Before I take myself and bow out for a while...

For those that have paid attention...and thank you...it doesn't look like the home ownership is going to happen. I need to try so much harder to get a job. I have other things in my household to tend to, also.

Take care all...and you know I'll be back.



btw...I heard this song on the radio tonight and I giggled cuz it reminded me of when I was in HS...although I was never as violent thinking as the one that wrote this song! AND I didn't seem to mind the other person's life so much. I enjoyed my life...then!

Every morning I open the curtains on the back door and look out. It's corny but I need to say 'hello' to my morning. ANd lately, I am greeted by Mr. & Mrs. Bunny and a WHOLE lot of birds...mostly sparrows but there is Mr. and Mrs. Cardinal, the grackel posse...then Scrawny and Baby Squirrel eventually show up. Mornings can be good. It was especially nice this morning to be greeted by the sun. 70 degrees at 7:15. It is going to be a humid one today.

My sister has a sort of dilemna. Nothing life threatening. But, she is due to have her 3rd daughter in about 8 weeks and they haven't been able to come up with a name they both like. They want something that goes well with the other two--Gabriella and Samantha. I don't DARE say anything to my brother-in-law about ANY name he mentions ever since the last one. When he had a list of names for Samantha, I told them NOT to choose Samantha becuz they called Gabriella 'Ella' and then they would be known as Sam-n-Ella. WHAT? For some reason he got REALLY mad at me! So, of COURSE, he chooses 'Samantha'.
ANYHOO, if you have any suggestions, please put them in the comment section and I will pass them on.

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Today was my daughter's last day as a 7th grader. She was up before the SUN! When I got up at 6 she was showered, dressed and had her breakfast already. So, we sat and watched some TiVo'd "My Boys". She also said, "Notice the jeans?" They were skinny with flaired bottoms. ok. "These are the ones I bought at the mall and you were mad becuz you said they wouldn't fit. I lost enuff weight and NOW they fit!" sigh. They looked nice but a 12 year old worrying about losing weight to fit into a pair of skinny jeans just seems wrong.

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Still haggling over that house. We asked to see it again today...wanted to see if we could detect any leakage in the basement after the storms. If it is still good and dry, I can possibly talk hubby into meeting these ppl at the price they countered with. He is bulking...I want it. Even tho I don't LOVE the house...it is one that we can fix the way we want AND if we get tired of it, when Bethany is done with school, we should be able to turn around and resell it without losing money. That's all I'm looking at. Keep the payments low. The realtor has also worked up some comparison sheets so that we can see if this house is selling at the right price. So far, it looks like it is slightly, ever so slightly, above the line. But, the bathrooms have been redone and the walls are painted all the colors I was going to paint them anyway...and if the waterproofing on the basement is good...it is worth it to me. Especially with the redone back patio. He wants to live out in the country with a bunch of land he won't use. I kinda like the neighborhood...close to everything. Can you GET any farther apart?

Well, back to the resume sending and job hunting.

Have a nice day!

This has been a LOVELY night...you could hear the sarcasm there if you actually heard me speak. The constant storms. Even when I DID finally go to bed and try to sleep I was woke up by high winds and large hail that was hitting the house. I'm surprised my son's car has survived the onslaughts. Yes, plural. 3 hail storms so far. And twice I was sure a tornado was coming! Horrible. And another 24 hours of this to put up with.

Our town is flooding. The WHOLE thing. It is so bad they had to shut down the freeway coming AND going into our town. I took my daughter to school and had to drive the car through 3 rivers...I took a longer route home to avoid the rivers. You could see the water rushing into the storm drains and flooding back up out from under the manhole covers. It was actually shooting up like a fountain from one storm drain by the school...straight up. The school parking lot was flooding...so why was there school? I told my daughter to not be surprised if they did the whole tornado drill thing today. And hopefully it is just a drill.

The pictures I put up of my flowers yesterday...yeah. They don't look like that now. My dianthus has been beat down by the hail. I am surprised the red hot pokers are still standing...and that my pansies are hanging in there.

