Ringing In the New Year!!

The countdown to me getting intoxicated has begun....lmfao!! I made the trip to the liquor store yesterday.....bought some raspberry vodka for me, and some plain vodka for the old man. We're heading to my friend Char's tonight....I can't wait. Char is the sister to our friend Carol, who was Mike's best friend in high school. Carol, Char, their sister, Dora, and their families have all gotten to be good friends of ours, and hanging out with them is always a riot! Jake's new "squeeze" is actually Char's daughter, Erika. The kids are going with us, and they're just as excited as we are. Well, I say "we".....Mike, honestly, could give two shits if we went or not. That's just how he is. It takes ALOT to get him excited about ANYTHING.....well.....except for one thing....and that only takes as little as a light breeze....but that's a whole other story! lol

I had to work today. Kind of stupid if you ask me. I have done absolutely nothing today, and we have only had a handful of calls. I have to say that I am getting rather sick of people looking for handouts. I realize that times are tough....and that many, may people in our area are having a hard time making ends meet.....BUT.....I have never seen such irresponsibility in my life since I started working here. You wouldn't believe the number of people that call here looking for help with their heat, their fuel, their prescriptions, BATTERIES for their flashlights! My God people.....get off your asses and do SOMETHING about your situation!! I could go on about this all day....but better save it for another day, as I am sure that I'll have many more days in the very near future where I am going to be even more disgusted.....our "Care & Share" program opens tomorrow, which means that we are going to be BOMBARED with calls from people looking for help with their heating bills. Ugggggggh. Can't wait til Friday.

Well, I think the boss is letting me leave a WHOLE HOUR EARLY.....so I better get things picked up here. Hope you all have a WONDERFUL New Year full of wonderful blessings!

Rod's At It Again.......

Here I am at work early again this morning, and good ol' Rod is bugging the ever loving shit out of me again today! Do you think I'd get any leniency at my hearing for killing him if I plead INSANITY??

OK.....I'm over my "episode" from earlier!

Do you ever just have that urgency to wrap your hands around someone's throat and strangle the life out of them?? That's how I was feeling earlier....lol. But I am over that.....for now. The day is still young.

So, our Christmas was wonderful! Kind of sad to see it be over with already. It just seems like such a shame that all the preparing you do for the big day is over with in one day.

We went to my Grandma Smith's on Christmas Eve for the festivites there. I made my turkey divan and a cherry dump cake.....both which, in my opinion, were fantastic. Things there are always hectic. The family has gotten so big (both in numbers AND physical size), that every year there seems to be less and less room. Every family has that ONE asshole that you have to continuously bite your tongue around.....our family included. In our case, however, that asshole MARRIED an asshole, and produced and are raising an ASSHOLE. Lovely, huh? But, we all bit our tongues and smiled like little retards for my Grandmother's sake.

We came home from my Gram's and got Lukas ready for bed. I read "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and, of course, "The Night Before Christmas", both books bought by my parents for the kids this year. We then got right to fixing Santa's plate of milk and cookies, and a bowl of sugar for the reindeer (they have QUITE the sugar tooth!). Lukas went to bed with ease, and went fast to sleep. Jake, on the other hand.....not so much. At 14, he knows there is no Santa Claus....but he totally knows the routine at this point.....that Mom and Dad spare no expense to make their precious little gems happy on Christmas. SO.....he was full of excitement, and just couldn't get to sleep. I threatened to make him sleep in our room on the floor again this year, but he wasn't having it. Eventually, I gave up on waiting for HIM to go to sleep, and Mike and I headed off to bed. At 5 a.m., the phone rang. It was my dad. He told me to get up, that he and my mother were on there way up. Ugggggh. So, up we all get. My parents arrived at 5:30. Turns out that my dad tried waking my mother up at 4:30 to come to our house, but she informed him that I would kill him. At 5 o'clock, he woke her again, this time telling her that I had called him and told him that we were up and it was ok for them to come up! LIAR!! LOL!! He's as big of a kid as our 2!!

The kids made out like bandits, of course. Jake got a 14-gun metal safe from us, a PS 3 from my parents, clothes, basketball sneakers, games for his PS2 and his PS3, and LOTS of "Sure Fuck" (that's what Mike calls his cologne....."Sure FUCKIN' stinks!"). He of course, got more than that, but there's just too much to go item for item. Lukas' big gift was a Nintendo DS, some games for it, the case, and a bunch of TONKA trucks. In true "kid fashion:....the $40 worth of TONKA trucks were his favorite things....not the $200+ we have wrapped up in the DS that he HAD to have....lol. Turns out though......Mikey has an incredible OBSESSION with the DS and the JOHN DEERE, HARVEST IN THE HEARTLAND game that we got for it! He spent 7 hours straight playing with it on Friday, and over 3 hours on Saturday. I got a breadmachine from my Grandmother (which I have already used twice!), a mini photo kiosk (VERY cool), LOTS of "Sure Fuck" (lol), clothes & jammies. My parents bought Mike some black Carhart bibs and a jacket, I got him new sneakers, some cologne, a boot dryer, and some snowmobiling gloves.

The days following Christmas have been pretty relaxing. We've done alot of napping and alot of eating....lol. Mike goes back to work tonight for a couple of days, and then is off New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Me....I'm only off New Year's day. We're going to my friend Char's house for New Year's Eve....should be a good time. We always have a riot when we are there.

Well....time for lunch. I haven't done anything else since I have been here.....might as well eat! lol

Going to FLIP my F'ing Lid!!

