I am having a bit of a mental dilemma regarding Thanksgiving. Do I go to grandmas like normal or do I stay home and go to the honey's nephews.
I know what I want to to which is go to grandma's but honestly I want to be fair too. The honey would like to go duck hunting for the first time this season the Saturday after. He has worked every Saturday so this would be his first opportunity to do one of his favorite things and he actually really deserves to be able to go. He is working so damn hard. He is leaving the choice up to me.
So here are the choices.
Drive up to grandmas after the honey gets off work on Wednesday. A 3 1/2 hour trip one one.
See grandma has slowly but surely handed over the cooking to me. I am the holiday cook. My entire family on that side comes over and we feast. We talk and play card games. This year one of my cousins is actually going to deep fry a turkey so I wouldn't have to cook that. I am not sure who would do the rest of the cooking if it wasn't me.
I would want to stay and go see the Harry Potter movie with my grandmother since it is kind of a tradition also. But I would feel the need to leave the day after Thanksgiving in order to give the honey the opportunity to go duck hunting. So that would mean no movie.
The other choice is staying home and going to Thanksgiving at his nephews house. This is the first time they have ever done a holiday gathering. This is our first invitation to something like this from them. The honey doesn't spend a lot of time with his side of the family so this would be nice for him. He would also be able to go duck hunting that Saturday and possibly that Friday too. Something he really wants to do. It would also mean he didn't have to drive 3 1/2 hours after work and then 3 1/2 hours home the day before hunting.
My inner want is grandma. But like I said I want to be fair. I also don't want us to separate this Thanksgiving because it really looks like that might happen on Christmas. The decision should be easy. Let the honey stay home so he can have some much needed down time from his job. He has been working weekends for months now. I feel selfish for wanting to spend time with my family. I am completely torn. HELP!
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Out of town taking grandma home
I had a great visit with my grandmother.She stayed for almost 10 days. We visited Moss Landing, Santa Cruz, the lakes, the cemetery, old homes family members lived in and a few other things. We got ravioli, two cakes and lots of other nummy things.
But now it is time for her to go home.. and that means I will be out of town. Until Thursday.
I expect to blog on Friday I think...
But now it is time for her to go home.. and that means I will be out of town. Until Thursday.
I expect to blog on Friday I think...
Friday, April 30, 2010
Tomorrow...
Tomorrow I drive up to Placerville and pick up my grandma. I have no idea how long she is going to stay with me but I am glad she is coming!
I am incredibly blessed to be able to have this time to spend with her. I guess I lucked out that she had her children young and my mother had hers very young.
(I figured I better be nice and calm today since yesterday I had a rant LMAO)
Ahem...
I think we will probably head over to Santa Cruz beach to look around and I know we will go to the cemetery. Other then that I have no plans. I still need to look for a job while she is here. And can I just tell you right now I am so discouraged. I am at that place again where you feel like you are sending your resume out into la la land and no one is looking at them. I have almost been off work a year here. Ok July will make a year but still! I am so freaking frustrated.
Oops... getting ranty... shhhhhh
AHEM.....
I spent today cleaning up her room and washing her bedding. I also went to costco and bought a few things we needed and grandma wanted me to bring up catfood and dog bisquits so I got those too.
We will be coming back on Sunday.
Roger Water tickets go on sale in two weeks. WOOT!!! I cannot wait to see the wall tour. I am so excited about it.
AND
My Sharks are doing pretty good in the playoffs so far. They won the first series and have won game one of the second series. Nothing is as exciting as playoff hockey lol.
And I must admit... I do love me some Goalie lol
The next game in the series is on Sunday so I get to watch it with Grandma... I wonder how she will like it LMAO!!!
Talk to you all later :)
I am incredibly blessed to be able to have this time to spend with her. I guess I lucked out that she had her children young and my mother had hers very young.
(I figured I better be nice and calm today since yesterday I had a rant LMAO)
Ahem...
I think we will probably head over to Santa Cruz beach to look around and I know we will go to the cemetery. Other then that I have no plans. I still need to look for a job while she is here. And can I just tell you right now I am so discouraged. I am at that place again where you feel like you are sending your resume out into la la land and no one is looking at them. I have almost been off work a year here. Ok July will make a year but still! I am so freaking frustrated.
Oops... getting ranty... shhhhhh
AHEM.....
I spent today cleaning up her room and washing her bedding. I also went to costco and bought a few things we needed and grandma wanted me to bring up catfood and dog bisquits so I got those too.
We will be coming back on Sunday.
Roger Water tickets go on sale in two weeks. WOOT!!! I cannot wait to see the wall tour. I am so excited about it.
AND
My Sharks are doing pretty good in the playoffs so far. They won the first series and have won game one of the second series. Nothing is as exciting as playoff hockey lol.
And I must admit... I do love me some Goalie lol
The next game in the series is on Sunday so I get to watch it with Grandma... I wonder how she will like it LMAO!!!
Talk to you all later :)
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
There is just something about grandma's house.
This weekend I went up to grandma's house with my buddy Sazy. We left on Friday around 3pm and got stuck in traffic so it took us quite a bit to get there. Once we hit the trees though it is like a feeling of peace flows through you. And once we reached Placerville it was like life here in the bay area was left behind. If there was a way to bottle that feeling I would be a millionaire.
Once we got there we made our plans for the next two days, played some cards and went to bed.
Grandma has a day sleeper bed that we use. It is one bed that is tall while the other bed slides underneath it to be used when company comes. You pop up the bed so it is normal bed height. I popped up the bed and we grabbed the kittens to sleep in our room.
