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What the hell!!

2009-03-03T08:38:00.003-06:00

Saturday night we were scanning through Bill's Tivo, and this is a picture of the screen. I was laughing so hard!! I had to take a picture.

Bowling & Live Entertainment

2009-01-12T06:20:00.003-06:00

Saturday night we went to O'Fallon Bowl and bowled in a 9 pin no tap tournament. There was a large group at the lanes on our left. I saw one of the funniest things I have seen in a very long time. This older lady was up bowling, she stumbled and then her hat and wig fell on the lane. She picked up her hair and tossed it to the people in her group and put her hat back on. OMG! I laughed so hard. And to think you guys thought all the hoosiers lived out here by us! HA! They were actually a really annoying group, they did not care if you were up standing on the lane getting ready to bowl, they would just walk up anyway and bowl. They were driving us insane. I can't stand O'Fallon Bowl.

2008-12-31T09:07:00.001-06:00

2008-12-24T15:49:00.001-06:00

Newest Family Member

2008-11-26T06:31:00.002-06:00

We have a new family member. He is a bearded dragon, 1 1/2 years old. His name is Forest. He is really awesome. In the next few days we will also have a baby bearded dragon. Here is a pic of a bearded dragon. It is not Forest, I don't have a camera to take a picture of him.

Lack Of Blogging

2008-11-23T22:30:00.003-06:00

I was looking at my blog and noticed hmmmm, I haven't blogged in awhile. So the only thing I really have to blog about are movies. So here are my reviews on some movies I have seen lately.

Twilight:
Went and seen this today at the theater. WOW! It was so good, and really stayed true to the book. It is a must see and a must read.

Tropic Thunder:
This movie SUCKED ASS! It was so stupid and a waste of such good talent!!

Bucket List:
Another must see movie. Then again anything with Morgan Freeman is good!

Beer For My Horses:
Very funny! I expected this movie to be as bad if not worse than Tropic Thunder, but was really surprised at how good it was. Gotta love Rodney Carrington!

Vantage Point:
One of the best movies I have seen in a long time! It is a very intense movie. When the tension finally broke my eyes welded up with tears, I wasn't crying it was just that intense!!

The Happening:
Another good movie, Kayla loved it!

Get Smart:
It was pretty good, I think the reason I loved the movie so much is because I was such a big fan of the show as a kid.

Iron Man:
One word AWESOME!

Incredible Hulk:
Another great movie, If you seen The Hulk that came out a few years ago, like me you probably thought it sucked, but this new version with Edward Norton was really good.

The Punisher:
Really great movie, I have had this dvd for a long time but never watched it. Kenny & Bill love this movie, so I finally watched it with them the other night. It also has an allstar cast including John Travolta.

I think that is about all I have, it was a very boring post but hey at least I posted something!

Only 22 more days until Mamma Mia is out on dvd!! Can't wait!!

BOO!!

2008-10-24T09:34:00.002-05:00

Yesterday morning I got one hell of a scare!!

I was taking my shower and was just getting ready to turn the water off when the lights went out. Which that alone is scary being that there is no light what so ever in our bathroom! So I opened the shower curtain and was getting ready to reach for the door knob to open the door for some light, when this thought popped into my head.....

If I feel someone standing there when I reach for the door I will shit myself!

Now my heart is pounding cause I just scared myself. I open the door (noone there of course), grab my towel and wrap it around me without drying off and very carefully walk to the living room.

Now my thinking is that both my bedroom doors are closed and the electric panel is in my closet....I need to go in there and make sure no one is in there. So I grab one of my metal mop handles and strike the fighting pose and head for my bedrooom. Again no one was there.

The 2 main reasons I was so scared was that:

-I was home alone
-We get some bad storms, and the power never goes out, why on just a barely rainy day does the power go out?

What a great way to start the day! Needless to say it did not take me long to get dressed and get the hell out of there!

Homecoming Pictures

2008-10-19T11:36:00.004-05:00

Finally!!

Homecoming Pictures Maybe?

2008-10-19T10:44:00.002-05:00

Coming soon! Blogger won't upload anything right now!

Homecoming

2008-10-16T23:01:00.001-05:00

A couple of weeks ago I told some of you about theboy that Kayla liked, his name is Harley. Well I have a news update..................

Him & the other girl are no longer dating and he asked Kayla to Homecoming today, and of course she said yes. So not only is she going to her first homecoming but she also has a first date also.

I expected Bill to be a problem with this, but now Doug is being all Mr. Protective also! I feel so bad for her on Saturday! I will be fighting for her rights all day and evening!

She is also going to be in the homecoming parade tomorrow!!

OMG!

2008-09-25T22:10:00.002-05:00

While reading some news today on MSNBC, I found this article. This is so funny & stupid at the same time. You can also click on the title for the link to the story.

Man charged with battery for farting near cop

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A man has been charged with battery on a police officer for allegedly passing gas and fanning it toward a patrolman.
Jose A. Cruz, 34, of Clarksburg, W. Va., was pulled over early Tuesday for driving without headlights, police said. According to the criminal complaint, Cruz smelled of alcohol, had slurred speech and failed three field sobriety tests before he was handcuffed and taken to a police station for a breathalyzer test.
As Patrolman T.E. Parsons prepared the machine, Cruz scooted his chair toward Parsons, lifted his leg and "passed gas loudly," the complaint said.
Cruz, according to complaint, then fanned the gas toward the officer.
"The gas was very odorous and created contact of an insulting or provoking nature with Patrolman Parsons," the complaint alleged.
He was also charged with driving under the influence, driving without headlights and two counts of obstruction.
'I couldn't hold it no more'Cruz acknowledged passing gas, but said he didn't move his chair toward the officer nor aim gas at the patrolman. He said he had an upset stomach at the time, but police denied his request to go to the bathroom when he first arrived at the station.
"I couldn't hold it no more," he said.
He also denied being drunk and uncooperative as the police complaint alleged. He added he was upset at being prepared for a breathalyzer test while having an asthma attack. The police statement said he later resisted being secured for a trip to a hospital that he requested for asthma treatment.
Cruz said the officers thought the gas incident was funny when it happened and laughed about it with him.
"This is ridiculous," he said. "I could be facing time."

Tech Support

2008-09-02T10:04:00.000-05:00

Dear Tech support,

Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed aDistinct slow down in overall system performance, particularly in the flowerAnd jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such asRomance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5 and then installed undesirablePrograms such as NBA 5.0, NFL 3.0 and Golf 4.1.Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes theSystem. I've tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.What can I do?
Signed,
Desperate.

DEAR DESPERATE,

First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband1.0 is an operating system.Please enter command: ithoughtyoulovedme.HTML and try to download Tears 6.2And don't forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update. If that application worksAs designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applicationsJewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5.But remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 toDefault to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0 or Beer 6.1. Please note thatBeer 6.1 is a very bad program that will download the Snoring Loudly Beta.Whatever you do, DO NOT install Mother- In-Law 1.0 (it runs a virus in theBackground that will eventually seize control of all your system resources.)Also do not attempt to reinstall Boyfriend 5.0 program. These areUnsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memoryAnd cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider buyingAdditional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend Cooking 3.0 and Hot Lingerie 7.7.

Good Luck,
Tech Support

Artsy Fartsy

2008-08-10T16:14:00.003-05:00

Last Sunday I started a 4 book series that I just couldn't read fast enough. Twilight is the first book, book 2 is called New Moon, book 3 is Eclipse and the 4th and final book is callled Breaking Dawn. The movie Twilight comes out in December.........CAN'T WAIT!! It is the story of a human girl whom falls in love with a male vampire. It is without a doubt a love story. I finished the last book just a little while ago. The 4 books have a total of 2,528 pages, which I read in just 7 days! Maybe that will give you an idea of how good the story is.

I also recently went to see the movie Mamma Mia, WOW, what a great movie. I have always been a big fan of movie musicals. My grandmother and I loved to watch them when I was growing up, Singing in the Rain & My Fair Lady are still some of my favorites, of yeah I almost forgot......Meet me in St. Louis & Hello Dolly!

Some of my other favorites that are not from that time period would be:

Grease

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Evita

Andrew Lloyd Webbers Phantom Of The Opera

Moulin Rouge (I like this movie but it is one that I can't watch over and over again, if I see it once every few years then I am ok with that)

Rent

There are so many that I would love to see live, but of course Bill does not have the same taste for these that I do. But Kayla is getting older and she enjoys these movies very much, she also loved Mamma Mia. So I am looking forward to being able to take her. I have only seen Phantom & Evita live so there is alot out there for us to see.

As far as the movies go, Mamma Mia is at the top of my list along with Grease, these are 2 movies that I could never get sick of watching! If going to a theater was not so pricey I would be going back to see Mamma Mia again & again.

I guess that's all I got to say about that.

DONE!!!

2008-07-25T08:20:00.002-05:00

I am so done with my dogs!!! They (as in both of them) are about to find themselves staying outside and never coming in my house again! Jill just refuses to potty outside, last night she pooped on the floor on Bill's side of the bed and pee'd on my down comforter! I am ready to put a size 9 1/2 in her ass! In the last week or so Jack has decided that he will start pooping in the house. Everyday while we were gone on the float trip, he pooped in the house. So I excused it, I figured after the tail surgery and then us leaving he was stressed. But now the last 2 nights he has pooped in the house. Just a little while ago I got the belt out for Jack, I also informed him that he will be sleeping outside tonight. I have NO patience for this kind of crap.

And yes I am bitching again!

Thats How I Roll

2008-07-13T23:06:00.005-05:00

Things have been a little crazy lately! When it fricken rains, it pours! My favorite new saying is......My name is Chris Johnson and that is how I roll.

So last week I went and got 2 new front tires for my car, and the same day the dog had an overpriced tail amputation. That same night the driver rear tire goes flat....figures, So I have been filling it up every morning. Yesterday I cleaned the inside of my car, hit the dome light button and it is on all day,My car has 3 of them! Guess what!?! Dead battery! So today when we are getting ready to go to Ella's birthday party, we jumpstart the car, fill the tire and head to IGA for beverages. Bill comes out and the tire is flat! Great! So we decide we need to change the tire, but of course we have no tire iron because the tire place forgot to repack it back into my car! Flippin Wonderful!!! After sitting in the parking lot for 20 minutes trying to figure what to do, and old neighbor happened to be in town and saw us, so he pulled over and saved the day. Tire is changed but we decide that we are just going back home, I have already put alot of miles on that doughnut, plus I still have to drive into O'Fallon tomorrow to get new tires, so we really don't need to be driving into O'Fallon for a birthday party that will be ending about 15-20 after we get there.

Like I said my name is Chris Johnson and thats how I roll!!

Last week when at target I decided to buy 2-6 packs of bic lighters, we will be needing them for the float trip. When I cleaned out my car, I found another 10 lighters under the seats and in different compartments. Anyone need a lighter??

Off to bed!!!

R.I.P. George Carlin

2008-06-23T08:30:00.003-05:00

What a sad day! One of the funniest men ever will be missed!

Forever famous: "Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV" and many more.

Duh!!

2008-05-28T10:36:00.001-05:00

Saturday evening the kids come up to the shop, they found a snake. Being that I love snakes I was the first out. I went out picked up the snake and we all looked at it. It was about 12 inches long. Bill arrives and says I think that is a copperhead. Yeah right is my thinking, so we get a jar and put it in there. Doug is coming out after all, we must save it for him. (He REALLY hates snakes!!) After upon further inspection I am beginning to wonder what kind it is, so off to see a few neighbors. They all say that it is a copperhead and chew my ass for picking it up, the babies are more poisonous than adults. Now after further research it was a copperhead. What the hell was I thinking just going out there and picking it up. Before the snake ws killed, we had all the kids take a good look at it and let them know that they are to stay away from a snake that looks like that one. It hurt to have to watch the snake be killed, but since it was a poisonous snake it had to be done. I also will have to stop picking up snakes, I don't want my kids to think that they can just pick up any snake.

Also since I know most of my friends HATE snakes, I have added a picture, just for that squirmy effect that you have right now!

