I am so freakin' sad and depressed.
That's all.
Thanks for looking.
I found out through a posting on FaceBook that one of the guys I went to high school with has died. Some sort of blood cancer. As far as I know this is the first classmate we've had that has died. I am stunned, shocked and in disbelief that he's dead. Not so much the person....but that 'someone my age and someone I went to school with' has died. I'm having trouble explaining my thought process. I just know that this has made me take a step back. I know it is entirely likely that we have had one or more deaths in our class but this is the first one I've heard about. Death is so final. It's weird and like I said---I'm having trouble explaining my thought process. He wasn't a boyfriend or even a guy I had a crush on, he was 'just' a guy I went to high school with. All of his pall bearers were also people I went to high school with. Some of *them* I had a crush on at one time or another. I feel like I 'missed out' because I only found out today that he has passed. The funeral was on Tuesday. Chances are extremely good that I wouldn't have gone anyway....two+ hour drive to the funeral home, then the funeral finally ending in a two hour drive home. Nah...I wouldn't have gone. Being a one car family sucks.
ok. On to other things that can't wait until Tuesday:
My Dad. Man, he can get on my nerves faster than anyone (and that includes my child). He doesn't ever tell you the whole story. He'll tell bits and pieces here and there....but never the full story. Even if you ask very specific questions he will evade you in his answer. Point in case: Jordan's Christmas band program is tonight. We asked my parents to come over a month or more ago. They said they'd come. I told them they'd have to sleep one on the couch and one in Jordan's bed. I also told them to please call as soon as possible if they wouldn't be able to make it so we could invite Chris's parents. We couldn't invite both sets of parents as we don't have enough sleeping room. I called this past weekend to verify they were coming. They were. Good. Fine. Wonderful. Now on to stress about what to fix for supper and breakfast and I better get the house cleaned up blah blah blah... I get a phone call at 6:55 this morning. They aren't going to make it because my Dad has to go to the cardiologist for a stress test. I asked him why he needed the test and he said 'because my doctor told me I needed it'. I asked why the doctor said he needed one and he said: 'blood pressure might be a little high'. I asked how high he said high enough for the doctor to tell him he needs a stress test. I told him he was annoying. My Mom chimed in and said 'I've been putting up with this for years.' So, yeah, they aren't coming. I didn't ask my Dad when the doctor told him he needed a stress test. For all I know he spent the night in the ER.
Chris and I decided to host Christmas at our house this year. His parent's have already said they'd come. I bet mine don't. Or I may end up with a huge crowd and nowhere for everyone to sit.
The wind that we had two nights ago knocked over our new outdoor decoration. It's broken beyond repair. ~sigh~ Oh well. It was only new in that we hadn't used it before this year. We've owned it for years and have drug it from place to place with us. Once I got it up it looked really good and I'm sorry we haven't used it before now. It will go out on Tuesday which is trash day. Garbage days are Monday and Thursday. I missed it today. Oh well.
Unemployment sucks donkey balls. 'nuff said about that. I've been home for four days so far and haven't even managed to get accomplished everything I wanted to accomplish on day 1. It is just so draining to look at everything that needs to be done and know you have the time to do them....so the lazy bug kicks in. I also promised myself that I would have all Christmas cards and letters done and sent out by the Monday after Thanksgiving. That hasn't happened and Christmas is drawing closer and closer with every waking (and non-waking) moment.
Marque
Do they celebrate birthdays in Heaven?
If they do I bet you are having a grand ole time.
I've thought of you often in the past two years.
I think of a saying that you had posted at one time on your blog---or somewhere.
It was telling how to live your life----sliding into Heaven/home plate---kicking and screaming and having a blast all the way Home.
I wish I could remember it. I could go Google it. But, well, if I do that then I will spend less time thinking of you and the impact you made on my life.
Bless you.
Bless your family.
I will always remember you.
Totally Terrible Things on Tuesday
- Unemployment
- 'breaking' Chris's computer as I attempted to get 'my office' changed into 'his Man-Cave'.
- Clutter everywhere.
- Being a one car family
- The mental plan to have Christmas cards ready to send out on the day after Thanksgiving has not made it to any kind of actually happening.
- Deciding to cut our Christmas list down to the bare minimum: going from 31 people all the way down to 7.
- That rash? I still have it and actually noticed this morning that it is spreading.
- Jordan's Christmas band concert is on Thursday.
- Almost done with the Christmas decorating. Once that is done I can declutter and clean house.
- I'm going Christmas shopping Friday. I think.
- Recieved our first Christmas card in the mail.
Black Friday is the unofficial kickoff to the holiday shopping season. When are you planning on beginning your holiday shopping?
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I start my holiday shopping the day after Christmas. If I see something throughout the year that I know a loved one would want I pick it up and store it in the 'gift closet' until it's time to pull out the Christmas paper and wrap it all up.
