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Wierdly Enough

I spent my weekend at Ikea. I had to get a new Bedroom set that included a bed in the sky for my little spawn of satan. It was an experiance. I'm not sure I've ever spent that much money in one store before in my life. I did not expect to have to contend with a whining crying drop off at school because of this shopping spree however. This morning my son informed me that he could not go to school, because then he would not be able to nap in the bed in the sky (A Loft bed for those of you out of the loop). I actually had to drop him off kicking and screaming this morning. I was horrible. Now I'm feeling like the wicked with of the West and My kid hates me. I actually went so far as to call the teacher and check on him. Apperently he shut up as soon aws I walked out the door. I think I need to see a shrink. I also think I need to never spend that much money to get this kind of trauma ever again!!!!

1st Day of Pre School

OK so leaving the house this morning was a pain in the you-know what. My Mom needed my car, I was freaking because what it my baby got sick and I needed to go and pick him up from school?! What if their was a fire there and he needed me to rescue him? In the end I gave my mother the car as well as my cell phone (So if they called I could immediately get a hold of her to chant "I told you So" over and over again) and we dealt with the larger problem.

"Momma I won't go"
"Why Baby"
"I hate this shirt!!"
"But you loved this shirt last night?!?!?"
"Ugly Now, and I don't want to bring a share toy, who will take care of it when I come home at night?"
"If you don't bring a share toy then you don't get to play with any other share toys that the other kids bring this week."

All I got for that comment was an evil glare that shot ice cubes down my spine!!!!

"Momma?" Tears running down his face "I don't wanna go to a new school" Big shiny eyes staring at me from under damp lashes.
"Boo Boo, You are gonna love this school. I promise" He walked out to the car with me like I was taking him to the guillotine.

We get to school, we forgot the share toy so he brings in a kazoo from the car. He walks into the classroom, drops his coat on the floor turns around holding some little hussies hand and says to me

"OK Momma, you can go away now"!!!!!!!!

That little brat, imagine the unmitigated Gaul it took for him to say that too me. Doesn't he know I am going to be crying all morning and most of the afternoon because My baby is growing up?!?!? Isn't he even a little scared? Well I've called to check on him, and as far as the teachers can tell he is perfectly happy, they are very impressed about how secure and well adjust my child is. That is such a crock, the brat is just acting this way so I look like some sort of lunatic. That's it, on Thursday, I'm going to make him wear tight underwear or something else uncomfortable, let him know how it feels!!!

The Devil and the Deep Blue Joey

OK so the other day, on the way to a interview with a school, my loving and beutiful son informed me that he had come from the Devil.
You see hwe has always been told that he came to live with me after God felt I was a good enough person to have an angel (OK so it's a little sappy, but I'm a mommy darn it), he has also been told that god is everywhere. So when my goofy brother said, just as a joke, that the devil was everywhere, somhow my baby boy decided that the devil had made him. Needless to say, my brother is now sleeping with the fishes and I had to fix that misconception in the 7 min. it was going to take to get to the school that promotes prayer before all meals and in the mornings. I managed to keep my little boy from telling the teachers he was a spawn of satan, but it was a close thing.
from all of this I have learned that my baby is truly a evil genius, and that the function of a childs mind is no where near the function of an adults. They are much smarter and open minded than we are.
Well I'd better get going, but I will try and catch up with all of you soon. :)

Life as I see it

This weekend was a all out mess. My Mom has some dort of virus that is affecting her kidneys, so she is kind of tired and cranky. To cheer her up on Saturday I took her to get a manicure. Instead of a manicure we ended up shopping for clothes for my dad and buying a booty ugly bed room set that she loved at a estate sale. Now I had a cranky tired Mom a Cranky and tired Dad (He hates new clothes and moving futniture) and a cranky tired Kid. My day actually started Saturday by my taking the boy to a childrens expo at Arlington Park Race Track. He wanted to know if he could bet the Ponies (My moms Influance). So needless to say when Dave called Saturday evening I was so glad he was tired, because All I wanted to do was crash. Sunday was just as bad. I shopped for Groceries and had to get 2 of my cousins to go and get the bedroom set with me (Thank god for huge cusins with big trucks!!) I did get to see my cousin Carrie, she was in for the weekend from college. She is skinny as a rail, what the heck happened to the Freshman 20 I keep hearing about?!?!?! We got the stuff moved in, the old stuff out and visited for a while. I then had to run a few more errands and get ready for the oscars (Which I missed most of) Finally I got to go to bed (After whining for a while that my head hurt) and this morning all ?I wanted was to get into work so I could get a break!!! So kudos to those of you who get a peaseful weekend, I'm shooting to get one sometime next month is possible!!

