I DID IT!

If anyone hasn't noticed, I finally figured out how to blogroll! All my favorites are there on the side. It took me a minute to figure out how to do it but I finally made some progress. lol

Can anyone tell me where to get some cute blinkies? Or anything that would be cute to a blog?
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Sunday bowling was fun. We bowled pretty good, I managed to pull off a 142 in the second game which won the mystery pot. It made me a whole 23 dollars richer..lol
No one beat their high scores last Sunday...but there is always this Sunday.
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Movies

I totally recommend seeing "In Her shoes" It's about 2 sisters, one having her life together and the other not able to get anything right. It explains half of siblings these days. I thought it was great and Cameron Diaz was fantastic!

"Flightplan" is always a great movie...I will warn you that you will think that you have the whole movie figured out ....but this movie pulls the rug from underneath you and it's nothing of what you thought it would be.

I watched "Waiting" this movie is about working in a restaurant and what things that could happen while working there. This movie is kinda National Lampoonish..I laughed at parts, almost gagged at parts but this movie was not the greatest, but if you have nothing better to watch give it a try. I think people that have ever been in the restaurant business would appreciate it the most. I think this movie will fall under "personal preference".
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THE REPORT CARDS ARE IN

I am happy to report the kids are still alive! lol
Darin is still on the honor roll :) ! I am so very proud! Darin got 3 A's 2 B's and 1 C.
Amber is also doing very well with mostly B's and a couple C's she did however get an A in computers and art. I really got to crack down with her and her math. especially multiplying and dividing.

Darin started a new semester which includes gym for the next 10 weeks. I'm glad the boy is getting excercise on other body parts other than his thumbs. Poor guy on Wednesday was complaining he could not walk because his legs were hurting him so much. He usually plays football out front during summer, but winter he hybernates to his room and games.

Amber was in the school paper that we got at home, they honored her with Safety of the month.
For taking care of more than one area. She has the responsibility of chaining the drive way for the school if she arrives before the other safety's. She usually is there before others because I drop her off right after Darin, he has to be at school before she does.

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On Wednesday night i was not feeling well and almost puked. When i got home i went straight to bed. Thursday i woke up feeling like someone sucked the life out of me. I could not stay awake. I felt like i was getting something and still had to go to work. I told myself the whole day if i puke i will call in to work, but that did not happen. I have this fobia of calling in sick, i can't unless i am throwing up. I won't lie totally i have in the past called in sick without actually being sick, but only a couple times in the million years that i have been working. lol. But today is all fine and dandy. I know i am going to get something. Everyone i know has been sick, but somehow i have avoided it.
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well all, for someone that had nothing really to say i managed to pull off an entry. lol
take care

I'M THE BIG BOWLER FOR THE WEEKEND!

Never in my wildest dreams did i think that i could beat my bowling high score of last weekend of 146! But this Sunday was a miracle, or chance, or whatever you want to call it. I bowled a shocking 164!!!!!!!!! Go Me!

We all are improving
amber 78, 102, 90
darin 138, 92, 96
frank 109, 133, 140
me 113, 97, 164

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You can tell it's been a full moon the last few days. All the weirdo's are out, or just plain stupid.
I had a guy that i had followed all over the store because he just drew attention to myself by always looking to see where i was. So i started to be around him as much as possible and walked around the areas that he was at and noticed a few games in the very back of the store that were not supposed to be there. So i put them back where they are suppose to be and hung around the area. Any smart shoplifter would have given up or left. Not this one! He takes another game and hastily tossed it on a shelf in the back, he seen me coming fast is why. So i told him that i wanted him to leave. He said why of course and i said i just found games in the wrong area and its very suspicious. Anyways i got him out. He new what he was up too and so did I.

He had enough nerve to call a few minutes later pretending to be the father. Why did you kick a boy out of your store. I said that he had been in the store for over an hour and that i had asked him many times if he needed help. I plainly said for loitering! I also said that there were games for the game boy advance being placed towards the back of the store that should have not been there. He (acting as the father) said that "his son" don't even own a gba system. I said OHHHHH yes he does! I saw it plainly in his coat! Total outline of it in his pocket.

Then there was a caller that asked "Do you know when you close?" It took me a second to decide to say this but out came "Yes i do, apparently you don't"...lol It would have been different if he said "what time do you close?" It was the " Do you", that had me. I'm hoping for a better week here.

