Morning

My parents wanted pizza last night so pizza we had. At least it was the ultra thin crust so it was honestly like eating cheese on a cracker and better than the thick doughie stuff.

Bep - you win the award for the cutest pig avatar, I love it

Jules - I WISH it were mine, no my dad bought a little MG as a retirement present for himself...my mother hates the thing

SuzyQ - way to control yourself!

Susan/NYC
Thanks!
I can control my toyota veering and smashing the ex to smithereens.
Though it kind of takes the pleasure from seeing his bloody guts flying through the air all over the highway w/ tv helicopters zooming from above to see the victory of all single mommies who are out of slurpee money for their baby girl/boy that have never received child support.
I could have gone on tv and sold the tv rights and recouped the $$$ Nasty Step Mom stole.....dang Susan/NYC!!!! Moment lost....or is it <she writes with evil grin>,,,,,,
I think I want to write novels.....I think that is my true calling in life. *sigh*

I love thin crust pizza!!

Lunch time!!!

SuzyQ--no...you can't smash you car into Mike's, he'd probably walk away unscratched and you'd be in the hospital and who would take Miss Gaby on one mile walks and to the park and for slurpees.....Yes I like my Reality shows--I like Big Brother, American Idol, Rockstar Supernova (watched INXS last year starting halfway through) Fear Factor, Americas Next Top Model and Project Runway. Never got into Survivor or The Amazing Race. DD likes the MTV/VH1 reality shows--Real World, Road Rules, Surreal Life, Laguna Beach and now the Hills,Punked, My Fair Brady etc... DH claims to NOT like reality shows but he watches Biker Build-off, American Chopper, Build or Bust, Overhauling and Miami Ink to name a few. I don't watch every show and alot of times I keep up on BB on the internet sites that have people posting what is going on in the house from the live feeds. Also, if my favorites leave alot of times I lose interest.

SusanNYC--does he at least let you drive it.....One of the girls that works here lives with her parents (she's 21) and doesn't have to pay rent since their house is paid for--She says she works to travel--she's been to China, Mexico, Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, most of Canada and many others. She is planning a trip to Australia and wants to go on a cruise sometime. When her last car died she bought herself a little red Miata convertable--she loves it.

gotta go again--hi to everyone else!!

Hi yall,
Actually susan im back at work.......woopty doo...my store was actually in pretty good shape when i walked in the door. but they had 15 pair of shoes stolen last week and 7 pair were on saturday. we usually only have 1 or 2 pair. soooooooooooooo, this tells me that everybody was standing around running their mouths and not paying attention to what was going on.
yes i have been watching that show, it cracks me up!! i also love hogan knows best. its almost time for the new celebrity fit club, i dont know about half of them this time. isaac from the love boat is going to be on there .....how funny!!! now that makes me feel really old. i dont watch a whole lot of tv, but when sept gets here ill be watching my favorite greys anatomy, they changed to thurs nights and thats volleyball game night for oldest dd so i will have to tevo it.
well i decided that i would take my cheat meal for lunch today, so i got an italian beef pita and french fries. well, its not very good, and my fries are cold......somebody must be trying to tell me something....
well back to work!!
shawna

Shawna--The three "shows" I watch faithfully are Cold Case(Sundays 8PM CBS)and the other two are CSI (the original LV one) and Grey's Anatomy--both of which will now be on at 9PM on Thursdays CSI on CBS and Grey's on ABC--since DH watches CSI and Cold Case, but not GA I will have to tape GA to watch later. DH started watching "The Closer" (TBS-Tuesday 9PM--???) and it's not bad. There is a new show this fall that looks promising I have seen advertised--it is called Smith and has Ray Lolitto (SP-?) in it. I like Ray L, but always get the visual of when Hannibal Lecter eats his brain--eewww!!

yay, Shawna!! I am glad you are back! Notice the pig theme?? cute ,huh?? lol

Jules.....I use to watch Real World - love Puck and Pedro. I think SF was the best series!
Where are you Cristi and Michelle??

Below is what I wrote my sister (the full one, not the half one - ) do you think it is mean? Too late now,,,,,but I just had to vent and say my peace....

