I could totally use $1,000.00
Go vote for me...lol
Rugs Online area rug retailer featuring thousands of products!
Contact me to get your product reviewed!
Kat on Facebook (You must be signed in to Facebook to see my profile)
« April 2005 | Main | June 2005 »
Go vote for me...lol
The boys fought all day.
I babysat last night and hey, that's great, I needed the extra few dollars this minute but holy crap, they fought all day.
In and out and in and out.
My bill is gonna be huge and then I will have to kill them.
Don't get all raggy on me here either, oh Kat, laugh once in awhile would you. I do laugh. I do have a great time but entertaining teenage boys sucks!
I take them to the pool, great, happy campers, 5 minutes after being home, they fight.
Grrr.
I just went to 7-11 convenience *rip off* store and got Mark some gas for his mower so he could go do his job. They didn't want him to do it on Friday but came over today and asked him to do it so now he's off doing that.
Why is 7-11 a rip off?
Cuz they make you pay for gas first, they are supposed to flick the gas switch and they didn't and then when they did, it was like a trickle of gas. That gas can holds exactly 2 dollars worth of gas.
It was barely a quarter of the way full.
I know, gas got expensive but even so, it should have been more gas than that before the pump automatically shut off.
Bastards. They over charge on everything anyway, why should gas be any different?
It really sucks Petes pumps were bad and had to be removed. He never ripped people off. Ever.
Ok, I am determined to have a good night here even if that means sending them to bed at 8pm.
The weather is wreaking havoc on my hips so the more stress I feel, the more pain my hips are in especially with rain, humidity and now more thunderstorms on the way. Arthritis sucks on the old joints.
How many anti-inflams can one take in one day anyway?
Later days.
Christine sent me this huge package with a bunch of house mouse cards and post its for notes and snail mail, a recipe for new england seafood chowder hand stamped and frame worthy. It's very cool looking. You should totally go see her hand stamped cards and crafts. She is awesome. I have every card she's ever made me. I love them.
She also sent me a Stampin Up catalog. Man that thing is huge!
I was asking about stamps and things so I could make hand stamped thank you cards to include with my jewelry when I ship it, make it a little more personal. I had no idea she was gonna send this big huge catalog!
Oh my god! I could totally start a new hobby. I'm oohing and ahhing almost everything I see in there...lol
I'm gonna need one whole room just for my crafts here pretty soon...lmao
She sent a couple cook books too. How very cool.
Thanks so much Christine! I love it all!
It's been raining almost all night and Bobby slept over and I'm watching him today so I have a house full of kids who are gonna go stir crazy after just a few hours.
Time to dig out the art supplies I suppose..lol
Me? It's gonna be an easy day I think. I'm probably just gonna make some more pieces today. I have been busy coming up with ideas and trying some things. Some ideas didn't turn out the way I wanted but others turned out good so I scanned and uploaded them. Go check them out.
The ones that didn't turn out the way I saw in my head, I'm just going to take them apart and redo them. I know those designs work but not with the particular beads I chose so back to the bead board I go.
Mark is still sleeping, Bobby and Sebastian have been up for awhile and are playing neopets or something on the other pc.
They don't have a pc next door so this is like all new to him. He';s totally mesmerized by actually going on line. He learned computers at school but they don't let kids access the net so he's like whoa to cartoon network and neopets and kids wb etc etc.
I keep hearing him go "wow! That is so cool!" Haha, he's a funny kid.
He is soo dramatic too.
Oh, don't get this kid talking politics either. He'll tell you all the things that are wrong with our current president and the war...lmao
Ok, time to get busy and have some fun with my indoor prisoners today.
What should I have them make for me? I was thinking I could do an art judging contest and give away a small prize. I have a whole bottom drawer in my desk filled with emergency birthday gifts for last minute birthday invites for the kids so I could give away little prizes for best painting or something.
Ok, later days.
Let them play for about an hour.
It's easier to take them at night when the sun goes down cuz the sun and my meds don't mix very well. I swell up like a balloon if I get a burn.
They had a great time playing around.
But ugh, so many kids up there are just asses.
13 year olds drinking beer and smoking. What the hell man? Where are their parents?
Now I need a shower and then I'm gonna watch school of rock. Never seen it before and the neighbors have a ton of movies I don't have/never seen so it's cool.
Later days.
It was from some woman who feels superior and apparently needs to tell everyone why she's superior.
"Woke up and had great sex with my boyfriend. Waiting for my son to be dropped off by his dad so we can go to the beach. Wondering why single moms seem to have no lives beyond chores or kid stuff. Silly. I suppose. Fun dead? No. Jeez, I just had a baby, not a lobotomy. Working on more material in my head for my stand up gig. Who cares about my "real" life? BORING.
chores. what chores? House is a mess. Who cares. Deciding on strategy for finding petite bi girl for pre 40 birthday celebration. Maybe at the beach? Maybe another single non boring mom? Any takers email me.
Have a good day. Try to get some laughter in please."
Let's have a look at this comment shall we?
It was her first time ever commenting at my site but she felt she needed to tell a total stranger how fabulous the sex with her boyfriend was.
How classy. /sarcasm.
Wondering why single moms seem to have no lives beyond chores or kid stuff. Silly. I suppose. Fun dead? No. Jeez, I just had a baby, not a lobotomy. Working on more material in my head for my stand up gig. Who cares about my "real" life? BORING.
Single moms do have lives outside of our kids and our homes but we are raising our children and enjoying it. Maybe that's what sets us apart. I love them and put them first, I have no need to go around telling people I got fucked. My life is satisfying enough.
Stand up gig? You think you're funny? You're a dumb twit with no class.
And if your real life is boring, that's your problem. I happen to enjoy my dull, boring, days. I enjoy every minute of them and the conversations I have with my growing sons and going to the pool and other things.
Just because I'm not blogging everything I do in my day doesn't mean I'm not doing things. I just don't feel everyone needs to know everything. My life is an open book but some pages are torn for privacy. That and I respect myself. Try some of that. Pride in oneself means you don't have to shout from the mountain tops how great your life is. If it's great and makes you happy, why be so loud?
chores. what chores? House is a mess. Who cares. Deciding on strategy for finding petite bi girl for pre 40 birthday celebration. Maybe at the beach? Maybe another single non boring mom? Any takers email me.
Have a good day. Try to get some laughter in please.
Having a clean home makes me happy. It makes me joyous to have a home that is clean and inviting and open to any friends who may stop by.
I see what the problem is. Turning 40. Feeling like your life is almost over. Needing to try and feel young again by banging guys and gals. Good for you, go get your groove on if it makes you feel good about who you are.
I am having a great day. I laugh all the time. I laugh and sing and play and live and love but it's just not here for all to see. Some joys are better kept private.
They have more meaning and more value when it's just a shared moment between those who it's meant for.
I haven't made it outside yet to do any of that cleaning I said I wanted to do. I plan on doing it after trash goes to the curb tonight. Why work twice?
I didn't start the laundry yet.
I did package up Jennis stuff and the books and mags for the store owner along with a few more pieces for her to look at.
I answered all my emails too.
I made a couple of pieces and scanned and uploaded them too.
I need to go do my dishes and then I want to make some brownies for the kids and then plan dinner.
Anyway, not many bloggers are around today, having fun I suppose.
Later days.
Hope you're all enjoying your long weekend so far.
Not too much going on here today.
I have some cleaning to do outside, the driveway and garbage bins etc etc.
It looks terrible out there.
Then I want to wash the front door and then I have some orders to make and package up.
Jenni, I'm going to get your stuff out that I promised you on Friday. I have all my errands to do that day and the post office is one of them. I have a lot of things to mail out actually.
The boys are just sitting here watching SWII right now and hanging out.
Typical day here but it won't be later. The lawn needs to be mowed and things need to be picked up around here.
Ok, that's about all for now.
Have a good one.
Later days.
I had a program running on the 2nd pc so it wouldn't clog up this one. This one is mine and I hate it being clogged with crap.
So anyway, I had this program running on that one to get something I needed.
They had been outside almost all damn day.
5 minutes on that pc and he somehow manages to disable the TC/IP settings.
I tried for over 2 hours to get them back to what they were so my program would work and it simply won't go.
Internet is fine, overnet is disabled.
Grrr man.
I was 89% done with the program too.
Ugh. Grr. Arrggh.
Also, was given an Epson all in one because of it's constant paper jam issue even when there was no paper jam. Woman got fed up, just bought a new printer without the all in one stuff.