There are more that i could rattle on about but these two took the cake.

Well anyways.....Happy MLK day!

Amber's haircut

Don't she look cute? I love this look for her since she won't let me put her hair up or do much to it unless its a special reason.












Me and mom argued wether this looked like a halo above her or horns. It wasn't me that said angel. lol


At least she likes her picture taken.





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Last Sunday at bowling we all did rather good. I have finally beaten my high score of 137 and now its 146. It took all i had to get that, so i can't imagine beating it any time soon. Darin also bowled over his high score of 141 and got a 145! He's really into it...but mostly he tries to beat his dad in bowling. We were up against some bowlers that there averages are higher than we can imagine, but it helped that we had a high handicap.
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Movies

Just got done watching a movie called "Half Light" and i thought it was great! It's not out till Tuesday but I do recommend you watch this, it has Demi Moore and she acted her but off in it. I won't tell ya much about it because anything i say might ruin it for ya...
I also recommend "Transporter 2 ", this was action packed. "Lord of War" with Nickolas Cage was interesting. He's been doing better movies lately, i was no fan before National Treasure, that was the best movie i have seen him in for awhile. "40 year old virgin" was funny.

well i just wanted to post something real quick before i went to bed...gnight all

Just for the fun of it.

Thanks to a fellow bloger http://momma.jenkinsonline.net/ I thought i would check out what i would be. Thought it was cute. Thanks momma jenkins.






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Happy New Year

Happy Belated New Year

I'm a little late with that, but its meant most sincere!

My New Year's was not too bad, I had to work an 8 hour shift that was not bad at all. Then i left work and went to our local super K to get some dog food and pick up some lunch meat for the festivities later in the evening. I spent a half hour waiting at the deli counter because the person in front of me ordered what seemed like a pound of everything in the case. Then i had to wait in line to check out because the register was not printing out reciepts correctly. All i wanted to do was actually go home.

We chose to spend it with our good neighbor friends and just play some cards and games and listen to the radio. We taught our neighbors how to play Euchre and that turned out to be fun when it was boys vs. girls, and girls won.

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Amber and I went and finally got our hair cut today...yeah! My hair starts to bother me when i have to blow it off my face or it's poking in my ears so i definitely needed it. Amber decided to get a shorter hair cut also. She looks adorable!!! She got a kind of bob look, it follows her jaw line. I will have to take a picture of it and post it on here when i can.
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Mom's computer took a royal crap, so it will be awhile before she has a new one and is up and running again. She's had it for a very long time and it has been acting up for awhile now, out with the old and in with the new i suppose.


well....off to bed i go.

Christmas was special!

Just think back in 1993 this is the day that I found out I was pregnant with Darin and I was proposed to with ring on the same day. 12/24/93










This is me now... Tired and can't stand up because i just worked the hell shift at work on christmas day.








Me, Frank and kids very happy with what was given to us!











Isn't Amber gorgeous!!!! She let me do her hair. You can't tell much by the picture, but i took an hour and a half just crimping her hair with a tiny crimping iron, it looks fabulous! She is growing up so fast!









Posing in front of grandma's beautiful decorations of harbor stuff in her play room.




Everyone was very happy this year! We all got what we wanted! I got a few things off the list i made. Like pots and pans and bed sheets, i guess everything else will have to wait. :)

My boss bought me a sex and the city travel game that was kinda great because i loved that show. I even had a crew member bring me a gift card for work, so that i can purchase a few pops or snacks when i need one. I thought that was very thoughtful.

I bought mom a beautiful gazing ball and pedestal for Christmas. It's not easy finding a garden item in the middle of winter. But it was the only thing that i new that she said that she wanted at all. It gets tiring getting her the usual stuff like perfume or clothes or jewelry. She seemed to enjoy it and she said that i had a great memory because she don't even remember that conversation.

My dad loved his ring and mom says that she thought he was going to cry when he opened it. It's a gold ring that says DaD on it, and around the word dad it has diamond chips around it. He has never had a ring before and told my mother that he would like one. He went to have it sized and it had to go to a 15 1/2. I new he had big hands but geesh! He thought he would get a ring that said grandpa on it. He's never completely happy...lol Who know's there are plenty of Christmas's left, you never know.

Frank got a couple pairs of jeans and a couple shirts from my mom and dad. He difinitely needed that! I got him a pair of sneakers that he needed for awhile but just kept putting off.

