I'm a Fig Tree?

I'm not too sure what a Celtic Horoscope is, But I was goofing around on one of my favorite quiz sites (blogthings.com) so I thought I'd give it a try. I'm a fig Tree? Well . . . okay, I think I can live with that.


What's Your Celtic Horoscope?

You Are A Fig Tree.

You are very independent and strong minded.
A hard worker when you want to be, you play hard too.
You are honest and loyal.
You hate contradiction or arguments.
You love life, and you live for your friends, children, and animals.
A great sense of humor, artistic talent, and intelligence are all gifts you possess.

On the other hand . . .

What Frozen Treat Are You?

You Are a Popsicle.
You are colorful, creative, and expressive.
You are often in your own little world, having the time of your life.
People might be surprised to know that you're actually a bit of a perfectionist.
You like things to be neat and orderly.
You can deal with chaos, as long as it's controlled chaos.

I agree with the discription, but I hate popsicles.

I have NO life.

I'm so B.O.R.E.D. ! Life around here is dull, dull, dull !!! This summer is turning into a huge disappointment. Roy finally finished putting in the water pump and timing belt on his car yesterday; and the bottom line is . . . his car is screwed. It's got much bigger problems than he first thought and I STILL have no car because he's still driving mine. I had so many plans for this summer to get out and do things with the kids, but none of them have happened because I have no wheels. The kids will be going back to school in just a few weeks, and summer will be over. I am sick of feeling trapped in this house !

Sorry I sound so bitchy and whiney, but I really have nothing else to blog about. This sucks!

Speed Shopping

Oh my gosh, It's been go, go, go, all day long ! A totally crazy day. I was feeling really a bit yucky on Thursday, so I let my laundry agenda go, thinking that I would catch up today - HA !

I over slept this morning, had to rush around the house to get dressed and to the grocery store, but Heather and a bunch of her friends wanted a ride to the mall first. Car schedules got screwed up, and when it was all said and done, I only had an hour to get my shopping done.

So I drove past the house, picked up my youngest son, Jake and said,
"Here's the plan. We only have an hour to get groceries and get back home and unload everything, so we are going to do something different. We are going to buzz through the isles and randomly throw whatever appeals to us into the cart, and then, rush home as fast as we can. Okay?"

Okay, I know that doesn't make a lot of sense, but most things in my life don't. And Hell, Jake is an easy kind of guy. It was so much fun, and we ended up with some very interesting, and delicious, items. We got a box of creamy banana pop sickles covered in dark chocolate. Oh my Lord ! They're amazing ! We also ended up with several boxes of various fish fillets in Gourmet sauces? (The only time this family eats fish, is when we do take out from Long John Silver's.) But, Jake says he was feeling adventurous. For dinner, we ended up barbecuing a bunch of steak and chicken kabobs because, it was just about the only thing in the bags with any nutritional value. But damn, they were really good! We also got a giant box of microwaveable sausage and Pancakes on a stick, and THREE different flavors of Jello Cheese cake mixes. (cherry cheese cake, Peanut butter cheese cake, and Oreo cookie cheese cake) I guess Jake really likes Cheese cake. After I cleaned up from dinner, I went back to the store to get a list of stuff that Jenn needed to make a special Anniversary dinner for Nick tomorrow. (They have been together for ONE whole year !)

Anyway, while I was there, I picked up the "sane and rational" items that we missed. I didn't get home, get things put away, and actually sit down, until 11PM. I'm completely exhausted. I need to get myself off to bed. Heather and I are going to see Jasmin tomorrow to have our hair done. Urgh, At this rate, I'm never going to finish that laundry.

Help, I want out !

Oh my God, but last week sucked !! A killer heatwave had my husband working 16 hour days, had my dogs stuck inside driving me bananas, had the kids stuck inside making me an official fruit cake, Nick worked straight through, (on a construction site) but when he got home, all he could do was collapse, Jen drove him to and from work ( 3 hours round trip , twice a day) and her car's air conditioner was on the fritz, and did I mention the HEAT ?!! God, it was HOT !

Through out all of last week, I kept all the shades drawn to keep the temps inside as cool as possible; I didn't go out until after Roy got home for the day with my car. (after dark ) I was starting to feel like some weird kind of mole rat/vampire kind of person.

Thankfully, Sunday morning the sun rose, and the day was gloriously cool and comfortable! I woke up, got dressed, and spent four and a half hours walking my dogs and readjusting my eyes to sunlight, and my lungs to fresh air. I even spent most of the evening out on the deck, just marveling that the earth hadn't been scorched beyond recognition. I've concluded that I live a strange kind of life. It doesn't take much to throw my little routine all out of whack. Not having wheels is a big part of it, and I've been without my car long enough to start feeling like a hostage in my home. To be truthful, I'm not a terribly spontaneous kind of person, and being stuck at home really wouldn't be so bad - if I didn't live with a bunch of lunatics.

