Jellyfish in a Jar

So, my son is on a school trip in Atlanta. I sent him with $70.00. ($20.00 of that was his own and $50.00 was from mom and dad). He has to buy 2 lunches with that, and the rest of it is just for spending money. He's got a busy couple of days there - The Aquarium, the Coca-Cola company, Stone Mountain and Six-Flags. He has to buy lunch today at Stone mountain and lunch tomorrow at Six-Flags (we KNOW those are not cheap places to buy lunches at), and I guess - I just failed to mention that part to him. I just told him to be careful with his money and all that jazz.... so yeah - you guessed it, I talked to him last night and he has a whopping $23.00 left. I about freaked out. My first thought was that he was going to starve! hahh (over-protective mom, lol!) My little boy was going to starve away to nothing! ;) hah-hah! I said - What the heck did you spend all of your money on? He tells me he bought a super cool - JELLYFISH in a JAR - WTF? hahh - "it glows in the dark, mom!" I go off on this little rant about wasting his money, and how is he going to eat - and what the heck is he going to do with a jellyfish in a jar... and in this real quiet voice he says - "i was going to give it to you mom" - YEAH, right you were! God bless him - lil sweetheart. I felt bad last night, he's just having a good time and of course, he won't starve. I was just worried about him not having enough money for the rest of the trip and I just didn't express it enough to him before the trip. Well, if he runs out - he runs out. He'll still get breakfast and dinner - so he'll be fine, I'm sure. It certainly won't hurt him to skip a lunch! ;) Anyway, I hope he's having fun on his trip and he'll always be able to look back on his jellyfish in the jar and remember his ATL trip - Good times... good times... hmmmm...

Now what?

Happy April Fools day to all you Fools out there! ;) Hope you are enjoying your special day! I know I am... well, as much as I can. I'm at work right now, but am thinking about leaving here in the next hour or so - it's an absolutely GORGEOUS day outside! I love it! Fuddy and I can go and enjoy the day! that'll be nice. Today is quarter-end at work, so our system is down and locked, so there's not much for me to do without getting into the system. (perfect excuse to get outta here, huh?) Well, I hope y'all have a great afternoon too! I think i'll wrap up a few more things and then go home and enjoy my Fuddy! Tata for now!

A teenager???!!!

I am now officially, the mother of a teenager. WTF? Yep - my little boy turned 13 yesterday. Happy Birthday to my darling baby boy! ;) He's growing up so fast - when did that happen? geez... We were traveling back from Gulf Shores, AL yesterday - so he was stuck in a car all day long. Not much a bday, I spose. He's planning on having a few friends over for a sleepover this weekend and we'll do cake and everything then. Just a small little bday party, I guess.

So, we went to Gulf Shores for Spring Break - it was absolutely wonderful! What a great little trip. We left here Wednesday morning and came back yesterday. For the most part, it was pretty good weather the whole time as well. Friday we went to the beach and we all ended up getting burnt to a crisp. ouch. Just didn't pay attention and put lotion on - idiots! what horrible parents we are - our poor kids looked like lobsters! But they had a good time building holes and tunnels in the sand! Fun stuff. We ate some really incredible seafood while we were down there too - you just can't beat fresh seafood - I think Fuddy and I gorged ourselves. I still feel full.

Well, that's what's up in Kelwhy's world - what's up with you?

I really am saving money! ;)

So, I have done the coupon shopping for a month now and I have definitely saved money... Take a look:

Not too bad - huh? Of course, I wasn't keeping tabs exactly on what I was spending before this - but I KNOW that it was much more than this. So, I feel good about my savings. PLUS, we have a full pantry at home - which is a good thing. (By the way - OOP stands for Out of Pocket - just in case you were curious... ) SO, some of the shops were better than others - I'm still "building" up my coupons, and trying to work it all out.

In other news - just been busy here at work and at home. Lots of little things going on, keeping us on our toes. Soccer season has started and so we are full into that now - let the games begin. Oh joy! ;)

OK y'all - hope you are having a wonderful Tuesday - I just wanted to share my happy news about doing so well with the coupon shopping. Take care and talk to y'all later! buh-bye now!

My aching tooth...

