Cruise Update!

And before I forget, I'm going to the travel agent next Friday to get some info and to see if the cruiselines have posted Fall 2009 itineraries. I'm sure they have by now. So I'll be compiling all the info so if anybody has any questions, I'll try to have answers. I'll have multiple cruiselines to choose from and in different price ranges. And if this is the first you've heard of this, sorry, my mind doesn't work like it should anymore. I'm a lot more forgetful than I'd like to be. But with that being said. We're planning a group cruise next year in the Fall, most likely in the first week or two of November of 2009. If you are interested in going, let me know and I'll add you to the list. We'll be having a get together sometime this summer to discuss my findings and then we can all decide which one sounds the best for us and then we can all book at our leisure.

Ciao!

A Somewhat Lazy Friday

It's been a rough couple of weeks at work now that I'm the only artist. I've had a few late nights trying to get ready for presentations. It's draining, but I do it because I love my job. I don't think I've caught up on sleep yet. Little man is home today. He had new tubes put in this morning so he's home slacking off with mom today. Of course, he's napping right now or this post wouldn't be happening. He scared us a couple of weeks ago when he had a fever and was sent home from daycare. We thought it was a normal fever he always gets. But this time, he had a sudden spike and it caused him to have a febrile seizure. We just about passed out. We panicked and decided to drive to the hospital but 911 told us to go back home. We were just around the block luckily because the first response team showed up within about 30 seconds of us getting back. He's fine and nothing damaging happened. Except maybe I might still have high blood pressure! Turns out he had a really severe inner ear infection that caused the fever. Needless to say, the old tubes weren't working. We'll see how these go.

So we've started our landscaping out front. It's coming along slow as I sort of figured it would. Between Mike and I having to wait till Greyson goes to sleep around 8:30 or so on weeknights and then off and on over the weekends, it gets to where we just don't have the light or the energy to dig some more. But in our defense, it's literally like carving Mt. Rushmore out there. You dig about a foot and a half and you hit nothing but rock. So the pick axe has come in handy here lately. But it's going to look good. I've already got some plants ready. We'll finish it soon and then I'll post a before and after so you can see our house value rise.

I really should be taking a nap right now. I can barely keep my eyes open. But I'm like that little kid that doesn't want to miss anything. Cause there's just so much going on around here. Baby sleeping, dogs sun bathing, nothing on TV.

My addiction to MySpace and Facebook has finally fizzled. I go on every once in awhile to see what's going on with folks and to see if I have messages, but that's about it. I haven't posted any photos in a long time. It's just too time consuming anymore. I'd rather be playing outside with Greyson than sitting in front of a computer all night. I do that during the day at work.

So I'm ready for that Stimulus check to get here, how about you?! Stupid last two digits of your SSN. We have to wait till 2010 for ours to get here. Well, it only feels like that anyway.

Mike finally got a new job. Thank you Jesus! Finally! He's getting paid what he should be making. Plus, he's closer to home. That means less gas money. And believe me, that Jeep likes to eat! And he has slightly better hours. He's working for Marketing Drive.

I think that's all I have to say now other than I need to clean this house!

Ciao!

P.S. I'm ready for a cruise. How about you?

Memorial Weekend

What a good and terribly, terribly bad weekend this was. Sorry it's been a while. Family life is always on-the-go. I just found out that a friend of mine's 15 week old baby was born yesterday. He's now in heaven. She was having complications but bed rest didn't seem to help. My prayers are with her and her family. What a sad time. It only makes me think of how incredibly lucky we are and how thankful I am that Greyson is healthy and okay. The weather has been reasonable, some rain, lots of sun, high temps. It's been nice so far. Mike and I are working on a freelance job. It's a good change from the "retail" world. I'm upset that two of my friends are sad. One is sad because she thinks she'll be alone the rest of her life and feels like that's something she has to come to terms with. I wish I could make her understand that it won't be like that forever. But those are words fallen on deaf ears for now. Then another friend is sad but I don't know why yet. I've called him twice to just talk to him but I've only gotten voice mail. He says we'll talk soon. We'll see. I have a feeling that it has to do with liking one of my friends who is now dating someone. Since I brought the party down, I'm not really in the mood to write much more today so I'll call it quits for now.

Lost Voice

So I lost my voice last night. And today, still nothing but weird little sounds and some breakthroughs of actual voice action. Although some of you may be glad. : ) It's funny how you never think about not being able to make a phone call or order at a drive thru. I got my hair cut this morning and was struggling trying to tell the guy what I wanted. It turned out great though. So I guess I can talk less then. If I can get a good haircut with no voice, then why talk at all. Oh, that's right I love to talk. I almost forgot. I love chocolate cake, too. That I don't forget. Why is chocolate cake so good? Damn you and your decadent love. Stupid cake. So I'm off work today. It's nice. Ironically, I'm taking my Dr. Martin Luther King day off since we were so busy I didn't get to use it a couple of months ago. I think I finally have my blog to the set up that I want. Although, one thing that bugs me is that when I return to start a new paragraph, all the copy's leading is much tighter. I don't understand all that coding stuff so I don't know how to fix that. Any help for a chocolate cake lover? 

Recently viewed movies

So we just watched Pan's Labyrinth. I'm not sure what to think of it yet. I felt kind of disappointed to tell the truth. I thought it would be more fairytale. But instead it was more about war and an asshole. It was a good movie. It just wasn't what I was expecting. I didn't know anything about it before I watched it. All I knew was there were some interesting characters. Although I did find karma to be a bitch in the end. Right on!

