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July 05 I'm still here .... sort of. Well... I know I haven't been a good visitor at all... I just couldn't keep up with everything and felt like I was going insane at points. I had to take some time and get things a little more under control. I've been suffering from these horrible horrible headaches. I was having them every day. I finally told my doctor who sent me to a neuralogist. She ran a cat scan and MRI and some test to see if there was a hole in my heart... just to make sure those were not causes to my pain. Luckily they were not. She put me on some medicine and I'm happy to say that after 3 months I have had hardly any headaches... it was like a miracle for me. Ron got in an accident and had to have surgery on his wrist... unfortunately.. one of the screws came loose and he will have to have surgery again to fix it. He tells everyone he has a screw loose.. lol My second son, Gary, joined the Air Force about 8 weeks ago. Oh... this was very hard for me. I know that it will be very good for him... but you know how things are in the world... and as a mom... it just scares the &*##$ out of me. He will hopefully be graduating this coming week and Ron and I will be flying out to San Antonio for that. I'm excited to go... cause if you know my life... you know I never get to go anywhere. I've also decided a major change for my family. I have 4 kids left at home and have decided to put them all in public school. The schools here are really pretty good and have so much to offer them. They are older now too and I just need to free up my life a little. They are excited, so I think it will be good for everyone. I'm also expecting my 3rd grand daughter ... due date..9/11. I'm still working 40 hours a week... sometimes that is hard... but there are good things too. I think when summer ends.... I should beable to come around and visit a few of my select friends.... I hope you understand and hopefully my life will get on track at some point. Well later February 22 Update.... I think I'm lucky if I can update this about once a month anymore. OH well.... we just do what we can do. So we have still been very very busy. Ron's new job is going very very well. His boss (the guy that owns the company), really likes him and is relying on him for a LOT of things now. My job is going well too. I was put in as the Quality Assurance person for my line. It really isn't that hard. One of the jobs I get to do is hair audits... as you know people don't want to find hair in their food. So I use a lint brush and go around and roll everyone's back and shoulders. I do a real good job so it is like they get a back massage every night. I tell you it is one good way to make friends on the line. hehe Just have to be careful how I approach them and what I say.... "Can I do ya?.... I need to roll ya. ....... I'll get ya now.... " Well... those kind of sound pretty bad, so I just have decided to show them the lint brush and then they know and I don't say the wrong thing. I also got an award for 100% attendance for 2008. That made me feel pretty good. I'm still keeping busy trying to keep up with everything at home... house clean, kids schooling, ect. Earlier this month I had a birthday. I was not looking forward to it... cause yeah.. one year older ya know. Anyway, my daughters decided to take me out for a girls night out. We all dressed up sexy and then went out to dinner at Chilis. I love that restaurant. Had to have the chocolate molten cake for dessert.. hehe Then we went to a local dance club. It is called Salsa Chocolate. I was really nervous, but I love to dance so I was looking forward to it. They had an hour long dance lesson before the dance started. My girls and I all got to learn steps for the salsa. Then you got partners and practiced with them. It was a LOT of fun. I have gone back once more for another lesson and have been practicing like crazy. I know I won't every be wonderful at it... but it really is something I've wanted to do and it is nice to finally get the opportunity. I've also been trying to keep up on working out and getting tone muscles again. Seems like I do really good for awhile and then I slack off. I found a great song to do crunches to by Petey Pablo, so I turn that on and crunch away. Well, I can't think of much else... will try and come visit now. Till next time... January 25 I guess I should explain.....Well, obviously I have disappeared for a bit now. There just got to be so much going on in my life... and I was feeling soooooo stressed out that I just put a lot on hold and this just happened to be one of them. Work has kept me so busy. I've been trying to take on extra nights of work to help with the financial situation while Ron has been out of work and learning a new profession. That leaves little time for much else. I'm still homeschooling my three youngest children. I am grateful that they have been so good about their education and willing to have good attitudes to do their school work. It seems like every time I would get a day off, my home certainly needed the attention it was lacking without the mom. So, on the few days I got off.... clean clean clean. And when I did have some free time... Just felt like I wanted to be a zombie and do nothing. So was/is my life right now. Some not so happy news about my daughter. She was suffering some pain in her abdomin and went in to have a cat scan. Turns out that only one of her kidneys is even functioning at all. The other is small and maybe working at 10%. She had trouble as a small child and even had surgery to prevent this sort of thing from happening... but it happened anyway. I know lots of people live their lives with one kidney but it is still a worry.
