Quick updates

Things are moving right along. The kids go to school very soon, can't wait! They are eating me out of house and home..lol. Darin goes on the 25th to pick up his schedule and gets his picture taken. Yesterday I took him to get his haircut, he loves it, i love it, it's a win, win situation. I also went to the beauty supply shop to see what i needed to dye my daughter's hair. She wants to dye her hair fushia on the bottom half of her hair and black on top. I had been asking around when i see these kids with different color hair how they get the color so bright and time after time they told me they had to strip the color or bleach it to make it that deep of a color. So when i went to the store i asked the lady what i needed and she was very helpful. I can't afford to take her to a beauty shop for all of this, so i do alot of experimenting, wish me luck!

Amber goes to get her schedule on the 31st along with pictures. I sure do hope that her hair turns out the way it's supposed to!

I am doing great lately, the toes are healing, no more limp! No more rashes or swelling, thanking god as i type this.

Had the opportunity to spend time with my old friend Pam and her hubby last night. Really was alot of fun. She invited me to go to some wine festival next Saturday. Should be interesting, never been to one before.

Really enjoying the weather the last few days. Finally shut off the central air and opened some windows but according to the forecast it's going to get hot by Monday again. Frank was suppose to go fishing today. He planned on fishing all week, but it rained today. Oh well, maybe tomorrow he will go.

Well I gotta get ready for work :P

Hope all is well in your neck of the woods.

15 is a wonderful age!

Darin had a wonderful birthday. All he wanted from me was a couple of hats from spencers that he was eyeballing for some time. That's all!!! Done and done!!!

Mom posted a cute little interview video of Darin on his birthday on her site, go and check it out!

I have my own pictures to post...but my camera is being a "butt" and won't upload into my computer for some reason....I don't have the time or energy to figure that out at the moment!

Anyhoo, go check out the mini Forest fire at my mom's blog.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY SON

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARIN!!!! AND MANY, MANY, MANY MORE!!!


Darin turns 15 today!!!






Darin is a remarkable boy! He brings joy to my life everyday.
I LOVE YOU DARIN!!!

You'll never believe it!

After the ordeal on Wednesday, guess what i woke up to this Friday morning.

I woke up and saw my hands all broke out with another nasty rash, upon further investigation it was all over my neck, chest, back, arms and one small patch on my right foot! No tongue swelling or the throat closing, but it did feel tight to breath. So i called my doctor, explained to him what's been going on and he said to go straight to emergency, in his own words "let them fix what they broke" NICE! I love my doctor, but basically I knew the answer before i even talked to him...because i don't think he could do much at the office anyways....and what if on the drive there i went into anafalatic(sp?) shock? I just wanted to let him be aware of what's going on.

Well went back to E.R. and the same doctor was there and she could not believe that i was back. Took a good look at my rash, checked my breathing, and said to me add "cipro" to your list of allergies! This was the antibiotic i got instead of the "bactrim" that caused the other rash. Well now I can't have any antibiotics, the toes are healing, i can walk without pain, still a little gross to look at. But 2 doctors looked at it and said it should heal up just fine now with some triple antibiotic cream. Which is fine by me at the moment!! I'm too scared to try anything else!!!
The E.R. doctor called my doctor because after all the benedryl and steriods and other drugs they gave me the rash would not go away, she basically said that she had done everything that she can do, I will have to take steriods and benedryl for the next few days until it goes away. I still have some rash left, but alot of it has gone away. She basically told me that my doctor and her agree that if either my toe gets worse, or the rash breaks out again, call my doctor or come back to E.R.

The doctors and nurses could not believe that after all the drugs they pumped into me both times that i was not ready to pass out or asleep. In fact all I felt was very calm. A very nice feeling. But I came home today and cleaned and I went to work even took 4 more doses of benedryl and I am still up and typing away. Usually benedryl knocks me on my ass. Go figure!!

FUN, FUN, FUN!!! Been a rough week! This week can SUCK IT!! LOL!