After about an hour, realized it's the paper feed assembly. It's broken. Going to take it apart tomorrow and see if it can be fixed. It would be very cool to have a second scanner/printer in the house.
So that was my boring day.
How was yours?
Holy crap it's hot out there...lol
I even had a ride to the drug store and man, it was steamy.
The kids are gonna go with sis to the beach later if there's no red tide and I'm just puttering about the house doing dishes and laundry and thinking up stuff to make. I ran out of 2 meds and because of that, my neck was locked up. I haven't been able to swallow for 3 days. It's quite painful actually. But, I have them, took them, should be unlocking soon.
Jo and Pam, I just ordered and paid for all the supplies for both of your orders and they will be on the way and then I will make and ship them out to you ASAP.
Thanks ladies. I appreciate your orders and look forward to making you both some unique pieces.
Ok, off to putter and play.
Later days.
Is it Sunday? Is it Monday? feh, whatever.
The boys slept over Bobbys house last night and I spent the night here playing on line and sleeping.
Not much going on here today at all.
Need to go out later for my meds if the pharmacy ever decides to fill them. Long holiday weekend I know. Be patient.
Feh.
So anyway, later days.
I am slowly editing the wedding pics down to size.
Some of the ceremony are acting up. Like you can see the thumbnails but when you go to view larger or edit, it's not there or only half there. Oh well.. I have a lot of pics anyway. Eventually, they will all be over at the photo blog.
All the boys have gone out with the neighbors to go to Big Lots and a few errands.
How cool is that?...lol
I had such a headache this morning, I was happy to see them go.
They were up pretty much just laughing hysterically all night long and then again first thing this morning so my head was splitting.
Yay for silence!
Laura just stopped by with my wedding pics and we made the swap of the breastfeeding necklace an a blank disc and a cool Kiss thing for her girls.
The other day when she was going to swing over, a very bad thing happened and she never made it. Her hubby broke his foot at work. Ouch! Totally understandable girl. No problems at all.
Go say hi to her and leave her and her family some well wishes. Leave her extra good thoughts for her sanity. He could be home for all day every day for 10 weeks! ARRGGHH!!...lol
Ok, just playing around, editing the pics and stuff.
Will be back around off and on over the weekend.
Hope you're all having a safe, happy, long holiday weekend.
Don't drink and drive people. Get a designated driver.
Later days.
The kids had Bobby sleep over last night and they were up until about 1am or maybe later and then back up at 8:30. Ugh. But they are all being good and having fun.
I have some laundry and stuff to do today, dishes etc and then later we are having a cookout.
Well, that's about all from here for now.
Later days.
The boys were outside playing, made some sort of whip with a rope and a stick and whammo! Sebastian gets nailed in the back with it.
Red, puffy, stings like a searing burn.
Neosporin, ice pack. Resting.
It didn't break the skin thank god.
*shakes head*
Man, I like didn't post much today huh?
Just been in and out, doing various things that needed to be done. Answered emails and stuff, made a few pieces, will upload 'em all at some point this weekend.
Played on line, had the boys clean up the yard a bit. Tree trimmings needed to be bagged up and stuff.
The little neighbor boy Bobby is sleeping over tonight so lots of testosterone and video games. (thanks for need for speed Jo, very good game but man, I will be happy to give it back...lol)
Not much else. Just having a good day all around.
Later days.
I just spent about 2 hours meeting and chatting with my new, friendly neighbor!
Woo hoo! Nice neighbors!
They are down to earth and funny and normal. They have a 9 year old boy who is just a little sweetie and he's been here everyday playing with Sebastian.
Not too much else going on here right now. Just hanging out and stuff, have some ideas I want to tackle later but that's about all.
Later days.
I got my free movie tickets today that I won thanks to Christine!
Woot!
Go ahead and guess what we're gonna go see...lol
Rugs vaccummed. Check.
Dishes 90% done.
Laundry done. Check.
Bathroom not done.
Cleaning thoroughly today. It got dirty so fast in here with them home all day now.
Ugh.
The fabu Jenni made me a fun new and purpley Star Wars skin using all the characters my kids requested and of course my request, Obi-Wan cuz he kicked major ass in III.
Love it we do.
So it's Thursday huh?
Wow, time is sorta flying and sorta not. I gotta get these boys doing something other than playing video games though.
This is the summer of start saving for their cars though and they know that.
They have plans to print up fliers and go door to door with M&S lawn mowing. Hey, there is good money in lawn care in this state considering almost weekly in the summer some new company shows up at the door and tells me they'll do my smallish lawn for $60 a month.
Yeah? $60 eh? I get it done for a sub sandwich weekly so move along.
Mark already has one really small lawn for $10 a week and one for $25 a week. If they do these lawns together and get say, 5 more lawns, they'd both have some serious cash to play with and save and still have time to play video games.
Lost kicked butt last night didn't it? Holy shit!
What are your theories on the show?
Did you see the dead slaves?
Ha!
I say this is purgatory. They all died on the crash and these people are trapped in limbo, purgatory because they have unfinished business to attend to with their souls.
The whole dead slaves thing kinda sealed that for me.
That and the fact that Matthew Fox was on Ellen the other day and when she was talking theories, he smiled and nodded about purgatory but completely laughed off all the other ones she brought up.
If that was his poker face, he sucks...lol
Oh and this 
Ok, things to do, places to post to, ideas to create.
Later days.
Have soda, frozen pizza, chips, ice cream. We are good to go for the 2 hour season finale of Lost...lol
Not much else has happened here today. Been just a long boring day with kids fighting, video games and boys attempting to eat everything they see.
This is gonna be a hard summer. Two teenage boys to feed. Oy vey!...lol
Things will be fine though, I have ways of making every dollar stretch as far as possible.
Okey dokey, food is cooking, show is gonna start soon.
Later days.
Not too bad around here today other than waiting for the weather to make up it's mind. Rain, don't rain. Pick one...lol
The boys are being good, playing ROTS again. I am playing on line, looking at ideas in my bead mag that just showed up in todays mail. I love all these ideas! So pretty.
Dinner tonight is leftover spaghetti and then we're gonna settle in for the 2 hour Lost season finale.
We love that show!
Got my laundry going finally, dishes soaking, I'll do the floors another day.
Hope you're all having a good one.
Later days.
I got up about 10 minutes ago. I love that in the summer we can all sleep in past 5:30am.
It is so nice.
Ahhhh.
Not much doing around here again today right now anyway.
Still early and the boys are still sleeping.
Maybe a little bit of house cleaning. We'll see.
need to figure out menus and things to do to keep them busy and my finances under control for the summer.
With the boys home 24/7 now, food can go pretty fast.
Need to run up to my sisters in a bit, she has some beads for me cuz I'm seriously getting low. I have just been making so much stuff.
Ok, that's about it from here.
Later days.
And things are quiet.
It's been a very long first day of no school.
Video games all day long. I finally said enough and put Oprah on...lol
I had so much to do today and did none of it. I was an utter sloth.
I just didn't feel like it at all.
I have so much to tell all of you but really can't because some people just have too much time on their pathetic hands and try to cause trouble for others.
It's not just one person either folks. It's a few people who think they know all their is to know about me and my life when in reality, they know nothing at all.
They think they know what's best for me and others. They talk out of their asses because like I said, they don't know the truth of anything.
I find it all really very sad and disturbing.
How boring some peoples lives are to spend so much of their time watching and worrying about what one or two people on the net are doing.
Things are going so very well for me lately and I can't share all my good news with you because of these people.
I can't tell you what's up and how it 's going and who I have spoken to and things that have been done to drastically improve my life.
There are several people who sit on this blog and watch like hawks to see what information they can use to try and destroy my goals and dreams and my life.
How sad is that?
A few people have said move your blog Kat, go completely private, take it elsewhere.
No.
I'm not doing that.
This is mine and I am staying put and when it all pans out and goes the right way and it will folks, it will, I will tell you all.
I promise you that.
I've done so much lately, so many steps towards success and making my dreams happen. I want to tell you and I will when the time is right and no one can do anything about it.
No one will be able to take away what I have been working so hard to do.
No one.
So post your comments, talk out of your ass more, post on your own sites and others, it has no effect on me other than to make me more determined to succeed.
I cannot be held down, pinned down, backed into a hole. Not this time. Not when things are going the right way for the first time in a long time.
You can say what you want about my religion or lack there of, my friends, people whom I have come to know and befriend, you can talk all about how wonderful your life is to try and bring others down. If it makes you happy and makes you feel good, go for it. More power to you sweeties.
