Susan - remind me... how old is Kris? YAY to your girls for their good grades.
Cristi - so glad your DD is ok. Bet that was scary, though. Did V get the microwave put in? I think it sounds very handy above the stove.
Ellen - I know all about late nights and early mornings. I also know about naps, lol. Since it began misting, Neal and I didn't get to do the stroll last night, but had lots of fun in spite of that. Yes, the DGDs were especially excited about Santa and a horse they saw, lol.
Angie - hope Brandon is more stable, and having less pain. How'd the play go?
Marti - bet you had lots of fun with Jhanai today. Mary is just itching to put up her decorations, too. I told her that it's her house, go ahead, lol. Won't be long til everything around is just beautiful.
Neal and I are going to my ex-in-law's tomorrow to visit. Yes, my ex's parents, lol. They are really nice people and we have stayed in contact over the years because of my DS and, although it didn't work out between their son and me, I still love his family and they love me, lol. And they have said over and over how glad they are I found a guy like Neal. Isn't that sweet? Both of them are in bad health, so I thought I should pay a visit soon.
Jane--I'm friends with my ex in-laws also. In fact, when I left, my ex MIL said "Well it's about time Marti" And then proceeded to tell me that I will always be a part of their family and that James is too. It's strange but it's nice. We (James & I ) have taken Jhanai over there (her dad was there too) to visit while James and Thom worked on a car with the help of my ex-FIL...... I'm glad it was never a nasty thing.
Well, Jhanai got involved with a computer game today while I was cleaning and mopping my floors so we postponed the decorating until tomorrow. which if fine with me. I'm having pain in my hamstring on my right leg and I have no idea what I did to pull that muscle. It feels like I worked out to the max but didn't. The most I've done is roll off the couch! (ok...I do more) I've been taking ALL the stairs at work and walk during all my breaks so that may be part of it...but it hurts like !@#$
Got a message from Shanna....says to tell you all "HI" and that she hopes to join us sometime soon. Maybe during her winter break from school. She misses popping in and talking with us all.
Ok...I'm going to browse a bit and then clean up my kitchen. It's a mess after dinner and I can't stand leaving the kitchen messy after we eat...I always do the dishes and clean up soon afterwards!
Just checking in for a few minutes. Nothing on tv and Vince fell asleep in the chair so I thought I would get on here for a few and let him have some quiet time.
Angie~sending (((((HUGS))))) to Brandon. Poor guys seems to be going through a lot with his foot. Hope he gets to feeling better soon. And I hope you are holding up as well.
Jane~I agree, it is Mary's house and if she wants to decorate she should do it, I bet it will look nice. Does she do the outside too? It seems a lot of people are getting in the mood early-I too am dying to get started! V did get the microwave in, now I have more counter space and it looks a little weird, empty. Also, got the wreath put together, it looks nice with all the white lights. can't wait to get it up. I don't see anything wrong with keeping in touch with the in-laws, especially when there are grandkids. I always did with my FIL. The others didn't really care except the SIL but with her it was just to be nosey. But I always sent pictures and cards to him. He also did the same and even called. I am glad that we kept in touch after DH#1 passed as FIL passed away about 4 years ago. At least the kids knew him. They don't really know the others, just from pictures and what I have told them.
Marti~so did you and Jhanai decorate some afterall? I came so close to starting but didn't. Need to do some kind of something on the mantel to take some pictures, or at least on the porch. I think though we will still have time to get some taken and developed before I send out cards. I am still doing laundry! DS decided to do his after I got a load done this morning.
Hi Ellen I got your address and forgot to send mine.
Well, ladies thank you for asking, DD is better. The meds have helped and she is up and around and eating. The scary thing about those attacks is they are so bad you think she is dying, having a heart attack. She takes pain pretty well and won't go to the doc unless she feels it is absolutely necessary, but this is scary because it affects her breathing and she clutches her chest because it hurts so bad. Wouldn't think something like reflux would do that but it does. Almost as bad as gallstones. Anyway, I better get going, I had a diet coke in the freezer and there is probably a mess in there now.