Close Call

I went to work this morning. Ended up in our emergency room because my hands, face, neck, back swelled and broke out in an awful rash. Turns out I am allergic to the antibiotics they gave me for my infection on my foot. Turns out that i am allergic to anything with sulfa in it. I was really scared..my tongue swelled and i could feel the back of my throat start to shut. My tongue turned sheet white. They poured a ton of Benedryl in an I.V. , some steroids and some other stuff and within a half hour i was a new person. I still have one eye a little swelled but they also gave me a antihistamine with steroids in it.

So no more Bactrim for me!!!!

Here's a site if you want to learn more about it...I sure did!!!

My poor little piggies!

Still very sore, but swelling is down. Able to do my job with a massive limp and lots of pain. The infection is back down to the 2 toes...I don't wish this on anyone.

Other than that I can't think of anything else in my life.

NOT A GOOD WEEKEND

For the past week i have been suffering with what started as athletes feet that i itched raw in between 2 toes and somehow got a blister for my efforts that caused me more pain than anyone should have to go thru. Saturday i went to work and had to leave because the pain was unbareable to walk, that's when my husband helped doctor it and discovered a blister in between my toes, so i popped it. It relieved alot of the pain and was able to get thru the day at work on Sunday. Went to a concert at the Warren civic center and when i got home i noticed that the infection was spreading almost to my leg. My foot was really swollen and stiff, scared me alot!! So off to emergency i went, i could barely take the pain any longer! After a dose of antibiotics and one miracle shot i went home and passed out, the shot made me sleep the best i have slept in days! When i woke up swelling is down and the infection is mostly on the one toe.
Not a great weekend!

funny thing!

The funny things my kid says-

Here's the scene-
Darin and I are outside sitting on the porch in our chairs talking
Son sees a wasp
Son says "wasp"
Son smashes foot down on wasp killing it
I say "dead wasp"
Son says "I'm sorry, did you want to say any last words?"
picture me laughing my ass off!!!

Just some things

Taking the kids swimming at the city pool today. Haven't done that in awhile. Warren is doing alot for us tax payers. They put on free concerts at the square. Most are really good. Mom posted one of them on her blog, the sound is not very good, i think because we were sitting too close to the speakers. They also have a Farmer's market that goes on there every Sunday and movies every Friday. Nice.

Mom and I went to bingo last Friday and I got to yell BINGO for a huge jackpot!!! Thank God! It was enough to pay my house payment and put some money aside for school clothes. I was stressing over those two items, now i feel like a burden has been lifted, at least for this month!

Well that's all i got for now..

I'm a proud momma!!

Jaycee and her man Josh slow dancing towards the end of the evening.

they really do make a cute couple.






















I turned around and i saw my boy Darin asking Jaycee for a slow dance... I almost cried...It was his first time asking a girl
to slow dance with him...He's growing up WAY to fast!

























Had to take a pic of this












What is it with blogger not letting you write something on the side of a pic? it messes all up and then have to work with it alot to get something right? messed up!!!

anyhoo, i've just embarrassed my boy by putting these pics of him up here...I've done my job... LoL!

DECORATIONS AND POEM

These are pics of the hall that we all worked very hard on.

you see those tables...yeh, i did that... :)
Everything was decorated!!! Windows, walls, doors the works!










































































































































i made this poster for Jaycee!




































































I guess i will type my poem...because who knows when masen will upload it...but as soon i get you all will see it...all my blubbering wonder.

TO MY JAYCEE

Oh my god the time has flown
It doesn't seem that long ago
That you were once a little girl
That was once my whole wide world

I remember a time when i would pretend you were mine

your mom was nice enough to say that's just fine

but at the end of the day

i would have to give you away
i loved every minute we spent together
sometimes i wished it would last forever

We have been thru alot in eighteen years
and every one of them i will hold dear
i can't imagine you not in my life
it would not be the same, it would cut me like a knife

Your talents are so many
to many to list
failure for you would only make you pissed!
you can dance, you can sing
you can do almost anything

My love for you grows stronger everyday
i can't believe its your graduation day
you have the heart and mind to do what needs to be done
but don't forget to have a little fun!

I am yours
and i know your mine
I will always be your Auntie Slime

I wish you all the best in all you do
i know you'll go far that's all i want for you!


written by a true amateur!!! but it came from the heart :)

Where to start

I'm back safe and sound from up North with my friends...I shouldn't say friends, they are like my family. Friday morning we woke up early to do what needed to be done before i made the 3 hour trip up North. We arrived around 12:30pm and it was go, go, go. We started off by looking at tatoos just before our appt. I finally found something that i really fell in love with!

