~5-31-04~Pissed!

i'm highly pissed right now!

the other day i was sitting here and i found a flea on my leg! a what?! my cats don't go outside. part of the reason they don't is because i do not ever, EVER want to have fleas again.

i'll tell you my horror story with fleas. i used to have a ton of animals. it started with a dog and cat, then my cat had kittens, and then i was allowed to keep 2, so then it was 3 cats and a dog. wait now i am confusing myself. i don't have good luck with animals, that is my 90% reason my cats don't go outside. well at some point i had 4 cats, momma kitty and bitch kitty both had a litter a week apart. something happened and mamma kitties all died except 1, so i had 4 cats and 5 kittens. anyways, i went in to check on the kitties and i felt something crawling on my leg, i looked down and there were fleas covering both of my legs!!!!!!! i am not exaggerating!!!! i freaked out, ran outside shaking violently to get them off of me. at that point i didn't even want to go back in my house! i checked out the baby kitties and they were covered. i felt awful, because i couldn't do anything because they were too young for any flea treatments. so i had to wait it out. we kept our old newspapers behind out couch, remember we are hillbillies, and you could actually HEAR them jumping on the papers!!!!!!!!!!!! it was very, very bad. i don't know what we did to get rid of it all. i think eventually since all my cats happened to disappear, then winter came, that solved it. from that point on i never had outside animals again!!!!!

so anyways. i have been flea free since about 1997. well for a week or so last fall piggy got out, i finally found him. i was very relieved that he was home, but then found out he had fleas. i got some of that stuff you put on their necks, i would have loved that invention back in 1996!!!! and winter came and all was fine. well now i see that freakin flea on my leg!!! but i have no bites!! i've never seen any fleas before!! today i noticed like 2 bites on clays leg, which reminded me of the flea i saw the other day. but we are outside all the time, he could have got them from the grass......well i just did a quick check of one of my cats........YEP!!! he has fleas!!!!!!!!!!!!

i'm so damn pissed i'm about to scream. i was half tempted to go wake bob up to bitch, like that would help anything!!!

well i just found the stuff i had last time. i did piggy, and like last time, spook is gone! i don't know where he ran off to, guess i will catch him later. i don't know about this stuff though. it doesn't say anything about killing the fleas, all it talks about is killing the eggs.

well just got spook, that was hard as hell! good thing he doesn't have claws! now they are running around freaking out. piggy was about to go to the bathroom on the carpet i just scrubbed. since we are hillbillies and never change the litter they started to do that. i did change the litter the other day, but i think that they don't like the generic kind. i have heard that some cats are like that and mine are weird enough for that to be the case. so i busted but scrubbing the carpet where i knew he went. damned if the fucker just wasn't about to go there now! i took him down the basement, where i know bob just did the boxes tonight while i did the carpet. he jumped out, ran around everything and then went back in and went. poop no less! he was going to poop on my carpet!!! actually poop is easier to clean than pee, but i want none of it. i didn't even think to tell bob when he changed them to put in the good litter, i have 2 big ass tubs of it sitting in the kitchen! well hopefully now he knows it is clean and will go there. i'm not having to deal with the whole pee thing again like i did with my previous cat. that gets so frustrating! i wish i was the type of person who could get rid of animals that do stuff like that. but no, they are my babies too.......so somehow she mysteriously got out, and i haven't found her yet. it is going on a year. bob still swears he had nothing to do with it, but sorry honey, i just don't believe it! so finally my house was finally starting to be pee smell free......then this!

animals are such a pain!

so that was my fun filled day! woo-hoo!!

~5-31-04~ World War II Memorial

i was watching something the other night and it was talking about the memorial in D.C. they showed a picture and i thought wow, they really changed it since i was there. granted that was back in the 7th and 8th grade, hell almost 20 years ago....WHAT?!?!?

anyways, so i just watched a show on PBS, and here it is a new memorial for WWII vets, not the vietnam memorial that i was thinking of. i just seen some pictures and it is beatuiful! i'm trying to find some links for you all, but i can't find many!!

here is one

here is another, but the pictures aren't too great.

here is a nice site with great pictures of the monuments in D.C., but no good ones of the WWII

ok, here is a site with some really good pictures of it.

last one here.

Movie Reviews

there is a link to my movie reviews journal on the left under the about me section.

HERE is also the direct link. i'll add movies, hopefully, as i watch them. i'm going through my rental history from netflix, so some of them are getting old. i may even add some older movies that i really enjoyed as well.

new or old, i'll tell ya if i liked them or not. i'll post here when there are updates, check it out or even make your own!!!

Look how serious he looks! Like a little model or something. 

Still my cutie! 

~5-31-04~ Another exciting day.

I had to go to work today, and those of you who know me, know how much i like that. actually i didn't really mind it, i look at it as a way to actually get some sort of physical exercise. :) plus it was a small house, so it wasn't that bad. the windows were actually nice, not all streaky like the last windows....and no broken ones this time! haha!!

it only took us about 2 hours. the house next to us was had a smoker and they were cooking something that smelled GREAT! smelled just like the rib burnoff! so we got hungry for something on the grill. we stopped at giant eagle, they had milk on sale.....see previous post about milk. not really a great sale, but they had half gallons on sale 5 for $6. so i got a bunch. i got a nice porterhouse. bob got a fillet, and we also got a few kabobs. i threw them on the grill and it all turned out excellent. mine could have been a little less done, but it was better than i've had at restaurants. i'm still stuffed. to prove that point, we even got some krispy creme's.....raved about in another post.....and i haven't even had one tonight, i am still stuffed from earlier. well now that i am talking about it i want one! i hate eating at 1AM, that is probably another reason i don't lose any weight. well that and not exercising or anything.......

how pathetic is tv now! we have been watching cops since we came inside tonight! so much that now i am watching a replay from earlier tonight! even more pathetic, i was searching for something to watch and i was actually going to watch cheerleading cause there is nothing on!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but that was on damn fox sport channels and we don't get that. how is it that my cable bill is almost $200 and i don't get every channel?!?!? you would think paying that much a month that i would get every freaking channel available!!!! damn warner cable.

my tooth is really starting to bother me. a week from tuesday i go to start my root canal. i wish it was this week! well, not that i could go anyways, bob is on days. molly said she would babysit, but i don't know, maybe if it REALLY bothers me i'll call and get on the cancellation list.

do you know what is amazing? these cirque de soleil people!!!!! i love them!!!! they have this new show called solstrom. i keep seeing it and thought it was the same one, here they are all different. it says it is a series! damn and i have been missing them. i would love to go see them in vegas. then again i don't think you'd be able to see as well as you do on tv, and i don't really think i would spend $100 plus on one ticket!!!!

know what commercial i love? the one with the kids on a playground and the woman tells them they have to guess how many minutes they are going to play with the ball in the next 2 years....it is a cell phone commercial, joking about picking a pricing plans. speaking of commercials i love, how about the one for dairy queen with the little baby and the dad. i have only seen it like twice. i was going on and on to bob, wanting him to see it sooooo bad, and i haven't seen it since.

do any of you watch celebrity poker on bravo. last week it was so funny. wanda sykes is a trip!!! i was cracking up the whole game. i enjoyed the show she had on tv, but didn't really watch since there was something else on at the same time, it got cancelled. i didn't mind whoopi so much either. they cancelled all those tuesday shows too. i don't know what they are putting on that night, since frasier is gone as well. guess i'll just have to wait til fall to find out.

it is amazing how i can just go from topic to topic, isn't it?! everytime i think i have nothing to say, i end up writing a whole page on here.

i haven't posted on any movies lately. i sort of started a movie blog where you can rate movies. i was trying to go through my whole list of netflix but it is huge!!!!! and i was fighting with someone on there already after i only posted 2 reviews! they pissed me off and i spent too much time trying to think og something intelligent to reply to them with since they are an idiot, and then decided screw them, i'm not wasting my time on them i have movies to rate. maybe depending on what time i finally submit this post i will go add some more and then put the link up here. maybe i will go start that now. i also have some new pictures of clay i took yesterday i want to bombard you all with, but have to transfer them from the other computer. hopefully i will get something done tonight, guess we will just wait and see...

night!

~5-29-04~ CHEAP magazine subscriptions!!!!!

here are the best places i found for magazine subscriptions!!!

i always get bob subs. to his mags. for father's day. so i found and even better deal. i got him from bestdealsmagazines.com
FHM for 3 years, $16.95, Maxim for 4 years, $22.95, and Stuff for 4 years, $23.95. that is 3 magazines, most for 4 years for about $64! that is incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

then i got my magazines from magsonthenet

i got a year of people for $93, which is about $1.79 an issue, plus you got 2 free mags, i chose child magazine, and woman's day. i just paid, $3.29 for this weeks. i also got a year of US for $38, which is about $.73 an issue. i just paid, $3.29 also. i also got a free mag with that and i chose family fun. so i was very happy. i searched for quite some time, and those that i found, these were a HUGE bargain. i've ordered bob's before from the same site, so i know that they are legit and i actually got the magazines. fingers crossed on the other, it goes through yahoo, though, so that one should be fine as well.

so if you are a magazine junkie, i would check out those sites! you can save a bundle from buying them at the store!!!

