Good News

I was on my way driving to Caseville when my husband called and told me that my realtor called and said he has another offer on the house. It was not a good offer...much lower than the last one that fell through...but he said we could counter-offer. So we counter-offered, plus he agreed to reduce his commission by $1400 and that way the bottom line will basically be what the other offer would have been. They agreed...so today my brother and I will sign the papers and get things started.....YIPPEE!!!! The closing should be in 30 days...and since today is Dec 31 that would be around Jan 31, which is weird cause my mom died on Jan 31. My realtor said that this is a done deal and will definitely go through. Well, lets hope!

I had a good time in Caseville. I got all my stuff put in the new cottage Friday and then my girlfriend and I went shopping in Bad Axe, the closest town that has any "real" stores, and I bought the entertainment center I wanted and the matching side tables for my couch. The guys loaded it into my jeep, but I had to unload it at the cottage....which wasn't too bad. Now my hus just has to put it all together. I checked out some mattresses at this furniture store, comparing them to some I had already checked out in Caro on my way up. We got something to eat and basically bummed around at K-Mart and Dollar stores. My girlfriend saw this really neat clock that will look great in the living room, so I bought it. It's a big round one and has a bit of a nautical look to it...looks like something you would see on the Titanic.

On my way home yesterday I stopped at the mattress place in Caro and ordered the mattress set. I'm hoping they can deliver it when I go back up in two weeks for the Art Van delivery.

Thursday night I went to Subway to buy their chicken/spinach salad...and I was so bummed, cause they don't make it the way they use to...they said they don't put the almonds and currents in it anymore, plus there was no diced eggs and bacon either. It was a total waste of my money...just a bunch of spinach. I was still hungry so I went to Little Caesars to get a pizza. I got there just when they were closing, and they had 2 pizzas fresh out of the oven, so they guy went and gave me the second one for nothing. So now I had two whole pizzas to eat!! How the hell am I suppose to lose weight??

Happy New Year's everyone!!!!!

Sometimes I just can't deal with this computer. I haven't bothered to be on it since my last post. I had a zillion emails that I simply needed to delete...it's nothing but junk mail anyway. I hardly ever get any real emails to read...it's always just junk or jokes.

Anyway, Christmas went pretty good...or is it pretty well?....it was okay. We slept in and didn't even start opening our gifts until 1:00 or so. My husband got me this one main thing I wanted...it's a ceramic fish aquarium....there's a bowl that sits on top of this ceramic fish and you put water in it, and plants or whatever. I want to put it in my new place in Caseville, so I don't want to put real fish in it. And he bought me this wine rack table to put it on. I'm going to put it in the dining room up there. And he bought me the new INXS CD with JD Fortune on it,,,the new guy that won the honors at Rock Star: INXS a while ago. And he bought me a Roy Orbison CD, that Napoleon Dynamite DVD, a carrying case for my camcorder and camera...except now I can't get my camcorder to work right, and a can opener for the new place.

Then I got ready to go to my in-laws. The outfit I was going to wear made me look fat, so I ended up just wearing my jeans and a Xmas sweatshirt. We got there around 7:00 and stayed til midnight. The food was good. My sister-in-law got me an Avon Xmas bear, some new Avon cologne and a necklace.

We slept most of the day yesterday...I didn't even bother to get dressed. I just stayed in my robe all day and night and finally got dressed today. I went to the Sprint store to see if I could get my broken phone replaced. They replaced it but with a different type, so I've been back there a couple times trying to figure out how to use it. Also, my charger didn't work, so I had to go back for the charger. At least I didn't have to pay for anything.

I went to this consignment store where I had some Xmas stuff for sale. Most of it sold except for a few things, which I picked up. Then I saw a throw I wanted for my new couch for the place in Caseville, so I bought it. It has palm tree leaves on it...but my husband said it looked more like marijuana leaves...oh well, either will work....both have green leaves.

Then I went to Pier 1 and bought the wicker chair and pad I wanted for the new place. I had this coupon that I thought didn't expire until Dec 31...so I look at the coupon and it said Dec 24!...oops.....so the cashier said he would ask his boss if I can still use it and the boss said I could....fantastik!!...so I saved 20%.

