What do you feel is the biggest waste of time?
Arguing. I’ve spent way to much time doing it and it gets me absolutely no where. I try to get my point across and I feel like it falls on deaf ears and I’m done. I obviously have different views on things then others and I will stand strong on how I feel, maybe that’s a fault I have, maybe it’s not. Either way, I’m not arguing about it any more.

If I knew then what I know now…
That education IS everything. I had an opportunity for a free ride through college and pissed it away. Now I’m working for a little over minimum wage in a position that will go no where. I’m also getting to an age where age discrimination is becoming an issue because there are kids willing to make what I’m making and be happy making it. So if I knew then what I know now, I’d go to school and make something of myself.

How do you feel your life has changed over the past year?
I’ve severed ties. I’ve made new friends. I’ve made the concious decision to keep the new friends at a distance. I don’t know if that’s good or bad, it’s a trust issue. I’ve gone back to work to regain some of my independence. I guess there’s other things I’m not thinking of right now, but they couldn’t be all that bad.

I very rarely post jokes I get in my email, but sometimes I get ones that warrant passing to you all so here goes…

What starts with an “F” ?

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A first-grade teacher, Ms. Brooks, was having trouble
with one of her students. The teacher asked, “Harry,
what’s your problem?”

Harry answered, “I’m too smart for the 1st grade. My
sister is in the 3rd grade and I’m smarter than she
is! I think I should be in the 3rd grade too!”

Ms. Brooks had had enough. She took Harry to the
principal’s office.

While Harry waited in the outer office, the teacher
explained to the principal what the situation was. The
principal told Ms. Brooks he would give the boy a
test. If he failed to answer any of his questions he
was to go back to the 1st grade and behave. She
agreed.

Harry was brought in and the conditions were explained
to him and he agreed to take the test.

Principal: “What is 3 x 3?”

Harry: “9″.

Principal: “What is 6 x 6?”

Harry: “36″.

And so it went with every question the principal
thought a 3rd grader should know.

The principal looks at Ms. Brooks and tells her, “I
think Harry can go to the 3rd grade.”

Ms. Brooks says to the principal, “Let me ask him some
questions.”

The principal and Harry both agreed.

Ms. Brooks asks, “What does a cow have four of that I
have only two of?”

Harry, after a moment: “Legs.”

Ms. Brooks: “What is in your pants that you have but I
do not have?”

The principal wondered, why would she ask such a
question!

Harry replied: “Pockets.”

Ms. Brooks: “What does a dog do that a man steps
into?”

Harry: “Pants”

Ms. Brooks: What’s starts with a C, ends with a T, is
hairy, oval, delicious and contains thin, whitish
liquid?

Harry: “Coconut.”

The principal sat forward with his mouth hanging open.

Ms. Brooks: “What goes in hard and pink then comes out
soft and sticky?”

The principal’s eyes opened really wide and before he
could stop the answer.

Harry: “Bubble gum”

Ms. Brooks: “What does a man do standing up, a woman
does sitting down and a dog does on three legs?”

Harry: “Shake hands.”

The principal was trembling.

Ms. Brooks: “What word starts with an ‘F’ and ends in
‘CK’ that means a lot of heat and excitement?”

Harry: “Firetruck”

The principal breathed a sigh of relief and told the
teacher, “Put Harry in the fifth-grade, I got the last
seven questions wrong……

Everyday I come on and check comments, check and see who all has stopped by and even sometimes check out others’ blogs. It always amazes me who comes by and then others it’s like a warm family feeling and I chuckle to myself. Some when you see their location you realize how close to home they are, whether it’s next door or 1000 miles away and you wonder if there’s some connection you are unaware of. I hope if there’s anyone out there visiting, and you are connected you would at least drop a line or two, I don’t mind. Hope to hear from you soon.

Girl Scout Cookies

This is always a fun time of year, trying to beat the other little girls to the doors to peddle our wares. This year we sold a little over 200 boxes, and now my living room has become engulfed with cookies. All of those extra grocery bags that have accumulated because it’s a habit that’s hard to break, will again be of use as I send off cookies to all of my buyers. We have 2 cookie shops to work with the troop and then it will be over for another year… Thank God!!

