NBR's Spot

Another White Out...!!!

2011-03-23T13:27:00.002-04:00

Yuckie we went from having grass and 40 degree weather down to having another 16 inches of snow.. I am so ready for spring. I am not ready for the 90 degree days yet but something better than this crap that is blowing outside right now.. I didnt work last night but I think that is because of the weather. I dont think anyone went in last night.. and today I dont know yet. I might not work tonight either because of the weather.. Its horrible.. Just horrible out there..

jeff was delayed 4 hours today. He just left to go into work. We shoveled the driveway and cleaned the car off and it took us an hour to do it.. Got half way done and I felt like i was going to lose my breakfast.. Just yuckie out there.. I would take photo's but they would be all bleary from the blowing snow.. You can imagine what 15 inches of snow looks like. I just hate knowing we got it all in one shabang..

I havent rode my new bike since the day we got them.. MY butt has hurt to bad. The girls are down stairs playing with the computer and the toys they have down stairs..I just might give them a snow day today and hit the books harder tomorrow. No sense in trying to make them study after they have played like they are and they are being good right now..

I have ten rows of my afghan for jeff and I done. I have two of the six hearts done and the N and part of the J done. I will post photo's when I get maybe half way done with it. I have 30 rows across and 40 rows done. The squares are again 2 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches.

My furry child turned 3 March 10. I cant believe how mellow she is. She sleeps most of the day and then gets playful sometimes but she just lounges around and watches us from sleepy eyes most of the time. she has her favorite blanket in the front window and watches the kids outside. Esp during the summer time. she has tried walking out the door with me a few times lately..

Kora is struggling with her long division in math but we are taking a break from it and doing the simple fractions.. We have just started the simple adding where the dominator is the same and you add the top. Life is moving to fast here..

My grandmother on my real dads side is going completely blind and my godmother is really sick. the people I love the most are all going away slowly. I sometimes never thought i would lose those people. I dont know my grandmother that well. I have met her once over the years. My grandfather passed away before I could get to know him well enough..

My godmother is like a second mother to me. she took me in when my own mother did stupid shit.. My godmother took me in when I was 9 months old because my mom tried stealing some panties and some baby clothes and got caught with the tags hanging out of the diaper bag.. YIKES!!! So my godmother took me for a month and I have been told stories about my stay there.. I learned how to walk while with her and bottle broke while with her..

Well anyway I suppose i need to go make some more squares for my afghan. Maybe if I feel like it i will go through the girls books today and get ready to go take them to Appleton with us on Saturday to a book store that buys used books.. the girls have quite a few books that have different copies they dont need anymore.. anyway I am off. talk to you all soon. have a wonderful week/weekend and hope to catch you all in the next few days.. N..

New Bikes

2011-03-19T23:20:00.002-05:00

Hi All... Jeff and I got a new bike each today from Wally World... We took Bri with us and Kora stayed home.. We each got a Mongoose 21 speed seat suspension bike for 129.00 each.. Mine is white and pink and his is black and red.. We are going to try and save on some gas money when we both get used to riding bikes again..

Neither one of us has been on a bike since Kora was about a year old.. Its been a while.. And I am paying for it. It just shows how out of shape I am. We rode home from Wally World and then decided to go to the the grocery store after the girls went to bed.. Sure I am still having a hard time breathing 45 minutes later after coming home and relaxing.. YIKES!!

But if I remember I will take photo's of them tomorrow and edit this post with pix of them. I need the excercise so I am so looking forward to doing this.. The only problem I see is that I work 10 miles from home and that is 20 miles a day.. and Jeff only works 2.5 miles from home so he has it easier. but at least with him taking the bike we are saving what he's not spending on gas..and also if us girls want to go to the mall we can do it a little quicker now than walking.

the girls are so looking forward to going out for bike rides with us. I have been looking forward to this day for a long time. I miss riding bikes for miles at a time. i bet I will be able to ride my bike to work soon but not right now. Need to get my butt adjusted to riding again and my breathing.. Its still chilly outside so that didnt help any either..

Anyway I suppose I need to go warm up and see about a snack. i am a little bit hungry after that little jaunt.. Talk to you all soon.. I will try to make rounds tomorrow sometime before work.. Miss you all terribly. I know some of you have either quit blogging or just slowed down but those that have quit I miss you terribly. Those that have slowed down I keep going back for a new post. Take care and have a wonderful rest of your weekend.

Circu part 3

2011-03-15T15:25:00.008-05:00

Here is whats left that turned out. I cant edit my other photo's for some reason unless I do them under paint and that takes awhile.. So I will leave you with this part three of the circus and I hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did going.. I know some people really believe they torture the animals and I am sorry that we go watch something so horrendous but its not just the animals that people go to see like us. I love the entertainment.. I really do.. I love watching all those pretty young things be able to get up in the air and be able to do there stunts. I know I would never be able to do it. I am deathly afraid of heights.. OK peeps i have been up for half an hour and i need some food.. I will be back later or tomorrow.. talk soon. Have a wonderful few days if I dont get back here soon..

Circus part two

2011-03-13T01:05:00.010-05:00

The red head behind bri was our guest. she was here for four days and it was fun having her here.. There is a story behind her and maybe some time I will tell it but for now I am going to leave it hanging..

Ok going to make this into at least four parts because I dont want to upload more photo's right now and the dang cat isnt letting near the puter to easily. she is laying right in front of the keyboard.. with her head on my hands.. she doesnt want me to type right now.. the lil shit.. lol.. but i do love her..

she turned 3 years old on Thursday.. The tenth.. She is my furry baby. i love her dearly. she is so spoiled and she knows it.. Anyway I need to get going. I will talk to you all soon. try and make rounds tomorrow if I have any computer time. It has felt nice having Jeff at home this week.. I have missed him dearly.

Working 3rd shift takes alot out of me and my family but I try. that is all I can do.. Take care and hugs my friends..

Circus

2011-03-08T18:39:00.011-05:00

Hi there.. We went to the Circus Sunday as I had told you about in the previous post.. Well here are some photo's to share.. We got front row tickets this year so I didnt have to climb the stairs to get to the seats and be scared shitless up in the bleachers like I normally am because I hate heights..LOL..Yes I am a big wuss when it comes to heights..Anyway here comes the fun. Sit back and enjoy and I will do these in parts because there are so many photo's this time around that actually turned out because we were sitting closer this year

There is no way you would get me up there to do these tricks.. NO WAY!!!!YIKES!!!!

More to come but here is the tease.. I know how some people feel about Circus's but it not just about the animals for me. Its the performers. I mean i love watching how big the elephants are.. I love watching the tigers.. We were walking into the Circus and of course you have the people who boycot the circus each year and they were handing out coloring books. they tried giving the girls each one and Jeff being who he is told them to shove there coloring books up there asses. He said his children didnt need to have one of there anti coloring books..

The lives in the R family.. We go so many places and do so many things.. I still havent contacted the bank yet hoping my card would turn up over the week. I will call on Monday if it doesnt. I really feel stupid and know it happens but I should have put it back in my purse when I was done with it.. Oh well it happens.. I am really tired today..

Our company leaves tomorrow.. Jeff has to bring her back to Milwaukee and I have to work tomorrow night.. I might hav to ride the bus tomorrow night.. I really dont want to ride the bus.. I havent had to ride the bus since we got our first car and I know its there for if we need it but I am just spoiled of getting in the car and going. I hate not having two cars anymore..

Anyway this is one post of a few more to come. I wont bore you with this unless those of you who either have never been to one or like them i will post lots of photo's.. I have two video's too but for some reason blogger wont upload them so i am not sure i will get them loaded anytime soon..

I Am in DEEP SHIT....

2011-03-01T18:34:00.002-05:00

Hi there.. I just realized I think I threw my check card away but the bag i thought it was in isnt in the garage now. It must have went out this last week and we take our trash out tomorrow again for Thursday..I am in some deep shit with hubby when he comes home.. He went to the school to get some information on going back himself.

I cant believe how much shit I am going to be in when he comes home. He wasnt happy when I told him I think I accidently threw it away.. I will have to call the bank tomorrow and cancel out the cards we have and get new ones.. YIKES.. It sucks but it has to be done. I cant believe I did that.

My credit card and drivers liscense are sitting on the desk also. I am not sure how my DL got on the desk. I am not even sure how my Credit card got put on the desk.. I keep most everything in my purse.. But I know I am some deep shit with hubby.. He depends on that card while hes working esp if he needs some cash for small things while hes on the road driving..

When I am going to learn.. Also I hear we only have one weeks worth of work behind the machine i am helping on unless the material they have isnt all the material they are getting.. I am hoping they get more material. I havent told hubby this yet. I want to make sure this is true first before i make him jump through hoops. I sometimes hate working as a temp but finding a real job as a lady i work with said just doesnt pay what i make 40 hours a week as a temp when i have work.

There is nothing here that pays 9.50 an hour 40 hours a week and you get to sit on your butt most of the night.. So I am not complaining. Just wishing the hours were little more steady is all. not this sperodic crap they seem to have.. Hoping by Monday they will have at least the mcahine i am on full of work for another week or two.. that will bring us into the middle of march and then they will really pick back up..

Well i suppose i need to get going. Talk to you all soon.. Have a wonderful week my friends.. N..

next week...

2011-02-27T19:42:00.002-05:00

Hi all. I know I havent posted much this week and next week my free time is going to be even more cramped. We are having a friend come stay with us for a few days and I am working for the time being.. So most of the time while she is here i am sleeping.. Yikes.. but she likes to visit with Jeff anyway and the girls.. So its not as bad as everyone thinks..

We went out his mothers house yesterday afternoon and gave Shari her blankey and she fell fast in love with it.. She barely put it down to get dinner when it was done..LOL.. I am happy she liked it.. Its in the bottom post from this one if you havent seen it yet.. Its the purple one.

I am sorry I didnt get any photo's of the recipiant and her blanket. His mother made chicken and dumplings..they were pretty good.. I need to replace my crock pot because the lid broke and they dont make the lid for my model anymore. I have had mine for 15 years now. I dont use it that often so it lasted me a long time. I hear people burning them out in a few monhths.. lol... So I need to go get dinner made and lunches since I have to work tonight. I will be around this week until Friday.

Sunday we are taking our friend and the girls to the Circus. We have reserved seating this year so I am hoping I get clearer photo's of my favorite acts. Usually we are up in the bleachers and my photo's come out all grainy and just not what I want.

so I am out of here and I will try to post a few more times before Friday and then Saturday we go get our friend from the Milwaukee Airport. She was trying to save a few dollars and we decided we could pick her up there.. So off I go. Talk soon. Hugs to you all. N..

part two of Zoo..

2011-02-19T08:37:00.011-05:00

Boy were they active..Most of the animals were out last Sunday while we were there.. Beautiful photo's this time around. I mean i have gotten so many photo's of these animals but these are just gorgeous this time around.

This guy here Jeff said he couldnt see right away..LOL.. Now that is funny. Hes right on top of that stump.

These little fellows are just gorgeous.. they are like something you might want to snuggle up with and fall asleep.. they are a red panda something. I cant remember exactly what they are.

This lone wolf was the only one out in the snow that day.. Wonder what he/she was thinking of being alone. Where is my pack?? Why am I the only one out in this beautiful weather..?

Just as we were ready to walk out of the Zoo here is a beautiful shot but wish they would have fanned there feathers.. Now that would have been a picture. jeff says these are the males.. I have no idea really. but they are just gorgeous.

It is chilly out once more. Our 40 Degree Days are gone for about another month or so and then we will have our yearly heat wave until about Sept. Maybe through October if we are lucky enough.. I am so ready to go back to work..

I am getting restless. Oh by the way here is my latest afghan. We are looking at makin a trip out to his mothers house next weekend. Its only tw hours away so we figure we can afford the trip.

Well anyway here you have it..Not doing much today when Jeff comes home from work at noon but we might get out tomorrow and do something. Not sure yet.. Oh by the way you wont see me up on that roller coaster I should you last post. NO WAY!!!!I dont like roller coasters..

Life in the R family is always doing something. We cant wait till it gets nice enough to go see the Turtles sunning themselves and all good stuff. I miss our hikes but last year we got eaten alive by all the mosquito's..Almost quite literally. Thank goodness for repellant but it didnt work to well. In the thicker parts of the forest where the trails take you they were just horrible.. Esp because no one wanted to go back there to be eaten..lol..

Anyway I have a rombunctious family today. the cat is playful and the girls are in a good mood. for now at least.. Anyway I need to get going. I will make rounds later on today.. enjoy my work and the Zoo. I know we did. and I always enjoy what i work on.. You should see the blanket i am making for jeffs and i's bed.. its black fleck, with six red hearts, and white lettering with our names in it. pretty amazing.

Our First Outing for 2011

2011-02-14T16:25:00.015-05:00

Hi there peeps. I have some new photo's and some active photo's from our local Zoo yesterday.. Enjoy.. We were on the highway going to our local Zoo and us girls saw some deer in the place we hike so we went there first but we couldnt see them in the woods. We went the wrong way. If we would have went up this little hill we would have seen them. there were like 30 or so in the woods.. You could see them from the highway but couldnt see them in the woods. They were so precious looking.I just wanted a photo of all those deer at once.. but we left there and decided our track onto to the Zoo. Also I have the new roller Coaster. It was Elvis Presleys favorite I hear. The Pippin Zippin..

You know I dont tell other people how to raise there kids but its getting ridiculous when you see 3 year olds in Diapers and they are talking full sentences and such..!! Its fustrating. We saw this yesterday and the kid was mouthing off to his parents while standing there messing himself while we were in the childrens part of the Zoo. We were feeding the Sheep and Goats.

Onto the Lions..they are sending the female cub to her boy friend in another Zoo this spring to have more baby cubs and then the boys here I have no idea what they are doing with them.. Then the two original ones we had they want to have more cubs too but they need to get the older cubs to there new homes first.. These five in the photo's are actually in danger I was told yesterday.. Esp with some restaurants having Lion Meat on there menus. Gross if you ask me. I dont think I could handle eating Lion Meat.. I love looking at them but eating them.. OK!!!

How Dare I forget the Giraffes.. They are only six years old and look how big they are. I asked how long they live and they live for 30 years or so.. They are wonderful looking animals dont you say?? The girls enjoy feeding them there crackers.

OK peeps i dont want to bore you with this so I am going to put this in two or three posts. I have lots of photos to share and they are wonderful photo's this time around they were all so playful yesterday and out moving around for the most part. some of the animals werent but the ones we saw were moving around and enjoying the 40Degree F day we were having here in Northern Wisconsin..lol..

It felt wonderful to get out and i worked last night and dont work tonight..I hate this. they are so slow they are asking people to take vacation.. LOL.. I am hoping they pick back up soon.. I dont want to get down to the last few pennies in our checking account and then have them pick back up. But you just never know with companies like this.

Ok well I am off. I have some laundry to fold and put away now the girls helped me bring the bins upstairs. and also Jeff should be home shortly. Talk to you all soon..

My sweetest Hubby Ever and more

2011-02-12T17:18:00.005-05:00

Hi there. I have great news and my early Valentines Day present to share with you all. What to share first.. I am going back to work tomorrow. I dont know if its for one day or all week or a month but I am going back to work tomorrow night. I got the call yesterday afternoon finally.. I am still jumping up and down..

My bestest hubby in the world bought me flowers early yesterday for Valentines Day. I am so happy with them.. I didnt get a photo of me with them but he also picked up a stuffed animal for me too. I slept with it last night. Call me a baby but you know what we all have child like behaviors and I have mine sleeping with my pillow pet he bought me for x-mas and my new Valentines Day Present..LOL..

OK here are the photo's you all are waiting for..

Book Review even though I am not very good with them..

In The Still of the Night by Ann Rule

Any mother would be devastated with what has happened in this book. I mean of you mothers out there need to read this book. Even if you arent a mother you know a mother.. Its a mothers need to find a killer and get answers even if its 12 years later after the fact.

The book starts out with this young woman wanting to become a WSP (Washing State Patrol). She succeeds in life and works that for like 8 years and resigns. then she is married and she miscarried her several babies so that makes her life a living hell if any of you have miscarried you know. Well anyway she ends up divorced and finds love right away or so she thinks she does.

Her second husband divorces his wife of 20 years or so to be with her. Well 2 months into the marriage husband number 2 decides to have an affair. with his ex wife. WOW!! What a blow to the system right?? Well Go figure..

one spoiled rotten self centered young man.. Or middle aged man by this time. Of course he just cant get away with not returning to something was his in the first place.

Well he is at a drs appt and gets a call from his new wife. She is leaving him and they were talking about her dogs and what should be done with them until she comes home from Washington.

I have left out lots of stuff here. I am sorry I am a horrible person to put up book reviews.. but I try to get the highlights that stick in my head. well anyway Rondas mother has never given up hope on finding her daughters killer(s). I recommend this book to any one who has a daughter, knows a mother, has grand daughters.

In 2009 Rondas case was over turned maybe the wrong term.. but she was finally put as a homicide not a suicide on her death certificate.. Now they are looking for the person(s) her killed her. I had a hard time putting this book down. I like true crime books as well as fiction. MY MIL bought this for me for x-mas and with working and crocheting I havent had time to really read. I took my break this last week and caught up on one book. I am finishing The Mayfair Witches Chronicles too. but that is going to be put on hold too.

I will try to visit and post more often even though I am going back to work. I have more photo's to share with you all and cant right now because its my MILs b-day blanket.. Its almost done.. I dont need it until June but I am almost done with it. I am so proud of how its turning out.

Life couldnt be better right now. Call me crazy but everytime my palm itches I get money some way but I am happy to be going back to school. I just told Jeff the other day the only way I wouldnt go back to school is if my temp job offered me a permanent position. At least another dollar and at least 40 hours a week.. I like my job but not when they are going to lay me off for god only knows how long.. Anyway I need to go do something else for a bit.. happy Valentines Day my friends..

Hey my Friends

2011-02-07T17:38:00.002-05:00

Hi there. I have decided to do something.I filed for unemployment today. Not that I am happy with that decision because it makes me feel like I am sitting on my behind and just collecting money.. But I made a bigger choice today and I am going to run with it..

I have decided to go back to School. I have decided that if I have to take out loans I will and we can pay them back.. I am going for a Health Care Business Services. Basically the same thing I went for with Stratford Career Insitute but this is a credited college and its local. I will have to leave the house for my classes except for a few of them. I will have to go on line and do some of my classes.. Or at least that is what I was told..

I am sick of just waiting for things all the time. Jeff and I are going to brush up on math skills and then I am going to go and take there Acu Test and pass it this time around.. I want this so bad I can taste it. I want something better for my hubby and my girls..

They deserve better than there mother sitting on her ASS and getting money from different things. I want something better for myself. I want this education. I will have it done in two years. Its a two year program.. I will have to go into class sometimes or some of its online.. I will have to budget my time and get my ass going in the morning. I asked the girls how they would like mom doing home work when they do home work.

So there you go peeps I have come up a with a Solution to our problems for the time being and long term idea. I will be the best at what i am learning. I will memorize the things that need memorizing and do them. I need this or my family is screwed. I like my job now I have when I have it but if the hours are going to be there one minute and not there the next I cant take that as a good thing.

I need a stable job and stable work for my family. I dont want to keep on going back to unemployment everytime my job goes down hill. Thanks for supporting me and telling me I can do it and we will make it. I have a plan and it feels good to have a plan.

I will go back to work for this temp agency until I finish school but when I am done I think I will try to find something that the school suggests.. they place you if you are in there top best students. I want to be one of the best students. I want this so bad.. I dont want to get cocky with it and let it slide. I want it. I want to go back and get something for me and my family finally.

anyway I went to ship something today. I sold some knitting needles that I had laying around the house today and I was wondering how much the UPS would charge me and they wanted something like 150.00 dollars. NO that is NOT a misprint.. I took it to the Post Office and they only charged me $14.20.. What a difference huh??LOL!!!

OK I have to go get my hubby from work. I will be back later on.. I am trying to post a bit more since I am home more often for the time being and make up with missing you all. N.

MY Job

2011-02-04T02:18:00.002-05:00

Hi all I have some good and bad news. I still have a job some what but my hours have been cut. I worked 2 days this week and have till Monday off. I am not sure if I am going back on Monday. I am in a panick situation right now. I dont know what to do. If I cant get unemployment because of what ever reasons I need to get another job. But nothing pays me 9.50 an hour to sit on my butt and enjoy the job. What ever..