Love you guys!

Marriage & Gas

2008-04-28T07:02:00.002-05:00

Gas prices are up to $3.60 a gallon! When I was filling my gas hog the other day, I got to thinking about when Bill & I first got married. He was stationed in California, so after the wedding we packed up our Ford Festiva and headed out west. Since it was Febuary we had to take the southern route. Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada & Cali of course. When we were driving in the middle of no where, you would see signs for last chance for gas for 250 miles, no problem in our car. Hell we got 54 MPG city, and 68 MPG highway. But we would always fill up because really it was not the last gas for 250 miles, You could get it but would have to pay $3.50 a gallon for it. Of course are thinking was........There is no way we are paying that! Not when we are used to paying about $1.15 a gallon! Now here we are paying $3.60 a gallon, and they are talking about it hitting $4.00. Our car now only gets about 21 MPG! Instead of the $20.00 it used to take I am now paying about $54.00 to fill up, and because of all of the driving I do in a week, I am doing that 2-3 times a week! OY! Sure wish I had that Ford Festiva now!! Wasn't it great the days when you could go to the gas station with $5.00 and have about 1/4 tank of gas!! Sure is making me consider getting back into a 4 cylinder car!!

2008-04-21T22:10:00.003-05:00

I am ssooooo looking forward to Idol this week, when they announced last week that this weeks mentor is going to be Andrew Lloyd Weber!!, I was ecstatic!! I can not wait until tomorrow night! I also am glad that it is a Dave & Em Idol night for me.

We bought the kids the game called Rock Band the other day. What a cool game. I am sorry for you people who only own a wii, you are missing out on a great game.

The kitties will be a week old, they are so cute! Midnight, Kayla's cat went into heat over the weekend, so I guess by the end of June we will have more kitties! Bill is just happy about that. NOT!

We have dial up now, until CenturyTel gets out here a fixes my DSL. Let me just say that dial up SUCKS!! Holy crap it is slow......Dial up should be made obsolete.

Well I am out of here, I am going to play Rock Band before I go to bed. Night All!

Babies!!

2008-04-16T21:50:00.004-05:00

At 8:30 tonight we had our first baby born. It is now 9:45 and we have 3 so far. 2 are black & gray, the 3rd one is pure white. We are unsure of the white one right now, it is only a few minutes old, but not showing any signs of life right now. Hopefully it will pull through.

I will update more later. Bill has been taking pictures. Our poor Cheyenne is sooo tired.

11:29-She has had 5 so far, the 5th was about an hour ago. The 3rd one that was born didn't make it. The 4th one looks like Zeus, Bill has been calling it Zeus Jr. cause it is veeerrryyyy vocal! It has been very loud and crying alot. She feels like she has one or two more left in her yet. We are afraid to go to bed, we want to be with her in case she needs help. Bill has been calling them bar brats, cause they were born under the bar.

6:25 am.........No more babies, we have a black & gray one, a black & tan one, a orange one like zeus, and a gray one.

Finally!!!

2008-04-04T07:32:00.003-05:00

Yes finally I have posted!! But also finally Sprint has done something with all the problems I have been having with my phone.

My software on my pocketpc has crashed agaaaaiiinnnn. They know me when I walk in the Sprint store. So yesterday I took my phone in so they could order me a new one, my plan was to get the new one, pick it up next week then use the $50.00 trade in for the phone to get a Mogul. I was done with the other phone. But to my surprise, they decided that they were just going to upgrade my phone for me, to the mogul. I was and am very happy. I just saved about $200.00 !!! So far I really like my new phone, it is more up to date, it is sleeker and weighs alot less. I guess it pays to be nice to people........

Thats all I have for now! Peace out

2008-02-07T20:52:00.000-06:00

I saw the weirdest thing today, I went to Taco Smell for lunch, while I was sitting in the drivethru looking at the menu I noticed. Taco supremes cost $1.09 each, regular tacos cost .89. But if you want to buy the value meal, the taco meal with 3 tacos & a soda cost $4.59, but the meal with 3 supreme tacos and a soda cost $3.99.......HUH!! I asked the girl at the window why that was, she didn't know why.....I expected that answer, hell I am not even sure why I asked her in the first place.

The newest season of Survivor started tonight, wish I could of seen all of it, but since the news kept breaking in, I didn't get to see parts of it............UGH! Of all nights! Oh well at least Fairplay is gone! Eliza next would be great, after that I can just deal with the person.

Maybe I am just a worry wart but I check watchdog every couple of months just to make sure I or one of my friends doesn't have a registered sex offender living next door to them. So I was on last night, and saw something. Here is my question..........Do I make a call to just let a person know that about 10 to 15 houses away from them is a registered child molester? Really there isn't anything that can be done about it, but I would want to know, just to keep an eye on things, especially my children. I know that not everyone who has served time will repeat their crime but some do. Take a look at this article, this happened just recently, this happened in Jens neck of the woods. Scott Ziegler.

Had Stef's for dinner tonight!!!! It has been so long , it was great!

I don't know why I was thinking about this, but I was..........I am really surprised that Dave still types, to blog, I am very surprised that he doesn't have an audio blog. (Dave if you had not already thought about this, then you are welcome for the idea.)

I wish I had a junker car. I have been trying so hard to get Kayla driving, but she just refuses to drive my car. She is scared to death that she is going to wreck it. I tried to tell her that we aren't going out on the highway, just around the neighborhood. But she won't budge.

We were informed yesterday that our neighbor, Joey is going to be moving. How sad, we are going to miss him, he is a good kid.

I got an email from my father in law the other day about a kick ass new plane. He had pictures attached, showing the plane on an aircraft carrier. As I was looking through them I thought they looked familiar. Then when I saw the female pilot, I knew!! So I sent Jim an email to let him know that pictures are from a movie called Stealth.......And that the pilot is movie star Jessica Biel........I just thought that was kind of funny. Well anyway I am going to go watch the news about the Kirkwood shooting at city hall, then take a shower and go to bed.

TGTIF!!! (Thank Goodness Tomorrow Is Friday!)

Snow Day

2008-02-01T10:44:00.000-06:00

We got 7 inches of snow here. So needless to say I am snowed in and not working, which is nice, but on the other hand.......I lost alot of money by not working today. I guess I will get the laundry caught up, and do some cleaning. I have never seen a dog like Jack, he just loves the snow.

Tuesday I wasn't feeling so good, I knew I was getting sick. Wednesday morning I was in bad shape. I took lots of medicine, and slept all day. Either the medicine or all the sleep I got helped. Now it is Friday and I feel better. I am still a little sick but not near as bad as I was. I think it was all the sleep. I feel that if I had just kept going and not gotten any rest that I would just be miserable right now.

Over the last few days I have watched some old movies that I have not seen in a long time. I watched 16 candles the other night, and Pretty In Pink this morning. It is funny to see some of those actors then & now. Wow we are all getting old!!!

Speaking of getting old...........hehe!................

Bill has been giving me crap for being old. I am not that much older than he is. So anyway, he found a grey hair on his chin. When we took a closer look, I found several grey hairs. He says the ones I found don't count cause they are white. I told him it doesn't matter, grey,white, silver, it is all the same. It is old man hair!!! I just love the fact that he gives me so much crap for being old, but he is the one sporting the grey hairs!! I laughed really hard & really loud at him. He totally deserved it.

Well I am outta here, I need to shower an do laundry. I will let everyone know tomorrow where we stand for Superbowl!

Did you know.............

2008-01-23T19:23:00.000-06:00

In the 1400's a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no bigger than his thumb. Hence we have the 'rule of thumb.'

Many years ago in Scotland a new game was invented. It was ruled 'Gentleman Only Ladies Forbidden' and thus the word Golf entered the english langauge.

Coca Cola was originally green.

Intelligent people have more zinc & copper in their hair. (I would love to test Dave & Violets hair!)

Most boat owners name their boat Obsession.

A woman invented bulletproof vest, fire escapes, windshield wipers, & laser printers.

I thought those were kind of interesting!!

Speaking of windshield wipers, I had new ones put on when my car was in the shop. OMG!!! I can actually see out of my windshield again. Also at $25.00 each they better work good!!! Gotta love those dealer only parts.

R.I.P. Heath Ledger

I thought he was a great actor and really enjoyed his movies.

Update

2008-01-16T07:54:00.000-06:00

Kenny went to see the doctor, yesterday. Apparently she said nothing. My thinking is that if you sit in a doctors office and they say nothing to you, then you should at least get your copay back! Just sayin! So I know nothing about Kennys headaches.lol

My car is still at the dealership, I have a Mustang rental............I LOVE Mustangs. All I can say is.........(Doug lingo) It gives me a chubby!!

American Idol last night had the freak of all freaks!! The crazy girl with the rainbow bright makeup. OMG!!! The radio this morning was saying that she is a meth addict.Hmmm really! She has some major issues! The judges were not even that mean to her, and she just went nuts. I found a picture of her.......

2008-01-15T07:14:00.000-06:00

I am taking my car to the dealership this morning to get a list of things fixed, I figured I better get it done since I only have 10,000 miles left of my warranty. I have a feeling I will be fighting with them on some of the things. I am also getting new windshield wipers for it. Stupid dealer only wipers! They are $20.00 a piece! That is just stupid. If I didn't live with all the gravel dust that I do live with, then I wouldn't mind spending the money, but the dust just ruins the wiper blades. Oh well! Hopefully I can get rid of that car this summer.

I have to make a Dr. appointment for Kenny, I think he is getting migranes. So we will get him in and see what they can do for him. Poor guy had one last night. I gave him, his aspirin & he went and laid down on the couch. About an hour and a half later he was almost in tears. So he went to bed. We he woke up a couple hours later he was his normal self.

Speaking of Kenny........That kid loves monster trucks! He always watches them on, I think the speed channel. Anyway, the other night he was watching them and it was the show that we were at last year at the dome. He kept trying to get me to come in & watch, and I told him I had already seen the show. That it was the one we went to last year. He says no it isn't this one is at the Edward Jones Dome. Then I inform him that the Edward Jones Dome is in St.Louis, and that is where we go for the show! He cracks me up.

Sunday was shopping day I guess........Kayla went to Mid Rivers with a friend, and Kenny & I went to Best Buy. We have new Karaoke stuff!! We got microphones, and some adapter thingy to plug in more than just the 2 microphones. We also bought some new cds. I also ordered some new ones off of ebay. So we are adding 124 new songs to the library! I am pretty excited. There is another cd set I have been watching, and thinking about buying. It will add 195 songs.

I got lucky with having the Superbowl party. My Mondays are going to be out of town for a month. So I get that Monday after off. I could of taken off, but lucked out. As soon as I know which teams are going to Superbowl, I will let everone know what the food theme will be.

When I sent out the emails about Bill's bday, getting ideas on what people wanted to do. Most came back with the reponse of "I don't care, either is fine, but bowling does sound fun". I decided bowling it will be. Anyway everyone knows that Bill will enjoy bowling waaaaayyyyyy more than he would the comedy club. So bowling it is.

If you have not done this yet. Then go to Sparky's page and vote for when he will be here & how big he will be!

I saw a car in St.Peters yesterday with crap all over it. It is called DaySpaDivas. I went and checked it out! That would be so fun!!

TV Shows:

American Idol is starting tonight, I am looking forward to House, Heroes, Bionic Woman, Survivor, & Army Wives to start up again!! I have started watching a new show on Lifetime. How To Look Good Naked. I really like this show, it has really made me think about myself differently! If you have not seen it, you should just watch it at least once. It is not all about fat women, the woman on there the other night was a size 10.

Well I have stuff to do, Have a great day!

First post of the year

2008-01-05T10:00:00.000-06:00

I am finally starting to get the hang of Guitar Hero, I have always been a video gamer but for some reason I could not get the finger control part just right for this game. On New Years Eve at the church overnighter, I finally got it!

