One more week - then SCHOOL'S OUT!!!!!

Three more days for the little one and 4 days for the biggin'. then we are done until September!!! The girls will be actually going to the SAME school and it's starting 3 weeks late due to construction schedule!  Yes, I would like someone else to entertain them starting mid-August, but I am not eager to start waking up and putting a bra on before 7:30 am and putting shit tons of mileage on my car. 

We will be totally BROKE and I will be constantly trying to pry my kids off each other and breaking up fights, but I am ready!  Guess we will just be trading pool time with Miss J and her monkeys as much as we can...of course our vacations are runnign back to back, so we will start and finish the summer with really good friends : )

Take a bite...you know you wanna...

I want to eat EVERYTHING!!!!!  It must be because I will be going on vacation soon...to Florida...don't hate, it's hotter than hell, humid AND I will be living with my parents again.  I must be a special kind of idiot, not that I don't love my family....I really do, it's just that I don't ever feel like it's a vacation...more of a family trip, except the hubby gets to stay at home...alone...oh, and possibly head back to Hawaii for work!  Ugh!!!  I wanna trade...he can travel alone with the kids, make dinner for my parents (my mom does do the shopping and the dishes tho!)  And somehow, I have ended up with the "honey do" list.  Boo friggin hoo.

ok, enough of the pity party, someone take the 5 layer dip away!  I swear with all of the end of year school crap between the 2 kids, vocal practices and performances, wrapping up work and general life doo doo, I feel like 24/7 PMS bitch and stuff my face machine.  Maybe I'll just switch to beer : )

So...he's asleep on MY side of the bed...

And I am totally hoping that my typing this wakes him up and he moves...
waiting...
waiting...
I got nothing  :(
Could wake him up...already tried...
He did take the 5 year old to the pool while I took the 11 year old to dress rehersal, and he gave her a bath BEFORE I got home...
I guess I will grab my nook and head downstairs and read for a bit...then all bets are off }: /

School is almost out!!!

My girls still have almost 3 weeks of school left...I may be wearing adult diapers by the time all is said and done, but at least it will be over...for a while...at least when it starts up again, they will be attending the same school!

In the meantime I have been getting off my big ol' butt, being more active, eating healthier food and cleaning/organizing/purging my house with renewed vigor!  I have already been to the thirft store twice this week with donations - I actually scored an AWESOME pbk bed skirt for the 5 year old.  It is white with a Swiss Dot pattern, has a pale pink ribbon running thru the bottom about 2 inches up from the edge and has scalloped lace at the hem - for $4!!!!  I saw one online that wasn't even as pretty for about $89 - me likey : )
The 5 year old wasn't happy that her sister got a new pillow pet (she used her own money) and she got a bed skirt, oh well...not going to be the last time something like that happens.

Should I tell him?

It's not nearly at cryptic as it sounds...

One of my relatives has started a blog...he has linked it on his fb page, I have read it, it's quite good, he says it's theraputic and I agree...so now for my question...

do I tell him that I have one too? 

 I'm not linked to any social networks and no one on the hubby's side of the family really knows that my little slice of cyberspace exists, or if they know I have a blog, they don't know where to find me (mwa ha ha).  I don't care if they find me or if they read it...I just don't want to be the one giving them directions...the main reason I started this blog was to purge myself of the juju that has become my relationship with my mil...not like I rant and rave about her but because of what has happened I no longer have family members to talk to about life stuff anymore...

So that is where you all come in...friends, followers, stalkers, passersby...everyone!  I don't have to worry about anyone running and telling their mommy some completely eff'ed up version of what I really said...


Seriously people - how does "What's going on?"  turn into "What is she doing here?" It just doesn't make for the Disney ending when shit like this happens, no one says anything to me...like WTH? Why did you say that?  Then I could say - "Um, I didn't"  But, noooooo they hold the stuff in, let it boil and spill out years later.

It's like some folks have been taking little doses of poison and hoping that I would fall over and croak...Sorry to disappoint you - ain't gonna happen.  Not only am I not going to roll over and play dead, I flat out REFUSE to take ANY responsiblity for ANYTHING not brought to my attention and discussed.  Ask me, accuse me, point a finger, but at least give ME the chance to confirm, deny or salute you with whatever hand gesture I find fits the situation.  Don't come up and tell me that I have offended you over the years, give me no examples and then expect me to apologize...I won't.  Not because I don't feel like I have to, but because I don't believe you.  Not that I can't be offensive...trust me I can...the point is I almost never intend to (at least to to friends and family...to a-holes that spill beer on me or cut me off on the freeway - YES!) be offensive, and if it is brought to my atttention, I can and will apologize.  But the main issues at hand here on Walton Mountain are based on straight up lies...hell, I wish I had been able to see my face when my hubby told me what it was I supposedly said ...my mom and aunt who saw me after the news thought that someone had died.

Damn...that kind of came out of now where...kind of pisses me off that this stuff still bothers me...but I shall continue on with my cyberpurging and hopefully be less and less juju effected as time goes on

xo

Shhhh...don't tell the kids

We are planning a surprise trip to Disneyland!!!!  Only for a day, but...uhmmm - it's Disneyland!!!
We bought annual passes when my cousin came visisting from PA with her twins (we would have needed to take the hubby with us and gone in october...so why not?!  Costs about the same and we can run up there if we get bored one day)...and one of my kids got sick, we couldn't go and we haven't activated the passes yet...
On the day of my hubby is going to hand them their Mickey ears and tell them to put them on and get in the car!!!

Can't wait to see their faces...

Baby Steps

The house is slowly getting put together...surprised that I got anything done at all...did I mention that the hubby ran off to Disneyland with a friend and left me with the kids, the dog and the messy house?!  It's not as bad as it sounds...he's helping out a friend that doesn't drive and can't get there on his own (he has a few issues) so he paid for gas, hotel and entry to the park...but it was not really helping me get my motivation on...

Hopefully I can make some more progress today (like walk into my walk-in closet), may even take some pictures and put together a slideshow for my dad to check out when I go home this summer.  He HATES California (he did actually live out here for a bit in the late 80's- and had to spend a lot of time driving to and from L.A., so his issues are a little legit) and can't really travel...so he's never seen our place or any of the projects he's helped me with long distance.

Or...I may just sit on my butt and read...