When did I become the help desk?

You have to love summer vacation. For the last three days, i have been asked to buy bikes, exchange bikes, fix bikes, fix the lawnmower, fix the t.v., upload pictures, help take care of the cat, all the while having at least 10 extra kids under my feet at all times. Seriously, when did I become the help desk? Like I know anything about bicycles or lawnmowers, much less t.v.'s. They must be joking!!! It's kind of making me nutty. Today I was contemplating if you would get energy faster from the hydroxycut if you crushed and snorted it lol. Ryan informed me that this was probably not acceptable. I guess he's right but geez what am I freaking superwoman? Although even with all the constant problems and things beding fixed, i have managed to clean the house, do the laundry, go grocery shopping, fix dinner and clean up the mess, mow the front yard, host a birthday party, go get Ryan a new truck, check on the grandma and man the constant dog-cat war. Not bad if I do say so myself lol. Oh yes, and I found time to create a facebook account. Because that's exactly what I need. Some dumb computer blog consuming more of my time (unlike this one :) ). Anyway, the brownies are burning and Eli needs help fixing the computer lol so later!!!

Not much going on

So not much new in Robinson. we've had a busy week. Ryan's grandma was in the hospital this week so I spent Sunday nite in the e.r. for about 4 hours until they got her a room. Then we had to go to her house in the country and retrieve her 3 dogs and bring them home with us. Yes that made a total of 5 dogs and 4 kids in my house for a couple of days. Things that could drive you to drink lol. Anyway, she has a great dane that's like a hundred years old, a medium sized mixed breed, and a little dog with a fan tail (i have no idea what kind of dog it is!). So needless to say none of the five dogs were really too interested in going outside, they all just kind of stood under my feet the whole time (kind of awkward to have a great dane under you feet!). My dogs were horrible. They did things like knocked the kitchen trash over, drug it all over the house, stayed up all nite barking at nothing. Needless to say I was relieved when she got to go home tuesday nite. So I picked her up from the hospital and took her home, went back to town to the pharmacy, and then went back and fixed her dinner and got her settled in. It was nice to be able to help her. Our census has been low at work so I got on call one nite, and then the second nite I floated to a different floor, but I suppose I should be grateful that I have a job to go to at all. Ali had 8th grade graduation last nite, and I swear you'd have thought those girls were going to prom! Her and her girlfriend got home at 1:30 and seriously worked on getting ready until 6:30 when they had to leave!!! Crazy! She did look beautiful though. Not much else happening here. Today was payday for me, and by the time I paid all the bills, I have just enough money left to go to Terre Haute to Aldi's and get groceries!!! Go me!! I think I found a second job. I'm not so excited about working a second job, but I'm tired of being broke all the time! Anyway it's at a nursing home in Sullivan. I'm suppose to go interview with the lady today, and she said she would "get me on board" to start training. Yay. I know you all wish you were me don't you? lol. Well anyway, I need to start updating my resume, so that it for now!

Our dinner on the beach

The wind boats that require wind to work





Random beach pictures torture everyone!

Some wedding pics

Cracking up!