I was a chaparone for the church all nighter, I had alot of fun. Kayla won first place in the easy part of the guitar hero contest they had. I took the wii, the kids had fun with that. We played basketball, sang karaoke, and played broom ball, which was a whole lot of fun. The other team was only able to score two goals off of me. The ref we had was a cheater though! He was also a sub for the other team. So during the last 2 minutes of our game, we were beating the other team pretty bad, he decided that to end the game there would be a shoot out. Every one on the other team got 1 try to shoot a goal against me! I was scared, but I came through and no one scored off of me!!

I have 99% of the Christmas stuff put away!! I also have gotten 95% of my laundry caught up.

The kids had a great Christmas, they only thing they didn't get that they wanted were Nintendo DS's. But I told them I will not buy them since they have lost all of their gameboys and my gameboy! I will not buy them a $130 DS for them to lose.

Here is the list, if you know what Kenny was given for Christmas, then you will know what this is.

Arlen Harris
Isaac Bruce
Kevin Curtis
Dane Looker
Darnell Alford
Andy McCollum
Tom Nutten
Blaine Saipaia
Bryce Fisher
Tyoka Jackson
Jimmy Kennedy
Brandon Chillar
Tommy Polley
Pisa Tinoisamoa
Jerametrius Butler
DeJuan Groce
Rich Coady
Antuan Edwards
Jeff Wilkins
Kevin Stemke

I have been cleaning carpets! Our bedroom carpet looks so good, I can not believe that the water stains came out. I have the living room & Kenny's room left. As I am typing this, I looked down at our carpet. I am just amazed at how white it is!!! I can say this when carpet shampoo fails, always resort to OxyClean!!

Hope everyone had a great New Year!

So frickin funny!!

2007-12-07T19:34:00.000-06:00

I know we have all seen the dancing elf routine. But you have to see this one, Doug is having fun, Dave is in pain, something is wrong with Mike, and who knows with Bill!

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1229302540

Random Thoughts

2007-12-07T09:07:00.000-06:00

We have a new teen boy in the neighborhood, actually in the red house in front of ours. His name is Tyler, he is in 8th grade & a skater boy. Oh yeah and ALL the girls around here are just ga-ga for him!! He is all I hear about! Kayla totally has a crush! Bill says he will talk to her and take care of the crush! Dads can be so mean!! She thinks he has great hair! I just laugh at the girls.

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It snowed last night, it was pretty thick for awhile, I really thought we would end up with more! I forgot how much Jack loves to play in the snow. He is so funny just to watch, he goes crazy. The cats were even out in it last night, which kind of surprised me.

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Most chicks I know that when they have that monthly craving it is for chocalate, well not me.......Even though Mother Nature doesn't visit me anymore, I still get cravings. I crave...............CHEESE!! Not American sliced cheese either, I want Cheddar or Colby!! I guess I am just weird like that!! Oh well not that my ass needs chocalate anyway! Doesn't need the cheese either, but it is in the same catergory as Dr. Pepper.........It is something I will never ever give up.

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Another great invention idea!!! When the sign says express lane 10 items or less. I think the register should quit scanning items after 10 scans per purchase!! I hate going to the store to purchase 2 or 3 items, get into the express lane only to find the person in front of me has 50 items in their cart!! UGHHHH!!! That drives me insane!!! Almost as insane as th assholes who were tailgating me on the way home last night. I was doing 25 in a 60 yes, but everytime I hit 30, I would slide and my traction control would come on. Hwy 79 was REALLY bad last night.

I need to get to work!!

Peace Out My Readers!!!!!

Teenagers UUGGGHHH!!!

2007-11-27T07:08:00.000-06:00

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:

*Teenager-great at taking care of house, makes good grades, priced real cheap!! Unbearable once a month for about a week! Comes with free microwave! Please call if interested!!

Have a great day!!

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

Technology & Inventions

2007-11-15T08:05:00.000-06:00

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

2007-11-08T22:21:00.000-06:00

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

2007-11-08T06:39:00.000-06:00

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

2007-11-07T08:10:00.000-06:00

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

2007-11-05T07:17:00.000-06:00

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.

2007-10-31T08:00:00.000-05:00

Courtesy of MsTags.com

Winfield

2007-10-19T07:27:00.000-05:00

Tonight is the big night. Kenny & his football team are playing half time at the Winfield Varsity football game under the Friday night lights. The boys are so excited, hell I am excited! Coach told the boys last night that the high school cheerleaders made them a banner to run through when they go out on the field, so they are even more pumped up. It was funny, coach told them that the cheerleaders holding the banner aren't real cheerleaders, that they are going to be guys dressed like girls, all the boys starting booing, then he informed them that it really would be real cheerleaders who are girls. That made them happy again. If you watch Fox 2 in th morning then you will see that Tim Ezell is at the Winfield High School this morning for the Friday morning pep rally. Our varsity football team is 6-1. Tonight is our last home game against Kirksville. I feel bad for the Kirksville team, that is a long drive!!

Onto to other news:

This is a funny story,

Couple Make Burglar Clean Up at Gunpoint

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A burglar in Montgomery chose the wrong family to mess with, literally. Adrian and Tiffany McKinnon returned home on Tuesday after a week away to find that thieves had emptied almost everything the family of five owned, Tiffany McKinnon said through tears.
"Tears just rolled down my face as I walked in and saw everything gone and piles of trash all over my home," she said.
Adrian McKinnon sent his wife to see her sister while he inspected the piles left behind. As he walked back into the sunroom, a man walked through the back door straight into him, Tiffany McKinnon told the Montgomery Advertiser in a story Thursday.
"My husband Adrian caught the thief red-handed in our home," she said. "And what is even crazier, the man even had my husband's hat sitting right on his head."
Adrian McKinnon held the suspect, 33-year-old Tajuan Bullock, at gunpoint and told him to sit on the floor until he decided what to do.
"We made this man clean up all the mess he made, piles of stuff, he had thrown out of my drawers and cabinets onto the floor," Tiffany McKinnon said.
When police arrived, Bullock complained about being forced to clean the home at gunpoint.
"This man had the nerve to raise sand about us making him clean up the mess he made in my house," she said. "The police officer laughed at him when he complained and said anybody else would have shot him dead."
Capt. Huey Thornton, a police spokesman, said police arrested Bullock at 2 p.m. Tuesday on burglary and theft charges. He was being held in the Montgomery County Detention Facility on a $30,000 bond.
"The victims were lucky in this case to be able to catch the suspect in the act and hold him until police arrived," Thornton said.

Also: This used to be a great school, I loved this school!!

Gang Concerns Cancel Hazelwood West Homecoming Activities

(KTVI - myFOXstl.com) -- A possible gang threat has forced the cancellation of a celebration at Hazelwood West High School tonight. The annual homecoming bonfire and pep rally have been cancelled. Parents tell FOX 2 the events have been called off because of security concerns. Reportedly Hazelwood police are warning that gang members had targeted the event. Just two weeks ago classes here were cancelled for the day after someone painted a threat on the sidewalk in front of Hazelwood West.

I just saw this add, I have to get tickets and take the kids!!!!! Anybody want to go??

AMP Tours Presents Thunder Slam Monster Trucks

“Thunder Slam” Monster Truck & Free Style Motorcycle Spectacular is coming to the St. Louis area Friday & Saturday Night November 9 & 10 @ 7:30 PM to The Family Arena in St. Charles. For the 1st time, the Family Arena will rock with AMP Tour’s “Thunder Slam” Monster Truck and Extreme Free Style Motorcycle Spectacular. Don’t miss the St. Louis return of “The Original Monster Truck®” Bigfoot. That’s right! The one that started it all…St. Louis’ own Bigfoot returns for its first hometown show in over five years!These are the Big Blown Bad Boy Monster Trucks, just like you see on TV doing Giant Power Wheelies, crushing vans, & cars and much more! Expect to witness vehicles in the air plus side by side drag racing over 12 feet high. This is 1,800 Horsepower in Ground Pounding excitement that is fun for the entire family.JUST ADDED: X-GAMES style Extreme Free Style Motorcycles will be jumping ramp to ramp, over 50 feet in the air. Don’t miss it! Local Quad Racers have not been forgotten. We are building you a track so the locals can bring out their vehicles and play too! There will be rides in Monster Trucks & families are encouraged to get to the venue early.

Tickets go on sale Monday!!!

That is all I have for now!! Peace out my b*tches!! :D

In my head

2007-10-05T07:01:00.000-05:00

For the last several weeks I have had several songs in my head, I wake up in the morning with them being sang in my head, and go to sleep the same way. I love the new Matchbox Twenty, I knew I would since they are 1 of my favorite bands. I am really liking the new stuff from Maroon 5, and then there is Big girls don't cry by Fergie, Shut Up & Drive by Rhianna, & The Saints are coming by Green Day & U2.................................................Speaking of music, When Garth Brooks came out with the Chris Gaines cd, I never bought it or heard any of it. Well Al brought his cd over. I like it, Bill reaaaalllly likes it.

Bill has thought of another type of dog that he really wants...............An English Mastiff. Holy crap they are big dogs..........average 36 inches tall at the shoulder!! And about 220-250 pounds!

I hate it when someone comes up with combined names for celebrities, for example: Beniffer or Bragelina. It is just not right.

Jen, you should of came in town this weekend instead of next!! It would be so fun to have you with us on the winery trip this weekend!!!!!

Been thinking about the renting a house on a beach, I hope we go through with it, cause I am really looking forward to it. I think it would be so FUN!

Chris Johnson Out!!

Playing catch up

2007-09-27T21:54:00.000-05:00

As usual I am a blogger slacker, so now I have to get caught up on everything in the last few weeks.

Went to my first pro football game, not so impressed. I had a hard time keeping track of the football, I am so used to watching it on TV. I spent alot of time watching it on the TV out by the consession stands. I grew up watching up football on TV, I remember when there was only 3 grandchildren, and sitting on grandpa's lap every Sunday watching football. (There are 12 grandchildren now) I just did not expect it to be so hard to follow. I would like to go again, I think it just takes getting used to, to be able to keep track of it.

Speaking of football...........Most of you know that Kenny is on his first football team this year. It is a select team with the St. Louis Gateway League. They are not actually playing this year, they are just learning how to play this year. This past week Kenny has gotten about 85% of his uniform. Kennys team will be playing a scrimmage at the Winfield High School. I think it is going to be 10-19-07, they are playing during half time. The coach wants them to see what it is like to play under the Friday night lights. I am pretty excited about that!!!

So then there was 1, that is the total number of chickens we have left. We lost one sometime earlier this evening.

I think we might have more baby bunnies real soon.

Bill put in a attic fan last night. WOW! It sure does suck some air into the house! I was freezing last night.

So all the new shows have started. It has been a good 2 weeks! I have started on my usual Survivor:China, so far so good. Heroes also started this week, I am not so sure yet how I felt about the first episode, I wasn't crazy about but then again I love the show. I Tivo'ed a new show named Cane, but while I was out, someone stopped it, so all I got was 8 minutes of it, so that totally blows. I also watched Bionic Woman, that was actually pretty good. Last but not least.................House: All I can say is that show never lets me down, I truly love that show, and thought the first episode was great!!!! I am really missing Army Wives though, the season for that just ended. It will not be back on until spring 08. I just read that it was the most popular show ever on lifetime.

Sprint drives me insane!! I have asked them 2 times in 2 different stores, and 3 times on the phone to add the internet package to my phone. They haven't, so today I find out that my phone has been shut off. So I call sprint............get ready for this........................
they shut it off because I owe them $144.00.........WTF!! I signed up with Sprint on Aug. 20th, how the hell do I owe them that. One of the things the lady kept saying on the phone that I owe them for the July 20th to Aug 20th billing cycle and now I owe them for the Aug 20th to Sept 20th billing cycle. But even at $65.00 a month that doesn't add up, on top of the fact when she kept saying July to Aug.........HELLO!! I signed up with Sprint on Aug 20th..........why am I being charged for July! I was so mad! Another thing they forgot to do in the store is inform me that I had to pay for a month of service, so that explains the July-Aug thing, but here is the topping on the cake..............1. The lady said that even if I tried I would not have been able to make a payment between Aug 20th & Sept 20th because it is a new account. 2. I just got my first bill from them yesterday!!!! Again WTF!!! All I can truly say is that I hate Sprint.........Oh and back to the whole internet thing, they were charging me for all my daily internet usuage!!! And you know what makes me even happier about all this BS.........I can't ever seem to get anyone who can speak clear ENGLISH!!! All this is 37 days already. I have 693 more days in my contract before I can tell them to kiss my @ss, and go back to AT&T. I may sometime in the future just pay the $200.00 to get out of my contract with them. I know that alot of you have Sprint and it has always been fine for you, all I can say is..........Welcome to my life, nothing ever goes right!!!

