November 9, 2009 – 9:27 pm
So… How do you remove a family member on FB without causing too much grief for yourself? Especially if it’s “THAT member of the family” (you know the one.) Sheesh.
October 8, 2009 – 11:14 am
I have been very remiss in my posting the last few months.
I have starting feeling a lot better, and I have resolved to remedy this blogging problem. I do, afterall, have a TON of things to post about here lately!
1st update, this was taken 9-30-09, it’s a GREAT profile of the little alien!
A Great Profile!!
No - we don’t know the gender yet. Still too early!
August 13, 2009 – 8:25 am
Wow…the downside of not wanting to or not having the energy to blog for a month or two means you lose your reader base.
Oh well.
Hey, Found a new blog that is funny as hell. It’s in my blog roll, but here’s the link: Why Mom Drinks Rum. I’ve started reading it everyday and I feel I’ve found a kindred spirit! Check her out!
August 12, 2009 – 4:36 pm
I’m thinking about starting a new blog feature called “F^&* You Fridays”, which would be password protected and allow me to vent at the end of a long week of stupid shit.
Like today.
August 12, 2009 – 7:37 am
Well, day 2 has come and gone for the girls.
Brittany’s classes are blocked now. She has A block and B block. She likes her A block classes and doesn’t really care for B block. Amazingly, no teachers “hate her” yet. (So and so just hates me! That’s why she’s so mean! Parents - you know the routine…) She HATES riding the bus. At the risk of sounding racist (which is not my intention) she’s the only little pale skinned, blue eyed, blonde haired honey on the bus. You know in Memphis that the Hispanic population and the African-Americans are big rivals, right? It’s just not a good situation and she is very uncomfortable on the bus. Add to that, the bus driver pays no mind to the goings on behind her…badbadbad. Did you know that to even get on the bus, each student has to keep up with a paper bus pass and show it every day before they can get on the bus? What ever happened to just *getting on the bus and going to school / home* ???
Hailey seems to still enjoy Middle School…but - she hasn’t actually had any homework yet. She’s come home both days excited which is something I haven’t seen in a long time! She absolutely LOVES changing classes/teachers for every class. I think that is her favorite part!
Ray’s mom is going to drive Brittany to school today - we’ll see how that goes.
August 11, 2009 – 8:25 am
Sigh.
I get really tired of trying to think of witty, cute one liner titles for my blogs. Perhaps I should just start with a date system or something.
School has started for the chirrens of Casa DuBose as of yesterday.
Brittany got most of the classes she wanted (including theater which is what she was REALLY hoping for) and Hailey got what was to be expected including music class. Hailey started Violin last year and will continue it this year. Yay! another musician in the family!
I think yesterday was harder on me than the kids.
Brittany’s first day of High School went okay, even though I am not very happy about her bus arrangements. (ask me in person, I am not going to write about it.) Let’s just say, for my piece of mind, and hers, I MIGHT start driving her to school…although I’m not sure how that is going to work since I have to be at work at 7. GRRRRR……
Hailey LOVES getting to switch classes. I hope her enthusiasm for school lasts a while…she hates school and it is usually pretty tough for her.
Well I suck at posting here these last few months.
Here’s a general update:
- School starts back up the 10th. I officially have a High Schooler and a Middle Schooler. woot!
- My project list of things to do for the SCA is longer than my arm and I keep finding things to add to them.
- Ray’s starting a 2nd full time job here shortly for a year.
- I’ll basically be a single mom of two for the next year due to this 2nd job. I am really nervous about it.
- Ray and I are both going to take SCUBA lessons, but due to his job schedule it looks like I’ll be doing mine first.
- I’ve finally got my hooks intoa person who is going to be my 1st protege. woot!
- We hired our lawn guy back. I am so happy! There is nothing like just living day to day and coming home from work and your yard is already mowed, trimmed, etc.etc.etc. and YOU didn’t have to do it!
- It’s taken us as long as we have lived in our house to realize just how cool our next door neighbors really are!
- I took a new office in the SCA so I guess that means I’m going to be more active, eh? So far I’ve gotten nothing but positive feedback. Which rocks.
- I have all these really cool ideas of things to do. Unfortunately what I lack is the gumption to follow through. That sucks.
- I am totally looking forward to AUTUMN MELEES!!!!!
- We think Flower might be pregnant. We’ll know more in possibly a week or so. Gestation is 40 days. GREAT. (not!) Even Hailey has mentioned she’s getting fat…
I guess that’s it for now. I know there’s more. But I just can’t think of it right now.
Curious if I’m just being overly sensitive, or if this was just kinda crappy.
For sake of arguement, let’s say you have a family member pass away and the executor is writing the obituary. When it comes to family, would you include by name the lady that was married to the son of the deceased, but has since remarried? You know - we are aren’t related by blood and the only tie I had to the family was my deceased husband, and Oh, I’ve remarried and haven’t been a part of the family for a long time?
On that note, say your grandson was married and there were two children - one from a previous marriage, but that child considered the deceased family and is very distraught? Would you just, you know, leave her out of the count?
IMHO, I don’t think the daughter-in-law that’s no longer a daughter in law but now married to someone else shouldn’t have been listed. And yes, I think the child - who has been part of the family for 12 of her 14 years - should have been.
So…am I just overly sensitive, or just crazy?
Yes, yes, I know.
I am SO lame for not updating you guys about what has been going on! But, I’ve been really busy!
Let me get through the next couple of days, and I promise to bring you up to date on a lot of things, okaythanx!
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