7:30am….

BANG BANG BANG RATTLE RATTLE RATTLE…..That is what I woke up to.  Some stupid fuckers are RIGHT beside my house banging into asphalt with a gawddamn backhoe of all fucking things.  They are installing new hydrants or some stupid shit.  They’ve been beside my house for 3 days now.  Everytime they use the backhoe my house is shaking. 

It’s 7:fucking30 in the morning and I’m awoken by the banging of the backhoe and my house shaking so badly that I honestly thought the pictures were going to start falling off the wall.  I have a good mind to call the cuty and ask them just who in the fuck is going to pay for my house when it gawddamn falls down.  Then I thought about going out there with a gun and screaming like a crazed mental patient that they all need to just leave right the fuck now. 

Whatever I decide to do, I’m pissed.  The funny thing in all this is that it’s 7:30 (well 7:45 now) and I can’t call the city to complain BECAUSE THEY AREN’T EVEN FUCKING OPEN YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yet their stupid little minons are out there tearing every gawddamn thing up and making it virtually impossile for those of us that live in this neighborhood to go any fucking where between the hours of 7am-4pm or 6pm whenever the fuck they feel like going home.

We’re suppose to go to B’s today but hell if I know if we’ll be able to even leave the gawddamn driveway, they’ve blocked it with their fucking big assed trucks two days in a row.

Oh, someone in the city services office will be hearing from me today, they’ll have a GREAT story to tell the spouse this weekend, ohyestheywill.

Let’s go on an Adventure, Shall we?……
This entry is orange to ‘celebrate’ the color of my street.

First, it started out with this river in front of my house, it looked like this, only a bit more water……..

The backhoe guy, bulldozer dude, whatever the fuck he’s called….started scraping the road..see, if they could gather all the mud up and do something with it, then we, the citizens of this fine city of the south, would be happy. So they scraped the mud…..all two inches of it…I mean like after he went from the left to the right of my house, he had scraped up about two inches total..it was truly sad and a waste of time…but I kept taking pictures…

They eventually started sloshing water all over it to ‘rinse’ it off.  You know, it might not rain around here..I mean it hasn’t rained in what, a whole 3 days now! WOWSERS!

So, what happens when they take gallons of water and throw them on the street?…..

Why, it goes down the storm drain then drains through your backyard, OF COURSE!!!! 

The second half of our adventure begins when our 2 yr old ‘hero’ decides that running in the house, even though mom says not to, is just REALLY fun…so what does he do? Runs square into the corner of a wall.  My stomach churned when I heard the ‘thwap’ and then the subsequent cries.  He gashed his forehead, and fattened his lip.  He’s now walking around with an inch long gash on his forehead (right above the left eye and beginning at the hairline) with about 6 stitches in it (I seriously lost count, the doc just kept stitching and stitching).  I would tell the adventure of waiting in the ‘children’s emergency’ room but it would probably piss people off because there are certain people right now that I don’t want to talk to, about, or even think of them right now…I never want to see a hospital again, thankyouverymuch.

Hospital visit tally;

BT- 2 sets of 2 stitches (one on the chin, one over the eye), 2 staples in his head, and 2 broken arm bones, all before his 5th birthday.

LT- 6 stitches on his forehead, before his 3rd birthday.

How in the hell did that kid beat out his big brother in one fail swoop?? I was hoping he’d be the graceful one, or at least less accident prone…gawd, I’m in BIG trouble.

I figure if I get any ‘Gaping Asshole’ searches, or other ‘sex’ type searches…they can look at this…

That’s my turtle…I took it yesterday while playing around with my camera…I kind of like how it looks like a picture you’d find in one of those “How to Raise a Pet Turtle” books…ya know?

