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I am in the process of sending some pictures over to photobucket 2. (please see the link on the right side) We had the L family over and had a day of Bow Shooting, horse back riding, and fun!

Or I am trying to upload to photobucket! LOL. Me and that damn site! I have 49 pictures to move and now msn is not behaving. Grrr.

If I get the chance I will come back here and post pictures, if NOT, please go there and view them.

OK Back

Starting with a picture for Wowie .. Lookie what we found lying around?

Other things lying around





A few shots of the pond



The Pro at work

Mr L and Molly

Mr L and Sky

Mr L and BooBoo

Mr L and Boo, Look daddy I got a squirl

Mr L and Lulu, As you can see, Lulu is still hesitant about him and she's met him a dozen times! But all kids got a shot!

Going to get the arrows

Look I found ONE

More Pictures ... WOoHoooOo

Or Should I say WOWIE

Here is the budding necterine tree

Here is more green grass and hey I used my foot for how tall the grass is, LOL, I wear an 8.5 to a 9 and I have on a mens tube sock ... BUT that should give you a general IDEA of how tall it is!


Yard shot, You can see it popping up all over

OHHH and what is this... DAFFYBILLS? I mean Dafidills. But as you can also see, something saw them before me and ate all the buds off of them! Grrr.




Puppies waking Lulu up. First is General T

Now General T yelling at Lulu

Ani Waking Lulu Up

And Bear... Ooohh IS HE enjoying HIMSELF of WHAT

The First Photo Blog of 2009

OK we haven’t had one of these in awhile. A photo blog!
Hi I am Lucy and I will be teaching Bear how to Jump

OK Bear pay close attention

Ready Set JUMP

Molly and her Gimp (and Scarlet)



And a picture for WOWie, SEE WHAT A FEW DAYS OF 70 degree weather does for the .... OH Is that .... L A W N ??


Oh ... Looookeeee here... more


That little tiny dot is where a little tiny bird pooped on Molly today. Made her cry

General T, All grown up

Ani, Awwwww, isin’t she purty


The Dark cloud that has been following me around

The Dark cloud that is looming over our house

Ahhh, the skies are clearing, it is a new year and with a new year is a new breath

The first day after Christmas

Santa brought me the means to get a Gateway ML6732 laptop! It is not the best laptop out there but it is the best I could get local that I had enough money for. But it is really super nice. I am trying to get used to a few things and slowly but surely I am getting acclimated to it. LOL. But the keyboard is so noisy next to my old one! Oh well.

The kids had a great Christmas morning. It started a little later this year than last year's 2:30am; it waited until 5:30am… where is the justice? Oh well. It took the girls about 3 hours to open everything. It seemed like at the last minute we started to get packages in from all over. Lucy did well, she opened all most all of her presents, she had about three left over but took care of that a little later. Molly was greatly satisfied to find that Santa got most of everything on her list.

We had time to get the FIRST mess cleaned up and then we had our breakfast company show up. They brought presents. LOL. Round two, this time with four kids; wow four kids can do some serious damage to a house! We just got done with opening that round of presents and Tony and his mom showed up with stuff for Lulu (and a few "things" for Amanda). Round three I missed, Brian chose that minute to call. Oh well. All was forgotten when Lulu walked into the living room and discovered the "Kitchen" and accessories. She and DJ and Kayleigh took care of that with Tony for about two hours. Talk about a busy bunch.

Sue got a surprise pair of Champaign Diamond earrings. They are the "Journey symbol" and flat out gorgeous. She got a few other nominal things (including reindeer poop) and she was very pleased.

Harry got a chainsaw (darn I pick out good pressies). Hee Hee Hee. His has been on the fritz for about six months. Now he can use the new one and get the old one rebuilt to have as backup.

I got the "Get Smart" movie and enough cash and gift cards to get this. Oooooh. It is nice.

Everyone got a small nap and then it was off to dinner up the street. The kids played outside for a bit and then we ate and went home. I think everyone was in bed and cutting the Z's by nine.