So I just got caught up on every ones blog pages. Mom you crack me up!!! Ironically enough these are the same "Events" I deal with every day. Devin still has the hat on, even though it's 75 degrees out, and just came home from the park in nothing but the hat and his pants. Do not ask me where the rest of his clothes or shoes are, because I probably don't want to know. Ali was late for flag practice again, and somehow this is my fault even though I started telling her 15 minutes before she had to be there that it was time to go. Micah is still not home, even though I have text him twice and told him he was suppose to be home at 430 (it's now 610). He doesn't remember the conversation that we have had every day for the last month about coming home after school. Strange isn't it? And Eli hates what I've made for dinner (as usual). It's no wonder the kid is so little, all he eats is crap. Of course as per usual no one has home work tonight. How does that happen? Everyone but Eli is making d's and f's but no one ever has homework? I, like mom, think that Melissa swiped the house key and God knows what else. Why anyone would want a key to this chaos is beyond me but whatever. So I suggessted to Ryan that perhaps it's time to change the locks. Our vacation was wonderful on a happier note. Jamaica was beautiful even though it did rain every day we were there. Also, for anyone who feels the need to relapse, this is apparently the place to go. Ryan somehow put off the aura that he was a druggie, so before we ever made it out of the airport, he was being offered ganja (i don't know if i spelled that right but you get the gest.) And then about 5 more times before we got to the resort. Then by the door man. And then when we decided to walk down the beach to browse the shops he got offered more weed. This guy was actually going to just give it to him so he could try it and see what he thought of the product lol. Then when he said no to the pot he offered coke (and I don't mean the kind you drink!). At this point Ryan had had enough so we decided to go lay on the beach, where another guy wanted to sell him shrooms lol. I was cracking up. Ryan however did not find it as entertaining as i did. All I can say is thank God I have a job that drug tests or I might have brought some ganja back with me!!! It seems the chaos was much more tolerable when I was stoned all the time! Anyway, besides that it was a great time. The resort was beautiful, and the beach was beautiful, and our wedding was beautiful, even though it was raining. However the Jamaican's say it's good luck if it rains on your wedding day. Something about a long and happy life together. Oh lucky Ryan!!! They have the best coffee there too, called Blue Mountain coffee. Awesome stuff. We didn't do a whole lot while we were there. We did go snorkling which was cool unless you're chlostraphobic and then maybe not so much, but I did it anyway. We also did the wind boats which was fun, but there was not really much wind, so we pretty much just sat on the boat in the ocean lol. Guess you can't complain about that. We did a lot of jacuzzi-ing, and sunbathing on the beach (they brought cold washclothes around for your face like every hour, and sent the bartenders down to the beach to bring you drinks!!!). We had dinner on the beach one night which was awesome. Anyway, you guys have probably heard enough about my good time so I will post some pics and as soon as I can figure out how to e-mail pics I will. Seems my IT guy is much more concerned about school (I don't know why he graduates next week!) but anyway thank you everyone (especially mom!) for everything.

So I don't have much to say but, haven't updated in a while. Last night at work was crazy, had to do some old school psych moves to keep people in bed where they belong, and still was not very effective. Sometimes that place is like working in a freaking daycare!!! And can I just say there is a very good reason I didn't choose psych lol. Anyway, we are working to get our house cleaned up before we leave for our trip, and trying to get the rest of our stuff bought, and said trip paid for before we leave in 3 weeks. I'm pretty much worn out between work, and the kids, and all of the cleaning but will probably survive. Just want to let Carissa know that we have the same kind of Events here, pretty much on a daily basis, just don't talk about them because it makes me too mad!! Latest Events....Devin found a giant bottle of baby powder and proceded to dump it all over his room, not once, but twice. Seriously, he's almost 13!!! When does the madness end?? I even made him clean it all up the first time. Why on earth would he do it again? And we're not talking a little baby powder on the floor. We're talking the entire floor was covered, as well as all hard surfaces, the tv, clean clothes, etc. Both times!! Carissa, not looking promising for Ian. Also, he is pretty much failing the 7th grade. Will probably be in 7th grade again next year, or summer school at the very least. I have no idea what to do to motivate the kid. Nothing I do works. I ground him, take things away, reward him, try to bribe him, give him medicine on a regular basis, help him, offer tutoring. What else am I suppose to do? Micah also has failed at least one class a semester since high school started. I have taken the cell phone, computer, house phone, refuse to let him go anywhere, threatened to not let him tke driver's ed. Nothing works. I wish someone could give me some tips here because these Events are making me crazy. Also, my house is a complete and utter disaster because it turns out the three days a week i'm at work for 15 hours, no one here (with the exception of Ryan who works full time, and goes to school full time) is capable of picking up after themselves! Very frustrating. I have decided that most of the women you see on 48 hours mystery that vanish into thin air...it's not because some weirdo comes and takes them. It's because their families act like ingrates, and one day they wake up, decide they've had enough, and just disappear when their kids leave for school! I think about this sometimes, however, I don't think I could really do it lol. Ali made flag team (which is only $160 for the school year), and just found out that she also made the dance team for next year (also $150 for the year). Lucky me, to have such talented kids. She's going to have to start babysitting more lol. Well that's it for now!!!! P.S. These are the kid's school pictures, however Micah insists that the picture people never came to the high school, so there are no pictures of him.

