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I'm at work and bored so I will try to catch up on things. I feel like I will never catch up on here. I am always days behind. Well at least they are not as long as they could be since after a few days somethings don't seem important enough to add. LOL

Friday, I woke up for work like always and had to rush so I could also help carry things outside for the yard sale. Surprisingly the kids are being ok with selling their TVs and entertainment centers from their rooms and their Foosball table.

James told them that they would break going across the country and they will get new ones after we move. I thought they would put up more of a fight. James was going to sell his casino table thing but I reminded him that back home we actually had friends that used to come over for poker nights and they would like it. The kids never knew what was inside of it because the house was so packed with stuff we just always used it with the cover on it behind the loveseat to hold plants and an aquarium. So now that the furniture is all moved they play roulette and craps all the time. James taught them, I'm still not sure yet if I'm mad about that. I can just see the girls telling my over proper mother that they play craps and roulette. Well he hasn't taught them the Texas Hold'em or Black Jack yet. LOL

So I went off to work. It was the first day back for the girl that just had the baby. For right now they have decided for both of us to work together for 2 days a week. Since I only work 4 days they didn't know what to do so that I wouldn't lose hours. So they are paying us both to do 1 persons job. I don't want to lose the hours but I feel very weird. I find myself trying to do everything so I look like I'm worth the money. Which is hard when I only have half of one persons job to do. The other girl seems like she is bored and wishes she could just have it alone like before and I don't blame her. I wouldn't want to work with someone else. We will see how it goes next weekend. I really am not looking forward to it. I hate feeling out of place. James says to just go to a temp agency till we move, but I would rather not have such a short employment on my resume.

Ok, back to yard sale. I got home from work to find that James only made $23 since the sign at the subdivision entrance had blown down and they didn't know. Then we realised James never defrosted dinner so we had to figure something out. I said Chinese; James said groceries are cheaper. James then came back from the grocery store after spending $90. LOL

Saturday, woke up for work, carried out yard sale stuff, just like Friday. At work I helped the girl get an email account and upload pictures to a photo album so I felt a little more useful. Then back home I went to find that James sold a bit more that day. The rest of the stuff however; was all back in the house just left where ever. So I get to clean and organize again. Yippy. I now hate yard sales and I didn't even have to be at home and do it.

Well, it is almost time for me to go home so I will finish Friday night tommorrow.

I can't believe it is already Sunday night and Spring break is already over. We have been so busy and I really haven't gotten any thing done that I wanted to. Hmm where did I leave off.


Tuesday, Nicole had an eye doctor appointment. James and I have very bad eyes and Noelle & Neona both wear glasses already so we wanted to get Nicole checked since she is in the middle of them in age.



She has recently refered to her one eye as her "good eye". We got to the eye doctor and she was fine till we had to go in the back. She was very nervous and then upset when the doctor said she didn't need glasses yet. She started to cry when she realised it was time for the glaucoma air puff test. The doctor whispered in her ear that is she didn't tell her sisters she wouldn't have to do it this time since it was scary enough being her first time there.



As we were leaving she informed me that her ears were still itchy and hot like they were the night before. I looked and the skin was dry and flakey. She has always had sensitive skin and her old doctor said she probably had mild excema. I dropped Nicole off at home and then it was time to bring Noelle in to get her 2 new pairs of glasses fitted at a differant place and go get groceries for dinner since I forgot to defrost anything.


Wednesday, Nicole woke up with a "hot rashy beard" as she put it. It went from ear to ear on her cheeks and under her chin. She had no other symptoms so I slathered her up with noxema and sat her on the loveseat/quarantine area like when she had pink eye a few weeks ago.



Then on to cleaning and organizing for the yard sale over the weekend minus one helper. I of course did most of it with kids just watching to argue that they need to keep everything. We got Noelle's room done. The worst part being her desk, which resembles a garbage dump.



