Melissa's Roja

Still no guppy babies & happy Wednesday!

2010-10-06T14:36:00.000-04:00

Holy crap. Can they really stay pregnant for life? All 3 of my female guppies r hugely pregnant and no babies yet. One of them (Rainbow) has been with a male for 22 days that I know of. No idea if she was with males before that. They only stay pregnant for an average of 28 days with 21 being shortest time so she should be droppin anytime! The other two I have no idea how far along they r. They were pregnant when we got them and r growing everyday. I thought yesterday was going to be the day for Rainbow. She was breathing all weird and chasing off the boys and hiding a lot but nope. Nothing. So I thought maybe overnite. Still nothing! Damn fish! lol

So tonite its eggplant lasagna for dinner. I was going to go with a pot roast or stuffed chicken but I forgot to thaw them out so that will have to wait until tomorrow.

So the diet. Its going. Havent gained or lost any weight really but I keep weighing in (Wii Fit Plus!) at random times of the day so it isnt consistent. Im going to try doing it around noon and sticking with that time from here on out. Still taking the Xenical and still working out with Wii Fit Plus and EA Active for Wii. The kids love laughing at me when it tells me Im running too slow or when my little mii chick gets all hot and sweaty lol. Someday they will be out of shape and fat and I will be the one laughing at them! lmao. And YES Wayne actually got on the thing. He wasnt thrilled but he did it lol. Now just to keep him doing it!

Ok thats about it for today. Its chilly and rainy and the leaves r falling like crazy out there. Good day to do nothing!

Finally this weekend is over!

2010-10-04T20:01:00.000-04:00

Not that it was really really bad but It felt like a long weekend for sure. Friday the kids and I got soaking wet in the rain grocery shopping. It totally sucked. Was soooo windy and wet and my car the vets arent working right so we had a helluva time keeping the windows from fogging up. Finally I gave up and came home. Just couldnt take it anymore. Came home and did whatever (cant even remember what we had for dinner!) and that was that.

Saturday I had to go get Shakes meds at the vet with my aunt. He starts them tomorrow and his blood test is on the 18th. We only got two weeks worth of meds. I dont want to buy a ton of one dose and have the test say he needs a different dose and then Im stuck with them. So when the results come back on Tuesday Ill have to go get more meds for him. He seems to be feeling ok though so thats good. After the vet my aunt and I went to the grocery store. Shes soooo slooooow. We were in there for two hours which is 1 hour 59 mins longer than I wanted to be there! lol. I did get some good deals though and planned some different meals for this week since everyone seems to be getting bored with chicken around here. Came home and my aunt decides to rearrange her house. I came home to my house trying to avoid it! Decided to make meatballs so I made a bunch of them and we had meatball sandwiches for dinner (yum) and I froze the rest. Then I decided to fry some eggplant from the garden before the frost hits. Froze that too for parm & eggplant lasagna. So that was pretty much Saturday.

Sunday was calm. My aunt made cabbage rolls for dinner. One of my least favorite meals. Choked that down and came home and watched Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs with the kids. Cute movie. Not in my list of top kids movies but it was good.

Lets see. What else. Oh the Xenical. Wayne is actually taking it. I dont think hes thrilled lol but hes taking it. Im going to try forcing him onto the Wii fit tonite to get a weight on him. Shhh dont tell him or he wont come home! LMAO! Dont think he will do it but we'll see. Ive been taking it too and so far it seems fine. No idea if its working yet but time will tell.

Oh so after all that shopping here is what Ive come up with for the week. My menu for the last few weeks has been basically chicken, pork, chicken, pork, ground beef, chicken, pork, pizza, chicken, pork lol. Yeah everyone is bored with it so I tried to work out a different plan. Here r my plans for the week:

Monday - Western (ham, pepper, onion, egg, cheese) omelet english muffin sandwiches, pancakes (I dont eat pancakes but the kids and Wayne do), hash browns - Again probably not so healthy. English muffins were on sale though (6 packages for the price of 2 packages!) and potatoes were also on sale (15lbs for $2!) and Im going to try making them with just mostly egg whites and only half the yolks to make them a little better.

Tuesday - Hot dogs, mac & cheese, beans - Ok yes it isnt healthy and doesnt sound inspired but its different than our usual meals and I got good hot dogs so it will be yummy.

Wednesday - Pot roast, potatoes, carrots and onions with broccoli - Not one of my favorite meals but Im going to do it in the crockpot so I can just chuck it in and forget it even exists lol. Ill eat mostly just the veggies myself.

Thursday - Chicken, stuffing, mashed potatoes, brussel sprouts. Again the chicken will be crockpot so its easy.

Friday - I have a drs appt at 1:15pm so Ill most likely be bringing something home.

Possible change - Since I fried all that eggplant Saturday I might make an eggplant lasagna either Wednesday or Thursday instead. Basically its a mix of a lasagna with noodles and an eggplant parm. Yum.

Well thats it for today!

Fish babies, dead rats, sick dogs and random other things

2010-10-01T15:19:00.000-04:00

Well this has been an interesting few weeks. Lets start with the fish. Decided to set up a new fishtank a few weeks ago. Its been going well. We only lost 3 fish the first week and none since. Right now we have 3 male (Flame, Little Blue, Citrus) and 3 female (Peacock, Little Red, Rainbow) fancy guppies, 1 female mickey mouse platy (Minnie), 1 male marigold platy (Jack), 1 male (Pongo) and 1 female (Perdita) dalmatian mollies, 2 zebra (Stripes and Dirty Snowball) and 1 pearl danio (Pearl) sex unknown. Last Friday the kids and I had to go pick up meds for Shake at the vet (Ill get to that later) and when we came home we found a few baby fish in the tank. Now anyone who knows me - really knows me - will understand when I say that totally made me so excited! I could only find 3 at the time but they seemed to be doing well so I decided not to try taking them out of the main tank and away from the adults. Next morning I wake up and I can only find 1 baby. I went into panic. Tore apart the whole tank. Took out all the "savage baby killing adults" lol and started my baby hunt. Well I found my 1 baby and 5 others! YEAH! Got them into the little plastic breeder tank and the adults all back in the main tank happily when all of a sudden I see a 7th baby swimming around. Well I was already soaked and wasnt about to rip apart the tank again and decided to leave it be. That was a week ago and I havent seen it since so I assume it didnt make it. The good news is my 6 others r doing great! They r growing fast and I can even see them poop and eat lmao. They r cute. I have a few other females I think r pregnant too so Im watching them. Now comes the weirdness. I cant tell if they r guppy, molly or platy babies! I have no idea. In a few weeks as they grow Ill be able to tell but for now they just look like little swimming sperms with big black eyes lol. The other fish r all doing well too. We have 1 male betta (Elvis), 1 albino pleco (Alby), 1 fancy goldfish (Swimmy), 1 black moor goldfish (Jackson), 1 chinese algae eater (Brock) and 2 african dwarf frogs (Froggie 1 and Froggie 2 - I cant tell them apart! lol). It amazes me how relaxing and fun it is to just sit back for a few mins and watch them all do their fishy thing. Very nice!

Ok now onto the dead rats. Morbid I know! We r down to 3 ratties. 1 female Slushy who is about 2 and 2 males Nigel and Odd Ball who r 2 1/2. Its sad to only have 3 but its also ok. In the long run I want to get back to having just 2 males of the same age together. I started with females because the boy "parts" really grossed me out lol but the females get sooo many more tumors. I just moved Slushy into a smaller cage now that she is by herself and she seems to be happy. Nigel and Odd Ball r also getting a smaller cage this weekend because they r getting old and having issues climbing the ramps. I want to make it easier on my old men. Thats the rat news here.

Dogs. Man. Dogs. Remind me again why I have dogs? lol. So last week Shake started not feeling well. He will be 7 in Feb so not old really. He started to have a hard time getting up and he would leak pee. On the couch, floor, everywhere. And he wasnt happy about it. He would look so sad. Wouldnt eat and was just not himself at all. So we take him to the vet and his kidney functions r failing. Meds and home he comes and they decide to check him for Cushings Disease. Sure enough he has it. At the same time his intestines r inflamed so we r dealing with that also. So tomorrow I have to go back to the vet and get his first batch of new meds. With meds and testing its going to cost about $500 a month to start and hes going to be doing this forever. I cant not treat him though and I cant put him down. I just cant. So we will make it work. Somehow.

As for the other critters (hamsters, birdies, bunny, cats, dogs) everyone is doing good. Hopefully they will stay that way because Im runnin out of money! lol. Shimmer has a vet appt next Saturday to get her thyroid checked again and Cry Baby also has an appt next Saturday for his ear infection.

Ok so random things. Wayne is still at EB and he really likes it. He just moved from a driller to a nuke instructor. Scary eh? lol. Hes the only ex-Navy nuke there though so he was a sure hire for the job. Big raise and all that. So then he has to get this physical for his blood pressure at our regular dr. I went to get mine done too. Of course his is sky high and mine is just a little up. Well I decided to ask the dr about Xenical. For those who dont know about it its basically double strength Alli which is a weighloss pill u take when u eat meals that have a lot of fat. It keeps ur body from absorbing all of the fat in the meal. Over the summer I joined the gym and I loved going but my back was and still is a serious issue and the dr didnt want me to go anymore. Ive been working out at home (Wii Fit and EA Active kick my ass 5 days a week!) but things hurt. A lot. Im hoping the more weight I can lose the more I can get my back/hip feeling better. So Ive lost a little but not as much as I would like and Wayne needs to drop an easy 100lbs. So the dr said yes to the Xenical and the ins is actually paying for it so we started that today. A few years ago I did Alli and lost 30 pounds in a few months. Most of that was leftover Robyn baby weight. It was great but cost a fortune. This is double strength and 1/3 the price. Nice. I dont want to lose tons. I really dont. But Wayne HAS to lose weight and if I dont make him he wont do it. As much as I want to kill him lol I dont really want to see him drop dead of a stroke. Once he sees me doing it he will follow. He always does. So we started the Xenical today. Wish me luck!

Lets see. What else? Oh the kids! Cant forget them lol. They r good. Trying to force them into the swing of school. Not easy. Robyn is soooo stubborn. I mean really. Shes nothing like me! LMAO! Angelina and Wayne r butting heads big time. Ive had to take her phone away a few times and send him to bed lol. Josh is just Josh. Pretty chill but the teen years r upon us so we r dealing with that. Fun fun!

Oh geeze and phones! Weve had Sprint for about 3 years. Service was pure crap at home and we were always roaming onto Verizon so in August we decided to switch to Verizon so we got new phone numbers. Much better service let me tell u but what a nightmare. People please when u leave a number TELL PEOPLE so they dont keep calling u! I get constant calls and texts for someone named Andy. Apparently Andy never told anyone he has a new number. He owes his baby mama child support, his car broke down and he had it towed and never went to get it 2 months ago, at the same time he got a rental car which he never returned, he doesnt show up for work half the time AND dude owes people a ton of money. Heres my thing. If Im going to run off on my kid and snatch a rental car and owe people cash why change my number? Id like to know when they r all gonna hunt me down and beat my ass! Id just ignore the calls and keep the same number. Geeze. Andy if ur out there please I beg u. Call these idiots and tell them to take my number out of their phones and please go get ur baby some formula! My god.

Ok so lets talk TV. I dont watch tons but I have some faves right now. NCIS is amazing. Last season was awesome and this season so far does not disappoint. It helps that Gibbs is hot (as is Ziva even though shes a chick lol) but really the writers for that show r just incredible. Keep it up NCIS! Then we have Dancing with the "Stars" ack. I hate it but I watch it because Josh loves it. This season I dont have a clear fave. Ones I wanted to hate Im liking and ones I thought I would like I dont so much. So that should be interesting. Glee. My god. At first I wanted to rip my own eyeballs out watching it. Then it grew on me a little. Very little. We missed the first episode of this season but I did see this weeks and it SUCKED ASS! If they dont step it up its coming off my dvr real quick. Outsourced. OMG soooo funnnny! Basically its am American guy running a call center in India. Like that would ever really happen? LMAO! Really though its too damn funny and the fact that its on the same nite as Big Bang Theory gives me a good Thursday nite! Loving RuPauls Drag-U lol and Project Runway and Americas Next Top Model this season as well. American Idol I still havent decided if Im going to watch without Simon. Randy annoys me and I dont love the new judges. Ryan being hot might keep me watching but thats about it. Waiting for So You Think You Can Dance to come back.