And then today; we spent the majority of the day attempting to put stuff away. Yea. Right. Some things are just not meant to happen. If ever I get my camera back from JennyJo R, I will take pictures of the girls stash and Sue's earrings and post them.

I am really pissed off with Jennyjo R. That is OK, this is the last year I make sure She and HER family is taken care of.

I am as selfish as a pole-cat wanting to have an orgasm

Yep. Yes indeedy.

Song of the day, "Here I go again." By Whitesnake

Mood – irate as the devil in an ice storm, in January, in the middle of Antarctica.

Molly brought home a bad progress report. Should that ruin my day? No. What pissed me off was walking her into the school and being berated by her two bit old bitty teachers. It took me an hour to get back out to my car. Then when I pick up Molly I get the actual 9 week progress report. Hmm. Eth? Um. Ok. Out of the six subjects listed she has 4 A's, 1 B, 1 F. An F? What? I look at the breakdown of the 49%. It is in Math. What? Did I read that subject right, Molly fail math? The same child that did statistic's with me over the summer and broke down and explained certain rules? What? I read the grades. Ranging from 88 to a 13 to a 0 and it was the 13 that reached up and slapped me in the face.

I went over the 20 something grades in math and asked Molly specific questions. Her reply? "My brain just don't work that fast." Do what? Her highest grade was in basic division (which they just started last week) and her lowest was the math facts test on simple multiplication (she know's her times tables, I went over them tonight with her and timed her, she answered something like 112 in 5 minutes for me).

To make it worse, now because she "goes off into lala land" I have to take her to a psychologist and have her re-tested for Autism (and variations thereof), learning disorders, mental retardation, behavioral problems, and ADD. Fine. But you know what? I have already been there, done that, and there is nothing wrong with her. But I get to do it again. I admit, there is something wrong; but I think it goes hand and hand with daydreaming. I could be wrong. I mean after all, I have been wrong before. But I would like to know if that little black jack ass that spit in her face a few weeks ago had to go to a psychologist and get evaluated. I bet he didn't. After all he IS black and his people have been repressed for generations. Sorry if that sounds prejudice but it is meant to be. And that is not like me, but right now, that is how I feel. Sorry if I offend anyone, I am not referring to an entire culture, just one family in specific that used that phrase first. If anything my prejudice is against ignorant people and liars, just a clarification. (oh yea and bad drivers, I just flat hate road idiots.)

The first thing that everyone said to me was to spank her. Guess what. I didn't. I don't think that is the answer. Besides, as mad as I am and disappointed to boot, I don't think I am the person that should deal out a spanking. I really don't. I also don't think it is the answer because I don't think this is behavior. I think this is some boredom and testing the waters to see what she can get away with in this school and with this set of administrators. I lean more on the boredom part. Especially when the teachers themselves tell me she needs to be tested for the gifted program because she is smart as a whip as long as she don't have to write the answers down. She can verbally tell you the answer to anything and the geographic region it originated from or at least a history of the topic. But they can't test her for Galaxy or Gifted if her grades are not indicative of her ability.

There you go. That's all I got for today. Hope yawl's lives are going better.

Sunday November 9th, 2008

What an adventure today! Lets see, we left the house at 8:30am to go grocery shopping and got home at 3:40 p.m. Fun? It is always an adventure going to Dublin with Sue and the Kids. First stop BigLots and we picked up a few things. Then we went to Shoneys for breakfast. Both Molly and Lulu suprised me by getting seconds at the breakfast buffet. Maybe I don't feed them enough! LOL. Wow.

Then onto the big Walmart. Where we saw this.


