Holly’s Happenings

And before you ask, not, it hasn’t been bad crazy, it’s simply been busy crazy. It feels like all I’ve been doing is working lately, but that’s OK because I know it helps to pay the bills!

The beginning of the week started off cold and wet! The morning temps were below freezing, and we had a rain/snow/sleet mix come through the beginning of the week. Thankfully it didn’t last long and as the week progressed, the temps really warmed up nicely! Yesterday afternoon it got up to 70 degrees and this morning when I woke up the temps were already at 60 degrees. That is VERY nice for November temps!

The week also started off with us having to replace the shower head in the front bathroom. When we moved in here a year ago we replaced it with an inexpensive hand held model. We should have known better, because the old adage “You get what you pay for” really stands true when purchasing stuff like that! But at the time we just needed to buy something that would work! We didn’t really have the cash flow to replace the one that was originally here with one of the really nice Danze faucets for showers that I had seen. And Monday morning, when my son was taking his shower for school, the shower head completely fell apart on him.

Thankfully when we called the company who manufactured it, they were very nice and understanding and said they’d ship us a new one to replace it, but it would take a couple of days and since that’s the only usable shower in the house, we had to buy something that would hold us until the replacement came.

Then on Wednesday evening I got a phone call from an old friend from high school that I haven’t heard from in a few years. He was calling to let me know that my best friend from high school asked him to get a hold of me to let me know that her father had passed away the day before and that the funeral was the next day, Thursday. And of course, I was working a training shift on Thursday that I couldn’t switch or miss, so it wasn’t possible for me to attend her fathers funeral. I felt so bad because she was there for me when I lost my father in 1979 and she was there for me in September of this year when I lost my nephew. But I called her and talked to her and explained, and she did understand. She knew because of how quickly they were doing things that there were going to be some people that weren’t going to be able to make it to the funeral. She and I are going to get together sometime next week, which will be nice, but I still feel very bad!

Since Thursday I’ve worked what feels like a TON of hours and I still have a full shift today as well as an opening shift tomorrow, then a meeting at work after close. And sometime in between now and the meeting tomorrow night I have to bake some cookies or something sweet to take into work for the meeting. So it’s definitely going to be a crazy busy weekend!

WOW, talk about an INSANE and busy day! I didn’t have to go into work today until 11, so my hope was to spend a couple of hours after the kids left for school getting some stuff done around the house and doing some much needed blogging. That feel apart REALLY quickly!

Since last night we had been experiencing some really crappy connection problems with our DSL. We tried several things in hopes of helping it, but none of them worked. See, our DSL is ran through a wireless router so that we can have 4 computers connected at the same time. My hubby’s laptop is connected through the wireless, but mine and the kids’ computers are hard wired. His laptop actually wasn’t experiencing anywhere near the problems that the other 3 computers were, but we still couldn’t figure out what was going on.

So, for the umpteenth time since last night we rebooted the modem and the router and amazingly, it seemed to do the trick. What was funny was that right in the midst of that reboot our DSL provider called to see if they could help figure out what was going on. Just to let you know exactly how bad the connection was, my download speeds were averaging less than 300 kbps and my upload speeds were below 50 kbps. After that reboot, the download speed jumped up to 3200 kpbs and the upload speed was near 700 kbps. All was well in internet land again, for a few minutes anyway!

Within 10 minutes, my download speed was down to right around 1100 kbps, and the upload speed tanked out at a whopping 27kbps. It was then that we finally realized that the problem had to be router related. Since the router is roughly 6 months old, we decided to contact the company it was made by. I decided to try and contact them via online chat and was very quickly connected to a customer rep. They asked how they could help me, I explained the problem and they came back asking me for model and serial numbers for my modem. I explained that I’d have to walk out to the other room to get those numbers, they said that was fine and I went and got the numbers. When I came back I gave her the numbers and sat and waited for a few minutes with no answer back. I had to get ready, so I explained that and told them that my husband would have to take over. I went and got showered and dressed for work and came back out to see how things were going only to have my husband say they still had not came back. I understand people get busy and stuff happens, but GOOD GRIEF, totally dropping someone in a customer service chat is totally rude!

