Unemployed

Yep, that's me. Today was my last day of work, I got my last paycheck and turned in my keys. Job hunting. blah. I honestly don't know about a real "real" job. Tomorrow I am putting an application in for a crappy job. I probably won't get it either! I've worked continuously since I was 18 but technically I have "no work experience" blah. Oh well such is life in the jungle. maybe I should have got a real job after high school. oh well. hindsight is lovely. I've been discovering that alot the last while.

so far

35 sucks. There that's about it. oh yeah agenda changed not out hunting down the elusive Christmas tree. blah. think I'll go fold clothes

Ahhhhhhhhhhh

Tia's so sweet :-) even if she is a blog hijacker. So today I am older... a whole day older then I was yesterday! hahahahahaha So I got up this morning and went to work as usual (only one day left) the I picked tia up from grandma's where she had spent the night and came home so she could do chores. I was then lazy almost all day long. I watched a movie, took an entirely to short nap (damn phone) then ate too many cookies and too much icing while Tia was making my cake.



isn't it cool!

Then I opened my present, which was a electric canner, which I am mainly going to use as a pasturizer. I've been wanting one for a looooooooooooooooong time but they are expensive! So I was assuming I'd be dragging the old ones back out. now I don't have to ! YAY! After the kids did chores we went to town and had dinner.. mmmm prime rib.. ooooooooh I was so full, then we went to the movies and watched Bolt. ok, tad bit weird movie but it had its humorous parts and one sad part that then turned out alright. Now we are back home and the kids are giving me cake and icecream and colt is being weird and trying to give me a huge piece. Now they are in there arguing about ice cream sccops. strange children. Yum the cake was good. yes there was a short break in this post cause I was handed birthday cake and ice cream. Spice cake with cream cheese frosting... Mmmmmm

Tomorrow is christmas tree hunting day. I'm hoping we track down a small one as it needs to go in the corner again this year. then Sunday is my last day of work. that is my upcoming agenda in case I miss posting again!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR MADRE!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUU!!!!

<3 always,

Tia! :]





(I so hijacked your blog! ;]] )

Ok, so I failed but HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

I didn't post yesterday. I am going to blame it all on going crazy baking :-) yes that's my excuse. Happy Thanksgiving everybody!! we went to mom's for dinner as usual. It was crowded but fun. It was great to see the new babies, who aren't really new anymore as they are almost a year old but it is the first I had seen them. sooooooo cute. especially Clover, she loved me. That was about it for the day, lots of food and family. Now I'm off to go to bed since I have to get up and go to work in the morning. two more days of work and then I'm unemployed. sad.

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I am so full... and its all Tia's fault!

So Tia had this bright idea she was craving Mexican food so we went to a Mexican food place in town. It was either that or go to the store to buy stuff to make Mexican food and well... the restaurant was just easier. I am now too full though. Urgh. I need to learn to order better. What else.. ummm not much. I printed off a subway application though does that count . On Tomorrow's agenda.. get up early go to work, come home do some stuff, go back to work. yay

doh!

So today is Sunday and i worked all day. nothing new there... although I did watch NCIS on the internet today after getting done stocking and off and on again the rest of the day between customers and cleaning up spilled pop. Now I'm home and was blog stalking when I remembered I hadn't blogged yet! how could that be! :-0 I am also eating pie.... ok, so right now I am staring at pie not eating it. I had a turkey sandwich when I got home then colt wanted pie. so I got him pie and then I decided I wanted pie too. I couldn't decide if I wanted a piece of the pecan/chocolate/coconut one I made or Chocolate cream so I got a smallish piece of both... DOH!! I at the pecan etc one and now the other is staring back at me cause I still want it but I'm to full. BLAH. It will have to just sit there while I digest cause I am going to eat it! See this is exactly how people should not be.. if you have a piece of pie and are full you shouldn't eat another! oh well.