Then I went to Art Van and paid what I owed and made the delivery arrangements for next month for the couch and futon I bought. Tomorrow, I'm going to drive up to Caseville and take the other two dining chairs and other stuff I bought and probably be back by Friday. My husband doesn't want to go...even though he is off all this week...but since there isn't any water in our condo, it's just as well. So he will stay home with the dogs. We really have so much to do here, but I want to go to Caseville! We need to take my other jeep to my son's so he can sell it. We need to go to the damn house and get the refrigerator out.

Then Saturday, my oldest son and family will be here for our gift exchange and New Years. So talk to ya later.....ciao

IS IT OVER WITH YET????

Damn....Shi*.....F*ck.....I'm really trying to be nice....But I really want Xmas to be over with. Can it just go away??????I spent mucho dollars on gasoline driving around (Hey...it ain't like the old days where we rode on camels looking for INNS to sleep in)....to mall and mall. I need to find really nice gifts for people, not just scented frankincense.

WHATEVER!!!

I spent the evening with my middle son (John), and his girlfriend (Emilie), and we had a great time. They got me everything on my Xmas wish. I got a new Mr. Coffee coffeemaker, Kelly Clarkston's new CD, DVD movies White Noise and Hide n Seek...I really really loved White Noise cause it is the one movie that I want so badly to relate to......It is a movie that relates to people being able to communicate with people that have passed on or DIED. I want to put a recorder in my mother's house and let it play for awhile. I want to play it back and see if she is talking to me. I need to hear her voice.

Paranormal..whatever they call it. I see my mom in my dreams..I talk to her...she talks to me...

OK>....so Whatever...Xmas......I'm pushing keyboard letters...to get my thoughts across. Now I'm thinking....WHO THE HELL REALLY CARES...!!!????

I'm just typing to type...

HAPPY FESTIVUS DAY!

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Festivus Day which is Dec 23.

I babysat last night with the kids. I let Jayden play with my cell phone cause he loves cell phones. My cell phone is a flip type and was already broken in this one spot where the two pieces hinge together, but it was okay. So I'm thinking "hmmmm, maybe I should take the phone before it gets broken more"...but did I?...Nope....so next thing I know, Jayden is holding the two separate pieces of my phone...cause it had totally broken apart. Oh well.....so now it's not any good. I wanted to have my service disconnected anyway by Sprint, so Jayden disconnected it for me...hahahaha....I'll take it to Sprint and if they will replace the phone for free, I'll take it...but I'm not going to pay for another phone by Sprint. I probably should keep the service on for awhile until I'm sure the house is sold.

I ran over a phone with my car once and Sprint replaced it for me for free, so I'm hoping they will replace this one.

So they got home last night around 2:30 a.m., and I got on the road home by 2:45...then I was driving past a Super KMart at 3:00 and decided to stop and shop. So there I was at 3 in the morning shopping at KMart! I bought some chips and dip for tonight. I saw these really nice stainless steel pots and pans I would love to get. Anyway, so I got home by 4:00 this morning and got some sleep...I was up by 9:00.

Tonight my middle son and his girlfriend are coming over for our gift exchange. The house looks so nice now with my lights on and candles burning and the fireplace going. Tomorrow is Xmas Eve and we are going to spend a nice quiet relaxing evening at home....pretty much what we always do.

I tried to get up early today...I really did. The dogs got me up around 7:00. So I put them outside and decided to turn the TV on, make coffee and stay up. My husband asked me why I was up so early...haha. He leaves for work and at 7:30 this old movie, Leave Her to Heaven, comes on. That is one of my mother's books that I kept cause I wanted to read it, but haven't gotten to reading it yet so I thought it was great that the movie came on so now I can watch it. My dogs were yawning and we all went and laid on the couch and snuggled under the throws and soon I was sleeping...woke up at 9:30 just as the movie was ending. Well I tried. Soon Guiding light came one and it was 11:00 by the time I got dressed. Then I went to the store and got some groceries, but I forgot chips and dip for tomorrow night. Tomorrow my middle son is coming over with his g'friend.