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In other news, I have a LIST of games that I want to look into buying.  I figure I’m going to print out a list take it to Media Play or Electronics Boutique or something and then look at the boxes, maybe play a few, if they have them set up.  Then figure out which two I will take home.  I can go back and get more later.  I just want ONE good role playing/strategy game then a bunch of ‘crap’ as most gamers would call them.  You know, Hoyle card & board games, the old Atari games, shit like that!  Yep, my system will be riddled with crap…and one or two really good ones.  I just found Praetorians and got the demo, SWEET!  But I need to read up on it…My army kept dying, it was truly sad.  DH kept trying to help but he also wanted to keep quite..revelling in the fact that he can play these fucking games and I can’t, none the less!

So anyway…I swear I’ll shut up about the PC sooner or later, but I’ve never really bought a BRAND NEW really really really good PC.  I’ve usually ended up with just above average (which usually turns into way below average, in about 6 months)….now I’m getting a ‘kick ass’ PC and I’m so fucking excited!!

Happy Hump Day!

So…remember the ‘Gaping Assholes’ entry? If not, it’s HERE….

So, I went and checked my search terms, the ones that pull my site..and this is what I found;

“gaping assholes” (Overture)
dog fucking mom in law stories (Google)
dogs fucking our moms (AOL)
gaping asshole pictures (MSN)
hot moms fucking (MSN)
privacy butts fucking (MSN)
sponge ball square pants pictures (Google)

DUDE, some of these people are a little whacked…dogs fucking moms and moms in law and shit…man, sick sick people…I’m sure they were sorely disappointed when they got to my site and saw my pictures of frogs, and flowers! ROFL….serves ‘em right!

BUT…I *did* get my gaping assholes search!! hehehehehe…now I’ll have MORE gaping asshole searches…oh well it’s funny to see how many people will actually click on the link that says ‘Turtlemama’s Xanga Site’

The Summer is Going Well

Well folks…I did it.  I actually bought a new PC.  I need new flooring in the kitchen and downstairs, and we could have bought about 2 rooms worth of laminate, self-lock flooring (you know the cheapy snap-lock stuff)….instead I got a ‘gaming’ PC.  I don’t do much ‘gaming’ but they have a game out and I want to play it.  I’ve always had this little wish of mine since I was probably about 4-5 years old….I’ve wanted to be a fighter pilot. So now….I CAN!

AND..I don’t have to get my hands dirty or go to bootcamp! WHOOHOOOOO for me!

So my new ‘puter…I found it at eBay and got a GREAT deal on it….this is it;

BUT in this color

I didn’t get the monitor or the keyboard…just the computer.

I’ll be playing SIMS until my fingers fall off.  Then I’ll play other crap just ’cause I CAN!! And the graphics card will make my pictures look a ton better than this PC does, and it’ll be FAST…at least it better be fast, I’m talking blow my hair outta my face, make me want a sip of water…F A S T.

Yep, I hope it’s fast and I hope it gets here QUICKLY!!!!!! I’ll let you know more about it after it arrives and I’ve played with it…THEN and only THEN will I tell you who makes ‘em!

Weekend Fun

I’m writing this on Friday because, according to our weatherman…we’re getting sun this weekend, although it will be humid as all fuck, it’s still going to be sunny…and we haven’t seen the sun in quite some time.  So I’ll be outside enjoying the shine as much as I can stand, until the humidity kicks my ass, then I’m back inside…with AC! oh yeah, gotta love that AC.  Besides, my ‘Six Feet Uner’ and ‘OZ’ the first season DVD box sets came in the mail today…oh yes, I will be a drama watching QUEEN all weekend! YAY for me!!!!!!

Anyway…here’s a picture that I took of my desk…it looks more like a picture of my coffee mug with my desk around it, but my desk wouldn’t be complete without a coffee mug..

I don’t really know why I took this shot, but I did and here it is..so there.  Or, should I say ‘here’? eh who cares…

I also got a picture of Tallulah, the fat ass, sleeping on a little table…she woke up as I got my camera ready, but you can still see her fat ass trying not to fall off the table…creepy cat..

