I-Luv-Eeyore's blog

Cross posted among the many various blogs I now subscribe to.

Totally Terrible Things on Tuesday:

* This will be my last VOX post.
* There are some neighbors that missed the 'we're closing and you need to export your blog or it will all be lost forever more'.
* Today, 11 years ago today a large piece of my heart was buried---never to completely heal ever again.
* $660 to raise in Fund Raiser money so the cost of the Sugar Bowl trip does not have to come out of our pocket.
* Did I mention that I signed up to chaperone?
* That is another $660 to come up with---by January 1, 2011.
* VOX shutting down will leave an empty hole in my life. ~sigh~
* Still jobless...since, oh.....December. I keep saying that I'm going to go to the McDonald's by the house but I still haven't done it.
* Not only am I unemployed but I don't even have the energy to be a 'good' housewife'.
* The office which I had help getting cleaned up and decluttered in June is now a disaster area again.
* I have to get the office cleaned up enough to put an air mattress down on the floor. Jordan will be sleeping in the office while Pavani is here. (Pavani---one of Chris's team leaders from India...she will be here for three weeks doing some extra training.)
* I started the C25K program yesterday. I am horribly out of shape and could not complete day one which consists of a five minute power walk to loosen up the muscles and stuff. Then jog/run for 60 seconds fallowed by 90 seconds of walking and keep repeating until you have managed the walk/run ratio for 20 minutes. I couldn't even complete 10 minutes. I am so freaking out of shape. I'm not happy with myself right about now...oh, and my shins hurt today. ugh. I am such a big fat blob.
* Chris refuses to be a member of the band boosters. But, yet, he feels like he can complain about any and everything the band parents need to do. He claims that it is poor planning---but won't take part in making the whole business run smoother. gggrrrrrrrrr

Totally Terrific Things on Tuesday:

* I started the C25K program yesterday.
* The high school band was invited to participate in the half time show at the Sugar Bowl in January! How cool is that?
* I'm trying....
* Oh, the hummingbirds decided they like the feeders after all and have been playing dodge the hummer for a week. Took them several days to down one feeder but only one day to down the other one. It's fun watching them.
* M&Ms are good. Maybe not good for the diet. But they sure do taste good.

ah. I give up.

Today is Samuel's Angel day.
I am really missing my VOXers today.
:(

Part of an email sent out to all band parents

Buses will leave at 4:00 pm and be back home around 11:00 pm.  The buses are traveling with the football team and cheerleaders.  We will be escorted by Deputy Sheriffs.  It will be difficult for vehicles to follow safely, as being escorted, we will not stop for traffic lights. There are several parents driving.  Please stay together in a group, do not go alone.  The Ensley area is not a safe place to be alone.

Uhm.  *gulp*

Test Post

This is a test post so it is filled with a bunch of nothingness.  However, check out the green pepper I cut up for Chris's supper tonight.

No people were injured or harmed in the process of trying to figure out new things.  We are talking physical damage---brain damage is something else completely.

Cool.  I can insert a video.  Could we do that at VOX? 

Looks like we don't have the option of different fonts and/or colors.

I really hate having to learn 'how-to' use a new place to blog. Right now, tonight---I hate that I can't figure out how to 'follow' my fellow VOXers. The 'find people to follow' thing tells me that none of my Facebook friends have an account here. I know that is wrong because I have their new blog addy's. But sadly I am unable to find out where to put them so I can follow them.

