My Single Mom Life

I ever tell you that?
Well I do. I just love it so much I wish I could do every single chore twice all the time. /sarcasm.

So the driveway is now cleaned and the lawn all mowed and things are really shaping up for Saturday.

I had a good relaxing day until I had to do a chore again but hey, what can you do ya know?

For dinner, I took 3 whole chicken breasts, lifted up the skin and stuffed them with stove top mixed with cheese and baked them for 45 minutes and had green beans as a side.
They were so yummy.

Now I'm just kicking back and trying to relax for the night.
We have the boys room to do tomorrow.
Eeek!
I need as much rest as possible for that.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 7:40 PM | Permalink | Comments (5)

Heretik says it's blog comment week so uh, leave me a comment.
I promise you that after I get a little rest, I will do the same. Need to throw this hip down for a bit.

I used some magic crazy soap (Tiffany!) and it worked. Ha! A .79 cent bar of soap actually got a 5 year old stain out of my carpet. Holy shit.
Need to go back to Big Lots and buy all that they have...lol

So what does that have to do with blog comment week? Absolutely nothing.

Posted by Kat at 1:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (16)

Terri Schiavo passes away at age 41.
Terri is finally at peace and this entire saga that has captured the world, is over.

It is a sad thing but at the same time, this is what she wanted and I feel that she can finally rest after all these long years of being trapped in a shell of her former self.

Now all the gawkers from all over the country playing horns and drums and juggling (!) can go back from where they came and find a new cause to skip work for.

Posted by Kat at 11:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (11)

Remind me to never do that again ok?
If I let a kid sleep over, I expect his mother to answer her phones when I call because the kid can't breath due to pollen and cats. The kid couldn't breath and his mother never answered her phones.
I will never do that again.
Gah.

Off to get his glasses fixed.
Be back later.

Posted by Kat at 8:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

and his mom beads jewelry too so she sent over with him a whole bag of beautiful glass beads!
Woo hoo!
Now if I just had an idea of what to make with them.
*sigh*

Posted by Kat at 8:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Laid down on the couch and tried to rest.
Sebastian.
In.
Out.
In.
Got bike.
Out.
In with bike.
Back out.
Next person in.
Out.
In.
Out.
It was 5pm by that time so I gave up.

I'm feeling ok but very restless. (Could be because I got no rest that I needed!)

I need to make some more jewelry pieces but I can't find the motivation.
I need to see something cool and copy it with my own flair.
I need some inspiration. Yeah, that's the word.
Someone inspire me.

I swept and washed the driveway so it looks decent for Saturday. I want to make some good money from all this stuff and I want it gone so I'm pricing at low bargain prices so that it all eaves and I still make money.
I went and got a bunch of ones and some quarters and some dimes and stuff so I can make change.
Need to get some price dot stickers and price all this stuff.

I guess that's all.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 6:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Went to docs, same old same old but they are going to re-fax everything to U of Miami again and hopefully they will get it this time.
Hungry.
Cleaned out 29 fucking spam comments.
Need to pee.
Sebastian went with me and got some DVDs at the library. I grabbed the Hours because I hadn't seen it yet.
Saw and used the very new bus depot that they built. Very nice but for some odd reason, the mens bathroom is locked up. Only the womens one so Sebastian had to use that one and some guy asked me to check if anyone was inside cuz he really needed to go.
They should fix that...lol

Have some more cleaning to do and stuff but I'll get to it later on.
Need rest first.

Posted by Kat at 1:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (5)

I couldn't sleep last night, it was late, around 1:30 am even though I knew I had to get up and take a shower and get ready for my docs appointment.
I grabbed my walkman and hit play on the mp3 disc I had in there.
It skipped and whirred and made such a racket, i contemplated getting up and changing the batteries.
Then it stopped.
It began to play a song I had thrown on there but never listened to. I burned the disc and set the whole thing aside.
It played extraordinary machine by Fiona Apple.
She had a bunch of mp3s from her new cd up on her site about a month ago because of some big dispute with her label.
So I grabbed them burned them and planned to listen to them later.
The sound, the lyrics just were so right for me in that moment.
Funny how a song playing on a walkman out of luck is just what I was thinking and feeling and being.

I give to you today, Extraordinary Machine
Don't be a dick, always right click.
Grab it now because when I get home I'm pulling it down.
Lyrics are in the extended entry and look, look how they fit me...lol
No really, they do.

I certainly haven't been shopping for any new shoes
And I certainly haven't been spreading myself around
I still only travel by foot and by foot it's a slow climb
But I'm good at being uncomfortable so I can't stop changing all the time

I noticed that my opponent is always on the go
And won't go slow so as not to focus and I notice
He'll hitch a ride with any guide as long as they go fast from whence he came
But he's no good at being uncomfortable so he can't stop staying exactly the same

If there was a better way to go then it would find me
I can't help it the road just rolls out behind me
Be kind to me or treat me mean
I make the most of it I'm an extraordinary machine

I seem to you to seek a new disaster every day
You deem me due to clean my view and be at peace and lay
I mean to prove I mean to move in my own way
And say I've been getting along for long before you came into the play

I am the baby of the family
It happens so everybody cares
And wears the sheeps clothes while they chaperone
Furious you're looking down your nose at me while you appease
Courteous to try and help but let me set your mind at ease

If there was a better way to go then it would find me
I can't help it the road just rolls out behind me
Be kind to me or treat me mean
I make the most of it I'm an extraordinary machine

Do I so worry you?
You need to hurry to my side? Its very kind
But it's to no avail
I don't want the veil or flowers
No everything will be just fine

If there was a better way to go then it would find me
I can't help it the road just rolls out behind me
Be kind to me or treat me mean
I make the most of it I'm an extraordinary machine

Posted by Kat at 8:04 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

For some weird reason he won't explain, Mark is making everyone sign in to use the bathroom.

Posted by Kat at 10:47 PM | Permalink | Comments (6)

I even baked a cake.
Yeah. Kat's back and she has a goal and she is on a roll and things are gonna be good baby no mater how much things may try to slow me down.
Ha!
Mommy's great, uh uh, cuz she makes us chocolate cake.
Later.

Posted by Kat at 8:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Holy crap!
I have so many useful and in awesome shape household items it's gonna rock!
I have a tv, an N64, pots, pans, dishes, fondue thingamabobby, an iron and board, pictures, books, movies, jewelry and so forth. Holy shit baby. I had a lotta unused stuff and! I haven't even started on the boys room yet! Woot!
Not to mention all the knick knacks and glass ware and candle holders and stuff like that. Oooh baby, the neighbors are gonna think I'm moving...lmao
Weee!
This is gonna be so much fun. :)
Wanna come down and buy my crap?...lol
Back to the cleaning grind.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 5:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (6)

I'm cleaning out closets and shelves and under sinks to find crap to sell.
I have a huge pile of stuff to sell and I still have more that I haven't even gone through yet.

Mark treated he and I to lunch and then I took a little rest on the couch while passions was on and in a few minutes, I'm gonna get back to cleaning and sorting stuff.

It really is beautiful out there today though. Such a shame to be stuck in the house all day.
Later.

Posted by Kat at 2:14 PM | Permalink | Comments (5)

My plans were to go to the eye docs and get his glasses fixed. Didn't get to do it yesterday.
Go to wal*mart and let the boys spend their GCs and get Marks some new shoes.
But, Big George is coming around 11 or so and now Sebastian is going with my sis to work all day to play with one of the kids she watches.
So I guess today will be my super cleaning day. Go through everything and put away winter coats etc etc.

I have my doc appt. tomorrow at 10;30 and that usually gets me back home around 2 or 3 because of the bus system and crap so now everything I was going to do today, has to be done Thursday.
Damn.

Hope you all have a good one.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 8:08 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I am not anyones savior.
I am not anyones therapist.
I am not a secretary.
I am not a person to be fucked around with.
I am not going to take kindly to lies.
I am not going to bullshit anyone.
I am not going to coddle anyone.
I am not going to make it easy when it's something someone can do for themselves.
I am not a someone that can be trampled on.
I am not someone that anyone can treat like shit.
I am not going to accept rude behavior.
I am not ok with being used.
I am not going to let anything be taken from me without a fight.

I am a good friend.
I am a good listener.
I am going to stand by someone when they really need me.
I am helpful.
I am kind.
I am giving.
I am worthy of love.
I am worthy of decent friendships.
I am honest.
I am blunt.
I am determined.
I am good mother.
I am strong.
I am passionate.

Posted by Kat at 6:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (7)

Needed things in a bad way and they had some sale stuff so I grabbed a few extras while I was there.
Not going babysitting after all.
Not feeling to well and I don't want to give it to the babies. so it's best I stay home.
Sis is cool with it. She'd rather me not watch them if I'm sick too.

Have cleaning to do and stuff today but mostly rest.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 10:50 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

it would be raining when I have things I need to leave the house to do.
Dammit.

Posted by Kat at 7:51 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I woke up at my usual time today, 5:30, up and ready to go back to bed...lol
But I can't. I have things to do today.
I need to go take a shower, run to Publix for a few items, come back here and do some general cleaning, go babysit for sis from 11 to 6 and then come home and make dinner and work on more stuff to sort through and shit like that.

Glad I looked at my calendar because I thought I had my doc appt. on Friday, it's Wednesday. Duh Kat.
So sit today, go to wal*mart tomorrow, docs Wednesday, cleaning and sorting the rest of the week for the yard sale Saturday.

Hope you all have good Monday.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 5:58 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

I cooked, we ate, they went off to play, I snoozed. Good day.
Nice quiet, uneventful day here just the way I like it. :)

Not much going on at all. Just hanging, surfing, stuff like that.
Tired.
Leftovers for a few days but the boys will probably have it gone by Tuesday with no school and all.
I'm gonna have empty cupboards by the end of the week...lol

At least they're happy.
have things to do this week around here.
Clean stuff out, hit wal*mart for a new pair of sneaks for Mark and let them spend their gift certs and general home time.
Gonna try and keep it low key this week. Veering to far from the schedule put me behind in everything I do.

Posted by Kat at 5:48 PM | Permalink | Comments (5)

The kids are awake, rummaging through candy.
Sometime over night, the power went off and it came on just as I was waking up.
Almost lost a fish. They were struggling there when I looked this morning. No air going into the water. Poor things.
Food is ok in the fridge though cuz overnight, no ones opening it letting all the cold air out.

Hope you all have a good day. I will probably be like one of the only bloggers around all day cuz normal people have things to do on holidays.
We don't celebrate it really. We do candy, I tried to get out of making the ham this year but they won't let me so that's about as far as we go.
No easter pictures, no services.
Heck, we'll probably stay in our jammies all day.

