If technology was sufficiently advanced, would you be willing to clone yourself?

Hell no!! One of me is more than this world can handle.

At the local grocery store you see an elderly woman shoplift a chicken. Do you tell the management?

No, it’s none of my business and I’m to busy anyways with all 4 kids to have seen it anyways.

If you could be 8 years old again for an entire day, knowing what you know now, how would you spend it?

Knowing what I know now, I would take the day to just spend it playing with my Pappaw.

As much as I hated using the “tough love” route, it worked. I probably lost a good friend by doing it and I hate that, but in the long run he’ll feel better for it. He’s a good person and was a good friend that would have done anything in the world for me and I’m unfortunate to have lost his friendship, but life moves on.

So anyways life is good. Tery and I are doing great. We really don’t argue much anymore, just over silly things that all married couples argue over (or at least I hope all married couples argue over). My job is going well, I can’t find anything I dislike about it. Everyone is wonderful there, they are very supportive and a lot of fun. The benefits are out of the world.

We’ll be heading off to Chicago again here in a month for our final (Eddie is getting old) Halloween bash and we’re definately looking forward to that. I really miss everyone there. I’m hoping Rita still comes down to see me, I WUV her to death!!

OMG!! is there refuge from the insanity of the kids? They are going nuts! SuperNanny come help me!! They are so wound up and I don’t know why. I’ve read every book I can get my hands on. I’ve made charts, I’ve bargained, I’ve beat, I’ve yelled, I’ve grounded, nothing works. It is utter chaos around here. Something that should take me 10 minutes to do takes me an hour. So in light of that I’m off to get them under control…. I wonder what I did with that duck tape….

You’ve won $100,000 – but have to give it all away . To which charity or institution would you donate it?

I would donate it to the local children’s hopsital. Just for the small amount of time I’ve been there with my own kids they have gone out of their way to make us comfortable and it would be well worth it.

What do you think is the most soothing sound?

The sound of a baby sleeping. The rythmic breathing of a peaceful slumber.

Does time heal all wounds?

I don’t think the wounds ever truly heal, you just become stronger from them. I have some very deep wounds and they are no where near healed, but I am a stronger person from them.

Thank you Lisa, you really made me reach and think on this one.

I never really understood what this was until here recently. I mean I did, but never thought it would be something I would have to use until my children were grown. Hopefully even then I wouldn’t have to go through it. Anyhow. Recently a good friend fell on some hard times and I offered to help out. He lost his father, and essentially lost his home to for the time being. Terry and I opened our home to him. The week before he came I gathered numbers to different agencies and made phone calls to get the ball rolling for him so that he could get his life back on track and make the transition back into his own home as easy as possible. He got out of the hospital on Friday and I do understand over the weekend, there isn’t a whole lot you can do, but he didn’t budge off of the couch all weekend long. I tried to empathetic, he just lost his father, he’s going through a rough time, but you have to snap out of this, you have a lot to do. Monday came and went and he didn’t do anything. Tuesday, Terry asked him if he had any luck with the numbers I had given him and he said he hadn’t called any of them. Terry told him get a move on or your on your own, you’ll have to go. Wednesday, he made some calls, but none of them had to do with him moving back into his home. This is the point where I decided something needed to be done. I contacted a friend of ours that had been working with me to get a church group together to help him with what he needed and she was coming by to talk to him and go by his home to see what needed to be done, he wouldn’t even answer the door. I made my decision then. The only way to help him was to say no more. This hurt me more than he will ever know. He may never forgive me, but hopefully he will realize eventually I did what was best for him and for my family. If he has to go to a shelter for a short time then maybe he will be more motivated to get the things done to get things in order for his life to be back on track. I’m very sorry things went this way and I hope someday he can find it in his heart to forgive me.

I looked all over for a picture to post of how I felt, but couldn’t find anything that really showed it. I just feel free. I feel like this burden has been lifted. I know I said in the past I loved my job, but as time wore on I got to this point of where it felt like I was one of those workers you see in the old black and white movies going into the factories. The place was a hell hole. We of course lost people after the holidays, then they couldn’t get people back in because the people they interviewed couldn’t pass their drug screenings. Then the ones that did pass wouldn’t make it pass the 90 days or were lazier than hell. I finally got serious about a month ago about looking for another job and started looking elsewhere and they weren’t happy about that which was the breaking point. I don’t think it was legally done, but I’m not going to fight it because it’s not worth the time or the effort in the long run and I wouldn’t go back for all the money in the world. Even if it was to prove a point. It was causing problems at home with the hours and it was also causing problems for my children with the situation they were in at the sitters. So hid site is 20 20 they say and I will move on and lesson learned.

