another long overdue update

Wow, it's a been a while. I get so wrapped up in day to day that I totally forget I have a blog that needs attention. Oops.

So. Updates. Sister in law Mitch is doing ok, after a brief scare with the pregnancy. She was on bedrest for a while with placenta previa, meaning the placenta was way too low and blocking the cervix. She was off work for a few months, but is back to work now. They also found out that the baby is a girl!!! They have a name picked, and my nickname for her shall be Bree. Can't wait for her to get here!!

Bubba finished school with flying colors, and starts first grade in like a month. We're thinking about signing him up for flag football, cause it's relatively inexpensive, and not contact. He needs SOMETHING organized to do and I think it may give him better discipline. We shall see. He's been sporting a mohawk since just after school got out. He's not happy when I tell him he has to have it off for school.

We enjoyed back to back vacations. Small ones. First to family friends just outside of Charlotte, NC, but still in South Carolina. Lots of pictures on Facebook from that one. Lots of good food, drinks and fun in the sun and pool. Got to see my best friend, K, of the infertility struggle and then twins from Ohio, along with her sister and mom. It's all pretty much her extended family but we all grew up together on the same block or so back in Pennsylvania. BobbyK, the host, was always like an extra son for my parents. Miss everyone already. We also got bad news a few days after that trip regarding K's mom. She hasn't been feeling well, bad cough, short of breath. It's been determined that it's inoperable cancer, in lungs and chest. While the doctors intend to treat it, they don't believe they can fix it completely, just simply buy her some time. We are all devastated. So any extra prayers her way would be greatly appreciated. We're even more grateful now that we had that week with everyone.

My brother and A made that trip as well, and it was the first we've seen them in a while. A is still having his ups and down health wise. Another situation that the doctors can't fix, just buy time. It's taking a toll on my brother, especially since he doesn't have custody and his evil ex is just that, evil.

Second trip was over fourth of July weekend, we drove up to PA for camping for W's mom's birthday. I got to fly home on the 5th, while the boys stayed up for two weeks...they just got home last night. The quiet just about drove me insane.

And the biggest news of all is that we did get settled, partly, with Workers Comp. While it hasn't drastically improved finances, I don't have to worry about having money for the mortgage. Also, believe it or not, we got a hearing date for disability, which is later this week. I'm a wreck about this one, because the outcome of this pretty much determines our future....if he gets it, we have money coming in from W which will greatly improve the finances. If denied, I think we can appeal, but not sure yet. W is meeting with the lawyer today sometime.

I haven't been doing much at the station. I have a standing gig on Thursday nights at an awesome bar where BOB FM does bingo, and instead of being stuck at the station to broadcast the breaks, I actually get to be at the remote and help out and goof off. We have a great time, and most of the time I don't even drink.

Ok, I must get back to work. We survived the office move, but it was insane. I do like my new space, just don't like that I gave up an office with a door. More space, LOTS more room, but I'm right next to the front door and I have to help on the phones more than I used to before. But I'm still getting a paycheck so I really shouldn't complain. I hit the 10 year mark at this place this week. And it will be the first year in ten that I won't be asking for a raise.

Catch y'all later and hope all is well. Missy, I'm so glad you are on Facebook now!!! Keep in touch with it, k!?

Some other pictures

This is from Bubba's school festival last weekend. This is Crackers the camel....they fed him animal crackers....even the camels.



Bubba and my dad on the camel.



This little bundle of adorableness is Bubba's best friend at school. She ran over to him and kept hugging him. We've heard oodles about her, and this is the first chance we had to meet her...as they were parting ways, she hugged him again and gave him a big giant kiss. I about dropped dead.

hey everyone.

So I've been MIA a long time again....gonna try to change that. But for now, let's play catch up.