If you don’t know about the Creepy Cat thing..go check out my other journal at turtlemama.com..it explains it there..yes, I write 2 separate entries a day…almost.

That’s about it for my weekend fun edition, and it wasn’t even that much fun…I apologize, but really, go read a book or something if you don’t like it here

HEY Y’ALL!! I SAW THE SUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This entry is best read with a ‘Steel Magnolias’ accent

I swear, I DID!!! It was big and bright and shiny, and it cast this yellow glow over everything….Well, I think it was the sun or a bomb, who knows…

Oh and speaking of seeing illusive things…I saw…THE VICE PRESIDENT!! He was on T.V.  I almost choked on the water I was drinking.
*end accent-reading*

Yeah, so I’ve been watching the news again…more or less for the run down of world news and then getting on with my life.  I don’t remember what I saw…oh yeah 568,896,500 reports about the UN lifting sanctions on Iraq, I saw a LOT on that..oddly enough it was the same information just with different people at different places in and around the White House…yep, that was informative and entertaining…yessiree.

I really hate watching the news, there is ALWAYS someone on there who has an agenda and it’s the stupidest point I’ve ever heard in my life.  I have also realized that being a journalist (at least a Tele-journalist) doesn’t take much…Ok, you have to have looks and a good delivery, but so do comics and pizza delivery boys…yeah, right now I don’t care for the TV news people…Actually, I haven’t liked them for a few years now.

I wanted to thank everyone for their suggestions RE: AJ yesterday.  I can’t put her in a home, not that it’s impossible to do, but I, being me, can’t do it.  If her [now]gaurdian  doesn’t allow us to take her, that is probably where she’ll end up.  I hate that thought.  My mother had an older sister who was mentally retarded and back then they put ‘retarded’ babies into hospitals to die, and that’s what happened when my mom was about 5 or 7, I can’t remember.  So, putting people into hospitals or group homes just isn’t something I can do…not to mention that it would probably have to be a state run facility and she’s probably not ‘retarded enough’ for one…Also, I figure that she can help out around the house…and seeing as I hate laundry and cleaning the kitchen with a purple and pink passion, that’d be great for her to be here (I’m KIDDING PEOPLE, she isn’t slave labor I KNOW THAT!! GAWD!)

And I’ve been wanting to move forever, if you go back and read my first entires I talk about stupid realtors and showing the house…So that’s a blessing in disguise, if we do get her and have to move….I get my house on 5-10acres out in the middle of nowhere, where The DH has to drive 100 miles just to get to work (he can just get a room for the week….I need the COUNTRY!).  And finally, we can’t add onto our existing house because the lot is so small that we’d take up half-3/4 of it just for the expansion…not to mention the VA doesn’t hand out home improvement loans..although they SHOULD! Veterans need to live in big nice homes too, right?

Yeah, so it looks like if we have to take AJ then my mom *might* buy our house to rent it out and we can move that way…gawd, I hope this all works out…I need somewhere to finally bury my roots.  And somewhere the kids can run around outside without worrying about getting picked up by freaks or hit by cars…and I want a cow and 2 jackasses, Dubya and Clinton will be their names..Dubya will be the girl, Clinton the boy, and they’ll both be fixed.  Or are jackasses the ones that are sterile? Yeah, I think they are…hell if I know…I just need Dubya and Clinton.
Hmm, I wonder how many google hit I’ll get for the search terms “Dubya, Clinton, Jackasses” Hehehehe

Yep, I want a little mini-farm..everything but chickens, they stink and are noisy..I would like one cow, but I need someone to slaughter it and butcher it…I don’t wanna.  And I want a place to have a HUGE  veggie garden and nice spot for a pool.  That’s my dream land…wow, this entry went all over the place didn’t it?  I’ll tell you about my dream house, the interior later I suppose! It’s fun to dream!!

Ok, then……..Happy Friday! Have a great weekend!!