The ball is rolling and picking up speed and the T's are crossed, the I's are dotted and life is going to be good.
Throw stones.
I'm just catching them all and putting them to use in ways you can't even imagine.
Morning.
Give us a new movie or new game and watch us become obsessed with it.
First thing this morning.
Sebastian: Mom.
Me: yuh?
Sebastian: Can I uh, can I um, you know?
Me: Can you what? Can you pee, can you eat, can you go back to bed, can you feed the cats, can you play outside, can you you just ask without making me ask a million questions to figure out what you want?
Sebastian: Ok, can I play Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Me: Now?
Sebastian: Yes, please.
Me: Are you gonna eat at some point today or are you just gonna play that all day?
Sebastian: I'll eat! I swear I'll eat!
Me: Ok, low volume. First time it gets super loud or someone argues over a controller or whose turn it is, it goes off.
Sebastian: I love you!!!!
Me: Stop it. Go. Now. Before I change my mind.
So I have oodles of dishes to do and stuff like that.
Not much else going on around here right now.
Later days.
So much happens on Mondays web wise that I should just never ever go take naps at all...lol
Anyway, Mikey my adopted son is here and they are playing Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
It is a beautiful game. Awesome graphics, great sound, killer play. They have been at it since noon when the mail got here.
Ok, I have a backache I need to beat into submission and some dishes to do.
Later days.
The ceremony was ill organized and sloppy.
I think that's my biggest problem attending these things.
They never have any organization at all.
Wait a minute, ok, here we go, no, wait a minute, stupid teachers crying etc.
Bah.
They spelled his name wrong on his diploma.
Marc.
Hello? He spent 3 frigging years there, you think you could get his name right?
Dad, you would have cringed when the band played pomp and circumstance and the star spangled banner. Oh my god.
Terrible, off key, off time, off notes. Just awful.
I was thinking about you when a small ensemble group tried to play some song. Totally unrecognizable. But they had a girl play the euphonium and she was the only one who knew her instrument and played it right.
The power point presentation stalled, had no music because the teachers didn't hook up the speakers to the computer. Sloppy.
Mark couldn't wait to get out of there.
Mikey, my adopted son since first grade, was bored out of his mind too.
His parents couldn't make it but his grandmother was there and sat behind us the whole time. I had no idea who she was at all. I was looking all over for his family, had saved them seats and she was right behind me the whole time.
She and Mikey ended up giving us a ride home, thank goodness because it was so stinking hot by the time we left.
Ok, tired, hungry, kids are starving, have things to do.
That's it, no more school.
Heaven help me.
Today is the last day they don't really have to go to school if they don't want to.
He graduates but he doesn't really want to go but at the same time he does. I just spent the last 30 minutes arguing with them about going. Say good bye to your friends, make sure you have all your stuff, I argued about stolen text books on your behalf. Yadda yadda.
Teens suck people.
So they are going.
Which means I have to go to watch him graduate and then bring him home.
Does it sound like we're all less than thrilled?
Well we are.
It's 8th grade graduation.
I am proud as hell of him but man, these things are boring and he has to wear his suit and again, it's just 8th grade.
I know people who make a huge deal out of this and yes he worked hard and all but he's not interested in going so why should I be forcing him to be happy about going ya know?
He goes, he sits in his suit, collects a piece of paper, we get to leave on the city bus and come home after only 2 hours of school. It takes me a half hour to get there...lol
So we're going but really, none of us are too excited about it.
Bad mommy eh?
I will be forcing happy at HS graduation because high school is where it all counts, where he's going to be busting his ass at law studies and such. He will want to go in HS but middle school is kind of silly in his opinion. And mine. Not school, but the ceremony. Am I making sense so early in the morning?
So we're all going, we'll be back.
Later days.
Turtle brownies are baking, floors are cleaned, bathroom is clean and I also made 5 new pieces today and scanned and uploaded them.
I am having so much fun making new stuff. It is so soothing and relaxing and I get better and better with each new piece. Not that I think my stuff is all that but that I get better at the crimping and styles etc. It just gets easier and easier with each new piece.
The boys are playing video games and driving me bonkers.
I cannot believe tomorrow is the last day of school. They don't have to go Tuesday if they don't ant to and teachers are actually encouraging them to stay home so I will probably just let them sleep in on Tuesday morning.
Mark has his 8th grade graduation ceremony Monday morning at 10am and it lasts about an hour. I'm going but not taking any pictures because it's just 8th grade and all they are going to do is have the principal make a speech and hand out awards and diplomas and then we can take the kids home. It's actually kind of boring....lol
Ok, so I like need a nap after those brownies come out. I'm whooped I tell ya...lol
Later days.
Lots of laundry, dishes, floors to be cleaned etc.
Thats' what I will be doing today.
Lots of cleaning.
The new neighbors moved in and yay! They are normal everyday folks. Very friendly. How nice it is to have friendly people living next door after the last 4 years of cranky Bill and suppressed Russell.
We haven't met the little boy yet because we went to the movies but I'm sure we'll see him today and the boys can now have a friend to play with and stuff.
Ok, time to get moving on stuff around here.
Lot's to do this morning so I can be lazy this afternoon.
Later days.
Here I swear, and as I break my oath may ... eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge.... Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon; to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again -- I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley,
'O Spirit! centuries have set their seal
On this heart of many wounds, and loaded brain,
Since the Incarnate came; humbly he came,
Veiling his horrible Godhead in the shape
Of man, scorned by the world, his name unheard
Save by the rabble of his native town,
Even as a parish demagogue. He led
The crowd; he taught them justice, truth and peace,
In semblance; but he lit within their souls
The quenchless flames of zeal, and blessed the sword
He brought on earth to satiate with the blood
Of truth and freedom his malignant soul
At length his mortal frame was led to death.
I stood beside him; on the torturing cross
No pain assailed his unterrestrial sense;
And yet he groaned. Indignantly I summed
The massacres and miseries which his name
Had sanctioned in my country, and I cried,
"Go! go!" in mockery.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I absolutely loved it. Holy crap.
I have to see it again and then when it comes on DVD, I am so buying it that day. I don't care if I have to sell a frigging kidney to do it...lol I am buying it and watching them all in order.
Oh my god.
Loved it so much!
Spoilers in the extended entry. Do not read if you don't want to know anything. I didn't go crazy with spoilers but some people get pissy about even the littlest stuff.
Weird and cool things that also happened.
We had about 45 minutes to wait before our show time so we went across the street to this cool movie memrobelia store. The owner was in episode 4!!! He was just an extra, at age 19, he was an x wing mechanic. Neat huh?
After the movie, I had to pee something fierce so I go in the ladies room and this old lady with obvious problems came in and tried to take a pee right in the bathroom lobby!!!
She had her pants down around her knees and was getting ready to squat and like 9 women were just staring at her.
I said ma'am, the stalls are right around the corner. I had to help her into a stall.
It was sad but weird. She never did pull up her pants. I walked her into a stall with her pants down around her knees. All the women and myself saw all her bits. Good lord.
Ok, Padme did kinda sorta die in child birth.
She died of a broken heart. Everybody all together now...awwwww
So many questions were answered. How Anakin became Vader is one of the most powerful movie moments ever.
I was teary. I was gasping and so was every other person in the theater.
His first breath in the helmet was so powerful. Everyone was waiting for it and when he took it, the audience literally cheered.
Then when James Earl Jones' voice spoke for the first time, powerful man, just powerful.
It was so cool to see Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen. So cool. I was crying, I mean it. It was just beautiful.
Why didn't I put 2 and 2 together when Senator Organa was introduced in the first movie? Duh Kat...lol Leia Organa? Sheesh.
It was such a moving movie. Obi Wan and Anakins battle was amazingly cool and Obi wans final words to him as Anakin lay dying, were just so wow. I felt his pain and his anger and his sorrow.
Parts of it were kinda cheesy as we have come to expect with SW but the scene where Darth screams NOOOOO after learning that he himself was responsible for Padmes death was his cathartic moment.
He had done all he did, killed all those children and jedis because of his love for her, because the promises of the dark side were that he would be able to save her from dying in childbirth and in the end, his nightmares came true anyway. Padme died and he was unable to save her.
Childbirth is not what killed her. He did choke her. He was angry with her for siding with Obi Wan over him. He left her there and planned to come back to her after battling with his old master but she died from losing the man she loved to the dark side.