~5-29-04~ I'm trying.....

to come up with something interesting for you all. i know i hate going all weekend without any blogs to read. so i'm trying to put something in here in case anyone shows up.

i'm just so damn boring it is hard!

i actually went to the store with clay today by myself!!!! yes it has almost been 2 years and i haven't ventured out by myself with my own son, how sad am i?! i just don't go out much, and if i do, then bob is usually with me. i don't much like shopping by myself. it is too boring. and i don't much care for driving either, so it is nice to have bob chauffeur me around all the time! haha!! it is amazing that i actually did live by myself for a while. i don't know how i made it actually! and i sure got back into the old routine real quick when we got back together.

as lonely and boring as it was a lot of times, it was really neat to actually live on your own! i mean i was 26, about time, but it was still a very weird experience! it was soooo nice to not have to answer to anyone. you could do what you wanted when you wanted, how you wanted! it was really quite liberating. i actually felt like i made it to adulthood. it was a great feeling to know that i could do it on my own.

i really liked my little place, and it WAS little!! it was the upstairs of a 2 story house that was made into top/bottom apartments. so all i had was a nice size kitchen, a really nice size bathroom, a living room and my bedroom. they were also pretty nice size considering some rooms i have seen in houses. i also got the use of the attic, which wasn't nice or anything, just for storage. but i really didn't take that much from bob's cause there is no way all of my stuff would have fit in that attic, i would have needed the whole house for my stuff. i'm still wondering how in the hell all my clothes fit there, when now i am back in my big house and have no room!!!!

another cool thing about the place was the guys downstairs controlled the heat, so i didn't have to pay gas, so that was way cool. and they sure kept it warm enough! i had my bedroom windows open all winter long! and for you all not familiar with ohio winters, it is damn cold!!!!! so it was great! my electric was maybe $25 a month!!!!! no utilities (water, trash) payments either! heck, i almost want to move back! haha!!

oh well, enough reminiscing, or i may want to go back to my previous life.............


(tricia, don't read....) so my venture to walmart was better than i expected today. clay stayed in the cart and didn't get ansy at all!!!! it must just be that when bob is there he knows he will take him out and walk around with him. on the downside as i started shopping, i realized that since bob was working, that i would have to be the one to unload the car, so i could go all wild like i usually do. still somehow i spent almost $200!! how in the hell does that happen?! i didn't even really get everything i wanted either! milk is ridiculous!!!!! it was almost $4 for a gallon of whole milk! like $3.57, and that was even their brand!! i just got a gallon of skim, since we were out of that. so i get up to the register and she informs me that the giant eagle in dover has milk on sale for $1.89, and they match prices.....well if i would have fricken known that i would have got like 4 gallons!!!! she said she would just add it on and i could run and get it, i just kind of looked at her, like what am i supposed to do with my child?! so screw it! i'm sure the people in line behind me would have been real happy with me if i went. so i sit here pissed, that i didn't! my child is almost out of milk! oh, and of course the sale ends today!!

i also made the mistake of looking at clothes. i got several tank tops, they are the new ones with a bra type thing built in. i don't know if they will work or not, i'm praying that they do, cause they look so comfy!! i also got a fat person bathing suit. it is so much easier to buy big clothes than to lose 20 pounds!!!! i need a biking top to fit my big ole boobs! they had a cute one at penny's where you could actually order by cup size and it was on sale for $19.99, of course it is on back order!! so i got a 1x at walmart, hopefully it will work. i didn't try anything on yet. it really isn't a bikini top, looks more like those cute halter ones they have, it seems like it would give better support if it works. so then i figured i should get a bottom to match, so i got one with the little skirt thing. sometimes i think those actually make you look bigger than you really are, but there is no way i would be caught dead in an actual bathing suit bottom, that would be much scarier, for everyone involved.....so old lady swimsuit it is!!!!

i also got 2 "lay out" chairs, they were only like $7 a piece. they will work much better than me sitting on the chair with my legs stretched out on the patio table looking like a hillbilly. not that i have anything against hillbillies, i am married to one! do you ever wonder if hillbillies look out at their back yard and think, "god it looks like a bunch of hillbillies live here?!" i said that to myself the other day, then heard my mom in my head telling me that i am a hillbilly!! so i just wondered...

i got fish food for the fish i never feed.......a sprinkler for clay to play in, kool-aid, tropical punch, they didn't have any black cherry!! i almost got a new phone, but that would have been about $150 extra that i don't have. plus all the clicking and shit on the phone now gives me an excuse to get off when i don't want to talk anymore! :) my 2 magazines, people and US. i ordered a subscription but it takes 6-8 weeks to start. OH!!! i've been meaning to tell you all about this great site for magazines!!! they are sooooooooooooo cheap!!!! i'll post it in a separate post.

ok.....what the hell else did i get that would come to damn $200?! i did get some food, but not like meat or anything. i guess it just all adds up! i got 2 hanging pots of flowers, they were $5 a piece, so i figured that wasn't a bad price to pay for something that i will probably have killed in a few weeks. i figure if the rest of my house looks like a hillbilly's then the least i could do is make my porch pretty with flowers. oh yeah, but there are the other 20 pots out there with dead flowers in them.....oh and the 2 snowmen decorations that have been out there since christmas 2002........HELL!!! maybe i AM a hillbilly!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~5-28-04~ i'm chilly!!!

it is damn cold here! it is 48 degrees now. it only went up to about 60 today. i guess that is good since we don't have air yet, but it sure isn't helping to heat the pool up!

i don't know if i mentioned it yet, but we finally decided on an air/furnace. of course, we went with the cheapest guy. i asked if we paid cash if he would get a better deal, and he knocked $75 off. oh wow!! thanks.......well guess it is better than nothing! so they are coming out thursday!!!! yeah!!!

now all i have to worry about is windows, insulation, and glass block for the basement. hopefully that will be done by winter. not holding my breath! trust me that is not all that needs done around here, but those are the most do-able at this time.

my tooth is killing me, i can't wait til the 8th. hopefully this guy knows what he is doing and he is doing the right tooth!

i'm hungry! i already ate like a pig tonight. i got to order pizza oven! since bob is working. i am the only one who likes pizza oven. they are the best! i don't care what anyone says! so i still have pizza and chicken sitting out there and it is calling me!!! so i may have to go have a second helping.

wow....am i boring or what?!

ME and clay :) 

~5-2-04~ Me again.

ok, have you all played with this personal illustrater (word?)yet?!?!

if not, WHY not?!?! it is so fun!!

here's me again

~5-27-04~ More tests.

thanks again to kelly and trish for this site.

here are my results:

I AM 36% ASSHOLE/BITCH! I may think I am an asshole or a bitch, but the truth is I am a good person at heart. Yeah sure, I can have a mean streak in me, but most of the people I meet like me. Take the ASSHOLE/BITCH test at Fuali.com

~5-27-04~ Finally it is over.

well it is finally over. i wasn't too impressed with this american idol anyways, and no my girl, diana, didn't win. i wasn't really shocked. i mean fantasia can sing, don't get me wrong, but to me her voice is just like nails on a chalkboard!! when she gets that rasping or whatever you call it, i cringe. macy gray is one thing, but i only like 1 of her songs, i couldn't listen to much more of it.

i just wonder how she is going to raise a little girl now doing all these tours, making records and such....oh well she has a million dollars, i'm sure she'll manage. i don't really feel bad for diana, i'm sure she will have deals coming out the wazoo anyways. they will all make out. as long as they don't turn into a justin. whatever happen to him anyways?!

i don't see why they had to drag the whole damn thing out for 2 hours! that was one good thing about having it on tape, we fast forwarded (?) through just about all of it. and i wished i could have seen clay sing!!!!

oh well.......another show gone. what is left now? nothing til july!! AGH!!! guess i will write more in july. just kidding! :)

night all!

ME!! 

~5-27-04~ Addicting

above is ME. i found this site thanks to bitterwoo.

you can play too. go HERE

make sure you post them or send them to me so i can see!

~5-26-04~ haha!

howard stern is so damn funny!! he had a butterface contest toight. you know, her body is great, but her face.....

now i normally hate when people are critized and put down, but these girls brought this on themselves! come on!!!! i don't feel bad for them. plus he girl with the best body and worst face wins $25,000!!!!! so i guess it works out for them!

well.....we got the last estimate, which i was hoping would be good, since they owed us a credit......$4900!!!!!!!! that is the second highest!!!!!! and not including any duct work or anything!!!!!!!! fuck that!

i think we are just going to go with the cheapest guy. he has the highest efficiency, and the lowest price.......i still don't see why he is like $700-$800 cheaper than everyone else, but oh well. i'm not planning on being here for more than a few years, so....... as for the duct work. i'm going to see how everything works with the new air and furnace, then go from there. no sense paying money for something we don't really need. i called him back tonight to set up a time to do it and he hasn't got back to me yet. i guess someone else out there need their air done. damn people!!!!

ok...5 more minutes and bob should be home!!!!! tick, tick, tick, tick.........

i watch a bit of the country music awards. i haven't listened to the radio in so long, i didn't know what anyone was singing. well i knew that alan jackson song remember when. what a pretty, pretty song!!! kind of sad, well happy sad, you all know how i am. gets my mind thinking then i get sad. tim mcgraw is just so damn sexy!!!!!! GOD!!!!!!!!! i went out with someone that looked like him, but he was "grungier" not country!!!!! he was hot though! he was a super nice guy too, tim seems that way as well.

oooohhhh i think i hear keys in the door!!! yeah!!! i'll get back to you all when i find out what happens!!!

~5-26-04~ Eyes Closed

well i am scared to read any blogs, watch tv, or surf the net. i don't want to see who won american idol tonight, since i didn't watch it yet. i have to wait for bob to get home. so hopefully he avoids the radio on the way home.

i'm rooting for diana. i forgot to vote last night, still pissed i missed half of it!! oh well......

i was sort of happy about the bachelor special tonight. that was sooooo great that they brought trish out to confront tara. it was totally great that tara walked off the set! screw you babe!! i was disappointed though, i wish she was a bit harder on her. i know she wanted to take the high road, especially after all the nasty clips they showed of tara, but damn trish i would have reamed her!!! us, your fans wouldn't have thought badly of you!! i know i said it a thousand times, but i hope she is the next bachelorette. apparently BC loves her. i mean they tried to bring her back after she didn't get a rose, then they brought her back for the show tonight. hell i think she has got more press and air time than the other girls!! go trish!!

come on bob!! i'm dying here! i want to know what happened tonight!!!!