*The good thing with sprint is that while on the phone, they were special.....I was paying $5.00 for 300 text a month, and they were having a special. Unlimited texting for $10.00, so now I have unlimited!!

Yes Dave I am bitching again!!!! So bite me!! :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

I think I am done for now!!

Cheater

2007-09-11T22:32:00.000-05:00

So I am going to totally cheat at blogging and post an email that I got. But is so worthy!!! I know you ladies would if you could!!!

Fall Classes for Men at

THE ADULT LEARNING CENTER

REGISTRATION MUST BE COMPLETED

By Monday, Aug 30, 2007

NOTE: DUE TO THE COMPLEXITY AND DIFFICULTY LEVEL OF THEIR CONTENTS, CLASS SIZES WILL BE LIMITED TO 8 PARTICIPANTS MAXIMUM.

Class 1
How To Fill Up The Ice Cube Trays
--Step by Step, with Slide Presentation. Meets 4 weeks, Monday and Wednesday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM.

Class 2
The Toilet Paper Roll--Does It Change Itself?
Round Table Discussion. Meets 2 weeks, Saturday 12:00 for 2 hours.

Class 3
Is It Possible To Urinate Using The Technique Of Lifting The Seat and Avoiding The Floor, Walls and Nearby Bathtub?
--Group Practice. Meets 4 weeks, Saturday 10:00 PM for 2 hours.

Class 4
Fundamental Differences Between The Laundry Hamper and The Floor
--Pictures and Explanatory Graphics. Meets Saturdays at 2:00 PM for 3 weeks.

Class 5
Dinner Dishes--Can They Levitate and Fly Into The Kitchen Sink?
Examples on Video. Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM

Class 6
Loss Of Identity- -Losing The Remote To Your Significant Other.
Help Line Support and Support Groups. Meets 4 Weeks, Friday and Sunday 7:00 PM

Class 7
Learning How To Find Things--Starting With Looking In The Right Places And Not Turning The House Upside Down While Screaming.
Open Forum. Monday at 8:00 PM, 2 hours.

Class 8
Health Watch--Bringing Her Flowers Is Not Harmful To Your Health.
Graphics and Audio Tapes. Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PM for 2 hours.

Class 9
Real Men Ask For Directions When Lost--Real Life Testimonials.
Tuesdays at 6:00 PM Location to be determined.

Class 10
Is It Genetically Impossible To Sit Quietly While She Parallel Parks?
Driving Simulations. 4 weeks, Saturday's noon, 2 hours.

Class 11
Learning to Live--Basic Differences Between Mother and Wife.
Online Classes and role-playing. Tuesdays at 7:00 PM, location to be determined

Class 12
How to be the Ideal Shopping Companion
Relaxation Exercises, Meditation and Breathing Techniques. Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM.

Class 13
How to Fight Cerebral Atrophy
--Remembering Birthdays, Anniversaries and Other Important Dates and Calling When You're Going To Be Late.Cerebral Shock Therapy Sessions and Full Lobotomies Offered.
Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PM for 2 hours.

Class 14
The Stove/Oven--What It Is and How It Is Used.
Live Demonstration. Tuesdays at 6:00 PM, location to be determined.

Upon completion of any of the above courses, diplomas will be issued to the survivors.

So much to blog about.........So little time

2007-08-22T23:04:00.000-05:00

I have had a post in my head for about 2 weeks now, but have not had time to post it. So here I go...........................

Things that drive me insane(pet peeves)

Dirty ashtrays (I know I am a smoker, but what I mean by a dirty ashtray, is one that needs to be emptied)

Dirty windshields (This I can't stand, every Friday when I use my moms car for work I have to clean the windshield)

People who do not use a turn signal

People who ride your ass on the highway or any other road (The part that gets me with this is, you get over so they can get by, then get back over and then they slow down to a speed that is slower than what you were doing when they were riding your ass)

People who take off like a bat out of hell to get in front of you when 2 lanes that go into 1, then slow down to 45 in a 60 (That drives me nuts, it is making my blood boil just thinking about it)

People who are just plain ass stupid and obnoxious!!! (I still love all you guys anyway) (LOL!!)

People who bitch about pet peeves on their blogs!! Hehe!

Now to change the subject...............................

Paula I am so looking forward to your uppercase party!! I am going to one this Sunday and can't wait. I already have my order picked out.

I got a magazine in the mail the other day,OMG!! I love some of the stuff in this book! It is called Seventh Avenue. I have made a wish list, which will be given to my husband!!

Look at some of this cool stuff!!! I am soooooooooo ready to start decorating this house of mine, I have finally found some stuff I like, I have found my sheers at JC Penny, and now I have found a rug that I want in the colors that I have been looking for.

I would not arrange this the way it is shown.

The blue one!!!

So there it is, what are your pet peeves? It would give you something to blog about if you have blogged in a really, really long time!!!

Also I want to say THANKS DAVE!!! I love it!!!

New Things

2007-08-13T09:54:00.000-05:00

We have 8 new baby bunnies, Angel was due on Saturday and on Sunday she had her babies. How fun!! I am sure the rabbits enjoyed the cool off from the storm last night. I am glad we got rain, I don't have to water anything this morning. But I was really looking forward to being able to watch the meteor shower last night, but thanks to the storm that didn't happen. We finally live somewhere to be able to watch that kind of stuff, when it finally happens, it has to freakin storm.

I have discovered a new laundry soap. Actually it is not new, it has been around forever, I just never bought it. The only reason I bought it is because one of my customers uses it, so I asked her what she uses. It is Gain, just plain ole Gain laundry soap. That stuff smells so GOOD!! I did laundry all day yesterday and Kayla & I kept smellling all the towels as I was folding them. It is not as pricey as Tide or Cheer, but not as cheap as Purex. It is a in between brand. I also bought the fabric softner.

As of next week I will have a cell phone, I have purchased Daves Sprint PocketPC. So I will let all of you important people out there know the number when I get it.

I am out of here!! We are off to school to get schedules, then to EB Games to shop, then we are finally going to see Transformers.

Peace Out!!!

Goofy Faces

2007-07-31T23:45:00.000-05:00

I have been looking through the pictures from DF this year, there are some funny pictures of people making faces. Hope you enjoy these as much as I did. By the way, I think Dave is King Of Funny Faces!!

Emily

Mike W.

Paula

Ada

Bill

Chris

Chris

Dave & Diana

Dave

In the air:

2007-07-16T23:25:00.000-05:00

There is something in the air the past couple of weeks. I just wonder who is going to catch it next.

It seems to be called the Harley Virus:

First Damon caught it. Then I found out today that Dave, Scubas' brother has caught it, and then just a couple of hours ago I was informed that my Uncle Benny has caught it.

Yes all 3 of these guys have recently bought a Harley motorcycle. All I can say is that they............SUCK!! I love Harleys'. I told Kayla a couple of years ago, that if a boy comes over to pick her up on a date and it is not a Harley then there is going to be trouble!! :D

So anyway, Dave is supposed to be driving his new bike down to Drunkfest, he is picking it up tomorrow.

Correction for my last post: Those are not wild raspberry bushes, they are wild blackberry bushes!! Even better!!

TTFN!

Slacker

2007-07-10T18:53:00.000-05:00

I have been a major slacker, so I am going to try to catch up:

It is getting ready to storm, so I thought I would take a couple of pictures since the sky looked cool!!

I watered the flowers earlier and then decided to to go take care of the tomato plants. I am very excited I have about 30 roma tomatoes on my plant, about 6 or 7 will be ready to be picked in the next couple of days. Anyway, as I was taking care of them, something very red caught my eye. I found 2 wild raspberry bushes, right on the tree line by the tomatoes!

We are so not even close to being ready for DF next week! I haven't even bought water shoes yet!!

Subject change again...........

Silly boys, Trucks are for girls!!

Have you seen this truck? When I was at the Ford dealership the other day, I saw this, and of course totally fell in love!! This is the Ford F-650, I could go into all the details of this truck, but I won't bore my female readers! All I know is one day whenever we decide to play the lottery and we win, I am getting on of these $100,000.00 trucks!! Could you imagine going on DF with one of these!!

Things to do this summer/fall: (Hopefully some of you will be joining us!!)

Go to Six Flags

Go to the drive in (I found one about40 minutes from my house)

Yeah thats all I got!!

Finally the last thing I have is:

My husband surprised me witha present today! I laughed at first, but it is actually very handy! It is a 4 wheel drive hose cart that will hold up to 300 ft of hose. The picture does it no justice, it looks very small in the picture, but it is actually pretty frickin big!! Men are just to funny!!

2007-07-04T11:23:00.000-05:00

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Randomness

2007-06-28T08:48:00.000-05:00

This morning while waiting with Kenny at the bus stop, I see our bus coming. Then for some unknown reason the bus pulls into a driveway and then backs out. Straight out and into the ditch. The back of the bus was in the ditch on the side of Hwy Y, and the middle was stuck on the concrete. I don't understand why he did that, was thankful my kid was not on the bus. So I took Kenny to school & a little boy from the next stop.

Also this morning while on craigs list I came across a funny ad:

Stripper Pole For Sale, Lighted Stage, Chrome Pole - $600

This elegant stripper pole is just what you need to set of a party or start your own business. It has a four foot by four foot lighted stage that can hold up to 250 pounds. (hopefully that is two girls and not one) It has a chrome pole 7 1/2 foot. It is very sturdy and well built with a steel frame and fully enclosed in black plexi glass. This item is in mint condition and was over $1000 new. Call me @ 314 393 9633 if you have any questions.

I was cracking up at the line that says:

can hold up to 250 pounds. (hopefully that is two girls and not one)

Some of the stuff people say & do just cracks me up!!!

Charles & Grant were out here for the first time last Friday night. I think they had a good time. Bill let them drive the 4 wheeler, which they loved! They wanted to spend the night, and we both wish they could of. Hopefully next time they are in town they can stay. It was nice to get to see them being since we don't get to see them much or spend time with them.

I always thought that my cat was a talker, HA! Daves cat Kramer is waaaayyyyyyyyyy more of a talker!! Holy cow! When I was over there yesterday, he was purring and lovey, followed me everywhere, that is if I was carring him. His voice is way louder than Zeus's!

All of our jerk friends are back from Mexico! All I have to say is that:

It smells like cheese!!!

What has been going on.....................

2007-06-14T23:06:00.001-05:00

I have been a busy little bee lately.

I have all of the float trip disc done and ready to go. I edited, added & reburned. We have 17 disc. I still have to make the bus ride disc that Bill wants, and then I have to make the Friday night mp3.

I have also sold some stuff on ebay. I have been doing a butt load of laundry. Bill has me hanging laundry outside also along with using the dryer. It sure does help. I all week have had a laundry basket strapped to the front of the 4 wheeler.

The other afternoon when I was hanging laundry on the clothesline, I had a vision that had me cracking up. The chickens were clucking rather loudly and I was hanging clothes on the clothesline, and I thought to myself that all I need now is a gingham print dress and an apron. I felt like a old farmer lady!!

Speaking of chickens, we are now down to 4! Something has been eating good for the last 2 weeks.

I was pretty excited the other day. I got Jack 3 months worth of frontline for about the same price as 1 month off of ebay! The ticks are really bad this year. Poor Jack, they are just feasting on him. Now I just have to get the kittens some frontline and we will be good to go.

