Pin It Tuesday....St. Patty's Day Addition

Being I am an Irish girl, I love St. Patty's Day. This year it is going to fall during Spring Break again and I'm not sure exactly what the kids and I are going to do but we are going to do something fun of course. In this weeks addition of Pin It Tuesday I am going to show you guys some of the awesome things I have pinned on Pinterest

Mingle Monday

Mingle Monday hosted by 80 MPH Mama

February 27th:
1. What is one thing that you know you need to do, but haven’t done yet.

Do my labs for my A&P class for tomorrow. Mostly I have slept all this weekend but it is getting done today

2. Would you like to be taller or shorter? By how many inches?
There are times I wish I were shorter only because I tend to have dated men who are not much taller than I am. Of course, when I need something from a high shelf, I wish I were taller. Honestly, I am average height for a woman and it works for me.

3. Tell us the funniest moment of a family vacation.
To be honest we have NEVER gone on a family vacation. We are planning a camping trip with our kids this summer so we will see how many funny events I can come up with then.

Still Have All A's!!!!

So I found out today that I have all A's!!!!! I work my butt off to make good grades...my goal is the Dean's list.

Don't mean to brag but I am super proud of myself.

1. If your family was a reality show, what would it be called?

How to deal with smart mouth teenagers who know it all while dealing with your husband's crazy ex wife.


2. Were you in Girl Scouts, Brownies, etc.?

I was in Girl Scouts kind of. We all know my relationship with the ED (egg donor) is not so great. She allowed me to join Girl Scouts but when she realized it meant some form of commitment from her and paying dues, out the door it went.

3. On a scale of 1 to 10, how well do you like your first name (10 best, 1 least)

Funny you should ask. At times I hate my first  name. I think what it is going to be like when I am an old lady with a little girl name. I also hate the song that the ED thinks I'm named after but love the fact my daddy agreed to it because it was the name of the first girl who kissed him. Sometimes I like having a different name except that no one spells it right and sometimes people don't pronounce it right either. Years ago, when I use to go out a lot, I had an alias for guys I was not interested in. If my girlfriends heard that name they knew to play along.

Direct4U

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My good friend is having surgery in Charlestown, South Carolina this week. I wish I could be there. Thanks to Facebook, though, I do feel like I can keep up with her and how she is doing. She is even posting a little “video blog” about her recovery. She is a strong, beautiful, inspirational woman. Her mother is amazing. She is there with her, taking care of her every need while she goes through this recovery process.It makes me really realize what I don’t have in my relationship with my mom. She is posting status’ about ordering takeout, watching trash tv on direct TV, and laughing with her mom. I am thankful they have each other, though. Everyone needs someone in their lives that they know they can depend on for unconditional love. For some, it is a mother, for others, a sister or friend. I know from witnessing their bond, that what they have is what I want to have with my kids when they grow up. It is a beautiful thing.

Fashion Friday

Awe Spring is in the air, alright maybe it doesn't look like it just yet but it really is just around the corner. This Friday I wanted to share some of the Spring Fashions that I like. Now here is my warning. I love Polyvore and even though I swear by jeans and a t-shirt, my style is rather Eclectic.

Want to see other things I like? Check me out on Pinterest.

Tasty Thursday

I like Tasty Thursday because it gives me the chance to share what I love and what I want to try with you guys. I will tell you if I have actually made something or if it's something I think I want to try.

In this addition of Tasty Thursday I have yet to make these cute little cupcakes but since Bry has a birthday coming up and we have a bake sale for the fire department I figured it time to start looking

The reason for gumballs is actually a funny story. MIL gave Bry a bag of gumballs a few months back. Unlike most kids, he doesn't devour his candy right away. In fact, he had saved some so long that I had to make him get rid of it (yuck).  A few weeks ago, JT was cleaning out our storage building and came across a gumball machine. Granny cleaned it up for us and we filled it with the gumballs. Who would have thought that a kid would find so much joy from watching others put money in his gumball machine, thus the theme of his party: Gumballs!

Wordless Wednesday...almost

My poor blog. It looks like I fell off the face of the Earth for awhile but I assure you it is for good reason.

So let me catch you guys up. It started out I thought I had a stomach virus, after all I work in a public school. On day 3 I decided I needed to call my doctor to make an appointment since something was wrong. I was belching like crazy, after I ate I hurt really bad on my right upper side but my regular doctor couldn't see me (nothing new). Checking out new doctors I got an appointment same day. Scheduled me for CT scans and something called a Hida Scan but it was going to be a week out. Send me right away for labs and ultrasound of my gall bladder.

Fast forward 5 days, here I lay in the ER not knowing what was wrong with me. Turns out I have kidney stones yet again. It is nothing new to me since I've had then since I was 25 but this time the pain was different. Hooked me up to IV's, gave me different pain meds and told me to keep my rear at home and rest.....needless to say I am feeling better, go back to work tomorrow (boo) and have an appointment with a urologist on next Thursday.

