It's Friday!

I guess I am happy about it. I have plans to go be a vendor at the local flea market this weekend. I need some money really bad. I have a bunch of things to sell like baby clothes and toys that the boys have grown out of. I havn't told them yet but I will give them each a share of what they sell if they help out with the selling. They will love that! It starts a bit early for a Saturday but if we pack the car tonight then it won't be so bad. Baby will be going to my moms so I won't have him out in the heat too long.
We had a cub scout pack meeting last night and I needed a cowboy hat for the theme. I called up Danny, the guy that asked me out and he came up to my work and said he had one that I could borrow. He brought it over right before I was leaving and Scout had a lot of questions for me on the way to the meeting. Why did he come over? Where did you get his phone number? etc... He is so, how should I say...Loyal... to me. I don't quite think thats the word I'm looking for but it will work.
In other news I have not talked to Rick since Sunday when he came to my house and wanted to come in. I kept telling him no and he kept threating to turn me in...for what I don't know. He just talks out of his butt all the time. I think I got it through to him that I will not talk to him on the phone at work. It took him calling and me hanging up on him on Monday, Tuesday and half of Wednesday before he got it but thats how thick headed he is! He finally had his stepdad call me and ask whats wrong and I told him that I can't talk to him at work.

Every so often I catch Will and Grace on the boob tube

It wasn't last night but I was just thinking of something that the "gang" was doing in one of their episodes. I love Karen. The problem I have is that regular real people are not like that at all. If I knew anyone who acted like either Karen, Will, Grace and the she man I would not be able to go one day without peeing myself!
Another fav of mine is Gilmore Girls. Love it love it love it. If that show was on for 12 hours a day and W & G were on for 6 hours I would still have 6 hours to watch MTV! Where can I find a town like Stars Hollow?
One of the guys here at work Tommy, is constantly making comments about my boobs. I had on a button up shirt yesterday and he made sure to tell me that I could loose one more button if I wanted to and that he wont mind a bit. Not only that but we were getting a delivery in and as I was walking back into the office from the shop I heard him tell the driver "don't you want a woman like that?" The driver told him that he has a woman. Damn! All the good ones are taken. Tommy is always asking me to get under his desk. Then he covers it up by saying that he needs some paperwork or something. He is really quite childish but he can be very funny. He always tries to include everyone in the fun. He always makes me feel like he cares about me but then again I know that he is married. I cant say that Im not attracted to him I mean he is good looking and hes a country boy that works on cars in his spare time. However I would never never take him seriously. He always tells me that if he had what I have he would be getting "it" all the time. I havn't gotten "it" in six months. He thinks thats a shame. Me too, but I havn't found any takers yet.
I was reading a blog today and I though that I sounded Irish when I was reading to myself so I decided to try and read it out loud. I have a bad ass Irish accent!! Just call me Lucky!

Court of Honor

My son, Scout, had a Court of Honor last night with his Boy Scout Troop. He recieved his Scout Rank, Tenderfoot Rank and Second Class Rank. He also recieved his Pioneering and Indian Lore Merit badges. Other badges he recieved are Quality Unit, Camp Buffalo Bill, and Totin' Chip. He also recieved his Den Chief badge and shoulder loop. And last but not least, His scoutmaster's former scoutmaster sent his patrol a hook for the beltloop.
Baby had his first day at the new sitters on Monday. I think it went well. But when I dropped him off this morning he did cry. I'm sure he'll be fine, right?

Vacation

I finally got up the nerve to ask my boss for my vacation pay. I don't plan on taking a vacation this year. I really just need the money. I was going to ask him last week but I lost the nerve and finally today after going over in my head for 8 hours just asked him. He said to talk to him in the morning.
We had three guys come in today for the job opening. None of them have a license. How can you survive without one?

A cry for help.

