Out of Control!

I can now fit in my pre-pregnancy jeans again!!! Goal met so I had to set another one. Went out and got myself a personal trainer...what am I thinkin?

New Door Color

Painted the front door...much better. Now just don't look at the crappy yard. I need to start mowing more often...obviously!

He's Back!

I got my boy back finally. He was gone for 14 days and it was too long! A week is good but 14 days is a loooonnngg time! When you are kid free your phone rings a lot more to go out and I am exhausted!

Jayke had a great time in Florida. He played golf, played in the gulf (he didn't even mind getting his head wet!), went to the Mote Marine where he pet stingrays and held a sea urchine, he went to the bird sanctuary and got a pelican tatoo. He ate a ton of chicken, mom says that is what he wanted for every meal. He swam in the pool almost every day where he was a hit with the old people and he made one new friend named Price. Jayke says Price really liked him! But of course...who wouldn't?!

He came home with a nice tan and a new haircut then it was off to soccer.



Since we moved up an age group it is a little harder for the kiddo now. He hasn't scored any goals yet but he keeps trying. As you can see from the picture, most of the kids are a lot bigger than Jaykeb. Maybe in the fall it will be like it was last summer where Jayke was one of the bigger faster kids. Until then he is just out there running as fast as his short little legs will carry him...which is usually about 10 steps behind everyone else!





I'm not going to list everything I did while he was gone...lets just say I had fun and kept busy. I have found some friends on Facebook who I hadn't seen or talked to for 20 years. It's funny how all that time can go by but when you see the person again it's like you just saw them yesterday.

I'm trying to get back to taking pictures more frequently again and hopefully that will lead to blogging on a regular basis once again. Don't hold your breath though!

He Did What?

Okay...I don't know who my anonymous commenter is but here is your Easter post you requested. I meant to put this up the other day but Facebook is consuming me.

I wasn't going to color eggs this year. Seems like such a waste. Jayke doesn't get creative with them so they are all the same...which to me, is crazy. You know me, I want to do something fancy with them not just drop 'em in a glass with one color. Anyway, Ryan, Angi's husband gave me the biggest guilt trip over it so I colored eggs with The Boy.









After we were done and the mess was cleaned up, I was glad I did it. Jayke colors them then immediately eats them. Another reason it is a waste to me. We don't even do anything with them. I've been eating boiled eggs now all week. Good for the diet, but not much fun.





The Easter bunny came to our house of course. He hid exactly 8 eggs. I guess that is all he could find in the garage in all our boxes that are still packed. The Boy didn't care. They had chocolate coins in them and he didn't count. He had plenty of stuff in his Easter basket to occupy him. Shortly after that Oma came over with stuff for both of us. She doesn't seem to get the concept of giving me my stuff in a basket from the Easter Bunny so that The Boy doesn't catch on. I got a garden hose, a sprayer for the hose, paper plates(yes, paper plates) and a picture for my new house. Weirdest Easter basket ever. The best part was that it was delivered in spurts throughout the week.

She told Jayke she got me paper plates and trash bags for Easter and he had a fit. Told her that wasn't a good gift and she wasn't giving that to his MOM! That's my boy...always lookin out!





After that it was off to my dad's for the big hunt! I requested the eggs be filled with $100s but I guess dad didn't like my idea. They had quarters in them instead. I thought there would be a whole lot more pushing, shoving, and possibly even a dip in the freezing pool out of the crowd who were there for the festivities but everyone was pretty well behaved.

We each had an egg with our name on it and we were told only to take our own egg and all the others were fair game. I guess we really let my dad down by not taking each other's eggs and causing an all out war. Only one of us got shoved in the mud. Dad said we must finally be growning up. I think it was more like the yard was big enough for us all to be in our own area!

I won the hunt with 18 eggs, one of which I gave to a screaming boy who wanted it, making me tie with AJ. Our eggs with our names on them had $50 bills in them so I was close to getting my hundred. After the egg hunt we spent the afternoon shooting foam bullets at a target held in front of my sister's head. Best Easter gift Jayke ever got was that target and two guns. We were obsessed! We even let Jayke play with it a little.




Jaykeb got some gardening tools from the Easter bunny and went right out to work in the garden with them. I'm just waiting for him to dig up some of Dad's flowers and all hell to break loose!