After getting into our jammies I climbed into my bed while I waited for Sazy to finish getting ready for bed. She walked in and flopped down onto the bed which proceeded to fall down to the floor. (I can't ever remember it doing that before)
At first we laughed our asses off and then there was a moment of OH SHIT THE KITTENS! So Sazy jumped up and we looked for the kittens who thankfully hadn't been under the bed.
But of course then we started describing all the ways we would have gotten rid of the evidence of killing grandmas favorite cat.
Yes we are a bit morbid with our humor but still!
We talked about sneaking outside to bury it and trying to distract grandma from the newly turned dirt. We talked about hiding it under my uncles bed or pillow and blaming him. We talked about each of us taking half (somehow it was cut in half *snort) and putting them behind the tailgate of the car and grossing people out.
The entire time we are laughing our asses off. Laughing to the point of tears. What can I say it had to be at least 1am.
The next day we headed for the casino. We gambled and met up with my cousins for lunch. We were there a LONG time lol. But we figured it out. It cost us $20 an hour to play. Not horribly bad right?
We came home and ate some dinner and played some card games with grandma. At bed time Sazy and I probably spent almost 3 hours talking about Lost. I think by the time we went to sleep our brains were seeping out of our ears. See the more you actually talk about Lost the more confused you get. So again we didn't go to sleep until at the very least 2am. That was two late nights.
On Sunday we had to run an errand for grandma. We went to her friends house to pick up a piece of fencing. This is an older woman who walks with a cane who is taking care of her son that is dying. Well that turned into something completely different. First Sazy and I planted a plant my grandmother had brought for her. Then we noticed that pine needles covered the stairs. Well being nice like we are lol we decided that wasn't cool. So we grabbed some rakes and proceeded to clear off the stairs.... which turned into half a mountain. By the time we were done we were sweaty and had wobbly parts from doing so much exercise. We also had a pile of pine needles that would easily have hidden a full grown cow. Both of us could have laid on the ground and been completely covered in needles to the point of not knowing we were there.
That was the first part of the grandma's friend trip.
The next part was moving fencing, stakes, boxes, picture frames and a tv into my truck. It was packed! There was just enough room for me, Sazy and grandma.
After we left I seem to have made a wrong turn. (ok I kind of knew I made a wrong turn about 2 minutes in) See Grandma's friend lives out in the boonies. The next thing I know is the road goes from being a road to being gravel to being dirt with a nice cliff on one side. I am deathly afraid of heights so I decided to stop this "side trip" and turn around.
I do love side trips though lol
When we finally got back on the main road we decided that we were starving and dying of thirst. We found a nice little pub to eat at. Behind the bar was a ruddy country boy that I decided needed to be Sazy's boyfriend but she seemed fixated by the man sitting with his back to us at the bar. See he had a little bit of crack showing. Sazy kept talking about putting ice cubes, flowers and anything else that popped into her mind into his crack. Gotta love Sazy!
Next stop was caching. For those of you unaware of what caching is...there is a whole hell of a lot of little hidden treasures everywhere. People hide a box full of trinkets and you use your gps to find them. Sazy and I have been geocaching for a long time time. But it had been a while since we had went since it was raining.
Oops actually the first cache was before going to grandma's friend but since I all ready typed out that I am just going to type the first cache now.
The first cache was in a old cemetery. Sazy and I had all ready visited this cemetery to look around once without knowing there was a cache in it. It has funny old wooden tombstones with the names weathered off. I sincerely hope that somewhere someone has those names.
We had barely been in that cemetery for two minutes when Sazy leaned against a tree to look for the cache. Within seconds she was coated in mutant giant ants. Hundreds of them. We spent the next few minutes beating her to death trying to get them all off of her. When we were done we found the cache.
The next one was in a Mcdonald's parking lot however it was somewhere a little to close to a giant bee tree for comfort so we decided not to look for it.
<---allergic to bees.
The next one was at a ruins I have driven by a thousand times and not stopped. But I have always wanted too.
On the far left hand side is a low tunnel you can crab walk through to get to a room where the ceiling has obviously fallen down during times passage. We walked through that of course. Sazy was like a freaking mountain goat. She crawled all over that place. I did walk up some old stone stairs but once I reached the open ceiling room I was to freaking chicken to walk around the perimeter. That damn height thing again.
We love stuff like that. There is something wonderful about touching history.
We didn't find the next one or the one after that but we still were having an adventure.
We ended up at a pond with geese. Supposedly the cache was up a mountain...which we climbed... far... high... big old mountain lol. And we had nothing to show for it. Normally we print out the cache listing which will give you a clue but since I had gotten the new computer the printer wasn't set up yet I had just written down the coordinates.
We climbed back down the mountain and went to go feed the ducks and geese. There were people fishing on all the banks so we chose the area with no fishermen to feed them. The geese walked up onto the shore and proceeded to bite the crap out of me. My foot, My leg. I had bill marks on my pants. The whole time Sazy is cracking up and no matter how much I shooed them away they wouldn't leave. Stupid freaking geese!
We decided to call it a day and headed back to grandmas house.
We played cards into the wee hours of the night while drinking champagne. We laughed and just plain old had a good time.
And of course Sazy and I just gabbed out brains out until the wee hours again.
The next morning we packed up and left for home. We made two stops to look at houses for Sazy's mom but neither one was the best. One was in way to small of a town and the other.. I don't know why I wasn't thrilled with it but it just didn't work for me.
We stopped on the way home at a sonic and got a giant cherry slushie and some food.
We were both beat by the time we got to my house. Tired in a good way but so ready to go to bed.
I have to mention that we "watched" the first Sharks game on Sazy's phone. We sat there playing cards and refreshing the score for hours. (the game wasn't shown at Grandmas) The second Sharks game we listened to on the worlds crappiest radio.
All in all it was the best good wonderful weekend!
Once we got there we made our plans for the next two days, played some cards and went to bed.