I wont give up but thankfully Jeff still has his job. Hes still at 50 hours a week for the time being.. I am deathly afriad we might lose our house if things dont pick up or the temp agency I work for has more work for me. I was hoping maybe I could work for the place they have me at any shift if they need extra help. I hate this waiting game.

Life goes on so much around us and I am thinking about going back to school also. Trying to find something that will pay more and give me more time with my family. I need more time with them.. I need more time for everything and everyone. I am lacking friends here because I dont post as often as I used to and I havent been spending much time on my Etsy site either. I have over 150 items but no one is buying. the damned Economy has us all screwed.

Ok well thought I would throw this out and let everyone know I am ok here and so is the family.. Talk to you all soon..

Happy Bday to me Happy bday to me...

2011-01-27T15:50:00.002-05:00

Hi all.. I had my b-day on Tuesday. I had brought Doughnuts to work with me Tuesday night and Jeff and the girls took me out for dinner. I got some earrings that I have wanted to make sure I could wear again. I cant wear earrings from Etsy.I cant wear hand made earrings. There is something in the hooks that my ears look like they are on fire. But I can wear store bought earrings. I had no problems with the earrings I got from Walmart..

I got a new lunch box from a friend of mine at work.. Its pink and grey. I already got it dirty on the bottom.. Poor ME!! I sat it in some grape jelly and didnt realize it until i got to work Wednesday night.. Yikes.. OOPS It happens. this friend B told me to put it in the dishwasher and it should take it out.. But I will see about that this weekend if I have time.

I got two new CD's I have wanted to replace for a while. I got one Tanya Tucker CD and Dolly Parton. They are both there greatest hits but I couldnt find the one CD I wanted and didnt feel like having them order it for me. I was looking for Tanya Tuckers Two Sparrows in a Hurricane but the one I bought I like because i know most of the songs.

ok I am off to help the girls with home work. I am always doing something.. Talk soon. N.

My Baby Girl....

2011-01-21T07:42:00.011-05:00

Hi there all. I know its been a week and a day.. I should have posted this last week but I couldnt find the photo's I wanted and I had to take photo's of photo's to do this post.. I hope you can see them ok..

Kora turned 10 last Thursday Jan 13th.. Where has time went? I keep wondering where the last ten years of my life have disappeared to?!!

Kora is really into horses so look at her cake carefully.. Its sweet isnt it??!!

Now will some one please tell me where the last ten years went of my life?? I am a little confused that i lost that many years and didnt realize it.. My precious baby that was in the NICU is now ten years old.. Yikes.. I would have better photos for you if I would have gotten my scanner I asked for, for x-mas but of course not.. My mom forgot again I asked for something. She gave money instead but not enough to buy a scanner..

anyway hope you all have a wonderful weekend and I will post some more things later on. Maybe take some photo's of Kora and her boom box and her cds mymom got her and some other things. She got three new books also. But ok I am off. Talk soon. Its bedtime..

Hey my newest work..

2011-01-13T16:32:00.005-05:00

Hi there. Here is my newest work.. I showed you peeps this when it was half done. Well now its finished.. Go Green, Black and Red.... With a Black Z in the middle..

OK only one photo because I got the other two interlocked some how and I will just have to wait for them..Its no big deal. It was just a different angle. Anyway this is my newest project I have been working since like August. It took me five and a half months to complete with me working full time..

Now I am making one for his mothers partner but I will not tell whats on it because she reads my blog from time to time..LOL.. So I dont want to give her b-day present away. I will not post photo's of that one until its done. If you want to see it after I have it half way done or something just e-mail me asking to see it. Well I am off to find a sandwich. I have been up for half an hour..

Brease Cancer Awareness. Pass it along..

2011-01-11T16:26:00.002-05:00

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The Komen organization. Their goal is to get a million hits, which will
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I took this amamzing video from my fellow blogger VV

I hate when people use there kids as excuses....

2011-01-07T07:31:00.002-05:00

Morning my friends in which still comment regularly...LOL... I miss you all dearly but working 3rd shift takes alot out of me and visiting lately. I do what I can to make rounds periodically.. I read most days but dont comment.. But anyway onto my post about people using there kids as excuses..

This guy I work with has 9 year old twin girls ok.. He is separated from there mother and has custody of them.. Well we were talking about them before the Holiday and he said 3rd shift isnt working out because his girls are into trouble because HE'S WORKING 3rd SHIFT!!!!!! They are in school when he sleeps and should be in bed or just going to bed when he is leaving for work.. So how can they be in trouble at 9 years old and him working 3rd shift???? I dont get it..

Well I am not going to bitch and complain if the girls dont turn out if because I am working 3rd shift.. If they dont turn out it may or may not be my fault. But you know what I tried with them the best I could. They are both very smart and know what is right and wrong but sometimes they like to push whats wrong instead of doing whats right..

Anyway life goes on.. Snowie thinks its bedtime. She keeps walking to the bedroom and then the living room and pawing at my leg like come on mama.. Lets go.. She wants to curl up under the covers with me against my belly where she sleeps when I sleep on my side.. Now she is putting her paws on the keyboard like lets shut this thing down.. Or she is trying to help me type..lol..

Oh here is another thing i wanted to say about our local radio's..

Dear Local Radio Stations:

You have thousands of music choices but you only play the same songs over and over again. I am sick of hearing the same set of music each night at work and in the car.. Please open your selection to those thousands of music choices you brag about please.. I work 8 hours a night and listen to about the same music each night and its getting really boring.. I have learned to tune you out when the person I am working with likes listening to your station..

Esp when you do the 2011 request thing on WAPL... You have thousands of music selections and people only want to hear the same songs over and over again.. Dont you get sick of hearing the same songs???? I dont care if they are computer generated or not..

OK OK I am off of here. I am going to eat a bowl of cereal and then go to bed. Talk soon and have a wonderful weekend my friends..

X-mas Presents

2010-12-31T08:13:00.011-05:00

Here are the girls and there x-mas presents.. Kora's b-day is coming up fast and we bought her present last night. She wont get it till her b-day though.. I just hope she likes it.. There footed jammies were presents.. Anyway I need to get a few things done before Jeff comes home at noon today. they have a half day of work.. So I am off to do those things. Enjoy the photo's. they didnt get much this year but what they got they are enjoying.. that Knex with the loopy loops is lover 3 feet tall when its put together. Its down stairs in the basement.. Jeff put it together for them and he has a blast watching it with the girls.. they got two more with the big one. they got another roller coaster and a Ferris wheel..

X-mas Cards went out today..

2010-12-24T13:38:00.008-05:00

Hi there. I know its X-mas Eve..I sent out my cards today if there is mail... anyway Here are the four photo's I took at the mall the other night.. I was asked yesterday if they were professionally done..lol.. Get this they think I took some professional photo's and was trying to make copies of them.. Go figure.. OK> What ever..lol.. Can you guess which one of the four went into my x-mas cards??

Then today we went and got the girls a better sled to slide in, in the back yard.. Also got them a sliding tube. It was on Sale for 5 dollars.. couldnt pass that up. They are outside having a blast right now.. Hope they can keep it aired up. I want to take them to one of our local sliding hills but have some stuff around the house today to do.. Jeffs mom is coming on sunday instead of tomorrow..

And I think next weekend we are staying home for New Years.. I have been a home body lately.. but Merry x-mas my friends and Happy New year.. I will have photos up of everyones gifts when I have time this week. I have been trying to make more time for you all again in my life. I have went nuts with my Etsy site...lol.. I have a 151 items in my shop..anyway I am off. You dont want to hear about my shop any more than I feel like talking about it right now.. Anyway I am off to do some house work and then spend some quality time with my crochet hook and yarn...lol.. ok I am off.

Another Blizzard.... Two in Two weeks now..Not even

2010-12-21T07:49:00.002-05:00

Its been snowing since about 9 PM last night. I drove to work as it was starting and at about 4 AM the plows came through the parking lots and we had to move our cars.. It was just horrible. Yikes.. And I got home and the street had been plowed a little bit so I had to move as far over as I could and gun it into the driveway. I played bumper cars off the end of the snowbanks at the end of the drive way.. Thankfully I got control of the car before I hit the house..

Trying to explain that one to the home owners insurance and Jeff..LOL... It sucks out there and its suppose to go most of the day from what I hear.. Yuckie.. I will take photo's of the girls helping me shovel again today. Its the light fluffy stuff so its not to bad out there.. Ok I am off to bed. I need some sleep.. Talk soon..

Let the Photos talk for themselves

2010-12-13T15:54:00.003-05:00

Tis this Season is Full of Snow.. YUCKIE

2010-12-11T09:04:00.002-05:00

Hey all we are under a snow storm advisory here and some places are closer to a blizzard than snow storm. We are staying home for the most part. We will go shopping this afternoon after Jeff gets home from work. I have become a little more intuned to x-mas but not much over the last week..

Not going over board with the girls this year but they are getting a few things and then they are getting some stuff that grandma sent money for this year.. Again there is no tree up. No garland this year. I found a beautiful White Tree for like a hundred dollars and I just cant afford it. I wanted it so bad. But Jeff is afraid of Snowie trying to lay in the branches again this year like she did with the old tree.

Damned Cat..LOL.. I love her but she is in the way sometimes.. I was hoping to make some sales this month on etsy and havent done even that.. That sucks but I have ordered a few things that were cheap enough. I am having two skirts made for the girls. I wanted something with a poodle skirt look but not all the material. So a lady i know is making them with red velvet and black fur trim for me. They are going to be 15 dollars each and t hen shipping is going to cost me 8 dollars..

Then I ordered some hand made soap yesterday for some gift baskets I am making for the ladies that work on my shift. I should do something for the guys but half of them dont talk to me so why should i? I am just doing it because I feel I need to share what I can do.. I am putting one scrunchie, two facial scrubbies and one small bar of soap in the gift bag..

Anyway we have lots of snow coming and I am looking forward to the skirts when they are done. They are going to be red velvet with black fur trim and I will buy the turtle necks I want to go with them. My x-mas cards are goign to be late this year because i am waiting for the skirts to come before I have the photo's done.

Was going to have a friend of mines mom make them but she wanted me to buy the material and then charge me 15 dollars a piece for the skirts.. I know material isnt cheap.. and I know time is precious but come on.. Anyway I am just waiting like usual.. I need to get to some stuff around the house..

House hold duties calling me to clean, clean and more clean and I have no ambition today to do so but might as well get it done.. lol.. So I am off but thought I would post something before going and cleaning.. I will post photos of the snow later if I remember too..

Feeling AWWW HUMBUGGED....

2010-12-04T15:43:00.002-05:00

I am not in the Christmas Spirit this year. I have no tree to put up because I threw it out when X-mas was over last year and we have no money tp replace it with this year. I wanted lights up in the windows this year but no money to buy lights either. I havent even pulled out the garland.. All of you can yell at me to put it up if you want but yelling isnt going to get any of you anywhere..

Life is taking all from me and such.. I want to cry some days but cant for no reason. I just dont feel it anymore. I mean the X-mas spirit.. I am busy with work and trying to make new items for my Etsy shop that nothing is selling right now. I am slightly depressed in that area.. Not much I can do about it..

We went to Indianapolis Indiana last weekend and met a new friend of Jeff's.. She was ok. I cant say enough how I felt and I wont either. I might explain some day but not right now. Us girls went swimming like usual and Jeff watched us. The water was warm but the only thing that sucked was that when you get water in your mouth it was salty.. I dont know why but it was..

Have photo's of the girls swimming but you have seen them doing that many times over again so its not really new to any of you. I was hoping to see Candy on our way home Sunday but I guess she was busy or didnt get my message.. Shit happens.

I am waiting to get my cards from my mom to get the girls there x-mas presents from my parents.. I am also working on some new scrunchies.. I have to more to make for the set of six I will have in my shop in the next few days.. I am still liking my job except for working 3rd shift.

I miss sleeping at night with my family and being up during the day with them but its a job and its full time..

Jeff was on Vacation this last week. It felt good to hav him at home.. Not that I spent alot of time with him since I slept all day long.. He went to Eagle River Wisconsin yesterday to see another friend of his by himself..

I took the girls to a movie called Alpha and Omega by my slef yesterday. It was a good movie. the girls liked it since I didnt hear stupid assed questions half way through it.. It kept them occupied.

I have some things on my wish list and I dont think I can afford them anytime soon..I found a x-mas present for Bri today and ordered it.. She has been wanting it for a while now. She has wanted the Grumpy Bear Care Bear.. Now i have to work on Kora and see what she wants.. I know what I would love to get them but I dont know yet. It has a Star Wars theme. they love the Star Wars Movies for some reason.. I am not sure why..

I have my x-mas cards but havent filled them out yet.. I need some addresses again. i am horrible.. I need to put the addresses with the e-mail addresses in my list. that is what I need doing.. anyway I am off. I have ranted about how I feel for now. talk soon..

Thanksgiving Dinner

2010-11-30T19:18:00.002-05:00

Hey all.. Hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving.. I know we did and we had fun while were there at my MILs house.. It was one of the best days.. I look forward to going there each time we go.. I didnt take any photo's this trip. But I do have some more photo's from the weekend its self but that is another post later on this week if I get a chance to post it..

Anyway we had the usual. Turkey, mashed pots, gravy, cranberries, stuffing and home made pies this year. I only brought the apple pie we bought because I cant stand pumpkin.. I could have had some cherry but I like apple better.. Wonder what apple and cherry pie mixed together in one would taste like...lol.. Ok me and my weird taste buds going crazy again..

Of course Jeff was the butt of our jokes thursday.. Those of you who know him personally know he is very jumpy.. and He hates stuffed animals.. Well you can imagine what we did to poor Jeffrey..I mean yes we had Shari's 18 year old son with us this year but I see him a kid yet so he doesnt really count and POOR JEFFREY was out numbered by 3 WOMEN!!!!! What a concept huh??LOL!!

Well anyway he was ready to go home by time we got done with him on Thursday evening.. We had him so jumpy I am suprised he was able to drive the car home.. but I wasnt going to drive us in the dark.I hate driving on the highway anyway. I will drive in town or just hope over 172 here in Green bay to get to the other side of town but I dont like long distance highway driving.. No thank you..

I stuck my foot in my mouth thursday as well. Victor had said something about spitting or at least I thought he had and forgot how old his girlfriend was and who I was with. I piped up and said what did you expect her to swallow..LOL.. Yikes.. she is only 17 years old.. I havent seen Vic get red in his life until then and my MIL even got embarrassed and I apologize for that statement if you are reading this mom..

I had to tell them i put my foot in my mouth at least once..

I made a hat over the weekend that is pink and heather grey with curly q's on top of it.. I will post it when I do my next post. I have been working on some new scrunchies for my shop also.. Hopefully they will sell. I could use a sale right now but not asking any of you to buy..Just saying I could use one.. Well I suppose i need to go find some clothes. I am still in my jammies and I have to work tonight. So I am off to get dressed and then finish a couple more scrunchies before work hopefully. I have to get my lunch together yet. jeff has this week off for vacation.. Not doing much since I sleep all day long.. talk soon.. Hugs..

Things to be Thankful For....

2010-11-24T14:16:00.002-05:00

Tis the season to be thankful.. Well I have to admit I am thankful for a lot of things this year.. Well for starters I have my family. We have our home and our mortgage is almost caught up.. We both have jobs.. That is the biggest part in our lives right now to be thankful for.. Its still rough out there in this economy.. Walmart is hiring and I have applied several times over the last few years but they refuse to call me for some reason so screw them.. I am sick of places like that..

I am thankful to have a job I like except for working 3rd shift.. I get used to sleeping during the day Sunday through Thrusday and then have to adjust my sleeping schedule back to sleeping at night Friday and Saturday..lol..

I am thankful for having my parents in my life even though we dont see them as often as I would like.. I wish we lived closer but at least we have the internet and phone lines..

I am thankful to have my friends here and in real life. I mean you all are virtual and then those I have met in real life are really cool people.. I love each and everyone of you in many ways.. You all are very unique and I love reading your blogs..

I am thankful to have my etsy shop even though I havent made as much money with it as I had hoped to make even though its just a hobby..I am thankful to be able to crochet and make things I love to do..

Ok I know this post isnt to long but I cut my finger at work last night on some plastic and my middle finger hurts when I hit the keys so I am going to leave this for now.. but this is what I have for this year and I Hope you all have something very special to be thankful for also. I know I do and lots more but this is what i have for now.

Again Happy Thanksgiving and if you are traveling tomorrow or this weekend be safe and drive safely.. Have plenty of turkey..

Things in Life

2010-11-20T08:28:00.002-05:00

Here is what has been going on since my last post.. Ihave been working or sleeping and trying to spend more time with my girls. I have been trying to get some house work done but just havent had the energy.. I have put sleeping bags to make our bedroom black where I can sleep during the day with out waking up. I hated when it was light in our bedroom. I was always awake and no sleep really.. Do you know how hard it is to sleep during the day?? I do and its impossible unless its dark in the bed room.. So I took our sleeping bags until I can get some heavier curtains and put them up on the windows over the curtain rods.. I have been sleeping much deeper and better since I put the sleeping bags up.. I am not as tired as I was before. Eight hours is doing me better than 9 or 10 hours of sleep was..

I have been trying to get Jeff to help me with the front closet but hes been working so hard lately again. I think I will tackle it here my self shortly and suprise him when he comes home. He may be mad at me because I mentioned something about it before he left for work this morning..

He has taken off the last week of November for a vacation.. I took one night off to spend a whole weekend with him where he doesnt watch me sleep all week long. I think we are going to have to get him some milk where he can get up and get his own breakfast while I sleep.. Or i make something for him before I go to bed.. And then he will have to deal with lunch with the girls.. And then I will make some dinner when I wake up..

I just listed 15 books on FB that I have read that have stuck in my mind. I am not going to relist them here right now.. Maybe sometime I will do a list again..

Snowie has been spending alot of time with me lately too. She is most content when I am sitting in the livingroom on the couch crocheting.. She has been clinging lately and I dont mind one bit.. I wish she would have been more that way when we first brought her home.. I think its because now she can sleep with me and not have to be shut out of bedroom during the day. Jeff still wont let her sleep with us and she sleeps with the girls at night on weekends but she enjoys during the week when the bedroom door is open to her..

I may have become a big child but I have found some footed jammies. I bought a pair from Big Feet PJ Company and one pair from Walmart.. I also want some new crochet hook but they are 60 dollars.. they light up in the dark.. They are really cool and come in the sizes I use.. You can buy them one at a time but its more expensive that way.. You save money when you buy the package of 9 in sitting..

Update on my mom.. She is a diabetic and they had taken one med away and given her a new one and it was too strong. they had to lower the dosage and she is fine now. I havent heard anything from her since last Friday when I took the girls out for Lunch. they had one of there first book it badges.

I stubbed my toes this morning before it got light out and of course the bedroom was pitch black and I stubbed my toes on this movie thing we got from a friend. You need special Cd's to play in it. Its not a regular DVD player.. anyway I am off to find something for breakfast and then I am off to get the girls to help me with somethings before they go play.. then Jeff wont have to work so hard when he comes home..

Happy Thanksgiving my friends if I dont post again before then..

Suprise Post

2010-11-11T16:52:00.007-05:00

Here is a suprise post.. We went to Mosinee WI on Saturday to meet up with one of Jeff's new friends and us girls went swimming.. I wish I would have gotten a photo of this but Bri decided she was going to put her arms out straight and just flop into the water and then stand up and ask me if I got that on Camera..LOL. My lil Sheet... but we had fun otherwise.

We went out for supper next door to the motel and ate a place called the Stage Stop. Wish I would have taken photo's of the inside of the restaraunt.. It was pretty cool.. Stuff animals and some pretty neat indian things around the place..

Jeff and his friend spent time in the motel room talking while us girls gave them sometime to get to know eachother better and we went swimming. Well the girls went swimming this time around. I just wasnt into the pool. I sat in the whirl pool for a while but sat where if they needed me I could get to them.

My tuckered out little girls from all that swimming.. They were in the pool for like 3 hours after dinner Saturday.. Yikes..

This was the suprise Post..lol.. I have no idea what we are doing this weekend. I think we are staying home and I have some stuff I want brought down stairs and put away this weekend. I have a closet by our front door that I want cleaned out for our winter stuff. the girls cant get to there jackets with the boxes and stuff sitting there.. It sucks but we will move them this weekend. then we are going to clean out the garage again too I think. a cleaning weekend where we can get the car back in the garage this winter. I heard we are suppose to get snow this weekend but not sure if the source I heard it from is reliable.. He likes to pull my chain alot..