~5-25-04~ Well....

i thought i was going to go on and on about something, but i got up and actually did dishes and stuff, so i forgot....

Trish, i found this site and thought of you, well, and me!

Kelly, how long did it take you to "get" your soldier from angels n camouflage?? i still haven't heard anything back yet.

this is a sad story, but it just shows how small the world is....well here is the story from our newspaper, the repository, i'll explain after.

~Worker dies after fall from city truck
Tuesday, May 25, 2004 By JAN H. KENNEDY Repository staff writer



CANTON — Today is Jake Milbrodt’s third birthday, but there will be no party. Tragedy has removed any chance of celebration for the youngster, whose father, Peter J. Milbrodt, died in a traffic accident Monday morning at Tuscarawas Street E and Riverside Road.

Milbrodt, 32, an employee of the city’s Signal Department, was pronounced dead at Aultman Hospital at 10:41 a.m., 35 minutes after the accident, according to a police report. He was knocked from his bucket truck when a dump truck struck the raised bucket, with Milbrodt inside, as he prepared to repair a traffic signal at the intersection.

The death came as a shock to his boss, Steve Bryan, a traffic engineer and head of the Signal Department.

“This is hard to believe,” he said. “He was a very good worker, a good employee.”

Bryan said Milbrodt and fellow employee Ryan Boron went to the intersection to repair the traffic signal. Milbrodt had entered the bucket and was going up. Boron was in the truck doing paperwork, Bryan said.

“We had cones out, and all the safety measures were in place,” he said.

Police said a Mack Econodyne dump truck, driven by Robert D. Martz, 64, of Easton Street NE in Nimishillen Township was eastbound on Tuscarawas Street and struck the raised bucket, ejecting Milbrodt.

He was transported to Aultman by Canton Fire Department personnel. If ruled a traffic fatality by the Stark County coroner, Milbrodt’s death would be the fourth in the city this year. No charges had been filed as of Monday night, but the accident remains under investigation.

Milbrodt had been with the Signal Department about two years, Bryan said. He previously worked for the Water Pollution Control Department.

Prior to Monday night’s meeting, City Council paused for a moment of silence in memory of Milbrodt.

Mayor Janet Weir Creighton expressed sorrow for the loss of the seven-year city employee.

“No city employee wakes up in the morning with the thought they’re not coming home at night,” she said after the meeting. “Here you have a young man with a wife and three small boys. He kissed his family before he left this morning, and he’s never coming back home. Your life changes in a second.”

Creighton and other city officials visited Milbrodt’s wife, Melanie, Monday at the hospital.

“We’ll cooperate with the investigation,” the mayor said of the accident, “but right now our thoughts are with the family.”

Milbrodt and his wife have three children — Caleb, 7, Jake, 3, and Jared, 1.

Today is Jake’s birthday, but, “his daddy won’t be there for him,” said Helen Milbrodt, Pete’s mother.

She said her son’s “favorite thing in life was wrestling with his boys.”

Milbrodt was a wrestler and football player for Timken High School. He graduated in 1990, then graduated from the Pittsburgh School of Art in 1992, majoring in commercial art.

“He can draw freehand real well, but he never liked doing art on a computer,” said his father, Don Milbrodt, an employee in the city’s accounting department.

Peter Milbrodt joined the city’s Water Pollution Control Department in October of 1997. Two years ago, he bid on and received a job with the signal shop. Bryan, his boss, remembers he always had magazines on woodworking and carpentry.

“He was a real handyman,” his mother said. “Carpentry, plumbing, woodworking, engines.”

“If anything went wrong, he’d find a book and learn how to fix it,” his father said.

Milbrodt golfed in the city’s golf league and liked to ride his motorcycle. He also was in a bowling league.

“We were waiting on a ring from the American Bowling Congress for bowling a 298 game this year,” his wife said. “Now, he’ll never get to see it.”

Funeral arrangements are pending at the Reed Funeral Home. In addition to his immediate family, he is survived by his maternal grandmother, Wilma June Fisher of Massillon; paternal grandfather, Russell Milbrodt of Perry Township; sister and brother-in-law Julia and Jack Underwood; and his wife’s grandfather, Michael Berkmyer of Canton.

Repository writer Ed Balint contributed to this report.

You can reach Repository writer Jan H. Kennedy at (330) 580-8325 or e-mail:

jan.kennedy@cantonrep.com~

my cousin's husband was friends Peter. she was telling me the story of what happened. she said they came home that day and got the message of what happened. well, later that night her husbands father called and said that he was in a accident today, his truck hit a bucket truck and the guy died!!!!!! how small of a world is that!!!! that is just so awful on so many different levels! i mean how is gregg, my cousins husband, going to feel talking to peter's wife, also his friend, when he knows that his father is the person who "killed" him! it is just a sad, sad situation.

not mentioned in the story is that, supposedly the guy who was in the truck was supposed to be outside directing traffic. but he was in the truck. that is why so far bob isn't charged with anything. i just don't get why the bucket would have been hanging low enough that a truck could strike it. you would think if that was the case they wouldn't allow any traffic to pass. i guess it is just one of those freak things, that you just don't understand why it happens!!!! my heart goes out to the family!

~5-25-04~ I'm Lost

why does it seem i am at a loss for things to write about now that most of my shows are over for the season.

guess it is summer time that makes me realize i have no life! haha!!

my mother screwed up my show, american idol, tonight! i told her since she was here i would tape AI, and we could watch what she wants. so in doing, my cable box is on what i am taping and we use the tv remote to watch something. so after a bit i went outside to smoke, then up to get clay's bed ready for night-night** then back down. she left shortly after that. so i put clay down, went outside for a bit, got this puter set up, by that time it was about 9, so i go to shut off the vcr and see that the cable box is on 5!!!!!!!!!!!!! AI is on 8!!!!!!!!!! so i called her and asked if she changed channels while i was outside. she was like i tried, but nothing happened. well yes something did happen!! you screwed up the show i was taping!!!!!!!! AGH!!!!!!!!!!! this lady has no concept of technology!!!! you should see how long it actually took her to figure out how to change channels and use the volume. i should have NEVER taught her! so i probably only got 1/2 of it on tape.

**the night-night issue is driving me nuts. all of a sudden now, my child freaks when it is nap time or bed time. he was NEVER like that before. now soon as he knows it is that time, he starts crying. then when i pick him up to rock him, we sit and rock for 5-10 min, he screams like i am killing him. even after i take him up, i put him down and he is right back up screaming as i walk out the door. but then he is out like 5-10 min later!!! i hate the fight!! guess i shouldn't bitch, at least he ends up going to sleep. and sleeps 2 hours+ for naps, and he sleeps through the night. so, oh well!

as i keep saying, thank god that big brother is going to be on 3 nights a week! i just found out that queer eye for the straight guy is new too! woo-hoo!!

since my whole window fiasco last sunday, i missed the season finale of extreme home makeover!!!!!!! for the past few weeks they have been showing repeats on thursdays, so this thursday??? NO!!!! fricking matlock!!!!!!!!!!!! what the hell is that?!?!?!?!?!?

so trish from the bachelor was on jimmy kimmel last night, love her!!!! ihope she is the next bachelorette. they hinted around to it and she said it was a rumor. fingers crossed!

howard stern is so damn funny!!! if i were up early enough i the mornings i would listen! i hate that his show is only 1/2 hour on e! beetlejuice is on now and i cannot understand half of what that dude says!!! the other night that did their hollyweird squares. beetle juices question was what are the white things in your mouth that you chew your food with. his answer.........food. they even asked him again later, and he still said food!! haha! it is so amazing the people that he finds for his show!

~5-25-04~ Finally.

finally someone i actually wanted to win, won a damn reality show!! i was happy that rachel won the swan pageant tonight. i thought it was kind of stupid that they had a swim suit portion, but it was EXTREMELY stupid that they did that whole lingerie portion. what the hell was that all about?! i thought they all looked great! i forgot how much some of them had really changed.

trish is on jimmy kimmel live tonight. i just love her!!!! i hope she is the next bachelorette. she has been on a ton of shows, i know most of them are the normal, next person kicked off the bachelor, but something like this, just proves that people want to see her and like her. i HATE that in some things i have read lately, compared her to omarosa!!!! what the hell is up with that?!?! she is NOTHING like omarosa!!

I'm Easy..........

thanks to kelly and tricia, here is my movie....

What Classic Movie Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

i was hoping for gone with the wind, since i am sometimes likened to scarlett o'hara, not to mention it is the greatest movie of ALL time!!

guess now i have to watch easy rider......

My cutie! 