Just getting ready to log out when I saw your post Marti. I think it is cool when people stay in touch with the in-laws. There are too many people who get involved in messy divorces (my friend) and they want nothing to do with the in-laws. But when kids are involved I think it is good to show them that you all can get along, at least for their sake. And that's cool that your ex-in-laws welcomed James! Okay just wanted to say Hi Marti-HI!
Just peeking in.Need to go home in a second and grrrrrrrr again...
Just was paged at Freddies and answered a lock out call-- this was at 9:45 and I finished my shopping real quick and headed over.
Got up to the 2nd floor and no one around was paged again on the way down and stopped in the office to call.
Said 209 was tired of waiting....................eh?? I said it was only a few minutes.
They said they started paging me at 9:15 and paged me 3 times..........bull shingles , they did not. I am ALWAYS promt in my response time!!!! I have a quick dial finger.......lol
Actually my record would prove that - I respond within the first 2 minutes to a page....even my co worker sayd " dang..........you fast!!"....lol......
psssst, Ellen -- thanks. Humor always helps!!
Love my cell - we have talked 2 hours so far today....just everyday stuff- take him in the store with me and he can hear me with the girls.
Rachel had me calll him and ask if we could down load ringer theme things,,,music.....whatever it is and he laughed and said yes.....
So, we made my ringer the theme from Rocky......lol....thought that was cute.
I agree Marti!! I believe the only way state child support gets involved is if the child is on state medical . Gaby isn't..... if I said it was fine between us they couldn't inforce anything. I could say his past due to Gaby was satisfied they would have to erase that debt......pretty sure that is right.......just call me Perry ......lol
I talked with Mike tonight and he came unglued. lol...........sorry....not funny. I do care for the man.......*cough *cough.....
I called him and said that I would like to compromise on issues........blah, blah........so we talked and veered into other areas.
I finally asked where Lauren was because he was suppose to have her. He said he was having a problem with his ex and that was between them.....
and finally said the ex asked him for proof of car insurance and he wasn't going to take it any more and so he left without Lauren yesterday......
Geez, Mike I said..........what is the big deal suppose to have proof in your car anyway. You would never take Gaby if you didn't show me either.
blah- blah............gets to where I finally blurt out that I told her to ask him because I knew he wouldn't have it and he starts yelling " I am not going to be F*&^ed by you and her!!'.......
lol........whatever,,,,,,,,,finally he said that when he was talking to my ex ( I know,............what a friggin soap opera )) he learned that his mother loaned me money......
Yes, she did...........she was so sweet and they gave me what I needed to get out of a hole. I had gotten behind on somethings before I went full time an dwas working to catch up this whole time - finally I asked them for help to get out from the interest I was paying and they agreed...and it is a loan and I am paying them back at 150 a month............blah- blah.....
So.............what I thought was funny was he said " you borrowed (Blah-Blah Amount) do you realize how much drugs that can buy??"...........ummm, not really Mike.........do you??? lol
Duh........he thinks I am doing drugs, silly. I smoked 5 cigs in my whole entire life. Gimme a break..............
anyway, he hung up on me yelling......lol........so, I think we are headed for mediation.
anyway,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Beck won 4 games to 2 but that didn't get them in the final round.
Marti - hope your leg is better today. Good for you, taking the stairs at work so often when it's so much easier to take the elevator. Little things like really help, don't they? Tell Shanna we miss her, too, and hope she checks in over Christmas break. Btw, you must have been right about the water retention, because 3 of the 4 pounds are already gone!! Only water, not fat, could leave as quickly as it came, lol. I did drink some sports drinks after I had the flu and they are loaded in sodium... maybe that was it?
