Ivy Tied Up |

Oh and what a Monday it is! Don’t know if all of your mondays are going as grand as mine is. It’s not all bad.. Just a few road bumps so far.

First. Our lights went out sometime between 5:45 am and 6:30am. Of course this reset my alarm clock and my cordless phone. So at 6:35 when the alarm clock SHOULD have gone off it didnt. And Diva has now officially missed school today because I have no way to get her there.. (I woke up in a panic at 8:30 and then realized there wasnt a thing I could do but write today off as far as school is concerned).

Then.. Ive been waiting on packages from UPS all weekend! ALL weekend!So when he pulls up in my drive a minute ago I’m all flipping happy. BUT T hen he leaves!!!!!!!!!!!!! With my packages!!!! Oh what a let down!!! I felt cheated, upset, confused, let down, heart broken.
Yes i’ve fallen in love with my UPS Man.. Doesnt matter which one he is.. Just as long as he brings goodies! And he didnt bring goodies!

I saw my MIL walk up to him and say something to him and he Threw (LITERALLY!) a box and left. I was like WTF Is that all about????
So I asked her what was the problem. She said he said he couldnt find my boxes.. THEY BETTER BE THERE!!!! THEY BETTER NOT LOSE MY PACKAGES!!! He said he may come back later.. I think he needs to adjust that to he WILL be back later or He has officially ruined my monday! My Monday that really wasnt that bad before then. Because even though my oldest should have gone to school we slept in.. One day wont hurt and she only goes today and tom and then is out for the holidays.. So I wasnt going to let the lights go out ruin the day 100% for me..Hell i got to sleep in and so did she which made her in a much better mood than she should ahve been. That I can live with But no packages! NO PACKAGES! I can’t! I WANT MY PACKAGES!!!!!!!
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Okay anyhow.. Breathe!

Becky asked if i’d be around more now that i’ve got my computer. The answer is YOU BET! I would have loved to have been around more in the last few months but dial up out here is so slow. And it jams up my phone line and with kids.. I can’t have that much. I can’t tell you how happy I am to be “back”. I feel like me again..ROFLMAO. Kinda sad a computer has that much effect on me huh. But it is part of my life. Its where I work, how I work, and IS my work.

The laptop I was using. Well it was my dads. BUT He bought him a new one! He gave me his. So its my back up. It needs a new hard drive and memory. Its only running windows 98. And doesnt have the capacity to run windows xp. much less all the programs I want/need. Its so very slow. I feel bad that he gave it to me. I was going to pay him next month for it. After Christmas is said and done. But he insists that because it needs new memory and a new hard drive its pointless for me to buy it. So in the last week he has shelled out a ton of money to upgrade all his computers and I got the hand me downs (which the parts now in my pc that were on his pc. Are still fairly new and they run great!)He wanted new things of course but I dont think he actually planned on doing it this soon. I think he did it just so My computer would be working again and I wo uldnt do with out and because he knew deep down I didnt have the money to fix it all.. Gotta love my dad..
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Liza, The majority of the birthdays in my family start in December. Bug’s with Dec 27, Dh’s cousins son is also Dec 27. Dh’s brother is Dec 29, His cousins is Dec. 26. Then you move onto my family. My dad is Jan 13, my sister Jan 25, mine Jan 31, My mom feb 3, and my brothers was feb 11. Dec through feb is a very busy time.. LOL I pretty much dread these months..

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On a side note. Both Diva and Bug have a fever blister. They came up with in days of each other. And I think this means they are not washing their hands nearly enough. Try explaining that to them.
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On a deeper note. I got into a discussion with Diva the other day. She asked if she could go swimming (Yes its 40 outside) at the people down the roads house. I firmly told her no it was too cold. She said when it warms up. I told her no that there wasnt adequate adult supervision. She got mad. She said,”I CAN SWIM!” I told her that I know she can swim but she is not old enough or a good enough swimmer
to be swimming by herself. She then said that hte girls mom wo uld watch them. Well The girls parents imo are not adequate adult supervision.So again Diva got mad. I tried to explain it to her. And hse wasnt hearing it so I tried to explain to her that my little brother died from drowning in a pool. I tried to explain to her how it was an accident and accidents happen, ect. And then she asked how hold he was. I told her and she then got real quiet and serious and suddenly spouted really hatefully,”Well he shouldnt have been in there” And at this point I was driving down the road and had to come to a complete stop. She hadnt listened to a word I had said or taken in one thing that I wanted her to. My point of the whole story had totally escaped her and she was only focused on what she wasnt getting to do. At this point I was really really upset but what could I say to her? I kept quiet with my thoughts which were partially anger and partially being upset. While she stewed over not getting her way.
I dont ever think i’ll figure out my kids. And how their minds work. Even more so Diva.. Her mind is 100% consumed by HER.

