Mice again...

It always happens at the WRONG time~

A few nights ago I noticed droppings near the back door of the garage when I was bringing the dogs in. I bought traps and last night before we left for softball I set all four out with some peanut butter on them.
When we came back 2 hours later, TWO mice were in the trap. I almost threw up, I was sooooo grossed out! Hongo said he would get them today and I told him NO! I had people coming over today!! So he disposed of the mice last night. He apparently moved one of the traps to the same spot and when I went out to the car to get my wallet, there was ANOTHER one in the trap. I texted him and told him his dad would need to come and take care of it for me because I am so sick thinking of it being out there. He said he would come home at around noon if I could hang on that long.
We have another trap on the other side of the car behind some hay bales I have stored, and I haven't checked that trap yet. I don't want to! I hear something squeaking in the garage!!!
Hongo said it looked like we have babies, because all of the mice are really small. So it looks like I have to go get more traps if I fill them all up.
Yuck yuck YUCK!!!!! I just want them gone! And why did they have to come NOW???
I know the hay bales in the garage werent the greatest idea, but if I had put them out back, the dog would have though they were for her and ripped them to shreds.

On another more positive note - HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Busy week!

Its already Wednesday - I can't believe it!

My keyboard is sticking and it is pissing me off too....

Anyway, this week has been busy. Monday I woke up and found Hongo still in bed. He decided to stay home with me. That turned out great, because I wasn't feeling so hot. So when the baby came, he and I napped on the couch while Hongo took care of our kids.
I seemed to have dodged whatever it was, but Hongo seems to have it now. As usual, my kids have dodged it as well. The Hairy One is suffering from allergies, though. I can't figure out what triggered it but his eyes are itchy and his nose is runny.
Yesterday we met with my friend at Starbucks. I didn't have the baby, so we spent the day at our leisure. Afterwards we went shopping and took our time. It was so nice!
Today I got to catch up on cleaning and reading my blog list and email. I took the quiz and here are the results:

Your result for Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz...

You Are a Katharine!

You are a Katharine -- "I am happy and open to new things"

Katharines are energetic, lively, and optimistic. They want to contribute to the world.

How to Get Along with Me

• * Give me companionship, affection, and freedom.


• * Engage with me in stimulating conversation and laughter.


• * Appreciate my grand visions and listen to my stories.


• * Don't try to change my style. Accept me the way I am.


• * Be responsible for youself. I dislike clingy or needy people.


• * Don't tell me what to do.

What I Like About Being a Katharine

• * being optimistic and not letting life's troubles get me down


• * being spontaneous and free-spirited


• * being outspoken and outrageous. It's part of the fun.


• * being generous and trying to make the world a better place


• * having the guts to take risks and to try exciting adventures


• * having such varied interests and abilities

What's Hard About Being a Katharine

• * not having enough time to do all the things I want


• * not completing things I start


• * not being able to profit from the benefits that come from specializing; not making a commitment to a career


• * having a tendency to be ungrounded; getting lost in plans or fantasies


• * feeling confined when I'm in a one-to-one relationship

Katharines as Children Often

• * are action oriented and adventuresome


• * drum up excitement


• * prefer being with other children to being alone


• * finesse their way around adults


• * dream of the freedom they'll have when they grow up

Katharines as Parents

• * are often enthusiastic and generous


• * want their children to be exposed to many adventures in life


• * may be too busy with their own activities to be attentive

Take Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz at HelloQuizzy

Its pretty spot on, for the most part. Creepy....

Tomorrow is our Halloween party for our homeschooling group. I love when we do parties. My kids always have so much fun. I have to think of something to bring. I am not sure yet.
Then Friday is busy. My in laws are supposed to come early and carve pumpkins with the kids, and we are having guests through out the day. Then trick or treating and then I will take LegoQueen to her Halloween party. She is so excited about going. I won't be able to stay, but I am sure she will be safe and have a great time.

My first day....