Have a good one.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 8:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (15)

The switch of accounts has been made.
You can now use both mysinglemomlife(AT)msn.com and mysinglemomlife(AT)gmail.com to send jewelery payments, text ad payments and blogad payments again.
And right now, if you buy a 1 month blogad, I'll give you 1 month free.

There will not be a donate button on the site anymore and if you did use the donate button in the last 24 hours, request a refund ASAP. And if you could, use my email address to let me know so that I can make sure your money is refunded.

It's just something I needed to do for my own peace of mind and the way things are around here, I just had to take care of business if you know what I mean.

Tomorrow while easter dinner that I never wanted to make cooks, I'm going to get cracking on some jewelery pieces that I have been meaning to do for a few weeks now but my home life has been very pre-occupied with home stuff and it came in the way of my business.

I need to go through the house this week and organize things for my yard sale with Tiffany next Saturday.
I have a 17" color tv with remote, toys, baseball cards (I have a box with something like 300 baseball cards in it. No clue who or what years. I don't like baseball. They were given to me.), pots, pans, appliances etc etc. All kinds of stuff I have been accumulating for a long time now. I hope to make a decent amount. Maybe like $100 or something I guess. I'll put it away and save it for when I need it to pay rent and bills and stuff if things get rough.
I can always cash in movies and cds at Boogie Woogie again too if/when I get desperate for bill paying cash.
I am going to go through the kids clothes and stuff that doesn't fit and is still in good shape will go on the sale too. I have an N64 with about 6-7 games all in perfect working order with controllers etc.
Lots of stuff to get rid of.
I also want to make a bunch of jewelery and set it out there to sell.

I have a plan dammit and this little speed bump is not going to get me down this time.
I just wish I had a definitive date so I could plan even better.
I hate flying by the seat of my pants but I hope to get an answer to that date question soon.

Posted by Kat at 9:08 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Tonight and for the next 4 weeks, ABC.com - Little House on the Prairie mini-series will be airing.
It's all new cast and stuff but hey, maybe we'll find out what the hell happened to the two littlest kids eh Shell?

Yeah, I'll probably be watching it.
Tv was simpler when I was a kid. Tv shows could be watched by the whole family and I dunno what it was about little house but it just made you feel at home.
Gonna grab a VHS tape maybe and tape the mini-series.
Feh. I dunno.
I'll decide 2 seconds before it starts.

Posted by Kat at 7:34 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Man, have I been in a funky fucked up way lately or what?
Things just were not, still mostly not ok.
Some things just did get resolved to a point and then a realization that a friendship is completely, utterly, over, came on me like a ton of bricks.
Finito.
That's ok. I knew it was over. I knew months ago it was over. I just didn't allow it to really settle in and affect me and I just did and part of me is sad and part of me is like WTF? How the hell did it come to this? Could I possibly be to blame for all of it and ya know what?
I'm not.
I do not and will not ever feel guilty for putting my kids above everyone else in my life.
My family is always the most important thing on my mind and no amount of money or time with anyone else could ever take the place of my boys.
Yes things are gonna get hard on me again in about 6 months. Really hard. Maybe by then I will finally be having my surgery and starting to recover so yeah, it's gonna be a bitch to have to start everything over and find a new roommate but at least now, I have a definitive answer to whether or not she was moving out. I can start planning for 6 months down the road.
I can start attempting to save money from jewelery sales and have a few yard sales and more babysitting etc until then.
It's gonna suck but I did what needed to be done and she is doing what she needs to do. This friendship has been over for months now and we have both just been sorta faking it. At least now we know where we stand, no more lies and no more attempts to make anyone feel better with stupid touchy feely crap so no one gets upset.
Honesty is always the best policy and that is all I have ever wanted from the people in my life.

Posted by Kat at 1:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (10)

I have a lot going on, a lot of unanswered questions and things up in the air and it is worrying me because I am a planner and I don't appreciate surprises at all.

Part of me knows that I need to just grab the bull by the horns and take total control of the situation and have it over with ASAP and the other part of me wants to just wait it out and see what happens but that tends to leave me screwed.

Another part of me wants to be mean and vindictive because I really, really hate being taken advantage of and I feel that I have been.
I hate giving and giving and trying so hard to do what is right and treat people how I want to be treated and then get walked on.

This is why I don't trust people. This is why I don't let people get close to me and care for people because when I do, I get walked on and used and taken advantage of and I am very unhappy about it all.

Sorry to be so vague but right now, I can't go into detail because I want to see how it all plays out. I want to see if I am lied to once again or if the truth will finally be uttered from this persons lips.

I am a bitch. I admit it right up front but that's the momma bear in me. Always looking out for and protecting her kiddos and that is what I did. I did what any momma would have done in the same situation.
But I am an honest bitch. This is how I feel, this is what I see happening, this is what needs to be done to rectify this and make it work.
And I felt that things were good and settled and worked out and I know I am being lied to right now. I know it. So I confronted it and am now waiting to see how it goes. Will another lie be handed to me with a fake smile and oh, I love you bullshit? Or will they have the balls to stand up and say the truth of the situation.
I'm done giving. I'm done caring. I'm done with all of it.
I just want a straight, honest answer.

Posted by Kat at 9:05 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Please do not send any paypal payments to mysinglemomlife(AT)msn.com or my gmail account for the time being for jewelry orders while a new account is being created.
I will let you know as soon as possible when the new account is ready to go.
The donation buttons are being removed tonight as well.
Do not use them and delete that address from your paypal accounts please.
That address is hydroki(AT)hotmail.com
Remove it ASAP please.

Things are changing around here and I am doing what I need to to protect the integrity of my payments and my business.

Thank you very much for your time and I am sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you.

Posted by Kat at 12:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

You Are 50% Normal (Somewhat Normal)

While some of your behavior is quite normal... Other things you do are downright strange You've got a little of your freak going on But you mostly keep your weirdness to yourself

Very very tired but I'm going off to babysit for a few hours tonight so sis can go out.

Nothing majorly exciting here at all.

Local news.
Man arrested for putting a bounty of Micheal Schiavos and a judges head.
Can't find a link to that story but it was on the news.
That is so stinking ridiculous I could scream.
Aren't these people on the side of life???
Yeah, let's shoot and kill her husband so she can live because we are pro-life at any cost.
Dumb asses.
And the parents who brought their kids to the hospice to bring her water and allow their kids to get arrested.
How sick are those parents?
Nice. Just nice shit happening in that case today huh?
Crazy crap.

Later days.

Posted by Kat at 6:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (5)

I'm trying to find good things about teenage boys being home for a week and a half. I love them dearly, but man oh man, just 3 hours into the break yesterday, they were driving me up the wall with fighting.

Reason #1.
They are still sleeping.

Posted by Kat at 8:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (7)

I took a little rest and then goofed off on line and then the boys and I went to the store for the easter ham and other things.
Came back, made dinner and now I'm just gonna chill.

Mikey is here tonight and the boys are watching stuff on ifilm.com and laughing like crazy.
They have only been on spring break since 2pm and I'm already ready to kill them all..lol

Have a great night.
Later days.

P.S. Why is blogrolling ping working for some of you and not me at all all day long?
I can't ping dammit! I even tried manually and get some database error and it doesn't seem to be breaking news either. Weird.

Posted by Kat at 7:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBacks (1)

DCF can't just take custody but parents still won't give up.
This is now the fifth time the US supreme court has refused to hear the case or order her tube put back in. They have rejected the appeal.
They are running out of options and I just have to wonder how many judges it's gonna take to make them see they can't do this.
And I'm hoping that Jeb won't stick his nose in again and try to over ride more judges orders.
This needs to stop.
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Having a better day. Actually doing some cleaning. Need to vac later, ex-roommate is still sleeping so I'll wait.
Need to take a shower, eat and be ready to go to the eye docs.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 11:27 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Such clever titles lately eh?

The kids are off to their last day of school before spring break starts tomorrow.
Report cards come home today and then the fun/boring/fighting/eating me out of house and home begins.

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About my blog, for those of you coming here just to fuel your own fires about me, this is mine.
I own it. I paid for the domain, I pay for the hosting. It's all mine and what I want to write here is my decision.
To base your sole opinion of me on one issue and one issue alone is so silly.
To come here and read my thoughts is entirely up to you but you have zero rights here. This is mine.
You can get mad about what I write, you can snoop around looking for stuff to make yourself feel better, heck you can even try to log into my site and trash it if you feel like it, if it makes you feel better.
The great thing about my site is it logs ips.
I know certain ips, like mine and over the course of the last few years that I have been doing this, I have come to recognize certain ips as ones who consistently try to log in.
A new one made an attempt Tuesday night.
Twice.
I am watching it and comparing it with other ips from other sources and I'm just going to warn you, if you try it again and I match it with a known ip, there will be hell to pay.
I have been civil, I have been kind, I have not been rude or disrespectful and quite frankly, I'm sick of your shit.
I'm beginning to tire of your endless feelings of superiority.
I will not be bullied, I will not back down on my views. I hold my opinions close to me just as you do but I would never go to the lengths that you have chosen to go to, to make yourself feel better.
Tampering with someones website can be tricky.
If I catch you, I will do whatever I can to make you learn that this shit isn't gonna fly, isn't acceptable and if I find out you can be punished for it, such as law breaking of some sort, I will nail your ass to the wall.
Like me, hate me, whatever. Tamper with my site or my life and you will find out just what a bitch I can be.

The guilty person knows who they are and knows that this is directed at them. Those of you who are reading this and don't know what the fuck I'm talking about, don't worry about it, it's obviously not you.
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I have house cleaning to do today. I feel like doing it finally and other things I should be doing but didn't want to and then after school, hopefully go get Sebastians frames.
I'm hoping my back will cooperate. So far, it's not looking that way but I'm gonna try like hell to do it today. If it means walk ten paces and stop, then so be it.

Does this mean I'm out of my funk completely?
I don't know, but today I feel like doing stuff so I'm gonna try.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 7:06 AM | Permalink | Comments (7)

Got together with friends, talked, ate pizza, played with kiddos.
Good day.
I'm tired now and just want to sit here for awhile and relax.
Hope you all had a good one.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 8:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

It figures.
My plans to walk down to the eye doctor have been thwarted by weather.
It's about 8-9 city block from here, we've walked it before, it hurts but I can do it, but it's raining and going to rain most of the day I guess.
Tornado watches in parts of the state today.
Yippee fucking skippy.
I'm just gonna have to hope they are open Friday. It's like good Friday right? Some places are closed that day so I'll have to call them and find out.
I'm still going to go out with the gals this afternoon.
I get to meet Laura and her 3 kiddos. They are gorgeous in their pictures and just adorable from what I hear so it will be fun.

