Summer vacation is way too expensive hell i haven't even left the city for a week away and its already costing me a small fortune just in trips to the store. I have to bring the kids with me and that is just mistake numero uno.
Can i have
It's on sale
It's only a dollar
can i have
ohh i need this
please i promise
can we have .........
I need to start shopping late at night when they are sleeping.
My godson Peyton is 2 years old and loves fish, he watches nemo 3 times a day at least. When I call and he gets on the phone he usually tells me " FISH ! " and then points to his fish tank like I can see him and the tank.
Monday after talking to him I remembered we had an Aquarium membership and I made plans with my cousin and her kids to do a day trip to the Camden Aquarium.
We took the ferry across the river to the Aquarium and laughed at the kids who had a really hard time trying to control the excitement of it all.
The night before my kids made a list of things to do this summer and going to the aquarium was at the top of the list a few lines down Holly had added Catch butterflies. Next to the Aquarium is a place called the childrens garden that house a butterfly house so of course i had to take them all in so she could see the butterflies up close and try and catch them.
She didn't catch a butterfly but being in a room with hundreds flying around here completed her things to do request.
My godson gave me a big kiss and hug for showing him all the fish and i got o scratch off some things to do myself.
I added some pictures from the day in my portfolio so i could remember how much fun we had.
I had a pretty quiet and lonely weekend for the most part. The man had t work all weekend and the kids were at the Dads house. That in itself sucked because they kept running around the corner to tell me they were bored or missed me.
Friday night i did go out with a couple of friends to a new pub for a few drinks and some really really good food. It was soo good i begged to get the kids earlier than usual and took them to get some dinner and than we ran down to penns landing for the irish festival to see Blackthorn ( Irish band ).
Why do i always forget my camera when i go places? This is just some cell phone shots
Last night we followed up with a trip to the movies to see THE HULK! I was really suprised at how much everyone enjoyed the movie considering they weren't sure if they wanted to go. Hell i wouldn't even mind going to see it again.
My little baby where did you go
If I blink to fast I fear you will grow
From cute little babble in princess clothes
Now we have t ball and tap dance shows
you make me proud to be your mama
even if you fill my days with crazy drama
Holly finished her last night of Tball and got her trophy she wanted so badly. it's been a busy and exciting year of growth for her from tap dance to graduating Prek and now her first trophy. I am soo proud of her i have to put these pictures up for the few people that have listened to crazy holly stories over the years and watched her grow
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She's adorable!
*sigh*.. they do grow up so fast...
She's so cute!! Dammit the time flies by doesn't it?? Hey, enjoy the little girl drama...believe me, it's nothing compared to the teenage drama..lol
*hugs*
THANK YOU !
They do grow up to fast and i look at that graduation picture and i swear i can see her graduating high school.
*sigh*
Break out the kleenex....you'll be crying from here on out honey.
My Basement STINKS!!!!!!!!
Sunday the kids that were here were filling up water ballons in the utility sink in the basement. What i didn't know was they left some ballons in the drain.
Laundry + balloonclogged drains= water overflow
now if we multiply that by wet rug and humid weather we get .................................
MOLD.
Just for stupid measure lets toss in the clean cotton linen air freshner and fishing trip dirty clothes i found tossed in a basket under the pool table not yet clean from the friend that lives downstairs.
The smell could gag a maggot.
I washed fishfaces clothes and i did shopvac up a good majority of the water but the rug is still damp.
Matha stewart where the fuck are you when i need you!!!!!
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Martha Never did the dirty work.. I am going to go with a cedar shaving "sock" any place that chips wood from furnitures will give it away.. you want cedar.. if you can get silicon pellets they work as well. under the carpet you want to place a ribbing( I would have used wire shoe racks slide under carpets to alow the under carpet area to be treated with a bleach or equivent environmental safe mold killer, to let it dry after is important.. I always point people in the direction of outdoor "artificial turf like carpet for basement and such, if you do tear it up in the end you will find turf to be a lot cheaper.
YOU SOO ROCK !
It was just a cheapy indoor outdoor carpet it just sucks because its only been a month since we had it and i had to get someone to lift the pool table to clean under the carpet. I took your advice and ran to home depot and got some ceder chips and i cleaned under the rug really good. I just need it to dry up a little. I put the rug outside so i could clean underneath and we got a freak thunder shower and soaked the rug AGAIN.
That fuckin Martha...she's never around when you need her!! Good thing Dabbler is! He has it all under control!
Good luck girl. Been there done that and it's no fun.
ps...I would have fun to Ms. Stewart too :)
Martha SUCKS !!!!!!
so far so good the stench is gone
A few years ago while I was in cosmetology school i came across a book in a local drugstore, it was a new series about vampires. I had to waste sometime at nights manning the front desk of the school so i said what the hell let me give it a try. In a few days i had stayed up late and devoured it page by page and felt that last page disapointment as i put it on a shelf craving more.