I took Kayla shopping the other day, she bought a blue neon clock for her room, and some Sony speakers for her new mp3 player. Which of course she had me put songs on. So far we have 167 songs on it. Now Kenny is bugging my for more songs on his mp3 player, and her wants some portable speakers like Kayla got. She can't wait to take them on the camping trip in August. Now I just have to get my self an mp3 player, I want one for work.

I am addicted to Craigs list. I check it several times a day.

Well I am off to bed, I have a very busy day tomorrow.

Peace Out!!!

Here we grow again!

2007-05-22T20:06:00.001-05:00

Here our newsest family members. They are adding to our list of:
7 Chickens
4 Rabbits
1 Cat
1 Dog
And now
2 Kittens.............

We should know Thursday if we are getting another dog. (We are trying to get Payden, Alan's dog) Keep your fingers crossed for us!!

We let the kids each pick one, Kenny picked out the girl, which is the one with stripes. He named her Cheyenne. Kayla picked out the little boy, and named him Sylar.

Just to give you an idea of how little they are, Bill put them in plastic cups.

Oh no you didn't............................Oh yes I did!!

Being that our bathtub is in one of the building with firewood in it, I haven't been able to teach Kayla how to shave. So on the day of her dance I had to teach her. Of course the only place to do it was out at the waterpump.

She says now she has a story for kids, about how she had to sit outside and at a waterpump to shave her legs. She is calling it one of her redneck childhood stories. Pretty funny stuff!!

Thats all I have! I am going to bed!!!

1 down, 3 to go!!!!

Crazy I Say!

2007-05-10T23:23:00.000-05:00

I went to mom's Diva Girl Purse party tonight. When I go home and did a few things. Now I find myself at the computer. I was on ebay just looking up stuff when I came across this purse. It is like one of the designer inspired purses that I saw tonight and thought was pretty darn ugly. It is on Ebay for $5,300.00!!!!! That is just crazy I say!!!

Hell if I was going to spend $5,000.00 it would not be on a purse, instead I would be buying tickets to Mexico :D

Just do it!!!

2007-05-10T07:00:00.000-05:00

I am starting to get a little upset with 2 people I ordered some stuff from on ebay. The payment cleared for the items over 3 weeks ago. I have heard nothing! I have tried email them, and still nothing! I am an impatient person........I WANT MY STUFF!!!

We are down to 2 bunnies now. They are getting big, and they are starting to get so cute! Kayla is going to be distraught the day Bill decides he is having one for dinner!

Tomorrow is Kayla's dance. I am going to order her some flowers today. I am getting off work early tomorrow to help her get ready.

Not much of anything else going on.

Kenny's first baseball game

2007-05-08T06:56:00.000-05:00

Kenny had his first baseball game yesterday. I am not sure who won, I had to leave right before the game ended so I could come home & make dinner.

Kenny playing 2nd base

His first time at bat.

Our catcher is a very small kid named Jonah, he is a hoot! He looks so funny in the gear cause he is so small. He loves baseball, if you look he is making signals to the pitcher. (Each coach pitches to his own team) He was cracking us up! Coach kept telling him that he didn't need to do that, but he kept on!

One of our baby bunnies died, so now we only have 2. :(

I love my new purse Paula!!

Pictures & stealing from Jen

2007-05-06T23:43:00.000-05:00

Here are some pictures that I have taken in the past week!

The first set is from a field trip I went on with Kenny's class to the new stadium. I really hated to see the old stadium go, since I have so many memories at the old stadium, but I must say that the new stadium is beautiful!!!!

Here is a picture of the boys down on the field.

This is the Josh Hancock memorial.

Kenny & I in the Cardinals dugout.

(We were both very excited to be sitting down there!)

Where the pre & post game is taped.

The view from the media room, wow what a great view of the game!
Kenny & a friend standing where Al Hrabosky & Dan McLaughlin sit.
Emma kept attacking Kenny, it was so cute.

Then finally she just went over and laid her head on his leg.
Last but not least. The newest addition to our family.

Angel had 3 babies on Thursday evening.

They are 2 days old in these pictures.

I saw this on Jens blog, thought it was pretty cute, so now I am stealing it from her.

My 9 Names

1. YOUR REAL Name:Christina

2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 3 letters of real name plus izzle.) Chrizzle

3. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (fav color and fav animal) Purple Cat

4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (your middle name and street u live on) Anne Joanne

5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name.) Johch

6. YOUR SUPERHERO NAME: (Your 2nd favorite color, and favorite drink) Black Dr. Pepper

7. YOUR FOREIGN NAME: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, 1st letter of your middle name, 2nd letter of your moms maiden name, 3rd letter of you dads middle name, 1st letter of a siblings first name, and last letter of your moms middle name)

Hhauace (WTF!)

8. YOUR WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (parents middle names) Marie Duane

9. YOUR GOTH NAME: (black, and the name of one of your pets)Black Jack (Hmmmm makes me want to go to the boat!!)

Peace out & have a great night!!

Project #1.....Done!!

2007-04-30T22:57:00.000-05:00

Finally the 1st of my projects is done!! The doors are painted! I am not so sure if Bill likes it, but I do! Kayla & I also went Sunday and spent $150.00 on flowers. We bought 3 flats,4 hanging baskets,9 tomato plants,1 hot pepper plant,2 hostas, & 2 raspberry bushes. Everything is planted except for the 2 hostas. I have yet to figure out where the hell to put them! They need to be planted in a part shade area, and everything is full sun. So the next project will be the room swap & painting. Which includes the surprise for Kayla. I think when I go buy the paint for our rooms, I will take Kayla with me and have her get a bunch of paint colors to help decide what she wants, then I think I will paint her room before I move her into it.

Not much else has been going on, I got my first sunburn of the year today. I also got really lucky with a near DF disaster! That was really scary, my heart was pounding. But it is all good now. Also booked the campsites for the family trip. The dates are Aug. 3-6 for anyone who wants to joins us. Of course you don't have to stay all those days. Bill & I have been wanting to stay the extra day for awhile now, and this year we will.

I used something new to send out the Memorial weekend party invite, I am not sure if anyone got them or not, so we are going to have a BBQ & bonfire on May 26th. Bring lawnchairs, a dish, & BYOB. It starts at 2pm.

I am outta here, I need some sleep, tomorrow is the field trip to Busch stadium with all of the 2nd graders! Wish the cards were in town. Since they aren't there won't be that chance to meet any of them.

Night!

Movies, Sisters, & Completions!

2007-04-16T23:03:00.000-05:00

I came home from work on Saturday and saw my wine rack hanging! I was so happy! Here are a couple of pics. I still need to go shopping to fill it. It is looking very bare.

Also here are some pictures of the shutters. Now that we have nice weather again I plan on getting the doors painted in the same color.

Here is a pic of the girls Bill took this one night when he went to tuck them in bed, he found them all sitting on the wall. We found it kind of funny.

So I have been watching some movies lately. I watched Superman Returns, very good movie. Also I watched Crash, now this was a great movie, I highly recommend this movie. If you are unaware of this one here is a summary of the movie. This movie won 3 Oscars and has a list of famous people including: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Tony Danza, Matt Dillon, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Ludacris, & Ryan Phillippe.

Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, a police detective with a drugged out mother and a thieving younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the white district attorney and his irritated and pampered wife, a racist white veteran cop (caring for a sick father at home) who disgusts his more idealistic younger partner, a successful Hollywood director and his wife who must deal with the racist cop, a Persian-immigrant father who buys a gun to protect his shop, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter who is afraid of bullets, and more.

I got some really shocking news yesterday! I guess I will fill you in on a some things before I give the news. My sister Carrie has been dating someone for awhile. They recently took a vacation together, of course it was to DisneyWorld, being that my sister will not go anywhere else. She goes every spring.

So anywhooo........She calls me yesterday morning and wants me to drive up to drill holes in her walls and help her hang curtains, she is upset because it is so light in her new apartment even with the blinds, she hasn't slept for 2 days. Did you catch what I said? Her new apartment. I was speechless, then I went on to tell her that I was not spending $10.00 in gas and all that time driving in & back home again to drill a couple of holes. I told her that I would be in the area on Tuesday and that I would come over and take care of it then. Then I went on to ask her several questions. I asked if her boyfriend was going to be living with her? answer no. Then, I asked if she could afford this? Answer yes. Then finally I asked her if mom could afford the trailer by herself? she paused for a minute then said, "I think so". Ok, she is almost 30 years old. But here are a couple of my concerns: My sister is the worlds biggest slob, I have seen pigpens cleaner than her room. Most who know of my sister also knows that she is far from being one of the sharper tools in a shed! It would not surprise me if she winds up pregnant, that is the one thing that scares me more than anything. I just can not see my sisiter being able to take care of a baby, I am concerned for the child!! Just pray for me that she doesn't become pregnant. I know that sounds really bad and maybe it is wrong of me to think like that, but I have known her for 30 years, I know what she is like. Hell just her maturity level scares me, 30 year olds don't still buy and play with Bratz & Barbies. Especially when they don't have children! I just think about her last boyfriend..........Some of you will remember him, Darren Mills was his name, if it sounds familiar that is because he is the guy that was all over the news a few years ago for taking pictures of children, when he got busted there were hundreds of pictures of little boys, and I will just leave it at that. That boy was just damn lucky that Kenny was a baby, and the police didn't find any baby pictures. There were not any pictures of girls.......Like I said anyone who knows my sister would understand my concerns. When I talked to my brother, he was also concerned.

All right enough of all that! I will give myself a headache. I am looking forward to this weekend, we are going to try to celebrate Dave & Violets birthday again, hopefully it will be with them. Even though we had one hell of a time without them last year!!! Love you guys!

Goodnight!!!

Holy Crap!!

2007-04-08T23:00:00.000-05:00

I have a really big my music file on my computer. I just didn't know how big until I did a count of artist then albums.

I have 319 different artist in my music folder, with a total of 499 full cds. I was so shocked that I had to count it a total of 3 times. WOW! And to think I have a list of cds that is all new stuff that I would like to add to my collection. I have a total of 7,061 songs.

All of those cds were all WMA's, and they are now MP3's, I just opened up alot of space on my hard drive. I guess you can say I like my music.

My project list in this order, for as soon as the weather turns warm again.

1.Paint the front doors to match my shutters.
2.Paint & swap rooms.
3.Paint the kitchen cabinets.

After that I am not sure what I am going to do, hopefully the dry wall will be taped & mudded in the living room, then I can paint those rooms. It is really hard once you have your heart set on paint colors, to sit around and wait for work to be done. It is killing me. I just want to get it done.

I watched the movie Click last night, it was very good!! I cried my eyes out!! I also watched tonight, The Green Mile. I havn't seen it since it came out, I forgot how good of a movie that is. I had also forgot how frickin big Michael Clarke Duncan is.

Only 2 more week until Hereos returns!! I can't wait.

Time to hit the hay! Night all!

Fashion Stupid

2007-04-07T17:01:00.000-05:00

Hi, my name is Chris and I am fashion stupid.(In the tune of AA)

Anyone & everyone knows that I am not a fashion person, I don't keep up with all the latest trends. It is not that I don't want to, I just can't so. So I just don't worry about the latest fashion craze at all. Recently my sil Paula gave me some jeans that she can't fit in any more with her skinny self. They are hip huggers, or low rise jeans, whichever they are called......anyway these are a first for me. I guess you just have to get used to them, but they feel so weird. I don't feel like I have any tummy control in them. Also I need to where a really big shirt with them, cause my ass is so big that when I bend over I am exposing lots of thong & ass crack!! The first time I put them on, they felt like my stuff was about to fall out, so I bent over and checked myself out in the mirror, I laughed so hard, then when I stood back up again and realized I still had alot of junk hanging out, I laughed even harder. I will either quit wearing them or I will just get used to them. Maybe they are like the flip flops, you just have to get used to the tenderness in between your toes.(I never wore flip flops until a couple of years ago, I had a painful summer getting used to them, but it is all good now)

The group is planning a trip to Mexico in June, all I can say is that the resort looks beautiful, and I hope we get to join all of you guys!)

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DONE!!!

