Once Upon A Time....

There was a lady with shiny hair, glasses and a cool green purse. She was a go-getter, a trend setter in the worst possible fashion and a dedicated book lover. She had the perfect little family and a sporty little sedan, she was happy.Life was not always so.........once upon a time she was a military wife who struggled to make ends meet, who learned to pinch a penny in the times that the ends wouldn't meet and take care of her little ones when The Man was gone. He was gone alot.She started out sassy as a little child and as the years added to her face and body, she just kept growing in personality...

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Does Not Play Well With Others....Updated!

Today I'm doing something I hate. I'm attending a teambuilding exercise with my work staff. Not the men that I work for, no....the other staff, meaning the other girls. Sigh.........this is just a pain in my ass.First off, I'm completely anti-social. I'm the person that told several wives whose husbands work with mine that I wasn't in the market for new friends, I didn't have the time and the friends that I have were wonderful and long time friends who couldn't and wouldn't ever be replaced. Plus,...

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The Family that Shoots Together......

So this morning I'm reading my morning email and sipping my first Dr. Pepper, thanks to The Man who drank it all and left me in a house with none...when I notice that The Man sent me pictures from work. Turns out it was pics from when our family went shooting with another couple we know. It was this past fall before the snow blanketed everything.......and I just love them.See this is how rednecks spend quality family time together...... We all get up and throw something on and get out there while...

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Nervous Nellie

There are three things in this world that I want more than anything.......1. My first real house, as in my mortgage2. My hubs to finish his degree so I can return to school full time3. A really great haircutThe first two are in progress. I've begun the impossible process of trying to figure out the whole mortgage thing for our first house. We're still trying to decide when we actually want to jump in the water though, sorry everyone, but watching those house prices march down is quite the high for me these days. The hubs is going back to school using his VA money, woohoo, and is on track for his...

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The Beast

So yesterday was a very productive day, I grocery shopped and stayed well under budget. I made a lovely smothered pork chop and rice casserole for dinner with bread on the side, a lovely rosemary dusted combo, hello fancy! Oh and I also purchased "The Beast". Like so many others, I spent way too much time on the appropriate aisle of Walmart trying to decide which machine I wanted. True, they have alot of models on display but I don't know about your Walmart but mine never has many boxes to actually...

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Productive

Life is getting pretty dang sweet around here.We are almost back to normal, everyone is still on a litle medication but hey medication is good for you. At least that is what I tell my girlfriend who can't live without hers.The Man and I have decided that the best way to get settled again to to start a new routine. So here we go. Last night we took the kids out to eat. Now for us, this usually means a last minute drive through, but no.We actually took them to a sit down restuarant. Joe's Crabshack. This is reaching for us. But I am pleased to announce that no kid ate off the floor, no one threw...

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My world......is getting old

So life is getting back to normal at Hope central. Princess is staying quite busy. Besides glamming it up with her short hair, which is way easier to fix than mine now, geez. She is starting choir. Let me repeat that, she is starting choir. I love my daughter and I know that she is many wonderful things.............a heavenly voice though is not one of those things. She is working up to piano lessons, she does okay on the guitar but the whole voice thing, she thinks she is American Idol and Hannah...

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The Plague Came

This is the first time in a week that I've sat up for an hour.The first time I've worn a bra (yep, went braless twice to the dr)The first time that I haven't eaten actual food in a weekThe first time that I have slept so much that I dream about being awakeThe plague came and it took me, then after I pulled a tummy muscle from throwing up so much, it keep me.Now I'm slowly making my way back.Be patient with me............I've been living on water, runny flavor-less soup and popcicl...

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The Day That Wiki Died

I killed my children's fish. Or perhaps I should say I killed my fish, whom my children adored. The fish that survived the family before me who never fed him, causing him to eat part of his own fin in desperation. He survived the trama of their three year old playing with him in the bathtub. He survived all of that to become a part of my family.The fish that when my office closed for the entire Christmas break, I made The Man take me on a snowy stormy night to get him cause he was alone. I fretted so much that we transported him home in a padded box, bowl and all. The Man took a nasty spill with...

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Grace

In my head, I'm a classy, graceful southern lady who just happens to live in the mountains of the west. When faced with the reality of what and who I am, I'm boggled. Really, my flaber is agast. Like when I think I'm looking total hot and then someone takes a picture and I'm like "who it hell is that poor idiot" oh yeah, it's me.So I had one of those moments the other day at work. Technically I was on my lunch break. See, The Man and I have lunch together every Wednesday. It's our thing, we meet up somewhere and coo at each other. Actually we just get a chance to say the things that we haven't...

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You're Doing It Wrong

This morning was a first. We all left the house early. 99% of the time we are out of there on time by the skin of our teeth, as I have two girls who are last minute everything, plus I can't get dressed until after I feed them, otherwise I end up wearing nice work clothes with grape jelly or egg stains. So for us to actually leave the house 20 minutes early was one for the books.Being the amazing mother that I am, I thought I would take Princess to school since her campus opens at about the same...

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PS: Stop the Snow....

Back to normal, knock on wood, everyone is healthy. We're happy and moving right along. Oh and it's STILL snowing. I keep wondering what I'll do when I have my very own house and to worry about things like driveways, sidewalks and yards. Oh wait, I have a driveway and a sidewalk......and a special studly man to keep them clear. Okay I'm so lying cause we actually bet on everything now so that the loser has to shovel. (He lost the bet on how much the groceries would total at the checkout register.....I...

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