So off to the Hall and we got it all decorated. Then run over to the tattoo place, I went first and it wasn't so bad getting it on the arm. The guy was great, fast, and the place was very clean and he had alot to chose from, but i still loved what you see in these pics...This is my Mom and Dad tribute.










































Then it was the graduating girl, Jaycee's turn...she finally found something that she liked...she actually put 2 different tat's together to come up with this one....I think it's beautiful and it really is her!

After the tattoo's it was back to the house to finish the food for the party. We were up until 3:30 in the morning to cook and make picture posters to hang in the hall! It was so beautiful!

My little tattoo partner :) Happy Graduation Jaycee!! I loved every minute we spent together...

Now i know i owe you guys the poem, and i am definitely going to post lots of pics. Someone recorded the poem and as soon as he gets it up on You Tube i will share it with you all. Yes you will see me nervous, yes, i almost cry.

This is just a taste of what happened while i was gone..

REUNITED!

This is my friend Pam. We were best friends when i was like 10 and 11. We were reunited because of Facebook! I had tried to look her up, but with no avail. She found me in the same week that i was was looking for her. We got a good laugh about that. It was good catching up, on the phone and then for her to come to my house was beyond me! Our conversations seem like we picked up right from where we left off. I was happy to find out that she found a special man and married him, his name is Chris, he seems to be very nice! So i have her as a friend and a Bonus by marriage friend..lol

In other news, i am very excited about going to my Jaycee's graduation party. For some reason I decided to write a poem to read to her at the party. No I am no poet, but for some reason it flowed right out of me. I would share it with you right now, but she reads my blog and don't want to spoil it, i will post it on the 19th or 20th.

Kids are doing great, they are loving summer vacay! Amber cleaned her entire room yesterday and moved it! I mean she took everything out of her room, emptied her closet and cleaned! Rearranged everything and put it all back together! It wasn't that bad because I had cleaned quite of bit of it before she thought of it. I'm proud of her!

Darin is drawing again, as soon as I can get some pics of them i will post them, or if that don't work i will have mom scan them and send them to me. I am so happy my mom's talent of drawing passed onto him. I can't draw a stick figure right...lol

Anyway, i'm about to take my ass outside...it's a gorgeous day!

TRIBUTE TO MY JAYCEE!!!

My best friend daughter graduated high school and is having her party on the 18th. I am looking forward to going up and seeing her and the whole family. It seems like just yesterday i was changing her diapers. Buying her frillies (even tho her mom hated that kind of stuff) but who cares...when she was with me..she wore what i wanted her to wear! I'm pretty sure i was the first to buy her a barbie (something else her mom was dead set against also)..but so! She was like a daughter to me...and still is! She calls me mommy every time she talks to me or she calls me Auntie Slime. Why Auntie Slime? Because at toddler age Auntie Caroline was too hard to say, it came out Slime. She was too cute to correct so it stuck! Her mom made sure of that!

I spent alot of time with her the first year of her life. Practically raised her. I have many good memories of her. As she gets older I have seen her grow into a beautiful woman. Not only on the outside, but on the inside. She glows with kindness. She is nothing like her mother. Thank God! lol. Her love of animals, her love of people, the way she can make friends in an instant. She tries to make everyone comfortable. The way when she sees me she wants to be near me, practically still sitting in my lap, wanting to always hug me. I LOVE THIS GIRL with all of my heart!

She has many talents, she has been in many pageants, winning many awards. But this girl can sing, almost makes you want to cry. She has volunteered for everything under the sun. Even when her health is not perfect she does what she can and never gives up!

This is her boyfriend Josh. They seem so happy together and i wish them all the luck in the world. LOVE YA JAYCEE!

FRIENDS, SHINERS, FIREWORKS

Nothing too exciting has been happening around here. I'm too tired to really get into details so i will do short cuts.

