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Knock Knock....Who's there?Illegal activity from a 12 year old.So this blessed child of mine who couldn't be more loved if she's invented the internet and shoes, has lost her flipping mind. And strangely enough since Dave is off on assignment in another state, I kept calm and rational. I didn't even pull her across any furniture by the hair, cookie for me.Yesterday she and the sitter's daughter (happens to be her bestest friend ev-ah) celebrated Friday by writing their names in marker on the sitter's front porch. Vandelism at 12, wow....oh the places we can go from here. The felonies are endless....

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Oh My, this one deserves a title

First off, I am so thankful for my morning commute. It's a time for me to really think and praise. This is something I've been missing! That said, go here and listen to this.....really opens your eyes and bring about a thankful heart....at least it does for me. I adore this song and I just had to share with someone!So after a productive and busy day in which half was spent on the phone with vendors (they eventually brought me a headset after seeing me typing and shouldering the phone for 2 hours straight) and the other half  in meetings, I got home to my babies. Who handed me a package...

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So the first night without my guy this week. I do so miss him already. Especially since the stinker took off with my cold snickers I had hidden in the fridge. Dayum boy! Although he made up for it when he left us girls each a note under our pillows and one of his tshirts with some of his smell good stuff on it. Bless my baby, I think he's missing us before he set foot out the door.But I do so appreciate his putting the kids on the bus, and me in my car waving us off....before he packed up and took off.Sigh........off to bed I ...

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I'm gonna start giving random government codes to my blog posts. Just cause I can.So Sunday night at 1030, Dave got a call.Yesterday he filled out paperwork.This morning, he's off to Oklahoma for another assignment.Sniff, miss him already.Only good point, I get the tv remote back.Si...

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What Happens When H4G Can't Talk

Oh boy, I bit wrong during lunch yesterday. The 3rd BBQ in a row, thanks to every satelite office meeting their quota for the last quarter. Good grief, I'm so sick to death of that mess. But seriously I bit wrong and then sliced the side of my tongue in some weird, abstract funky way. And after talking on the phone and dealing with issues all dang afternoon, my damn tongue was so swollen by evening time that I can't talk without hurting. Which worked fine when it was just us, but my neighbor chick and her kids came to play. So playing dominoes with Ann and Dave doesn't work cause there are only...

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Friday Eve

I'm so ready to sleep in this weekend. I'm exhausted. Still trying to juggle everything, but it works great if I sacrifice sleep and stay up to fix lunches, do laundry, go over their homework, wash dishes, replace empty toliet paper rolls, and etc. Sigh.....Highlight of my day:A tech was amusing a group of us at a lucheon with the story of visiting a lady on the edge of town. She met him in the driveway and said, please stay next to your van while I put the dogs away. While waiting on her, he's playing with his phone. A small group of goats started bahhhh-ing at him from the fence next to the...

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Gizzards and Boudin

What a long week. I'm mentally and physically exhausted. Haven't been sleeping, juggling everything but life is good.Prin is still breathing, bless her little 12 year old stubborn ass heart. Life sucks for her lately, especially those 4:30 am jogs with daddy. But you should be more careful before complaining to daddy about how your life is sooooooo hard. Now for the next couple weeks, she's on his schedule which explains why she's going to bed at 730 pm everynight. After those jogs, she gets to practice her piano lessons until momma's alarm goes off then start getting ready for her day. The kids'...

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Tough Love

Prin has really stepped off the pier into the deep waters of "oh shit" around here. Not even gonna go into what she's done but we hit the wall tonight. She had better be glad Dave got home when he did.She had better be glad that he can pick me up and keep me back.That is why she still has a face and some hair.I know they do face transplants now so really that's not an issue and hair grows back.Just to let you know how seriously her little life has changed...she now has the following items:1 towel - to be washed everynight (gots her very own name on it too)2 shirts2 pairs pants2 plain colored cartigans1...

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Various Ponderings, just cause I can....

Children are blessings that will warm and break your heart. Sigh.....praying and lifting up my oldest as she makes simple bad choices over and over. That said, she came straight home and told me straight up that she'd watched Twilight, even though it's off limits to her. Sigh.....knowing it was off limits yet did it anyway, to which she said, I didn't understand it at all. Well sweetheart, that is why it was off limits. Church was amazing today. New church two blocks from house, we previously understood it to be traditional penecoastal so it wasn't until just recently we realized it was our new...

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My Day....

 Okay, I'm def getting this for a friend's upcoming birthday, snicker....... So this appeared in my office, then I came back and it was gone......And came back again to this. TV and cable in my office, wow! Awesome. Good day all the way around.Tomorrow I'm cleaning up the last of the week's fires and then prepping for an upcoming inventory I'm doing which will try everyone crazy but will make our lives' easier down the road.So far I'm really liking the new job.Thanks for all your thoughts,...

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Updates!

Cause I couldn't think of a better title........I really dislike titles...I'm gonna start numbering them for giggles. 3rd day on the job and already I'm on the crew. My new company logo-ed polo and button up shirts came in today. They ordered them before I started. For an office full of old guys, they nailed the sizing surprisingly and the jacket is comfy. I kinda like this. The colors such though, all pastels and crap. If you know me, you know I don't do pastels. Gonna ask for some black shirts, that's so much better. Today I got some much done. Bargained with Verizon on cell phone repairs, worked...

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Back in The Saddle

Well today was the first day in over a year that I've punched a timeclock. Okay that's a bit dramatic. There was no timeclock, I'm salary. But you get the idea. I put on my business casual except I learned a long time ago to kick up a few notches on the first day. I met all the people in the district office. Luckily noone will have to bother me. My boss is next door and his three managers who will work with me are in offices surrounding us and then there is a locked door between us and everyone else. It's heaven!Seriously, heaven!No yakking idiots. No whining people. Silence.And I have a door....

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Old

I'm getting old. I can't believe how old I'm getting. It's ridiculous. Yesterday we went on a mission: shoe shopping. Princess is now 12 and we had to buy her new sneakers for gym class. The kid is in a size 7 women's shoe. Good Lord have mercy. But the kids got their new shoes with little stress. It was my search for flats.......um yeah you heard that right, flats that took us all over the mall. Dave sent me to the shoe mecca: Dillards. But my frugal nature won't allow me to pay what they were asking. Although I did browse through the latest Michael Kor purses, cute! And fell in love with some...

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Working Girl

So after a few phone interviews and a few in person interviews, I beat out 502 other people for a job. I start Monday. I have an office and a door. I get to wear jeans cause I'm not anywhere near customers. It's a district level job for a company that I actually use so that's pretty cool. I'm someone's assistant. I'm a little stressed about the juggles of going back to work while my babies are at school and then home afterwards but I'll make it work. I always have. So here I go...........Unless the phone rings today. However, cause I happened to answer a call yesterday about a possible position....

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well hell

So in order to be frugal and in my attempt at better budgeting, I decided to color my hair myself instead of dropping money at Lance's. Shhh, don't tell him. Back in the old days, Dave always came into the bathroom, slapped on the rubber gloves and colored my hair while we chat. Then I wash, rinse, and repeat. All done.So he seemed miffed that I was trying to do it myself, but I love how helpful he is and frankly he is better with the details than I am...I always end up with a small patch of grey left somewhere. So we colored my hair tonight. Except, I forgot. Thanks to the natural red of my hair,...

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