Grandma has a day sleeper bed that we use. It is one bed that is tall while the other bed slides underneath it to be used when company comes. You pop up the bed so it is normal bed height. I popped up the bed and we grabbed the kittens to sleep in our room.
After getting into our jammies I climbed into my bed while I waited for Sazy to finish getting ready for bed. She walked in and flopped down onto the bed which proceeded to fall down to the floor. (I can't ever remember it doing that before)
At first we laughed our asses off and then there was a moment of OH SHIT THE KITTENS! So Sazy jumped up and we looked for the kittens who thankfully hadn't been under the bed.
But of course then we started describing all the ways we would have gotten rid of the evidence of killing grandmas favorite cat.
Yes we are a bit morbid with our humor but still!
We talked about sneaking outside to bury it and trying to distract grandma from the newly turned dirt. We talked about hiding it under my uncles bed or pillow and blaming him. We talked about each of us taking half (somehow it was cut in half *snort) and putting them behind the tailgate of the car and grossing people out.
The entire time we are laughing our asses off. Laughing to the point of tears. What can I say it had to be at least 1am.
The next day we headed for the casino. We gambled and met up with my cousins for lunch. We were there a LONG time lol. But we figured it out. It cost us $20 an hour to play. Not horribly bad right?
We came home and ate some dinner and played some card games with grandma. At bed time Sazy and I probably spent almost 3 hours talking about Lost. I think by the time we went to sleep our brains were seeping out of our ears. See the more you actually talk about Lost the more confused you get. So again we didn't go to sleep until at the very least 2am. That was two late nights.
On Sunday we had to run an errand for grandma. We went to her friends house to pick up a piece of fencing. This is an older woman who walks with a cane who is taking care of her son that is dying. Well that turned into something completely different. First Sazy and I planted a plant my grandmother had brought for her. Then we noticed that pine needles covered the stairs. Well being nice like we are lol we decided that wasn't cool. So we grabbed some rakes and proceeded to clear off the stairs.... which turned into half a mountain. By the time we were done we were sweaty and had wobbly parts from doing so much exercise. We also had a pile of pine needles that would easily have hidden a full grown cow. Both of us could have laid on the ground and been completely covered in needles to the point of not knowing we were there.
That was the first part of the grandma's friend trip.
The next part was moving fencing, stakes, boxes, picture frames and a tv into my truck. It was packed! There was just enough room for me, Sazy and grandma.
After we left I seem to have made a wrong turn. (ok I kind of knew I made a wrong turn about 2 minutes in) See Grandma's friend lives out in the boonies. The next thing I know is the road goes from being a road to being gravel to being dirt with a nice cliff on one side. I am deathly afraid of heights so I decided to stop this "side trip" and turn around.
I do love side trips though lol
When we finally got back on the main road we decided that we were starving and dying of thirst. We found a nice little pub to eat at. Behind the bar was a ruddy country boy that I decided needed to be Sazy's boyfriend but she seemed fixated by the man sitting with his back to us at the bar. See he had a little bit of crack showing. Sazy kept talking about putting ice cubes, flowers and anything else that popped into her mind into his crack. Gotta love Sazy!
Next stop was caching. For those of you unaware of what caching is...there is a whole hell of a lot of little hidden treasures everywhere. People hide a box full of trinkets and you use your gps to find them. Sazy and I have been geocaching for a long time time. But it had been a while since we had went since it was raining.
Oops actually the first cache was before going to grandma's friend but since I all ready typed out that I am just going to type the first cache now.
The first cache was in a old cemetery. Sazy and I had all ready visited this cemetery to look around once without knowing there was a cache in it. It has funny old wooden tombstones with the names weathered off. I sincerely hope that somewhere someone has those names.
We had barely been in that cemetery for two minutes when Sazy leaned against a tree to look for the cache. Within seconds she was coated in mutant giant ants. Hundreds of them. We spent the next few minutes beating her to death trying to get them all off of her. When we were done we found the cache.
The next one was in a Mcdonald's parking lot however it was somewhere a little to close to a giant bee tree for comfort so we decided not to look for it.
<---allergic to bees.
The next one was at a ruins I have driven by a thousand times and not stopped. But I have always wanted too.
On the far left hand side is a low tunnel you can crab walk through to get to a room where the ceiling has obviously fallen down during times passage. We walked through that of course. Sazy was like a freaking mountain goat. She crawled all over that place. I did walk up some old stone stairs but once I reached the open ceiling room I was to freaking chicken to walk around the perimeter. That damn height thing again.
We love stuff like that. There is something wonderful about touching history.
We didn't find the next one or the one after that but we still were having an adventure.
We ended up at a pond with geese. Supposedly the cache was up a mountain...which we climbed... far... high... big old mountain lol. And we had nothing to show for it. Normally we print out the cache listing which will give you a clue but since I had gotten the new computer the printer wasn't set up yet I had just written down the coordinates.
We climbed back down the mountain and went to go feed the ducks and geese. There were people fishing on all the banks so we chose the area with no fishermen to feed them. The geese walked up onto the shore and proceeded to bite the crap out of me. My foot, My leg. I had bill marks on my pants. The whole time Sazy is cracking up and no matter how much I shooed them away they wouldn't leave. Stupid freaking geese!
We decided to call it a day and headed back to grandmas house.
We played cards into the wee hours of the night while drinking champagne. We laughed and just plain old had a good time.
And of course Sazy and I just gabbed out brains out until the wee hours again.
The next morning we packed up and left for home. We made two stops to look at houses for Sazy's mom but neither one was the best. One was in way to small of a town and the other.. I don't know why I wasn't thrilled with it but it just didn't work for me.
We stopped on the way home at a sonic and got a giant cherry slushie and some food.
