I love quiet Sunday mornings.  No one is up yet and its super quiet except for the sound of the keys as I type this.  I sit here sipping my tea and trying to fight a cold.  Watery eyes, runny nose, sneezing.  I started on a new medicine for my Crohn’s.  I have to give myself shots.  It started out 4 shots and then 2 shots, now I’m to take 1 shot every other week.  You can give yourself a shot in the upper leg or in your stomach.  Now you would think that a shot in your stomach would hurt like a bitch, right?  Well trust me in the leg is 3897293487983749238734 times worse.  That little shot that holds not even a tablespoon of medicine burns like a Mother!  So I tried it in my stomach and didn’t feel a thing.  Didn’t hurt that I have some extra lining there to help, I suppose.  So from now on the shot will be given in my stomach.  This medicine turns off your immune system..or at least cuts it down to minimal.  I thought a lot about this before I said yes, but the other alternative is surgery.  I had a flare up last week, so bad thought that I was going to have to have surgery anyway.  Which according to the doctor if my fare ups are due to scar tissue then no medicine will help- surgery will happen regardless of what I’m taking.  So it’s a waiting game to see if this will help.  I get a shot today.  I am curious if this cold I have/am getting is due to my immune system finally slowing down.  I suppose I caught it from someone coming into work or maybe at a store somewhere. Pretty scary if you think about it!

Ugh, my tea is getting cold, need to warm it back up. Ahhh much better.

Left work early on Friday, that was cool, but then I was rushing to get home because I waited to long and the roads were getting worse. I had to go to the market for a few things and get gas- yes I’m last minute Annie!

Well today is the super bowl.  Means nothing more to me than a day that I can go to a get together and eat some good food and maybe have a few beers…if I feel like drinking when I get there.   I used to love watching the commercials and it seems that in the last few years they are few and far between because it costs so damn much to put a commercial on that the most boring companies are taking over and the commercials suck.  Let’s hop this year is better! 

I’m thinking school might be called off already for tomorrow so I believe the little tornado will want to stay at her grandparents for the night- which means I can take my time in the morning and not have to rush.  She is  a bugger to get ready in the mornings.  She is getting better though…she wants a cell phone, which I refuse to get her.  She’s 11 for Christ sakes. Anyway I give her the responsibility talk all the time and she is thinking if she does better she will get one! HA! Better for me because she is learning a good lesson and I am reaping the benefits.  She will get one, but not now. 

ok enough, going to look around on YouTube for a bit. 

Stay safe!

Yep, snow that is! up to 2 ft maybe!  and it’s all coming for the weekend.  why not thru the week?!?!?

I’m in a funk- I’m trying to have a new attitude and new look on things, it’s a tad bit hard at times, but it calms my nerves a little.

Tonight will be a rush night, after work I rush home- pick up K from school, she has an after school program she goes to, then home to grab a quick bite/snack and off to her basketball game.  She is doing better this year. The last few years she has played she just wasn’t getting what she had to do.  She still needs to work on being more aggressive but she is doing better knowing to guard and help out in getting the ball into the basket.  I told her when she goes to middle school next year that she HAS to join something… Not being mean, but I know all too well how middle school years defines the child and I don’t want her sitting around not doing anything – she does enough of that already.  So she decided on basketball and chorus.  yah! hell they may have more choices of things she will like, but at least she’s willing…that’s half the battle!

better go get ready…don’t want to be late and cause a silence fit at work…oh wait that is already going on!!

Never thought it would happen, you say? Well HA, it has!  What a week it was. I am beginning to hate my co-worker.  I suppose hate is a bit strong, but she is making it very difficult to like her while working with her.  That will be another blog.   While I was on my “break” I thought of lots of stuff to talk about, also while I lay in bed, I think “hey that would make a good topic for a my blog!” but now I am blank.

Katie turned 11 yesterday.  Next year she goes to middle school. God help me!  She had a friend sleep over, I just got done making breakfast.  French toast /bacon/ juice- would have made eggs too, but no one wanted them. Just as well, I hate making eggs. 

