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Well, we might be finished looking at houses. YEAH! One of my friends from Middle/High School emailed me and mentioned that her parents were thinking about moving. Well, I knew the house very well and the location was great so I made a phone call. We went a looked at the house last Friday and it just felt like that was the house for us.

We are meeting with the family again tomorrow evening so we are hoping to get some more things worked out.

For a person who doesn't care for change in life.....I am VERY ready for this change.

Current Mood: cheerful

I have finally decided that I must have done something really bad to deserve all the crap that has been happening lately.

On Sunday night my sitter called at 9:30 saying that she was sick and was not going to babysit. Danny stayed home until he had night class in K.C then I left work early to be home with Cole. While Cole was taking his nap I decided to do some cleaning around the washer and dryer area. I took some trash outside and when I came back in there were nasty BUGS everywhere. They were all over the wall,ceiling,floor, and on me. It was disgusting!! I took a can of "Raid" (ant killer)and just started sraying everywhere. I was even just holding the can in the air trying to spray them as they were flying around. Come to find out we are pretty sure they are termites. Did I mention that they were all over me? They were falling out of my hair and onto my face. It was horrible!

The landlords finally found an exterminator, but they can't come until tomorrow morning. We have company coming tonight to stay with us through Saturday. Just what we need right now is to have someone stay the night with us in a bug infested house.

The night the bugs invaded I had Cole stay the night with my Mom & Dad because I was going to have one long night of cleaning.

By the way, I can't stand to have bugs on me.......so pretty much I freaked out when it all happened!

What is going to happen next????

Current Mood: aggravated

Its only Tuesday and so far I am ready for this week to get over. Sunday our dogs broke out of the pen and one came back but our Choc. Lab did not and still has not.Our Lab meant a lot to us we had him since he was 10 weeks old. We are figuring someone took him b/c he was worth lots of money. This morning my fuel pump went out on our truck and now I am going to have to borrow a vehicle from my family (hopefully) to be able to get around for the rest of the week. Two weeks ago I had new brakes put on that truck, what is going to happen next?

The one good thing about this week is that Danny is working his last 48hr shift today and tomorrow! YEAH!!!!

Current Mood: crappy

For the first time this week I signed up my 4 year old for T-Ball. The next sign-up is swim lessons and maybe soccer this fall. I have now moved into the time where I am now my child's taxi driver. Cole is going to be more active in actual scheduled activites. I don't know if I am ready for all of this but I know Cole is 100% ready for all of it. On the enrollment form for T-ball there was a place where it asks the parent if they want to be a coach, assistant coach, or a maybe. Well, I decided to leave that one blank for now. Maybe one of these days when I am more worked into this new phase I will think about playing the coach role. If Danny had better hours it would be kinda fun to coach something together. Only time will tell!

Current Mood: busy

Over the past week sooo many things have happened. Our car broke down so Danny has been hitching a ride to work for the past week. Oh, and the car is still in the shop. My Grandpa went to see the Doctor in Jopin last Wednesday and they admitted him the same day. On Friday he had open heart surgery due to 3 blockages. On Saturday Cole and I headed to Pittsburg to watch my brother wrestle then I headed to Joplin to see my G-pa. Then when Cole and I were headed back to Fort Scott a truck that was pulling a trailer that had a mini van on it & it started fishtailing down the highway while going about 65mph. For some reason I was paying attention and decided to slow down. All of a sudden the trailer jack-knifed and hit the side of the truck that was pulling it then the van was thrown from the trailer heading towards us. Thankfully I had slowed down enough that the van missed us. The van flew in the air rolled a couple of times and stopped in the ditch. The force of the trailer hitting the truck made the truck spin completly around. Everyone was safe, but it still made your heart drop for a while.

My Grandpa is doing good and may be out of the hospital Wednesday.

Lastly we had several storms come through our area on Sunday. Of course Danny is at work so Mom had to be tough and not act worried. We had hail the size of golfballs all over our yard. The tv said that we would be in a tornado watch and warnings from like noon to 10:00pm. It was a long day. At one point Cole and I had to go into the bathroom b/c the tornado/storm was right over our house. The hail broke 2 windows and one was right at the head of Cole's bed. Some of the winds were up to 100mph.

Boy was I glad for the sun to come out today!!