30 days til D day

that is "driving" day. hahahaha now that Tia passed her Driving test and already passed her written test she is good to go, to get her license as soon as she has her birthday. The countdown above is NOT to her Birthday though as she cannot get her license on her birthday. It is until the first day after her birthday that she could actually get her license. Which is on Monday the 22nd of December IF we drive somewhere else to get it. Her birthday is a bad time of year for this sort of thing, especially this year! the Drivers license place is only open 3 days a month. two of those times in December are BEFORE her birthday and the other is on Christmas Eve.... I don't know that they are really going to be open on Christmas eve! So I'm thinking we may just go to Richfield or Orem on the 22nd and go to one of the full time offices! otherwise the delta office wont be open for two more weeks after her birthday and she will be sad. So will I! I am waiting on pins and needles to not have to drive her EVERYWHERE!

Its finally friday.. i'm free again... really its friday

but I'm not so much free :-) I have to wake up at 5 am as usual to go to work. Of course I'm not going to complain even if I do end up working every day this next week (cept thanksgiving) cause then I am done! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Yeah, me thinks I should have looked for a job long ago but alas I didn't. Beings that I was going to be leaving town for 3 weeks in the last couple of months I didn't see a job that would be alright with that with only a week or so into the job. I do actually have all the christmas shopping done that I "need" to do. there were a couple other things that I would have liked to have bought, but what I have done is very workable so there we go. There can always be Christmas in July again. That was quite fun actually. So at least that part is covered. thank goodness.

Guess what! Tia passed her driving test!!! YAY! she was so nervous but she did it so that is good. Now she just has to wait for her Birthday to come and of course to not make us mad so we won't sign the papers and she will be a licensed driver.

Tomorrow we are eating our test turkey I also made a test pie and will make test rolls tomorrow. hee hee. Tia is going to go hang out in town all day but we may go to the late show tomorrow night and watch Twilight.

Well I'm going to go put some of my mess in the kitchen away and take out my contacts and go to sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

and another day goes by..

Today I felt like crap. started out fine, later on was freezing and couldn't get warm. turned on the pellet stove, wrapped up in a blanket and fell asleep. woke up feeling warmer but pukey. got over that and feel ok now. We went to the Greenhand Ceremony tonight for the local FFA chapter went to Leo's for a burger and now we are back. WOOOHOOO exciting eh? Ummmm I also bought a new pair of shoes. hahahaha. I am sooo exciting. I actually always buy the cheapest shoes possible for myself cause I am cheap.... I mean "economical" but my one foot has been killing me lately especially after playing volleyball. So I decided I needed a real pair of gym shoes to play ball and such in. so I bought a pair today. its weird feeling the arch support in there and it actually made the muscles in my foot sore. what the crap. the owie in my foot doesn't hurt right now though so that's a good thing. Now if I just remember to change into old shoe when doing chores and such that will be good. yeah, that's about it for the day Told feels sick so he's relaxing on the couch. The kids are still catching up homework from sluffing all last week so are currently doing spanish and I am going to take out my contacts and go to bed!

It's official...

I am officially almost unemployed again. I think they said the 1st of Dec... uh I think *grin* hell could've been sooner. now I can't remember. They've been trying to sell the place forever but apparently gave up and leased it to a guy instead. It will be interesting to see how things work out as the guy who is taking it over used to just leave town on trips for days at a time for fun. Not sure how that will work into running a business that is open every day but 2 a year but oooook. So I guess I am seriously going to have to go look for a job. blah Hey! maybe I won't have to wake up at 5 am anymore!!! YAY!

Its finally friday I'm free again...

Oh shit, its not Friday, its Monday! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Today was a joyous day. Ok, not really it was not a very exciting day, work, chores, grocery shopping, nap (yay), laundry, dump, moved goats around, made dinner... that's it so far. exciting eh? Tomorrow, we are going to worm kid goats and perhaps trim some feet. WOOHOO. hee hee Ok, not really a wahoo day but it needs to be done so there you go. Honestly we have nothing exciting planned for the next long time. I heard more rumours today that my job has been sold, so who knows how long I have it. oh well about that too. That just means less "fun" money but the bills will still get paid and that's all that matters at this point.