Well more later- glad to be back in the land of writing!!

Do you ever feel so unorganized that you want to just scream?  I’m talking stressed because there are so many things you need to do that you aren’t sure just where to begin, so you just don’t do anything and then it just keeps piling up higher and higher?? That’s where I am right now.  It makes me depressed.  One day I’ll snap out of it and get at least ONE thing accomplished and then I’ll feel somewhat better….

This weekend is my nephews fund raiser event.  The restaurant in Virginia where it is being held is giving us a percentage of any food orders they get, probably drink too.  It’s more like a restaurant/lounge.  Several people are going to play acoustic guitar and then a few bands are playing…lots of raffles and silent auctions going on.   Should be a great time.  My nephew is doing wonderfully by the way!  He has gotten off of his ventilator, the trach is out, the halo is off (now just a smaller neck brace).  He has been in the Occupational therapy Kitchen and making chicken parmasean…it’s quite amazing considering how bleak it all looked a few months ago.  Thanks for any prayers that were sent his way!! It’s a true miracle!    He has such determination to get “better”  I can’t wait until I get to visit him again. 

I took Katie to the movies on Sunday.  We went to see “It’s cloudy with a chance of Meatballs”.  It was pretty good.  Not as good as “UP” but it was cute.  Love me some “BU”ERy” popcorn!! (not cock porn)

Well it’s off to YouTube to listen to a few tunes then to the shower where I must start my day!!!

A big shout out to all my word press friends….all two of you!  Kiss Kiss!

Thank God.  Yesterday at work, I had a weird conversation with one of my co-workers.  I won’t go into the boring details, but some of the things he said to me led me to believe that I am the topic of the conversation between him and the other girl who works in the office.   It was a weird feeling and I hated it.  Now things are weird..at least for me.  What was being said was totally correct; it was just the way it was said to me.   These 2 people have money, they don’t stress from pay check to paycheck from bill to bill on how things are going to be done, how to get food on the table, etc.  So whether they want it to it comes across as snobbish to others.  Oh well, I just am looking forward to 4:30 today. 

Katie comes home today! Yah! I miss her!  It’s been really cold here and even colder where she is.  I can’t wait to hear all of her stories on how things went.  I wish I had saved time at work so I could have went with her, but then when I found out there was mice in the cabins…yeah I’m ok with staying at home!

Well I better skadattle (is that how you spell that word, or is it even a word?) to the shower!  I’m tired today and don’t feel like going in to work today.  I wish I could find another profession to get into, the insurance is starting to get to me.  Who likes insurance? NO ONE! 

ok, have a great and glorious day all!

p.s. one day I need to play with this page, I think there is alot of things I could be doing/adding to make it look COOL!

Well, that’s what it feels like.  I haven’t yet put down my deep darkest secrets.  Not that I have any but you know what I mean.  Ugh, my stomach is hurting today but, thank God, it isn’t enough to keep me at home!

Yesterday I was at our home office.  We are switching our main account system to an entirely different one.  Not too long after I started working there, the account system was changed.  They had minimal training and everyone was pretty much left to “just do it”  This time, the system seems like it’s not hard to learn at all and they have sent people to Florida for training (not me of course) to help the other employees, they have had meetings upon meetings, conference calls, etc and the damn system seems pretty easy.  It goes live next week, so I guess we’ll see.  Last night they shut down the system and copied it so that they could send it to the people who work on the new system.  So we’ll have our old system to “look” at but not use.  Any conversation or policy change we have with a customer, we have to write it down somewhere and put it into the new system on Tuesday.  How fucked up is that?!?!?

