Didja miss me??? Didn't think so....

Well ye ha, it's been quite a long time since I've had a moment to post on my own blog...

Current Status of Me Today....

Job: I got a full time cook's position with the school system I work for... full benefits, a nice raise, more hours and a new school... I was HAPPY to say the least... I've worked very hard to get this opportunity... I'm also babysitting for the summer to make a little extra cash...

Home: My addition is rambling along at "The Tortise and the Hare" speed... I'm actually sitting here waiting for the electrician to arrive. My construction crew is a nice bunch of characters...at least it's never a dull moment... the pool...what can I say about the pool other than it's beautiful...not finished completely (still haven't recieved my Polaris, pool cover and test strips for chemicals, but that's okay, they still haven't received my final payment either :oP cause my services were not completey rendered to me) cause the electric hasn't been hooked up and we are running everything by extension cord.

Kids: We currently have all 5 kids at home living with us. Very cramped and at times chaotic, but we're working to improive that situation. Jake had a bad streak of luck, but it's starting to turn around. Poor little guy broke his arm, got walking pnemonia, was whacked in the mouth with a metal baseball bat (by the girl I babysit on accident) and then got swimmer's ear all in the past 8 weeks... He's doing much better now... doing cannon balls and swimming like a fish...Jessica received a letter in the mail to be included in the gifted and talented at school. She's swimming wonderfully...learned to dive and float... always keeping busy she is... Jay is still hiding out in his room, Josh is working almost every day at Wa-Wa pumping gas and John Jr has managed to get a job at a restuarant washing dishes...just wish they could all get along with each other, ya know?!

Family: Here is the hardest part to deal with... let's start with hubby's side... His father lost his battle to Parkinson's disease on April 29th. His passing has been one of the hardest things to deal with. He has always been there and for him not to be is just so hard to swallow... His Mom is coping the best she can. We walk just about every night, but lately it's swimming due to the heat. She's helped me to lose 15 pounds so far and I'm gonna keep trudging on till I finally lose all this post pregnancy/quitting smoking weight that I've been carrying around for almost 9 years.... His sister was going through some rough times with her family and his brother is going to be adding one more to his famiily in January... My side: My parents are still looking/waiting for a place to move to...so far everything has managed to fall through...I really hope they can get the place down here next to me...my Dad has been a bit of a mess lately falling down...he's had to have his elbow drained twice now and he is developing cataracts...my Mom truly needs help now and if she were to live down here I could help her so much more than I already do...waiting on test results for my one brother, my other brother had to endure one of the roughest things to go through as a parent...his oldest step-son who lives with him and his other half attempted suicide last week by hanging himself...it was touch and go there for a little bit while he was in ICU, but he is doing so much better this week and was transfered to a "crisis center". I visisted him last night and we talked... I just hope he realizes how lucky he is to have been given a second chance...most don't realize it until it's too late...

Well I guess that's all for now...a little good, a little bad, but always interesting....

Quote of the Day: If life hands you a lemon...throw it at someone!!! ~ John Rzeznik

Figured I better get updating...

Wow! Time flies before you realize... okay, the skinny of everything is the pool has finally started...they are a quarter of the way there...addition is looming in the distance about first week of May start date...Dad is looking at another surgery to save his legs from amputation... Mom is still battlingbouts of vertigo and I'm trying to find them a new place to live near me so I can help out...oh and did I mention 84 degrees outside today??? AHHHH... I can finally relax and bask in the warmth...and now the dieting begins...gotta be brave enough to don a suit and actually swim in the new pool when it is finally complete...

Outta here...

Twas the night before

my 10th wedding anniversary and all through the house the husband was on his computer playing an online game with a mouse...the wife sat on the couch surfing the internet alone, trying to catch glimpses of the movie that was droning on in monotone...the little ones were all settled and all snug in their beds while the two teenagers played online games that involved using their heads...okay, it's lame...

Tomorrow is my tenth wedding anniversary and tonight we celebrated by going out to dinner at the Texas Roadhouse all by ourselves!!! It was really nice, affordable and all around great!!!