~5-24-04~ Moral Dilemma........

well i have a dilemma. i guess i know what the "right" thing to do is, but i actually have a reason for not doing it!

we went and did windows for the lady who i am hoping to start working for. i wrote previously that we were no longer cleaning windows for the client i previously had and that has made a major problem in our finances. like we don't have enough money to cover bills, let alone food, gas and all that.

so it was a total blessing that she called and asked us to do windows for her. anyways, we get there, and it is hot, there is no central air in the house yet!!!! the windows are awful! they are cheap pieces of shit, that barely open, streak, and just suck!!!!

anyways.....before we left bob commented that he was going to smoke in the house and for me not to bitch, well why would i NOT bitch!!! you can't smoke in these houses!!!!

so i am upstairs doing the windows and i smell smoke. so i have the window half closed, they tilt in and they suck so when you close them water drips from the top that you just cleaned, so i leave them part unhinged, so i can tilt it back in and wipe it when it drips. so i smell smoke, so i go to the steps to yell at him for smoking in the house, big gust of wind, windows flies in and shatters!!!!!!!!!! WTF!!!!! i have been doing this since 1999 and have never broke anything!!!!!!!! and to make it worse. after we no longer had the previous client or any others for that matter, i cancelled my business insurance!!!! so i scream for bob. he runs up, with the goddamned cigarette (least of my worries at this point). so now i don't know what the fuck to do. so i contemplated calling her, but i don't have insurance, i don't have the $$ to give it to them out of pocket, god knows how much they would charge me, and i really, really, really need this damn job right now, i can' screw it up!!!!!

so bob comes up with the idea that we would just take the glass out since it is just the outside pane and the inside is perfectly intact. so he starts on that........oh the other great thing, is that she said she was going to come up there to see how we were doing sometime. so now we don't know when the hell she is going to be there! so i go down to do the windows facing the street, so i can see when she pulls in. so it seems like an eternity. i'm sweating worse than i was. wanting him do bad to hurry the hell up. i go up one time and he has cuts all over his fingers and he is bleeding on the rug.......AGH!!!!!!! not bad, but still. so i'm trying to wipe up blood drips and wanting him to hurry.

so eventually she pulls in, i yell up to him that she is here. next thing i know he is downstairs. so i'm chatting, hoping she won't go upstairs. i see her kid going up there and i am stressed, then her husband........AGH!!!!!!!! so she is walking around and i go and ask bob where he hid all the glass. what did he say?? i didn't. if they go up there they will see it. WHAT?!?!?!?!?! what the fuck was the point of me yelling up there telling you she was here!!!!!!!!! so i'm about to pass out. at one point i went in the bathroom and contemplated locking myself in. i knew she went upstairs. so i am sitting there, dripping with sweat. then i hear her back downstairs talking with bob, saying nothing. i finally go back out to fact the music and NOTHING is said!!! so the FINALLY leave and i run up there to see what it looked like. bob was like i had the door closed. like that is going to keep them out?! door is open! someone was in there! so why was nothing said?!

so now my plan of just saying nothing is ruined, cause i don't know if anyone seen it or not!!!! and if it was seen why was nothing said?!?!?!? i am not a good liar at all. and i am totally stressed out. dr. phil said that omission was the same as lying. my plan now is if it is brought up, say it was already broken when we got there, i thought she knew that. (assuming she saw it) i thought you saw it when you were upstairs. so in case someone did see it, i'm not acting like i don't know about it. just act matter of factly, like you saw it.......

i feel horribly though!!!! the honest part of me is saying should say something, but then i feel like a goof, why didn't i tell her while i was there, or why didn't i call her?! then the other part of me is screaming what i listed above. i NEED this job!! and definitely don't have $300+ to pay for a window to be replaced!!!

so what do you all think?? (not that it matters, if you say to tell the truth :) ) i just feel so awful. it is totally stressing me out!!! why does this stuff happen to me?!?!?! (bad stuff!)

~5-24-04~ Again?

so what is it doing right now? f-ing storming!!!!

i know ya'll are probably sick of hearing it, but damn, i'm tired of getting no sleep, hoping each BOOM doesn't wake up my son.

it seems pretty loud too, and we even have a fan in our window. the window air is going in his room, hopefully it will block some of the sound out. fingers crossed!!

haha...i just did my spell checker and it actually recognized f-ing as a word! :)

~5-22-04~ Yes, I am still up!

Never really stormed, thank goodness! hell, i shouldn't have said anything, now it will probably start!

i'm so queer! i actually got teary eyed watching that dumb ass mastercard commercial, where the dog finally found its way back home to its owners.

SEE, what an emotional person i am!!!!!

i never really commented on the bachelor finale. i really didn't care much since trish was gone. i didn't want tara to win though, i just think she is a total bitch. so i was happy that i knew she wasn't getting picked. KARMA baby!!!! there were points that i would start feeling bad for her, then i had to keep reminding myself how shitty she was to trish. so screw her! i'm glad she got dumped! i wish she would have went into what she thought was inappropriate that happened between them on their overnight date. i wonder if the did the deed?! dumb bitch. oh well, who cares. i wish they would make trish the next bachelorette. that would be a great show!

what else has been on. oh, i have heard people just raving about that show on the WB, next superstar or something. at first i thought it was kind of amusing, but then it just started to disgust me and piss me off.

here these poor people are soooo excited, thinking that they actually have talent and may actually "make it", just in the end to find out it has all been a huge joke on them, in front of millions of people. i think that it is very rude and hurtful. the last show is just going to be dreadful, and i probably won't even be able to watch it, cause i will be sick to my stomach for them....see above about how emotional i am.

hopefully bob will forget about it and we just won't watch it at all. i just think the whole concept is awful. like i said it is funny, just thinking about it, but if you really think the thing through to the end, it is so awful to do to someone!! would you want to be made out to look like a total ass, and a big joke in front of friends, family and strangers. it just makes me sad.

ok, guess what i hear now.......rumble, rumble, rumble.......AHH!! now i got some big gusts of wind blowing in the windows.....i can hear the tress outside rustling. here it comes again!!

just found out that some shows i like have been cancelled, doesn't surprise me. here is a list of some of them. i watched a few whoppi's and i didn't think it was too bad. i loved the girl that played whoopi's brothers girlfriend, that was just too funny!!

on another site i read that good morning miami was cancelled, guess i should have realized, since it hasn't been on in forever! i thought that was a cute show too, but i think they screwed everything up by making jake go with penny, then basically dog her for the other one.

on tv tonight, the whole reason i looked this up, said that forever eden and playing it straight were cancelled. the last i heard they were going to start over with them this summer, so i don't know.

i didn't even know that it was a possibility that boston public was going to be cancelled. i hate that they don't "end" shows. they just all of a sudden are gone. that pisses me off, especially when there are good story lines going and you are left hanging!! i really thought this was a good show.

brotherhood of poland new hampshire was a really good show, but they didn't even give it a chance. it was on 5 times, and i think they even changed days, so how do they expect people to watch when you don't even know it is on!!

oh well i have to go to sleep. night all!

Here's one of my favorite pictures of clay. it is from last june (when his eyes were still BLUE). 

~5-22-04~ Boy are you in trouble

now that i can put pictures on here, you guys are going to be sorry!

haha!!! now i get to bombard youall with pictures of my little cutie!! :)

i just love new stuff to play with!

my baby, with the foam alphabet i mentioned previously 

just goofing around with this photo program i have, then playing with this hello thing..... 

~5-22-04~ Nice night

well the storms rolled in this afternoon, good get them out of the way. i don't want a repeat of last night!

so i was sitting here now, enjoying the quiet, reading my blogs...what was that out of the corner of my eye? a flash....then rumble, rumble, rumble.......DAMN IT!!!!!

i checked the weatherbug radar, sure enough a bunch of storms heading my way. what the hell! can't it do this shit in the daytime when my child is awake?!

fingers crossed it won't be as bad as last, and hell i should have just went to sleep last night anyways. he never cried, so i could have caught some z's instead of having about 2 hours of sleep!!!!

i probably should head there now, but you all know me, that isn't going to happen! :)

~5-21-04~ 5:30AM!!!!

ok, so it quieted down a bit and i actually haven't heard clay for about 10 minutes, well now it is starting to thunder again. not that it has stopped since my last post, but not as loud.

they just showed the radar and it looks like more is still coming!!

for those of you wondering why i don't just go to sleep....well if i get less than 2 hours of sleep, i won't hear anything. so clay could be screaming in the monitor which is right at my ear, but i won't hear it. i may shut it off and just go back to sleep. that is what my whole dilemma has been through this storm. i guess if i would just go to bed at a decent hour i wouldn't have this problem!!

i'm gonna be nice and tired in the morning. i am supposed to baby sit my friends daughter in the morning too!! GREAT!

ok, it is starting again, i'm just gonna try and get some sleep. apparently he isn't afraid of the storms, since he never cried for me through all of it so far.

wish me luck....what is that like 20 posts tonight?!

~5-21-04~ ENOUGH Mother Nature!!

DAMN!!!! it is after 4 AM, this big ass storm just blew in, loud ass thunder, and now my child is awake!!!!!

he isn't crying, so i am sitting here awake, wondering if i should go get him or not. if he is not going to get scared and cry for me, then i would like to get some sleep tonight!!!!!

hell, i thought it was blowing past and now it just started up again!!! wonderful!!!!

now i used to be a storm loving person, ask tricia. but now i have a child that i don't want to be up at 4AM!!!!! i hate night time storms!!!!

i still hear him moving around in there and talking to himself, but no crying.....

oop, hold on, a swilrly over canton, on tv........gotta love channel 5 news. they don't mess around with the weather, they are on top of it!! oh well, it is closer to navarre, not canton. looking at radar, it is almost gone.....well, i doubt my kid will go back to sleep!!!!! i guess i will get off of here and try to go to sleep and see what happens.

figures i have to pee, but don't want to walk by his room!!!

~5-21-04~ Funny Stuff!

this whole thing is getting so hilarious that i have to share it with you all

check out this blog: gangsters of love, go to her may 4th entry and scroll down to the portion fun with scammers, then read all her subsequent posts on that topic. it is too damn funny!'

i wish i was witty enough to do something like that!

what a trip!! hahahahahahah.

i just got an email today, something like her original, i'm gonna send it to her, and maybe she can have fun with them as well.