So, last week - I ate a stale piece of licorice a broke a piece of my tooth off! Can you believe that crap?! I KNOW! The worst part about it all, is that I really didn't even want the licorice... I just kinda grabbed it off of a co-workers desk (he's got this big container full of it) and he even warned me that it was going to be stale! hahh! served me right! I bit into it and I'm chewing and ... I'm like... WTF? out comes a hunk of my tooth... YEP. So, a week goes by before I can get into the dentist tomorrow morning. I'm so anxious to get in there now. sigh. AND i NEVER look forward to going into the dentist. Well, tomorrow I am! ;)

So, everyone say a little prayer for me - I'm going to need it - Novocaine doesn't really work for me, so I will be taking a few Valium before I go, JUST to help me relax a little bit... I'll need it.

Is it only Tuesday? really?

Anyway, ain't got a whole lot to say today. It's just one of them days. TJ was talking about his milestone of his 900th post the other day, so I was wondering - how many posts have I had? I've been blogging since October of 2003 - that's a LONG time... so, I looked it up and was kinda surprised... as of yesterday, I've had 1,711 posts. Wow, that's a WHOLE lot of nothing there. Have I really been boring you people for that long? sigh. Sorry about that... I guess. Blame it all on Tricia, she got me hooked initially. I couldn't stop after that. I've met a lot of great people through this blog and have stayed in touch with a lot of my friends and family though this blog, so I'll keep at it for awhile. Plus, it's always fun for me to look back through and see some of the things that I've done here and there - like a journal of sorts.

• Just a few more days til we get the kiddos back! ;) woohoo! Let the re-training begin - hahh.
• No work on Friday and an ice cream party at work tomorrow - aren't you jealous?
• I'm looking for a new phone. I want something that I can get wifi on - or some kind of web on, I don't necessarily need email, or computer apps - but will want to facebook and do the "funstuff" from it. Any thoughts? I have verizon now and will most likely stick with that, simply because all of my family is verizon - but not tied to that.
• Next Friday the 10th is my 9 year anniversary at work - how bout that? craziness.

OK folks - gotta get back to work. Hope you are having a really great day and I shall talk to ya' later taters! stay outta trouble! ;)

What a weekend...

Just to sum up - it was boating, boating and more boating... ;) sigh, what a life we have! hahh! Hubby and i spent about 9 hours out on the boat on Saturday and then about 5 hours out there on Sunday. It was crazy hot, but it was wonderful. A gorgeous weekend for boating too - blue skies, a nice breeze, no kids, and cold beer. We napped, we floated, we read, we drank, we ate, we did married couple stuff that I can't post here, we just really, really enjoyed ourselves! And all without getting burnt to a crisp! So alls well that ends well. Now here we are, back to Monday already - AUGH. Did you have a good weekend? Did all of you dad's have a good Fathers day? What's the ideal fathers day? Is it with or without the kids? hmmm. I called my dad up and wished him a happy one, kinda funny - here he is again so many years later and he's spending fathers day with kids! hahh. poor guy. ;)

They are in DC now and camping outside of DC, in Bull Run (around there). They drop my nephew off today to his People to People thing where he's spending the week and then it's just back to my parents and my kids for the week. 10 days and counting until I see my kids again - sigh. Good and bad, hahh!

Also, my Fuddy leaves to go out of town again tomorrow - he's going on a quick job to Indiana. He'll be gone til Friday evening. :( so sad. I kinda enjoy my alone time, but still - oh well, not much I can do about it.

OK - that's all that I know- hope everyone is having a good Monday. Chat with you later...

20 days already...

That's how long my kids have been gone from Huntsvegas... 20 days. WOW. It really doesn't seem that long! ;) hahh. We've been bizzy, so it's gone by fast. It's been pretty good tho. Another 2 1/2 to 3 weeks before we see them again. Now granted, I did get to see them one weekend in June, so I haven't gone 20 days without seeing them completely - but still. I talked to them last night, they are having fun up there. They have been going back and forth between my parents and Steve's parents and sounds like they have been having a really good time. They leave this Saturday to head to Washington DC with my parents for a week. I'm jealous. We'll get them back the weekend of the 4th. So we've got to really buckle down and enjoy our time til them! ;) hahh. OK, just wanted to catch up a bit. Gotta get back to work. I promise to try to get back in touch. Sorry that I fell off of here, I'll be back...