Ruth is back here in the States again for a Visit but not staying with us.. She has another host this time around and hope she has a great stay. She is going to get ahold of me when she has a free moment. I cant wait to see her again. We have patched things up and come to an understanding on when we hosted her at the house. It was very difficult to see things her way and vice versa.. Never doing something like that before it was a great opportunity.I am glad we tried.

My mom ended up in the hospital yesterday.. she woke up and couldnt talk or move and my dad thought she had, had a stroke. So he had to call an ambulance.. I am not ready to lose my mom yet. According to the drs it was one of her meds that made her blood sugar go to low. it was too strong of a dosage and everytime they got it back up it would just fall back down again so they kept her in the hospital last night..

Anyway that is whats going on here.. Hope you enjoy your weekend as mine is going to be cleaning and getting ready for winter here.. I am so not ready yet for winter.. Happy weekend and I will be back Monday hopefully with something more to say..lol...

SunRise November 8th,2010

2010-11-09T19:37:00.007-05:00

A beautiful sunrise before I came home yesterday morning. the first photo was taken through the front windsheild of the car and when the flash went off it bounced back at me.lol. so that one doesnt show how beautiful it was when it first started.. I have another post but I dont have time for it.. I have to get my thoughts straight on it.. Anyway enjoy this post for now.. Hope you all have a great week.. N..

The Eclipsed Heart By Kimberly Thomas

2010-11-04T16:53:00.003-05:00

Ok Ok here is a good book. Not just because she is my sister either.. Well my adopted sister since her dad adopted me when I was like 3 or so. I have lost track after all these years.. but its a good book..

Young girl is being stocked by a man and teenage boy is asked to protect her more than once but he tries with all his heart and falls in love with her..

Rachel is a young teenage student in the process of graduating and she is very poor. She works for a diner and pays the rent while her mother sits at home and thinks she is going to die sometime soon.. Well her mother has been doign this for a few years now. Rachel wears Goodwill clothing and kids pick on her.. I know the feeling..(I have been there and done that)..

I dont know how to explain this book very well. I am having a harder time doing a book review on this book for some reason. Maybe because its too close to home for me in my personnal life than not. I am not sure why.

Except i wasnt being followed to be hurt by a man and I didnt fall for prince charming trying to protect me either. I love Jeff but he wasnt trying to protect me like Tom was Rachel in the book..

This is Kim's first book and she has a sequel coming out sometime.. I cant wait to find out what happens to Rachel and Tom and the bad guy.. I suggest if I have captured your attention with the book please read it.. I havent had my copy signed yet but will sometime. I messaged her on FB this morning and told her I enjoyed the book. I know I didnt grow up with her but she is my sister and I want to support her anyway I can.

I guess she got lots of hits with this book. Amazon kept running out of the book. Not sure how well Barnes and Noble did really..

Now I am reading what SME suggested on FB a while back. I think its hard reading but I dont read all that much really so I am taking my time understanding it all. Its called Bloody Falls of the Coppermine by McKay Jenkins.

Something to do with the first Eskimo murders in 1913. I am in like chapter 3 and just taking my time with it.. Interesting book so far.. I only paid a 1.99 for it and 3.99 for shipping because the book wasnt here at our local Barnes and Noble.. but it was well worth the money I paid for it. I suppose I could have went to the Library also but with something like this I like having in my home.

Kora is reading Black Beauty and then off to read Mark Twains Huckle Berry Fin I believe its called. i dont have it right in front of me. I have her reading summerizing each chapter this year where I know she is reading the book.. Sometimes she start at the beginning and then reads the end and then goes back and reads the middle.. So I want to make sure she is reading the book from cover to cover..LOL..

I know I have been absent and I have gotten a little more help at home. Jeff has been helping me alot this last week but I still dont seem to have enough time in the day for everything and everyone I want to see.. I want to spend time on here and Etsy and do my crocheting and spend time with my family. Its really hard. I try to cram all this in on Weeekend and then I get cranky because nothing gets done. I dont see jeff but maybe 2 or 3 hours right now during the week. Weekend are a little easier but not much. I have so much to get caught up on, on weekends that I am always working.. so we have gotten where i do one load of laundry at night and he brings up the bin i fold and put that load away and the following night the same thing..

things will ease up after his hours go down a bit in January but right now its tough. Bri is reading welll herself.. She has found some Dick and Jane books she likes.. I bought them from Barnes and Noble and she has taken to them like ducks take to water.. lol. Wish I would have found them earlier though for Kora also. But you know you never think when you have your oldest sometimes.. Kora is reading for fun the old Ramona Quimby books. I loved those books as a child.. I loved to read and still do but I also love to crochet. I have so many interests lately its hard tok keep up with them all..

Anyway I need to go do some things like fold my laundry so I can go get Jeff here shortly. I will be around to make rounds tomorrow sometime. Sorry I have been absent and sorry for the rant on my book review..

Havent been around much lately

2010-10-30T01:59:00.002-04:00

Hiya there blog buddies. I havent been around much lately and I am terribly sorry. No stories of what we have done today or this weekend or what nots.. We havent done much with me working 3rd shift and Jeff working his tail end off either. but we have been doing things just not outside. It was really windy here for like four days straight and its just starting to calm down enough to maybe do something tomorrow after jeff comes home from work..

I am still up because I have house work to do and its easier to do it when I dont have a little angel saying mommy i am hungry or can we go some place. I blew up at them both yesterday technically now..lol.. they asked if we could go to the park and I was in a pissy mood anyway and not getting any help from them. there chore is to keep the livingroom toy free and there papers off the floor and so forth and I finally blew up at them. they ask if we can go places but I get no help and then they complain because mom always has housework.. Finally yesterday I told them IF I DONT GET SOME HELP we arent doing a damned thing anymore. Well that got them motivated. Both bedrooms got cleaned and the livingroom. Still didnt have time for the park yesterday but at least it got cleaned..they got out of school work for helping me today. They have to do school work today though before Jeff comes home at noon.

It feels weird talking in todays and yesterdays after midnight yet for me..lol.. I am tired but have some mopping I want to finish and I should really go finish that. I have no new photo's to add to my blog tonight. Wish I did. Maybe tomorrow or Sunday sometime.. Lets see how things go this weekend.. I hope all are well. I havent been doing much not even crocheting. I have worked a bit on my green,red and black afghan with the Z in the middle but not much else. Well anyway I have to get going. Just thought I would let you all know I am still here but barely.. Hugs N

One week ago...My dad turned 57...

2010-10-22T14:07:00.010-04:00

Hi there.. We went to my dads house one week ago tomorrow.. I havent felt like posting much and I posted some of my MILS stuff but didnt get much of a response..LOL.. OK OK.. Maybe trying to push it here.. She does some awsome work.. I am going to list some more stuff here shortly. On my etsy site.. anyway I have some photo's and some great stories to tell..

My younger Brother Dennis and his girlfriend Jen and dog Aldo were at my dads house on Saturday for his b-day. My sister and youngest brother were suppose to be there but couldnt make it.. But you know what I was happy that one of my siblings could make it.. the girls had fun playing with the dog and he enjoyed the girls throwing sticks for him..

My dad loved his cake I bought him. I was looking for the perfect cake. I wanted some one here in town to make him a cake in the shape of a fish but couldnt find anyone to do it. So I kept looking and finally a week before we went I found the perfect cake for him.. It wasnt in the shape of a fish but it was fish related.. it was a quarter sheet cake with blue frosting as water and a bass fish on top that was a tape measure..

Then like i said the girls had fun playing with the dog and being with uncle dennnis..

Here is the girls at the park playing with Aldo..

It was a beautiful day to be with family on Saturday. We are staying home this weekend and clean house.. So I am off to do some house work before going to get my hubby and then back to bed for a while..

I took some overtime with a 1.50 hour increase in pay.. for 3rd shift.. go me...

Placing my Crafting stuff here for a few days..

2010-10-19T18:31:00.002-04:00

Here are some crafts my MIL has made and asked me to sell for her. If you want prices but want to buy them.. Look in my etsy site and e-mail me please.. So check away and let me know I have more stuff coming up for her. I just havent taken all the photo's I want to take yet of the items. She has earring and such to.. I have to take photo's of them.. This is my new post until I can get some of my photo's sorted from my trip Saturday to my dads house. Look and see what you want. I have lots more coming up but check my etsy site too just in case I dont get them loaded here.or on my crafting blog. I do have a better post but no time to get it posted today. I have to leave in 15 minutes to go get Jeff.. So I am off and will make rounds later on..

Saturday Ride to Stevens Point WI..

2010-10-09T20:52:00.007-04:00

Hi there.. I havent been around again much.. I made rounds this morning but didnt comment alot. I have been reading but no commenting.. I am sorry I have been absent.. I am here every day reading but not posting much. I like the new job except for it being 3rd shift. Its an easy job except for when the material moves and I dont catch it and we have to start over in my box.. Yikes. I did that Thursday night and the lady running the machine wasnt happy with me.. Oh well shit happens as I see it. People make mistakes and if they want it perfect make a machine to do all the work.. I cant believe I missed the mistake though..

Anyway today Saturday October 9th we took a trip to Stevens Point Wisconsin to a Craft Store called Hershners..Its one of the biggest Craft Stores in the United States I read somewhere. I was in my glory. We spent some money on more thread and yarn for me to make some new stuff. I went because i couldnt find some orange crocheting thread here in town and didnt want to spend the shipping cost on this material I bought today. I got some pretty awsome colors while I was there. I got some Halloween colors for some scrunches Mrs Z asked me to make.

She wants 12 new scrunchies and I will do my best to accomadate her with colors.. I bought some orange, green, black, a Hawaii Blue, fudge brown, a Christmas color and some other colors and then I found a spool pound of thread for .99 cents worth 3.99 today. I grabbed that right up..

Anyway we bought two more paint by numbers they were on sale today. I couldnt pass them up. I got two with African theme to them. One is a three piece set and the other is just really cool.. I will have to take photo's of the boxes.

But here are some photo's of the fall colors I took today. I hope you can see them ok. the car was moving and I put the camera in its mode for vechile moving but I sometimes get them blurry anyway.. I am tired but doing ok I guess. I am still working on my afghan and no where near being done. That comes after Mrs Z's scrunchies..

If any of you want scrunchies that have girls just let me know.. OK here are some fall colors for you all..

Oh before I forget I met another blog friend on Wednesday. Do any of you know The Griper if not go into my side bar and say a big hello to him and The Dawg.. That is her name. She is beautiful White German Shepard and the sweetest Dawg I have met in along time.. Enjoy..

Most of these were taken on the way home because we took a scenic route home Jeff knew.. so we went down a road where there was lots of color. Just beautiful. anyway enjoy. and I will try to post in a few days.. N..

Sundays Hike before Work for Me.

2010-10-05T20:57:00.007-04:00

It was a beautiful day to hike. We didnt go to far so I dont know if there was wild life out or not.Jeff was sore from Saturday and I didnt want to be to sore for Sunday night for work so we went for a really small hike. It was cool out but nice enough I wish we would have brought our books with us to sit for a while when we were done with our hike.

I am slightly Stupid.. Not really Stupid..

2010-10-02T20:24:00.003-04:00

Just read this and realize your bloggy friend here is slightly on her way to losing her whole life.. Not meaning to lose it.. We went out for a while today because I love those paint by number paintings and wanted to see what they had at this one hobby store we like. Well we got there and I got out of the car ok.. We walked almost up to the door and I lost my foot or tripped or something. Well I stumbled about 5 feet and almost went crashing through the dang glass window. I couldnt stop. I stopped when my head hit the window.

I am still slightly shaky. I still dont have those photo's of my dang afghan up yet. I feel horrible for making everyone wait. I have my few more rows on it done just havent taken photo's. Been just lazy the last few days.

Been a little extra tired lately too because of female problems.. so I have been trying to rest and get my sleep in. I could have shot our neighbors friday morning. I came home from work and went to bed. about 8:30 they are out there banging and booming because they are having there driveway redone. I was pissed off. I tried and layed there in bed for a while but couldnt sleep. i finally got up and did some running but when I came home I bitched at the one guy.

He apologized but they are thankful I didnt have to work Friday night. I think when you are going to do something like that its nice to let your neighbors know ahead of time. Anyway its done and I got some sleep today. So I am not as crabby but boy was i one not to mess with yesterday. the girls stayed out of my way because they knew. I didnt mean to be so cranky but only two hours of sleep maybe 3 hours. Not real good after being up most the night before..

Ok I am off to go finish our late dinner. I havent eaten since this morning. I wasnt hungry. Now I am starving amost 11 hours later.. I ate about 8:30 this morning and wasnt hungry when Jeff came home from work.I should have eaten something but couldnt.. anyway talk soon. I made rounds earlier today.. Have a wonderful Sunday my friends.

UP date here is my afghan I am working on.. At least the first 8 rows of it.. I have one more row almost ready to add.. This will be the second row of the / part of the Z..

here but not here..

2010-09-25T15:33:00.002-04:00

hey all. i have been busy again this week. trying to get some sleep and work done around the house. i have visited today and made rounds.. Everyone has such lovely stories to tell today.. thanks for sharing them.. Its another school year come into our lives. We are working hard as we can. Bris liking her Dick and Jane book we found. I got it for 10.00 dollars at Barnes and Noble. good price for that book.

Anyway working life and school work is taking my life away from me lately. I am working a green, black and red afghan. Its in a granny square pattern. I am using the red as a edging and then putting most of the afghan in green and then the Z is in black. Its not for anyone particular just one of those I wanted to see i could do it. Jeff and I sat down and worked it out on graph paper and I am working my rows from there. Its looking real nice.I am only four rows into it and its real nice so far. I work on it when I have time..

the job is doing what they did last year around this. they are starting there shit with saying we dont need you on this night and then calling the following night.. Its hard to stay on a 3rd shift schedule when they pull this shit on you. but I am dealing with it. Doing what I have to do during the day and the evenings when I have time.. the girls have been helping alot too.. they are growing up way to fast for my likings.

I want to get them each a dress at Wal mart sometime and take photo's with my camera to make school pix of them this year.. I have the perfect spot to do them but money is always in the way. I am hoping in the next few weeks with one of my checks we can afford to get them each one of the dresses I want and then go and take the photo's. I wont be able to make the pix till next month but at least I will have there dresses.

They have been really good for me lately. some days are better than others but arent all kids that way.. I am ready for a nap. I have been up since 6:45 AM this morning. I went to bed at 10:30 last night and couldnt sleep after Jeff left this morning.. I want a nap and then stay up later tonight to sleep in tomorrow for tomorrow nights work..I might take a nap after my late lunch.

We are having Chili tonight and Taco's tomorrow.. I had to buy the damned Taco kit today because Wally World didnt have just the damned soft taco shell. I was probably not looking in the right area and didnt feel like asking for help.. Anyway I am off to finish my noodles for my lunch and then a short nap.. take care my friends.

Speaks for itself...

2010-09-21T18:25:00.004-04:00

Hey all. I took these Friday morning when I came home from work.. Jeff was just leaving and I couldnt leave it alone.. I had to take these before putting my sore and restless body to bed.. Enjoy...

The sky was a pinkish color this morning also.. It was just windy and just horrible on the highway on my ten minute jaunt across High way 172 this monrning. I was all over the road. I wasnt the only one though. I wouldnt go my normal speed with it being that windy. I usually go the speed limit but went like ten under today just to make it over the bridge. I hate when its windy and I could have went through town but that takes longer to get home and jeff has to leave when I get home so I didnt want to take more of his time.

Ok going to go start dinner now. Take care peeps and I will make rounds in the next few days or so when I have more time. I have more time on weekends now than during the day of the week.. So have a wonderful Hump Day tomorrow.. My week is offically half over working 3rd shift.. Two more nights and then two days and most of Sunday..lol..

Just More Shit in The R Family Life...

2010-09-18T08:06:00.008-04:00

Hey peeps.. I have some news. I gave up the Pizza job yesterday.. I was there for three days and she wanted speed and I just didnt have it. I went in and talked to her and she didnt even seem upset I was leaving. So it must have been for the best. I am not upset about it. I still have my full time job.. I am just hoping it stays full time for the time being. I was so tired last night and I am suprised I am not still sleeping. But I am wide awake and its only 7:08 AM. We went to bed at like 9:30PM last nigt. Well I suppose I did get like 10 hours of sleep. I will take a nap later on to stay up later tonight to go back into work at 10 tomorrow night.. It felt so good to let that pizza job go. Jeff came home yesterday and asked if I had been cleaning. He asked if I had just woke up and I said no you dont sleep to long when you only have one job to do. That is how I let him know I quit the pizza joint..

I have some things to do outside today and I am just hoping the weather lets me. I have to mow the lawn that needs it and taking the tent down today. We have used it one weekend since I put the damned thing up in the back yard.. Its raining right now so I dont know if it will get done today or tomorrow before I go back to work. Maybe I can encourage my dear sweet hubby to help me mow the lawn while I take the tent down and put it back in its carrying case. yes its one of those nice ones with the case it came in.. Just getting it to fit back in the case is the problem... I can never figure out how they had it folded in the first place.

I have some photo's to share but havent had the time to share them.. I still have photo's from the last time we were at the Wild Life Sanctuary and that has been a month already. I am way behind on blogging and spending time with my online friends. I havent even had much time for Etsy lately working the hours I was working. I just finished a blanket. Its pink, heather grey, and a blueberry pie color edging. I will have that one up in my other blog later. Maybe I should go take photo's and do that now while I am in blogger..LOL and then just post them on Etsy also.

The girls are doing great. I found a book I havent seen in ages and if any of you have some and dont want them I will take them. Just e-mail me ok. I found a Dick and Jane book at Barnes and Noble when I went and picked up the girls books last Sunday. I was on my way out of the store and in line they have a table with books and I found a hard covered D and J and Vampires Book.. I havent seen of those since I was Bri's age.. I had those books but of course my mom never saved a damned thing and we moved so much when I was small alot of things got left behind.. Things that I could have shared with my girls today that I no longer have because of my mom.

Jeff is at work and the girls are still sleeping its almost 7:30 AM.. Wow. They went to bed like ten minutes before we did.. Its amazing.. They spent sometime outside yesterday and came in and did school work and then back outside. They are growing up way to fast. OK here are some photo's. i am not going to comment on them. Just going to post them.

Ok peeps I am off to do some reading blogs and then some more house work if the girls are still sleeping and then time with my family today. Then a nap.. then work tomorrow but at least its only one job. So I can keep up..LOL.. with my daily life.. N..

hey

2010-09-15T04:11:00.004-04:00

hi all. i have been busy since i last posted this.. I dont even remember posting last.. I just know its there..My wrist is feeling loads better now. Thanks for all the well wishes on that.. I need my hands for work and home for that matter. I have finished a blanket but will have it up and about in the next few days. still have the edging to finish.. so its not complete yet but very close.. i have photo's up the ass for you all but its late and I want to go to bed. I dont know when I will be posting again. i started the second job yesterday. Its not that hard that I can tell of yet. Its just putting toppings on pizza's and taking orders.. so I have loads going on here.

Life has just gotten a bit busier with me working about 50-60 hours a week my self. I am looking forward to it.. But for now i am off to bed even though I slept for like eight hours before I left for the full time job but got sent home because of course there wasnt enough work to keep me there till 6.. I hate this part of the temp job.. buts a job and its only parttime when they want it to be.. I am sick of it. I wish when they had us go out there it was for the whole eight hours.. I dont see how a job can do that to you. A temp job or not.. Oh well its helping.. Every little bit is helping. So I cant bitch to much.. As much as I would love to.. OK here are a few teaser pix of the girls.. N...

No she is not drowning. she was showing me she can swim under water with out her tube and stuff..

Mid air jumps off the side of the pool... Ok I am off to bed now.. Take care and sleep well everyone

Isnt It AMAZING

2010-09-11T20:29:00.005-04:00

Here is our latest project Jeff has finished down stairs and we hung up tonight.. its a 6000 piece puzzle.. He has been working on it for about 18 months..It didnt take as much glue.. but it did take one and a half bottles.. Its amazing how much time it has taken to get this done. I know he has taken very long breaks. He got fustrated with this one but he finished it.. the girls actually helped with this one slightly. A piece here and a piece there.. and then I just sorted the colors for him. I dont put the puzzles together to often. I have put one puzzle together.. Anyway I have more pix of other stuff but I had to show this beautiful item off. VV we havent gotten to the puzzles you sent us.