Anyway thats the news here! Nothing too exciting. lol. For those reading this my plan is no more than 1 post per day. I have friends with blogs and when they post every 5 mins it drives me nuts. Thats what Facebook status updates r for people! So this one Im going to post since I doubt Ill add to it later but usually Ill just draft it and post them at the end of the nite. Have a good weekend all!

Ok lets try this again

2010-09-30T11:56:00.003-04:00

Trying to figure out how to link this to FB. I think I finally got it!

Edit: Hmmm nope. Didnt work. Well crap!

Edit again: Ok it does work! It just takes a loooooong time for the post to port over to FB. Good enough for me though :)

Gonna try getting back into blogging

2010-09-30T10:49:00.002-04:00

So its been interesting around here lately and I thought I would give blogging a shot again. Of course it took me 2 days to remember where my old blog was but Ive finally found it! lol. Now lets post and see if it still works!

Glasses or no glasses...that is the question...

2009-03-20T10:58:00.002-04:00

Well for awhile now Angelina has been saying her eyes r out of whack. Its not all the time and isnt even every week but shes mentioned it several times and it seems to be getting more and more frequent. She finally has her appt today at 5pm to get her eyes checked for the first time ever. If she has Waynes eyes she stands a decent chance of not needing glasses but if she has my eyes shes screwed totally! Almost everyone in my family has glasses at least for reading and I would still have them myself 24/7 if it werent for fabulous laser eye surgery. She says she wont mind if she needs them (her Cousin Tay has them and looks great!) and is glad to have it checked out but personally I think if she does get glasses its going to be a battle. First shes picky picky picky so I fully intend to spend a fortune. Second Robyn has to have everything that anyone else has so that will be big trouble. Obviously she will have to get over it but still it will be interesting. I guess we'll see in a few hours!

Holy Facebook and ur addictions T, Lettie, Rho, Christie and Diana!

2009-03-10T09:50:00.003-04:00

Ok Facebook has to stop adding new things. I have sooooooo many invites and notifications I cant keep up. Between T, Lettie, Rho, Christie and Diana I might go nuts LMAO! I dont know how u guys keep up with these things. I can barely keep up with just Mafia Wars and Pirates. Youve got eggs and hatching things and hunts and holy cow the list never ends. U all need help with ur addictions!

Now onto my own addictions LMAO! Mafia Wars is awesome. I never get into things like that but I really like it! Im making like $60,000 an hour now which is nothing compared to some of the people Ive seen playing but is still a lot to me. Im doing some serious ass kickin which I love lolol! I even got Wayne playing last nite and although he isnt as easily addicted as I am but Im betting he will be soon!

Pirates I just started only to humor Christie LMAO but its pretty much the same as Mafia. Takes some getting used to the differences but its workin good. When my energy is down on one I can do the other till it builds back up!

As for the Funkeys Im getting better at remembering whats where and who can go to which places thanks to Lettie. Angelina was playing for quite awhile yesterday really getting into it. Robyn just thinks they r cute to carry around and make them into a little family. Josh is still getting over his flu but hes feeling a lot better every day and thank God no one else has it yet!

Wayne started EB yesterday so Im down to working only Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday which really is fine with me. Tax season is slowing down quite a bit (not that it ever really got busy this year) so Im good with only 4 days a week till April 15th when its all said and done. Gives me more time with the kids!

Anyway thats all for me. I gotta pretend to work for awhile LMAO! Till next time!

UB Funkeys r pretty cool!

2009-03-08T13:26:00.002-04:00

Ok so Lettie has been playing these UB Funkeys things with the cousins for quite awhile now. At Christmas time Mom asked me if I thought my brats might like em and I didnt know so she went ahead and got them a starter pack. Well here it is March and I finally got around to hooking it up the other day after having Lettie tell me a little about them at her house. Holy freakin cool hey! Between the two Lettie gave us and the two Mom started us off with we had a good time with em night one. Only problem was the hub (thing u hook to the comp) kept dieing so I had to go get another and return the broken one. No biggie. While there we saw on clearance two more one being a "chat funkey" so we got that and then we got two for Josh and Angelina to have on Robyns bday yesterday bringing us up to 8 funkeys! Each funkey unlocks different games and things and weve already started building our house for em online. Robyn and Angelina r really getting into it and Josh while a little old for it does like the games so its cool. Just another little addiction only good thing is this one doesnt require feeding and its really pretty cheap LMAO!

Still kickin!

2009-03-07T16:20:00.002-05:00

Wow! Cant believe its been this long since Ive been on here! Anyway we r all still kickin. Robyn turns 3 today. I cant believe it! Yesterday she got her ears pierced. We wanted to wait till she asked for it to be done like we did with Angelina and shes been asking a lot so we gave in. She did good and is so brave! Ill post a pic later on. Josh and Angelina r good. Everyone just got over a nasty ass cold - hopefully the last one of the year! Wayne starts Electric Boat tomorrow finally. A nice chunk of $ more and hour and tons more growth available so it will be a good change I think. I had to cut down work to 4 days a week but Im really fine with that. These 50+ hour weeks have been KILLING me! Thank God April 15th is knocking on my door LMAO! New car is great. Its an Outback and I love it. Takes some wear and tear off the Malibu too so its good. Lets see what else? I guess thats it! Ill post some pics later of the birthday girl!

Holy pregnant sea monkey!

2008-10-28T12:09:00.003-04:00

Ok yes I know they r just "shrimp" but holy crap one of our sea monkeys is knocked up and the egg sac is MASSIVE! Its been there for quite a long time though (a good couple weeks) and I cant seem to find anywhere online that says how long they stay pregnant for. I hope she doesnt die before she lays the eggs. The suckish thing is we had some babies about 2 weeks ago and they all died so Im thinking its just too cold for them downstairs now and they need to be moved upstairs. Sucks because there really isnt a place I can put them where Robyn wont touch them so I am going to have to find a shelf I can hang for them. Might look a little out of place but at least it will keep them safe from small curious hands! Anyway thats my exciting news of the day. I would say I'll post pics but yeah no lol.

New cage, bottles, tax school & dogs!

2008-10-10T19:13:00.004-04:00

First of all the dogs r driving me INSANE! Ive been gone since Wednesday morning from 7am till 10pm for tax school and the dogs have a harder time with it than the kids do! Now thats sad LMAO!

School is going ok though. Pat and I have a few issues with others in the class not doing as much as they should be but Al the owner is on top of it. Im just so afraid Im going to end up a baby sitter like last year and I dont want to do that again. I want to do taxes and not just sit around fixing other peoples mistakes! After all the crap last year I really wasnt sure I wanted to do this again but now Im pretty excited about it and hopefully it will go well and turn into a yearly thing that I enjoy.

So last week I got a new cage for the boys. A girl didnt need it anymore so I went and got it and they love it! The pic of it is at the top of this post because I cant get it to move down here LOL! Anyway it sells for between $110 and $130 and I really wouldnt be able to afford one new for a long time so this was a great find. Its pretty easy to clean too. Tonite I managed to pop all the shelves out and scrub them down and get them back in and it really didnt take that long. I love it!

As for bottles Rho got me into this message in a bottle craft swap thing and Im really excited about it! Heres a link to some info:

http://gomakesomething.com/challenges/mib/mib-about/

I think its going to be a lot of fun so if anyone wants to join in let me know!

Well thats all the news here and now Im off! Till next time!

Wow been a lifetime!

2008-10-02T20:48:00.002-04:00

Ok so Ive been doing shitty at keeping this thing going. With all the crap going on here Im surprised I dont have much time though so its not totally my fault. So where to start? Well lets see. Ive been sicker than hell. Wicked cold/cough that just wont quit for 2+weeks now and seems to be coming back again. Josh got it about a week ago and he really was coughing so he went to the Dr and is on antibiotics but hes some better. Angelina just got it 2 days ago and shes not too bad thank God and Robyn only has a slight cold again thank God! Wayne hasnt gotten it at all - lucky bastard! Speaking of Wayne. Hes going for this huge (and by huge I do mean HUGE) job and if he gets it we will be so set its not even funny. He passed all the testing with flying colors and is just waiting for the formal interview which hopefully will be soon so everyone cross ur fingers on that one! What else? The damn animals! Shimmer got sick last week. Out of the blue she was throwing up and unable to keep even water down so off to an emergency vet visit we went. $105 (not bad actually) later we come home with pills for puking, new thyroid pills, iv fluids & needles. She was better the next day so Im thinking it was something in the yard she ate. Cry Baby on the other hand is another issue. Basically hes not himself and Im saying its because his skin is so itchy (he has such sensitive skin). Im heading tomorrow to get him some meds for it and see how it works out. All of the other mutts, cats, bunny, hamster, rats, hermies, fish & sea monkeys r good. On a totally different note the classes Pat and I have to take for out Jackson Hewitt job r moving right along. I was very nervous meeting the owner for the first time. I cut my hair so my tattoo shows and I wasnt sure if he would say anything about that or my nose & eyebrow piercings. So I was almost going to say forget it because I didnt know what he would be like but I didnt. So far he hasnt said anything about them so thats a plus because I really dont want to take them out since they get infected so easily and covering the tat isnt going to happen period. I wasnt so sure he liked me the first few classes (we go twice a week) but as time goes by he seems to be ok with me and hes a really nice guy so I think working with him will be good. The classes r fairly easy but the last chapter really took a lot of work and thinking. It was good though. Pat and I worked together on it at home and we really did learn a lot that we didnt already know from doing taxes before. So yeah I think its going to be good and Im actually excited to get moving doing real returns. Well I guess thats it! I really cant think of anything else fun or exciting so Ill write more later! Ciao!

Holy sea-monkeys!

2008-08-25T11:59:00.002-04:00

So we got Angelina sea-monkeys for her bday and holy crap they have hatched like crazy! I didnt put the whole pouch of eggs in because I wasnt sure I was supposed to and I figured save them so if they dont hatch I can add more since its been chilly here at nite. Well over the past three days Ive been adding eggs slowly and we have a TON of monkeys hatched! I cant believe how many. Kind of amazing really when u think about it that they can just package this shit up and bam they hatch. T's even mate! We also got her the butterfly tree house so we mailed away for the caterpillars and once they come we r going to do that. The only thing is with it getting cold (Im a yankee people it gets cold here early!) chances r we will have to keep them in the house for their entire lifespan which wont me good once they drop dead on us. The kids know they wont live all that long though so hopefully it will be ok. I think it will be neat for them to watch though so I cant wait. Anyway thats my monkey experience so far! Cant wait to see how big the little shits grow LMAO!

My baby is 8!

2008-08-23T13:29:00.002-04:00

Well one of my babies anyway lmao! Yesterday was Angelinas bday. We spent it at the beach clamming and having fun. It was a good day. Then last nite Im sitting here getting ready to come in the house for the nite and in walks my Mom with a pillow and blanket. Im like wtf lmao! She had promised Angelina a sleep over but I totally didnt expect her to do it. Well she did and she even slept till 4:30am which is a miracle for my vampire of a Mother. Today Im making clam chowder and fritters with the clams we got yesterday. Everyones pissed Im not making clear broth and instead Im making red chowder. I like the red a lot and I found the recipe for Rocky Point Chowder House which is an amusement park that used to be open when I was a kid through my late teenage years. Well they had all u can eat chowder and fritters and we used to go there several times a year with my Grandmother and it was just amazing. First u eat and eat and eat till ur ready to pop and then u go puke it up on all the rides lmao. It was a blast! Well the place closed down many years ago and they had a small restaurant that still served their red chowder and fritters but they closed down last year so I decided screw it Im gonna make my own with the recipe I found. So far it tastes pretty damn good so I cant wait to eat! Anyway thats my day and Im off! Till next time!

Magic Eraser!

2008-08-12T09:21:00.002-04:00

Ok I really just have to say I love the Magic Eraser!!! OMG! Seriously if u havent tried one go right now to Walmart and get a package. Ive never used them before but yesterday something in my head said "have Wayne get a Magic Eraser on his way home from work" so he did and WOW! Rarely if ever do things seen on TV actually work "as seen on TV" but I can honestly say these do. Heres my list of pros & cons and things it works on so far.

Pros:

U dont use soap.
Because u dont use soap u dont have to rinse what ur washing.
U just wet the thing then ring it out so u dont have nasty soapy water running down ur arms. Ur virtually using it dry.
No smell. If ur like me and dont like the way a lot of soaps smell this is a major plus.
The kids can use it because u dont have to apply tons of pressure.
Cheap. 2 for $2.22 at Walmart. Seriously thats a good deal hey.
U can use it on just about any surface. If u go online there r TONS of tips and do's but really there r hardly any dont's.
U use it then rinse it in the sink and use it again. Ur not sticking ur hand in a nasty bucket of gross water and washing things with dirty water. Ick!

