too much excitement for me!

(first let me apologize, this is a copy/paste from an email)

so at the movies i got into a verbal altercation....i was soooooo mad i was shaking. but alas, it did NOT ruin Eclipse for me and Neal. actually we laughed quite a bit about it once we got in the car.

neal had left me to go sit with some girls from school and chat it up. right before the movie started my sweet son came back to sit with me b/c he didn't want me sitting alone. we were sitting there and this girl, about 6 is walking down the row behind us, following her mom or grandmom. poor kid is carrying a large popcorn and a 44oz coke, which i could barely do as an adult. so we're sitting there and something crashes on my shoulder and into neal's lap, yep, her entired 44oz soda. niiiice. she is trying to tell the lady she is following but that woman just keeps going and just ignores what happened. so i'm trying to dry neal off a bit - he is SOAKED. and as i turn to move him to the seat on my left, that woman drops herb big ole purse in the seat. i politely say, my son is going to sit there b/c your little girl just spilled her entire coke on him and he and his seat are soaking wet. she says "she did not spill her coke on him" and i said, "yes, she did" and she again says she didn't. the lady behind us pipes in and says "oh yes, she did spill her entire large coke right on that little boy". and the woman says "well there's three of us and we're sitting here, there's no where else to sit". first of all, we had been there for 45 minutes in our seats, and they just came in. there were actually lots of places to sit. in my opinion they should have moved and apologized. but no. so i say, "look, she spilled her drink on him and you didn't even stop or say your sorry or anything and now he's soaked and so is his seat". she again tells me that they are not moving and too bad for him. and says "do you want everyone looking at you?" i quickly informed her that i didn't care, we didn't do antying wrong and she just looked at me. so i'm like "seriously???? un-freakin'-believable. y'all are the reason he's wet and you're going to tell me he has to sit through this moving soaking we with sticky soda and in a wet seat????" about then the lady behind pipes in again and asked if it was just us and that there's two seats beside her to come on up. so i said "thank you, we'll be the bigger person here and we'll move seats". as i'm picking up my stuff that woman says "good thing b/c i was about to throw your ass through that screen".....i looked right at her and said "and i'll have you thrown in jail". as i turned to neal and she said "i don't care" so as i turn to walk i tell her that "why, yes, i'm sure that's a place YOU'RE familiar with". as we get to the end of the row she says "i'm sorry your mom is so rude" to neal. i thought neal was going to come unglued. but we just went and sat down. i was sooooooooo mad, i was shaking. everyone around us was like "i would be, too" and the lady that offered us the seats said "karma's a bitch". then their other person comes and they start looking for the girl's cup, well neal had grabbed it will all our stuff, since it was in his lap afterall. they asked me if i knew where it was and i just ignored them, and that lady beside me said "do NOT answer her". i sat the cup on the floor. and they got the usher dude to come over with a flashlight to look for it, but the idiots didn't look on the floor behind our original seats, so when i left, i took that $5 cup with me! take that, meanies! the teenage girl on neal's other side also got pretty wet, my shoulder was wet, but neal got the brunt of it. anyway, teenage girl's mom went and got the mananager and that dude did nothing about it, even when i told him she threatened me. all he said is "i'm just trying to avoid confrontation". everyone was like "huh????". so that was my excitement.

then i got to target tonight and realized i've lost my debit card. it has to be on the floor where we were orginally sitting....unless they found it with the flashlight, lol.

i called and cancelled it and moved everything into the savings account.

.i'm seriously drained. i'm too old for this drama.

Thunderstorms

These seem to be the norm most afternoons these days, today Jacbo and Zach made me laugh about them.

First, it was just starting and Jacob, who hates storms, came inside and said "Zach is outside and it's raining and light-nin and thundrin and Zach won't come in". No sooner than this came out of his mouth, there was a massive BOOM of rumbling thunder and I said "I bet he won't be out
there much longer" and with that this fast streak of 7 year old kid came surging across the yard, onto the porch and in the front door. Jacob and I just laughed, Zach looked like he was being chased by a monster.

