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Thursday, April 20, 2006
STRANGE? No doubt!!!
Got this meme from Sheri and thought it would be a good thing to leave you all with...I leave for vacation on Sunday...YIPPEE FOR ME!!!
Anyway...here goes...6 STRANGE things about ME.
1. I can NOT leave my house in the morning without making my bed. The rest of the house can be a disaster but my bed MUST be made. This is kinda strange since I don't think I made my bed more then a dozen times all thru my teen age years. haha.
2. I talk so fast that people look at me funny...Yup...it's true. This is quite an issue since a good part of my day is spent on the phone...being NICE. I have to make a concious effort to slooooowwww dooowwwwnnn when I answer the phone, I've been known to trip over my tongue more then once in any given conversation. Unfortunately I have passed this trait on to my baby girl. Why is it that the bad things are always what get passed on?
3. I stare at the tv, sometimes for hours, and have NO idea what I'm watching. If hubby askes me "what'd they say" I truely can not tell him because NOTHING has registered.
4. I can get completely lost in a good book. I 'become' the story, I even start reading (in my head of course) in whatever dialect the book is in. I can NOT put down a good book until I'm finished, I've been known to stay up all night reading. Hubby laughs at me and says..."You know the good thing about a book is that even IF you put it down...the story will still be there!"...isn't he funny?
5. I hate to talk on the phone...remember this is how I make a living!
6. I am willing to listen to the problems of ANYONE...really ANYONE...even people that I don't know will tell me their life story, I must just look or sound like I CARE. Total strangers who call the office will tell me all about their recent divorce...or the problem that they have with their kid...or that their spouse has cheated on them....GUESS WHAT PEOPLE? If I don't know you (these people I'll listen too all day)..I really do NOT care about your problems. Maybe this makes me a bad person...but I can live with that.
Ok...soooo looking back at this list maybe I'm not all that STRANGE...hmmmmmm...or maybe I'm just blocking the really strange stuff.
As I mentioned at the beginning of this post I'll be leaving for vacation. We leave the 23 and will be back on the 30th. Royal Carribean Cruise with hubby and baby girl. I'm very excited. Will touch base when I get back.
Sunday, April 16, 2006
Happy Easter
Happy Easter to EVERYONE! Spring is in the air (along with the raindrops).
Kids are still sleeping, I miss the days when they were so excited to get up and see what the Easter Bunny brought them that they'd be up before the Sun was. Holidays just aren't the same when your kids start to grow up. Oh Well...They'll be happy when then FINALLY do get their butttttts out of bed. Hubby and I have been up for hours and already finshed off a pot of coffee...haha.
Headed to sister's house around 11 for dinner at 1. Family gatherings are always a bit tense but at least the kids will all be around to lighten the mood a bit. Still planning on talking to sister about baby girl, hope it all goes well. It's raining here right now, I hope it stops long enough to fit in a walk. Sister and I talk better while we walk...we trip alot...lol... but the more we talk the faster we walk so it ends up being a really good workout.
That's it for this AM...hope you all have a fun and relaxing day.
Thursday, April 13, 2006
A Little BUMP In The Road
My sister and I are co-parenting my baby girl...now I know what it must be like in a divoced family...we have very different parenting techniques. She's a RULES person and I'm not.
I'm probably guilty of spoiling my kids too much but I believe that kids should be happy as often as possible. Life will kick them in the gut soon enough and responsibilites will weigh on them for the rest of their lives. Not that I don't think my kids should have responibilities, they've always had those, they've always worked and had chores (minimal ones). The older they got and the more of a 'life' of their own they developed the less I expected of them at home. I always put a ball game above the laundry. A smiling face from one of the kids means more to me then clean dishes, laundry, dusting, ect.
Baby girl came for a visit tonite and she was just so frustrated with her Aunt. Some of her complaints are valid and some were just frustration and I think that she knows the difference. Her biggest complaint is her 9 o'clock curfew. She thinks, and I agree, that at her age she should be allowed to be out, or have company in, until at least 10, as long as her grades are good. My sisters problem is that she doesn't sleep until baby girl is in the house. I never fell asleep until she was home either, however I was always willing to sacrafice an hours sleep if necessary. If she decides to play basketball, there will be many nights that she's not home until way after 9. Sister is trying to apply the same rules to baby girl as she does to her daugher, the trouble being that my niece is only 14.
I was trying to stay out of things as much as possible but after seeing the frustration on baby girls face tonite I guess that I'm going to have a chat with my sister. I REFUSE to let this co-parenting stuff come between us. I'm pretty sure that we can come to some compromises that all parties involved can live with.