So probably the biggest thing in the past few months was birthdays. Me, W and Bubba. Bubba is now six. We never had a formal party, we had cupcakes on the day, we gave him the giant Nerf gun he'd been asking for, knowing that weekend, the inlaws were coming and we'd have the party then. So the inlaws come, and Bubba gets sick. AGAIN. See we'd all been through some kind of illness, starting with me and puking, and fatigue, and chest infection. I spent a day at the office puking, afraid to go home and miss work, for reasons I'll get into later. it was a wonderful few weeks with alternating people being sick, and we thought we were done, until the Friday the inlaws arrived. Maybe it was just too much excitement, but there was more puking, and the inlaws left early. fun fun. he was bouncing off the walls the next day, tho. He was very excited to receive all six Star Wars movies, and the day they all left, we watched three of them. Soon we will watch the rest. Other notable birthday gifts for Bubba includes a plethora of Bakugan. I resisted this craze with him as long as possible. Now we're flooded with the stuff and I HATE IT! But what can you do.

School is going well with him. He's had a field trip, another coming soon, fundraisers, etc. Had a parent teacher meeting, which W handled, so I didn't have to miss work. Got a good report and all is well.

So work has been crazy, both at the station and the office. Big layoffs swept through both places, we had a fire (minor) at the office in the middle of the night a while back(suspiciously right AFTER a group of layoffs.) I'm afraid to miss work for any reason, and am terrified of getting sick again. Bosses assure me there is no way I'm in any danger, BUT that doesn't take the fear of walking into work and not having a job anymore go away. Also, the rat bastids that rule the office with their petty issues and such finally succeeded and blocked facebook. And tho it's upsetting, we can't fuss about it, or risk the ire of those that rule, blah blah blah. Couple all that with not knowing how many more layoffs on the horizon, cause we know there are more. Two girls that I thought were safe obviously weren't. We no longer get day after Thanksgiving paid off, we have to either take it without pay, work or use vacation. Which leaves me just enough for Christmas I think. Radio hours will be drastically cut, now that football is over and we haven't been running any races...so i have a set two hours a week, plus whatever else might pop up. With the personnel changes at the station lately, I don't dare complain. They are fighting budget issues, too, but I should be low enough on the pay scale to be ok.

On a GOOD news front, I got to go out with my dear friend Arlene, and my daddy to see James Otto at the Beachwagon. We had a fantastical time, and the booze was flowing, but I never got trashed...it was an absolutley fabulous show. I'd add pictures, but since I can't get into facebook and the pictures are on the laptop, and I'm at work, I just can't. So I'll try to update with them later. We're going to see Jason Aldean this weekend, riding the "party bus" that the station put together, so we don't have to drive. It's in Florence which is about an hour and a half away. At first we didn't think we'd get the tickets from the station because of how few they were given, but they got a second batch in and I finagled a pair. I am not asking about meet and greet because we met him last time, but if the opportunity appears, we'll take it. W is just as excited as I am for this show, ever since the last concert ended I've wanted to see him again. This is the first chance we've had since.


W is planning on going hunting after Thanksgiving. Got the license, and other stuff in line for that. One of the neighbor guys who has been working out of town will be able to ride up with him, so that makes me feel SOO much better..he can help drive, help W stay awake when HE's driving and all that. Don't know about the way back, but there's two weeks to deal with that. Bubba will be cared for after school by Arlene, until I get home from work.

Christmas shopping is basically done. I need to get the bosses done and some odds and ends like stocking stuffers and what not. W and the siblings all pitched in to get their mom and dad a Wii, and then the brothers and mom and dad all pitched in to get the sister a computer. My brother and I went together to get our mom and dad bicycles, which incidentally, they picked out and we dropped off yesterday. We wanted them to have them early, since we'll be going to PA this year. Not looking forward to the drive, but the actual time up there will be nice. I'm going to try very hard to hook up with folks from school, since W will try to do some hunting again, and I'll have a full week to do whatever. Unless of course, I run out of vacation time beforehand and we have to come home earlier. We shall see.

My mom and dad are now BOTH unemployed...mama for almost a year and a half..papa off and on since july or so. he's had some temp work, but that's dried up now, too. they are struggling, which sucks, because I can't help them enough.

Let's see, what else. Anything that y'all wanna know about? I will try to be around more. Hope all is well with all of you...Missy if you are around and just not posting, drop me a line. I'm a little worried about ya, haven't heard from you in forever.

long, boring, rant-filled update

I should apologize for non-posting, but what's the difference? I should say I'll try to write more, but why? I think all of you that read my blog have the ability to follow me on Facebook, and I enjoy short little blurbs as status updates there and they obviously don't take as long to type. I WILL however, put as much into the post as I can, as a full and complete update on the many goings on in my world.