I work for a glass and mirror company. We do installations for builders, commercial, residential and designers. We have had one job going on for a few months now that I will call The Ninth Floor job.
It all started a few months ago when the owner of the Ninth Floor job calls and wants an estimate for some sliding glass doors. He oks the estimate and we order the materials. It takes quite a while for them to come in but we install them about two months later.
The Association of the building calls and tells us that we installed the wrong kind of doors in his unit. The owner was well aware of this when he ordered them so he agrees to re-order the correct doors. After another two months we install the doors again. We had a few things left to do before he comes back down from up north so we sent over all four of the guys to finish up. Two were installers and two were helpers. Halfway through the day (yesterday) the two installers had to leave the job. One to go do another quote and the other to go get some supplies. When the one came back with the supplies he was quite shocked to find one of the helpers flat ass drunk and the building manager screaming at the top of her lungs to get out of the building.
The Helper decided to raid the customers bar and found himself a gallon of jack daniels! Most of it was gone when the installer finally got him into the back of the work truck. He made him ride in the back because he had pissed himself and vomited all over his shirt.
When the guys got back to the office, the helper fell out of the truck and attempted to ride his bike home. He fell three times in the driveway. The other helpers girlfriend came down the street and told us that he was laying on the ground on one side of the street and his bike was on the other. When the other installer got to the shop he said that the police were taking him to jail.
I get in today and nothing was said till my boss was ready to leave for the day. I asked him "So Martin didn't come in today?" He said "Yes, he had come in but before he could get off his bike I told him to get the fuck out of here." My boss said that he went crazy on Martin and he lost it. Whatever that means I'm sure he said a lot more cuss words than he has in a long time.
I feel kind of bad for Martin. He must have some real troubles that we don't know about. I think I wrote about him in one of my previous posts that his girlfriend in argentina has killed herself. I guess my kind words to him that he should give up the drugs and drinking were not enough. I think that I did what I could, I mean it's not like I could have taken him home with me and showed him that life is a bowl of cherries! I don't even have that.
So what's the lesson here folks? What has this experience taught me? How can I learn from this one? I'm not sure yet. Maybe I will never know. Tallyho...

Every time I try to post I get sidetracked

So I will try to do it today... There was no Coastal Clean up for my little cubbies on Saturday. We decided to re-schedule the event. I'm glad.
Scout has his court of honor next Monday night. I am so proud of him. He will be earning his 2nd class rank and a couple of merit badges that he earned at summer camp. He also convinced his friend Carlos to join. He wants to serve a patrol leader and he will be upset if he does not get it. He thinks that since he has been to every meeting and event that he should get a turn. I tried to remind him that he has only been a boy scout for six months and that there are other boys that have been in for a year longer but he says that they don't come to the meetings. He says that if the assistant patrol leader does come back and gets moved up to PL then he will quit. We havn't seen Devin since they got back from summer camp in June. I will have to agree with him there. But maybe he is just thinking the worst. Maybe now that Carlos is in BS he will not think so harshly.
I had a den meeting last night. Scout came and did games and then did some disscusion time with the boys (four showed). I was talking to the other parents and dealing with the Baby who is still a little bit sick.
When I was talking to the other parents I found out that one of them does babysitting. So I asked if she could watch Baby. She gave me directions to her house and I told her he will start on Monday. Oh my gosh this will be Baby's first real babysitter besides my mom. I'm nervous!
Scout has decided he would like to raise some $ for the family and wants to take some things to the flea market. He is doing this for a merit badge. They have 13 weeks to get to their goal. He wants to raise $1,000.00. We went through all the baby stuff and he also wants to sell some of his toys and maybe even some furniture that we dont use. I'm all for it I mean its only stuff right?

What's next?