Then on to my room. OMG, James started "cleaning" last weekend which means I had a rubbermaid in the middle of the floor full of tools that he hasn't had time to put back in their cases. Plus a pile of papers on the coffee table (Yes, he needs a coffee table in the bedroom. I'm just glad the loveseat is finally gone so there is only a chair now.)



The papers are on the coffee table because he "cleaned" the desk and they need to be filed. There is also a pile of cords on the floor by the door to the bathroom because he "cleaned" the desk drawer. I left everything as it was for days waiting for it to get finished and now I can't handle it any more.



I must say that I think when I put cords in the desk they breed. I don't even know what all the cords go to any more or if I even need them. I then go to make dinner since I actually remembered to defrost it today. I made one of those boxed chicken meals that you add water to, put in a casserole pan and bake with chicken breasts on top. It was Southwest rice, James picked it out. We ate a late lunch so only James ate it. I left it on the stove to cool off before I put it away. It remained there till I found it when I woke up in the morning. :( Oops


Thursday, after waking up to find a whole wasted dinner, I woke up the kids to continue cleaning. Nicole was still rashy and now Neona had pink eye. Neona, got the quarantine loveseat now and Nicole after jumping around fine for a day had to clean regardless of rash.



We woke up late because we stayed up late playing video games. So we didn't get much done when we had to go to the bank for change for the yard sale. Then off to the hardware store for signs and to get a hose since the dogs ate ours.


It is almost time for me to leave work and go home so I will continue more tommorrow.

Well, today was a half day at school and the beginning of Spring Break. Today started out almost normal. I woke up early so I could get the kids and I ready to go. Noelle had a science project due so we had to get that all packed up.

It was a half day so she needed a pillow for her class's traditional half day reading on the floor thing. Then off to work I went. I got my second 25 cent raise since I started there in January so I was feeling good.

Then I went home...I walked in the door to find an extra kid,the bedrooms are a mess, and kids screaming; "Can you bring us to the pool", "It's 80 degrees out and we haven't gone swimming yet this year",and "Dad is sick on the couch and says to ask you".

Our subdivision has a pool 2 blocks away but after waking up at 5:30am and having nothing but coffee until 2:30pm all I want is to sit down and eat lunch. Well now Noelle went to sleep over at a friends and Nicole and Neona decided it is too hot outside to play any longer so James decided he is feeling good enough to watch a movie.

I am going to grab a drink, start dinner and watch a movie. This maybe the last time for over a week that I won't hear how bored everyone is.

I can't believe I almost went a whole month without blogging. This has been a busy month and I didn't realise it had been so long.

Well, I will try to do catch up as fast as possible but lord knows I can't make long stories short. I can't even make short stories short.

About 3 weeks ago I got home to find a message on the answering machine from James' aunt. She said we needed to call her because James' dad was in the hospitol. James' dad has had his arteries in his legs replaced twice. We have always worried about his health but whenever we ask anything all he says is that he is alive. He has only called us after he has surgury and that was just while we lived in Wisconsin. He would just call to ask us to take out his dog.

Well, this time he had a blood clot in his leg. He was in ICU when she called us because he had to have angioplasty and the meds he was on. Both of James' aunts are nurses so they could help care for him a bit but they work alot too.

James decided that he had to go and see his dad and see what kind of condition he is in. We have always known that one day we will need to move back there to be there for him. He never remarried or even dated. He raised James on his own so they have a differant kind of bond.

James started to get everything ready to leave. He had to bring a guy in from Tucson to run the store here and he worked on my Jeep. There was small everyday stuff he wanted to check since he was going to be gone and I had to drive back and forth to the airport twice.

The drive to Tucson is only an hour and a half but it is just desert between mountain ranges. No businesses and no cell phone signals. The most you see are border patrol mobile station like things. My Jeep was starting to squeek so he wanted to check everything. He noticed I was leaking coolant the day before he had to leave. I needed a new water pump and he didn't have the tools or the time to do it. That is when I started to freak and feel like this trip was going to be horrible for me.

