Lazy Sunday afternoon

I so very badly need to go to Walmart for stuff, do some laundry and clean the house today. None of that has been accomplished as I sit here and type on the forgotten blog. I was laying in bed trying to take a nap because my head is hurting and so is my whole body from all the sitting yesterday at the tournament in Topeka KS. Jordan is in a traveling volleyball league this spring so there are 3 more scheduled tournaments that last all day.....8am to 4:30ish if you don't have to help ref the other games. So when I went to check facebook out, I thought I'd drop a line in here too. The team that Jordan plays on didn't win any games but does play well, so hopefully next time a game is won. Steve is at Aaron's this weekend hanging out at his house, left yesterday and not due back home til either tomorrow night or Tues morning. Jordan had some things to do this afternoon so I am home alone on this afternoon. Think I am going to take a rest again to see if this headache will go away!!

Really getting bad at this!

I am now a bad blogger on my page. I neglect it only to pay more attention to my facebook and who is on there to chat with tonight. I haven't put any photos on here and basically don't care about it now. So I am sorry to those of you who do actually get on here to see what is going on but then you should join facebook and we could be chatting live as I type this. I can't say this is the last post but don't expect them like before.
I will give just a update on things: Jordan is in the National Honor Society, not quite sure what that is but I am proud never the less. Steve is getting ready to spend a couple of days with Aaron at his house in Jefferson City while Jordan and I go to Topeka KS Saturday to a volleyball tournament. I am still dress shopping for Aimee's wedding and getting ready for her shower March 1st.
I hope all is well with those of you on here and will try to at least do a weekly blog post!

I am addicted!

I need an intervention to facebook...that's why my blog is neglected. No pictures or happenings in over a week. I changed it all for Valentine's Day and still I am more into getting on facebook. If you are not familiar with it, it's a page where you can add friends. Those being old classmates, family, and current friends. You can chat live with them, post pictures, and put comments on there about anything. The only big news is that Jordan got on the National Honor Society which I am very proud of!! Have liked the warm temperatures but the wind has wrecked havoc on my hair. I did go to a old stylist of mine this past week, he is in Columbia now so had to return some stuff to the mall and get new lenses for my glasses ordered. Have bifocals with lines and just not hanging well with them so decided to get no lines now. It's supposed to be beautiful tomorrow and I have a few things to get done, as in go to post office and mail the ebay crap I happened to sell. I need to take pictures of Jordan to Square Corner since I mentioned how that place was used for Jordan's pictures. Clean house since my grandmother is coming Sunday for tacos to celebrate Steve's birthday the 15th. So just a quick entry and possibly more tomorrow morning.

Adding to my blog again

I am going to redo my blog page with some Valentine's Day stuff to get a little romance in the air. Since my beloved husband doesn't believe in the whole Valentine's Day "gimick" as he puts it, I usually buy myself a little something if my income tax money has arrived by then. His birthday is the day after and he really doesn't believe in celebrating those either. The 2 parties I had for him was enjoyed when he graced our friends with his appearance at the bowling alley of course. How I thought this was a wise idea when I was planning or trying to plan my wedding, I must have been on something to think it would be a cool thing. Because now I have come to realize that having your birthday, anniversary, and Mother's Day so close together isn't that great when you married a non celebrating kind of man. 2 of which I couldn't help but my anniversary was chosen after a nightmare of trying to get my so called mother's opinions and her butting into the whole thing. Dates changed several times, my attendants changed, my whole idea of where and when I wanted married was changed, what I wanted to wear for a dress changed......there I was in the middle of a very overbearing mother and a stubborn hard headed man who didn't see the need in anything I wanted, he wanted all his way or throw a fit way.....Yea bout had a nervous breakdown over that ordeal. So anyways, Steve does sometimes surprise me and asks if I want to go out to dinner or last year he bought me a lia sophia necklace I wanted. And I am sure he will assist Jordan in planning a 40th birthday party for me with guidance from me of what I want and where. So hope everyone is looking forward to the weekend, I myself have to make it a productive one by starting to list stuff on ebay to sell for some extra cash for my party fund to start!! TGIF everyone!