Ok, I'm off to put my pj's on. I was asleep last night by this time, I should be there again! heck if I was asleep now I'd get 8 hours of sleep again! Ok, so its not going to happen but maybe I'll shoot for 7 hours.

half over..

well nablo-whatthefa is half over. Maybe that's a good thing. I dunno. So today i worked. it was long and slow. ha its funny points though. sometimes my job makes me laugh. not enough to not be looking for another job now that all my prior commitments are over. Heck, its hard to know if I'll even have the current job next week. I heard from customers that they were meeting with a potential buyer again tonight. Of course they haven't mentioned any of it to me, but the mother of the owners are calling the guy the new boss. So I'm thinking its fairly serious. I really do hope they don't expect me just to stay working. I really need a real job.. ok, not a real job but at least one that counts. I'm still thinking cooking at McDonalds sounds mighty fine right now. Anyhow, I'm tired and I'm going to go take my contacts out, kick Tia off the couch and go to sleep.

We are home again... home again.. jiggidy jog..

Or something like that. We are finally home for awhile. YAY!! We have so much to get done around here to get ready for winter but we just haven't been here to do it. Now we are home as we have no plans for the near present future, so we shall be working our butts off to get the place ready for winter and working to make some moolah.

The turkey show was good. same as usual, mostly we use it to get our turkeys processed. We have got all our turkeys sold except for the couple we were keeping. Its always nice to get them processed and outta here. Of course now I want to eat turkey!!! I think we will have our annual prethanksgiving dinner next Saturday. We have regular thanksgiving dinner at moms so we don't get to have all the leftovers, so a couple years ago we started having our own Pre thanksgiving turkey so we could have the leftovers. We could always have it some other time, but once the turkey show is over I get to craving turkey! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm turkey.

We had a jolly good time visiting the Gates family. I felt much better when we got there, there is a different "vibe" (for lack of a better word) there but I still felt at home and not weird so it was all good. Mandarin was scrumptious. its a really good thing that we don't go up there all that often because that place has great food. Some day we may have to go somewhere else to eat though... maybe. No seriously I like other places... Is it my fault Logan is the only place with Mandarin. We did conveniently forgot blood tubes and such so will have to go back up sometime in the next few months to pull blood for testing.. hee hee hee.. I have a feeling cashew chicken will be sounding mighty good by then. Or shrimp and snow peas.. or tiny spicy chicken.. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm



Well I'm off to take a shower and put on my comfy pj's so I can relax and get to sleep to get all rested up for work tomorrow.

if I blog from Tauna's house...

Does that count as her blogging? I'm on her computer does that count?
I didn't think so

I blogged..

so it counts! We are off on our way to Tremonton and I'm not sure if I will be getting on later so I'm blogging now so I dont miss a day!

there. I did it

Its almost turkey day..

Ok, so I'm not talking about Thanksgiving, I'm talking about the turkey show. The birds are all tagged and in the trailer, hopefully we picked the "good" ones.. hee hee hee. None of them seem all that huged though. Oh well mid sized ones fit in the pans better.

We are also going to get to see the Gates family, which I have been so excited for but I will admit I'm halfway apprehensive about that now. I love those people, but I honestly don't feel that comfortable around any of them anymore. *sigh* I feel like we are intruding upon them and keep thinking we should just get a room instead of spending the night. *bigger sigh* I'm sure it will all be fine... I'm going to keep telling myself that. Well guess I should finish the paperwork for the show and go pack a bag. urgh

Ok, paperwork is done and the bags are about packed. Do have a couple of loads of laundry that still needs done though. blah blah blah

COLD!!