Cristi - Glad you got your wreath done - I bet it's gorgeous. Did you get everything you wanted for the pink tree? No, Mary doesn't decorate outside because she barely has enough for the indoors. All the twins can talk about is putting up the Christmas tree, lol. Last year, Madison was scared silly by my big, hard plastic snowman that lights up, so I had to send him to the shed. I'm hoping she will have outgrown that by now, lol.
Susan - I'm glad Mike's parents think enough of you to loan you money, and Mike should be glad of it, too. Tell him he has to go through me if he wants to send any messages your way, lol, cause mama Jane doesn't like the way he talks to you!! Just a thought - you might want to be sure you're documenting EVERYTHING he says that could be used against him. That may sound callous, but you may need it later.
Ellen - ok, your decorations are up and now you're sitting there, enjoying them, with a cup of coffee, dreaming about Santa, right? Ahhhhh. Btw, I LOVED your "Rocky road" pun, lol. You already know I've got your address, and I think I gave you mine before I even went to Disney World. But if you don't have it, let me know, ok? Are you going to see your DD this weekend? Hope so.
Angie - I thought about sending a get well card to Brandon, but at his age, he would probably think that's hokey, so just tell him I'm thinking of him, ok? How long will he be in the hospital?
Hi to Mindee, Sue, and anyone else reading this.
Mary and Dale are letting us take the twins with us today to the xil's. They love seeing little children and have already met, so the kids won't be afraid or anything.
As I told Marti, 3 of the 4 pounds are back off already, so it had to be water! Since I don't wear rings (they're all too big), and my clothes are all a little big, it's hard to tell when I'm retaining.
Good Morning Ladies
The end of another week can you believe it and almost the end of the month ,the rush begins. I remember saying I can't believe the summers over , this is all going so fast. I think today I will finish raking the leaves, I did some yesterday ,but you can hardly tell theres so many of them.They should make one of those vacumns that travels around by itself for the leaves . they have one for pools and for floors ( none of which I have,well I have floors LOL, but not a fancy vac). why not one of them for leaves and it could mulch them at the same time , wouldn't that be great.Actually I like raking the leaves but its fun to complain,I also like cutting the grass LOL .All this activity of the past week has taken a toll , by six o`clock pm last night I couldn't keep my eyes open, I was so exhausted,I think I need some wheaties or something.
Hi Jane
Your right, the decorating inside is done I was sitting with a cup of coffee, Christmas music softly playing ,looking at the decorations, dreaming of Santa the other night and fell sound asleep,woke up about 3:45 am with a stiff neck and a kitty cat sound asleep on top of me,LOL I guess he was tired to,but he didn't have any coffee.Its a good thing you girls get my humor or I might be in trouble LOL but that Rocky pun was to hard for me to pass up.I think that its wonderful that you still have a relationship with your ex inlaws , most often they suffer the consequenses of anothers actions and for them its a loss as well ,you are a special Lady for them to want to continue a relationship with you,and the same for them .did that make any sense? Sorry you and Neal didn't get your moonlight stroll ,but you had fun and thats the main thing isn't it.My daughter has had a busy weekend. between work and her sweetie
so I have only seen her breifly,but I am happy that she is,its amazing the changes brought about by a new face,I am so happy this young man came along he is a blessing in her life and mine as well .I hope you and your sweet little grandchildren have a wonderful day.Ps: Jane thats so funny about the snowman,hopefully he can make an appearance this year, I hate to think of the poor guy locked up in the shed with his smile turned upside down and congrats on your weight loss ,so proud of you.
Hi Angie
How are you doing today, I can't believe all that has happened with Brandon ,poor little guy, don't tell him I called him a little guy though,give him HUGS and HUGS and when he's had enough give him some more. I really hope that he has begun feeling a little bit better , he certainly has had a rough time, although you may be more aware of it than he is right now,hopefully this will soon be over and he is home healing with the family.I'm sure you will be relieved when that happens to. Hopefully everthing else is going well ,I know you must be exhausted,so take care of you to ,Have a great day.