By that time, I had no choice, I had to leave for work or I was going to be late! I got to work, put my stuff in my locker, grabbed my apron and clocked in, at 11:00 on the nose! Work went well today, but WOW, the weather was so strange, one minute it was raining, the next it was sunny, and in the midst of it, it got REALLY humid and muggy! So much so that it was really warm in the store and I was sweating my toosh off! I tell you, many more days like today where I’m sweating like that, and there will be NO need for me to take any type of diet pills or any other weight loss aids because the pounds will literally be melting off!

But seriously, I REALLY like this job! My co-workers all seem really nice, well, I’m still on the fence about one of them, but that’s OK! The managers are also very nice and very helpful! When I have questions, no matter who I’ve asked, they’ve all been very helpful! But, it is a lot of hard work right now since I’m out in the dining room! I have to make fresh coffee every hour, I have to make sure the dishes are bussed back to the dishwasher, I have to make sure the tables are all wiped down and the chairs are in place, I have to make sure the trash is emptied when it needs to be. There’s more, there’s much more, but honestly, I’m too tired to keep writing….LOL!

I’ll be back in the morning, I have a few more things to tell you about, some work, some family stuff and some just about life in general. But for tonight, it’s time for SLEEP! G’night!

With the stress that has gone on in the past 24 hours, I’ve spent the better part of this evening chilling out and watching some TV with my husband and daughter. I don’t know if it’s just something they’re doing this weekend or if it’s something that they’ve done for a while since it’s not a channel I watch frequently, but TNT has been showing movies all day today with the least amount of commercials I have ever seen! Normally a TV station shows about 44 minutes of programming per hour with about 16 minutes of commercials, I’d have to say TNT has cut it back to about 10 minutes worth of advertising per every hour of broadcast, and let me tell you, it’s a WONDERFUL change!

Today we’ve managed to catch a couple of the Fast and Furious movies and tonight I’ve been chilling out with my daughter watching Titanic, one of my all time favorite movies! I used to have Titanic on DVD, but sometime over the past few years I’ve apparently lost it, so it’s nice to watch it tonight with very minimal commercial interruptions!

I’m happy to report also that my daughter is much happier with her “new to me” computer now that we’ve been able to give it a little extra computer memory late this afternoon to help it run a little faster! It’s not that it wasn’t running well before that, it’s just that it was a little laggier than it needed to be in order to run some of the games and programs she uses.

I haven’t received any more phone calls today from family members, and right now I need it to stay that way! Most of the sickness I felt earlier has passed and I was actually able to keep the few bites of mashed potatoes that I ate at dinner time down, which is a HUGE plus!

Anyway, I need to get back to the movie and my daughter, she’s getting a bit impatient with me…LOL! This is one of her favorite movies too!

So I got an email yesterday from my gal pal Janet that I thought was pretty darn cool! The title of the email is “How many of me???” and in it was a link to a website called How Many of Me. What you do is you go to the website and you enter your first and last names. You then get a page that tells you how many people in the US have your same first name, your same last name and then your complete name.

For my first name, Holly, there are 178,260 other people in the US with that name, 99.9% of which are female. For my last name, which I’m not going to disclose, there are less than 335 people in the US with that name. And for my complete name, well, I’m an original and the ONLY person in the US with this first and last name. YAY!!!!!

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 1 or fewer people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Why don’t you give it a try and let me know what your results are!

On another note, it’s not been the best of days! Yes, I’ve had worse, so I’m honestly NOT complaining, but it feels like it’s going to be one of those “If anything CAN go wrong, it WILL go wrong kind of days!

I slept way later than I actually wanted to! My hubby decided to be nice and let me sleep in this morning rather than waking me up before he left for work at 5:30. While I totally appreciate him doing this, I didn’t want to sleep until almost 9…LOL! But that’s OK, apparently I needed it! What I didn’t need, however, was the oh so lovely pimple that decided to pop out beside my nose over night. Am I the only person in their 40’s that is spending more time looking for a good acne cure than they did in their teens? Something is TOTALLY wrong with this! LOL

Shortly after 10 he called me to let me know that the guy he works with that was going to come and sit with the dogs this weekend while we drove out to Baltimore to pick up the kids told him this morning that he wasn’t going to be able to come here and stay with them. While I’m glad he at least gave us 5 days notice, we’re now in one heck of a pickle trying to figure out someone who can come and stay with the dogs Saturday and Sunday.