In keeping with the theme, Happy Birthday Mom! Im glad I finally got to talk to you, so glad you had a good day. I will be thinking for days to come of Eli's scenario of you "out partying with your friends and playing bingo" lol. So tis will be short and sweet, Ryan and I are going to Chicago today. We will see Nickelback and Seether (I'm pretty sure at least Ethan knows who I'm talking about) tonight and then just hang out with his family and friends this weekend. It's always a good time when we go up there. The little kiddies will be staying here this weekend, with the sitter, and maybe my dad part of the time. They are not so happy about it, but what can you do? Well sounds like everyone is good there. I miss you all!! Happy Birthday Mom, We love you!!!

So because I seem to be computer illiterate, I cannot seem to upload the picture of my dress either. I asked IT about it today and he rattled off something about it needing to be in JPEG format? and instead it was in something else, have no idea after that because i tuned out tokyo. Anyway, tomorrow I will beg him to do it for me since he is off tomorrow and is now officially on spring break. He does not know it yet, but I have big plans for him the next couple of days lol. Anyway it seems the one thing I am capable of doing is uploading the pictures I scanned so I have posted a few of my favorites, although I have to ask, Mom what was with my hair in the picture of Ethan and I? Did you give me a perm? Was it suppose to look like that? Was it stylish or something? Anyway. not much to say. The peer review thing was better than I anticipated, although I was fairly exausted from getting up so early (why did I do that anyway?) I think I'm like Ethan, in that I like the peace and quiet that early, while everyone is still sleeping and the house is quiet. It's quite nice, however 3:30 may be a bit excessive lol. Also want to show you all a little picture of what goes on in my room, the moment I step out of bed. I got up originally this morning just to use the bathroom and when I got back in the bedroom, this was the scene which may have prompted me to stay up at that ridiculous hour lol.

Ok if this actually works, here is a picture of the dress I want to get, let me know what you think. I forgot to tell everyone the most important news of all while I was complaining yesterday. I fixed my espresso machine!!!! Yes me, all me! Needless to say I had two lattes last night, took a little nap, and have been up since three-thirty this morning but man I feel great!!! This is the most fabulous machine ever! Anyway, I have to go finish getting ready for my meeting. Mom, you can relax, I reviewed my blogs, and haven't mentioned where I work, so I think I'm safe. And Carissa, great job once again on the slide show of Annika. Very cute. You will laugh when you see mine, because poor Eli was born before the days of digital cameras, so I had to scan most of his pics, and cannot figure out how to center some of them, so it's kind of entertaining to watch. Anyway, thanks for the tip, and tonight I'll have some more lattes, and see if I can get that slide show transferred to this dumb page for all of you. Well have a good day everyone!!

So today is Eli's birthday. I spent 3 days scanning old photos and creating a stupid slide show so I could be all computer savvy like Carissa, yet I can't seem to figure out how to get it on this stupid blog site!!! Unfortunately my tech support has been busy with school and work so I'm afraid my little show will have to wait lol. So what do you want to hear about first, work or weight loss? Ok so I rejoined weight watchers and joined the gym in an effort to lose 20 pounds before we go on our trip. I figured that gave me 9 weeks to lose, what averages about 2 pounds a week. The first week all was well, I ate well, worked out alot, and low and behold when I went to weight watchers I had lost 4 pounds. Not bad I figured. At that rate I may be able to wear a one-piece, as opposed to a mu-mu. Well, this week I have all but starved myself, passing up all good things (except for Eli's ice cream cake :) lol). I am walking 2.5 to 3 miles a day on the stupid treadmill, doing crunches on the stupid little ball, bicycling Lord knows how far, and can we just say today when I went to weigh in, I lost 1 pound!!! Are you freaking kidding me? God has a sick sense of humor doesn't he? Well I guess losing 1 is better than gaining 1 but still!!! How frustrating. Moving on. Work, oh glorious work. It seems that since mom mentioned no one in my family had been sick, Monday night as I was walking out the door for work, I began puking my guts up. It was too late to call in, because I overslept and didn't realize I was sick lol. So any way I drove the hour to work, so completely nauseated that I could barely see the road. When I got there I called house supervisor and begged them to send someone down to cover me so I could go home. And she did almost four hours later!! Anyway I spent pretty much the next 24 hours in bed, praying to die, but am feeling better now. Someone at work thought it would be a good idea for me to be on the peer review committee lol (because we all now how good I am with confrontation and all),
so now tomorrow I have to spend my whole day off at a stupid meeting reviewing my peers! How ridiculous is that? I didn't ask to participate in this, because my idea of handling the situation is to do their work for them lol. So that is what I have to look forward to tomorrow. (by the way is anyone counting how many times I've said stupid in this blog? I think it's alot). Eli's birthday has been rather uneventful. We had a sleepover this weekend, not sure who's bright idea that was but I hope next year they think long and hard about having a party somewhere else! We had three or four boys over plus my boys (because Micah is grounded yet again!). They ordered pizza, ran around the house, had ice cream cake, ran around the house some more, and then I finally took some tylenol pm and left Ryan to supervise lol. Who knows what went on after that, but all in all he had a good time. Today Ryan and I took him out for lunch and he had his first ever adult meal from a restaurant (McDonald's, his choice). He got a double cheeseburger meal, which was comical to watch because he was determined to eat it all and I was pretty sure he would hurl before he got it down, but he managed all right. Then we took a football cupcake thing to school for his class. Tonight I made his favorite, Pollo Ranchero for dinner and then he forced me to take him to wal mart to spend his money from Grandma Goody and Barry (remind me to thank you later!!!) He ended up buying two wrestling things that were on clearance for a dollar a piece and some candy lol. He's something else. Well that's it for now, I gotta go to bed so I can get up at 5 am on my day off!!! :(

