Freaking Battle Creek Public Schools

I am regreting more and more our choice to go to " our" school for our location....

I am still doing battle with the school bus people about the fact that the bus drives by right in front of my house yet Aaron can't ride the bus. They think it is ok for a kindergardnener to walk 1.1 miles to school.

Second is the very colorful white trash that I see every morning when I drive him to school.

Today I picked up Aaron and His teacher Ms. Powell asked to talk to the parents that were there... She informed us that as of Monday she will not be teaching anymore and The kids will get a new teacher and a new room. So it's not enough that these kids are still kinda shell shocked about the whole school thing but now they have to pretty much start over with someone new.
Her reason for leaving Urbandale Elementary after a whopping 2 weeks of teaching is she feels that she is not able to be the wife and mother that she wants to be.. WTF!! That to me says i'm ditching this crappy school while I can.

Michael got Raped!

So just a little backround info... Michael says hey babe can you make me an appointment at the chiropractor my back has been hurting. So me being the nice wife I make him an appointment at a new place... Caring Hands Chiropractic.. So Tuesday at 3 pm he went to his first appointment.. fast forward to about 4 pm on tuesday.

I'm standing at the Marathon gas station on the corner or 20th and dickman pumping some gas and I see Michael fly by on his bike. I had to run to the store so I wait a few minutes and call Michael here is the conversation...

Me: Hey Babe.. how was your day?

Michael: Uhhh

Me: Did you see me at the gas station when you drove by?

Michael: Nope... I was too busy seeing red!!

Me: What do you mean?

Michael: Well I had to pay $400 at the Chiropractor today.

Me: What the fuck?? Why did you have to pay $400?... We don't have $400!! What did you do?
I'm on the way home we can talk then.

now I am home and I want to hear why...

Micheal: Well they said I had to pay the whole annual deductable upfront. I put it on the credit card.

Me: Why didn't you reschedule instead of charging it??

Michael: Well they didn't say anything until after I was finished.

Me: Did you at least ask about payment options??

Michael: No I was standing at the window with a waiting room full of people.

Me: You should have still asked. I hope your back is freaking feeling better!!


Michael: Well my back is feeling better but now I need to go see a proctologist since My ass hurts from being raped.

Me: glad you think it's funny!


Sooo that was my tuesday... it is now thursday and I am still crabby about the whole thing since a certain someone is acting like it is no freaking big deal that his CC that he just got is now thanks to trips.. and jeep stuff and chiropractor fees is darn near maxed out!!!

I am hanging on by a very thing thread this week!!!

where have I been???

Well lots of time has passed since I Blogged last... Sorry peeps,now however I must blog. I have had a pretty event filled good week.

1st... Aaron started school... this was a day that Iwas so not ready for...so we went and dropped him off in his class and he was so excited and grinned the whole time. He sat at his desk and looked around.. and said " see you later Mom". Not at all sad or hesitant at all. I should be happy because one poor mom brought her Son to school and th whole time he sobbed and cried "Don't leave me mommy". I think the hardest part of the school thing is that now I can't deny that he is growing up.

2... I FINALLY got hooked up and wired to a real cell phon plan. I LOVE LOVE LOVE my new phone.. I LOVE LOVE LOVE to text.. I can't believe that I held out this long I have been missing a good time!

3.. I completed my first whole week of my weight watchers journey.. I was not optimistic due to all the yummy food I ate at Nicole's house this weekend..but to my surprise I lost 2.5 pounds this week... YIPPEE... 2.5 down 40 more to go!! I can do it!!

1am

It's funny what one gets to think about at 1 am in the morning.. most normal people are fast asleep, not me :-) You see so many crazy dynamics in a hospital, it's not even funny. What does happen is an increased appreciation for what you have.

I have a husband that I usually do not want to murder in his sleep, I have two kids that I usually want to keep. I have 3 girls that I call my sisters and I have 2 others that are on the way to being sisters... sorry guys you are stuck with me :-)

I used to think when I was younger that I had the best friend in the world. She was there but only when it was convenient for her. The girls that I now call my bff's are worth their weight in gold because these girls are there to laugh, cry, rant and rave with and I know that no matter what, I could call anyone of the 5 and they would be a shoulder to lean on.

So thank you girls for being my support, my rocks and my family. I love you!

one crazy night

The alarm goes off at 2:45 pm... time to get up and get ready for a night out on the town with the BFF's.. Started off very disappointed...damn rave cinema or rather damn yahoo movies and their inaccurate show times.. I guess we can only trust ravecinemas.com for "true" show times, strangely enough there was a rather HUGE time gap between showings.. 3-7 what kind of movie theater does not have a 5pm showing on a Saturday night.. oh well I guess just another reason to hang with the girls.

So off to Olde Pen to pass the time until our 7 pm reservation... totally excited to have the brew pub dip... what we got was not the brew pub dip of old but some new edition that looked even more like dog vomit... with chicken added according to Nicole and Cortnie. Oh well, now I no longer have a driving desire to go visit OP anymore.

Next stop on the ladies tour Burdicks... Yummy Yummy creamsicle drink, for me. Kathies Monkey something or another that made her silly and warmed her so that the goose bumps went away from sitting on the patio. This is when Mesha's pretty hair went from down and curly to up in a pony... thanks to the magical bobby pins that I now know she has an unhealthy relationship with and carries them everywhere. :-) Love ya Mesha!

Now the final stop... Monaco bay Sitting at the big table to spread out... Here comes the killer koolaid.... well the not so killer koolaid it turns out.. greatly disappointed Cortnie since they changed the recipe.. whats with all the recipe changes people... leave a good thing alone!! I drank mine anyway... I'll drink anything really other then the foam from the beer.. which Cortnie so lovingly slurped up and out of my way... probably so I would stop whining about it.

