I talked to the gentlemen of the family that we are going to adopt for Christmas! He sounds so nice. I just love being able to spoil people.
We have a ton of food and some other stuff. Now I get to start shopping for their child. A BABY!!!!! I love shopping for babies.
Well I need to go vote so I will cjat with everyone later!
Well here it is. The week of the marine corps birthday. Everything is all about the marines this week. I am about marined out. Marine balls, marine cake, marine's giving speeches! I am so sick of it all and it is only monday.
I swear I am going to scream if I hear more quote about marine. I guess thats what I get and I should know by now that everything revolves around the marines birthday.
My husband comes from a long line of marines and they talk about it all the time. My family was not like this. Here is another area where Rusty and I are so different.
We grew up with a flag outside. We were never allowed to talk bad about this country, and w were to defend her at any time. However we never talked about my dads service in the Army....well not much anyway. We were not allowed to mention Vietnam in front of my two uncles who served there. All of my grandfathers served in WWII, but once again that was never talked about.
It was not until two years ago that my mother mentioned to me that my grandfather landed at Guadacanal. Heck I did not even know he was a Marine! Then Rusty tells me that he was lucky to have made it home.
My grandfather was not a big tuff marine. He was the one who fed me m&m's before dinner. He was not some proud war hero, he was the man that would rinse out a beer can and refill it with water so that I could have something to drink. To me he was my grandfather, who loved me with all his heart.
As I head off to the ball I will think about everyone who has served this great country. I will remember those who have died for this country, and I will no longer be sick of marine stuff.
I am keeping the girls out of school, so that I can take them to the beauty shop and get their hair done. The girls are so excieted about this evening comming up. Heck we even told them that they do not have to go to school the next day!
As for me. I will do my own hair. I will get dressed up and I will smile. I will walk tall and I will do all the proper things. All the time I will be thinking to myself please get me out of her.
For some reason I never have a goodtime at the ball's. Could it be because I am usually the one driving drunks home? Could it be that because when marines get together I melt into the woodwork and Rusty forgets that I am there?
Then again this day is not about me. It is about the marines. So I will suck it up.
To everyone that has served and is still serving I do want to say thank you.
I am thankful that my grandfather did return from Guadalcanal. I believe that is where I get my spunk from
A dear friend e mailed me and told me that I need to spice up my journal entries. So I thought about it and said o.k. Here some of the other things going on in my life.
After the first of the year we are going to pull my ex's credit report. A friend of ours work for a loan company, so he is going to pull it for us. This will tell us how much money he is making, all of the names of his new wife and so on.
I told on of my friends about this so she is going to do the same thing. She will never get any back child support, but her 19 year old son wants to kick the shit out of the guy.
When I go to work on Sunday I am also going to look up another dead beat dad. I have acess to every registered voter in the state of california!
Maybe I should start charging for my tracking services?
What else do I do that I have not mentioned??? I smoked some weed a few days ago, simply because Elle was leaving and we could. I did however put the weed in rusty's safe. Hell our whole could burn down, but we would still have guns and weed!
Well today was shopping day with the girls. That was so not fun. First Nikki said that she did not have a dress to wear to the ball. What? She had 8 to choose from! I know that she wanted me to buy her a "new" one. But that was not happening. So I told her that I guess she does not go. She has changed her mind.
Then we had to buy shoes. Amber really has some big feet, so we went to about 4 different stores and we could not find anything in her size! Then she says to me well I guess I can wear the ones I wore to homecomming last year. I so wanted to strangle her. Why dident she mention this 2 hours ago!
Now Rusty is not home, and he told me that he would be home to take Amber to a make up party. So it looks like I am the one stuck doing that. I am so frustrated! I told Rusty that I did not want to be out running all day, because Nikki is not feeling good. Well so much for that!
I still need to get the house cleaned up, and cook dinner, and I have a super long day at work on Sunday. Do you think that if I leave the house dirty that little maid's will come clean it for me?
Well it is 2:16 a.m. here in California. I am just in from work and I am getting ready to drink some hot chai tea. Work is really picking up and I am so happy. Lets face that just means more money for Christmas!
I am also going to be hitting the streets to get some sig's. Heck the petitions are paying really good right now, so I think I am going to cash in on some of the money.
After Christmas I am going to save up for two solar powered attic vans, and two sky lights. The fans will really help to cool our house down in the summer, and the sky lights are going to go in the garage. I know that they will more then pay for themselves in the first year. I wish that we could go total solar.
Elle called me today. She was telling me how nice it is to see seasons. I must admit that by living in southern cali we dont really have seasons. Lets see... we have hot, to hot, and way to hot, the we have rain. I do miss seeing the leaves change colors and feeling the chill in the air.
Anyway. Elle is doing good on her drive. She is meeting her dad on friday and he will have snow tires for her. Then she is going to the car on a boat and end up in Canada. Then she will be driving the rest of the way to Alaska. I really wish that I was on this road trip with her!
The Marines are kicking off the toys for tots drive this weekend. I think that I am going to take the children down to toys r us and let each of them pick out a toy to donate. I really want my children to have a giving spirit, and the best way for them to learn that is by my example.
Well I better get some sleep.
I am so thankful that Elle is safe.
So I called child support enforcement this morning, and it turns out that we are no longer allowed to talk to case workers. If we would like to speak with them concerning a case then we have to go there! Great, Like I have time to drive all the way up there to spend five min. with this lady! Oh well, you do what you gotta do and that is life.
The girls are going to be busy this weekend. Amber has a dance on friday, and then Nikki has a lock in at church. On saturday Amber is going to be a face model for a gal who is having a make up party, and then I will have to pick Nikki up sometime Saturday morning. Some where in all of this I still need to take them shoe shopping, and to get hair cuts...... Life with girls.
Rusty is not here right now so I am going to go work on his quilt. I will chat with everyone later!
I actually got up early and did some running around. I had to go get some more ear candles. Man I can believe how much crap is still in Rusty's ear. On a good note Rusty can now ear out that ear. Then Amber said that her ear hurt so I did an ear candle on her ear. That ear was also full of wax! Those ear candles really work!
We said our good bys to Elle today. I am so going to miss her. I loaded her up with some snacks and energy drinks. Then Rusty check all of the fluids on the car. Then it was time to say our parting words. That sucked!
Yesterday I got a package from my mom. It had the jump suit in it! So we are going sky diving the first week end in december. That is going to be so much fun.
We also got a letter from the ex. I read the letters and then gave them to the girls. They read them and walked away. I am not sure if they are going to write back or not. I do think that I am going to have another court battle on my hands. I think that he is going to try to take me back to court to get visit's. So I am going to hit him where it hurts..... the pocket book. he is ordered to carry medical ins., but does not and I have let that go, but not anymore. I asked for it before and then he ended up not working because he could not afford child support and paying for ins. So I am going to give him a little less money to take me to court with. Am I being a bitch? Oh thats right I dont care!
We finally got our dsl hooked up and I am so happy about that! Man the internet is so much faster!
Our friend is going to keep the children so that we can go to San Jose for another friends wedding! I am so looking foward to that. While we are up there we are going to go see the Winchester house. I have been wanting to see it for a while and since we are going to be in San Jose anyway..... Anyway if you have not heard of the Winchester house here is the link to check it out. http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/
I am off to chill out for a while. Actualy I have to stay up so that I can switch the girls laundry around. Why these girls cannot do laundry at a normal hour is beyond me.
I am thankful that Elle came into our life and has left nothing but good foot prints on our hearts.