I myself was pretty satisfied with what i got. Coulda used that cruise or bills paid up but you can't have everything! lmao

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I had to work a 5 1/2 hour shift at work on Christmas day, and it was busy even before i unlocked the door. About 5 people were waiting in their cars for me to unlock the door and within 3 hours of opening we had done over a thousand dollars! It was horrible, especially when they say "awwwww you had to work on Christmas Day?" Sometimes i said "awwww you had to come in on Christmas day?" Stupid people! It's better if they just say "merry xmas" then anything else on such a day.
On Christmas day is a day that i don't go looking for anything open! I do everything i absolutely need to do on the day before.

But all in all the food was great, the presents were awesome, and Mom was home for the holidays this year!

I'm getting tired so i will close for now. Hope everyone got what they wanted or needed.
And I am hoping for a better new year for everyone.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

It's officially Christmas Eve! Merry Christmas!


I'm finally done shopping, baking, done, done, and done.
Today i was on a mission to find my mom's present since she was the only one i had to buy for left on my list. It only took me 2 days and 7 stores to find it! But at least i won't be walking aimlessly on Christmas Eve to find her a gift! I really hope that she is gonna like it.

It's really bugging my mother about what it is because she said it in one conversation and i put it to good use. So she has spent a few days trying to recall what she let slip out.

Hopefully we all will get what we most desire! Or pretty close..lol

Happiest of holidays my blogging friends :)

DARIN IS THE BIG BOWLER OF THE WEEK!

For some reason Sunday was a big day of bowling for most of us, but Darin went above and beyond!

Darin's highest score was a 122, it is now replaced with a whopping 141!!!!! Go Darin!
Amber almost beat her new high score of 105 but just came a little short. Maybe after the 2 week break we will all make new records! I think the new balls are helping alot!
Scores were:
Amber 57, 85, 103
Darin 141, 69, 114
Frank 130, 90, 127
Caroline 119, 129, 120

I've been trying different things when i bowl and i think i might have got something that i can do with my bowling. We will see if my average goes up.

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I can't believe Christmas is only a few days away. I will be finishing on Christmas Eve. :P
I still haven't gotten my mothers. But i do know what i want to get her. I just hope that i am able to find it. If not i have a back up plan. Mom is like the hardest person to buy for, because there are the usual things that you get your mother and she would be just happy with that. But i always try to find something that she wants but won't spend the money on herself.

I have just a few more gifts to buy, which is impressive because with hardly any money and trying to keep my head above water, I'm lucky to be this far.
I hope that you all are having better luck than I!

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I can't believe the weather, Unusual is the only word i can think of. I'm glad that i got my lights out when i did, otherwise it probably would not have gotten done. I just hope we get a break right after Christmas to take it all down fast. I love the Christmas stuff but when the holiday is over i don't like to keep it up! I look for a little more normalsy right after.
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Well if i don't get to say it later i will say it now.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

XMAS WISH LIST

Well while visiting Cindy's blog today, she posted her wish list. She asked that everyone that reads her blog do the same. It could be anything that we wanted and does not matter the price tag so here's mine:

1. A cruise. To anywhere!
2. money
3. all my bills paid up to date.
4. new pots and pans (the good stuff)
5. sheets for my bed.
6. a new computer desk
7. a new wedding ring (one with a big heart shaped diamond with diamonds in the band)
8 a new bed!
8. some new clothes
9. my hair highlighted again.
10 a new computer
11. my kitchen remodeled

well that's all i can think of right now. I'm tired so g'night all.
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well it's the next night and had some time to think about this list And since i can wish for anything...here i go.
12. gastric bypass (so i will be here for a long time!)
13. to be healthy

Just call me betty crocker!

Today was a lazy day, I had taken the day off work and got some sleep, housework and errands done.

I started baking again. Today on the menu was pineapple cookies and peanut butter cookies.
My son loves the pineapple cookies and have begged me for days to make them. I think i might bake some more cookies on Monday.

Got worse information on my husband's truck. It's going to cost us more than we thought. Apparently its a cracked head. Thank god the mechanic has a good heart and feeling the Christmas spirit. He told me that he will let me have the truck and make payments on it every Friday. Good news because my husband has a hard time getting home without a vehicle. He has a ride to work, but because he gets off work at different times its hard to have a definite ride. It figures when we are about to get rid of it around March, it would do this.