Happy Hump day...

So, here we are again, another Wednesday morning. My precious FuddyDuddy will be back in town sometime late tonight. I talked to him last night, and it sounds like the first round of things went well, so far so good. I guess they have some meetings today and then he'll be driving back to Huntsvegas this afternoon. I hope things work out and that this opportunity pans out and he'll have gainful employment again. Keep your fingers crossed for us! ;) It's nice and all to have a Housebitch for a week or two, but I'm really quite sure that I would tire of him being that and want him back in the work force as quickly as possible! absolutely! ROFL. SO, anywho. What else is going on? The kids and I did a whole lot of nothing last night, just hung out and watched TV... fun stuff. We are now in Countdown mode for my 40th birthday... T-minus 4 days and counting. We are going to do dinner Saturday night and I guess that's that, I'm looking forward to it - should be fun.

OK y'all - nothing more to say at this particular moment and I have some work to do. I hope you are having a simply MAHVELOUS Wednesday morning! love you!

I have the best friends!

I came home last night to all kinds of cool stuffs... woohoo! What a joy! I mean, Monday's just suck. So, to come home to all kind of cool pretties just rock. Yep - completely. So, first, I open the mailbox and there's a birthday card in there from my mom and dad - a great little birthday book with a check - $40 for 40 ;) gotta love that. THEN, as if that's not enough, I get inside and not only had she sent that, but she sent a little package with odds and ends for the kids and also included a cute little snail knob for my kitchen (I'll have to send a pic of that tonight). THEN, as if that's not enough, TJ had also sent a great little package too. He sent some more of the really great change... and then this completely awesome bowl that his son made, I love it! What a great artist your son is - this bowl is SOOOO beautiful, it is just gorgeous really. I'm jealous, and wish I could do stuff like this!

BUT, it's not half as cool as what TJ himself MADE for me and had his son glaze and fire for me... check this out - my very own Kelwhy coin! ;) how cool is that!!!

Anyway, I just had to send out thanks to all for all my cool stuffs. I love all of it. You ROCK. This is a really great Birthday Week so far! ;) LOL! I should turn 40 more often! ;) TJ, I totally owe you - all of this is wonderful stuff. Thank you, thank you! OK y'all... I gotta get to work. Hope you have a great day now... I've got to think of something cool to send to TJ.... hmmm... something that he can't get out there in Carson City, something from Huntsvegas... I'll have to think on that. OK, have a great day and I'll chat with you later. Love ya! ;)

I'm just in a cranky mood...

I don't know why really - just am. I'm annoyed with hubby, cuz he was acting like an ass, but it's nothing big - he just got on my nerves. Work is fine, but I just can't take it this morning. I think I'm just stressed out over this whole job thing (Fuddy's) and letting everything get to me now. I hate that. :(

Good news stuffs...

• had my first 10k running group last night and we ran 3.1 miles. I did it! I did a 4 min/1 min run/walk interval the whole way. Altho, I did run the last 10 minutes straight. I felt OK at the end of it too - not so bad. Ate some pavement at the beginning of the run, more embarrassing than it hurt - LOL. It was dark out and we were running across some sidewalk that was just all torn up - just lost it. NICE. Oh well, I'm fine.
• went to the doc this morning and had some blood drawn, they're running the full range of tests on me to see if there is something there that can explain my vertigo. It seems to have gotten A LOT worse lately and is really getting to me. I'm also looking for some new migraine meds, cuz those have also gotten worse and nothing seems to be helping.
• I had a couple of "bad diet" days, I was stress eating. I'm back on it today tho and will do better. I need to lose another 5 lbs before we go to NYC. (Fuddy is not going with us and I'm completely bummed out about that.)

OK, that's all that I know. I'm going to go get another cup of coffee and see if I can get in a better mood. Good luck to me - not sure what it will take - but i'm pretty damn moody today.

:(

Well hell...