Just different shots of it. Amazing.. this is our bedroom wall..

This one was taken when I got up close because the first two I didnt think I could get a decent shot of it..

Last but not least this one shows how wide it is.. Its as long as Jeff's arms spread out. Its amazing again.. It blows my mind away how big this thing is.. It took me sometime to glue it and it took him about a 18 months to put together.. We have officially run out of room to put up to many more of these big puzzles...

Going to post some Photo's..

2010-09-06T20:26:00.010-04:00

Hi there. I have done something to my right wrist and it hurts like the dickens.. So i am just going to post some photo's.. Enjoy..

The Horicon Marsh....

I have more photo's but I am going to wait to get those posted for when my wrist feels better. i am having a hell of time typing.. enjoy these though .. there are more but these are the ones i liked best.. n

Morning/Afternoon Peeps

2010-09-02T16:53:00.002-04:00

Hi there my fellow peeps. Sorry I have been a way for a while and so long between posts. I have found full time work 3rd shift again but its worth it. I dont know how long it will last but I am going to take the hours when I can get them. The lady that says to come in said that at least another three weeks of this full time and then she doesnt know for sure. But I am taking them as I can get them. I am letting Service Master go.i have given him a some what notice. I told him Tuesday would be my last day. He isnt really happy with me but again he hasnt been happy with me for a while now it seems. He liked what I was doing out at the one building but didnt like what i was doing so well at the Dentist office. So I started looking for more work about a month ago.

Well now I am sitting here and wondering how next week is going to go. I have one more thing to add to this. I have not just found full time work through our temp agency. I have foud and additional 30 hours from a Pizza Place just around the corner from where we live.. That is right walking distance. She interviewed me on Monday and hired me Monday night.. She had one more interview and she wanted me. So not just working 40 hours a week but 70 hours some weeks when the temp job has hours. Or around that. I know I have lost my rocker totally but we need the money.

We have it set up where Jeff and the girls do the kitchen twice a week, the girls clean the livingroom for me every night and i do the rest Saturday afternoon. Or we all pitch in and do the rest. It works for me. But just remember the temp job isnt going to be 40 hours every single week except for the next few weeks.. I am going to be exhausted but I will live with it. I know I have really lost it.

OK on to more stuff. I have photo's to show you but i left my camera in the car again. We went to the wild Life Sanctuary on Saturday and let the girls feed the ducks. Well we went to see the Cougar they had and it had finally passed away. This cougar had been held as a pet illegally for about 5 years or so. It was pretty tame but just didnt have the room to run like it should have. I was sad to see that we would no longer be seeing the cougar.

But we did see the other animals. they have two bob cats and they were actually playing when we went through. they were chasing eachother around and rolling in the grassy part of the cage..

And my favorite is the otters. They were playing too. They were chasing eachother and looking like they wanted to drown eachother in the water. Then they would chase eachother up the slide they have in the cage and then slide back down it into the water. They are so cute. We have went and some times they are sleeping but this day they were very active..

We are home schooling the girls again this year. They will not be returning to a school setting unless something very wrong goes hay wire..But ok I have something I need to do and I will be back later to make rounds or tomorrow after I wake up. Talk soon..

Bummed Out

2010-08-27T16:19:00.004-04:00

Hi all. I am bummed out today. I applied for a day job and they make you take this assessment test to see how well you answer questions and such..Well you need 75% or better to get the second interview and I didn't pass it. I hate when jobs like that judge you on how you answer questions.. Its really stupid OK.. Well in the mean time I called The Temp Agency I was working for last year and I am back at the same place the had me last year. I liked the job but the hours were so sporadic I had found something permanent. Well this time its 3rd shift and its long term for now. i dont like 3rd shift but hey I will take what I can get right now. I am going to keep Service Master for as long as I can stand working both jobs. Its going to be hard to get everything done in my week but you know what I have three helpers at home. they can do what they can and I will pick up the slack. jeff works 50 hours a week too yet so its not like he's not doing anything.. Anyway that is what is going on here. I am working two jobs for the time being. If something comes up where this second job becomes more hours and I cant handle both I will let my measly ten hours a week with Service Master go.

I am only making about 300 dollars a month with him and it seems like everytime I turn around something isnt good enough. I went into clean last night and the parking lot was almost full because of a damned Packer game. they were charging 10 dollars for parking and I told the lady that was charging for the parking if they were going ot charge the cleaning lady 10 dollars i was going home. I didnt have it.. I had my work shirt on but still.. I wasnt happy. i was going to be even more PO if the parking lot was full. I wasnt going ot park 3 blocks away just to clean the office.

I had my phone in my hand when I turned the corner realizing that the parking lot was almost full. I almost hit a car on my way out last night because I didnt see him parked right behind me. Well ok not right behind me but close enough to make it hard to get out of the parking lot. I wasnt a happy camper lets say the least. The Boss at Service Master has been a P A lately and I am sick of him being so picky. I understand that the Dentist office is a perfessional place and has to be spotless because of the patience and other things but he nit picks..

but I am doing better than when I first started at the Dentist office. Lots better. Lets just hope I can keep it up and keep up with the second job. I wont see Jeff much but you know what when I do i will take advantage of it.

Arent they cute. Just something to make you smile at besides my slump I am in.. Talk to you all soon. have a wonderful and pleasant weekend.

Isnt It Beautiful...

2010-08-25T22:06:00.003-04:00

I took this Sunday afternoon.. Isnt it beautiful.. I just love all the pink and then the purple and black of the butterfly..

Hope you all had a great weekend. I know we did.. It was our usual go go and go weekend.. Enjoy the photo..

Zoo Part Two...

2010-08-21T15:30:00.015-04:00

Hello there. Its been a while again.. I am sorry.Just got caught up in life and summer again.. Well here is part two of my Brown County NEW Zoo..

This guy was just sitting there in the water as we walked by and I couldnt pass up taking his photo..

The bald Eagle was in the cage with us and wasnt confined so if he chose to fly over our heads if he could, he would have. such a precious creature.

This one you really have to look and find the Moose.. The other Moose was easier to see because she wasnt in the woods.. I will post both of them. Not reall sure who is who though..

I missed the bobcat, mountain lion and redwolves I believe in this set because I couldnt see my own pictures here.. But they were there in my photo's..

but this is the brown bear they have in captivity.. Isnt he sweet looking but not something you would want to tangle with in real life anywhere. they have two I believe in captivity and I dont remember why either.

Here is my favorite animial is the otter for some reason. I am not sure I caught him or not. I know he was swimming around I didnt see the other one this trip..

I believe these are like four different Maccaws.. Not sure one bit. But arent they beautiful..

These last three are Maccaws for sure.. but the top one up there above pix not so sure anymore.. I love how big these blue ones are.. I know a lady here in Green Bay that has a Maccaw just like the red one in the next photo.

My Girlies.. they were standing in front of the Maccaw cage but I didnt get the birds in the photo like I wanted to.. LOL.. Silly Mommy..

My mom called me a monkey the other day. I told her we went to the Zoo and she asked me if that is where jeff picked me up from??LOL.. silly mommy.. my silly mommy.

The Penquins werent really doing anything on that Sunday. they were just sitting around and looking around at us as we were looking at them. But they last on the walk through the Zoo. So here is the end of the Zoo. Hope you enjoyed walking through and seeing what we saw as best you can with my photo's. enjoy..

For supper tonight we are having something different. I have had them before but not sure what name to put on them. If someone knows please let me know. i can finally put a name to them..

One 10 oz can of Cream of Celery
One 10 oz can of cream of Chicken
I am using like 12 chicken legs boiled and deboned.
a pinch of garlic powder
a pinch of salt and pepper.
Buns and eat them like sloppy joes.

That is our dinner for tonight.. Looking forward to them actually. Its been a long time since I have had them. but if you want to try them let me know what you think of them if you do. they are quite simple or you can use the canned chicken also like the tuna if you want.. I like the boiled chicken method better. It takes longer but i like the chicken better..

Well anyway girls are outside with one of there friends and I have to make sure they arent getting into anything. Hope all is well and you all have an awsome weekend..

Zoo...

2010-08-17T11:49:00.017-04:00

Hi there. We didnt do a thing on Saturday it was to late by time Jeff got home from his half day of work.. So we went on Sunday instead. But we got out.. It was nice Sunday no humidity. It was like some one turned off the heat for a while. Anyway here are some of the animals I got really good pix of. I cant believe how big the Lion cubs have gotten.. There are five Lions at the Zoo now. Three cubs that are now bigger and mom and dad Lion..

Now here are turtles.. I did not get a photo of this but we were standing there watching them and the black turtle must be the female moved and then the big green turtle came out of the water and was trying to mount the black one..lol.. You should have seen the look on the girls faces.. One of the ladies that works there told us if we havent had the talk yet we should before letting them see the turtles do there thing...

Here is the petting Zoo part but I didnt have any quarters this time around and neither did jeff so we didnt get any photo's of the girls feeding the goats.. But we did stop and check them out..

Here are baby Llama's they are sweet arent they..This one here kept rubbing against the rock. almost like he was scratching himself or trying to rub something off.

Here is a spotted Leopard.. Beautiful animal.. Wish I could have gotten closer..

Ok I Know this one is gross but its interesting in the same way.. There are only 33 white albino Alligators in the world including this one.. they have him covered or he will actually sunburn like me or who ever gets really sunburned during the summer..

We didnt get to feed the Giraffes this time around but I did get up close to this one sort of because someone was feeding him or her and I didnt want to get a photo of a stranger so I just took the photo of this persons hand and the Giraffe.. Still pretty dang close to it though..

This bird was not in captivity but it was cool to see anyway.. Its a Cardinal.. It was flying around in the Badgers digs..lol.. Kind of cute if you ask me..

Now here is the good old badger himself.. i took this one as he was rounding the corner from making his rounds around the little open space they have for him.

Now here are two Raccoons.. Arent they the sweetest things here.. Maybe not in real life for those of you who have them in your trash cans but these two are the sweetest looking things.. Eating apples and digging..

Ok I am going to leave this here for now. I have more photo's to share this time but i will split this up. this is most of the way through the Zoo. Maybe half way through.. So its a good stopping point and I will have another post up in a few days after everyone has had time to look and comment. I know how some of you dont like Zoo's and how some of you do.. But these animals I have taken photo's of have been hurt and need to be taken care of and such.

I am working with Kora and Bri on a new school project this year. I have set up pen pals with some of Ruths kids for Kora and Bri to get them used to writing to other kids.. Kids there own ages and such. I wish I had the money to sponsor the two I found for Kora and Bri..

Well that is what is going on here for now.. I cant wait to get started with school here this year. We have to do something with kora this year. Jeff caught her cheating on school work last year and we are going to make her redo last years book plus this years book we buy from Barnes and Noble. It will only take her a five minutes longer to do the work books..

I am sick and tired of the girls thinking i am super mom.. they want to do this and that and I have house work to do. No it cant wait because it has waited almost two weeks to be done.. I have been lazy lately..Ok I am gone. I need to go do what needs to be done.. Life is a bitch and we all live it some how.. I love my girls but I cant always do what they want me to do and I have to work tonight.. I am hoping I get this new job where I can work during the day and not have to rush out the door when Jeff comes home. I hate rushing out the door.. I just hate it three days a week.

I feel like Shitola...and other stuff..

2010-08-12T12:46:00.009-04:00

Hi my friends. i am taking a break from everything today except for sitting on my arse and crocheting here in a few minutes. I feel like someone beat me and left me for dead. I am sore and achy and just feeling like shit... I started last night right before I came home with a sore throat. I thought maybe it was to much Central Air or the Cool air in the car.. So I opened a window in the car and it didnt work. Its to hot and humid to open a house window today.. but feeling achy and just blah I know its a summer cold of sorts..

I went down stairs to swap my laundry because I left some clothes from yesterday that had been bleached in the washer and I felt like i was going to fall down the stairs.. I was just that dizzy.. I am going to fold these two loads of laundry and then park my ass on the couch and crochet for the rest of the day until I have to go to work. I can work like this. I wonder if its because I only had two meals yesterday I feel dizzy. Not enough food in my system..

I dont know whats up but I know I am just taking a break. I am getting enough done to make the house look decent and that is it..You know when Jeff gets sick he doesnt do much and when I am sick and home alone with the girls I am still mom and home maker.. So when he's home I try and take advantage of what he can do for me. I know when I was sick in December over x-mas he did quite a lot for me even with him being sick. We both got hit pretty bad in December. I got it worse than he did though for some reason and the girls didnt get hit at all with the two of us beign ill.. I am suprised..

I know one thing and I hope it never happens again. I slept for almost four days straight back in December and then in February when I started for Service Master I got ill again but not as bad.. I just ended up with stomach problems and having to go to the bathroom alot.. No throwing up that time.. but i still am taking a break fora few days if I can manage. i dont have to work tomorrow thankfully.. I work 3 days a week and I need more hours but I need to find another job..

I have a job interview on Monday at 10 AM.. Wish me luck and send good vibes.. I need this extra job. I am going to run both of them as long as I can. We are in need of money. Jeff has an idea for an extra job he can manage too.. I will tell you about that when he finds out if the company will hire him..

Other wise life is good here. I am still working on my blanket and some smaller things for my shop. I made some hats recently. I could post pix here.. I might as well. I copied a pattern but it didnt turn out right.. lol..

The pink one is the one i copied a pattern but it didnt turn out the way it was suppose to and i think it looks cute with the way it did.. enjoy.

Green one i made up with my own pattern sort of like the one I used for the pink one but slightly different.

This one here I made with an Emerld Green and Avacado knitting yarn.. I had some left over from someone who gave me some knitting yarn. I have noticed it makes crocheting items just as nice.

Then here are all three hats.. I brought them in and used the arm of my chair to take these...

Life in the R household.. I am always doing something and so are the rest of us. Kora is learning to crochet slowly. She has her own hook and ball of yarn but refuses to practice and I might enforce it once school starts as an art project.

Bri is learning to finger crochet making a chain and just tearing it out and working on that right now. I dont have the patience to help her with a hook yet. they both want to learn but refuse to sit and practice.. sounds like a child huh??LOL..

Ok I am off to fold his uniforms and then rest until my whites are done drying and then that is it for today. I will make rounds tomorrow. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend if I dont talk to any of you until monday or so.. Happy weekend..

UPDATE.. feeling better and have a post tomorrow but dont have time tonight.. i am hoping to have good news tomorrow too.. keep your fingers toes and other things crossed for me please.. good thoughts coming my way please..

just my girls and friends

2010-08-10T14:21:00.009-04:00

here are some photo's of the girls playing in the neighbors pool last week. i wasnt even in the pool and i got sunburned.. my back mainly. i was just watching them.

MISS S making my sugar bag into her new bed...lol.. Since I quit drinking soda all together we are going through more sugar so we buy the 25lb bags of it and freeze it where we dont have ant problems upstairs..

MISS S all tuckered out again and sleeping where i sit to watch tv and crochet.. Lil poop.. but i love her to death.. She is my other fury child and she is spoiled and knows it..

Just stuff..

2010-08-08T15:37:00.010-04:00

hi there. I know its sunday and I posted yesterday too.. but I wanted to apologize for my shitty book review. I am good at reading a book but horrible at giving details about the book afterwards.. I know some of you follow what i am saying and some of you dont..

Here are some new things i added to my other blog just now also. Hope you enjoy them as much I did making them.. I love making things..

Here is last but not least.. I love how it turned out and its really big.. Its 5 inches wide by 158 inches long with the pockets. The pockets have white fringes on them.. Matching hat to go with it..

I keep saying you like what I have just e-mail me or put up a Etsy buyers account and buy away.. I love what I do and I hope you enjoy looking.. N.

Nora Jane by Ellen Gilchrist

2010-08-07T10:16:00.003-04:00

Some of you may have been left alone with a drunk mother or no father at all in some cases.. Well this book is fiction but this poor little girl named Nora Jane has been there and done that basically.. You get left alone and dont know what to do and dont know who to love or trust when you are older.. And you only have one person who loves you and they leave you.

Well a anyway Nora Jane A l ife in Stories..

Nora Jane was only 4 years old when her father died in the war.. She spent many days with her grandmother. Nora's mother was so depressed she got drunk after Nora's father passed away.. Her grandmother said NJ's mother wasnt strong.. And this went on for years.. When NJ was 14 she had to sell stuff just to pay her way into her Catholic School she was attending because they were just that poor.

At the age of 19 she met this guy and they hooked up and they lived together for a about a year. He taught her how to steal and rob things.. Real good theif in my boook..lol... OK OK. anyway she wanted to go to SF too so she needed money. She decided she was going to rob the nearest bar. She checked it out and found who goes there and such..

Well in the process she gets it done and takes the money and runs.. She gets to SF and finds her way to Sandy's place. Its deserted and no one home. She breaks a window and goes in and makes herself at home. He never shows up while she is there..

One day she is out and reading a book and this guy notices her and asks what she likes to read and she answered him. Well he goes I know a real good book store around the corner and takes her to his book store. The door is locked and it confuses her at first when he takes the keys out of his pocked and unlocks the door. Well they walk back to the office and she tries to rob him but she talks her out of it. She is scared shit less at this point.

Freddy talks NJ into going home with him and just staying for the night. Watching movies and talking.. NJ agree's to this. She is hungry and scared so this makes sense to her. Well in the weeks to follow NJ sort of falls for Freddy but not as hard as Freddy has fallen for her. So you have to guess here that Sandy shows up in the picture too.

this makes things upside down for both NJ and Freddy. NJ says she is done with Sandy but something goes wrong and she ends up calling sandy and they end up in bed together and then some thing really serious happens..

NJ ends up pregnant and doesnt know who the father is.. Oh goodness gracious.. they did a test but both guys were the same blood type.. Well she tells both guys and she leaves Freddy and decides to give it a whirl with Sandy one more time. He ends up leaving her in the middle of the pregnancy and going off. He just needs some time. he left all his money to her..

Well in the midst of this all she figures she needs to see Freddy and she knows he is at Willits and she is like 7 or 8 months preggo.. She calls the neighbor out there and goes and see's him.. its winter time and the roads are horrible out by the house in Willits. So you can sort of guess what happens after Freddy picks NJ up at the train station. they get to the house and they eat and talk and go to bed. NJ wakes up all wet.. Her water broke..

She ends up giving birth to twin girls.. Lydia and Tamili. Well Freddy delivers them himself and then goes to the neighbors house to have him call in help.. He comes back and fires up the fire even more to warm the room for the new babies.

Well NJ and Freddy decide to stay together with the babies and they finally get married. NJ and Freddy are in the pool house one afternoon and this neighbor kid finds himself in there yard and falls into there pool.. Mother instinct or not NJ senses something wrong.. Well she saves him and the grandmother to the child calls his mother and she comes and gets him reluctantly.

Well along with the mother of the child NJ saves is her old boyfriend Sandy.. Well they book it out of the neighbors house and leave there house because they didnt really want to see Sandy and want him to claim what could have been his after 10 years. He had never seen the twins and so far didnt care to see them. Well in the process after NJ and Freddy and girls left, Sandy went over and broke in to see what NJ had made of herself. He saw the pix of the girls and was astonished.. But he never went after them.

There was love lost and gained in this book. Actually alot going on really.. Have you ever felt you have met your true love right away. Or have you had to think about it? I know when teens fall in love for the first time they have this mister right or miss right..

Well lets just say things turn around at the end of the book for some friends of NJ's and Freddy's.. They end up finding the perfect people and end up getting married to these people.. Everyone is so happy. You know in real life this doesnt always happen. But sometimes it does. But not often.

You have lost people do to certain illnesses also. Well Freddy ends up with Cancer and they beat it but its the thought of losing him after all these years and with kids. Yes Freddy and NJ had a little boy they named little Freddy.

Well you will just have to read the book I guess to find out everything I missed in my review wont you??LOL.. I missed alot because I hate giving to much of the book away. It was one of my bargain books from Half Price Books I got for a dollar. It was ok I have to say.. I will give it a 8/10 tweets..

EAA 2010

2010-08-04T12:58:00.002-04:00

EAA Airventure has come and gone already.. We took the girls out to his mothers house two days before it started. Well we went this year on the first day and it was the most horrible EAA exp we have had. We usaully get there in time to walk around and see the planes and such but this time we got there just in time to see the Air Show..