Someone Once Told Me…

There is this thing called a ‘sun’.  They said it’s a big ball in the sky and puts off LOTS of light and warmth….I think they’re lying..the sky is NOT blue, either…it’s white/grey and VERY wet, as it keeps dripping water all over everything.  I need that sun thing, I really do…maybe we’ll move; just until the sky turns blue around here again.

The DH’s dad, if you remember back a few months (Dec to be exact) is terminally ill with a brain tumor.  I didn’t really follow up on his progress (or lack thereof) so here it is in all it’s truthful gore….

He’s very ill.  They removed the tumor in Dec and started chemo/radiation (I think) and in Feb it came back full force.  FIL and SMIL found an alternative treatment called ‘gamma knife’ or gamma ray or something….
Anyway, FIL took the gamma treatment and it was a success.  He was told that as long as he wanted the treatments, they would give them to him.  This is not a cure, it’s a treatment, basically it prolongs life.  The gamma knife cuts out most of the tumor all but the stem, and then you go back and they just keep cutting it out (I don’t know exactly how this is done).  When we were first told about the tumor we were told that if he didn’t take treatment he had maybe 2 months to live.  With treatment, possibly a year.  The Gamma knife was suppose to prolong his life expectancy by 3 years.  The Gamma, of course, isn’t a long time thing, you have to go back and get the treatments over and over again.  He got his first treatment last month.  He went in for his monthly checkup with his doctor that month and was told the Gamma really worked and we were all excited.

Then we were told that the tumor was back, it is now worse and FIL can’t even get out of bed (He was actually going to work for a few months) and has decided that he doesn’t want anymore treatment.  I, honestly, can’t say I blame him.  The DH is stressed, obviously, and we are planning a week long trip the 2nd week of June.  We’re not sure what the current prognosis is, but we’re pretty sure it isn’t the best in the world.

With this new development comes another development that will effect me and the family directly (yes, FIL effects us directly, but not in the life-altering sense…gawd, that sounds really bad…nevermind, I’m not really a cold-hearted bitch, I swear).  My FIL has a sister, We’ll call her AJ, AJ is mentally challenged..she isn’t what you’d call ‘retarded’ she’s more like, just a little slow.  She had a terrible fever as a child and her mother waited too long to take her to the doctor and she has some brain damage.  She cannot live by herself and must take medication daily.  Right now, AJ lives with FIL and SMIL.  SMIL doesn’t particularlly care for AJ and makes her stay in her room when they have company…AJ also has to keep the house clean and set the table every night.  Basically, SMIL treats AJ as if she were a child.  Granted, it doesn’t sound as bad as it seems, when you write it down, but the way AJ is treated just doesn’t sit well with me…not so much to warrant me threatening anyone, or getting pissy with anyone, but enough to make me uncomfortable thinking about it.

Anyway, AJ has one other sibling aside from FIL, we’ll call her AIL, AIL doesn’t want AJ, but has guardianship of her.  FIL has the power of attorney.  If/when FIL dies AJ has no place to go (SMIL won’t take her, and really no one in the family wants SMIL to have her).  The only option is AJ’s niece, who doesn’t want her and doesn’t have room for her, or my SIL, who has my GMIL living with her right now, so she can’t take AJ…so who does that leave? Yup, US.

I’m not sure what will happen, it’s all up in the air.  We’ve discussed taking her with FIL and SIL and both agree that we’re the best choice.  I stay at home and have the kids, and AJ is GREAT with the kids and the kids love her.  Also, AJ can help me out a little.  The only problem is that we’d have to move.  Our house is a basically a ‘starter’ home…3bed/2.5bath.  We would have to get at least 4bed/3bath with an in-law suite in the basement.  That isn’t the problem (well ok, finding the ‘perfect’ house would be a chore, but we could do it) the problem is selling this house.  The market in GA SUCKS…usualy the market here is pretty stable and smooth, but lately in our county, we’re competing with new homes (that cost a lot more than ours and are the same size if not smaller, with tiny lots, but that’s another post) and the growth of our county has finally come to a stop…people don’t want to move here anymore.  So, basically we’re sort of stuck until we know more about FIL and whether AJ would be moving in or not. 