The book was Dark Lover by J. R. Ward. I was so impressed by the series i found the authors website and wrote her a letter telling her how much i adored her series and was telling everyone i knew about the book. She wrote me back and for a few weeks we had a really nice email correspondance going talking about the series and characters.
Her 6th book was just released recently and rather than go to borders and drag the kids along with me and avoid the " Mom can i Have...." I went to amazon and placed my order. i also purchased another book called The Last Lecture by Randy Paush because i had seen him on Oprah, talking about his book and why he had wrote it.
The books came in yesterday, I threw the amazon box in the car on my way to pick up my son from school and opened it up while i waited for him to drag his ass across the school yard. As much as i wanted to tear into the JR Ward book my curiosity of The Last lecture made me pick it up and read a few pages.
Last night at midnight I turned the last page. I read the whole book in just a few hours I laughed, I cried and i wondered who i could pass the book to next that would enjoy it as much as i did.
Is it me or does lucky charms cereal look like a bowl of cat food cruchies with colorful marshmallow shapes thrown inside?
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Yes it does actually, now that you mention it,lol.
I thought i was losing it for a second and had to wonder if it was just me
I got a phone call this morning from my ex to let me know there was some bad news and he was the one to get to pass it along to me.
my best friend and i lost touch over the past year and a half between her moving and me moving we just lost each other and every 6 months or so we caught up and promised to get together soon and we lost phone numbers and she moved i moved. It's just crazy.
Anyway her mother passed away this weekend and the viewing is tommorow morning and a good distance from me and i can't make it . Luckily i was able to get her phone number and call. I couldn't help myself but start crying as soon as she said Hello.
Her mother was a wonderful person and a fantastic elementary school teacher. Instead of flowers it was asked to donate books to the local library.
I called the school she taught at and i can donate books to the school library in her name but i am stuck in the house til gods knowwhen waiting for a package to be delivered that i must sign for.
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really was sad to read this hope you and your friend are holding up as good as possible. love you sis
I am holding up pretty good now. I got to talk to my friend for a bit on the phone and she seems to have accepted it. I just wished she hadn't moved so far away
I'm sorry to hear about this hon. My best thoughts go out to your friend and to you. *hugs*
Thank you both I feel better i dropped off books and got back in touch with my friendi know that in itself would make her mom happy
A man bought a new Mercedes to celebrate his wife leaving him and was out on the interstate for a nice evening drive.
The top was down, the breeze was blowing through what was left of his hair and he decided to open her up. As the needle jumped up to 80 mph, he suddenly saw flashing red and blue lights behind him.
"There's no way they can catch a Mercedes," he thought to himself and opened her up further. The needle hit 90, 100.....Then the reality of the situation hit him. "What am I doing?" he thought and pulled over.
The cop came up to him, took his license without a word and examined it and the car.
"It's been a long hard day, this is the end of my shift and it's Friday the 13th. I don't feel like more paperwork, I don't need the frustration or the overtime, so if you can give me a really good excuse for your driving that I haven't heard before, you can go."
The guy thinks about it for a second and says, "Last week my nagging wife ran off with a cop. I was afraid you were trying to give her back!"
"Have a nice weekend," said the officer.
My baby is graduating from Pre k off to the big kids school with her next year. I am soo proud of her and excited for her that i must throw a party.
I moved in to this house a month ago with my boyfriend, after resisting the move for a very long time. I think maybe he wished i would have resisted a bit longer. He has had this place for 2 years and in those 2 years had 1 party.
In one month i have had 3 !!!
Poor man i warned him many times over that my life is constant parties and social get togethers. Hell he even spent a week in florida with me last year that turned into a 30 people week long party.
He knew what he was getting into i shouldn't feel bad he has a good time and when i say " can we have some people over ?" he laughs and says " How many is some and can you make .....this and this and that other thing we had last time"
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Yay..he sounds like a keeper! What he didn't know then, he's learning to like now :)
he toyed with the idea last night of getting a rave account i said " No way!! your going to tell all the ..... Guess what the retard did one night when she was drinking with the boys stories" He is just jealous at one time i used to drink him under the table. Now one drink and i am under the table
Oye! Let's not talk about drinking just yet. I'm still recouping from the weekend.
ughh i am still cleaning up from the weekend. We had a party friday night , 3 baseball games on saturday all over philadelphia and then company all day yesterday.
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LOL,this is great!
LOL super!
Hah! Love it!