Today is my first day babysitting the neighbor's baby. They had asked me if I would when the baby was only about 2 weeks old, and I wasn't really enthusiastic about it. I even went out and found them a really great daycare to check out.
Well, my neighbor came by on Monday to talk about it, and I agreed to it because it is on a drop-in basis. Mom is a substitute teacher, so she wouldn't need full time care. Plus they work over lapping schedules, so the baby never stays here past 3:30 ( a HUGE plus for Hongo!)
I get Friday's off, and if I ever have a day that I can't watch him, then they will find someone else for that day. Except I think i have him this friday, but that won't be a big deal since there is a field trip going on that day.
I can take him to the park if I like, and if I want to run errands, he can come too.
He fits in very nicely - today I propped him on the couch and he watched me fold laundry. We talked to each other - I told him that my kids never take all their laundry and put it away, and he grunted in agreement. The boy feels my pain!
He doesn't really cry, either.
Right now he is sleeping next to me while I type and get other work done. He doesn't seem to mind the noise of the kids while they are doing their lessons, which is good.
We shall see how the day goes, though. Only 5 more hours until someone comes to get him!

Sometimes I get mad....

I have a friend that I met online. I've known her for about a year, and we get along pretty well.
The only problem is her husband. At first he seemed really nice, and he came and played softball on my husband's team for a couple of times.
Over the past 3 months or so, I have found his behavior intolerable. He treats my friend like crap.
She plays on my Friday night team, and out of 6 games, she has missed 3. One of them he came to the game and made her upset and cry. On that night he started having all these dumb ideas that she didn't do well when he was there, and that she was trying to get away from him, etc.
He's such a jealous and insecure jerk that I can't even be near him because i would totally rip him a new one. My husband hates him.
My friend emailed me last night and she is officially done with the Friday night team. She can't play anymore. I emailed her back asking if she wanted to talk, and she said yes, but not today. We are supposed to talk tomorrow. So somehow I will have to find time to call her...the kids have their first horse riding lessons tomorrow in the morning, and she didn't tell me how long they would last.
I know its his fault. It kills him that his wife is doing something fun without him. I know he doesn't like her hanging out with me because I am a bad influence. My husband doesn't order me around like a slave. I cook, clean and take care of things for him because I want to. He treats me with respect and sees me as a partner, not his bitch.
Her husband wants a slave, someone to coddle his giant ego and she has provided that for 12 years. She can't have any friends because it takes time away from serving him.

We don't talk about her marriage...unless she wants to confide in me. She knows that I will not tell her about what I feel is wrong, because that is not right. I will always lend an ear and a shoulder, though. My friend needs confidence in herself and her abilities. She has had the courage in the past to do what was best, I just hope she finds it again.

It just makes me so mad to see her hurt like this...

Meltdowns....

You know, I had thought about changing dramaQueen's nickname. She had seemed to have mellowed out, and no one I talked to could understand why I called her DQ. Such a nice happy child.

Well, that nice happy child is in her room wailing, screaming, crying and just having a total meltdown.
Why?
Because her brother's penguin is allowed on the boat to play games and hers isn't.

OMG...you have to be kidding me....

But its no joke. She is in there, still screaming for the past 5 minutes. I can only hope that she goes hoarse.
In the meantime, I have attempted to ask my son why he can get in, and she can't. But I don't think he really knows so that is no help...but now he is just rambling on and on about the possible causes....

The Internet Ordeal.....

a few days ago I was online in the morning. Shut everything down, went to go exercise. Come back at lunch, nothing works. I tried everything, and finally broke down and called verizon.
After an hour on my cell phone (because no one can charge the damn cordless phones) they tell me my router is bad and get me hooked up on one computer. Hongo's computer.

Okay...the last two days have been HE!!. I don't know how people with only one computer do it. There are 5 people here who all want to use the computer at the same time. I always make the kids take turns, but me??? I have to take a turn? Say what???

I was emailing back and forth with someone, and I kept cutting into my kids' Club Penguin/Runescape time. "Let me use it really quick, sweetie."
I even broke down and started using my phone to check my mail. Yes, this would be the week when all the important stuff starts coming in.

