Has this little vandal met my Lee?

Sometime after Bunko on Wednesday night and before Mark left for school on Thursday morning, our little truck was assaulted.





Really?! Just whose canvas does this little punk think he painted on? As his wife, I can personally attest that he is so NOT gay! This was just so creative, so, so original. Note to punk: A little WD-40 and some elbow grease and your artwork has been eradicated. Take that you little hoodlum wannabe!

Making more money than me......

Brittany just celebrated 3 years of working for Domino's Pizza on Valentine's Day. She just gave her two weeks notice because.........she is now going to be working as a Massage Therapist at Massage Envy at Superstition Gateway! Straight out of the gate, my girl will be making nearly a dollar more an hour than I do! :) Of course, I am pleased beyond words. We always want our kids to do better than ourselves, and she has at the ripe young age of 19. Congratulations baby girl!

Owee Toe

My poor baby. He hurt his toe at work. He was chasing after a 'perp'. He tripped on a curb. He got up and continued chasing said 'perp'. He caught 'perp'. My poor baby's toe is fractured in a few places and will need surgery.

Got that right!

You Are a Visionary

You tend to be the rock in relationships - people depend on you. Thoughtful and caring, you often put others needs first. You aren't content to help those you know... you want to give to the world. An idealist, you strive for positive change and dream about how much better things could be. Your strength: Your intuition Your weakness: You put yourself last Your power color: Rose Your power symbol: Cloud Your power month: June

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

If this just isn't me to a T! Thanks Shellee. What about you?

Help me.

I need help. I'm having a hard time finding the positive in the current state of our country. Too many people that I know have lost jobs and/or had their hours cut and have no foreseeable way to make it up. Friends who have lost homes to foreclosure and lost everything they have worked for in bankruptcy. Wives are looking for jobs to help supplement what the husbands have lost. We're supposed to be home, raising our families, why is it like this?

I just read a complete nonsense fluff piece as to why gas prices are going up, even though crude oil closed at just under $34.00 a barrel on Friday. This is perhaps the biggest crock of nonsense heaped upon the average Joe since Ford rolled out the Model T. Hello? The big ole Exxon posted their largest profit EVER the last quarter of last year! Why can't the big oil and gas conglomerates issue 'economic stimulus' to the flailing auto industry?

Food. We all eat it. We need it to survive. Yet, as retailers are paying the lowest prices wholesale, they apparently will not extend that same privilege to the mom who is trying to feed a family of 5 on a reduced income. Where is the justice in that? This is another of the biggest crocks heaped upon our society. Do they really think that we are THAT stupid? Note to executive cheapskates in the food industry, "I KNOW THAT EVERY PACKAGE AND CAN I BUY IS SHRINKING!!!!!"

With all that is going on in the world, I am suffering spiritually as well. Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way. I'm breaking my own rules as far as blogging rules go. Note: I wrote them for my own benefit anyway. It is difficult for me to be happy when I know that others are doing without. It's hard to feel the Spirit when I feel that misery surrounds me.

I have looked through the newspaper, the internet, just trying to find some good news. The obituaries list folks who have died many months ago, yet they want us to contact the mortuary if we have any information on them. How sad is that? A person's whole life reduced to 2 lines in the paper requesting what they did with that life and who cares?

So, again, I implore. Help me. I've lost my center. I am feeling as though everything is spinning out of control with no hopes of it ever becoming grounded. My children's and grandchildren's future have been mortgaged to the hilt. Am I a big baby or what?

Rules of blogging and Facebook and more

1. Don't blog when you are in a bad mood or feeling low, you will only bring down your reader.

B. Be careful of what you post on your wall, others will read it and know that they weren't invited.

3. Try posting something smiley, people will wonder what you are up to.

d. Don't associate with the same people each day, you will establish a rep as "clique-y" whether it is true or not.

5. In the wise words of Dr. Phil, "you wouldn't worry about what people thought of you if you knew how little they do."

F. Try to include photography as much as possible, it really grabs the reader.

7. Don't read too much into what people say as in the context that they are saying it.

h. Always have a cheerful countenance. Even it it hurts to do so.

9. Avoid idle gossip pieces. Period.

10. Can't we all just get along?

See you on the Net!

No, I'm not dead.........yet.

I know, I know I haven't blogged in a while. Maybe I thought that my many musings weren't interesting enough to post, but, I have to break out of this somehow.

On January 16th, Lee and I celebrated our 21st anniversary. I know, old huh? We celebrated our milestone by dropping Mark off at the church for his snow campout and heading over to Black Angus for dinner. Lee had the Prime Rib and I had the Top Sirloin steak. MMMMMMMmmmmMMMMMMmmm good! After we had eaten our leisurely dinner and shared a baked apple crisp for dessert, we meandered over to the theater to see "Paul Blart, Mall Cop". Very funny movie and.......you can actually take the kids to see it.

January 17th was my brother Nathan's 40th birthday. We always check in with each other at least once a month.

Lee has been keeping really busy with ref'ing junior high and JV/Freshman wrestling at the various high schools. Basically, we don't see him 3 nights a week or more for the month of January. You'd think with all that time apart absence would make the heart grow fonder, but we spent way too much time arguing over things. You know, the usual Mars vs. Venus stuff and if you'd just do it the way I asked you, you wouldn't be in the doghouse and vice versa.

January 21st was a fantastic night I like to call Bunko. It was my turn to host this month, and as usual, I was too busy hosting to take pictures. It was a blast though!

January 30th, was my niece, Erica's 14th birthday. The following morning I flew to Salt Lake City for a much needed break. I stayed with my brother and my nieces and nephew. Their mother had flown to Texas to visit her brother. I enjoyed the snow, the sights, Park City, and good old family fun and the Super Bowl. I flew home on February 2nd.

Today, I'm back to work. I missed my husband and my children, and yes, the beagles too. I knew what challenges I would be returning to, and yes, I'm biting my tongue.