OFFICE: it sucks, as usual, but I'm still grateful to have a job at all, even one that I dislike and that drives my stress level to outrageous degrees. Boss1 fell and broke his wrist, and has been in a cast for two weeks, with about four more to go. He's not signed a thing since, so all the motions we've done lately have MY version of his signature along with my initials. I don't like signing the motions, but I don't have any choice. It does speed up the processing of new files, because I don't have to pile things up for him to sign. I just do them, print them, sign them, copy them and fax/mail them and it's done. Boss2 is also busy with various stuff, and sometimes it is hard to juggle it all, but that's what I'm paid to do, so I do it.

STATION: That's going well. After a drought of hours the past few weeks, I'm fully booked this weekend, and the following two. I haven't been on air for a while, but I will be this weekend. It is good and bad to be this busy with the station, good for the pocket book, bad for family time. But I gotta do something, we're barely squeaking by again.

HUSBAND: I don't even know where to begin with this. His back is no better, which is as expected. He has developed some other complications, basically related to the nerve damage. Edema. Swelling, retaining of water to the non medically inclined. Mainly in his feet and legs. When it's acting up bad, he has no ankles. It causes his feet to hurt really bad (on top of the back pain, yay) and they are both very discolored and he's got reduced feeling to them as well. Workers Comp is still fighting us about it being related to his back, so of course, they aren't paying for the scripts (now three, up from one) he's taking to combat the problem. Some days he can't walk. He still has really bad insomnia, even after taking sleeping pills, on top of all the other meds. He's a walking pharmacy worse than he was a year ago. He's also been falling. Not a lot, but everytime it scares me to death. It will only take one time when I'm not there, for him to bonk his head, or break his neck, or something. That's a stress inducer, too.

BUBBA: Ornery as hell, but what should I expect, he's almost six. Poor kid has had a rough ride lately, with mama being stress out and impatient, and daddy being a drugged up basic invalid. I try to make things as normal as I can for him but he's not dummy. He knows money is an issue, which is something I never wanted to be obvious to him. He starts kindergarten in 24 days. I am so excited, but nervous. I want him to do well, and fit in and make friends. But he's a bossy git, and doesn't listen (at least to me) and I don't want him getting in trouble at school, etc. He's so damn smart, and can easily make me laugh, and I love that about him. He still loves music, just like his mama. When I got a new MP3 player, he sort of inherited my old one and he walks around the house with his headphones on singing along and pretending to play guitar. He's also addicted to Star Wars, the Clone Wars stuff on whatever channel it's on. The Wii game helped that addiction along a bit. He's got lightsabres on the brain, walks around pretending there are clankers everywhere and such. He spent two weeks up in PA with Grammy and all. We went up for the 4th of July, and left him. He had a blast. Got spoiled rotten of course.

INLAWS: Same drama going on there. The wedding I already spent 170 bucks on for a dress and shoes that was set for October is officially 'postponed' at this point. Whatever. He's better off not getting hitched until they work out their issues, I'm just miffed over the money. It may all work out, and the dress is something I could wear if I ever had a black tie even to go to. haahahahahh. someday maybe, huh. The whole crew is coming down the same week Bubba starts school, for a week, along with little niece, L. They will be in a beach house, just like for Hoser's wedding, just not as close to the beach, but will still be awesome.

NEPHEW: Has shown improvement, last I heard with the plasma treatments he's been having. He's been weaning off the gobs of eye drops he's been using, not sure how often he gets them now. They removed the pic line because of the risk of infection. He won't be starting school this fall, which sucks because he could have been in the same class as Bubba. There's enough drama in that situation for two days of writing so I won't go into all of it.

CAMPING: We've done a few trips close to home with the camper, which were very fun. Mother's day and Father's day weekends, actually. The campground is right on a lake, so I could fish and fish and fish. However, we didn't catch and catch and catch. It was soo hot the second time we went, we were pretty much holed up in the camper except for mornings and evenings...looking forward to cooler weather to do it some more.

