Having fun in Caseville...

I'm at the library in Pigeon using their computers. The weather has not been the best and I've been having trouble getting my lawn cut. The grass in the backyard is so thick that the lawnmower keeps stopping on me. So right now it's halfway cut...if it would stop raining that would help! I've been buying flowers for my flower beds and I put new cement edging around the back flower beds and they look so much nicer. My husband will be here by Thursday and he'll be impressed by all I got done...if I can just finish cutting the grass now.

So basically I've been hanging out with my friend and shopping, eating out, and doing yardwork. There was suppose to be a condo owner's meeting on Sunday but it got canceled. I can't wait for the weekend...it's suppose to finally get really nice, my husband will be here, and I hope maybe some of the kids can make it up.

R.I.P. "Thing"

"Thing" is dead. Let me explain who/what "thing" is. On my wedding day my husband gave me this "thing".....(besides THAT...haha)...How do I describe "thing"? He has this wooden head with black bulging eyes, a big wood nose, surrounded by a huge troll-like orange hair, standing on two wooden feet....he was this orange hairy ball standing on little wooden feet. I named him "Thing". He has been with us since our wedding day. He has been sitting on the bookshelf upstairs since we moved into this house like almost 30 years ago! He lost his nose a long time ago, but he was still cute/ugly. So yesterday I noticed all this orange stuff on the shelf around him and I'm wondering what the heck it was. At first I thought he was shedding his hair maybe cause of the humidity....but then I noticed that his hair was falling out in my hand...and then I looked at his cute/ugly face....and OMG, it is all shriveled up and his black eyes are bulging out and his orange hair isn't even attached to his wooden head anymore...just laying there on top of it. I don't know what happened to him. I think his wooden head was a coconut shell or something and it looks like something....a mouse, bugs, ??, got into him. Anyway, he's dead now....something killed "Thing". He looks awful...well, worse than usual anyway. I cried....I really did....I was very upset.

I've been in this depressed mood like a black cloud hanging over me again and it's almost like I feel death in the air....I hope that "thing" dying isn't some kind of premonition...."Thing" being a representation of my husband, my wedding, my marriage.....Anyway, I'll miss "Thing" and his happy face...he looks all scrunched up now and lifeless. Not sure what we are going to do with him....probably give him a proper burial.
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OKay.....today I'm leaving for Caseville. I need to cut the grass there...plus, we have an owner's meeting at the condo on Sunday. We always have the meeting the Sunday before Memorial weekend, so I'm assuming that it's still on. Then Memorial weekend will be here and I'm sure hubby will come up and I hope some of the kids drive up. So I will be there for a couple weeks or more. I'll get to the library in Pigeon and keep ya all up to date.

FIRE, FIRE....!

WOW....Now I'm the stupid one!...I almost burnt my house down. I was on my computer sending myself some pictures to my yahoo address to save and it was taking forever to go through cause Norton Anti-Virus has to screen everything that goes out as well as comes in, so it is going slow.....so I decided to start dinner while it was going through and I go downstairs and start heating up butter in a frypan to fry a steak for my husband...then I ran back upstairs to check on the email and it was almost done. I waited for it to finish and then I decided to check on another file to see if there were any pictures I wanted to save from it...then I ran downstairs to the kitchen and the pan on the stove was literally in flames a foot high!....holy hellfire!...so I grabbed the handle and got it off the burner and waved it a bit to try to put out the flames..then I turned on the faucet and stuck it under the water and it went out. My house was all smoky and my smoke alarms were going off and just about then my husband walked in. So he looks at me like I'm stupid so I told him to follow me upstairs and I showed him the service-turned-off jack he was trying to get a dial tone out of....so guess we're even....
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I had to go to the post office today to take back a letter they keep putting in my mailbox....stupid people! I received a letter to someone at a correctional institute that has the same address numberbut a different street, city, zip code and name...but they delivered it to us. So I put a yellow sticky thingy on it stating that it was delivered to the wrong address and to please redeliver to the correct address and I put it back in my mailbox...so a few days later, I get it again! So today I hand delivered it to the post office and told them to please deliver it to the right address. He said he'll take care of it....we'll see

I hate Mondays.....

I just hate Mondays. I don't know why...but I don't have good Mondays. Mondays are days I would rather just not get out of bed. I'll be glad when tomorrow comes.

Anyway, first of all we get this letter from a collection agency on Saturday addressed to a Gerald Thomas to OUR address, and we had noticed this agency's phone number on our caller ID so apparently they have this phone number too. My husband's first name, but no Thomas here....so I called these people this morning and wanted to know how they got our address and phone number and assured them that we do NOT owe DTE Energy any money...we pay our bills. I was livid to say the least. So the woman gives me the last four digits of a social security number which matches my husbands and another address where the service is at that is not our address...so she is thinking that there is fraud involved and is going to transfer me to the fraud department....THEN she repeats the entire social security number and one number is off!...Apparently she or some secretary typed in the SS number wrong and got our info instead. DAMN...I really hate wasting my time correcting somebody else's mistakes!!!