I am going to be a Great Aunt!

I have great news to share, Trafton and Katie Shannon are expecting their first child at the end of August. I am so excited for Katie as I know she has wanted to be a mom for awhile. If anyone doesn't know Katie, I would love to introduce her because she is just a terrific woman. When she moved in across the street, I got to know her well and enjoyed her ventures over to our house to sip some wine or drink a bloody mary with me. I miss that now that her and Trafton moved out to Wayne and Sherry's old house. With her busy schedule it's been hard to find the time between us for me to venture out there and see what special touches she added to the house. I am terrible about visting people on my days off because I am always trying to get my house looking presentable in some sort of way which I am going to do today. There is still some Christmas stuff in here that must go this weekend back to storage, I was going to do it this past week but the weather wasn't the greatest to go back and forth outside or even just to the front porch. I am also going to get in gear and get some of the stuff put on ebay to sell today that has been collecting dust rather than money. So with that being said, I must end this post, check my pitiful bank account and of course check facebook. Happy Saturday!

Finally getting Christmas out of the house

I am finally getting the Christmas stuff out of the house. While doing this, I have bought more stuff that Steve doesn't realize I have done or he would have a fit. I have way too much for our dinky dump to hold but when it's this time of year and the leftovers are marked down to 80% off, I can't resist. It's soo cheap and my addiction to snowmen is overwhelming when I find something as in a cute little tree that has jingle bell snowmen heads on it. So I decided to take a break and give Steve one also from the de-Christmas project. Then I have headed to check my facebook out and to post a quick blog on here since I feel as if I am neglecting it. I don't even have any new photos to post on here. I have thought of putting recipes as my niece does but anyone who knows me, knows I don't cook regularly enough to have any outstanding ones to have people try. I do have a couple of soup recipes that I could share with everyone. So here they are:
Creamy Ranch Potato Soup
1 8oz pkg of fat free cream cheese or regular if you aren't watching your weight
1 16 oz container of fat free sour cream
1 pkg of dry Hidden Valley Ranch dip mix
1 pkg of real bacon bits
8 oz velvetta
onions and carrots if you like them
2 lbs of russet potatoes, peeled and quartered
half gallon of 2%milk
salt and pepper to taste
Cook potatoes, onions, and carrots in water first til almost tender, drain and add milk to cover the potatoes. Then on medium heat add the cream cheese, ranch mix, sour cream, and bacon bits. Let cook until all is blended. I use baby carrots sometimes but Steve doesn't like those or does Jordan like onions.

Another I got from Rosie Hammer and I think it's yummo, don't know the name but it's a really simple one like the potato soup.
1 quart heavy whipping cream
6 cans chicken broth
6 russet potatoes peeled and quarted
2 lbs italian sausage, I think regular could be used too
1 bunch kale, I used 1 bag of spinach also
1 onion chopped
salt and pepper to taste
cook sausage first, add to the other ingredients in a pot and let simmer til the potatoes are tender.
If you read this Rosie and I forgot something, let me know. I am doing it by memory.
So enjoy if you make these on a chilly day that is forcasted for the week ahead.