On top of that I realized that I totally forgot that the tags on my van and car expired last week. This means that my hubby is going to have to find someone to ride to work with this week because I’m not going to be able to get new tags until after he and/or I get paid. And before we can make the trip out to Baltimore I’m also going to have to have my serpentine belt replaced on the van as well as still having to get the transmission filter and fluid changed.

It’s definitely going to be an interesting week, to say the least! I’ve got to try and find someone that will sit with the dogs, I have to get my sons room finished up, I have to get the tags on both vehicles and the work done on the van, and at some point I also have to fit in the day to day housework that has to be done. Something tells me there aren’t going to be enough hours in the day this week!

I knew that my surroundings would come to life once spring really hit, but I had no idea just how magnificent it would be! I’m a self proclaimed news fanatic, the news is on from the time I wake up in the morning and it stays on until 12:30, minus 11 to 11:30 when I watch Frasier reruns. Then the news is back on again at 4:00 PM until 6:30 PM, then again from 10:00 PM to 11:30 PM, if I stay awake that long. So yes, you could say I’m a bit of a news fanatic…LOL!

But last week and this week I’ve taken to either hitting the mute button or completely turning the TV off once everyone is off to work/school and it’s just me and the dogs here. I then open the windows and just take in what there is to hear. I’ve heard some of the prettiest birds I think I’ve ever heard in my life, I’ve caught a few squirrel fights and I even managed to see and hear a deer run through the woods out back this morning after the fog lifted. It’s such a wonderful sound and it just gives me a peaceful feeling that nothing else ever has before!

Evenings aren’t as quiet, you have the kids fighting, the hubby trying to get them to stop fighting, and four dogs mixed in with all the commotion. On top of that, there are at least two TV’s going, if not more. So no, there’s no peace and quiet tonight, but that’s OK because it’s keeping me awake for something special! So STAY TUNED!!!

Yes, I know, there are very few people that agree with me when I say that, but I honestly do look forward to being able to “Spring Forward”. It does mean losing an hour of sleep, but it also means that it is light in the morning when the kids are getting ready for school. One of the not so good things about time chage is going around making sure the time on everyone’s alarm clocks and watches gets reset. Around here, we wear your basic run of the mill type of watches that only take a couple of minutes to reset the time on. My dream watch, which is a Patek watch, tells the time for two different time zones, so rather than having to reset one dial, it would require me to reset two. I’m not complaining though, it’s an absolutely gorgeous watch that I’d be VERY proud to own. But for right now I think I’ll stick to just having to set one watch dial!

Speaking of time change, I have to tell you something funny that happened today! For some reason, my son slept until a little after 1:00 this afternoon. Yes, I do realize that’s quite late in the day, but since he’s been having some pretty major sleeping problems lately, I thought it was the best thing I could do for him. But, when he woke up, he thought it was just after 12 noon. Sometime around 3:00 I said something about the time and he looked at me and looked at the clock that was hanging on the wall (that we had forgotten to change the time on), and was trying to tell me I was wrong about the time. Once the whole time change thing set in he was like “That’s totally not fair, I lost an hour and you let me sleep so late and now my day is almost over, that’s so totally wrong and you’re mean”…LOL! Poor kid, I knew he needed the sleep though! Hopefully by summer time the sleep problems will be a thing of the past. I’m 99% sure that the problem has to do with one of his meds and at the doctors appointment Tuesday I’m going to talk to the doctor about getting both kids off their meds after the end of the school year! If nothing else, it will give their bodies a break from the meds for the summer!