George Lucas is a bastard. He had Anakin kill the jedi children. It was a hard scene to watch and everyone gasped in horror. But these are the elements that turned Anakin into Darth. His killings, his betrayal of of the jedis, his hate and anger, his loss of true love, turned him forever evil.
You almost felt sorry for him as he lay there dying after his battle with Obi Wan. Almost. But his hatred for Obi Wan was strong and he was crying. His efforts to save his love were lost and he knew it.
It was really really cool to hear Senator Organa say commands to Capt. Antilles (ep 4). So cool. It was really neat how people that we have come to know in the later episodes were introduced as young characters.
I literally screamed Capt. Antilles! My kids just looked at me and Mark says "crying? why are you crying?"
I was crying because for 28 years, I have loved this story. I have watched them over and over and wanted to be there, wanted to know the whole story and I have it now. I know the whys, the whos', the hows'. It rocked.
I'm kind of sad that it is over now. I was elated watching it, I had all my questions answered but as I sat waiting for the bus home, I felt sad that this was it. It was finally over. The end of all the stories. The beginnings and the middles and now the end.
George Lucas owns me.
I bow before my master now and forever.
May the force be with you always.
My sis is out of town and we are speaking to each other again...lol Well anyway, we are feeding her cats and fish while she is gone so the boys go up there to feed them and call me and of course Mark has to be a smart ass when I answer the phone.
Me: Hello?
Mark: Guess what?
Me: What?
Mark: I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by calling Geico!
Me: ....
Mark: No mom, really, guess what?
Me: What?
Mark: There's a note and $60 on the table. It says take the boys to Star Wars.
Me: Quit playing around.
Mark: I'm not.
Me: Bring the note and money home and I'll check show times downtown...lol
Mark: Mom said yes!
Sebastian in background: Wooot!!!
Me: Hurry up...lol
Mark: Ok, bye. Sebastian, hurry up mom said!!!
*click*
So I checked show times and there are just tons of shows this afternoon so we are gonna catch a bus and go catch ROTS.
Be back later to tell you how it was.
I'm so excited!
I cannot wait to see Padme die and hear Lord Vader breath for the first time. Oh my god. 28 years in the making and it will finally all be whole, a complete story for me.
Yay!!!
If you haven't stopped by my jewelry site lately, you haven't seen what I have been up to. Lots of new pieces, sets, earrings, breastfeeding necklaces etc.
Stop by and take a peek.
Morning.
Not a whole lot going on here today. I'm just busy working on a lot of new pieces and they are slowly being uploaded to the site.
Mark is sleeping where he can stay if he's gonna be Mr. Cranky Pants again today.
Sebastian was already up and out to take care of sisters cats cuz she's out of town.
We're speaking again so in case you were wondering.
I need to do laundry, dishes, plan dinner, see if I get find this. 
It would come in very very handy. Want it. Bad...lol Not at that price though. There has to be a way to get that without paying that much...lol
So anyway, I'm off and on today. Things to do.
Later days.
Teenage pubescent angst that is.
I went to the bead store this morning. I made mention of this to both sons last night.
Sons, mom must go get large magnet bead in the morning. Will be back.
Ok mom.
I was gone less than an hour. Not even a full half hour.
I come home and there are 12 count 'em 12 frantic messages on the machine from oldest about how the school won't let him go home with Mikey.
Mom! Answer the phone! Moooooommm!!!!
I wasn't here dude, chill man.
I call the school. Tell them he can go. They say they will give his teacher the message. I think all is well, teen son-o number one-o will be happy.
Nope.
School never gives teacher message.
Son calls me quite pissed off.
You weren't home! Where were you! I was supposed to go. I explain. He goes ok. Hangs up. calls back, yells again and this time hangs up on me.
Grr.
He calls back again. Grr.
During hurricane number one last year otherwise known as Charley, Mark was sick the day before so all his books were at school. They used the school as a shelter.
We watched the news that night of the shelter and we actually watched on abc 40, people in HIS classroom going through books, desks etc cuz they were bored shitless being trapped at the school.
Ok? Following me so far? See where this is going yet?
His textbooks were stolen that night by shelter evacuees. Two of them.
When we learned this the day Mark went back to school, not only did I write a note but I called the school. No problem they said. We called, we explained, not his fault.
Yuh. How quickly they forget or maybe just never updated his records right?
So his last phone call to me was this; Mom! They aren't going to let me go to graduation ceremony on Monday cuz of those books! Either I find them or pay $165 for them or I don't go! They said I'll graduate but can't be in the march and stuff! Mom!!!
Chill little dude. Momma bear got your back. Relax.
So I call school. Hello? ****** Middle School, how may I help you.
Me: Text book and graduation policy person. Now.
Secretary: Yes ma'am.
Mrs. ****, media center.
Me: Hello, look I called you in August after Charley came through about stolen text books while you used the school as a shelter. You told my son he can't march or be in the ceremony. If I have to, I will call WWSB ABC 40 and get a copy of the tape showing evacuees in his classroom rummaging through students belongings.
Mrs. ****: Um, name of student?
Me: Mark C., grade 8 Chester, home base.
Mrs. ****: Yes, he has two missing text books, the cost is $165, can you bring a check?
Me: Did you hear me? I said I will get a copy of the tape from channel 40, local news station, proving that people were in HIS classroom rummaging through students belongings and the next day of school, his books were gone. He was absent the day before the hurricane so he was not there to clean out his desk.
Mrs. ****: You'll call abc 40 about this?
Me: Yes to prove to the school he is not responsible for those textbooks due to absence and then strangers rummaging through students belongings. We watched it on tv. I will call, get a copy of the segment and bring it to you because I am not paying for books stolen during a hurricane because the school didn't contain people to the gymnasium and instead allowed them into classrooms which should have been locked. A follow up story would be interesting wouldn't it?
Mrs. ****: No ma'am it wouldn't. He can be in the ceremony on Monday and graduate with his class.
Me: Thank you.
*click*
Heh.
Then he gets home, slams the door, goes to his bed, sleeps for 3 hours, comes out and starts yelling about having to mow his paid lawn job. $25 he gets for this and he's pissed off. Starts stomping, slamming, screeching, a few tears even came out.
I took about 10 minutes of this little performance before I put my foot down and yelled back.
Puberty or no puberty. I don't give a rats ass. You will respect me and talk to me like a rational human being and if you raise your voice one more time, you can forget all the fun graduation party things you were supposed to go to. 3-2-1, stop.
He stopped. He knows better.
He's off mowing the lawn.
I'm in for a long summer aren't I?
I went and came right back. Too frigging hot to stay out playing in stores all day. Don't have the money to anyway but I could sit in that guys bead shop all day. I love his stuff. I need to remember he's there more often instead of getting my supplies from on line suppliers so much. The shipping costs alone are killing me at one supplier and the other one I love doesn't have nearly as much as the bigger one with the pricey shipping.
So I have to complete the necklace now and I did grab a small strand of these pretty flower beads for mother daughter sets.
Ok, gotta run. Lots to do today.
Later days.
Man, I should have been doing that all along..lol
I closed off all comments last night before bed and wow, was it nice to get up this morning and not have spam and crap in my inbox.
Ahhh, no stress no mess baby...lol
Sorry to those of you in different time zones and stuff but man, some freaks come out at night and leave comments so I'm just gonna do that every night.
The boys actually only have today and Monday for school. They don't have to go Tuesday at all. Then why put it on the damn calendar school board? Sheesh.
I gotta get up and take a shower and run to the bead store.
I need a larger magnetic clasp or a breakaway if I can find one. I made this awesome breast feeding necklace for my friend in exchange for the use of her camera at the wedding and the magnetic clasps I have are far too small to hold it.
It's so cool looking though. Bright and colorful and shapes and textures. Sure to keep a baby busy instead of pinching his mamas' tits off.
She and I are both so late in exchanging our stuff. I was busy and then sick and she's been busy and ugh, so today around 1:30 or so, she's gonna have her necklace, I'm gonna have the wedding pics...lol
We are going to go see Star Wars ROTS next weekend as part of Sebastians birthday celebration.
We are not doing a party this year cuz all the kids up at the apartment complex are little heathens and until we get some decent kids in the hood again, he has no one to play with outside of his brother.
A family is moving in to the duplex next door though tomorrow. They have a 9 year old boy so yay! He'll have someone next door to play with again.
Ok, I gotta get moving along here, stuff to do, things to make.
Later days.
Easy stir fry.