So, there is your Easter update. I may have another one later about some of our outside pets at our new house and maybe even some more pics of the house. That is MAYBE...so whoever my anonymous commenter is can keep their shorts on. I will get around to it!

One quick story about The Boy before I head to Lowe's for MORE paint. Jayke went to Florida with Oma and Opa on Tuesday. They will be gone for two weeks and yes, I want him to come home already. Anyway, I called them Tuesday afternoon to make sure that they didn't leave him at some rest stop along the way. Afterall, this was going to be his longest road trip yet and he gets pretty cranky just going to Anderson to my dad's which is 30 minutes! Mom answered and said he was still a passenger but hanging on by a thread. The movie player wasn't working which I'm sure any parent knows is DISASTER! Apparently The Boy had been entertaining himself by spitting spit balls through a straw at them from the back seat and better yet, he took it upon himself to CUT MY MOM'S HAIR!

Now, you may ask yourself, why did he have scissors in the car? That was my first question. I guess he wanted to brush my mom's hair so she gave him her travel bag to get the brush out. He was just brushing away and then she noticed he was doing something else. CUTTING HER HAIR! She had a pair of manicure scissosrs in her bag and he just got them out and started cutting.

I called back later that night to make sure they hadn't killed him yet. They had made it to Valdosta, GA. That would make the next day a shorter drive. They had also gone straight out and bought a movie player, a bottle of bourbon, and Zanax! Don't worry. I called Wednesday afternoon and all was fine. They had made it to Florida safely and were already trying to drown Jayke in the gulf.

Home At Last!

Okay. I finally took a couple of pictures of the new house. When I say a couple that is exactly how many I took. I don't have enough finished to take anymore. We are still stripping TONS o wallpaper and painting. There are floors that need replaced which wouldn't be that bad except we have pulled up what was there and now I'm living with the not-so-desirable stuff that was underneath that. I did get one light fixture but still have atleast three more to do. I have gotten most of the horrible green front door painted. I had it almost done, had to go pick up Jayke, then it got too cold to paint again. Maybe I will get that done yet today....wouldn't hold my breath if I were you though.

So Here is a picture of Jayke on the couch looking oh so happy to be photographed. I had to threaten to take away all his trucks and cars if he didn't sit for the picture. Forgot to bargain for the smiling face though. Decorating style is completely different for this house than it was in the last. I know the picture doesn't show much but you can get an idea. We are still painting this room too.




And another view of the toooooo white room. Can't wait to get it painted.




And here is my wall of Jayke in my new office...




Just put this room together Saturday morning. I still have another couple of pieces of furniture to put in it so I only photographed the one wall. There is a blank spot in the middle where two smaller photos will go when I find them.


We are glad to be in. It's weird doing all the normal things again like grocery shopping, laundry, and running the sweeper. Not sure if I really thought this move thing through all the way. I had it made in the chore department before!

We got the dogs moved in last weekend and I've never seen a happier little boy. The first day we were here he ran up to me and asked me in a super excited, yet totally serious voice, if we could live in this house forever and NEVER have to leave it. I told him we'd be here a long time he didn't have to worry about it. He no longer wants to be at my mom's house all the time. He will go there for an hour or so then ask to come back home. He sleeps in his own room without debate even though it is clear on the opposite side of the house from mine. He has also taken it upon himself to be totally in charge of all aspects of the dogs. He feeds and waters them everyday and also goes out and pooper scoops the yard. He made the phone call to my mother all on his own to please bring the pooper scooper over from Grammy's the other day. He means business!

He is loving climbing the tree out in the front yard too. I found him with a bunch of stuff that he dragged out of the garage piled up under it this afternoon so that he could climb it without my help. Not sure if piling up suitcases and boxes under the tree is the best idea in the world but it seemed like a totally normal "boy" thing for him to do and he hasn't been able to do that until now. He can come and go as he pleases and he does. In and out all day long.



As for me, I'm just getting used to watching tv in a living room on a couch instead of laying in bed. I've spent the past 16 months in bed it seems like. Now I don't have time to lay around and I'm glad. Having something to do is much better.

Cheater Cheater

I admit, I'm a cheater. I've been cheating on my blog with Facebook. I can't help it. It's addictive. Being able to snoop on all your old friends from years past and present...and old boyfriends...snicker. I had a someone contact me today who I haven't seen since I was in Girl Scouts with her. I'm always shocked when people remember me for some reason. I remember them so why wouldn't they remember me. I'm just weird that way I guess.