I'm fine guys, really. Just thinking about a lot of things.
You know how some bloggers all live in the same city and hang out all the time? I don't have that option here. Most of the Florida bloggers live far north of me and no car, it sucks. Can't meet anybody and my friend department has seriously been lacking for a long time.
This Florida moms message board has been a very good thing. I have met people who live close to me and want to have get togethers.
And it's a good thing but it has made me realize just how lonely and isolated I am. I dealt with it before. I just handled it by being able to at least talk to people on line and stuff but knowing that, or even feeling like I can go out even if it's not for long, has been an eye opener.

Most of my RL friends left me after I had to quit working and hanging out till all hours like I used to do. I would go anywhere, do anything. I had money to pay for sitters and stuff so I could have a life. And then when my situation changed, people left me and I do understand that. I wouldn't want to have to walk slow or not go clubbing because 1 person in the group couldn't. I would hate that. I so totally understand.
This isn't just hard on me, it's hard on people around me and I do understand.

I guess I'm just finding that there are people who like you and accept you as you are and not what you can do and it's been hitting me like a ton of bricks. I understand but man, it really hurt to have people just ditch me because I was no longer happy, fun, crazy party girl Kat anymore.
I'm still happy and fun but all the crazy stuff I did had to go and to suddenly realize it wasn't me they liked but what I did that they liked.
And yes, I did isolate myself. I was down and feeling bad but trying to remain who I was. It just didn't work anymore. When you lose something, you lose other things that went with it.

I still love my blog. I still love having a place to vent and write silly stupid day to day stuff even if no one likes it and calls it boring but through this message board, I have been able to get part of what I lost back. People to hang out with. People who like me for me and understand that I can't go party and hang out until all hours. People who see me as a friend and not just what I can do for them.

I have been taken advantage of a lot because as much as I admit to being a bitch, I am generous and helpful to a fault. So much that people walk all over me and use me and never repay any of that kindness.
That's another thing that has been weighing on me. And I've put an end to a great deal of it recently.

So don't worry about me ok?
I'm just re-discovering things about myself that sooner or later would have had to be dealt with.
Now is as good a time as any.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 7:43 AM | Permalink | Comments (8)

I went and babysat until about 7pm and came home and collapsed basically, in my chair.
The kids ate and did homework and we talked about school issues and stuff.
Day to day stuff going on here.
Tomorrow morning I have to take Sebastian to get his glasses frames replaced. Some little pain the butt kid in the hood broke his frames and they are ready but I haven't been able to go down there yet since they called on Friday. So tomorrow the boys and I are going down in the morning, yup I gave them the day off. They are having parties tomorrow and Thursday so I can let them have it off and he needs his glasses fixed.

Then in the afternoon, I am heading to Bradenton with a friend to see another friend and hang out for a few hours.
Then I'm going to come home and hopefully feel like cleaning my house.
It's bothering me but I still don't feel like doing it.
I really am in my own head here and just sorta balled up inside.
Hard to explain.
It's not depression, just a lot of thoughts on a lot of things and everything is colliding with one another.
Sorta like thinking of one thing and then another pops in and then another etc etc all day and all night.
Just stuff.
I have papers to sign and phone calls to make and other day to say stuff.

I guess that's all.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 10:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

I need to do my floors. I need to vac and mop but I just can't get up and motivated.
I think I lost my cleaning mojo. :(
Seriously.
I like to clean. I do it everyday but for the last few days, since Friday actually, I haven't wanted to do any of it.
I did the laundry and the dishes but can't seem to do anything else.
This could be bad...lol
Let's hope it's just a phase.

I had to turn on the evil money sucker (the AC unit) this morning.
It was too hot in here even with the windows open and all the fans on.
This is about the time I turn it on every year, right around easter, but I try to put it off as long as possible because FPL is a bunch of evil bastards.
But it's comfy in here now. It's just right actually. Not hot, not cold, not humid and sticky.

Off to babysit at noon until about 6:30 or 7pm.
Both girls today so this will be fun.
I'm gonna leave the boys a note to come over when they get home from school and help me out.
Susan loves to play where as the baby has the sniffles and just wants to be cuddled so I'm gonna need some help.
Have a great day everyone.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 10:38 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Good morning.
I woke up to that song playing on the radio alarm. There are worse songs to wake up to I suppose.

I have some cleaning to do today and stuff and wait on phone calls etc.
Typical days.

I'm gonna be honest with you all.
I haven't felt like blogging. I just haven't had much to say here but I have been posting on a couple of forums I belong to because I just have issues I want and like to talk about that here, would get me more google hits from wackos than I care to mention.

One forum is really hard core debating. Hard core, factual, post your links to back up your shit type debating. Lots of fun and boy, you forget that source link, the mods practically crack your knuckles with a ruler.
The other forum is a little more laid back. No one posts links to their sources and half the time they don't post sources at all, just going on gut emotions all the time and while that too can be loads of fun, at times it is very boring because no one posts much.
So myself and a few others, started posting things to talk about. Some fluff posts, some debate posts, all over the board topics.

It got weird last night. Really weird and erratic and downright scary.
Like I said above, myself and others posted new threads on all kinds of topics but one single poster came at me with like a pitchfork.
Now she and I had had it out a few times. Something about me not respecting her life no matter how many times I said I did or tried to explain my views, I was always wrong no matter what. Period. You are the weakest link! Buh Bye type behavior.
This poster was gone from the forum for like 2 weeks or something.
During that 2 weeks, no one, not one single person said jack shit about any of my threads or my very strong opinions in the debate forums where very strong opinions are allowed. Not a single person.
But last night, whoah, last night was like watching someone spontaneous combust.
Every single thread that was started, even if it wasn't by me, was MY fault. I did it. I caused a mutinous uprising while she was gone.
I made people start new threads. I made them start threads at which said angry poster doesn't like. I made them express their views.
I didn't do anything like that.
I posted threads.
They posted threads.
They have brains of their own and they posted things that they wanted to talk about and debate over.
But nope. It's Kats fault.
Kat, the abrasive, cold, uncaring, un-compassionate, "extreme" liberal with mind powers to force other people to think for themselves.

I can be abrasive I guess.
My very blunt straight forward posting of the facts makes me abrasive and uncaring and un-compassionate. I don't get overly emotional.
I get passionate and state more facts with source links if there are any to back up my shit which apparently makes me colder than cold folks.
I don't type in CAPS because caps on message forums since like the beginnings of the Internet is considered YELLING isn't it? It's like an unspoken rule that when you type in caps, you are yelling.
I use italics and bold and to make my stuff emphasized. I don't yell.
I don't call people names.
I don't stray away from the issue at hand and get personal.
Last night, I had to get personal to make myself understood and in a debate forum where nothing personal was the OT, it should have never, ever come to that.

I was seriously considering leaving after that point because it was ridiculous what it came to last night. I mean outright ridiculous behavior.
But I IMed someone and was told not to go.
I will stay but damn, that shit has got to stop.
Personal attacks are so fucking childish man.
It's a debate forum for gods sakes.
Debate the issue not the debater, isn't that like another rule that everyone seems to know is just the unspoken rules of debating?
Good grief.
It was highly stressful let me tell ya.
Cuz as much as the pissed off person wanted to blame me for all of it, no one else said dick to me.
And a couple of people even thanked me for posting so much and being open during debates to others points of view which is the whole point of debating. To make yourself heard but also see the other persons points and learn something.

I'm not going to post new threads today as much as I'm itching to post the latest in the big case that I spoke of here over the last couple of days.
It was denied. Judge ruled in husbands favor. Again.
I'm going to post replies to other peoples threads and ignore this one poster because it is a constant 'thing' and it's just stupid.

So, I have some cleaning to do, some calls to make and wait for, some piddly stuff and some not so piddly stuff and go back to trying to freely speak my mind without breaking the TOS which I haven't done yet.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 6:02 AM | Permalink | Comments (10)

I have been lazy today.
I didn't do any of my cleaning at all.
I don't think I'm going to get a chance to do it tomorrow either. My house looks like hell and I just don't have the oomph needed to get up and go to it.

I did make dinner though so that's good.
I'm just not in the mood to do anything at all.
Tired, achy, bored, pissed off etc etc.

I guess that's all.
Just blah.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 6:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Babysat the baby all morning and now sis is taking her to her docs appointment.
I'm tired, I'm cranky, I smell like formula but it was a good morning.

There's supposed to be a huge storm headed our way this afternoon and evening so it's really hot and muggy out there.

Not much else going on right now. The boys are due home in about 30 minutes or so and then it's homework and chore time.
I have some to do too as I completely slacked off yesterday in my areas of the house.
My floors look like hell.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 1:32 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

This quote sums up my reasons for hating the Bush administration.
In case you didn't hear yet, Congress ok'd the bill to save Schiavos life.
The quote is by Rep. Jim Davis, D-Fla. He also said;
"Today, congressional leaders are trying to appoint Congress as a judge and jury."
They have basically said that our final wishes are not as important as what they want.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill. and others rejected the description of the brain-damaged woman as persisting in a "vegetative" state.

"She laughs, she cries and she smiles with those around her. She is aware of her surroundings and is responsive to them," he said. "This is a woman who deserves a chance at life and not a death sentence of starvation and dehydration."

This is coming from some guy in Washington who has never seen her in person or heard the testimony of her doctors. He has decided that the last 7 years of legal battles and court ordered decisions can be over written purely for political reasons.

I am absolutely sickened by this.
This is my problem this weekend.
This is why I just can't focus.
Congress has decided the courts and doctors and our final wishes mean nothing. That their way is the only way.

People, if you haven't already, get a living will and a DNR order if you don't already have one and want one.
I'm sure you're sick of this whole issue, I'm sure you're tired of hearing about this at every turn, well thanks to congress, you get to hear about it some more.

Posted by Kat at 5:48 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

I just haven't felt like being here lately. I just have nothing much to say. Nothing much is going on and I would hate to be accused of being as watching paint dry again by people who are drive by blogging assholes.

Mark went out with his Big today. Sebastian and I went and rented Cube Zero with our free rental ticket. Bought some groceries and walked back home.
We watched it. Very good movie. Psychological thriller type stuff. People trapped in a big cube maze with all kinds of horrible ways to die on their attempts to find a way out.

I took a nap, woke up made a taco pie and now here I am.
That's all that's been going on.
Boring I told ya.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 7:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (7)

My mind is flooded with all kinds of things but mostly the Schaivo case.
Michele said it best this morning.
That is how I feel.
That is what I cannot put into words myself.

