It's a marathon, not a sprint.

So, I am on summer layoff! Got laid off last thursday and while i'm always happy for it I get kind of depressed too. But I get depressed when it's time to go back too. So, yeah.

Been kinda busy busy. Stacey's mom passed away about 2 weeks before Mother's day. He got a call from his sister after the nursing home she was in found her unresponsive. He was mostly worried about his sister and how she was taking it.

Some of you know we had some major problems with her when we lived with her but Stacey had gotten back to talking and visiting with her a few years ago. He took the girls down to see her before Christmas. I was never against them seeing her or her seeing them but I did not go with them, I just had Stacey drop me off at the mall for the few hours they visited her.

I think a few years ago I just mainly felt sorry for her, that she felt she had to do the things she did. (I don't think I ever mentioned how after she put us out, she and J had fights and she ended up putting her out too, before she finished High School).

I did attend visitation and the funeral to support Stacey and his sister. It was kind of uncomfortable though no one was mean. Southern people if nothing else are polite, especially at funerals. I'd never met most of the people there since they didn't agree to Stacey and I being together but hey, it's been 17 years. They'll get over it.

So there was that and while i'm keeping an eye on Stacey, he's good at not showing his sadness. *side eyes my husband* It's frustrating.

He's also still losing weight from his operation in October. He's really excited about it and tells me he does feel a lot better. He's lost about 130 pounds. About a month ago his doctor took him off the 'diabetes potential' list of things they look for.

Haven't planned much for my summer, except getting back to writing. I have two stories ready to post but haven't felt like posting them. Hopefully I'll get to that this week.



Recent conversations with K:

K: Oh, when you wash my mouthgaurd there might be some blood.

Me: Some blood?

K: *proudly* I got kicked 3 times in the mouth!

Me: Uh, okay. Are you alright?

K: Yeah, I'm fine.

Me: *It's not a spot of blood or a drib drab, it's more. I wash it in very hot water.*

Before that convo she did win 1st place in her age at a small tournament at her Tae Kwon do place. I watched her spar with higher level belts and stuff. She loves it.

From here.

I cannot get livejournal at work. Oh woe is me.

I try to look busy but our group had to stuff envelopes one day and then another day put stamps on envelopes since we are so slow. Seems like old times.


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How is Sci Fi making a movie about Ba'al but not having the hot guy who played Ba'al on Stargate be in it? Oh sci fi you fail in so many ways.



Jeffrey Dean Morgan is still hot.

Yesterday morning my 3yr old and 6 yr old made me breakfast. This consisted of raisin bran crunch with no milk but in a bowl with a spoon.(we were out of milk) and a french toast eggo thing that the oldest fixed in the toaster.

Oh, and syrup, lots of syrup. The entire fork was sticky and the food was sorta cold but I thanked them and ate some of the french toast. Did I mention the syrup?

It was very nice and thoughtful though and touched me, that they got together and made me breakfast.

Tuesday, took care of registering the oldest for 2nd grade and went to fill out a application with my old company. Then went and toured some daycare places that had pre-k programs.

Zoe is very excited about school and seems less stressed about seperation anxiety than I am.

On a good note, the two places we visited the per weekly prices for a full time care were not bad. Less than we expected (about $150/wk 6am-6pm) and then K's school has an after school program that's about $40 bucks a week.

Exciting times!

ljaqua looks very cool. Almost like a screen saver and then you can click on different subjects. Might be addictive.

Oh and cute cake. Me and sanders agreed that we'd just use yellow cake mix and cocoa powder(with a little sugar added to the powder) instead of from scratch.

I made pineapple upside down cupcakes earlier this week. They turned out pretty good for my first try. Not too sweet and very yummy. I made myself sick the first night after I took them out of the oven by eating about four of them.

Off to work on my ficathon story and other things.

Yesterday my three year old, Zoe, served me imaginary tea. When I asked her what flavor it was she smiled so pretty and told me it was 'Purple berry pie' tea. I told her it was good and we had about five cups. Before each cup we gently knocked the plastic pink and purple cups together in silent toast.

Father's day went okay. Hubby's gift is not here yet from overstock.com. But I did take a pic of the girls holding a sign telling him they loved him and then had it framed. He took it to work to put on his desk. He knew about it before hand because Keyanah told him all about it. She loves to babble and amuses me so much.

Zoe is wild and full of laughter. She knows her own mind and is not afraid to speak to you about it. When we're at restaurants and the waiters asks us for our drink orders she is the first to yell, "I wan sweettea!"

When I tell her she's a chucklehead she puts her hands on her hips and tells me she is zoe, not a chucklehead and that i'm the chucklehead.


I really will miss her this fall if everything goes according to plan and we get her into a pre-k program and I go back to work.


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Links I like that I think you will like:

"I made these with saltines and oh man, delicious"

"Great site and great links to other interesting things"

Had a great Mom's day. Went shopping, bought some clothes and then on Sunday, went to breakfast and later for dinner, hubby made some lasagna for me.

K gave me a drawing of her shadow and a little cute magnet she'd made at school. I need a memory box or a bigger one. All the stuff she makes for me is scattered in different places.

This has been making me giggle since yesterday:






I make it a point to go to 'I can has cheezburger' site about twice a day. It makes me smile.

Back to washing dishes and staring at a lump of clean clothes that won't magically fold itself.

New computer all hooked up! Still got stuff to move from other computer and will have to learn about this one.

Cute thing wot my three year old did:

Other day she was running back and forth in front of me while they were outside and everytime she got near me she'd wink at me. Just one quick eye lid going down. It was so cute and adorable.

Just now she wanted to watch some Superman, batman as she calls our Justice League unlimited dvds and the WB music came on and she yelled, "Supernatural!"

I'm still giggling over that. She's such a character and I will miss having her around all day next fall as we are planning to get her into some sort of pre-k type school or daycare.

K is feeling better. She's been sick off and on for the past few weeks and she had a fever yesterday morning so no school. She felt better as the day wore on and this morning she was feeling a lot better. They have city or state wide tests today and I didn't want her to miss them.

I have some stories done and hope to have something postable in a day or two.