we finally got a break

Yesterday a neighbor lady stopped by. She needed someone to take her boy's to school three days a week. So Amber took the job. This lady is going to pay Amber $30 a week to take her to school. It is a total of two miles round trip! That is enough to fill up Ambers car. So now she does not need to wonder how she is going to put gas in her car! Amber is finally starting to use her head.

Last payday I bit the bullet and got all of our bill caught up and current. It feels so good. We can now start putting money back into our savings account. It feels good to be back on our feet.

On Friday Rusty is going to take a bed down to a marine. I will be so happy to get it out of the garage! I will finally be able to get in there and get the garage cleaned up. This will be the last time I offer to let the marines put anything in my garage. I had told the marines that they could store one crate and most of them took advantage of it.

Nikki needs to raise $200 to go to youth convention. Youth convention is held in San Diego Thanksgiving weekend and there over 3,000 teens for southern California that go go to this event. Nikki and I have decided that she is going to have a yard sale to raise the money. I could just give her the money, but I think she should have to work for it. Once the garage is cleaned up we can start gathering stuff.

The kittens are doing great! They think they are big kitties now and they run all over the house and play. They are even starting to stalk! I just love this age.

I have the marines quilt all pinned together so all I have to do is sit down and sew it up today. Tonight I can sit in bed and do all the hand stitching.

I was telling Rusty that over the last few months people have given me a lot of material, and that I was not sure what I was going to do with it. Well now I know! I am going to take those scrapes of material and make some quilts!

Today I have the city coming by to look at my sunflowers. One of my neighbors complained to the city saying that they were to big and that they were weeds.

I guess to some people they may be weeds. To me they are perfect. They are native to California and they require very little water. Heck, all we see on t.v. are ad's to conserve water and to plant native California plants. I just wish that people would leave me alone.

Rusty really shocked me yesterday. He actually went through his dresser and got rid of a bunch of stuff! Rusty said that he had finally gotten sick of not being able to put his clothes away. I just wish Rusty would have done this before we moved! LOL

On my to do list today: finish the marines quilt, fold the never ending laundry, and cook dinner.

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oh my poor fingers.

I told myself that I was going to have my mom's scarf finished this weekend. What that did not happen.

I had a heck of a time trying to wean three of the cat's. I finally put some wet food down for them and then they ate. What was I thinking? Silly me thinking that they would drink milk out of a bowl. So I now only have two left on the bottle. I will try to wean them within the next few weeks.

Then I found out that next week one of the marines will be leaving. What? Why is everyone getting orders at the last minute? This marine does not have a quilt, so I had to get busy and get a quilt done.

I should have the quilt done tonight. On Wednesday, Rusty is going to take the marine out to dinner and give him his quilt. I was thinking about going out to dinner with them, but driving all the way down to base just for dinner is not a good use of gas.

I also found out that another marine will be leaving soon. So I need to get busy on his quilt.

My fingers are so sore from sewing! yes I will make sure to take pictures of the quilts.

Well there really has not been to much else going on, so I better get back to my sewing.

If there is no rest for the wicked then I have been very wicked lately!

 

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Hush your mouth

Yesterday I was at the 99 cent store, and this guy in the produce department was talking to me. I went on about my shopping and out of no where I here "how did you get that bruise on your arm?"\

My first instinct was to say that sex got a little rough last night, but instead I turned to see who was talking to me. It was the same guy from the produce stand.

I explained to him what happened and he said " Are you Jewish?" I just smiled and said "No my father is the son Irish and my other grandmother lived through the great depression. I was thought to waste nothing".

I have not heard that slang term in a long time. Are you Jewish? I heard that a lot when I was growing up, and it did not bother me. Now that I am an adult that saying really offends me.

Nikki and Ryan are at school. Amber went to a friends house, and Rusty is at work. The babies are sleeping and the dogs are out back! I am so loving this. I am so in the moment right now.

Today I have to go pay a few bills and then I am going to go back to the 99 cent store. They had some really nice looking mum's, so it is time for me to go play in the dirt.

Other then that I am just going to sit around here and do the usual. Which will be nice since I won't have anyone going behind me making a mess.