Posted by Kat at 9:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (5)

Little House on the Prairie, everyone remember it?
Did you watch it?

Here's my question;
There was Charles, the dad, Carolyn, the mom, Mary, Laura, Carrie and baby Grace. They also adopted that boy Albert.

What happened to Carrie and Grace in the show when they all grew up?
Mary got married and had a school for the blind, Laura married Almonzo and became a teacher and didn't Albert become a farmer and woodworker like Charles?

What the hell happened to the other two kids? (Carrie and Grace)

Posted by Kat at 10:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (5)

at my sisters house and he's like out cold. Doesn't want to go, stay home and sleep. Grumble, snore.
ex-roommate was here so it's not like he was alone.
Mark and I leave and then we get this frantic phone call about 2 hours later. He's pissed! Screaming mad at Mark that we left him!
He hangs up.
I call him back. He doesn't even remember me trying to wake him up to go, doesn't remember himself saying that he just wanted to stay home and sleep. He's crying, blubbering, obviously still wiped out.
I tell him to come over there cuz sis isn't home yet. He gets there and looks like hell.
Bags under his eyes, pasty white skin. Just completely tuckered.
he falls on her couch and just stays there.

Now we are back home and he's back on the couch again.
All this hangover without the booze.
It's sad man. Kids these days just don't know how to stay up and party all night...lol
But when we dropped him off last night, the gym was as loud as an AC/DC concert. Holy crap was it loud in there. Just bouncing off the gym floors and bleachers, speakers and sub-woofers in every corner and mid-placed too. Damn. Their teacher went all out.
Speaking of his teacher, Mr. M is supposedly like 28.
Yuh, right.
Mr. M looks like a frigging 17 year old.
I had talked to him on the phone but never in person and last night he was wearing khaki baggy shorts, a yellow punk tee, choker shell necklaces, ratty baseball hat.
He looked like someones older brother, not the science teacher.
But then again, most science teachers are a little unconventional.
My middle school science teacher, Mr. Wilson, smoked dope in his class closet and let us dissect things just for fun.
He'd order buckets of pigs and frogs and all we'd have to do is say hey, Mr. Wilson, can I dissect another pig today? Yeah yeah kid, go ahead.
He was too busy in his closet.
He let us play with the bunson burners in dangerous ways too man.
One kid caught his shirt on fire and good thing for that required science shower in the corner of the class or poor wittle idiot who was waving it (burner) around would have gone up...lol

The babies were awesome today. Susan is such a riot. That girl cracks me up. She likes violent kid songs man.
Like this one.
5 little monkeys sitting in a tree, saying mr. alligator can't catch me. Here comes mr. alligator sly as he can be... SNAP! that monkey right outta that tree! You clap your hands in front of her face when you snap the monkey out of the tree for hand motions.
She makes the sign (language) for more...lol
And I do rock a bye baby the way the song goes.
I pretend to let her fall like when the cradle and baby come down...lol
I know, bad aunty but she just giggles and giggles and signs for more.
The baby just stares at me and smiles and snorts and grabs at my hair.
She actually tore a clump out today.
That's ok. I have too much hair anyway.

The light bulb on my fish tank blew out. I need a 15" inch light bulb. Good luck finding one. They don't make that size anymore! I need to call around to pet stores and see if anyone carries one and then earn some more money to get one.
Expensive damn pets...lol

Ok, I guess that's all.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 3:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Just got back from picking up Sebastian from his lock in/party.
He had a great time, stayed up all night, drank too much soda, lost his voice and he comes home and says he's not tired.
He's passed out on the couch...lol

I need to fold my laundry from yesterday and then get ready to go babysit for sis for a few hours.
I thought it was gonna be an all day thing but just a few hours, like 4 at the longest.
That's ok. We're all kinda tired anyway so we'll be able to come back home and be sloths...lol

That's really all that's going on around here. Life is good but kinda boring at times like today but everyone needs slow days.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 8:52 AM | Permalink | Comments (5)

Tiffany and her husband came down with their kiddos and took me downtown to drop off the paperwork, we went to Big Lots! I had never been there.
Oh god, never take a bargain hunter there...lol
Awesome prices man, awesome prices. I need to hit that place with like a hundred bucks. I could come out with a car load of stuff...lol

Then they took me out to Chinese and wouldn't let me pay. (thank you guys!) That was so awesome of them so after that, we went to a consignment store so Tiffany could get some new jeans and then we came back here I made dinner for all of us.

Then, their son Ian, barfed.
On my rug.
I'm not mad. Kids get sick. Kids barf and poop and track dirt and spill kool-aid. Barf is so much easier to clean up than kool-aid man. So much easier.
So they had to cut dinner short and take the little guys home.
We'll have to try again sometime.
I like hanging out with her. We are different but we get along great and it's so nice to have someone to talk to and do stuff with.

In local news items, Jessica Lunsford is dead. John Couey has admitted to abducting and taking her life. You can check tbo.com for breaking news.

Terry Schiavos feeding tube has been removed but we all know this isn't over yet. We all know that good ol' boy Jeb and others will fight hard to get it put back in.

Lots of news happening here today and I'm just getting caught up.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 6:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

I did not want to get up this morning.
So tired from rain and plunging and weather and just everything.

The kids are off to school and I need to take a shower and be ready to go. Tiffany and her hubby are gonna give me a ride so I don't have to walk and ride buses for half a day.

Sebastian has school lock in tonight. He will be coming home and eating dinner and taking his stuff back around 7:30 and then coming home around 8am tomorrow.
It'll just be me and Mark home tonight.
I have a free rental for movie gallery so maybe I'll go get us something to watch tonight. I'm so sick of repeats on tv.

In local news, the fight continues in the Schiavo case. It is supposed to be removed at 1pm today but the legislature is going to subpoena the people (health care workers) who are supposed to do that so that it can't be removed.
Aren't they over stepping their bounds? A court order is in place to remove it and they are going against a court order to prevent that.
Jeb is acting a little like Gov. George Wallace. Refusing to follow a court order and creating new laws to stop any court order that doesn't fit in with his views.
He says he's doing it because this is the will of the people of the state of Florida. But TBO.com did a survey and 58% of the people of this state say her tube should be removed, 32% say it shouldn't and the remaining people don't have an opinion either way.
How is that the will of the people of this state Jeb? More than half say to let her die with dignity. He and the state legislature have crossed the line with their faith based initiatives and stepping over families legal rights to which repeatedly has been said by judges who heard this case, that the husband provided clear and convincing evidence that this is what she wanted.

Don't like the way courts handle things in this state? Start a faith based initiative to get a new bill created that takes away the rights of everyone to save the life of one person who has been proved did not want to live this way.

It's a sad day here cuz any minute now, good ol' Jeb is gonna sign that bill and subpoena health care workers preventing them from doing their job so that the state can investigate this case again, and again, and again, dragging it through the court system for more and more time and what if another judge or even federal court upholds the rulings of the judges here that have already heard the case and they order the tube removed? Will Jeb and his band of merry right to lifers, create more new bills to over ride those rulings as well?
How far is this going to go?

So we sit and wait and wait and hope that they do the right thing and let her go. Terry died 15 years ago and nothing short of an act of a God can re-create her brain.

Later days.

Posted by Kat at 6:41 AM | Permalink | Comments (10)

Man, it sucks. Rained all day, still sprinkling.
Bah.

Babysat, made some cash, came home, took a shower, gonna make dinner soon.

Mom, got your box. Peanut butter eggs!! Woo hoo!!
The kids love all teh candy and thanks for the socks too. :)

Tired.
Must go out tomorrow to drop off stupid paperwork.
It better not rain.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 4:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

all frigging day.

Posted by Kat at 9:31 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

An Irishman who had a little to much to drink is driving home from the city one night and, of course, his car is weaving violently all over the road. A cop pulls him over.

"So," says the cop to the driver, "where have you been?"

"Why, I've been to the pub of course" slurs the drunk.

"Well," says the cop, "it looks like you've had quite a few to drink this evening".

"I did all right," the drunk says with a smile.

"Did you know," says the cop, standing straight and folding his arms across his chest, "that a few intersections back, your wife fell out of your car?"

"Oh, thank heavens," sighs the drunk. "For a minute there, I thought I'd gone deaf."

If I caught a leprechaun today, I'd catch the little bastard, steal his gold and demand 3 wishes.
1) Good health for me and all my family.
2)$1 million dollars. Don't want to be greedy now cuz too much wealth tends to turn people into idiots.
3)A home of my own paid in full with enough bedrooms and baths for all of us and rooms for guests to stay too.

Sebastian is off to a field trip today, Mark is off to school, and I'm off to babysit at some point.
Sis is taking the day off of work to have a mental health day sort of...lol
So I'm just gonna go over and babysit so she can go catch a movie and out to eat and maybe a little shopping.
It's been raining non-stop here since yesterday afternoon. This of course means you can't flush the toilet.
I forgot about the rain when I woke up this morning but quickly remembered as I flushed and had ice cold pee water overflow onto my toes.
So much fun at 5:30 in the morning.
So I killed the water to the tank so no one else does it today.
I refuse to clean up water all day long.
But the city says they are going to start installing the sewer lines sometime during 2006 so we have hope.
Hoping they'll install a sidewalk when they rip up the road for that too.
I keep writing them letters about the need for a sidewalk with all these kids who have to walk to school and stand on the side of the road to catch school buses and stuff. The near fatal car accidents etc etc.

Well, that's all from here this morning.
Later days.

P.S. I forgot say yesterday, thanks Lani for the beautiful handmade purse. I love it!
We did an craft exchange. I made her a necklace and she made me a purse.
I love doing that cuz I get cool things that other people make and I get to make some pretty things for people to wear.
Thanks again Lani. :)

Posted by Kat at 6:37 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Former caregiver charged with murdering Rilya Wilson

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Marks Big showed up about 10 minutes ago and took both my kids!
He is taking them to a movie and dinner and they won't be home until around 8pm.
Oh my god.
I can nap or watch a movie or run around the house naked.
I'll probably just watch a movie and sleep.
It was so sucky trying to find and scan all those papers today and I'm tired and there's a huge storm coming.
Tornado warnings are up on the screen all afternoon.
It's muggy as hell out there. It's like how it feels right before a hurricane. Super humid. It's like all the air is being sucked up away from the ground and then the storm hits.
It's been windy all day long. I love that though. At least with the wind, you get a breeze.

Have a good one, I'll be back around.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 2:40 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

I finally got in touch with the caseworker and she wants like copies of everything.
Bills, lease which I never had for this place anyway so I had to get a letter from the landlord, birth certs, ids, ss cards etc. Scan, copy, print, scan copy, print. bah.

