Oh dear... I just never find time to get here any more, do I? Such a shame. Well... been busy with school and Selena, is all I can say!

I was just looking back at old posts... I never DID quit smoking. I decided that I don't want to leave aol, because if I do, I'll have to move 7 of my webpages, plus re-make my newsletter, since I haven't found a way to change my primary email address for it. Sigh... therefore, we probably won't get DSL 'til I have a job.

The kids are gonna get "cabin fever" due to it being too cold to go outside and play. They're gonna drive me nuts today!

It's a COLD day for Florida... brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr a high today of only 66 degrees, and colder than THAT with the wind chill. To those from colder climes, it may seem petty but we don't have winter wardrobes nor does our heat work. SOOOOOOOO brrrrrrrrrrr!

Amazing... I thought the main blogger page was all black, and the icon red... because my old monitor was SOOOOOOOO dim... but my NEW monitor, which I got for Christmas, clearly shows that there are blocks on the main page with other colored backgrounds, and that the blogger icon is ORANGE! Truly astounding! Plus the new monitor is 19" which is 2" larger than the old one... I like it. It'll do quite nicely for the time being.

I am really not doing very well at being consistent with this journaling. I'll have to try harder, I guess. I can't even remember all the things I've wanted to note and let pass by...
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I haven't been here in a while, and I don't have time to stay right now. But I've bookmarked it again (my computer crashed, and I'm setting my favorites, etc. back up now...)

I'll be back!

My friend Frank from England is going to be here this evening. Not sure how long he's going to stay here in south Florida... he got a free trip to Orlando plus $300 to do a wiring job for a long-time customer of his, and figured while he was over here, he'd come down so we could meet in person.

Today has been absolutely GRUELING. I got up and folded the last load of Billy's laundry left over from last night, then took Sarah to the dentist, then went to Billy's & put away his clean laundry, plus I scrubbed down his bathroom and got the last few loads of his dirty laundry. I've just finished washing the last load of his laundry, and the second to last is in the dryer... sigh.

Oh, forgot to mention I was cleaning for Billy cuz he went into the hospital and had been so sick his apt. was a WRECK!!!

So... I'm hoping that by the time I'm done folding this last load of his laundry, they'll release him and I can pick him up from the hospital, too... but maybe that's too much to hope for.

OMG! I can't believe it's been so long since I posted here! I guess I've just been so busy with school, it's completely slipped my mind!

SOOOOOO much has happened since the last post... we went to boy scouts, we stopped going, on Sarah's birthday we went to the zoo... Joey bitched all day, but they all got bags of free candy & stuff cuz of some Halloween promotion...

The following Saturday I think was the Web Club at school... it was interesting...

The car has a BLOWN HEAD GASKET (READ $$$$$$$$) AND MAYBE A CRACKED BLOCK TOO, because Bob didn't see fit to go get the damn thing fixed when it began to overheat... just kept on putting water in. Now we may be buying Buddy's black Lincoln from across the street...

Etc. etc. and so on. It's been a pretty good Thanksgiving, I can't complain (now) but of course I was bitchy earlier when I was cooking!

I have a ton of laundry to fold/wash etc. so I guess I'd better just bookmark this site on my IMPORTANT list and make sure I get here on a more regular basis again!

She finally went out the door... after being insufferably nasty to me.

I am sooooooooooo exhausted!

If Sarah doesn't get a move on, she's going to miss the bus today.

I gave up and drove the car yesterday. I'm glad I don't have school today.

I read the wrong day's selection on Wednesday, then had to read the right one. On the positive side of that, I've read what I need to for Tuesday, so now all I need to do is study for the quiz.

I'm getting very tired. Walking to and from the bus stop with a heavy backpack is exhausting... and apparently the car's not going to be repaired for ANOTHER week. They want it dropped off on a Monday or Tuesday... who cares what they want? It is ridiculous that we should be inconvenienced like this. We are not the ones who wrecked our car... we were rear-ended... the victims in the situation. They say the car is driveable, but with a taillight out I don't want to risk getting a ticket.

Frankie is treating me like dirt, and I'm tired of it. His girlfriend has become the center of his universe, and when I tell him to do something or not to do something, he just waits 'til I go to school then does as he pleases because he knows his father will let him do whatever he wants. This causes further tension between Bob and myself as I think he's entirely too lenient and permissive (read "doormat") and it just makes me sick. Divorce wouldn't help either, because then he would have even MORE license to spoil them when it was his turn to have them. Back to the old statement: I'd rather be a widow than a divorcee...

Today is going to be a tough one. I'm going to have to ride the bus to school for the first time, and I'm nervous about getting to school on time. I'll be glad when this day is over. I wonder how long it'll be before our car is fixed.

It started out this morning, when I got upset because my husband stated the intent to take my son to get his learner's permit (for driving) Without consulting with me, and against my wishes... As it will add $250/month to our car insurance cost... for Frank to practice driving, he has to be on our insurance policy.
So THEN we went to the cub scout picnic, and on the way, Joanna (Frank's girlfriend) who came to help transport us all, cuz we don't all fit in our car... hit us (we had a car accident) So now our taillight is broken and the trunk of the car won't close.
I think Sarah (my oldest daughter) and I have whiplash, but I'm waiting 'til we've slept a night before going to have it checked out, because sometimes if they check you out too soon nothing shows up.
Well, the GOOD part is, now Frank is committed to getting a job to pay his own share of the car insurance rather than ME having to get a job and leave the baby for 12 hours a day (8 to work, 4 for school... plus more for travel time, really...)
I'm still not certain we'll get by without me getting a job soon... I don't know if we'll have to pay a deductable to have our car repaired, or if that will all be covered by Joanna's policy...
We need $48 for the boys' photo packages, and Sarah wants us to get pizza for her class for her presentation on the same day as the boys school pictures... so that'll be another $30 or so...
It (the car accident) was Joanna's fault. I stopped to let oncoming traffic enter the expressway ahead of us, and she thought I was going to go ahead and jump in front of them (perhaps because that's what SHE would have done?) Which makes me concerned about Frank driving around with her... I had already previously noted her tendency to speed...
I am really stressed out tonight :-(

Badddddddddddddddddddddddddd day.

I have so much to do today, and all I want to do is go back to bed. I have a dental checkup at 10 am, and a mountain of laundry... not to mention dishes... the rest of the house is a mess, too. Plus I need to do some reading for school. But I'll take it all in stride. After the dentist, I'd like to get a nap before I start trying to do anything else, but I can only do that if the baby will lie down with me.

Okay. She FINALLY got up... but she's being nasty to me. : (