What the crap! we got home this afternoon and now I am freeeeezing! It was so nice and warm in Vegas now we are back to the frozen tundra. waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

So I did finally get dressed yesterday.. the whole NCIS marathon was a ploy! after about 5 or 6 hours it started over. how rude is that. I know there aer more episodes than that. So we all got dressed and went to the southpoint and finished our air hockey tournament.. darn colt! he won again. I however did officially win the basketball shoot. we then cashed in all our tickets 2000+ of the and got some lovely prizes.. ha ha ha.. then we were going to go bowling but league bowling was starting so there were no lanes. Instead we went down the strip took some pics, had some interesting discussions, then went to Jack in the Box for dinner. Then we went back to the condo and then it was almost 9 and league bowling was getting over so we went back to the southpoint and went bowling. The boys kicked our trash (I got that saying from Tia) but we had a jolly good time. I was so sore afterwards, holy crap I'm getting old. then it was back to the condo and then starting to pack up our stuff. This morning we got up packed the car checked out and headed off. we stopped in St George and went to the mongolian BBQ yum. then came home and froze our arses off. Jumped right back into normalness as Tia had guitar. now I sit here thinking.. if we had no animals we could have alot more freetime! Oh well, onward back to reality we go.

last full day of vacation.

And I'm still in my pj's sitting in my big soft bed. Its 10:30 and I've been awake for a couple of hours but there is a NCIS marathon on today and I may stay in bed all day long! hee hee hee. ok, sometime today we need to go finish our air hockey tournament and go bowling, of course we could do that at midnight.. ha ha ha. we've also got to get rid of all these arcade tickets.

So last night we went to the Excalibur and as we waited around for the show we played in the arcade, we also went on the 4D motion rides. then on to the show. it was fun, usually is. Always makes me want ride horses more. Tia liked the half naked guys best. hee hee afterwards we came back to the condo and went swimming, then watched movies. at Midnight we had delivery pizza... ah the perks of being in a big town.. we should have found a all night chinese delivery place!

Now we are all still in our jammies... well actually Todd might be dressed not sure he's in the living room. the kids are both flopped across my bed watching tv with me. now I'm off. to pay more attention to my show. tomorrow we head home. It's been nice not having to worry about chores and such. it always makes me think what a nice relaxing life we'd have if we just lived differently but it'll never happen that way. ahhhh back to the real world.

and another day

Today has been pretty laid back, I fell asleep last night and woke about 2 am remembering I hadn't taken my contacts out (I can't wait til January 16th!) so I got up took them out and went back to sleep. exciting eh? hahahaha I actually slept in until 8 am, which is 9 am our time which is unheard of!!! we then went to a "presentation" so they could try and sell us more condo stuff but Todd was just in it for the 100 bucks. then we came back ate breakfast and played a mad game of whacked. Colt totally rules at that game, then Tia. Todd and I suck rocks. Now we are all lounging around until about 3 when we are going to go down to the Excalibur and hang out until our show tonight. We saw the tournament of kings a few years ago but it was cool and so the kids picked it again when I asked what they wanted to do this year. We are once again front row on the bad guy side and hopefully Merlin won't make an example of us again this year! hee hee. Well I think I'm going to go flop on the huged bed for a half hour and reeeeeeeeeeeeelaaaaaaaaax.

That one day in November....

Lovely date eh? So today I awoke and cooked breakfast for the family, then we headed out and took the boys to the Thomas and Mack arena so they could watch the final day of the PBR finals. holy crap what traffic!! When Tia and I left there we headed back to the strip and went to the Las Vegas outlet mall. Its huge! we were on a converse hunt. Tia ended up getting two different pairs as she had one all picked out then found another she was going to change her mind to but I figured they still cost less then the boots we got colt yesterday so I told her she could have em both. See her blog for pics. We then window shopped throughout the rest of the mall, especially the kitchen shops... I like kitchen stuff.. then we got a cookie and a frozen drink from the food court and headed back to the condo. later we picked up the boys and came back to the rooms for awhile before going over to the south point again to play a few racing games (I again failed) and then we watched the movie Role Models. It was funny, but wow the language. then it was time for dinner again then back to the room. We have jacuzzi tubs in both sides so I filled one up with hot water and had a soak. DoH! now I am tireder then crap s I think I am going to head to bed so I can make it through another day. Tomorrows agenda includes breakfast and the tournament of kings at the Excalibur. I'm sure we will add in a few games at the arcade too. Oh yes and we are scheduled for a down and dirty whacked game. One day I will be so good and they will be sorry.. yeah, it could happen. now I'm off to sleep! YAY

I can't remember what day it is!