Hi Marti
I hope your feeling better today , between your lack of sleep, to much sleep and your sore hamstring , I think you should be lying on a nice warm sunny beach somewhere LOL.Are you and Jhania decorating today? , does she get really excited at the prospect.I hope you all have a fun day , doing whatever you decide to do .
Hi Susan
I'm glad you didn't mind the Rocky pun as I told Jane I couldn't pass it up,I thought it might make you laugh ,but at the same time didn't want you to think I was making light of difficult situation,so I'm happy you didn't mind.Wow you really have your hands full I don't envy you any of that, I think I would just crawl under the covers and stay there,although I know that wouldn't accomplish much.I liked the ringer with the Rocky theme,have you told him about it yet.I hope you have a great day .
Hi Katy
I was wondering where you went to,as well ,I bet your at a fancy spa getting pampered ,hair done,nails,facial pedicure new clothes ,at least I hope so, anyway I hope everything is alright and if your not being pampered hopefully just busy with the day to day craziness. Have a great day and come back soon.
Hi Cristi
My daughter put up a little pink tree in her room , we decorated with pink and cream poinsettias with little pink birds crystal ballet slippers and ballerinas and white mini lights , it looks so pretty. I can hardly wait to see pictures of yours, how big is your tree, do you do real or artificial, either way I know it will be beautiful..Have a great day
Hi Mindee Julie Sue Kathy and everyone else I hope you are all having a great day , I really do, honest.
Ma Jane!! Ok, I will tell him - though he probably won't take any phone calls from me again.
He really wants joint custody and that is the only thing I am sure on- he can't have it!! lol....I also need to get a will written up because I don't think Gaby would be at all safe in his hands.
He has a very sweet mother. He kept saying ......"you had no right to go to me mom- how would you like it if I went to yours?? I said go ahead.........couldn't hurt to ask.
I can very will ask anyone I want, she is Gaby's grandma. He comes up with this honor mumbo jumbo and I go " excuse me.....she sent a check for Gaby when she was a new born and I never saw it.......you used it for drugs".....lol...........whatEVER,,,,,,,,and he wants joint....
I am going to hand over my pager to the next sucker........lol.
I had 3 lock outs and building with no hot water and I just sucked water up from an apt that has a leak somewhere,,,,,,,,going to church.
Cristi--Today our intentions are to decorate the house.....hopefully some of it this afternoon. Do you take photos as a card for Christmas? Or is that something that you add to your cards? I have yet to send photos in any of my cards. I really would like to take a family photo sometime. I think I'm going to mention to my family this next weekend about Katy's idea of bringing our camera's and doing a photo shoot at my grandparents. Sounds like a fun (and Hectic) idea!
Susan--I'm w/Jane on documenting all that is said over the phone (and in person for that matter). Obviously he has something to hide about you not wanting to get in touch w/his ex wife......you should get a notepad and everytime you get in touch w/Mike, jot down how the entire conversation went. It may be the biggest help you're going to get. And about his comment on his mother loaning money and imagining how much drugs that will cost....sounds more like a little jealousy rousing up in his head! I hope all goes in your favor.....joint custody....what is he thinking?!
Jane--Any type of sodium product will raise your water retention. And you may never even notice it w/out stepping onto a scale. I've tried in the past to really keep my sodium intake down......it's everywhere! I stopped buying those premade dinners to take to work for lunches years ago because they are high in sodium. I'm sure you're going to see a loss by next Saturday!! As for my leg....it's not hurting as bad today. Yesterday was terrible, but the day before was agony!
Ellen--Did you get my PM? If so, I would love to get your information also. As I read your post, I could actually picture you sitting in your magical home of Christmas w/a cup of coffee......sounds so wonderful and relaxing! I'm hopoing Jhanai is in the mood to decorate....if not I'm not going to push it. 10yr old sure have a way to changing their moods!! She gets real excited about doing things, but she's easily distracted to doing other things. I will keep you all posted on what we ended up doing.
Hello to all my other Jaded Friends!!