~5-21-04~ Just give me central air damn it!

here are my numbers so far:

1.) 92% efficiency heater, 90,000 btu's--3ton a/c $3050

2.) 92% efficiency heater, ??btu's--36000 btu a/c $3695

3.) 80% efficiency heater, 80,000+ btu's, 2+ ton a/c $3790

4.) 80% efficiency heater, 110,000 btu's, 30,000 btu a/c $3950

5.) ?? efficiency heater, 80,000 btu's, 3 ton a/c $3789-$4489 (w/ duct work)

6.) 92% efficiency heater, 80,000 btu's, 3 ton a/c $5085-$6300 (w/duct work)

7.) don't know yet.....i'm supposed to get a credit from the owner, so the guy said he would send it after the owner goes over it!!!!!!!! AGH!!!!

2 of the above come with an air cleaner, the last guy asked if i wanted one and said it would be an extra $200-250. there is only 2 who mentioned duct work, the others when i inqured, they said i didn't need it.

so does this make sense to anyone????? i am at a loss. how is the first guy the cheapest, by at least $700?!?!?!? i want to go with the cheapest, of course, but then on the other hand, i am worried, because WHY is he cheaper??

i just hate decisions like this, especially since i have no clue about any of this. if any of you have any comments or suggestios or anything that could help out my decision, it would be greatly appreciated!!!!

THANKS!!!!

~5-21-04~ I may finally be able to SEE!

my mother just got an inheritance from my great uncle that passed away after christmas and she told me she was going to pay for my lasik surgery. i think that is so nice of her, but i feel bad. i just wish she would use that money to pay off her car and all of the bills she can. i told her if she really wanted to do this, then just pay for like 1/2 and i could just pick up the rest. it is about $2600. she said no, she was going to get it for me. so i called today and made my pre-op appointment. well it just dawned on me that it is the same damn day i am supposed to get my root canal. i'll just change the root canal. i've been living with my tooth aching for so long now, what is another week. yes, you can also say i have been living without being able to see for about 16 years now, but that i don't want to live with a day longer than i have to!! i was supposed to get it done last october, but since we were having money issues, i decided to sacrifice being able to see for the well being of our family. (yet bob got a car?!) then i was going to reschedule, but then i had the whole tubal pregnancy/emergency surgery deal and you have to wait like so many months after that.......so then i was like forget it. i already have too many bills and without the windows, there was no $$. so mom stepped up and wants to do this for me. so now officially she has done the most precious things in life for me, along with giving me life, getting through the death of my father, helping me when i moved out on my own, helping me and teaching me to be a good mom, and now giving me the gift of sight! she is just an amazing person. i know that is what mothers are for, but i think sometimes we just take them for granted and don't really appreciate the things they do. but i REALLY do!!!! so if i write bad stuff about her, venting, just know that i love her with all my heart, she just drives me nuts sometimes.

in case you are all not into the whole lasik thing and think it is dumb, well for me, without my glasses i am legally blind! if i did not know that that was a big ass E at the top of the eye chart i would not know, because i can't see it!! i am like 20/1000 or something outrageous. that means that what you normal sighted people can see from 1000 feet away, i have to be 20 feet from it to see it. i remember the first time i heard of lasik, well that wasn't what it was then, but the procedure years ago. i was so excited, i wanted it so bad. back then when it first came out it was like $5000 and eye, or something that normal people couldn't afford, and of course insurance doesn't cover. luckily i found this wonderful place up near cleveland, and it is only $1299 and eye and that is with a lifetime guarantee. if in my lifetime my eyesight ever changes i get to go in for a free adjustments. yes, i know there are risks......and how my luck goes that should scare me. just like oh with this shot to dissolve your tubal pregnancy there is a 100000000000000000000000 in 1 chance that it will actually make it explode, not dissolve (mind you the shot usually works for most people one time, i of course, had to have 2 shots and the fucking thing still exploded and i had to be rushed to surgery!!!) so i am aware of the risks and i am a bit apprehensive, but i have to try it. to be able to see will just be a miracle! you see those people on those tv shows that get it done and they cry. you may laugh and not understand. well i TOTALLY understand how emotional that is for someone! i am also sure that i will be one of the ones crying! aside from the birth of my son, that will probably be one of the most amazing events of my life.

well here i am telling you nothing has been going on here, and then i write a whole book. i think i may break this up into a few different posts. give your eyes a break.

~5-21-04~ Miss Me??

I actually fell asleep last night reading logs, so i didn't have time to post my own.

sorry to all my faithful readers. :)

it has really been quite boring around here, not that is is ever exciting mind you. i was all happy that i finally got my pool all filled up, but looking at it today, somehow it is moved like a foot from where it should be. it is one of those intex, easy set pools. so it could "tip" if not level. so after 2 days of filling...yes it takes like 2 days from the hose! we decided we have to empty it and start over!!! AGH!!!! oh my problems don't end there! 2 pieces to the filter were missing for some reason. well the reason that bob did not put them back after he unhooked the filter. oh but it is my fault cause when i seen them laying where they shouldn't be, I should have picked them up and put them where they belong. WHAT?!?!? so anyways, i ordered those, not too bad it only came to like $8. that problem solved. we went to cover it after we started filling it......well, there is a HUGE rip in the cover. guess that happens when you leave it out all winter hanging over a chain link fence. guess that is my fault too. i should have somehow picked up the 200 pound thing and put it too away where it belonged. apparently i am the only one around here who knows where stuff goes, so it is my fault when they aren't put there then lost?!?!?! now i am going to have to go and order a new liner. didn't check prices out on that yet.

i called the lady about the windows and told her we would try out working for her. so i am sooooo excited about that. the extra money will be so nice. you never know how much you have/need, until it isn't coming in anymore. it is scary now anyways, my husband works for timken steel, and the timken bearing plant is closing. it was just announced, so like 1400 people are out of a job. that is so scary!!! if bob lost his job i don't know what we would do. even if we both went out and got full time jobs, we wouldn't make what just he makes now! so i just pray that never happens. after all that steel dumping crap, we have already taken a hit. at first he was working 6 days (very nice pay checks) then it got so bad that he was down to 3-4 days. that was a few years back, and he has been working 5 days, but last year they took some shifts off and a lot of people were laid off, he got real lucky and just made it to keep his current job and position. so you never can be too sure these days. that is another reason i want to keep the window thing. just in case. so we are supposed to go do a house this weekend, we'll see how it all goes.

Good news?

i got some possibly promising news today. a lady that we previously did windows for called and asked about us possibly doing widows for her. she is starting a cleaning company, like i used to do. for the life of me i don't know why she just doesn't do her own windows. the houses, from what bob saw, are pretty small. molly and i used to clean and do the windows! there is no way we would pay someone to do them for us. but it may be good for me, so i'll just shut up.

bob was bitching about it. well the agreement was that if he got his car then he would no longer bitch about doing windows! and we NEED the money!!!!! so after some arguing, he said we could try it. i even offered to help him do it on the weekends!!!!

i have to wait and see what she says tomorrow. she really doesn't seem to know much about what she is doing, since she just started. i'm hoping it will be under the table, but how do you come out and ask someone that?! and i just cancelled my damn business insurance too!!

so i have my fingers crossed.

More on Clay

some of you may be sick of hearing about my "baby genius", but he just keeps amazing me each day.

after the letter stuff i wrote about yesterday, i did some "experimenting". we were playing with the magnets on the fridge, so i asked him, "where is the "w"?". he looked, sure enough he grabbed the "w". "where is the "o"? again he grabbed the "o". he did it for a few others as well. i was in shock!!!!

later that night he found this god forsaken blues clues mailbox thing that says letters and stuff in that awful voice of the mailbox from the cartoon.....anyways, i asked him the same questions, "where is such and such letter?" he got about 90% of what i asked him. i was just floored. maybe i am just being absurd, but i think that seems very unique that he can actually identify letters and even do some of their names and sounds.

especially since, like i have said a million times, he doesn't even talk yet!

My darling Clay.

he is just sooooooo cute!

i don't know if i wrote to tell you all how smart he was by knowing where all the letters go on his foam puzzle. the letters pop out and you put them back in. well he can pick up a letter and put it back in the correct spot. i was pretty amazed! i don't know if that is your normal 20mth old stuff? especially since the doc. is all concerned that he doesn't really "talk" yet.

well recently i've noticed that he knows the letter "o", "y", and "e". he will pick up his magnet letter or the foam letter from above and say the letter. he also knows "m", but for that he just does the sound mmmmmmm, which i guess the above letters names are also their sounds, well you know what i mean!!

he is totally addicted with learning stuff. his letter magnets he plays with forever. when he finally does give that up he will get that foam thing and drive you nuts with it, so much so that you will have to end up hiding it or you will be putting letters in and taking them out all night. he also has this neat little "book" type thing that has all the letters, numbers and colors. it also has pictures to go with them all. that child will sit with that too and make you go over and over and over with it.

so far he does "say" mom, ma-ma, no, ball, apple, flower (la-la), kitty cat, fishes....he sometimes "woofs" for the dog, "whoo's" for the owl, "growl's" for the lions, somewhat snorts for the pig, and does some crazy clicking of his tongue for the duck. he also say va-va, meaning vroom, vroom for cars/trucks. so i am not too worried about his lack of "words". just anxious. he does go on and on saying something all day. just babbles away!! i keep telling him to speak english so i can understand him. i'm sure it will just be matter of time, then he won't ever shut up! haha.

he is just so cute! i can't believe that he is going to be 2 in like 3 months!!!! i was arguing with my mom in the clothes store the other day telling her to get 18mth clothes and not 24 mths......it just dawned on me last night that he is almost 24mths!!! what the hell was i thinking?!

