Can we postpone Christmas?

Today for the 1st time in 3 days my head & chest are no longer my enemy. We are now working together as a team. The head is thinking and the chest is expanding without pain and vicious coughing.

Feeling better I decided to open the door to the "Christmas room". Actually the extra bedroom where I load all presents after Thanksgiving so I can sort and count and wrap. Promptly closed it and thought "OMG! how am I going to get done wrapping and sorting by Christmas eve?" I have decided to wait until New Years eve. Due to the economy Santa's reindeer went on strike and he just negotiated a new contract for 2009. There...I'm feeling much better now.......

Something to talk about

Next Thursday, December 18th the husband & I will celebrate 25 years of wedded bliss. Yep! We have been married 25 YEARS!!! 2-5! Holy sh1t what did we ever find to talk about? No, I don't get up and put my make-up on before he gets up like my mom did after she married daddy. No, I don't run the water when I pee like my mom did. Sometimes in the early years dinner wasn't on the table at 6 or 7...sometimes you had a sandwich.

I still wear sloppy t-shirts and jeans 'cause they are comfortable and when I do dress-up and wear pantyhose he really appreciates it. When we were dating he cracked the first fart, by accident, forgot I was sitting next to him....which meant open season for me! Yes, I was the first one to pull the sheet over his head! Naaa,naa!

We have been through a lot. Kids for one. I already had them when we started dating, kept them after we got married. His finest achievement? When he adopted the kids they changed the birth certificates. On daughters it shows "fathers age at time of birth" he was 15. LOL He is still proud to this day! Yes, I'm older, 2yrs and 2weeks. Not much, just enough to make him look good. In the early years I threatened divorce after one particularly ugly fight, he said "Fine, but the kids are mine and you can go". I had to think about it......LOL
They are HIS kids! People say my son looks just as much like him as daughter does me. They both think more like him than me. I think God knew what was going to happen in my 1st marriage so he stole a gene from husband and gave it to them.

We very rarely fight anymore. Not like we did those 1st few years. We would throw each other out then sabotage the vehicle so the other couldn't leave. I threw a giant trash can at him 1 time. Ahhh back in the day when I had a temper like a wildcat. He loved me anyway. He says I can piss him off faster than anyone else. Wonder why? Could it be the time I scrubbed the bathroom with his toothbrush, then forgot to put under the sink? He used it for a week before I noticed. Or when I had my own checkbook and I rounded up all the entries so I would always have more money than I thought. He spent 3 hours trying to balance the account before he realized what I had done. No more checkbook. Seemed perfectly normal to me, remember I'm a bookkeeper LOL!

His mom said our marriage was like Cyndi Lauper being married to Robert Young (for those who know who they are).
He is conservative. I have a mouth like a sailor, alot, he usually only says sh1t and damn. Daughter and I would yell at each other when she was teen, he spoke to her.
He says he is "damn lucky to be married to someone as caring, loving and special as me". I checked the marriage license to make sure my name was written there.
He remembers the day, the date, where we met, where we had our first date and when we had our first sex. I remember to buy beer at the grocery.
No, its not one sided. I adore the man. He has taught me patience, how to be (reasonably) politically correct and spoils me. I look forward to him coming home everyday. He understands when I cry for no reason and when I'm so angry I could spit nails. He always tells me he admires the fact that I would "defend my children, grandchildren and my beliefs to the bitter end, right, wrong or indifferent". I just figured I was bull-headed like my mom said.


We totally compliment each other. I'm pretty sure he is my soul mate. I can never imagine what my life would be like without my strongest supporter, the one person who totally accepts me for who and what I am and loves me because of it.
In honor of our 25 years I am so glad we did "find something to talk about".

Just a quickie

Been a little swamped lately but here are some catch-ups!

Two weeks ago I hurt my neck...MRI....bulging discs, one really bad. Had little to no use of left arm...I am left handed. Missed dancing at the Bradley Days show the culmination of all year long practicing. Today I have been released by my chiropractor and all is well. As he put it "you dodged a bullet, don't do it again."