My husband got called to work to do a last minute job yesterday, he had to be on the job by 7:00 PM for a job that was expected to last about 8 hours.  It is currently 2:06 PM and he’s still not home.  So he’s been working for 19 hours straight, and he still has no idea when he’s going to be done.  It’s all good though, everything after 8 hours is over time

But I had a weird night last night.  I went to bed shortly after 10, but woke up about 11:30 because the power had gone out, then came back on.  So I got up and reset the alarm clock and the coffee pot and went back to bed.  I woke back up again about 1:00 AM because I had a dream that the Christmas tree was on fire.  I got out of bed and checked the water and sure enough, it was completely dry, so I filled it up with water and went back to bed.  I woke up again about 2:30 AM because, once again, the power had gone out and came back on.  So once again I’m running around resetting clocks and the coffee pot.  I woke up the last time a few minutes after 5:00 AM to my daughter waking me up telling me that I had missed 2 calls from my husband.  I got up and called him, but got his voice mail, so I left him a message.  I went about the morning with the kids, getting them ready for school.  Amazingly, everything with the two of them went pretty well!  Can you say WOOT?  LOL

After I got them out of the house, my plan was to try and call the hubby again, then take a nap.  That wasn’t to be though…LOL!  Shortly after my daughter got on the bus she decided that she wanted to call her dad and tell him to have a good day.  She was immediately sent to voicemail, which put her in a panic, so she called me.  I got her calmed down by telling her that he had to turn his phone off while he was working, which she thankfully bought, told her I loved her and to have a good day.  But when I finished talking with her I decided that I was going to call the hubby, it was actually not normal for his phone to go straight to voicemail.  I got the same thing my daughter did, so I decided to try the back up phone that she doesn’t know he has…LOL!  I got the message that he was not available and didn’t get voicemail because he has the voicemail feature on that phone turned off.  Now I’m starting to freak…LOL!  Yes, I know he’s a grown man, but because of things that have happened in the past, when I can’t get ahold of him for a long period of time, I tend to freak out.  By 8:30 AM, it had been 3 1/2 hours since he had called me to make sure I was awake, and I still had not been able to do anything other than leave him messages, so I was in a total panic.  I thought about calling the phone company to have his phone tracked, but knew that it was off, so that would do no good.  I thought about calling his company’s office, but didn’t want to sound like a total fruitcake.  So instead, I sat here in a panic chain smoking…LOL!

He was finally able to get through to me at 9:45 AM.  Apparently they are so far out in the middle of nowhere that his phones both spent the night searching for a signal and draining the batteries, so that’s why he was not available on either phone.  It’s not 2:37 PM and he’s still not home.  Poor guy, I’m sure he’s totally exhausted because he’s had no sleep since 5:00 AM yesterday morning.

The other night I wrote that I was having one of my “can’t sleep” nights.  I ended up staying up until almost 4:00 AM that night, and only got a couple of hours of sleep.  I made it through the day fairly well yesterday, getting a few things done, but it was obvious that I wasn’t going to have a difficult time sleeping last night.  We finally wrapped things up for the night around 10:00, as soon as I laid down I was hit with a headache.  I knew that I should have gotten up and taken something right away, but I was tired and hoped that a good nights sleep would take care of it.

I should have known from my past history not to do that!  When I woke up this morning I had a full blown migraine.  It took 2 doses of my migraine meds, two doses of Tylenol, and a 5 hour nap to get rid of it, and sleeping that long during the day really threw me off!  But thankfully tonight I’m feeling better!  Good thing too, because my husband got called into work tonight, so it’s just me and the kids!

At 4:30 this afternoon I received an email alert that my daughters school had already canceled school for tomorrow.  Now, that may seem a bit premature, but considering that the temperature today never went above freezing and it was a cloudy/overcast day, it’s not surprising.  None of the ice on the trees around here melted, and our driveway is a solid sheet of ice still.  When you also take into consideration the fact that we currently have a drizzle/snow mixture, it is foggy and the temp is still below freezing, I’m actually glad that they gave parents that much of a notice that school would be canceled.  Now I just have to convince my son that it’s not a big deal if he has school tomorrow…..LOL!

So we’re getting ready to settle in for the night, it’s chilly and a great night to snuggle under the flannel sheets!  I’m exhausted, I think I got about 3 hours of sleep last night, then a quick 45 minute cat nap after my hubby woke me up to let me know he made it to work safely.  When he called tonight to say he was on his way home he told me that the parking lot at work was a solid sheet of ice and it was quite foggy, the fog hadn’t hit here yet.  So I just told him to be careful and take his time, that there was nothing pressing going on here, that it was more important for him to be safe.  It took him a little more than an hour to get home, which isn’t too bad considering he was on the expressway during 5 o’clock traffic.