Earlier this summer I bought a diaper bag at a yard sale. I think I gave $2 for it. This bag is very stylish and I used it for the beach. Then Amber saw it and she has started taking it to the beach. Then last night Nikki asked me if she could use it as her school bag! I told her to go for it.

I guess I am getting my $2 out of the bag.

Now that the children are back in school and I have a little bit more free time, I thought that I would do something different.

You guys can ask for pictures of anything. I will go around and take pictures of whatever you want to see. So just let me know!

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what I do and don't know

Last night I had to run a few errands. So I asked Rusty to go with me and I told him that I would buy him some ice cream.

Nikki called me to ask if Chris..... the boyfriend could come over. I said fine.

Then Nikki calls me back and say's "Chris can't come over because we are having sex."

I said "Then stop having sex." It was at that point that we pulled into the driveway.

It seem that the mother from hell won't let Chris come over because she thinks Nikki and Chris are having sex.

Well let me get this straight.

Nikki holds her virginity very close to her. She makes it very clear that she will not have sex before marriage. Nikki even wears a shirt that says virginity rocks. And you think my daughter is having sex?

Then I was wondering what the hell. O.K. lets face it. We can't stop our children from having sex. Oh wait it was the mother from hell that admits to having sex before marriage. So just because she did, she thinks my daughter is putting out?

Oh my brain hurts.

  So I called Ryan's school today. I needed to know what classroom he was going to be in and if they had a teacher for him.

Silly me. What was I thinking? I actually expected the school to know these things. No they do not know! I guess Ryan is just going to wonder around until someone finds him and tells him where to go.

I also had this strange notion that I might be able to find out what time Ryan's bus is coming. Oh no! That would also be way to easy. So I guess tomorrow I am just going to send this child out the door with no set schedule, no class room and no teacher?

After the day I have had him......

I did find out that o.t. is finally going to be giving him services. The o.t. person told me that Ryan is at the age of a six year old. She also gave me a long list of other things. I was sitting on the other side of the phone thinking. You are preaching to the choir! I have been bitching about this for years. I know that he is 13 and is only doing stuff that a 6 old does!

oh my brain hurts.

  So far today I don't think I have gotten much done. I had to sweep and mop the laundry room floor. I took care of the babies. Oh that is right. I need to get some pictures of them.

I tried to clean up the kitchen but that was pointless. I guess trying to clean anything is pointless when you have three teenagers in the house.

Oh my brain hurts.

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what a weekend!

 I had such a busy weekend. I am so glad that it is over.

Lets start with Friday. Nikki went back up to the school on Friday to try to register and they handed Nikki another line of crap. They would not even let Nikki talk to her councilor.

That was it. I am now going unleash my anger on the school system.

I walked right past every person every person that works at the school and went straight into the principals office.

I introduced myself and said "My daughter and I have been trying to get her registered since Tuesday. We could not get her i.d. because I did not have the fee money. Then we were told that she could not get her i.d. card unless we pay these fee's and without the i.d. card she can't get her classes. We came back today with the money and they told my daughter that she still could not get her i.d. and class because today was makeup day. Then my daughter was told that she could not see her councilor until school started. I would like to know what the students do when they can't afford to pay the fee's. Do they just wonder around for a year? My daughter has to see her councilor so she can get her chemistry changed to ap chemistry, and she needs her i.d. card!"

I felt so much better after I unloaded on her. Then the principle printed Nikki's classes and made an appointment for Nikki to see her councilor and get her i.d. card. I am telling you the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing!

Amber has waited around for so long that all of the classes that she wants to take are full. On top of that she has been dragging her feet on getting her financial paper work in. I swear these children are going to be the death of me.

Also on Friday I got a call from the shelter. They had two more bottle feeders and no foster homes open. I had to really think about this since I have three bottle feeders already.

I took them. These two were found in a wood stack. They are so small and malnourished. One of them will make it but we are not sure about the other one. These kittens look like something you see of Animal planet hero's. They are nothing but skin and bones. I am giving them food and love, so the rest is up to them.

Saturday Hailey and her family came up for a bbq. It was nice to get to know Haileys family.

Then I got a phone call that on of the marines was leaving in two hours! So I packed up the littlest of the babies and George and I headed to base to see this marine off.