Growing Up

In the past couple of years I have noticed an alarming trend. I seem to be growing up. I am now a woman with a real Bank account, I have a car payment, I am looking into relegated to purchase. I have recently made an appointment to see a lawyer to have a will drawn up. I am trying to repair a lot of mistakes I've made in my past.
I guess I watched my friends either grow up or pretend to grow up. One friend, who would swear she was an exceptional Adult, is the most childish person I've ever met. She has 4 kids, who she swears are killing her 1/2 the time. A perfectly nice husband, who she always thrashes and undercut. A house in a nice town, which she hates because it isn't as clean as she would like all the time. With all that she would seem to be a Grown up, but in reality everything that is wrong in her life is someone else's fault and she regresses to our High School Years at the drop of a hat. I really do feel sorry for her and I have to admit I have pretty much totally pulled away from her in the past couple of years.
Then I have the friend who really has grown up (Not that she would wear a serious expression in the middle of July) She has a decent Job that although she occationally Bitches about I believe she really thrives on. She has made a place for herself in the world without having to depend on all sorts of other people. Yet she is still a part of my and many others lives. She takes responsibility for herself and her life and she seems to be happy in most of her choices.
The second friend is the one I strive to be more like. I had a small short circuit for a while and before that I had no reason to be serious about much of anything, but now I have a son and a fairly respectable job and I use the word Heiney a lot.
Here is to the RedHead from Blondilocks, thanks for making me think about what I want to be when I grow up.

By the way, on a different note, their was a huge industrial waste incident on my head, please pray for me to get normal hair color back soon!!!!

Weekend Delight

So Dave took my hint (Will wonders never cease) and took me dancing. It was kind of cool, we went to a restraint called the Wellington in Rolling Meadows and danced to a lot of Big band Music. The best part was the Band name though, it was "The Manila Funk Band" Dave of course keeps swearing that the band was Manila Vanilla, but I know he is Getting Sometimers. You have never danced to Sinatra until you have Danced to Sinatra as done by a Filipino gentleman. I had a Apple martini. It was very strong. It was a lot of Fun and I hope we do it again soon, this coming weekend he is talking about going to a dance Bar. That will be fun too!!

New Job

OK, sorry about the delay (Salright Dawn!) I am in training for my new job, so far I really like it a lot. We did have one guy that was really not doing well, they had to let him go. I felt sorry for him, but there is only so much you can do to help a person before it becomes a detriment to them. Any way, I am learning a lot of new stuff about printing (Surprise, Surprise!) and I actually got to see some presses the other day. They are pretty cool. I'm not really learning how to sell so much as how to talk about the products intelligently.
Also I recently got a new car. Just for the record, I am loving it!! I is a really spiffy "Virgin American Camel". Joey also loves it, but we did have to go out and get him a booster seat instead of his regular car seat, the best thing about the booster as far as he is concerned is that fact that it has cup holders!! Now he has enough leg room no matter who is sitting in the passenger seat.
Also, I have started trying to get back into Yoga and Taoism again. Not like as a religion, but as a way of calming myself and getting a little more physical limber. I know it sounds kind of like "New Age BS" but it really worked for me in the past.
So now I've pretty much updated you on all the great stuff!! The boy toy is still around more or less, I am still trying to get my mother a new job (It totally seems to stink looking for a job when you are over 50) and I still teach the HS Class every other week at church. I am looking into getting Joey into a daycare 2 days a week and my father is actually all for it, he used to sneer every time I suggested it.
Hope you are all doing well.

Love As I see It

So I spent Sunday at church and with some great friends. LOater that night as I was being forced to Watch yet another Scooby Doo episode It occured to me that I had really enjoyed seeing those friends, even though we had run into a guy I used to know who was hyper at the very least. I also realized how much I cared about both of those friends and that I probably didn't tell them nearly enough how great they were. I my life I have finally decided I am blessed with my circle of friends and family. Son of the people I know have taught me so much about strengeth and compassion that I can't believe I ever felt alone in my whole life. I realized that New Friends or old, life and love make everything better in the end.

New Job

So in my first week on the job, I have gotten 2 free lunches and a free dinner at Harry Carey's. I am learning more that I ever though I wanted to know about Printing Presses and varoius other machines for Printers and Binders. Overall I really seem to fit in well here. I did have to buy a new vehical due to an unfortunate incident involving a transmission and a lot of rotten luck, but in the end I got a nice newer car and Joey really like it. I'm in training for Inside sales for right now, But I will try and remember to keep you all posted on my current events!!!

