Enough is enough already

I don't know how many times I have said this to myself, my hubby, my mom, my sisters, my kids, my friends and etc.

"Enough is enough already!" can be used for so many situations. I say it to my kids so much, it is part of our everyday conversations. I tell then to stop fighting and they don't so than I say "enough is enough already!"

The reason for today's "enough is enough already" is me. I have had it with the laziness, lack of organization, and being overweight!

Friday night I had to go out for my friends 40Th birthday and after trying on 5 different shirts to cover the middle of me, I said "enough is enough already!"

You heard it here first ladies and gents! Enough is enough already!!!

Time for a change, a major change, a life altering change.

This is the "before" and you'll have to check back every once in a while for the after!



You really cant see the full me but I will find one and get it up here.

August 4, 1958

51 years ago today, my mom gave birth to her 3rd child, my sister Patti. Patti is the type of person you can always count on no matter what you need or when you need it. She always puts others before herself.

She is bright, charming and very good looking. She has a great sense of humor too.

Patti and I worked together for many years doing various jobs, we worked at a printing company, we bar tended, we worked for a Doctor billing service and we worked for a painting company. Some may think it's hard to work with your sister, yeah you are right, it can be hard but it was also fun. When we would bar tend, she would tell people that I was her older sister and they would believe her. She is 9 yeas older than me. Either she loos good for her age and I look old for mine or they were all drunk. Here she is with Batman!



And here she is with MJ!




I am so blessed to have a sister like her.

Happy Birthday Patti & Many More! Love your favorite older sister Dee

The big "C" took another

Went to a funeral today. Mr. Fiedler passed away from Cancer. I hate Cancer! RIP Mr. Fied's.

Cancer - YUK!

Mom was diagnosed with Cancer a while back. Since I was not active blogging I am going to vent about it now.

Back in 2005 my mom was real sick, we had no idea what was wrong with her. The Doctors did test after test and were not coming up with anything. We were actually to the point we wanted them to find something so we could "fix" her. My oldest Niece is a Dental Hygienist & was looking at my moms teeth and said something did not look right. We got her in at my Niece's office & sure enough, she had such a bad infection in her gums that is was almost killing her. Now my mom went to the dentist every 4 months (not 6 but 4) and her dentist never said anything was wrong with them. This infection was so bad that it turned into an infection in her blood, when all was said and done she ended up with pneumonia. We almost lost her. She got down to 110 lbs. Normal weight 140's. Finally she go better after we had all her upper teeth pulled and numerous bouts of antibiotics.

She was so depressed after that, that we had to really watch her and keep her busy. All was good for about 2-1/2 years. Then we noticed she was falling into that "sick" mode again. We took her to the Dr. and everything checked out okay except her lung capacity was low. So here we go again back and forth to the Dr. every other month just to check her out and do blood work. After a few months they decide to start doing scans on her lungs. First few were okay then one came back with a spot. UGH!

They told us to come back in 3 month and they will do another Scan and go from there. 3 months later, it was bigger. We did all the test they asked us to do and all the biopsy to see if it really was Cancer. May 4Th she got the call from her Doctor. "Josie, you have Cancer." My mom handled this so well that I was shocked. We all thought for sure she was going to fall into depression again and that would be it for her. My mom, told all of us to keep it together and she was going to do whatever was needed to take care of it.

We went to see all the Doc's needed and the best option was to have surgery and remove the Cancer. We set it up and that was that. As the date got closer, I noticed my mom not so much herself. One day at her house we were all hanging out & she called me into the bathroom and started to cry. When I asked her what was wrong she said, "If something goes wrong, please don't make Patti get stuck taking care of me." Patti is my sister who lives right next store and always takes my mom where she needs to go and goes to the store with her, they go to church together, they hang out all the time. I assured my mom that nothing was going to happen (like I knew that or something) and if something did go wrong, I would be more that happy to be stuck taking care of her. She hugged me really tight and said "don't tell anyone this happened."

we had the surgery & they took out the Cancer and some surrounding tissue to do a biopsy just to be sure. 1 week later, we were told they got it all. She needs no chemo or radiation! We still have to go back to the Doctor every month but who cares, my mom is okay for now.

Thank you God for giving her more time cause I'm not done with her yet!

Love you Mom!!!!

Aunt Theresa, Come quick!

My sister Theresa finally bought a new car, in her 33 years of driving, she never had a brand new car. She bought a 2010 Toyota Matrix.



Last night I had to drive my sister home from our neice's block party so we stopped to look at her car. Now my boys are car nuts, they have to sit in every seat, touch every button and gadget.

All of the sudden I hear Mary Jo, "Aunt Theresa, come quick, the boys are touching your prndl!" We both said "WHAT" and she repeated it again. We walked over to the car to see what the hell she was talking about and I about pee'd my pants. She was pointing to the gear shift and yelling "That thing, THE PRNDL!"

That must be the first time she has seen a gear shift on the console. All my cars have it on the column. Well my girl was the laugh of the night. I wish I had it on video to show how funny it was.