So I was getting some last minute details ironed out for the Coastal Clean-up that the Cub Scouts are participating in. I called the first scouts name on the list, his dad works for the city. Dad tells me that there is red tied at the beach and they have already cleaned up 191 tons of dead fish since thursday. So thats problem #1 I can't have scouts getting sick from a field trip. Problem #2 is that they are having the weekend worriors (read that as instead of jail time they are doing community service) help clean up the dead fish just one block north of where we are going to be. So getting sick and mingling with those that break the law are not suitable for 7 - 11 year olds. Now I have to call all the parents and cancel. Oh yay!

Doctors

I origionally had just a WIC appointment this morning. But Yesterday my mom called me and said the Baby was running a fever and could hardly breathe. So I called the Dr's office and made an appointment for this morning.
I get the boys off to school and head out for the WIC apt. I got there at 8:20 and was done by 9:00. I have never gotten out of there in 40 min before. It has always taken about 1 1/2 to 2 hours! The Dr's apt was not until 11:40. So what do I do now?
I took Baby with me to the pier. We had a nice stroll and enjoyed watching the men casting their fishing lines and hooking big fish. We saw five dolphins and some huge fish. No pelicans though. It reminded me of the time when I was in high school.
A couple of friends and I were at the pier. I had two friends, Julie and Rachel, that were there that day. You see Julie and Rachel never got along. I was always in the middle. I had known Julie since 6th grade and Rachel since 8th. They were totally different, Julie was a redneck and Rachel was alternative. They both brought the best out of me!
On this particular day at the pier we were watching guys play volley ball and surfing. Julie and Rachel both wanted something to eat so they took off up to the snack bar and when I caught up with them an hour later they were laughing their heads off and having a grand ole' time. They ended up being called lavern and shirley as they walked on tippytoes counting the boards of the pier. They counted all of them. I really can't remember the exact number but it was like 1,326 or something. They even asked a fisherman for a knife so they could mark the 1,000th board!
The city has since replaced all the boards, so I can't see the 1,000th board but I know where it is. Three boards west of the first bench past the snack bar on the south side. I loved that day.
These days I don't talk to Julie at all. She was into drugs and she was living with me and not paying any rent. I was watching her little girl and she was not coming home till I was leaving for work in the mornngs. That was three years ago.
I talk to Rachel every once in a while. I try to send her birthday cards and stuff and she sends things sometimes. I really miss having good friends!
Ok back to today...After the pier I took Baby to Barnes and Noble. I tried reading to him but he wasn't having it. so we went downstairs and got a bagel. After that we headed for the Doctors office. I got there at 11:00. Turns out that Baby has a slight case of Bronccitis (sp?). The Dr gave me a prescription for an antibiotic and some cough medicine.
I then drive to moms house and drop off the Baby.

"If your going to throw a nickel...

at a chicken you might as well hit it with a stop sign!"
I read Zook's blog and thats the first thing that I thought of to say to him. Your some special guy Zook, I wish you all the best. And just know that you have a straight (girl) friend in Florida who will think about you every so often ; )...Stop by anytime to listen to my insanity when yours gets too much!...

So a friend of the kids dad just came up to my work and asked how I was doing. He came in because he thought that the phone that Rick had sold him was my mothers but I had never seen it before. He was having a problem with the min he just added to it and needed the password or something. I could not help him out. He asked if I had a boyfriend and then I think he asked me out, or something. He's a really nice guy and all but he's Ricks "friend". I put it in " " because Rick really has no friends just people he uses every once in a while. We'll see...