I'm happy that i got all my decorations up. Just in time for all the snow that we got. This weather is very unpredictable. The snow looked beautiful when i got up on Friday. I thought the kids would not have school, but apparently the snow fall was not bad enough and i got plenty of dirty looks while dropping them off at school. The roads were not that bad so i see why they were open. After school i thought i would not hear the end of MOMMMMMMM there was only like 10 people in our class. Well look at it this way, your not going to have double the homework on Monday. :)

time for bed! later

Tis the season!

God there is so much to say. Been busy, busy, busy.

Amber woke up sick this morning, she woke me up this morning around 5 in the morning saying she did not feel very well. After i said "if you don't have a fever, your going to school". I felt her forehead and indeed she was burning up! I gave her some motrin and she was sleeping like a log after that. She stayed home today, and of course my day does not stop for a sick child. I had to bundle her up to help my mother do her errands. Then once we got home i decided not to waste the day and start baking!

I only bake cookies one month out of the year and you guessed it! For Christmas! I started with 4 loaves of banana bread. One for my mother, 2 neighbors and for ourselves. After that i picked a new cookie for the holiday. I usually pick one different new recipe for cookies and this one was called peanut butter banana cookie. It tastes as good as it sounds. It is made with crunchy peanut butter, pretty easy to make and is delicious! After that i started with my famous pumpkin cookie. Everyone is begging for these! After that i was wiped out. Hopefully i will find time to do some more this week.
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Frank had his Christmas party on Saturday. I enjoy these because we get to go to other cities and stay at fancy hotels. The past 2 years they did a show and dinner thing. This year we got to go see some comedians perform on stage. God they were funny, They did this big skit on Blockbusters and the "No late fee thing". I really laughed my butt off! Then they did a skit on a eye glass place on 8 mile, where the techs would be doing strip shows. lol
They were really funny. After the show we just hid in our room and watched TV. Are we getting old or what? Usually we go to the after party, party, in one of the hotel rooms and talk and drink. But i guess this year we wanted some peace and quiet.
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Frank's truck went into the shop for repair on Friday, and Saturday they called to tell us that it needed a major tune up badly. Ouch! Well today they called and said that there is more work involved which is more money. I was about to cry, when i asked him if he would accept installment payments, and he said that he would work with me. Thank God he works at the end of my mothers block and we have seen eachother many times. He did some work on my mini van when the air conditioning went out and i was very pleased with his work. He called me a" nice lady" and that he would work with me and understood it's the holidays. Thank you Jesus!
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Sunday bowling was fun, the kids got their new balls and are bowling way over their averages! Amber bowled over her high score of 97 and beat it by bowling a 105!!! GO AMBER!

Amber 105, 90, 86 ...this is way better than the 30's and 40's she used to bowl...wow!
Darin 112, 114,96
Frank 107,138,129
Me 95,97,80


Yes i know, I suck! lol. But in my defense i was tired as all hell! These days are hectic and sleep is an option these days.
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On Wednesday i left my mothers a bit early to take advantage of a nice day and put out my Christmas decorations. I did not take everything out there, I could make it look like national Lampoon's Christmas vacation, but i was not really in the mood to deck it out. I made it a simple but pretty. I will try and take pictures and show you.

Mom's been trying to put her decorations up at her house. Believe me all week i have heard how messed up i made everything. I did the best i could do without any help from anyone. It needed to come down and she was in the hospital. I had to laugh when she said you should have left it up. "Until May or June?" that's about when she was finally able to do things on her own again. I just told her " YOUR NOT ALOUD TO GET SICK AT CHRISTMAS EVER AGAIN!"

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Well, I still have alot to say but my eyes are already in bed. I think i will go join them. lol

Happy Thanksgiving!

These are two reasons why i am Thankful!

Thanks Mom for sending me these pics from your scanner!

These are the school pictures for this year! Don't they look much older than 11 and 10?



They make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Well we just made the decision to break a family tradition this year. We are not going to the parade downtown this year due to the cold and more of the fact that they have alot of construction down there and we are afraid that we will be parked behind some construction machines. We will do it next year!
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I just realized that I have a couple anniversarys!
One is that i have been blogging for a year! Hooray!
And two that Tuesday i will have lived in my house for eight years! Double Hooray! Time flew!