Lulu was like, :Whats that:
Molly:uth a pink cat:
lulu: Uth no:

I think I got most of my walmart bingo. LOL. I din't continue to snap pictures tho! First stop was the potty and I had to deviate to the back of the store! they have the rest room conviently located next to the toys. This was around noon that we finally made it to the grocery store. I call walmart the grocery store because they have managed to close down every grocery store in all these small towns. Then they go and jack their prices up because they have a monopoly. I wish the gvt could go in and shut them down. Honest to god. They are not the store that wally stated. It used to be the american store. You could go in there and purchase thing made in america, only. SIGH. Now your prolly getting lead poision just walking into the store. Such is life.

We bought the bulk for the month. Needless to say the back of the jeep was not big enough and we ended up having groceries packed around the car seat, the floor by the car seat and the floor around molly. But damn, didn't I just go grocery shopping a few days ago?

I could see the rational of this if we sat around and ate all day or even if we cooked elaborate meals. But we don't.

Food for the day: on a regular basis
Cereal for breakfast (weekends french toast made from stale bread, panacakes, sausage/bacon eggs and orange juice)
Lunch - school - manny bags it, lulu's is provided, I either bag it or get something at the school.
Dinner- Misc and depending on time. If we are late getitng in then it is hot dogs and mac and cheese for the kids and usually i skip dinner. Sue and Harry eat early on the days we are late. On time days, a frozen dinner, spag, kelly burgers, or some breakfasty thing like bacon and eggs
Desert- rarely although we have been hitting the sweets hard this last month

Seee? But I am going to keep track of it this week, who eats what!

Puppies were funny tonight. Molly let them all out while we brought in groceries. Except Scarlet. She went in the outide cage. Everyone took time to love and play with each puppy. Bear is a hambone, Ani is all the sudden terrible jealous over Scarlet, Scarlet is a dram queen and T is T. LOL. Scarlet's ears look really good. I am please with how they are healing and I will post a pic of them as soon as I get a chance to take one.

That is it in the world of Jenn. Going broke because we gotta feed our guts.

tid-bits

I have no idea what to call this post. LOL.

Chloe goes to California tomorrow. wooohoo one mouth less to feed! Really she has to go, everyone is getting attached to her. She is so soft, very well mannered, very pretty, and just a puppy that anyone can like. I am afraid that Betty's hubby won't like her. Chloe likes men. She also likes to dig. Dale spent a lot of money on their lawn... Get where I am going?

Long day at the college today. Ugh. Philly brought in my cheesecake. She made a classic NY Style one and it was fab! I ate two pieces of it! Piggy me. I had one after dinner and then I just had the second a few minutes before sitting down to write this. Yep. That cheesecake won't last the weekend here. Sue also had a piece. She told me, "That is better then sex." so I emailed Philly, "Sue said that you need to bring the other cheesecake into me tomorrow. Because if Mr M (Phillys hubby) finds out that it is better then sex he will throw it away and that is a waste of some good groceries." :) I will let ya'll know if she does, but for some reason I don't think she will believe me.

That is just a standing thing here. If something turns out real good, the first person to try it will say, "No good, don't eat it" and well that might work on some poeple and it did work the first time I tried using it down here, but they are on to me. LOL.

I picked Scarlet up today. I wish I'd left her a few more days. All that puppy does is YELP. Granted she has a reason right now, she got a shot and her ears clipped. BUT.... I am about ready to duct tape her &(()*(#)*# mouth shut. In all honesty I would never do that but I might put her in the paper for sale for $500 or $600 and that will cover her cost, her shots, and her ears. I can always get another. There is just no reason to keep a dog that no one can stand. OMG. I ain't never seen the likes of an animal like this.

I cornered Brian on the phone this afternoon. He never sent the check but that was about what I figured. But ya know what? He sunk his boat here. No longer will he be welcomed at this house. If he wants to visit his daughter, he can rent his self a car and drive ehre from which ever airport he flies into. then he can put up the cost for a hotel. Then he can drive over here every day he is in Ga to see her and leave at bed time. There will be no more catering to Brian. And there will be no more of Brian staying here and getting shitfaced every night. I am done with his bullshit and so is everyone else in this house. I left him for a reason 9.5 years ago. And now everyone is really seeing that perhaps I was not so irrational as they once suspected. I mean he has come close a few times to showing his true colors but alas he struck gold over the last few weeks.