Well we were expecting to see the military Jets they have usually but on the first day they must not have them because all they did was the air show and the planes did the same things basically. I was cool to see but boring after the first two planes because after that you knew what they were going to do. If they are going to have a show like that they should really say what is going on, on which days..

Then they had Chicago come in and sing and you couldnt see a thing.. We are short people in this house hold.. We arent very tall and with the group they had no one was sitting down and you couldnt hear them right. i wanted to see/hear them at least in concert.

The total exp just sucked this year. I have photo's but t hey didnt come out to well. I posted three of them in my last post. I have my video's of the Airventure but I need to upload them to FB first I have learned.. I dont know why I cant upload my video's to blogger from my computer anymore..lol..

I am working on a new baby blanket and reading. I am not doing much. Just trying to enjoy whats left of summer and being cool.. Its so hot here right now. I am using a petal pink and heather grey for my blanket with a blueberry pie color for the edging when i am done with it..

I have finished a book and need to get the review out soon before i forget what it was about.. it was a dry book but some one else might like it.

Ok I am off to put my dishes in the dish washer and finish my last load of laundry from yesterday. talk to you all soon. hope you are enjoying your summer for those of you who havent posted in a while.. miss you all. talk soon. N..

This last week..

2010-08-01T13:43:00.005-04:00

Hi all.. Sorry I have been missing. I have had a hard week. We brought the girls to his mothers house last Saturday and we had a wonderful week alone but I have had some emotional ups and downs.. I havent felt like being alone much while he was on vacation this week.

Saturday we brought the girls to his mothers house and then we came home and did nothing maybe played some yaztzee but not much else going on.

Sunday I dont remember so well..LOL.. I think we just layed around and watched tv and played more yaztzee and I finished up a couple of projects I had been working on.

Monday we got wristbands to go to EAA in Oshkosh again this year. One of the guys Jeff works with got them for us. I wanted to go Monday because they had the Group Chicago there for a concert and I wanted to see them live but I didnt of course because we had so many tall people in front of us and they refused to sit down. I was pissed off, hot and hungry.. LOL..

Tuesday we spent at home because we both were to hot and miserable from Monday and I had to work Tuesday. I almost lost my job tuesday night. I went into work and found they had used my mop to clean up some water in the basement. I went along with my work and didnt realize the mop looked like shit and I turned lights off as I went and didnt do a final walk through. Well The Boss Called Wednesday and said this is my last chance to get it right or i am done.

Wednesday we went to a state park and just sat around reading and getting chewed on by the bugs. So we came home. I applied at a gas station when we stopped for some gas before going out to the park.. I dont have a safety selling liquor thingingy so i dont think they will be calling me back anytime soon. Even I wanted to get one just to put on the application I dont know where to start..

Thursday we spent around the house again I believe.. And I went back to work and found my final notice in my bucket and I took four hours to get the job done right when it was only suppose to have taken me 3 1/4 hours. I took an extra 45 minutes to do the job 100% like he wants me to do it..He was going over there Friday to see how I did and he never called on Friday so knock on Wood that he doesnt call tomorrow complainging.

Friday was payday and we figured out our bills of course and then we went bowling and then to Red Robin for dinner and then home. We were going go to a movie but there was nothing interesting at the theater.. Before we left Friday for our date Jeff's moms partner calls and asks if we could come get the girls because she threw her back out.

Saturday we took our trip out there and picked up the girls.. They were more than ready to come home with attitudes in tow.. LOL.. They enjoyed there time away but they were ready to come home. I was ready for them to come home I missed them terribly.

Today I am sitting here alone with the computer and jeff is down stairs. The girls are outside across the street playing with the kids. I mowed the lawn today and I have one load of laundry in the dryer. I will catch up with that tomorrow. I washed Jeff's hats for for work. they arent part of his uniform but he likes wearing them because of the sores on his head..

Give me a few days to catch up on house work and spending time with the girls when they decide to come home from there friends house and I will give my two cents on EAA this year. I wish we could have seen Chicago though. that woudl have been really neat. Even if we couldnt have seen them up close but we couldnt even hear them with the crowd they had with all the damned chatter even after they got started.. It was bull shit to be honest with you.. Well anyway this is where I have been hiding and I will be around to make rounds later or tomorrow sometime. Hope you all had a wonderful week also..

I enjoyed every minute with my hubby.. Now I just have an emotional problem to fix for myself.. Not sure if its because I didnt cry one time while the girls were gone or just me.. No its not that time of month either people.. I had that before we took the girls to his mothers house..LOL...

People.. In General...

2010-07-22T10:54:00.002-04:00

Hi there.. Over on Tuesday I had company from out of state for a little bit. They were driving from Chicago to Appleton WI.. And we are half an hour from Appleton. They came and visited us.. Well I have known this couple for almost 30 years.. I was six when I met them. M was my bus driver for kindergarden.. and his wife M met my mom after I accidently forgot to get off the bus one day. I was day dreaming and forgot where my stop was..LOL.. Six year olds are funny people..

Well M and M brought there grandson to Chicago to see his other grandma and decided since they were going to Appleton they could swing up here to visit too. Just a quick visit. It was a nice visit. Well anyway M and M's grandson has some problems and I knew about most of them.. He turned 5 today. I bought him a card and a dollar truck.. L the mother didnt even say thank you.. Rude little bitch if I have ever seen one in my life.

I have known her since she was about 3 and she is just rude. I hate when I see kids I have known that long and they are rude with me or my family.. Jeff and Mr M dont get along at all.. Jeff cant stand the way Mr M talks to people.

Well anyway I had to go get Jeff while they were here and Mr.M just took me because he said if he has to move the truck he might as well drive it.. So we went and got Jeff and you should have seen the look he gave me when I told him that he had to get in the back seat..LOL... It was funny.. But it wasnt a bad look. Nor disgust just a what the hell look basically..

But anyway.. Jeff and I had a small bet that J was potty trained. I guess it was more wishful thinking on my part for him having problems.. I guess according to my mom he cant talk, he can barely hear anything.

But my point to this all is that you can teach a mentally retarded child to use the toilet, a blind child you can teach, a deaf child.. So why cant they teach J to go to the bathroom also.. they dont force him.. My mom has told me J takes off his diapers and runs around naked but they just put him in another one and put his clothes back on him. He doesnt want to be in those diapers but doesnt know how to get out of them..

I feel sorry for him. I asked my mom yesterday while talking to her if that is borderline abuse.. I mean he is five and ready for the toilet and has been for some time now and they keep him diapers.. Come on. He has been giving them hints since he was like 18 months my mom has told me. She has watched the little guy for L when she has had to work..

You know how sick it makes me to see this. I dont know if its because my girls were exceptionally smart at the age of 18-20 months or what but they were both done by time they were 2.. it took us like 3 months with Kora to get her all the way done but we got it done.

Bri took like a month with night time. It was hit or miss with her at night time for me.. It took me a long time to get to her before she peed the bed.. I hated using diapers at night with her..

So what is wrong with these people that a five year old is still in diapers???? I dont get it..

Its like a neighbor girl I am not sure if I have mentioned or not. She is Bri's age and she still shits herself at night.. She cant go to Kindergarden until they stop her from doing that. She wont ask for anything. Daddy has to ask for her. She was here last week and she refused to ask for a glass of water and I refused to get her one until she asked for it.. Daddy isnt always going to be there to ask for her.. I may seem mean but come on.. Life isnt easy and I see it as you have to learn to ask for your self..

When we go out to McD's or any restaraunt for that matter both of my girls order for themselves.. Now that both girls can read for the most part. Bri struggles a little bit yet but not as bad as she did at the beginning of last year..

I hate comparing my kids to other peoples kids.. I just dont know if its because they are smarter or the way they are brought up.. I just dont know. but I try.

Ok I am off and will be around later maybe. I made rounds yesterday..

Sad,Sad,Sad

2010-07-19T15:53:00.011-04:00

Hi all. I am sad today. I got a call from my Boss and I have been taken off one of my new accounts. Its the bank I was cleaning. Friday when I was there I opened one of the doors and I cleaned the windows and I came back into the building and swore I locked the door behind me. but I guess I didnt and he wont give me another chance.. He said I am not ready for it.. I have left lights on and he also said I dont do a final walk through but you know what oh well.. I will make it and do better on the other two accounts I have. I thought maybe it was to many accounts at once.. Not sure.. Anyway I am sad about the account but I am filling out applications to fill in the hours I am missing already..

Anyway on a lighter note here are some photo's I took on Friday afternoon and others I took before then.. the ones of Kora and Bri and there friend B on the slip and slide were taken from inside the house.. I took them through the window..

This photo was taken on my way into the bank and the rest are taken on my way home.. enjoy.. they arent as pretty as I have seen but i had my camera on Friday with me..

Enjoy.. I took the girls to Bay Beach on Friday afternoon after I got done working at the Dentist office. I have said it before but anytime after 5:30 PM on Thursday through Sunday afternoon.. So I went to work early Friday morning and got the Dentist office out of my way and then we went out for the afternoon.. The girls rode for a while and then we went home. It was way to hot to hang around and ride the adult rides.. they wanted to go on the scrambler but I was way to hot to stand in line.. There were way to many people there for a Friday afternoon or it seemed that way anyway.. LOL.. Ok Ok I am off. I need to run to the store for a few things for dinner.. Hope all is good with my friends..

Life here in The R house hold...

2010-07-15T10:58:00.002-04:00

Hi there. It stormed like crazy yesterday here.. I ended up in the basement for an hour because they said we might have 70 mile an hour winds.. It was possible. So the girls and I headed down stairs for a while.. I turned on the weather radio and listened to that for a while.. Then last night I went to work and it had stopped for a while but I was just taking the trash out and it started up again. One bolt of lightening I thought was going to hit the building as I went outside to dump the trash and recycling..

To be honest with you I think its a waste of money for me to be out in this building once a week. I know I am keeping it clean for those that use it yet but once a week.. I suppose I shouldnt complain and just do the job..

Here is another funny thing. Tuesday I cleaned the Dentist office.. I was dusting off a table and it had one of those little signs in the plastic cover ok.. It said we offer Conscious Sedation.. To me Sedation means sleeping..LOL. I thought that was funny as hell..I had the boss walk me through the Dentist Office this last Friday.I met him out there and we walked through because I wanted to show him some stuff I was worried about. This is one building I hate being in after dark so I am moving my schedule around slightly for the second day I clean this building. I have to clean it Tuesdays and anytime after 5:30 on Thursday through Sunday afternoon. So I am planning on moving my Thursday evenings to Friday afternoons and then heading over to the Bank.. all over town.. Wish i was getting paid just a tad more than I am though..

After a certain amount of time arent employers suppose to do a review of your work.. Or is that not a set thing??

Anyway the bank account is going well. I got a note from The Boss and it said I forgot the toilets in the basement next to the breakroom.. then it was crossed out when he realized those are only done on Tuesdays..LOL.. and then I left some trash bags on the middle piece where people fill out there checking account forms and such..LOL. I knew about those..

Sometimes wish I could get 40 hours in cleaning.. then I wouldnt want to clean my own house though..LOL.. But It would be great to be making the money that I was when I was at McD's.. I know I am nuts. I would be working late at night again I dont want that really. I enjoy my schedule now because I come home and have an hour with the girls before they go to bed and then Jeff and I have a few hours together and we play yahtzee lately and then we can watch a movie if we want to also..

The girls scared the shit out of me the other day. Bri came in and asked to go into a neighbors house and I said no.. Well I went to check the mail and they were no wehre in site.. I was yelling my lungs out for them and then realized where they had gone. I was one pissed off mama.. Jeff and I have decided that they arent allowed to play with this neighbor unless he comes down here. He seems to get the girls to go places they arent suppose to go.. I have pix but I dont want to just upload four pix..

I have some more stuff in the making for my Etsy site. I have finished my 50 hair scrunchies for a fellow blogger.. I suppose I could take pix of those and post those too when I get around to posting pix. I am working on some pretty dish cloths.

We had to switch our phone and internet to U-Verse because the old wires were going out and I hate it. We have lost a lot of stuff with U-verse. We have lost our star 69. and Calling Waiting.. We are going to Cancel the cable we got free for one month because we cant afford it.. But for them to transfer the internet box we had to have the cable for one month. They wanted us to try there cable for one month and get free installation. I dont see how they can charge an existing customer installation when they are upgrading there wires anyway.. We are going from a regular wire to Optical Wire.. I hate AT&T..

Anyway that is what is going on here.. Not much else. We are taking the girls out to his mothers house the last week of July but Jeff has to call his mother tonight.. MOM and S if you read this before Jeff calls you let him call you before you call me..LOL...

Ok OK I am off to do some crocheting for now and then doing some dishes later this afternoon or we wont be able to eat tonight.. Talk soon my friends.. I make rounds every so often.. I even post every few days.. I havent been on Etsy lately either. I need to make a few sales there before posting anything new on there. I dont have any money left in pay pal..

hi there...

2010-07-11T11:04:00.003-04:00

Hi I a still here. I have been trying to figure out what to write about.. I have a book review I think I will do..

A Place of Hiding by Elizabeth George

China River is out taking photographs of somone in the desert and when she gets home her brother Cherokee is half naked in her front yard.. She asks what he's doing there and he wanted to talk to her.. He wanted to talk to her about an adventure of her life time. He had a plan to buy a boat.But he needed her help. He needed her help as a wife instead of sister to go to Guernsey with him and give some plans from an architecht to a man that is building a museum. China didnt want to go at first. But she finally agreed to it.

They get to Guernsey and Guy Bourard meets them and has a party with the plans of the war time museum he is going to build.. Then Guy goes out for one of his early morning swims and later that day they find him dead.. His sister Ruth wakes up as he is going down to the water and see's this woman following him. She thinks she knows who it was.

Well in the mean time China Rivers has been arrested for the murder and her brother goes to London to fetch Debora and Simon. Debora is just finishing up on a Gallery she had. Everyone was just leaving and then the door bell sounded.. They thought it was a friend of theres.. But it was Cherokee Rivers at the door. Simon had no idea who the man was but Debora had a slight clue until he called her Debs.. Then she recognized him 100%..

They took him under there wing and asked how they could help him.. Well he needed help with the American Ambassy. Well Debora said they couldnt do a thing until mornig so why doesnt Cherokee stay the night.. So they feed him and put him in the spare bedroom. Morning rolls around and he is ready to go..

He tells Debora and Simon his sister has been arrested in Gursney for murder. Debora cant believe her long lost friend has commited such an act. So she decides she is going to go help her..

Simon goes over to Gursney with them and goes and talks to the local police.. Asks a few questions.. And then Debora meets up with her old friend because she has been released into a special set of apts but cant leave the Island.. she is still under suspicion.

Going on further into the book they start investigating people.. then cherokee is arrested.. they found some opiate with his finger prints on it.. So China is let go and Cherokee is arrested.

But Paul Fielder finds a painting and brings it to Ruth after the funeral and the cops are called because someone thinks he stole it.. But Ruth defends the boy. She said Guy had him holding it for me for my B-day.. So Paul was let go. Lots going on in this book. Trying to figure out where to go next without rewriting the whole book..

Well here we go I will do this I am going to skip to the end part of the book.. Bare with me..

Well they end up letting Cheorkee go also.. They tell the Rivers siblings they have one day to get off the Island and go home or back to Rome if they wish to go.. Simon had found some information out and was laying a trap for one of them..

Well in the end the trap worked.. That is all I am going to say. I am not saying who or what it was that got trapped.. Enjoy if you read this book. I know I did..

I have noticed it takes me longer to read a hard cover book than a soft cover book for some reason.. I dont know why.. LOL. But I will give this book an 8 out of ten tweets..

2010-07-07T15:01:00.002-04:00

Part one of my fireworks show from down town July 4th,2010...

I had to take these in segments or I wouldnt have had enough video to take the grand finalle. Enjoy... I got these off my facebook page. So they came off my camera.. Go me.. I have three kids outside playing in the water..

Holiday Weekend not Very Eventful...

2010-07-06T15:18:00.013-04:00

Hi there. here are some pix and what went on this weekend. Not very eventful..We spent Saturday out and about but Sunday Jeff went and helped a friend of ours move his store into the moving truck where he could be on the road to California today. And then we went and helped him clean up last night. I took my Kirby over and impressed him with how well it sucked up the stuff on the floor.

On our way back to the head of the trail Saturday we came across this lady that had fallen off her bike. Thankfully someone else had come across her first. I had left my damned Cell Phone home that morning. I had no way of helping her. When we got to her she wasnt responsive and she was bleeding perfusely from the head. It was scary really to see someone like that.

They took her into one of the hopsitals and I am hoping she is alright. she might have given herself one heck of a concussion..

I talked to my boss today and he is proud of what i am doing. I have missed a few things in each of the new buildings but he said to fix those as i go in and its because they are new to me. I will fix the Dentist office tonight since that is my first night back at work for this week. I have been working four nights a week but still getting most of my hours in.

I have the Dentist office twice a week and my original account once a week now and then a bank to do on Friday's.. So I am busy but we had a good laugh today when I talked to the boss. I was telling him that the Dentist office was creepy on thursday and he agreed with me and forgot to tell me about the building shifting..

Why is it me lately. the girls just cant seem to get along. I have to go deal with the shit going on there. Have a wonderful week and I will be making rounds in the next few days..

Thanks Mike S.

2010-07-02T14:28:00.002-04:00

Have a great weekend my friends. And have a safe Holiday.. Happy 4th of July..

AWWW isnt this cute

2010-07-01T10:15:00.009-04:00

Got this one from Jeff's mom and partner. Isnt it cute..

It says "The photographer must have been happy" above the pix..

"Friendship isn't about who you have known the longest
It's about those who came and never left your side ...."

So true isnt it?? I love it.. I know for real most animals wont do this in these photo's but its great to see this.. You never know what a kitten might do. Its like if we brought a bird into the house with Snowie now. She would attack it.. But when she was a kitten you just never know.. you teach them.. So its cute anyway..

We didnt do anything this Weekend.

2010-06-29T13:00:00.004-04:00

Hi there.. We did nothing this weekend. It was a lazy weekend. I worked Saturday for my training for my second day for the Dentist office for The Boss. They do stuff in the office and its harder to keep clean..and then it rained I believe Saturday afternoon..

And cleared back out.. LOL.. so the girls got some outside time. We put up the slip and slide and a neighbor boy came down and played with them.. And then about 45 minutes later everything got to quiet outside. The girls had taken off down the street to another house to play without asking.. I wasnt happy about it. they are grounded to the inside of the house for a while. I have been really tired lately. Just not sure why.. We have the phone company coming over today to hook up U-Verse for us. We are going to try there cable for one month and see what we like about it.. We are getting a 200 dollar card to pay for our first month and then after than it should go down about 100.00 dollars..

Sunday we spent laying around and just being a lazy weekend. Jeff has something wroing with his feet. they are peeling really bad and just dont know whats wrong.. He thinks it from the Pool. Right after we went in the pool he started having troubles. We think the chlorine got to him.. He has what looked like a heat rash and then his feet and hands started peeling dead skin real bad.. I havent been in the pool in a two weeks or so now myself.. But I suppose i need to go and do some stuff before the cable and phone guy gets here.. Hope you all have a great week and I will tell more about the two new accounts later on this week after I get my feet wet by myself with out my trainer in the accounts..

some pix of a storm that went over head

2010-06-25T11:23:00.010-04:00

My newest items I have made.. The girls as my models like usual.. I have the one Kora is wearing for 20.00 dollars and 4.00 dollars for shipping. the one Bri is wearing for 15.00 dollars I believe and 3.00 dollars for shipping. and the potholders are in sets of two so they are 15.00 dollars a set and 3.00 for shipping also.. OK I am off to spend sometime outside with my whiny girls.. have a wonderful weekend.. N..

These photo's are suppose to be bottom to top. but I didnt feel like copying and pasting today.. I promised the girls I would go spend sometime outside with them..so that is where I am heading..

just because...

2010-06-22T11:54:00.007-04:00

Here are some just because photo's..Let them speak for themselves... I wish I could get my video's to load. After we get our updated phone line I will see about uploading video's again on here. Maybe that is the problem.. but here are some photo's for now..

I am working on my 50 hair scrunchies yet and I have like 19 of them done and I have some other stuff i am working on yet. I made four new pot holders..