2007-04-04T21:02:00.000-05:00

That is it I am done with American Idol! In another week or 2 I am sure Melinda will be booted so that little piece of crap can stay! I will pay my money for the pool but I will not watch any more this season or ever again, unless they can come up with a way to regulate the voting process. These little girls who are voting for Mowgli because of his looks (He is not cute!!) don't even realize that he is gay!!! Luckily I have plenty of other shows that I can watch instead. Maybe I will go watch Animal Planet in HD with Dave. At 8 pm tonight (same time as Idol) I could of watched Piranhas.

I am still waiting for my wine rack to be hung, as soon as it is, I will post pics of the shutters & rack.

Peace out!!

New Stuff.........Part II

2007-04-03T07:03:00.001-05:00

I bought paint for the shutters and it totally did not come out in color like it was supposed to, my shutters were magenta! Of course Bill was having a fit, so he bought me a small can of black paint yesterday, and I added it and repainted the shutters, so now they are wine colored. Actually they are now the exact color that he bought them as! Let me tell you how happy was about that!! Well at least they are on the house and everyone is happy now, so as soon as the weather warms up again I will be painting both the doors.

The wine rack is not hung up yet, but he did buy the hooks to hang it.

I rearranged the living room yesterday, I think I might actually like it now. Bill does like it, he can see the TV from the dinner table and can control the stereo also from the table now!

Doug has moved out, so now I have to get on the ball and start getting stuff together and bought to make the move to the other side of the house. This time when I go buy paint I will take my husband with me, so I am not buying $36.00 cans of paint. I also have to buy the wire racks to make that small room into a closet. I can't wait, but I have to finish my first project first, which is paint the doors.

I need to get ready for work, so have a great day!!

New Stuff

2007-03-29T23:13:00.000-05:00

Okay so Diana got new furniture, well I got some new stuff also. I am so excited!! My hardass or tightass husband really is a softie if you push hard enough! (love ya honey!!) He let me buy a overpriced wine rack that I just had to have!! I think it is super cool looking, he thinks it is really ugly. Oh well it is my house, his is up on the hill, and I don't tell him how to decorate it. So he will be hanging it up very soon for me, hopefully tomorrow, if not then it will be hung up Saturday. I also got shutters for the house, the only thing is that they are already a certain color and not the same as the color I bought today for them. So I now am priming the brand new shutters, so I will have a matching door & shutters. Everything will be done by the end of this weekend. He doesn't think it is a big deal if the shutters are wine colored and the doors are white. I am so OCD about the fact that my shutters & doors have to match. Maybe it is just me but I can't stand driving through a neighborhood and seeing blue shutters & a green or red door on a house. It drives me insane!!!! (back to the wine rack) So I am thinking that now that I have this new wine rack, I have to go shopping to find some really cool looking wine glasses to hang from it. I will be stopping at Pier One & World Market tomorrow on my lunch break!!!

I don't even want to get started on this subject but, I am starting to really get pissed off at the crap going on, on Idol!! Mowgli needs to be gone! Not only did he forget his lyrics but he ruined my favorite song by No Doubt!! That is all I can say, I don't want to get my blood boiling before going to bed.

Next week I am going to start buying everything I need for the big room change and painting job! I can not wait, I am so excited!!! After that is done then my next project will be the transformation of the kitchen, mostly meaning the cabinets. It is going to be a busy summer! I still have to work on flowers for outside also!!

That is all I have for now!! Night all.

Tag your it

2007-03-26T16:32:00.000-05:00

I have been tagged by Violet. So here is my list of 7 songs that I have been listening to:

1.I Wanna Love You-Akon:I like this song alot, I also like Snoop Dogg, so it is a double bonus!!

2.Dixieland Delight-Alabama:I have loved this song since I heard it many years ago, I recently made some mp3's for my car, and put a folder with about 45 songs from Alabama on there, they have a great number of good songs, but this is a favorite!

3.I Won't Back Down-Tom Petty: Again it is on one of the mp3's I made, so I have been listening to this alot also.

4.On The Robert E Lee-Neil Diamond:This song is on the Jazz Singer soundtrack, it is just a feel good song. If you are not familiar with song, you should find it a listen, the music is great!

5.Gin & Juice-Phish:A remake of Snoop Doggs song, I like this version alot!

6.This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race-Fall Out Boy:A band that I have recently discovered, love them!!!

7.Sexyback-Justin Timberlake:I have been listening to this and many other Timberlake songs alot lately, I hated him with N'Sync, never thought I would like him solo, but I really do!!

Since Violet didn't leave me anyone to tag here are the few that I have left:

Jen,Dave,Mike C,Mike W.,Mikey,Doug, & Karen

Tag your it!!!

Drywall,St.Pats,& Things

2007-03-21T06:47:00.000-05:00

Saturday we went to dogtown for the St. Pattey's Day parade. I had a really good time. The parade was cool, I enjoyed the bagpipes. We hung out and Chris & Lee's for awhile. Met this guy named Jeremy, I swear he looks just like Brad Pitt in the movie Sevens. Had fun teasing my brother by saying that I am Kens sister. Love picking on him. He was in a really good mood yesterday, and not bitchy at all, so of course I really enjoyed the time spent together. It was pretty funny when we got there we were the first ones there and a group a guys showed up shortly after us and Lee introduced us all. We were the straight people.

After we left Lee & Chris's we went to someone else's house out by Grants Farm. It was my first trip to Steve & Jenny's. Their house is sssoooooo cute! I just love the way Jenny has it decorated. And Jack what can I say about him other than, he is so darn cute! He cracks me up, he is a hoot! Him & I were down stairs with his tools fixing his wheels on all of his hummers. While we were there we played a game called Imagine If....The game is for 8 players if you do not have 8 then you must fill in the other name spots with names of people that everyone knows, so we used Mike & Paula. There was this question that we got that incuded using Mike W. for the subject person and it couldn't have been a more perfect question for all of us to score on. The question was Imagine if Mike were to make a million dollars, how would he do it? There were 6 different choices the 2nd answer was by inventing something really cool. Of course we all lauged and everone picked that as their answer.

My living room now has drywall, I was really shocked when I came home from work the other day. Even though it is not taped yet, My living room looks so different. I was happy to see something finally getting done in the house nad not Bill's workshop. Speaking of Bill he is so not going to like the paint colors I have picked out for our room or the living room, but oh well. I think once it is done he will like it.

Kayla has a wart on her ankle, without getting to graphic I will just say that, I would have never thought that a wart would get so big that it would get infected! I really thought she had been bit by a brown recluse spider. Of course she hates her dad right now because of the whole squeezing process! She will get over it.

I am off to work! Have a great day!!

Television shows

2007-03-09T17:26:00.000-06:00

I guess I will start at the beginning of my tv week.

Monday-Heroes: WOW! This is a great show, I have not been this so into a show since the very first season of ER. Monday was the season finale until the end of April, it is going to kill me to have to wait that long! At the end of every show they leave you hanging until the next one airs. It is going to be a long month and half for me!

Tuesday-House & American Idol: What can I say about House other than I love the arrogant ass that he is!

American Idol I feel truly has their best group of artist ever. The only thing that kills me is that these teeny bopper kids out there are voting people to stay because of their looks, not their talent. Haley should have left and Sabrina should be there still, Sabrina was awesome. The same goes for Sundance, he should be there and not Mowgli. Antonella Barba should have already been gone, she was horrible!!!!

Thursday-Survivor: This show is one my guilty pleasures! This season is good as always, and of course every season has someone who I just hate! That would be Rocky this season! UGGGHHH!!!

New Shows-Wedding Bells: I have it on tivo but yet to watch it, that is what Sunday is for!

Are you smarter than a 5th grader: Love this show, and yes most of the time I am smarter than a 5th grader. So far with all the episodes I have only gotten a total of 5 wrong! I should so go on this show! We could so use the money!!

Gotta love Ebay! I am always ordering or watching something, I have gotten some CM stuff off of there. I have always said that I would never order pages though because I was afraid they would get ruined in the mail. Well I lied, I ordered a pack of calendar pages. I was also right, by the time I got them in the mail they were bent up! UGGHH!

I am so excited that spring is almost here!! I am so tired of the cold freaking weather! I am ready for warm sunny days, and flowers!! Sitting around outside with our friends.

Doug has found a place to live, so he will be moving out in a couple of weeks, when he does it is time for a room swap! I am also thinking that maybe I will paint our new master bedroom before we swap. I have to clean the carpet from the flood. I am sure that my husband will be bursting with joy when I plan to paint and swap 2 rooms of furniture! Oh well! That is one of my goals in life, to drive my man crazy! I figure if he does it to me, then game on!! (love ya honey :D)

Well I guess I am outta here, I need to clean my house, cause you know I didn't already clean enough houses today. Since I work for a cleaning company and it is my job to clean, nobody else feels that they need to, mom will!!

Ode To Mike

2007-03-03T17:11:00.000-06:00

Gotta love my brother Mike!!

I don't care what you say that is some funny shit right there!!

Couldn't help myself with this one! Love ya Doug!

Boss & DF

2007-02-23T06:48:00.000-06:00

Tuesday morning I turned in a time off request for the float trip. Since my boss was not there I left it on her desk. Yesterday when I saw her, I asked her if she got my time of request. She has a very messy desk, so I wanted to make sure. She said yes she had, and that she had approved it. I chuckled and made a comment about if it wasn't approved then I would be calling in those days. She did not like that at all, she snapped at me and told me that, it is instant termination if you call in on days that were asked off but not approved. My response was "So be it." Again she did not like that at all. I told her that like alot of people around here, I don't ask off for very much time, I take 1 vacation a year, I will not miss that weekend even if includes losing my job. So now I am #1 on her shit list! Oh well!

I guess our house is now a popular place for the kids, Kaylas friends who live a street over, have cut a path through the woods to get from their street to our house. They have worked on it all week long, I must say I am pretty darn proud of them also. It is a wide path, and they cut down trees. They have more than enough room to ride their 4 wheelers through it. I just hope Gary doesn't mind. He is our neighbor and it is his property that they cut through.

Here are my top 6 American Idols. Thankfully they have made it through the first cut!

Drives Me Insane

2007-02-16T21:44:00.000-06:00

I know I have blogged about his before, but I need to bitch. I woke up this morning it was 6 degrees out! Can't seem to find my gloves anywhere! So I stopped by 3 stores tonight on my way home from work to buy gloves. Guess what? I can't buy any cause they are out of season. IT IS THE MIDDLE OF FEBUARY AND FRICKIN COLD OUTSIDE AND I CAN BUY A SWIMSUIT BUT NOT ANY STUPID ASS GLOVES!!!!!!!!! It makes me so mad, if I knew who to contact, I would, and I would raise hell!

Ok, so now I feel a little better, except my hands are still cold!

We are taking the kids to the Monster Jam tomorrow. They are so excited, especially Kenny since he is taking a friend with him. I am the only woman going but that is ok, I love Monster Trucks. Yes I am real true redneck at heart.

I got some more karaoke cds this week, so I am now at 76 discs & 960 songs. WOW! Got some really good new discs, can't wait to try them out.

While I was out trying to buy gloves tonight, I bought Kenny a baseball beaded door curtain, he is pretty excited. Kayla really wants a door curtain also, but I can't find her one that she wants. So I guess her & I will have to go shopping for one.

Not much else going on here, but a little snow.

Night!

Happy Valentines Day

2007-02-14T08:46:00.000-06:00

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Prank A Telemarketer

2007-02-09T06:48:00.000-06:00

I have heard this on Bob and Tom several times, this is very, very funny! It is a comedian named Tom Mabe. You must listen to this! Phone Prank

I wish I could do this, cause they drive me insane!

