Tastefully Simple

Well, things have picked up a bit and I'm now doing some more parties. That's really good. Exciting for me... I love it! More practice and more money!!! Yea!

Sleep, It's a good thing...

After being pretty severely sleep depped over the past week or so, I finally went to bed at a decent hour and got an okay nights sleep. Though I was mildly plagued by strange "people trying to kill me" dreams once again. Why can't I have some pleasant dream of kittens and butterflies or some shit like that? Freakin' a... If I can keep Alex asleep, my ass is going back to bed where it belongs at this hour because I don't have a boss to answer to :D

Current Mood: tired

Weeee

So I get a word of the day sent to me every day and today's word is a fun one. One I'll have to remember to use! Though I think it pretty much describes me on a daily basis...

maunder \MON-duhr\, intransitive verb:
1. To talk incoherently; to speak in a rambling manner.
2. To wander aimlessly or confusedly.

ACK!

So this weekend kinda sucked. Nothing worse than a baby with croup. Alex sounded like a barking sealion. 2 trips to the er, one rat bastard running me off the road into a construction barrel and very little sleep. Blah! I'm ready for a weekend off from my weekend! At least there was a glimmer of hope in having a helping hand that forced me to go to bed and get some rest before I fell on my face...

Current Mood: drained

SLEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

I need to actually fall asleep at night. I go to bed, but the sleep thing just isn't happening. I'm about 3/4 of the way there, then bam, awake again. Starting to really piss me off. I'm about ready to go find some of those friendly sleeping pills they gave me when I was in the hospital. Never mind that it takes a normal person 1/2 to 1 full pill to get them to fall asleep and it takes me at least 2 pills. I think my sleep deprivation is now messing with other aspects of my life. Like eating. For lunch today: Beef and Bean Chimichanga w/Tzatziki sauce.... mmmm mexican-greek food?

Current Mood: calm still

Depends on the day I guess...

You represent... apathy.
You don't really show any emotion. You can be
considered cruel and cold, but you just don't
really care about anything. This is just the
way you are... you're quite a challenge to get
close to, and others may perceive you as
boring.


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Current Mood: calm

Ahhh debate is so fun!

Nothing more fun than starting a debate on politics and the legalization of pot... Unless it's on a military spouses email loop! He he he... Ah so so much fun.... :D

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: Alex singing about daddy

One more happy thing for the day...

I finally found out what that chick is saying in the Orbitz gum commercial when the chicks are sparring and she breaks a nail... she yells out Che Wa! and everyone was shocked and covering the kids ears etc... Vicki my wonderful stuck on japanese culture sister looked it up for me... It means Oh Shit! Thanks Vicki :D Now my life is complete, since it's been bugging the living hell out of me not knowing what the hell that chick was saying exactly. Anywho....

Current Mood: content

I F***ING WIN!

Okay, so whoever said hanging up a friggin canopy was easy needs to be shot. WTF! I wound up stapling the friggin thing to my ceiling because that was just the easiest way to do it... Still looks cute and girly though... lol... Now just to clean my room so it doesn't look all crappy anymore... boxes of shit all over the place....


On another note... Found a Zorro costume at Wally World for Ian... Long live wally world and their underage starving children working in sweathouses to make their products and the underpaid and non insured employees and thanks to them for providing yet another needless expense for my child so he can go out and get all hopped up on a sugar high from candy that will rott his teeth! Whoo hooo! Yea Halloween!

Current Mood: productive

Yea Shopping!

So, we finally got the $ that the navy owed us... Whooo hooo! Shopping! I'm such a girl... I only got a couple things that weren't necessary items. But it did feel good to buy them. One was a canopy for my canopy bed. That's so girly, lol. But it makes me happy, because I've been trying to get a friggin canopy for the bed since I got the bed like 2 years ago or something like that. The one I wanted was finally on sale for like $50, so I jumped on it today while I was able before we didn't have the $ yet again. So yeah, nothing too exciting around these parts... Next on the agenda... find a damn Zoro costume for Ian... hopefully the Party City store in Burlington has one... they did last year. If not, he's shit out of luck and will be picking a different costume, cuz I'm done running all over hell.

