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Saturday

Today was Saturday. Duh. It was also my day of nothing. The only thing that I had planned for today was to go weekly grocery shopping with FIL to help out with what we eat. After our trip to the store, I went shopping with MIL. Well sorta.. we went to Target then to Arbys. I have issues with dairy products sometimes, but they had a Orange creame swirl shake that sounded wayy yummy... so i got one.. few mins later my tummy started to gurgle.. so instead of finishing our shopping trip at another couple of stores, I asked her to take me and my rumblin tummy home. Well I ended up taking a nap and not doing much after that...

The kids are STILL up and its 11:09! Grr..

Ok anyways I still did not get my paycheck. GRrrrrrrrrrrrrr! I am M A D. lol ok it better be on my payroll card by 12:01am or Im gonna be pissy when I make it to work at noon.

Going to play scrable then to bed!

Ugh.

Another one of those days....

So I get a call from Express Personel Services at god knows what early morning time ... "Can you come in before you go to your appointment at *********?" Ok I have no idea what I said, and I barely remember even talking to them. So I call them back after I realized I talked to them... So I went there around 11:15am. Filled out an application, took a mini test and was told to go to my appointment at the other place (its a job thru them) So I go there and take my test there for the job, one part personality, another reading and comprehension, and the last one was math. Yeah. I failed. I know I failed the R&C and the math parts... Makes me wonder if I totally failed the personality one too lol ...

OK so by the time I get back to EPS's, they tell me I failed, then ask if I still wanted to take my typing test incase another job opening comes up. Sure. Why not. Im there already right? Well it was 1:10pm, and my "appointment to test" was at 2. So I went to the Iowa Workforce Department to turn in four applications I got yesterday. And back to EPS I go ... Typing typing, alpha numeric, 10 key... yeah I did 58wpm for typing, and I did pass another thing, but I failed the 10key, and another one... Woot.

Well all day I have been waiting for a phone call from Kelly Services because my paycheck did not show up on my "payroll debit card" like it should have. Finally when I got home, I got through to someone and they told me that there was an error due to the holiday and they are aware of it, and they called everyone with an automated thing....


... Kim comes down this morning, and I ask her "who the heck called?" She said that one of them was just silence... so she hung up.. I totally would have done the same too... Turns out, that was my automated service calling me. lol I told them to delete that number from existance and ONLY call my cell... heh figures.


So its now 4:22 pm, and I feel like one great big broke failure!

Wow

Its already July! Where does the time go? It seems the older you get the faster it goes.


I reallly really really miss our cable internet. I miss the speed and the fact I could be on it when ever I wanted... Or that I could make phone calls while I am on the internet...

I am in charge of an online group and ive been neglecting it because the page wont ever load :( My husband is realllly behind on getting new music for work too.. sux.


WOOT! I have a "test" tomorrow for a temp agency, its a typing, word, & excel test... so if i pass that, i go to the company and take another test. I hate tests! But I hope I pass! Wish me luck!


bleh. ok thats it.

You know your fat when...

... someone asks you how far along you are. OMFGWTFBBQ! Why would you ask someone that if you didnt know for sure if they were pregnant or not??? HELLO? ugh... so yea.


So for the most part, other then it being a four letter word, I like work. I like work at KRAFT. I am still looking for a nice desk job because that i could do full time where as the KRAFT thing my body can only handle so much... I stand and walk a lot. The plant is HUGE. I wouldnt mind, but i get wayyy warm when I walk to do the trash and collect cardboard n stuff.


So everyone says "your moving to IOWA?" or "you moved HERE?" like there is some big horrible thing about Mason City, Iowa. There are the same type of people everywhere you go. There will always be the gossipers, the trouble starters, the lazy bastages that dont do jack shit... and so on. Some one asked me before I moved here "why do you think MC IA would be better then any of the other places you lived?" My reply was "nothing... I am not expecting anything to be any different."

OK im being wayyy tooo wordy...

So anyways...


lol

just kidding

...done.