But I'm having fun! The kids are counting game tickets from the arcade as week speak... there are 1250 so far. they just had 1250 ticket pickup on accident.. hahahahahahahaha

We left home yesterday afternoon and spent the night in Mesquite at the Virgin River Casino where we had a wild bowling game.. boys against girls. The first game was SOOOOO close, the boys ended up winning by one pin! ARGH! then they creamed us in the second game.. we shall get them back though! MWAH HA ha we then ate to much and went to bed. The beds were very uncomfortable and none of us brought pillows because we knew the condo has lots of pillows... we forgot about the first night.

So this morning we got up and went and ate breakfast.. again way to much food! then we went to walmart to pick up the boys some PJ pants because Bella had eaten Colts and she took Todd's out to Aggie who then ate them. Tia and I ended up getting new PJ pants too. they are cute. then we headed for Vegas. Got here and got checked into the condo. The setup here is interesting as the rooms are grouped into groups of two, here I'll try to put in a picture (ok, a drawing thing).



We have the two inner doors left open, so they are connected so to speak. we are calling the one side the "living room" and the other side the family room.. so we have the xbox hooked up in the family room and my computer hooked up on the table in the "family room". we are only planning to cook breakfasts (late breakfasts) so we will do all that in the living room side so that we confine most of the stuff to just one kitchen but we do have bottled water in the second fridge. Its really nice having the two distinct lounge area's as Todd is over there watching pbr and earlier taking a nap on the couch in the middle of his movie and we have been playing whacked on this side.

but anyhow, we checked into the condo then went grocery shopping, came back and had a ferocious game of whacked (I still suck at that game by the way) then woke Todd up and went next door to the Southpoint and played in the arcade. I rule at basketball so far and in our practice air hockey colt is still whipping us. Tuesday I believe will be the official air hockey tournament and he's going down! maybe! ha ha ha We then went and ate dinner. again WAY WAY WAY to much food. Doh! Now we are back in the condo, Todd is watching PBR, Colt is playing whacked, Tia is doodling and I am blogging. Now I am going to go over and watch PBR with Todd then in a couple hours Todd and I have tickets to Rodney Carrington, he's funny, at least I think I think he's funny. I guess you do have to be into off colour humour though :0)

November 7th! Finally!

YAY! This afternoon we run away from home for a few days and go see the bright lights of Las Vegas. I am really not much of a gambler but I like Vegas, we never seem to run out of things to do even if its just eating. No seriously, we go see a show or two, always have to have our annual air hockey tournament... COLT! your going down this year!!... spend alot of time in the arcade, go bowling and watch a movie. This year we are going for a few less days, so the only show on our agenda is the tournament of kings at the Excalibur. No wait, that's not really true. That's the only show the whole family is going to but Todd and I are going to see Rodney Carrington and Colt and Todd are going to the championship round of the PBR Finals. I'm excited and glad I got over yesterdays grouchiness. of course it will probably come back while I'm trying to get everything ready to go but then hopefully it will leave again. The only bad thing about vacations is I worry about the critters to much. the two young men who do our chores and take care of things while we are gone are awesome but I still worry.

Tia and I will have to stroll over to the lobby and use their WiFi to update, hopefully its not down or my NaBlowhatsit will be forever ruined. They are supposed to be putting WiFi in the entire place but I can't remember when that was supposed to happen so I'm not holding my breath on it. Until tomorrow.. I am off

another day

Today I am grouchy. grouchy grouchy grouchy.

For now that's about it. grouchy grouchy grouchy

It tis the 5th...

So today was fairly interesting. I went to work, RUSHED home and RUSHED through chores so I could get to Willie's by 10:30 to take him up to see the Heart Specialist. Good news is he isn't going to have surgery.. not so good news, the reason he isn't having the surgery is because the problem went on to long and the surgery will not fix it now. But overall his heart is in good shape and they can control the problems with meds they think. So that will be good.