Anyway, thought I should explain my further absence from the bloggity blog. We are finally moving Saturday morning!!! I get the house Friday. Hoping to slap some paint on the bedroom walls Friday evening so we can move the beds in Saturday. I will TRY to update after we are in. Busy busy!!!

Look What I Bought!

Well...here it is. Please ignore the front door color. I will be changing that ASAP!!! We close on March 10th. Just in time for Jayke to go to kindergarten round up at his new school.

The Par Tay

Finally! Pictures. In my defense I have one puter with a virus and the other with a sick cd rom which has caused me to not be able to get it hooked up to the router. Enough with the excuses and on to the par tay!

As you can see by the picture of the cake I went all out as usual. Probably...no definitely...went overboard. Oh well. Your one and only kid only turns 5 once right? We had games which they really didn't care about because we also had a bounce house. Pretty much I could have thrown the bounce house in the middle of the room and forgot about everything else. Angi brought over her hotdog roller thingy and we had hotdogs cooking carnival style the whole time. Dad brought his big popcorn popper but I decided it was so big and heavy that we really didn't need it.




Somehow the moms all ended up taking over the little sunglasses that were meant for the kids. I managed to get my friends to stand still for a minute to get a picture. I didn't have as much luck with the kids.



This was Jayke's first pinata. He got the first swing but didn't crack it open. The bigger kids ended up bus ting it later. Mike and Ryan held a board with the pinata in the middle. I told Mike I should get to go first. After all I would be blindfolded with a big stick...

Jayke got lots of presents and I think he had lots of fun even if he was a little intimidated when all the girls started showing up. We don't have many boy friends. There were a total of 3 boys there...including Jayke. All the sides of the family came. I was so busy with kids I didn't get to talk to anyone though unless it was regarding a game or where something was. When the kids started leaving I was ready to bust out the margarita machine! Next year it's going to be Chuckie Cheese's and done!

A New Game

My puter is sick...she has a virus. Hence the lack of blogging. She is going to Anderson for the week to see Dr. Gregg. He is going to give her a lobotomy and restore her to the day she was born so hopefully she will be as good as new soon and I will be back to blogging. Might use the laptop in the mean time if I can get that biotch working correctly. I have lots of b-day party pics to upload and edit. Yes, I survived and with the exception of forgetting a knife to cut the cake it went off without a hitch. Shocking, I know.

So here is a tid bit to tide you over until the pics are posted.

Jayke was at dad's last Monday and they were doing their usual Monday routine of eating poptarts and watching Las Vegas. Dad told me the following conversation was had when all of a sudden Jayke popped up after hearing something on the show that got his attention..

Jayke: THAT'S the game I wanna play!

Dad: What's that?

Jayke: HIDE THE SALAMI!!!

Dad: (laughing hysterically) Okay well go ask Meemaw if she knows anything about that game.

Amazing what they allow to go out on network television these days....maybe Las Vegas isn't the best show for a 5 year old to be watching. Jaykeb just thought it was a new fancy version of hide and seek. I think he better stick to Spongebob and his infomercials that seem to entertain him so well. So far he is totally impressed with the space bags, the pan that you flip the whole pan and don't have to use a spatula, and the hangers that allow you to hang way more clothes in your closet. He told me he is getting me spacebags for Christmas because they, "keep your things clean and dry!" He will usually go into a full fledged recitation of the annoying infomercial. If it isn't bad enough that I have to be assaulted by my television with these loud obnoxious commercials now I have a live and in person version in my own room! At least I know if the rocket scientist gig falls through he has a backup!

It's a Comin'!

It's that time! Planning The Boy's big birthday bash! I'm trying to do an indoor carnival this year complete with bounce house and carnival games. We will see how this goes. His birthday is in two weeks and I just started working on it today. Normally...before last year that is...I would have had this all bought, planned, organized, strategized, etc, a month ago! My life would be so much easier if his birthday were in the summer. Pool party at dad's and I'm done.

Don't Touch The Hair!

Jayke has some hair issues. Basically the back of his head is one big cowlick. I can't do anything with it unless I keep it buzzed or wash it every morning. He is against the washing every morning and basically I am too in the winter. What am I saying, I don't ever wash it because we don't have a bathtub up here so he does all his bathing at my mom's. That is beside the point though and a different post. Back to the hair....