I think xxx owes us an apology for her behavior .I was just starting to come out of my depression and this week has been hurtful by what she has done.
I don't agree with her reasoning that the money in his account is hers to have. Rather insensitive to his children and grandchildren. She thinks she trumps them? I think not. She has always been about hurting us and dividing us. I bought into that for years. How many times I sat and listened to her bad mouth you all (including dad) just to see my sister xxx.
The others aren't surprised by her actions, but I am. She has a lot of balls and she can justify her actions til the cows come home. Wrong is wrong.
The thought of dad wouldn't want us fighting about money, I agree.....it isn't about money....it is about her disregard for his family. She has no rights to that money and look at dads signature because I will eat crow if that was done recently. It must have been years ago when xxx was still a minor.
And her offer to share the money with you and xxx is another slap in the face. How wrong is that? It is her continuing way to cause chaos and hurt. She is horrible. I wish you could see that....she plays us against each other, she always has.
anyway,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,my vent.

Today was It Figures day and I had the whole joint to myself...gotta love that. Of course I usually do anyway because most of the ladies go in the early a.m. Also got my 1.5 mile walk in, again the treadmill, ick. Been so lazy because I haven't been sleeping so great lately that I end up sleeping in until 8 or 9. Anyway, blah, blah, blah.

JULES...love both Danielle and Bethany! How did you end up with Teri though? Through all the pregnancies I only picked out boys names. We decided from the very beginning if there was ever a girl she would be named after her great-grandmother on her dad's side so that name was a given. But had a hard time coming up with boy names. DH picked all three first names and I chose the mns. With #4 (baby from V and I) I chose the name. It's really hard to pick the *right* name. Love the name Ryan too! That was the mn we had picked when I had DD.

KATHY...don't think you can house train a goat...and this one wasn't. It showed the woman having so much urine and feces to clean from all the dogs and goat that they let stay in the house-so GROSS! How is Cole doing? Is his ankle better? Oh, no thanks...I have hard enough time just trying to keep this little house cleaned...sure wouldn't want to clean someone else's, lol. I remember as a teenager my Aunt would pay me, or one of my sisters to come and spend the weekend cleaning her house. You would not believe the mess! Sometimes she let if go so bad she would have all three of us girls go over and do it. But we didn't mind...we love her and loved spending time with her. She's only about 10 years older than me so we've always felt a little close to her.

SUSAN-NYC...yeah, the treadmill bores me to death too! I feel exactly like that too! Even with the t.v. or music on it still bores me. Makes the time go by faster, a little but I do prefer my walking to be outdoors. Sounds like you had a nice time...I so wish I was on the west coast again, really miss it.

KATY...I too would love to do a study as that and I hope both you and SuzyQ get excepted into the study. And yay! to having the drywall done!

SASSY...hope your back hasn't/doesn't go out on you-been there, done that. Been doing fine though with the back since I have been exercising regularly. But I have had mine go out just brushing my teeth. Have you guys decided on a vehicle yet? At least you have it narrowed down to three! I have to take DS shopping for one next week, or this weekend. He's been driving DH's truck.

MICHELLE...I know at times you don't really feel like posting but sweetie it really is good to get things out. I am sorry that you are having a time with DD. We miss you when you don't post.

SUZYQ...kharma with get SM in the arse. What goes around comes around and you just don't go around treating people like she is. Same with ex-SIL...she was in charge of her dads estate and for some reason didn't send the kids their share of some stocks he had in Boeing. The sad thing is nothing can be done...DS contacted some attorney's and to file anything it has to be done in the county in CA. They were supposed to have the choice of keeping the stock or cashing it in. Well, she took it upon herself to cash it in and didn't give the kids their share. Then there was some property in OK that she sold and cheated all her brothers and sister and nieces and nephews. It was supposed to be split up between all of them. The kids (my kids) were splitting their dad's share that's how they were involved because he is deceased. Now she has nothing to do with anyone and won't even except letters or anything from anyone. All the while her and her kids are living it up on the money that is owed to her brothers and sister, nephews and nieces. Oh, and because she took it upon herself to be executor of his estate she paid her self! DH#1 always said he didn't want to be around when his dad died because he knew this is exactly what would happen. His sister is a greedy biotch. I think it is sad when people cheat their own family, so very sad. I feel though the same thing is going to happen when my parents pass away. I told my mother to not leave me anything and do not leave me in charge of her estate. She had me at one time. Anyway...lots of to you.