Finally Blogging

So I haven't updated this in a while, mostly because I've been lazy. Not much new here. I went back to weight watches this week (which I hate for the record) and I joined the gym at the hospital (which I am actually enjoying!). I've decided I would really love to lose like 20 pounds before we go to Jamaica in 2 monthes. I really don't want to be the only fat girl on the resort lol. Anyway, we'll see how it goes. The weight watchers lady says you have to be committed to weight loss, and I guess maybe I have commitment issues when it comes to this. But anyway, Eli's birthday is almost here so we will be having a little sleep over next friday. He's excited about it I think. He's so easy to please. All he wants is to have two or three friends spend the night, order pizza, and play x-box. And all he asked for was a camera. Just a camera, that's it. Crazy kid lol. Ali made the flag team for next year (the high school team!!!) and she's very excited, except this created some tension between her and her best friend (obviously her friend did not make the team and felt she should have because she says she's better than Ali Ha!). Devin will be trying out for the track team in a week or so, so lets pray that he makes it as it may be some encouragement to bring his grades up lol. And Micah doesn't have much going on. That's about it except we did get our wedding trip paid off finally. And we went last night and got Ryan's wedding ring. I'm pretty excited! We will get married on April 27th at 2pm, and I will be sure to send pictures when we get back. Well that's it for now, I have to go clean for Ryan's grandma and then try to take a nap before I go to work. Love and miss you all!!!

Note to blog followers

It seems that the cord to my camera has vanished into thin air, so Ryan has decided that for Valentine's day he will buy me a new printer that has a drive (if that's what it's called?) for my camera chip and a picture scanner. (Isn't he quite the romantic?) Anyway just wanted to let you know, I predict it will take me approximately six months to read the instruction manual and figure out how exactly this thing works and maybe by this time next year I will actually have some pictures on this site lol. What I need I think, is a photography/computers for dummies book, however it must contain information for both because I couldn't stand to read two different tech books lol. If anyone should happen to see something like this perhaps you should pick it up and mail it to me!!!

Feeling Better

So now that I have slept, I must say I feel a little better. I've got to tell you though, this working two days, and then being off a day, and then working a day and then being off a day is kind of for the birds. I worked Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, so when I came home Sunday morning I had like an hour before we had to get ready for church. I decided I would rest my eyes for a few minutes and can anyone guess how that turned out? Yes I slept until 4:30 in the afternoon. Darn it! At that point I was much too tired to cook so we took the kids out to dinner and to wal-mart to spend their Christmas money from my dad (we hadn't seen them in months!) When we got home at 8 I promptly put my pajamas back on and got in bed to watch the grammy's (how great was Neil Diamond? Ick!!!). Anyway needless to say I think I was back asleep by 10 and slept all night. Then Monday I took the kids to school and decided I had probably better go back to bed since I had to work all night Monday night!!! Sheesh, why bother having a day off if all you're going to do is sleep? Of course Monday night at work I had all these big plans of how I would stay up today and clean etc. Needless to say once Ryan and the kids left for school I went directly to bed and slept all day lol. Oh well what can you do? So the weather has been great here (in the 60's the last couple of days!) except for one thing...The three foot of snow we got has turned my back yard into a swamp and so now every time the dogs go out (which is every 10 minutes since it's so nice out they love it outside!) they come back in covered in mud from head to toe! And no matter how much you wipe them off there are still muddy paw prints all over the house. So needless to say, my evening, (my only night off :( ) does not involve candles and bubble baths. No fancy dinners or champagne. Rather a mop and a big bucket of floor cleaner (yay me the entire house is hard wood!!!), all of which seems kind of pointless when I think about the big picture, since the back yard is no less muddy today than it was yesterday, but that is what I will be doing. Seriously, someone should habe told me growing up would be so much fun, I think I would have reconsidered!!! Well I must get to mopping so good bye for now!