Cons (I only have 2!):

It doesnt last forever. Really I did a lot of washing with the 2 we bought (Waynes buying 6 more today!) but yeah they dont last as long as I would like. Really though if ur using it just for the random crayon on the wall or nasty hand print on the door its going to last u quite awhile.
Once it starts to crumble THROW IT AWAY! I tried to keep using it with it in pieces. Not smart. it just left pieces on the wall. The good thing is once it dried the pieces easily wiped away.

Things I washed with it (now dont think my house is a piss hole from this list!):

Hand prints up and down the stair way walls/banister. Seriously with 3 kids going up and down the stairs my stair way walls were NASTY! Sure I spot clean it with bleach spray but honestly its a pain in the ass. The ME worked GREAT!
Angelinas drawings on the walls. What can I say? Shes an artist. The ME took away marker, crayon, paint (washable kids paint) and highlighter. Really it left little if any behind.
Mildew in the bathroom. We have one small hand print sized section in our bathroom that has been mildewed for years. Its never come off with anything yet until now. It wiped away with such ease I almost shit my pants. At least I was in the right room in case I had LMAO!
Food! Food! Food! This thing cleaned the micro like nothing before. It looks damn near brand new now. Stuck on shit that I havent been able to get out for years came out like nothing.
Ok picture this. U have a screen door and 6 dogs. The 6 dogs go outside, shit, piss, eat and then they scratch this screen door to be let back in. Imagine how nasty that door gets on the bottom. Do u really think I want to stand there with a bucket and scrub the thing putting my hand in gross dog water to ring out the rag? Um no. Needless to say it doesnt get washed often and was N-A-S-T-Y! Well the ME hit it and I swear I heard the door moan a sigh of relief. It looks amazing!
My grandmothers wooded butcher block. As every knows my Grandfather was a butcher. My Mom was a butcher. All my Uncles were and some still r butchers. So naturally we have several butcher blocks and naturally the edges r just icky. Well the ME takes it all away!
Fridge! OMG! U can see urself in the damn thing its so shiny!

And that completes the list of what Ive used it on so far. I was literally up scrubbing until 2am and I was enjoying myself! Ive never had so much fun cleaning in my life. Now I just have to wait for Wayne to get home from work with the next batch so I can scrub some more! Everyone run! Dont walk! RUN to Walmart and buy several boxes NOW! And for those of u who receive Xmas gifts from me plan on Magic Erasers every year from here on out LMAO!

Long weekend and even longer day ahead today

2008-08-11T08:57:00.003-04:00

OMG what a weekend. Lets see. Heres all the things I/we (me and Mom or me and Wayne) did and how long it took:

Cleaned porch room, Me/Mom 3 hours total - now for anyone who hasnt been to my house this is a HUGE ass room with a cement floor, raw wood beam walls/ceiling and huge huge windows. Its where the dogs eat when they eat outside and its a dirt and dust magnet full of spiders and God knows what else. We clean it like twice a year and thats it because honestly u clean it one day and the next its so dusty again u cant see out the windows. The room is spotless...for now.
Trimmed allllll the briers, poison ivy, tall shit weeds around the yard, Me/Mom 2 1/2 hours total - Keep in mine here I have a very big yard that sits ont he water. The dampness from the pond makes things grow like...well...weeds. Now normally trimming weeds wouldnt take so long but our weed whacker is broken so we had to use these little trimmer things. My Mom wouldnt go neat the poison ivy so I got stuck with that and one chunk of crap I pulled up had a nest of red ants under it. Naturally I didnt realize it until my legs were being bitten and my hands were covered with the damn things. That wasnt fun hey.
Convinced Josh and Angelina to go through all their toys and get rid of some, Me/Wayne damn near 4 hours - Ok so stay with me here. We decided to take and go through all the kids toys and take some to salvation army. We being me and Wayne. The kids agreed at first. All in all we basically have just as many toys as we started out with so I plan to go through them again next weekend and get rid of more but for now they didnt do too bad. They got rid of about 5 bags total.
Painted the gate, Me/Mom 1 hour - Ok seriously this should take like 20 mins max but the gate is a couple years old and has NEVER been painted. Its rough cut wood and seriously it was a bitch to paint. One of us used a big brush and the other used a teenie tiny brush to get all the ridges and hard to reach areas which was insane. That gate will never be painted again as long as I live.
Re-arranged Moms room, Me/Mom 1 1/2 hours - This is nothing new. Even when Mom lived with me she was moving shit around in her room constantly. Since shes moved next door nothing has changed.
Re-arranged Josh and Angelinas Rooms and moved the big TV to our room, Me/Wayne 1 1/2 hours - Really this was nothing just time consuming. When we got our big flat screen TV we had to put the big TV we already had in Joshs room in a corner. Well his TV ended up in the camper on our last trip and is still there so we decided to give him our medium sized TV and to put the big TV in our room. That required moving a dresser that is really Robyns into Angelinas room (Robyn and Angelina will share a room eventually) and moving some of our dressers to make this huge ass TV fit. It wasnt easy but its done. We also had to move the dollhouse which for those who havent seen it is giant and not quite finished out of Angelina room and into the upstairs hall (very harge hall) so I can start working on it again in the fall.
Cleaned sand area, Me/Kids 1/2 hour - Basically I took a huge old tupperware and drilled some holes in the bottom for water to drain and turned that into storage for all the kids sand toys. Threw away some old chewed toys.

Thats the basic list. We did other little things like painting the deck railings (Vin), painting the upstairs hall/trim (Wayne), washing windows (Me), making curtains for Moms room (Pat/Mom), Garden work (Everyone) and so on. Basically no one sat down on Sunday other than to eat, pee and damn near have a heat stroke and Saturday once we started we didnt stop till dark. Now today and tomorrow my goal is the inside of the house which Im off to get started on right now! *sigh*

Vote for Robyn!

2008-08-09T08:47:00.002-04:00

Ok I don't know why we r doing this because last year the winner got over 25,000 votes (Navy kid) but when Josh heard it on the radio he insisted we enter Robyn in the baby contest. So everyone go vote and pass this on to everyone u know and ask them to vote too! This is the link to vote at:
http://q105.fm/PhotoWall.asp?id=42892
And all u have to do is enter the 3 digit # for Robyn which is 056 and ur name and hit submit. U can vote a million times if u want too from now until the 19th! I don't know why but for some reason her pic is showing as just # 56 and not 056 but I know u HAVE to put in the whole 3 numbers so make sure u put 056 and not just 56. For those of u who don't want to go digging through all the pics to see her this is the pic I entered with. Its totally typical Robyn doing what she loves most - hamming it up for the camera and swimming lmao! Thanks everyone!

Enough with the books already!

2008-08-05T09:21:00.002-04:00

Ok seriously this is insane. We used to own a bookstore for several years. During that time we accumulated a LOT of books in this house...damn near 1,000 I would guess. They r a mix of kids books, parenting books, art/craft books, reference books and just plain old good reading books. So last nite I decide Im going to attach about half of our books which currently reside on one very large book case in what used to be our school room but had now become our rabbit/rattie/hamster/hermit crab room. So I go in and I take allll the books off the shelves and dust them off. That took well over an hour. Then I pile them on the love seat, couch and LR floor and attempt to organize them with a 2 yr old throwing them all over the place. Yeah that didnt work. So I decide I can organize them on the shelves and I start having Josh and Angelina carry them in to me in piles. About 2 hours later we were done and sure enough there is some organization. Not as much as I would have liked but at least they r all standing up the way they belong and not thrown all over the freakin house. I told the kids if they touch a single book without me helping them get it Ill be really really mad LOL! I will get them all the books they want but I would at least like them to stay organized for a little while! My next task in that room r the high shelves. They r full of games and old craft supplies I need to look through and see what Im going to use and not use. That cant be done today though. Tomorrow Wayne is taking the morning off to make a dump run so I HAVE to get things together for that. Theres tons of things around this house/yard/Moms house that need to go to the dump and since we only get there once or twice a year this is my only chance. Its now or never as they say! Anyway thats the story on the books. Who wants to make bets on how long they stay organized? LMAO!

Update turns into vent...woops!

2008-08-03T08:46:00.003-04:00

Wow its been awhile since I really did a full out update! Ok lets see. Basically everything is fine here. Kids r good. Starting school tomorrow. They arent real thrilled with that but they will live! I want to get started early so we can do some review before moving ahead and maybe take a long vacation in the winter. We did that last year too and it helped especially Angelina but Josh liked it too. Ive had a brutal cold for a few days that just doesnt seem to want to go away. Sucks especially when its so hot! Waynes fine. He got that job working 6pm-3am so thats a major plus. His orientation is on Tuesday morn and as long as that goes ok and he passes his lift test which he should hes set to start Wednesday nite. The PO claims the chick thats leaving is leaving by Sept 1st and if she really does than that route becomes Waynes. He will probably stay with the nite job for a few weeks after that just to catch up bills and then he will most likely either leave there and do only the PO or stay there part time. The main goal is still full time at the PO though so cross everything people! Im not doing so hot saving for a laptop! Bills just keep adding on and gas money is sick here so yeah. I did find a REALLY nice new 17 inch Dell with number pad for $898 so thats my goal. It will be great for at home plus with the Jackson Hewitt job Im taking it will be much easier doing my classes online on a laptop. Hopefully in a few weeks I can get it. In the meantime though this old rellic desktop is working quite well! I can even get into Pogo most times to do my badges! The only problem is Angelina keeps stealing the comp to play Pogo too. Little brat is faster than I am at a lot of the games LOL! Josh isnt into online games. Hes a Wii boy. Loves the Wii. I keep telling them that once we start school the games r off during the day and they r only playing at nite/weekends and they both just roll their eyes lol. Should be fun! Lets see what else? Critters r all fine. Weve had a weird summer. No calls for the dog warden at all that we know of! He hasnt come by even once. Of course we already won the court case so maybe the moron neighbor has called and the warden just didnt come but I dont think so. Its been quiet. Weird. The dogs r actually being better this summer though with the boats. They r 2 and I think they r finally starting to realize they live on the freakin water and the boats r here to stay lol. Idiots! Ratties/bunny/hamster/cats r all doing good. I moved all the girls together into the huge ass Martins cage. They actually got along great right off the start. I was afraid for the two hairless ones Peach and Mama Peach but even they r good to go. That left the other large cage open for the boys so they got moved in there and OMG they r THRILLED! They love the wheel. They have probably 3x the room theyve had since they were born. Really this cage is awesome for them. Id love to get them a big Martins later on for the 7 of them but really there is no rush. This cage has more than enough room for them even when they r full grown so once money is flowing again the way it should be and bills r paid then they can get another cage. For now they r good to go though! So about that vacation in the winter. The ratties r the only real issue. My Mom wont feed them which is just stupid. Throw some food in and fill their water how hard is that? Not very. Which means I have to convince Lettie to come do it since she likes the rats and knows what to do. Wayne and I both have cabin fever though big time and T didnt help. She posted up a bunch of pics from when we were out there in Nov. I cant believe how small Robyn was in those pics! 9 months doesnt seem like such a long time but looking at those pics it really is. So yeah I want another Vegas trip soon! Robyn talks to T every single day on the phone but thats not the same as seeing her ya know? Hopefully we can save up some money and get out there in the winter and see T, Terry, Donna and Sheri. Same with Phillip and Renay. I hate going so long between visits to them! It wasnt so bad because we were there in Nov too which was just an awesome and relaxing time with them and they were planing to come up here or us go there in the summer but that didnt happen so of course I miss them. They r our first real mutual friends. Like friends we both love and enjoy being with. Usually there is one person in a couple that u just cant stand lolol but with them we both love them both so it sucks them being so far away. I hope someday they will move up here but in the meantime I just want to go visit more often and I have to call them more! I dont know why but I just really dont talk to anyone on the phone much anymore. I talk to T everyday many times a day lol and Lettie usually at least 5 times a week or more. Rho I talk to a lot online and probably a couple times a week when things arent crazy. Amy, Phillip & Renay though I never talk to! I have to stop that and start calling more! And I want to go see Rho! We havent known each other as long but I really would like to visit her soon. We have so much in common and hit it off right from day one. Shes awesome and Im really glad we met. And Diana! Ive known Diana for as long as Ive known T and Ive never seen her in person! It would be awesome to finally take that trip up to MI and go to where Wayne grew up if we could get there without his mother trying to gun me down (seriously that battle needs to just end but how? - its just insane and stupid and really quite sad that the kids have only met one member of their fathers family) and see Diana at the same time. It sucks having most of ur friends clear across the country damnit! ANYWAY somehow this turned into a vent lmao so Im done! I just really need a vacation damnit! Ok well Im off. The next few weeks I wont be around much. We have insurance people coming to inspect both houses on Aug 13th. We have TONS to do around here before then so my online time is going to be very little between that and starting school. I try to get on when I can though. Have a good weekend all!