Thanks Mary Jo for the belly full of laughs!

Starting over again

It sure has been a long time since I have visited and put down my thoughts. So I thought I would give it a try again.

This year has not been so good for me. I have had some rough months but have also had some good months.

I got fired in April, that was a not so good but good month. I really did not like my job or my boss and his wife. They were very well off people and did not know how to treat people very well unless you wanted to suck ass, and I am not one to do that.

I got to spend the last 2-1/2 months helping out at the kids school. That was fun. We went on field trips, we had class parties, we had Olympic day. We had fun!!

The first month of summer break was good, we did all kinds of stuff, nothing that cost too much money cause I have none, but we did fun stuff. We rode bikes, we planned our block party, we went to the museums, we hung in the pool (the kids did, i am too huge for a suit and my pool is in the front yard so everyone that drives by can see me).

In July we had a great 4Th, partied with the family, went on vacation to the Dells, our annual trip. It was nice. The weather was not too good, it rained off and on the whole time, but we made the best of it. The last night there, we went on a Pirate Cruise with the kids, we all dressed in Pirate get-up, there were about 20+ of us on the boat. After the 2 hour trip and a lot of booze, we went back to the camp site to feed the kids and low and behold, hubby and I had words. Nothing big I thought but he still has not gotten over it. Today is day 5, I am so tired of it. I am trying to make the best of everything.

I am gonna go for now, I have a lot of people to visit and see what has been going on with them. Missed you all!

Kid Artwork

UPDATE ON AUNT SOPHIE

Whew....

Thanks God, Aunt Sophie is feeling better. She is such a "BEAR" (no pun intended), when she's not feeling well. She went from being sick, to being "psyched" for the Super Bowl.

She is up in AGE, you know.... she still thinks the Chicago Bears are in the Super Bowl. Just go with it... you DON'T want to "cross" Aunt Sophie!!!!

Love,
Patti and Aunt Sophie

THAT DAMN FLU BUG IS AT IT AGAIN

I got this e-mail from my sister in regards to Aunt Sophie.


Hi....

Update on Aunt Sophie.... This morning while we were having coffee in the Parlor, she said she was chilled. So, not only did I put the fireplace on, I covered her legs with a blanket.



As the day went on, she started feeling nausea and gassy.... so, she was on the "pot" for most of the day.



Now she's laying in bed with a slight temperature. I gave her a cool wet rag to put on her head. Guess has the 24 hour flu.



I'll let you know how she's feeling in the morning.

Thanks for all your prayers and well wishes!

Love,Patti & Aunt Sophie

Tuesday fill in

New Do's and To Do's

Today is a holiday and everyone had it off but me :(. When I got home from work today I had the best little treat. My house was SPOTLESS, my laundry was all done (except the Dryel stuff) and my boys had hair cuts. This was the best Monday by far.

My Front Room


The kids front room



The Dining Room - B-day present still out


The Kitchen





And last but not least....The boys hair cuts




I have also decided to steal something from Brenda, Menu Monday. I like that idea because everyday we go 'round and 'round about whats for dinner.

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I am not sure what to name this post. I have so much on my mind and so little room up there to hold it all in. I think I need to vent.

So as you all may know, I really do not like my job anymore. I know there are many people out there that do not have jobs and I should be thankful to be employed but right now I cant be thankful. My boss and his wife are killing me. I don't know how she can sleep at night. Here is my latest drama with her. Monday morning I walk in the the kitchen which is also the home to the postage machine and 2 printers. I notice a huge stack of papers on the printer. Mine was on top but I thought I would be nice and pass them out. So I flipped through and noticed they were for the wifey. I asked her where she wanted them, she said can you make sure they all belong to me first. I said sure. Flipped through again, pulled out a few that did not belong to her and put them on her chair as she was in a meeting and i went about my business.

About 1/2 hour later, she sits down by my desk and says I need to talk to you and she has a stack of print outs (a lot bigger then I had put there) and tells me I need to pay more attention to detail. "Excuse me?" She says "I asked you to take out what did not belong to me and here I have a bunch that are not mine." "You really need to pay more attention to what you do, you are the bookkeeper and you have to be on top of things because there is so much detail and precision in your job and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Once again, I did not speak my mind. In my younger days I would have told her exactly what I thought and not even missed a beat. What is happening to me?

My hubby told me to let it roll off my back because she probably gets off making other people mad. He told me to kill her with kindness. Oh, I want to kill her alright but not with kindness.

Then mr boss walks in today with something high up his ass and decides I am a good target to shit on. He kept asking me questions with a real shitty tone and I kept giving him answers with a real happy and cheerful response. I think that was pissing him off.