I’m so freaking happy right now.. Jumping for joy. On the highest cloud available. I finally got my computer back late last night. Turned out the hard drive was b usted on it. But while my dad had it.. He upgraded the whole thing. new hard drive, new memory, processor, board, ect.. The only thing hte same is the case.. WOO HOO!

So I’m thrilled. I’m back up to having real internet access not the slow turtle crawling slower than dial up I was forced to use before and I can actually see pictures and graphics. Its like a whole new world.LOL

Silly huh? This is the best Christmas present I could have gotten!

 I did my shopping on friday and saturday. My feet are STILL killing me. I dont want to go back to the store. Yet I know I have to finish up my shopping next weekend.. I have very few things i need to get.. but I still have to get them..

The radio keeps playing Christmas music which makes me want to pull my hair out. Sorry to all of you who love it. We just have different tastes thats all..

Hubby took my son camping this weekend. It was so cold and rainy.. He had a blast. I however didnt sleep well at all. I being mom, worried all night. Worried my son was too cold, not b undled
up enough, what if he got hurt in the woods, What if their cell phones didnt work, what if something happened to dh and his friend and bug was left alone scared. I know its silly but I can’t help but worry. Thats how i’m wired. They plan on going again this coming weekend.. Yet I busted their bubble telling them it was christmas weekend and they were not going.. But we will be going in there for new years eve. We’ll end up staying all of us because I plan on taking keys if anyone starts drinking.

One other thing is coming up.. My sons bday! he will turn 5 on Dec 27th. He expects a party but no one wants to have one 2 days after christmas. I’m trying to get together a small family get together. I refuse to mix his bday with christmas. He deserves to have it separately. His sisters get a party..

Now that i’ve got dsl again i plan to visit you all!!!!

** You only see Christmas graphics here because i’m trying my hardest to get into the spirit of things** 

That dreaded day. The one where I have to go face the crowds and annoying sales people and do my christmas shopping. Suck it up, ignore the annoying people and dart out into the real world where the ultimate annoying people prey and live.

I don’t find all people annoying. Just well.. LOL Just the majority of holiday shoppers. This is why I avoid the malls and stores like crazy the day after Thanksgiving and I avoid crowds at all costs. I dread christmas shopping. HATE IT.. It fits right up there with christmas music. (Which by the way… People seem to have let my hate of christmas music convince them that i’m just not a good person).

The thing about my christmas shopping is.. its so time consuming nad I have to take the kids because there is no one to watch them. HOW am I going to buy for them with them with me? This is the puzzle of the day folks.. And I am a very smart shopper. I dont just buy when i find the item i’m looking for. I shop around for the best price with the best deal. This drives my husband nuts.

Also. What makes my shopping so time consuming. I dont just buy anything. I put alot of thought into my gifts because I do believe its the thought that counts not the price tag. RARELY do I spend over 20$ on someone other than my kids. And thats because I look for meaningful gifts.

The hard person to buy for this year. My sister. She is the person who has everything and anything she wants she goes and buys. Money no object. And here.. Money is an object. We live on a single income that has to take care of all bills and feed 3 kids. So she was the hard person this year. Has everything and wants or needs nothing. It took me forever to find something for her. And what I settled on wasnt much. I got her some bamboo spoons for cooking that I just love. I figured She would like them because she likes to cook and she always could use new kitchen tools. It wasnt much so I might pick her up a new coffee cup too… A decorative one..

