These Weeks Fly By...

I really can't believe how fast the days and weeks fly by. My kids will be going back to school in just about 3 weeks. What happened to the summer?? We haven't done squat this summer, always so busy working and everything else. My kids are growing so fast. This will be the first year that they will all be in school at the same time, what will I do with myself?? lol Enjoy it!! It really has kind of been a boring summer; we either didn't have the time or the money to do anything fun (face it, it costs a lot to do just about anything with a family of 5!). My husband doesn't have any vacation time at this job because he's only been there for about 5 months. He works all crazy hours and has to go to bed early. He's snoozing right now because he has to be at work at 3am! Tomorrow night, my mother in law is keeping the kids over night.. the first time she has done this, ever... and we are like.. hmm, what are we gonna do?? Go to a movie?? Blah, boring. I need some real excitement in my life, I want to go on a real vacation! We haven't been on a real vacation since April of '09. I love travelling and really love road trips, just don't have the time or $$$$ for it now.

My word processing class is finally over, yay! The teacher really annoyed me in this class. He was very condescending when he talked to the students and was just not very friendly at all. Monday I start Comp. II with the asshat I had for Comp. I.. I just have to deal with his arrogance and stupid "staaries" (he's from NY and that's how he pronounces "stories"). .. but that should be an easy class for me because, well, I work as a writer and this class is about writing.

I had a doctor's appointment today with .. hmm, the lady parts doctor. I haven't had an annual exam in like..almost 6 years (the nurse told me I was bad!). I've been having a pain in my lower right abdomen for awhile now and finally got into this doctor that I heard wonderful things about. She is soo super duper nice and friendly and so is her staff. But, she thinks the pain is either fibroid tumors or endometriosis. I have to go for a pelvic ultrasound and an endometrial biopsy. The ultrasound I can handle; I've had a pelvic one done before, no biggie, but the biopsy is what I'm scared of. The nurse there said that some women find it painful while others say they don't even feel it. I read up on the procedure and it sounds OMFG! I've heard others say it was painful, anyone have any experience with this?? I have awhile to worry about it, my appointment isn't until September. She said it could also be scar tissue from my 2 c-sections. If it is fibroids or endo. she said I can have a laproscopic hysterectomy which is where they just remove the uterus and leave everything else intact. I told her, I don't need that crap anymore, they can have it all!! I'm not one of these whiney women that want to dodge a hysterectomy because they won't feel like a woman if they know they can't have children. Screw that! I had my tubes tied, cut and burned, 3 is enough for me, those parts are just takin up space and causing me misery every 4 weeks!

Ugh, it's 11:23 on a Friday night and I feel exhausted. Isn't that sad?? When did I become old? I blame the children! They did this to me!! Where are the days when I stayed out until 2 -3 am and slept til 11?? When I stumbled in the door drunk barely being able to get my key into the key hole? Now, I'm like a little old lady who is in bed before midnight and up at 8am... and in a few weeks I will have to be up a lot freakin earlier than that to get my kids ready for school. Why does being an adult suck so much????

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

I took this the other day at school in my word processing class. I like taking pics of just random crap like this sometimes. I always sit in the back in all of my classes. I prefer it back there so no one is behind me watching me. The voices tell me to do it.

I hate Mondays.

It's Sunday night which means tomorrow is... eeeek!.. Monday. *sigh* Mondays always seem to suck for me so let's hope we can get through this one with ease. At least this is the last week of my Word Processing class. It wasn't too bad, just a lot of homework and bullshit stuff, but I handled it just fine, like I always do. OMG, I can't believe I've been in college for almost a year now. Next month will be my 12th month!! The year went by sooo fast! The next year will be filled with all of the interesting classes and I get to learn how to draw blood! weeeeeeeeee!!

I've been getting off of my regular blogging schedule lately, been really busy with my work at home blog, which has been picking up a lot of traffic and "business" lately. Been getting some reviews and giveaways to post and some other cool stuff!