So, we’ll see what tomorrow brings.  My hubby is off work, unless they call him in the morning.  My daughter wants to go to a friends house tomorrow, but I’m currently arguing with her about it because I’ve been on her for over two weeks to clean her messy room.  So she waited until 8:30 tonight to get busy on it, after I told her she wouldn’t be going anywhere tomorrow because she hadn’t cleaned her room yet.  So here it is, 9:20 PM and my 12 year old has decided it’s finally time to clean her room.  Can you say UGH?!?!

I can tell already that tonight is going to be one of my sleepless nights.  We’ve spent the day going through periods of freezing rain, we currently have about 1/4″ of ice on everything outside.  But we’re very fortunate, we still have power, phone and satellite.    But schools are already delaying for tomorrow morning.  My daughters school is currently on a 2 hour delay, but my son’s school hasn’t delayed “yet”.  I dread what I’ll go through tomorrow morning if it’s not, it will be a huge argument.  It’s not that I blame him, but it’s also not something that we can do anything about and I wish he would understand that.

I spent today decorating the Christmas tree and putting some decorations up.  But the fact of the matter is I’m simply not in a holiday mood.  I dread what the next two weekends bring.  Next weekend is the surprise birthday party for my mom and step father and a gathering of all of us kids.  It’s the type of gathering that I have avoided for the past several years, the type of gathering that I dread.  I don’t like being around my step father or my step siblings, I’m sick of their “I’m better than you” attitudes.  I don’t fit in at these type of get togethers, but I’m going for my mom.

The weekend after that is Christmas with my mom, this year we’re having it at my sisters house.  As much as I like Christmas with mom, my sister is turning it into a three ring circus by inviting every other family member that wants to come.  If ANY of my step siblings show up, it will be the final straw!  They are the main reason I no longer go to Christmas at mom’s house.  I wanted to have Christmas here this year, but my sister made a big fuss about the dogs and the fact that they get so excited and jumpy when people come to the house.  I tried to explain to her that they do eventually calm down, but it didn’t matter, so I agreed to just have it at her house.

But I’m just not in the mood for Christmas this year.  Putting the decorations on the tree just felt BLAH!  I just felt grumpy and depressed all day.  I don’t know why and I don’t know what’s going on to cause this.  I guess it’s just the cold weather blues that I sometimes get this time of the year.

So I’m sitting here tonight, everyone is already in bed, but I can’t sleep.  The dogs keep freaking out, I know it’s because there is some wind going on outside.  But I also had the motion light come on at the slider door here by my desk, and although I didn’t see anything I got freaked out.  So I pulled the curtains tight and pulled the blinds on the windows in case there is someone or something out there….LOL!  Secretly, I’m hoping the kids don’t have school tomorrow, but don’t tell them I said that.

I’ll try to take pictures of my tree tomorrow.  It turned out OK.  Apparently I told my husband to throw out my artificial tree after Christmas last year.  Honestly, I don’t remember saying that, but I also don’t doubt that I said it…LOL!  We have a real tree this year, but most of my lights didn’t work, so I just decided that I was going to make do with what lights I had rather than sending my hubby out on the icy roads to buy more.  I also didn’t have any icicles or garland, so the tree just has lights and ornaments.  To me, it looks very depressing, but my daughter, who did most of the decorating, says it looks awesome, so I told her I thought it looked awesome too.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m very thankful that we have a tree this year, but I was tempted not to put one up at all.  That’s how NOT in the holiday mood I am.

Anyway, enough of this depressing rambling, I’m going to play a game.  Thanks for listening!

MEET OUR FUR BABIES!