FISHING: Finally squeezed in a fishing trip to our other fishing hole as well. I caught a bunch of blue gill and a very very mean turtle. Bubba doesn't fish as much as he plays bait boy and just mainly runs around burning off energy. He'll do more actual fishing as he gets older I hope.

MISCELLANY - So the other day, I discovered a crack in the floor of the shower in our bathroom. The bathroom that gave me headaches last year when we had to remodel it. Luckily it's under warranty, however only to the point that they'll replace the base of the shower, no labor coverage. In the meantime I must shower in the spare bathroom again, which blows. I'm really trying not to bitch about it, cause there's nothing I can do. I will bitch about however much it's gonna cost us in labor, cause that totally sucks.

WEATHER: Stormy, is the best way to describe it. Lots of storms, just about every afternoon/evening....one is brewing while I type this. Hurricane season is well upon us, with no problems so far. I don't want any hurricanes this year. I don't need the stress of evacuating on top of everything else. Tho, if the house gets demolished, I won't have to worry about paying for a mortgage, would I? KIDDING.

RANT: I'm just overly frustrated with the status of my life right now. I never dreamed, even when W first got hurt that things would turn out this bad. Worker's comp in OCTOBER deemed him at MMI (maximum medical improvement) and closed the file and prepped to settle...it's now AUGUST and we haven't settled, and I don't even want to. He's getting worse by the day, and noone seems to care. I refuse to believe there is nothing for them to attempt to get him somewhat better. Are they just hoping he'll croak or something in the meantime so they don't have to pay anymore? We keep going back and forth with what to do with whatever settlement money we DO get and we aren't agreeing. He says one thing, me another, and then he is all like, it's MY money, I'll do what I want and yadda yadda yadda. But if he does something like that, I have no way to pay for the car or the house and so on.

I don't spend enough time with Bubba and I feel incredibly guilty about it, with every extra shift at the station, more guilt. I KNOW that money isn't all things, but dammit, I need to be able to pay the bills, and every so often have some fun money, and if I don't work, that doesn't happen. Between work, and trying to keep the house clean, the grass cut, the groceries bought, etc. there just isn't enough time in the day.

I'm worried about my old cat Jack. We're pretty sure it's him that is drinking excessively and urinating excessively. NOT a good sign in a 12 year old cat. I'm having to clean the cat box daily, when I used to be able to skip at least one day in between. If I don't, there's mess on the floor, which takes MORE time to clean up, and see above about not enough time as it is. I don't know how I'd handle him up and dying, but I better start preparing myself. Bubba won't handle that too well, either. Ugh.

Okay, my brain is fried. If I missed anything, sorry..I am not editing, either, so deal with the typos/spelling/whatever. Anything YOU want updated on, ask and I'll respond as soon as I can.

Just about done at the station for tonite. I'll be back for a race tomorrow and Sunday, not sure how much computing I'll do in the meantime.

Love you all, and thanks for listening. And Sp, thanks for the Facebook chat tonite. It was nice and hopefully we won't take so long to do it again.

fun for a change

Since I ended up being off from the station this weekend, we were planning a trip to a friend's house so Bubba could shoot his gun. Well, when she called to confirm, she mentioned fishing, and I went bonkers. They have a private pond to fish in, so we didn't need licenses. I rallied the troops and packed up and out we went, cause dammit, I needed to go fishing. We had a great time, Bubba got the best shot out of all of us with his gun, which totally made his day. And I caught the only fish, a nice sized blue gill. It is currently living in Miss Bonnie's little pond in the yard, since he was the only one we caught, he wasn't big enough for dinner.

Today I got up and cut the grass. It was jungle-ish in places. It rained and rained last week so the grass grew like crazy. Tomorrow night will have to be weed-whacking because I just ran out of energy. I've been loafing in front of the TV/computer since. Race has been on, but it's just about over, then dinner.