I was trying to decide what to post for the photo of the week. I'm going to post another video, this one is of my friend's band Deflagration that we went to see play last weekend. This leads me to my next discussion: music! I love music, however, my musical tastes are different from most others. I'm a metal head. Have been for years and hope to always be one. I grew up listening to 80s hair bands.. Poison was my all time favorite band (waaaay before Bret Michaels had his rock of love show and did his country crap). I'm talking like when, "Look What the Cat Dragged In" first came out. My friend Kellie and I used to blast it on our "ghetto blasters" and dance to it in the front yard!! .. As I grew up, my tastes got heavier. I liked music that was faster and heavier. Pantera was my favorite band as a teenager and still holds a large place in my heart. I got into even heavier music like death metal and black metal. There's just something about it that makes my adrenaline flow and I could talk about it for hours. I've been to hundreds of metal concerts. I've met a lot of bands. I used to run my own underground metal fanzine called, "Metal Mafia" (that's the myspace page I made for it a long time ago, but don't have time to keep up with it). The fanzine I put out was a print magazine, not a webzine. I interviewed all kinds of bands; some famous, some not so famous. I was also a DJ on a metal radio show called the "Metal Storm" for a few years which I absolutely loved doing. I used to travel all over to different states to go to metal fests and I met soo many people. I had quite a good reputation in the underground metal scene. *sigh* I sooo miss those days. Then came.. motherhood. Once I had children, all of that stuff went down the drain. I still love the music, just don't have the time to put into doing things like the 'zine, or radio show. ... So yeah, that's me, a headbanging metal head and proud of it \m/  .. I do like other music apart from metal though. I really don't listen to popular radio stations and can't stand most of the big celebrity singers. *blah* they are just too boring and trendy for me. I absolutely can't stand country music. My husband likes it, I hate it. .. Not a good combination. However, I do like Johnny Cash, I like some rap, but not a lot. I also like some new age music and I still love to listen to the old 80s hair bands! What kind of music do you like?

VIDEO OF THE WEEK


The guy playing the guitar is my friend Skot. Known him for years, even went to high school with him, and he is an amazing guitar player. This is the shit I love! I love concerts, the music,and even mosh pits (even though I'm too old to go in them, lol). My husband took the video with his HTC Android phone. Not the greatest sound quality, but you get the picture! (or video??)




p.s. An entire post without me saying "WTF"... soo.. wtf????

Mountain Dew and Doritos

This week was better than last week. Nothing too exciting happened. Found out that my husband might be losing his job soon. The place he works at was bought out a few months ago. It's a factory that has been around for as long as I can remember and employs about 600 people in the area, plus has 3 other factories in other states. So this new company comes in and just starts firing people right off the bat. Just pickin out people telling them to go home for good. Everyone has been worried about their job for awhile. They are bringing in machines to do the jobs of humans. They had a big meeting today telling everyone that they are going to be getting rid of the extra "waste" that they don't need. Basically telling them that the ones who have low seniority are going to be out, and my husband has only been there for 4 months. They also told everyone that if these machines work, they are going to be getting a lot more machines and getting rid of hundreds of jobs. WTF? How can you feel good about yourself putting THAT many people out of a job, people that have been there for years and years, just to fatten your pockets more than they already are? Sometimes I envy rich people, ok, I envy them a lot, but the reality is, the majority of them have gotten that way by screwing the little people in the process. I don't know what we are going to do if he gets "laid off" permanently. He keeps bugging me about moving to Tennessee, but I told him that I don't want to go as long as my grandma is alive. He can work down there with our brother in law who has his own construction business. He already told my husband that he would make him a partner. I just can't be that far away from my 97 year old grandmother in case something would happen. He is worried that I will never want to go down there, but I really do. It is absolutely beautiful in TN, the schools are better, the people are nicer and I am soo sick of Ohio and their dumbass laws and even dumber government. I hate this state.

On a more positive note.. we took the kiddos to the beach yesterday. I posted something on my facebook page about going to the beach and people were leaving comments like, "Ohio has a beach??".. Uh, duh. Ohio is right below Michigan. Ever heard of the Great Lakes? It's the second best thing to the ocean. We go every summer to swim. The kids love it and I do, too! But damn, I am burned to a crisp. I had to put a bra on to go to class today, and crap that hurt!!

Speaking of class. Blah. My instructor is an ass. He wasted a half hour of our time on the first day bragging about where he went to school and what degrees he has, but yet he can't even speak proper English. I can't stand improper grammar and he speaks it! Plus, he marks us off on assignments for spelling things incorrectly, but yet he spells things wrong all of the time! It's like, uhhhh, shouldn't a college professor practice what he preaches? Or at least speak properly? Plus, he's just like.. a dick. If you ask him a question, he acts annoyed with you. Next month I have another prick to deal with. I had him about 6 months ago for Comp. I. He's just an arrogant ass. I hated him the first time around and I really don't want to deal with him again for Comp. II! He's the kind that thinks he knows everything and no one can tell him different! Grrr, I asked my husband to beat him up before but he didn't. *booo*. Oh well, next month will be my 12th month, so I am half way finished already! Yay!! Oh yeah, and that's another thing I told my husband. I at least want to finish school before moving because I love the school (despite the few asshole teachers) and have made some great friends there.