-My best friend from like when i was 9 to 10 got ahold of me via facebook. Funny thing she had been looking for me, but i was looking for her also on there. I did not have her married name, but was hoping that maybe she put in her maiden like so many others do. Anyways after chatting on facebook for awhile she called me on the phone and we talked for something like 2 hours non stop! It was great catching up, we found out alot about our past that neither one of us had known. I will write more about her, but like i said i am tired.

-Today while sitting at my neighbors picnic table my son grabbed my husband which made him swing out his arm and my husband's fist caught me in the eye and now i have a shiner! sucks! It was an accident, lucky for both that i knew it was.

-What's everyone's holiday plans? I have to work 6:30 till 3 then afterwards we are going to my neighbors for a bbq! we are having chicken, my neighbor says she is making a special dessert with strawberries. So looking forward to it!

-My husband took the kids to see the Hazel Park fireworks today. I was going to go, but i am way tired and i have to get up at 5:00 am, so i am just about to hit the hay!

So with that...I say goodnight!

THE SUCKINESS OF LIFE RIGHT NOW

What the heck is going on with this week..

As i was leaving my house a few days back everything out front was as it should be but when i got home the first thing i noticed was my little garden lighthouse was stolen. The way i figure it my daughter says it was there at 6 pm but by the time i got home around 8:30 pm it was gone, and get this, my husband was in the house sleeping and my son was in his room. How daring people are getting!!! I really liked that lighthouse! It had a light at the top that went round and round. SUCKS!!

Yesterday after work i had to take my daughter to the doctors, she has been breaking out with lots of pimples under her armpit. Trying to figure out why. But the doctor said something that may be the problem...seems since she has used shaving cream she has been breaking out..i told her to just start using soap and water like she was before the break out. She doesn't think it is because it's not happening to her legs...but i told her maybe the skin on her armpits don't like it.
So she is now on some antibiotics to get rid of the puss and stuff under there. While i was there for her armpits i mentioned to him that she really has a problem with underarm wetness and that i have tried every clinic type stuff out there and she still has a problem. He wrote a script for a lotion that may help....we'll see!

So after doctors i drop my lovely daughter at grandma's and get all the way home and pull into the drive way at the same time my neighbor did and she says "Caroline you have a flat tire", WTF! So there was the fun of finding the jack and figuring out how to use everything that you need to change a tire because you haven't needed to use this stuff before...anywhoshits...get the tire off and run up to the local gas station where they fix it with a tire tampon...lol that's what i call those...run back home and put tire back on like nothing ever happened.

Ok that's enough of the bad stuff...one good thing about this week....

Amber says "mom i need pants" I don't know about you...but i can't buy new clothes all the time... I buy "new" clothes for beginning of school and like Christmas time. For the in between times the Salvation Army is very helpful...So i take my daughter there and she finds many pairs of jeans and ends up with about 3 that are acceptable...1 pair actually still had tags on it. We also tried on some t shirts and she ended up with 2 new shirts ...with 1 still having tags on it...so 3 pairs of jeans, 2 shirts that would have probably cost me over 100 dollars, i walked out with a price tag of $15.32!! Priceless!!! She's happy, I'm ecstatic!






I have realized that i put alot of pictures of Amber on here...that's because she is a camera ham! Darin must have been bored one day and decided to take a few pics of himself...I am more than happy with sharing it with the world :)

ooooo ...so serious!




















he's just cute!











this one caught me off guard and i laughed a ton!!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!!

Happy Father's Day to my dad. I LOVE YOU!!! I know we don't always see eye to eye but we manage.

To Frank-I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART!! Between the both of us, we got this parenting thing down. *me thinks*...lol

Hope you all spent time with your dad or at least called him, prayed to him or whatever your connection is.

random

The kids are soooo enjoying their summer vacation. I think i have seen my daughter maybe 3 days since school has been out. She has spent the night over every girlfriends house that she can think of and taking many, many pics. I thought i would share a few with you.


Do you remember doing this with your girlfriends? No?, i do...lol I used to put little eyeballs on my eyes...

They look kinda sweet!











I just love Ambers eyes! gorgeous!




















Seriously she is going to break hearts.


















her friend uribi, the wonderful singer.

















a random picture of a flower at my mother's house.

her friend jordan. she is very pretty herself.

cute eh?

I got to crimp Amber's hair!!!!!! She let me do something to it!!