SATURDAY
I went to work at 8am, worked until 2:20 because the next girl was late, and then raced home. James claimed I shouldn't worry about the coolant leak and that he would feel safer if I drove the Jeep instead of his Land Rover. So we all hopped in the Jeep and headed off. First the bank, then gas, and then A&W of course. When leaving this town there is 30 minutes of empty highway before you hit the interstate. There is a truck stop at the interstate with an A&W in it so we have to stop for food everytime we go anywhere out of town. The kids love A&W.

We inhaled our food and then off to the airport. Tucson Airport is small compared to what I am used to but James did not want me driving the extra 2 hours to go to Pheonix like we did when we lived in Oro Valley. James flew out at 6:20 and we drove back home and played video games all night.

TUESDAY
James tells me on Monday that he does not want me driving the Jeep to pick him up without getting the water pump replaced first. So he has made an appointment for me at 8:30am so I can get back before the kids are done with school. I never have to deal with this stuff. Maybe I'm spoilled but I don't do these things. I rarely even get my own gas. James says it is about a 2 hour job and I should call a cab. I figure that is a waste of money for just 2 hours so I bring a book and plan on finding a restaurant to sit in.

Since this is a military town all of the businesses are all crammed together on the one road that comes out of the base. I get to the place to drop off my Jeep and they are packed full of cars and tell me they won't be done until around 1pm. Where am I going to waste time until then? I have no cash for a cab or even their phone number.

So I call James and tell him how upset I am and then start my walking around to waste time. I see a Jack in the Box and decide to have coffee and breakfast. I sit and read while eating my breakfast burrito and drinking my coffee. I look at my watch to find it is only 9:15. I can not waste all this time like this.

So I start to walk figuring I will find an ATM soon and then call a cab. After awhile I find a bank, get money, and decide to walk till I find more coffee so when I call a cab I can sit and wait. I walk for ages and see the Dennys sign and think well maybe I should just go there and sit and just wait there instead of taking a cab home.

I keep walking towards it thinking about if I could sit that long or would I just go insane. I walk and think some more and remember that the sports bar I used to work at is in that same parking lot as Dennys, but is 10am way too early to be seen at a bar. I decide that 10am is way too early but I will anyway.

...After I talked to old coworkers for awhile James called to tell me he went to visit one of the owners of the businesses he ran when we lived there. They met with the other owner and started to talk about things and next thing he knew they told him they just bought a little island in the U.P. of Michigan together and they want to be able to spend summers there with their kids and not have to be around to run the businesses.

They never hired anyone to over see both businesses after he left so they can't ever both leave. They said that since James had said we were seeing if we needed to move back home they wanted to offer him his old job back with the much higher pay he is making now. They said they don't want him touching cars any more they want him just taking care of the businesses and the money. Plus they don't want to deal with salary they want to pay him the equivalant in hourly pay at 50 hours a week.

Right now he is working around 65 hours a week because he doesn't have enough managers and he is salary. He said he would change around the whole business if he did because he has learned alot since he left. They said they didn't care what he did and they would continue to give him free reign like they always did. The catch is that they don't want to wait that long or they will find someone else because they want everything ready for them to go by summer.

So we talk about it on the phone for awhile and realise that we will be needing to move back home soon and this is a great offer. Heartland is a huge company so he never gets too much say and they will always move us to start new stores or fix them. I tell him to go for it. He says this means he has to move in 2 months and we will have to stay behind a month so the kids can finish off the school year and he can find a house. I said, yes I know, this isn't the first time. So, after just moving here Oct 22nd and not even being done unpacking it all...we are moving again.

So I tell him to call the garage and find out how long. It is now 12:30 and they say 30 minutes more, so I decide that maybe I should just walk back. I would feel silly getting a cab for a 5 minute drive. So off I go walking again. After I start walking I realise what a horrible mistake I made. My legs don't move as fast any more.