I thought it was pretty funny. Thats what i get for feeling somewhat mentally unbalanced from all the profile rates
So far this week i have spent every second of the day i could find rating and i have rated about 3100 profiles. I swear i am almost going cross eyed from it and now it has become a mission to rate everything because the goal keeps going up. I was going to stop when i got to 75% then it was 80 % now i am shooting for 90%.
I admit it i am a horrible forum poster. I have nothing intelligent to add to the real discussions and wishing people a happy birthday or congratulating them on being in the state where the first naked purple mole was born isn't my thing either.I hate to clutter a discusion with a post that says
"I agree jesus did have a good tan from all that walking"
or
"I disagree i think there is more energy in a zombie dog then in a ghost rat"
just to get a post that may have a longer shelf life than the milk i bought today.
This leaves me with the sandbox the only place a wise ass like me would belong. Unfortune for me because the faster i put them up the faster they go bye bye.
I've been offline a long time and its taking me sometime to readjust and get my level back up but it is becoming a battle i cant seem to win.
so i need to ask myself am i here for the last word and the people or am i going to rate 3000 more whelps to keep the level i have and can my brain handle the cell loss from reading the profiles that say
Just ask .......
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You're a glutton for punishment doing all that rating. I would rate more but after about 3 profiles professing how evil the person is and how he/she is such a bad ass I just walk away laughing and quit...
HA yeah i know i am but it keeps me from plotting out how to make millions on fake haunted houses
It is almost 7 am and the morning debate of should i send the kids to school or not is raging. The temperture is already climbing the 80's.Schools are closing for a half day on account of the heat. My son went to bed early with a headache last night but he has a school picnic today and part of him doesn't want to miss it.
My nephew slept over for his first sleep over ever and he was sooo cute with his Aunt Meg can i have a glass of water type questions. He went to bed super late and i planned on taking him with me for the picnic,now i hate to wake him up so early.
The picnic wouldn't be so bad but it is in a huge open feild with no shade and it is 3 hours to long.
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Bring your own shade...lots of umbrellas and/or a tarp to provide some shade. Of course, you'll need the ice chest with lots of ice and water and water guns for the kids to keep cooled off with.
they can't have water guns because its a violent toy and with my leg i wasn't carrying a ton of crap over 4 baseball feilds . Erik got up and said he didn't want to go the heat was just too bad so i called it a day.
It was a good thing right after that it came across the news that kids should not be out in the heat for more than 20 minutes at a time.
Well that settles that then!
It was settled but somehow i ended up having a pool party for my family and made lunch and dinner.
I have rated 80% of this site
I bet 90 % of what i rated lately was whelps
I am 100 % sure by doing that that i have now lost 15% of my brain cells.
I am 41% of this level and after a lot of post deleting later today i will be back at 9%
50 % of me could use a nap for the day but the other 50% should get my ass moving and get 75% of my todo list done.
I bought a chocolate cake i would really like to eat 20% of but i am at 2% of getting dinner started and ready.
my gas tank is at 60% full and i am 75% certain my ass isnt going to do anymore driving today.
many of the percentages need to be incresed but do to the lack of energy ( 60 %) and the heat and humidty (39% humidity) i say fuck it all 100%
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*Nods*....screw the math and eat the cake lol
I have to agree with Sinora...EAT CAKE!
I took the advice and ate the cake lol
It is only 10 in the morning and the temperture is already 90 it is soo hot they are letting the schools out for a half a day.
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When do they get out of school for the summer??
Mine are already done and are reveling in the AC at the house. I swear it's like pulling teeth to try to get them to venture outside.
Holly graduates Pre k this friday and Erik still has to go until the 19th. Erik was soo excited to hear they have a half day today and tommorow because of the heat he ran to the bathroom and called me on his cell phopne to say MOM half days 2 days in a row make sure you are here at 12 i need to get in the pool
So my ex just called to tell me he won't be picking up the kids this weekend his mother is picking them up because his new son was born last night.
10 pounds 12 ounces
WOW!
My kids were 6 pound babies big differance but then i didnt gain 100 pounds when i was pregnant.
I guess he was waiting for me to congratulate him or run out to buy a gift of somekind and it sounds mean of me to say but NO i wont be giving him a big congrats, cigar and a present for his new son and i swear he expects me to. I will however will wait for him to send me a notice from child support thinking he will cut down what he gives his first 2 kids.
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Go get em girl. None of the kids should suffer because he can't keep his shit in his pants! Guess Cowboy Joe should find his ass another job.
yeah another job maybe the snip and clip vasectomy clinic can hire him as a model for what not to do.