So I’m at this home office, only been there 2 other times when I was first hired.  I didn’t get a tour then nor did I yesterday, but yesterday I felt like I could go exploring.  Pretty nice joint!  I was amazed at the bathrooms.  There is a women’s AND a men’s! (ok grammar error? I never know if it’s with the apostrophe or without?)  There is a frickin couch in the women’s for Christ Sakes!!  Our office is truly out of the 70’s.  Paneling, yucky carpet…etc.  Our bathroom is so small, just enough room to walk in turn around and sit down…stand up and wash your hands and walk out…I mean long and narrow, nothing else.  So our bathroom is smack dab in the middle of our producers office and the break room…wtf? Who would want that.  The girl I work with goes back to the producer and tells him to walk out front- this is in situations where you HAVE to go.   I haven’t yet had to ask him to do that…the embarassment of asking him to leave  his office  is more than me hoping he doesn’t hear.

They also have a great kitchen.  Ours is like 4 x8…literally.  They have a dish washer!!  I so made myself clear that their office was MUCH better than ours, I’m sure my boss is drawing up plans right now to redo our office! HA!

So I had to borrow my father in laws car.  It’s a caddy.  Yeah pretty much a boat.  I was careful, didn’t drive above 60 to the delight of the other drivers on the road who were going at least 70.  Tractor trailers were blowing past me.  On the way home I did the same.   I certainly didn’t want anything to happen to that car.  Well, about 50 minutes away from home, it starts smoking.  Not from under the hood, but from the steering wheel.  I thought, “OMG, how could this be happening?”  I pull over.  No cell phone, no phones around and I’m sitting here on this busy highway with smoke coming out of the steering wheel.   I thought “well, I’m not going to continue to sit here and get mugged or something” so I push forward.  No more smoke!  I go about another 10-15 miles.  Smoke again, more of it and I can smell it this time.  There isn’t any  place to pull over.  I think well if there is smoke, there is a possible fire…so I did what any other normal thinking person would do.  I rolled down the window thinking the air would put it out! HA! It worked…at least it stopped and I made it home!  I stopped and picked up my husband so that HE could tell his dad. I was worried I did something wrong.  I had turned off the heat, I dropped down to 40 mph.  I would have turned off the damn radio but couldn’t figure it out (one of those new fangled radio’s that you push a button and it can come out of the dash for safety from a thief).  We take the keys in and his dad is asking me how the trip was, I look at the hubby, he looks at me, he says “well Mary says that she had some , ummmm, problems…..” I just looked at him and thought – ugh a wuss!  (not really but it sounds funny) So I just spoke up and said real fast like  ”it started smoking out of the steering wheel, I”m not sure what I did or why it happened!”  Just like a kid that took the car when he/she wasn’t supposed to and something happened to it and you just want to get it overwith.   He said ” well when Greg drove it the other day it started smoking  then too!”………….. ……………….long blank stare………………….!

He knew about it, apparently doesn’t know why but figured it hadn’t done it again wasn’t going to worry about it. 

Thanks – new father in law- for making me panic and freak out on this trip home!

Sometimes that’s all you need!

Going to a training session today to our home office which is approximately hour and half away.  I normally like a break from every day stuff and going to silly trainings or meetings.  Today I just don’t feel like going.  My van isn’t what it’s cracked up to be, so I am borrowing the father in laws Caddy.  It’s big!  Let’s all pray that I don’t get a ding in it!

Up early this morning..I have to leave the house by 7.  So I should stay away from YouTube. 

Having my morning tea and a special treat today…apple dumpling.  yummO!

Have a great day today!

There are probably 3923408230498230948209348 sites out there that I have never been to that I would love, but I only know of a few right now that I simply couldn’t do with out. 

Google-  I love it.  No matter what I want to know I type in a word, sentence, question, whatever and eventually I find it.  Oh and the image section of Google is pretty nifty too.

Wikipedia- so much info.  I love it!

My family.com/Facebook/MySpace-  These sites I can keep up with my family and friends so I like going there.