I try to let it grow out some in the winter which is when we have the issues. I've decided that he is just going to have to have it sprayed down and moussed everyday now. He is thrilled. We had a big arguement about it and as you can see by the picture he is armed and ready for when I come at him with my styling products.

I should have written this yesterday....oh well, here goes...

I have had two requests from friends now to update this thing. They may not be "Commenters" but at least I know someone reads this other than my family who are required by law.

Yesterday was my one year anniversary at my wonderful place of employment. Yeah rah. I so should have written this yesterday when I was amused with the place instead of ready to quit, but anyhoo...Since it was my anni I promptly went to Jessica's office when I got there to ask where my balloons, streamers, and marching band were. Afterall, an employee like me should be celebrated right? Right! She told me happy f'n anniversary and went back to what she was doing. Shes just sweet like that. I smiled waved my favorite finger at her and strolled on down the hall.

I went to my office and dove right into my work like I do every morning...snicker...when all of a sudden the owner popped in. She handed me something and told me it was the best she could do and happy anniversary. I was so touched that she would take time out of her busy day, doing whatever it is she does in that mess of an office of hers, to come bestow a gift upon me in celebration of me gracing her with my presence for an entire year. So, what did she give me you ask? What does the bestest employee eva get on her anni? Well let me show ya....





You may be asking yourself what the hell is that? I totally would have been too if I hadn't made floral arrangements for ten years before I became a slave to the medical billing world. That, my friends, is a Christmas bulb which has been floral taped to a wooden floral pick that she pulled out of the arrangement in the board room. You gotta love a boss with a sense of humor like that! No one gets anything for their anniversary cept a review but I got this special gift. Something no one else got or probably ever will!

I immediately called Jessica to tell her what a smart a** she is. She didn't know about the special gift but had sent an email to Jill about my inquiring about my marching band and streamers. Of course, she thought her creativity in coming up with the appropriate show of appreciation was outstanding. I have to admit it was pretty funny and I felt special even if it was the two of them laughing at me. Like she told me Monday, whilst glaring at me over her tissue,..."I just joke with you because you're the only one I can talk to like that and not find crying in their office later!" I can feel the love people.


I may have a Christmas update someday soon. That will be after Sara has me make contact with Miss Cleo to find out what my future may hold...

Green Christmas

This is what it looks like when Dad goes GREEN for Christmas!



...the ones that wouldn't fit under the tree. The ones under the tree are as green as these are. I think they were just being tight and didn't want to buy any gift wrap!

Baking With P'pa

Jaykeb has been helping my dad with his anual Christmas baking. Every year my dad starts baking weeks before Christmas and bakes enough to supply a small village with cavities. Since Jayke goes there on Mondays and Tuesday he volunteered, possibly by force, to help. I'm getting conflicting stories. Jayke is telling me they made him help, mom and dad are saying he wanted to. I'm guessing it was both. He wanted to help in the beginning, got tired, and they made him finish. Whatever it is you can see by the pictures that he was obviously enjoying himself!

He is Getting Creative!

Jayke is trying a new approach to getting his gifts early this year. This afternoon while at my dad's house he decided he wasn't going to go there for Christmas. Started telling them he didn't want to spend the night before Christmas there. I guess he thought if he told them he wasn't going to be there they would give him his gifts today. It was a nice try but unfortunately for him they have been around for a while and were on to him.



One of my favorites...Christmas 2007. My little elf.

Another One Bites The Dust

I didn't get a chance to sniff around for that stolen lotion. Crazy Coffee Crack girl no call/no showed on Thursday and was fired Friday morning. It was coming whether she did that or not though. Friday she called the office 10 times disguising her voice and pretending she was different patients trying to get our supervisor to talk to her. She must have forgotten we have caller ID. I'm sort of depressed about it. Who will we have to entertain us now?

On the upside of the firing, we now have a position available and I have a friend who needs a job. I've already talked to Jessica about it and on the way out of work yesterday I grabbed an application for Angi. I told Jessica I wouldn't talk to Angi anymore than I talked to Holly or Sara at work so she wouldn't need to worry about that plus we have worked together at two other jobs in the past and it wasn't an issue. We will see what happens.