We were both beat by the time we got to my house. Tired in a good way but so ready to go to bed.
I have to mention that we "watched" the first Sharks game on Sazy's phone. We sat there playing cards and refreshing the score for hours. (the game wasn't shown at Grandmas) The second Sharks game we listened to on the worlds crappiest radio.
All in all it was the best good wonderful weekend!
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Getting it together
So there were a few questions in my comments and I thought I might as well post the answers....
The Kindle does not have a back light. It has a special technology that makes it exactly like reading a book. There is no eye strain due to looking at a computer like screen because it looks just like regular old ink on a page. So you will need to get a book light. That is one of the next things for me to buy. And I would definitely grab yourself a cover. Just in case you drop the thing it will cushion the fall. And the cover also makes it feel like a real book opening.
I LOVE MY KINDLE!!!!
In regards to the honey not coming to Christmas with me..... I answered the question but lay in bed realizing that I didn't really answer it properly.
My grandmothers is 3 1/2 hours away from our home. His brother lives about 15 minutes from our home.
I promised my grandmother (82 years old) that I would do all the cooking for Christmas back in July. No backing out of that.
The day after Christmas (my birthday) I like to go gambling. He hates gambling. So he gets bored in about 20 minutes and nothing is more frustrating to a avid gambler then someone who leans on the back of their seat sighing in boredom.
Also he wants to go duck hunting that weekend and duck hunting is down here.
His family has a knock down party for Christmas. Booze laughter and lots of fun. They decided this year on the 26th. Normally it is the weekend before which is not a problem. This year the date is a problem.
My family is more ummm sedate.
I would love to go to his families party more then anything but that means getting up in the morning of my birthday, driving 3 1/2 hours and then going to a party that lasts until midnight. That does and doesn't sound like a good birthday. Also I have my friend Sazy up at grandmas and dragging her back down here would just be mean.
I don't duck hunt. *shudders.... and that means I would be home alone like normal.
Sooooooo...... We decided to have him stay home and me go up to grandmas.
I will let you know if that changes because it has 3 times all ready.
I brought out the boxes of Christmas cards. I told myself that I will start writing them today. I don't have to put a personal message in each one right? Not going to happen.
I find it hard to believe but I think my next post is my 100th post. WOW that went super fast!!! I should do some kind of fancy post for the next one. Any ideas?
I have been a bad commenter this week. It seems there is so much to do in the house that I haven't had the time. BUT oh yes I have been reading all of you. I should be back to commenting either today or tomorrow. So just because you haven't seen a comment doesn't mean I forgot about you.
Oh and the honeys niece send me a private message on facebook today. She wanted to let me know that she is pregnant but please don't tell anyone.
She used to live with us before the honeys mother passed away and the world went to hell. That is a post for another day. Anyway she and the honey don't talk. Her mother doesn't talk to any of the honeys 3 other brothers. Again story for another day. So here I am with this secret.
I know this is going to end badly. Somehow the honey is going to find out that I know and ask me when I started talking to her again. Why I didn't tell him. Blah blah blah. I am not sure if I should just tell him or not.
He all ready thinks that me being on facebook is weird and doesn't understand why I have "MEN" as friends. No matter how much I tried to explain to him that they were old coworkers.
And let me just lay it on the line here people I am a good girl. There is NO hanky panky ever from me in regards to my relationship. Period.
So this stupid secret has the potential to be bad UGH.
Anywhoo... post 100 tomorrow :)
The Kindle does not have a back light. It has a special technology that makes it exactly like reading a book. There is no eye strain due to looking at a computer like screen because it looks just like regular old ink on a page. So you will need to get a book light. That is one of the next things for me to buy. And I would definitely grab yourself a cover. Just in case you drop the thing it will cushion the fall. And the cover also makes it feel like a real book opening.
I LOVE MY KINDLE!!!!
In regards to the honey not coming to Christmas with me..... I answered the question but lay in bed realizing that I didn't really answer it properly.
My grandmothers is 3 1/2 hours away from our home. His brother lives about 15 minutes from our home.
I promised my grandmother (82 years old) that I would do all the cooking for Christmas back in July. No backing out of that.
The day after Christmas (my birthday) I like to go gambling. He hates gambling. So he gets bored in about 20 minutes and nothing is more frustrating to a avid gambler then someone who leans on the back of their seat sighing in boredom.
Also he wants to go duck hunting that weekend and duck hunting is down here.
His family has a knock down party for Christmas. Booze laughter and lots of fun. They decided this year on the 26th. Normally it is the weekend before which is not a problem. This year the date is a problem.
My family is more ummm sedate.
I would love to go to his families party more then anything but that means getting up in the morning of my birthday, driving 3 1/2 hours and then going to a party that lasts until midnight. That does and doesn't sound like a good birthday. Also I have my friend Sazy up at grandmas and dragging her back down here would just be mean.
I don't duck hunt. *shudders.... and that means I would be home alone like normal.
Sooooooo...... We decided to have him stay home and me go up to grandmas.
I will let you know if that changes because it has 3 times all ready.
I brought out the boxes of Christmas cards. I told myself that I will start writing them today. I don't have to put a personal message in each one right? Not going to happen.
I find it hard to believe but I think my next post is my 100th post. WOW that went super fast!!! I should do some kind of fancy post for the next one. Any ideas?
I have been a bad commenter this week. It seems there is so much to do in the house that I haven't had the time. BUT oh yes I have been reading all of you. I should be back to commenting either today or tomorrow. So just because you haven't seen a comment doesn't mean I forgot about you.
Oh and the honeys niece send me a private message on facebook today. She wanted to let me know that she is pregnant but please don't tell anyone.
She used to live with us before the honeys mother passed away and the world went to hell. That is a post for another day. Anyway she and the honey don't talk. Her mother doesn't talk to any of the honeys 3 other brothers. Again story for another day. So here I am with this secret.