Guess I am going to go. Finally found a site for support for Army Moms yesterday and I want to finish checking it out. I read some and I think it will be nice chatting with other moms going through the same thing. But, I want to find some place local to get together in person. Going to contact a local radio station and the newspaper to see if they could possibly help in finding something and if not, thinking about starting one, not just for moms but for wives too. I may go talk to my neighbor also. She has been in the air force for 16 years now and works on the Air base in town...maybe she knows of something or could put something on aboard or base paper if they have one. There has to be something around here. Anyway...

Take care and have a good day ladies! Chat with ya later

SUZYQ...I see nothing wrong with what you wrote. Probably won't do much good though. And as much as I hate to say it, sometimes it is easier to just let things go. Believe me, I've learned the hard way. I think sometimes it's more stressful when you keep it going. I know it is the principal of the whole thing but if the woman has no regard for anyone, and no morals it's just going to cause more pain for everyone, especially the step-sister(s). They too know it's wrong. YOU know what she is doing is wrong, as does everyone else. But she just doesn't care. I think if you really want to do something about it you should seek legal advice and possibly make her pay it back or at least pay for the funeral.

Anyway, where did you get your pig avatars? Or any of them?

*sigh* I know Cristi - I just wanted her to see in print and after I heard that she was offered a share in the $$ it just made me more hurt.
You have seen pics of my family, we deserve better.
I found some oatmeal/cranberry cookies from Trader Joes...eating one to make me feel better......and you know , it does....lol

I think the support group is a wonderful idea Cristi! I found mine under pig avatars on yahoo.

making mac and cheese for lunch - better get...

edited after mac and cheese
I ate the whole box, I was starved. I also ate another cookie. You know - you eat so fast you don't realize what a oinker you are being??? It was like that....

on the 1.5 Cristi!! I wanna sleep til 9 am!! Gaby is always up at the crack of dawn. Last night we went to the doggie park and the people are so nice. One person gave her their frisbee to throw....and she did- whacked it right at his privates. Gabster! you go gurl.....anyway, he went twirling down the hill.....lol

yikes,,,better get again!

Hey Ladies.

Jules - greed seems to always come no matter what. Its a horrible thing. I hope all goes well for you and your family.

My hub is 6'8". So we ultimately want something he is comfortable in, all the cars we have it narrowed down too have pretty good gas mileage. Also we are trading in our full size Dodge Ram for the new car. Big difference there. lol. We are keeping our little Mazda that we use for work and back right now as a back up car. The new cars all get about the same gas mileage, if not more than it does. We only have about a 20 minute commute to work. So not bad.

Suzy Q - I read your letter, sounds good to me. Straight and to the point. My mom learned after everything she went through that being straight and to the point is the best way to go. If they don't like it, then too bad. Its very sad how people fight over money after their loved one has passed. I think my Great Grandmother had the right idea. She gave everything away BEFORE she died. I know we can't all do that because like my step dad and others, death can come unexpectly. Its just very sad.

Well my back is okay as long as I don't over do it. I need to clean but its not worth having my back go out on me. So I'm just doing laundry and that is it.

Hub is going to vacuum. He always does because it really hurts my back to do it. Yesterday on our way home we had a tornado warning!!!!!!!! They spotted one not too far from where we were! But nothing ever came of it. (thankfully) I think it blew down a few trees and that was it.

OHHHH hub's little stray kitty had her kittens! She came up to the deck this morning and no big tummy! We don't know where she had them. But she was about starving! I gave her a can of food (mil gave me some cans) and she wolfed it down! So we're going to buy her some Kitten Chow too, mil said it would be a good idea.

We fear that once the babies (if they survived) can walk and follow mama then she will most likely bring them up here....... If so we'll have to find them homes, we can't have all these cats outside. lol. But lots of people at work so maybe a few of them will take some if need be.......

Well have a great evening!

Hi Sassy!

I am glad your back is feeling better. I love kitties - she must be a good mommy to hide them from danger. My cats always had their litters in the closest.
I went to TJ and bought a shrimp salad. They have the prettiest flowers, so I splurged and bought a bunch to take to my dads grave. Feel a need to regroup. I was thinking life was so simple 9 months ago before I was promoted. I don't know how it got so complicated.
Anyway - going to head out early to do that.........and it is raining - smells so good.

Michelle where are you again? Come chat!

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