Sex with Toby Keith

The other night I could not sleep so I decided to take a sleeping pill. These pills usually don't bother me, but for whatever reason that night I had some strange dreams.

One of the dreams I had was that I was having sex with Toby Keith. I was digging this dream when Nikki woke me up by poking me. Nikki said mom " Mom I keep throwing up" I said " I am having sex with Toby Keith, go take an anti vomit pill and go to bed"!

I won't win mom of the year award for that.

The other day I had to block the military channel. Ryan really likes this channel, but one of the shows just sent me into a tail spin. The military channel had followed some marines around, and they brought this damn war into my living room. The things I saw and the language I heard was not good. When I told Rusty about this he agreed that I should block the channel and that we do not need this war brought into our living room. Let's face it, I live with the side effects of this war everyday.

For the most part I like where we live. I love being close to Nikki's school and close to where Amber works.

I could do without the drug dealers across the street or the ass hole who likes to fire his shot gun off at mid night, but other then that I am o.k. here.

Then the other day I get a call from my friend Linda who also happens to be my land lady. It seems that someone wrote a letter to the owner of the house saying that I have mean dogs and 10 cats.

Linda came over and took a picture of our dogs, and did not say much about our cat's. Linda got back with the owner and everything is cool now.

I am just pissed off that there are some nosey neighbors who seem to think they know what is going on inside my home.

They do not know shit about me. Other wise they would know that I keep a very clean house, all of my animals are very well cared for, they are all fixed and they all have their shot's.

This is why I try very hard to not to get to know people that live around me. I don't want people at my door and in my business constantly.

Rusty left for his trip this morning. He will be gone almost a week. I am not worried I have butter ( the dog above) and a revolver. So I am good.

 

 

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Just hanging out

I am sitting here looking at a kitten who just knocked over a trash can and moved all of the papers out of it.... just so she can sleep in it!

We really did not do to much this weekend. I must say that I am getting really sick of all of these high temp's.

On Saturday George and I went out driving around and we found someone that was cleaning out a house. We scored so sweet stuff for free. Then we saw another house that had a pile of stuff with a sign on it that said free.

I grabbed this really cool coffee table and end table. I have gotten the end table all cleaned up and polished, so now I need to work on the coffee table. I don't think I am going to strip these table, but we will have to see.

I spent a lot of time making sure that Rusty had everything ready for his next trip. Rusty leave tomorrow and won't be back until Sunday. I would love to go to 29 palms with him, but I think the children would kill each other if I left them home alone for almost a week.

While Rusty is gone I have a few projects that I want to get done.

I need to unpack and clean out our closet. Yep, I have not even unpacked our closet yet. I guess I can give it all to good will since I don't need it? I was looking at the closet the other day and I am wondering if I really need my navy p coat. I love that coat when lets face it. I don't like snow, I don't like cold weather, so the chances of me ever wearing that coat again are slim to none. I will have to really think on this on.

Amber has drug her feet on getting all of Rusty's v.a. stuff turned in and now it is crunch time. Amber said " I can't afford to pay for my classes  four days to process Rusty's paper work." O.K. then maybe your ass should not have been at the beach? Somehow Amber's lack of planning is my problem? Oh I so don't think so.

I wonder if she realizes how many people would give anything to have a free full ride to college? Amber has it and she is just taking it for granted.

This litter of kittens is so easy going. They are starting to grow and two of them now have their eye's open. I know I was put on this earth to take care of critters.

Speaking of the babies, I need to go make them a bottle because they should be getting up soon.

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I only have a few minutes

So yesterday I was just worn out! Then Amber starts bitching about not us not having any bread.

Amber: when are you going to go get bread?

me: I will buy food on Friday when Rusty gets paid.

Amber: no I think you should do get some today.

me: No, you have a job. If you want bread then take your happy ass to the store and buy your own damn bread.

Amber went and bought some bread. I told her to put the bread in her bedroom. I do not even want to see her bread!

Why can't humans eat their young?

The other day Nikki brought home a flyer of some of the programs that the church wants to start. Nikki suggested some that I might be interested in. I chose something else.

I called the pastor and volunteered to help with the food bank. When I worked for that charity I use to run the warehouse and one of the things we did was massive food distribution.

The pastor said that I was the only one so far who volunteered for that. I asked him to give me a call when he wanted to get start and I told him that I would help out.

Right now the babies are sleeping. I am hoping that they will sleep for a few hours. This morning they were very cranky, so I had to rock them, just to get them to go back to sleep. Yes I rock kittens.

Today Amber and Nikki are at the beach and Ryan is outside playing. It is nice to have the house to myself.

