sooooo tired - and haven't even begun the main crazy schedule - just inputting all the upcoming music events and seeing all the conflicts - kind of want to cry - and I kind of want to cry just because I am more than a little hormonal today - so, yeah, good times.

Marla , You crack me up . Hahaha. I know it feels so hard right now . Life is so hard right ? But it's so good too. I can't wait until 20 years from now you look back and see how much fun it was even though it felt so hard .

My Daughter messaged me yesterday that she hates her Japanese class and the teacher lol. She says the lady teaches directly from the book and she could just have bought the book if that's how she will teach all year ha! My daughter is terrible like that - quick to judge , I wish she would just learn it and stop judging people. The lady went to college to get a degree the least my daughter could do is show a little respect - which is the talk I'll be having with her when I get home on Monday . I told her that she can graduate college and teach her own class so she can then be judged by out people.?

well nothing new her . I'm here till 8 sigh


Amy
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Just a quick check in. Wow! That was a lot to catch up on. Everyone has a lot going on in their lives.

Ang, my thoughts and prayers are with you as you go through this transition.

Amy, have your son go into one of our local office-- Business and Career Solutions Centers. Where is he living? I can give you the address and telephone number (maybe who to talk to depending on the office). I live in Plaquemine, to answer your question from several days ago, where the high today should hit 70. (I know, that's kind of mean for me to say) There is absolutely no way I could ever handle your temps!! Even inside your office. I'm such a wimp.

Cute Cute Cute blanket, Shirley. It's a BOY!! I don't think I knew that. I'm with Jenny -- please come stay with me for a while and organize my recipes, clean a few rooms, and exercise with me! Snow skiing is on my bucket list. I better get to it before I blow out a hip or something.

Jenny, how have you been feeling? Are you back to your norm prior to your new position?

Oh, Marla. I wish I had the magic answer. Parents can't want "it" more than the kids. Whether the "it" is their grades, job, spouse, etc. Sadly I say the same thing at work. I have such a high work ethic while others are collecting a paycheck and barely contributing. Hang in there, enjoy the highlights, and pray for wisdom and guideance.

As for me...YES my Jeep was stolen Saturday but found by police five hours after I reported it. There wasn't any major damage. I was able to drive it home. My husband's spare set of car keys were even still in it. We are having it rekeyed just in case since our address is on the insurance and registration. I was in New Orleans, so the person would have to steal another vehicle with a full tank of gas to get to me. But yes, Amy, it would be like me to forget where I park. I do it at Wal Mart frequently.

I'm back to work full time and back to Couch to 5K. I jumped in at day 2 of week 3 Monday and doing okay. I keep thinking of how far I have to go. That little voice in my head is trying to convince me to forget about running.

Our Krewe's Ball is Saturday night so every day after work I head to the civic center to decorate sets until 11ish. (Missing Catholic School's Week activities and basket ball games ). I am dragging!! Looking forward to Saturday night though. I did finally find a dress I like and having it altered. It won't be ready in time for my Ball, but will wear it next weekend to another Krewe's Ball that I'm a guest of.

Guess I better get busy. Have a great Thursday.

Happy Friday sweeties - carry on

sigh, too depressed to post today - family drama with my oldest son . I'll post tomorrow if I can understand it .

Forgot to tell you guys it has warmed up immensely .it's -3 today

I am sitting here logging my food and exercise for the day (yeah! even if it was just a walk) and starting to realize how tired I am. Maybe I should not have taken off my make up and washed my face for the night! Then again it's been a busy day. I did laundry, cleaned, finished working on the library books to take to church tomorrow, did my baking, ran a couple of errands, went to our annual church business meeting, did some baking, perfected my resume, organized my closet and did some ironing. (Not in that order). I finally just curled up in my chair and read. I am surprised with how much I got done today!! It was a very profitable and tiring day!

Next week marks my last day at my job. It's going to be a hard week. Might be a shorter week with the predicted 25-35 cm of snow coming in Monday! I will have to check the weather forecast again tomorrow, see when it's going to start and contact my boss about it if it's to start early in the morning.