Oh, I'm soooo ready for the weekend. Not that I have anything planned that is exciting. I just am ready to be home. I have been fighting a cold all week and I just haven't been able to get over it. The antibiotics have made me feel better but so far I still can't breathe out of my nose. I guess I'll just have to wait it out.

On another subject.......Two of my "shows" that I have been watching for the past 2 months are now over. Danny and I had been keeping track of Dancing with the Stars. I was shocked that Danny would watch it even if he was at work. I'm pretty sure that the main reason that he was watching it was for that wrestler Stacy Kiebler, he thought she was hot. There was even one night that he was not going to be able to watch it and he actually made me tape it!

The other show I have to admit that I was watching was "The Bachelor in Paris". I honestly made sure I flipped to the right channel and the right time to be able to watch it. To me the bachelor seemed to be a "good guy" and deserved a "good girl". I think he picked a good one.

Well, I guess that's all for today. Sorry there is nothing real important or interesting to tell. Have a great weekend.

Current Mood: content

I love my sisters to death, but sometimes I could just ring their necks.

My youngest sister has had problems with depression for about 6 years. The problem is I'm not real sure it really is a "depression" or her just looking for something that is not there. What my Mom says about Jill is that "she is her own worst enemy". I look at Jill's life and honestly it looks pretty good to me. Danny thinks that someone just needs to tell her to get over it and there are a lot of other people in the world that are much worse off than you, so suck it up. Well, I don't think I will be making those comments to her, but in a way we would all like to. So far Jill will call me and we talk about a lot of issues in her life. I don't baby her, I try to be very realistic with her and the ideals that she has of her life. I guess she is seeing a counselor now, so we will see how far that goes. Jillhas a hard time for just waiting for life to happen, she wants to know the end result RIGHT NOW. But honestly I guess we all want to know what's going to happen next & the waiting game just sucks sometimes. Jill just takes things to the extreme, to the point that she totally stresses out.

I hope that the counselor can help b/c so far we (family) have done as much as we could.

Current Mood: confused

Here at work there are all kinds of floral shops delivering flowers to the students and staff. The flowers and ballons are great and so far it has put a smile on those who are recieving them. My little brother has such a big heart and I am very proud of him. Yesterday he told my Mom that he wanted to hand out roses to some of the girls at school. Of course my mom questioned his intentions. Come to find out Blake said that he knew that there are many girls that probably would not get anthing for Valentines Day so wanted to make sure that they did. So they went to the grocery store and bought a bouquet of roses and wrapped each one with floral tape so it would look more "professional".


Sometimes I don't always see the people who Blake considers the ones that just need a little something to brighten their day. Its something I could work on......

Current Mood: calm

After Christmas and I had all my rolls of film developed I noticed something about myself that I didn't see before. I HAVE OLD LADY HAIR! Well, I felt like I looked like my hair looked like an old lady's. My husband said I looked fine and not to worry about it. Next I asked my Mom and she didn't say much but I kinda got the impression that she was ready for me to do something different to my hair.

Why didn't anyone say that it looked like crap?????

So about a week ago I chopped it off and I am wearing it more straight and not so curly. I hope it looks better now than it did before. I have not had my hair this short in a long time, it just barely touches my shoulders.

Sometimes change is not so bad!

Current Mood: cheerful

Note to readers: I'm going to complain for a while....

Danny is on a 48 hour shift and won't be home until tomorrow but yet tomorrow he has class in K.C so he will be totally worn out when he gets home. Also this week he starts his paramedic field internship and pretty much for the next 2 1/2 months Danny will be gone. Of course I am not really excited about the next 10 weeks but I know Danny is not excited about it either. Last night Cole talked to Danny on the phone and Cole asked him "Daddy, when are you going to come home?" I have a feeling Cole will be asking that question a bunch in the coming months. I know in the end it will all be worth it. Its just getting to the end that is taking a toll on our lives.

I complain about me and Cole not have Danny around but I know its got to be hard on Danny too. Danny is the one still working, going to class once a week, doing his 480 hours of field internship and still trying to be a husband and father. There is a lot on his plate and I am going to try to be supportive as much as possible during this mess.

There is just one quote that I am trying to remind myself......"this too shall pass"

Current Mood: mellow