1 tsp. vegetable oil
1 lb. boneless pork loin, cut into thin strips
3 cups sliced carrots
1/3 cup KRAFT Special Collection Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing
2 Tbsp. hoisin sauce
2 green onions, thinly sliced
HEAT oil in large skillet on medium-high heat. Add meat and carrots; cook 5 min.
STIR in dressing and hoisin sauce. Cook 7 min. or until carrots are crisp-tender.
ADD green onions; cook 1 min. Serve immediately.
It's cooking right now, smells awesome.
Grow up.
Stand up for what you say.
Have the courage of your words and leave your comments open.
If you can say it in defense of yourself, have the courage to let others defend themselves against your hatred and vile tongue.
Pussy ass bitch.
The boys are up and out the door to school already. I can't believe it, there's like less than 5 days of school to go. I don't even really know. I lost track in field trips and ceremonies and stuff. No clue. I'll ask the boys later.
Mark had a great time at his field trip to the Everglades. They weren't even there long, like maybe 3 1/2 hours which is just kinda silly cuz it takes 3 hours to get there and 3 to get back and why go if you're only gonna spend 3 hours?
Anyway, he comes back and he's all it was hot mom.
Me: Yeah, I know, I told you not to wear all black but noooo, no one listens to mom when she tells them it's like a jungle in the everglades which translates to SAUNA!
Him: Ok fine, you were right, next time instead of listening to the I told yous when I get back, I just won't go cuz I like black.
Me: *eye roll*
Him: *raised eyebrow* Don't roll your eyes at me. Just cuz you're always right doesn't mean I can't trrry to wear black ya know.
Me: Fine but wasn't it hot and icky and sticky and sweaty and mmm, mmm, mm, didn't the bus ride home smell sooo good cuz you and all your friends like black so much your deodorant was worn off 15 minutes after you got there?
Him: *squinty eyes* Yes! Oh my god mom it smelled sooo bad on the way home!
Me: Then next time, when I tell you to wear gray which is a gloomy color too cuz you'll be hot, you should just at least humor me and put it in your backpack to change into when you realize mom was right again.
Him: You're right, you're always right. But ha! There won't be a next time cuz school is over in a few days! Ha! Take that! *runs from room laughing like a maniac*
Me: Dufus!
Him: Know it all freak!
Me: Stinky!
Him: You like black too!
Me: Yes I do but if I was going someplace I knew it'd be hot I would wear gray!
Him: Arrrggghhh!!
Me: Go take a shower stinky pits!
Him: I am! I can't stand my own stench anymore!
Hahaha! I love to torment them.
I have some projects to do today and dishes and laundry of course.
I need to try and play catch up with you all.
I got some sleep last night which I didn't the night before but I don't think my body really cares. I'm still soo tired.
Feh.
I'll just nap.
Later days.
We just got back from picking up Mark from his field trip. The charter bus was an hour late. Grr. So Sebastian and I just sat there on school property for an hour being hot and sweaty and cranky.
We were able to catch the absolute last bus home thank the stars, and here we are now, wiped out and exhausted but dinner still has to be made and eaten. I'm just taking a mini break to suck down meds and say hello again. :)
I promise I will answer all comments and emails as soon as I can so if you requested access, please be patient, I will get to you. :)
Carrie, your order will be completed and scanned tonight and if you absolutely hate it or just so so hate it, just tell me and I'll work something else up. I like it. It's very bright and very different from everything else I have done.
Molly, I got the toggles in the mail today and just have to clasp up the bracelet and then I will get both orders if approved, in the mail on Saturday morning all at once by priority mail.
I have more supplies coming, (thanks Josephine, you rock sweetie!) and more and more ideas and designs will be coming soon.
For those of you who don't have access, I have big news but I am going to wait a little bit before I go public with it all.
I still have some stress I'm trying to shake off and get my blog bearings back.
Later days.
I have been working on an order that I wasn't sure about. I wasn't sure about the colors and shapes but once I laid them all out, it clicked.
I should have it completed sooner than I told the client. I just have to do the bracelet now.
Sebastian and I have to leave here pretty soon and go pick up Mark at school from his field trip and then come home and make dinner, do dishes and some stuff around the house.
Today has been a very good day and thank you all of you who commented elsewhere and here over the last few days. I truly appreciate all the love and support and encouragement. You don't know what it means.
Ok, gotta run.
Later days.
Hey everyone,
Sorry for the lack of posts, I was quite sick for a few days here and stressed out and stuff so I just took some much needed me time. In the 5 years I have been blogging, I have never taken more than a day without posting.
I am feeling much better and things are much better.
There is a private entry going to be up in a few minutes.
Important life happenings that I just don't want to share here right now.
If you lost your access, email me. Access is granted to those people I know, friends, family, bloggers I have known for awhile.
Thanks for understanding.
Later days.
I won't be around much right now.
I apologize.
Later days.
"Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no
longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent
allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below
to make this world a fit place to live in, instead of the sort of
place that the churches in all these centuries have made it."
[Bertrand Russell, "Why I Am Not A Christian"]
I'm out of smokes, I'm out of soda.
Blegh.
I have been cleaning the house and doing laundry and dishes and stuff cuz I feel slightly better. Fever's gone so I don't feel so bad.
But anyway, now that I am done with a lot of stuff and tired now and wanting to take a nap now, the minute I lay down and get comfy and close my eyes, the boys will come home.
Never fails.
I miss them but they have a great bad timing thing.
Later days.
Mikeys house last night.
I had the house all to myself and did nothing but sleep because I still have this icky cold.
Don't know when they'll be home but I have some stuff to do today.
I am going grocery shopping tomorrow so I am planning my menus and preparing my list and sorting my coupons. I just went through the Publix sale flier on line and man, they are having a ton of buy 1 get 1s so that helps tons in saving money.
I have some dishes to do, some laundry to do, a few pieces to make and stuff like that.
Speaking of laundry, the washer just stopped so time to go switch the loads over.
Have a great Saturday everyone.
Later days.
I have been dealing with some crap and I'm sick to boot so I have been not wanting to be blogging or really anywhere.
People were seriously ticking me off.
I learned some information that really pisses me off and that has made me not want to be doing much of anything either.
I learned that a woman I almost allowed into my life, is using her childs identity for bills and utilities.
I am a victim of identity theft thanks to my ex-mother in law, Sheila.
She not only did this to me but her own children as well.
Luckily for her daughter, she was a minor when it happened to her so she was able to clear it up but not without an awful lot of trouble and problems first.
You'd think showing them a birth certificate proving you were only 6 years old when a checking account and a few utilities were opened and never paid and therefore fraud committed would be enough to have cleared her name but no, she had to go to banks and show proof of age and residence at the time she was the age these accounts were all opened.
I wasn't so lucky.
I was already an adult when she stole mine so my credit is forever ruined.
I have credit cards and utilities all across the western states and a few speeding tickets to boot and I've only ever lived in Maine and Florida.
It's quite a shock when you get a photocopy of a drivers license that was used during a ticket and it's all of your information and someone else face.
I have been able to clear none of it.
After about 5 years of trying to prove that these credit cards in California and Utah were not me, I gave up. I simply couldn't keep up with her ever growing paper trail.
I have vowed that if she is ever caught, I will be the first one in line pressing charges. Her own daughter may beat me to it though.
Why do parents do this to their kids?
If you can't afford to pay off your debts, you have no business stealing the credit of your children to rack up more debt.
When I moved here, I had to prove I had only lived in Maine in order to get water, phone and electric and even then, I had to pay hefty deposits to get them. I had to show leases, pay stubs, letters from friends and former landlords etc etc.
Just wait until this kid grows up and tries to get his first credit card or buy his first home or even rent his first apartment and they tell him he can't because of a really bad credit score. Then he gets a copy of his credit report and sees he was just a kid at the time these things were opened in his name.
This mother will be lucky if he doesn't have her ass thrown in the slammer.
I learned a lot about people this week.
I learned there are people who put themselves out there and think they have real friends to only discover that these so called friends are just waiting for the perfect moment to berate them to anyone who will listen.
I learned once again that this is why I very rarely open up and trust people.
I do my best to be a good person and try to have an open mind and give people the benefit of the doubt but this week has surely been an eye opener. I also looked back on another person I met and man, I was a bit naive there too. So happy to have a friend that I overlooked some major warning signs of trouble or possible trouble.
It is never a good thing when shopping with a "friend" if they ask you to use your id to return something cuz oops, they forgot theirs.
If anything bad at all comes of that, you can bet your sweet ass names and address will be handed over faster than you can blink.
Later.
Help me.