One of those days

Have you ever had one of those days where you think you should just go back to bed and start over? I had one of those today...

So I got up gave the kids breakfest n stuff, then around 10 I showered and got ready for work at noon... I had errands to run.. Well I stopped at the bank to open a checking account, and failed. I guess my other bank gave our stuff to check systems... great...

Well after that, I drove around and went to Walmart... by then I had to go eat so I could be to work on time. Well I got to work a bit early, so I sat in the car and checked my yahoo mail on my phone and added some stuff to it... Well anyways... At 11:45, I went inside.. I went to sign in (we have to sign in and out, and punch in and out lol) and I hear this girl being told that she should have been called because they cut hours due to one of the machines being down. Well Dan saw me and said "Hey! Your in the same boat as she is! Yours were cut too. Didnt they call you?" Um no? If they did, i would not be there right? LOL So I asked if I could get my 3 free cases of pudding, got them and left.

Wow. Its noon, what do i do? Well I figured it would be a good day to bring my resumes to the other temp agencys that work more with office jobs... So I drive to the one temp agency on my list... Personet or how ever its spelled.. I grab my resume off the top of my large stack and head on in fearless. They have a sign in the window that says "We help you find great jobs!" So I walked in and said "Im looking for a great job!" lol anyways... I gave her my resume and she handed me a stack of paper work. I was totally not prepared for about half the stuff on there. How could I be soooo unprepared?? UGh... So I go home and fill out paper work .


BLEH! Tomorrow is another day.

AND I asked if my hours for tomorrow and Sunday got cut, and they did not! WHOOHOO!

I like having a job. They mail me money.

"I'm blogging this"

I wore my teeshirt today, so I figured I should probably blog! So here goes...


... Im in Iowa, I am working for Kelly Temp Services at KRAFT Jello... Its an okay job, I stand around a lot and get paid... so yeah not hard... its considered light industrial, so its all good... Nothing compared to staying at home with the kids... now THAT is work... and I miss it

... Um.. hmm... lets see here what else should i blog about... oh i gotta go do laundry at the LM today... good times.

Ok thats all i can think to put in here right now

Sooo...

ok its ike 9:48ish here, and the kids across the street are STILL outside... they are like under 12... yes its summer, big whoopty doo... they are throwing ROCKS. I hear one of them say "what did you hit?" the other one says "i hit the van" ok welll there are two vans out on the street. MINE, and their parents.....

You can bet your ass I will be out there tomorrow lookin at my van for any dents or nicks of ANY kind...

What Ive been up to

Well I had a "thingy" at Kelly Temp. Services this morning from 8:30 -12:30pm. I filled out an application for KTS then had an interview, then progressed into KTS and KRAFT's policys. The temp job is for 7$ an hour for a six hour shift, for as many or little as you would like. You can only work up to 1000 hours, then you must be let go for 90 days, but after that 90 days you can start back up again. Now... I heard that if you actually work for KRAFT and not thru KTS, you would make an additional 5$ an hour, but those are 12 hour days. Um no thank you.... lol my feet would murder me.

Any whoo... I have a "drug" screening tomorrow at 9am, and from here, I will be waiting on the results of that and my background check.

I guess I should have told them about that job with the Secret Service that I had as an international spy a few years back. Oh well...

Life is good, for the most part... well other then neither of us having a full time job at the moment, but the sun is shining a bit brighter these days.

I guess I havnt blogged lately because I am used to doing it on MY computer...well, the stolen internet is only on hubbys computer for now :(

ALSO... If I am a regular reader to your blog, I have not done so since I have been down here, so please... EMAIL me your blog addy so I can get caught up! (i n s o m n i a c r e d AT G M A I L DOT COM) kthnx

oh yea

I rented a movie because I knew Tony wanted to go hear the band at the bar...



.................... I FREAKIN SAW IT BEFORE.................................