Dang it! I think I'm just going to shut down and go to bed. :(

Things on Tuesday

Totally Terrible Things on Tuesday:

• The interview I had last Monday?  Yeah, I didn't get the job.
• It really sucks being told: "I chose someone else for the job."
• I am feeling a little overwhelmed by life right about now.  The list of things to do around the house and bills to pay just seem to keep getting longer and longer.
• I am really torn over whether I should be job hunting or taking care of some of the 'things to do'
• As summer keeps going on, more and more of my landscaping plants are drying up and dying.
• I am so far behind on reading and critiquing David's book.  He's quit sending me chapters and I don't blame him one little bit.
• Didn't get to go to the first football game of the season as it was over 2 hours away.
• That rash is back and this time it's spread a little more.  ugh.  I have no idea what set it off this time.
• I am having trouble fixing well rounded meals for Chris.  There are only so many vegetables that he will eat and unless everything else that I fix for supper is loaded with protein he can't have corn or potatoes.  (His favorites and they are high in carbs.  ugh!!
• Oh, the ear thing---yeah, I haven't gone to see the doctor, yet, but I'm thinking that it won't be very long and I'll have to go.  The ringing in my ears is reaching new levels of 'loud' and it makes following conversations extremely difficult. 
  
• Need to see the optometrist as well.  The need for bi-focals is also increasing on a daily basis.
• At 46 I'm already old and falling apart. LOL!  It's hard to believe that at one time in my life I wanted to live to be 112---if that still held true than I wouldn't even be close to halfway there...I'm glad I have given up on living to be so old.
  
• Really I'm ready for Monday, September 13...all should get back to 'normal' by then.  (I hope)
  

Totally Terrific Things on Tuesday:

• The weather yesterday and today was/ is near perfect.  Cloudy with temps in the 80's.  My perfect weather day is very windy with temps in the low 70's.
  
• Since the weather is so nice out, I should be out in it pulling up dead bushes and weeding the landscaping.
• The football game this Friday is the first home game.  I'm so excited to sit in the stands and see my boy out there on the field.
• I think Chris has lost weight since he has started watching what goes into his mouth.
• I reserve the right to come back and post more "terrific things"
  

Tuesday Things

Totally Terrible Things on Tuesday

• Still unemployed
• So sad two of the baby owls have died.  Hopefully the surviving two will make it to adult-hood.
• Still hot, not as bad as it has been.  Highs in the low 90's and lows in the high 60's is a big difference than highs near 100 and lows in the 80s.  Hopefully fall will come around really soon.
• Heat has killed several of my landscaping plants: two trees, almost all of the azaleas as well as some of the day lilies, pampas grass and I think our blueberry bush bit the big one, too.
• People that let their dog roam the neighborhood...so the dog can deposit a huge load of poop in my yard.  Keep your dog in your backyard---especially since you obviously are not a pooper scooper kind of person.
• Two teachers have said: "No homework until we get text books".  Teachers only have enough text books to supply the classroom (one per desk).  There aren't any extra and the budget doesn't seem to lend itself to purchasing enough books for the teachers to issue each student a text book.  So, the kids don't get homework and gosh forbid if the student needs the text book to study for a test---because they just don't exist. 
• One teacher to 38 students.
• The new high school was supposed to absorb many students from the county high school.  After the new school opened (this year) the student body was supposed to go from 2,000 down to 1,500---didn't happen our student body is over 1,680 and we have kids transferring from the city system to the county.
• The list of supplies the teachers need donated is long and getting longer: tissues, copy paper, dry erase marker, hand sanitizer.
  

Totally Terrific Things on Tuesday

• Had an interview yesterday.
• Have the promise of an interview---later on in the future.
• Jordan seems to love school this year. 
  
• Block scheduling seems to really fit the way he learns. 
  
• Two teachers have said: No homework.
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Things on Tuesday

Totally Terrible Things on Tuesday:

• I have avoided paying the bills, again.  We have the money, I just haven't made the time. 
  
• That procrastination just costs us more money.  (Edited on Tuesday evening:  the one bill I was so worried about---I thought it was late, really late---nope when I made the payment just now I found out I'm ahead on that bill by about a month.  :^)  I stressed for nothing.)
  