Now my husband.. He is another hard one to buy for. Wouldnt be hard if I would be smart. The smart thing would be to just buy him hunting stuff.. However I REFUSE This year. I absolutely refuse to buy hunting stuff.. But you know.. I dont know why i’m fretting over this. Do you know what he told me to do. He told me to decide what i wanted for christmas and to go buy it.

Now this ticked me off.. WHY? shouldnt that be every womans dream? Told to go buy whatever they wanted..Well for any of you men reading. ITS NOT the ultimate gift.. What I really want. Is for him to take 5 minutes out of his busy schedule to go get me something even a freaking card would be nice.. So whats going to happen. I’m not going to buy for myself. I dont know why but I feel guilty doing that.. This isnt about me.. Christmas is about the kids and everyone else..

I think i’ve found the prefect gift for my son.. Its a neat lil train set that doesnt cost an arm and a leg.. He will LOVE it.. My oldest.. I’m looking for a lil jewelry box for her and having trouble finding one that isnt too grown up. She got her ears pierced this year and i’ve bought her some lil fashion ear rings and she is going to need something to put them in..

My lil one.. She informed me in her lil cute mouse voice.. That Her nae Nae (my oldest) wants a barbie toy from Santa, that bug wants a spider man toy and that she wants a bear bear (care bear) toy from santa.. LOL The cute part is that she decided this is waht they wanted..LOL Diva is not into barbies.. She was for like a few months and now is over barbies.. So that wouldnt set well.. I think lil bit wants barbies..LOL..

Over all its going to be a wet, miserable, day to shop.. But i’ll get it done..

or so it felt..
It wasnt a bad weekend.

I did end up going out to eat on Saturday night. Hubby kept me waiting for 4 hours first though. I told him I wanted to leave hte house at 4:30. Drop the kids off and get to the restraunt early so we didnt have to be out late. My day saturday started off really crappy.. With a big sinus headache. I didnt want to keep the kids out late in the cold much less myself. And the later you get to the restraunt the longer you wait.. Well at 5 I was still waiting on hubby to get home. I called and asked where he was..He was HUNTING! He killed an 8 point and had to do all his stuff he had to do first. We didnt get to the restraunt till 8pm. Then we had a 45 min wait. Hubby showed his butt and embarrassed me because he doesnt like to wait.

The steak was wonderful.. Hubby’s friend went with us and they ate more than any person should eat! I think they rolled out of the restraunt. Then we had to pick up the kids at my moms. We got home at about 10:30 or 11..

I was exhausted. A few drinks in me and I wanted to sleep!

I also found out why Hubby’s friend has been staying the weekends. Apparently his house was damaged in the hurricane so now he is having to live at his dads.. Not to keen on that I imagine. He has been on his own for a long time and now he is having to stay at his dads.. So on the weekends he is crashing at my place..

I was informed. LITERALLY that my hubby and hsi friend are going camping this weekend. This is the last weekend I have to shop for christmas yet he is going HUNTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GRRRR.. How am I going to get my shopping done WITH my kids?????????????? Much less with out a truck?????????????? I can’t wait for hunting season to be over! I’m OVER IT!

I’ve got a friend who hates the holidays. She can’t stand them. I’m normally right there with her. As I detest Holiday music. Can’t stand it. The noise of it is equivelant to scratching nails down a chalk board. Does this make me a scrooge? maybe. BUT i’m finding that there are alot of people out there just like me. They hear holiday music and their body starts to tense. The sound of it drives them crazy. They would rather sit through a 12 hour lecture about the reproductive organs on a rat than listen to christmas music. I am one of those people.

I do however hold my tongue and walk out of the room so that my kiddos may enjoy it. While I hate christmas music, I am a BIG fan of christmas cartoons. I watch them every year. Have since I was little. I even record them. There is just something about them. You have to watch them. Maybe its because it takes me back to being 6 years old when nothing was wrong. No cares, no worries, no regrets, I was just a six year old lil girl enjoying her christmas. I’ll even dress up in a santa hat and dance around the living room with my kids while singing Frosty the snowman. Yet I still hate christmas music.

What does that tell ya? That tells you that my kids happiness comes first. Even when its something I hate. My feelings are put aside for their pleasure.. LOL That happened this past sunday. Well kinda anyhow..LOL..