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Went to see the doctor a couple days ago and all is pretty good. Sugars are still high but lower than they were. Blood pressure is great! So he tells me i am still alive! I was worried about that. lol

Mom on the other hand is not doing so good. Blood pressure is high and now she has another swollen gland that may need to be cut out of her neck again. Poor Mom! I hope that its nothing serious. Hopefully she won't spend any holidays this year in the hospital!
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Sunday bowling went ok. We could have done better. We broke down and bought the kids new bowling balls as an early Christmas present. Hopefully that will help.

Amber 31, 73, 72
Darin 78, 89, 96
frank 102, 133, 166
me 107, 125, 82

I admit the last game i was not even trying. I was tired! lol
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Well for Thanksgiving we are going over to my mothers to help and pig out! lol
Other than that probably a nap is in the works then off to work i go. Some us have to do it! Unlike my my husband and half of the world get to stay home with pay!
Do any of you have any special plans?


If i don't get to write again...Happy Thanksgiving!

I don't have to kill them Yeh!

Kids just got their report cards and i am happy to say that they get to live another semester..lol
Darin made the honor roll with 3 A's 2 B's and one C this is brought up from an F! I could not be more happier. Amber is doing well in 4th grade, i was shocked at the amount of books she has been reading in school and testing for. Baby girl got 3 B's and 2 C's, I can't ask for better! Talking to her teacher, her teacher said "Amber is really shy" I ABOUT FREAKED! AMBER SHY??????? WHAT THE! I told him to come to my house and meet the true Amber! lol But in a way i have to look at it this way, I'm happy that my kids are behaving when i am not around them all time. Things that happen now i can handle. But in a way i have to look at it this way, I'm happy that my kids are behaving when i am not around them all time. Things that happen now i can handle ...i'm really worried about all the teenage problems that await me.

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Well in honor of Thanksgiving that is just a couple of weeks away, i thought i would start another list...a list of things I am thankful for!

1. My kids- Everything thing that they do for me

2. My husband- He is everything that i need and more...The little things that he does really count. wether it be just saying i love you over the phone or doing a sink full of dishes when they need to done.

3. My family-For a Mom and a Dad that helps when they can! A mom that is not only just a mom but a best friend! My dad for showing me a value of a dollar. He taught me responsibility!
A sister-That i do love, even tho we do not see eye to eye. And i absolutely love my neice and nephew :)

4. My friends- There are times that my friends have carried me far in my life.

5. My Job-I glad that i have one! I actually like my job. Can be stressful sometimes but the pro's out weigh the con's.

6. My house-It's a great place. This would include my neighbors that are all around me.

7. My sense of humour- I can find the funny in almost anything! I adore making people laugh! ok..i won't be selfish here....And for my kids sense of humour! they can make me laugh out of the clear, blue, sky .

8. I am thankful to be alive!- 2 years ago was when i had my heart attack, that i did not know that i was having, I also would be GRATEFUL if i could see my kids grow up.

9. I'm thankful that i am not a drug addict.

10. I'm thankful for the vacations that i have been on.

Well this is what i came up for now...I will list more later...i'm sleepy, sleepy, sleepy

I can't believe it!

Sunday bowling was weird but great! We won all 3 games, but the first 2 we were barely playing. Then all of a sudden my hubby pulls a 188 score! GO HUBBY, IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY...LOL

Scores:

Amber 72,71,85 as you can see after purchasing the wristband she is doing incredible!
Darin 122,110,86 boy is determined to bankrupt me with the quarter a spare and 50 cents a strike....lol he earned himself a whopping $3.50 from me this day!
Frank 96, 126, and then he woke up and did the 188.
Me 95, 128, 85 Well at least i tried...
And thanks to Darin and Frank for winning for us!

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Movies

"Charlie and the chocolate factory" ok..the only thing i can say is watching it once should last you a lifetime. I hate that they made Willy Wonka such a tart in that movie. Poor Brad Pitt!

"Christmas with the Cranks", this also goes on the list of if i never watch it again it would be just fine.

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Well folks...my eyelids are getting heavy...hope that you all had a great weekend!

Halloween

Amber is stylin and profilin in a skeleton pirate costume, this is what she wanted to be this year. Figures my daughter don't want to be any of the girly things. But she did win 3rd prize in her class.










Hubby decided to join into the fun and put my wig from last year on and slapped some paint on his face and went trick or treating also. I guess you can call him a middle aged rocker.



