FYI

I'm now an Upper Case Living Consultant. Thanks to Tammy...:)

Let's play catch up

Heeeellllllloooooo! Is anybody still out there? I’m back!
Sorry, it has been crazy lately. I got moved from where I was working and didn’t have a computer to work at during the day. Once I get home I don’t even think about a computer. Then I switched jobs completely the week of Halloween. I started working at USEC here in Oak Ridge. They are located at the Boeing site. I work early hours, 7-3:30. Once I get off work I’m ready for a nap.
Basketball has started and we are constantly running during the week. The weekends have been packed too with weddings; party’s, shopping, and trying to catch up on house work. UGH!!
There is so much to get caught up on I don’t even know where to start. I will just hit the high lights- new job, new car, basketball, Happy Halloween, Happy Thanksgiving, football was ok, Audrey is doing good, Jonathan was diagnosed with Graves disease and is still up to his old tricks. I still need a mental evaluation!

I think I might run away, far away

All I can say is may the force be with you if you have teenagers. By "force" I mean having the Lord almighty, Sweet Jesus, Father above, Holy spirit, strength in you to not eat your young nature about you. I keep hoping to see the light at the end of the tunnel but all I'm seeing is this red strobe light. I have just about diagnosed myself with a throbbing brain aneurysm. It only acts up about once a week and it only seems to happen when my son is around or I stumble across his stupidity.
I will go ahead and tell you his latest, since I can finally speak of it without having a migraine. Last Thursday I was collecting some movies that James had rented for Jonathan and his friends to watch when I had to go to Jonathan's room to get 2 of them to return. There were movies scattered everywhere on his entertainment system and I'm sifting through them when I come across this one called "Life in the fast lane" with these 2 barely dressed blondes on the cover. Well it sort of looked like a lagitament movie until I saw who was starring in this movie- Farrah and Shay sweet. I flipped it open to make sure the DVD was in the case when I noticed the title on the DVD said "Blow Job University". HELLO!! I just about fell out. Then I noticed the back of case with all the naked people doing private things in multiple different angles. UUUUGGGGHHH!! Needless to say that all went over like a led balloon. Jonathan swears it was Jareds and Jared says it is not his. Who's ever it is they have a broken DVD at the Roane County landfill.

Job update

Well, my contract was extended until Oct.31. So I will have another month to get placed into another job. Praise the Lord! I hoping that between now and then someone will get fired or quit so that I can stay. THAT IS AWFUL of me! But I can't help it. I have to work, which sucks!

So YOU had a bad day?

Yesterday started very early for me. It started off with James flipping and flopping in the bed so much that I had to leave. It was about 1 in the morning. I headed towards the living room to find Jonathan on the couch. It was quite hilarious to say the least. He had the quilt wrapped around his lower body like a diaper. At that point I decided to sleep on the big chair and ottoman. Thank goodness I'm short. I finally fell asleep, only to be woke up by Jonathan talking in his sleep. I drift back off. Then he is over there farting like he is making popcorn. I drift back off! Only to be woke up again with him kicking like he is in some kind of stomp competition. I'm PO'd but drift back off!! That continued until 6am when I went back to my bed and made James leave for work and I slept until 9:30 and then went to work. Once I finally found a parking spot and badged in the building I find 6 armed gaurds surrounding my desk and tell me not to approach that they have found a suspicious package and that it could be a BOMB. BOMB!! Good Lord, could this day get any worse? I have to stand around for about 20 minutes until they decide to put the package in a bomb bucket and remove it from the building. So from 11 am till 4:45 the day was busy but ok. I leave work and am going towards Kingston on the interstate to pick up Audrey when a Semi blows a tire and causes debris to go all over the place and I run over a large piece of it and it blows my left rear tire. UGH!! I make it to the outside lane along with another car whose same exact tire got destroyed along with mine. I wait on James for 1 hour on the side of the interstate. He finally gets there and changes my tire while I'm calling everywhere trying to find someone with my tires in stock. Nobody has them in stock! Could this day get any worse? We take my car to the shop who will eventually replace my tires and go to get some food to take home and drop my keys off at the guys house that owns the shop. I call dad and he says that I can borrow his truck but he didn't remember if the keys were at the house or with him. I call Jonathan and he says yes the keys are in the truck but the brake lights aren't working. The reason why he knows this is because they drove dad's truck to school that morning and Jonathan got pulled over and the police informed him he had no brake lights. No ticket issued! Could this day get any worse? After much thought I decided to call my boss and ask her if James could drop me off at her house and I ride in to work with her. She said sure, but that she was leaving at 6 am. 6 AM!! Good grief! So I agree and she says let me call you right back. ok. She calls me back and says I have to tell you something and you have to keep it a secret and act surprised when you find out. I said , ok. What is it? Your position has lost it's funding and your last day is September 30th. WHAT! Are you kidding me? No... Could this day get any worse? Or is this the worst? So now I'm waiting on her boss to come tell me the glorious news and I have to re-inact my surprise. Is that possible? I don't think so! I practiced in the mirror and I could never make it look like a real reaction.
Later on....
I call Ronnie Stockton to ask him to help me find a job and am telling him about my day and I get to thru the whole story and say could this day get any worse to him and all of the sudden everything in the house goes DARK!! The freaking power goes out for over an hour!
Good grief! I'm NOT going to say it again, but could this --- --- --- -----? I'm sure you can fill in the blanks.

Uppercase Living Party

Well, If anyone would like to order from the catalog let me know. I invited 40 people and had 4 show up. I guess I don't have any friends:( I choose to believe that they are super busy like me and just couldn't make it. They on the other hand could have called and told me that they wouldn't be coming. I'm just glad I didn't make enough food for 40! Oh well! I will be closing the party on Friday.

Yellowstone

My mom and dad are leaving Sunday to go to Yellowstone for a week long retreat with her brother and sister and their spouses. They will be staying in a condo and visiting all the sites. This is their first time to go on vacation together in 30+ years. Since my Granny Spoon died they made a promise to each other that they would get together at least once a year.
Please keep them all in yours prayers while they are flying to thier destinations. You all know how clumsey my mother is! Hopefully she won't take her Ambien while she is there and decide to go somewhere in the middle of the night. Ugh!!