I have gotten the house cleaned up and dinner is in the crock pot, so if I hurry I might be able to get some sewing in.

My sewing machine is calling me.

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botnay cards

We have botany card.

We have botany cards from Africa.

We have botany cards from Africa, so that IF I am ever stranded in Afric during a rainy season I will know what I can eat!

Yesterday I was looking for a calendar that I printed out. I had unimportant stuff written on it. Stuff like when our bills are do, and other unimportant things.

Yesterday I started looking for this calendar so I could write down all of registration dates. It is gone!

I e mailed Rusty and he said "oh I thought it was trash so I threw it out in the trash"

What? We have botany cards that I moved at least three times but I am not allowed to have one sheet of paper?

Don't be surprised if those botany cards disappear!

 

These are my new foster babies. They arrived last night. There are three black kitties there! I have named one of them Miracle. The smallest of the group has one eye open. These babies were found in a laundry room at the barracks.

I did get some good news from Ryans school yesterday. This gal Karen that use to be the head of the special ed department is now Ryans Principal!

I love Karen. We can joke about stuff, but then when it is time to talk about Ryan it is all fair game and I turn into the bitch from Hell.

Karen said that she just accepted the job yesterday, and no they do not have a teacher for Ryans class yet, but she is working on it.

I also asked Karen if Ryan had been approved for ot. She said that she was not sure. I said " Well I know that he qualifies and if he does not receive services I will be bringing in an advocate."

An advocate is someone who knows the laws and knows the lawyers who take the school districts to court. I am so done playing games.

Today I am going to spend the day doing all the normal stuff but I am going to spend more time loving on these new babies!

Love and time will help them grow.\

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no time

Rusty had to work a show all weekend, so I have not been able to spend much time with him. On Monday morning Rusty went into work late, so we were able to grab a few minutes of adult conversation.

The conversation basically gave me a long to do list.

Find out if the school system actually got Ryan a teacher for this up coming year. Find out if they are ever going to evaluate him for o.t. Call transportation and find out what time his bus will be picking him up. We all know how much I love dealing with the school system.... when it comes to Ryan.

I have to find out when it is sophomore registration. Turn in some of Nikki's books from last year. Try to get Nikki into a zero period, so she can take an extra class. Help Nikki find a job.

Ride Ambers ass until she actually takes all the paper work back to the college so she can pick her classes.

Take Ambers car in to get fixed since it failed smog. Find the money to get Ambers car fixed.

I need to try to find my birth certificate. I know that it is around here, but I dont know where. Knowing my luck I will find it once I order a new one.

While looking for my birth certificate we found papers that I can't believe we have. My husband is such a pack rat.

Amber swears that her and Cody are not dating, but Cody has been over here everyday since they got back from Europe.

Nikki has been spending her day's at the beach trying to learn to surf. I guess if you have blond hair and a nice tan, you should know how to surf. Then she will look like a real California girls.

Ryan has been spending playing with his new found friends. I am so happy that he is not just sitting around the house!

I have done a few puzzles and have just been lazy. I have no ambition to do much more.

I did get some great news yesterday. I very dear friend called to ask if her and her mom could come for a visit. I was so thrilled! I have not seen her in almost 5 years! I do wish she would bring the baby, but I understand that this her break from the baby. I have never seen or held this baby. I swear the child will be in college before I get to see her. I just can't wait for my dear friend to get here, so we can just sit and laugh again.

Well, my day is calling me. It is saying go vacuum the house, do the dishes, do the laundry, finish your sewing, pull something out for dinner.

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An awesome day

Yesterday I was sitting here at my journal. I was just staring at the screen. I had nothing planned for the day. Well other then the normal shit...clean, cook, clean, do laundry....

Then Rusty called me. He said " you know that tool that you call the tool to launch the space shuttle, well can you bring it to me? I blew a water pump on the way to work today." Um O.K.

Ryan was at school. Amber was sleeping. Nikki had just gotten up. So I yelled up the stairs "Hey Nikki do you want to go to the beach? If so grab your swim suit."

I left Amber a note that said " Nikki and I ran away, clean up the house", then we were out the door.

We got down to Rusty's work and we hung around for a little bit to help Rusty.

Then Nikki and I stopped by the farmers market and we walked around there for a while. We saw some really cool stuff! I have not been to a farmers market in years.

Then it was off to the beach. I don't know why we even bothered bringing lawn chairs but we did, so we set them up and headed down the beach.