I went in at work and they were doing a blood drive. I have tried before to give blood but was turned down because of low iron. But this time I passed on that test, but failed approval to do it because of the permanant eye liner I had done earlier this year. (tattoo). I guess I have to wait a full year. So I'll be eligable to try again in June. I would feel so good to do some small thing to help others.
So some good news.. Ron has been learning this PHP programming for the computer and techincal writing. It is a HUGE thing to learn but he has been diligent in spending all his time to learn it from scratch. Along with getting unemployment, he was required to also send in applications to 2 different places of employment every week, which is what he has been doing. He was hired on with a company to start his PHP/writing and a week later (this last week) hired on at another company that produces exotic animal feed. During his interviews and hiring and working this last week he has actually changed positions about 5 times and gone up the latter to better positions. He will be working for this new company during the day and that is good because I work at night and that way our children will have an adult home all the time. This is also a good thing for me because I will finally beable to cut back on my extra nights and only work 40 hours a week. I can be the mother I need to be and also the MAID in my house.. heehe
Anyway.... I'm sorry I have not been around. I have a very long weekend this next weekend to NOT work and I will be around to visit everyone. I do appreciate your kindness and hope you understand my situation. January 04 LoveOh.... I'm feeling the love.... made hot, melt in your mouth scones for my family... listening to very sexy music...warm inside.... I'm feeling the love... January 03 Mr. DarcyJust a quick note because I have to go to work shortly... but I wanted to show you how HUGE and FAT my Mr. Darcy is.... we figured since he got "neutered"... his only joy in life is food now.... hehehehhe       December 28 Good day.....I had a very good day yesterday... nothing really special, just more relaxed and no pressure. Started out that I could sleep in, which is always good. We got up and cleaned up the house, which was already pretty clean... so another good thing. I decided I needed to finally get my hair trimmed. I haven't had it done by a professional since last summer... tried to do a little of it myself over the months... but it really needed all the split ends removed and evened up. I went to the Walmart place.... cause that is where I go. There was a line up and I ended up waiting like 2 hours... but I didn't care. I just people watched. That is always interesting. The lady did a good job on my hair and it felt pretty nice afterwards. I came home and had a bowl of my leftover homemade clam chowder. It was soooo good. Oh... another good thing.... the fudge is gone now. I'm really glad because I can NOT stop myself from being an absolute pig on it... now the temptation is removed. My daughter makes such good fudge. hehehe.
A couple weeks ago we moved our furniture around so I have more seating in my familyroom... which is important with my size of family. But my tv is old and really too small for the room. I've been trying to decide how big of a tv I would like to put in that room. I don't have the money right now to do anything about it... but I wanted to figure it out. So we went to Costco to look at them. I found a 65 inch LDC TV wall mount that looks perfect. I want to get the surround sound deal with blueray too. So I think that is settled... just need to get the money now.. LOL. While we were at Costco I ran into my EPSU friend from work. His name is Jesus. I know probably everyone uses the spanish pronunciation.. but I don't. I like calling him JESUS. I told my husband ... "That was Jesus from work." He just nodded and said he was glad I found "Jesus" at Christmas time this year. heheh.... OK... I also found a place to go dancing on New Years Eve so I can wear my new little sexy dress. I think we will go out to dinner first... like at Chilis or something and then go do the dance thing... We have to pick my daughter's family up at the airport first though: they have been in California on a Disneyland trip this week (I'm soooo jealous! I love Disneyland!!! hehe)
Last night I just snuggled up with my children and we watched Second hand Lions. If you haven't seen that movie, I highly recommend it. Good for all ages and very entertaining.
The only downer happened at the end of the night. You know my son is considering joining the Air Force. This has just been very hard on me to even think about, but I'm trying to be supportive. Anyway... I went to bed, but my husband could not sleep so he turnd on the tv and was surfing channels as I dozed off to sleep. I woke up later ... well... didn't really wake up, but heard the tv playing in my sleep. I guess it was on the history channel on a show called Band of Brothers. It was on a scene of complete war... shooting, and cries of help and just a horrible scene. In my half asleep mode all that kept filling my head was those sounds and my son's face with every scene. I know I had tears flowing down my face in this state. My husband finally changed the channel and it woke me up. Thank goodness. My son hasn't even joined the military and I feel such emotion with it all. I can't even imagine what it must be like for the mothers whose precious children are involved with war ... what they must go through mentally. Just breaks my heart.
Well, today will be good... last day of freedom before I have to go to work again.
December 24 My Christmas joke on my daughters....Ok.. so I told some of the ladies about this... but here is the whole story and pics of the event.... It was a joke for my daughters... the following is a letter they each recieved with their special homemade Christmas present.