Some freakin tired!

2008-08-02T10:14:00.002-04:00

OMG am I tired. Mom had a new book she had to go put out at midnite in 3 stores last nite so I went with her to keep her awake. Didnt get home till 3:30am then got about 3 hours sleep. Im a walking zombie hey! I need a huge ass vat of coffee and a major nap. Yeah like thats gonna happen!

Another weeked came and went

2008-07-28T19:52:00.003-04:00

Well its been an interesting weekend! My little (not "little little" but little enough lol) cousin Tay slept over Saturday AND Sunday nites. Saturday nite we swam and played the Wii and watched movies. Then Sunday she asked to stay again but we didnt get hardly any outside time in because we had some pretty good t-storms and heavy rain so it was another movie and Wii day. Shes a pretty good bowler! Almost got her pro ball in just 2 days! Today we got outside pretty early since the sun was finally out. Anyway it was fun and all the brats were pretty good and even the dogs were good. They spent Saturday nite with Pat/Mom and Sunday I let them come home one at a time to see if they would like Tay. They loved her! Shim licked her to death this morning lol and even fat boy Glutton was pushing all up on her for the lovin. I havent let her sleep over much the past year or so because I didnt know if they would like it but now I know that isnt a problem! And she loves the rats! The boys came out a bunch of times and she held and kissed em up and down. I tried to stash a few in her bag and send em home with her but she caught me lmao! Anyway that was our weekend!

Anyone up for a charlie horse?

2008-07-26T12:09:00.002-04:00

So Wayne twisted his ankle a few days ago and instead of going to the Dr to have it looked at he decided to work 12 hours a day on it. Well Thursday when we went to go bowling he couldn't even walk. He bowled but he couldn't tie the shoe and barely hit a single pin. We came home and he iced it and yesterday when he got up to go to work he couldn't walk at all. So hes standing at the foot of the bed with me sitting behind him and he says "Shit! If I move even an inch I'm going to get a wicked Charlie horse in the top of my damn leg! I can feel it!" so me being the bitch that I am took my hand and pretended I was going to shove a finger up his ass LMAO! He jumped a MILE! Worked that Charlie horse out real fast! Lolol! Anyway we went to the hosp and the ankle has a fracture but it looks like his healed somewhat so they arent sure when he got it. They r having another Dr look at the xrays today and then they will call and tell him if he has to go back next week and they will decide if they need to rebrake it and set it or what. For now hes on crutches and has an air cast. Joy! He went to do mail today. Not sure how hes driving since its his left foot but he already took yesterday off so he didn't want to lose another days pay. Then hes stopping an picking up my little cousin Tay and she and him r going to go grocery shopping and then shes spending the nite. We r gonna watch movies and do makeovers and swim swim swim.Should be fun! She hasnt slept over in quite awhile and the kids LOVE it when she does so they r even helping me CLEAN! That's a shocker! Speaking of cleaning I gotta get to it. Have a good weekend all!

Comp issues at their best

2008-07-24T11:53:00.002-04:00

Well its finally happened. Im without a laptop :( damn thing. Its been bad. CD drive wont read/record, it wont shut down/reboot, its sooooo slowwww - basically its just crap. So I said screw this and I took it back to where I got it. Im not going to keep paying payments on something I can barely use! Im going to put aside $10 a day until I have enough money to buy a new one. I can get the same exact comp only with more memory/faster for $800 with NO payments! Until then Im using the crappy old desktop. Its actually working fairly well with the exception of being a tad slow. I might upgrade the memory if Im brave enough to open this old thing up. We'll see. Anyway thats the news here! Ill still be online just Ill be doing it a little slower for awhile lol!

And the fun continues

2008-07-15T11:26:00.002-04:00

Well Vins jeep is busted. I guess the break line went so now Pat has nothing to drive. Shes having Jim get her a car today. Im just waiting to hear the "She breaks my car then gets a new one!" bullshit from Vin. I know its coming. Anyone want to take bets? Anyway Wayne took her to work at 4:30am this morning because he had to go to work at 5am when shes not supposed to be to work till 9am. Hopefully tomorrow she will have a car and no one will have to take her anywhere. Im going out tonite and deliver Avon catalogs while its not raining for a change. Hopefully Ill get some decent orders. Yesterday the kids decided to lock the bathroom door with no one in there. That was a fun half an hour trying to bust my way through the knob. YEEHAA! Anyway thats all the news here so far today! Im off to do laundry and try being constructive!

Its always something

2008-07-14T15:56:00.001-04:00

Pat just called. Shes broke down with Vins jeep. Mom went to get her. Then Vin called having a fit because she has her cell phone turned off and hes heading up there to get the keys from her and cant get a hold of her. Another fun filled day! More to come later...

Limeaid, sweet tea, cookies & popcorn for sale!

2008-07-11T21:02:00.001-04:00

Well after years of nagging Angelina is finally going to have her stand tomorrow in the yard. We dont have any lemons but we do have limes so we r going with limeade, chocolate chip cookies, sweet tea and popcorn! Anyone hungry?

Back with Avon!

2008-07-09T09:59:00.002-04:00

Well I decided to give Avon another shot. Basically because I ran out of body soap and couldnt find anything else I really liked as much as the Avon Naturals. So I decided to sign Mom up too that way I can make more commission and maybe if I can sign a few people up under her I can do even better than before. We'll see! The key is not ordering things to sell at shows and stuff. Been there...done that...doesnt work here. Im sticking with catalog dropping and hopefully that will bring in some more regular customers. Really I would be happy if I had even enough regular customers to cover my cost of gas and catalogs. See in the city where there r more people per mile Avon isnt as hard to sell. Here in the woods where delivering catalogs takes 3 hours and 100 miles on gas thats $4.50 a gallon and u use more with the stop and go driving its not as easy to make back ur cost. We'll see how it goes though. Im going to do my couple regular customers who ordered fairly often and then the one road I always did and had a couple orders and then if I have books left Ill drop them to some new places. Hopefully it will work out! Oh an I got Mom a webpage. I figure that way its less I have to put through in her name to keep her active if I get a few orders off the webpage. Plus its still free if one person orders for 10 more weeks. After that if they make it where I have to pay again Ill kill it probably. So thats the news! Wish me luck everyone!

Chokin on a jello square...not fun

2008-07-07T20:18:00.002-04:00

OMG that was not a fun experience hey. I finally managed to make jello squares right so they actually came out of the pan which made me quite happy. So I pop one in my mouth and next thing I know Im pukin in the sink. Damn thing slipped right down my windpipe. I really thought this is it. Im going to die over a fucking jello square! Josh is next to me screamin to Wayne. Angelinas a lunatic. Waynes asking me if Im gonna make it. Holy crap. So yeah not at all fun but worth it since the kids finally got a jello square they could hold and eat the right way which will probably be the last time since I aint making them again anytime soon!

Remember when cereal came with a toy? Coupons were printed on the inside of packages?

2008-07-02T10:11:00.003-04:00

Where did those days go? Cereal used to come with a toy. And not just certain cereals either really when u think about it damn near all of them did! Even when Josh was little most cereals still came with a toy. Then by the time Angelina was born once in awhile u would find a toy but not very often. Now its RARE that u find one! Sure u can save up 500 proofs of purchase and send them to the company along with $29.99 shipping & handling to occasionally get ur "free toy" but even thats not very often these days. WTFS up with the cheap ass cereal companies? Yeah I get that everything costs more to make now a days but really come on. With all they spend on tv ads and coupon printing just to make it so us parents have to buy the name brand cereals our kids drool over *when was the last time u saw WalMart brand cereal advertised on tv hey* they could atleast throw in a damn toy! Another thing that annoys me is coupons on the inside of packages. Remember when soup cans had coupons printed on the inside of their labels? Boxes had coupons printed in side? My Grandmother used to have a COLLECTION of these coupons! She had a big envelope she kept them in and she would always have a couple to use when she went shopping. Most people dont even bother looking anymore because they never find any! Is it so hard to throw a 50 cent coupon into a box here and there? Really the majority of people wont even use em so it wont cost the company that much but shit give em to those of us who actually still look from time to time! Im 34 years old. I shouldnt be sitting here like an old lady saying "Remember back when I clipped coupons from soup cans?" WTF! My Mom saying that ok. Maybe. Not that she ever clipped coupons but still. But me? No! Give me my coupons and free toys damnit! Ok I need coffee.

Conquered the pool...well kinda

2008-06-30T11:32:00.003-04:00

After several days of trying to figure out how the hell we were gonna get in the pool we finally worked it out! Vin (YES VIN! The uncle I want to kill 90% of the time!) had a brilliant idea because he was just as afraid of the ladder as the rest of us lol. We built these wooden stairs and put them next to the pool ladder. The trick is u climb the stairs and then swing over and step onto the pool ladder and BAM ur in the pool. Its actually not that hard to do! It kills my knee but once Im in its all good and getting out is actually easier than getting in. Niceeee! The kids and I spend about an hour in yesterday and probably half an hour the day before. Of course Mom has to be a baby and not even try to do it but thats her problem. If she gets hot enough she can go in the pond!

Update on the babies & the Mamas

2008-06-28T11:42:00.004-04:00

Nigel has officially made it to 5 weeks old! YEAH NIGEL! Im so so glad he beat the odds and fought his way through whatever it was that ended his baby sisters lives. Hes made me so proud! All of the other little ones turn 5 weeks on Monday and they r doing great too the crazy little crackheads LMAO! I cant believe how big they r getting and how active they r. They went from sleeping the day away before opening their eyes to climbing the cage bars and eating real food like little piggies basically over nite. Its just nuts! And they all totally have their own personalities. The girst r by far more temper mental and the boys r just goofy but all in all every single one of them is VERY loving and friendly and just cant get enough of being the center of attention lol. Oh and one is a dumbo! I dont know where he came from lol but one of the little guys is a dumbo. I didnt even realize it till the other day when I saw him in the hammock laying with his sister and I was like hang on a sec here something aint right lmao! As for their names heres what weve come up with:

Boys:
Nigel = Nigel obviously lol the only Siamese in the lot
Felix = PEW with green spot on his tail (we have to mark the PEWS to tell them apart!)
Arthur = Black and white semi-hooded
Spike = PEW with red spot on his tail and spiky hair
Oliver = PEW with blue spot on his tail
Scrat = Black and white capped with teenie white stripe down head
OddBall = Black and white capped dumbo

Girls:
Milan = Black and white capped with thick white stripe down head
Tila = Black and white semi-hooded

Really they r all just so damn cute its not even funny! Ill try to get pics of them all tonite sometime! The plan is to separate them on Monday when the others all turn 5 weeks. Its kind of sad having to separate them and take the boys away from Mama and their sisters but it HAS to be done. As for Salem and Angel they r both doing really well. Angel is still not letting me hold her but hopefully once shes in the Martins cage and can come to me for petting she will come around just like Fluff and the Vodka Sisters did. Salem seems to be feeling much better and hasnt had any more breathing problems since that one very scary nite thank God! So thats the news here on the baby front. Ill try to get pics later and post them tonite! Till then!

Bolwing!

2008-06-27T10:14:00.002-04:00

Last week the new leagues at blowing started so we joined a family bowling league. I couldnt go because I was at the hosp with Robyn so it was just Wayne, Josh and Angelina for week 1. Since Robyns feeling MUCH better I decided to go this week and leave her home with Mom/Pat. OMG it was so much fun! Wayne was a little stressed with the fact that Angelina cant throw the ball that hard so it got kicked back a couple times but then they reset the lane and it stopped doing it so all was fine. Well that and I told Angelina to think about throwing a watermelon at Vins head and throw it real hard LMAO so she was doing MUCH better after that! Josh wasnt totally focused so his game was off but he did pretty good. Wayne the ass got a bunch of strikes and I actually got some myself which shocked the shit outta him and me both! My only problem was the only balls I had to pick from were either 8lb or 14lb and I needed like a 12lb. The holes in the 8lb were too small and the 14lb was pretty damn heavy and I kept droppin it. So I rotated and used both. Still though I did damn good for only having bowled once before in my life like 6 years ago. So yeah it was interesting and believe it or not I cant wait to go back!