UGh. lol sux2bME

wow

Ok so I went out last night to the bar Tony works at... Thursday night is "College Night" so its rather busy, now not nearly as busy as during the actual "school year"though. This night they let in 18-20 year olds and up in. The "minors" have a big M on their hand and everyone else has a bracelet. Part way through the night, I was sitting on the second floor that looks over the dance floor when I saw this guy with two beers walking and looking around... Then I see him find the person he was looking for and hands her a beer... Apon further nosyness, I see shes NOT wearing a bracelet. Well SHE got kicked out, but he didnt because "STAFF" did not see him do it. Which is fine I guess, but they need to watch him next time, because every night I have been out there, those two also have....

.... At the end of the night as people were flowing out the door (not very gracefully btw), I see this girl making out with this guy in the parking lot. Then he walks away, and she gets on her cell phone and the first things she said when who ever answered was "Hey baby!"... nice... lol ...

The girl on the cell phone leaves DRUNK and TALKING ON HER CELL ... I told the owner, "ya know if your gonna drink and drive, DONT do it while talking on your cell!!!" I told Tony the same thing a few seconds later...


blahblah... I drove the van out and Tony had his car, so we were going to meet up and go in one car to walmart. On our way into town, I saw two cop cars taking up both lanes of the road ... So I took a detour. When Tony picked me up, I said "soooo your gonna drive past that RIGHT?" (i really am VERY nosy) Guess who got into a car accident! Ill give you one guess.... did you guess it?? DRUNK CELL PHONE GIRL!!!!!!!!! P'owned!!

I am happy that it looked like a minor accident, and not a major one... but I am sure she will be in some deep shit... Tony said she had all kinds of booze in her car too... opened...

Ok thats all I got

Happy Birthday to me

Ya I feel old... Kim found a grey hair on the back of my head last night... Caitlin kept asking why I had a grey hair. I told her its because she talks too much. She didnt fall for that...

Well I called Target today... The HR person was not in, but I talked to someone that was able to tell me that they had already filled the two only positions. :/

So after finding out that news, I called Comfort Inn, and the lady was not there, so I left a voice message for her. I also called Farm & Fleet to see if they reviewed my application.

Wonderful. Van payment due in four days along with car insurance by Monday. Yippie!

Other then that I didnt do much of anything today. Didnt feel like it...

Kim is going to watch the girls tonight so I can go out the the bar that Tony DJ's at... I hope I have some form of fun.

Caitlin kept asking me "Can we bake you a cake?" I said "No, I want an icecream cake and it would melt if you baked it"

What happed to Red?

I am here, in Iowa, with a severly pissed off aunt in Wisconsin. Oh well what can ya do...

The kids and I "moved" here on Monday. We are camping out in R & K's living room.

I went job hunting down here last Tuesday, so hopefully something comes out of that...


7:00 AM Phone rings.... me "Hello?" angry aunt on the line. ack. Good thing I was already awake and had my morning cig. (Its like coffee drinkers, do NOT talk to them before their first cup)

Today I went back to Comfort Inn but the lady I should talk to will not be in until tomorrow. I got my calendar marked! I also went to the temp agency in town and talked with them. They have two job postings at this time. One is at KRAFT filling jello cups, and the other is an assistant sales associate for a cell phone place. Um ya. I cant sell shit to dung beatles. So I have to go back in Thursday June 8th for some training or test or something.. not quite sure. I marked that on my calendar too (and not the ginormous one. that stayed behind along with 98% of our things... - the cats. they are living on the porch so we can be near them)

So yeah. Ok done.

LOL

away

being away from home for this long is disorienting ... UGH i cant get the underline to go away LOL

Anyways, im lost with out my computer, ginormous calendar, & my palm desktop on my pc.

WHERE the heck is the underline button??????????? LOL

FINE! ill be done.

still in iowa

well im still here... i was going to go back home on tuesday, but instead, i stayed and went job hunting. I applyed at Target and they have this phone thing you call so you can go back and sign your ap and stuff... they did an interview, and asked if i had time for a second one... SURE!