I need a nap now...lol

Posted by Kat at 1:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tried calling employee one last time and got voice mail again. Left another message.
Called the supervisor who took all the info and sent a message to the employee. If I don't hear from the employee in 24 hours, to call them back and they will take care of it.
It's just screwed up.
It all started because one person didn't send proper forms. I told them they didn't send all the forms.
They said no big deal.
Everythings great! be happy Kat!
Then I get letter that everything is not great and given a time limit.
There was the problem. That person who didn't send all the forms. That was the beginning of all the problems right there.
And I knew it was going to be a problem.
Knew it. Gut rumbled when she said no big deal cuz whenever you hear no big deal you know it will be a big deal just a little while down the road.
Stupid people.

I have dishes to do and then to clean up the house.
Hope you guys are having a good day.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 9:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Why is it when I have things to do, I sleep badly?

Ok, so kids are up and getting showered and dressed, hopefully going to eat some breakfast, get all their stuff and go to school.
I need to get moving and throw some clothes on and go up to sisters for an hour and watch the kiddo for her while she does something.

I still got no return phone call from problem #1.
Today, we stop talking to the employees voice mail and call and ask for a fucking supervisor.
They need something from me. I have no idea what it is because the woman whose number I have been given consistently goes to voice mail and she doesn't return the calls.
I know I'm leaving messages right too.
I'm pressing # for further sending options and 1 to make it a fucking priority so she is not even bothering.
Over her head today baby. They gave me a time to get all kinds of paperwork back to them, the 21st, with no car, so it's an all day event. I am calling just to find out what the hell they need. The letter doesn't say. It just says get these items to us by the 21st. Um, you didn't check off any boxes you fucking nitwit!
So what am I supposed to bring with me? The entire contents of my file cabinet?!?
Return. The. Fucking. Call. Bitch.
yeah, I know. Kat, calm down.
I'd like to but she didn't check any boxes and now she's not returning her calls and I have no clue what the hell I'm supposed to do.
There is a sequence of events that could have taken place had she checked off any of those boxes. But without that, I'm left not knowing and on a time limit!
What if it's something I don't have and I have to like call Maine to get it? What if I like have to get Maine to fax me some recent CS paperwork or legal copies of the custody order? That takes time people! It's not something I can just snap my fingers and have. I have my copy of those papers. I don't have copies to hand out to various government offices. Not official state sealed ones anyway. i can photocopy them but they always want that raised seal on shit.
Damn.
Can you say stress?
Good.

Ok. I need to try and move these aching joints. It's gonna rain later today. I've become like my mom. I know when it's gonna rain cuz every joint in my body is killing me.

I have something else to say later on when I get back and find a better link for the story. I'm kinda pissed about Floridas new legislation calling for our rights to be stripped away in our own right to die cases. This new law would allow anybody to step in if we don't have written and extremely detailed directives on our wishes for life support.
Like we'd have to write out in detail every possible scenario out there to make sure our wishes are kept or any person, family, friend or right to life group(!) could take it to court and keep us alive.
Jeb Bush is expected to sign this Friday.
This is very bad folks. Very, very bad. It strips away my constitutional rights to die with dignity. Allowing strangers to stop my wishes is just so wrong I could scream.
Jebs lucky this is his last term cuz if he was running for gov again, I'd do everything I could to stop that from happening. I'd join every anti-bush protest, I'd email and call every single person in this state to stop him from doing more of this shit.

Posted by Kat at 5:51 AM | Permalink | Comments (6)

I went grocery shopping this morning. Came home, ate, napped, went to ON with the boys and took a shower cuz by god is it ever muggy out there. Christ, I was a big frizzy haired mess by the time we got back and now here I am at 4:30 something not knowing what happened to the time.
Oh well.
I am tired and achy. Too much walking and I'm just kinda crabby.
I have so many emails to deal with and I don't want to. *wah*
Oh well, time to get cracking before they over take my inbox and get out of control.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 4:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I hate it when there are professional days. Just hate it.
But at least they were very helpful at my sisters house.
We got that place looking great! The yard got mowed and raked and the house was clean and organized.
I cleaned and organized her fridge and freezer.
I love doing that.
I am all about likes being with likes.
I love getting paid to clean even more.
Yay!

Aunty Heather sent Mark a gift cert to Old Navy cuz the sizes got messed up when she sent them some clothes.
He was stoked to get the gift card. He wants to go today and get some new jeans and stuff. Like begged me to go after school. Will do.
This should be interesting though.
Marks first time buying his own clothes so to speak.
He gets to pick them out and try stuff on and it will be all his taste and style.
usually when we buy clothes, I find stuff, ask him will you wear this, he nods and that's the end of shopping.
He gets to shop.
I'm in for trouble aren't I?

I loath old navy though. Not cuz of their clothes, I kinda like their clothes but because I worked at our local one and let me tell you, I couldn't have hated my co-workers more.
Like certain things should just never be discussed in the workplace in my opinion. Like religion. I was asked what church I take my kids to by a supervisor.
I replied none.
Within hours, everyone at ON knew I was a heathen....lol
There were little gossip sessions between managers and employees about Kat the heathen.
All kinds of things were assumed about me because I said one word, none.
The situation got so bad that fellow employees started coming up to me and asking things such as; I hear you worship Satan. Is that true?
Of course it's not true you dimwitted followers.
And toward the end of my employment, I just stopped trying to defend myself and started answering back with; why yes, I slaughter chickens in a sacrificial manner on the big pentagram I have painted on my floor under my living room carpet.
Once a month I roll back the rug and kill something to appease Satan.
And then I'd walk away to finish my clothes hanging tasks and unload the truck and basically be a slave to people who judged me on one simple word.
So much shit was said about people behind peoples backs at that job by employees and managers.
The managers were actually by far the worst offenders.
I remember quite a few nasty things that were said about a gay male employee.
I got yelled at for telling people to stop talking shit about him.
I explained that his sexual orientation had nothing to do with how well he did his job which in my opinion was far better than anyone else who worked there. he came in, did whatever they told him, didn't stand around and gossip. Always busy but because he was gay, he was the talk of the break room and certain clothing rack gossip locations.
The kids section was a favorite area to talk shit about people.
On far ore than one occasion, I'd round the corner to see 2 managers and a bunch of employees gossiping about every single employee who wasn't present in that little session. I'd smile at them, shake my head and walk away.
My last day there was by far the worst. They talked shit about everybody.
I basically did whatever the hell I wanted to that day.
I was already hired at a new job, I didn't need to be there but because I had given them a day, I stuck to it.
I just did what I wanted which was hang some clothes, clean the floors, wait on people and interrupt the gossip sessions every chance I could with the most inane and stupid questions I could think of.
Every 10 minutes I came up with a new one and bugged the hell out of them.
Finally about 3 hours before I was supposed to clock out, I just walked up to all the little hen peckers and said I had completed everything on my schedule of to dos today and I was leaving. My jobs were finished and finished within ON standards. I had cleaned the restrooms and fitting rooms twice, swept all the floors twice and helped as many people as needed it because they couldn't find anymore employees anywhere. Gee, I wonder why? I said I was clocking out and if any of you ever see me again, keep your fucking mouthes shut. As I was no longer going to be under ON scrutiny, I wouldn't have to keep my mouth shut. And I wouldn't hold back.
Shopping there today should be so fun.
I can't wait to tell a few of them off if they start in on me.
And most of those people still work there today 4 years later.

Well, that was long and drawn out wasn't it?
I need to sit down and make out a grocery list and go grocery shopping.
Walk there, cab it back.
My back sucks but I can do it.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 6:22 AM | Permalink | Comments (11)

But very productive.
Cleaned my sisters house for extra money. Yee haw!!
But now I'm tired and wiped out.
I can't even more I'm so tired.

I still don't know what's going on with a few of my problems. No clue.
I made the necessary calls, letters, nada from either so I guess it's a wait and see but I will call that other one back tomorrow.
Must get taken care of.

The ringer is off tonight. I will not be answering calls for anyone.
I'm just so fed up with all kinds of shit I can hardly breathe.

So anyway, that was may day.
Hope you all had a better one.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 6:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

I didn't sleep very well. Tossed and turned a lot.
Need to get up and dressed here very soon so I can go babysit for sis.
Taking Sebastian with me.
Mikey came over last around 7pm which is fine, it was still early. I had the noise they were making stopped by 10:15.
Mark and Mikey are going to stay here and sleep like teens do and play video games like teens do.

Have a phone call I need to make from sisters house and the I'll probably have to go out tomorrow to drop off paperwork and stuff.
People are a pain in my ass and I'm quite upset about this one.
Not my mistake at all. Totally the offices fault.
Hate to be so cryptic but it's not something I feel comfortable talking about publicly. Just know that it's a huge pain in my ass and someone is going down for it.

Ok, need to answer emails and get dressed.
I'll take a shower when I get home tonight just in case the baby feels like barfing on my again.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 6:39 AM | Permalink | Comments (10)

My sis was headed to wal*mart so the boys and I went with her. She paid me today for the babysitting I am going to do tomorrow so I was able to get myself a pair of shorts. I have like 3 pairs of shorts but after not working for the last 2 1/2 years, I haven't had money to buy new ones and all my shorts had holes in them and my fave khaki shorts finally said enough is enough girl, time for new shorts. I bought a pair of cotton, like t-shirt material, shorts for $6.44. Great deal.
It's a beautiful 74 degrees here today and it was just so awesome out there. I have the windows open, the fans on and just feeling the day.
Here I am in shorts and this is what my home state of Maine looks like today.

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I don't miss that at all. That is is my sister in laws back porch or what is supposed to be a back porch.
She sent me this one too.

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How could I miss that when I'm sitting here in shorts and a t-shirt with my windows open?
That's insane snow levels man. Up to the windows. Don't. Miss. It.
Don't miss shoveling it. Don't miss looking at it. Don't miss how cold and damp it is. Don't miss the 10 layers of clothes required to go out in it or the salt on the roads. Don't miss the slush. Don't miss being trapped in my home for all those long winter months.
I complain about being trapped here because it hurts to walk so much but if I really needed to get out instead of going stir crazy, I can just go. I don't have to shovel anything to do it. I can just open the door and leave. Without a parka and snowshoes eh Shell? And last I heard, it was still snowing. Gah.

Ok, I have some comforters in the dryer and a load to go in.
Hope you all had a good weekend. No school tomorrow. Professional day. I'm stuck with them but at least I'll have some help tomorrow with the baby and stuff.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 5:47 PM | Permalink | Comments (6)

I'm just very restless today, things are eating at me.
So the boys asked to have their bunk beds taken apart so with their help, we did. I used to take them apart by myself and put them back together by myself all the time but now that they are taller and stronger, they did most of the lifting.