The thing that almost threw me over the edge today is this, we get paid tomorrow so I have to process payroll today. I get all the commission sheets done at 9:00 a.m. and give a copy to boss and to wifey to review. Boss gets his back to me right away. I only work until 2:30 so payroll needs to be done and transmitted by 2:00 just in case I run into trouble. At 1:20 I still do not have wifeys stuff back. I go to her desk, not there, I ask the receptionist & she says she went on a client visit. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME! So I call her and she says she will be right back. Gets back and makes it my fault they are not done. I should have told her I put them on her desk. HELLO! YOU WERE SITTING RIGHT THERE AND SAW ME PUT THE BRIGHT GREEN FOLDER ON YOUR DESK!

So here it is 2:10 and I was just starting to process the payroll. I got it done and transmitted at 2:30 exactly. My kids get out of school at 2:45, It takes me 17 minutes to get home on a good day. Today's road conditions are anything but good.

I don't mind working late if need be and with a little notice because I pick up my kids from school and today it was -14 with the wind and who am I suppose to call at the last minute to pickup my kids? My kids are more important to me then some fucking job.

Bitter, party of one, your table is ready. I really dread going to work tomorrow.

And the Award goes to.....

Me!




I was ever so lucky to receive an award today from my real life BFF Jess. Thank you again Jess.

The "rules" are:
*List six things that make you happy.
*Pass the award on to 5 other bloggers
*Link back to the person who gave you the award.
*Link to the people you are passing it on to and leave them a comment to let them know.


6 things that make me happy:
1. When someone tells me they love me.
2. My Family
3. Healthy kids
4. Kisses from my husband and kids.
5. The sun shine
6. Peace

I am giving this to

Tiffany

Jill

Dawn

Vodka Mom

Toni

Double Digits

10 years ago today at 2:00 a.m. I was woken from a deep sleep (well as deep as you can sleep when you are 41 weeks pregnant) to these wonderful sharp little pains in my stomach.

At 2:21 p.m. after a very short labor (after I got to the hospital and got my drugs, I was a sleep most of the time) I was blessed with a 8 lb 10 oz, 21 inch baby girl.

Snoball was born in the blizzard of 99, I am a product of the blizzard of 67. My dad once told me I was the result of a good drunk. Thanks Dad, just what I always wanted to hear. And truth be told all 3 of my were from good drunks.

Over the past 10 years we have gone through so much. It is amazing how time flies. I do remember saying and still do sometimes say "I cant wait til they are older!". Reality has slapped me in the face today. I do not want my baby to be double digits, that means she is not a baby anymore, that also means I am double digits older than when I had her. Not that I feel old or anything but to be young and vivacious forever would be nice.

Today is her day and I thank God for giving her to me and letting me hug and kiss and cuddle and smell and love her everyday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SNOBALL, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!

The Letter J

I am so glad Deb is back in action. She asked if anyone wanted a tag and I took it.

You have to list 10 of your favorite things using a letter she give you. I got "J".

1. Jessica - My BFF since grammar school.

2. Jelly - Grape as a kids, KY now (his and hers). (LOL)



3. Juice - Ice Cold Orange Juice with lots of Vodka.

4. Jams - Classic Rock and some Country.

5. Juggling - I can do it!



6. Jump ropes - My boobs don't like it but I used to be really good at it.

7. Jaguars - The cars and the animals.

8. Jokes - I love to laugh.

9. Jacks - I use to love playing as a kid in day camp.



10. Jenny and Jena - My 2 nieces.



This was a bit harder than I thought it would be but fun. Thanks for letting me play Deb.

The Tooth Fairy

might want to move in and make her life easier.

Mike has 3 teeth on the way out. On Thursday he asked me to pull one out, so I did. We put it under his pillow and "Viola" $5.00 the next day. He did the happy dance. Now here is the kicker, today he comes up to me and says "I think you need to pull another tooth Ma". "What are you talking about mike that tooth is no where near ready to come out". He says..."it is now". He sat here all morning pushing and pulling until it was ready, he actually thought he was going to get $5.00 per tooth so he is making them loose. Crack me up. What does he think the tooth fairy is a Rockefeller?

Here is a picture of my toothless wonder.

SSS Gift

I found the plug to my Camera....

This is what I got from my SSS.




2 holiday dish towels, a very cute stuffed snowman, some lotion and a bag to carry it in.

Thank you very much Kandas.

2009

Well another year has past and we made it through. I hope all bad and negative things that happened stay in the past and we can have a happy and healthy New Year.

As I was going to bed last night, I asked hubby "Whats your New Years Resolution?" He said, "you know I don't make those anymore." So I thought well at least he wont be breaking it like I do every year. I don't get why I cant just stick to the whole resolution thing, I couldn't do it as a kid and cant do it as an adult.

But since it's a new year, I am going to try again. So here goes.

I have 3 things I want to improve on in my life in 2009.

1. Get healthy. I want to start taking better care of me so I can take better care of my family.

2. Be more understanding. I want to listen better and not yell so much. I want to think before I react.

3. Improve my relationships. With my husband, kids, family and friends.

This year I really want to stick to it so I can finally say "I DID IT!".

Here is to a happy and healthy 2009!