What a time to discover I am getting old and out of shape. I decided to stop at a 99cent store and get a few things for the girls. Then start walking again as fast as I can since my legs now feel like they are made out of lead. I finally see the garage and my salvation. I pay and go home. My head is killing me and I have 30 minutes to nap before the kids get home at 3:45. I could have just taken a cab home and back but I'm stupid.

SATURDAY
Saturday morning I was woken up at 5:30am to James telling me that the storm he worried about had started early and it didn't look good for his flight out that evening. They told him that he could sit on stand by and try to leave earlier if he was worried so he was driving to Chicago already. I was pissed that he woke me up early because his flight wasn't scheduled to come in till 10:55pm and I still had to go to work, drive to Tucson have dinner at my parents, drive to the airport, and drive back that late.

At work I kept the weather channel on and all it talked about was Milwaukee getting 12 inches. He did Chicago this time because Milwaukee doesn't fly straight to Tucson, it goes to Pheonix. I got done with work and called him to find out that all the flights are leaving on time and they are all full so he is still coming in late. I check all the web sites and everything looks good for his flight so we leave for Tucson.

We are running late so we drive right on past A&W and the kids are heart broken. We quick stop off at Micheal's to get more jewelry making stuff since there is no Micheal's in Sierra Vista and then race to my parents for dinner. James calls to say they are boarding the plane on time and he will text me when they start to taxi.

About 45 minutes later he calls to say they have just been informed that they don't have pilots. The pilots are stuck in a plane that can not unload because all of the gates are full. Over an hour later he calls again to say that they just got pilots but no one is deicing the plane for some reason.

Around another hour later he calls to say they have just been told to get off the plane the airport is closing. They said that they didn't think that they would be unloading the luggage in the morning and that it would probably fly to Tucson and be sitting there waitting for him. He threw a fit and got a hotel voucher because he couldn't even get through to reschedule his flight.

All the calls to the airline were getting dropped. He finally got through to get told that they couldn't fit him on a flight until Tuesday. So we headed back home. As we drove the girls decided they were starving and that we had to stop at A&W even though it was almost midnight. As I turned to get back on the highway I hear oh no that was my rootbeer. A rootbeer went flying out of one of the back cup holders and poured everywhere. We got home at 12:30am and I asked myself if it could get any worse.

Sunday
James called and woke me up before he headed out to buy more luggage and clothes and chargers and food. Stupid snow is costing me alot of money. Then I see Nicole... never ask if life can get worse. Life has a sick sense of humor.

Nicole has pink eye. I being the insane mom that I am have turned the love seat into a quarantine area. Nicole has her own remotes and games and everything she could need. Right next to which is her sanitizer bottle and her clorox disinfecting wipes. She is only allowed to go to the bathroom and back.

Tuesday
It is only a half day of school so the kids get to come with to pick up James. Nicole puts on her pink sunglasses so people don't notice she is still a bit pink. We start driving and I realise that my A/C is blowing out hot air. They must have disconnected something when they changed the water pump. So we drove in a hot car all the way there.

We pick up James and he has the nerve to be rude, and grumpy and say he is tired. I roll down the windows to cool off the car a bit before we hit the interstate. I go to roll them back up and James says to put up Nicole's window. So I push her's again. He sounding rude to me says I told you Nicole's window. I blow up about how I am not a moron and I WAS pushing Nicole's window.

Turns out the window is off track so on top of everything else now my window is messed up. I start thinking more about James being grumpy and saying he is tired. I drove back and forth 3 times, worked all week, took care of the kids, dealt with pink eye, and getting my car fixed. He has the nerve to say HE is tired when the most he did the last 3 days is shop and be stuck in a hotel room?????

As I drive home my mind is going a million miles a minute and I am ready to explode. He taps my hand that is now white clutched onto the wheel and says slow down it is only 55 here. I then realise that I am still going 85. I start to calm down and realise I am over reacting from the stress of the week.