I know that I’ve talked about my dogs here more than once, but I’m fairly sure I’ve never posted and pictures of them, other than the puppy one of Willow that I used to sweet talk my hubby into saying we could have her…LOL!  I spent my entire childhood with at least one dog around, but they were farm dogs, they had a job and we really weren’t allowed to play with them and/or befriend them.  So I never really was a dog person.  That was, until I met my husband, and all of that changed.  From the day we moved in together, I knew how important of a part dogs played in his life.  At that time he had a Bull Mastiff named Bosworth, a.k.a. Boz.  Boz immediately moved in with us and we set up home as a family of 3, the hubby (then boyfriend), myself and Mr. Boz.
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Well, my husbands team (Detroit Lions) played an early game today, and as of right now they are ahead of Tampa Bay 23-7 with 5:18 left in the 4th quarter, so there’s a pretty good chance that they’re going to win their game today, giving them a 4-2 record.  The Lions are, in my opinion, doing awesome this year, and are the team to watch (also, my opinion).

My team (Cincy Bengals) play a 4:00 game, we play the New York Jets, and for once, it looks like the game is actually going to be televised in my area.  How much of the game I’ll actually watch, probably not much.  We’re having a rough day around here today and hubby and I aren’t talking to each other at the moment.  We’ll see though, I have a few online things that I need to get taken care of, so I might be able to catch some of it.

I knew getting our new house clean was going to require a TON of work and even more scrubbing.  What I didn’t realize was that it was possible to scrub so much that I would make my finger tips raw.  I have 2 finger tips on my right hand that are raw and have split.  The pain is unbelievable!  And before you ask, no, I wasn’t wearing rubber gloves.  I know that if I’d have actually worn the gloves that I bought, I probably wouldn’t be having this problem right now.

In other news, the house is coming along nicely.  I was finally able to tear down this corner shelf thing that was in my bedroom taking up way too much room.  I ended up putting it back together in the corner of the kitchen and I’m going to use it for a food pantry.  Even the hubby said it will work awesome for that, so I do have some good ideas from time to time!

Today my hope is to finish getting the kitchen done, I’m tired of the boxes being piled sky high in it…LOL!

You know, I know that there are many things that I take my husband for granted for.  We’ve been together for 16 years and over the years I’ve just gotten used to many of the things he does.  But one thing that I’ll never get used to is the amount of money he saves us on vehicle repairs!

In the 16 years that we have been together there have been only 2 times where I have actually had to take my vehicle to a shop to have work done on it.  The first time was shortly before our oldest child was born.  I was driving a Ford Escort at the time and the clutch went out.  Now, he could have easily replaced the clutch, but the reason he didn’t is because he simply didn’t have the right tools or somewhere to do it, because it required being able to lift the motor out of the chassis.  The other time was a time that we were separated and my van broke down, so I had to pay someone to fix that.

As you may (or may not) know, I drive a VERY old Honda station wagon that has almost 250,000 miles on it.  It’s been an awesome car that has had very few problems.  A few weeks ago I noticed some problems with the transmission.  It’s an automatic and it would do things like jerk into gear while I was cruising down the expressway at 65.  It finally got to the point that it just couldn’t be driven a few weeks ago, so we made arrangements to purchase a vehicle that my sister and her husband had for sale, which they were going to allow us to drive before we paid them.

Anyway, to make a long story short, the problems with the transmission on my Honda turned out to be computer related and not actual transmission problems.  My husband was able to locate a “new” computer and installed it this morning and I am THRILLED to say that Rhonda the Honda is back to her old self again!  I know how silly it seems to put money into a vehicle with almost 250,000 miles on it, but I LOVE this car!  Besides, if it was possible to fix my Honda that made it not necessary for us to sign a contract on a “new” car and have car payments, which, to me, is a HUGE plus!

Yes, that’s right, we’re moving again. We had so many hopes and dreams when we moved into this house, many of which we now realize simply aren’t going to happen. Fortunately, we’re going to move into our new home with the blinders off. We know up front about what is going to happen and what needs to be done. And with great websites like DoItYourself.com knowledge is power! Their informational DVDs will give us all of the information we need to help us finish off the work in the new house that needs to be done!

They offer DVD’s on every kind of do-it-yourself project you can think of. Some of my favorites include basic home remodeling, floors and ceilings and kitchen remodeling. You can even order the entire set of 10 DVD’s that includes DVD’s on floors & ceilings, wall treatments, plumbing & electricity, kitchen remodeling, basic home repair, exterior projects, basic home remodeling, woodworking 1 & 2 and their DVD giving you tips on how to buy & sell your home.