Well it's Sunday already! Boy...where did the time go? Weekends are much to short. And Thanksgiving is only a few days away and I have NO items for my feast!
Next weekend James is taking a couple days off so we can get some shopping done for christmas.....our annual Crafts Fair Expo we go to every year is the weekend after Thanksgiving....we plan on going. Did you hear that Portland girls??? We'll be up there either Sat or Sun. We spend our whole day in there! Amazing that James can handle that!
Othere than that, not a whole lot going on, on my agenda besides go to work. There is a new girl who started Friday who is from Sony.......wonder how she'll do. Probably get a hang of it better than I did!
Ok...I better get some breakfast on the table for Jhanai. I will pop in later on when I get a chance.
Ellen~my little pink tree is for the bedroom. I just wanted something in there this year and thought since one of my walls is pink and there is pink in my quilt and border that a small little pink tree would be cute. Plus I have a window seat that is the perfect place for it. It is just a 3-4 ft. tree, nothing big at all. I bet your DD's tree is purdy! I would love to do the poinsettias but the tree is so small I just bought some mini pale pink and white bulbs, some light pink ones, a little different from the pale pink, some tiny white angels with white lights. The tree in the living room I am doing in the traditional red and green stuff, not so many bulbs but more homemade decorations, stuff the kids made. The one in the family room will be pastel blue, white, and glass with a lot of angels. Did I mention I love angels?! They are all artificial trees. I haven't had a real tree in ages, since DH#1 passed. It was something we always did and was just weird to go get a real tree without him. We did it the year after he passed and never did again. Have had an artficial one since.
Jane~aaahhh poor Madison, hope she likes Frosty this year. I remember when the kids were little and two of them were scared to death of Santa. Not sure what it was about the jolly old man that scared them but they did not like Santa. I did get all I wanted for the pink tree plus I will go through the white stuff I have to see if there's anything I want to add. Of course I need to get the bulbs on there first to see how much room I have left for anything. I am ready to go and during the week next week will have DS or DH take the stuff down and put on the garage floor so I can go through it to see what I need and want. Can't wait...
Marti~hope you and Jhanai have fun decorating today. The pictures we normally have taken are the picture cards but I have always included them in our cards. Of course since we didn't have them taken at Penneys we are going to take some at home and have them developed them pick out one and have the cards made. Don't know if they can do that in the one hour thing or not but I think it will take about a week, so if we do that this week we have time. Just gotta pick a day that Vince is home and get him dressed up. Of course I have never done these before so don't know how they will turn out but we will see.
Susan~I'm with the others on the Mike thing. I know you don't want to stoop to his level but when it comes to your children you gotta do what has to be done. To be honest though, I don't see a judge giving him any kind of anything given his past with drugs and with the ex and of course with you. The judge would have to be out of his/her mind. I could see supervised visitation and that's about it. Anyway, I know things will work out for the best.
I too heard from Shanna and she said to say HI! She is such a sweetie and I know she is swamped with school. But I can't wait to hear from her, you hear that Miss Shanna? We are missing you girly.
Hi to everyone else
Not much going on here, Nursing a sick child again. Poor girl I feel for her and it kills me that there is nothing I can do for her. Stinking reflux wrecks havoc on her poor body. She did this the last time she had an attack she hurt for about a week before finally feeling completely better and ended up at the ER three or four times but because we didn't know what it was. Now we know what it is and there is nothing to do except wait for the meds to kick in. I did give her a pain pill so hopefully she can sleep. Also, went to meet Vince for lunch since he is working the whole day, till 7:30 or 8. Did I mention that we will be trying the Atkins diet? He had a physical last week and the doc told him he should probably lose 40-50 pounds seems like a lot to me but he's the doc. He recommended Atkins or South Beach only because he has several patients who had very good results on both. He said he was leary about Atkins but after seeing the patients results and their chlosterol (sp?)actually lowering he thinks it is fine. I told V I would do it with him, moral support and all. Plus I need to lose too of course! LOL So we will see what it is all about in a week or so when I ge tthe books-ordered them through the bookclub, a lot cheaper and minus the S&H this month. Okay, I probably should go find something to do. I've got two books I need to finish. I think DD has finally calmed down and went to sleep.
