you haven't. Well, my time of the month is starting
Right now. As I type, I can already feel hormonal forces violently surging
Through my body. Just a few minutes from now, my body will adjust and I'll
be transformed into what my husband likes to call 'an inbred hillbilly
with Knife skills.' Isn't the human body amazing?

As Brand Manager in the Feminine-Hygiene Division, you've no doubt seen
quite a bit of research on what exactly happens during your customers
monthly visits from 'Aunt Flo'. Therefore, you must know about the
bloating, puffiness, and cramping we endure, and about our intense mood
Swings, crying jags, and out-of-control behavior. You surely realize it's
a tough time for most women. In fact, only last week, my friend Jennifer
fought the violent urge to shove her boyfriend's testicles into a George
Foreman Grill just because he told her he thought Grey's Anatomy was
written by drunken chimps. Crazy!

The point is, sir, you of all people must realize that America is just
crawling with homicidal maniacs in Capri pants... Which brings me to the
reason for my letter. Last month, while in the throes of cramping so
painful I wanted to reach inside my body and yank out my uterus, I opened
an Always maxi-pad, and there, printed on the adhesive backing, were these
words: 'Have a Happy Period.'

Are you fu*ing kidding me? What I mean is, does any part of your tiny
middle-manager brain really think happiness - actual smiling, laughing
happiness is possible during a menstrual period? Did anything mentioned
above sound the least bit pleasurable? Well, did it, James? FYI, unless
You're some kind of sick S&M freak girl, there will never be anything
'happy' about a day in which you have to jack yourself up on Motrin and
Kahlua and lock yourself in your house just so you don't march down to the
local Walgreen's armed with a hunting rifle and a sketchy plan to end your
life in a blaze of glory.

For the love of God, pull your head out, man! If you just have to slap a
moronic message on a maxi pad, wouldn't it make more sense to say
something that's actually pertinent, like 'Put down the Hammer' or 'Vehicular
manslaughter is Wrong', or are you just picking on us?

Sir, please inform your Accounting Department that, effective immediately,
there will be an $8 drop in monthly profits, for I have chosen to take my
Maxi-pad business elsewhere. And though I will certainly miss your
Flex-Wings, I will not for one minute miss your brand of condescending
bull Sh*t. And that's a promise I will keep. Always.

Best,
Wendi Aarons
Austin , TX

I've made it through 2 Fridays without a breakdown. I think my luck has taken a turn for the better.

I put in my notice at the bar, last Saturday was my last night there. I am going to miss it, I already know. They did leave it so I can come back if I want to. I prolly will end up going back.

More staff changes at the day job. I just don't understand how someone could steal money from their employer and think that no one will find out. I really don't understand how anyone could steal from an employer that is as great as the one I have. Go figure, takes a lot of strange people to make the world go round.

5 more months until the kids & I take off for Disney. I think I am more excited than they are!

On the radio this morning they were talking about the movie "The Bucket List" and what was on their own bucket lists. That made me think of what should be on mine. So here it is:
1. See my kids graduate from High School & College, succeed in what they choose to do.
2. See my kids find the loves of their lives, get married & have babies.
3. Find the guy that makes my heart race, the one that I would find myself missing when we are apart for just a few hours, the one that makes me feel special and beautiful when I am just puttering around the house in my pj's with my hair pulled back in a ponytail from the night before.
4. Go to Scotland and research my family history

It's a short list, but that's all I want. Shouldn't be too hard now should it?

Sometimes you just wanna go "GGGRRRR!!!!" If my boss was here right now things might be better. He is gone on vacation right now & I am in charge. Being in charge sucks!

My dad owns & runs a family business that has been around for over 100 years. He was considering selling, but has now changed his mind. He asked me the other day how much I make a year. I told him, then told him what I would need to leave my boss (funny, but just paid medical and the same $$ per year would get me to leave). When I asked him why he said he was just thinking. Right now if he were to ask me to come work for him I would do it. Forget the paid medical. I wouldn't have this headache!

My boss told the other girls before he left on vacation that I am the manager. That everything goes through me. I guess someone missed that memo, cuz she is deciding her own schedule. I told him when he had her start going from office to office that I need someone at my office that is dependable and will be here when told to be here. Funny how that isn't happening.

I am a bit concerned about tomorrow. It's Friday. My truck has broken down the last two fridays in a row. 2 weeks ago it was the wheel bearings, last week a broken tie-rod. I can't afford anything to break this week!