I've been horribly addicted to Twilight. Got the first two books in paperback, cause they were fairly cheap at Costco. Burned through the first book in one day, when I was off work and at doc appointments with W. Second didn't take much longer, but then I had a problem. I didn't wanna buy the hardbacks, and the next two aren't out in paperback yet. Luckily I had a friend lend me the next two. I finished the third Friday night and have just about finished the last. There are spots where I just could NOT put the books down, it's crazy. I am completely amazed, again, by authors that can create such vivid stories. I am not very articulate when it comes to my writing, obviously, I tend to keep it very simple. But even when in college and I had to write essays and such, they were never very good. Informative, yes, but creative, flowy and outstanding, no. Anyway, I love the whole series, can't wait for the movie (which I'm not supposed to know I'm getting for Easter! WOO)

K, time to make dinner with W, race is just about over. Have a great week y'all, I'll try to write more often, but you know how it is.

sheesh, I haven't updated in a while

Haven't been extra busy really, just nothing blogworthy.

Inlaw visit was good, albeit short. Bubba got tons of stuff, I got a bunch of books, CD's and movies I was wanting.

And I have finally been asked by the bride to be a bridesmaid...woo.

Dusty dog was sick when inlaws were here. Ear infection, led to a hematoma. We've been messing with it all last week, and then kinda figured it was fine. Cept it isn't, cause the hematoma is back again. They drained it at the emergency vet, and I've kept up with it, but this morning I wasn't able to get it to drain, the incision was too healed. So she may have to go to the vet again, unless W can get it opened and drained. She took a weeks worth of antibiotics, so I don't know why its still messed up. Already spent 250 bucks not looking forward to another vet bill.

Work is crazy at the office. In fact, I have to go, because my phone won't quit ringing and I have tons to do. But just wanted to let y'all know I'm alive and things otherwise are about the same.

2nd time the charm?

I wrote a very lengthy post earlier and it got eaten by blogger....I will attempt again, but it's not going to be as long.

Not much has been going on around here, every day is the same, which leads to weeks/months passing at an alarming rate and nothing to show for it.

Things going on in the few weeks since I've posted:

I'm horrible addicted to Facebook. If you are my friend there, please join Pet Society and let my Furrball come visit your pet. I only have a few and would love to have more, besides I'm addicted to caring for everyone else's Pet for the points. Please join?

Also related to Facebook, I've found a long list of folks I went to school with back in the day, and we're planning a reunion of sorts this summer. I'm excited, and hope like mad I can make it up for it.

W's brother M and fiance (please tell me I mentioned they got engaged at Thanksgiving) announced a wedding date. October 3. So W and Bubba are officially in the wedding (I hope they are doing tuxes, I want desperately to see my little man in a tux) and I am awaiting my request from the bride. Gonna be an expensive trip, for sure.

My brother's little boy, A, is not improving, in fact he's getting worse, and my brother is just devastated. Long story short, he's got some rare condition, literally FIFTY documented cases, and it may be affecting his other eye, and ultimately destroy it, too. So he's gone from having lost one eye, to possibly the other one, as well. 30 surgeries later, he's worse off then when he started. Say some prayers for him, if you don't mind.

Tax rebate come and gone. Paid off one whole credit card, then we are having the remote starter installation finished up in my car, since W never did it. Anything left after that goes into savings so I can afford two trips to PA this year.

In laws are invading next weekend to finally do Christmas. End of February ain't so bad for that, huh?

Contrary to what I was told last year, NASCAR is back on the air at the station, so I'm pulling more hours at the station. I'm excited about it.

Finally, we have big plans for tomorrow, going out to the country, where I did the last wedding in September. Hopefully gonna be riding the four wheeler, but Bubba lost his privileges for some really crappy behavior the past two days so we may not be riding at all...I'm excited either way, because it's a day out, and I need one.

Haven't slept worth a damn all week, and I'm exhausted. Hoping to head to bed early tonite and take a sleeping pill so I feel better.....we'll see.

K, I'm outta here...If this doesn't post this time, I'm not redoing it. See ya'll and hope you are all doing well.

checking in

Since I'm not much of a writer to begin with, I can't say I have writer's block. I constantly think, "Oh I should blog about this." or, "Oh that would be funny to share." and then never do so. Mainly because I'm never around a computer when such moments happen.