Take care ladies and I hope everyone has a nice Sunday!
well, call me a clutz! we went up to our mom and dad's house today. I went to see a couple of the puppies....dummy me didn't realize that the deck was wet, and slipped and fell on my booty. I am sore and it hurts to breathe, but I am managing. A friend of ours gave me a muscle relaxer and that is not helping at all. Tommy has vicodins that he said he would give me. The weird part is that when I went down the first time, to when I got up, I think I might have blacked out. Cause I remember slipping, and landing on my back, and then I leaned forward and got up. I am sore all over the place, but hopefully it will go away soon.
Susan~ How are things going on your end? Those are some great report cards!!!
Jane~ Thanks for the encouragement to stick my ground. Tommy hasn’t received a check yet, we are still waiting on everything. But hopefully we will find out really soon about them!
I signed up for some emails from Denise Austin’s website, and I have to say, that reading those in my email box, have gotten me motivated again. And since I became a clutz yesterday, I really haven’t felt like doing much of anything because it hurt to do it. So hopefully when I get courageous enough to jump back on the scales it will show me something good!
Cristi~ Oh my goodness girl! I hope things are going better for you today! Thanks for the nice comments about my new avatar! Yeah, as for now, he hasn’t said anything more about the whole job and moving out of state. I think it is more so because he doesn’t like the state of Michigan and he wants to leave for a new start, but he is using the job asking him if he would be okay with moving out of state as a cover up.
Ellen~ Thanks for saying a prayer for us. Things haven’t been easy for us that is for sure. But somehow we always seem to triumph over it all. And we are hoping that this will be yet another thing that we are to triumph over.
Angie~ I am one of five daughters, and then there are about 11 or more after us. We had made the pact because my parents were planning on moving out of state, and we wanted to make sure that we were all in the same state for family purposes. Granted we are all over the state, but at least we know that if we wanted to see them, we didn’t have to go and plan for a week long vacation just to see each other. I will continue to keep you, Brandon, and the rest of your family in my thoughts and prayers. I know about the whole bells and whistles. When our Brandon was in the hospital in June, he would forget to breathe also, so it took me getting up and going to his bedside to kind of rub him a little and tell him to breath again. I think he was just doing it to see if I was paying attention.
Marti~ I am sure when the time comes and something is offered where we would possibly have to move, I am sure that we would sit down and have a long discussion about it. But like you guys have said, if it would mean a better job then it is a possibility.
Ok Ok out from under the rock I've been hiding under..... Marti - do you have my info? If not, PM me....I am busy on Thanksgiving and Friday, but Sat and Sun are pretty open, with the exception of church on Sunday...should be free after 1 pm or so. Susan...are you listening? we should try to get together after you and James get a chance to shop 'til you drop. I would like to.... I have so much to do and the weekend will be a great time to get away for a bit. My James' birthday is Wednesday, then there's thanksgiving, then we all do a family get together around the downtown holiday parade on Friday, whew! lots to do, fortunately, all of it fun.
Susan- Definitely, you should be writing everything down, recording phone calls, getting affidavits from his mom and the ex....the friend that I mentioned in earlier posts had a heck of a time. Turns out in Oregon everyone pretty much gets visitation, takes a ton of work to even get it supervised, so cross your t's, for sure! A judge is not going to see his past drug problems unless they are presented to him/her... anyway enough Judge Judy here... love the bit about the Rocky theme on the phone - so cute!
Jane - I knew that fluctuation was going to correct itself - happens to me all the time! Just can't let it get to you...and you didn't. Yay! Sorry I haven't been around much...this was conference week, so I had my son's parent-teacher conference, then of course, he was out of school while all this was going on. He was also in the church musical today, so there have been rehearsal and performances.....but all done now.
