MISSIN HIM TODAY

Actually, it happens a lot that I miss him. I want to call him up and tell him about the kids and life and ask him questions. But I can't.... This was our very last fishing trip together. I miss those too. It's funny how something as simple as going to buy a can of worms can make you miss a loved one. Or a butterfly. Or a fake mustache. Or a pair of shorts. *Sigh*
I wanted to complain to him about life, and get his answers. What to do about this and that. Simple things. I have videos I watch over and over again, just to hear his voice, his laugh....

So my life. I think I have had my fill of customer service jobs. At least the one I am in now. People - are annoying. I just don't get how a person pays in cash for liquor, then has the balls to wave their foodstamp card around in the air like it's golden......

IT'S GOING TO BE GREAT!!

"Peekaboo!"
(That's my kitteh. Looking for a birdeh.)


It's Monday again, and the start of the first full week of school for the kids! Yeah! I also get to start working more hours at my job, which means I basically go back to my old schedule! This means more money, which also means I can breathe a little more! Ahhhhh.....
Now that Halie has moved out, it's so quiet here. The little kids are learning to do more things for themselves, and learning how to be more responsible. They are really digging having their own rooms, and it is coming in very handy for when the boy is practicing on his bell kit! We still have a few things left to tie up for Halie - like all of her insurances. I'm not sure what will happen with the health insurance since she's not at home, and she's skipping the semester at school. We should hear something about that in the next day or so. I hope for her sake that she can stay on it - otherwise she's really on her own! For her car, we need to get a new insurance quote, as she could only stay on mine while she was still at home AND in school. We knew that would happen, so it's all good. Part of being a grown up! I think she has also acquired most everything she needed for her place, minus the toaster. I will probably pick one up for her on payday, as they are only like $7, so then she should be all set. Her place looks so cute, and I am just so proud of her! Now I am just waiting on the very big announcement: "You are going to be a GRAMMA!" I know it's coming, I just don't know how soon! LOL! It's going to be so much fun having a baby in the house again! Though it has been a bit of a struggle embracing all of these huge life changes, I am doing it, one day at a time, and actually looking forward to what the future has to offer. So many exciting things to come! It's a good day, and I hope everyone else has a good one too!

BOYCOTT KWIK SHOP!

I have decided to avoid all Kwik Shops. No more cheap gas, no more no more. They treat their employees like slaves, and I think it is abhorrent. They seriously expect an employee to work a NINE hour shift without a break. No lunch, no sitting down for five minutes to rest - nothing. Just work all day straight and shut up. Apparently they don't "have to" give breaks or lunch to employees because Kansas is a "right to work" state. I find it absurd. I have never in my life had a job that didn't at least give you a break every four hours, and at least a bit of time to eat something if you had to work eight hours. AND THEN - the lady my daughter works under, happens to think she must be god or something. She changes the schedule every day - so my kid can't even plan her own life. She gets called in on every day off she has, and was informed the other day that she was going to be moved to full time. Ok - but she only wanted part time. How stupid. She told the manager when she interviewed that she was a full time student, and would be attending classes when school started. Helloooo? Anyone in there? It's taking everything I have NOT to run down there and tell that stupid woman where to shove her three-for-a-dollar candy bars......

OMG REALLY??? JUST REALLY???

First of all - it's Monday - so I am having an obvious one ok?!

I found out today that NO ONE makes shoes big or wide enough to fit my 10 year old Sasquatch of a son. Seriously, if he really does ever grow into those feet - OMG...... Yes of course there are bigger ones, but he's still just a boy. The man ones are still TOO big, and the boy ones are all too small. Come on NIKE - step up to the plate already and make some decent big foot shoes!

My 8 year old girl child. I think she will end up going to school and everywhere else naked for the rest of her life. NOTHING fits right, everything is either "like waaay ugly" or "Omg Mom this is just WRONG" or "Um - NO" - someone please shoot me. She is too fat in the belly and too short in the legs to find pants. HELLO already!!! Haven't the clothing companies realized by NOW that there is no MOLD for the human being??? Can we get a little variety here without having to pay eight thousand dollars for one pair of jeans???

The 19 year old - is moving out. Finally. Oh God. She's leaving the nest and I don't know what to do but oh my lord hallelujah!! She and her boyfriend are signing lease papers tonight and moving into it this week. (I assume.) Oh sweet justice is about to come around the corner and smack her so hard she might fall over. She thinks she is ENTITLED to RECEIVE gifts and all the wonderful things for her apartment like brand new modern dining tables and chairs and sofas and beds and washers and dryers and on and on and blahhhhhhh. HAAHAA! She was 2 years old before I got my first washer and dryer. I have yet to get a new dining table, and I have still never had brand new furniture. Of course we all know what will really be the case, considering he works at a minimally paying job, and she only works part time. They will be lucky to eat once a day, and they will be begging to do their laundry at my house. Shoot me.

And of course last but not least - my truck is broken. Shit.

OPPRESSIVE, WITH A TWIST

I don't know if any of my fellow Kansans have noticed, but it's been really hot here. We saw in the paper where the guys baked cookies in a car, so we decided to try it ourselves yesterday. Here you see the raw and ready to go cookie dough. (Packaged sugar cookie with no raw eggs....)

We put the sheet of cookies in the car at about 1:00....

This is what they looked like by around 3:00..... They rose up and started cooking.

By 5:00 - they were almost done. Yeah DONE. They were crispy around the edges, and you can see how they started to "cake" up. I wouldn't say they were completely finished, still a little doughy, but holy cow!! If we had done this the day before, I bet we could have eaten them straight out of the car!!

I don't know if it will heat back up here, or if the temps are supposed to stay lower, but the next super heated day we get, we are going to try to bake a loaf of bread in the little metal building out back. It is so hot in there it's ungodly. Needless to say, the kids have not been using it as the playhouse lately - more like avoiding it completely until the weather cools down. It's even been too hot to go swimming. They have been waiting until almost 6:00 at night before even attempting getting into the pool! So yes. Oppressive.

YOU KNOW WHAT???

I hate the top of this blog.

I hate bills.

I hate that it's so hot outside that I baked a dozen cookies IN the CAR today. (Although - who knew?)

I hate cigarrettes and that I never learned to spell that word.

I hate that all the sand hill plums I picked spoiled before I could make jelly out of them.

I guess I just have some weird discontentment going on. Everything sucks today.