Oh boy have we got some whiny children.. I am going to go set up the slip and slide for the girls.. We bought them one for 5.00 dollars the other day because the neighbor girls have one and ours wanted one.. But now the neighbor girls dont want to play down here. I think its bullshit to be honest..

I just dont get it.. These three new little girls are new to the neighborhood and I totally understand about there parents not knowing us but still.. Ok OK I am gone to go help my girls put up there new toy.. I also read on the slip and slide adults arent suppose to use it.. My hands really hurt from all the crocheting I am doing.. I have a hat in progress. Its turning out really nice. Its a child size hat. the only thing I am not sure if i will get down or not is the brim of the hat. Its a summer hat..Hopefully..LOL.. OK OK I am really gone.. Have a great week my friends..

I Almost Had a Heart Attack Last Night...

2010-06-18T11:01:00.003-04:00

I cant even begin to explain what happened. I went to work and did my job and on the way home i was coming down one of the country roads that I have figured is actually five minutes faster to get home. Well I saw something to the Left of me but wasnt sure what it was until it ran out in front of me. I had to lock up the breaks and nearly missed hitting two DEER!!!! I hate hunters that kill deer for meat. I wouldnt make it in a world where we had to kill deer for food.. I had a panic attack and had to call Jeff and have him talk me through it until I was calm enough to drive again.

I hate driving at night for one thing and this didnt help me like driving at night. they were beautiful animals.. I cant believe I saw two of them. But I think when they travel they travel in two's like that.

Anyway that is what happened and now on to the job.. It only takes me 3 hours to complete the whole shabang. That is with no desks being cluttered with junk and such. It gives a test on how well I really know my job though.. LOL!!!

I start the new one day account tonight..i was told that the pay is lower out there because the job isnt that hard but instead of lowering the pay from job to job he is going to leave it at 8.50 an hour. He said he's going to leave it that way because he likes what I am doing.. I was also told he barely has to go out to the first job site when I was there 5 days a week because he couldnt find anything wrong with the job to check..LOL.. GO ME!!!

We went to Walmart last night and got Jeff a new lunch box and went to the make up section because Kora wanted to see what she liked for nail polish. She chose this really neat glittery pink stuff. Its called Pure Ice Spit Fire.. I picked up some more clear while we were in the aisle.

Snowie has her shots today.. Poor Kitty... I hate when any one has to get shots. I hate them even to this day and age. They hurt not long but they still hurt.Like Jeff and I were talking its not bad for the vet once a year. She is acutally quite low maintence comapared to some animals.. I have a friend on Etsy and she adopted a dog with cancer and she is dishing more money on the dog but she loves the dog.. I dont blame her.. I would do the same for Snowie if it came down to it.

Is it just my cat or do all cats purrrr and dont stop when they are happy.. Snowie tends to be a purrer.. She sleeps by my butt after Jeff leaves and then she just purrs.. She vibrates the bed. Or when she's sleeping you can hear her across the room.. Boy does she love purring.. She is on the desk right now watching me but not purring but with me..

I have 15 scrunchies made for a fellow blogger I am helping out for a Farmers Market in Sept. Waiting for my other five balls of thread to show up where I have enough thread.. I bought two balls of Mexicana, one black,chambray,shaded blues. I thought there was one more.. there might be one more..

The girls went swimming yesterday in the pool. would love to let them go today too but we are suppose to have real bad storms later this afternoon and putting the top back on the pool is a bitch by myself. The girls arent tall enough to help me yet..

We had some guy here last night trying to sell us life insurance and Jeff is thinking about it.. But we told him we have to wait and see where my job is taking me. We are living paycheck to paycheck and its hard.. Esp with my medical bills yet from my foot.. Sure we have insurance but it only covers 80% and that 20% is what we are struggling with to pay. but it will get paid.. Just dont know when..

I have a friend on Etsy she used to make candles but she is an artist first. She made these really neat candles that she sold to me. They are chocolate Smores. They have one or two real marshmallows in them and boy do they smell like chocolate when they burn.. they smell so good you almost want to eat them.

Ok I have to run. I have babbled enough here for now.. Take care and I will make rounds in a bit..

UP Date on work..I just talked to the Boss. It takes me 3 hours to do the one job I mentioned earlier and he has a bank account for me one day a week and now he has one more account 2 days a week 3-4 hours a night.. Its at a dentist office.. So I am back to almost 15 hours a week. go me... I am so excited...

I am still here...

2010-06-14T10:58:00.005-04:00

Hi there. i am still here. Just havent had much to say or much to show you guys and gals.. Its been wet and dreary here and I have been slightly depressed but doing ok with it.. I have been keeping it away from the girls. The Boss has some leads for more hours but he has to win the bids on them first..

Call me crazy but my palms itch really bad when money is involved. I just cant predict when its coming. Jeff thinks I am nuts but its true. Everytime my palms itch we get some kind of money. I am not sure if I did the right thing or not. I am not quitting Service Master but I did apply with another McD's here in town.. Different owner, different management.. I dont think I will get it.. I am sort of hoping I dont get it. We could use the money but I thought with different people it might be ok but now after bringing the application back I am not so sure..

We went grcocery shopping on Saturday after Jeff came home from work and then Sunday we sat on our behinds...

I have made two headbands and I am working on an order for 50 scrunchies for a fellow blogger who is going to help me out at alocal Farmers Market in September.. I have eight of the scrunchies done.. go ME!!!!!!

I need to clean house and then go mow the lawn if it doesnt rain on me first.. It has been rainy and such the last week. Just a yuckie week. Jeff and I bought a Yahtzee game.. Miss playing with him.. Yikes.. not much to say.. Hold on I have a couple of pix.. Just let me find them..

Bris party and family...

2010-06-08T12:38:00.012-04:00

Hi there. Sorry I have been absent lately. My parents were here from Friday to early yesterday morning.. The party was ok.. The kids we invited never showed up.. So it was more of an adult party and i wasnt real happy about that. But what can you do.. Jeff's brother and his wife came with there daughter. She is so cute.. She wouldnt let me hold her but i got to play with her none the less..

Jeff and my dad..(Ken)..

my mom and Kora. I couldnt get one of the three of them..

here is Kora, Brianna and our beautiful red headed niece Jillian... Isnt she cute..

here is the R lineage.. Daddies and there girl(s)....

Bri's cake. It isnt the one she wanted but its the one she chose and it as 14 dollars cheaper than the one she wanted. And it was the same size.

Bri and Jillian... Jillian liked the girls.. It was so sweet..

Bri and her cake.. Blowing out candles..

Jeffs brother, his wife and Jillian again. boy doesnt Jeff and his brother look alot alike...

Bri and her presents..

Bri got 20.00 dollars from the next door neighbor and she went to the dollar tree and got one ball, a dollar batan, a play horse, and watering can and a coloring book and then she went to Walmart and got a dress.

Then she got 12.00 more dollars between her cousin Julie and her boyfriend and she got a cute pair of pink sandls yesterday.. And some candy with her money from Julie.

She was so cute when we went into the stores. She paid for her own instead of having me do it. they are growing up so dang fast..

I dont want to put a damper on the beautiful party but we are going to be having problems in the next few months.. I havent been fired but the building I clean is putting there office people in another building and that building has a cleaner already. And I am going to be cleaning the building I have once a week instead of five days a week. There wont be anyone there so I only get it once a week. But the boss has another account for me but its only once a week for another 2 1/2 hours. i am slightly depressed. he has two bids out there for two more accounts he wants to hand one over to me. but he said it could take up to a week or a month.. He isnt sure. He is hoping he gets one of them for me.. I am hoping he gets one of them for me.

I had other pix to post of Sunday but you know what I thought I had uploaded them and accidently deleted them.. Dang me... LOL... Ok Ok. I am gone.. Talk soon.. N.

Celebrate Depere

2010-06-02T12:20:00.013-04:00

Jeff found out what Celebrate Depere is.. Celebrate Depere is the joining of East and West Depere Wisconsin.. They joined these two sides ten years ago. So they do this on Memorial Day Weekend... There were bands and fire works, and alot of things.. We only went one day of the three..

The only band we really saw was called The President's. They were pretty cool. I have a video of them but of course I cant get my video's to upload here on blogger for some dang reason.. I just dont get it..

Kora doesnt like the tilt a whirl so we let her sit by the side of the ride while we took Bri on it.. boy did Bri like that one.. It runs faster than the one we have at Bay Beach Amusement Park..

The girls on some rides.. they enjoyed themselves since they dont get to go on many of the different ones. I want to take them to the County Fair this year for that experince..

Mr Billy and the girls... and some other childrens artists that the girls like..

Well that was Sunday but I should have started with Saturday but forgot I had pix of our day out and we ended up buying a brand new BBQ grill last night. I had to sell my Van but the guy that bought it said it wasnt worth more than 150 dollars.. We got robbed of 950 dollars when we bought the van.. This guy that bought it is a professional. He buys cars and then sells them at auctions.. Or fixes them up and then sells them at Auctions..

So we had enough for the rest of the party items and our new grill.. Its really nice one. I didnt want a gas grill and it seems that is all they sell now a days.. We found a charcol one but it was sort of expensive.. Try like 55.00 dollars for a 22 inch BBQ grill. But I think its a name brand so its a little more expensive.. I will have pix of Saturday up soon and then this coming Saturday we have Bris party pix too.. Lots of stuff coming up.. and then the fourth of July stuff and wow. Just life in general..

Have a great week and I hope to make rounds soon.. N

Just some pix

2010-05-27T11:03:00.014-04:00

Look really close in this first pix coming up.. Its beautiful. i was just walking out of work and had my camera in my hand last night.. and this is what I saw..

Thats all folks...LOL.. ok not much to say but these are what i have taken in the last week.. hope you enjoy them.. will be more this weekend because we are going to Celebrate Depere Days and Saturday a famous Band is coming to town.. We arent going Saturday though. Cant afford both days. Wish we could.. Well anyway I have to go for now.. Happy weekend if I dont post anything again for a while.. N..

Last nights Sun Set and MY DREAM HOUSE

2010-05-21T13:53:00.007-04:00

My dream house.. If I could move one more time I would love it.. It has an in ground swimming pool and its beautiful.. A two stall garage..

What do you think my friends.. amazing I would say.. I daresay the house is way off our budget its good to dream isnt it??? N..

Nora Roberts Hidden Riches

2010-05-20T16:29:00.002-04:00

Here is another great book I think.. Ok who wishes they could have loads of money from a relative that passed on and never have to work again in your life?? I know I do.. some far off cousin or just relative..

Well its starts out with Jed walking through his house that he grew up making sure the movers had gotten all the stuff that was worth alot out of the house. His grandmother finds him upstairs and starts lecturing him. She says he should stay and fight his demons but he doesnt want to do that..

Well Jed decided to move into an apt on South Street.. Well he meets what he thinks is the landlord and when Dora shows up he gets defensive. Jed has just quit the Philadelphia PD.. He had just reached Captain status.. He watched his sister die by a drug king. He killed the drug king.. But it still haunts him..

Well things move from there that he ends up at this party with his land lord Dora. they end up dancing and sparks fly with them.. Its the usual romance book but I couldnt put this one down to be honest. I usually crochet while spending time with hubby but could pick up a crochet hook to spend time with him. I had my book up to my nose..

In the process of this going on Dora went and bought some stuff for her Knick Knack shop and gets hold of some stuff that has been smuggled. Well in the process her shop gets broke into because she bought the smuggled items from an auction. She didnt know she bought them. Jed and Dora have been having issues and this just puts more into it..

the guy that broke into her shop was not caught and wont get caught.. Then Dora goes to California to talk to this head honcho and talks her way into this guys home and see's what he has and why.. Well in the mean time life is taking precendence with Jed and he is waiting for her at the motel when she comes back from the head honcho's office.. She is playing under cover because her parents are actors..

Well moving on they end up going to the California Police Department before leaving Cali and she sees the mug shot of the guy that broke into her apt and shop.. She was having a panic attack when Jed came back in the office with the other officer..

then at the end Dora ends up getting shot.. i wont spoil the end end here.. Just read the book any of you romantics out there..

I love how this one was put together really.. I love a good romance just like any normal woman.. or man for that matter. I know a few men who love to read romance novels..

I will give 10/10 tweets.. just because I had a hard time putting it down.. N..

One Pissed off MAMA

2010-05-18T13:59:00.002-04:00

I am not mad at the kids.. Or Jeff for that matter. I am pissed off at my VAN... We bought it from a friend of Jeff's on his run at work. And we saw it was leaking oil like I said before in one of my posts.. Well now it has a gas leak and we can fix that cheaply by putting a piece of black something and pinching it off. But there are other things going wrong.

I took it to the PO today to mail an order I had gotten off my etsy site and I got to the PO ok but coming home she almost died on me. I went to turn a corner and she almost stalled on me. I said come on girl get us home and it stayed running but I am scared shitless to take it out again after today.. A friend of ours who works on cars lives twenty miles out and you cant drive the van over 45 miles an hour with out it shuddering..

It needs new tires. I am not happy one bit. I like my van but I wish the guy we bought it from was a little more honest.. He has went out of business and Jeff and I have lost his phone number.. I am really PISSED OFF..!!!! Life hasnt been nice to us lately and I just need a vechile. I get orders once in a while and need to ship them out and I need the car or (A) Car.. I regret not getting one from one of the dealers we looked at but Jeff is right we would be screwed for money worse than we are now if we would have done that..

On the ohter hand we are basically back down to one car. I have been taking the Sebring to work since I dont trust the van.

i dont want to move again but I have found a beautiful house with a pool in the back yard. I wish I could find the link and show you the house.. Its beautiful. Its a two story house in a better neighborhood than where we are at..Its awsome. Maybe I will look and see if I can find the link and show you all. If I could afford the payments I would move one more time to get out of this crappy drug related neighborhood..

Bris getting excited about her b-day and I am getting excited to have a housefull of people even for one day.. I am excited to see my parents. We havent seen them since Sept when they came and helped us paint the house..

Ok Ok I am going where I can get lunch going.. Talk to you all later. I will make rounds here in a bit.. Have a wonderful week my friends..

Where art thou Where art my camera when I need it..

2010-05-15T10:57:00.002-04:00

Hi all.. Ok Ok I am being silly. But I was at work last night and I saw the prettiest pink cloud/sky.. It was beautiful.. I wish I would have had my camera witht me. But everytime I take my camera to work with Jeff asks why. But i am out in the middle of a field basically and you can see aways so you can see the clouds and sun set pretty well..

It was suppose to be party cloudy yesterday but it ended up being mostly cloudy and then as the evening went on the sky cleared and we got this most beautiful pink. Then when I left work last night behins the building was just a peach/pink look..

I cant describe it enough.. I have had this happen quite a few times over the last few months.. Not having my camera with me and have these awsome looking sunsets.

I have four new born hats coming up and one adult hat, and 2 childrens hats.. I have been making hats but have given up on mittens after making those ones Bri was wearing down a few posts..

The one hat I used the left over yarn from my DR WHO scarf I made. Well I ended up with some yarn left so I am making new born hats..Just enough yarn to make them. You know I cant keep to one subject but can only talk about so much pink..LOL...!!!!

Ok OK I need to go finish breakfast.. I am making fried eggs, fried potatoes, and toast.. oK scrambled eggs... but still eggs.. Talk to you all later..N..

Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell

2010-05-13T16:46:00.002-04:00

Here is a book I finished last night.. Its a measly 500 pages but a good measly 500 pages. I had a hard time putting this one down. I have read on other Paticia Cornwell book and cant remember what it is right now..

But this book starts out with Benton calling Dr Kay Scarpetta and asking her to come to New York to take care of a patient that has asked for her services..This patient wont let anyone else touch him or take his vitals. He wants Dr. Scarpetta. Well Kay comes to NY and does her thing and Oscar talks.. She tells him what she is being told could go to court because of the circumstances. Well he keeps talking.

This other lady is posting stories on A cyber page called Gotham Gotcha..She is being sent the e-mails and posting the stories for money.. And then she finds out that her neighbor across the street has been killed. she tries to get a dog but cant and finds a man who is torturing animals..

Well it goes on that Oscar isnt the killer and they find the real killer and then at the end he tries to take Kay and the DA down with him. But thankfully for Lucy Dr Kay's niece and her excellent shot record.. I am not good at telling book reviews and never have without giving the whole book away.. But its one of those I picked up at half price books or Goodwill and just had to have.. A hard cover book for 7.00 dollars.. That is my kind of book.

I give this book 10/10 tweets.. It kept me on my toes because it looked like Oscar had killed the two women and then they find out he didnt do it and then when they face the real killer it was over basically.. One hell of an ending to the book though. I want to read more of her books. I like these.. Also i want the last two books to Anne Rice's Mayfair witches..

Taltos and one other i dont know the name of. anyone willing to buy an anniversary present is more than welcome and just e-mail me for my address.LOL!!!!!! I cant believe its been 14 years since high school and Jeff and I have been together that long.. Where has time went..

I have lost track of how I have been blogging too. Is it three years this Nov or four years.. I am a space cadet when it comes to things like that. Ok Ok this was suppose to be a book review and I have wondering thoughts again.. i am a horrible book review person. Cant keep my thoughts on my subject..LOL.. OK OK I am going now.

thing in my Life

2010-05-12T16:32:00.010-04:00

here are some things going on in my life and such.. Pix I have take.. Before pix of the back yard and what still needs being done. Pix of Snowie and me... Just recent pix of Snowie and me.. Kora took it..

here are the photo's of the back yarnd and what i have left.. its rained lately so what ever is high now has been doubled.. yikes huh??Lots of work to do yet.. but cant work on it when its raining..Hopefully I can get out there in the next few days between raining and it being nice and finish it.. What we have done looks nice.

some new items in my etsy shop.. another hat/scarf set, doll hat and dress, and just a hat..

in another week or so I am going to go order Bris cake and then we have to grocery shop for the party. We dont need alot of food since I dont think alot of people are coming. but my parents, jeff's older and younger brother are coming I believe. And my parents. Maybe some of Jeff's co workers might stop by for a piece of cake. Not sure yet. I cant wait to see his older brothers little one. we havent seen her yet in person. I have seen pix of her.. I sent her a b-day present late last month.. She turned one already.. Yikes.. where is time going..

Bris going to be six already.. I am behind on alot of things in life and keeping my mind on how old my girls are is one of them.. I take life one day at a time and I love them both dearly until they start fighting over whose got what toy and then throwing toys at each other.. Ok Ok I am going. My hands hurt today from to much crocheting the last few day. I am going to go and read for a bit I think..

Have a wondeful Wednesday night and I might have some outdoor pix for you next week if its nice out this weekend.. Take care..

My Mothers Day

2010-05-10T12:22:00.003-04:00

Hi all. My mothers day was quiet. I got to celebrate the day before actually like we do every year.. Jeff came home from work on Saturday with 3 red roses he had bought from some people on he side of the road.

they are beautiful.. and then we had to go replace out keyboard since I or the cat spilled iced tea in the keyboard. I am still getting used to it.. and while we were at Walmart I finally got a pan i have wanted for a long time..

I got a 12 Quart soup pan.. I am in love. I used it last night with a soup my MIL has taught me how to make.. We are trying to lower our costs as I mentioned before and I made an extra to freeze hopefully.. Going to see whats left after I have left overs for lunch today..

Soup if anyone is interested..

Home Made Beef Vegetable..

2lbs hamburger
3 carrots,
3 celery stick,
1 onion
or any vegie you like really..
3 potatoes
Beef flavoring
onion powder

Ok in pan put 3 cups water and hamburger in pan. DO NOT FRY hamburger. Steam it and boil it.. put the Beef flavor in with the hamburger to taste.. steam it. onion with the hamburger.

Then add the celery. cook about 10 minutes before putting the carrots in and cook those about 15 minutes before putting the potatoes in and then those cook about 20 minutes. I dont peel my potatoes.. I just wash them and cut them up and cook them..

and then if you want other vegies its fine. These are the ones I use always. I added canned corn and green beans last night fro something different. It was very good.

Ok OK here are my flowers and my pan I got from my family.. i cant find the cord to my camera. you will ahve to wait for pix.. i am sorry but when i thought i had to take the cord out of the computer and now i have misplaced.

The girls just got some flowers from the elderly neighbor lady next to us. I was a good mommy and put them in a glass jar and put them up on the shelf where Snowie couldnt get to them..

Well i promise when I find my cord to my camera I will post those pix for you because I have some other things that need going on Etsy also.. I have some things I have done this weekend and such.. Ok Ok i am off for now. talk soon. I made rounds today already...