Current Mood: content
Current Music: Frank Sinatra

Hmmmm

Well, since Steve left, Kelly, Ian's father has been spending a lot more time visiting. Not sure if it's because Steve left, or if it's because he and his girlfriend of 5 years broke up. She didn't much like him coming around because of our history. Ian's missed his brother Jason (Kelly's 2nd child) like crazy and always loves spending time with him. He gets all crazy excited when he hears that he gets to spend some time with him. He's always asking to go down there and visit. Money is so tight that we usually don't have the gas money to take him to/from snohomish where they were living. Kelly lives in Lynnwood now and Jason is living with Kelly's parents until he can get a place that's better to have the kids at. The place he is now is a bunch of partying bachelors, not really a place for kids.

Stupid Dog!

STUPID, STUPID DOG! Okay, so my dad has me buy a bunch of cookies for right after the funeral yesterday. We had a ton left over. You know, the kind you get at the bakery that come in the plastic shell containers. Got 3 flavors, chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin and snickerdoodle. Well, I left them sitting in grocery bags on the kitchen floor last night instead of putting them on the counter (wtf was I thinking?!) and the dog managed to open one package, and eat 21 large snickerdoodle cookies. Yes, that's right 21 of them. I hope she gets sick, lol. She left crumbs all over the floor in front of her food dish... and 3 cookies in the package. Dumb dog.

Funerals Kinda Suck...

So the funeral for my grandma was yesterday. We had her cremated and "buried" next to my grandpa Al. about 15 years ago they bought little "plots" next to each other at a crematorium cemetary called Greenacres. Ha ha ha grandma... You guys are soooooooo funny, lol... Every one of us had the freaking song in our heads as we pulled into the parking lot. The boys all went, and Alex brought joy to the ceremony. Had to remove him to the foyer at one point because he got a little loud. Skye asked quite loudly during the service "why are all those old people here?" I told him to be quiet and I'd tell him later. He was feeling like a punk and wouldn't shut his yap. The boys were all dressed up in slacks, button down shirts and ties and everyone thought they were soooooo cute (and they were). So we made it through the funeral with just a few tears (as my children preoccupied me). Grandma left us with a huge mess of stuff to sort through, and I vow not to do the same to my kids... We have no idea about a will and my poor dad is at his wits end. He had to use almost his entire retirement savings to pay for the funeral. Mental note to self, start saving $ for my funeral now, holy crap... I'm just glad the funeral is over with and we all can go on and start the healing process now...

How Many Times...

do I need to stick a fork in the wall socket and shock myself before I learn that certain actions in life should not be taken? Really... I often wonder about my own intelligence when it comes to this matter.... I need a freaking vacation from life and emotions. Where's my plane ticket to Colorado?

WTF...

I'm not exactly a fan of our current president, but wtf is all I can say about this one... I mean for christsake he IS our president. NJ Teacher In trouble over Presidential Photo. Makes ya really wonder about people today...

Just Another Monday

So, here we are back at Monday again. I hate mondays really... It's the most pain in the ass day of the week. The kids have early release every monday (they did this to reduce teacher inservice days). So not only do they get out early, but Skye has to be there early. Totally screws up my whole day of doing nothing but housework and running errands. I have to remind myself repeatedly that it's monday and I have to leave early. argh.

So I had a shit couple days before my weekend. Which surprisingly was a good one and fairly relaxing considering. Found out friday night from the wife of one of Steve's buddies that they are being extended in Afghanistan for an extra couple months and now won't be home until February sometime. Weee. fuckers... I gave in and told him about the guitar I'm planning on getting him because I wanted him to pick which color. Red and White.... good thing I said something, because I would have gotten black/white instead... threw me a curve ball there. Finally got my dig cam on Friday... there's a small wooohooo! for me. I'm excited. Got some good pics of the kids and a neat one of the foggy playground from my back patio. New toys are good... anyhow... ho hum... better go get my lazy ass dressed so I can take Skye to school...

Sad but not...

Well, grandma passed on at about 12:05pm today. I'm sad, because I will miss her terribly, but not, because she's no longer in pain and hopefully in a better place.

What a way to start a new month...

So went to the hospital last night to visit grandma... Doesn't look good. She'd gone in with an DNR then changed her mind and told them if anything happens to make all efforts. So we're keeping her on the life support in hopes she makes an about face. The dr's aren't sure exactly what happened but speculate that she has some sort of infection caused by her weakened immune system from the chemo and her body is fighting it. She'd gone into respiratory arrested and coded. As of last night when we were all there, she was intubated, part of her heart wasn't beating and her kidneys weren't functioning. so many tubes wires and machines... no one should have to see a loved one like that... My sister couldn't even go to the hospital... She just couldn't bear to see her like that. I almost wish I hadn't either... anyhow... enough of this depressing shit....