Tonight I am driving to Pontiac to babysit the kids. My son has a gig with his band somewhere. They won't be home much before 1:00-2:00 in the morning. I doubt if I'll get home much before 3:00 a.m.....I definitely won't be getting up early tomorrow.

I am so sick of this cold snowy weather and it has only just begun!

Well, Xmas is almost here and over with...

I did buy a couple of those Hallmark singing snowmen. One is the one they've been advertising on TV of the snowman singing at a piano...and I also got another one of a singing snowman and his singing dog singing Jingle Bells. They are both so cute.

House Offer is falling through.....

I'm not on this computer much these last few days. I just don't have the time to waste on it anymore....and it is so slow and tiresome. I really need a new computer, I think. This one is 5-6 years old and dying a slow death I'm afraid.

Anyway, the offer on the house is a bogus offer and I don't think it's going through at all. Usually when someone wants to see if the seller would go down lower on the price, the Realtor says "well, we can write up an offer and see". Then if they do, they take them back to the office, write up an offer and request a deposit of earnest money to show the sellers that it is a serious offer. Then if the potention buyer gets cold feet and simply wants to change his mind, then he loses his deposit....so it encourages buyers to not play games and go through with their offer; otherwise, they lose their money. But this stupid realtor that called me with this so-called offer didn't do that. She did not write up an offer, did not get their signature on anything, and did not get any deposit money. She just simply said "well, let me call the sellers and see if they will go that low"...so we accepted their offer and now they are hearing nothing from them.

First of all, my realtor that I listed the house with was on a trip that weekend, so some female associate was there handling things. Apparently, the grandfather of some 20-21 year old saw the house and thought it would be good for his grandson....I think the kid saw it...I'm getting different stories on this...then after we accepted their offer, the grandfather wanted to go see it again. Now this kid was pre-approved from one of those online places that will basically approve anyone...my realtor did not feel comfortable with that, so he got them in touch with a mortgage company. Now the mortgage company can't get ahold of anyone. Everybody's phone calls are not being returned. Basically, I think they just changed their mind. Now if they had money involved and a signature somewhere, they might think twice....but this realtor didn't bother to get that. I was on the phone yesterday with my realtor while he was dancing around so many issues that I brought up. He kept saying that IF an offer was written up and we acepted it and signed it...then we would be screwed, because we would not be able to show the house to anyone else or sell it.....we would need them to sign off and since nobody can get in touch with them, then we would be screwed. Yeah, yeah, yeah....realtor bullcrap. Damn, does he think I was born yesterday???? IF an offer was written up, it would also stipulate that a mortgage would have to be attained by a certain amount of time, otherwise the offer is VOID....so if these people changed their minds and didn't get a mortgage, then it would be VOID anyway...I would not need their signature to void it. And if they got the mortgage, then everything would be cool anyway...and if they did change their minds, then at least I would have a $500 or $1000 deposit to keep!...Damn realtors

The realtor said that he was showing the house to some investor, but I haven't heard anything as yet.

The listing runs out Dec 26, and if he thinks I am going to relist with him, he's nuttier than the fruitcake on my table!

Some Favorite Xmas Songs...

Here are some of my favorite Xmas songs.....

1. Happy Xmas by John and Yoko...."So this is Christmas...."

2. Dominick the Donkey...."The Italian Christmas Donkey"

3. That Hippopotomus Song...I don't know the name of it...but I love that song..."I want a hippopotomus for Christmas...only a hippopotomus will do...."

4. Holly Jolly Christmas by Burl Ives

5. White Christmas by Bing Crosby...and I love the movie, too

6. The entire Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton Christmas CD

7. The Christmas Song...."Chestnuts roasting on an open fire......"

8. Rudolph....of course!!

9. Grandma got runned over by a reindeer....haha

Brighthouse Cable Sucks....