We had a great weekend, with the Steelers winning the Superbowl. Bubba stayed up for the whole game and was hooting and hollering and screaming along with us. Granted, he didn't quite get WHY he was doing so, but he did it anyway. And I shared on Facebook the video of him playing the air guitar during the halftime show. I guess I'll put it up here, too.

Nothing really going on. We got a Wii Fit, and I'm currently trying to stay committed to working out on it. It's been fun so far (well, it only came in last nite, so I've only used it once, but it WAS a lot of fun.)

The in law visit

It went well...we pulled off the surprise amazingly. W insists he had no clue, but I was starting to think maybe he did, but who knows. Bubba was so shocked. The party went off great, a bunch of the neighbor girls came over, my mom and Aidan showed and Bubba got spoiled rotten. Tons of new toys and clothes.

We are planning a trip to PA the week after Thanksgiving, for hunting. For the first time since I was a kid, I'll be hunting this year. Look out deer in Greene County, Beachgal is gunning for ya, hoping to fill my freezer. Also, since I can only stay a week, and W likes to spend two weeks, we shopped around and booked me a plane ticket back for 75 bucks. It's flying into Charleston, which isn't too far, and my mom will be able to pick me up. The best part is that I only have to endure the drive UP to PA instead of up and back. That is totally worth the 75 bucks, I tell ya. Bubba will spend the extra week with Grammy and the rest of W's family, and I will have a week home alone, which will be glorious!!!

Watched a fabulous episode of Crossroads on CMT, featuring Def Leppard and Taylor Swift. First, Joe Elliott is still hot, second he sounds fantastic singing country music. Since it was on the DVR, I plan on watching it again, it was that good. Missy, I highly recommend that you catch it if you haven't already.

Ok, well, I'm at the station, for the second to last race of the year, and I'm also flipping over and watching the Steelers game. As of now, it's halftime and they are winning.

Last but not least, HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUBBA. We've told you all day that it's your LAST day ever as a four year old and you are so excited for tomorrow. We love you very much and I look forward to what life with a five year old brings.

all is well

Hanna was a sissy, if you ask me, at least for us. Had some heavy rain, some wind and the lights flickered twice but never went out. We've spent the day indoors, because somehow my child has come down with a cold. I'm hoping to avoid catching it, but that's not likely.

Catch y'all later.

rain rain rain

It's about 1045 pm. Boys are in bed. I'm on the laptop that keeps crashing on me. It's been raining hard for a while. Front yard is pretty flooded, too dark to see into the back yard. I'm sure it's pretty flooded, too. Since it's so dark, I can't really see how windy it is, but every once in a while we hear a good gust that kinda rattles the house a bit.

The poor dogs want to go out and pee, but I won't let them. I'm hoping for a small break in the rain so my house doesn't smell like wet dog. But eventually I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and let them go out. Another reason why cats are so much easier.

Okay, I'm gonna try to pogo for a bit, if the computer cooperates.

Oh yeah. NASCAR postponed tonites race and even tomorrow nites and they will run back to back on Sunday, with the Cup race first. However, JW at the station basically took me off the schedule, since the other guy was scheduled for Sunday anyway, and they are only going to broadcast the Cup race. I don't even have to go in to voicetrack. Two weekends in a row off, I don't know what to do with myself. I believe I'll still have to go in Monday nite to run the football game, and that will suck, but you do what you gotta do for a paycheck.

Catch y'all later.

so....weather is fun!!!!

Gustav won't affect us at all, however Hanna is headed straight for us at this point. Last I checked landfall would be south of us, which is bad. the northern end is normally stronger. However, if it stays as a Category one or two, we'll simply batten down and ride it out....stronger than a two, with landfall south and we're GONE. Life is in limbo right now, till we know what's up with this storm. I dread the thought of evacuating, I really do. I'll keep y'all posted.

We didn't go to the zoo over the weekend. We just stayed home, to let A recover a bit. In about six months to a year the doctors will remove his eye and fit him for a prosthetic. My brother is doing much better, but we're still pretty bummed out. We had a great family weekend, between just me, W and Bubba and some EVERYONE time, with my parents, brother and A. I got too much sun, not enough sleep and ate too much food. Good times.