I know this is going to end badly. Somehow the honey is going to find out that I know and ask me when I started talking to her again. Why I didn't tell him. Blah blah blah. I am not sure if I should just tell him or not.
He all ready thinks that me being on facebook is weird and doesn't understand why I have "MEN" as friends. No matter how much I tried to explain to him that they were old coworkers.
And let me just lay it on the line here people I am a good girl. There is NO hanky panky ever from me in regards to my relationship. Period.
So this stupid secret has the potential to be bad UGH.
Anywhoo... post 100 tomorrow :)
Monday, December 7, 2009
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
It is freaking Freezing here! Seems like a lot of people are getting snow. Living in California we don't. Sigh. I would love to wake up to a blanket of snow once in a while but the last time it snowed here was 1978. So it looks like my chances of that are small.
I am loving my new kindle. It is so easy to use and very comfortable to hold. I have all ready read one book on it and have purchased two others to read. Two paranormal romances and one zombie book. But I have to finish the paper books that I bought before really using my kindle even though I don't want to lol.
I am really getting frustrated at the lack of job here. Sending out anywhere from one to six resumes a day and not even hearing a peep is making me feel a little inadequate for some reason. The honey says not to worry that I will get a job after the new year but man I am worried. My unemployment will be running out in 4 1/2 more payments and if I don't get an extension I am in a world of trouble. I am not even sure if they are still doing the extensions. The last time I was in this spot they didn't have extensions and the money just stopped. Thankfully in January I can send for my tax refund if I get my W2's in time. That is a little money that will help for sure if there are no extensions.
The honey told me I should start some schooling. I would need something that I could learn in a year. He said he would help with the bills while I went to school. The problem is what in the heck do I go to school for. Any ideas would be great.
My grandmothers dog is doing ok. She has a giant cast on her front leg and needs to be carried out to go potty. Today she got 14 inches of snow so that is probably a pain in the ass. Not to mention the poor dog got diarrhea from the medication. It can't be easy taking care of all that. I am thankful that my uncle is there to help.
I don't have any Christmas items up at all in my house yet. No tree, no nothing. I just don't have the mood for some reason. I need some Christmas cheer.
The honey will not be doing Christmas with me this year. That makes Thanksgiving and Christmas spent apart. It is a strange thing for me. It makes me feel a little sad. He will be going to his family's Christmas party on the 26th instead. I will be at a casino gambling my birthday money on that day since it IS my birthday. Sucky birthday right? At least my buddy Sazy will be with me for Christmas. Last year we had snow. I can wish for that again right?
I am loving my new kindle. It is so easy to use and very comfortable to hold. I have all ready read one book on it and have purchased two others to read. Two paranormal romances and one zombie book. But I have to finish the paper books that I bought before really using my kindle even though I don't want to lol.
I am really getting frustrated at the lack of job here. Sending out anywhere from one to six resumes a day and not even hearing a peep is making me feel a little inadequate for some reason. The honey says not to worry that I will get a job after the new year but man I am worried. My unemployment will be running out in 4 1/2 more payments and if I don't get an extension I am in a world of trouble. I am not even sure if they are still doing the extensions. The last time I was in this spot they didn't have extensions and the money just stopped. Thankfully in January I can send for my tax refund if I get my W2's in time. That is a little money that will help for sure if there are no extensions.
The honey told me I should start some schooling. I would need something that I could learn in a year. He said he would help with the bills while I went to school. The problem is what in the heck do I go to school for. Any ideas would be great.
My grandmothers dog is doing ok. She has a giant cast on her front leg and needs to be carried out to go potty. Today she got 14 inches of snow so that is probably a pain in the ass. Not to mention the poor dog got diarrhea from the medication. It can't be easy taking care of all that. I am thankful that my uncle is there to help.
I don't have any Christmas items up at all in my house yet. No tree, no nothing. I just don't have the mood for some reason. I need some Christmas cheer.
The honey will not be doing Christmas with me this year. That makes Thanksgiving and Christmas spent apart. It is a strange thing for me. It makes me feel a little sad. He will be going to his family's Christmas party on the 26th instead. I will be at a casino gambling my birthday money on that day since it IS my birthday. Sucky birthday right? At least my buddy Sazy will be with me for Christmas. Last year we had snow. I can wish for that again right?
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
41 turns into 14
Along the drive to pick up Sazy from the train station in Sacramento I pulled one of my famous side trips.
See I have this problem with driving straight somewhere. There are sparkly things on the side of the road that draw my attention and make me turn off to go see. I think I picked the sparkly thing up off my mother a bit.
Anywhoooo... there is this fish hatchery that I drive by every time I come home from grandma's. Normally I have the dogs in the car so I can't exactly stop and play tourist. This time I had grandma in the car. She kept telling me no... we have to pick up Sazy... no we don't need to go on another side trip today.. NO NO NO!
As I turned into the fish hatchery.
What? I couldn't stand it... I needed to see the fish lol
All right in Grandma's defense I tend to get into some form of trouble on half of the side trips I take. Like ending up in the middle of the forest on a one lane dirt (mud) road with no idea where I was.. or coming around a death curve only to find myself on a one lane rickety wooden death trap bridge with pieces missing. (That one I actually pulled over after crossing and boo hooed from relief) So I understood the NO NO NO comment but my nature just doesn't let me NOT side trip. I like to go where I don't know where I am and explore.
Anywhoooo..... The fish hatchery. Somehow we arrived right at feeding time. It was incredibly cool. This little go cart with a air blower attached would drive by the multiple ponds and shoot food pellets out of the air blower. As the cart drove by thousands of baby fish would jump and fight for the food. I stood on the side and watched. The cart when by me and ummmmm hey ass you forgot to turn off the blower because I got pelted with a million fish pellets that stung.