Jayke went to see Santa yesterday...this was the pic I snapped with the phone. He likes going to see Santa and the Easter Bunny now. I used to have to bribe and beg him. He hopped right up there, got his picture taken, and told Santa he wants trucks for Christmas. I was wondering if he was going to say pillows. He has been telling everyone he wants pillows for Christmas which took me a while to figure out why. He is into making "nests" on the floor with blankets and pillows to sleep in. I guess he has decided he needs more pillows for his nests and Santa is the way to get them. The Santa was really good this year he even had a real beard. If I get around to it I will scan the real thing next time I'm at my dad's and post it, I know the quality of this picture is terrible.

What's That I Smell?

We are doing a Secret Santa thing at work which I thought would be fun since I've never worked anywhere that does that. I was super excited that I drew someone who I really like too. It's always easier to buy gifts for someone when you like and know them. We started last Friday and all has been going well until today.

I snuck up to the front with my little gift bag in hand this morning and dropped off my gift at the front desk when no one was looking. We can put the gifts any where in the building which makes it kind of fun cause you never know when you might run across a bag of goodies with your name on it. Mission accomplished, I went back to my office.

We had a meeting today, which the owner holds randomly. It was the same ol stuff...don't use the phone for personal calls, don't talk to your friends at work, don't run space heaters if you aren't in an approved office...yadda yadda yadda. Would have been a totally normal meeting except for the new employee. She is nuts. Plain and simple. She kept interupting the meeting very rudely for random things. She even started off by asking to use the restroom right as our owner was beginning. Now we have had over a week's notice for this meeting and had two reminders today. She surely could have taken care of her business before the meeting but oh well.

When she came back from the bathroom was when the fun began. She sprinkled a little something in her coffee out of the palm of her hand(no one knows what), proceeded to stir it with her ink pen, slurped the coffee off her pen, then started scrubbing it with a napkin while we all sat and watched her in shock and horror. (I know you are probably wondering at this point what this has to do with the Secret Santa business...hold on...I'm getting to it). The meeting continued with everyone watching and waiting to see what she would do next. There was some beating on a tablet because her pen wouldn't work and many rude pointless interuptions. When the meeting was over the office was nuts...everyone was in each other's offices talking about her behavior.

That is when I went into Sue's office to hear what she had to say about the whole thing, afterall, Sue is training her. While I was in there I pretended to want to see what her Secret Santa had given her...I'm her Secret Santa. She picked up the bag that I had just given her and it was empty! It had had a bottle of Bath and Body Works lotion in it. Not the tiny sample size the large bottle! Gone. We both looked all over, the whole time with me trying not to give away that I am her santa and getting madder by the moment. We never found it.

Now I'm not pointing any fingers...ahem, whacko from the meeting earlier...but we have only had one other instance of theft in the office and that girl was fired months ago. Turns out whacko from the meeting has also been going around asking to borrow money from everyone and randomly goes into people's offices and asks to see what they got from their Secret Santa. She was also caught in Sue's office earlier that day rummaging through things. When asked what she was doing she got flustered and left in a hurry. Again, not pointing any any fingers...ahem, lotion stealing whacko!

Tomorrow I will be literally sniffing around her office and if the heifer smells like Winter Candy Apple I'm going to tackle her.

Not So Cute on YOU!

Here is The Boy in one of his new hats. He saw these hats and had to have them. Probably figure if he picked his own it would save him from having his head stuffed into whatever I picked which, it turns out, he hated what I picked.

He got two of these. This one and a black and white one with skulls on it. We went over to Oma's and lo and behold SHE HAS ONE TOO! I might add that hers is not nearly as cute as Jaykes. In fact, it is down right hilarious. We all took turns trying it on. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera or my phone with me. I promise to go back over and try to get pictures of the clan all sporting Oma's styling cap she picked up in the men's department at Meijer. What is really funny is she doesn't even go outside so we aren't sure why she bought it!

Just contemplating what death by fireplace would be like...

Very few will understand this...stop laughing mom!

Mommy, do you want to know what Oma got you for Christmas?

No Jaykeb I don't.

Mommy, are you sure you don't want to know because I really want to tell you.

No Jaykeb, Oma doesn't want you to tell me.

Okay Mommy but I'm pretty sure you're gonna hate it!


Well Now I just can't wait to see what kind of crap the woman has bought me this year! Joking of course...sort of...