Naptime

Wow, its been awhile since I’ve posted anything.  I guess my life is really that boring that I didn’t have anything to post.
Anyhow… so my babysitter needed to take this week off to tend to her father that is recovering from heart surgery.  (I really hope this is the truth and that she’s not pulling a fast one on me, especially THIS WEEK, but if she is, its her loss, I’m not paying her)  Of course this week is the same week my husband is in MEXICO building a house on a church mission trip.  This is also the same week that my car was repossessed (finally) after putting it in the bankruptcy.  (Yes, my life does suck sometimes, just a little, but that is okay, life goes on!) 
My sister flew over and watched the kids on Monday and Tuesday, she couldn’t get out of here fast enough on Tuesday.  She was so impressed that the kids were so great on Monday, blah, blah, blah but then after too little of sleep they showed her the real side of them – the side I get to deal with all the time – the fighting, the whining, the oh I stubbed my toe I need ice and a band-aid side!  (They’re my kids and I still love them!  Seriously, I do!)
Dropped her off at the airport on Tuesday and had Wednesday lined up for my mother-in-law to watch the kids.  She was planning on using the second car since their second car is at the auto body shop being repaired after my father-in-law bumped the car in front of him one day getting onto the bridge leaving work.  (I feel really bad because he was rushing home to watch my kids so I could go work on cleaning my old house and moving into the new one!) 
Thursday mother-in-law was getting her hair done and couldn’t watch the kids, so I was forced to take the day off since Mom wasn’t flying in from Texas to babysit, and the old baby-sitter’s place isn’t an option since I’m paying for them to be in swim lessons, by God they’re going to be at swim lessons at 10:30 in the a.m.! 
I went ahead and took Friday off too because my plan was to enjoy a day to myself, see a movie, get a mani-pedi, sleep in (the kids were going to spend the night last night), etc… before my softball game and enjoy my mother-in-law watching my kids and having a few hours to myself.  Well, as I was taking my nap (the kids were in dire need of a nap) mother-in-law calls to say that she’d still need to use my car because their second car still wasn’t going to be ready.  URRGH!!  I couldn’t blow my cover and admit that I needed my car to run around town pampering myself (this is needed after FIVE DAYS of no husband!  Boy I miss him!) and told her no problem, I’d just take the day off and watch the kids myself.  I turned back over and went back to sleep.
Apparently I am the only one that took a nap yesterday.  My kids waiting until I was off in dream land and decided to make a holy terror of my house!  Madison pulled out EVERY SINGLE towel, bed sheet, pillow, etc… out of the linen closet and covered the living room floor with them!  Linen closet on floor+ Mom = NOT HAPPY!!!!!!! 
I quickly picked up the phone and called my mother-in-law back and told her that I’d have the kids there by 7:00 and if she could take me to the train station, I’d just need the car at 4 to get to my softball game.  I don’t think I could handle another 24 hours alone with the kids and not a) be in jail for murder or b) be institutionalized at the mental hospital
THANK GOD husband returns home tomorrow.  We will be in the parking lot at the church when they arrive, with bells on!!  Think maybe we should make a nice banner!  Yes, think we will do an art project to show our appreciation and love for Daddy tomorrow! 
Ryan (aka husband/daddy) leaves Tuesday morning for Southern California (work related) and doesn’t come back till Thursday… the babysitter had best be back to work on Monday morning, that’s all I’ve got to say!

Awesome Website!

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Ready To…

I’m ready to get moved into our new house.  I’m ready to get settled in and start our life where we will be living for the next few years.  I’m ready to get unpacked so that I can set up my scrapbooking room and enjoy some time to scrap.  I’m ready to have people over for bbqs and swim parties!  I’m ready to get my life started in my new house!  I can’t wait to post pictures!

Going Out of My Mind…

I am literally going out of my mind!  I am stuck in a job that I HATE!!  I don’t want to work for the big mean landlord that keeps getting richer everyday and I have to enforce the rules so everyone hates ME!  I don’t want to help Corporate America keep making money, I want to HELP PEOPLE!  I want to help make this a better place to live… problem is I make too much money doing what I do and we can’t afford for me not to! 
I’m going out of my mind because I want to be closer to my kids and be able to spend more time with them about have them at home with me rather than in the after school program.  I hate that the economy is so sucky and I can’t find anything closer to my house.  Until I do, I will continue to let the world know that I’m going out of my mind, until I actually do accomplish the task at hand!

This Day Keeps Getting Better!!

I would LOVE to be on this jury!!  I’d pay money to be on the jury to help find this asshole guilty.  I’d sent him to prison for the rest of his life.  My heart just skipped a beat!!   Angelo Mozilo is just one of the many names that I’d like to add to the list that should be hauled into a courthouse and have to stand in front of a jury of their peers, those that have lost their homes over the last three years or so and decide this man’s fate.

Poetic Justice

Having recently had the pleasure of watching my house be sold at auction on the steps of the courthouse, I have to say, I do get a smidgen of pleasure reading this.

http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:y_finance:bfa48d9347b0fd3d580eedc2230398f1/Surprise-housing-victim

I could only hope that his own personal experience will help him find a real answer to the real housing crisis that is effecting millions of Americans. I didn’t lose my home due to a sub-prime loan or any other economic related tragedy. I lost my home and cars and wonderful credit history because my husband has morals and stood up to his looser boss and refused to lie on a state audit. We lost everything we had, but our morals and each other. Like I said, excuse me if I sit back and enjoy this just a tad.

