Is it Wed or Mon or .... Sun?? 05/13/2012
I really really really don't know where to start. Since the 30th we've been ridiculously busy. Interviews, turning in 2 week notice for quitting job, drug test (for new job), packing, payday, audits, kids flying out the door to temporarily crash with dad/grandparents, packing, training (new person), audits, stressing to current boss changing job, training (of me for new job), packing, drawing picture to current (soon to be ex) boss of me at NEW JOB, packing, making "how to do" color pages for new girl (who I've decided I WOULD NEVER be able to work with in an office setting that I'm leaving her in), interviewing 2nd replacement (since my 4 year job position now requires 2 people AND a supervisor), stalking mail man for last check, gonna move (Mon or Tues ... that's tomorrow), followed by 3 day training out of town, meet up with my kids to bring them home. And that pretty much wraps up April 30th to May 18th for you. There was also a couple of complete mental breakdowns (I'm talking I threw myself in a pile on the hallway floor screaming 'I'M SOOOOO ANGRY' and bawling and not caring if God and country could hear, punching the wall and bawling some more.). Sigh I have to go now. Butch says he needs razors to shave his face. We are living out of our bedroom. Everything is packed except one box of cloths (we're wearing the next 2 days) and the condiments in the frig. So exhausted. SOOOOOO EXXXHHHAAAUUUSSSTTTEEED. Looking forward to the beautiful coast. Florence, OR. B-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l Did I mention the new company is AWESOME!! In the training I was so excited I was bouncing in my chair like a little kid. Sooooo excited! 1 Comment awwww 05/08/2012
I wish I could have done nothing but this.... alllll dayyyy... 
too freaking exhausted to care 05/08/2012
Yesterday was C-R-A-P.... and until the weekend of Mother's Day it's just going to be more Crap and more Crap and more Crap... These are My Personalities that are juggling to come out and play today.... Which one will You get to play with?? 
It's May 7 where she's living at... 05/06/2012
On May 7, 1979 at 12:44 am, my parents gave me the best present EVER.. They gave me Twin. 
Happy Birthday Twin!!! (or as they say in the country you're living in....) alles Gute zum Geburtstag!!!! in a moment... 05/02/2012
So we did it. Turned in our 2 week notice yesterday. May 15th the uHaul will pull out... Today has been a bombardment of people and phone calls and text messages and emails... Because on top of prepping for a move, I'm knee deep in rents, and prepping for four audits (two of which I won't be here for, but will have the paperwork for them ready). I haven't worked out in almost two weeks. Which is the longest stretch I've gone since May 1, 2011. I'm exhausted. And tomorrow I will be hiking up the big girl panties and tackling it all over again. GOOOO Team! typical 04/29/2012
 We were driving home today and Austin sees this sign and says, while reaching for his seat belt... "Hey Mom, got $100 bucks?" now I know why mothers eat their young 04/27/2012
HOLY hell!!! Flashback to 1999, sitting on the exam table, spending three painful hours shoving a head and body the size of a small watermelon out of my 19 year old womb. Ooohhss and aaahs at how precious the little fingers are and the little toes. The tiny fingernails and eyelashes. Even his poop couldn't stink. I nursed him and played with him and doted all of my love and attention on him. Never in a MILLION years did I expect this Perfect Child to grow into this.... this ABOMINATION known as Teenage Boy. No ONE bothered to prepare me for the constant whining, moaning, complaining and attitude. NO ONE sat me down and had the Welcome to Parenting a Teenager talk. Not One Single Person had the decency to take me by the hand, set me down, hand me a hot piping cup of tea and break it to me gently. That TEENAGERS. SUCK. I don't remember being a 1/3 of this nasty as a child. Although my mom would've wiped that attitude off my face with the back of her hand. Smack. And repeat. That doesn't work? Smack. And repeat. I love him. But he turned 13 on Saturday. And he Instantly Changed. He went to sleep still kinda childish. Woke up with Attitude on one shoulder and Asshole on the other one. And I don't even know how to deal with it. Seriously contemplating taking up smoking, or maybe drinking wine. He starts in on his brother if they're within 10 feet of each other. He will literaly walk in the same room as him and just kick him and hit him and call him names and do anything that will piss the little guy off. For no reason! His mouth is like an open floodgate of crap. And if I try and talk? He interepts me about three words in "Hey, HEy, HEY!" Until he gets the point across that HE'S trying to talk. And by God he's gonna talk too! (As I stop to read this to hubby Butch, Austin listens and is rolling on the floor giggling, as Xav is screaming at him "THAT'S YOU, DUMBASS!! She's talking about YOU!") Funnies for your Friday 04/27/2012
You know it's time to close up shop for the day... when.... the 300+ lb stinky woman comes in and sits at your desk. Wearing a bathrobe. And telling you (once again) about her hoo-hoo sore & the bandage that is/isn't on there. AND about the nurses faces when she goes in for treatments of it. Now that I've made you as mentally scarred as I am... I'm closing up shop for the weekend. Teen angst 04/26/2012