Holy ladder bat man!

2008-06-26T13:19:00.002-04:00

Ok so the pool was FINALLY full yesterday so we could get in it and mix all the tree gunk around to get it clean. YEAH! So here I go with my fat ass up the ladder...or not. I got up 1 step. Ok that was easy. Now lets keep in mind I only have 1 "decent" knee and one completely blown knee. 2nd step? Um no. Couldnt do it. Down I come. Gotta try again. Up 1 step. Good. Up 2 steps with Wayne behind me pushing my ass...the most action hes seen lately BTW. Great! Lets go for 3. Up 3! YEAH! Time for the 4th and final step...here we go...I can do this...shit I cant do this! I literally think I threw up a little in my mouth. Back down I come. So now Wayne gets in and starts cleaning the pool. Now Im really pissed that hes in there and Im standing outside watching. Really want to get in now just so I can drown his ass. So I have him hold the ladder from the inside of the pool. Maybe that will help. Here we go again. Up 1. Up 2. Up 3. YES! Shall we go for 4? Nope. Not gonna happen. DAMNIT! In the house I go to get the computer to look up ladders. Holy crap do they cost a fortune. I aint got that kind of money! Lets try CraigsList. YEAH! I found 1! Its 2 hours away and looks like 1 I could use. But its $150. Hmmm. Add that to all the gas its gonna take gettin there and thats damn near $200. Again I dont really have that kind of money. So I email the man selling it. Nice man btw. Its still for sale! YEAH! But will he budge on price? He says yes! Of course I have no idea by how much. So now I gotta think about it and decide if I can swing it on a mortgage week with Wayne STILL waiting for his $600 travel money from the post office. Shit. Hopefully I can figure something out and hopefully it will still be for sale when I do because I REALLY want to go in that damn pool!

Productive days r rare but when they happen its good!

2008-06-22T23:23:00.003-04:00

We dont have many truly productive days in this crazy ass house. Really its very rare when we do and today was one of those rare days. Waynes been wanting to move the desktop comp back out into the LR but the rat cage was on the desk so we couldnt. Ive been wanting to move the rats into the room with Pete but Wayne hasnt really wanted to deal with it. So today we decided to go for it and we did. The girls 2 big cages r now sitting nicely in the room with Pete and even Ash the hamster made the move in there. The hermies r in there and in perfect position for Angelina to take care of them (they r her responsibility) and everyone seems quite content. The only ones still in the LR r Angel and the babies but next week she and the 2 girl babies need to be separated from the boy babies so they will all be making the move very soon too. The comp is set up and working on the desk (though its soooo slowwww) and the printer/fax/copier is set up next to the desk. The walls all got scrubbed and cleaned (Wayne loved that LMAO) so its all nice! I think it will be good. The ratties arent stuck next to this loud ass TV anymore and Wayne has the comp to use. All is right with the world...well atleast for now LOL!

Mice like Ghost Hunters!

2008-06-22T11:03:00.002-04:00

This is really weird. Last week we were watching Ghost Hunters (Im sorry but that show should be on more than once a week hey!) and all of a sudden I look over and there is a freakin mouse climbing up my fireplace stones! I scream. He runs. Wayne sets a live trap. 2 days later Im home alone and he gets trapped. I was afraid he was going to chew a foot off or die of dehydration in the trap and since I actually do care which is why I set a live trap and not a snap ur head type trap I mustered up the bravery to touch the trap and I took him out and let him go in the woods. Ok great! Hes gone! Whoohoo! Um no. 2 nites ago the little shit is back and again while we r watching Ghost Hunters! Now Ill give him that hes cute as hell and he has great taste in TV but he simply cannot stay in my house! So yet another live trap set and we havent seen him again since that nite. No sign of him dead anywhere either so clearly the cats arent interested. This time when we catch him hes outta here. Im taking him to the next town and letting him go. I get that mice dont usually join another colony so this might mean he lives alone for the rest of his life but its better than my cats eating him alive right? Right. Hes just gonna have to find himself a nice little wife and make his own colony and please please dont bring them back to my fireplace!

New day...New blog!

2008-06-21T12:43:00.000-04:00

Ok so heres the deal. As much as I like wordpress.com its a very boring site. They only have a handful of layouts and backgrounds to pick from and if u want to use anything custom or handmade u have to pay and I dont really have the time to sit and make layouts. So I was looking at Rhos blog *Hi Rho!* and I saw that u can seach free layouts like u can with MySpace and use them! WOOHOO! Everyone knows Im a layout whore so this works for me! LOL! Anyway Ive copied all of my wordpress posts over to here but not the pics because Im planning to make a page just for pics soon. So everyone please update ur bookmarks and take wordpress out and add in this blog!

Yeah it worked!

2008-06-21T12:42:00.001-04:00

Looks like this is the start of a beautiful relationship LOL!

And on that note Im off to go work in the garden! Until later!

Testing from cell

2008-06-21T12:37:00.000-04:00

Well let's see if this works. This will determine my love or hate for blogspot!

Wow this is AWESOME!

2008-06-21T12:26:00.002-04:00

I have to say this is so much nicer than wordpress.com! Now that I didnt like wordpress. Really it was very user friendly and the setup was nice but there r a few issues there that I just couldnt get past. One is the fact that they only have a handful of layouts u can use for free. If u want to make ur own or even upload new ones u have to pay. What a buncha bull! Here u can search layouts and change them anytime u want just like u can with MySpace which I LOVE! Other good features here r u can add a lot more content. Sure u can add links and such at wordpress but again unless u pay its very basic and Im just not gonna pay! I have 3 kids. I cant afford to pay for things like that! So what if I sound cheap. Its called being frugal damnit! LMAO! Anyway I really like it here and those of u who dont blog better get to it! It really is a great stress reliever and we all know what happens if u keep emotions and feelings bottled up. U go insane!!! LOL!

Been a loooong time!

2008-06-20T21:33:00.000-04:00

Wow so much has been going on! I dont even know where to start. Ok lets start with the kids. Robyn has been very sick for 8 days now. 102+ fevers, barely able to stay awake long enough to eat, rash on her face. It hasnt been fun. Took her to the hosp on Monday and they ran some blood tests and did a chest xray which were all good. So they sent us home thinking it was only a virus. Now keep in mind I told them she had a tick on her a few weeks ago but for whatever reason they decided not to test her for lyme. So ok since Monday the rash shows up and fever just wont quit so last nite I said enough is enough we need answers and we need them NOW so back to the hosp we went. Pat came with us because Josh and Angelinas bowling league (we’ll talk more about that in a bit) started last nite. So we get there and they check her in and the Dr was such a dick. He acted like he couldnt see a rash and like I was just a worried Mom but to humor me he finally ordered a lyme test and some other tests. In comes the nurse to do a catheter (yeah that is NOT fun on a 2 yr old) and shes like “Wow she has a rash!” um no! Ya think? So she calls the Dr out on it and he finally “sees” it. So urine test and 9 vials of blood and we wait. Urine comes back fine. Blood looks ok but the lyme takes 24 hours for the first one and then 2 WEEKS for the second. They give her a huge ass shot of antibiotics in her leg to fight off whatever it is and on our way we go with no more answers than we had when we got there. Finally this afternoon I call to get the lyme result and its POSITIVE! I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG WITH MY KID! I mean seriously. I know my kids. So yes lyme is bad but atleast we know what she has and we can treat it. Shes on 28 days of antibiotics now and motrin for fever and muscle pain and hopefully in less than a week she will be starting to feel better. Poor baby. Now all 3 kids have had lyme. Damn ticks! Ok so now bowling! The plan was we were going to go me and Angelina as team 1 and Wayne and Josh as team 2 but since I was at the hosp they just teamed up the 3 of them. They had a blast and cant wait to go back next week! Hopefully Robyn will feel better so I can go too. They didnt really get any talking time with other kids because Wayne said it was so out of control but I still think it will be good for them and I told them if they really like it and stick with it I will buy them their own balls, bags and shoes when its over in 10 weeks! Ebay here we come LMAO! Lets see what else havent I updated on. Oh Salem and the babies. Ok this is going to be a long one. Salem was doing great with Nigel, Arthur and Felix and then all of a sudden about a week ago 2am Wayne and I wake up to Salem gasping for air. She was in respiratory distress and was basically dieing. Called T and Donna and made a quick video of Salem so they could see what was going on and theyhad me give her a couple shots of albuteral with the inhaler. It took about 2 hours but finally she was breathing better and fell asleep with her boys but we knew she was so sick she had to be separated from them so she could get antibiotics and get better. So now we had Salem away from the boys and Im sitting here trying to get them to bottle feed which just wasnt working so what do we do? Finally Wayne said ok lets try to find a Mama so we called the guy who we got Felix and Arthur from and he agreed to give us their Mama BUT we had to take her other 6 babies with her which we did. Anyway now a week later the babies r all doing GREAT and Salem is feeling much better. The new Mamas name is Angel and shes very scared but shes a really great Mama. Including Felix, Arthur and Nigel we have 7 boys and 2 girls! The plan is to keep the 3 boys and the 2 girls and find a home for the other 4 boys. *keep in mind I said “plan” which means it could change at any time lmao!* Anyway thats all the news here and Im going to eat dinner and watch Ghost Hunters I didnt get to see Wednesday! Till later folks!

Very very pissed off - beware

2008-06-11T21:59:00.000-04:00

Ill warn everyone right now if u want all pink fluffy happy talk I suggest u close this page right now because theres no holding back on this one!
I want to fucking kill Vin right now. I think if he wasnt on the other side of the gate I probably would have. He thinks he runs the world and is so fucking smart when in reality he can barely spell a 3 letter word and cant add more than 10+10. Heres Wayne in 90 degree heat shoveling sand to level out where the pool is going to go. Naturally Vin being the asshole that he is he has to sit and get involved where he doesnt belong. Did he pay for it? Nope. Does he own the fucking houses? Nope. He owns NOTHING! Calling everyone “stupid” and “why r u all so fucking dumb” and “I have to teach u everything” blah blah blah screaming like a fucking lunatic. Finally I had enough and I totally went off on the fucker. Ive had it. Im taking the pool back and not even setting it up. Ill take the kids to the fucking ocean 7 days a week just so I dont have to be near that piece of shit asshole. Honestly I think if he comes near me right now Ill be in jail. Now I know why my Grandmother stayed as far away from him as she could. Kinda hard for me when he lives nextdoor.

A/C, sand, pools, Georgia, birthdays - blah blah blah

2008-06-11T14:23:00.000-04:00

Wow I dont know about everyone else but the heat these past few days has been killing me! My body isnt built for this shit! Im a Connecticut Yankee born and raised. I dont do 95+ temps hey! So the day before yesterday Wayne went hunting for an a/c. 12 years weve lived in this house without an a/c and I aint doing it anymore! So he went to Walmart but all they had were 5050btu ones hardly big enough to cool my bathroom never mind the entire downstairs! He brought it home anyway and we put it in the living room but while it did cool it down a little it just didnt do the trick. Yesterday I started calling around and found a 12000btu one so I went and got that and OMG what a difference! I actually had to turn it OFF last nite at one point! So the little 5050btu one is going to go upstairs in the hall so maybe it will help keep it cooler up there and keep this cool air from being wasted by going up there. We r all just sleeping downstairs for now its so hot up there. I just cant imagine the kids sleeping up there. Atleast its cooler in here and I dont have to worry about the kids and dogs and other critters having heat strokes! Thats what I was really afraid of. I was sick feeling myself and barely ate for two days and the kids get even sicker than I do when its hot. When Josh was a baby we used to have to go to our bookstore with him to cool off because he would throw up. So yeah this is much nicer now thats for sure! Last week we went and got one of those 4 foot x 15 foot metal pools from Walmart. We used to have one a little bigger when I was a kid but living on the pond really we didnt need it when I grew up. Now though with the kids and with the pond as nasty as its been lately we really needed something bigger than the 2 foot blow up one weve had for the past few summers lol. So we got the thing home and then we had to order sand to put under it because the ground isnt level at all and the yard has so many rocks. Well the sand finally came yesterday morning but it was so damn hot no one wanted to work on the pool. Hopefully tonite Wayne can atleast get the sand moved to where it has to go so we can have it up and filled by the weekend when mom comes home from Georgia. She left this morning for a work trip and comes back late Friday nite so the kids wont see her till Saturday. Well Im officially another year older BUT Im still not as old as Wayne LOL! Speaking of Wayne I almost killed him yesterday! He went and got strawberries so I could make shortcake for my bday. Well when I started cutting them they were so rotten there were fruit flies coming out of them! OMG I was so pissed. $15 worth of berries in the trash can. Atleast I got my tattoo though so that makes up for it lol and Pat stopped and got an emergency cake at BigY which was actually a decent cake for a change! Mom got me this really nice grave rubbing (rubbing not robbing people! RUBBING!) kit which is cool and Im definitely taking it with me to Salem next time I go and T ordered me the Ghost Hunters book Ive been searching for and it actually came BEFORE my bday! 5 years weve known each other and this is the first time either of us has gotten a gift on time LMAO! Of course she forgot to tell me happy bday yesterday till like 3pm so I have to kick her ass for that but the book helped ease the pain LOL! Well thats about it! Im off to bask in my a/c and I think the kids and I r gonna make some frozen dog treats today! Until next time!