Today is Monday and I hate Mondays. I don't go anywhere on Mondays. I stay home and try to do housework and catch up on my sleep. Today I didn't do any housework. There's too much Xmas stuff around to bother. My cable box is messed up and none of my remote controls work it. I have to change channels manually on the box. Today I got the TV working through the DVD/VCR player and I can use that remote control to change channels at least. My cable company is changing the cable system to Digital TV, I think they call it. They keep calling and leaving me messages for me to hook my cable up directly to my TV and bring my cable box in. They say that my cable box will not work with the new setup. Well, I like my cable box and I do NOT want digital TV, so I've been ignoring them for about 4 months now. Jerry noticed some wiring on our fence in the backyard, so I think they are doing something back there with the cable and now my remotes won't work the old cable box. But I can work it through my DVD....so there f'ing cable company!!

I suppose I should just hook it up to my TV, but it is too hard to get to the back of my TV that is in this huge heavy wall unit....and besides, I just don't have the time to mess with it. I'll do it when I have nothing better to do.

Saturday night my youngest son, his girlfriend and her little girl came over for our gift exchange. I got a kitchen knife set for my new place in Caseville from his girlfriend. But my son got me a combination toaster oven/4-cup coffeemaker, which is not what I wanted...so he is taking it back. I specifically sent him a list of what I wanted...and I wanted this regular size Mr. Coffee one. It is a very small combo...the toaster oven was only big enough for one piece of toast...it was more for a college dorm.

This Friday, my middle son and his girlfriend are going to come over for our gift exchange. He couldn't come last Saturday cause he and his girlfriend both had to work. It is so hard to get everyone here at the same time. My oldest son isn't going to come over until Saturday, New Year's Eve.

I am still struggling with this Xmas crap...I just can't get into the spirit of things, but I'll survive it....I just want it over with! And I'm NOT doing this next year...next year, everybody will get money and I'm going to Caseville.

Hello...Yeah, I'm still here. Just been chillin...Damn, I got major problems with this computer. First of all..... JAYE: I read your blog, BUT I cannot get into your comments so I cannot comment!! I think there is just too much stuff to download or something....I don't have any problems with Val's or other blogs. But I did see the kids Santa pics and I don't have a pic of me and Santa when I was little.

I think I will "survive" Christmas again this year!!!...I go through this paranoia every year and I somehow get it together. My hus got the lights put on the tree and I spent all night getting it decoratored....then I drank a few beers....heehee.

I deserved it....I been working on this Xmas thing for a month now...and I got everything done....the dining room, the living room, the kitchen room, the family room, even my hus is getting the outside done.....my lights, my snowmen, my tree on my patio. I got all my presents bought....and most of them wrapped. Spent more than I wanted to as usual....but ya get to the point where you don't give a rat's ass what you spend as long as you GET SOMETHING!...Get it Wrapped and get it over with....

Merry Christmas to Everyone...


Oh WEll.....Thank God it only comes once a year.


I got my main big tree all decorated tonight. My tree is the BEST! First of all, I have the only lights in town on it!! Nobody has these lights. Well, ya go look for lights to buy and you get the usual....multi, green, clear, red, gold, whatever.....I wanted green and clear. All I could find was either green OR clear. So what I did was I bought 4 strands of green and 4 strands of clear....then I interchanged them....pulled out every other green, inserted every other clear..so I ended up with strands of green, clear, green. clear...etc.....8 strands of green and clear like I wanted. Then I decorate with lots of sprayes of pine cones, apples, cranberries....just push them into the branches...then I hang my birds and birdhouses and squirrels....A wildlife theme.

So I got watching "Nip n Tuck" tonight and that damn Christian really pissed me off big time.....but this other story line was about one of the main female characters who was in the process of losing her mother.....she said to her "I don't need you to tell me what I am anymore".....then her mother started to revive, so she put a pillow over her face......

Jesus F'king Christ...(my favorite expression!!)...my comp is screwing up bad and I will be lucky if this post even blogs. So I' posting it......

I spent all day running around to stores and malls trying to get my shopping done. I found this lamp for my son at Office Depot...then found the exact same lamp at Walmart for $10 cheaper, so I bought it and now I have to refund the Office Depot one....jeez, I wish these stores would at least sell the same items for the same price. I'm tired of refunding.