Me, I hate being held down, I cant stand to be restrained. It brings something out in me that makes me really suddenly very strong. Well Sunday came and my Kids and husband decided that they would wrestle me down and jump on me. They thought it would be fun to see if they could hold mommy down and tickle her. Well their fun.. Wasnt fun for me. I tried to get up. And when I did.. I lifted my head up and ended up running right into dh’s head with mine. And let me tell you! OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve got a black eye! Well that was on sunday and it still hurts today. The swelling has gone down alot and the bruising has faded to where you can barely see it. But it still hurts. I’ve had a non stop headache since that happened. Today is really bad. the last two days when i’d close my eye. I could feel it pulling on the swollen part and it would start to throb. That was my first REAL black eye.. And I never want another one again. When it happened it knocked me loopy. I really think I saw stars or birds or whatever. For about 10 minutes I didnt know where I was. It didnt hurt so bad sunday night but when I woke up monday morning.. Thats when the real pain begin.. Just putting lotion on my face felt like my eye was going to pop out. Its getting better though! now if only this headache would go away..

The cold weather has finally hit SE Texas. My kids don’t understand how we go from 85 to 35. They wore shorts this past week and now i’m forcing my kids into sweats, sweat shirts, and jackets. My oldest pitches a fit each morning about it not being cold outside. I have to force her into warm clothes and then once she is outside she finally realizes its kinda chilly! She outgrew all her warm clothes. i had to go to the store last night and buy her some shirts to wear under her tshirts ands ome more sweats. Just so she could make it the rest of the week. We are suppose to hit 20s friday. And have ice possible sleet thursday. I’m not looking forward to this.. This just isnt something we are familiar with. We do hit the teens occassionally during the winter. But its certainly not something that happens often.

I found out my houseguest will be back this weekend.. Oh what I have to look forward too. I made plans for one night this weekend though. I called my mom and asked her to babysit for a few hours friday or saturday night. I’m goign out to eat. With or with out DH. We havent been out to eat in about a year. Dh said we don’t have the money. And technically he is right. BUT Ive got a gift certificate i had gotten for my bday this year (In JAN). I think its time I use it. So he can go or he can stay home. If he doesnt go I’ll go with my best friend. One way or another i’m getting out of this house and going to have steak at a place I Dont have to cook it. And maybe a strawberry daq or two or three or four.

Have a good day!
Ivy

I’ve got a friend who hates the holidays. She can’t stand them. I’m normally right there with her. As I detest Holiday music. Can’t stand it. The noise of it is equivelant to scratching nails down a chalk board. Does this make me a scrooge? maybe. BUT i’m finding that there are alot of people out there just like me. They hear holiday music and their body starts to tense. The sound of it drives them crazy. They would rather sit through a 12 hour lecture about the reproductive organs on a rat than listen to christmas music. I am one of those people.

I do however hold my tongue and walk out of the room so that my kiddos may enjoy it. While I hate christmas music, I am a BIG fan of christmas cartoons. I watch them every year. Have since I was little. I even record them. There is just something about them. You have to watch them. Maybe its because it takes me back to being 6 years old when nothing was wrong. No cares, no worries, no regrets, I was just a six year old lil girl enjoying her christmas. I’ll even dress up in a santa hat and dance around the living room with my kids while singing Frosty the snowman. Yet I still hate christmas music.

What does that tell ya? That tells you that my kids happiness comes first. Even when its something I hate. My feelings are put aside for their pleasure.. LOL That happened this past sunday. Well kinda anyhow..LOL..

Me, I hate being held down, I cant stand to be restrained. It brings something out in me that makes me really suddenly very strong. Well Sunday came and my Kids and husband decided that they would wrestle me down and jump on me. They thought it would be fun to see if they could hold mommy down and tickle her. Well their fun.. Wasnt fun for me. I tried to get up. And when I did.. I lifted my head up and ended up running right into dh’s head with mine. And let me tell you! OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve got a black eye! Well that was on sunday and it still hurts today. The swelling has gone down alot and the bruising has faded to where you can barely see it. But it still hurts. I’ve had a non stop headache since that happened. Today is really bad. the last two days when i’d close my eye. I could feel it pulling on the swollen part and it would start to throb. That was my first REAL black eye.. And I never want another one again. When it happened it knocked me loopy. I really think I saw stars or birds or whatever. For about 10 minutes I didnt know where I was. It didnt hurt so bad sunday night but when I woke up monday morning.. Thats when the real pain begin.. Just putting lotion on my face felt like my eye was going to pop out. Its getting better though! now if only this headache would go away..