I'm totally feeling like my post is boring tonight. What's wrong with me?? Have I lost "it"? IT must just be hiding somewhere tonight. Im sorry! *cries*.

Oh yeah, and stop by my work at home blog to enter my giveaway for a custom 18 x 24 window cling. You can put anything you want on it, how cool is that??? If you enter, let me know you came from this blog!

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Yes, Ohio really does have beaches! This is Lake Erie. 

I Told You So!

In my last post, I said that the news on my laptop would be bad. It was. The guy looked at my laptop and the drive is fine. It's the little thingy majiggy that tells the driver what to do and how to work and can not be replaced. So, bye bye laptop. Oh, and the REAL kicker?? My warranty ended April 29. Seriously?? So, now I gotta work on the old trusty desktop, which thankfully is in working condition right now (crosses fingers, toes and anything else crossable) until I can save up to get a new laptop. *sigh* It always happens to me? WTF?

I was reading through my last post and was laughing at how many times I said WTF. What The Fuck? Obviously, I say that all of the time. Things are always pissing me off and I say, WTF? Something doesn't work right? WTF! I can't find my other shoe. WTF?? The dumbass neighbor kids yelling names at me? WTF? It's something I say numerous times throughout the day and I'm sure you will see many, many times in this blog!

The rest of my week off was alright. Was busy non stop from Friday til Sunday evening. Blah. I hate weekends like that when it is just run here there and everywhere with no time to relax. It exhausts me, but I know as the kids get older, it is only going to get worse.

I'm having a really, really difficult time biting my tongue at the neighborhood brats. I took the dog out to go potty earlier and the two girls were yelling over here, "Hey Fat Lady!" .. I ignored them, then I heard, "HEY BIG FAT LADY!". WTF? Seriously? You are 8 and 5, where in the Hell is your mother? Oh wait, she was saying the same kinds of things last week about me and my husband, even though she, herself, is no skinny minnie, nor is a couple of her daughters. I sooo badly wanted to flip them off or yell something back but I have to remind myself that they are just kids. It's not my place to tell them off and I have to remember that they learned it all from their disrespectful ignorant mother. What do you expect from someone who lets their 6 year old carry a pocket knife? These people are really testing my patience. Oh, then later, sweet little C yelled over and asked my husband if he could come over. We said yes, and then he asked if his sister could came over. We said NO, because she was the one yelling those things earlier. Soo, the little 8 year flipped my husband off. I mean, do these kids have any respect for anyone? They are gonna grow up to be bullies and hopefully one day get their little asses beat by a kid who isn't gonna take that shit.

I started my new class yesterday. Oh.. My.. God it is soooo boring! The instructor speaks in monotone the entire time. Everyone was messing around on facebook or playing games on the computer, lol. The whole class is on how to use Microsoft Word. Should be an easy class, but damn it is going to bore me to sleep. At least I have lots of friends in the class so it makes it fun.

Ooooh and I got an award! Weeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

To accept the award, I have to tell 7 random things about myself and then pass it on to other new bloggers that I've come in contact with. Soo, here goes:

7 things:

1. I was on the Jenny Jones talk show with my then fiance (now husband) in 2003.
2. I have been to so many concerts, I have lost count. 
3. I've never met my dad. He took off when I was 3 weeks old.
4. I hate tomatoes.
5. I have never had a speeding ticket or any driving ticket, ever.
6. My husband and I met in a Yahoo chat room.
7. I've been to New York City 3 times and LOVE it!!

If you have a question about any of these things, just leave a comment and I will answer it in my next post!

Now, I present this prestigious award to the following blogs:

• My Life With Rats and More
• Set Free To Succeed
• Deanna Time
• Blommi

Aww, I feel all special and stuff now *giggles*. Special thanks to Curvy Ladies for giving me the award!

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Going back old school. I have no idea what year this was, but I was fat even back then!! My  mom said I asked for this hair cut but why would she let me get a boy hair cut?? lol!