I've already found a job I am going to apply for. It's a government job! While I am about 6 months shy of the 4 years they state, I am going to submit my resume and see what happens. I will consider myself happy if I just get called for an interview. I have a superb reference in my boss, as he works closely with some of the people there and knows almost everyone there. It's a dream of mine to work for the government. I'm just going to apply to it and pray and wait and see what happens.

The next several weeks are going to be hard financially. Living off only about 55%-60% of my normal income won't be easy at all. If I can keep getting days like today shopping, it would be great. EVERYTHING (except one thing - bus tickets) that I picked up today was ON SALE!! How great is that?? (Bus tickets never go on sale!)

Well I'm off to bed now. Tomorrow afternoon I am invited over to a friends house. My friend that has Reid!!! I get to see my fur baby tomorrow!!! I certainly hope he remembers me. It's been over a year since my last visit there. I can't wait.

I saw Reid today!!! It was so nice to see my fur baby again. I miss my cat. I did pick him up. He's gained a lot of weight since the last time I saw him cowering in the basement. He's certainly not a scardy cat any more! He lets men and children put him! I couldn't hold him for long as he didn't seem to like it. He kept staring at me as if thinking "I know you. Why do I know you?" My friend says I need to come back over again soon as he will probably remember me better.

Amy - sorry to hear your clashing with the boy - I'm sure no matter how old they get they will always have the power to slay us with their criticism even when it is not warranted - I pray he can get settled in and restock and come back to you with some better conversations

Ang - good luck!

Shirley - we got a fairly heavy storm around here - and though the accumulation was only around 6 inches - the blowing is terrible and the snow/ice pack is awful. They actually cancelled the city school - I think that's only the second time in my twenty years here!

The ball tourney is over - and I heard a lot of grumbling about why they didn't cancel Sunday - but what the heck people - your kids spent the night here in town - even if they would have cancelled the tourney - you still would have had to come get your kiddos - I mean not that any of us would have turned them out - but I'm guessing you wanted them home - or you would have said fuhgeddabouddit - I am feeling upset with our coach - he physically yanked (grabbed the front of his jersey) Zach out of the game Saturday and I saw nothing the warranted his anger at Zach and then sat him the rest of the game. He also only played less than half on Sunday - as a starter and not seeing any horrendous errors or bad temper or attitude I am upset. I know I have to shake it off b/c as I always say to myself if you want them to play more you have to coach - but I also feel angry when the others play worse and get more time - as a lower classmen last year he got almost no time playing and getting experience last year and this year the younger ones have gotten more than equal time with what he is getting. And the yanking him out. Grrrr. A few more games, a few more games - coach can bit my booty and deal with Bernie's anger when it blows - I ain't trying to soothe the bear the next time

Tiiiirrreeeeed - I think the boys enjoyed coming over- they were really only there for a few hours - from about 8:30 p.m. to 9 a.m. - they played xbox for a couple of hours and then we got them up a little before 8 and fed them and packed them off back to school

I am so glad I got off early yesterday BEFORE the storm started!!! I was reading nightmare stories of normal 20 or 30 minute drives, taking anywhere from 3 to 5 HOURS for people to get home!! Today we delayed opening to noon. One of the lawyers picked me up on his way in, which was really nice. NONE of the sidewalks out where I live were plowed yet. (Certainly hope they are by tonight!) As I was leaving, I looked at the people I rent from, and he had JUST finished shoveling the snowbank from the snowplow. I told him he had perfect timing in finishing that for me so I could leave! It was easily over my knees.

We have another snowstorm that is supposed to be coming on Thursday. I blame the groundhog in our area that saw his shadow. Well then again, it's not his fault he saw it, the sun was out when the pulled him out of his warm cozy borrow. I will just keep my eye on the weather. Thursday is still two days away, the weather can easily change a dozen times between now and then. That's Nova Scotia for you!