Okay, shutting up...

Checking out the new Dell

Pretty cool so far... little slower than what I'm used to, but very cool...in a happy mood...going to finish watching Brokedown Palace until I fall asleep...

get your dell at dell4me.com

Peace!

It's snowing...AGAIN!!!

So today it snows yet again...I think I want to move to some place warm all the time...nah...I kinda dig the fact that the season's actually change...I just wish they were changing now... I'm seriously longing for warmer weather... I want to get this addtition started so I can have room to breathe in my own house!!! Still debating the whole school and wrok thing... I really want to go back to school, but I'm having serious second thoughts... I also want to quit my current job, but I'm suffering fromt he same thing as I am over the school issue... guess I'll have to sleep on it...going to bed and hoping school is cancelled tomorrow so I can catch up on some much needed house work and sleep...C~ya! Night all...

Time flies when you're not watching the clock....

Holy crap! It's been a lonnnnng time since I last blogged...I am so lazy...okay, more like I was sick, but I am getting better...still haven't finished plans for the addition thanks to the weather...pool hasn't been put in yet either...I HATE winter... so still trying to figure out the school/financial aid thing...not sure if I'm going back to work at the cafe next September...gettingburned out on working there with people that I'm not sure are really my friends...some are, but some are very questionable...HATE drama...have enough of my own...this post is going to be short...see? All done...

getting to know your blogger

IF YOU COULD BUILD A HOUSE ANYWHERE, WHERE WOULD IT Be? Some place warm...we just had 10 inches of snow dumped on us a few days ago and more is coming....

WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE ARTICLE OF CLOTHING? My jeans

FAVORITE PHYSICAL FEATURE OF THE OPPOSITE SEX? Eyes (the window to the soul)

WHAT'S THE LAST MOVIE THAT YOU SAW AT THE THEATER? The Passion of the Christ

WHERE'S YOUR FAVORITE PLACE TO BE? Home

WHERE'S YOUR LEAST FAVORITE PLACE TO BE? Work

WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE PLACE TO BE MASSAGED? MY feet

WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT, STRONG IN MIND OR STRONG IN BODY? Strong in mind.

WHAT TIME DO YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING? Depends how tired I am...7 or 8am

WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE KITCHEN APPLIANCE? Microwave

WHAT MAKES YOU REALLY ANGRY? people who don't know how to drive when I'm in a hurry

IF YOU COULD PLAY ANY INSTRUMENT WHAT WOULD IT BE? Guitar of course

FAVORITE COLORS? Purple, Gray and Black

WHICH DO YOU PREFER, SPORTS CAR, OR SUV? SUV

DO YOU BELIEVE IN AFTERLIFE? ABSOLUTELY!!!

FAVORITE CHILDREN'S BOOK? Goodnight Moon

WHAT'S YOUR LEAST FAVORITE HOUSEHOLD CHORE? Cleaning the toilet (Idon't pee on it, I pee in it, why do I have to clean it?)

IF YOU COULD HAVE ONE SUPER POWER, WHAT WOULD IT BE? To read minds

IF YOU COULD HAVE 1/2 HOUR TALKING TO A FAMOUS PERSON, WHO WOULDIT BE? John Rzeznik

NAME THE ONE PERSON FROM YOUR PAST YOU WISH YOU COULD GO BACK AND TALK WITH? My Sister ( I was 4 months old when she died)

WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE DAY? Monday (kids go back to school)

WHAT'S IN THE TRUNK OF YOUR CAR? No trunk, but I have a boom box, ice scraper, box of kids stuff and grocery bags

SUShI OR HAMBURGER? HAMBURGER? Hamburger

IF YOU COULD PICK WHAT YOU DO FOR A LIVING, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I would be John Rzeznik's personal assistant...don't think my hubby would appreciate my career choice though, LOL!!!