Nikki and I took our bags and started a beach clean up day. We walked all the way down to where the river comes into the beach. Then we decided to walk up the river. We had never gone up that far before so it was so nice to go explore that are with Nikki.

This also gave Nikki and I an opportunity to talk about her summer.

While traveling back east they used a book called Mennonite your way. So while the group was traveling they would call random people from this book and stay at their homes.

How this works is, people can sign up and then everyone is published in a  book. This way you can host travelers.

So that is what the group did. Nikki said that one family had books upon books of nothing but peoples names. Every time they opened their doors they would ask the people to sign in.

Another family took in this group of 7. Nikki said they were a blast! They ended up staying with this family for four day. The family fed them and gave them whatever they needed.

I thought that was so cool.

While down in Nicaragua the group ran into a lot of conflict.

One time their bus was surrounded by people trying to break into.... while everyone was still in the bus. Another time they had to pull off the road so that they could let the communist party pass.... while the communist pary fired of gun's.

I can tell that Nikki is Rusty's child. I would have been like get me out of here, but Nikki said she just got use to it.

On our way back up the beach Nikki and I saw a group of marines training, so we sat down to watch them. There is nothing better then watching marines run, swim, and do push ups. These were some fine young men. So Nikki and I called it our entertainment for the day.

Some lady just rode a horse down our street.

Once we got back to our beach chairs we took inventory of all of our trash. We found two big pieces of rope, a shoe, water bottles that had never been opened and a ton of balloons.

Let step up on my soap box here. Balloons are nasty. They kill our sea animals. The animals think they are food and will try to eat them! Stop taking balloons to the ocean and don't release them! O.K. I am off my soap box.

On our way back through base Nikki asked if we could go see the base brig. So we went by there. Nikki thought it looked small and that no one was there! I just laughed. There are people in there trust me. After we saw the jail we headed home.

I get home to find Amber all but hurt. I wanted to go to the beach! Oh grow up and get a grip.

Today I have to get house work done! I goofed off all day yesterday, so today is hard core cleaning day. after I go up some lotion on my body. My skin is so dry from being out in the sun yesterday.

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I have landed

A very dear friend of mine once told me that I always land on my feet.

I was laying in bed last thinking about that. I have landed once again.

After all I have been through this year, I am still here.

The other night I was sitting outside and Rusty came out and sat with me.

I said "Well, we have helped both of the girls dreams come true this year. Amber got to go to Europe, and Nikki got to go back east and go to Nicaragua. We have made it through another summer."

It was with that statement that I opened a sore spot for Rusty.

Rusty said " I am sick of just making it. I am sick of our dreams be put on hold. I am sick of settling for third best. I am sick of having to have to juggle money and wonder if you are going to get sick."

I said " I am sorry that I got sick"

Rusty: " It's not that you got sick. It's that we had to take money that we were going to pay our bills with, so that you could get medicine. I am sick of you not having insurance. I am sick of just making it"

I guess I can see where Rusty is coming from. I know that we are "poor", but I do not consider us poor. I have been without health insurance for a while. I am use to going to the free clinic.

I am use to getting stuff second hand. I am use to juggling bills and money. I am use to waiting for stuff that we need. I am so use to it that I think it is normal.

I do not think we are poor.

I do however think we are rich. We have a place to live, we have food, we have three cars that run, we are able to help our children reach their dreams.

We are rich because we have friend that love us and friends that will do anything for us.

I guess it is all perspective.

 Last week I spoke to my mom about the Egypt trip.....again.

My mom Rusty and I  all agreed that no one is going to Egypt. It is not a good time for anyone.

Maybe this is what Rusty is talking about? Not being able to afford what we want?

Anyway, I am going to go get Ryan and I a passport and we are going to go visit my mom in Mexico. Every year my mom rents a condo in Mexico for a month, so I am going to take Ryan and go to Mexico for a week.

I am not sure what I am going to do about Ryan not being able to write his name. I am going to ask if a "X" can still be used as a signature. I would think that they would have something in place for people that can't write.

Today I am going to just do some stuff around here. I have to help Nikki unpack. There is a lot of stuff that we need to up for next year, so I will need to get that crated up.

Amber has to go up to the college and finish turning in all of her paper work. I am just waiting for the sticker shock on the price of her books.

Life and time march on. Right now I have to work on saving the money for air fare to Mexico. That will only be about $600.00.  I am going to do some yard sale's and once school starts I will look for some odd jobs.

Then I will help the girls raise the money they need for there next big adventures.

Yes, I have been tossed around a lot this year, and yes my Egypt dream is put on hold, but I am still here and I am moving forward with whatever life hands me.

Life is good.

 

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