My Dear Wonderful Daughters,
This is somewhat embarrassing to admit, but as you know with our work situation, money is running low and Christmas is tight this year. I have made bedroom slippers for “you all” as gifts. Please let me know they are your size, as I can make adjustments. You’ll most likely agree that it’s a splendid idea, and should you wish to do the same, I’ve included the instructions below.
How to make bedroom slippers out of maxi pads;
You need four maxi pads to make a pair. Two of them get laid out flat, for the foot part. The other two wrap around the toe area to form the top. Tape, glue, or staple each side of the top pieces to the bottom of the foot part.
Decorate the tops with whatever you desire, silk flowers (this is most aesthetically appealing), lace, etc.
These slippers are:
             December 14 Another week.....Well, it looks like another week has gone by. Seems crazy that Christmas is almost here again. This week I worked 5 nights so I didn't get much else done. Today, I didn't have to work, but I did plenty of work at home. I just had to spend some time deep cleaning things. I also did a 30 min workout... with the video, and made a speghetti dinner with homemade bread sticks. I haven't had that in a long time, so it really tasted good to me. I really should spend some time wrapping up gifts, and just making sure all that is in order.... maybe in a little bit. This next week I only work 4 nights and I'm not putting in for any extra. I want to take the time to enjoy a little bit of the Christmas season without work hanging over my head. Today, I was wishing I could play the guitar and sing a Christmas song for people. hahha... I like that song "My Grown up Christmas Wish". I actually started to learn or teach myself a little guitar when I was younger, but didn't go very far. I think I have some musical talent... but not enough to be good at anything. OH well.... I did make some white chocolate peppermint fudge this week. I cut it really small so just a tiny bite will do ya... It turned out really good. Well, nothing else too exciting. Going to watch Desperate Housewives tonight and try to get around and visit my space friends. December 06 emotional mother I am......You know there are good things and hard things about being a mother of nine.... every emotion that you can have is mulitiplied 9 times... and sometimes that can be very rough. I have been blessed with very good easy mannored children..... but as parents know it is just a very hard job. This week has brought a lot of changes for some of my children. Tonight, I was able to go to Britt's ballroom dance performance. Of course she was the star and most beautiful girl up there... hhehehe... Now I can say that, because I've paid the price (pg and birth) for it. hehehe... She was lovely and she is such a natural born dancer,but suffering from a jerk breaking her heart. . I enjoyed the whole dance performance. I think in my other life I was a dancer too... that or a singer. I have another daughter who has just entered into an official relationship. Well, we all know the worries about that... She was asking my advice about what to give her new boyfriend for Christmas.... I'm thinking... ANYTHING... just don't give him your body. AHHHHHHHH Then my sons.... one came and asked to speak with me.... I knew something was on his mind and he was nervous to tell me. (I already knew what it was, but played dumb.) He is planning on joining the Air Force. I'm not against that so much but all that runs through my head is WAR and I don't want a dead son... Oh my gosh..... can I handle this? I wish I could talk him out of it... but it is not my life...so I must be supportive. Another son tells me his good news.... he has been accepted into an internship for the FBI. He will be an agent focusing in computer forensics. But that means he will be moving away.... as my Air Force son... I know this happens... but hard hard... very hard for me. My oldest daughter, married with two daughters.... As she struggles to raise a very very high spirted two year old. Questions if she is a good mother... (of course she is) "I dont' know how you did it mom" she says... How I did it? I just tell everyone I lost my mind so don't hold me accountable for anything anymore. And this is 2/3 of the children... I still have 3 who are pretty young and innocent. To tell the truth.... it just scares me sometimes..... it is just a hard thing to be a mom.
Otherwise..... my day went well. Got to the rec center and did a workout for an hour. My sister will be visiting tomorrow. I'm going to make homemade hot cocoa with real whipped cream for our DH event. Well, I hope to visit with everyone tomorrow, (Sunday). I think I need to go to bed now. December 05 The day.....Well, I went back to see my doctor on my leg and the good news is .... everything is completely fixed. I do not need to go back. The back of my leg is still numb from the burning.... but that will eventually heal too. I'm very happy with it.
I went to work tonight and it went pretty well. I got along with everyone just fine. My boss asked me to be the quality rep... doesn't that sound impressive? lol... well... it really isn't anything.... I don't want anything with a lot of responsibity... I already have too much outside of work to worry about... I don't need to worry about things at work. So anyway... the job is very easy... and the reason I took it... well, I get off the line to do other things... so it is a break from the normal job. So yeah... sucker I am... hehehe...
I've got a terrible chill right now... so I better hurry up to bed where the electric blanket is... so later gator...
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