Merry Christmas!!!

A few weeks ago I refinanced my house to pay off a bunch of debt. Included in that debt was all my credit cards and my truck. Doesn't it just figure, now that the thing is paid off something goes wrong. I took it in today to the local Dodge dealership to find out what the clunking noise was. I thought it was brake related. Turns out it's the wheel bearings. $554 for them to fix it, and they wouldn't be able to do it until Wednesday- unless they sent someone to go fetch the part from a town about 50 miles away. Funny, seeing how I called a local part store & picked up the part myself for a mere fraction of the cost. The X is replacing it now. In my parking lot at work. I guess there is a reason why I stay nice to him even when he doesn't pay any support.

Things I have learned this week.

Playing "whack-a-mole" with your knee & the curb is not a good thing.

I am not Superman & I can not fly. I have picture proof too, atleast of the mark it left on my right bicep:



I am so glad it's a new week. Here's to a better, painfree week!

Kudos!

Just want to say, I have to give kudos to any man that can climax in a stall in the ladies room at a bar while 2 woman (one of which is the manager, the other is the girlfriend of the bouncer) are banging on the stall door screaming at him that if he doesn't leave the ladies room instantly, security will be called.

It's a Redneck Holiday!!!!

It's that time of year again around here. The redneck children get a day off of school for a national redneck holiday. It's OPENING DAY OF RIFLE SEASON!! Around these neck of the woods they close school for the event. Some schools are even closing for 2 days this year! The teachers work opening day into their contracts even, it's a big issue- right up there next to health insurance.

The deer population is getting so large around here, they really need to thin the herd. I'm hoping to do my part in that as well. I'm not braking very hard if one were to run out in front of me. I need to get a vehicle that gets better gas mileage and the trade in on my vehicle isn't what I want. The amount I would be paid if it were totaled is what I want, but no dealer will give me that & it would take too long to sell it myself. I found a cute dark green Grand Prix GTP that gets double the gas mileage then my Durango. It gets better gas mileage than the Jetta I was looking at too and parts should be easier to find. So I would go from just over $600 a month in gas to just over $300 a month. That would be much much better.

Two of my kids have birthdays in December, 11 days apart from each other. They have decided to have a joint bday party, but the guest list (including family) is over 70 people! Their dad said he was going to pay for the party. Good thing too, cuz they are having a skating party and the rental of the rink is $175 not including skate rental.

Tonight I am going to go to a bar closer to my home and apply for a job there. I like the bar I work at and the people I work with but things are different now that Tracy is gone. Not really different in a bad way, but I'm just not as happy there now. There is one girl that I love but she is getting kind of pushy. She wants behind the bar so bad, they have put me back there ever other weekend now and she wants one of my nights. This past weekend she wanted one of the tables in my section cuz "her regulars" were sitting there. To me, if someone really wants you to serve them then they will ask you where your section is and then they will sit there. I let her trade me tables cuz I was tired of her asking me & making a big deal out of it. Most of the time that I was there (I left at 11:30 cuz it was slow & I was bored and didn't feel like being there) they were grapping my arm and asking me to get them drinks. Anyways, this weekend is the weekend that I am to be behind the bar, but I'm only back there one night cuz they gave her the other one. I can see why, they want her to be a back up bartender and they need to train her and it should be a slower weekend night so that is why they are doing it. But it kind of bugs me. Then I feel petty for allowing it to bug me. So I'm just going to go apply at a closer, busier bar where I can make more money. Plus I know I will get good references too. Tracy knows the owners and she will give me a great reference and a friend of mine that was married to my cousin that I still consider family is very good friends with the owners and she told me to use her as a reference too. So tonight I am going to go talk to the owner that does the hiring. I am going to offer to work the Wednesday before Thanksgiving as a trial run. They don't even have to pay me, I'll work for tips. How could they refuse free help on the busiest night of the year? I'll keep you posted.

My youngest has lost my phone. She has now lost both my cell phone & the home phone. This morning she decided to take my cell upstairs to her room to reset her alarm clock, even after I told her not to take it upstairs. The upstairs is the Bremuda Triangle for cell phones. She took it anyways. I did see it on the dining room table after she came down, but when I got ready to walk out the door, it was gone. I even went to her school and asked her where it was. It was not where she said it was. She is so grounded until that phone is back in my hand.

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.