The kids have only been on summer vacation for about a month, and I'm ready to send them back to school. ( in body bags, if necessary.) With the kids out of school, Nick and Jen living with us, it seems like I can't get five minutes to myself. I'm used to having eight hours a day to sort through things I need to get done and feel like a sane person before I had to deal with other people. Now it seems like I spend my whole day working around people who seem to think that I am running some kind of bed and breakfast. I clean up after them, I cook for them, and they pretty much do what they want. It seems like it takes twice as long to get things done. When do I get MY vacation?

Well, strange as this seems, the kids have actually gone to bed before midnight this evening. (That hasn't happened very often over the last month) I think I'm going to take a nice long bath and go to bed early my self. Wish me luck . . .

It's late (again)

Okay, I'm up late. (again) I decided to stay up and watch "Gran Torino" with Clint Eastwood. Well, not with Clint Eastwood, he isn't really at my house, I don't even know him. What I mean is, starring Clint Eastwood - You know, In "Gran Torino" ? Oh Hell. It was a good movie. It's reassuring to know that I'm not the only one getting old.

Anyway, I need to go to bed, but I wanted to post photos of the pumpkins that I've painted over the past few weeks, before I forgot. (because me and Clint are getting old, you know?)

This is my "Nightmare Before Christmas" pumpkin. It's Jake's favorite movie. So, after I painted it, he stole it from me !! He took it up to his bedroom and I haven't seen it since. (he knows that I'm too scared to go up to his bed room - he probably has a lot of my stuff up there.)

I painted this pumpkin to use in our Yard Haunt this year. I'll probably put it with Jack and Mary (our crypt keepers) or something.

I made this skeleton pumpkin because we have a lot of Hispanics in our neighborhood, and they are very big on celebrating Dias De Los Muertos (day of the dead) with skeleton themes.

Okay, now I'm tired and I need to go to bed.

I hope everyone has (or is having) a fabulous weekend !!!

Night - Night everyone.

Love,

Susan

Tomorrow is another day.

Yawn ! I'm exhausted. I was up late last night baking cookies (Chocolate chip with M&M's, and some really tasty chocolate cookies with white chocolate chips and coconut flakes.) then, I was up early this morning to deal with the telephone repairman. They ended up spending all day to fix the phone and I didn't get a nap, or any of the other things done that I wanted to accomplish. Oh well, there's always tomorrow.

At least the phone is finally fixed. I hope. Our phone lines have been a mess ever since we moved into this house. Whenever it rains, our phones go out. After four years, they finally decided to send out someone to lay a new line, so I've got my fingers crossed that it works.

Speaking of repairs, the new van that Roy bought for work, conked out on him after only two days. So my motorized independence was short lived. It only needed a water pump, but he's just been too busy to put one in. He finally got some one else to do the work and I'm hoping to have my car back by the end of the week. (pray for me, please?)

Okay, all my kids are finally home for the evening, safe and sound, so I think I'll go put myself to bed. Hopefully, if all goes well, I'll have a few photos to post tomorrow of some pumpkins that I painted for Halloween. One of them, I am going to use for the yard haunt; the others, I'll probably sell. Except Jake has already claimed one and won't give it back - Little thief !

Oh yeah, I was going to bed . . . I'm just rambling anyway. Good night all.

Love,
Susan

Zombie Moms of the Midwest

Mondays . . .Bah! Humbug ! Today has been such a struggle. I feel like a zombie. My brain is just in a fog. Maybe, I'm just recovering from my weekend - it was fairly eventful. With my Birthday on Friday, and Father's Day on Sunday, and let's not forget, "Go Skate day" sandwiched in between, there was an awful lot happening. Saturday was go, go, go - whether I wanted to or not.
Sunday, is usually a day of rest and relaxation around my house. We got Roy a new BBQ grill for Father's day, and he did do some grilling, in spite of the extreme heat we have been having; but it seems it was over shadowed by the total chaos happening inside the house. It started out with Roy having some work that needed to be done for the land lord while Nick and Jen went to church.
When they got home, Heather wanted to trade beds with Nick and Jennifer so that they could have a larger bed, and she could have more space in her room. Then, Heather talked me into helping her clean her room, which I later found out is because my creative little daughter has plans for redecorating, which later turned into another shopping trip for new bed linens.
I have no idea what has gotten into my husband lately. In between grilling pork steaks, he spent his day tuning up and installing a window air conditioner for Jake's attic bedroom, and installing a new shower liner for my upstairs bathroom. That's more home repair than he usually does in a whole year!
The only person laying around on the couch was Jake. And that, in it's self is weird, but the poor kid can't do much with his sprained ankle, and the pain pills kept him pretty drowsy. He's feeling better today, but he has a huge, ugly, black and purple bruise right under the ankle joint.

Anyway, I woke this morning to find that our heatwave still continues. I got my house work done and spent the rest of the day numbing my brain on the computer and trying to stay cool. I can't get outside with my dogs because the "comfort" index says that it is like 105 degrees out there, with 80% humidity ! (it feels like a sauna !) We'd all have heat stroke before we got halfway around the track. It normally doesn't get this hot in Kansas until mid-July.

I think I'm just going to put myself to bed and hope that tomorrow I can snap out of it. I don't like feeling this way.
Good night.

Love,
Susan