... there was just absolutely, positively - NO talking him out of it. FuddyDuddy woke up Saturday morning with a bug in his @ss - he just HAD to have BIGGER BETTER TV. Good lord, we already have a TV in every room and 1 out on the back porch??? We don't NEED another TV. We really, really don't. AND there's just so much around the house that we actually do need, this was ridiculous. BUT there, was just no talking him out of it. He was dead set on getting this TV. At least I made him go shop around and get the best deal available at the time. sigh. What can you do? So now we are the "proud" new owners of a 52" Samsung LCD flat panel TV.... yeah, exciting. really. hmmm. just what we needed. I better not hear any complaining about money from that man for awhile now. Seriously. So, yeah - that was my weekend. Rearranging furniture, putting together a new TV stand (more we had to buy), and cleaning... FUN. Talk about a stressful weekend. Well, I guess at least we are doing our patriotic duty and stimulating the economy right? right. He's patriotic as hell. ;) hahh!

OK - that's all i've got to say - gotta run and i'll chat with you later!

The Homework blues...

I am having so much trouble with 6th grade homework. AUGH. OK, well, not so much that I'm doing the homework - getting my son to do his homework. What a nightmare! Last night we spent 2 hours just COPYING HIS SPELLING WORDS down. yes, TWO HOURS. Why? Well, my dear, wonderful, young son is quite easily distracted. He gets up to sharpen his pencil and returns to the table a half hour later. It's really quite amazing how easily distracted he does get (he gets that from his father). He didn't bring home half of the assignments that he was supposed to complete last night, didn't bring his assignment book home, - I could go on and on here. I came home last night and none of their chores were done, and none of their homework had been done yet either. I don't get it. They have plenty of time to get that stuff done AND still time to play... what's the problem? I'm getting to the end of my rope very quickly on this issue. We sit down with him every night and then spend nearly ALL night working on homework. I can't get him organized, I can't get him focused. I don't know what to do? Any thoughts or ideas on how to help a 6th grade boy get focused on his homework? We've taken away TV, we've taken away play time, we've taken away wrestling (he was going to join this week), there's not much else to take away now. I'm going to start adding homework for on the weekends I believe. Making him write some essay's and do workbook pages or something like that. Maybe that'll hit home. who the heck knows... any way - just needed to vent a bit, thanks for listening! I'm outta here for now...

My first knitting lesson...

This is going to grow up to be a scarf...

howdy!

OK, just another 20 minutes and i'm outta here to go pick Fuddy up and take him for his checkup for the surgery. Then, I've got to get everything packed up tonight as much as I can and get ready for our O H I O trip tomorrow. Woohoo! It's almost here! The terrible part is that I hadn't had a chance to buy a new outfit for our Chi-Chi's reunion and I don't have a thing to wear! AUGH. How horrible is that? I know. seriously. Well, I spose that I will come up with something, what else can i do. I will take fuddy to work in the morning and then come back home and get the truck all packed up, pick him up at work at noon and hit the open road!
Here's our basic itinerary...

• leave huntsvegas at noon and drive to my baby bro's house in Cinci. spend the night
• have turkey and all the fixings in Cinci with my family, eat, drink and be merry!
• sometime around late morning or lunch, head to canton to the in-laws.
• Friday eve, go see our old chi-chi's friends - drink up a storm (we have a driver, so all is well).
• Saturday, nurse the hangover and have turkey and all the fixings with his family, eat, drink and be merry.
• Watch the iron bowl (bama vs. auburn)
• Sunday, drive all the way back to huntsvegas - 10 hours - FUN.

OK then, that's what I'll be doing, hope y'all have a great turkey day and I'll talk to you later, or see ya later as the case may be...

Happy Monday!

Well, Fuddy had his surgery on Friday and all went well. He's doing just fine and is back at work today. If he had someone to drive him around on Friday, he coulda just gone right back into work on Friday as well - he was feeling fine.

Lil girl had her bday party on Friday eve and it was a hit. We ended up having 8 girls spend the night - augh. They actually weren't all that bad though - outside of all the "girl drama" that is. I was really hoping that she might actually not get pulled into some of that stuff, but she is in anycase. I hate that. Why does there always have to be drama around little girls - I mean, they're only 8 years old and there's SO MUCH DRAMA! sigh.