Warming Up Again

Thankfully it looks like we might start warming up, I’m crossing my fingers. The promise of the warm up is Terry is finally going to put a motor in my other van, I’ve only been waiting for 4 years for this. The grass will start to grow, I can start planting flowers and I’m feeling great about it all. I think the kids are sensing the impending warmness, they are getting antsy. I think even my itchy trigger finger is wanting to snap some pictures, but I’ll at least wait until this nasty muddy looking snow is gone.

Saturday was a bad/good day. It started out on the bad side, crappy weather, crappy attitudes at work and the sort. I got the van stuck and the girl across the street helped me dig it out. I then spent an hour and a half shoveling snow so that it wouldn’t happen again. Of course when the van got stuck it was because the people who bought the house next door was parked in front of my house… LOL!!! I let out a slur of comments and now I’m going to have to eat crow and apologize. I really don’t want to make my neighbors hate me, especially when they are just moving in. I’ll apologize and explain how bad the day had been and what shits the previous neighbors had been. Hopefully they’ll forgive me and not think of me as the white trash next door neighbor. Besides that, I want to introduce them to that mouthy mutt of mine and let them know she is far from the vicious attack dog she pretends to be. So wish me luck, I’ve been watching for them to come back and so far haven’t seen them, but I know they eventually have to return. Jeez oh peets, the crap I get myself into…

What is the quality that you like least about yourself? I guess how sensitive I am about things. I generally come off as a hard ass, but in all reality I’m not. I’m sensitive, insecure and easily hurt by others.

My life would be simpler if… I were a stronger person.

Do you generally take the high road or the low road? It would depend on the importance of what I was trying to accomplish at the time. If it’s something important to me, most definatly the high road to make sure it was done perfectly.

What is your guiltiest pleasure? any alone time I can get. Maybe it sounds selfish, but in a household of 6, I cherish every bit of silence I can because it’s few and far between.

The impending doom of the upcoming winter storm (I had to be dramatic) was all we could talk about at work yesterday. You name it and one of us had heard it… Wide spread power outages, no power for days, inches and inches of snow topped with ice and then snow again. So being the dutiful mother I am I stopped to get all the essentials on my way home, salt for the sidewalk, a gallon of milk, pop-tarts (I knew there wouldn’t be any school today), and a movie for the kids.

Well it finally started coming down last night around six and hasn’t stopped in 24 hours. At first it was snow, and it stayed that way until about 7 this morning and that’s when it changed over to sleet and ice. I took the above picture about 5 this evening so that I would have some documentaion or something to look back on. So I hope everyone who has encountered this storm stays warm and for those waiting for it, snuggle up because it’s gonna be a long ride.

So I know I’ve mentioned Neighbor Bitch in passing more than once. She’s the one who I war with on a daily basis over parking. The type of thing where I park in front of my house and so does she even thought they made a special “off street” spot. One of those things where everyone is parked normal, but if I run up to the Quicki-Mart to get a Coke, shecomes out and backs into my spot. Christ this woman has driven me mad over the last year.I never figured out what happened, she just turned on me like a rabid dog… Funny, bitch… Rabid dog… Okay, okay anyways! So about 2 months ago I come home from work and there’s this pretty new shiny realtor’s sign in her yard and I’m thinking “yeah right!” I start looking around for the cameras figering I must be on America’s Funniest Videos or Punk’d. I couldn’t dial Terry’s cell quick enough with the good news, they were selling their house!! Being the nosey person I am I know they sold way below what they refinanced for, but their loss and I get my parking spots back. Also knowing houses aren’t selling all to quickly right now, I figured it would take a while, but guess what?!?!? They moved out today!! If I didn’t have this damned stomach virus I’d pop open a beer and party. Seriously, I am that happy to see them move. No more late night parties, no more pesky freinds’ dogs running up and down the fence (while they yelled at Onyx to shut up), no more parking issues (at least for the time being). Life is good.