I used the money that came in for child support today to replace that tire. Good timing too. When the guy put it up on the rack the tire blew. Poor fellow jumped back (as did everyone in the waiting room) I priced the repair for the upper ball joints while I was there. $430 plus taxes to have it done after market, $618 to have it done with Chrysler parts. I think the big oak tree down the road looks like a fantastic place to park it at about 75 MPH.

I guess that is about it. Boring day to blog about most of it was studies orientated. Grrr.

exhaustion creeping up

no wait, it crept up last week, exhaustion is now settling in. There are three full weeks left of school. Four if you count the week we have three days off for Thanksgiving. My mind reached full capacity this morning. I bombed my spanish exam, I just drew a blank. Not any 'ol ADDHD blank... Oh no. Copy paper blank. Crisp clean white noise blank. I couldn't even clear my head by blinking my eyes or going to the bathroom and splashing ice cold water on my face. Nope. Nadda. Nilch. And the problem with that is (before you crumble me up and throw me away) I knew the stuff. I was more ready for this exam then for any test I have taken in any subject in three hard semesters.

My Psych Adjustment class today made me really question my parenting skills. Reading the chapter last week started the questioning but the discussion in class today... ooooohhh boy. I have like 7 chapters I will be posting over at my edjamcation melt down blog... lol.. when... oh hell when I get the damn things typeed up and posted to the class then I will move a copy over to the online. That blog did not work out how i'd planned it to this semester. There is always next semester and oh the 30 hours or so that I still owe to my bachlors degree. Back to the parenting thing... So, I grilled Molly after school. She was like... um... whats up with you? LOL. I asked her specific questions worded so that I did not put her on the defense and she was like... no... the only time i feel lonely is at school but I am the new kid and that has a lot to do with things. Which, helped but didn't. I think I am going to get her involved in some after school programs. I don't want the poor girl to be a complete invert.

Oooh NYPINTA have you lost it?

Oooh it kills me. LOL. Really. Honest. NYPITA announced that she is going to try to write a novel in thirty days as part of NaNoWriMo . Wow. Heavy duty. Really. That is a big task to take on, writing 175 pages or 50,000 words in thirty days. If I were not boondoggled right now with my classes and work load, I might be tempted to try this. All I could think when I read her post… Instant Insanity. What a mental work out! Then I thought about it on the long drive to get the kiddie-kins and I was even more leaning towards … "What on Earth, has she gone mad? Do I need to provide some sort of mental intervention for my dear friend?" and so, I get home… pull her blog up and follow the link.

This is where it gets really cool. The site is awesome. You can make donations to help youth writers and stuff like that. I was all for her doing this. I read every available page (well, every page I could read and cook dinner and bathe the kids and get them settled in… yadda yadda… yadda)

I kinda like the idea.

No, I like the idea and I am rooting for her 100%. If I didn't have this crazy work load I might even be tempted to do it to. Maybe next year. Maybe in December I will do it just to see if I can do it. Why on earth did they pick November? OK so, maybe I will wait until January to try it. November and December are kind of busy.

So, if you get a chance check out NYPINTA and NaNoWriMo.

In other news, I brought Philly her Pecan pie and she promised to make me a cheesecake! Yum. We shall be fat chic's of the campus! Lol. Really she is not fat, I just said that. As you can see by the pic of me that I squeezed into the Halloween pic's, I am a chubbymomma. Oh well. I like myself anyway.

