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- Well, the husband and I voted today. We had to wait in line for about 15 minutes, but the weather was so cool and crisp that nobody seemed to mind.
Mom and I had a good laugh when we realized we'd both voted against our own cousin! LOL! He's running for district judge as a republican. Sorry cousin! Nothing personal.
- Did I mention fall finally arrived? I hope she isn't just teasing us. You know how it can be 60 degrees one day and 92 the next. Let's hope it continues to cool down. This is my favorite time of year. :)
- About three years ago I bought a Tony Dorsett throwback jersey. I never wore it because I thought it looked horrible on me. I decided to bite the bullet and wear it today. It's actually pretty comfy and perfect for this breezy weather we're having.
I used to think Tony Dorsett was so dreamy. :D
A fast update of a bit of everything.
1. I have started getting my mail on an every other day biases! My moms is sooo proud of me! I started because I was waiting for checks to come in for the kids and various First Communion presents from all the family and "pagany" friends that sent to them. Now I am waiting on my checks to come in. So now that I have gotten in the habit we can start actually "writting". Craftywench dear, I need you to email us full addy and your mini me's name and your name again. DeLaney said she won't promise any decent letters (they just got done with proper letter writing at school so she is burnt out) but she will write!
2. I was very upset with my TKD Academy instructor Monday and ran into Aj's wife yesterday and told her why. It looks like my cousin's wife has been talking and the owner/instructor is beleiving every word she has to say about me. Which is funny as hell cause the stuck up bitch doesn't KNOW me, doesn't talk to me outside of saying hi, and thinks I am "white trash" cause I don't dress in brand name clothes. Carrie is upset over this cause she had to deal with my cousin's wife talking shit about her last year. AJ is going to talk to me Friday cause he is worried that after we get our black belt at the end of this year beginning of next year instead of stickign around that we will leave the Academy. AJ knows that I don't put up with this type of shit but I am also not going to play highschool bull shit games, I'll call the instructor and cousin's wife out and be dayumed any family fall out.
3. After 7 years (i though it was 5 until my moms counted back) I actually took myself to my hair stylist and got my hair colored. The kdis and I got our hair cut Wensday or Thrusday last week and I splurged on hair color yesterday. I think I look kick ass hot with my new do. The bottom half of my hair is a purply reddish brown and the upper layers are reddish brown. So when I put my sides up you can see the purple and when I actually blow dry curl my bangs you can see it also! My hair stylist instead of charging me for my length which at the moment is short and thickness of my hair (usually takes a lot of dye for my hair even when short) she charged me just for shortness for two different dyes even though the bottom dye she used a full bottle of it she said! I was very happy over not paying close to 100 for my dye like normal! It was closer to 50!
4. I don't know if I told you all about the plan I had in plotting progress but I started it. At the end of May when my kdis get out of school, instead of taking them on their first camping trip, they will be staying with Pappo and Mammo (Unless daddy is home those two days) while Mommy is bettering herself. I registered for 1 of 6 classes to start my certificate/licensing process to become a Certified and eventually Licensed Drug/Alchohal (sp? can't ever spell that word) Counselor! The total amoutn of classes is $1300.00 but you only pay for the class your taking. And if the class that is scheduled doesn't fit in your schedule you just wait for the next one to be listed, it doesn't hurt you! It is through the Lincoln Medical Center and a program called TAP out of Lincoln. The series of classes are held every 6 months. Sometimes on the Western/Central parts of the state and the other times on the Eastern/Central part of the state. Right now they are in the Western/Central parts of the state but I am going down to a weekend class in Lincoln the day my kdis get out of school for the first class. I have NOT told Randy yet, because Randy told NOW would come up with a way to sabatoge my plans and he wouldn't even realize it. Once it comes closer I will inform him and he will get over it. My parents and my sister (and one friend) are stepping to the plate to help with the kids especially when it comes to the week long classes coming up. After I do the classes I have to intern at 1 of 4 places near me or try to get on at the IHS out paitent clinic. Once I get that over with I can get licensed and work anyplace in NE as a counselor. I am going to hold out for the IHS Drug/Booze Dependency Unit to be up and operational to get on with the Tribe/Gov't. They are in the process of building it now right next to the new IHS hospital my moms works at!
5. My garden is tilled and my onions planted. I have to find my other seed to get the other cold weather seeds in, my herb garden needs one more tillign and then I can plant that, and Coltin's room is about done with the fixing of cracks so I can paint!
6. Randy has been an ass lately so when he is home this week we will hash that out.
Over all life has been good. I even wrote gwydionjim a letter while he is at boot camp. He might even get another one here when I mail out the last of the kids' thank you cards for all their First Communion Presents! Yes I make my kids do snail mail thank yous!