What the hell?!?!

now i am totally confused with these estimates i am getting from the air conditioning people!!

i don't know all of what i have told you so far, but here is a brief recap.

1st guy, $3000. next guy, $3700, next $3900, next $3600, today $3700 ($4400 with duct work).

now, i don't know anything about this shit. aside from the price, it seems like the first guy has better products. but the others had all this other stuff written on their invoice like chimney liners, and sheet metal blah, blah, removal of incinerator......so i don't know if this guy doesn't include that or if it is just all common, so he didn't make special notice of it?!?!?!? i know, call him and ask you say. well, i did, but i was too busy outside getting a sun burn so i missed his call. plus i still have 2 more people coming out to give me yet more estimates, i went a bit crazy. summer will be over by the time i finally pick someone and get it done.

my whole thing was that i didn't want to go over $3000. it is all just craziness!! what the hell did people do before air conditioning?!?!?! i know, i know.....they sweat! (sweatted, swat!) :)

The Heaven's Opened Up...

they went bananas tonight boy!!!

i've heard of hail storms, and oh they had quarter sized hail, blah, blah.....

well tonight i actually experienced it! scared the shit out of me. talk about feeling totally helpless! i'm sitting there watching thinking my freaking car is going to be destroyed!!! then i was worried about my glass patio table, then the windows in my house. OH MY GOD!!!!! then, Tricia, i thought, oh great we have a tornado coming up on us with NO warning!!!! it was very wild!!

so anyways...later when bob was leaving for work, i walked him out and a BIG ass branch or 2,3,4....was hanging off our tree, almost touching the road.....great! now what. i told bob to hang on it and break it off and throw it in the road....that way the city will come and clean it up and haul it away. he didn't! so it will probably hang there forever, or he will rip it down and it will go in this god awful pile of twigs, weeds, bricks, etc that is already an eye sore in our back yard. so it was an interesting night! didn't last long, but it blew through awfully hard.

Another great find.

thanks to the good ole boob tube, i found this very cool site.

i love the show unwrapped, on the food network. it is all about neat foods. tonights show is on crazy confections. they had a segment on this site, stupid.com. it totally reminds me of when i was little and i'd always look for weird and different candy. i have a ton of cavities now (and then), i could just imagine how many i would have if i were a kid now days. there are a ton of cool candies out there now days, check out that site to see what i mean. i may have to place an order! :)

enjoy.......

ok movie "critics"

as well as everyone did reviewing big fish, i was horrified to find page after page of people just raving and actually giving house of sand and fog 5 stars!!!!!!!!!!

ok, i understand not everyone will like what i like or hate what i hate, but come on people!!!!!!!! this movie was totally AWFUL!!!!!!

i guess i will give credit to the actors, cause it was VERY well acted, the story was just terrible. the acting and such may lead me to give the movie 1 star instead of my original 0, but NO, it was awful, i still give it a 0, that is how bad it was. it left me with no good feelings, no "lesson learned", nothing but contempt for the writer and director....hell the studio for even putting up the money to make the damn thing!

Big Fish again....

i don't know if this link will work or not, but i don't think that my review for big fish really gave the movie justice. i'm always afraid of giving too much away, but so much more could have been said about this great movie! HERE is a link to reviews that i read from netflix. some of them are exactly on!!! i hope this gives you a better appreciation of the movie and a more desire to NOT miss this one! definitley add it to your rent list and pick it up next time you are at the video store!

if the link doesn't work, then just go to netflix and look up member reviews for big fish........

oh hell, i'll just copy and paste a few of them, to give you an idea...

5 stars Brian F
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As with every other movie, I try to know as little as possible about a film when I go to see it. This was definitely the case with Big Fish; I had little-to-no idea what the film was about. By some twist of fate for which I will forever be grateful, I saw this movie with my family and I sat next to my father. I don't know that I have ever appreciated my father as much as I did during and after Big Fish. The love I have for my dad is unbelievable and this movie made me feel it. It was everything I could do not to cry. And when the movie was over all I wanted to do was hug him and tell him how much I cared...but I knew that I would end up bawling, which is something that I wasn't prepared to do in the theater...for both of our sakes. All I could manage to do was, before we stood up, I reached over and give his knee a pat and a quick squeeze. Even that simple gesture meant to much to me that my tears nearly gave way. As we walked down the hall toward the exit, my family spoke of how much they enjoyed the film. I just remained silent with my feeling. I don't really like Tim Burton films. His dark, moody films never really do anything for me. None of them grab me. Big Fish did. It caught me and I don't know that it will ever let go. One day my father will pass away and when he does, I will watch Big Fish again and cry the tears that I would not let fall in the theater all those many years before.


5 stars def american
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Tim Burton makes a triumphant return with "Big Fish". It's kind of his "O, Brother Where Art Thou". It's his ultimate masterpiece, a perfect film even better than "Edward Scissorhands". This film has a wonderful spirit. (I am also reminded of "Second Hand Lions", although without question, this is the better movie) Tim Burton, like the main character, is a great storyteller, it's good to see his voice is back. (After "Planet of the Apes" I doubted, but now all is forgiven!) The performances, cinematography, and soundtrack are all fantastic. But, as another pointed out,-My God!-The ending is absolutely, awesomely, perfect! It brings it all around again, tieing everything together to perfection. It may be impossible to watch this movie without feeling glad all over, happy to be alive, and wanting to hug your family. This is one of the best films of the year! I laughed, I cried, I recommend highly!

5 stars Jason Miller
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The first 4/5 of this movie were a fun heartwarming set of tall tales, intertwined with a son angry at his father for allways telling them and never letting him know the real truth. I thought it was a good movie 4 out of 5 stars or so. Then the ending. I have to say this is the best ending I've ever seen in a movie. The way in which the story brings the son around and shows us why and how his father's stories work is fantastic. I'm watching as circus freaks are waving at an old man and I'm tearing up. Only Tim Burton could cause me those emotions at those images. 5 stars.

Movie Time

we only got to watch one movie this weekend. we still never sent back the movies from last weekend, til this saturday......you know it is so hard to mail things out!

anyways......so bob went to the video store saturday. we were going to get scary movie 3, but they didn't have it in. i normally hate "stupid" movies, but all of these i actually think are funny! the 2nd was kind of dumb, but this one looks funny.

so we just got big fish. we were kind of hesitant, since tim burton is the director. his movies tend to be a bit weird, well a lot weird!

to our surprise it was GREAT!!!! it was kind of odd, and sometimes a bit confusing, but it was a very, very good and touching movie! YES, that means i cried! bob even liked it and said it was even a movie that he wouldn't mind buying.

aside from making me think of death and loss, all the stuff that stresses me out, i got out of it a happy feeling and really did enjoy the movie. i highly recommend it.

it easily gets 4.5 of 5 stars!!!

Last tidbit of the day.

well, i went to the dentist today. RUSHED there to sit in the waiting room for 1/2 hour. so why did my appointment have to be at 4:30 instead of 5????? then i sat there for about 5 minutes. enough to tell him, well, my teeth still hurt! so we are "assuming" that it is my molar that is the culprit so we are going to do a root canal on it. yeah! couldn't we have done that over the phone? i kid you not we talked more about my tattoo than teeth.

so now i have to go june 11th i believe to get that done.....oh joy. i have heard horror stories about root canals. i had one before and i didn't know what the big deal was. but then again, i don't think mine was bad. i didn't even need a crown or anything, so.......guess we will see how this goes.

OMG!!! the most important thing about today and i almost forgot...........RUPERT WON THE MILLION DOLLARS!!!! i am sooooooooooooooooo happy for him! i totally agreed with the top 4, except boston rob........still HATE him! the dude already won $250,000 be happy with that! damn, and your soon to be wife has a million! what the hell does he need it for?! i'm just so excited for rupert and his family. finally someone i wanted to win won.......and thank heavens all that clicking to vote i do was not all for nothing. on a sad note, now we have to wait til september for anymore survivor. all i can say is thank god for big brother and the amazing race. i don't know what i would do this summer without something to watch. it's nice that big brother is on 3 nights a week. and if i get the damn internet feed like i usually do. how pathetic am i people!!!

it actually kept me sane. the first season, i was single and alone (lonely). i didn't have cable, so i would sit there and watch those people all night long!! after a while you felt like you became one of them ~sniffle,sniffle~ yes i know pathetic!! hehe!! guess that is what happens when you are the last of your friends to get married or have babies.

god it is so damn hot in here!! my titties is all sweating and shit!! haha!!! that is a quote from janet jackson in that stupid movie she was in....i don't know what it is called or anything. i just know bob was watching it once, years ago, and i heard that and busted up laughing. he gets pissed when i say it, so of course i always have to say it now. but it is hot! and they are sweating!!! :)

i hate that word. titties! i hate it!!! i don't know why, i'm just weird like that. i also don't like the word panties. i never ever have used that word either. it is underwear!!!!! once again i am just weird like that. bob has a friend who doesn't like the word knick-knack......what's up with that, now THAT is weird, freak!!! :)

well that is like my 20th post for tonight, so i will say good-night now....good-night!

Show your support and gratitude.....

here is a site that i got from Kelly's blog.

this is a very cool site, Angels 'n Camouflage . you can sign up to adopt a veteran or a soldier on active duty. check out the site it is really great!

i already signed up and can't wait to get mine.

