2005-03-27 - 10:16 a.m.

HAPPY EASTER!!!!!

I have been soooo slack!! I promise I will take some time soon to play catch up. Had to share Easter Morning with all.....

I call this one "Why my children will be in therapy a long long time".

"Can we say CANDY?!?!"

To be continued this week.....famous last words......

2005-02-19 - 4:51 p.m.

When birthdays and Mexican Restaurants collide!!

2005-02-18 - 8:53 a.m.

Too long...it's been too long. Yes, I still have internet. It's the time to surf it that I am lacking. Yet, I am making the time today because of ever loving fans....all 5 of you LOL.

Today is my hundred and eleventh birthday! Ok, while I am not hobbit old, I am one year older. But I am at the point where one year older doesn't really phase me for sad, or happy. Here I am. With the belly button God gave me on my birth day. A little stretched out and worn, but still hanging around.

Valentine's Day was great. Nothing says love more than a big solid chocolate fish! Now if we could only have gotten it to sing!

My mother is a fixin to move soon. I am glad she is getting into a better neighborhood. Not that she lived in the projects or anything, but some of the people that hailed from her FoxCreek apartments, hmmmm, were colorful characters. Not in the good way. So she is moving on up to renting a bottom half of a house. In classic mom mode she is going through the apartment discussing stuff with the landlord. He starts in on how the showerhead needs to be changed. So then mom starts in on how she likes the detachable heads so she can get a better clean.....everywhere. IF you get what I mean. Blushing ended that conversation I am sure. So last week my Grandmother was in town helping mom get packed and moved while mom worked. Well, mom comes home one night and Grandma tells her everything the landlord was doing while she was over there....including installing a new showerhead! And to quote Grandma, "It was a NICE one too!!".

Another high point of the last few weeks.......I finally got to sing at church. I was a little nervous. It worked out to about 1500 spread out over three services. But everyone says I did a wonderful job. It was kind of a lesson in be careful what you wish for. I think so many people had no idea I sang at all, it was kind of a shock. So since I work at the church, everyday I am being told how wonderful I sing. Now, I am a peron who deals with ego issues in the first place. So I am really having to watch how big my head gets (enter big fat head jokes from Mr. Wonderful here), and just continue to pray on where God would like me to take this.

Mr. Wonderful is still searching for employment. Those out there praying, please continue. But he is getting a truckload done at the house. Taupe at last! Taupe at last! My green hallway is now taupe at last!!!! Along with some other rooms:
The original orange living room

OK I have not made the bed yet, but it is still chocolate heaven

Pretty as Pink for my daughter

And if you can see (we are not done yet) a nice light blue for the bathroom

Low Point for the last few weeks: Getting this stupid stupid stupid stupid piece of paper signed for Citi Financial, by Mr. Wonderful's ex-boss. We need it in order to file the unemployment claim and not have payments for 6 months. But every time we try to turn this sucker in....something is not right and they send us out the door again to talk with the ex-boss! Very Frustrating!!

High Point for the last few weeks: Having the family I do. We are always there to lift each other up, call each other on our crap, and most of all just love. It doesn't get any better than that :)

2005-01-29 - 6:24 p.m.

The Low Points of Life

* Eating a bead off the floor because I thought it might be a Nerd. (side note: we haven't had Nerds in this house since Halloween?)

* Being so "out of it" that I pour Diet Coke onto my freshly sliced Florida orange.

* Filling up an ice cube tray that already has ice cubes in it.

* The cat peeing on my sneakers in the closet, having no other shoes to wear, and smelling like cat pee at the homeschool group. (another side note: if you come to visit me soon and I have 2 cats instead of three...this is why)

* Smiling at homeschool group every time someone said, "Do you smell something?" Whoever smells it, does not always do the dealing, FYI.

I guess I could say the job hunt is the low point, but not really. We are still unemployed. I say we because this is most certainly happening to both of us. But we are really making the best of it. Each day Mr. Wonderful is doing what he can do. With his spare time, he is actually accomplishing some of those things he has always wanted to help with. So we still exist. We still exist with an internet connection.