P. S. I a made a 96 on my A&P test!!!!

Direct4U

You guys know how much I love having Direct TV. Now that I've started back to school after a long 8 hour day at that place called "work", I appreciate my Direct TV even more. Not only do I have great shows to chose from, I have multiple boxes throughout our house so I can watch in any room. I also love that I can come home and watch the news while Untold Stories Of The ER is recording on the DVR. I once thought having Direct TV was expensive but it is far more affordable that cable television and gives you many more programs to chose from. The awesome people at Direct4U will come out and install your boxes and get your set to start enjoying some quality television time, no matter what your tastes in programming are.

Let's face it with the economy the way it is and gas pricing still rising, you should give Direct4U a quick phone call at 1-866-973-8782 and spend some affordable time aka movie night with your family.

Smarterer For BzzAgents

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Let me start by saying that I LOVE Bzz Agent. I have been able to review some awesome products from them just for providing feedback I am already going to give. Recently, Bzz Agent started a new campaign called Smarterer. I must say that the test was informative. I thought I knew a lot about being a Bzz Agent and I didn't really know much at all.

The test is a little long for me and I will admit I did not finish. Wish is were so much shorter but then again we all want things in life.

Testing Tonight!!! Yes!

Ok maybe that sounds funny to you guys but I am so prepared for this test. I have been to college before, online but this time I am going for something I want to do and not what someone else thinks I should do and I'm going on campus. So far I have all A's in my classes, including Algebra! I know school is only like 4 weeks in but I am feeling confident. I think the study time between work and class is doing me good. Of course, there are days like today when I don't feel like doing much before class but I am super excited about this semester and kicking some butt. I'll let you know how I do on my test as soon as I know. This is my A&P 1 test.

I will be the first to admit that my past is a little "exciting".  We don't use some of the other words that people use to describe my past but in the past 2 years I have worked very hard to be part of the "other group". The other group consists of people who pay their bills, are active in the lives of their children, are responsible, who go to work everyday and don't job hop, who live in the same place for extended periods of time, etc. Well, it took losing a bunch of people from my life, including those I share DNA with but just when I felt like I had arrived, that old past came back to bite me right in the butt. The past 7 days is like a whirlwind of not being able to be allowed to overcome it.

First the issue with my biological mother and my dad's sister that I vented about in regards to my son and my grandmother and then today........

So my husband has a couple of accounts at different banks but I let my checking account at Wells Fargo close when I wasn't working (not like I had any money to put in the account). Today, one of the very few days that my husband and I are able to meet at any bank, we decide to meet at our local bank. We fill out paperwork and then they pull us into a little room to tell us that they can open the account for JT and once I get my "issues" taken care of, then they can open an account for me.

Now let me start by saying my checks will go direct deposit, our family banks here, it's the one bank in our little town, the fire department banks there, etc. She tells JT that he is clean. I ask her what is on the report since as far as I know, everything has been taken care of. She tells me 2 bank names. The first one I'm not sure why it is showing up because I never closed the account, I simply quit using it. The second one has to do with my past relationship before my husband.

Great! All I can think about is how much money my ex owes the bank and on an account I was just a signer on. I guess I should have seen it coming since I also have a repo thanks to this same PAST relationship. Well, I refuse to pay for his account especially when I am not the one who made the account go negative anyway. Part of me says to see how much it is when the consumer report gets here next week to show me exactly what is going on, pay the stupid account off and then sue him in small claims court but how would I prove that I am not the one who took the money out of the account? Which leaves me feeling like once again, I am being haunted by my past. UGH! I just want to be a better person and I just want to do right but I feel like there is constantly someone saying to me "but you can't be good because look at what you once were" and I'm screaming "Once is the one word in that sentence that means something".

Just saying.

Spring Fever In February...Well it is 73 degrees outside....

So yes I am having a PLUM day...poor little ugly me day. It's not really that I'm feeling down on myself, hell, I am really proud of myself right now if I do say so myself but it's just one of those days. Maybe it has to do with the fact that it's 75 degrees in February and I'm wearing flip flops or maybe it has to do with the fact that I work with a bunch of adult aged children. Maybe it's the fact that it's the 1st of the month and I don't have what I need for work and probably won't have it until Monday......and with all the new stuff that has been added, it means me in the kitchen all the time and no time to work on production reports or much else and if they think I am taking it home, wrong. I keep reminding myself that I have to survive only 4 more months of the crap and then I'm out for the summer. I know, so hard right? So glad I am in school so I don't have to work a job I loathe forever and to think at one time I loved my job and the people I worked with.

I come to school right after work because it's easier me to focus in this environment but today all I can think about is how I'm hungry for real food and I can't remember the last time I ate a real dinner and not a bag of baked chips at the time most normal 33 year old women are eating dinner with their families lol. I am thinking about how I would love to have some caffeine but nothing sounds good to me and how I should be drinking water and don't want that either. It's just one of those days. I did manage to get my lab done that is due tonight but I figure we are doing a review tonight for our test on Monday and I have homework all weekend, including when I get home tonight so if I decided to pack up my laptop and go get something to eat that's not so bad, right?

After re-reading what I just wrote I sound like I am having a total bitch fest and feel sorry for me but that's not it at all. I work hard at work and I work hard at school and sometimes, just sometimes I want to say, ugh, and exhale and some days I just don't want to do a thing except nothing. That's it, I'm going to find some food.