Long Time Overdue

I’ve been neglecting my blog, and for that I am sorry.  Are there any readers that are actually reading it?  Let’s get caught up.
We’ve found a house.  That has been one of the most time consuming and stressful events in my life lately.  We wanted to find a house that we would be happy in, but also was in a very specific school district, oh yes and that we could afford!  In due time we found it!  We found an updated 4 bedroom, 2 bath home with an in-ground swimming pool and it is smack dab between the elementary school that we wanted to be in and our church!  How amazing is that!?!  Psew… now I can move onto other things…
I’ve been working to get the kids enrolled in their new preschool and school… my goodness there is a lot of paperwork involved and who’s ever heard of having to have a dentist fill out a dental evaluation for kindergarten!?!  Bizarre!  While I’m working to get the kids enrolled in their schools, I’ve been dealing with my own school.  I’m going to finish up my degree at ASU!  Getting transcripts requested, phone meetings with school admissions counselors… exciting stuff!  What is super exciting for me is that I have thought about going to ASU since I was a child!  Here I am going to be able to do it!
I had my garage sale for the Avon Breast Cancer Foundation and it was an amazing success!  I raised $795 for my walk!  I’ve not hit my fundraising goal of $1800 and am all set and ready to walk next month!  I haven’t been doing any type of physical training for the walk… but I figure it will be more of a mind of matter type of thing… and I’m determined so I think I’ll be fine!  I know I’d be more excited about the event if I had someone doing it with me. 
Work is work… I so desperately want to figure out a way to be able to stay at home with my kids.  I want to be involved at Madison’s school and be on the PTA, be a room volunteer, etc… but I know I will never be able to do any of that working in San Francisco.  My commute is way too inconvenient and I don’t have the most family friendly/flex schedule available to me. 
I think that has me all caught up… I’ll post some more under different headings… as they are going to of course be my sarcastic, so totally un-PC postings that I don’t want to mix with my “catch up” posting!!

Madison Ann

I can’t believe she’s 5 1/2 years old… I remember finding out I was pregnant with her like it was yesterday.  She’s blossoming into such a beautiful girl.  It amazes me that something this beautiful and wonderful came from me.

Madison Ann

Another One… So NOT PC!!

In honor of the 44th President of the United States , Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream has introduced a new flavor: ” Barocky Road .” Barocky Road is a blend of half vanilla, half chocolate, and surrounded by nuts and flakes. The vanilla portion of the mix is not openly advertised and usually denied as an ingredient. The nuts and flakes are all very bitter and hard to swallow. The cost is $100.00 per scoop. When purchased it will be presented to you in a large beautiful cone, but then the ice cream is taken away and given to the person in line behind you. You are left with an empty wallet and no change, holding an empty cone with no hope of getting any ice cream. Are you stimulated?

I Owe, I Owe, Back to Work I Go…

Okay a few updates about possibly contracting the piggy flu…
Good thing that we decided to make alternative plans for the weekend as our flight going to Mexico and returning were both cancelled.  That would have been a massive bummer.  However, I find out that one of my co-workers is awaiting confirmation if she has the piggy flu or not!!??!!  Lovely!!

We had a wonderful time in Reno.  I will not stay at the Summit ever again however.  It was nice enough, but there are other places that I can, and will stay.  The list is long, I’m in Property Management and I’m trained to look at things with a judgmental eye, so the artwork that is popping off the wall, the build up of dust in the corners of the door jams, the tissue holder in the bathroom needed to be oiled/treated (it was wood) the elevator number that was added with black marker versus an actual signage plate, silk flowers versus real flowers, it is the little things that I notice, and they add up.  It spells CHEAP ASS to me, but that is because I can see where they are cutting corners and taking the easy way out.  I’m sitting in the lobby and my husband is pointing out the nice chandeliers.  I informed him no, they are plastic supposed to looking like crystal, and they’re missing quite a few dangling pieces and a few light bulbs are out, and they just spray painted the acoustic tiles including the fire sprinkler heads black to make the place seem “cozier” and classier – I watched the cleaning lady wash/clean the door to the VIP room for a good five minutes.  It sparkled.  I could tell from across the lobby where I was sitting.  Yet the majority of the people visiting the place will not see it… and I doubt it was dirty to begin with, but because of who will see it they want it to shine.  If they were to take that amount of care to the rest of their hotel, it would go a long way.  For example, the Ultra Diamond store located at the elevator lobby is cheap and tacky… I’m not at the freaking mall!  Oh, that is another thing… I was reading through their brochure for the hotel and they boasted “nearly 21 stores” – Nearly!?!  WTF!?!  Who cares of the exact many number of stores – and are they trying to play up to the blackjack/gambling reference?  If so, that is even more cheesy. 
Did I mention this place allows pets for an additional $20/night… so guess what was all over the lobby… dogs!  They were barking and going crazy…
I still had a wonderful time, it wasn’t Mexico, that is for sure, but I didn’t hang out at the hotel a whole heck of a lot… we took a cab over to Silver Legacy and went and caught Daniel Tosh.  He was freaking hilarious!  Also had a very yummy, delicious wedge salad, fillet and a few blue moon martinis over at Roxy’s at the El Dorado.  (Roxy’s – home of 102 martinis, I believe, I’d had about 6 or 7 by the time I read the menu!)
I couldn’t really enjoy the gambling aspects of my trip… I knew that the money could go towards so many other things that I was not enjoying it at all… plus the fact that I wasn’t winning, yeah, that didn’t help anything either!!
Had a great time… I’m back home, back at work and of course I’m dreaming of how I can work from and and actually make enough $$ so that I don’t have to get a real J-O-B and can be as involved in my children’s lives as I so deeply desire to be.  I really don’t want to hire a nanny to watch them this summer and do all the things with them that I WANT TO BE DOING WITH THEM…!!!!  UGGH!!  Sometimes life really sucks!
Okay… I’m sure that I’m jumping around now, and quit feeling sorry for myself.  Until next time…