Zabasearch:  If you’re looking for an address for someone, that’s the place to go. (this is a big one I use at work)

WordPress-  gotta keep up with my snee and Whabs! (this is a newbie and I am slow getting on to it, because I don’t come here nearly enough)

Eonline-  This is simply a simple pleasure site. Full of gossip and wishing that I had money and how I WOULDN’T spend it.  Plus since they have blocked so many different sites this one somehow slipped through, so my choices have narrowed.  Oh the simple things of life!

There are more I’m sure, but at 6:21 a.m., that is about all I can think of except for one last one. 

YouTube-  I love this site!  They have everything.  (VodPod is a good one too, but I never think to go there)  If you’re stuck on a song that you know you know and can only think of a few words to it, or you can’t think of the name but you know the artist or you know the artist and you can’t think of the name it’s there.  It’s freakin wonderful!  Ok so I will see if I can add a video just for the hell of it.

If you don’t tap your foot and wiggle in your seat to this song…..well you just need help!

Have a great Tuesday my friends!

May I please have your URL links, address, names….however you ask for that sort of thing.  I would like to add you to my page.

Monday…man am I tired, not sleeping well.  TOO much on my mind.  As I sit here drinking my tea, I could just crawl back into bed and snuggle up with my Biederlack blankie and go back to sleep….but we all know that is impossible-dammit!!

5 days – 4 nights alone with my hubby….hmmmm wonder what we’ll do?

Happy Monday.

EDIT: I found your links with your comments.  Now where I thought it was supposed to go, isn’t.  *Sighs* I don’t spend nearly enough time on here! I’ll figure it out though!

“It’s Friday” is a wonderful thing to hear when you are a working person! 

Did you ever have so many things to do that you just get lost, unorganized, confused.  You just don’t know where to start?  I dont’ like that feeling.

So, it’s Friday and I haven’t even started packing for K.  She is going to Outdoor School.  It’s FREE!  It’s a program through the school.  They learn, as well as go on hikes, learn to canoe,  they have campfires in the evenings, they even dissect owl pellets.  Fun times!  She is so excited.  It’s from Monday until Friday.  Break for me, fun for her! Her dad even bought her rubber boots for over her shoes.  There must be something called a  Bog that the kids have to walk thru on a hike.  It’s very muddy.  He ordered them on line….not sure of her size.  Yeah, he’s a genius.  

So I have a story to tell about my ex.  I probably shouldn’t since it reflects that I spent nearly 13 years with this buffoon!  Anyway, it’s Friday and I find it sort of amusing and sort of sad.  Not sure how much I have ever talked about him other than he is an ass.  Not that he’s a horrible person or that he has ever been mean to me.  He just hasn’t been in the kids life- nor has he tried, so that is what I consider an ass.  He smokes, he drinks ALOT.  He has gotten worse since I have left him..lost jobs over the drinking etc.  Anyway, he was having problems lately, with his stomach.  Burning, hurting, pain, coughing up major “stuff” (not sure of the exact details of “stuff” I didn’t ask) His mom died of cancer, he has always thought that was his fate too.  I was upset, not so much for him..not that I am a horrible person but I wasn’t crying or anything.  Concerned for him, but more for my kids.  This jerk who has deprived them of a father figure in their lives because he couldn’t take the time to walk away from the bar, is not sick and now if he dies they STILL don’t have him in his life.  Anyway, he goes to the emergency room to see what is going on.  He gets x-rays.  They tell him to go back to the ER to get the results.  The idiot has a beer tab that has lodged in his esophagus.    I feel shock, pity, and amusement all in one .  When he drinks his beer he pulls the tab off and puts it in the can.  Has been doing this for a long time.  I remember actually saying to him years ago “you’re going to swallow that thing”  He finally did.  I didn’t ask what procedure they did to get it out…I think I know but whatever at least he isn’t dying.   He told Brian yesterday that he (of course) was drinking a beer that day and the tab was gone…….yeah that was genius to KEEP putting it in your beer can.  

Well enough of him, time to get a shower and off to work.

Hope everyone has a ” If your happy and you know it” kind of day!!