Wild Hogs

2007-02-06T17:40:00.000-06:00

I seen a trailer for a movie recently that just looks great! Then I saw that the 4 big stars that are in it were on Oprah today, so I had to watch it. I have to go see this movie, I was laughing my butt off! It has John Travolta,Tim Allen,Martin Lawerence & William H. Macy in it. WOW! What a cast! Here is the link to watch a preview of it. Wild Hogs

Only 5 years in the making

2007-01-29T13:06:00.000-06:00

Saturday night we got together at Paula & Mikes house for some scrapbooking and very noisy invisible men. Before we got there I was pretty upset because I wasn't finding some very important supplies. So finally I found them, and on our way we went. I didn't look in my album to see where I was on our Mexico trip that we took 5 years ago next month. Well I get all my crap set up and get out my pictures only to find that it seems I am missing pictures. Hmmmmm...... So I look in my album to see what part of the week I need to start at, and realize the week is over. WHAT!!!! I finished everything, I had some random pictures left of the 3 couples that went & 3 post cards. I thought I still had alot to work on. So I did the 3 pages of work that I had, put page protectors on all the pages and I was done. I had some pictures from a winery trip from a few years ago that I could work on but I only had 1 white scrapbook page to use. So I packed all my stuff back up and hung out with the men who weren't really there.

Last night Bill & I were talking........Yes he does do that on occasion. We traded some ideas with each other about the house. He is going to help me get my scrapbook stuff set up. Yeah!!! (He reminded me that I need to finish his Military album),(I want to start working on our trip to South America)

I am outta here....I have work to do and another load of laundry to do.

A little bit of...........randomness

2007-01-17T21:52:00.001-06:00

Yeah!! Finally after a very long wait, American Idol is back on. The last 2 nights I have had some really good laughs. That's all I got to say about that.

St. Louis has been granted the 2009 baseball Allstar game! Yea for us. That will be really good for our city. Since I am on baseball they said that 2008 will be in New York for the final season at the old Yankee stadium. I am not a big Yankee fan, but think of some of the history that will go down with that stadium. Some of baseball greatest players called that stadium home. Players like....Babe Ruth, Roger Maris, & Joe Dimaggio. These are just to name a few.

Since we are on sports, I am rooting for a Bears vs. Colts Superbowl. Of course with a win by the BEARS! But hey, thats just my opinion.

My SIL posted a old blog entry link on her blog, all I can say is WOW! If you have not read this please go and read it. Jenifred. This post is about motherhood and being a good mom vs. a bad mom. It brought a tear to my eye. There are alot of people whom years ago made me feel like I was the worst mother on the face of this planet because I chose to bottle feed my children instead of breastfeeding them. There were also people who tried to blame me for my daughter having inherited a cleft pallet which happens to run on my fathers side of the family, Hell my father has a cleft lip. This blog entry made me feel good about myself as a mother. I will never claim to be a great mom or the worlds greatest mom, but I do try to just be a good mother for my children, and of course I am by no means perfect and neither are my kids. I try to do my best and with everyday that goes by I learn what I did wrong or right. One thing for sure, it is not easy being a mommy. All right enough of that, before I start to cry. GOSH! What a big crybaby I am!! :)

Thank you Dave & Emily I really enjoyed Tuesday night being with everyone and watching Idol. Love you guys! "sniff sniff"

LOL

Peace out guys I have to go now I am watching some videos of Princess Ella!!

Round 1

2007-01-13T21:35:00.000-06:00

Well the winter storm has been here, at least the 1st round of it. Here are some pics, it sure is pretty. Round 2 is happening right now, it is not coming down as hard as last night, but all the trees have had enough weight. When we are standing outside it is REALLY quiet, then you hear a tree come crashing done. It is kinda cool. We have been hearing them alot more often than 4 hours ago.

Well Kenny has become quite the little hunter! He thinks he is pretty bad ass! Today he got his first kill. He killed 3 birds with his BB gun,then saved them in a box until I got home from work so I could see them. The robin in the top part of the picture, he is very fond of this one......because he shot it in the eye! UGGGHHH!! BOYS!!! Of course he was also wearing his camo pants so that makes him a true hunter now. It is just a matter of time before he brings bigger prizes to me. I am so NOT looking forward to this.

Well I am outta here! I will post more pics tomorrow.

God bless the children & their families

2007-01-12T17:39:00.000-06:00

WOW!! What an amazing day for two families, the Ownby & Hornbeck families. I keep crying, this is just an amazing find for these families. I keep thinking about "what if" it was one my kids. Do you give up any hope after 1 or 2 years? I just can't imagine what these families are going through. 4 years!!! Most families do NOT get their child back after 4 years. I hope this guy who took these boys rots in hell! I don't understand how this guy had Shawn for 4 years and no one knew! Then for Shawn to never say anything to anyone, the poor boy must have been so brainwashed!

Hands of to the Franklin county officers and the Kirkwood police.

Thank God these boys are home safe and sound.

2006-12-31T12:22:00.000-06:00

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Very Funny!!

2006-12-18T07:05:00.000-06:00

I saw this on Jennifer & Diana's blogs and it was so funny. I had to play also!!! Go check out my elf!!

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14 Days

2006-12-11T06:28:00.000-06:00

We have only 14 days until Christmas, that is 2 weeks! HOLY CRAP!! It is almost here, I am not even close to be ready for Christmas!! We have not bought one thing yet!! We also haven't even put up the tree yet!! What makes it even worse is that I am working every Saturday now. So I basically have 2 days to get ready for Christmas or 1 1/2 days cause we have to go to my moms on Christmas Eve!! We still have parties to go to also! My work party/dinner is tonight at Trailhead Brewery. Oh yeah I am so excited.....Trailhead is not one of my favorite places, they have overpriced food that is not that great. Don't get me wrong they do have good food but its not GREAT food. Then also our significate others are invited but have to pay there own way. Bill won't go cause he doesn't want to drive up by himself. I am going to a coworkers to get ready. I gave my boss alot of crap about the that was picked for the party! Tonight is the Rams & Bears on Monday night football!! I have been waiting all season for this game.

Well I am outta here! Word to your mother!!

To pug or not to pug, that is the question.

2006-11-29T15:43:00.000-06:00

Everyone knows about the whole Jack thing going on, so we have talked about getting another dog. I already know what I want, told Bill, he said he didn't care. So I searched between Missouri,Illinois, & Kansas. Finally found one that was in our price range and the age I was looking for. Now Bill has decided that he doesn't want a small dog, he wants a big dog. I am thinking that a small dog would be a nice change. I get tired of middle of the night accidents that are bigger than my dishes!! We would love to have an English Bulldog, and seems to be the only breed that we agree on, but the cheapest I can find is $800.00, and those are far & few in between. So who knows what we will do, but my thinking is that if I can't have a small lap dog then the next best thing would be to get another kitty!! HEHEHE!!

How Cute!!

English Bulldog

Hook,Line, & Sinker

2006-11-21T21:48:00.000-06:00

Awile back I saw previews for a new show that would be coming on and thought WOW! that looks like a good show, but I missed the first 7 episodes. I have heard people talk about how good this show is. I have seen the last 2 episodes and I am totally hooked. The show is on NBC, and it is called Heroes.

Since I am talking about TV shows, I am just waiting for it all to blow on House, it is really starting to build, and when it does blow it will be great!!

I got away from all the shows I used to watch and only stayed true to one, which is Survivor, but now thanks to Bill (House) & Doug (Heroes) I am starting to get hooked on shows again. As I always do, I will again thank whoever invented DVR!

THANK YOU!!

Speaking of Bill & Doug, they are building again, they have more ideas for the bar. They are just to funny.

Scary Day

2006-11-13T23:15:00.000-06:00

So I was off work today and thought I would get some stuff done around the house. Well all I ended up doing was making a REALLY BIG mess! If Bill could of gotten away with murder I would be dead. I decided that it is time to get the office in order, but I have no where to go with this stuff. So I unloaded the big cabinet in the laundry room and started to move it to the office so I could use that for all my junk. I only made it about 6 inches before the trouble started. I pushed the cabinet into the water pipes that are coming up out of the well pump and holding tank, and broke one. I instantly had my very own indoor fountain! I was soaked within 15 seconds, since it was spraying up to the ceiling and coming back down. I didn't know how to shut it off so it ran for about 15 minutes before Bill said to cut the power to the house, which in turn would stop the pump from pumping all that water in. So I flooded the laundry room, kitchen and media room. At that point what else could I do but laugh, Bill did not find it the least bit funny. I give him to the weekend and then he will think it is funny.

More scary stuff, I was looking at some pictures and came across 2 very scary pictures. So here they are, but if you scare easily then DO NOT scroll down and look at them.

A reminder for the men

2006-11-11T17:39:00.000-06:00

There are few of you out there whom I feel need to be reminded of the rules, you know who you are......

The Rules

1. The female always makes the rules
2.The rules are subject to change at any time without notification
3.No male can possibly know all the rules
4.If the female suspects that the male knows all the rules, she must immediately change some of the rules
5.The female is NEVER wrong
6.If the female is wrong, it is because of a flagrant misunderstanding which is a direct result of something the male did or said wrong.
7.If rule #6 applies, the male must apologize immediately for causing the misunderstanding
8.The female can change her mind at any given point.
9.The male must never change his mind without written consent from the female.
10.The female has every right to be angry or upset at any time.
11.The male must remain calm at all times, unless the female wants him to be angry or upset.
12.The femalemust under no circumstances let the male know whether or not she wants him to be angry or upset.
13.Any attempt to document the rules by a male could result in bodily harm.
14.If the female has PMS, all rules are null and void.

Starry Night

2006-11-09T00:11:00.000-06:00

Growing up I was always enjoyed looking at the stars. I always tried to find different clusters, but could never find anything but the big & little dipper. Well since we have moved to the new house, my intrest has really grown, especially since a really good friend of ours has actually showed me a couple of things. Well this friend, lets call himmmmmmmm...."Dave", has a pretty cool telescope, we have talked about him bringing it out. Well I think it is time for "Dave" to bring it out and teach me some more!!

Hint,hint.........

Where I have been......

2006-11-08T06:49:00.000-06:00

World Series Cardinals

2006-10-20T06:29:00.000-05:00

WOW! What an intense game last night. My stomach was so upset, I thought I would get sick. That was some extremely stressful baseball!! Happy Birthday to me!! Watching the end after we won really reminded me of Porter & Sutter in 1982. Molina ran out (like Porter) and jumped onto Wainwright. My big fear now is that the Tigers will sweep us like the Red Sox did. At least we can say........We made it!!

GO CARDS!!!

I am so lucky!!

2006-10-16T22:11:00.000-05:00

I was looking at some pictures from past events this evening on the drunkfest photo page, I just couldn't stop laughing and thinking about how lucky I am!

LOOK AT MY MAN!!!

I feel really bad for all you women out there who are not as lucky as me! I think he is a keeper!

2006-10-13T06:17:00.000-05:00

Happy Birthday Diana & Mindy!!

(Jack is also 1 today)

Always curious

2006-10-12T22:30:00.000-05:00

Most of you have seen this house, it is on Hwy N, seems like it is always for sale. I don't think it is a great looking house, but like most people I have always been curious about it, I would love to see the inside. It drives me crazy wondering what such a lllllllooooooooonnnnnngggggg house looks like on the inside. I found it and have looked at the pictures.

Look at that lovely pink ceiling fan in the master bedroom! I know you all want one of those! That is what everyone is getting from me for Christmas........unless of course you would rather have a goat!!!

This is why the house is so long! Now I want that house just because of the pool!!

So if you would like to see more stuff in this house.(you know you want to, everyone is curious about this house) Here is the MLS # 631916, just click on the link and enter the number!! Lllllloooooonnnnnggggg house

Fall

2006-10-06T07:23:00.000-05:00

Another reason I love the fall is because the leaves are on the ground and you can hear things moving in the woods. Last night I was sitting out on the patio having a smoke before I went to bed, when I heard some noise, so I was looking in that direction, when a deer came out. I stood up and was watching it, I got so excited to see deer on our property that my heart started going BAM BAM BAM! I stood there for almost 30 minutes watching 3 adults and 2 babies. They eventually walked over behind Bills workshop. That was so cool, especially since they were so close.

I didn't realize how much Kenny has grown over the summer, he had a huge growing spurt. In late spring/early summer he was wearing size 7 jeans, well now he is wearing size 9!! He went straight past all the size 8's he had! I thought he would be set for fall since he had about 15 pairs of jeans all size 7 & 8's. But nnnoooooooo!! Now he has 2 pair that fit him!! Darn kids why do they have to grow so fast!!