Hope y'all are well.

what a week

Last post was prophetic, apparantly....family friend died Monday night about 10:15. Mom and Dad and I, along with Bubba went out Thursday morning, for the viewing that evening, chipped in for a room and the funeral was Friday. Bubba didn't behave great, but he wasn't drastically horrible. As bad as funerals are for us, they are impossible for kids, who don't fully understand. I thought George was being cremated, but he hadn't been YET, so when we walked in to the viewing, I thought there might be some awkward moments with Bubba, since I hadn't mentioned anything about a body. He sailed through, thankfully.

I hate funerals. The only upside was spending (too little) time with our group of extended family from back home (you know - folks you've known forever who are just as family as blood.) I FINALLY got to meet my wonderful friend K's twins, who are so freaking adorable. Bubba, for the first time, was the oldest of the little ones, with the next age up being a ten year old. He shared well, which surprised me....he just got way too loud and rowdy for the funeral, and I don't even wanna talk about how he behaved at church for mass....it could have been worse, but it wasn't great, either.

I spent my Saturday morning cutting the grass, and raking the grass. Got too worn out to do the weed whacking, so that's tomorrow. Ugh. Plus, I had two days worth of other home chores to catch up on, because W didn't do squat, other than put clothes in the dryer and run (but not empty) the dishwasher. Oh well.

We're also having a cook out for W's belated birthday, and the neighbor's birthday sometime tomorrow.

I'm hanging at the station, doing a race I don't even wanna pay attention to at all. Silly road course races.

road trippin'

Okay, so hey. Real quick. Hope everyone has a great fourth of July. I'll be out of town from tomorrow night until like Monday sometime. No computer. Will be in withdrawal, but whatever.

Pray we get there (and home) safely, as we're hauling the camper behind us, and we've never taken it long distances before. To say I'm worried is an understatement.

Things have been so so around the homefront. Bills are piling up and that's stress. W's health hasn't been great, and that's stress. Work sucks and that's stress. So the vacation is much needed, but also an additional cause of stress. It would be so nice to not have money problems, health problems, etc. etc. I'm trying to remember that others are much worse off, but when this is MY reality it's still hard.

We'll be camping, and having fires and cooking on the fires and maybe fishing (oh I hope so) and who knows what else.

We'll also be leaving Bubba for his summer visitation with the inlaws. at least a week, maybe two. The quiet is going to kill us, that's for sure. I'm so wrapped up in being mama when I'm home, I swear we don't know how to really be a couple anymore.

Anyway. Hope you all are fine. Have a great holiday however you celebrate it.

DAMMIT

The rumoured show with James Otto at the local country bar has been confirmed. I was initially extremely excited, until I saw the date. Now I'm heartbroken. It's next Saturday night. I will not be in Myrtle Beach next weekend. I would have been able to meet him and everything. I'm so upset. I held out on going to the huge music festival he was performing at because I knew he was supposed to come to the Beachwagon. While I know there are more important things to be upset about, this is just about the last straw in all the things that are just not working out in my life. I can't even mention it to my husband because he won't understand, which really, not many people will. All the little things I look forward to, the minor stuff I enjoy is all going to crap.

I'm incredibly stressed out about this trip next week (did I even mention it?) We're going camping for the fourth, up in PA, it's W's mama's birthday. No big deal, with the exception of gas prices and the fact we'll be hauling the ginormous camping trailer all the way up there, including through the treacherous mountains in WV.

I'm trying to stay positive, I really am. It's just not working. I'm not sure it'll ever work.

Some pictures.

The tshirt for softball..we're playing again this Wednesday. argh.


This is how he fell asleep in my bed the other nite. Doesn't look too comfy.


My handsome brother P and his handsome son A, he of the eye issues.


Oh yeah, I'm at the beach, having a good time!


He was COVERED with sand, he was digging like a dog.



After a dip, WAAAY out in the ocean. Bubba was loving it. That's my parents with us.

After getting cleaned up, hanging at G-Ma's.