That being said. This year I bought stuff that will just stay in the closet until next year. I found some puzzles on clearance and picked them up as little 'hey Mom, saw this and was thinking about you' gifts. But, Mom has decided that we are not buying for anyone other than the great-grandkids this year. So, Mom doesn't get her puzzles and Jordan gets left out, too.
We may just stay in Tuscaloosa for Christmas this year. bah humbug!!
Totally Terrible Things on Tuesday:
- Starting to send out resume's looking for my next career opportunity.
- Jordan's grades--again.
- If I could find a way to make $75 a month cover: groceries, prescriptions and gas then I wouldn't 'need' a job.
- Fleas. Found out the dogs have fleas when one jumped on Chris. Chris is now crabby until I can prove the fleas are gone.
- Stressing about how Chris is going to handle meeting his newest nephew who was named after his grandpa and his cousin--Samuel.
- My parents deciding that Jordan is to old for Christmas presents. They are only buying for the 'little ones'. Read---Great Grandkids.
- Weird rash on my right collar bone and in the crook of my left elbow.
Totally Terrific Things on Tuesday:
- Thanksgiving is next week. Mmmm...turkey and pumpkin pie!
- Seeing Annie, John and the girls.
- My Christmas list, for my side of the family, just went from 20 to five. Six if we decide to get something for the newest baby in the family.
- Great compensation package. If I have to lose my job there is no better way to lose it than by getting 12 weeks notice followed by a month of salary plus a week for each year with the firm then there is unemployment that I can collect. So, right now we will be getting my salary through the first week of February.
- Already putting up Christmas decorations. Yay!! I love Christmas and Christmas decorations.
Totally Terrible Things on Tuesday:
- Trying to be nice and getting yelled at instead of a 'thank you'.
- Wet dog
- Two full work weeks and two partial work weeks---then I'm unemployed
- Filling out on-line resume's and job applications sucks!
Totally Terrific Things on Tuesday
- I'm currently in first place on our Fantasy Football League.
- Soon...I can pull out my Christmas decorations and decorate my house all up really nice for the Holidays.
- LIfe is halfway decent....you know, if you don't count the impending unemployment.
Are you prepared in case of a natural disaster? What do your plan and preparations include?
I have a battery operated radio with batteries. I can lay my hands on both in less than a minute.
I have a weather radio that I can't program the new county in. However, should the old county have any bad weather I know about it.
We decided last night that the safest place to go if there were a tornado is the short hallway in our bedroom. That was decided upon after I shared that I have taken refuge in our 'commode closet' with Darcy and Baron at least three times in the past 11 months.
I have had experience with earthquakes, floods, fires and blizzards. None of them actually harmed me, my family, or any of our 'stuff' but they have all happened within walking distance of the home I was living in or visiting.
Halloween---a week later. Sorry about not sharing sooner. I spent most of last week exhausted and unable to concentrate on anything. I ended up taking half a sick day on Thursday and then proceeded to sleep the afternoon away.
Friday night before Halloween we carved our jack-o-lanterns. This proved to be very difficult as two of the pumpkins we had picked out were rock hard. After pounding one of the pumpkins with a hammer and knife Chris ended up using his jigsaw to cut the rest of the design out. The pumpkin Chris picked was a regular pumpkin and he did an amazing job with his design.
Chris spent Saturday helping our friend, Bentley, move. Jordan and I spent the day getting the garage ready for all of the trick-or-treaters we were told would descend upon our subdivision. We picked up some decorated plastic that turned our garage into a stone dungeon so Jordan and I spent the afternoon getting that hung. This was not an easy task as the wind was blowing which made it very difficult to tape the 'walls' to the garage door. I used a heavy duty project stapler to hang the plastic from the ceiling of the garage. Since we had recently had a garage/yard sale and what didn't go was given to charity...the garage was basically empty. Chris put a TV out there, we hooked up our DVD player and played an eerie Halloween dvd that was on a loop, so it just kept playing.
As I was gathering my costume together I realized something terrible. I sold or gave away the black shirt that I use with my costume. So, I was not dressed in all black as most witches are, I was dressed in a combination of purple and black. Chris made it home in time to get his costume on and then he helped Jordan get into his.
We/I bought about $75 worth of candy to hand out to the trick-or-treaters. I had picked out several bags of candy that was not our 'favorites' so I opened them to hand out the Pixie Stix, the gum, and the nerds out first. Towards the end of the evening I opened one of the five/six bags of chocolate. We were left with four/five unopened bags of chocolate. We don't know if it is the H1N1 that kept people at home or if it was all of the churches having their Fall Festivals on the same night as the trick-or-treaters....we just know that we were left with almost as much candy as we had given out. Chris took most of it to the office on Thursday.
One of my VOX neighbors is in the hospital and she wants to keep a diary of sorts with her thoughts and feelings. She has an iPhone and wants to know how she can go about posting to VOX from her iPhone. I don't have a clue as I don't have a cell phone of any kind.
If anyone knows how or can offer up a suggestion it would be very much appreciated.
THANK YOU!!