Old Years End

So for my final act of the old year, I asked the man in my life to marry me. I know it isn’t the most traditional way of doing things, but since when have I gone for the traditional way?!?! Anyway I decided that since we had been together for a year and a half and that since I love him I didn’t see any reason not to ask. I turns out that the reason I shouldn’t have asked is because he is “Not Ready”. I know it was not meant to be a reflection on his feelings for me per se, but that he was not ready for the whole institution of marriage at this time, but how do you tell your feeling that? I mean I was all sunny dispositions until I could excuse myself to be alone and then I cried for about 10 minutes. Now I’ve decided that all this means is that all the plans I need to make do not have to revolve around him at all. I want to take Joey on a nice vacation this summer, so Joey and I go for it (I’m thinking Puerto Rico). I want to get a place of my own, but because I do not have to consider him in this I don’t have to do it to fast. Believe it or not that means I can help out my parents out a little more, I can do more of the stuff I want to do before I actually go through the whole buying of a home deal. I can also see if he is really what I want. I mean if I finally am in the marrying frame of mind shouldn’t I find someone who is also of that mind? I love the guy dearly.

Post Christmas Yippee!!!!!

So picture this, 5am Christmas Morning. My son jumps on my head and starts yelling "The Sun iss Shining Mommy". I think he must have some sort of cateract problem or something, because the only thing shining was my eyes from lack of sleep. We open the bedroom door and Joey say's "Momma, He was here" in an awed hushed voice "Who was here I ask?" "Santa Momma!!!!" he yells, "Well how do you know?" Iask, he rolls his eyes, uses both hands to motions to the front room and says "Well LOOK Momma!!!!!". I think it was an Oh Duh' moment as far as he was concerned. It was the cutest thing ever. While I made him wait (Because I'm a horrible Mommy) He was allowed to open open one present. I was a GI Joe Jeep and action figure (Don't say Doll anyone). He was in heaven until he realized it was going to take 3 adults and about an hour just to get the darn thing out of the box!!! But the hit of the morning seems to be the Hot Wheels Octoblaster. It's a race track that can crash cars and drives the cats completely insane. It's awsome!!!! Gotta go, I think I hear a car crashing now and I don't want to miss a thing!!

Almost Christmas

I am as excited as my 3 year old about Christmas this year. I hve big plans for the New Year and Christmas may play into those plans!! I can't wait to see Joey face when he opens all his gifts. He is going to be so excited, maybe more so for the wrapping paper, but excited none the less. I also am excited about spending the Holiday's with Dave and Emma, they are very special to me and I want to see them excited also (No dirty comments about Dave getting excited People). I want to Wish all of you a wonderful Chirstmas. I have probably 6 years worth of Christmas cards setting in my closet, I but them every year and send them never!! So Very Merry Christmas and may you get Excited for Christmas Also!!!! I love you all!

Working with the Nearly Departed

So as some of you may know I've been temping for the last 3 months with a company that was bought out and all the people around me are being let go. Actually they brought me in because to many people had quit or been let go already and they needed someone who could do it all. In walks me:). Well it turns out that even though I've onnly been here a short time I am going to miss these people. Some of them have been with the company for like 30 years. To add to feeling of sadness I think I am going to be offered a job with the company that bought them out. That makes me Estatick, but before I even applied for the recomended position I made sure none of these guy's wanted it. I feel good and bad about the whole thing. Well I guess I just wanted to get that off my chest.

Life as I see it

OK so this morning I was really ticked at a guy I have to do a lot of work for. Mostly I have to do work for him because he is a pain in the butt!! So this morning I found myself asking, "Why should I give a rat's patootie". What the heck is a rats patootie? I mean I have said a lot of odd thing inmy life, most notably a comment about my being a blow fish to an ex-boyfriend!! But what on earth an I doing using the word Patootie, mush less rat's patootie?!?!?! I told Dawn that I believed I had let my membership to the Bad girls Club lapse, and apperently it is non renewable after that. I am just going to have to by a hundai and settle in to Soccer Mom Status after this little slip!!!

Saturday in the City

As Joey and I were heading down town I actually remembered to bring a pocket full of singles so that I could give them to Joey to put in peoples hats down in the El stations. He was so cute. He sang Silent Night with one guy and danced for a couple of others. He also kept an eye on a womans bags shen she stepped away and she paid him a dollar. I was dying because all these people were telling how wonderful my kid was. I really wanted to say, "Hey you should see him when he is in his usual Evil Troll mode". I did manage to let them keep their illusions of my "Perfect" little Troll.

Christmas Is Comming

So this past Saturday I took Joey to Downtown Chicago. We went to see the magic window at Marshal Fields, yes FDawn I know it is so wrong because it will be Macy's soon, I did not enter the store because I value my pocket book too much. We also checked out this cute German village they have set up in the Daley Plaza. Joey got a wooden frog that sounds like a frog when you run the stick over it's back. Unfortunatly we ran into a friend of my Aunt Carole's and she was so happy to see us, I have no clue who she is!!! It was rather embaressing because I just kept saying yes mama, no mama. I as so bad with names!!! Well TTFN Hope you are all having a great Holiday season.