Hello from radioland

Hangin' at the station again this afternoon/evening. Started at three, had a break, back on the clock at seven for the race and a remote. Currently watching firefighters battle a blaze a hop, skip and a jump away from the station. Some industrial buildings across the way were ablaze....I think they are about under control now, but I can't stay outside watching.

It's freakin' hot as Hades around here lately. We tried to get the grass cut and the weed whacking done, but only got the back done. It just got plain too hot, so we took a lunch break, and then went swimming. My face is sunburnt, but I had sunscreen on the rest. Bubba has developed freckles on his face, even through 50 SPF....I LOVE them. I'll have to try to get a picture, but I doubt he'll cooperate, he isn't as fond of them as we are. He keeps asking how to get rid of them, poor thing. He'll most likely get more and more, since I'm absolutely covered in them, and W has his fair share as well.

Only plans for tomorrow, aside from trying to finish the yardwork early is to go to my parents. Haven't been down there in a while....we may make a beach trip, but they've warned that parking is atrocious. It's a small beach area we go to down there, and parking is sparse....it used to be a locals only location that the tourists didn't know about, but that's not the case anymore. I'll let you know. I'd like to go, and get pictures of Bubba in the waves, he has so much fun. Would be worried about dropping my camera in the sand or something though, I can be a bit of a klutz.

Ok, I'll sign off now. Not much else going on. Just working hard at the office, trying to play hard with Bubba and W in the evenings. Have a great weekend y'all.

Some days

Man, I show up for work for a race at 2:30, only to find out it's been pouring down rain in Dover where the race is. So guess what. My shift that was supposed to be over at six? Yeah, not gonna happen. It's a little after five and they haven't even STARTED racing yet. My remote will still be over at six, but I'm stuck until the race is done. Of course, we had plans for after I got home which are now out the window, and guess who's in the dog house? Like I can control mother nature in DELAWARE!!! Dammit.

We got a ton of wood split between last night and this morning, though. We have almost reclaimed our yard. If I have the energy for splitting more tomorrow morning, that may just about finish it off. Some of the pieces that are left are ginormous so it may take more than one attempt to get it all done. Oh, we had to make a repair to the splitter before starting today because I broke something on it yesterday. Nothing major, just a bolt sheared off. W replaced two bolts, and we broke one of them today. It's not a seriously important piece, we may just remove what the bolts are holding anyway.

Well, here's to a good weekend for all of y'all. I'm hoping to get this racing done so I can get home in time to tuck my kid into bed.






p.s. Say hi if you've been reading....I"ve not had much in the way of comments lately, and I'm lonely. :)

Just checkin' in

Hey. Umm...nothing new going on here. Sure there are things I could gripe about, but what's the point? It wouldn't do me any good, so why bother?

Bubba got kidnapped by Nanny and K last night, for some much needed quality time for them. K is still not 100% after all her health issues, there was even a cancer scare to go along with everything else. But she's as well as can be expected, and missed him so off he went. I'll pick him up on my way home Friday night. I miss him horribly, the house is too damn quiet.

Bathroom basically done. I got it cleaned over the weekend. Our guy came to fix a few leaks to the new shower, and after a week or so of use, to make sure nothing is leaking underneath, he'll crawl under the house and do the last bit of work. I'm very tired of paying the man, that's for sure.

That's about it. Hope you all had a good Memorial Day Holiday. Ours was celebrated with charred meat and adult beverages and neighbors and the freezing cold swimming pool. Only the kids were brave enough to partake in the pool.

P.S. Happy Birthday (again) to my brother P. He'll tell you he's 29, but really, he's 35!!! Don't let him fool you. Cause there's no way he'll ever be younger than me.

surgery

is tomorrow morning...gotta be there at nine. shouldn't be super long wait, the surgeon is on call, not scheduled.

bathroom still tore up. we're looking at probably 3 grand total to fix everything, and make some other upgrades, but we're doing it in stages, the guy just can't start on it yet.

night full of running to do, once I leave the office. Bubba going to Gma's, my brother and his son will be in, so he'll have a good time. he just damn well better behave because he's been a holy terror at home. I fear that if he does get into preschool, he'll get kicked out in a week.

update as soon as I can.