Now on to my just-as-dumb husband....: I had the separate telephone line disconnected in my computer room and now I am temporarily (until I shut the whole damn thing down) using the regular home phone line for my computer. There is a jack on the opposite side of the room, but it doesn't work....so I am running the wire out the door, down the hallway and plugged into another jack in the hall. My husband got a new phone jack to fix the one that doesn't work in the room and he spent all day yesterday trying to get it to work. He even talked to my oldest son who does phone work for his job and Ken is suppose to stop over Wednesday to see if he can fix it. So I come up here this morning and he has the wrong jack all torn apart....the one that I had the service shut off....THAT'S WHY IT DOESN'T WORK STUPID!!!!

Typical Mondays....I just hate 'em.....almost as much as I hate other people's stupidity....

Welcome Dixie from AMC

...........oh and forgot to introduce my new link "AMC "Dixie"... which is Cady McClain from All My Children, one of my afternoon soap operas!

First off...when I was in Caseville, my g'friend and I watched that King Kong movie.....MAJOR WASTE OF OUR TIME!!...We were like "when is this movie going to end....when did this movie start??". I really do NOT remember dinasaurs being in the original movie...or flying monster bugs....I really HATE when they take a classic movie and FUCKITUP!!!

Last night I went to the show and saw "United 93". There is no way they can ever screw that movie up,.....cause the facts are the facts. It was definitely a movie to see on the big screen..it has a great "impact" ending....hopefully makes you REMEMBER!!!! WHY!!! WE ARE IN IRAQ!!!! I remember 9-11 and thinking we gotta go over there and do SOMETHING!!...we gotta get those bastards!...so that's what we did....and now everybody's bitchin.....WTF???...

Oh, BTW, I went by myself...cause hus does NOTHING with me....he stayed home and watched TV or whatever...........

Tonight I rented "Walk The Line". It was an awesome movie about Johnny Cash. Johnny reminds me of my father...he loved Johnny Cash. I had a temporary boyfriend once and he played guitar and played "Walk the Line" for my father.

So tomorrow is "Mother's Day". So far, no cards. I always sent a card to my mother. No matter what or how much you do for kids nowadays, they always seem to "forget" or be too busy....guess its the times.

We'll see........I'll go to the cemetery to see 'my' mom....

I'm on my computer at home....it took me awhile. I am trying to save some of my pictures by mailing them to myself to my yahoo addy. I can't download anything unto a disk cause my CD Rom doesn't work. So I'm printing out stuff and mailing myself pictures. I can't even print out the pictures because my printer is so crappy. I know I need a whole new system....computer, scanner and printer. Maybe some day. Right now I am saving what I can and then I'm canceling my server and getting the hell off this thing for the summer at least.

Yesterday when I went to the library I wore these sandals. Unbeknowst to me when I put them on, the sole of the left one was coming loose and when I got to the library and I was walking, it was going flop..flop...flop when I walked. It sounded so loud in the library! People were turning their heads. I tried to walk slower, but it was still going flop.....flop.....flop, just slower. So when I got to the computer, I took my shoes off and when I was done I walked barefoot to the door and put them on when I got outside. Then I ran to my car and it was going flopflopflopflop and people were outside, of course. I was so embarrassed...

Anyway, I was so totally BUMMED when Chris got the boot on American Idol last night. I know I totally forgot to call in my votes for him the night before, but I doubt if my votes would have made any difference anyway. I'm kinda thinking that maybe he wanted off the show. I heard that he already got an offer to sing for Fuel, but he is tied up with the show. He will do better on his own anyway....I was telling my g'friend that he probably doesn't want to win now cause whoever wins is tied up for like 8 years in contracts with American Idol...who the hell wants that? So now I'm going to root for Taylor...I think he's a hoot.....

So today later I am driving to Pontiac to babysit the kids tonight. My son has a gig at IRocks in Detroit. I plan on getting there around 5:30 cause they need to leave around 6:00 and drive an hour to the club, get set up, and wait for their 9:00 show. They should be home by midnight. So that's about it...

Back from Caseville.....

I'm back from Caseville and I'm typing from the library computer right now. I tried twice to get into my computer at home and it is a total waste of my time. So I decided to come up here and see what doing stuff on a library computer is like. It works fine! I can get into all my mail, check blogs, etc.

Anyway, I had a good time in Caseville. But there sure is a lot of yard work to do now. I cut the grass TWICE.....I have a beautiful flower garden in the front yard and what I thought was ground cover in there turned out to be weeds, as my neighbors informed me...what the hell do I know?? So I spent two days pulling weeds.

My girlfriend is back from Florida now....it turned out her boyfriend's mother passed away and she had to fly back a little early. So we shopped a lot. I bought some cement statues for my yard and some flowers and tomato plants. I'll get them planted when I go back, so I hope they don't die on me. I love it up there and I hated to come back, but there are things to do here. Today I have a dentist appointment and tomorrow I'm going to babysit the kids....can't wait to spend time with them.