Ok - and now I have to go again... the guys are getting ready to take my FIL out for his birthday, then we have a family dinner at their house tonight. I'll try to get back to do more individual later this afternoon.
CHAT! I'd love to chat during the day, but 11 PST on Thursday is a little late for me - I have to leave to pick my DD up from preschool by 11:30, so I'd have to go for 10 to have any reasonable amount of time to get into it. But do what works for most - I'll try to drop in on the 6pm PST time.....
DS and DH went off to take FIL to Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow for his birthday (which is today!) Then DD decided to take a nap. So I should be cleaning my house, it's a real mess...but here I am. I've been reading all the wonderful decorating that's going on, then I look around at my house and I feel lucky just to get the counters cleaned off in the kitchen My holiday decorating will come after Thanksgiving. I pick up our greenery that we ordered from the preschool on Dec.2, then we'll get going on all the rest that weekend, I'm sure. We usually don't get a tree until we are closer to Christmas, just 'cause it's nice to keep it through new year's. I just don't go all out on this stuff. I'm not much of a shopper, though I can be creative when the mood strikes me, so I just work with what I have.
Mindee - Ouch! Hope you feel better soon! I like your new avatar - Brandon is sure a cutie...I need to go check out his new photos.
Cristi- your trees sound so lovely - particularly the ones with the angels. You know, I would go for an artificial tree if I could. Just seems a waste sometimes to cut one every year, but DH will not hear of it. I must say I do enjoy the smell of a fresh one. I think it's great that you and Vince are going to support each other on your new food plans. Just getting a spouse to go along with the program can be half the battle, but now you two are doing it together - you can really help each other out.
Ellen - I laughed when I read your post. Yeah, I lead such a pampered life - NOT! I'm a SAHM with two small children - my life is all about cleaning up body fluids and keeping up with the laundry, lol! Sometimes I fantasize that I'm like one of those wives you see on Wife Swap....like the one with the "Whacker" - "The rules are not meant to be BROKEN!" Or maybe the one who gets to stay in bed until 3 and her DH fixes her breakfast in bed every day before he goes to work....what a life. Seriously, tho', I do feel blessed to have the life I have, even when it's not so glamorous.
Angie - hope things are settling down at your house....
Now, I know I left something or someone out - so apologies all around...I can't keep up
Back to cleaning....tonight is a family dinner at the IL's to celebrate the FIL's birthday..yay don't have to cook. Need to try to work ahead on my remaining class so I can set it aside by Tues. and focus on the holiday. I need to try to get away to see Grandma in Salem on Thursday sometime - haven't figured that one out yet. It's about a 45 minute drive one way - not too bad. I'll turn turkey duty over to DH and maybe take only one kid with me instead on both....I'll work it out - I 'm the queen of multi-tasking. Aren't we all?
I'm back for a few minutes....well, the news about the decorating is that we plan on doing next weekend. Why....I'm not sure, we both wanted to relax and Jhanai didn't want me to hurt my leg more....now isn't that sweet? (more like an excuse to me! )
Katy--I was talking to James about going up to Portland and how I should try and visit a bit w/you girls and he told me that he has no idea what day we would be up there (either Sat. or Sun.) and then he has plans for dinner and all this.....hmmm....who knew. I am definately going to have to make plans w/you girls soon....possibly after the holidays! (Everyone may be having calmer days w/the holidays being out of the way) But....if either of you plan on going to the Expo.....you could always find me there!!
Mindee--Sounds like you had a terrilbe fall. Hope you're ok. Blacking out and all is a scary thing to happen. I passed out on a bike ride once....talk about disoriented once I realized what happened! Take it easy and just take some vitamins and stuff. Maybe a nice long soak in the tub will help you feel better.