Low Point of the Moment: Not sure I can top eating the bead. I am exhausted from all the extra. It is taking it's toll.

High Point of the Moment: It's snowing today! It hasn't done too much in the inclement weather department this year. I was begining to think that this season was going to go by without any snow. (which would make sense because I got up all the leaves LOL)

2005-01-22 - 6:13 p.m.

Highlights

OK......birthday party went great.....my daughters now eight....we ate lots of cake. Yup, bought sums it up.

I have picked up extra hours lifeguarding, teaching water aerobics, and swim lessons, so my apologies on not being here.....AT ALL. But hopefully soon I will be back to regular programming soon.

Highlights:
Mr. Wonderful is still job hunting. We are praying about a job fair in Raleigh this Monday. A lot of computer companies will be there to interview. So we will suit him up and pray his mouth works LOL.

We came up with a new word, Chugglebot. It is both a noun and a verb. Insert into sentences when extremely bored. You will be bored no more. Examples: I took my chugglebot for a walk. I could chugglebot all day. We also came up with revivatoot, but it has not caught on as well as chugglebot.

Friday our homeschool group got the local Science place to come out with their mobile starlab. Dudes and dudettes, let me just say, it rocked! It is basically this big balloon (or half sphere for all my nerdy friends) that is dark on the inside. They can project all the stars onto the walls....a traveling plantarium.

Low Point of the Moment: Pms'ing on a shoestring budget sucks! I want a candy bar and I want it now!!!

High Point of the Moment: Just did our taxes.....we can be unemployed for a while. Well.....it helps a lot.

2005-01-15 - 7:47 a.m.

HAPPY 8th BIRTHDAY CASEY LYNNE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2005-01-11 - 3:10 p.m.

Graceland

First off... here Lisa! Your such a whiner!(Actually I was going to show more happy wedding pics sooner or later. I just wanted to yank your chain. And this one makes my arms look fat....they are not that fat)

And one of the get-away car (although this does not show my Git-R-Done well enough)

So after deciding to take the high road with TimeWarner Cable, I didn't. I called to "modify" our service. We're keeping Roadrunner for the internet, but pretty much everything else is gone. Don't, I repeat don't feel sorry for us. We will not be bored. Between homeschooling, Gameboys, X-Box, Blockbuster unlimited, Computers, CD's, and books we will be entertained. The only thing I will ask for all my "E.R." watching friends.....let me know if anything big happens. Oh yeah, so I am calling up the big TW:

Me: "I would like for you guys to come out this Friday to pick up the box."
Them: "We can't, it has to be this time. That's all we have."
Me: "Well, I happen to know that when a customer calls and requests between this time and that, they get it."
Them: "Ma'am, I don't know where you are getting your information from but that is just not true."
Me: "Your lying, I am getting my information from my husband who used to work for you. I am getting my information from the countless dinners I spent without him because his work order stated after 6pm. I am getting my information from TW work orders."
Them: "We can only come out the aforementioned time."
Me: "Fine, I'll play your game but please note on my account that I feel like once again I am bending over for TW."
Them: "I'm sorry you feel that way."
Me: "Did you note it?"
Them: "No."
Me: "Note it. Note it now."
Them: "Ma,am, it's noted."

Thus end's the era of Timewarner in my household.

This has been a most beautiful week of lessons learned. I have come to a place once again where I feel very close and almost held by God. I am not a good enough writer to describe. I remember being here at one time before Bethy died. I was just really walking the walk. But haven't been able to let go and get back here. When I think of all the events on the last couple months leading up to this. It is truly amazing how God works. I almost hesitate to use the words "get back here." We can never really go back, just forward.

I really hope this is the beginning of a huge forward for myself and Mr. Wonderful. Everyone is like, well how is it having him home all the time? It's.....it's....wonderful! I haven't seen my husband for 3 years. He has worked 6 days a week 8-15 hours a day. Sure there have been tidbits here and there, but when he has been home, he hasn't been here. This last week I have felt more like a family. More like we are exactly where God would have us to be.