AJ does have a trust fund that her father left her, so she has her own money, and she is required to pay ‘rent’ to whomever she’s living with, so that would help with us being able to buy a larger house, but it doesn’t change that fact the real estate market sucks…Maybe we’ll rent this house out? Nahhhhhh I doubt it!

Anyway, that is life update for May 2003…I’ll update more this summer as I’m sure new developments will arise (wow I sound like the 6 o’clock news don’t I?)

Sorry to ramble on, but this is something that I just needed to put down to paper, or screen, and get my thoughts out, so that I can sort them better…or something, hell if I know.

So, It’s the Summer and I’m a little bored.

I decide to go look on eBay for all those things that I don’t really want to spend a ton of cash on. Like, ‘Six Feet Under; Complete First Season’ or ‘The Osbournes; Uncensored First Season’, or ‘OZ;The First & Second Seasons’….so, I went and bid on them.  I won 6ft Under for a grand total of $58.90, that includes shipping and insurance…HOOTY HOOOO for me!  And I’m high bidder, so far, on the other 3.  I really want 6ft Under and The Osbournes…OZ, I can live without but it’s one damn fine show..pretty fucking gritty, but then again, I am me and I say fuck A LOT as do the actors on OZ. yay!

So then I started thinking…”Ya know, there are a lot of shows that I never got to watch but wanted to, like ’24′ and ‘The Sheild’ so if anyone has seen these 2 shows, the first season at least…please let me know if they’re any good…I’d like to buy the DVD sets but I need to know if they’re really as good as I’ve heard.

Hey, while we’re on the subject of your opinions, gimme some on cordless phones…I can’t find a decent cordless phone with a good battery life, good sound, answering machine, Caller-ID, and it all has to be digital….if you know of a phone like that, let me know…PLEASE?!?!?! I just spent 2 hours researching cordless phones and I’m no closer to a decision than when I started.

For those of you who would like some artsy photos…the kids and I played checkers yesterday and this was the end result when LT tried to play…HERE

Thanks! And have a great Wednesday!!!!!!!!!!

I Hate ‘The Sims’

I do…I hate them….they won’t play on my computer.  Maybe it’s because they hate me?  But that couldn’t be it because everyone loves me so much.

No, really…I don’t know what the problem is but they won’t work and I was really looking forward to playing.  I haven’t installed an adult game on any of my computers in over 5 years.  Why?  You ask…Well, because everytime I do the game crashes, or my computer crashes or something doesn’t work…case in point..’The Sims’.  So, I’ve given up on adult PC games.  Maybe when I buy that big honking $5,000 gamer’s PC…MAYBE then I’ll put a game on there, or try it at least…but until I loose my mind and pay that much for a machine, no adult PC games for me…Hell I won’t even install Flash or that other annoying web animation shit that everyone has on their websites now (BTW, if you have that..take that shit off, it’s annoying as all fuck and it drives me and about a bazillion other people, absolutely fucking insane…and we never go back to your website again…just think about it).  I guess I just wasn’t meant to enjoy the ‘geeky-gamer’ side of the PC…I’m more about the graphics and the information….I’m like the nerd in school who couldn’t figure out her locker…well ok, I could figure out a locker, but I couldn’t figure out how to do all those cool tricks that all the other kids did…Ok, so I wasn’t interested in actually DOING the tricks, more like “hmmm how does that make that work?” SEE..I’M A NERD!!!!

OMG……….I……………AM…………….A………………NERD!

Hey! No school this week, can you tell that I’m bored outta my gourd?  I cleaned the kids’ closet and drawers out yesterday…got all the winter and baby clothes out of there..now they need new summer shit..YAY shoppin’!