G-son has lost two teeth! He calls and will only tell me not g-pop. Why? Because g-mom makes sure the tooth fairy comes to her house too. Last night our conversation went something like this:

Him: G-mom I lost another tooth, can the tooth fairy leave money at your house again?

Me: That's wonderful! I will leave her a note and ask her.

Him: Ask her for $2. I really need $2 this time.

Me: Why $2?

Him: Because its at your house and grandpa will give it to her.

Me: Well, we will see. The amount of money depends on how big the tooth is and how many you lost and how much money she left at your house.

Him: G-mom just tell her OK? Its a big tooth and she only leaves me change at my house. Just tell her g-pop will pay her back.

Me: OK, I'll tell her.

Meantime g-pop is cracking up over this whole thing because as he puts it "Now I have to payback the tooth fairy?"

I'm already for Thanksgiving! Yep, everything is prepared, turkeys are prepping for frying and I have Knob Creek bourbon and Canada Dry ginger ale sitting in the wings!

So HAPPY THANKSGIVING to everyone! Make sure you count your blessings, especially this year...its been rough on everyone directly and indirectly! If you can have your family and friends close to you then this is something everyone should be Thankful for, even if you don't like them. Above all else even the ones we really can't stand have taught us something....SELF CONTROL and PATIENCE!

Sitting down to pee....

Last Tuesday I went into the master bathroom to pee. We, meaning both husband and me use this bathroom 85% of the time. After all, it is "our" bathroom....unless of course it needs cleaning. Anyway, as I'm sitting there I glance over at the tub....hmmm why is there dirt on the floor, I just swept. Hmmmm what is that dark spot on the baseboard? Hmmmmmm. Get a damp paper towel to wipe up dirt....
WELL SH1T!!! there is a .50 piece size hole in the baseboard and its about 2-3" deep. Take husbands toothbrush and poke around in hole. Pieces of sheetrock and the back of the tile on edge of tub start falling out. DAMMIT! Hmmmm who do I know that can tell me what the F%^& this mess is? Call daughter, they have friend who is contractor he will come over and look at it. While on the phone with him he mentions it "could be" a burrowing spider, bee or beetle they sometimes get into walls then burrow out. Now as I'm poking around this hole, still using husbands toothbrush I wonder just how big this "thing" might be. Being a horror movie fan I have seen what spiders, bees and beetles can do. No way in hell am I sticking anything in that hole other than the husbands toothbrush.

We have had some problems with the handle in the tub since we moved in. We have had plumbers come out 2-3 times. Our neighbor told us the previous owner had said he was glad to "finally be rid of that bathroom". Gee, do you think you could have mentioned that before we paid for a plumber three different times?

The guys come out, look at my hole. Poke around in it then promptly start peeling off chunks of sheet rock. They pull the turn on handle off the tub. Well here is the problem... the valve has had a s-l-l-o-o-w-w drip forever. It has finally done enough interior damage that it was heading for the outside world. Ready to rot anything in its way to devouring my walls, baseboards and wall tile. Two weeks before Thanksgiving, one week before old stinky, smelly carpet in hall and three bedrooms being replaced and one week before my folks come up to visit before Thanksgiving. Are we having fun yet?

To make a long story short...knock out about 15 tiles in around the faucet handle in shower, replace valve, install new handle....$250.00.
Knock out sheet rock, pull off baseboard. $200.00.
total $500 inc. extra material...not bad. But wait theres' more.... husband has decided that we need to re-paint the bath and vanity area. We have to paint the new sheetrock anyway, miswell get rid of what he deems "that awful green" right? Sure you bet...gonna get right on that. This Saturday I am painting.

I have decided one very important thing....I am going to learn how to pee standing up! Yes sir. If I had been standing up my back would have been to the wall and like my husband I would never have seen the dirt or the hole. Maybe just maybe he would have discovered it first. Hell who am I kidding. He would have seen it, called for me and I still would have called the plumber and dealt with the repair man and I would still be painting on Saturday.

I'm just glad it was his toothbrush I used to poke around in that hole!