We got home from Salt Lake just in time for willie to dump me off on a corner where my family picked me up to go to Volleyball. Our team did rather poorly, worse then usual actually. :-0 We topped it off by one of our team members getting hit square in the face with a spiked ball and being knocked out. It was lovely. I have a bloody skinned area on my leg, that's lovely too.

now I am awaiting Tia getting out of the shower so I can go take my contacts out and go to bed. Tomorrow is going to be a loooooooooooooooooooooong day. I have about a zillion things to do before we leave on Friday and I'm soooooo not ready. darn bad weather. I wonder what the weather is supposed to be like tomorrow. Hopefully its nice. hope hope hope

Nov 4th..

that is what day it is. did you know that? well you should. today is also election day. I voted, did you? I for one am really glad the elections are finally over so maybe we can all move on and not have to hear all the election crap. blah.

Today, I didn't do a whole lot. went to work, came home, did chores, voted, took a nap, cleaned on the kitchen, went and played volleyball and then made dinner. now I'm getting ready to go to bed because i don't know why but I am so freaking tired its not even funny. So I am off.. off to sleep. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

3 days...woohooo

I am on a roll here

Ok, what did I do today.. Well I did something that made my eyes hugely dilated and my kids are giving me crap about it... hee hee hee... I went to work, drove to Salt Lake,ate at Fudruckers and then spent 2 1/2 hours at hoopes Vision in Sandy having a bajillion tests and scans done on my eyeballs to first see if I was a Lasik candidate and then to do the other tests needed to actually be able to do it. So I can in fact have it. Not til after the first of the year though so the medical account money is back in there. So its scheduled for January 16th. I'm excited, although it still kinda freaks me out thinking about being awake and staring at the light while they do it :-0 But I'm excited all the same! YAY!

That's about all I did today, now I'm home and its dark outside so I swear its bedtime even if it is only 7:30.

Nov 2nd!

Lookie lookie, I am so good that makes two! two days in a row, this NaBl..whatever things is a piece of cake!

So today I am work and it has been horribly stormy combine that with the fact that it is Sunday and there have been relatively few customers. which makes for a loooooooooong 11 hours. we had rain out the wazoo and a freaky, but thankfully short windstorm. other then that its been a relatively boring day where I am and I don't know what the kids have been up to all day. I am hoping Tia followed through on my laundry hint and DID the laundry!

Tomorrow will be interesting as after work Todd and I are going to Sandy to have my eyes checked to see if I can have Lasik done. my eyes suck so I just know they'll say no, but maybe I'll get lucky. can't have it done til after the first of the year in any case but we need to know so we can put money in the medical account for next year.

well I'm off to stock coolers and straighten up before closing.

until tomorrow...

Nov 1st..

Look so far I am doing awesomely awesome at the whole blog every day during national blogging month! I am soooooooooooooooo good!

So today Colt and I took bella to doggie day camp so she could play with the other doggies. it was not to be however. She started into heat today so she couldn't play with the other doggies. She did still stay for awhile and the staff played with her and gave her ice cream (non lactose dog ice cream! she loves that stuff). Colt and I went to Ikea so he could do a touch of shopping and then we went and watched "W" at the movies.. that has got to be the worlds stupidest movie and don't even get me started on what it makes me think of our current president if even half of it is true!!! After the movie we went to one of those Brazilian Steakhouse restaurants. can't remember what it was called though. It actually turned out to be cheaper then if we'd gone to applebees and that included colt's chocolate mousse pie. the rest of the food was pretty good too actually. then we stopped at a couple of stores, got Todd pizza and got home just before dark. Tomorrow I have work and I'm so excited! can you feel the excitement? you should be able to... or not. Well now I'm going to go raid the boy childs room and play whacked with the kids. YAY! we've been playing that game every night. I USED to be good at it. now I suck. they keep telling me its because I'm old. rude!