Cristi--How old is your DD? I sure hope she starts to feeling better. About Atkins...that's funny you mentioned doing that. James was talking to me about us trying again after Thanksgiving. I told him that I really didn't want to because I feel deprived and I'm selfish....he told me to really take a look at what I eat now.......by golly I don't eat a lot of carbs as it is, and when I do, it's really not a good food choice. So I told him that I will consider it after BOTH holidays......may look into South Beach.....or just forget either one and go back to what I did before, just figure out how.
(That's was a bunch a babble towards the end wasn't it? sorry) I hope it works for you two and let me know how you like it. Have you tried it before?
Well, I finally got Jhanai into the shower. Now, I remember being 10 and always wanting to take a shower. I felt like I smelled all the time! I am trying to convince her to let me put her hair in rollers...but she doesn't like me doing that anymore since one of the last times I did, one of the hot rollers were to close to her neck and she got a little burn. (I said I was so sorry!) She has such long thick beautiful hair and I'm always wanting to do something with it.
Ok...I need to touch up my face and do something with my hair...I swear that it's looking more and more dry as I get older. I really need to start taking vitamins again and drink much more water than I have been. ***sigh****
Ellen - I like to rake leaves, too, but don't bother out here in the country. The fence we have is way out on the outter edge of the property line, which is almost 60 acres. So the wind can and does blow them out of the yard, for the most part. We rake around the house in the Spring, but let the leaves stay on the plants over the winter. Your DD tree sounds so very pretty! I'd love to see a picture of that, if you can post one.
Susan - good evenin' mauvoreen, lol. Say a prayer for me while you're at church tonight because I skipped services today.
Marti - I'm usually careful (but not obsessed) about watching my sodium. I buy the 1/2 salt and use salt-free cooking stuff like Mrs. Dash. But when I had the flu, or I should say right after, I thought the sports drinks would help my electrolytes. Glad you and Jhanai are having fun. Did she let you roll her hair? In the 60's, I used orange juice cans on my hair, lol.
Cristi - your trees sound beautiful, too. I know how it is to feel helpless to your child when there's nothing more you can do to make them feel better. Hope this passes quickly for her!! Does this make her miss school, or work? No, you hadn't mentioned Atkins.... you mentioned you were doing something that you would tell us about later. I think it's wonderful that you and Vince will be partners in this. Not sure what I would have done w/o Neal's help. Will this be something you start as soon as you get the books, or after the new year? I'm excited for you!!
Mindee - so sorry you hurt yourself. If you have pain when you breathe, could it be possible you have broken a rib? If it keeps up, you might want to go for an x-ray, ok? Just a thought....
Katy - I think I got all confused about the chat times!! 10AM for you would be 1PM here, which is fine, but will Marti be up and ready by then? I'll leave that up to you girls to work out, ok? Just let the mod know, lol. Yep, I knew the weight gain was not at all justified, but I sure didn't like it, anyway, lol. Was the musical a Christmas one?
We had fun with the twins today visiting the xils. They were so glad to see us that it made me feel guilty for not going more often. Mary and her family were planning to put up their decorations right after supper, so I think right about now they're having a pretty good time over there.
I can't seem to finish my Christmas cards! If only it would snow, I could get in the mood again, lol. Not too many left to go....
(ok...I do more) I've been taking ALL the stairs at work and walk during all my breaks so that may be part of it...but it hurts like !@#$
I am still doing laundry! DS decided to do his after I got a load done this morning. 
I got your address and forgot to send mine. 
Since I don't wear rings (they're all too big), and my clothes are all a little big, it's hard to tell when I'm retaining. 
seems like a lot to me but he's the doc. He recommended Atkins or South Beach only because he has several patients who had very good results on both. He said he was leary about Atkins but after seeing the patients results and their chlosterol (sp?)actually lowering he thinks it is fine. I told V I would do it with him, moral support and all. Plus I need to lose too of course! LOL So we will see what it is all about in a week or so when I ge tthe books-ordered them through the bookclub, a lot cheaper and minus the S&H this month. Okay, I probably should go find something to do. I've got two books I need to finish. 