Okay so all of you camera mom’s are going to gasp and probably send me bad camera mom vibes and the such, but I was going to upload pics of the kids and have not only misplaced my cable, but can’t get my card out of my camera to use my card reader. I know, I’m an awful person. Bad me, I should be hung from a tree and beat. I have a million and 1 cables at my feet and not one of them is the right one. I will have to ask my wonderful son where he stashed it. As of late the only cable I’ve really had a love affair with has been my mp3 player cord. I know it’s around here somewhere and tomorrow I will get it and upload these pictures because I have some damn cute pictures of the kids and have to post them. I’m dying for you all to see them. So with that I will bid you all good night and go off to read my new book on healing myself and my heart or pride, you choose… Whatever. Hugs all!!

Quick! Off the top of your head list 4 words to describe you today, just as you are right now. (It could be thinking, feeling, looking, etc.- use your imagination.) Rejuvinated, renewed, like a huge weight has been lifted off of my shoulders.

If you had an extra hour in your day today what would you do? Sit out in the gazebo and listen to my MP3 player and think about how nice it is not to be exhausted over getting up at 3 in the morning.

When is the last time you got lost and what happened? I never get lost. I just never do. I have this internal GPS thing that I was lucky enough to be gifted with from birth. Also I Mapquest if there is a chance of me going somewhere if there it is important to be on time. Other than that I love to drive and it’s always just for fun.

Hello… I missed you all, really I did. I just got kinda hung up in life the last few months. Between that hell hole I was working in and school being out, I just couldn’t keep up. I have to say thanks to the new little bitch at work though, I don’t have to worry about returning to the hell pit anymore. I won’t go into the dramatics of that, but we’ll just say at least I’ll have my life back, I can get a normal job and live a normal life now. After all, that place was only supposed to be a bridge into the workforce, not a career move. So how has everyone been doing? I’ll have to take a couple of days to catch up with everyone and comment the hell out your blogs, so watch out it’s going to be SPAM city!!! LOL! Terry and I are doing great, little spats here and there, but nothing out of the norm for a married couple, which is good. Kids played ball this year and I have pictures I’ll have to post and posting I will do over the next few days, they are so cute and growing like weeds. So I will see you all a lot in the next few days. Hugs all!!

If your house was burning and you only had time to rescue three non-living things what would they be? MY Camera, my hard drive (pictures), the only picture I have of my pappaw.

If you were to take a week long car trip with your family or friends, what complaint are you most likely to hear from your fellow travelers? What complaint would they most likely hear from you? Usually I hear that I am mopey (sp?). I’ve been on plenty of family trips and they always split off and I get pushed off to the back by myself. So therefore I get accused of being mopey. My biggest complaint is not being included. I hate feeling like a third wheel and the family ALWAYS makes me feel this way and I hate it. Now if it’s just Terry and me and his sister and BIL that’s cool, we have a great time. Other than that, I hate family/friend tips.

What or who encourages the child in you to come out and play? The guys. I guess I’m such a tomboy at heart I connect better with the guys and then I get goofy and the inner child comes out.

Last week was my birthday and no that is not my cake. My lovelies (out of respect I won’t post what I would like to say) destroyed it before I could get a picture of it. It was cute, my mom put little bunnies and chicks around it with all the little flowers and pretties as usual. It sucked. It was cold, I was tired, the kids were fighting, and Terry was doing a side job.

Our trip to Gatlinburg was great and we had a wonderful time. The weather was beautiful. We really enjoyed our time there.

This was our little cabin. It was very nice inside and I would recommend Auntie Belham’s to anyone who asks, very accommodating and well kept cabins.

I could live up here and be happy. Away from the hustle and bustle of everything.

Now I have 2 pictures that I was trying my hand at trying the auto setting and the manual setting on my camera. It was a waterfall and I wanted the still effect and the flowing effect. The auto setting is sootc and the manual I had to do some rotation and enhance because I didn’t have my tripod (duh) and had to set the camera on the hood of the truck.

Auto - and it actually seems a little blurry… Hmmmm…

Manual - I rotated it a little to the left because it was a little off, darkened it a bit and cropped it. So a little work and it turned out pretty good for a first. Practice, practice, practice!

Who would ever believe that this small town makes as much profit as it does. Wow!

Okay I have to hurry, but I’m gonna get this done! I have appontments with the kids this morning then I’ll be back to gossip, show pics of Gatlinburg, bitch and the norm…

What flavor of ice cream best describes your personality? Probably some crazy Ben and Jerry’s concoction. Nutty, sometimes bananas, to most nasty (personality wise).

If your life was a weather vane, which direction would it be pointing right now? The opposite of where I am right now. Somewhere away.

What is one field or profession that you have never pursued, but that you think you would most likely have been quite good at? Librarian. I love books, I was always awesome at the dewey decimal system, just never thought I would pursue it as a career.

Okay now before I try to kill the lump of shit on the couch that won’t move for anything to do anything I better go hurry to make sure the kids are fed, dressed and ready to go before I get my shower and get ready for our 9:30 appt.