Austin was all gung-ho on this move. We just spen the past two days on site with them. So they could see what our apartment, site, and the town looks like. All. For. It. Until he went to school today and told everyone. And all of the kids that he didn't know liked him WANT HIM TO STAY. No he thinks he's Popular. And he even watched a video today on what the Middle School is like. He wants to stay! 1.Denial — He's soooo not moving. He can't be. He likes it here. He has FRIENDS. 2.Anger — WHYYYY??? 3.Bargaining — I'll call your boss and tell him you can't move. You're too qualified. That won't work? I'll FLUNK THE 6TH GRADE!! 4.Depression — There's gonna be bullies. I won't know anyone there! 5.Acceptance — WHATEVER MOM. W-H-A-T-E-V-E-R!! Two completely non-related topics.. 04/22/2012
Sometimes I want to share completely different related topics. Why? Let's face it.. my brain is usually going a mile a minute on ten different things and my poor Butch just doesn't want (or can't) keep up with it all... #1. Am I sure I really got the job? At the end of the very brief interview she asked if I had any questions. I did... Question: Are you interviewing anyone else for this position? Answer: Honestly? No. I hire people based on personality. Sure, experience is great, but anyone can train on some paperwork. I've been doing this job for 20+ years, and what I've learned is that people really have to have the right personality for this job. Not only are you two more than experienced enough, you definitely have the job. I have to go back to the office and meet with your Area Manager and the Asset Manager to get a set date of when we'll need you there, and than I will be able to get it to you. Right now the date is somewhere between Saturday May 11th and June 1st. (Not saying I still won't mildly stress until the minute all of our hire paperwork is done, and she actually gets me that email that says "YOU START XXOO DATE." so that I can turn in the 2-week notice to my boss. But it is only Sunday, and she left my office on Friday, and she said that she is meeting with them next week. And the property switches over on May 15th. In order to give a 2 week notice... it will be a sooner-rather-than-later thing I'm sure.) #2. Fun story of a case of mistaken identity gone wrong. A guy I've known since I was about 15 told me about something that happened to him very recently that I just HAVE to share. Because, well, I'm sure he was going OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING. Let's call him J. His brother is S. J is 250+ lbs, 5'9.5", both Bouncers by occupation. S is probably at least a good 200, and closer to 6'. They have a def family resemblence. J and S were driving home from the bar at 1am. In their big jacked up pretty truck. S is drunk. J has had one beer. (Swears up and down.. it was only ONE beer!!). Driving home. And they pass what appears to be a car with their friends in it flipping them off. So, they thought they would flick their friends some crap back and ran them off to the side of the road with their truck, parking in front of them. (They're in downtown, busy street, lots of businesses/cars/people area.) J & S get out of the truck. Supposedly J goes charging at the car, yelling and hollering, the passengers say that he was shoving down on the hood making the car rock. It took J a little bit to realize that this is NOT his friends. In fact these are complete strangers. He tries apologizng and getting back in the truck quickly. They speed off. He pulls off. They pull onto the same street. Where the car is yelling at them to stop following him. His response is that he's not, this is the street he lives on to - and - he really would like to apologize. The cops arrive (witness on the street has called it in). J gets arrested. S walks back to J's house to get his wife to come drive the truck home (the 3 blocks away) so it doesn't get impounded, because S is too wasted to drive. The story that the officers tell J's wife is that there was scared kids in the car (by kids I'd say early 20's, J & his wife are late 30's). The hand gestures he saw was because a couple of them were deaf. J is so big that it took two sets of cuffs hooked together, and when he was telling us the story (8 hours after he was released?) he still had the cuts in his large wrists. He had to sit sideways in the back of the car, and his large shoulders touched both sides. They tried to get him to lay down, but he wouldn't, because he couldn't fit. He was charged with Reckless Driving, Harassment, Disorderly Conduct. His wife insisted that when he called from the jail that he sounded like he was almost going to cry... telling her to come get him. He didn't want to spend the night. He denies the crying part, but admits he was scared. Saying that he might've been one of the biggest guys in there, but he had many of them thrown in there from his job, and he definitely didn't want to get his ass kicked in jail. Even though bail was $10,000, she didn't end up having to post the $1k for his release (which they don't have). They did a second interview and released him on his own recog. Court date is set for May 21. Ironically enough, when it was all done, the wife is completely shocked. It's so not his character!! From my own YEARS of personal experience with the man, I'd like to say BULLSHIT. (And deep deep down... it's about freaking time! And deeper down I reaaalllly would like him to get some jail time out of it. Not saying that he necessarily deser | Rantings From The Time
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