My youngest son and his girlfriend are going to come over this Saturday for our gift exchange thing, so I'm trying to get everything done. My house is decorated except for my big tree in my family room. I got it up but I'm waiting for my hus to put the lights on so I can decorate it. I hope it's done by Saturday.

The realtor called yesterday and said that the grandfather wants to see the house again...then they will finalize the offer and I can come in to sign papers. I thought it would be today, but I didn't hear anything. This better not fall through or I will kill someone! Merry Christmas or no Merry Christmas....someone will die!!!!

Happy News!!!

I drove up to Caseville Friday. I had just gotten there when my husband called to tell me that the realtor had left a message on the machine telling me that WE GOT AN OFFER ON THE HOUSE!! I couldn't believe it. I had already dropped the price twice and of course, they still gave us a low offer....much lower than I had wanted, but who cares...at least it's an offer. So I called my brother and we agreed to just take the offer and run with it. So I called the realtor Saturday morning to let her know. My realtor is out of town for the weekend, so this other realtor was handling things. Tomorrow he should be calling me, and I'm sure I will have to drive to the office to sign papers. The offer is coming from the nephew of the neighbor down the street who was also trying to sell her house the same time I was...and finally listed it and got it sold immediately....so it is her nephew and his father who made the offer. They know that it needs updating and some work, but the father is a carpenter or construction guy and can do those things.

So I am happy to say the least. I just hope it doesn't fall through. The realtor said that he has been pre-approved so there shouldn't be a problem.

Then Saturday I went to the closing and got the keys and started moving what I had brought up with me into it. The kitchen/dining room set I bought looks terrific...I can't wait to get the other two chairs up there.

I went to my g'friend's house Saturday night and we all watched a couple DVD movies and I didn't get home til 1:30 in the morning. Then Sunday I packed up the car and hit the road.

The water is shut off at my place now....I know that when I go up there now I won't have any water. So what I do is bring gallons and gallons of water with me...and I can still flush the toilet by pouring a bucket of water in it. Then when I leave, I pour anti-freeze back into it. And I have a dishpan I use for water to wash up, brush my teeth, etc....and I use paper plates, plastic utensils, paper cups so I have no dishes to wash. It's not bad for a couple nights...I can get by.

Now I just have to finish up my Xmas shopping......

Fire, Fire......

I do believe that I have a guardian angel watching over my mother's house or maybe it's my mother watching over it. When I went over there a couple weeks ago, the refrigerator wasn't running and the outlet wasn't working so I unplugged it until my son could get over there to look at it. Well, he sent me an email telling me that he went over there and the fuse in the panel box was bad so he bought some new fuses and replaced it....but then when he plugged the refrigerator back in, it started humming loud and smoke started coming out the back! Apparently, there was something wrong with the refrigerator and it was shorting out and blew the fuse or something. It could have started on fire....but instead it had just went out until I got over there and unplugged it. Whew....like I said, I think someone is watching over the house. It still has the old-fashioned fuse box...It really should be updated.

They say that we are going to get hit with 6-8" of snow overnight and I have to drive to Caseville tomorrow....damn! I'm going to wait til later in the day and hope the salt trucks get out and the roads are drivable when I leave. But I have to leave tomorrow...the closing on the cottage is Saturday at 11:00 in the morning. I packed my jeep with what I could take. I got the table and base and two chairs in. I'll have to take the other two chairs next time. I bought a small wicker table that I'm taking, and some pictures and bath towels I bought. I sold a game on Ebay so I got that all packed up and mailed. I put the corner tree up in the living room, so I'm hoping my hus will put the lights on it when I'm gone, then I can decorate when I get back. I still have to do the big tree in the family room. Also, I want him to put the lights on the mantel so I can put my village scene up. I've been playing Xmas music all day trying to get more in the spirit of things.....Ho-Ho-Ho.....whatever....................