Scarlet was dropped off today to get her ears done. Yea the screamer is gone for a few days. Lol. And I don't intend on picking her up until Thursday or Friday. J Chloe is booked to go to California on Friday and meet her new family. That will be a relief. Chloe is a really nice dog, very pretty, and everyone is trying so hard not to get attached to her! If Betty doesn't like her I will take her back. And I am not saying that to be selfish. She is a likable dog. But Chloe is also a puppy and pretty good at puppy stuff (like chewing, stealing, testing the waters of play and play and poop and hide and …. Urgh!) But all , the puppies do that! Chloe will sit. I have got her to come to her name, sit, and walk a little on a leash. She is not fond of the leash Betty and her hubby and children will have to figure that one out! She does not potty in her box but she sounds like a police car when she wants to get out to go! She likes to go potty about 3 am. Oh well. We are excited to see her go to California but we are also going to be sad to see her go. Esp Lulu, lulu just scoops her up and totes her like a doll. It is rather cute. Chloe is just along for the ride and Lulu is all business. Doll carriage, under the arm or however. J Chloe has her own baby (that will go with her) and her own blanket (that was lulu's but it will go with her and stay with her) and her own sweater (that she will be wearing). Chloe also got her health certificate today and her last puppy shot. Other puppy news, Ani got her Rabies shot today and is curled up to Lu (pouting) she keeps looking up at me with her ears back like I hit her or something. I feel so bad! I won't hold another dog while it gets a shot! General T is mad at me. He knows that Ani is in the bed and keeps whining.

I get a kick out of General T. He hates to get caught by Lulu and toted. But he loves to love her! After the pup's go out in the morning, I will take T and put him in bed with Lu and let him wake her up. This morning he pile dived her. Over and over like she was a bag of food and he was going to get into it with his nose. She was getting mad. He would ram her and she would swat him and tell him no! So, I put Bear in bed with her and he bounced on her like she was a trampoline. Needless to say, she was not a happy camper this morning.

Molly wants me to cook breakfast tomorrow. Bacon and eggs. Scrambled. I don't know about this. On a Tuesday morning? Grrrr. I might make a deal with her, how about tomorrow morning… LOL? Tues and Thurs we have to leave so early so I might try to bargain out of a Tuesday morning full course meal, cereal, cold with milk. J

SEE that was 906 words. Maybe 50, 000 random words won't be that hard NYPINTA! Good luck.

Today is Wed

Oh My. I am having a difficult time thinking in English as I have been devoted to my Spanish studies for three days this week, last weekend, and Thrus before it. Ahhh.

Went mid-week grocery shopping and spent almost $250 and while there looked for the bisque in the frozen seafood dept. NILCH. Looked in the fresh seafood. Double Nilch. Broke down and looked with the condenced soup and powered soup... Strike three. I asked the clerk and she got the dept mgr. Dept mgr looked at me like I was dressed for halloween. I calmly asked the woman if she'd ever traveled outside of Swainsboro and she repiled, (suprisingly) "No, why?"

So... Fermi... maybe up by Hotlata they got it in the grocery store but down here East of the boonies and West of East BumF**k... they've never heard of it.

But I did squander a few pumpkins and we just got through carving them. I took a few pictures and I will post them tomorrow night as I am too tired to deal with it now. Actually I just can't remember where I put the Camera down less then five minutes ago... but why go there? LOL. EEEK
three hours later I emailed them to photobucket... Ha take that.
pumpkins (taken in the dark, damn good flash)

Lulu (also taken with the lights off)

Molly "fainting because she saw a ghost" in the dark (lovin this flash, eth?)

Lulu helping Molly faint


OK that was fun. I just took a mad dash through the kitchen and looked all over only to find it in plain sight on the kitchen table. I know I looked there first!

Hang on I will move a photo over to photobucket and post it. Or I will just play a minute, photobucket is wanting to be a pppooooppp!@

Ohhh and I got added to This Site... woohooo isin't that neat? or www.studentblogger.org
a few extra pic's that I never got to posting
Karina and Harry's b-day party ... LOL... does the cake fit the two of em?

Karina and Kayleigh (one of the kids I was mopping about over the summer, oh yea, they are back )

Molly

B-day boy Harry (he was telling all the kids to blow because he just couldn't do it alone... kids loved it)

Sue, Lulu, DJ (the other kid from the summer - isin't he a sweetie pie?)