Sunday I was so worn out. It was all I could do to keep my butt moving.

Today I am just trying to catch up on everything needs to get done around here.

I have gotten most of the house cleaned, and the laundry is still never ending. I m trying to get the black kittens to drink off of a plate, but that is not going to well. I also put a litter pan in their crate. I have sewing to do, and dinner to cook.

I have no energy to do anything.

I just keep thinking that school starts on Wednesday and I can't wait!

The tag at the top says no school yes to freedom. At least that is how my big brained friend translated it for me.

 

If you were a teen in the late 80's you will love this song.

 

 

 

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marriage rut

Last night was much of the same for us.

I made dinner.

Rusty ate dinner.

I cleaned up the kitchen.

Rusty checked his e mail.

I fed the babies.

Rusty went to watch sifi.

I discovered that I was bored out of my mind. So I broke out some stuff that I was going to use to make Christmas gift's. I got them done, so I decided to start on a project that I had been putting off.

I went into the garage and located a box of my dad and my father in laws ties. I go back to the kitchen area. Kittens are still sleeping, and I turn on a music channel. Dump the box out on the table and I go put on the kettle.

Inside the box is a lifetime of ties. There were a few of them still tied so I slipped them on my neck.

That is when Rusty walks in. I looked at him and said  "We are in a marriage rut."

Rusty just looked at me and said "what?"

I said you heard me.

Rusty looks around the room. Tea cups had been glued to saucers, there is a stack of dead men's neck ties on the table. I am wearing three tie's and just then my cat tea pot started to moo. Rusty said "your cat is mooing. And if we are in a marriage rut I would hate to see what you will be like in another 20 years."

Today I was once again dealing with the tie. When all of a sudden the chair I was sitting in broke and I went tumbling to the ground. I screamed as I was falling.

Rusty comes running in to see me laying on the floor laughing and to see straight pins everywhere.

I am making a scarf out of the old  neck ties. This project is turning into a pain in my ass! I hate sewing on silk. My mom better like this damn scarf!

Well, I better go put all the stuff back in the kitchen. I had to move it all so I could mop.

I guess my marriage rut is not that bad.

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registration day

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So here I sit. The babies have been fed several times, the house has been cleaned up, and dinner is in the crock pot. I even survived Nikki's registration day.

I got up this morning knowing that I needed to go buy Nikki some new tennis shoes and take her to get registered.

Nikki, Ryan and I walked over to the school and to my great surprise registration went fairly smooth. When we got to the part where we had to start to pay the fee's I told the lady that we could pay them on Friday. The lady said that I HAD to pay them today or that my daughter would not be able to get her schedule. Really, so are you just going to let this child wonder around campus for a year? I am just suppose to shit out $120?

So we moved onto the next station. That is where we are suppose to pick up Nikki's schedule, but we couldn't. So we just asked to look at it.

Nikki got into advanced geometry, and chemistry, but was so disappointed that she did not get into advanced placement world history. For whatever reason they would not let her not take a lunch. GRRR

Oh well, it looks like we will be back at the school on Friday.

We ended up at Wal mart. I hate that store. There are to many people there. I told Nikki that I had $30 to spend on Tennis shoes. We did good and were able to get two pairs of shoes!

I am so glad that someone gave us new school clothes and school shoes for Ryan.

A family from down the street asked me if they could put some moving boxes and packing material in my recycling can.

What? yes that is where they go but, I know that there was someone out there that could use them. So I told them to stack the boxes and just put them in the driveway.

I put an ad up on craiglist for free moving boxes and packing material. They were gone by night fall. The family was surprised.

I would rather see someone else use the stuff before it goes back into the recycling bin.

I have also placed an ad for all of my used body butter containers. I have a few people who want them. So I guess who ever gets here first gets them.

Last night someone gave me a box of material. I went through it and then piled it all back in the box. The box had a lot of t shirt material. I do not usually sew with t shirt material.

Today I went through the box again. The t shirt material is very boyish. That works because I still have two baby boy blankets that I still need to get done.

There was also a lot of upholstery material in the box. I will have to think on how to use it. I am sure that I will come up with something.

As for everyone that wants me to come clean. Well no you don't. I just throw everything away!

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