The cold weather has finally hit SE Texas. My kids don’t understand how we go from 85 to 35. They wore shorts this past week and now i’m forcing my kids into sweats, sweat shirts, and jackets. My oldest pitches a fit each morning about it not being cold outside. I have to force her into warm clothes and then once she is outside she finally realizes its kinda chilly! She outgrew all her warm clothes. i had to go to the store last night and buy her some shirts to wear under her tshirts ands ome more sweats. Just so she could make it the rest of the week. We are suppose to hit 20s friday. And have ice possible sleet thursday. I’m not looking forward to this.. This just isnt something we are familiar with. We do hit the teens occassionally during the winter. But its certainly not something that happens often.

I found out my houseguest will be back this weekend.. Oh what I have to look forward too. I made plans for one night this weekend though. I called my mom and asked her to babysit for a few hours friday or saturday night. I’m goign out to eat. With or with out DH. We havent been out to eat in about a year. Dh said we don’t have the money. And technically he is right. BUT Ive got a gift certificate i had gotten for my bday this year (In JAN). I think its time I use it. So he can go or he can stay home. If he doesnt go I’ll go with my best friend. One way or another i’m getting out of this house and going to have steak at a place I Dont have to cook it. And maybe a strawberry daq or two or three or four.

Have a good day!
Ivy

Have been something! I’ve had a houseguest since Thursday. DH’s best friend. Who I really love to death. He is the best guy. I wish he would settle down and get married to a woman who will love him for who and what he is and not for his money.

He really is a wonderful guy. I know if anything ever happened to my husband he would be right there for me and my children. He is that kind of man. He was married. Really still is. They havent filed for a divorce yet but she only lived with him for a few months. He fell head over heels for her and well she for his money. After a few months her children wanted their daddy so she decided to leave him and move back in with her ex. She has now done this 5 or 6 times.

She leaves her ex when money gets tight. Moves in with dh’s friend and then moves back out when her ex is working again. First time shame on her. Second shame on him. He says he wont take her back this time yet she called his cell today and it was all “I love you”.. The things we do for love.. I wish he could find someone he deserves. She has hurt him over and over and over again..

Anyhow. I love this man to death. Best friend anyone could want. BUT.. I’m tired of having a house guest. He sleeps on my couch. I can’t get a thing done. I can’t be on the cmputer at night to work because he is asleep on my couch. My whole routine is thrown out of wack and Hubby is a jackass when his friend is here. A complete jackass.

Dh asked his friend last night if he was being a jerk. Friend looked at me and then at hubby and finally shook his head and said man, don’t put me there.. Dh said,” Can’t you just say no”.. Friend said not to put him in the middle of it.. Dh shook his head.. Come on.. If he wasnt being a jerk.. His friend would have just told him.

I’m tired of having an extra person to cook after, clean after, wash clothes after, ect. I’m like the slave who gets told what to do over and over and over again.The friend did cook last night though. Which made it easier on me.. He will be going home tonight though.. He lives int he next town over but gets lonesome I guess occassionally and comes and stays at my house about 2 times a year. I’m glad its only 2 times a year. I wish he would come around more.. But stay the night at his own house..

Sugar mama (the youngest..3year old) is just in love with him. my Oldest was like that when hse was little. Thought the sun set with him. Now she is too big for that.. I think the friend m isses her affection. Bug is jealous of him. He doesnt like that his daddy is spending so much time with someone else. I can sense the tension.

Hubby is suppose to be goign back to work tom.. First time since the hurricane. He will be working 7/12s.. I hope this job pans out.. I can’t take him ho me much more.. Not to mention..BILLS HAVE TO BE PAID!

Hope all is well in blog world! Can’t believe christmas is almost here.. UGH! Everyone run!

Have you ever had a house guest that wouldnt leave?