IF YOU HAD 3 WISHES, WHAT WOULD THEY BE? That my family would never have to worry about money, that my family would always be healthy and that my family would ALL go to Heaven...guess I better scratch the personal assistant comment if I want to go huh? :oP

I'm slipping...

It's just been crazy and I have no excuse...

Had alot of crap going on here... decided to go back to school, but now I have to wait until Summer session or Fall to start because of financial aid not coming through fast enough and NOT being ready for the placement test.... Math absolutely terrifies me... Know any good suggestions for remembering basic stuff that you don't really use unless you're baking a cake from scratch or shopping the clearance rack??? So with that, I have to put off going back for a little while, but the good thing is I get more study time...

In other grim news... my father, who just turned 70 Saturday (and for those who really know me, know this is a feat all by itself) went to the doc about his pacemaker in his heart. A few weeks ago he was basically given 10 months to live because his battery in the device runs out and he's not a strong man (see New year's post) Well they told him his opptions for survival and they go like this:
Plan A:
Heart Transplant ~ Gee, sorry, you're not a candidate cause you're old, in bad health all the way around due to kidneys not functioning properly and stuff like that and oh, did I mention wouldn't survive the surgery???
Plan B:
Replacing the pacemaker with a new one.
Plan C:
Leave things the way they are and when the battery goes dead...guess what else goes dead???

So anyways, he's opted to do Plan B...well plan b scares the crapola out of me! If he's not going to survive plan a, what makes them think he'll survive plan b??? When the man had the initial pacemaker put in that was supposed to be same day surgery, he almost died! Was in the hospital for over a week and it's been a downhill slide since... when he had his triple by-pass his week stay was over a month with numerous complications and several oh God he's dead, no wait they revived him... I just don't understand how his doctor can put him through yet another operation... it's crazy... okay, I'm being selffish here...I know it's because he wants to live, but there is no guarentee that this new pacemaker will improve the quality of life, NONE! He may die on the table, he may have a massive stroke that will leave him God forbid a vegetable and in a nursing home! I am just beside myself with what if's and stress and I can't even imagine what my poor mother must be going through...she's been taking care of him for almost 19 years!!! God bless her... She's a saint as far as I'm concerned...

Work is a rat race and another long boring story...and to top it all off, I have stress here at home with a teenage eating machine that won't do anything but eat everything in sight, make messes for me to clean up and give me a hard time! I LOVE my son, but there are times I'd like to duct tape a dirty sock in his mouth! He's bull headed and lazy and a smartass, but I love him and try to be patient...lately the old patience is running thin...

I so need a vacation or a Goo Goo Dolls concert...

been a while

so I was thinking today that it's been a little while since my last entry...guess I better get down to business... family life has taken over everything that is my day to day...as it should be...Jake has been horribly sick with broncitious and is on the mend. He went back to school today... I am still contemplating my future as far as career goes...I dont want to be a lunch lady forever. I want my job to mean something, to be helpful to others...so I am debating...oh hell I AM GOING BACK TO SCHOOL IN THE FALL! There I said it and now there's no going back...I want to be an ex-ray tech and work in a medical setting.

Now while I contemplate some more, I'm off to watch CSI Miami with hubby.

Nite....peace out!

First Post of 2005

Life's been busy even though we've turnedanother page in the calendar...my New Year's Day was spent first entertaining company that are near and dear to me and then getting a phone call from my Mom informing me that my Dad had fallen in the bathtub landing on the base of his skull...first miracle of 2005 was that after a ride to the ER in an ambulance on a backboard complete with cervical collar, alot of oh my God looks because he couldn't feel the bottom of his right foot, my Dad did not fracture his skull or have to be admitted into the hospital...THANK YOU GOD!!!

And so after my quick trip to the ER (yes, I did say quick...3 hours tops...it pays to know people in the medical field), I hung out with my best friend, picked my son up from work and went home.

Sunday was spent watching Jake with a temp of 103...needless to say, we didn't go back to work/school today...we went to the doctor's and was diagnosed with broncitius...good news is we're going tomorrow, at least I am...

Peace out and goodnight *yawn*