Second, Zach asked me "Do you know who makes the rain?" and I said "Who?" Zach tells me the devil makes the rain and Jacob pipes up "No way, the devil can't make rain, he doesn't have water only fire".

Listening

to Zach explain to Jacob why he could have just killed Zach. Jacob put Zach in a drawer and shut it. So when he finally let's Zach out (like 5 second later), Zach says "damnit! if i didn't have much air i could have died!!! you could have killllllllled me!!!! jackass!"

(zach has severe asthma and is hypervigilant to his breathing)


now i'm off to find the bar of soap....

Is Summer Over Yet??

"no, i didn't"
"yes, you did"
"no, i didn't"
"yes, you did"
"neal hurt me"
"get out of my room"
"undecipherable whining"
"no, i didn't"
"yes, you did"
"can i have a snack"
"eli's poooooopie"
"i'm telling"
"undecipherable thuds from fighting/wrestling"
"that's mine"
"i'm telling"


is summer over yet????

Today

We went to the "lie-berry" and saw "midget horses".



(That's Zach for "we went to the library and saw minature horses".)

It's official

I hate Nutrition class. Test grades so far, 84, 92, 82. Geesh. It's soooooooo time consuming and so "chemical". Bleh. At least it's just a June-mester and I'll be done the 29th!

One-on-One with Neal

Today I had some errands to run, and Neal had his 12 year well check, so he and I got to have a Mommie-Neal day. It was fantastic. We ran my errands then browsed some stores and had lunch at Stevie B's. We shared lots of laughs and I was reminded at how quickly they grow up, how close he is to being an adult. I swear he's 12 going on 35 some times. At his wellcheck he was 57 inches, and a mere 77lbs...which puts him in like the 15th percentile for weight. Skinny dude, definatley not his momma's genes there. The demographics for this wellcheck asked about eating habits and grades and behavior, and as I was answering I realized just how super of a kid he is. He really doesn't give me much trouble past fighting with his brothers. And he's never sick, he had not been to the doctor since his last wellcheck just over a year ago. Anyway, I know some day he's going to grow up and move out and leave me behind, I just hope his future wife likes me, so she doesn't take him too far away.

That was short lived....

apparently since my previous job was the only one I had in 2009 and was only for the last month of that year, I did not make enough to file an unemployment claim, despite having worked there for over 6 months. So my hope of being able to really focus on school is deminished and I'm back on the job hunt...I'm already overwhelmed just thinking about it...

twice this week

i've been told i need to write a book. i just can't see my life as that interesting, but obviously from my facebook status and comments, it is. of course, i can't even commit to a blog 100%, so when would i find the time to write a book. my friend amy, has already titled it and given me two chapter ideas - my favorite being "When to Lie to Your Child". makes me want to, makes me daydream about it. but until i find the free time, i'll just work on not slacking on this blog. :)

Ahhhh

Today is my last day of work. I have been working from home doing customer service since Nov 30th and it's been insane. At first it was full time and I was very overwhelmed between home life, school, and work. In April, I cut back to 20 hours and that made a huge difference...until the boyz got out of school for summer break. Now it's like I'm going to have to totally retrain them on how to behave. I have been so tied to the computer 4 hours a day that it leaves them with idle time and idle hands and less supervision and that has just been pure chaos. I'm really looking forward to the summer now. 20 minutes and counting til my last shift ends!!!

Lock up your daugthers....

Mikey, 2, with his McDreamy hair and big blue eyes is going to be T.R.O.U.B.L.E.!!! He was playing with legos in Neal's room and I was in the living room, out the window I see his little head bob by. He had opened Neal's window, unlocked and knocked out the screen, and climbed out.

Do you have any idea....

...how entertaining it is to watch an entire SunChips display come crashing down at Wal-mart and how freakin' loud it is when it does???? Oh, and what a sight it is to see the expressions on the faces of the two boyz who caused the crash???



(I do.)

just for the record

i do not forsee myself surviving this summer in tact.