26 Days!!....

I'm getting so frustrated with my Xmas shopping...Yes, I wrote EX-MAS....cause that's what it is. I want to X it right out of my life. Besides anybody with any real religious knowledge knows that Jesus wasn't really born on Dec 25....and in reality it is merely a christianized pagan holiday...which is fine with me...I don't care. Anyway, I went to tons of stores today and bought hardly anything. I can't find what I'm looking for. Dumb husband cuts out an ad for something he wants, but unfortunatly he cut out the name of the store it is in!!...So what am I a mind reader? So I've been all over trying to find something called a Coldheat Cordless Soldering Tool..........anybody know where I can find one?

Today I am 26 days free of cigarettes!! And it ain't gettin any easier...let me tell ya. There are a few times during the day when I just want to sit down, take a break, and smoke a fuckin cigarette!! But I won't....I know that....I won't...I've come this far and I do NOT want to start smoking again, that's for sure. But I would still love to have one.....

I loved smoking...I mean, I really, really loved it. I loved the ritual of taking one out of my pack, flicking my lighter....tapping the ash off the end...etc...It was an enjoyable part of my day...every single minute of my day and night. It consumed me. I loved it and I miss it.

I made the decision to quit smoking for one main reason. I bought a new place in Caseville that is costing me some bucks and I do not want it STINKING! I don't want the nice white ceilings getting all yellow. I thought at first that I would just have to smoke outside...well, I know me and I knew that wouldn't last very long...I'd smoke inside eventually and the place would start smelling and my new furniture would start smelling. So I quit. I didn't quit cause it is better for my health....hell, I'm not stupid....I have always known that smoking obviously isn't good for your health, but I still smoked cause I enjoyed it. I didn't quit cause people wanted me to....people have always wanted me to quit and I always said I'll quit when I'm damn good and ready and not cause you want me to. I didn't quit cause it was too expensive since I would drive to Ohio to buy them cheaper, or order online from Indian Reservations, or smoke those cheapo ones they sell now....besides I can afford it. I didn't quit cause the second hand smoke is bad for my dogs or my husband or my grandkids...smokers don't really give a damn about second-hand smoke. I quit for one reason....cause I don't want my new place to STINK! Every smoker needs that one reason to quit...and that reason has to be their own reason for whatever it is and whenever it is.

When I bought my new jeep I had decided not to smoke in it cause my other jeep smelled so bad from my smoking that even I couldn't stand it. It was hard at first to not smoke when I was driving, but I did it and it wasn't bad. Now I don't want to smell up my new place...and that means I had to quit completely.

Now that I'm not smoking, it is amazing how you can smell it on other people. Smokers may think that they don't smell like cigarettes....well, they do. While I was shopping today in different stores, I was passing different people and could smell that cigarette smell on some of them....I knew which ones smoke....haha Damn, after I quit for only a few days I could smell it on my poor dogs...yuck! I could smell it on my winter coats when I got them out to wear....I could smell it on my sheets...even after I washed them!

Monday I spent all afternoon washing down the kitchen ceiling and walls.....the water was yellow from all the cig smoke. I need to do the whole house!

Anyway...26 days and going strong...now if I can just stick to my dieting....grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....

I finally got my husband to go up into the attic and get down all my Christmas stuff. So I've been slowly getting it put up. I am so NOT in the mood for Christmas anymore. I'll probably put most of it up, but I'm getting rid of some things and taking them to the consignment store to sell. I have already taken a box of stuff and I have more to sell. Eventually, I want to get rid of it all. Maybe just keep a tree or two and decorations and that's all. I'm tired of the whole thing. I think next year I am hoping that my hus and I can just go to Caseville for the week and just give the kids money. I really don't want to do this again for awhile. I don't want to buy presents, I don't want to decorate, I don't want to be Merry and Jolly...haha....I just want to run away and hide. It's just not a good year for me, I guess. My depression is too deep this year, and I can't seem to get out of it.