Eee Gads, Watson! It's a dayum cold out there. Actually we are in a heat wave today! A whole 1 degree. With windchill it is still 1 degree out! Way better then it was yesterday when we went to the tkd tournie! From about 4 am till 9 am it was -12 but with windchill feeling like -27. When we finally got on the road an hour and half late (we was tired from the night before and everyone was CRABBY) it was up to -10 with windchill feeling like -24 the rest of the day.
The kids thought I was crazy because I made them load the van up with 3 blankets, the small bag of kitty litter, the rest of the salt, a couple cans of soups, a small propane blow torch and a couple of spoons. I also made them run down stairs to grab a few jugs of water and my last tin coffee can. There was NO WAY in hell that I was getting strandend even an hour and half in IA with out being able to take care of my kids yesterday. When we stopped to fill the tank up, I grabbed some other small foods also and had a friend of mine that works at the store double check under the van to make sure my jack and tire where under there. Chad is such a nice guy! Grew up together, hung out together, and disappointed our families by not ever dating!:D He helped carry out the bags of grocieries (not his job anymore at the store-he helps the owner with the butcher counter now) and noticed we were loaded up to go somewhere and got right after me about my spare tire and cables to jump with and how i shouldn't have the kids out on a day like yesterday and with my knees I shouldn't be out on a day like yesterday. But he knows I won't listen so he crawled on the cold ground to make sure everything was there and then procedded to chew my ass more. He got right after Coltin about listening to me (he knows my kids are onery like me:D) and told DeLaney to keep her cute lil ears covered at all times.
We got to the tournie after opening ceromonies and in time to see one of our lil classmates take all three trophies in her age division and rank. Which would have been DeLaney's and Coltin's age division and Rank. Mr. Johnson gave me a bad time and said see should have just signed up for the tournie! Poor Amanda had no competition out there! Then we wondered all over the place trying to find my cousin Joe and his boy Kody. Kody is a black belt, just turned 8, and we wanted to watch him. Finally found them right when they were getting ready to start his age group and division! Kody did rather well considering this was his first time at this age ranking. Poor boy had to go up against two different state champions. One from MN and one from IA! He got 4th out of 8th so Joe and I had to do some fast talkign to get him to realize that was dayum good when all those other boys were closer to 10 and he just turned 8!
Another lil girl from our class, Britney was going at the same time as Kody, so we wondered down to her area when Kody was waiting his turn and she did really good also. Took 1st and 2nd but the lil boy she kept having to compete with took over all. She started crying and I pointed out to her that for her first tournie that is dayum good. I convienced her to wonder over to watch Robin a 12 year old 2nd degree black belt who was competting against a state champ and a regional champ and this was her first go as a 2nd degree black belt. Britney realized that if Robin can go out there and not cry when she got 3rd overall that she did a good job. Then we watched Mr. Bel a 16 year old 2nd degree black belt on his way to 3rd. We ended up wondering over to the women's comp that I would have been in and didn't get to see how he did, but we saw the first part of his form and Mr. Bel rocks! His name is actually Ryan but since Mr. Johnson's name is also Ryan we call mr. bel only half of his last name to keep them seperated.
Mr. Jones and Mr. Johnson was right, if we would have competetied yesterday I would have came home with a couple of trophies. But I refused to get points awarded just because I had a knee surgery and couldn't jump on #2 front kicks when I should be doing #1 jump front kicks. By the time 2:30 rolled around we were all tired. Joe and Kody drove up with Mr. Jones and Mr. Bel (they drove the others jumped in with them) so they had to stick around till Mr. Jones competeted. I really wanted to watch Mr. Jones and Mr. Johnson compete. Mr. Jones is a 1st degree black belt and Mr. Johnson is a 3rd degree soon to be 4th degree. That would have been interesting. But alas we loaded up with our tshirts we got, gave Kody a hug again and teased cousin Joe about not competiting himself. Joe's excuse is he gets way to nervous and wasn't like me and his sister Tammy (that's my vet) who took speech in highschool, college, and 4-H (tammy not me) nor did he take part in plays, muscicals, one acts, or debate team like we did. I giggled at him and said tell you what coz, you partake in our academy's tournie and we can talk Mr. Johnson into letting us do a expidetion sparring match between the two of us. You as a 1st degree black belt and me as either a Cami or a green belt when ever the tournie comes around. You can attempt to beat the crap out of me. He perked up and said hmmm that might get me into that tournie!:D So he is going to think about it and talk to his wifey and if she thinks he should do the tournie (she will-she likes tournies) then we will see if Mr. Johnson will let us try to beat the crap out of each other:D
Anyway, by the time we made it back into the city it was about 4:30 and I realized due to my busy week and weekend I had no food in the hosue, called Randy and he said to pick something up. The kids wanted chicken. So we stopped at KFC's and got chicken. I am not a big chicken eater so I let the kids pick out what kind of chicken and the sides. we got home and I put the food in the oven and the kids helped me to clean the mudporch and change litter boxes.
