What did you do over Christmas Vacation...?

So my parents have been visiting for the past week.  The kids loved having their grandparents around for X-mas.  My brother also was able to drive down for a few days and spent time down here with us.

The most memorable moment though happened the night that my parents arrived.  Their plane landed around 11:00pm, so i drove out to pick them up with the little girl.  We came back and unloaded the car and started putting things away that needed to be refrigerated.  That's when my mom noticed that her medicine bag was nowhere in sight.  Apparently she had taken it out of her carry on bag in Charlotte and forgot to put it away again.  By this time it was past midnight and all the calls to Charlotte and US Air were useless since everybody was closed.

We kept calling US Air Lost and Found in Charlotte for the next few days, but it kept saying "Leave a message, Voice Mail is Full" and hanging up on us.  My dad then decided to go to the drug store at that time and getting all new prescriptions.  By the time we got back from the 24 hour pharmacy it was close to 2 in the morning.

I went to bed, dead tired.  Sometime around 3:30 i hear my husband saying "What are you doing?  Getting into bed." He smacked my bottom and asked me why my brother was in bed with us.  I jumped out of be and turned on the light.  Apparently he sleepwalks and he walked right into our bed.  It took about 15 minutes to get him to move.  He finally got up from bed, grabbed to pillows and said "Fine i'm leaving but i'm taking the pillows with me."

It was the longest night of my life.

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:59:00 -0800

Now Hiring Award Winning Drivers

Took a road trip to the zoo today.  It's about a 75 mile drive down a double lane highway road with Semi Trucks zooming by.  One of the trucks had a big sticker that said "Now hiring Award Winning Drivers".  So that got me thinking....what kind of awards do they get.  For tailgaiting, Flashing Bright lights at cars driving the speed limit, most cars passed in under 100 miles??

Sat, 25 Nov 2006 17:25:00 -0800

Please don't attempt to operate Heavy Machinery

I am a TV junkie, i think i've mentioned it before, but just in case i'm admitting it again.  However i am sooooooo tired of all the sleep aid commercials.

First of all, how many people actually operate Heavy Machinery??  I don't know about you, but in mind heavy machinery is like Bulldozers or Dumptrucks.

Second of all, if you need a Sleeping Pill it's because you want to sleep.

I can't imagine who in their right mind is going to wake up in the morning, take a sleeping pill and then say to themselves "I should really try to find a Bulldozer to operate for no reason".

Come on people, what is this world coming to...

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:36:00 -0800

They'll suck the energy right out of you

Worked today.  It was draining.  They suck all the energy out of you.  However it makes you appreciate what you have.

 

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:37:00 -0800

So Weird Current

I was flipping channels yesterday afternoon (around 4 pm) and turned on CNN.  I saw the news about the earthquake in Hawaii.  I couldn't believe that happened.  Anyway i turned to my husband and asked him why he hadn't told me that it had been that serious.  He looked at me like i had horns growing out of the top of my head.   I told him that when he had told me that morning that Hawaii had an earthquake he hadn't said it was serious.  He looked at me and then pointed out that the earthquake hadn't happened until 1pm Eastern time, so there was no way that he could have told me in the morning.  I think i may have dreamed it.

How weird is that??

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:06:00 -0700

What a sucky day!!!

Today was one of the worst days i've had in a long time.

First let me start off by saying that i have been without a voice since Saturday.  It seems that once i turned 30, whenever i get a cold, i automatically lose my voice.

Today I had a vet appointment at 8:30 in the morning.  I shower and have breakfast and get the dogs out to the car.  It's crazy because the two of them together are stronger than me and they are literally dragging me along.  I'm leaning back to counter them.  We get in the car and get to the vet.  When we walk in the girl says that there is no one there that morning so i cannot have an appointment.  I know that i'm not crazy and i made this appointment weeks ago and wrote it down on the calendar so i wouldn't forget.  I ask her to verify then when my appointment is and i didn't have an appointment at all this month.  So i am dragged back to the car and home, pissed off already.

Later in the afternoon i pick up my son and a friends son to drop him off at home because her car broke down.  I figure since i have to pick up my daughter at Chorus less than an hour later that i'd sit and chat awhile.  I go back to the school and apparently the other mom thought it was her week to carpool so i'm trying to get home and catch up to her.  I make it home as they're about to leave my house, because i'm not there.

I must have rolled off the wrong side of the bed or something, cause i've got some seriously bad ju-ju going on with me.

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:08:00 -0700

My heart is breaking

My daughter is 7 years old, due to some circumstances she is in 3rd grade.  Third graders are generally turning 9 during this school year.  I didn't realize how difficult this would be for my little girl until just recently.

When she started school this year, several of the girls from her class last year are in her class this year.  Of course she was excited that her 'friends' were in her class.  It wasn't too bad until i noticed that they stopped walking out with her at the end of school, and my husband noticed that in the mornings these 'friends' would walk by without saying hello.

K. was invited to a birthday party for a girl who lives in our neighborhood, only a few girls were invited, and it's the same girls who are ignoring my daughter.  I talked to her to see if they played with her during school, and she said that sometimes they did.  I had told the mom that K. would go to the party, but now i'm not so sure.  I told her last week that if the girls weren't nice to her this week, that i didn't want her to go.  Today she said that they didn't talk to her at all during the day.

Why are girls so mean?  I don't remember being like this when i was little, but i was probably also the one being ignored.  How do you help someone who is so innocent realize that people are not always nice?  Do I let her go to this birthday party and pray that the are nice to her.  It's a sleepover, and i would hate to have her come home crying.  I just don't know what to do or how to deal with it.

My son who is 5 was discussing it this afternoon in the car and very plainly said it.  "These girls where nice to you last year, now that a new girl is here, they're not nice to you.  You have to ignore them in school and maybe then they'll want to be your friend."

 

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:32:00 -0700