I've got to getting going and get to the dentist. I'll type more when I can get into my stupid computer at home. Ciao.............

I made a couple changes to my links. I added an animal rescue blog that I found. I love reading about the little animals they help and find homes for. And "Just a Mom" is now "One Plus Twins". Val was out of commission for awhile, but now she's back...Welcome back, Val!

I am going to Caseville for the weekend...maybe be back by Monday. I have some things to take up there. I bought a grill and a folding patio table and a ton of other stuff. So I got the jeep loaded up. I also have to cut the grass. It ain't like the condo where all the maintenance gets done. Plus, in my new place with my new satellite dish I can get SOAPNET!!....and I don't get it here. I got so addicted to SoapNet when I was there last time. I was watching it around the clock and watching the same soap operas over and over. I don't get it with my cable here. I called my cable company to see if I could get it. I can...but only if I get "digital" cable and I'll have to pay $15 more....like $60/month. Hubby said he ain't paying $60 just so I can watch Soapnet. So I'll spend $40 on gas and go to Caseville to watch it. I want to get satellite here, but he says it won't work cause we have too many trees in our yard and in the neighborhood. He's full of it....I'm sure that a satellite guy could figure it out....hell, we could even cut a few trees down....haha

I went to the library tonight and got a couple of those audio books. I love listening to a good book while I'm driving....better than the crap that's on the radio anyway. And I went to the tanning salon....and I went to Value World and found a cute summer purse. And I went to Bed, Bath and Beyond (just love that store) and I bought a "doggie stepper" for my dogs. It's steps that help the dogs climb up to the bed. So they better learn to use it. I didn't tell my hus what I paid for it though!...cause then he'd say that he can "make" something and it would take him alllllllll summer to make it. Forget it....I'll buy a doggie stepper.

I hope the weekend is nice....but not too nice, cause I still have weight to lose before I can wear my shorts...so I'm NOT ready for shorts yet! I got this CD by Kevin Trudeau....Lose 30# in 30 days. He has a lot of good advice. It's scary to think of the crap that is in the food we eat.....no wonder everyone gains weight. They give this stuff to animals to fatten them up and then we eat them...so we get it in us too....gross...and fast food places is a virtual marketplace of toxins that we consume. It's a good tape.

I gained weight when I stopped smoking. I was constantly getting this empty feeling in my stomach and I kept eating thinking it would go away. I realized what I was feeling was actually "hunger pains". Hell, with cigarettes I never had them. Now, I feel like I can't eat enough...I eat and 10 mins later I'm starving again. Plus, the cigarettes raise the metabolism and now my metabolism is a zero!...so I got this idea to get some nicorette gum! So now I chew the gum and get the nicotine in my system...raise my metabolism and take the hunger pains away....well, almost...it's a lot better. So I'll see if it helps me to lose weight. The diet pills weren't doing any good.

That's about it....talk to ya when I get back....have a great weekend!

1. Jayden is home!....no more fever, no more seisures..

2. A pic of a "cherokee rose":


3. A pic of my "cutie girl...Mini Sue":

Poor Jayden still in Hospital....

Little Jayden is still in the hospital. He did okay during the night last night, but this morning around 7:00 he was burning up with fever again. The immediately got meds in him and they have these ice packs they put on him to get the fever down. But something is causing this fever! My son said there was some test that they are waiting for the results....he doesn't remember what the test was for though. I hope it doesn't have anything to do with that cyst that is in his brain. My husband found something on the internet that if a brain cyst starts to break down, it can cause infection and fever. I need to ask my son if the doctors are aware of that. I know that my son was telling me last week how when Jayden doesn't get his way now he hits himself on his head...haha....which may be a typical 2-year-old temper tantrum thing, but maybe he's hitting himself on the head cause there is pain there. The problem is that he doesn't talk yet, so it's not like he can tell ya anything.

Little Jayden is sick again....

My grandson is in the hospital again. He's been getting those high fevers and seisures. Last Thursday he had a high temp, but my son got him in a cool bath and kept it under control. Then he seemed fine. He was fine when we were there Saturday. Then Sunday he was fine, but when he was taking a nap his temp went up and he had a seisure so they rushed him to the hospital. My son stayed with him all night and about 3:00 this morning his temp went up and he had another seisure. They ran tests.....they even did a spinal tap to check for meningitis....but they can't find anything wrong. He has no ear infections, no pneumonia, no vomiting, no diarrhea, no signs of even a cold. They can only guess that it is viral and that is why he is getting a high temperature...and that sets off a seisure. It's really weird. I was there this afternoon and he was fine except he was getting cranky cause he needed a nap and he was tired of being cooped up in that bed with his arm attached to tubes...poor baby. They are keeping him there another night to see how he does. If he is fine tonight, then he can come home tomorrow. Right now, they just have him on fluids and motrin or tylenol.

Tonight Prison Break and 24 are on!....