There is beauty in embracing absolute truth. I can lose everything that I own on this earth. I could even lose family, as I have. But None of that can touch what I have in God. No one and nothing can ever take that away. Everywhere I turn on the web today I am being bombarded with Elvis tales. But fitting, it's very fitting. As one tale shared, Elvis had all this stuff, and yet when he died he couldn't pack up a UHaul. Another tale talk about a guy with Elvis hair. Really big Elvis hair. I don't really know how that relates but I'll figure it out in due time.

Low Point of the Moment: Letting go of the resentment towards TimeWarner means I cannot go through with the whole mooning plan.....but that's OK I guess.

High Point of the Moment: Having a great time with this Karyoke game for X-Box. It is too cool!! The kids and I have sung I will Survive and Lady Marmalade. I just have to figure out how to upload so all can enjoy the down to earth sounds of Bonzine and the Funky Bunch.

2005-01-06 - 9:37 a.m.

Where 2 Begin??

The wedding was just beautiful. Simple, joyful, and filled with love. I sang my little song while the bride walked down the aisle. They exchanged vows while their boys stood as patiently as boys can stand. Once again, beautiful.
A few pictures:

I just cannot live without sharing this story. It confirms that, yes, my brother and I are related (it was SO something I would do). It's also the moment a sister lives for all her life. [side note: purely because everything had a happy ending] So my brother is cleaning out a bunch of his stuff to make room for a bunch of her stuff. Well the morning of the wedding, my brother was very upset because his cat turned up missing. I felt for him too. The wedding was Friday night and I took all the kids to my house for the weekend. Saturday I get a call from my nephews mother asking if my bro has lost a cat? I am all, "How did you know?". She is all, "Well, he gave his couch to a friend of mine. She just called and said this cat walked out of her couch!". After quelching the laughter....I called the honeymooners to let them know the good news. We are so related!

Keeping the kids last weekend just reinforced all those boy/girl boundries that are so real. Three boys, one girl....for the first time my daughter felt on the outs. We knew this day was coming and the shift has started. She is turning into a...a...a.....girl. And the boys just can't play girly games. Case in point. The boys start pulling out Barbie's castle with Bionicles in hand. Bionicles are going to storm the castle! Casey walks in hand on hip "Bionicles DO NOT live in Barbie's castle!". They were promptly evicted. They lived. Bionicles found a cottage to storm; not as big, but it did just fine.

These last few weeks have been pretty emotional. One of those moments worth sharing was a gift received in the mail. I start opening this package from my friend Nic (the one whose wedding I was in in May). It shows to be a picture frame. I had to laugh when Mr. Wonderful was all....a normal present from Nic, something's not right LOL. I opened up the frame and it was a picture of Nic, Danny, and myself. At one point of our lives the three musketeers. I started to cry. Thank You again Nic!

On another emotional moment, Mr. Wonderful is no longer the Cable guy. The Wednesday after Christmas he was told there was going to be a meeting about him up at the ol TimeWarner. We were nervous, but Mr. Wonderful has been at the company for over two years and has a good track record. We were sure it was nothing serious. On Thursday he was told he no longer had a job. Apparently a customer had complained. Mr. Wonderful, for the life of him can't think of anything he did wrong or out of the ordinary to have caused this. So Timewarner has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to being "rude" to customers. So Mr. Wonderful was, what they call, "black listed" from TimeWarner. Since all of his company's work comes from TImeWarner, Mr. Wonderful has no work, hence no job. His boss said he is welcome to come back after the 90 day period. Ummmmm, yeah, ok. I have never been a big fan of TimeWarner, they are one of those companies taking over the world. But since they buttered my bread, I didn't want to stir the pot. BUT....they do not butter anything anymore, screw TimeWarner. Viva La Satellite!

Low Point of the Moment: Trying to write a resume for Mr. Wonderful. I don't think I have ever felt as inept as I have trying to write that thing in the last 3 days. Thank God for friends!

High Point of the MOment: Learning lessons that go straight, deep, down to the heart. Lessons I would not have learned had Mr. Wonderful not lost his job. God knows what he is doing. (How's it go? There is a God and his name is not Bonnie) Also on a happy note. Thank GOD for Dave Ramsey. Because we were led to him, we are good for a couple weeks money wise. That buys us some time before I lose internet LOL

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