Work from home

Randy and I have been living with our daughters since we moved back to the states from Haiti. We are now getting ready to get our own place and I will need to get a job. I have been doing a lot of thinking about that lately and have been thinking that I would like to be my own boss. So I found a site that I really think is worth checking out it is www.myownboss.com. I really think it just might be what I am looking for. They have low start up costs and you can work from home. That is what I have been trying to find, something I can do from home.

Pulling my hair out

I have officially had it! The kids are driving me CRAZY! They have been out of school for the last week for spring break. It has rained here for the last two days so they can't even go outside at all. I have told them at least 1,000 times to please quiet it down. (ok maybe only 750 times) But they are to the point when I tell them to quiet down I get some sort of cutsie answer. I don't want cute I want quiet. I will be so glad to send them off to school tomorrow. I really think that if they would admit it too that they are ready to go back to school as much as we are ready to send them back. I am just getting too old to put up with them on a 24 hour basis like this anymore. I know you all thought I was only about 29 but I am actually just a teenie bit older than that. Not much mind you but just a bit older. We have been going through things here today trying to sort things out for a yard sale next week and trying to pack things up that I want to keep and move with us. I think I am done for the night today. I still have one box I need to tape up and find a place to put it then I am going to sack out after dinner and a shower and watch a DVD. I borrowed one from Joy it is called 16 Blocks. It really looks like it is going to be pretty good so hope it is.

Packing Up

Well I have started to try to pack some of the things we have here in our room. I can't believe how much stuff I managed to stuff into the closet in this room. I kept saying that if I put anything else in there it was going to blow some day. Well I have some of the stuff packed and you just wait. I have had some of this stuff in the closet for several months now and as soon as I pack it up that will be the one thing that I wind up wanting to have at my finger tips. You see I am one of those OCD sort of people. I am a firm believer that there is a place for everything and everything should be in it's place. I guess I started doing that when I was a teenager. My Mother was one of those snoopy mother's and she would go through my things even my purse. So I always got into the habit of putting things away in a very specific way. That way I always knew when she had been snooping. I don't know why she didn't ever figure out that I never had anything in the house that I didn't want her to find. But guess she thought I would slip up somewhere. Well that has been the way I have been the rest of my life. When my daughters were younger I could always tell if they had used a bottle of my perfume and it took them quite a while to figure out how I did it. But, I think they finally figured it out.

Save our Planet

I have been hearing a lot lately about creating a green earth. We have been trying to help a bit by recycling soda cans lately. But, there is much more that can be done. I really believe that we need to start checking out how to recycle plastic materials as well. I know that there is a lot that we purchase every day that come in plastic containers. It is amazing what can now be made from recycled Virgind HDPE Pellets and I know they are coming up with new uses every day. We need to save our universe and save the planet and recycle.

Checking the trash

Well one of my grandsons (Nate) discovered something today. He discovered that there are codes inside coke cases and bottle caps and Pepsi cases and caps. So now he has been having us enter the codes on the appropriate web sites so that he can earn points. He has no idea what he is going to be able to do. But hey it gave him something to do on his Spring Break. He was busy pulling the empty soda cartons out of the trash can. What can I say he had fun today (and it was free)

WooSah!!

The Secret works with A New Earth. If you're wondering what that means, then you aren't alone. I wondered what it meant as well. The Sedona Method is a new learning mechanism. It shows you how to transcend pain for one thing. Believe me, at my age and at this point in my life, I'm all for transcending any amount of pain that I can. It also discusses things such as the ego and how to let go of it. The Sedona Method is at the leading edge of the peaceful revolution in consciousness that is sweeping the planet. A peaceful revolution? What I wouldn't give for a little peaceful revolution. Things have gotten much better around here since the "mother" of the three year old moved out with her children. The stress level has decreased immensely. I can't tell you how nice it is not to have her around here day in and day out. It's just wonderful. Of course, things will be much more relaxed for my husband and I once we have our own place again, but that will happen in its right time. We've got to start checking the ads and seeing what is out there.

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The Misfit

I have decided today to post a poem that my Mother wrote for me when I was young. I think it is probably the only thing my Mother ever gave me that I have actually cherished this much. This picture was of me probably a few years before the poem was written but I don't have many pictures of myself. Hope it doesn't bore you too much but today for some reason I have that misfit feeling. Guess there are times in your life when you just don't know where you fit in. I thought those times ended with you were a child but in reality I don't think they ever end or go away. We just learn to put them aside for the moment.

THE MISFIT

I'm always too young
when the praises are sung
or else I'm too old
for my Mother to hold.

Too young for long pants, or heels
a disgrace to my family at all meals.
Still I'm too old for dolls and toys
and it isn't ladylike to play with the boys.

I'm too young to go out on a date
Just be patient, Mom says learn to wait.
I'm much too old for a coloring book
Father says, it's time instead I learned to cook.

I'm way to young to drive the car
but Dad says, I'm the best car washer by far.
I'm far to old to sit on Mom's lap,
so I must be the most unusual child on the map.

I'm too young to watch the late TV show
also too old to watch Captain Kangaroo, you know.
Now how in the world can I tell
Just when I'm too young or too old?----WELL!

By Louise Savage Browning

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Day Trip

Today we all loaded up and went to Tarpon Springs for a day trip while the kids are on Spring Break. The picture is of sponges that are for sale there. We all had a really good day. The kids were actually pretty good. Some times I actually wondered what had happened to my real grandchildren and who the children were that we had with us. OK a couple of times they acted up but all in all they were pretty well behaved. We had a great lunch at one of the Greek restaurants and then walked through tons of shops and before heading back to the van we all got sweets from one of the bake shops. I had baklava which was to die for. Then we took the kids to Clearwater beach for a little bit. They played in the edge of the water cause they didn't have swimming suits with them but they had a great time in spite of not being able to really get into the ocean. I don't think their mother could have handled the stress if they did get in the water. She was about to spaz out with them just in to their ankles. Well the boys did try to get in further. They wound up with their shorts pretty wet. Then we drove home and everyone just sort of wondered off to their various rooms to crash for the rest of the day.

A Picture is worth a thousand words

Well I guess the title says about everything you need to say about this picture. So, I won't bore you with a 1,000 words. I will just leave things this way.