Book/movie Review and what I have up in m Shop.

2010-05-04T10:58:00.002-04:00

Hi there. Here are two book reviews One I did on the book review but I have deleted that blog from my list since no one seemed interested in my books...I always at least looked at other books but ok anyway here are two books I have read and a movie review ok..

Anne Rice The Mayfair Witches..

I dont know where to start with this one as in my original review.. I liked it.. There is so much intertwining of this and that its hard to explain really.. It starts off way back in the 1600's or so and then just moves up in the years to about 1950's.. Or maybe further up.. It tells how these women get this what you call a family ghost I guess. WEll I am not going ot explain this one to much.. I liked it... I will give it a 10/10 tweets...

Anne Rice Lasher...

This one explains where the family ghost came from and what he wants... Lasher wanted to be come mortal again and needed a strong witch to do so.. So he found Rowan. Last witch in the last The Mayfair Witches... But Lasher takes Rowan and then some how Rowan gets away from Lasher and takes off back to New Orleans.

Well some how Rowan gives birth to this being.. That is what I will call it. Its not her husbands. Its this ghosts child and its suppose to meet up with him in a far away city.. but in the mean time Rowan is found in a field and taken to the hospital.

The dr says Rowan wont make it and such and everyone is up in the air about it.. so they find the next person to take over The Mayfair Family Jewels... In the mean time everyone hopes Rowan will recover and then this family ghost comes in and gives them all a shock.. It gives them a history lesson how it came to be what it is and when..

Then at the end Rowans husband comes upstairs to sit with her and Rowan is back and she wants her husband to kill this other being..Its the child she gave birth to in the field.. But its not a child like Kora or Bri.. Its a giant child.. but anyway.. I give this one a 10/10 tweets also..

Now on to the movie reveiw.. Jeff and I have a Netflix account.. I love it. We dont have to go and rent movies and say to eachother what are we renting tonight.. We can just go and put new movies on our que and go...

Anyway here is the movie review..

All Kings Men...

This one we thought was going to be an old movie way back when they had kings and queens..Not..It starts out with this guy and his cronies driving down the street or road back in 1975. And then it moves around alot and you cant really follow it..

Well the main character is a drunk and his wife leaves him finally but ends up going back to him.. He promises never to drink again but guess what he does.. And then he finds out stuff on the past judge and so forth and its just not my cup of tea. If some one else has seen this movie and enjoyed it, that is great but it wasnt one of our favorites we will be getting again..

This movie on my tweetometer only gets 3/10 tweets..

I got one before this was Dream Catcher by Steven King..

This one didnt follow the plot of the book to well. I was disappointed for it being a Steven King book/movie set.. I liked the book a whole lot better than the movie..Jeff wouldnt even watch the movie with me.. There was more action in the book than they put into the movie.

This one recieves 2/10... dont bother with the movie.. Get the book if you are interested..

I am currently reading Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell.. I have read one of her other books and found a hard cover for 6.99 at Good will. That is the current book Iam reading. i have so many books to read and I am trying to crochet in between.. Just to keep my shop up and running..

And then we are weeding around the house. This lady that was from the church we were going to said she would do it for some money but she never came back after the first two days.. I have to give her credit. It rained two weekends and such. But she never called during the week to see about me going to get her or what nots.. Well Jeff called her Sunday and said dont bother coming back N and the girls have it..Well that is what we have been up to..

I got my dad his Fathers Day present yesterday.. I made two 8x10's and I am keeping one of them and then I made him a 5x7 of me and my younger brother.. I have that one on the computer.. So I will give that one up.. .Then I made a 5x7 of Jeff and I. We are keeping that one and I will put that one in a frame. Or just put it over a pix already in a frame that needs updating..

My mom will planning on buying me a scanner for X-mas since I have so many pix I want to scan to the computer.. I want to share with you all but cant because I cant get them on the puter..I dont have before pix of the yard right now.I think they are on the other computer we replaced.. but I will definately take after pix for you.. We want to plant some pretty flowers out side before the family gets here..

We are having Bri's 6th B-day party June 5th.. Her real B-day is June 2nd and Jeff and I are also celebrating 14 years that day.. Where has time went.. We have been in our house for four years Sept 26th.. Amazing isnt it?? Well anyway this is what I have been up to and if I am not around for a few more days I am outside weeding my garden and trying to keep the weeds out of it.. Where we can put the flowers in this weekend hopefully.. One thing at at time and then we need some more chairs for the party..

We were going to have it at our local Bay Beach Amusement park but they didnt have a shelter so we are having it at our house instead.. Anyone wanting to go ride for awhile after we eat and such can go then.. We thought it was easier to it this way.. Save the money.. Only spend a hundred dollars on the party instead of two..Yikes..that sounds like a lot of money..

Strange Ass Phone Calls...

2010-04-29T12:17:00.003-04:00

Here are some strange ass phone calls I have receieved lately.. Well lets start with this. We got me a cell phone a while back and then for some reason we couldnt pay the monthly bill. Its a prepaid cell phone with unlimited long distance and local calling ok for 46.90 a month. Not bad really.. Anyway we took the girls to Jeff's mothers house the Tuesday before Easter and then picked them up Saturday before Easter you all know that much..

But when we left his mothers house and got back into range for my phone to ring I had this strange assed message on my voice mail ok..

Hi Nicole. this doesnt sound like you but I am worried about the baby. Give me a call. and I am sitting in the car thinking what baby?? I dont have a baby and I didnt recognize the voice either and no phone number came up..

Well 3 weeks later I get a phone call and I dont recognize the phone number so I dont answer the phone.. I got my cell phone back because that is what is on my business cards. I need my phone. So I let the phone ring and let my voice mail pick up the call. This same lady leaves a message saying Nicole call me before you got to Heidi's house. I dont know but it feels weird ok..

I changed my voice mail slightly and hopefully that if she doesnt get an answer from who she is trying to get and with my voice mail changed she will get the picture why her phone calls havent been answered lately..

Jeff and I have went on a slight diet change. I have cut all soda out of my diet for the time being and I have been drinking more coffee, kool aide and trying more water. i cant stand just plain water so I like the kool aid.. We have dropped the chips for the most part and bought more fruit this last month.. It has made a difference in how I feel to be honest. I am not used to having less caffeine in my system yet from all the soda and the sugar and such.. But at least with coffee and kool aid there isnt alot of sodium and such from what I read on the back of the packaging for kool aid yesterday..

I have been inspired by Wondering Coyote to repost pix of my house. Inside since I have a way better camer to do so now.. I want to show you my walls. i dont want to repaint but i love my coloring of my house. I need to paint some area's though.. We had the bathroom fixed about 3 years ago and never primed over the place the guy fixed. Its starting to crack and I am not happy with my hubby on that one. He is arguing with me that it will be ok. No it will not. Esp when that part of the ceiling falls in on us while either in the shower or on the toilet.. LOL.. OK not funny but the picture of him in there in the bathroom doing his thing and then having the ceiling falling because it became weak..

I am weird I am sorry.. But its who I am..Its suppose to be really nice here today and I am going to go out and weed today. We were suppose to have help but the lady from the church who said she would help hasnt even contacted us to say why she hasnt come back.. Her and her husband lost one of there vechiles but she still could come over on weekends.. Come on.I hate when people say they will help and then they dont show up.. Jeff offered her some money to help us.. She has been doing this for 30 years and knows what a weed is what a flower is so she was suppose to come over and help us get the yard ready to plant new flowers and such..

But she went on vacation the week before last and came over two weeks ago Tuesday and then it rained this last weekend. But there was no call saying she wanted to come back anytime soon.. I made a snide remark on FB about her and I think the Pastors wife might have told her what i said. Well this lady was telling me how to do my mothering I have mentioned before. Well dont deal with me by ignoring me.. Call me and deal with me like an adult please..

I am going to finish one more item for my etsy page and then I am done until I sell som more of my items.. I cant afford my fee's right now.. I have 67 items that need new homes and need money right now. I am not asking you peeps for money but to pass along my etsy site.. Post it on your blogs when you do new posts and get the word out there for me please and other etsy members..

OK OK I am going for now. I have made rounds for today. I will be back in a bit.. Happy Thursday..

my new items on my Etsy site

2010-04-26T13:37:00.008-04:00

Hi all. I have some new items up and wanted to share them with you. I know I have become obsessed with my Etsy site but I am also wanting to make a few more dollars.. I love all my friends I have made on here and I dont want to lose any of you for talking about my work I do.. I need a few more dollars for Bri's B-day party. We figured its going to cost us about 188 dollars.. We are going to reserve a pavilion and then she wants a Care Bear Cake like I mentioned before.. And then the food is going to cost us about 45 dollars.. Jeff's hours went back as of today. He is suppose to work 55 hours a week but we all know that ain't going to happen with his run. He has the longest run and the busiest run.

Here are my newest items and they are posted on my Etsy site and my facebook fan page I have set up. For those of you who dont have my fan page it is on my Etsy site in my shop announcement.. check it out and become a fan if you havent already. I thought I would ask those of you who I thought would be interested when I did the page but didnt want to spam any of you with it when I made it.. I love my work and I need some cash but hey you know what I will do just fine.

Life is getting good here.. I need to go and get some house wok done like usual and Jeff works tomorrow so no more mid week hikes unless us girls go out by ourselves.. I think us girls are going to be spending sometime in the garden around the house anyway getting it looking nice. I need to mow the lawn for the first time in the next few days also. It rained all weekend and I dont want to get the mower all wet from the wet grass so I might wait till tomorrow or Wednesday.. Well anyway I need to get going.Take care and I will be around later today..

Stylish Senior Citizens..

2010-04-24T12:26:00.009-04:00

Hi all I got this from my parents. i just had to post these... These are stylish Senior Citizens...Who said Senior Citizens cant wear stylish clothing..

I am behind..

2010-04-23T13:58:00.004-04:00

Hi all.. I am behind in posting. I have no idea what to say today.. I have been lazy and I need to raise money for Bri's b-day party we are looking at having with family here at our local Amusement Park June 5th.. She will be six already June 2nd.. I dont know where time has went and I dont know how to slow it down. I cant slow it down but I know I can be the best mommy I can be..

I have made a few more sales on Etsy but I have also figured out how to make mittens with out a pattern finally. I sat down the other day and just crocheted and tore it out when it didnt look right till I got it.. But now the thumb looks poofy but hey I did it. I have a matching set for sale almost. I am working on the other mitten..

I still havent gotten my four new placemats up and running yet. There are two round ones and two square ones.. LOL.. I am waiting to get a few more items made before posting them.. I am also working on a soap saver with my thread I use for my scrunchies but using two different colors together.

I am not even sure if I have photo's to post this time around.. Let me go look and I will post pix if I have any for you peeps..

This little guy you might have to look for but he's in the grass right there. Jeff took this one and Kora saw him first.. Its kind of cool how he just stopped and let us look at him.. In this building they have for the Bathrooms and such they have some other stuff and they have this bullfrog and he's huge. I didnt know bullfrogs got that big.. I dont have a photo of him..

Life is good here. Jeff's hours go back up to 5 nine hours days on Monday.. but we all know he isnt going to be workign nine hours a day. Not with his run. Even if they cut back on the run he's going to be working more like 55 hours to 60 hours a week.. I know and so does he. I am still doing good on my job. I had to fix one thing last night I thought I was getting with the mop but guess what i wasnt. OOPs..Boss wasnt mad just pointed it out where I can fix it.. Its a hard spot to get.

Jeff has made this really cool program.. He has made this meal program that I use for 30 days with dinner meals and then we get to choose what we want for lunch. But at least we arent using dinner items for lunch like we were and going through way to much food.. Its totally random. Really neat program..

Ok OK I am out of things to say for now. I could ramble on to other things but you know what I think I will pass.. I will be back over the weekend hopefully. Its suppose to rain so we are doing inside things this weekend.. Hope you all have a great weekend.. N...

Wow am I behind in Posting..

2010-04-19T10:57:00.006-04:00

Hi there my friends... How are you all. I has been almost a week and no new post from me. You are all wondering if she dissapeared or something... Doing a magic trick with dissapearing for so long.. Life is taking its spring toll on us. We want to be outside and playing and its hard to get there attention for school work but its getting done.. Jeff is still working four days and his half Saturdays.. They are talking about 5 nine hour days here soon but I know his hours wont stay at nine hours a day.. They are also talking about splitting up his run a bit. He's not happy with that one.. but hey what can you do.. He's been with the company for 10 years in November and they are just talking about this now..

Last week we went for two Hikes. We went out on Sunday and Monday and took Tuesday easy.. Jeff took last Monday off for his b-day as I had mentioned and we went for a hike and walked for our usual 3.5 miles and then we came around this bend because we did the trail backwards and saw loads of turtles.. Here are the photo's of those.They are so cool to look at. The girls made so much noise they all scattered but we hunkered down for about ten minutes and they all came back to the log we were sitting near.

Also not sure if i mentioned we have a lady from the church we were going to coming over and helping us. She is fixing the around the house outside. She knows what is a plant and what is a weed so she said she would come over and fix it.. Well she wasnt she wasnt here yesterday and she sure as hell didnt call to see if we were going to be around.. But you know what I dont give a damn anymore.Sht got so bossy last week on how to raise my girls I was ready to send her home anyway. Jeff and I found ways not to be here while they were here. LOL. They are goody two shoe church goers so we left our front door open for them and went out..

I have another hat and scarf coming up. I have four place mats coming up soon too. I want to finish my hat and scarf set before posting any more pix of them.. They turned out really cute. I am just hoping they sell..

We are planning a b-day party at our local Amusement park for Bri June 5th. Her b-day is June 2nd but we are having some family come our way hopefully and they need time to get time off and I want it on a Saturday where Jeff can be there too.. If nothing else he can meet us there when he's done working. I am looking at the CareBear scheme. Bri loves CareBears and I have ordered her a banner off Etsy in the CareBear theme where the family knows which Pavillion we are in..We have to rent it for the day and its going to cost us about a hundred dollars but its nice to know its ours for the day where we have toilets and dont have to wait... And I want to find some one who can make Bri a Care Bear shaped cake for her b-day.. I know if I go into our local grocery stores they will tell me they can make a square cake with with the Care Bear sprayed on the cake but I want a CareBear shaped cake..

We havent had his family together since Bri was 13 months old at his sisters house. That is when his youngest brothers wife made an unexpected appearance and then they both left right after wards again. She thinks the family hates her and I wonder why with her attitude. I was on FB about two weeks ago and she has said she wants to move back to WI.. She has asked many times to look for jobs and homes for them but Jay refuses to move back here but just recently he got transferred out to West Viginia and I was teasing her for moving out there and not back here and she got pissed off at me.

Well you know what Fuck em both because if you cant take a little teasing then dont contact me.. That is what I told her and she started a fight and I just took her off my FB page and I refused to to talk to her. I have taken her off my Yahoo Messanger list also.. I dont want anything to do with her. If Jay ever decides he wants to talk to his big brother that is fine. But I want nothing to do with her.. She says she is all hot on family but she doesnt want to take a little teasing from us.. So just stay out of my way then..

She has the guts to call me a 3 year old. Who is the one that responded to my message in the first place being a 3 year old..LOL. OK OK. I am not helping matters here at all.

We are trying to get in contact with Jeffs sister and family but I highly doubt she will come to Bri's party. She wants nothing to do with the family for some reason or other and I give up..My girls ask about there aunt all the time. but what do you tell them.. We will see what we can do..

Can you believe Jeff and I are celebrating 14 years June 2nd also.. 10 years of being together and 4 years married already.. Wow... Amazing.. I am glad we waited to get married or else we would have been in the minority that get divorced.. Not sure if that is the right word but i am using it..

We played two games off Chess last night and I gave him a fight. I expected him to kick my Ass right away but I gave it my all. I lost both games but I did my best. I went into the end game and held my own.. The only thing he would say was good move or I would shock him with a really good move he didnt see. I havent played Chess in ages so he was really suprised..

Ok I am off to do somethings. The girls want to go to the park but I think we might wait until tomorrow because then Jeff will be home and I can have all day today to finish the laundry I started last week..

Our Weekend.

2010-04-13T12:52:00.010-04:00

Hi all. We didnt make it out to Jeff's brothers house on Sunday like we had planned. His wife made other plans he didnt know about so we are making different plans to meet up with them some other time.. I had this thought that they come our way and we can take them to Bay Beach Amusement Park.. But we did do some fun things over the long weekend. Jeff gets a paid day for his b-day so he took yesterday off.. On Sunday we went hiking and yesterday..

Sunday we went hiking at Bairds Creek and went the wrong way so we ended up hiking for almost 5 miles... The girls were really good at going and good sports like usual.. Here are some photo's of that hike...

Here is a 100 Foot drop from the side of the trail when you first start out.. Scary huh?? That is if you can see the drop..

Here is some more of my work.. I have made washable place mats.. You put them in the washer and dryer and voila they are done.. Kind of neat huh??? I know many people use the plastic ones.. Those may be easier but I didnt want to sit under an afghan this summer so I am doing place mats for now.. Hopefully they will sell..

Ok peeps. Need to go help Kora look some work up for school... We have some so so friends coming over to help do the yard up pretty for now but they havent shown up yet.I am sort of hoping they dont for Jeff's B-day is today and I am just lazy and dont feel like being told how to do my parenting and that hers wasnt much better since she was a drug addict and acoholic for many years. She is from the church we were going to.. But you know what I guess I dont care much.. Let it get done though.. N...

what my girls are up to..!!!

2010-04-10T12:28:00.011-04:00

Here is what my girls are up to and selling on my Etsy site. If you would like some let me know and I will e-mail my address to you adn you can ship them some cash... They are making beaded key chains for me to sell on my Etsy site. They sold two yesterday for 3.50.. That was a dollar a piece for the keychains and 1.50 for shipping and that turned out really nice because they only spent 1.39 on shipping today..

They love doing crafts..Kora is learning how to crochet some what. But she left my hook she had at Grandma's house when we were there. It wasnt in the duffel bag when we came home.. OOPS..Oh well. We can get it when we go back.. I just told her that she has to be careful when she packs her things back up when they leave places.. She left her brush at Grandma's house also..LOL.. Kids.. At least she remembered all of her clothes..

We are looking at going to Jeff's brothers house tomorrow. I made enough on Etsy this last project to take us out there for the day.. That paid for Gas so we have a little extra money with me selling things unlike when i wasnt selling things. I made an unexpected sale Thursday. I sold my 7 scrunchies I had in my shop for the longest time. I have eight more sitting there waiting for new homes.. these are going to 6.00dollars plus 3.00 dollars for shipping i believe. i will have to look again. I dont remember.. They are like .75 cents a piece..

Book markers are going to.. I believe they are 5.00 dollars a piece and I dont remember the shipping on them. I will have to look..

Then I am working on some place mats. They are green and white mixed. My MIL gave me some yarn that is to thin to work alone so I am mixing them.. I think it looks cool the way they are coming out.. I will post them when I get done with them. I have a lady on Etsy that is interested in them just from me descsribing them to her.. So I dont know if they will sell or not right away but hoping they will.

The girls are outside playing. Its beautiful today. Its 60 some degrees F out today and its beautiful.. I am glad they are getting some air.. They want to go to the park but I think its to wet after the snow we had and the rain.. So the park is out today. Esp if we are going on a road trip tomorrow.. I will take pix and post them if we get to see our niece. She is suppose to go with her mommy to her grandma's house.. so I dont know whats up.. But Jeff wants his big brother to teach him how to shoot a gun tomorrow or at least the basics.. So I will bring my crocheting and let the girls run wild in the back yard while the guys are out in the woods.. We will be back late tomorrow night.. So I hope eveyone has a great weekend. And I will post new photo's on Monday or Tuesday.. When ever I get a free moment from my family..

Easter Vacation..

2010-04-06T14:17:00.019-04:00

Hi there.. We went and picked up the girls from Grandma's house.. Well we picked them up and left and went to my dads house. We were half an hour late getting to my dads house..Yikes.. That is us.. Always late...LOL...but here are some photo's of our vacation... I have video also but of course it wont play here for some reason. I think it might be my camera type or something not compatible with Blogger.. I am not sure... Anyway here are the photo's... The gogs name is Aldo. they gave him a middle name but I dont remember what it is...

Here comes my favorite or one of them... Helen didnt just want a pix of me and her so this is one of my favorites..

Dennis's girlfriend Jenifer with the girls... She is a sweetheart..