Facebook is my addiction

I have a addiction to facebook now. I joined it about 2 months ago and have already 93 "friends" on there. All range from old classmates to current friends to acquaintances to Jordan's friends. It is really neat to connect with some of them again. So that is why the blog is getting neglected as it is because I don't think to get on here in the minimal time I have on the computer to blog, just check facebook. Why the minimal time? 1. When Jordan is on the computer, she is usually on her facebook, doing homework and listening to music which she claims is all important til she is done. 2. Is Steve gets annoyed with the keys clicking away as I type on the keyboard when he is in the living room. So I do this when neither is at home because Steve wouldn't think to get a bigger house that maybe the computer could be on the other end as he is in say a basement....or a house that the bathroom stool isn't leaking that I know has rotted the wood under neath now, or one with out the mold and must smell that hits me as I walk in everyday, or one that just simply would hold all of our stuff. Anyways until I win the powerball, I'm stuck in the dinky dump. He thinks that I am going to get rid of some of my Christmas stuff well he is wrong! Yea I may have alot of that in my possession but he has alot more useless crap laying around than I do. Can you tell I am just about up to my eyebrows in being annoyed with the house situation. And now that I have posted to rants about random stuff bothering me, thanks again to anyone who care to read it because I guess it helps me get it off my chest. On a sidenote to the previous rant, the computer was fixed of freezing by removing Limewire that Aimee put on to download tunes to Kailyn's mp3 player we got her for Christmas. Don't download it, I have heard now that it not only will cause your computer to freeze up but lets viruses in since you are downloading songs too. Happy chilly Saturday....should have took off work yesterday when it was 65 degrees, now I woke up to a dusting of snow and a 4o degree difference!

I got to VENT!!

I have to post quickly due to the computer really acting crazy and probably needs serviced soon, as does my car, then some payments to the outstanding medical bills of a ruptured ovarian cyst, bronchitis, and my mammogram that is supposed to be covered by my insurance or so I thought. Then there is twirp dance and Kailyn's birthday in January to buy for. February is Steve's birthday gifts and I am sure the final payment on Jordan's dress for Aimee's wedding. Then the tanning sessions, jewerly, shoes, undergarments and hair appointment just so Jordan looks good that day. Somewhere in there I have all of that to get except tanning since I have some leftovers from last year. The dress I ordered from Coldwater Creek came today.....and the verdict is NO! It didn't fit or look right on me and Jordan said it looked like a cheap prom dress. Well to me prom dress yes, cheap how in the hell would she know what that was! So I hope that working the 4 months last year at Cato doesn't screw up my refund this year like it did before. And I have it by the first of March when the showers start for the wedding and the one that Jordan and I should probably figure out when and where to do it. And then will be my 40th birthday party that I would really like to have. So I am hoping that maybe I can get this first 5 months knocked out before Jordan's 18th birthday and by Christmas we can take a trip to a beach somewhere. There has to be something downloaded to this that makes it freeze up when I am typing. It's really getting annoying and I don't have time or patience for it. That is what my boss Shirley says alot and it fits for alot of situations. So thanks for reading this complete blabber of nonsence just so I can get a little off the chest. Happy Hump Day!!

Happy New Year 2009

Hello everyone and I hope all had a great New Year's Eve. I always like to think that all the crappy stuff that happened in the year will go away at midnight when a new year is ushered in. Yea wishful thinking.......so now that the holidays are over and this is a year of some exciting events, I have once again changed the appearance of my page. I love pinks and browns and burgundays so I chose this one from the website I found. Since my last blog, Jordan came home from Florida brown as a bug just excited that she had a good time and it wasn't that expensive for her to go. She spent about $200 on a 8 day trip so that was just about the amount of Christmas money she got from everybody. Kaytee was 10 years old on the 3rd so she got a plain double cheeseburger from McDonald's as her treat. The next thing to celebrate is Kailyn's 5th birthday on the 13th, then on the 15th is my in laws birthdays. Bob will be 83 and DoraLee will be 80. Then for a quick run down of the next 5 months....Feb 15th Steve's birthday, Mar 28 Aimee's wedding, Mar 30 Aaron's birthday, Apr 27 Aimee's birthday, Apr 28 Joe's birthday, then.....drumroll please............MAY 7TH I will be 40! YIKES.....then Nov 23 my baby is 18...long sigh of where did the time go. Also if turning 40 was like 30, I'll be in a hover round when I am 50! My computer is freezing up and pissing me off so I will end this blog before my Incredible Hulk temper comes out and I punch this damn thing!! Happy First Week of 2009, may it be full of happiness, blessings and miracles for all my blog readers lives and hopefully my life too.