Darin decided that he did not want to do the halloween thing, but stay home and help grandma pass out candy at my house. It was a great night for trick or treating, we started at 6 pm and did a full 2 streets then got home for it to start raining, thank god we were done. After that the kids all wanted to go to 7/11 to get their free slurpee, they do this every year.

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Well i got a math trick for you all if you want to try it

1. GRAB A CALCULATOR. (YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO DO THIS ONE IN YOUR HEAD)

2. KEY IN THE FIRST THREE DIGITS OF YOUR PHONE NUMBER (NOT THE AREA CODE)

3. MULTIPLY BY 80

4. ADD 1

5 MULTIPLY BY 250

6. ADD THE LAST 4 DIGITS OF YOUR PHONE NUMBER

7. ADD THE LAST 4 DIGITS OF YOUR PHONE NUMBER AGAIN.

8. SUBTRACT 250

9. DIVIDE NUMBER BY 2

DO YOU RECOGNIZE THE ANSWER? NEAT, HUH?


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Bowling was real exciting Sunday, we lost the first game but won the last 2, yeahhhhhhhh!
We also won the 50/50 this week! First time ever!

Bowling scores are

Amber 64, 87, good job to amber , and a 66
Darin 73, 101, 94
Frank 114, 144, 136
lil ole me 106, 103, and a 134 yeh baby!!!!!

Well i'm off to bed nighty night.

The spirit of Halloween

Since it's been a list kinda thing lately i thought i would make one:
I told my mother this and if you read her blog she took it...lol...actually she went a little different with it..but still....lol


Things that i am afraid of:

1. Spiders: They always find me too! I almost crashed my car because one was crawling on my windshield on the inside!!!! omg

2. Losing my parents: I can't bare the thought.

3. Losing a child: goes right along with i don't know if i could exist without them.

4. Giving speeches: Just hate them!!!!

5. Losing my job: This is because if i lose it, i'm afraid of losing everything that i own. :(

6. I'm afraid of not being able to watch my kids grow up. (ie...because of my health)

7. Poisonous snakes: this should be an obvious one.

8. Going across 8 mile at night! this rarely has to happen....but when i do...i barely stop and doors are locked.

9. Guns: another obvious!

10. I'm afraid of riding over bridges, heights!

Well these are just a few things that i can list off that i am afraid of...

so how about it? what are you afraid of?

list of things that i think were exciting

The challenge was to come up with some things that i have done that I thought were exciting.


This is probably going to be a short list tonight...and not as exciting as my blogging friend Monica http://www.piecesofus.blogspot.com/ has. I'm real tired so i will try.


1. When i was 18 i flew to Florida to finally meet my grandfather that i had not seen since i was a toddler. The flight was my first ever. And also my first vacation on my own.

2. Of course my kids!!

3. My wedding! I planned everything with the help of my best friend Barb.

4. Buying my house! The day we looked at it, i knew it was mine. I was so excited i could not describe it to my mother, i had to bring her and let her see it.

5. visited Niagra Falls, god it's a beautiful gift of nature.

I will get back to ya on this..

maybe i will look at some old photos to jog my memory.

Whatever floats my boat

Well Sunday's bowling is at least postable...not the greatest but an improvment over last week

Amber 75,57,59
Darin 79,102,108
Frank 113,97.127
Caroline 102,91,112

Can ya believe it ...were in last place...lmao
It's all for fun anyways.

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Went shopping with mom today and i thought i would spend a couple dollars on myself and finally get a new purse. The one that i had i have had for a couple years, it was time.
I don't like buying purses, they are making them smaller and smaller these days...Helloooooo i am a mom i have to have mom things in there...you never know when your going to need something and damn it..i want it to be there..lol

I also splurged and bought some new make-up...I'm sure the stuff that i had in my make-up bag i had since the day i got married. And the other half, well lets just say that someone and i'm not mentioning any names (Amber) borrowed(stole) it.

Then i finally i have one christmas present hidden away for Darin...don't tell but its a pair of pants..shhhhhhhh...
I have been feeling silly all day!

Saturday at work i had to push the online thing and i stood there screaming "get your red hot christmas presents here" I was shocked when it actually worked!!!lol
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Darin and Amber had their teeth cleaned today and they both got a zero cavity report!!! yahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! Last time Darin cost me $300 dollars of work to be done. And that's with insurance...without insurance you might as well hammer the nails into my coffin..lol
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Anyone dressing up for halloween? I'm thinking about it...i do have a like a grim reeper costume, i thought about getting an alien mask and wearing it to work. I think it would be fun.
What will you be dressing as?