I also went to Comfort Inn and they are hiring for a front desk clerk ...


so hopefully one of those people call me Tuesday... I was thinking of going back Tuesday, but if I go home, I wont have enough gas money to get back down here! LOL


Ok thats all

Not Home

Im in Iowa, please check back later.



LOL


-Me

Zoe in the park

Parenthood

We do not raise children, we raise adults. – Dr Phil

This is so true. Yes, in a way you raise children, but you are mostly raising them to be adults. They have to learn that things are not free, and not everything is done for them. They must be able to go off to college and succeed in the world alone. You can not be with them all the time when they are adults. You teach behaviors, children learn from what you teach them, what you say to them, and what kind of parent that you are. They were not born with bad behavior, it is a learned behavior. If you have ever said something out loud, then later hear it from your child, it can be an eye opening moment of the awful truth. My husband and I believe that everything you do or say to a child before the age of six will transform them into what they will be. It is all up to you as a parent on what and how you teach your child.

As a parent for the last five years, we have learned many things. You learn that your life is not over it just has a new beginning. For those who say your life is over, have never experienced a pregnancy of a loved one, the birth of a child, first baths, teeth, crawling, first steps, or a first birthday. These things are wonderful milestones to any caring parent.

Children do not come with manuals although some parents wish they did. There are several good books to help you along the way, but these books are like people with opinions on how you should raise your children. You take what works for you and discard the rest. Sometimes it gets hard to listen to everyone who has something to say about how exactly you should raise your child right down to what they should wear, what religion they should follow, what music they should or should not listen to, what television shows are best. The advice can be extremely overwhelming.

You know when you take a wrong turn in parenting because it comes back to haunt you. My children have been able to freely watch TV as they wish. They have a TV in their room, and it is always on. When they eat, they want to watch the TV in the living room. Most of the time, the TV is just something going on in the background for my children. Other times they cuddle with their favorite blanket and toys and chill. Every one needs time to just relax.

Today, as I do my daily tasks, I shut the TV off so I could listen to music. That was over an hour ago now. All I have heard for the last hour from Caitlin is “Mom can I watch TV?” “Mom will you turn on the TV?” “I’m going to turn on the TV if you don’t mom” “I don’t like you because your not letting me watch TV.” This is when you realize you have gone too far. Changes need to be made and fast.

I know we have well behaved children, but sometimes they lash out. If you think about it, it is something that we have done or not done that creates this behavior in the child. Everything you do affects your child and their childhood even the small things.

I hope I can steer my children on to the right path in the future. I am going to start some major TV rules today. Wish me luck, I think I need it.

McDreamy vs. McVet

Hmm... Ok if you watch this show, and have not seen the two hour long season finale, you might want to stop reading. right here. do it. now.
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...........OMG I cant belive the finale! Well I can, because we all just KNEW it was leading up to this. After last seasons finale, we were left with Meridith standing by McDreamy and the wife that Meridith did not know about until then...

So now, we are held at this point where she is standing there and has to choose between McDreamy (who she just had hot steamy sex with) or McVet (the guy she thinks will give her some stability in life and is a great catch)... Who willl she choose?? UGH! The agony! And now we will be stuck at this point until fall.... lol

Makes for great tv !

Now bring on the two hour finale of Desperate Housewives and 24! The prison break finale was not so ... cliff hanger 'er... Yet still good..


G'Night!

Routines

Since I have this ginormous calendar in front of me at all times, I figure now would be a great time to get back into my daily, weekly, and monthly routines. This might not be easy at first because I have been slacking for so long, but I have to at least give it a try, right? They are all written down right in front of me, so my only excuse would be because I am lazy.

But I am lazy. I don’t mean to be, I just don’t ever feel like doing anything at all. Maybe it’s my bi polar, maybe my meds are not right, but I am not screaming like a banshee at my children daily, or am extremely moody, so they should be okay, right?

Anyways, sticking to my routines was one of my New Year’s resolutions. So here goes…First thing Monday morning... hehe

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