Plans today include breathing and sleeping.
Later days.
But I saved it as draft.
I saved it and walked away from the computer for a few hours and laid on the couch and made jokes with my kids while Oprah was on.
I laughed and sniffled and they laughed and then I got an asinine phone call from Verizon.
Ma'am, you've been selected to receive a very special purchase offer and we can just add it to your phone bill.
I admit it, I was a bit snarky with the poor guy who had the dumb luck to call me while I was having a bad day.
I said to him, does your credit department actually look at the current phone bills of it's customers before they have you call them because if they did, they would see that I owe you guys some money. No it's not a lot but it's enough to where I would have to wonder why you would offer me a special deal on a $200 phone with all kinds of bells and whistles and let me charge it to my already back late bill?
Ma'am, it's random.
That's what I thought. Here's a suggestion, look at your customers bills before you offer to let them charge more and then later on, you won't have any reason to be upset and send disconnect notices when they can't pay the bill. *click*
I don't owe them a ton of money, I am just a little bit behind and that's ok. I am paying it off slowly and hopefully things will work out here soon and I can pay it off faster but damn, how stupid are they? I mean, I just called them a few weeks to a month ago and shut off my own services, the bells and whistles because I knew I was going to have rough times ahead and wouldn't be able to make full payments anymore for awhile. You'd think they would look into that before offering deals ya know?
But back to my saved entry.
I have had a couple of bad days web world wise and it all really just came to a head and blew up something fierce today and typical of me, I wrote a very nasty, scathing post pretty much slamming every asshat I came into contact with in the last few days.
It's mean. It's cruel. It's so very bitchy.
I think I pretty much ripped apart every single person who ticked me off...lol
I'm not gonna post it. I'll keep it in my saved entries and just go back to it every now and then and read it to learn from it.
I just re-read it a few minutes ago before I started this one and man, I can be so cruel when pushed. It would have seriously hurt the individuals who read it if they even read this blog.
And that was my intention at the time of writing it. To hurt the way they hurt people this week. The way they hurt their friends and people around them who trusted them and cared about them and then a few others who are just idiots.
I am going to discuss one issue that was brought up this week, tomorrow about identify theft because nothing pisses me off more than people who do that and nothing pisses me off even more than parents who do it to their own kids.
Later days.
Just tried to rest as much as possible.
Didn't really work ya know?
I just tossed and turned and coughed and sniffled.
But it's time to make dinner for the kiddos now so off I go.
Taco mac 'n cheese tonight.
They are so easy to please.
Later days.
Tired, snotty, cranky.
Later days.
Today has been a better day in regards to yesterdays crap anyway.
I caught a head cold though. Snot, congestion, slight fever so took some Nyquil at like 8am and promptly passed out until sometime around noon.
Not much else has been happening really.
I called and spoke to Sebastians attorney, things are moving again.
Why do people evade subpoenas? Why do they run from the law man? Don't they know that that is actually worse for their case then just coming forward and doing it the first time? Sheesh.
I have to call my disability attorney at 4 and get an update on my hearing. This is one long process but in the end, I know it will be in my favor because I was denied an out of area surgeon in Miami. Got the letter today. The 6th one.
I cannot go to Miami University hospital for them to even look at my back. That probably means I can't go to Shands or U of Florida either. They will not let an out of area doc look at me and no locals will touch my spine with a 100 foot pole so I'm slowly coming to terms with what will be my future.
I cried a little bit but I haven't given up hope yet. I am going to keep pressuring the insurance company for help and maybe even get a state rep or two involved if I get denied again.
Lifetime welfare benefits are only 5 years and with the disability hearing taking so long, I could easily go past the 5 year mark. They would have to continue to support me and I don't think they want to do that. That would require a state hearing wherein I could go and show the state court exactly how many times I and my doctors requested a surgeon and how many times it was denied. That wouldn't look very good now would it?
It's so funny to me sometimes how our governor and legislature would get involved and try to take custody of a comatose brain dead woman which would have cost the tax payers of this state millions of dollars over her lifetime for care yet they won't let me see a surgeon in Miami so that I could work again and be self sufficient. My surgery wouldn't cost nearly as much as that would have. Not even close, less than $60,000, yet I can't even go down there for an simple evaluation.
Don't you all find that a little odd?
It amazes me whose quality of life is considered more important.
Maybe I should email Jeb, tell him I'm a good Christian mom and beg for his help. Think that would work?
So, on with my day.
Later days.
I didn't tell you yesterday that both kids were home all day with a stomach thing did I?
We had some chicken on Monday night and by Tuesday morning, they were both squirming and complaining of stomach pains so I let them stay home.
They both went straight back to bed and slept until noon.
Today they are going.
Today is going to be a good day no matter what.
I am determined that ass hats will not get in my way today. Like I said, no more playing around with people who lie and love some drama like it's their own frigging tv show and they want an Emmy.
I am supposed to go meet a couple of people today but they have babies and I woke up snotty and congested.
I do not like making peoples kids sick so I will have to see how I feel as we get closer to departure time.
I'm hoping you all have a good day today.
Later days.
Today has been a day let me just tell ya that much.
I have had it coming at me from all sides today and those of you who know me, been reading me for awhile, know that I will only tolerate so much crap before I lash out in a factual in your face kinda way.
Don't say it if you don't want it coming back at you is one of my mottos.
I had a comment here on the blog from someone who was sick of me whining. Fine. I whine. I have the right. This is after all my blog that I pay for and my dsl service which I also pay for so I'll say whatever the fuck I want to say whenever I want to say it and if that includes whining, then so be it. Don't like it, click the little x up there and move on my friend.
I'm also tired of coddling pathetic behavior.
I am tired of treading on thin ice because so and so is fragile and needy.
Go be needy somewhere else.
What's that saying? Grow a thicker skin? Go. do. It Now. Because Kat is taking off the kidd gloves and is done playing this sick little game of nobody likes your ass, hold you bullshit. You played it so long, people don't like your ass.
You piss people off with your lies, your constant need for attention, your *wah* bullshit.
I am what I am and that is a strong, opinionated woman with a brain. If my opinions piss you off, then I've done my job well.
Don't hold my hand, offer me a fucking hug. I am not two years old having a temper tantrum. I am stating an opinion and hold firm to my beliefs. Don't like it, skip it!
Amended.
Why is it that when a woman has a strong opinion, other women think she has pms or is having a bad day or is in need of a hug huh?
Why can't a woman just have an opinion? Why do I need to have some physical reason or emotional reason to have one?
And then! Then when a woman has this opinion, other women go oh, I didn't know you'd be so touchy about it?
I'm not fucking touchy about it!!
I am now cuz people are pissing me off!!!
With great power comes greater aggravation.
That is all.
Good morning.
I've been up for about an hour.
My hips hurt so bad I couldn't lay there anymore.
Damned if I rest them, damned if I don't.
Mark is up and in the shower and getting ready for school, then Sebastian.
Not much going on here on the home front today.
I am still waiting for my supplier to get one certain type of bead in so I can complete an order. It's been what, a little under 2 weeks now since I ordered them all and that one was missing.
I feel awful that I don't have it because the lady is so so patient waiting for her order. If I could substitute the bead I would but they are designed very specifically and it would look odd. I tried it last night. Juts very odd without that particular bead.
I still need Kristin to email me with Stellas wrist size and whether or not she wants two bracelets or just the one.
None of my emails are being answered and some to one of her accounts are bouncing back. Email me girl.
I am just piddling around here for the most part today. Weeding through old threads on the forums, deleting them to speed up the board. They are just games so no big deal.
Well, that's really all.
Later days.
I made this turquoise and "snake head" bali bead bracelet for Sols' wife. :)
Having a bad back day. You know the drill.
Later days.
You can see everything here.
P.S. Miss Kristin, (Stellas Mom) I need you to email me please with the wrist size of Stella and whether or not you need two instead of just the one bracelet. Thanks.
The boys and I have no real plans today other than to clean the house...lol
Yeah, we are cleaning on mothers day.
It got away from us this week so we are gonna clean it all up and hang out and watch movies, a typical Sunday around here.
I tried finding a cutesy little graphic and didn't feel all that cutesy this morning so I gave up.
I will make breakfast and dinner nd the boys said they'd behave all day.
Sounds good enough to me.
Hope you all have a great day with your moms and your families.
Later days.
Sebastian just remembered he made me something for mothers day and dug it out of his back pack.
It's a head. He calls it Bob.
I love this kid.
