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.

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.

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!!

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.

You are The Tower

Ambition, fighting, war, courage. Destruction, danger, fall, ruin.

The Tower represents war, destruction, but also spiritual renewal. Plans are disrupted. Your views and ideas will change as a result.

The Tower is a card about war, a war between the structures of lies and the lightning flash of truth. The Tower stands for "false concepts and institutions that we take for real." You have been shaken up; blinded by a shocking revelation. It sometimes takes that to see a truth that one refuses to see. Or to bring down beliefs that are so well constructed. What’s most important to remember is that the tearing down of this structure, however painful, makes room for something new to be built.

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Labor Day
In honor of Labor Day here in the U.S., here are today’s questions….

Do you have any Labor Day weekend traditions?

None. Hubby likes to stay home.

What was your first official (tax-paying) job?

I was a hostess at 5th Quarter Steak House in Louisville Ky.

What profession do you think is under-appreciated?

Of course I’m going to say parenting, but in the paying market I would say Customer Service. Of course that’s not to say that customer service has gone downhill also.

Do you have a dream job? If so, what would it be?

I have always wanted to be a therapist/psychologist. Go figure, in all of my insanity I’ve always wanted to help someone else deal with theirs.

If you’ve given birth, was your labor more or less difficult than you expected? (If you haven’t given birth, how do you think you’d do?)

I have given birth 5 times full term. Each was easier than the next. I only had a working (different post) epidural with my first birth (by the grace of God), the rest I either went to fast to even be hooked up for an Epi or the Epi was screwed up and didn’t take affect. Overall I think I did pretty well. I invented a few new words and I’m sure I made a few nurses blush…

Damn! The alarm clock went off and it’s 7:30 in the morning on a holiday! Sarah is in the parade today and we have to have her down there by 8:45. So that’s 4 mouths to feed, 1 girl to get gussied up to walk over a mile in the hot sun, on a day when we should be sleeping until noon and finishing up the painting. I got some decent pictures, even though there is a huge hair on the inside of my camera I can’t get to, guess I’ll have to take it to Ritz to have it cleaned. We’ll start off with Hamilton High’s Marching band, they sounded and looked great! The other picture would be Chas, my little cousin. She’s going to kill me shortly after she sees this so if I don’t post for a long time, you’ll know why.

Then we’ll skip on to the way too cute for words Hamilton Big Blue Cheerleaders. Sarah is in there somewhere cheering her little heart out.

You can see here where her heart lies. It’s me out there taking pictures but it’s Daddy she’s yelling hi too.

SO that’s about it. Nothing more to report other than we got the rooms finished or as finished as they’re going to get.

This week Kristine said it was about Auschwitz. Now she’s gonna make me have to go and google this to even have a clue, but anyways… I played this week and I played on time, I deserve a reward of some type… Money is always a nice reward…lol!

So on with the pics!

1. My suitcase or travel bag.

I had 2 half decent suitcases that I somehow had ended up with after my mammaw went into the nursing home, but I don’t know what ever happened to them. So, besides the fact I have 4 kids and never go away for more than a day or 2 anyways, here’s my Wal-Mart special travel bag that I absolutely love!

2. My Ground

I had this great idea and even took the picture and had this whole thing in my head to go with the picture and changed my mind. I’m tired and just in one of those moods. There will be improvements here shortly, like a privacy fence and that type of thing, just have to get through this refinancing. I can’t complain though, I have a huge yard and plenty of room for the kids to play. Just the dog has worn a path along the fence line and we want to repair it and plant flowers and all that good stuff.
So with out further ado, my ground…

3. Something I’m Powerless To

This one was the hard one for me, it changes with the wind. I guess the main thing I’m pwerless to is my kids. I’m powerless to their pain, I’m powerless to their love. There are so many things about them I’m powerless to. This doesn’t mean they get by with anything, because believe me they don’t (just ask the city police officer that watched me spank Sarah for throwing herself down and having a screaming fit at her brother’s game the other night). They may think they do, but we remind them constantly, we’ve (dad and I) already told that one, tell us something new. Or in Kristine’s words my eyebrows disappear into me hair line. So here goes…

I played! Did you?

Cody’s Class

Cody being very shy because I’m there with a camera

Cody’s future wife (I think even her mom agrees)