They had these fish food stations too. So I grabbed a handful of food and gave half to grandma. It was fun feeding them.
We hopped back in the car a little later then we should have. When all of a sudden all I could smell was fish. Turns out the pellets had some kind of super soaking death fish oil or something in them that melded into your palm and wouldn't come off even after repeated hand wipes. YUCK!!
We got back on the freeway and Sazy called. She had arrived. We were late... oops!!
We picked her up and drove back to grandma's.
That night we went to the casino to meet up with most of my family up there. Lost a bit of money. Nothing like I normally do since I still don't have a job. We played and played and came home around 10pm.
After sitting for a while everyone went to bed. The problem with Sazy and I is we talk to each other. So we laid in the room on our little separate twin beds and yakked our brains out. Before we knew it, it was 3am.
We decided to sneak outside for a smoke. Well we didn't really have to sneak but at 3am anything you do feels like you are sneaking.
So we are standing outside and decide to walk over to the temperature gauge to see how freaking cold it was.
CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH in the woods.
We looked at each other and ran to the porch. Like the damn porch was going to save us lol
We decided to go back inside and try to sleep. Except see we are like 14 year olds when we get together like that. Talk talk talk.
Finally it was lights out.
The end of the trip will be tomorrow. I seem to have caught a bug of some variety and I really really don't feel well.
See I have this problem with driving straight somewhere. There are sparkly things on the side of the road that draw my attention and make me turn off to go see. I think I picked the sparkly thing up off my mother a bit.
Anywhoooo... there is this fish hatchery that I drive by every time I come home from grandma's. Normally I have the dogs in the car so I can't exactly stop and play tourist. This time I had grandma in the car. She kept telling me no... we have to pick up Sazy... no we don't need to go on another side trip today.. NO NO NO!
As I turned into the fish hatchery.
What? I couldn't stand it... I needed to see the fish lol
All right in Grandma's defense I tend to get into some form of trouble on half of the side trips I take. Like ending up in the middle of the forest on a one lane dirt (mud) road with no idea where I was.. or coming around a death curve only to find myself on a one lane rickety wooden death trap bridge with pieces missing. (That one I actually pulled over after crossing and boo hooed from relief) So I understood the NO NO NO comment but my nature just doesn't let me NOT side trip. I like to go where I don't know where I am and explore.
Anywhoooo..... The fish hatchery. Somehow we arrived right at feeding time. It was incredibly cool. This little go cart with a air blower attached would drive by the multiple ponds and shoot food pellets out of the air blower. As the cart drove by thousands of baby fish would jump and fight for the food. I stood on the side and watched. The cart when by me and ummmmm hey ass you forgot to turn off the blower because I got pelted with a million fish pellets that stung.
They had these fish food stations too. So I grabbed a handful of food and gave half to grandma. It was fun feeding them.
We hopped back in the car a little later then we should have. When all of a sudden all I could smell was fish. Turns out the pellets had some kind of super soaking death fish oil or something in them that melded into your palm and wouldn't come off even after repeated hand wipes. YUCK!!
We got back on the freeway and Sazy called. She had arrived. We were late... oops!!
We picked her up and drove back to grandma's.
That night we went to the casino to meet up with most of my family up there. Lost a bit of money. Nothing like I normally do since I still don't have a job. We played and played and came home around 10pm.
After sitting for a while everyone went to bed. The problem with Sazy and I is we talk to each other. So we laid in the room on our little separate twin beds and yakked our brains out. Before we knew it, it was 3am.
We decided to sneak outside for a smoke. Well we didn't really have to sneak but at 3am anything you do feels like you are sneaking.
So we are standing outside and decide to walk over to the temperature gauge to see how freaking cold it was.
CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH in the woods.
We looked at each other and ran to the porch. Like the damn porch was going to save us lol
We decided to go back inside and try to sleep. Except see we are like 14 year olds when we get together like that. Talk talk talk.
Finally it was lights out.
The end of the trip will be tomorrow. I seem to have caught a bug of some variety and I really really don't feel well.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Well I didn't get to blog but I am HOME!
Turns out I didn't really get a chance to blog over this little mini vacation. Between shopping for food, Cooking, guests, an uncle who is addicted to the computer and dial up that pissed me off I never once even got on my blog.
I was right about the whole aunt flo visit who decided that my driving trip was the perfect time to visit. Joy.
I stopped on the way to grandmas to get a drink and a hamburger at a Jack in the box. (and use the restroom) I placed my order and sat down to wait. It seemed like I had been there a long time. I looked down at the receipt and noticed the time stamp. I then looked up at the clock and went WTF I have been waiting 20 minutes. 20 MINUTES.
Out of no where a monster took over my body. I stormed up to the counter to ask for my money back. I was actually shaking I was so incredibly pissed off. No one was there. I stood there tapping my receipt against the counter with steam flowing out of my ears. It was then the lady walked up with my bag and called my number. I am almost but not really ashamed to say I totally lost my temper at her in front of what felt like a million people. Normally I am a calm anger person. Where I just seethe and walk away mad. This time my mouth spewed. The ladies eyes were huge as I grabbed the bag and walked out the door.
I had ordered two plain hamburgers for the dogs. As I was driving down the freeway I opened the first hamburger on handed only to have lettuce and tomato coated in catsup fall down the front of me. Both hamburgers were not plain.
Needless to say the last half of the trip was driven in fury lol.
I arrived at grandmas and changed clothes and played with her two new kittens. Let me tell you there is nothing more stress relieving then two playful kittens.