The house that we put the bid in on...it is two doors down from one of those road floods. Wonder what their basement looks like this morning? two bedrooms down there and a rec room and the laundry room and a bathroom and storage. WE have water running in ours again. Coming in the same two places it always has. I'm sure it will be seeping in the third place. The stupid landlord paid some bucks to some idiot that was SO sure that he could fix the problem with digging up the yard and putting in some pipes and gravel. Never mind actually fixing the cracks in the wall behind the wallboard OR water proofing the basement itself. Band aid for a problem that needed stitches. BUT that's the landlord...HE is the reason I want my own home. Arse. Won't do any good to say anything. He gets mad at ME like it is MY fault for not liking it. And I get enuff of that kind of grief...

My day will be spent with the mop and towels. I suppose I should be looking for my swim suit. The air is hot and heavy...looking to get hotter. I will also be watching the skies. Listening to the radio for alerts cuz, well, we have SATELLITE tv and that is basically good for nothing in a storm.

I hope you all are having a good day...and that these storms turn into puppies instead of rabid dogs.

The storms are rolling in...the rain, the hail, tornado warnings. My daughter woke me up at 4 a.m. with a migraine. She seems to be sensitive to the change in the barometric pressure. I put her literally on ice with migraine meds. I can't sleep anyway. I don't have the migraine but I feel the pressure.


I have been talking about my Red Hot Pokers. Here is a picture of one if you have never seen one. It is just starting to get it's color. It gets brighter.


The other flowers are coming along great! I have potted some for easy moving.


Here is the house we are waiting on...the one in the middle.


Time to move on with my day. Hope you all have a good one!

I am not sure what it is...if it is in my genes...just a quirk of my personality...something that was ingrained in me as a kid...but I don't do well with uncertainty and the state of unrest.

I am floating in limbo land...too many things up in the air. House, job...I NEED stability. There are a few more personal things that are rather unstable...I know what you are thinking. And YES...I am unstable...becuz of THINGS.

And to top it off, I went out and took pictures of my flowers and my red hot pokers to post (for those that have never seen a red hot poker) and for some reason the freakin' scanner won't read my memory card. My DAUGHTER downloaded HER pictures and now it won't work. phft.

We wrote up another purchase agreement on a house...in our neighborhood. Did it this evening. Now we sit and wait. IF we run into trouble on THIS one...I quit. I am going to be hanging out at the local appliance store snatching large cardboard boxes and fashioning a most amazing palace from them.

Still nothing on a job. AAAAHHHHHH!!!!

We had thot about taking a short vacation out west but...my mother pointed out something to me. She said that with the house hunting and a possible move (yeah...right) AND looking for a job plus my kids taking turns at summer school that I really shouldn't try to overload my anxiety anymore with trying to get ready for a vacation. I am sure she is right. We can try it next summer. And take two weeks...do a great sweep of things...start out up on a northern route and revisit Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse Monument...then head for Yellowstone Park and the Grand Tetons...head down towards Denver and then farther down to the Grand Canyon. I would also love to have time to stop in St. Louis on the way home...I really loved that place! Can I move there?

Kids...listen to your mamas...most times they KNOW betta.

And, of course, with my kids having their social lives and the dramas that go with them... . My son and his gf are having a 'spot' that I am sure they will work out themselves BUT tonight HER mother called my son and yapped for 20 minutes...about it and them and yada yada! I won't even go THAT far. If he wants advice he will talk to me but I am not otherwise sticking my nose in. sheesh.

My daughter, however is another story. She NEVER asks for advice so I HAVE to stick my nose in once in a while. She is too much like me at that age...as far as keeping things to myself, that is. She is absorbed with 'popularity' and having millions of friends, however, whereas I just had my little group and I really didn't want more than that. Popularity was not something I sought. It was too embarrassing to me. I knew what made me happy then and that's all I cared about. I LIVED in the band/chorus room...singing and playing my instruments. Life was good. She just is ALWAYS on the go.

She got in the van after school and reeled off all the things she had planned for Friday and Saturday. She will be sleeping all day Sunday.

My mother asked me when we were going to come up and visit again (she hasnt' seen the kids since Christmas!!!!) I told her I would have to check their social calendars.