Just hanging out watching a movie now.
Star Wars attacks of the clones for like the millionth time.
The boys can watch this thing so many times without getting sick of it.
Me, I'd rather do a marathon of all of them then just this same one over and over...lol
They are so stoked about the new one coming out, me too. Can't wait to see it.

Ok, need to go dump fabric softener in and stuff.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 1:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Me? Oh, I'm tired and sore. Doesn't take much for me to end up stiff as a board anymore. One walk around a store and I'm toast for the next 24 hours.

Lats night after Tiffany and her husband left, I dug through some pictures and put them in the collage frame she gave me.
It looks really nice. I have some pictures of my gram and grampa holding me when I was a baby, some pictures of both my mom and dad holding me when I was a baby, some recent ones of my folks, my sister, the boys, Susan, my friend Shell. I need a picture of Skye to go in there. But I put a bunch of stuff in it and can change them out as I get newer ones and stuff.
Hung it up, looks nice.

I'm just piddling around here today. Not much to do, nowhere to go and stuff so today is my lazy day. Couch day baby.

Hope you all have a good one.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 10:05 AM | Permalink | Comments (6)

So we went to Burlington Coat Factory. Now me, being the literal type of person, never went into one of those cuz it says coats.
Who needs a coat in Florida?
Not me so I never went in...lol
That store is great!
Little more high priced than Wal*mart and Target for some stuff but their clearance kids clothes looked very reasonable.
I'll have to go back again when I have some money to spend.

Now we're home and Sebastian just got back from his movie night with his friend. He's eating some dinner cuz he didn't eat enough he said.

I'm gonna have Tiffany and her husband over for dinner sometime soon. I mean it. It's so nice to have friends who are couch potatoes like me.:D
They are hoping that Russell moves out of the other half of the duplex and I am too. They want to move there cuz it's way less expensive than where they live in Bradenton and let me tell ya, Bradenton is crappy. It's like you cross the town lines from SRQ to Bradenton and you immediately feel dirty. It just looks gross over there. And the building they live in is not so nice. People asking them for smokes all the time and stuff, smacking their kids around really hard. Just not a nice place to live.
Plus it'd be nice to have a friend right next door ya know? Someone to talk to who actually has time to hang out.
I'm so lonely...lol

It was nice to get out today even if just for a couple of hours. I spend so much time alone here.
Mark went with us and I got him a cheap little dragon type toy that he wanted. It was like $5.49. Cheap. And it made him happier than a pig in mud.

So anyway, have some emails to catch up on and boards to check into.
I'm hoping one of them is back up and running soon. It moved servers and I have some great new threads I want to start. Been sitting on these for a couple of days now..lol

Well that's all from here.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 8:46 PM | Permalink | Comments (8)

Good morning.
I awoke to the sounds of kids fighting. From their beds. Sebastian was telling Mark about a dream he had where everyone died. Mark thought he meant that he wanted him to die so Mark got pissy still half asleep and grabbed Sebastian by the hair and slammed his head into the railings on his headboard.
You'd have to see the setup of the room to understand how he was able to manage that. Then I heard screaming and cries and then more fighting and I finally just got the hell up because really, what's the point of laying there listening to them beat the tar out of each other so early in the morning.
I know brothers fight. That's what siblings do but I don't ever let it get past the first couple of blows.
I don't know if that's wrong or right and some people would say to let them duke it out but the noise makes me want to maim them.

Up doing laundry and stuff. Need to hit the store for smokes, juice, granola bars.
Probably going out with Tiffany to Burlington Coat Factory this afternoon.
Wow Kat, exciting!...lol
Well it is. See, I see that store every single time I go to Cattleman to pay the FPL bill. I sit directly across from it while I wait for the bus to bring me home. In the almost 8 years I've lived here, never stepped a foot inside. Never did when I lived up north either where there's one of those every 10 miles.
I don't have money to spend in there today but I like window shopping just as much as the next gal.
If I see something I like, I can start saving my pennies for it...lol

I'd like to hit the mall at some point soon. I have the gift cert to VS that I'd like to use but I don't know if i can honestly do more than one thing today. My bones ache something fierce so it'll be slow moving for me today.
Man I need a cane. A cool one though.

Ok, washer is stopped, clothes need to dry now and then a shower, dishes, cat boxes, straightening and then I can relax and stuff.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 8:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Glad I got that 1 hour nap in.
Just got home from babysitting.
The baby barfed on me again. mmm yum. Baby vomit.
Gross as it happens, all this formula coming back up, but then there's this weird soothing smell after it dries that just makes you think aww, babies are so cute.
Or maybe that's just me.

Sebastian has plans for tomorrow afternoon and evening, going to a tae kwon do movie night thing with his friend Matthew. I'm sure he'll have a great time.
I'll be home and doing laundry as usual and maybe Tiffany is going to stop by again. No message left so I don't know and I'm one of those people that never calls anyone after 10pm unless it's an emergency so I'll just have to wait till morning to see if she's still coming.
I just have cut off times for phones like I do with noise and barking dogs. Nighttime is my relax time. My quiet me time alone with my tv and pc, my soda, my books, my smokes. After 10pm, this better be good...lol

I want to have a yard sale again soon. And man, this is bad, but now that Bill is dead, I can just do it without having to worry about him getting all pissed off cuz there's too many cars on the street or too many people talking OUTSIDE. He really was an ass. I know I complain about barking dogs but that's like a legitimate thing to bitch about. Barking all night is just very bad. Yard sales not bad. Mowing lawns, not bad, watering plants, not bad. See? Big difference.

I got the invitation to Georges wedding today. Have to take a head count and send it back to the bride soon.
Need to talk to sis, see if she wants to go. Should have done that tonight but was too tired when they came home.
They went out to eat here, The Melting Pot.
Your first warning that the bill for your meal is going to rip your balls off and serve them back to you is no prices on the menu.
I'm sorry, but $110 dollars for two people to eat dinner is just fucking outrageous to me.
That's like two weeks worth of groceries for my family of 3 including an extra person or two on a weekend.
I shook my head when her bf told me the price when he drove us home. No way man. Just no effing way ever would I pay that for FONDUE.

Ok, have some emails to respond to then I need to get to bed. Have things to do tomorrow including a trip to the store for granola bars for Sebastians class lock in Friday night.
Yeah, you read that right. Lock in.
Go to school, get locked in the gym all night and play games, eat pizza and don't sleep. Your parents can come back and get you in the morning.
Now that's my kind of school activity.

Later days.

Posted by Kat at 10:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (8)

She was a bit nervous, first time being in my house, kept thinking that her son was gonna break stuff.
I'm all don't worry about it. he can't hurt anything cuz I have nothing of value anyway....lol
She's probably going to come down again tomorrow while her hubby is at work so she's not all alone.
I know how that is.
I spend a great deal of time alone and it sucks so this is good for both of us.
She brought me one of those big huge collage picture frames.
That was so nice of her. Thanks Tiffany. :)
And I didn't even have juice in the house. :(
I don't drink it cuz I'm allergic to acids in juices and the boys have just gotten used to that. I get them oj like once a month but can't even let it touch my skin cuz I break out in hives.
I'll have juice for the kiddo tomorrow.
Promise.
Apple probably cuz at least that doesn't make me itchy. :)

I need a nap now cuz I'm whooped and I'm babysitting tonight for sis.
I'll get around to emails and replies later on.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 2:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Dishes from last night, stinky cat boxes, vac the carpets, that kind of stuff.
Hope she's not allergic to cats. :/
If she is, I'll just have to lock them in my room for a bit.
She has a two little boys,a 4 month old and a 4 year old I think.
So it will be loud and crazy here...lol
I love babies though.

I need to take a shower and then get cracking on the house stuff.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 5:59 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

This afternoon my friend told me she is going to come tomorrow morning, like 8am so I cleaned the house, did laundry, dishes, general stuff.
Tomorrow morning after the boys leave, I'm gonna vac the floors and then take a shower and make sure the house looks decent.

Got into it today with someone.
An argument I'm talking about.
I don't resort to name calling and insults, it gets me nowhere and when people do it to me, well, it just is silly. Know what I mean?
And yeah, I'm talking about it cuz this is my blog and I can say what I want cuz I pay for it dammit.

Finally got my caffeine and some food. Forgot 2 things but screw it, I am not going back.
Anyway, that's my day.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 7:32 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

So I just got back from babysitting. The girls were great. Susan went off to day care on her little bus that comes to get her. She was thrilled about going until they actually put her in the car seat...lol Wanted to stay home with Aunty Kat Kat! :)
Skye was great as always. She's making more noises and stuff now and tries to roll over, loves to be held tight and close so I just sit and rock her most of the time.

When I got home I grabbed the mail and in it was a gift card to Publix from ex-roommates mom. How cool is that?
Thanks so much Chris, I totally needed it today too. Perfect timing as I am thisclose to broke today.

After sis gets done working tonight we are gonna head to the store and get my meds and more caffeine. I've been sipping off this one liter I bought this morning on my way to sisters house. I need to just chug one seriously. That is the only way this headache is gonna go away.

So anyway, that's what I've been doing and now I'm gonna rest cuz my back is fried.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 1:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Probably the lack of caffeine. I'm just wiped out.
Heading off to babysit for a couple of hours this morning and then I'll be back home.
Hopefully with some caffeine coursing through me.

So I need to wake up here as best I can and get dressed and moving these sore bones.
Chilly and damp still. Yuck.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 6:04 AM | Permalink | Comments (5)

I'm having a very blah day.
Could be all the rain.
Could be the cold.
Could be that one of my front Florida crank windows won't shut all the way so all that cold and damp is still getting in.
It's not all the way open. Just a little way open and I can't make it shut.
I'm also out of soda and have to go get my meds but it's raining and I hurt.

Posted by Kat at 11:52 AM | Permalink | Comments (6)

So tired.
Bed warm.
Kids must get up and go.
Kat must sleep.

Posted by Kat at 6:12 AM | Permalink | Comments (5)

I got an automated call from the boys school. It said one of my kids was absent but didn't say who. It's automated.
At 1:10pm.
Hello? 1:10pm!! They left this house at 6:45!
So I call the school and they tell me that Mark is absent so I told them that he went on that bus at 6:45 and so if something happened to him, it happened AFTER he reached school grounds. FIND HIM!!!!
They put me on hold and call his classroom teacher and she says oops, sorry, I marked him absent by mistake.
Ok, mistakes happen but when they do that, it makes me wonder if kids who really weren't there get marked present and no one would know that kid is missing until he doesn't come home from school.
I was pissed.
They apologized but damn, my heart was in my throat for a solid 20 minutes.
Nothing like giving a parent an heart attack.
I was freaking out on hold trying to remember what he was wearing today, did he have his jacket on? Which shoes was he wearing? Did anybody see him get off the bus at school??
I was nuts!
But he was there all along and they are going to fix his attendance records so he doesn't get in trouble.