Baby girl is so happy with everything in her life, except for her living arrangements, I think that some of it is just her being homesick. It still hasn't been very long and nobody has adjusted completely yet...maybe we never will. I told her that she needed to really think about things...weigh the pros and cons...remember why she made this move to begin with and decide if she's willing to 'give a little'. I hope that she takes some time to do just that.
She'll be home for the next two weeks...I'm not sure if that will make things better or worse.
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Utopia
The Perfect week end! Started out with my baby girl and her boyfriend showing up at 6, followed by my 'good' sister and her family at 6:30. We all went to the schools production of Cinderella, it wasn't terrific, but was certainly worth the $5 bucks it cost for admission. After the play we went back to my house for a very STRESS FREE chat, very light and funny with nothing to bring you down. Sis and fam left and I relaxed and watched a movie with the kids.
Saturday started with a trip to Curves with my 'lady' friends with more lighthearted conversation and several REAL belly laughs. When we got home I got a Pedicure...yippee for me...My tootsies look B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L. Waited for the kids to get up and dressed and then we headed for Bangor to see a movie. We dropped boyfriend off at home so he could do some stuff for his dad. I was very happy to see that baby girls attitude stayed bright and sunny even when boyfriend wasn't attached to her hip. She was bubbly even...telling me all sorts of things that I'd missed out on while she'd been at my sisters. We met the big guy for dinner and he was even had a bright sunny attitude. We all sat at dinner chatting it up while the kids tried to embarrass their father...One conversatoin went sort of like this.
Big Guy..."I went down to the frat last night"
Baby Girl..."Did you have a good time"
Big guy..."yeah it was kewl"
Baby Girl..."Did you get shitfaced"
Big guy..."had a few"
Baby Girl..."Did ya get laid"
Big guy....hahahaha...Look at dads face!
Hubby poo had to pick his jaw up off the table...Baby Girl was VERY pleased with herself for causing the shocked look on her dad's face...She just LOVES to shock him! By the way...Big guy NEVER did answer that question.
We all went to the movies after and saw Benchwarmers...It was a riot, all of us laughed our asses off...well not literally, I checked and mine ass, unfortunately, is STILL there!!!! Dropped big guy off at campus and settled in for the 90 minute ride home...it was great.
Baby girl left a bit ago to head back to Dexter. This whole thing is working out better then I'd expected. She is doing terrific and whenever she is Here with us she is HAPPY! AND she is on HIGH HONORS...that would be STRAIGHT A's. I am very proud of her and more importantly SHE is proud of herself. LIFE IS GOOD!!!!
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Mother Nature
I Never realized before what a CRUEL BITCH 'Mother Nature" really was.  This is what I got up to this morning, April 5. It's Pretty....IN JANUARY...It really really really sucks in April. Over the week-end we had bright sunshine and temps in the 60's. WTF is going on in the world. I just took care of the winter coats and was very close to packing up all of my fleece and sweaters. We even talked about taking the studded tires of baby girls car...HOW STUPID CAN WE BE? I really should have known better then to get my hopes up...I am SOOOOO very ready for summer!
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Catching UP
I know it's been a while since my last post...I've been having a hard time thinking of what to say...and I've been busier then usual. Nothing exciting has been happening around here but I'll give you all a quick overview anyway...I know that you are ALL sitting right on the edge of your seats waiting to hear what goes on in my life.....lol
I joined CURVES with 3 other women from town, we have to drive 45 minutes each way to get there but we've been having a great time. The workout is fun and different but what I really enjoy are the trips...It is so much fun just gabbing with these women, one of them has been my friend for a long, the other two I've known forever but never really been friends with so it's been alot of fun getting to know them. I measure on the 9th and I'm really excited to see the results. Somedays it feels like I get a better workout from the laughing then the GYM...
My kids...
Baby girl is HAPPY. She loves her classes, her teachers, all her new friends...she says the only bad thing is that she can't live at home (soooo sweet). She also has a new boyfriend, he is a real sweetheart and they seem very happy together.
Big guy is doing much better with his grades....he is gearing up for finals and has to start thinking about classes for next year...he's contemplating changing majors but hasn't decided yet. He is also looking for an apartment in Bangor so he can move off campus...he may NOT come home for the summer....YIKES.
Hubby is staying busy, as usual, still plays poker with the guys on Thursdays and now is getting addicted to WoW...just like his son.
Hubby and I went to the Lucern Inn for the week-end with a couple of our friends, we had a very good time. It was nice getting away for a while....with just adults....It was very relaxing.
Vacation is coming soon...!!!
That's it for now....Have a lovely week.
OH YEAH THE SUN IS SHINING!!!!!!!
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