Ahh how I love online groups!

2008-06-10T02:15:00.000-04:00

So yeah ok it was an interesting day. As most people know T and I have a Yahoo group for people who own small/exotic animals. There r only a handful of members and we r all pretty close and the group has been around for over a year. We all pretty much talk on the phone and all that and most of us have known each other for years. Well we had these two girls in there. One has been in for awhile and the other is pretty new. Today shit hit the fan. All of the members have expressed concerns about these two girls and their animal ethics over the past few days and even weeks. Long story short there were a lot of questions/issues and there just was no way to deal with these issues in a way that would make everyone happy other than removing these two people from the group. Do I enjoy kicking people out? No believe it or not I dont. But T and I discussed it and neither of us want to relive the dramas of the past so we felt it had to be done and so we did it. She was at work so I did it and I ended up taking the blame not by any fault of T’s but because these two girls apparently feel they need to lash out at someone and Im that someone. Ive offered to help them with their animal care in the future if they need it. I dont hate either of them. Really I dont. But I had to act as an owner and do what the group needed me to do. They apparently dont understand that and I really do feel for them. Honestly I do. They need to realize though that I have to do what I have to do. That said Im not answering anymore of their emails. I just cant keep going around and around with them like this. If they want help in the future I will be glad to help them but I just cant keep banging my head against the brick wall they r putting up. And for the record if either of u r reading this Im not doing this as an attack. Im doing it for my own venting/sanity and I hope u believe that. I truly do wish u both the best of luck.

Vent - beware!

2008-06-09T12:55:00.000-04:00

So ok Im going to try going about this in the nicest way possible and without mentioning any names. Its not going to be easy but here we go kiddies and enjoy the ride! WTF is up with people who feel that just because someone they know has something they have to have the same thing? I mean really. Ive known people who really didnt want a new car until their friend got one and then they had to rush out and get one bigger and better than the one their friend just got. They dont think about the fact that they really cant afford the new car or need the new car. All they think about is how they can 1-up their friend. Or a new bird. Friend gets a new bird and BAM u have to go get a new bird. U have no room for a new bird and u really dont have the money for vet care for a new bird and have no idea how to care properly for this bird but because someone u know got one then u have to get one too. I just dont get it! I mean Im all for trying new things and sure sometimes u have to get the idea/inspiration somewhere but people please think long and hard before just jumping into shit! It isnt fair to the finance company who gave u that new car only to find out u cant afford it or to that bird u promised to give a good home to for u to decide ur “allergic” or “its mean” or u “dont have time for it” or “vet care costs a fortune” blah blah blah. There r enough cars in repo and enough birds in shelters already. Enough said!

Arthur has EYES!

2008-06-08T20:52:00.000-04:00

OMG! I went and checked on the boys and all of a sudden Arthur comes racing out of the house and is LOOKING at me! I almost crapped my pants LMAO! He has the littlest black eyes I have ever seen but really for day 1 they r open quite wide! I kissed his little belly and he actually looked at me. How freakin cute is that hey?! Felix looks like his might open tomorrow. I see maybe teenie slits starting. Nigel I dont see anything yet and hes 2 days older! I expected his to be open first but nope. Hopefully soon! Ill take some pics later when I clean Salems cage!

My Bday gift from Wayne!

2008-06-08T14:42:00.000-04:00

Ok this post needs a disclaimer just like the rat ones do! Wow I seem to be doing this a lot LOL so here goes!
*Anyone who doesnt like piercings or tattoos thats fine. Really I know they r not for everyone and I know getting my nose and eyebrow pierced were a shocker for a lot of people. Its my body though and if I want to get a couple holes in it here and there and some color added well damnit Im gonna do it! Im not asking u to do it to urs so dont ask me NOT to do it to mine!*
Ok now that we have that out of the way LOL Wayne has known Ive wanted to have a tattoo for a long time. I wanted a hummingbird because it was my grandmothers favorite bird and mine as well and the kids initials (RO = Robyn (yes she gets two letters just to make it look better LOL) J = Joshua A= Angelina) which is also the name of my business. Ive debated for years and just never want to spend the money. Well Wayne decided he wanted to go find out how much his tattoo (also ROJA with a guitar) would cost so we went to the tattoo place Flats in Groton, CT where I had my piercings done to get a quote. Well about 20 mins later I was sitting in the chair having my tattoo done for my bday LOL! No one in the family other than Lettie knows yet so Im just waiting for the screaming LMAO! Anyway heres a pic! Its on the back of my neck and even though the pic looks crooked its actually straight. Its just the way I was standing!

Video of the boys!

2008-06-06T21:53:00.000-04:00

Heres a short video I took today of Nigel, Arthur and Felix! Such cute little guys and holy active! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx3PD_g3cm4

Update on Salem and the babies

2008-06-05T19:48:00.000-04:00

*Let me remind those of u who r haters once again to please keep ur opinions to urselves*
Well a lot has changed in the few days since I last updated on Salem and her babies. The day before yesterday we ended up losing Isabel. She was such a fighter and tried so hard to make it but unfortunately she just couldnt fight any longer and had to cross the bridge with her sisters. Salem was very upset and wouldnt put little Nigel down. She was just walking around in circles carrying him and was so depressed and sad looking. So Wayne and I decided since hes her last baby left he needed a brother or two! We called a place in Warwick that breeds ratties and they had 8 day old babies and agreed to let us take 2 boys for Salem to have as new new sons and for Nigel to have as brothers! They r only two days younger than he is which is perfect and so far they r getting along wonderfully! Salem took to them instantly and is doing such a great job with them and with Nigel. Shes not nearly as depressed as she was and shes totally taken them in as if they r her own babies but really how could she resist? They r so damn cute! Arthur is a black and white hooded and Felix is either a PEW or a Himi. We arent sure yet. His Mama was a Himi but he looks more PEW so we will just have to wait a few weeks till his color comes in! Ill post pics of them soon so everyone can see!

New washer & dryer!

2008-06-05T14:57:00.000-04:00

OMG FINALLY!!! We went and picked out a new washer and dryer last nite and they will be here on Saturday. Its gonna be so nice to do laundry without having to worry about them breaking. We got a good deal too. They knocked off about $150 for the fact that I still have a dryer that does work (sometimes LMAO!) so they r going to take that one with them and fix it and sell it. Hey fine with me! They can have it! Maybe someone else can get some life outta the thing! Its just amazing how fast we go through household appliances. I mean seriously we r lucky to get a year maybe a year and a half tops out of washing machines. I think I just over load them but with 3 kids and a husband who gets filthy I just cant sit 24/7 washing clothes! The good thing is these r “10 cycle” machines. As if I know what that really means. All I know is my old washer was “8 cycle” and it worked pretty damn good (well before it broke it did) so if this one has 2 more “cycles” then that must be better right? Right. Wayne and I did go back and forth about a front or top loader though. Hes always liked front and I like top. Finally the guy said that if he was going to be honest the front loaders do break more often and with the way we go through them a top would be better and last longer so we went with a top of the line top loader. I just cant wait! Ive never been so damn excited about washing laundry in my life. Wow. If this is all it takes to excite me I clearly dont have enough fun LMAO!

OMG she did it all by herself!!!

2008-06-02T17:44:00.000-04:00

Holy freakin crap! I was sitting in the living room talking to Wayne about the post office when all of a sudden in runs Robyn yelling “Pee! Pee! Pee!” so here Im thinking oh no she peed on the floor! I get up and shes got me by the hand and she takes me to her potty which is full of PEE! HOLY COW! She did it all by herself and its her first time! I about fell over! My baby is turning into such a big girl! *wipes tear*

Forgot to mention my love for DVR!

2008-06-02T16:12:00.000-04:00

I have to say without DVR or atleast a VCR I would go NUTS! With a 2 year old most nites u dont get to watch what u plan to watch on TV therefor u r required to record things. In a house with 2 adults and 3 kids all who like different things lets just say the DVR gets used A LOT! Well now that Wayne is actually in the post office (WOOHOO) he left that shit ass nite job of his and we actually get to watch some tv! Last nite we had a Ghost Hunters marathon. It was awesome. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. I swear that show just gets better and better every season. Its amazing! I would so love to have them come to my house. With all the weird things that happen here it would be great but really Im a little afraid to know whats going on here. Angelina saw “black shape of a man” at the top of the stairs a few weeks ago. She still talks about it. Robyn went into the kitchen to get a drink one nite and came back screaming that there was a “face” in there and refused to go back in for days. Wayne and I both hear whispers in our ears on a regular basis while we r sleeping. Hell though I hear whispers when I visit other places too so thats not saying much LMAO! But really as cool as it would be to have them come just knowing the Indian past of this land and the fact that my Grandmother passed away here I just think it would scare me so much! And it isnt like these r new things. Weve lived here for 11 years and since day one weve had things like this happen so its not new. Weve just learned to live with it! So what else did we watch last nite? Oh yeah we watched some So You Think You Can Dance? No really we did. Im not asking a question there. The show name ends with a ? LMAO! Just makin that clear! ANYWAY thats another show I just love. Some of the dancers r simply amazing! But really it wouldnt be possibly without DVR BABY! I think we should all go kiss our cable men right now LMAO!

Wow its been DAYS!

2008-06-02T15:50:00.000-04:00

Holy cow I cant believe how many days its been since Ive posted! Woops! And I see MySpace isnt picking up my blog so Ill have to work on that. ANYWAY heres all the news here but I do have a disclaimer:

Mom/Pat/anyone wishing to be negative: I get that u hate rats. And most cats. But guess what. This aint ur blog and just because u dont like something (and btw there r A LOT of things u people dont like) DOESNT mean the kids and I cant like it. Ok? So remember if u dont have anything nice to say then shut the hell up and dont say anything at all damnit! I dont really need to hear Angelina cry because u people say things about her pets that she loves. Have some sympathy.

Ok so now that we have that out of the way here we go. So most of u know Angelina picked out 2 rats a couple weeks ago at a pet store that was going out of business. They were selling off all the ratties as feeders for $1 and we just couldnt let that happen so we took 2 Siamese girls home with us. One is just a little thing and her name is Crystal. Shes so pretty and such a sweet little thing. Angelina would sit and hold her all day if we didnt have any cats! The other is also Siamese and shes a little older and her name is Salem. Well Salem had a cold when we got her so she was on antibiotics for that (NO Mom and Pat people cant catch shit from rats no matter what ur moron teachers taught u in school!) but at the same time as she was on the meds for the cold we didnt know she was already pregnant when we got her (here comes the Mom and Pat fit!). Anyway when we figured out she was pregnant we switched her to baby safe meds and we started posting online and found a bunch of homes for the babies. People were emailing like crazy wanting them. We agreed we would keep just 1 girl and that was it and that the rest would go to good homes. Well 9 days ago Salem had 5 beautiful little babies. 4 girls and 1 boy. Now for rats thats a VERY small litter. Usually they have around 12 babies so 5 was a shock. I was happy with 5 though to be honest. I knew 5 would be easy to find homes for 4 of them so no problems there and I knew Salem should do great with such a small litter when it comes to nursing them because there would be no fighting for food! So really I was happy with the 5. The babies looked GREAT! Nice and pink and wiggly and so damn cute it wasnt even funny. Everything was good for the first 3 days until I took the little ones out to clean the cage. I noticed 1 was turning yellow like it was jaundiced. Went online and emailed Donna, T, Terry and Cathe for help and started to research. Well it seems the babies were effected while they were still in Salems belly by the meds and had some liver issues. Poor things. Unfortunately the 1 little yellow one died the next day and when I took her out I realized 2 more babies were turning yellow. CRAP! So this went on and we researched non-stop and figured out that really it was just a waiting game and there was nothing we could do. So now lets fast forward 2 days to day 6. One of the little yellow looking babies wasnt looking so good. She was really weak and just terrible looking. The other 1 was looking almost just as bad and then another 1 was starting to turn yellow but not quite as fast and not as bad. The 1 the male looked great. Nice and pink and growing fine. That nite I went to check on them again and the 1 really bad looking baby was dead. Next morning the other really bad looking 1 was gone as well leaving us with only 2 babies on day 7 - 1 healthy looking male and 1 yellowish looking female. Ive been fully expecting the female to die but so far at day 9 shes still going so hopefully she will pull through this and the male still looks great and is such a fat little guy! Weve named the Isabel and Nigel and we r just watching them like hawks and hoping they both make it through this mess. The kids have been very upset having to see 3 of their little babies die hence my disclaimer to anyone wishing to be negative at the start of this post. I dont think we r out of the woods just yet but Im really hopeful that these 2 will be just fine. They r both active and getting in tons if hair. Donna says Isabels size is good but Nigel is a tad obese LMAO hey hes a typical man going for the boobie as often as possible LOL! Salem is doing a wonderful job as a Mama even though shes been through so much with losing 3 of her little ones. Rats can definitely get sad and depressed by the death of a baby. Ive seen that first hand and its really very sad to watch but she seems to be doing much better now and is even trusting me to handle the little ones more and more each day! Here r a few pics. Anyone who doesnt like rats click the little X at the top of ur page now and dont bother looking!