Anyway, over the weekend my youngest son's girlfriend was here. I called her and she told me how surprised she was when Randy gave her the car he bought her. She lives like almost 2 hours away, and they only see each other every other weekend and he drives and picks her up....so now she can drive here cause she has the car. Saturday I went over and picked her up and we went shopping....we went to Walmart, Mervyn's and Pier One. Then when I went to drop her off, she had locked the doors to Randy's house and thought I had a key...well, I didn't have it with me, so we had to sit and wait for him to get home from work...haha I remember her asking me if I had the keys just before we left, and I thought she meant my CAR keys so I said yes...guess she meant the house keys...so she locked the doors.

I also went over to the "house" and got the mail and got some of the snow off the driveway and sidewalk....and I put some throw rugs down in case anyone happens to come over to see the house. The listing runs out Dec 26, and I am NOT going to be relisting it with the same realtor. I think I'll go with Real Estate One this time. The closing on the cottage we are buying is this Saturday, so I'll be leaving on Friday for Caseville. I went to the bank today to get a certified check for the closing. We are basically borrowing on our equity line of credit we have until I get the damn house sold. It's an interest only loan, so we only have to make interest payments for awhile.

We have a couch and a futon on layaway at Art Van and I still need to buy an entertainment set and a mattress set...so today I see an advertisement on TV that everything in the store is 50% off for the next 2 days...so does that mean, I can get my stuff for 50% off?? Well, I'm going to go there tomorrow and find out. I'm sure there is some catch to it. Nothing is as it appears.

And that's all she wrote........

HOUSE FOR SALE

THIS HOUSE IS FOR SALE!!! I CAN GIVE YOU A GOOD DEAL!!! 3 BEDROOMS, 1 BATH, HARDWOOD FLOORS, BAY WINDOW IN LIVING ROOM, FULL BASEMENT WITH GLASS BLOCK WINDOWS, CENTRAL AIR, 2 1/2 CAR GARAGE, STOVE, REF, WASHER, DRYER INCLUDED!!! ALL THIS FOR ONLY $132,900...REDUCED FOR QUICK SALE...BID NOW...

Lots of good memories are in this house. Sitting in that living room on the couch, which is still there and you can have it with the house!, and my mom sitting on her recliner chair across from me and us watching Guiding Light together on her TV that was in the corner of the living room. This time of year, she had her little Xmas tree (which sold at the estate sale) on this table (which sold at the estate sale) in front of the bay window. Her cat (whose ashes are still in my house) would lay in front of the registers. I remember this one Xmas where we ended up giving each other the same gift. She opened up her gift first and start laughing...and I was like "what are you laughing about"...and she said "open your gift"...and I opened mine and it was the same gift. It was a musical bird figurine which I still have...hers ended up broken at the home.

So what are memories worth? Can you put a $ price on them? But hey...you can make your own memories for only $132,900....a great deal. Memories that will last longer than the money will.............................

Happy Birthday to John and Holly!!

Today is my middle son's birthday and it's also my neice's birthday. I had my son exactly a year after my brother and his wife had their daughter. That was so cool! Of course, my son didn't think it was so cool to be born on Dec 2, since Dec 1 is the cutoff date for when you can enroll in school, so he started school a year late and ended up graduating a year later than he would have if he had just been born 6 1/2 hours earlier...haha Well, I tried. I mean, I wasn't too happy about it either. He was due Nov 6, so I thought I had plenty of time but he waited til Dec 2 to make his appearance. I was in bed for a couple weeks with toxemia, and I was scheduled to go to the doctor that Monday so he could induce labor, and I went into labor Sunday night. It was the worst, hardest labor I had out of three pregnancies. My third son is lucky he was even born...cause I didn't think I would go through THAT again! My first son was a breeze...I could have slept through it. My third son was probably the most normal...not a breeze, but certainly bearable. But my second one was HORRIBLE to say the least. I wanted to kill everyone! The worst part was that I was in labor during the middle of the night when there is such a limited staff and they don't want to hurry things along cause the doctor needs his sleep, etc. And the nurses were all f'ing bitches...the whole experience was just horrendous. My doctor ended up changing hospitals after that cause of all the bad experiences his patients were having, so my next one was so much better at a different hospital.

Anyway, I got a great kid out of it! Well, he's a man now...and a good man...he reminds me so much of my father.