Trim Spa, Baby

i think i am going to break down and try this trim spa crap. i don't know why, i am not good about taking pills! especially 3 times a day! most times you have to take it 20 min before meals. well, i only eat 1 meal a day, so what the hell?!

i just see anna nicole and she just looks fabulous! granted she is rich and can afford trainers, and gyms, and chefs......i don't think her will is that great, so if she can do it, i should be able to...........trying to convince myself............

anyways at bj's you can get a bottle of 120 for $55. on the trim-spa site they are selling them, a bottle of 60 for $40 or a 3 pack for $100. plus shipping is about $108. which equals about $36 a bottle. bj's equals about $30. right? haven't done that much math in a while! haha!! the only thing good about ordering from trimspa is that they have a money back guarantee. but you have to purchase it through THEIR site for it to be effective.

i don't know.....maybe i should just hurry and start atkins or the south beach. that would entail going and buying a book and reading it?! exercising is bad enough, but reading too?! haha!! guess i'll take reading. i can lay down and do it. HA!

it is just 20 pounds! how hard can it be? i've been sitting here talking about and wishing it for months now and i don't see a change at all!! what is wrong....oh if it were that easy......come on trim spa baby! :) hee-hee.

Absurd Quote......

a quote, or estimate, if you will, on my furnace and a/c. this guy, from miracle heating and cooling, quoted me for a trane heater and a/c, $1995 for the furnace and 2095 for the a/c; or some other brand that is $1895 for each. are you kidding me?! the guy the other day was about $3000 for both, a hell of a lot cheaper, and from what i read the amana seems a much better system. oh well, i have about 100 others coming to give me an estimate....how many does one need?

i guess i will sure have a comparison....i have 2 other companies coming tomorrow, one of monday and another on wednesday. and still have to get in touch with the one who may give us a discount from last year.

i am getting ansy though, cause it is damn hot!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the good thing is that it is only supposed to be 64 saturday. yipeeeee!! i hate this 80 degree weather! i'm happy with 70. or if it is going to get above that, i don't want to be outside unless i am in a pool. i'm happy in a/c!!

clay hasn't even been a fiend lately about being outside. he actually wants to drag me inside!! what is up with that?! i keep telling him, he better get in his outside time now, cause once mommy gets air conditioning, we may not be coming back out here! :)

now you know for my darling child, i will endure the heat and sweating! i will sit outside and even (gasp) walk down to the park to play. that is how much mommy loves him! :)

Was that IT??

tonight was the season finale of ER???? you have GOT to be joking me!

i mean granted noone dies, but what the hell? nothing happened!

what the hell was up with dude shooting and pratt nd jing-ma(sp?)? i mean, who cares anyways, i don't like either, but how dumb! i thought it was going to be sam's ex and luca or something.......i had a much better ending.....the ex was either beating up or assaulting sam, and the son came in to see it and you see he has a gun, you see luca walk in, you hear a gun shot, then you see luca holding the gun. who shot him?! luca or the kid? is luca going to take the rap for the kid? is the kid traumatized from shooting his father or seeing luca shot his father......

that my friends is a hell of a lot more interesting that what just happened. as a matter of fact, that may well have been the most disappointing episode of ER that i have ever saw! only a few tears here, WTF?! the kerry story is the only thing that i am anxiously awaiting to see what happens.

i'm extremely disappointed!

I did it!!

woo-hoo!! i finally figured it out to get the lighthouse background!!! and it is only 3:30AM!!!!

wow......that is a big relief. not too bad for not knowing what the hell i am doing!!

i'm sure i have a few bugs to work out, but i did it all for you people!! ALL FOR YOU! hehe!!

WOW, WOW, WOW....i am very shocked and disappointed at american idol tonight!

i just cannot believe that latoya is gone!!! now my hopes for diana winning are almost achievable!!!!

i think everyone felt sorry for jasmine, since she started crying. i just cannot believe latoya! i thought she was going to win the whole thing!!

the bachelor.......ACK!!! how dumb was that?! they played the whole thing up and it was nothing!!! i mean i knew jesse wouldn't take trish up on her offer, that would have made him look like a total ass, but it was just like a blip and nothing....it was stupid, i don't even know what the point of having her back there was?! i don't even care who wins now, i hate both of the girls. speaking of hating girls...i almost missed the women tell all tonight, i didn't even know it was on!

that julie whore, i couldn't stand the cheerleading little twirp to begin with, but then she kept sitting there trying to dog trish.......well trish lasted longer than you now didn't she. and suzie too....hate that little snoot! she also kept going on and on about trish, then she kept asking jesse why he kept trish over her....come on girls.......he liked her he DIDN'T like you get over it!!!!!!!!!!

i'm also glad that whoever she was brought up the whole point that jesse said that he was tired of waking up to "strangers" and was ready to settle down. ok trish is a whore and not someone who should be with jesse, but he is just a saint, worthy of an angelic girl, yet he wakes up to strangers?!?!?! they aren't dogging on him calling him a bunch of names. HYPOCRITES!!!!! ALL OF THEM, except trish!

oh well...i don't really care. i may not even watch the rest.

i lined up 4 more a/c people. think i am going a bit overboard? haha!! well one of them couldn't come out til next week, so i think i'm just gonna cancel them, depending on what i find out tomorrow and friday.

i have to go back to the dentist tomorrow. my tooth/teeth have still been hurting, so i don't know what he is going to do. i don't really want to pay all that $$ to get a root canal, especially since i am not sure what tooth it is. it could actually be on that doesn't feel pain, and just be transferring pain....make sense?! so i don't know. my insurance pays for 85% of it, so that is good in case i have to have something done.

well i'm boring tonight....maybe i'll post more in a bit, when i am not fighting with this damn computer!

well look at this....a post at a normal time of DAY!! can you believe it?! haha

i've put clay down for his nap in his crib the past few days, so far so good.....

not much going on here. that can be good or bad. it is 82 degrees! thank goodness so far it is still pretty cool here in the house. not too much humidity yet. i had an a/c guy come yesterday. he quoted me $3050 for both a furnace and a/c. so far it sounds good, i didn't want to go over $3000. he said if i go with him by the end of the week he'll knock $100 off. i have someone coming tomorrow and friday. so i will see what they have to say. the first guy said that he could have it done by next week, hopefully the other can as well, if i go with them. the place that may offer us a credit called today, but i was outside, i'll have bob call him when he gets home. so after all the quotes, i have to figure out who is offering me the best deal with the best equipment. fun, fun!! like i know anything about all of that!

an interesting thing the first guy said is that my gas bill should be cut in half?! so if i get windows then my gas bill should really go down!! hopefully i'll have those by winter. i have a cousin who does them, so hopefully he'll give me a deal. plus, he told me that i could do them whenever. so if i want to do 2 or 3 at a time, that is fine. so i figured i can get a few done per pay. or i could also forgo paying off my credit cards with bob's vacation pay and just get windows?! decisions, decisions.......the windows may even be ok, as long as i get a furnace and a/c that actually works and blows air upstairs. maybe the windows can wait til next year.

i don't really want to be in this house much longer, so i don't want to put a ton of money into it. the most major thing that needs done is the plumbing. my water pressure is soooooooooooo awful!!!! if we do laundry, you can't even get any water out of any sinks. it is just bad. i'm sure everything in this house is original! which means very, very old! i'd love to get the electrical done as well, but the guy i spoke with said that would be very expensive cause they would have to re-wire the whole house. i already had a side box added, and that is like JUST enough. i don't see how that 100 amp is enough for normal people. cause is sure ain't enough for us! then again just about all of my outlets have a zillion plugs and powerstrips in them! i'm surprised nothing has caught fire yet! i shouldn't even say something like that! but i do worry about it all the time. as long as we are out at the time, and my cats get out ok....in a way it would be great to get the insurance $$, be a lot more than i would get from selling the place. but i couldn't lose all my stuff in the house. even if it is junk, it is my junk, and if i haven't parted with it yet, then it is going to be with me for life!

oh well, i better go get my child up. just thought i would post here real quick, since i didn't post last night. there really wasn't much on tv.

american idol was ok. my girl, diana, did GREAT!!!!!! simon even gave her a compliment and said that she could be the one that shakes up the final 2 since everyone thinks it will be latoya and fantasia. i felt bad for jasmine. she did do pretty bad, but when she started crying, i felt bad for te poor girl!

i also watched queer eye. it was funny last night. they did a figure skater, they joked that he was actually a straight figure skater! haha! it was a trip last night. they were all basically drooling over him. he was a cute guy!

then i caught stage mom & dads that i missed last week, then the new ones. those people are just freaks!! the only people i think that are semi normal are the black lady and her little girl. they seem realistic about everything and not psycho! that dad that moved his family to NY. he is out of his mind! his kids hate it, they don't want to be there, and for some reason the father is NOT listening. the mom doesn't even want to be there. they sold their house in vermont to move to a 2 bedroom apartment in new york!! there are the 2 parents and i swear at least 5 kids!!!! in a 2 bedroom apartment!!!!! i think next week is the finale and then the following week they actuallyshow what has happened with everyone. so now, i just have to remember to watch!!

i was all excited last night, thinking that the bachelor was on! no, but tonight it is!!! i can't wait to see what happens with trish. i have a feeling though, that not what i want! i think that jesse may want to be with her, but i don't think that he will dog mandy and basically just drop her on their date to go with trish. i think he has a little more compassion than that. that would just be plain mean and rude. here is an interesting interview with her from tvguide.com:

Bachelor's Trashy Trish Fires Back
by Daniel R. Coleridge


Like other reality-TV villains, Trish from The Bachelor blames her tarnished image on the producers' editing. Now, it's true this dating show tastes about as authentic as Mexican Chinese food. Still, Miss Trish did self-incriminate by sharing lotsa details of her sordid past with her rivals. And was she forced to wear that "Gold Digger" T-shirt, with its classy catchphrase "Like a hooker... just smarter"? Here, TV Guide Online takes the trash-talker to task — and previews her splashy return in next week's episode!