Salems beautiful little face!
All 5 rittens at 12 hours old
Nigel & Isabel at 8 days old
Isabel at 8 days old - my little fighter
Nigel at 8 days old - Mr. Fatty McRattie
Thats it! Ill try to keep updating here as the days go by!

Well he passed!

2008-05-21T15:08:00.000-04:00

I cant believe it. He actually PASSED his driving test! WOOHOO! So he starts training on Tuesday (post office is closed Monday) YEAH! See what a couple of “pass of I kill u” threats will do? LMAO!

Waiting on driving test results, Idol & Dancing with the stars

2008-05-21T12:32:00.000-04:00

Well he thinks it went well and that he passed. I guess we’ll see! He should know sometime either today or tomorrow for sure. Of course in the 10 mins we were gone to the library yesterday the idiot ran 3 yellow lights which is what he failed the test for last time! I wanted to kill him! All I know is he best have passed this time!
So Idol. I think David A is going to take it but I wont buy an album of his! I just dont see the performer in him at all like I do in David C plus his voice really kind of annoys me. Like fingernails on a chalk board type thing. Of course I had to keep messin with Pat last nite. She was trying to vote for David A and I was voting for David C so I kept calling her from my cell while Josh voted from the house phone. When she would try to dial I would be on her line and wouldnt hang up LMAO! She was PISSED! See things like that only work when ur neighbors and live in the woods. In the city with real phone service it never wouldve held the line like that. Ahh the plus sides to being a hick LMAO!
I was really sad to see Cristian go so early. I knew Kristi would win and rightfully so but I think Cristian should have been second and not Jason. Dont get me wrong they r both hotter than hell LOL but Cristian seems like an all around nice guy. Ill miss seeing his chest er I mean moves on the dance floor!
So whats next? So You Think You Can Dance starts tomorrow nite. That will take up a little time. The new Ghost Hunters starts next week. Im about a month behind in Days. I guess Ill have plenty to watch on those sleepless nites!

Well it finally happened

2008-05-20T00:36:00.000-04:00

The washer finally shit the bed! I knew I should have bought one two weeks ago! No Im stuck waiting till next week to get a new one! Thank God I can go to Moms and do laundry there until then!

WARNING Tomorrows driving test & random bitching

2008-05-19T13:37:00.000-04:00

Tomorrow is Waynes driving test for the post office. If he fails this one thats the end. Hes SOL totally. So cross everything that he freakin passes! If he does pass he starts training on the 27th and if he doesnt I file for divorce! Plain and simple!
So I checked the rebate status on www.irs.govlast nite. Those Fuckers screwed us out of $500! Instead of the $2100 we should be getting we r getting $1600. What a bunch of shit. So there goes any chance of a trip to Alabama or Michigan. WTF! Im really pissed. We r still gonna go somewhere though. Either to Pennsylvania for a week or to New Hampshire for a few days and then to Amy in Maine for a few days. Its just bullshit that the people who need the money the most they take it away from. I know several other people who got the shaft also. Unreal!
And speaking of money I would suggest no one EVER work for H&R Block in Plainfield CT! And nope I dont give two shits if they see/read this or not to be quite honest. They already know how I feel about them so it shouldnt come as any surprise. Ive already written letters to H&R Blocks Corporate office telling them how they promise people all these huge bonuses and then screw them over. Basically of the 20 of us that worked there only maybe 5 r actually getting a bonus. How fair is that? I literally RAN the Foxwoods office for two months and am getting nothing yet the bitch who made all the mistakes that I had to fix is getting a nice fat check. Why? Because shes part of their cult er I mean religion. The piece of shit owner didnt even call or come in on my days because she knew things were under control and she didnt have to. Do I get anything for it though? Nope. I hope next year they have NO customers! That would teach them to be cheap bastards!
Speaking of being cheap we have a chance to buy a van pretty cheap. Its older (1999 Dodge Grand Caravan) but its in really good shape and would tow the camper a whole lot easier than the Malibu will. Waynes seen it and he says its nice so Im going to go look at it this week. The guy is a friend of Waynes so he says we can pay half and then pay the other half over a few weeks. That would be good since we still have the Tracker to fix! We’ll see how it looks when I get to look at it.
Ok Im off for some bacon and eggs! Im starving! More bitchin to come later Im sure LOL!

Ive created a monster!

2008-05-18T22:46:00.000-04:00

First it was haircuts. Then hair dye. Now its flat ironing hair straight! Ive turned Auntie Pat into a monster! Pat had no idea how people get the nice straight hair she always sees on TV. So yesterday I took my flat iron in her house and I straightened her hair. It looks really good but now she wants me to do it everyday LOL! Thank God its short now and not down to her ass like it used to be or Id be doing it for hours! Whats next? Push up bras and thongs? LMAO!

Guess what its doing outside right now?!?!

2008-05-17T01:12:00.000-04:00

Yep. Its raining! WTH is up with this weather? I swear weve had so much rain the past couple months the ground is just totally saturated. Every time it starts to dry the rain comes back. Its getting old fast. I need to open up the camper and work on fixing a small leak on one of the seams. The stitching came apart and Im going to hand sew it and then seal it with bees wax. I cant do it with it wet though! All I ask is for 3 or 4 days straight of no rain and Ill be happy. Call mother nature for me someone!

Trip planning!

2008-05-15T22:29:00.000-04:00

So Wayne and I want to take a road trip sometime in June/July. Weve talked about going to one of two places. Alabama and Michigan. Alabama would be great. We could see Phillip and Renay and we always have a BLAST with them. Plus it would give us another chance athandcuffing them and dragging them home with us LOL! Really we want them to move here so bad its not even funny! We just saw them in November but it seems like it was so long ago and that sucks. The only problem is its a longer drive and we know we cant make the drive straight so then u have to add in 2 extra days for stopping once on the way down and once on the way back. Thats not going to be easy with Wayne starting the post office so I dont know how we can do it. Ive been racking my brain trying to figure it out. On the other hand Michigan would be nice also and heres why. Wayne hasnt been back to his hometown in over 17 years. The last time he went home was a few months before we met. Weve planned several trips up there but they always fall apart basically because his family cant stand me. We arent going to go into that though because really its a sad situation and it would be nice if someday we could be civil again but honestly I dont see that happening. Believe it or not Waynes brother Eugene and I used to talk a lot and his Mom and I did also. I dont see it ever going back to that but it would be nice if we could atleast be civil. So if we did end up going to Michigan we wouldnt stay in his hometown and we wouldnt tell anyone we r coming and most likely wouldnt see anyone in his family which again is a sad thing to have to do. It would really be nice though for Wayne to get to see how much its changed up there and for the kids and I to see where he grew up. Its close enough that we could make the drive straight so that saves time and makes it an easy trip. So yeah I dont know! We have to think about it!

To all my fellow iced coffee lovers out there!

2008-05-15T14:03:00.000-04:00

Dont forget today from 10am-10pm is free small iced coffee day at Dunkin Donuts! Everyone who goes in gets 1 free small iced coffee. Just a hint if u have a buncha stores in ur area u can go from one to another and get 3 smalls to equal 1 extra large LMAO! Just sayin!

Things Im sick of:

2008-05-13T12:16:00.000-04:00

Stupid people. This includes people who pretend to be stupid when really they arent.
Bad pet shops. Not just ones that dont give a shit about their customers but especially the ones who dont give a shit about the animals they sell.
Weather men. Cant they just get it right 50% of the time? Thats all I ask. I dont expect them to be right 100% of the time but half would be nice!
People who say one thing and then do something thats the total opposite. This really bugs me big time.
Dogs that bark. Yep Ill admit it. They drive me nuts! Doesnt mean I dont love em but man a good case of laryngitis would be nice right about now!
People who screw over the vet. Remember back in the day when everyone billed and people actually PAID their bills? The fact that so many people billed things at the vet and never paid the bill really effects those of us who DO pay! Pay ur bills damnit u scumb!

And that completes the things Im sick of for today! Im sure there will be additions throughout the day as Im feeling exceptionally annoyed today!

The case of the missing remote…SOLVED!

2008-05-10T00:16:00.000-04:00

So 3 days ago Josh put the remote on the arm of the love seat and walked away. A few mins later it was gone. We looked in all the usual places: Under the couch, under the love seat, behind the TV, in the school room, in the kitchen….nothing. No sign of it. So we went to bed. Next day we looked again. Still nothing. Weve tore this house apart. Every single room and no sign of the remote. Finally tonite I said thats it. It has to be inside the love seat. So since we r getting a new one anyway as soon as Ashley Furniture gets their finger out of their asses and gets my new loving roomset here (its on back order!) I said ok lets cut the bottom cloth flap off the love seat. It must be in there. Wayne was like no. We aint doing that. After about 20 mins of fighting about it he said I was wrong and went ahead and chopped it off. What did we find? The remote! See? Hasnt he figured out by now just to shut up and listen to me? *sigh* Men!

Ok so that wasnt fun!

2008-05-08T23:57:00.000-04:00

So I finally got sick of mygreen eyebrow ring and decided to switch it out to a black one. I was like wicked scared to do it though because last time when I had the piercer do it man alive it hurt like hell! So I got brave and took the old one out and holy cow the new one went right in no problem! I was amazed. Then I decided to switch my nose ring out for a black one to match the eyebrow. Now keep in mind this is the 3rd time Ive done the nose ring myself and the other 2 times was simple no problem right in. No I get the old one out and uh oh. The new one wont go in! Now what? So I keep trying. Wayne tries. Nope. It aint going. Call the piercer and hes not there so now Im stuck. I have to either get it in or hope it doesnt close up before noon tomorrow when he gets there. 15 tries later I finally got it in but man it wasnt fun! Needless to say I aint changing it again anytime soon!

A mix of whateverness…

2008-05-07T19:13:00.000-04:00

Well we went to the gym with Mom. It was something else! She wont get on a treadmill not even with it stopped. The wheels on the bike go around 5 times and she has to stop. All of the weight machines pinch or hurt some part of her body. She cant do a crunch. After we were done when we asked when shes joining she had every excuse in the book. She wants to buy a pool which by the way Im splitting with her. She wants to pay bills. She needs to save money for a trip the end of June that her company pays EVERYTHING for. She has to pay her “$400″ car payment which is really only $250. Lets all keep in mind her monthly bills including rent r less than $600 a month but she makes about $2700 a month and she cant even complain about gas money because work pays that. So then I said she can still come with us and just pay $5 each time and if she was still coming with us on Thursday she gives me the excuse that shes going to lunch with some chicks she works with. So I said we could go after lunch and all of a sudden she changes the story to she has to go all the way to Guilford for work and wont get home till like 2pm and “Maybe Ill meet u at the gym. We’ll have to see.” blah blah blah. Um yeah so much for that! I guess Ill have to nag nag nag her about the gym and smoking for the rest of my life!
Heres something weird and interesting. Last nite Robyn and I were laying on the couch watching TV when she wanted a drink. So I went and filled her a glass of water and left it on the kitchen table for her. She went in a few times and drank with no problem. Then all of a sudden she goes in the get another drink and she makes it around the corner into the kitchen and starts SCREAMING bloody murder. I was like WTF!?!? Next thing I know shes bolting back into the living room screaming “A face! A face!” I thought she was saying “place” so I said “What place?” and she starts screaming at me “A FACE! A PERSON!” like a lunatic. That was weird! Needless to say I didnt go back in the kitchen last nite and neither did she!
Ok lets talk now a little about Alvin and the Chipmunks. I hate the movie. Its not so much that I hate the movie its more that I hate watching it 15 times a day! Renting it off Netflix was the biggest mistake ever made. Now I have to go buy the damn thing before I can return it because Robyn is totally addicted!
Well Wayne has cabin fever. First he wanted to go to Maine this weekend. Then he wanted to go to NYC. Then Lancaster PA. Now hes decided he wants to go to Salem MA to the witch museums and dungeons on Saturday. Should be interesting! Only problem is it might be rainy but only like a 40% chance so hopefully not!
Speaking of Wayne he has his driving test for the PO Saturday at 7:30am! I swear on my life if he fails this one Im kicking him out of the house forever. So then they tell him that because of gas prices to deliver mail and such that they r dropping the starting pay rate by $5 an hour for ur first 3 months. That sucks! BUT about 2 hours later they called back and said that because hes already been hired already like 2 months ago and been through all the medical and crap that hes grandfathered in and wont be cut the $5 WOOHOO! Thats good news! So if all goes as planned and he passes this driving test his training starts May 27th!
Well I think thats it here! Off I gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…..ooooooo…….oooooo……

OMG I want to smack my Mom!