The four of us together. Me, my dad, Helen and Dennis..

Dad, Kora, Bri, Me, Helen, Anthony, Dennis...

At the motel... My dad was suppose have met us there but he went to bed and fell asleep... He said he had been up since 2 the previous morning and was tuckered out when we all left Saturday night.. So I took these at the motel while waiting for him to show up..

Two tuckered out little girls Saturday night from being outside most of the afternoon and swimming most of the evening waiting for Grandpa...

Sunday at Grandma's house again... Here are the girls. and I took some photo's of his mom and S and there cat Lilly...

That was our weekend.. We had fun and good company and good food.. I enjoyed seeing my little brother again and meeting his girlfriend and seeing my sister and nephew.. He has grown so much.. I cant believe he's four already. He was like 3 months the last time I saw him...It would have been nice to have all four of us together but my other younger brother couldnt make it or didnt want to make it.. His wife doesnt care for me now that I told her what keeps Jeff and I together.. She is afraid I am going to try and talk Nate into doing it.. Not. Its his choice not mine.. And I wont tell here either unless someone really wants to know and then I will e-mail that person.. We are happy and we have our fun in this house hold..

The girls made us key chains for Easter and I forgot to take photo's of them to show but maybe next time.. Enjoy. I didnt label all the photo's this time around. They are pretty explainatory.. I believe that is a word.. Ok this is one long post enjoy...

Home

2010-04-05T16:44:00.001-04:00

Hi there we are home safe and sound. We got home about 8:30 PM last night and I just thought I would let you all know. We had loads of fun and good food and good company both days... So I am off to go finish sorting photo's to put up here and put video's on FB... Will do that Wednesday when Jeff is at work.. Talk soon.. Hope you all had a wonderful Easter...

Third Day Alone

2010-04-02T17:15:00.002-04:00

Hi there. My third day alone.. Well not totally alone because Jeff is coming home and the cat is here but still alone from the girls. They called Daddy the other night and I didnt get to talk to them because I was at work.. I miss them terribly but we are going back to get them tomorrow..

I have there new outfits packed up for Sunday but its suppose to rain. I am going to let them wear them anyway because we will be in the house most of the day anyway.. but I wanted new outfits for Easter. They may be short outfits but they are outfits.. Both girls arent to much into dresses and Kora wont sit like a little lady when she wears one so I usually make her wear shorts under her sundresses anyway..

I broke down and cried today.. I miss them but only one more day.. One more day.. I think I am doing loads better than last time where I cried the whole four days they were gone.. They arent going to be happy with me when they come home though.. They have lost all of there toys or most of them. I got sick and tired of telling them to pick up the toys so on Wednesday I took a box and started putting toys I knew they werent playing with in the box and ended putting 90% of there toys in donation.. I kept the collector items like the Cabbage patch kids and the carebears and a few smaller items but everythign else went.

They had these figurines from McD's they liked to play with and all they did was fight over them. so those went into the donation box also.. I may seem an awful mom right now but all they were doing is fighting over toys.. I needed to get them where they can use there minds.. They have other toys that help with that.. I will have loads of pix to show you all Monday or Tuesday..

My younger brother Dennis and his girlfriend are coming to see us at my dads house tomorrow afternoon and my half sister.. Yayy... I am so excited.. I havent seen my brother since I was 19.. I saw my sister when her son was like 3 months old.. So we will drive back out there tomorrow and pick the girls up from his mothers house and stay the night by my dad and then go back to his mothers house on Sunday.. I am so excited to be getting out.. I know we really cant afford it but we need a break for Easter.. It was the only way to see everyone in one weekend..

I am looking forward to our trip on April 24th also.. We are going to go see his brother and SIL and niece we havent seen yet. She is turning a year old.. I cant believe she is that old already.. Yikess. Where has time went.. But I suppose i have to get partially ready for work tonight and then go to work after Jeff comes home. I cant leave before then. He has my keys to the building I am cleaing. He took the Van to work with him this morning.. LOL..

Ok Ok Ok I am going. Happy Easter Everyone...

My first Day with my Girls..

2010-03-31T16:08:00.002-04:00

Hi there. My first whole day without the girls. Its lonely but I will live.. I didn't cry my head off this time around.. I actually had fun with my hubby except for the few hours I had to work.. We went out for dinner when we came back into town since it was just the two of us..

You know how nice it was to eat and not have to say girls EAT.... It seems every time we go into a restaurant we fight with them to eat.. Yikes... We are going on Saturday to get them and then go to my dads house like I said before.. then Sunday back to his mothers house for Easter Dinner... I cleaned out the girls room today.. I took all the toys I noticed they weren't playing with and took them to St. Vincent Depauls..I shop there so much and I thought more kids could use what the girls aren't using anymore..

Poor Snowie last night.. I dropped Jeff off at home and left for work.. He said she walked around the house looking for me. She thought I left her too.. When I walked in she wouldn't let me be.. And today she has been hanging on me. she keeps walking around looking for the girls though.. She knew something was up when we started packing the Duffel bag for the girls..

I am enjoying the beautiful weather.. Its just beautiful here.. Its in the lower 70's here.. I am sitting here at the desk in a summer shirt and shorts.. I will wear shorts to work tonight but have to wear my work shirt.. I know I am rambling and I really don't know what to do about it.. LOL.. But ramble. I took my MIL my old camera yesterday. I am going to bring my new one to take pix of course but i didn't need the old one so i told her she could have the old one..

We are having Ham and the trimmings on Sunday. I am looking forward to the meal. I am hoping to learn a new trait really.. I want to learn how to do Plastic Canvassing.. I found out Walmart carries the plastic for those for 1.97 for a big sheet of it.. But I am not sure what to do with it after getting. I have never done Plastic Canvassing.. I want to learn how to do cross stitch also.. Walmart doesn't carry those anymore.. I was kind of upset about that..

The girls each got two new pool items today. They were a dollar a piece so I picked them up.. They needed new tubes for the pool and then they got new lay on floats... So they have a surprise when we get to Grandpa's house on Saturday evening.. We are going to eat with my dad and go back to the motel and let them swim.. I know if my dad comes to the motel he is going to want Jeff to get into the water but he cant because of his sores on his legs from his Psoriasis.. I know I spelled that wrong.

Oh my goodness I got a scare just now I thought Snowie had deleted my post just now by accident.. Yikes.. Ok OK I have to go finish cleaning. I have to at least sweep and mop.. It looks horrid in my house today.. Talk soon..

Tuesday/other stuff.

2010-03-28T20:15:00.002-04:00

Hi everyone we are leaving early Tuesdasy morning to take the girls to grandma's house and pick them up on Saturday to go to my dads house and then back to grandma's on Sunday.. We will spend the night in Rice Lake Wisconsin and then head back to his mothers house on Sunday for Easter supper that I am cooking. And then we will leave and come home.. We were going to leave the girls on Sunday and have his mother bring them home but we she called us back today and told us that bringing them on Tuesday was better..

Jeff has found me new tires for the van but he needs to get an appointment at work for them.. If he didnt have his discount we would pay over 300.00 dollars in tires but he gets them for like 15% off retail price or something like that... So he gets them for 50 bucks a tire or something like that.. Then we can take the van on the road when want to travel.. But for now its an intown car/van...LOL..

The girls are going to have to wait till next month to do any more of there extra activities with our running this month.. That is ok though. They get to meet an uncle they havent met yet on my side and see there aunt they met once on side with a cousin.. And then see Grandpa A and Grandma J.. They are so excited.. I will finish packing them up tomorrow and then off Tuesday morning..

I have them each an Easter Outfit. They are shorts and I am hoping its warm enough to wear them.. We got them at Walmart for 5.00 a piece. They are the same outfit.. I love dressing the girls the same when i can get away with it..LOL. I know there is a 3 1/2 year span between them but they are my babies... I love when they will let me get them the same outfit.. Doubles... Anyone seeing doubles..Those outfits are not going to Grandma A's and S's until Sunday when we go back for dinner.I will bring those with me on Saturday when we go..

Business on my end has been slow. I havent sold a thing since the last time MRS Z bought something... LOL.. Well I mean I am still working on my DR WHO scarf but having a hard time collecting my next installment. I had to order more purple yarn that should be here on Monday or Tuesday.. Hopefully Monday where I am here to get it.. I hate not being here when the UPS man gets here.. Never know where he's going to put my package.. But its almost done otherwise..

Life is busy here otherwise like usual.. Jeff is working his tail off even with only four ten hour days last week.. But looking and hoping by the time he gets off vacation next week they will ask him to start working all five days again and not have to worry about overtime..

I am really liking the job. I havent had any complaints. I go in looking for a note to see what has to be done extra and there has been nothing so far. I did skip one thing on Friday I will have to get tomorrow when I go in.. I felt some webs behind the shades in the conference room and forgot about them until I came home Friday night.. OOPS!!!! That is ok I will get them tomorrow. Mondays arent usual that dirty anyway so I will get them for an extra item tomorrow. I have gotten myself where I can get the job done in 2 hours and still get paid for 3. On Fridays I can do the job in 1 hour but I tend to slow myself my down a bit.. I drag out the extra hour.. No need to go hurrying through and forget something..

Well dinner should be almost done. We have made a dinner plan for April and we are working on it to see how well it goes and how much money we spend on groceries now. Hopefully we just spend all we need to spend on groceries except for like bread and milk.. Those items always need to be bought...

Kora and her First Riding Lesson

2010-03-24T14:49:00.009-04:00

Here is Kora during her first and maybe last riding lesson. She broke out from the horse hair yesterday and her eyes got all puffy.. But she enjoyed herself and Bri got to help with the grooming..

Here is Bri taking her 5 minutes and enjoying herself with Kora leading Fancy around the ring or the jumping area for when they do horse shows..

They had so much fun cooling Fancy down and taking everything off of her.. There was a horse next to Fancy yesterday that was nuzzling my neck again.. These animals they have at this FARM are the greatest.. The place is called New Heights Hunters and Jumpers if any of you want to look up the website. Next time we go I got permission to bring in sugar cubes if they even make sugar cubes anymore..LOL..

I enjoyed myself immensely just being around these animals.. Fancy acutally would pick her foot up for Debrah to pluck her hooves.. It was so cool to see her do it.. She just stood there and let the girls brush her. She enjoyed it also.. Jeff just stood and watched but I had to help Bri brush a bit.. She is to short to get the horses back..

But we arent leaving Bri out we are going to put her back in Swimming lessons April 19th.. We may not be able to put Kora back in riding lessons for a while. We dont have the money each week they charge so its going to be every other or once a month type of thing..

Life takes us in different directions and I try to make them happy but you cant always.. At least Kora got to feel what its like to be on a horse.. VV your daughter does horse shows doesnt she?? Anyway I need to get going. My back hurtts and I need to get my uniform for work upstairs and then get dressed here in a bit. I have finished my cleaning for today... Enjoy...

First Hike of 2010

2010-03-22T10:25:00.014-04:00

Here is our first hike of 2010 and more than likely many more to come.. It was in the upper 40's yesterday so we decided to venture out for a while.. We walked 3.5 miles.. But you know what is impressive not that we walked it but the girls walked it with no complaints.. They are troopers.. They love getting out with us.. I have a video of the girls but highly unlikely I will get it to load here so again I will put it on my FB page. But here are the photo's we took yesterday.

These were taken inside the building they have when you first come into the grounds with bathrooms and such. I just love this building. Its so cool to look at.

Now onto the trails.. There are like five different trails and were were going to walk the Birches Trail yesterday.. That one was 3.5 miles but you know what we came the bend to decide which way to go and I flopped out. My but hurt so dang bad and upper legs I had to to potty also.. So we took one of the shorter routes back.. I dont know why I attempted a 3.5 mile hike the first hike of the year.. But we still got out and had fun..

This one was taken upside down and they wanted to know what would happen if i took one upside down on the camera.. It stayed upside down like theywere on there heads. I will go and fix it soon..

There were so many deer feet tracks out there but we saw no deer.. I was suprised. But there was a shooting gallery not far from where we were hiking and I think the noise scared the deer to be honest with you as much as Jeff said it didnt bother them.. I think it did.. Would you want to hear guns in your neighborhood and just sit and wait for them to come and shoot you??? I think deer have a run instinct in them when they hear guns or the clacking from a gun..

It was amazing to know how far we walked and no one complained this time.. Usually a set of little legs is complaining by time we hit the last bend in the hike but she did well this time..

You know I have been parking the van on the street when I come home at night because it has a gasket leak. It needs a new gasket.. Yes I know I know. Jeff has a guy at work that said he can fix it for me.. But we need to get the part first.. So I have been moving it to the drive way before bed and the cat goes nuts when i walk out the door to move the van. She wants to go with me.. Its actually kind of funny to see her.. She is worse than the girls when it comes for me to move the van..

Anyway I need to go find some breakfast... Enjoy the photo's and there will be more to come as spring, springs aheads of us. Hopefully we can get more life form to show you next time. Yesterday was more the quiet and solitude than the outdoors itself.. I will make rounds here shortly again..

Newest Item and Job

2010-03-19T14:48:00.007-04:00

Hi there.. VV was asking how the job is going. Its going great so far.. I have been able to get the account done in two hours... It should be taking 3 hours but I dont even skip anything. I find myself finding extra stuff to do to stay there for a full two hours.. I have been known to take 2 1/2 hours when its really bad..Sometimes I have to take out trash twice and the recycling twice.. So that takes a while and then changing the bag in the Oreck Vacuum the Boss seems to like over Kirby..LOL..I like my Kirby though.. I havent had any complaints..I met up the HR (Human Resource) person a week ago yesterday and she said she likes what I am doing. I also met up with the Nurse/Saftey director and she likes what i am doing to the nurses station.. So two compliments in one night. That must make the Boss happy to hear when he talks to the account manager...

Anyway here is what I have done for the DR WHO scarf.. Nothing fancy and I have the approval to move on with it.. This person in her profile has Creepsville PA but that is not where she is from.. Its funny..

I think its turning out really cool. It was Jeff's idea to put 5 rows purple 2 rows colonial blue, 2 rows terracotta, 5 rows purple 2 rows olive green, 2 rows rust and so forth.. Just repeat the pattern. I got the go ahead to finish with this pattern last night.. So I have been working on it today a little bit between going to the grocery store and then putting groceries away... And then home schooling.. Just a busy person lately. Keeping busy..

I have been really tired lately too.. I have been eating and good foods suprisingly. I have been eating many salads.. Just craving the salads and eggs and meat to go in Chef Salads..

Anyway life here in the R family home is just like usual weird.. I want to go out tomorrow but not sure if we are going to be able to.. South of us is getting snow and we are suppose to get rain.. Yes i said rain... Its been really nice here lately. I actually wore shorts to work the other night.. It felt so much better than wearing my jeans. I didnt leave work so dang warm I got the chills like w hen I wore my jeans the night before..

I am trying to talk Jeff into letting me have a new outfit for Easter.. I found this really pretty black and white outfit on Walmart.com.. I just love the color of it.. They dont have it here it here in the store. I am not traveling to get it either but they have a special delivery pice. It is .97 cents.. I like that. I was hoping to get the girls each an outfit for Easter also.. Nothing special just something to wear to his mothers house and my dad's house maybe if we have enough. We are going to my dad's house on April 3rd and then his mothers house on April 4th (Easter).. So we have a plan there..

Ok well I need to go get a few things done before the old man comes home.. I will make rounds tomorrow morning before he comes home from work.. Talk to you all soon..

There is one thing Jeff did yesterday and he is worried about it.. He told a joke while everyone else was joking around.. And he's worried about his job.. I can tell you the joke and you tell me if you think its offensive???

There were three men that went into the Drs office..

Dr see's each of them privately. One is a drunk and the dr says that if he takes one more drink he will die.

Then the dr sees the second guy. Heavy smoker and tells the guy if he has one more cig he is going to die..

Well dr see's the third man and says if he has sex with one more man because he's gay he is going to die..

Well the three men leave together and the drunk just couldnt pass up the bar so he went in and had his last drink. he died..

The man that couldnt smoke again saw a cig and wanted to bend over to pick it up but just couldnt do it...

The gay guy told the guy that wanted the cig that he was thankful he didnt bend over because then they would both be dead... LOL......

Well they were telling hot dog jokes at work last night and Jeff was clocked out and this one guy got offended by this joke.. I am not really good at telling jokes by typing them out. I can do ok when I talk to people.. But enjoy the joke for what you can understand it and I am gone for now.. Happy Weekend..

dont know what to call this one....

2010-03-18T10:40:00.006-04:00

I know I show all my pretty stuff I make here. I have shown my afghans I have made for my family... Well you know what I am done making things for my family.. I have made plenty a blankets and I dont get thank yous.. The only person I know that uses her blanket and often is my MIL..

I made my younger BIL and his wife an afghan for there first child and she put the damned thing under there guinea pig cage.. She never used the afghan for the baby.. She claimed it was to big for the baby.. Well you know what she could have used it for baby to play on or kept it for when baby got bigger...

Then with my youngest BILS wife asked me to make J a blanket.. I made one in the Packer Colors.. I used green yellow and White. Well she just loved the blanket and I am not sure if he did or not.. Well anyway they left WI in a hurry because of something going on in the family.. She didnt even bother to ask me to take it when they left or to go get it when they left.. She just left it..

Then I made a blanket for my older BIL and his wife when they had there daughter a year ago in April. she isnt quite a year yet.. But I got a thank you like 3 months after I sent the blanket and was told that my BIL uses it when baby takes her naps but I dont see pix of her using it.. I see pix of all other blankets...

Then I made an afghan for that pastors daughter that we had so much trouble with in the last four years.. Well she just had baby.. She has take literally hundreds of photo's of baby and I dont see my afghan being used. I didnt even recieve a thank you from her for it.. I trusted her mother to give it to her but something tells me that her mother didnt give it to her..

I spend my time giving out my hard work I could have made money on and I am sick and tired of doing it.. No more unless you request it.. I quit just wasting my time on things when I could be making money. NO MORE GIFTS... I give up.. I hate feeling like I have wasted my time on making things that no one seems to either like or want from me..

You know someone that is having a baby and need a blanket ask and I will make a great deal for you.. But I am not making any more for my Family.. I love what I do and I love sharing what I do. But I am not making any more things that will not be used for my family or my friends.. You peeps are more than welcome to buy off my Etsy site on my side bar.. Keep track of whats coming in and going out. If somethin you like sells let me know. I cant remake it.. Hopefully..LOL...

Kora has horse riding lessons starting on Tuesday.. I will have more pix but we took her out on Tuesday to get her to see the horses and talk to the lady that will be doing her lessons and Kora fell in love.. she was feeding the pony that will be hers while taking lessons.. I dont remember the pony's name but here are some pix of her. I have some video's up on my facebook page for those of you that have facebook. I cant get my vids to load on Blogger for some dang reason.. If you want or need my FB page and arent friends yet let me know via e-mail.. I will send you my full name that I use for those that dont know my maiden name..

Anyway here are the pix..

This black horse coming up was nibbling on my hair. He thought I was Hay... and then I moved up slightly and he nibbled on my t-shirt like hey you moved away from me..

That is it for now. I will upload that video of the horse jumper doing jumps for Kora here in a few minutes. I didnt get to it yesterday.. But I will do it here in a few minutes.. But other wise we are good. We are canceling the YMCA membership for now. We arent using it with my work schedul and Jeff's schedule.. We just dont have time to meet up and play Raquetball. At least we have our raquets for if we ever want to go at it again sometime in the future.. I wish I could make loads of money with my afghans and such where I dont have to work again outside of the home but I know that is just a dream..

I am a dreamer and I love knowing I love doing what I do but I just wish family members loved my stuff and friends as much as I did making these items.. I will have that video up in a few minutes.. Come take a look and comment there... Talk soon..

new items on my Etsy Site....

2010-03-14T16:05:00.009-04:00

This is the afghan/quilt i made now onto my new bathroom/kitchen set i made..

Bathroom/kitchen set... beautiful colors.. the 100% coton from Sugar and CAream. I need to fix that in my Etsy shop... I forgot this wasnt the Lion brand cotton.. I did buy some but it wasnt this..

Any one interested in my Etsy site I havea sale goign with the scarf/hat sets up there 20% off the sets and 15% off just the scarves and 20% off the twin size afghans.. need to make more room for spring/summer items coming up.. Take a peek people.. Cant hurt to look.. I am going to start working on that DR WHO scarf when the yarn gets here.. Talk to you all soon..