So, my co-worker, JoAnn, is on vacation this week.....and our new executive director, Dan, is like I said, "NEW", so here I am....trying to run the show! We have a "volunteer".....Rod......who for a lack of better words is a FUCKING IDIOT.....and he's answering phones. Rather than use the intercom to summon me to the phone, he feels the need to come in and tell me EVERY TIME I have a call. Then, he stands there, with a BIG, STUPID look on his face, staring at me! WHAT THE FUCK!?! Aside from that, he doesn't know what the FUCK he's talking about when he answers calls, and only gets bits and pieces of vital information. He just received a call from PAPA JOHN's pizza, who I am guessing is looking for a CPR STATION rather than a CPR KIT. The idiot told them that we had them, which we do not....and now they're on their way here to get them. Uggggggggggggggggggggh. MORON! Then he stands there staring at me! GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME BEFORE I POKE YOUR DAMN EYES OUT OF YOUR IDIOT SKULL!!

Sorry....just had to vent about that!!

Well, it's FINALLY here....Christmas is just a few hours away. I am proud to say that even though I didn't start our shopping 'til last Friday, I am all done, and everything is wrapped (with the exception of a couple of "Santa" gifts for the boys!). I am working today, but it doesn't really bother me. I'd rather be here than at home with the kids driving me nuts...lol!! Our boss is letting us go at noon, and I just have to run to the grocery store for a couple of things....then home to take my turkey out (I put it in before I left for work this morning). We have to go to my Grandmother Smith's tonight for our annual doings there, and I am making Turkey Divan and a Cherry Dump cake to bring! Mmmmmm! While at the store I have to pick up some "break-n-bake" cookies for Lukas and I to make for The Big Guy (Mike...lol). Mike has yet to start his shopping. He came home from work this morning to nap a bit before heading out the mall. Not sure why he does this year after year, though I have to say, he does a pretty good job and isn't usually gone very long (bastard!). I, as do most of the moms out there, get the SHAFT when it comes to the holiday preparations! We do the decorating, the shopping, the wrapping, the cooking, the Christmas cards, the clean-up, the putting away.....uggggggh.....I get tired just thinking about it. That's alright.....Mike flipped the bill.....lol....so I guess I'll shut up and put up! Well, guess it's time to start shutting things down here at work. Hope you and your families have a wonderful Christmas! I'll be sure to update you on our holiday when I return to work on Monday (Mike and I are both off until then.....THAT OUGHTTA BE FUN!).

Hell of a Morning.......

Mike got home early this morning, which was nice for a change. He was going to stop and get gas on his way home but the gas station in Burrville had no gas, so he came straight home. He came home, ate, and immediately passed out. I ended up running late for work for one reason or another and ran out of the house only to find that that PIECE OF SHIT grocery getter of mine won't start! Karma? Perhaps....because earlier I was thinking I would call into work and tell them that I was running late because my car wouldn't start. ANYWAY.....so I thought I would just take Mike's truck. As I made my way across the driveway to the truck......I slipped on the fucking ice rink we call a driveway. I slid...much like a penguin.....across the driveway on my gut! My purse spilled....I fell on my glasses....my cell phone was buried in the snow....my bottle of water ended up about 10 feet away from me....and best yet....I was soaked! No...I didn't hurt myself, but I was kind of wishing I had so that I would have an excuse not to go to work...lol. SO....I get in the truck (finally) and proceed on to work. LOW AND BEHOLD....Mike's truck is right on EMPTY. So, I think I will stop in Burrville to get gas.....that is, until I get to Burrville and remember that they have none! So I stopped in Watertown and got it, not knowing for sure if I was going to actually make it to Watertown or not, but I did. Then I get to work and pull the big ass Chevy into our tiny parking lot and there is only one parking space, and there was no way in hell I was going to fit the truck in there, so I had to circle the block and park in the f'ing road. Ugggggggggggggh. Just thought I'd bitch about my wonderful morning. Can you say CLUSTER FUCK?!? Mike's in for a surprise when he wake's up and has to go screw with the van. That'll make for a pleasant evening, I am sure!

Dear Santa.......

Dear Santa,

Dont bother coming to my house this year....I was NAUGHTY.....and I ENJOYED EVERY MINUTE OF IT YOU JUDGEMENTAL BASTARD!!

OMG....Where has the time gone?!

Wow....has it been a while since my last post or what?! Let's see if I can bring you up to speed...quickly.

*Thanksgiving was nice. Went to my Grandmother Hunt's for the first time in YEARS and I think she really enjoyed that. What was even better....no mess for me to clean up at my house!

*Had our "Xmas Dinner" with the FedEx crew. We had a great time....though I didn't drink as much as I had planned thanks to our wonderfully tastey meal. That's ok.....OTHER PEOPLE WHOM SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS drank enough for both of us....lol!!

*The PTO Evening With Santa went off without any problems. Thank God that's over for another year!

*We have my Aunt & Uncles Xmas party to go to this weekend. I do plan on getting highly intoxicated this weekend....we have a d.d.!!

*Today is my little sister's 16th birthday! Happy Birthday Katie!

*Jake was chosen by the school administration to serve on a group called "Friends of Rachel". The group was formed by family member's of Rachel Scott, the first student killed in the Columbine School Shootings. He was chosen based on his personality and sense of citizenship. I am so proud of him!

*I have NO Christmas shopping done. Ok....one thing for Lukas, and that's it. Ugggggh. I don't even have my Christmas cards out! And actually, one of my 4 trees is STILL not decorated, though it's been set up for 2 weeks now!

So, that's basically what's been going on here for the last few weeks! I'll try not to fall so behind again!