I just laid around most of the day today and then got up and got the mail and in it was another beautiful hand made card for mothers day from Christine.
That is the exact card she sent me. Isn't it pretty? She does such good work. I love them when I get them so much. I have a whole collection of her home made cards now. Thanks girl. :)
I just did the dishes and may start a load of laundry. I know I said I wasn't going to but I seriously don't know what happened between yesterdays 3 loads of laundry and today. There's at least two more loads now. It just never ends.
I got a book to read in the mail from Mommy had a diva for a book swap she and I did.
I need to answer a ton of emails and start dinner at some point.
The boys are gone to the beach for awhile so I have some time to do that.
Later days.
Ok, I'm sore...lol
But it was fun and my boys wanted to dance with me so it was worth it.
It's gonna be a quiet couch day I'm afraid.
The boys are off playing and stuff so it should be quiet enough.
Dishes and the house will just have to wiat until later when I can actually bend or move, or twist or stand up....lol
Later days.
It was so beautiful, Amy was gorgeous, George was handsome, it was great.
They had Mark and the flower girl go down the aisle so quickly, I didn't get a picture of him then. :(
But I got a great picture of him outside the reception and some great ones inside.
The catholic priest who married them was so funny. Oh my god, he was the funniest priest I have ever seen in my life! He was this thick Italian accented little old man who thanked Amy for not being a runaway bride!...lol
He told jokes, he was just classic.
The couple who sat in front of us was hysterical too. Oh my lord, they were in their 70's at least and made jokes about their own marriage the whole ceremony.
Sebastian and I rode from the wedding to the reception in the limo!
The reception was held at the Waterside room on Sarasota Quay. It overlooked the waterfront and was simply elegant and delightful.
There was so much Italian food and champagne and an open bar for those who drink and let me tell ya, they drank...lol
I had 2 sips of the champagne for the toast.
Georges dad, what a sneaky old man he is.
He kept tricking me into giving him kisses...lol
Come here, gimme a hug, you got a great boy, we love him, *smack*!
Georges mom was so sweet and calls herself Marks other grandma. (awww) They adore him. Every single member of the family told me how wonderful he is and how much they love him and everyone sought me out to tell me what a great son I have.
Every time I sat down, Marks mother! Where are you? And over they would come to tell me what a pleasure it is to meet such a fine young man, how gentlemanly he is, how sweet, kind, loving, polite. I was overwhelmed and beaming with joy all night long. :)
He did such a great job for a kid who's never stepped foot in a church never mind a catholic one, he bowed and knelt at all the right places and knew where to go and what to do.
He danced with all the ladies at the reception from the little girls to the old ladies and was just terrific!
Sebastian was a perfect little gentleman too. He was sweet and polite and his usual helpful self in formal situations.
I got some great pictures of the whole thing. I almost killed Lauras battery. I got the cake, the first dance, the ring exchange, Georges dad doing his whistler dance. His dad was a clown in the circus so you can just imagine how funny this was.
I even got up and danced with my kids a few times and I'm sure I'll pay for that tomorrow but it was a wonderful time. We all had such a great evening.
Pictures won't be posted for a few days or so. I have to get Lauras camera back to her and she is going to email them to me.
Thank you so much Laura.
I would have been very upset if I hadn't gotten any at all and my little digital has no flash and kinda sucks so thank you so so so much.
And then we got home, changed into comfy clothes, the kids are camping out in the other room and I checked my email and one of the people who signed up under me at Blingo, won a free movie ticket so that means I won one too! Thank you! This will come in handy come Star Wars time if it gets here by then.
So what a great end to a very stressful week huh?
A great time at the wedding and reception lots of compliments on my fine young men and a free movie ticket!
The boys are dressed, Mark looks so handsome. Once I return the cam to Laura, she's gonna email them to me and oh, wait till you see my handsome young man.
It should be a good time.
I'll probably be back very late so maybe no posting till tomorrow morning.
Later days.
Do not show to young boys stuff like this weeks before it opens or you will never ever hear the end of it.
They will take every stick, every towel, every flashlight and pretend to do battle with light sabers everyday knocking many things over in the process.
When I'm right, I'm right as rain.
It's pouring.
home by about 5 of Georges family members, one of them being Georges mother.
Every single person in that car said what a wonderful son I have, how sweet and polite and charming he is. They love him like he's blood.
The mom started crying.
I have good kids. *beaming*
I'm so whooped today so today is my easy day and I don't care how the house looks or anything. I am not cleaning anything but the laundry.
Laundry must always be done.
I will try to stop around to see everyone at some point. I have just been awful with that this week.
Later days.
So we took the bus down town to drop off Mark and had plans to grab the next bus home. We would have made it too if it hadn't been the red light and traffic from hell.
Sebastian and I ended up taking the long way home, completely different bus that only went halfway home.
So Sebastian and I walked home. It took us 45 minutes and it was 45 minutes in hell.
By the time we made it to Petes corner store, I was dying.
I am officially toast.
Mark will be home around 10 or 11 and then tomorrow is the big night so I need to rest and chill for the rest of the night and all day tomorrow.
Later days.
The ride to Ellenton was nice, thank you so much Laura for the ride and as always, a huge thank you to Jenni for saving my ass and talking me out of throwing up at midnight.
I did a bad bad thing trying to hem these pants and I ruined them and I swear, I almost threw up about 12 times.
48 hours before the wedding and I ruined the pants. Oh god, it was awful.
But!
I have pants! The exact same pants just in a shorter length so yay! No hemming...lol
Now when the boys get home, Mark needs to rest a bit, then take a shower and get dressed nicely for tonights rehearsal and then tomorrow is the big day.
I think I need a nap. I barely slept from all the pants stress...lol
Pardon me while I bitch up a storm.
I really screwed up the pants so I went on a mission to find them and find them I did at Overstock.com
I was elated, overjoyed, ecstatic and oh look! They offer NEXT DAY AIR.
I was thrilled to pieces until I saw the following:
Ship Options: (Items will arrive via Fed Ex or UPS)
OPTION: COST: DELIVERY:
Ground Flat Rate 5-10 Business Days
3 Day $15.85 3-5 Business Days
2 Day $17.80 2-4 Business Days
Next Day $34.75 1-3 Business Days
Notice how next day air is $34.75 and takes 1-3 business days?
I called the 800 number before I hit submit on the order form. I asked them if I did it right this second, would I get them next day air as I am paying for.
No ma'am.
When would I get them?
Monday.
Monday?
Yes ma'am.
But it says next day air and you are charging almost $40 to get them next day air so how can you do that? How can you say next day when it's actually slower than the US postal services priority mail which takes 2 days and only costs $3.85?
Ma'am, that's just the way it works.
I hung up.
I did find the pants locally. Well sort of. In Ellenton at the outlet mall. I am headed there at noon thanks to a friends offer of a ride.
It's a pants emergency dammit.
But what the fricking hell?
They charge that much and it's that slow of a delivery?
I'm glad I called. I would have had false hope and then probably had to shoot myself at 3pm tomorrow an hour before the wedding.
You suck overstock.com. You really suck and you rip people off.
Yay.
You can stop the bullshit any time now.
How many bad days in a row are you gonna give me?
Later.
Stitch witch!! Wrong side of black pants!!!
Help me!!!!!
Wedding Friday!!!!!!!!
ACK!!!!!
Seriously people who do cloth altering and sewing etc etc. How do I get it off? Like now???
Pork chops, fried rice and banana bread.
What are you having?
I just found this on my desktop on the other pc.
He's so sweet when he wants to be.
Click for bigger.
My new scanner showed up today and I just had to set it up and test it right away!
It works awesome!
I re-scanned one of my bracelets that didn't look right at all with the old dying Vistascan and look at it now.
Thank you girl!
This is the exact same one I had put on my wish list and was going to buy and she emailed to tell me to get it off of there.
Thank you so so much Christine.
This is beautiful and fast and look at that image! You can actually see the colors now!
It's been raining all day so far but now it is pretty bad. Thunder, lightning, big fat rain drops.
It sucks.
It's dark in here but I hate lights. I just hate to waste money on lights...lol
OOooh, I have lots of candles though.
Thank whoever too cuz it was hellish.
As if you couldn't tell right?
The whole day was just a pain in the ass right from the word go.
Give Sebastian a day off and watch him tear your brain out.
It started before we even left the house with him.
He was loud, he was rude, he was obnoxious. Mark made it worse by being a typical brother yelling at him and calling him names and the whole day was the 2 of them arguing with each other all damn day.