I got a phone call last night about 11 from my brother asking me if i would decorate the house before he brings home my new neice. Of course i said "SURE ! call you in the morning I am walking into the movies to see speed racer" ( I loved speed racer i thought it was really cute GO SPEED GO ! )
I got up got the kids off to school called my brother and asked if he needed anything and he said he needed decorations ...... Offf to the store I go ! I picked up balloons and it's a girl signs and pretty pink bows and ribbons. I go to put the balloons in the car and weeeeeeeeeee off one went into the cloudy sky. I grumbled got them in my trunk closed it and " Shit where are my keys ! Are you fuckin kidding me ????"
no my friends the universe was not fucking kidding me but luckily the kids had left one door open for me. So my sorry ass was pulling down the backseat and climbing into the trunk outside of the dollar store while the balloons attacked me.
Back on the road keys in hand, trunk full of happy pink things, i get to my brothers, decorate the inside and the outside of his house. I left presents for my neices on the table and a quick phone call to hisa voicemail to say call me when you get home so I can stop back over and see the new princess.
I jump in my car look at the time and i now have 45 minutes to get home jump in the shower and then get to the preschool to pick up Holly. i drive home park underneath a tree in front of my house, open the car door and grab all the crap off the front seat and as i go to get out i hear BLOOB and look down into the sewer grate beneath my feet just in time to see my cell phone slowly sink into the 2 feet of muck and water.
I go in the house take a shower jump back into the car thinking of all the numbers and pictures i just lost and pick up Holly only to inform her she is taking a trip to the mall with mommy to get a new phone. this translates to holly as...... mommy is taking you to the mall where they have webkinz.She is jumping around drinking my ice tea we get to the mall and the sprint store and she says " mommy i have to go to the bathroom" i say " hold it Hol we are only going to be another 5 minutes " she says ok but one minute later that look of dread comes over her face and i am yelling as i drag her out of the store " Bag it and tag it I'll be back "
Now if you read my journal you will know i cant run i kinda limp fast and for me to walk the mall is difficult now i have to go 10 stores down to a bathroom with a 5 year old and her bursting bladder while the sprint lady is setting up my phone and wondering if i am the carziest person she ever met. needless to say we barely made it.
so here i am finally home ,a new phone, a bag of lindt chocolate and a couple of movies to keep me on the sofa for the night and on y one more trip out into the mean cruel world that has targetted me today for disaster and VR times out on me hoping i lost my days rant
HAAAAAA i found the copy and paste buttons and know better!
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It takes one hell of a personality to get through a day like that and NOT kill someone. I think you're awesome girly.....
Actually as sucky as it was i laughed my ass off later and thought Ok i must be on candid camera or something.
I got a cool new phone out of it so it had a + and was a damn good reason for me to just hang in and not move for the rest of the day
This is going to start off as a how i spent my weekend rant but it has a good ending so bare with me.
I live now on a large street with a severe parking shortagethere is many a day when my boyfriend and our friend downstairs have to play musical cars on this block so we can all have decent parking without worrying the cars will be broken into. ( it has already happened 4 times ) 3 doors down lives the parking natzi who likes to leave notes on your car to tell you to park elsewhere she seems to think owning her house gives her rights to own all the parking as well.
Friday night about 8 we come home , no parking ..... what a fuckin suprise. so my car goes in front of the house and low and behold by 6 am there goes my first note tucked neatly in a sandwich bag so the rain doesnt destroy it. I took it off my car laughed and went about my day. by 5 that night note number 2 is put on my windsheild and it basicly says that i am inconsiderate and should park around the block.
I was fed up so i said fuck her wrote her a note back explaining to her that it was harrassment and if she puts another note on my car i will be calling the cops.
i woke up this morning and note 3 has appeared so i left my car sit a few more hours shook my head and debated if i should call the police and give them the notes or just claim a ton of money was stolen out of the car or just let it go i have too much going on today.
too much going on won. my brother was having his second child and i just wanted to go see her.
I come home and there she is all in a huff moving her car into the parking spot she gets out f the car gives me a dirty look drops her keys and as she bends down to get them all ready to tell me to go fuck herself she bangs her head on her own mailbox.
so many smartass remarks had come to mind but i couldnt stop laughing long enough to say them.
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Damn...I love a happy ending!
i love a happy ending too
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SeleneTremere
18:32 Jun 26 2008
Thats not fair!!
I promise I'll do.......... if you buy me that
But Elizabeth down the street has one!
Yeah, heard em all...it doesn't change once they get older either.
Callalilly
19:04 Jun 26 2008
shhhhhhhhh don't tell me that or i will be forced to send them to you when they get bigger lol
SeleneTremere
15:24 Jun 30 2008
I'll move...I swear it! lol
modi
12:31 Jul 02 2008
lol. Raised three of my own by myself. Know the feeling! Hang in there sweet lady!
Callalilly
14:20 Jul 07 2008
I now know why walmart is open 24 hours.
I am hanging in .... and sneaking out late at night to avoid the "can i haves"