Well today was baseball sign-ups for the kids. They took all 4 this year. I guess since they really only play with-in our league, they make age acceptions, so Ian gets to play too. Sarah’s scared she won’t know how to hit the ball, she’s too old for T-ball now and goes on to coach pitch, Terry will be in Minors and Cody has 1 more year of T-ball. I think Ian will jump right in, but Cody, I’m hoping he will be more into it this year. Now I just need to let my HR department know I either need every Saturday off for the next 4 months or I need to leave at 8 so I can get the kids and their stuff together to have them on the field for games and practice. I am so excited, we had so much fun last year. Watch for pictures to start popping up again soon.

Shhhhhh… I need to type quieter, I just made the bear on the couch stir… I think I finally got my point across on the texting situation. From all indications everything has stopped. Although I have to say men are stupid, I mean really. We had a really bad week not to long ago and of course this came out in topic and he wanted to know how long I was going to hold onto this. Let me think… A very long time! He throws up a relationship I had 15 years ago when he decided “we should see other people” and I pointed this out to him, but he thinks that was different. Oh well, life goes on, Shawn holds a grudge (for a very long time) and the world is once again right.

I’m tired, my belly is waging WW3 (and it sounds like I haven’t eaten in weeks) and I’m off to bed. Luvs you all!!

Wow! It seems like forever since I’ve posted! Okay, I guess it has been. Life seemed to take over and no matter what, I couldn’t find my way back in here. I miss everyone and I often find myself wondering how everyone is, but can never find the time to check in. Work finally slowed down enough and I can breath again, that’s been the main cause of my disappearance, sleep I guess, is the other cause. I’ve just been so tired, so I’ve been trying to catch up.

So anyways in reguards to my title today… Last Christmas (2005) we had some very heavy snow, close to 16 inches. All of the cars were buried in and to get out required digging for what seemed like forever in very low temperatures. I had some last minute things to pick up for the kids and sent Terry out to dig the van out. In doing this he thew his back out and ended up miserable. Things that day seemed to go from bad to worse resulting in 1 vehicle being towed home, leaving us with a Trans Am and a friends car to get around for a few days. Later that night we crammed the kids, christmas gift and ourselves into these two cars and headed over to the family’s house for celebration. I rocked the Trans Am back and forth and was eventually able to launch it from it’s cuddled in spot of piled up snow. By the way let me throw this in, the salt trucks? They didn’t come through for a week. Back to what I was saying… SO we went on and enjoyed the festivities, celebrated yet another Christmas. Afterwards we loaded back up in the 2 cars and headed back home. Before leaving Terry told me to get the car up to a decent, but safe speed and put the car back into the spot I had so painstakingly rocked it out of. We pull onto our street and I start slowly building speed… Shit! Stop sign! I start over again building up my speed, my target is right ahead of me and I punch the gas… Trans Ams are not known for being great in snow and ice and this night it wasn’t any different. When I hit the gas, I lost my momentum and started sliding, resulting in a half cocked car on a mound of snow. The nose of the car was pointing towards the sidewalk and the tail end was out in the middle of the street. Now we have a predicament, the car is lopsided, Terry’s back is out and there is no way in hell I can move this thing by myself. I get the kids in the house, call my uncle (at 3 in the morning with temperatures in the single digits) and beg him to come down and help me dig this car out. So that’s my little slip up.

It started snowing yesterday about noon and continued until around 8 or 9 last night. Needless to say we have about 9 inches of snow on our street. Terry tell me “By the way, when you go to work in the morning, make sure you dig the van out and leave the truck” I’m wondering what planet he’s from. So I ask him why, “Why would I take the van when the truck is already cleaned off?” He responds with “Remember the Trans Am escapde?”

Will I ever live it down?

On another note I found this quiz at Irish Church Lady’s sight and liked it. I didn’t know who the characters were, but I still liked it.

To which race of Middle Earth do you belong?

Hobbit
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