I'm going Bye-Bye

Heading to Busch Gardens today...gonna stay in a really nice hotel....gonna ride the rides, eat too much shit, drink to many beers and bitch about the fat cells I created while gone, I'm gonna bring a really sexy nighty and beg for sex every night!

Yep, I'm a going bye-bye and looking forward to it. Wish me luck on accomplishing everything I want to do, including the begging part!

A borrower I am

I am "borrowing" from Burgs' post about 6 quirky things about myself. The husband says I'm weird, anal retentive, menopausal, whatever it may be I like the word QUIRKY!

1) I can't stand people, adults or children who spit! Its' nasty, unsanitary and just plain gross. I have been known to slap people in the back of the head when they spit. When my son's friends were younger and they spit in front of me I would promptly and efficiently smack them in the back of the head. Even as adults and they forget...they automatically duck!

2) I hate people in the kitchen with me. You know the "what can I do to help?" people. Totally useless in my opinion. To be polite I always give them something like getting the silverware out or plates. But I secretly wish they would go away and play someplace else.

3) I don't like disorganization. Period! Make notes, keep a schedule do something but don't ask me to keep remembering everything for you! My boss is very good at being disorganized.

4) I hate to shop for shoes, clothing or going to the mall. I don't even need to discuss my reasons. Its just boring and crowded.

5) People who will not drive! They step on the brake every few feet, they refuse to use a blinker, they cruise along in 50mph traffic at 25 because they are looking for an address or they are talking on their cell. They ride in the passing lane on the highway doing 65 because 70 is "too fast" in their opinion. I'm not a road rage kind of driver, I'm more a "well holy shit what did I do to deserve this" kind of driver.
I want to go where I'm going, get there in one piece and wished you would do the same! If you have more to do other than drive your car, pull over, write it down, look it up, phone a friend whatever just stop doing everything but driving!

6) Religion....Yes, I believe in God. Let it alone after I generously answer your "do you believe in God" question then start on a diatribe of why I'm going to hell for not being a member of your church. Religion is a personal thing and frankly there are quite a few "Christians" that I wouldn't let near or in my house.

Well, now that I have alienated half the population, I guess I'm done.

Simple things for simple minds

I love kitchen gadgets. I guess its hereditary. My dad is an infomercial whore when it comes to kitchen gadgets. He tries it if its good, I get one or will be getting one, if its nasty, back it goes with a note saying why its a piece of sh1t. Thats my dad.

One of the other bloggers posted about a cool cooker thingy and I just had to have one. I searched for that thing and no where could it be found. Husband was tired of being dragged into kitchen stores every time we went some place...even if we went to the Circle K to buy beer it was "Oh, lets go by here and see if they have that egg-cooker thingy". Finally in desperation I emailed Manadajuice. It was a gift over 2 years ago! She didn't know where it came from! OH NO!!!! Dammit!

Then today daughter called right in the middle of payroll and said "Ma, Mandajuice posted where she got her egg cooker thingy." I stopped payroll and quickly logged in! THERE IT IS!!!! OMG! OOOO! Mandajuice came through, on a FRIDAY no less.
Immediately copied link and sent to daughter and husband pleading for Birthday (6wks), Thanksgiving, Christmas any kind of present just GET ME ONE!!!
Husband said "order it cause I love you". Now how about that?!
Now, I'm getting the.....are you ready.....KRUPS Egg cooker thingy!!! Hot damn! Life is certainly good for me. I'm so excited...simple things for simple minds I guess.

I'm adding Mandajuice's blog site and the egg-cooker thingy web site at the end of this post.
Her site is great, she is funny and real but she cooks and always posts her recipes and menus so you can see if they are eating anything you like or might want to try that week, with the recipe. She has an awesome meatloaf recipe hmmmm. Go check her out....
A special thank you and hug to my daughter who is always looking out for her ma, to Mandajuice for being nice and my husband for saying "Order it!"

http://mandajuice.typepad.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Krups-230-70-Egg-Express-Cooker/dp/B00005KIRS