Teenagers UUGGGHHH!!!

Yesterday was not a good day for my teen!! It started off with a fight between her & me. I was getting ready to take her to the bus stop, and she put on a hoodie sweatshirt and started for the door. I told her to put on a coat. Her response is that the zipper is broke, so I told her to wear a different one, she has 3!! Then she told me she can't because it won't fit in her locker. My response is I don't care, put on a coat!! NOW!! She tried arguing some more and that is when I started to yell and told her that I told her to put on a coat end of discussion! So now she is mad and ready to cry. Then I asked her that I bet if I took her to school today that I would see at least 1 kid wearing a coat, she says no I won't nobody wears a coat! Now I am really starting to get mad cause we are still fighting about the coat issue...........So I told her to put on her coat, that I am taking her to school. If I count at least 10 kids with coats on then she is losing her big bedroom. Well now she has decided the fight is over. She does NOT want me to take her to school, and she is going to put on a coat.

Score: Mom 1
Teen 0


I come home from work last night, and there is a smell in my house that is REALLY bad! Someone has been cooking, and that food that was cooked is not edible!! Kayla decided to make toast. In the microwave! She set it for 10 minutes!! So I opened some windows, turned on the attic fan (to suck the smell out, along with all the heat) and got out the febreeze. After about ten minutes and now a reeeeaaaalllllllyyyy cold house, the smell is not so bad.

Fast forward approx. 1 hour.

The smell is really bad again!! So I open the microwave(bad idea). It is brown inside, and the smell that comes out is ready to make me yak! I told Kayla that she needs to clean the microwave. (I can feel another fight coming) Her response, I did. Really I say as I am spraying a cleaner inside of it!! I tell her to look at the cleaner turning brown and running down the walls of the microwave!! I don't feel like fighting, so I clean the microwave, twice. The smell is stuck, it is not leaving!!! So I close the microwave. Time for a new one is my thinking, while I try to help the smell in the house again!!!

Fast forward approx. 1-2 hours.

Bill comes in and makes some soup, puts it in the microwave, really bad smell fills house again!!! So he throws out soup and makes something else, using the stove top of course!! Now I am sitting here typing this and smelling that wonderful smell!! Thinking it is a good thing that I don't have a busy day today. As soon as I get Kenny of to school within the 1/2 hour, I will be desmelling the house and throwing the microwave out!!

For sale:

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Have a great day!!




*I wouldn't give up my teen for anything!!!

Technology & Inventions

You would think that with the technology that there is today that someone could invent something to shut off a cars engine when the stupid person tries to run through a red light. My car will shut off if I back into a curb. I know I have done it before. It shu off and I had to put in in park, take the keys out, them put them back in of course to get it to restart. So why can't they do it for red lights? It drives me nuts when the light turns red and just about 3 or 4 more cars still go through. Also I think should come up with some kind of deer sensor, kinda of like depth finder for fishermen. It sits on your dash and detects if there is something within so many feet of the road. It sure would make driving these countries roads at night a little easier. I'm just sayin'!

The work in the house is not to far away from being done. I have to get it done by Tuesday, since we will be having house guest for the week. The kids are so excited that Jen, Sean & the boys will be staying with us. Kayla was more than willing to give up her new room for the week. Jen was pretty excited that they are going to have a 60 inch TV in their room. I have so much trash, I hope the trash man will take it all on Monday!! If not we are bummin since Thanksgiving is right around the corner! This year has just flown right by, I can't believe that is almost Christmas already!!

My mom broke a bone in her ankle the other night, so somehow I got stuck with the dog until Monday. She is a pain in the butt! She is constantly barking, she keeps nipping at Jack. I can not keep her off the furniture. I am going to give her one more night, then I may be making my sister take her. On top of everything, Jack to a big ole crap in the house last night, I don't know if he was having a stomach issue or if it is because of the other dog. But I do know this, if he does it again he will be grounded from my house for a week!! My stomach was not ready for that this morning!


If you have not gone and added to Dave's, Dick and Jane story,then you should. I check it several time a day to see if anyone has added to it, so far not to many. I think it could be really neat if everyone would add to it!!!

Well Wii the people must be getting off to work!!

Shopping with my sister Jenifred

Tonight I did some new stuff for the new bedroom shopping with Jennifer. I am not sure about Jen, but I had fun. I bought my first ever Egytian Cotton sheets! OMG! I can not wait to sleep on them tonight! I also bought a window scarf & hangers. Then when we were at Kohls I bought 3 accent pillows. They were on sale, the only thing is I won't have 2 of them until Jen gets here.