Now that the kids are off to Mass with Granny, I need to deciede if I am showering up and after they get home if we are running back to the city for grocieries or doing what Randy suggested and just email him my grociery/dollar general list and he and Arjan will stop on the way home and get it all for me. Randy is feelign crappy cause he worked out in that -24 weather pulling wire, conduit, and double checkign the structuour and mechanical engenerring on a packign plant and a mill yesterday. But the weather is suppose to turn crappier today and he knows I HATE the cold and refuse to drive in snow and ice as it comes down. Randy looks at it this way, he may feel like crap and be cold but he can at least move with out being stiff and have his joints lock up like I do during the cold. Bree called right before my mom picked the kids up and said she is going to call back with a grociery list of her own and said to just have the hubby's pick up the crap. She is at work and her house is empty also of food and this way neither one of us have to run to go get grocieries the guys can do it!
I probalby will just take down her grociery list and email it along with mine and make our hubby's do the shoppign this weekend!
I am down rambling for now. My dad called and left a messy last night saying he is running low on fuel oil and needed some more wood. He won't take the split wood (to hard to push back intot he furnace with his back and knees) so instead of telling him we dont' have any 3ft length cut, I am going to bundle up and cut him a pile of 3ft length wood and this evening with Randy's help take it down to the parental units. I'll go out about noon to do that cause I have to get my house back in order!
Talk to you all later!
Paging Dr. DoLittle! Paging Dr. DoLittle! Your needed at Niassa's house STAT!
We had a ruff night last night. Randy and I did that is. Our poor dog had a ruffer night the poor baby. So ruff that I am having to call my cousin aka my Vet and see what she wants to do with my doggy.
The kdis and I got home at 10 pm last night. We were going to go to taekwondo until I realized half way up to the city that it was Bring a Board Break a Buddy night aka Bring a Buddy Break a Board night. So instead, we went with our friends to celebrate a 10th bday! The kids went and saw Water Horse and us adults went and saw In the Name of the King. (Don't waste your money on In the Name of the King!)
Anyway I finally crawled into bed at 11 last night. Randy had been sleepign since about 8:30. He enjoyed his night home with out any noise let me tell you. At 11:30 pm, Spud was having a dream or so we thought! He normally starts running in his sleep and barking and one of us has to nudge him on his doggy bed to get him to turn over! Just like I have to kick Randy to get him to turn over when he gets to snoring to loud!
Well we couldn't get Spud to stop and then he started growlign and moaning. I sat up and told Randy to go get the lights, I wanted to see what was wrong with my dog. As Randy was crawling out of bed to go turn the lights on, Spud got with it enough to try and get off of his doggy bed but couldn't walk, tried to bark then and couldn't. He managed to crawl over by our basket of clothes over Randy's dirty clothes. Randy got the light on and we realized my poor dog was having a seizure! Randy tried walkign over to him to make sure his tongue wasn't going down his throat or that he was bitting it and by that time Spud was coming otu of it and growled at Randy. Randy stopped and talked to him a bit to let him know he wasn't going to hurt him. The seizure lasted about 10 minutes.
After Spud got his body back he was so tired and huffing and puffing. Randy picked him up, which by the way is no mean feat with a dog that is way over weight and we only managed to get about 5 lbs off of him before winter hit, so that he could get a drink and didn't have to walk down the stairs. After Randy and Spud got their drink, Randy even let Spud come sleep between us but then he couldn't go back to sleep and he slept on the coach last nigth cause Randy feel asleep watchin the History Channel.
This morning, Randy and I talked and as far as we know this is Spud's first siezure. But for all we know he could have had others when we weren't around. So I am calling my cousin the vet and going to ask her what we should do. Watch and wait or bring him up. Tammy my cousin knows I dont' waste a lot of money on animals so if the tests are to expenseive I will just ask for somethign to keep Spud comfy and if he is sick probably put him down.
I really hope he isn't that sick cause Teri (the lady we got the dog from) woudl be devestated as would her lil boy whose dog it actually is! Tehy still claim Spud as theirs but they know he is apart of our family now especially when he HATE Teri's hubby and Teri said Spud HATED men, and Spud LOVEs Randy and is very friendly towards all men with us.
Spud has been very loving towards all of us this morning and Randy said he had to pull Spud out of the work truck cause he wanted to go with Daddy this mornign at 5:30. I think Spud has realized we will take care of him the poor thing.
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