Made hamburgers and tater tots for dinner, just hanging out now watching the news and stuff.
Hope you all had a good one.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 6:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (9)

But we are gonna try for Friday when her hubby has the day off. One car, he takes it to work.
It's ok. My house was not quite up to my guest visiting standards anyway. Still have a pot sitting in the sink and the carpets need to be vacuumed.

Finally got my gift from Ms. Pixie.
I love Legend!
I love the big red devil dude. (Tim Curry).
The mail is really screwy around here.
Sometimes you get stuff in a day and other times you wait weeks or not at all. But am so happy it got here and didn't end up on that other street in sarasota with the same name.
That happens sometimes.
I get mail for people who live there but I always return to sender. They don't. They're jerks...lol

It's stopped raining and the sun is back out and the humidity is back up. Yuck.

Well, that's all from here, later days.

Posted by Kat at 12:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (8)

I didn't fall asleep until close to 3 and then up at 5:30 so when the kids left, I dozed back off on the couch. Just got up and it's raining like they said it was going to. I was hoping it wouldn't.
This means I need to get motivated here soon.
Need to take a shower, do a quick clean that kind of stuff.
A woman from a board I belong to may be coming over. Not that I don't want her to come over and we can finally meet but because I'm just plain ol' pooped.
I have huge bags under my eyes and look like hell. A shower and some eye cream could fix that though.

I don't really have much to say this morning. Just sitting here watching it rain and trying to wake up.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 8:20 AM | Permalink | Comments (6)

He was a mean old bastard.
Always complaining about cats, kids, dogs, rats, trash, noise, cars. You name it, Bill complained about.

Bill passed away this afternoon around 3 o'clock or so.
He suffered massive cardiac arrest.

His younger brother Russ who has taken care of Bill for the last 20 some odd years is beside himself. Has no idea what to do or how to do anything. All he has known is taking care of his brother.
He's never lived on his own without his brother. Never had a girlfriend or friends. Just Bill.

I feel horribly sorry for Russ.
My boys said I'm going to hell because just last week after Bill made some nasty crotchety remark to me again about all the "damn cars going up and down the street at all hours", I came in the house and said when the hell is that nasty old man gonna die.

Am I sorry I said it? No.
Am I sorry that he's dead? Not really. Every neighbor on this street hated that man for one reason or another.
I am sorry for Russ who has known no other life and doesn't know what to do now.

He's up at the hospital with the rest of his family who hated Bill too.
Making funeral plans I suppose.
He asked me to call the landman and let him know what was going on because he just couldn't make anymore calls right now and he really doesn't know what he's going to do about the apartment as he can't afford it on his own. Bill got SSI and Russ worked so together they could afford the house and bills and food.
On his own, he doesn't know.
So I made the call and told him all the above and he said to tell Russ not to worry about it right now.

So anyway, that's what I've been doing.
Feeling sad but not for the reasons my kids think I should.

Posted by Kat at 4:11 PM | Permalink | Comments (14)

Phone calls. Check.
Laundry sorting. Check.

I went out with my sis and just got back. We went to Publix and then Micheals where i got the two frames I needed. They had really nice wood ones for $4 for the 5x7 and $5 for an 8x10.
Nice. Put my pictures of my nieces in and hung them on the wall and then noticed I almost sliced my finger off.
Don't know where or how I cut it, didn't feel a thing thanks to pain pills but blood all over my hands and the counter top told me I did so I washed my hands and there it was. Nice big gaping wound at the tip of my finger. Checked the picture frames, no blood. Checked everything I touched which was just a pair of needle nose pliers, no blood. Oh well.

Having a wonderful on going debate about faith vs. belief.
God I love that argument.
But Kat, you have faith in science. No, I have belief in science because I can see science work.
But you have faith in the answers. No, I have a belief that the answers are right because they were proved to me through testing.
But you have faith in that the grass is green. No, I have a belief that the grass is green because it is fact that it is green.
I could go round and round with that argument all day.

Ok, off to change and see if I can find the source of what cut me.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 12:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

The boys just left for school and all I want to do is go back to bed. I didn't fall asleep until sometime around 2 so getting up at 5:30 is just too early but I can't go back to bed.
I have things to do.
Must go to post office and mail important things out. Lani, Christine, Grams picture, lawyer papers, signed medical papers. Must call lawyer and have them fax stuff to medical office for verification of disability standing so doctors office can fax stuff to U of Miami.
Why lawyer can't just fax directly to U of Miami, I don't know but I must do those things.

Need to refold laundry. Sebastian took care of it for me and my clothes are missing meaning he gave them to Mark and Mark put his stuff away already.
It happens when you and your oldest son both own extra large black shirts made by the same company.
What he did with my undies I don't know because Mark wears boxers and he wears white briefs.
Missing undies.
Such tragedies on a Monday morning.
At some point I need to take a shower cuz I didn't take one yesterday. I chose to be lazy and dirty.
Need to find more picture frames. I know I have some laying around somewhere but I can't remember where I put them.
I have new pictures of my nieces to frame and hang.

I love having pictures of family all over my walls. It makes it feel so homey. Does anyone else feel this way?
I remember my grandmothers houses. Both grans on mom and dads sides were like this.
Pictures everywhere. Every wall was covered with pictures of family and the minute you walked in, you just felt like you were home.
I need more big frames with multiple picture spaces to hold all the tiny pictures not big enough to be on their own.
I need more 8x10s and 5x7s too. Where the hell did I put all those frames?

I have a few pieces of jewelery to make this week too. Got some new beads and some great ideas from a magazine I'd like to try.

I'm hoping that Pixies bday gift shows up soon. Amazon said it was delivered but it wasn't and I would hate to think that it was delivered to the wrong house cuz people suck and don't return to sender or attempt to get it to it's rightful owner in this town.
Learned that 2 Christmases ago when all those packages were lost and we never got them. Stuff not just for me and the boys but things ex-roommates family sent her too. Where the hell they ended up, who knows but it wasn't here.

Ok, enough from here.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 6:50 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Didn't do much of anything. Stayed in my sweats and remained bra less...lol
Mark went out with his big George this afternoon and when he came back, George had bought me 2 more fishies for my fish tank for my birthday. A small black molly and a HUGE orange and black goldfish. I had to move the big bad aggressive tiger barb out of the tank for now cuz he was attacking the crap out of the goldfish.
Georges fiance' gave me some products from Aromafloria. She gave me a bag of inhalation beads made for headaches. When you get a headache, you smell the bag and it makes your headache go away. It smells so yummy I may just put it in my pillow case and sleep with it for a good nights sleep. She also gave me some Pomegranate body butter with shea and aloe. Oh my god, it smells so good and is great for elbows.
She co owns a store on St. Armands Circle here in SRQ called The Square on the Circle. It sells a lot of high end products for the home and beauty stuff.
Thanks George and Amy.
We are all going to be going to their wedding in May. Mark is going to be the ring bearer cuz Mark and George have been big and little for 6 years now. I can hardly believe that. Time sure does fly.

Going to be heading out to the store here in a little bit with sis to get milk, soda and shredded cheese. This is more of a note to myself cuz I keep forgetting the cheese so write down, won't forget it.

Oh, no Desperate Housewives tonight. That stupid Halle Berry movie is on. Ugh. No cable and nothing else is on so I'll probably end up watching said stupid movie.

Called gram like I was supposed to to let her know I finally had a decent picture of the boys to send her and mailing it tomorrow. Got Christines stuff to mail out too. Kept forgetting. Sorry Christine. Sending Rilana her necklace too. Lots of stuff to mail out.

Well, that's it from here.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 5:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (6)

Today is my lazy day. I don't have to go anywhere or do anything and my bones ache so it's gonna be a lay around and watch movies day. I should have borrowed Saw and watched that again...lol

I might be around later on. Have a great Sunday.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 9:04 AM | Permalink | Comments (6)

I just got home. Babysat all afternoon and I still have to make dinner for us.
Tired and stuff.
Jenni, Shell, I will call you just not right now. Ok? Ok.

Watched Saw (Widescreen Edition). Not bad. Really really fucked up movie. That reverse bear trap on the head scene, oh yeah, fucked up man.
Great jump moments in that movie.

Ok, need to get started on dinner.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 7:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

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Those are my boys. Thought I'd give you all and updated look at the kids. Finally got a decent picture of them. They hate having their picture taken and hate to smile as you can see. I believe we had to threaten their very lives to get this one...lol

Gonna go babysit for a few hours this afternoon so sis can go fix her geocache.
With all the rains and winds during hurricane season and then with how busy she's been, it got moved from it's original spot and the container got ruined and stuff.
That is really fun to do I hear though I've never been on one myself. The boys like going.
You find the cache, open it, take something, leave something and enter in the log book that you were there, what day, what you took and what you left and then close it back up for someone else to find.
The boys will probably go with her.
I get to hang with my babies and I love that.

I forgot to mention the other night when we went to wal*mart about the baby Skye. I got her laughing so hard as we were walking around. She was in her baby seat in my cart and I was tickling her and making faces and stuff and she was laughing and then she snorted.
She snorts when she laughs!
I nearly peed that was so funny. This huge snort out of a baby and then she laughed even more.
It's hard to believe that those big guys up there were once as small as Skye and Susan. I marvel at it everyday.

Mark has his lawn mowing job back now after the winter off. He went and mowed it yesterday, made himself $25 and gave Sebastian a couple bucks for trying to help. He's still not strong enough to push it through tall grass and it was about 3 months growth as the last time he mowed was right before Christmas. He's happy now cuz he has money every week again.
As usual with a teen boy, he bought himself hot wings with it for dinner. He has a plan though. One week, hot wings, the following week, save it. Over the last summer when he mowed every week, he earned himself about $200 just doing that one lawn and was able to buy himself video games and some clothes he wanted to get and hot wings of course.
I told him he should try and get a few more lawns to do this summer cuz it's his last summer doing lawns. He can officially get a job at Publix come August when he turns 14. He can work 20 hours a week and earn an actual paycheck and start his own bank account and save for his goals. He wants to buy his own car by the time he's 16.
He's got a 3.0 grade average so far this year. Got one of his progress reports yesterday and he's got a B+ in pre-algebra. I'm so proud of him cuz I suck at math...lol
I can budget like nobodies business but stick an algebra problem in front of me and I whimper.