So in case you are wondering, how in the hell was I shopping with Jen..............I kept calling her to get her opinion on things. Then I went to Kohls in O'Fallon, and she went to Kohls up there by her house, and we talked on the phone while we were shopping. Anyway I like shopping with Jen, I will be reeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy glad if they move home next year.

Now I just have to go buy new bedside lamps & I need to find a dark purple bedskirt.


Speaking of Jen....................When we were at Target we were talking about Daughtry, Just so you know, he is opening for Bon Jovi on Feb. 21 at the Bradley center in Milwaukee.

Painting update

Our new bedroom & closet are done. I have a few touch ups to do & I have to finish the nightstands, but we are moving in tonight. Bill also has to get all of the new baseboards yet. It looks great!!

Finally I realized the secret to painters tape last night! You have to take it off while the paint is still wet. Even if your painting is a 2 day project. I had left the tape on from the first night, and pulled it off last night. I was not happy when it pulled of!!! I have torn paint all along the one door now, and it looks like crap! I am not happy about this at all. Now I have to go through and fix it all.

I also realized that the former owners are total & complete idiots!!!! I don't even know where to start with all the stupid stuff they did!!! Lets see first thing! When they finished this side of the house, they must have finished it as one big room, they even had baseboard up, then they must have decided to put of the dividing wall, the reason I think this is because the baseboard is stuck into the wall where the partial wall meets one of the main walls. I could go on & on. But lucky for you I won't!

I knew the carpets were dirty but you really realize how bad they are when you move all the furniture out of a room. HOLY CRAP!!! They look bad. The problem is we could rent one, but we need it for about 2 weeks. I have to go to the store later, so I am going to look into it.

Gotta go paint the nightstands! Have a great day!

Painting

I have started painting. I must say that I reeeaaalllyyy love the colors I am using in our new to be bedroom!! The green is darker than I thought, but that is ok, cause it looks really good. Doug had made the comment awhile back that the colors I picked were warm, relaxing colors. I must say that I agree. Bill is getting all new baseboards. When we pulled off the old ones, I discovered that they just put up whatever they had. The board on one wall was not the same as the next wall. Those were some really classy people living here!! I also told Bill that I think some crown moulding would look really good.(hint,hint)

I have also started painting the UGLY old night stands of ours. I am painting them white. I must say they are starting to look pretty good! I just finished the 3rd coat of killz on my nightstand. It will probably need at least 2 more coats.

My living room is a disaster area! It has so much crap piled in it right now! Poor Bill, he hates messes! Sorry honey! I love you!! It will be great when I am done!! I promise!!

I would post pictures, but sorry I can't.......camera doesn't work.

Does anyone have a carpet cleaner I can borrow for about 2 weeks??? If I could clean the carpets then that would be awesome. Eventually I am going to go buy one. The vaccuum store has a GREAT cleaner for $300.00 which is not bad for a good cleaner.


Gotta go for now, off to my day job!!

Bruised Pride

I had my pride hurt...........I like my house, let me rephrase that......I Love My House!! I have since the very first time I saw it. Yes I will agree it is not pretty, but it will be. I understand that it is going to take a few years to have everything the way I want it. But it will happen and it will be beautiful! I will be the first one to admit that it was faaaarrrrrrr from beautiful when we first bought it. The one thing Bill & I always wanted was a house that we can make our own. This house is it, it has lots of making to go. I am sorry if my house is not good enough for you. I am sorry that you almost have to put your feet in the shower to pee. Eventually the old bathroom will get finished and it will be flippin awesome! I can see it in my head. I do miss having a big bathroom, but it will be so worth it when it is finally done. If you are uncomfortable at my house because of the way it looks, then please do yourself & me a favor, do not come to my house. I have gotten it off my chest, but the bruise is still there! That sucks!!

So anyway......................................................

Watched the movie Premonition yesterday..........really good flick!! Also rented Spiderman 3, but we haven't watched it yet. I didn't even know it was out, Kenny saw it and had a fit. For someone who doesn't like Spiderman anymore, he sure was persistent!

We went to the annual farm party Saturday. It was fun......We ran through the corn maze at night, that was reallllly fun. It was also really funny listening to the team of Paula, Mike & Kayla argue in the maze about which way to go. They were crackin me up. Kenny had a blast hiding and scaring people.



Anyone who has the urge to paint, feel free to come to my house this weekend. That is my plan for the weekend. I am painting & moving furniture. Sounds like fun doesn't it!! It will be so fun!!!


Time for me to go, I have to take Kenny to the bus stop.