Things just got progressively worse when we got home too.
Whatever people.
Have it your way. I don't fucking care anymore.
Run wild, act like asses, do whatever the hell makes you feel like a winner I say.
If it makes you feel good to sit here and spy on me instead of speak to me, do that. Good for you. Rock the fuck on.
The only good things about yesterday is I got the wedding present I set out to get, actually got the kids teeth cleaned on the 4th try, the lady at the corner store out in the bad place gave us an extra box of fried chicken to take home cuz we had to sit and wait for a bus for 45 minutes.
We bought a 10 piece cuz we had to wait so long and I figured food would settle them down and get them to chill out.
We ate it and then sat in the heat for almost an hour for our bus to go home getting called names.
We hear her yelling at us to come back over there so we go back over and she says take this home. You've had a horrible day. So whatever that term means, she knows its a bad thing too.
The chick at Bed Bath and Beyond at the Pavilion, needs to like either quit her job or loosen the fuck up.
It took her all of 2 seconds to print out the gift registry and less than a minute to gift package it. Sorry if it ruined your whole fucking day bitch to have to do your fucking job.
Frankly I was her easiest customer in line and oh so sorry she had to put my present in a gift bag, stuff in some tissue paper and tie a fucking bow on it. The woman behind me had like 12 things to return all without a receipt. Get over it. It's your job. Be happy you have one at all.
The kids argued over who was gonna feed the cats when we got home, who was gonna change the litter, who was gonna bring in the recycle bins.
Who was gonna call their aunt to make life easier and no it didn't make it easier. It didn't resolve anything at all.
I'm not trash talking Mr. Spy. I'm talking about my life, how I feel. If you don't like the way I feel, go away. No one asked you to sit here in judgment of me. No one asked you do anything.
You wanna help? Stay out of it. It's none of your business at all is it? Oh wait, yeah it is. Pardon me.
I forget that whatever happens and I write it down is for other people to fix and sit and judge.
The kids are getting ready for school, I have an order to do and some ideas to tackle. I also have some dishes and some housecleaning, some stuff to post on the many places I go to, my life keeps moving.
Later days.
That's exactly how I felt.
Apparently calling white people Micheal Jackson is the new slang for whitey.
The dentists office is out at my docs which is in that part of town that I get into trouble on here for calling the ghetto.
It is people. Get over it.
While waiting for our bus home, we got called Micheal Jackson several times. At first I was like what? Then I figured it out. It's the new slang for white people.
So the boys teeth are cleaned, the wedding gift is purchased, the cats have food and litter and we have tp.
We are home and exhausted.
But I did figure out exactly where the church was so it shouldn't be too big of a deal to get him dropped off and then run back to the bus stop Thursday night for the last bus back.
I hope.
Oh and an amusing aside, people who use anonymouse who are here looking at my blog thinking I can't figure out who you are, I still know what system you're using, what time zone you're in and your carrier.
Anonymouse isn't as anonymous as you think.
You've been watching me, I've been watching you and I knew sooner or later you'd make a move. You did. Having fun? Is the show good enough for ya? Make sure you tip your hostess on the way out.
Later days.
Jenni mail, check.
Karen mail, check.
Mom mail, check.
Verizon bill, check.
Free DVD mail, check. The boys chose Man in the Iron Mask. Swords, fighting, boy stuff so eh, I like it too, whatever.
Now the boys are taking showers, eating breakfast, getting dressed to head to the dentist and then we are outta here at 11:30 for a long fun filled afternoon of teeth cleaning and lectures and wedding presents and cat litter etc.
*dizzy*
I wish I could just snap my fingers and have it all done already.
I need to get moving here.
Need to get in a shower, run to the ATM, come back, go to post office, go to dentist, BB&B, all kinds of stuff.
Hope you all have a great day.
Later days.
Finding Neverland is an absolutely beautiful movie.
Such a wonderful story, brilliant acting by everyone.
That little Peter, my god, those tears were so huge you would have thought his mother in real life had died.
And seriously, I cried so hard watching that little boy, one of my contacts fell out and instead of get up and go put it back in, I just sat there on the couch holding it in between my fingers sobbing the whole last half hour.
Brilliant.
I loved it.
I'm just not physically ok today.
I need to rest as much as possible because I have so much to do this week. Oh my god, this week sucks.
Tomorrow, first thing in the am, get up, go to the ATM, go to the bus, ride for 45 mins, pay water bill, walk about 1 mile, pay elec bill, wait for bus to come home, get back home, get boys ready to go to the dentist again (they better do it this time or someones gonna die), go to bed bath and beyond and get Amy and George a wedding present, come home, go to post office and mail everything out.
Wednesday, iron and hem Marks suit, get all the cat hair off of it too.
Thursday, get Mark all the way downtown at 6pm for rehearsal and rehearsal dinner. This is quite a feat since the buses stop running at 6:30. He won't be home until after 11pm.
Sebastian and I may just get stuck downtown for the night. Yay.
Friday, Get everyone ironed, pressed, cleaned up, teeth brushed, deoderized, grab wedding present, borrow camera from Laura (Thank you Laura!!!) ride buses all the way downtown, go to happy joyous occasion, take pics of my baby all grown up and in a suit handing over the rings for his Big George and his new wife Amy, take pics of all of them together. Walk to the reception hall. Have fun at the reception, wish them good luck, beg someone for a ride home.
Sometimes, I hate my life. Before you even ask why I'm taking buses and begging for rides home etc, sis was supposed to go to the wedding with us. She's still mad, so we walk and take buses. I don't care anymore. Grr. Ok, I do care. It makes it kinda hard for Mark. She promised she'd get him to the wedding and stuff on time and everything but cuz she's pissed at me, too bad for Mark. I think I'm just gonna make him wear shorts and stuff for the ride down, go early and carry his suit in the garment bag so it doesn't get wrinkly and smelly on the bus.
So anyway, I have mega stress this week. I think I'm just gonna chill out most of today and watch Finding Neverland. Didn't watch it last night cuz DH was on and I never miss DH. Susan is gonna get hurt people!!! GAH!!
Later days.
Very much!
I went and returned Napoleon and told them that it sucked so they gave me a free rental.
So Sebastian wanted to get some cartoon Star Wars thing and I grabbed Finding Neverland because everyone said it was really good and I don't mind a Kleenex fest. My boys saw it in the theater and said they cried, George cried, everybody cried so yay, let's all cry...lol
I had to go down there anyway because all my scripts were ready. 2 of them weren't supposed to be ready until the 7th but my insurance let them go in today so yay! All my meds a little ahead of schedule! Woot! No waiting, no missing meds for a few days, yes!
So anyway, we are watching Tales from the Darkside on UPN right now and when this goes off, they are gonna watch that Star Wars thing and I have a set to make for Jenni now that she called me with her wrist size.
Good talking to ya, twice...lol
She rocks by the way. Have I told you that? In case I didn't, she does. I'm like seriously gonna owe her a cut of my profits when I start making some. She is working just as hard as I am helping me with everything. I loves ya babe.
Since I started, every penny has been turned right back around and put back into the biz buying more supplies and shipping to customers and what not. I figure anymore beads and I'm gonna need another one of these, 64 Drawer Hardware Storage Cabinet - Gray/Blue
It rocks. It's so perfect for my beads and findings. I have them rainbow organized for easy finding and stuff. I love it. I just knew it was gonna be good when I saw it listed. Oh, and I added some buy now buttons to certain pieces on my bead pages for easy shopping.
I take paypal and postal money orders only right now so people have options if they want something made. There is still time for mothers day. I can priority ship and I make my stuff really fast. The cut off for mothers day though is definitely the 5th. I can't guarantee delivery after that date.
Ok, I talked long enough...lol
Later days.
I had 4 new pieces to scan and put up before I shipped some of them off to their buyers. (Thanks!)
You can check out my new bead blog and my designs here.
If you had my old bead pages bookmarked, please make sure to update it to the new url.
I have some turquoise I want to mess around with later today. I have an idea that has been eating at me for days now since the supply order came in.
If you want to order anything that is pre-made or a custom order, please use this email address.
I have been having so much fun with the new stones and findings I picked up and have just been jotting down tons of ideas.
I know, those aren't the lyrics but who cares.
It rained really hard here last night and the wind whipped and knocked plants down and made a big mess.
Not much going on today, just have a jewelery order to complete and package to ship out on Tuesday. Actually two if Jenni would get her ass in gear and tell me her damn wrist size. ;)
Ok, need to get busy.
Later days.