A little more this & very little that.......

2006-10-03T06:53:00.000-05:00

I can forsee already the fights that Bill & Kayla are going to have. Just because she is a girl and does what girls do, and it drives him crazy. For example: Yesterday after school Kayla went up to Taylors house after school, she was there for around 2 hours. Well when she came home she wasn't home 15 minutes when Taylor called. So Kayla took the phone to her room, which first off Bill couldn't understand why they were on the phone since Kayla just got home from Taylors house. I told him, that is what girls do. So after about 20 minutes or so on the phone, it was driving him insane. So he went to Kaylas room, and told her it was time to get off the phone. He comes back with the phone talking about how Kayla had the phone on speaker and laying on her bed, talking to Taylor, while Kayla was sitting on the floor coloring. I just laughed because again that is what girls do. I told him that is why girls always want there own phone line, also that it was not costing him anymore on the phone bill for her to sit there and talk. Personally I don't see what the big deal was........It's not like he was going to use it!!

Also yesterday I dropped my car off at the Ford dealership to find out what was going on with it. I had to get a rental. Well Ford called me at work and said that the rear brakes went out and it is not covered under the warranty, it is going to cost $199.00 for them to fix it, which includes labor, parts and the rental. I thought not bad, but still had to call Bill first. He says no way is he paying that much, he will do it himself, which of course caused me to panic!! Bill is a VERY handy guy, but a mechanic he is NOT!! So anyway I call back Ford and tell them that they can't fix it, it is to much money. Awhile later the dealership calls again, they are going to go ahead and fix it because it makes no sense why the rear brakes went out after only 16,000 miles. They said they should see wear on the front brakes but not enough to replace after that amount of miles, so the back ones shouldn't be that bad. But since this is not a warranty repair, I will have to pay for the rental, COOL! I can deal with that. This is the part that gets me:

When I bought my car I asked for a smokers package, which is a ashtray and cigarette lighter, I was told that you can only get that when you order your car from the factory. Well with my rental I was informed that there is to be NO SMOKING in the car, I had to sign off that if I smoked in the car they would charge me $1000.00. The rental had a ashtray and cigarette lighter in it!! I asked them if they had a smoking car, they said no all their cars are non smoking. I think that if I am paying for it I should be allowed to smoke in it also they should have cars that are for smokers. I know I am complaining about a bad subject with some people, but still I have rights also, I can understand not smoking in restaurants, but I think some of the rules that are coming about these days are just down right stupid! I could so go into this way more but this is not a political blog........Speaking of politics......

Mark Foley is a sick, sick man!!!!

So anyway I will be picking up my car this morning and I am going to chain smoke in it because I can!! (Not really)

A little this & a little that

2006-09-28T22:17:00.000-05:00

Tonights post is about several things:

When I first found our property it was spring and everything was so green and pretty that I fell in love, well this morning when I was sitting outside shortly after the sun rose that I realized that spring was nothing....Fall is beautiful....I love the fall. Here are some pics.

This next one I don't have much to say about other than I thought it was pretty cute!

Now this totally cracks me up!!! My husband who has NO Hair, thinks he needs to condition it! I refuse to let him use my products because they cost to much to let him waste on his bald head, this is what I found in the cabinet. It just totally cracks me up.

Last but least!!

Remember Screech from Saved by the bell.........This is very disturbing......He has starred in a porn!!!! Titled..............Saved by the smell!!! That just turns my stomach!!!

A start to decorating.......

2006-09-25T07:22:00.000-05:00

Saturday I finally bought something pretty for my kitchen. I wanted to buy rugs also, but Kenny & I just couldn't decide on anything that we really liked, so I guess I will keep looking. I am just happy to finally get something pretty in there!!

The new curtain

The new towels

What it is

2006-09-17T12:53:00.000-05:00

The picture below is a picture taken when we were moving out of the old house, it is under Bill's fridge & behind the trash can. Look at all the beer caps DIANA & DAVE!!

Do you know?

2006-09-14T21:45:00.000-05:00

Do you know what this is a picture of? Mike & Diana are not allowed to guess, because they are already know. Also for you smartass's out there, I already know it is trash!!

HA! Are you freakin kidding me!!!

2006-09-12T22:35:00.000-05:00

Below is a copy of an email I received from my MIL, it is supposed to be an actual article from Good Housekeeping in 1955, but snopes says it is fake. Either way I thought it was interesting and very funny. There is no way, no how that this would ever be me!!! Could you just imagine, I am sitting here laughing & thinking about it.

*Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal ready on time for his return. This is a way of letting him know that you have be thinking about him and are concerned about his needs. Most men are hungry when they get home and the prospect of a good meal is part of the warm welcome needed.

*Prepare yourself. Take 15 minutes to rest so you'll be refreshed when he arrives. Touch up your make-up, put a ribbon in your hair and be fresh-looking. He has just been with a lot of work-weary people.

*Be a little gay and a little more interesting for him. His boring day may need a lift and one of your duties is to provide it.

*Clear away the clutter. Make one last trip through the main part of the house just before your husband arrives. Run a dustcloth over the tables.

*During the cooler months of the year you should prepare and light a fire for him to unwind by. Your husband will feel he has reached a haven of rest and order, and it will give you a lift too. After all, catering to his comfort will provide you with immense personal satisfaction.

*Minimize all noise. At the time of his arrival, eliminate all noise of the washer, dryer or vacuum. Encourage the children to be quiet.

*Be happy to see him.

*Greet him with a warm smile and show sincerity in your desire to please him.

*Listen to him. You may have a dozen important things to tell him, but the moment of his arrival is not the time. Let him talk first - remember, his topics of conversation are more important than yours.

*Don't greet him with complaints and problems.

*Don't complain if he's late for dinner or even if he stays out all night. Count this as minor compared to what he might have gone through at work.

*Make him comfortable. Have him lean back in a comfortable chair or lie him down in the bedroom. Have a cool or warm drink ready for him.

*Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low, soothing and pleasant voice.

*Don't ask him questions about his actions or question his judgment or integrity. Remember, he is the master of the house and as such will always exercise his will with fairness and truthfulness. You have no right to question him.

*A good wife always knows her place.

Redneck Romance

2006-09-10T21:01:00.000-05:00

Last night I was flipping channels and saw that one my favorite all time movies was on, so of course I had to watch, it is one of those movies I can watch over & over again. The American President. Well I didn't that Bill also loves that movie. I was a little shocked cause after all it is a romantic movie or a chick flick. So we both reclined the recliners on the LOVEseat and cuddle together and watched the movie together, it was great cause everyone knows that Bill is not that kind of guy.

Also we have 2 new members of our family:

Their names are Franklin & Angel, here are some pics of them. They were born on June 23, 2006.

We are talking about getting a pot bellied pig next!!

Franklin on the left & Angel on the right

Frankin

Kayla & Angel

Lilly & Angel

Things are changing

2006-09-07T21:45:00.000-05:00

Things are about to change, actually they already have started. It started tonight with the snake, I had did some research and bullsnakes DO NOT make very good pets. So I had made the decision that we would set him free. So when we went to set him free, we found out that he had already escaped. The funny part about this is that he has been staying in Bill's workshop. So as you can guess Bill was having a fit. Do I mean a fit!! SOOOOO......Mom had to save dads life from the big bad snake. I found him and picked him up and let him go. Bill is happy again. When doing research on snakes last night I did discover that a great beginner snake is a corn snake. They are supposed to be real docile. So sometime next year I will get the kids a cornsnake. Bill isn't to excited about it, but I figured it would also be a good learning expeirence for him also.

Another thing that is about to change is that the kids will no longer as of this weekend have satellite in their rooms, let me tell you they are not very happy about it. I told them that they should be thankful to even have a TV in their rooms!

Something is bothering me:
A person whom I care for posted on their blog finally, and this was the post.

Who your true friends are
I guess its a fact of life. When you break up with someone that you have dated for a LONG time, it is at that point and time that you find out who your true friends are.
You date someone for 9 years. YOU introduce this person to a group of people. You become friends with the same group for at least 6 of those 9 years. You do EVERYTHING with that group and I mean EVERYTHING.
6 years later you find yourself no longer with the person you were dating/living with while becoming such great friends with this group. The group that you thought were your friends suddenly stop calling you, asking you to hang out etc etc.
When He and I first broke up, the one thing I didnt think I would lose,out of everything else Ive lost due to this break-up, would be my friendship with this group. I never thought in a million years that I would become the outcast.
Apparently, I was wrong, thats what I get for thinking.
Its amazing how people can take sides so quickly and believe everything the other person is/has been telling them.
It amazes me that it can be thought that he had no fault whatsoever in this break-up. That Im the reason for this happening. I am completely at fault, to blame. That he is perfect (Which he even admitted to me that he thinks he is).
It amazes me that these people are being told things that are completely untrue, however, since he is telling them, theyre taking it as gospel.
This hurts so much and makes me cry often, but...the one thing I have found out of this realization, is that there is ONE person, out of the whole group, who is truly my friend.... And for that I want to thank her. I know she knows who she is.
A bit of advice to everyone out there that are friends with a couple that are going through a breakup: There is 2 sides to every story. Don't judge until you've heard both sides and know all the facts. Don't take sides. If you were true friends before, you should still be true friends after.
That's all I have to say about that.

Someone awhile back told me about seasonal friends. What is a seasonal friend you ask. Well they are your friend only because they have to be, like saying because of a marriage, or a relationship. But when that marriage or relationship ends then so does the friendship, they were only your friend because they had to be and it was for the season of the relationship. Well.....

I AM NOT A SEASONAL FRIEND!!!

I also hope that I don't have any seasonal friends. I am very hurt by this post. I have included this person on several occasions, but have been turned down because of the other person will be there. Don't blame me if you are trying to oust yourself. I have true feelings for you if you are reading this! Please don't be a seasonal friend!

Now I am going to go to bed and irratate my husband!!! Goodnight!

Petting Zoo

2006-09-06T06:56:00.000-05:00

I feel like we have the startings of a petting zoo. Maybe we should start charging people to come over!(actually a great idea) hehe!

The old man

The baby

The girls

The 3 footed turtle

The baby bullsnake

Next summer Bill wants to have a pond dug, so if we get that then I want some ducks, so I guess we will have some ducklings in our future.

TV

2006-09-05T07:03:00.000-05:00

Paula posted recently about bumper stickers, and Jennifer made a comment about bumper stickers with cuss words in them that she doesn't want her children reading. Well this is something that I am really sick of my children hearing about. Erectile Dysfunction!!! I am so tired of hearing those what seems like 10 minute commercials! The government talks about children watching violent shows & movies on TV, which in turn causes the children to shoot and kill their parents, but it is ok to hear the TV talking about sex, orgasm & erectile dysfunction! I get so mad when those commercials come on. How more violent can you get than watching Wile E. Coyote try to blow up the Road Runner every week, that is a show that EVERYONE used to watch when I was growing up and I don't remember hearing about anyone killing their parents because of that show. Also it isn't so much the TV & music, it is the parents not teaching their children & just letting them do what they want.

I have to go to work now I guess I will stop compaining!! :D

Have a great day!!

"Crikey!"

2006-09-04T13:37:00.000-05:00

So I saw that one of favorite TV charaters died. It was very sad to hear. I did not ever think he would die from a stingray, I had always said "One of these days he will die from a croc" guess I was wrong. He will be missed.

T.G.I.F

2006-09-01T07:45:00.000-05:00

Need I say more! I do have to work for a little while tomorrow, but I couldn't say no to really good money for a short time period. But thankfully it is a 3 day weekend. This has been a REALLY busy work week for me, and I am very thankful that it is almost over!!

T hank
G oodness
I t's
F riday

The new babies are doing good considering they have to deal with Kenny! They grow very fast, I can tell a difference in them already in just a few days. We also put in a cat door for the Zues, that has been interesting trying to teach him to use it, I think the little flap needs to disappear!

Have a great weekend!!!!

xoxoxo