The next day the kittens got fixed and we decided to go grocery shopping right before we had to pick them up. I learned that it is not a good thing to shop the day before Thanksgiving. Everyone else is shopping too. Then my grandmother tells me to go to the store next to the grocery store and pick out a shirt. Ummm I don't want a shirt. We have groceries in the car. Warm groceries that include cracked crab doesn't sound good to me. I think I made her mad but at that point I was worried about even standing up. Things were a little strong if you know what I mean.
We picked the kittens up and prepared the stuff that needed to be made the day before.
Thanksgiving I got up early and stuffed the turkey and put it in the oven. I made a million side dishes and waited for guests to arrive. My grandmother took two naps before they did.
I have to admit that kind of scared me a bit. She is really really slowing down. I live in fear that something will happen to her.
The guests arrived and we had about 2 hours before the turkey was done. My cousin walks in with another uncooked turkey. He then announced that he bought a deep fryer and was going out back to cook it.
ummmmmm.... two turkeys??? Really???
Off he went outside and I have to admit it was kind of fun to watch him try to figure out his new toy. And the turkey turned out beautiful and moist.
Did I mention that I cooked a 21 pound turkey myself... and there were only 8 family members at Thanksgiving? Needless to say we ended up with a ton of turkey left overs.
We all played card games.....well they all played and for the first time ever I did not. I sat with my Aunt as she went through pictures to throw away the ones that she didn't know who the people were or landscapes she didn't remember. I ended up with a pile of pictures to bring home of my great grandmother and grandfather as well as some of my dad and grandmother when they were young. She was going to throw them away. WTF.
That night I went to bed around midnight and froze my ass off. My grandmother doesn't really believe in the heater. She says it costs to much but let me tell you when it is frozen and cold I need a heater. But I just shut up and went to bed with my electric blanket.
Problem....
The damn thing didn't work. So I ended up freezing all night long. In fact when I woke up I was curled in a tiny ball under the covers at the bottom of the bed with goose bumps everywhere.
Sazy was arriving by train so I got myself ready to go pick her up.
The rest of the story tomorrow.... I have to fix the house that the honey broke while I was gone LOL
I hope you all had a great holiday..
I was right about the whole aunt flo visit who decided that my driving trip was the perfect time to visit. Joy.
I stopped on the way to grandmas to get a drink and a hamburger at a Jack in the box. (and use the restroom) I placed my order and sat down to wait. It seemed like I had been there a long time. I looked down at the receipt and noticed the time stamp. I then looked up at the clock and went WTF I have been waiting 20 minutes. 20 MINUTES.
Out of no where a monster took over my body. I stormed up to the counter to ask for my money back. I was actually shaking I was so incredibly pissed off. No one was there. I stood there tapping my receipt against the counter with steam flowing out of my ears. It was then the lady walked up with my bag and called my number. I am almost but not really ashamed to say I totally lost my temper at her in front of what felt like a million people. Normally I am a calm anger person. Where I just seethe and walk away mad. This time my mouth spewed. The ladies eyes were huge as I grabbed the bag and walked out the door.
I had ordered two plain hamburgers for the dogs. As I was driving down the freeway I opened the first hamburger on handed only to have lettuce and tomato coated in catsup fall down the front of me. Both hamburgers were not plain.
Needless to say the last half of the trip was driven in fury lol.
I arrived at grandmas and changed clothes and played with her two new kittens. Let me tell you there is nothing more stress relieving then two playful kittens.
The next day the kittens got fixed and we decided to go grocery shopping right before we had to pick them up. I learned that it is not a good thing to shop the day before Thanksgiving. Everyone else is shopping too. Then my grandmother tells me to go to the store next to the grocery store and pick out a shirt. Ummm I don't want a shirt. We have groceries in the car. Warm groceries that include cracked crab doesn't sound good to me. I think I made her mad but at that point I was worried about even standing up. Things were a little strong if you know what I mean.
We picked the kittens up and prepared the stuff that needed to be made the day before.
Thanksgiving I got up early and stuffed the turkey and put it in the oven. I made a million side dishes and waited for guests to arrive. My grandmother took two naps before they did.
I have to admit that kind of scared me a bit. She is really really slowing down. I live in fear that something will happen to her.
The guests arrived and we had about 2 hours before the turkey was done. My cousin walks in with another uncooked turkey. He then announced that he bought a deep fryer and was going out back to cook it.
ummmmmm.... two turkeys??? Really???
Off he went outside and I have to admit it was kind of fun to watch him try to figure out his new toy. And the turkey turned out beautiful and moist.
Did I mention that I cooked a 21 pound turkey myself... and there were only 8 family members at Thanksgiving? Needless to say we ended up with a ton of turkey left overs.
We all played card games.....well they all played and for the first time ever I did not. I sat with my Aunt as she went through pictures to throw away the ones that she didn't know who the people were or landscapes she didn't remember. I ended up with a pile of pictures to bring home of my great grandmother and grandfather as well as some of my dad and grandmother when they were young. She was going to throw them away. WTF.
That night I went to bed around midnight and froze my ass off. My grandmother doesn't really believe in the heater. She says it costs to much but let me tell you when it is frozen and cold I need a heater. But I just shut up and went to bed with my electric blanket.
Problem....
The damn thing didn't work. So I ended up freezing all night long. In fact when I woke up I was curled in a tiny ball under the covers at the bottom of the bed with goose bumps everywhere.
Sazy was arriving by train so I got myself ready to go pick her up.
The rest of the story tomorrow.... I have to fix the house that the honey broke while I was gone LOL
I hope you all had a great holiday..
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
And I am off...in a minute...
Getting ready to go on a trip can be stressful. Add a handfull of PMS and it is a real bitch.
I had to do the dishes, make the bed and change the cat boxes before I could even start to load my truck up for the trip.
Then of course I start feeling the death cramps and think this is great. What a great thing to drive 3 1/2 hours with.