TV Guide Online: You've become infamous for calling yourself "a money-grubbing, gold-digging whore."
Trish: The funny thing is I didn't. The producers took a clip from a conversation we had around the dinner table about different types of women. That wasn't even pertaining to me.

TVGO: So you wouldn't actually describe yourself like that?
Trish: Definitely not! I'm not that way. I'm the complete opposite, if anything.

TVGO: How did your family react to your spicy revelations on the show? They couldn't have been pleased.
Trish: We don't do much drama in my family. My sister's fine, and I sat down to have a conversation with my mom and my dad. I said, "Things are going to come out. I can't explain why, but you'll have to watch the show and then you'll totally understand." My parents love me. They stand behind me no matter what. I keep a lot of parts of my life private and kind of hidden from my parents, so I did have to sit them down and discuss a few things. They said, "We understand. It's TV and it's editing. It's OK."

TVGO: Why did you scandalize the girls with so much info about your past?
Trish: We were drinking and having a good time. We had nothing to do but sit in the house and talk. A lot of ground gets covered. I don't think a lot of [viewers] realize that it's a very sensory-deprived situation that you're put in. And you know, there were definitely girls drinking [while answering producers'] questions. I was the one who got put on TV drinking.

TVGO: Is there anything you regret saying on-camera? Some of it came off very unflattering.
Trish: Probably, yes. Because of Jenny the spy being there, they put in a lot more things that took place in the house. The Bachelor shows in the past have been pretty straightforward — they were basically dates, video messages, rose ceremonies and maybe a shot of the girls laying at the pool. Out of 15 other girls and four camera crews, why would I feel like I'd be the only one that got put on TV? Apparently, I'm the only interesting one! I say what other people don't have the b---s to say.

TVGO: No woman has ever come back after the Bachelor denied her a rose, yet you're back next week. Did the show do that to keep its star troublemaker around?
Trish: This is a season with a lot of firsts. It makes good TV. You've got to give them that. Secondly, the people who sat in the control room watched our interviews and interactions, and they saw me not having any concept of what was going on. If you watch, these girls are nice to my face, and then the minute I leave the room, they're busy trashing me. The producers said, "You didn't get a fair shot at this." I'm grateful for that.

TVGO: Are you just on for one more episode or are you back as a real contender for Jesse?
Trish: I can't comment on any of that. You're gonna have to keep watching!

TVGO: Did you appreciate Jesse calling you a "stalker" in the preview for next week?
Trish: You and I know this show is in a controlled environment. Could there ever be a stalker? No, absolutely not. My take on that is somebody threw that out there and asked him, "Is she like a stalker?" and he just responded to it. It's just not possible this would be about stalking.

TVGO: After Jesse eliminated you, the final three were delighted and whispered, "He's gonna get a good girl no matter what happens." Did it hurt to watch that?
Trish: I just laughed. What else do you do? I thought, "Oh, you girls are just so young." Just because I don't live my life the way they do or have their viewpoints doesn't make any of us bad people. When they trash me or say mean things about me, I think it's an age issue. I'm not mean-spirited. I still wish them well.

i just love her! it would be so great if she were the next bachelorette! that would really get the goat of the previous girls!!

i'm sure i'll have some more to write about tonight after the show.

til then.........

MOVIES

****for some reason the spell checker is not working, so please forgive any typos or misspellings****

house of sand and fog : awful, awful, AWFUL!!!! if any of you reading acutally liked this please, please, PLEASE write me and tell me why, why, WHY??? it was one of the absolute worst movies i have ever seen. why would someone make a movie like this. and why would anyone think this would make a good movie? i am totally stumped on this. i don't understand!

i even tried to look for some kind of moral or something. i guess you could say greed, but all but one of the people that died or had something bad happen to them weren't the ones who were guilty of greed, on any wrong or bad doing. the situation was kind of difficult. the broad lost her house, due to an error with the county, but in a way it was her fault for not opening her mail and finding out what was going on. then the guy that bought the house, i felt bad for him cause he legally bought the house, it wasn't his fault that the county screwed up and that broad didn't take care of her life. in a way it was kind of shitty that he wouldn't sell her house back, but then again, he quit his job thinking he would sell the house for a huge profit, and moved his family in and made a home. i really don't see much fault with anyone. it was just a screwed up situation to make a totally screwed up movie. it was just bad. i don't even give it 1 star i give it a BIG FAT ZERO!!

the other movie we watched was a letter from death row . you probably haven't heard of this movie. it wasn't a wide release. brett michaels from poison, wrote it, directed it, starred in it and wrote the soundtrack for it. so of course i had to get it!! it was a little shaky, but then again he didn't have a huge budget. i really like it, even the little twist at the end. but then again, any movie where i would get to stare at brett for over an hour and half it works for me!!!!! charlie sheen and martin sheen are also in it. so is kristi gibson (brett's babies momma). i think that the sheens and brett started something together, i read of it a while back. brett also directed another movie that both the sheens are in. no code of conduct, i have that too, but we didn't get to watch it yet. bob hated it, i don't know why, it had a good story. some of the acting could have been much, much better, but for someones first movie, doing everything, i thought was good, and believe it or not, brett was a pretty good actor as well. out of 5 stars i give it 3.5 stars. i want to give it 4, but some parts were a little cheesey and it could have been a little less "artsy", but i really enjoyed it. if i would have watched the previous movie first, then this definitely would have received 5 stars!!!!

i don't know if you all ever watch monster house. i love it! the house they are doing now is awesome! it is the amusement park house. i can't find any pictures of it yet, but it may just be cause it is on right now. but you should really check it out. some of their past houses were as cool as well! i just love steve watson....he is the host. he is soooo hot!!

do any of you watch monster garage?! jesse james is cool, they do some neat stuff as well, but the reason i am asking is that i just found out that jesse is dating sandra bullock!!!! i can't believe that! it is funny cause bob and i were just watching the other day and it showed jesse's ex-wife. she was quite foul. and i commented that being he is so "famous" right now, he could probably get some hot women, and look at that! she was really bad. here i find out she is a porn star! i don't know if she currently is or was, but she looks BAD. looks like she was really rode hard and put away wet.........what does that even mean!? she just looks like a real rough, motorcycle babe. anyways......i just think sandra bullock is so cute! she looks all nice and innocent, girl next door-ish, it just strikes me odd that she is with jesse!

i am so sick of this damn wireless modem shit! i don't know if i already bitched about this....i'm sure i did, since it has given me nothing but problems since i got it.

on the damn commercial for it, they show the guy going all over his house and outside and it still works!!! i can barely be downstairs. i am constantly losing my signal. i'll be sitting here and have an excellent signal, not even move the computer and next thing i've lost it!!! it just sucks! there is absolutely no way i'd be able to go outside with it!!!!!

then it interferes with my cordless phone. they all work on the 2.4 GHz band?, so my phone constantly has this snapping and clicking. drives me insane! so i have to go get a 5.8 GHz phone, which of course are more expensive!

money, money money!!! which i don't have any extra of!

speaking of which, my washing machine decided to spaz out. it's not like i ever use it, so i don't know why it goes and breaks! i think i need a new water intake valve. it will only let you run hot water. which i didn't even realize when i was doing laundry the other night. i thought it was just sticking before the spin cycle, here it wasn't filling up for the soak.....i just flipped it to spin. so here i don't think my clothes even got rinsed!! oh well........i found some parts on the net here to price them, and the good thing is that is shouldn't be more than $40. and we can put it on ourselves. so hopefully that is what the problem is. can i get so lucky???!!!

i have some heating and cooling people coming tomorrow.....i forgot my basement is a disaster area!! how could i forget that?! that is why i don't go down there til i absolutley have no clean clothes left! so now i have to clear out a path back to the furnace so they can look at it....fun, fun.......watch tomorrow clay not take a nap, since that is when i plan on doing it.....they re supposed to be here at 2.

i'm hoping i can get a whole new furnace, central air and duct work for no more than $3000. i have a credit card especially for that. then i plan on taking bob's vacation pay and paying off all my other cards, that will help a lot with our finances. so the only card i will owe on is the one for the furnace. i guess we will put off the privacy fence til next year. i should really worry about windows and pluming before a fence anyways. there is already a chain link fence, so it isn't that pressing. AIR is the biggest concern right now. the past 2 days have been awful!!!! poor clay, i can't open his window, cause i live on a main road with a bunch of rude idiots around, so it is way too noisy for my light sleeper.

i want to get about 3 estimates though. one place is supposed to give me a credit for some work i had on my a/c last year (it ended up dying after i put a few hundred into it), but since that was last year, i don't know if he is still going to do that for us or not. i'll put bob on that tomorrow (back to my not liking to deal with people). i just want to get it done and over with! bob's vacation check should only be like 2 pays (4 weeks away) if that. so i want to get moving.

money, money, money.......i was so stressed out about it today i even checked out the classified (GASP!) don't know if i would actually do it though.......the only problem would be that i wouldn't make near enough to actually make it worth while to pay for child care. all i would make would probably go to that and what is the point?! it's hard with bob working swing shift. it isn't even like i could work when he is home to watch clay, cause he works a different shift every week! i have some family that would watch him, but they are older and wouldn't really be able to get around well enough to be pleasant for anyone i'm sure. i just want my frickin windows back!!!!!! speaking of which i should call that guy back and leave him voicemail before it gets too late.

i'll get back in a few for this past weekends movie reviews....