Ok, I guess that's all for now from here. Need to eat some breakfast and take a shower.
Oh, my neck is much better today. Doubling up on muscle relaxers last night seemed to really help.
I'll have to remember that trick if I do this again which I'm sure I will cuz I'm so good at hurting myself.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 7:52 AM | Permalink | Comments (8)

It's doing that tight thing again like it did a few months ago. It's been since about 11am or so like this so I've just been taking it easy trying to get it to go away.

Not much else to say as not much can happen when you spend the rest of the day on the couch trying to get rid of a kink in your neck that gets worse when you get the hiccups.

Posted by Kat at 8:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Been busy cleaning everything. I just have to wash 2 pans (I hate the pans!) and vac which I can't do till ex-roommate wakes up cuz I'm not rude like that, then mop which I don't do until after I vac, and I'm waiting on my last load of laundry to dry and then my house will be finished.
I windexed all the mirrors and glass, polished the wood tables, dusted all the picture frames and pcs, washed out the microwave which looked like some animal was blown up in and cleaned the cat boxes.
I love having a clean house.
I like how warm and inviting it is. I mean, it's not warm today cuz it's cold outside but warm in the way that it's so homey in here.
I have these canvas blinds on the big front windows and when the sun shines through them, which in the summer keeps the heat out, it gives the room an amber glow.
It's so pretty. Yup, I'm a dork...lol

I hate it when I go to someones house and they have like no curtains.
Pet peeve...lol
I can't stand it. They have blinds up to block the sun and for privacy but when there are no curtains, it's like sterile feeling. Like a hospital.
It feels empty and cold.
Ya know what I mean?

I was going to put all the winter coats and sweaters away today but I don't know if the cold is over or when it will be over. Just when I think I can have all the windows open, a cold front comes through and I have to dig out the boys jackets again.

Heather, we got the box you sent for the boys.
Sebastian told you the wrong sizes for Mark that day. I was busy deep frying so I couldn't talk to you myself so I was relaying answers to him and he told you boys sizes. Mark wears mens shirts and 16-18 in mens pants which equates to a mens 32 waist in some stores. He was kinda bummed and we couldn't find the receipt in the box to exchange them. Just letting you know his "real" sizes. Sebastian is really sorry he messed up. Poor kid, I should have just said I'll call you back. My fault.

Ok, the dryer just stopped, time to fold more laundry and make sure my comforter is dry and maybe tackle those pans or maybe I'll just take a nap until I can vac the carpets...lol
Been up and busy since 5:30am.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 10:30 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

The house is a sty in my opinion right now.
There's so much cluttery crap everywhere. Ugh. I hate that.
I just started the laundry and I'm gonna get started on the dishes soon.
I need to thoroughly dust this house. It's a mess. Just lots of generalized cleaning to do.

Will you do me a favor?
Will you enter your birthday so I don't forget yours? If the link is corrupted which does happen from time to time, just enter my email address, mysinglemomlifeATgmail.com.

Speaking of gmail, I have 150 free accounts to give away. Need one? Know anyone who wants one? Have them email me at the above address again for one.

Alrighty, time to get back to cleaning stuff up around here. I can't stand it when the house is like this.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 7:24 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Things I need to do tomorrow:
Vac, dust, mop, dishes, laundry.
I haven't been able to do all my things this week for various reasons and running around to appointments and stuff so tomorrow is the day.
I need to haul some trash out too. Lots of stuff has just been piling up and it drives me nuts but I've been busy.

The boys are in bed and I'm gonna watch the new L&O show and then go to bed myself. Tired and cold so bed is the place to be.

Hope you all had a good one.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 9:54 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I went and paid them all. Just got back.
Elec, water and phone. I said fuck it, go do them all. Stay busy and just get it done. So I did.

Got Mark a new shirt at Wal*mart cuz it was only $5 on clearance. He always needs more shirts and shit.

Ran into an old friend I worked with at Paneras. We talked on the bus for about an hour and she made sure she had my right number and we are gonna hit a movie sometime. We talked a lot about shit. Life, friends, responsibilities and just laughed about all kinds of shit. Bus humor with someone who gets it is really great.

I still have my headache. In fact, it's worse. Pent up anger is no good dear friends. No good at all. Sucky sucky.
But, I have decided that the people who care about me, will get cared about in return. No more give and give and care and support to a taker. It sucks to have to do that but it's bad for my mental health to be feeling bad all the time. I feel bad enough about my life right now, I don't need someone else making me feel worse by not being able to keep their word and shit.

It's cold today. It was cold all day. It even drizzled which sucks cuz I didn't wear a jacket. Just my black pants and a t-shirt. Brr baby. But I got all the bills this month taken care of. I am achy and tired but it's done man and that rocks. I took like 8 buses to get it all done. I walked quite a bit too which was bad but I pushed myself because I didn't want to have to go out again tomorrow.

Pete, got your box today. Thank you. They fit them really good.

Jenni, got the movie today, Salems Lot. Thank you! I love this movie. Ha! I used to be so scared of the big blue guy I think I still am.
I'm gonna eat and watch it and just relax for the rest of the day.

Lani, I am working on your necklace. I needed something for it today and I got it so I'll complete it this weekend and get your addy to mail it out to you. I love it so I may have to make myself one like it.

That's it. I'm starved so food is highly needed. Didn't eat anything all day.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 3:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

It's bill paying day so I'm gonna head out around 7:30 and get started on that shit.
Not going to the movies, don't feel like it anymore.
Too busy, too tired.
Need to go pay the water, the elec, get a money order for the phone cuz going down to pay water and elec is too far away from the phone place to go all the way down there too.
Need to go get my script, get cat food, cat litter, toilet paper and mail a few things.

I have a headache from thinking too much. Yeah, that is possible. I thought and thought about stuff all night and drove myself crazy.
Won't be doing that again.

Have a great Thursday everyone.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 6:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (6)

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Posted by Kat at 9:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

I have had the longest day.
Docs went well.
She is gonna fax over everything to U of Miami and get the ball rolling on that.
Rode home with like 900 people seriously, I have never seen the bus that crowded and oooh, lucky me, I got the smelly drunk guys with palm leaves.
Yay.

Thank you all for the birthday wishes again. I totally appreciate it.

I'm really tired and disappointed in stuff.
Nothing to elaborate on, just you know, disappointed.

I gotta go lay down or something and get myself un-stressed cuz I hate being this way.
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 5:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (8)

Yesterday, I took my birthday money (I know mom, I never fully spend it on me...lol) and bought a new dish scrubber head for my dish stick, a new downy ball (Kim, Publix sells them in the laundry aisle. They had tons.) some hair gel for my unruly hair, a Renuzit candle in jasmine cuz Glade stopped making theirs. I love this one more though I think. Much better smelling, and my new sneakers. I figure on Friday while I'm out paying bills, I can hit the mall and go to VS even though I loathe the mall it'll be worth it.

Christine won the card stamping contest she entered! Yay! I love her home made cards. I'll have to scan some of the ones she's made me cuz they are so beautiful. The birthday card is just gorgeous. It's a really neat design too.

Took my shower and am getting ready for the long bus ride to the docs. I hate th bus rides especially on cold days. I just don't move so quick. My bus comes at 10 of 12 so I have to leave here at like 11:30 even though it's just the end of the street. Yeah, I walk that slow...lol

Ok, really boring stuff here so I'll go now...lol
Later days.

Posted by Kat at 9:37 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

I hate this getting up early stuff.
But the boys are up and showered and getting dressed and getting ready for FCAT testing again.
I'll be glad when it's over. It's very stressful for the kids.

It's a chilly morning here, about 48° out there. Not supposed to go too far above 60°.
That's chilly.
I have a doc appointment this afternoon so i gotta leave around noonish.
Couldn't get a ride so it's bus ride hell for me today.
Oh well, that'll teach me though to call them in on Fridays for Wednesday rides. Monday is too late as some ancient woman on the other end of the line told me.
Need to go over with him the UofMiami requests for my history. Apparently leaving a message for the record department to fax that stuff isn't gonna work cuz they never did it and now my contact at UofMiami probably thinks I'm not interested.
Gotta talk to him about the constant getting sick thing and the constant tired thing cuz it's irritating being sick and tired all the time and so I'm sick and tired of it. heh

Got my new shoes to wear which makes me happy cuz my other ones had fallen apart and I had to keep gluing them.
Yay! for new sneakers.
The fishies are all doing good too. Happy little buggers make for happy little cats. Kali and Nova lay on the end of my bed all day and watch them swim around. So pretty.

Not much else to report from here this morning.
Later days.

FCAT

Posted by Kat at 6:05 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Thank you all for the birthday wishes still coming in! I feel so loved *mwah*

Sis and I and the babies and Sebastian just got back from wal*mart where I picked myself up some much needed sneakers and sis got me 2 rosy barbs and a silver gourami and a gift certificate to Victorias Secret!
Woo hoo!
I love presents and I love that I can get another perfect bra. Yay!

Well, I need to eat dinner now cuz we went as soon as my dinner was done cooking.
Later days.
Oh, and we need to eat cake.
Yum.

Posted by Kat at 8:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (6)

Heading to the store now that the boys are home to get all the stuff I forgot to get yesterday and cake decorations cuz the kids make me do candles and blow them out and I don't want to burn the house down.

Thanks for all the birthday wishes! It made me very happy to get up from going back to bed and reading them all. :)

Marks arts teacher is a bitch by the way.
Why do art teachers say things like the face you drew is all wrong?
It was disproportionate?
Yes I know they are teaching proportion but the face Mark drew rocks in my opinion and no I'm not totally biased. It's a cool pic. Maybe I'll scan it later if he'll let me. He's kind of upset about the whole thing.
So I emailed the teacher and asked her if Picasso was wrong cuz none of his faces line up either.
Art teachers should teach but be constructive in their criticisms because when you tell a kid who loves to draw that it's wrong, he may not want to do it anymore.
Art and beauty are in the eye of the beholder.
Art is what the artist sees and allows us to look at. It doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful.

Later days.

Posted by Kat at 2:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (6)

Yup, it's my birthday today. I'm the big 35 today.
I don't know what I'm doing today.
Probably going back to bed after the boys leave.
They both sang me happy birthday when they got up. :)
I got 2 e-cards from mom and Karen. Got some birthday wishes on the mommy board I belong to.
It's gonna be a quiet day I hope.
I need to go back to the store. Forgot stuff. Like cat food and things like that.
Hope you all have a good one.
Later days.

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