AND
This morning I woke up with two cold sores on my bottom lip. WTF! I just had that stupid huge OMG what the hell is that cold sore under my nose last month UGH. But I did notice the trend... and let's hope that it ends this month.... I get this cold sore shit right before I start. And each of the last two months I had a stress problem right before I started.
Last month I was meeting my buddy from out of state and was nervous and BAM under the nose.
This month I have to drive to grandmas and fix dinner for the entire family and I have to leave the honey at home alone since he works the day after Thanksgiving... Bam the lip.
I haven't had a cold sore in years and I was pretty happy about it. My stupid family on both sides gets them in times of stress and after having to much citrus.
This is two in two months. I feel like some kind of ummmmm..... creeping crunge person. UGH!
They are small I will give you that but my bottom lip is all WTF I hate these things and has swollen up to the size of a prize fighter's lip after a fight. SIGH
Wow I share a lot don't I? Oh well I can't help but be who I am.
Anywhooo.. It is time to leave for my grandmothers. Hopefully I will be able to blog but I am not sure. See you all soon.
I had to do the dishes, make the bed and change the cat boxes before I could even start to load my truck up for the trip.
Then of course I start feeling the death cramps and think this is great. What a great thing to drive 3 1/2 hours with.
AND
This morning I woke up with two cold sores on my bottom lip. WTF! I just had that stupid huge OMG what the hell is that cold sore under my nose last month UGH. But I did notice the trend... and let's hope that it ends this month.... I get this cold sore shit right before I start. And each of the last two months I had a stress problem right before I started.
Last month I was meeting my buddy from out of state and was nervous and BAM under the nose.
This month I have to drive to grandmas and fix dinner for the entire family and I have to leave the honey at home alone since he works the day after Thanksgiving... Bam the lip.
I haven't had a cold sore in years and I was pretty happy about it. My stupid family on both sides gets them in times of stress and after having to much citrus.
This is two in two months. I feel like some kind of ummmmm..... creeping crunge person. UGH!
They are small I will give you that but my bottom lip is all WTF I hate these things and has swollen up to the size of a prize fighter's lip after a fight. SIGH
Wow I share a lot don't I? Oh well I can't help but be who I am.
Anywhooo.. It is time to leave for my grandmothers. Hopefully I will be able to blog but I am not sure. See you all soon.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Taking Grandma home
Whew!
I am so ready for a little bit of me time here. So today I am off to drive grandma home and will be back on Monday.
It has been great while at the same time bone tiring. We have shopped everywhere since she doesn't have big stores where she lives and I now have a entire truck full of stuff to take home with her lol. We have a long drive today.
I have lots of tv to catch up with on the DVR since she likes to chat while the tv is on and I can't hear the tv. I am kind of having tv withdrawls.
Last night some of the honey's buddies brought over three weinie dog puppies and told us we could have one. I fell in love but the honey said our two giant dogs were to much. I was kind of disappointed but well... they might actually eat the tiny puppy. Not really but that is what he was afraid of.
I didn't ask grandma to guest blog because this blog is mine. No one knows about it. I prefer it that way. Well the honey kind of knows I am blogging but he has never seen it and I doubt he ever will. This is mine. My own thing.
So I shall talk to you all on Monday or Tuesday depending on how tired I am when I get home!
I am so ready for a little bit of me time here. So today I am off to drive grandma home and will be back on Monday.
It has been great while at the same time bone tiring. We have shopped everywhere since she doesn't have big stores where she lives and I now have a entire truck full of stuff to take home with her lol. We have a long drive today.
I have lots of tv to catch up with on the DVR since she likes to chat while the tv is on and I can't hear the tv. I am kind of having tv withdrawls.
Last night some of the honey's buddies brought over three weinie dog puppies and told us we could have one. I fell in love but the honey said our two giant dogs were to much. I was kind of disappointed but well... they might actually eat the tiny puppy. Not really but that is what he was afraid of.
I didn't ask grandma to guest blog because this blog is mine. No one knows about it. I prefer it that way. Well the honey kind of knows I am blogging but he has never seen it and I doubt he ever will. This is mine. My own thing.
So I shall talk to you all on Monday or Tuesday depending on how tired I am when I get home!
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Grandma is still here
I am not sure how long she is going to be here. But it sure makes it hard to blog lol. But I wanted to let you know that I want to blog. I need to blog and I actually miss blogging.
Yes I know I blogged yesterday.
Anywhoooo.... more tomorrow.
Yes I know I blogged yesterday.
Anywhoooo.... more tomorrow.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Well I'm home
I have grandma with me which is going to make it a little difficult to post. She likes to talk lol.
In fact she likes to talk talk talk. (Wonder where I picked it up from *snort)
It does make it hard when you are watching something on tv and they are having "the conversation", that conversation that explains what happened, is happening or is going to happen and she wants to talk about slippers. UGH slippers
No, don't get me wrong I love having her here but I guess I am set in my ways.
Speaking of set in my ways..... I have some strong opinions on things. So does my father. Our opinions do not match at all. In fact they are so far apart I am not sure how he is my father.
Needless to say we had a few arguements when we went together this weekend.
More on that later. Grandma is calling.....
In fact she likes to talk talk talk. (Wonder where I picked it up from *snort)
It does make it hard when you are watching something on tv and they are having "the conversation", that conversation that explains what happened, is happening or is going to happen and she wants to talk about slippers. UGH slippers
No, don't get me wrong I love having her here but I guess I am set in my ways.
Speaking of set in my ways..... I have some strong opinions on things. So does my father. Our opinions do not match at all. In fact they are so far apart I am not sure how he is my father.
Needless to say we had a few arguements when we went together this weekend.
More on that later. Grandma is calling.....
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