• I wish I knew how to kick procrastination out of my life---and keep it out.
• I want donuts.  Really, really want them....planning a trip to Sam's Club so I will pass the local Krispy Kreme and can stop to pick up some really yummy, really fattening, in no way shape or form good for you donuts: Chocolate Eclair, lemon filled, chocolate covered and regular warm glazed donuts.  All washed down with an equally unhealthy amount of chocolate milk.  <drool>
  

Totally Terrific Things on Tuesday:

• We've decided to find the money for both Jordan and I (me?) to go on the Sugar Bowl trip with the band.
• I am actively doing my best to kick my victims mentality out the door and not let it back in.  Which is hard because that mentality sneaks up on me and suddenly one day I realize I'm doing it, again.  No amount of complaining will make it go away---I have to actively patrol for the invader and keep it kicked out.
  
• Tomorrow marks the 18th year of Chris walking back into my life.*
• House is a wreck, but I'm working on changing that, too.
• High temperatures for the next few days are now in the lower 90's with upper 90's heat index; which beats upper 90's with triple digit heat indexes.  It was actually fairly nice out there this morning as I walked Chris to his car.

*  Another Wal~Mart related incident.  Extra short version of the how we met story---I fainted, Chris caught me and that is how we met.  Several years later (I was still working at Wal~Mart---I had very recently left my (then) husband and I got paged to answer the phone.  It was Ernie and he was asking/begging/pleading and coming this close >< to demanding, that I go back to him.  I stood there listening to him and hardening my heart against his pleas who happens to round the corner?  A recently graduated from college, Chris taking a lunch break to stroll around Wal~Mart---he heard me paged to the phone and came searching for me...and that was that.

Things on Tuesday

Totally Terrible Things on Tuesday:

• My baby started high school this morning.
• It is so freaking unhealthily hot outside
• Some of my bushes/trees in the landscaping are getting burnt from it being so horridly hot for so long.
  
• I have one little tiny taste bud near the tip of my tongue that is swollen thus making me extremely aware of it
• Every time I think of Jordan being old enough to be in high school I tear up.  Where did the time go and can I get a do-over?
• I thought I had a great interview last week, but I haven't heard back from Carol's boss to schedule a second interview.  ugh
  
• Chris and I would love to go but at $660 a person I'm not sure we will be able to...where in the world would we get $1980?  (Goes with Terrific Thing #1.)
  

Totally Terrific Things on Tuesday:

• The band has been invited to perform at the Sugar Bowl in January.  Parents and children are invited to attend. 
  
• After ten days of band camp out in the heat the band director has decided that it is too hot for the band to practice after school.  So, now they will be practicing from 6-8.  While this still isn't much better, it is better than being out there in the triple digit heat indexes.
• So, where did all of last weeks...YaYs go to?
  

Things on Tuesday

Totally Terrible Things on Tuesday:

• Jordan goes to pick up his Freshman schedule this afternoon.
• It is hotter this week than it was last week.  (Heat index this afternoon was 117.)
  
• Jordan officially starts high school next Tuesday.
• Shopping this coming weekend is going to be---well, not fun.
  

Totally Terrific Things on Tuesday:

• Uncle Sam came through and I am once again bringing money into the house via unemployment.
• Uncle Sam also paid the weeks I was without the unemployment.
• Since I managed to pay bills on just Chris's salary we once again have a little bit of 'back-up' money tucked away in case of emergencies.
• Jordan goes to pick up his Freshman schedule this afternoon.
• Jordan made it through band camp with heat index's in the triple digits.
• He did not sunburn and says he had a lot of fun learning and practicing.
• I have a job interview tomorrow at one of those payday advance loan places.
• Jordan officially starts high school next Tuesday.
• This coming weekend is 'tax-free' weekend.  The state and local governments agree to not charge sales tax on things that are deemed necessary for kids going back to school.  
• Tax-free weekend starts at 12:01am Friday morning.
• Jordan and I will be at Wal~Mart at about 11:00pm so we can pick out his school supplies and be ready to check out at 12:02 and thus beat most of the crowds.
• Have I ever told you that I am a 'planner'?  Well, I am.
• Have I ever told you that I am organized?  Well, if I did I was lying.  I find things best when the place is cluttered and unkempt looking.  If things are put away then I have trouble finding them.  I am currently looking for---well, dang, I forget.  LOL!!
• How's this for having more Terrific's than Terrible's?