One sample beer, a creamsicle, a killer koolaid and a double malibu and pineapple later and still really no buzz and the MANY MANY MANY annoying bachelorette partys going on around us, I decide to bite the bullet and try one of the beers that Michael said I would like.. First up the big Daddy 25 oz bluemoon minus the foam that Cortnie got rid of for me. It Was tolerable and about 1/4 through it... i start to feel the buzz.... so i order the big daddy Cherry Wheat next and then about 2 sips in.. With my lips, tongue and teeth now numb.. I realize that I am totally F'd up.. the rest is really fuzzy and I don't remember much other then the crazy giggles that followed very quickly and my eyes refusing to cooperate with me while I try to tell Mesha to quit laughing at me!

Awesome Night of drunken fun with the 5 best girl friends that one could wish for..a great night not to celebrate a divorce... but rather to celebrate life and friends and the wonderful life that is yet to come!!

P.S Can't wait to see all the pictures girlies!!

Thankful

I sit here at work in the middle of the night and I get to thinking alot about the craziness that is going on with the people I love and their relationships. I have been married 8 years today and that pleases me greatly, especially in a time were no one seems to take marriage vows seriously. It still makes me think very hard about why this is happening, because some of the people that have gotten divorced or are getting divorced I never would have imagined in a million years.

Case #1 Lovely Cortnie who's was-band decided that life was just not fun anymore... how much fun can one have?!?!... He was willing to throw away a wonderful lovely wife and a beautiful family... for what??? I horse faced whore and 2 more children... I bet life is real fun now!!

Case #2 My Mom and Dad... After 30 years of marriage apparently my mom decided that she didn't want to be with the man who adored her and would walk across fire to make her happy.. i guess she is happy with an alleged drug dealing piece of crap who I am sure is preying on an emotional pre-menopausal woman.

I don't seem to understand what makes people do the things that they do.. I try to rationalize all this and the only thing I can think is that you can only try and fight with all your might to keep your life and marriage together.. but ultimately life sometimes fails you and you have to realize that you are worth it and love will be found again.

Maybe I'm sleep deprived.. maybe I am crazy .. I don't know... just thought a blog would be good to vent.

Burnt Cremation

So I decided to grill some chicken for supper. It turns out that we were out of propane for the grill, so instead I fire up the little smokey joe charcoal grill... I think the coals are ready so I put the chicken on... a good amount of time passes by and the chicken is totally not cooking, so I take it off and I add some more charcoal. The chicken is now cooked... really cooked!! I giggle because as Michael takes a bite it crunches... Sarah picks up a piece looks at it and puts it back down on the plate . Michael looks at me and says " I should have been eating this the first year of marriage not the 8th"... I don't really know what the heck happened but I do know that I should NOT man the grill anymore..Burnt cremation is not my idea of yummy supper!

Long day... fairly sleep deprived and I'm in quite the mood! Sarah and Aaron know how to push the buttons today and I feel like a water retaining sea cow!

So I had a great idea... I'm gonna weigh myself, BAD IDEA!! I am... are you ready for this 30 pounds heavier then I was this time last year.

So no pity party here.. I've devised an action plan, I'm a firm believer that you are responsible for your actions.

Tomorrow starts a new day and a new plan. I pulled out my weight watchers stuff and I'm joining up again.. jumping back on the wagon.. here we go.... I can do it.

Birth Control

Why do you want to get a vascectomy honey?.... are you sure you don't want more kids?... I would really like 1 more I somewhat plead with him...he says heck no.. I come from a big family... it's not fun!!. That was 2 years ago.

Well I spent today with 3 children.. a 4 year old and two 2 year olds.. and even though they were all well behaved... I am very thankful that my Michael stood strong and had his manhood snipped!

I am now happy and content with my little family with 2 kids.

beautiful dancer

So I decided to relax and watch one of my favorite movies Dirty Dancing while the kids were taking a nap.... well the nap didn't happen... what did happen was one beautiful little girl dancing and grooving in her own world to all the great music in the movie! That to me is what life is all about.. watching your kids in a moment like that.
I guess I'm gonna have a future with dance in it...

Friggin State of Michigan!!

For two and a half long years I have worked my butt of to complete Nursing school, I did this for my our contentment as well as to help give my family a comfortable life. I Had a kid and didn't miss a beat.. I made it through crazy clinicals, crazy instructors , making my husband completely crazy having to at times do more that his share of our daily life..

Now here I sit almost 8 WEEKS after graduation waiting on the Friggin State of Michigan department of health to tell me when I can schedule the most important test of my life.. I called and I got this answer from a man that I am picturing as a small disgruntled paper pusher.... We got your application on May 24 and "SHE" is running at 8 weeks to process... Am I to assume that there is one lone lady sitting among a mountain of RN applications. Why would there not be an increase in staff for the busiest time of the year for graduates wanting to take the NCLEX... oh I know, Michigan's economy is in the toilet right now!!

I would have tolerated the little mans answer if he would have had a tone of civility in his voice. I don't care if he is possibly in a job he hates.. I have to do my job with courtesy and manners.. I expect the same from others... You don't have to be nice but you do have to be polite!

So now I wait.. in a state of limbo waiting for the all important ATT ( authorization to test). From the lovely State of Michigan.

Peer Pressure!!

Ok Ok so I finally caved and made one of these blog thingies :-) I don't think I have anything interesting to post, however my BFF's tell me otherwise... They say you can blog on anything and people will wanna read it. So here we go... however boring my page appears, I will blog dang it!! If for no other reason then to fall to the peer pressure and fit in with my BFF's. Love ya girls