So today I said "THAT'S ENOUGH! I can't live like this anymore~" The final straw was that Hongo's computer was the only one with access, yet MY computer is the one with all the information that needs to be uploaded. and the connection wouldn't work.

and since Hongo was working late, chaffeuring someone to Le Chateau West Valley where you get a free night's stay with meal included, I decided to call Verizon and get this straightened out.

An hour and half, two technicians, and a gallon of water later, my computers are all back up and running. That means that the kids only have to share when Hongo is at home. Because I am not a very good sharer. Must be the only child in me.... ;)

I'm cold....

I'm just dropping in during lunch to announce that I am cold. That's it. The weather changed too drastically for me, and even though I have sweaters and jeans....I'm cold.
I am almost done knitting my sweater - half a sleeve and the neck to be done.
I am also almost finished with a hat. I made it for my son, but he said he didn't want anymore hats, so I may just let DramaQueen have it. That girl can never have too many hats.

for the over 30 crowd.....

I JUUUUUUST barely made it into this one!

When I was a
kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how
hard things were when
they were growing up, what with walking 25 miles to school every morning ...
Uphill BOTH ways.



Yadda, yadda, yadda


And I remember promising myself that when I grew up,
there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids
about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But now that... I'm over
the ripe old age of 30, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of
today.
You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you
live in a damn Utopia!


And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know
how good you've got it!



I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet .

If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library & look
it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!



There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a
letter, with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way
across the street & put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week
to get there!



There were no MP3's or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had
to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to
wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ usually talk over the
beginning and @#*% it all up!



We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were
on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
We didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either.
When the phone rang,
you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss,
your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!!
You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!



We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution
3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! Games like 'Space Invaders'
and ‘asteroids'.
Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your
imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just
one screen forever!



And you could never win.
The game just kept getting harder and harder and
faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!



When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating!
All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad
with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!



Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels
and there was no on screen menu and no remote control! You had to use a
little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on.
You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel & there was no cartoon network either! You could only seecartoons on Saturday Morning.
Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait
ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!



And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to
use the stove or go build a frigging fire... imagine that! If we wanted
popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing & shake it over the
stove forever like an idiot.



That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy.

You're spoiled.
You guys wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes back in 1980!




Regards,

The over 30 Crowd

Rain? what Rain?

That was the big news of the week. rain this weekend.

Well I didn't see any rain...did you? No, I didn't think so.
Today we did go out and I wore jeans and a long sleeved shirt (because that is just the kind of girl I am) and I am happy to say that I didn't freeze and maybe once or twice I felt a little warm and over dressed.

We took the kids out shopping for pants and boy was that an ordeal. I have the tween who wears a size 12, 14, and 16 all in one. I swear every store that we went to, the pants would NOT fit right. We finally ended up finding two pairs that fit in a size 16.

Then I have the middle child with long stick legs. She will be a very slender, make you sick because she is so skinny kind of girl. She ended up with a 7 slim.

The Hairy One was by far the worst...the people who design little boys jeans must think no one cares what a boy wears from the age of 4-7. Because I saw some really ugly jeans today.

So we bought 6 pairs of jeans today. Hooray for mom! Next paycheck we will go out and look for some tops. Oh joy. Did you know most of the tops we saw today cost more than the jeans???

We also returned some library books and bought some yarn. I have three more sweaters in queue after I finish the one for myself. LQ is next and today I picked up some light gray wool yarn for a sweater for her, and then there will most likely be pink yarn in the future for DQ. The Hairy One has not decided on a color yet, but that is okay since I havent even found a pattern for him. I think by the time I finish I will be so sick of sweaters that I will be embracing the opportunity to knit socks.

Tomorrow I do not have softball, so I will most likely be working in the yard and doing home improvement projects to get ready for the winter. We have new neighbors next door and you know how I am - very competitive when it comes to whose grass is the greenest and who has the fewest weeds.....lol.

come on...

show us how its done!

dramaqueen and friends

The Hairy One

working at in n out burger