2008-05-06T15:49:00.000-04:00

First let me give her a teenie bit of credit for something good then we’ll get to the bad. Yesterday she decides she wants to join the gym. Um yeah I didnt see that one coming! First she wanted to join Curves but no. They suck suck suck big time so I talked her out of it. Then she said she will join the one Lettie already goesto that Im joining this week. The plan was to go on Thursday but after enough nagging on my part I convinced her to go with us tonite for a trial and see what she thinks. It should prove interesting to say the least!
Now onto the bad part that I want to smack her for! I just found out today that her medical insurance company makes her pay them $10 a week because she smokes. OMG! $520 a year is a lot of money just for the right to KILL URSELF! Am I wrong? Nope. Weve been trying to get her to quit for as long as I can remember and shes done it a few times but always made some excuse to start back up again. I get that its hard but when cigarettes cost $6 a pack and shes smoking a pack a day (thats on the low low side) and u combine that with the money to the insurance company thats over $2500 a year! And for what? To get cancer and drop dead after suffering for God knows how long. WTF is wrong with her? She will never learn! How the hell many more people in this family need to be on oxygen or die of cancer for these people to wake the hell up and smell the fear of chemotherapy?!?!

Spring cleaning SUCKS!

2008-05-05T14:59:00.000-04:00

But I guess it has to be done. Its a little depressing though going through all the kids old clothes and sending them off to the Salvation Army. The highlight of that was yesterday I found one of Angelinas dresses that Lettie bought her when she was Robyns age and it was her favorite. Its yellow with blue and white flowers. Now it fits Robyn perfectly! The downlight (is that a word?) was finding 4 pairs of jeans that no longer fit my fat ass. That kinda sucked. I was tempted to keep them so that when I drop some of this extra baggage I can wear them but nah. Ill buy new ones. Let some skiney chick have them. Bitch! LMAO! So once I finish going through all the clothes (gonna get out Angelinas old stuff I kept and see what fits Robyn) then its on to the kids bedrooms. They arent real thrilled with it but we r going to go through all their toys and give away the ones they dont use. That should be a real battle when u have a 2 year old who wants E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G she sees. Should prove interesting how many times in a row I can say “No u cant have that!” without going out of my mind! So whats after the clothes and bedrooms? Well I havent decided yet. The kitchen could use a good rip apart and scrub down but Im not real excited about doing that. Itll get done eventually though. And on that note Im off to get my butt movin. Wish me luck! If no one hears from me after a few days call me. Maybe Ill hear the phone ringing and be able to track my way out of the never ending piles of clothes and toys with the ringing of the phone as my guide!

I hate household appliances, furniture & fixtures!

2008-05-04T14:22:00.000-04:00

Which would a toilet be? A fixture right? Ok sure. Lets go with that! Seriously though what a pile of crap. Literally! My toilet is older than I am. Not even kidding there. My Grandfather put that damn thing in this house when I was first born making it 33 years old. Sure I should be grateful its lasted this long. And really its had a good life but its time to move on. I so cant wait to get this thing out of my house this week and a new one put in! We shouldve done it 12 years ago when we moved in but nope. And why didnt we do it when we totally gutted and remodeled the bathroom 7 years ago? New shower, tub, sink, walls, floor. Everything but we left that damn toilet. Some people plant flowers in their old toilets and put them out on their lawn. Nope. Not gonna happen. Once its gone I dont ever want to see it again and I sure as hell dont want to stick my hands in it to plant flowers! Now lets talk about washing machines. Mines gotta go. Not only is it so damn loud when its on spin it sounds like a damn elephant is busting through the wall but its also stuck and when it goes to spin u have to turn the tub and help it along. What a pain! Like I have all day to wait for the spin cycle? Really I dont! And its like the old saying “A watched pot doesnt boil” its true! It takes like twice as long for a washer ur watching to go into spin than it takes when u walk away for just 2 mins to let the dogs out and come back to a washer sounding like its about to explode while its “walking” across the floor. So yep a new one of those is coming this week too! Next is a new living room couch and either chairs or love seat I cant decide which I want AND Im ripping the carpet up in the huge ass hall upstairs and putting down wood like we did in the living room and then Im painting the whole house. Im just so done with everything can u tell? *sigh* Ok I feel better now!

Summers here! That means I gotta start selling again!

2008-05-03T21:21:00.000-04:00

I dont know if its good or bad. I mean I like craft shows and all and everyone loves my necklaces even with bitches stealing MY idea and making them but the gas money is gonna be a killer this year! Plus my Avon customers r all having a slow time so Im really not sure how thats gonna go. Im seriously thinking about starting to sell Mary Kay or Arbonne but I have no experience with either. Sure everyone says they r great and here most people think they r rich so it would probably sell better than Avon but it does cost a lot more. Really not many people in CT want to tell their friends they wear Avon makeup because they r so damn snotty they want to say “OH I wear Mary Kay or Arbonne” just to sound rich ya know? I just cant decide. I still have Tastefully Simple Im doing too and need to order catalogs for that. I need help! What should I do? Stick with just Avon? Switch to Mary Kay? Switch to Arbonne? Dont do any? HELPPPPPP!

So I honestly think Lettie is trying to kill me

2008-05-02T13:59:00.000-04:00

The sad thing is shes takin Angelina and Tatum down with me! WTH!?!? So yesterday Tatum had a 1/2 day and Jay had the day off and Stryder has everyday off LOL so we decided to ditch half the kids at home with Wayne and go out letterboxing. For those of u who dont know what letterboxing is heres a link:
www.letterboxing.org
Basically people hide little books with a notebook and a handmade stamp and an ink pad in it in various places the they post clues on where to find them online. Then idiots like us go out looking for them and stamp them in a book like a log book and we stamp our stamp that we made into their book and leave it in the woods for the next idiots to find. Its really a lot of fun. Anyway we left Wayne at home with Jay, Stryder, Robyn and Josh and Lettie and I took Tatum and Angelina with us. The first one was in the cemetery in Griswold where we used to bike ride so that one was fun. The second one was in Hopefully Park where there r supposed to be 4 boxes. We couldnt find a single one! That sucked but was a really nice walk and the loud mouthes aka Tay and Angelina lol had fun! So then we figured out that on my Blackberry we could pull up the website and list and clues so we could go find some in Voluntown. Now thats a cool feature hey. If this phone is good for nothing else atleast its good for finding letterboxes! So we get gas ($3.75/gal BTW WTF!) and head to find these 4 boxes in the woods. Um yeah thats where it went down the shitter! We find the trail which we werent even sure was the trail at first but doing some research this morning definitely was the trail and we head out. First couple feet in its flooded so we ruined 4 pairs of shoes lol but we kept going. Then came the cliff we had to go up. Now keep in mind not only am I 500 pounds overweight (give or take a few hundred and YES Lettie Im going to the gym Thursday I PROMISE DAMNIT so shut the hell up!) and Ive lost track of how many knee surgeries Ive had so climbing isnt my thing but I said Im gonna go for it anyway. Well we did good. We got to the top of this cliff thing and all was fine until a damn stick under my foot rolled and I twisted my ankle. So I worked that out and we kept going but the cliff got higher and the water was below it and Angelina being my child has the grace of a walnut and kept slipping so we said ok not for kids and turned back. One swollen ankle and one ruined pair of jeans later from having to sit down and slide down the cliff and we were back at the car. Anyway now that I know it was the right trail we definitely have to try again just not after 4 days of flooding rain and not with any kids. So feeling a little defeated we headed back to town to try finding some cell service to look up some more when we realized my phone also stores pages in its cache so we still could read them without service! Another very cool feature! New clue in hand we headed off to Pachaug Forrest a place we know very well and went down the Rhododendron trail to find 2 more stamps. Now by this time its getting late so we headed back towards home. Buttonwoods Ice Cream is supposed to have one in their wall but it was missing and then right across the street from my house in the woods where the fishermen park their boats is another one. Of course being next to a cow farm we never thought hey theres gonna be a dead cow body sitting there but sure enough it was. Its just bones now but still its gross! So that was yesterdays letterboxing experience. All in all it was a fun Cousins day out!

Baby gates, Nuks, potty training, Idol, food & the gym

2008-05-01T11:59:00.000-04:00

Why is it that a good baby gate costs so much money? I mean seriously. The one at the bottom of my stairs weve had since Angelina was a baby and all in all its held up well over the years BUT the damn thing cost like a hundred bux at the time! One like this is easily $150 now and its insane! This one has some issues though so we r gonna have to deal with it soon but it does still work and Robyn has zero desire to try opening the thing anyway. The one at the top of the stairs was just like it but broke last year. Again another $150 to get a new one! Ive owned beds worth less that that in my lifetime! See? This is how they get parents! They jack up the prices on things we really need!
So Robyn hasnt had her nukie in I would say atleast a week. Not even to go to bed at nite. Why u might ask? Well I “lost” the one she likes best and the one we have she hates. Some people say hiding a nukie is mean. I say when the dentist says take it away its time to take it away. See the nukie people r after our money too. They own stock in braces and tooth repair! ive got it all figured out! Anyway she seems to be ok with it most of the time. Still uses the one she hates in the car once in awhile but really shes pretty much over it.
As for potty training thats another thing. Robyn hates having her pullups on BUT she refuses to use the potty. So basically shes in the buff all day and when she has to do her dirty work she grabs a pullup and throws it on. Pees. Takes it off immediately. Throws it in the garbage. The other day I really thought we were going to have a break through though! She kept sitting on the potty and in her oh so cute way saying “potty train?” but nope it just didnt happen. Granted she just turned 2 but still I want her to do it already!
FINALLY some Idol justice hey! I cant believe it took this long for Brooke to go home! I mean I like the girl and all and I think in a studio where she can read her lyrics while she sings them and start over 500 times per song for all her screw ups I think she would be great! But the next American Idol? Um no. Sorry but no. I wouldnt go see her live for fear she might F*up and kill herself on stage! Seriously its time to move on!
Ok I need dinner ideas big time. Wayne and I r just oh so bored with cooking that we fight over who has to do it every nite LOL! We try to mix it up. Like last week I made pork ribs and spaghetti and it was a really nice change. Then we grilled out a couple times and that was actually nice too even though I hate Summer. Really though for two fat people u wouldnt think we would get so bored with eating! I really think we need to convince Phillip and Renay to move in with us. Atleast then we could mix up my italian cooking with her southern cooking and we would never be bored again!
Oh and about being fat. YES Lettie in case ur reading this I PROMISE Im coming to join the damn gym next week u pain in the ass! God why did we ever leave Curves? Atleast there I could pretend I was working out and no one knew the truth LMAO! Seriously though Curves. What a waste! We went for what like 6 months? Lost maybe 2 pounds each? Never even broke a sweat! Sorry but that place is a joke and on that note Im off to have a donut LMAO!

Forget the old saying "shit hit the fan"...lets try "puke hit the fan" instead!

2008-04-30T15:16:00.000-04:00

Robyn decided to give me a 3am pukefest this morning. Lets just say she has zero head control and cant aim in the garbage can at all and leave it at that. It wasnt pretty. Poor baby. She feels much better now though thank God! Now Im just hoping the rest of the clan doesnt end up getting it!