Their website is full of all kinds of information on every type of do-it-yourself project that home owners will need, as well as a very informative forum for people to ask any questions they might have. I wish I had known about their forum when I tackled painting my kitchen because it could have saved me a lot of hassle if I would have had somewhere to ask the questions I had. At least now I know where to go when we’re working on the new house, especially when we replace the kitchen cabinets and counters, which the new landlord plans on doing in April.

This has been one of the most boring days I’ve had in a very long time!  As much as I wanted to sleep in, I woke up at the crack of dawn, heck, the sun wasn’t even completely awake yet….LOL!  It was almost 2 hours before anyone else woke up, which was nice because I enjoy the peace and quiet, that doesn’t happen here very often.

There really isn’t anything going on today.  I’ve worked a little on some homework, but there’s none that is pressing to be done by tomorrow.  There isn’t a ton of housework to be done for a change, there really isn’t much of anything to do today.  Now, normally it would be OK, because it IS Sunday, and Sunday means football all day, but even that is totally boring me.  The only game on right now is the Lions/Eagles game and the Lions are getting their butts kicked BIG TIME!  The Bengals play at 4, but so do the Browns, and both games are being covered by CBS, so my lovely CBS station will cover the Browns game.  That will leave me to “watch” my game online at NFL.com, which is VERY VERY VERY boring!

Maybe I’ll just go take a nap….LOL

When I sleep at night I like it to be dark and quiet, as does my husband. My daughter convinced me to have a “girls night” last night and sleep with her. Although she likes to fall asleep with the TV on, she agreed that she’d turn it off when I said I was ready to go to sleep, which ended up not taking very long. I woke up in the night and noticed that the TV was on, but I didn’t hear the sound. So when I rolled over and looked at the TV I seen that my daughter had turned on the closed captioning so that she could watch her shows without waking me up. So see, she can be a good kid sometimes…LOL!

Although I have some school work to work on today as well as a test to study for, my TV is already tuned into the pre game show.  Today is the first football Sunday of the season, and I am PUMPED!  The only thing that bums me out is that I’m not playing Fantasy Football this year.  This is the first year in 6 years that I wasn’t able to put a team together.  Everyone that I’ve played with the past few years either already had a team or didn’t want to play this year. :(  *sigh*

That’s OK, I have a lot on my plate as it is, so it’s for the best anyway!  Speaking of having a lot on my plate, you know already that I’m going to school and working a day or two a week, on top of the house and family stuff.  But what I haven’t told you yet is that I have my first meeting this week to work on my schools news paper!  I’m not sure yet what I’m going to be doing, I may be writing, I may be working behind the scenes, it’s still undetermined.  But it’s something that I really wanted to do!  So keep your eyes posted, you may just see my name in print

OK, so things with Lindsay and Paris seem to have quieted down a bit, but I don’t expect that to last forever. I’m not sure if it’s the money or the fame or the combination of the two, but so many stars seem to be unable to control their lives anymore. One day they are in drug rehab, the next thing you know they are out and then the next thing you know they’re back in again. You hope that they eventually realize that something is wrong with how they are living their lives.

I don’t know what’s going on, but those words describe exactly how I am feeling today.  I think I’m fighting off a cold, but I’m not certain.  I know that I’m tired and I also know this back thing is driving me NUTS!  My back is feeling a little better, but I had to stop taking the medications the doctor gave me for it because I couldn’t deal with feeling the way they made me feel.

I also know that staying out late last night didn’t help any either.  But it was worth it to see my beloved Bengals in person!  We had a great time at the game, even though we didn’t stay for the end of the game.  We were both tired and knew that we had a 2+ hour drive to pick up the kids and get home.  As it was, we left at the end of the 3rd quarter and didn’t get home until almost 1.

Not too much going on here today.  Trying to get my office a little more organized and ready for school, which starts a week from Monday for me.  My youngest starts school on the 15th and I’m not sure when I’m going to start the oldest since I’m more than likely going to be home schooling him again this year.  I know that we’re all ready to go back to school, the kids have even said so themselves….LOL!

Anyway, I guess that’s it for now.