We also saw The Pursuit of Happyness. I really liked that movie. I thought it was Will Smith's best. I haven't seen Ali yet. I almost forgot that I was watching him and not a real person. I probably especially like it because I can relate to it. My mom was kind of in the same shoes as him. We were on welfare for only about a year or so. I remember going with my mom to interviews for second jobs at night. I never understood that situation in her life. I just found it kind of annoying that I couldn't be at home and instead I'm sitting in a car waiting for her to come out so we could leave. My brother and I are eight years apart. So I'd have to watch him every night while my mom went to her second job. I went to a private school so that wasn't cheap, but the education was fantastic. At one time I was in 8th grade and my brother was in Kindergarten. That was double the tuition. That's the year we had to be on welfare. I remember being really embarrassed to go by our lunch tickets because I had to tell them out loud (in front of my friends) that we needed the welfare lunch plan. I was mad at my mom for making me do that. I did it, waiting to the last possible minute so that everybody was gone. Once I got to high school, I had to go to a public one. No more private school. Private high school was too expensive. I hated, HATED my high school. I wanted to go where all my friends were going. Anyway, being poor is really defeating. I wonder how many times my mom cried about her situation, having two kids and having to work two jobs and still not having enough money to be okay? I know she had to. It's too depressing of a situation to be in to not feel like you are at the end. Once high school started, I got a job with my mom and worked at a cafeteria during my entire high school years. I hated it, but we made enough money between the two of us that we were more than okay. I went away to college and I've never looked back. I was the first in my whole family to go to college. So I was proud that I had a career that I could enjoy doing and make decent money. My first job out of college, I was making the exact same amount a year that my mom was making with both of her jobs. I just feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to make a better life for myself. I hope to provide that for my own family.

Only my second time...be gentle

So I don't know why I have this urgent need to have a blog. It's the weirdest thing. I don't even know what to put on here yet. But I feel like I want to write something all the time. Maybe as I ramble on something will come to me. But as I sit here waiting...nothing. Let's start here, so I'm writing a book. I don't want to give any details because there are peeps out there that might see it as a good idea and steal it for their own. You just never know. I know only a handful of people know about my site and their friends. So I know they wouldn't do it. But for those random people that just happen to find my page, that's who I'm talking about. I feel scatterbrained when I write on it. There's so many ideas that I feel like I can't get them out fast enough. But it's so much fun to write it. I'm now attached to the characters and feel I have to do them justice. I also know who I want to play the characters if my dream of it becoming a movie were ever to come true. The main character isn't cast yet, though. I'm having the hardest time with that one. Good things come to those who wait. So I haven't actually been able to work on my story for 2 years now. But I think this weekend is a good time to do some writing. I hope to be able to read it to Greyson someday and it be one of his favorites. Maybe he'll ask for more and then I'll have to write sequels. I promise to not make them bad. For all you sequel haters out there.

So it's kind of rainy and cold out today. What a good day for spring cleaning. This house needs a bulldozer. Too bad Greyson doesn't have one. LOL! Although he does do most of the demolishing around here. But we're pretty good at that too. Somehow I think putting all three of us in the same house equals an F5 tornado. Or maybe we have ghosts. I swear, once things are put away, they all seem to find themselves right back where they were.

So my obsession has become "cruising". I can't stop thinking about it. It's like a disease that's eating away at my brain. I dream about it constantly. I'm ready for the next one. It's in November of 2009. Now some of you laughed at the fact that the date is so far away. Well, for those of you that haven't planned a cruise before, don't know that they're a bit different than just flying to Las Vegas. These things take time, also early booking gets you the best rates and the best rooms. You wait too late and you're stuck in a crappy room or worse, you're stuck with no room. Joking aside, the actual itineraries haven't been posted yet. So around July, I'm going to the travel agent to get some info and then I'll have a get together to pass out the info I've put together. Then we can all chose which one is the one we want to go on. The travel agent that Mike found lets you make payments, kind of like how Wal-Mart had layaway. So that's even better for those people that don't have the money all at once like that. You just have to have it paid in full a month before the cruise date.

So, this has been fun so far. I'll be back, but can't say when. Not that I'll have to kill you or anything.

Virgin Blogger

Okay so it's not technically my first time to blog. But I don't technically consider blogging on MySpace as "blogging". Anyway, I've had this weird fascination with morning talk show hosts lately. Kid Kraddick is one of them. I like to listen to everybody else on the show, though. Kid is pretty rude and cuts people off mid sentence. But Al! He cracks me up. Some people think he's pretty dumb, but it doesn't matter to me. He's funny and I'm always laughing my ass off on the way to work in the morning. Also, Jon and Deek crack me up. I am always busting a gut while trying to drive. So speaking of work. I love my job. Have I told you lately that I love my job? Well, let me tell you again! I love my job. Thank God for my son Greyson being born when he was. If it wasn't for him, I'd probably still be there! Ugh. Now I want to save all my friends that are left. I use to work for the Wal-Mart home office as an Art Director. I now see the light of day having crossed over to the light side. Amazing how life is so much more livable when you have less stress in your life. And speaking of work, again. I better start some of that right now...got to fill my coffee cup. Bye