I did my good deed

My mother and I got the spirit of Halloween and visited the cemetary. We took care of all our relatives stones by clearing away the grass that was overgrowing onto them. Then she had purchased some silk flowers to decorate their stones. We had not been there since the end of May of 2004 so the grass had grown a great deal. Before that it had been years and they were so covered we barely found them so this time was not as bad.

It's sad to see that no one but us has taken an interest to remember our beloved. Standing above my grandparents stones i said to mom "You know, they did not have 7 kids to just be forgotten about!" Alot of the family has issues with one another, but that should not go against the people that gave them life and took care of them.

My mother wrote in her blog http://mommasplaceathome.blogspot.com/ that she wondered if anyone would visit hers. I made her a promise that i would every year at least once if not twice. I will pick a month and stay true to my word!

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Work has been sucky lately. I'm stressed to no end! They want us selling the online package that they got going on. All i can say is that i am trying to with every customer, that's all you can do. Well they are stressing out our store manager, which in turn stresses us all out.
I am starting to have headaches all the time just before i go into work. I used to LOVE my job. I still do, but they are making it very hard.

I've only watched a few movies..
"Batman Begins" was alright, worth watching once...I will tell you that you have to get past the first hour of bringing the story together..but once you knew what was going on it started to make sense.
"Sisterhood of the traveling pants" another movie that you can only watch once.
"Bewitched" I was so bored that i was doing everything but watching or listening to this movie.
right now i have "Herbie" and "Star wars" I hope that i will be able to watch these...but its not looking good. The kids have watched "Herbie" and they said that they liked it.

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If someone out there can tell my how to put a link in their blogs without posting the url on here it would help me a great deal :) I know there is a link button up there...but it doesn't seem to work right for me. :( What am i doing wrong?

Well take care people...have a great weeked...
Hopefully bowling won't be so bad this weekend.

Let's see what i can come up with

I really don't have to much to say but let's see what happens here.

Let's start with the beginning of the weekend, Friday was my day off and let me tell you that it was no day off!! As i told Cindy from http://cindy.jenkinsonline.net/ that a day off to me is working my ass off without getting paid!

It started with dropping the kids off at school, come home and pay some bills. Then run to the pet store and find out the dog food i wanted was on sale and they were out, so i had to drive 4 miles down the road to get a bag at the sale price. Then rush to the grocery store, then home to drop off groceries really fast because i had to go clean my aunt's house by noon. Leave her house by 2 p.m. and run up to a christmas store where i was looking for a fuse for my pumpkin for halloween. (which turned out that it kept blowing a fuse) so garbage city that goes. Then i had to run to the post office for some stamps, that i needed for all the bills that i paid first thing that morning. Then rush to the kids school to pick them up, then straight to the sporting good's store for a bowling glove for Amber.(we are hoping this will improve Amber's bowling.) We had been promising her this glove ever since bowling started. Then on the way home pick up our dinner, pizza, and then managed to squeeze in some bingo! Mom had luck on her side that night.

Saturday i slept my butt in, for a bit. And when i got up i started doing a ton of laundry and cooked a great meal before going to work. Saturday was busy up in the "B" I could not wait to get out.
While speaking about work, November is going to be a huge movie month!! Madagasgar, Star wars, Polar express, Christmas with the cranks, are just a few of the big movies coming next month.

Sunday was bowling day and to be honest not really worth mentioning. We all could not bowl for crap. Amber, because of her glove was the only one that bowled above their average.
The scores was so crappy that i am not even going to post them...shame shame shame.
We were bowling against some pros and we got our butts kicked good!
OH WELL all for fun anyways right?

Today another day off and nothing really got accomplished but i did alot. Mainly taking my mother all over. But hey what else is there to do other than sleep? Heyyyyyyyyyyyy that's an idea! lol

I wouldn't know what to do!

Darin brought home his first progress report and it was really good up until the part about an F in language arts. I can't bitch much because it was all A's and B's in the rest. He hates this class because of all the reading and writing...... Because it's his first offense..... I just said that i was not pleased and that i expected him to up this grade in the next card marking. Even if its a D or a C it's better than an F. I can't expect perfect children, but an F just show's me you did not even try. He promised he will do better.

Well i have rambled on long enough...geesh for someone that had nothing much to say i was able to pull a rabbit out of my hat eh?

Later all..