He wants to stop and get movies and groceries for a fun night and then we go home. He tells Nicole she doesn't have to stay on the love seat and looks at me like I'm crazy and then starts the coals so we can grill some steaks and pork chops. We sit down in the livingroom to watch movies and then he sees that there are tv shows on that he likes. I can relax again, life is back to normal. LOL

Wednesday
We are finally up to today....I wake up and decide Nicole is still too pink to go to school and I get the other 2 ready. At 8am I tell them to get there back packs ready to leave for the bus. Autumn comes back from her room and tells me she can't find hers. then comes the realisation that they are still in the back of the Jeep because we went to the airport straight from school.

Well the Jeep is with James at work. So I get shoes on and look for my keys that have a set of Land Rover keys on them and can't find them. I call James, for some reason he put them on the kid's desk and he wants me to bring him some left over pork chops for lunch.

Then we all hop in the Land Rover and head to his work. I tell him I think he needs power stearing fluid or it is just angry that we ignored it for 2 weeks. He says to pop the hood. I say the kids will be late. He says he doesn't want me driving it that way and fills up the fluid. We race off and get to school at 8:35...5 minutes before the bell. How is it that my life is always so crazy?

Well then I go home and here I sit because I missed my laptop (James took it with) I don't like sitting in the bedroom facing a wall for very long. James called a bit ago to ask if I had started going through stuff to pack and throw away. I answered as if I have been busy all day ..."Can I finish all this laundry you brought home first".

So I should probably go do some laundry now. LOL

After waitting forever for the Nintendo Wii to get released (I needed a new Zelda game or I would die!) and then waitting forever for stores to get them in stock (stupid Nintendo) we finally got one today.

Words can not express how much the girls and I love new Zelda games. Ever since hearing of the new Nintendo Wii system and the new Zelda game we have been going nuts waitting for its release. We have always had "Girls Nights".

"Girls Nights" consisted of the most unhealthy dinner and dessert the girls chose for the night and a long night of video games. Our favorite games are any Zelda games. We had to play all the old games and win them again while we waited for the release.

After beatting them all again...still no release date. We had to come up with other games to calm our hunger. We discovered Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II (cool Disney games made by the Final Fantasy people for Playstation 2). Finished them and still no release date.

We discovered The Darkest Faerie ( a Neopets game that is similar to Zelda). Omg, we stooped to even playing a Neopets game. It isn't as bad as I thought it would be though.

Then finally a release date; but they were all sold out of the console before they were even released. All the stores insisted they would get more before Christmas so we bought all the other crap we needed (well over $100). EB Games said call every day because they won't know when they get a delivery until it shows up.

Curcuit City had a Sunday ad that assured they would have 20 per store at opening that day. James drove an hour and a half to that store and was 11th in line. At opening they said that some how they only got 10 (I'm sure the employees might have something to do with that). He then raced over to another store that said they would have 10 at opening that day. He was 10th in line...got a ticket...went to claim his Wii...and was told that they didn't realise the 10th one was already set up as a display one for people to play.

We kept calling and checking stores online till Christmas when we had to give the kids all the other stuff for the system but no system. We gave up trying for awhile when all the stores said they were told they might not get any more in until March.

That brings us to Saturday. James calls me from Walmart and tells me that they had an ad in the Saturday paper showing the Wii and that he was in line at the check out with one in his hands. He then calls me back and says that when he got to the front of the line the manager walked up and started screaming at the cashier and told her they were not allowed to sell any until Sunday. She then responded that she had already sold 2 and who knows who else has also.

He then refuses to let James buy one saying they were sent 20 and they can't be sold till Sunday. A very pissed off James went back to Walmart at midnight since it is then Sunday. They had a sign that read..."We have 10 Nintendo Wiis in stock and we have decided to bring them out at 6am". So a more pissed off James came back home. I was on the couch half asleep watching tv so he asked me to set my alarm for 4:30am.