Does anyone know where i can find a chastity belt?

It's getting scary ya'll!!

Ok, now that we have peeked into Amber's photo album.

We went to the Clay Walker concert on Saturday and i was completely amazed how unbusy the concert was. We had lawn seats at the DTE Energy Theatre and was lucky to be invited to sit in the pavillion due to the attendance. It was an awesome concert, and the best part was being able to get out of there without any traffic what so ever. Bonus!!!

Amber and her friends were checking out fella's all night...I guess Amber thought the cotton-candy dude was cute...they kept searching for him...they would call him cotton candy dude or they decided to name him "Jason" for the sake of calling him a name..lol.

Besides that, just got my nose to the grindstone, taking each day as they come at me.

Amber and her friends without make-up

Amber and her friend Jordan...I gotta watch out for them.

WORK HISTORY.

I was just thinking about all the jobs I have had.

My first paying job other than allowance from parents was working with my neighbor at the age of 12 was dusting the bottoms of all the chairs at a lab. I earned $1.00 a night. That was awesome back then!

Then of course babysitting jobs. I enjoyed doing that. I took care of 4 children for the sister of the neighbor that i dusted chairs for. I was like 13 or 14. Got payed pretty good for it.

Then I started cleaning many different buildings with the family that i babysat for. I got payed really well for a 14, 15 year old. They were good to me.

When I was 15 I got a job at Big Boy's with my friend at the time. I was a hostess for 6 months and then i became a waitress for 6 months. It was my first official paycheck!!

At 16 I started to work for Mcdonald's, I worked there for the next 6 years. I worked my way to crew chief just under a manager because i was too young to be on. I was fired because a manager was stealing out of my drawer. It was only after i left that they found this out.

After I graduated High School I worked Mcdonald's and I worked for Mobil gas station, i did that for over a year. I quit Mobil because the owner was asking to many personal question and my boyfriend(who is my husband) didn't like it.

I worked for Motel 6, i worked 3 months, the day they made me head housekeeper i never showed up there again. I feared for my life because there was alot housekeepers there that had been there longer than me and would never take me seriously. (i still believe it was racial).

I ended up back at another McDonald's and worked there 10 more years. I worked my way to 3rd assistant manager. I was pretty happy there, but did not get along with the supervisor's daughter. I had to quit on the spot one day when it became quite clear that i was about to grab her by her skinny throat!

Don't worry at the time i was lucky to get a job working at a Blockbuster's and had been working both jobs for 4 months. When i decided to quit, Blockbuster's was asking me to quit Mcdonald's to work for them full time...I took the leap!

I worked for Blockbuster's for 5 whole years!!!! I was a manager there from the day that i walked thru the doors. I loved that job!! But all good things come to an end. I was knocked down from working full time, to working only 20 hours a week. So i was forced to search for either a full time job or a part time job. I got lucky to work at the hospital I am working now.

The hospital also demanded alot of my time and sure wanted me to quit Blockbuster's to work for them full time. It just felt right and so far so good it was a wise decision.

My current job is my favorite, there is a variety of jobs that i do that makes it interesting. The pace is much different, and for the first time I am not "the boss" I so wanted out of being the boss.

My worst job, Motel 6! it was digusting. You don't want to know what i have seen in a room.

So what's your favorite job? and what job did you totally hate!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY-TO ME AND MY FATHER!!!!

Today i turned 39 and my father turned 62! I would like to Thank those that have made this possible. God for creating all things, and Mom and Dad for bumping uglies to create what is me!


In other news I broke down and joined facebook because "everyone is doing it". Honestly it was because my best friend posted pictures of her daughter graduating on there and if i wanted to see them i had to join. But, in 2 days I have seen and caught up with a few old friends. Neat, it will be a lovely past time I suppose. Facebook is really hard to figure out for the most part.

Darin has been shaving for quite awhile now and today was his first slip up. He shaved a nice chunk off his lip..lol Yeh, that's a band-aid on his lip. lol



oh and he will kill me..but i found out on one of our special talks that he is crushing on a girl in school :) awwwwww...

he don't know if she likes him tho :(
who could resist his charm and good looks?

it's too early for any of that...but it's cute.