Work Sucks!

For those of you requesting a new blog, I don't have the time or the energy today but here you go...My job is sucking the life right out of me!! I have had about 9 hours of sleep in the last three days and have to go back to work in an hour for another, what ends up being a 15 hour shift :(. Not happy about it!! I'm tired and I'm cranky, and last night was horrible. It was a bit like Ethan's picture on his blog page. Oh yeah and apparently complaining about my schedule and how much I hate working three nights in a row got me something. Yes check this out. The whole month since I requested my boss to split my schedule up, I'm now on one, off one, on two, off one and so forth for the entire schedule. I have decided the big issue is I just don't want to work. Or I want a job like Malcolm's where I learn how not to work from the boss lol. Actually I don't mind working, I just want to decide when it's convenient for me to work (which for the record will be about one night a month lol). Oh anyway, it's off to the trenchs. Peace, love and harmony! Have a great weekend! Love you guys

What a great day!!

So for all of you who have to listen to me constantly moan about my kids and my job etc. and how rough it is, I need to set the record straight. Let me tell you what I did today. I woke up at 6:30, got the kids up and took them to school.Then I took Eli to the eye dr. and then dropped him off at school. After that I decided I really didn't feel like doing anything else since it's cold and nasty out and we got more snow last nite, so I got back in my pj's and went back to bed where I watched two, yes two episodes of what not to wear and then took a 2 hour nap!!! How glorious!!! The rest of the evening I will make dinner, help Dev with homework (science fair projects are due this week!), and then I will go back to bed and watch some more t.v. lol. It is a rough life I lead I tell you, some days I don't know how I manage. :) For those of you reading this who are still in school and raising babies, look at this as what you have to look forward to. Someday you too will have all your kids at school and will no longer be in school yourselves and the amount of nap time that opens up is unbelievable so chin up!!!

Thank God it's Monday!!!

So I want to say that while I love my children dearly, thank God it's Monday!! I truly believe that some smart person created school merely to get their children out of the house!!! They should have a special holiday to recognize this person whoever he or she may be! So Micah has been grounded for the last 2 weeks, and we still have 2 more to go. No cell phone, no friends, what's a boy to do? Drive us all crazy that's what!!! All he does is hover over me and drive Devin and Eli nuts. While it has been nice having him around more, seriously, this is punishing me more than him, which is kind of defeating the purpose I do believe but whatever. Ali thinks that I am on the earth solely to drive her and her friends around and to constantly entertain, which I have to say is kind of annoying!! Yesterday I was conned into taking her and two of her friends to super walmart to buy stuff for their super bowl party (lol like they even knew who was in the superbowl!!). Yes three giggling thirteen year olds, who supposedly had money to purchase their party supplies. Turns out one of them had a whopping $3, the other had $10 but didn't want to spend all of it and my daughter had none, so would you like to make an educated guess at who foot the bill for the fifteen kids that attended? Well at least it wasn't at my house lol. Dev and Eli, they are much easier. They just play countless hours of x-box, which is nice except for Micah constantly trying to kick them off since this is the only thing he really isn't grounded from lol. Oh yeah, and since we got 3 feet of snow last week the kids were home almost the entire week with me, which made the weekend more torturous than normal!!! So again I say thank God it's Monday!!! Someday I'll look back on all this and miss them I'm sure :)

So for my family this is my attempt at the blog page you requested. I have no idea what i'm doing (i feel certain you already know that), but I deserve credit for the effort I have put forth! I will be buying a new card for my camera very soon at which point if I can figure out how to do it I will upload pictures and make this a more inviting blog page lol! At any rate I will add to these posts when I actually have some news to share, until then, let this be a trial post to see if it actually works lol!