OK, bizzy week this week and off to the great white north of Ohio on Wednesday. Hope all is well, and i'll chat with you later! ;)

Babble...

• Lil girl is having a bday this Friday, she turns 8. I can't believe she's turning 8 years old already! We're having a small Build-a-Bear party and then a sleepover at the house. FUNNNNNNN. It'll only be 5 other girls though, so it's really not all that bad.
• FuddyDuddy is having surgery on Friday as well - that'll be a busy day for me. He has a bone spur in his right shoulder, so they are going in and cleaning that up. Hopefully, it'll be just the spur and no damage to the rotator cuff - keep your fingers crossed for us. It's outpatient surgery, shouldn't be there too long i don't think. Plus, he is the doc's first surgery of the day as well, so that's good.
• I'm trying to come up with more homemade christmas gift ideas. Any thoughts there? I've just started one this weekend, a painting - it's turning out pretty good - i'm happy with it. Lots more to do though...
• We leave next Wednesday to head to O H I O for turkey day, it should be a really fun trip - it's just going to be WAY to quick. I hate those. Oh well, at least we can go. We'll spend Wed eve and all day Thurs at my lil bro's house in cinci and then head on up to Canton sometime on Friday to my in-laws house. We have our Chi-Chi's reunion on Friday night - that should be a total blast - can't wait to see everyone. Then turkey dinner with the in-laws on Saturday and drive home on Sunday. FUNNNNNNN. ;)

OK, that's all that I know - gotta run and get into a meeting now. Chat with you later! Buh-bye now.

Just overheard...

Well, ya know - I won me a varmint gun up at the Turkey festival - I can't wait to use it.

yep - seriously, here at work, a female co-worker no less...only in 'bama...

What day is it?

I swear I can't keep up lately. Damn. OK, so I haven't run at all this week and i suck. I need to run cuz i'm stressed and fat and all of that, but i haven't felt like running cuz i'm stressed and fat. ;) lol - my vertigo is really kicking up a storm this week - I can't stand it. I really can't run like that, I'd be tripping all over the place. Plus, it just makes me sick to my stomach cuz my head is spinning so fast. AUGH. what's a girl to do? Yeah, I dont know either.

OK, so like I mentioned yesterday, I'm training for my new job here at work. I'll be doing basically the same thing, but working in the OEM world instead of the branded world. Do you even know what I do here? Well, I'm a buyer/planner - my specific title is "supply chain analyst" whatever the heck that means -hahh! titles are usually crap, aren't they? Anyway, I plan/buy our finished product from the manufacturer. So, now I'll still be doing that - but adding some more to it because I'll be working directly with and for the OEM customer. I'm very excited about it!

anyway, must get running now (not literally of course) - talk to you later...

Happy Anniversary to us!

Today is our 13 year wedding anniversary! Woohoo! It sure doesn't seem like it's been 13 years already - that's crazy. I have to say that I think it's been a very good 13 years and I would do it all over again if I could! We don't have anything special planned for tonight, Fuddy has a softball game at 8:00 so we'll have our dinner out on Friday or something - hopefully go to the Bistro - YUM! That's my plan in any case... we'll see how things go.

13 years? and I love him even more today than I did 13 years ago... 13 reasons why I love my FuddyDuddy...

1. When we spoon, he fits me perfectly - we were obviously meant for each other.


2. He gets my sarcastic, dry sense of humor when others just stare at me...


3. He'll rub my shoulders and neck when I'm so tense that I can't stand it any more.


4. He is the best kisser ever - I really like kissing him.


5. He is my best friend.


6. We can finish each others sentences.


7. He makes sure that I always have wine or beer - especially when i really need it.


8. He kisses me goodbye and says he loves me every time we part - even if one of us is just running out to the store real quick, or it's just a quick phone call.


9. He has the biggest plans and ambitions, even if they don't all come to fruition.


10. He'll order food without onions in it, just because I can't stand onions.


11. He can totally "bust a move" - HAHH!


12. He is a really great daddy.


13. He loves me for me and I know that I'm the ONLY woman for him.

update: This news just in - that man is gonna get lucky tonight! ;) look what I just got here at work... I really do like him...