My alarm on my cell phone went off and I was cold and tired so I picked up my cell phone and called his cell phone. I told him to wake up only to find out he was already at Walmart. Lord only knows when he got there. I wasn't brave enough to ask his tired and grumpy butt. Whenever he got there it was just before everyone else so finally he was first in line!!!!

Finally we got one. The system cost about $260 and people in line offered him $500 for it. Thank goodness he said no.

The girls and I played Zelda for 6 hours straight before I went to work. James had to work from 7:30am - 5pm so I figured I better have a good dinner all made for him before I left for work. I almost burnt dinner and I was almost late for work. I just got home from work and it is killing me that I can't play Zelda.

The girls and I have always had a deal with each other that even though we all have our own games saved we can never do anything new on a game unless we are all together watching. Which ends up meaning that I can't play without them because my game is always further ahead. They never beat the games so the only way they get to see the whole game is if they watch me play.

So I will be going insane waitting for the 2 hours between when they get home from school and when I have to leave for work. I do have off on Tuesday though.

Well it started to snow last night around 6:30. It is usually about 10 degrees colder here than in Oro Valley where we just moved from. We are now up at 4000 ft and Oro Valley was at 2000 ft. So we have seen snow flurries a couple of times since we moved here, but it never sticks to the ground. You also have to catch it fast. It usually is just a tiny bit blowing in the wind and lasts like 15 minutes.

Well I was at work last night from 6pm-10pm. At about 8pm my boss told me that he was about to head off to bed and that I should move my Jeep under the car port so I don't have to scrape all the snow off. I go outside and sure enough... My Jeep was covered in snow!!! We have a few people from the military that live in our rooms for a few months. I started getting calls at 9:30pm from the base letting them know their classes were canceled for the next day.

I was getting all excited thinking we were going to get a snow day. Everyone kept saying if it sticks to the ground at all here they cancel school. Thank goodness for the third shift woman's husband. When she came at 10pm my Jeep was covered in snow anyway so he scraped it off for me.

First thing in the morning I wake up and go online to see... Closed schools in: Willcox, Tombstone, Bisbee, Sunnyside, Douglas,Cochise College...Sierra Vista starting on time. Where is my snow day?

Every other school district in this county is closed but us! Even the base isn't starting AIT classes till 10am! So I wake up, make a pot of hot water for some cocoa, and get the kids ready. I turn on the radio and listen the whole time getting ready hoping there is some mistake and they will say school is closed. No such luck.

I get outside with the kids and start scraping the Jeep. In Arizona this just doesn't happen so we don't own ice scrapers. I get my handy dandy Pampered Chef bamboo stir fry scraper thing and go at the ice. LOL

The girls are all excited and want to hurry to school and play with friends in the snow. We get there and the kids have to go straight to class because "they could fall on ice if they were outside". Schools (here atleast) are not as fun as I remember. They are not allowed to run during recess "they could trip", They can not push swings "they could get kicked". I could go on but this isn't the topic of my rant today.

I have now worked 3 days at the new job at the hotel. I'm still getting trained so I am only working 4 hours a day. The first day I learned check ins and reservations. The second day I did them again. I guess people usually take longer to learn. So then they started to go over how to get member information from their web site and how to change room status for online reservations on the web site.

Then they gave me a day off because I had that much of training already down. I went in this morning for my 3rd day. I learned check outs and how to set up, stock and clean breakfast in case that girl ever can't. I still have more paper work stuff to learn and more stuff that we do on the web site; but it seems pretty easy so far. It is a lot of just sitting around. Well, I go back in tommorrow at 7:30am so I have to wake up at 5:30am to get ready and feed the kids. I haven't woke up that early in years.

Time for me to start getting the kids ready. I'm told we are driving to some lake with the dogs today. I hate taking the dogs out on these hikes. The girls and James go hiking every Sunday and I only go with if they are taking the dogs so I can hold one of the leashes. The dogs going means the girl dog pukes in my jeep on the way there and on the way home. Plus I have to get dragged the whole hike because the dogs get excited and try to run. Well time to go... funfunfun