Lets do a little storytelling (; )@Zook) shall we...The think about the chicken comes from a guy I went to high school with named Christopher Sapp. I was on the yearbook staff in 11th grade in the year 1990-1991. I was writing this bit where you had to do a picture of a student and then write one of their quotes. Chris Sapp was a tall Blonde haired Babe. His hair went down to his butt and he always wore it down.
He was dating a friend of mine that I was in cross-country and track with. I picked the two of them to do the story on even though it had nothing to do with them dating.
For Cheri I had her stand on the second floor, on the outside of the banister. I took the picture from the ground floor looking up. It was a bad ass pic if I do say so myself. We got into huge trouble with the Yearbook teacher when the photos came back but it was worth it and it got into the book!
For Chris it was a pic of him hanging upside down just outside the stage/drama classroom. We both sahred that class as well as some others. Another pic that got us some heat but it also made it into the book!
I asked them both for a quote to go with the story and although I can't for the life of me remember what chere's was I will always remember what Chris' was.
I could use that piece of advise for just about any occassion and it works. The first time I heard it I was like Chris is just being a wiseguy. But over the years I have realised that it is the best quote that there ever was...well except mine of course...Two guys walk into a heavy metal bar the second one should have ducked!
I wonder if I still have that yearbook? (ponder... ponder... ponder...)

Scouts 12th Birthday

Today is Scouts 12th Birthday. Wow. He had three friends over on Friday night. They stayed almost all day on Saturday too. I had Feret and Tyler all day Saturday as well. We had pizza for lunch then we had snow cones then candy all day long and ice cream cake. We all went to the pool and had a great time. I acctually stayed there for three hours! I got a little burnt but not bad. Scout got $25 as gifts but nothing form all the boys at the party. What happened to Party ettiquett (sp?)? It cost me $120 for everything and he did not get anything from the boys at the party! Gee whenever I sent my boys to a party I always send them with a gift or $. Oh well I guess I will learn that maybe the $120 should have went right to Scout. He had a great time anyway.
Feret stayed home from school today. He said he couldn't walk and that his legs hurt. I made sure that he wasn't running a fever or anything then I left for work. I hope he is feeling better tonight.
Baby is walking all over the place. He is only 10 months old but he is sure getting around.
Feret and I went to a Cub scout thing on Saturday night. It was called Saturday Night Live. We were supposed to put on a skit with the other members of his Den but only two others showed up. They practiced with five last week and one came up to me at the end of the meeting and said he cant come. I don't know what happened to the forth one though. We looked all over for him. Never showed. So we just sat and watched the other skits and songs. There were some really funny ones that I had not seen before. I really enjoyed it.

three weeks old

I can't remember if I told ya'll about the gerbil babies. We have one brown (brindle) male gerbil and one white female gerbil.
On a Sunday, 19 days ago, Scout was getting some cereal for breakfast and he passed by the cage to see the gerbils had five babies. One of them only lived one day but the rest have done very well. There is one brown one two tan ones and a white one.
Now i'm no gerbil expert so I don't know if they will stay the same colors or not but they are really cute. Although they still have not opened their eyes yet.
We took the papa out of the cage when we found them because the reason that we have the two in the first place is because the little girl that gave them to us said the papa hurt the last litter of babies. Mama has been a really good mama, she is right there with them all the time. We never really named them, so I am just calling them mama and papa. I want to name the four babies now that they have some color. I was thinking about naming then after the Beatles but I havn't sold it to the boys yet. They don't really care about who the Beatles are. Too bad.
Scout has decided that he wants his B-day party tomorrow. He's going to be twelve on Monday. He just wants pizza and a carvel cake. He wants to take all his friends to the pool. This is going to be fun for me. I mean I just had my carpets cleaned and my house put back together and he wants 12 kids to come over and eat! I'm ready for it though. I can't beleive I have a twelve year old! Wow how time flies!!!

Finally

My house is all put back together and I finally found that cute white shirt I had lost. It was out on the porch with all the other stuff. Yeah!
I also just learned that my son Feret has been nominated for Class Pres.!! He says he doesn't want to do it though. He says it will be bo much work. Scout tried to convince him that he was jelous because he can't even run for student council because he has already been in ISS. (He called a girl a lesbian!) Anyway Feret says hes not going to school on Friday.
We'll see...

"You what?"

I had my first Den meeting last night for the forth grade Webelos Scouts. Only five showed out of eight. Not bad considering that two of the three that did not show up do not speak very much english. I don't know if they understood what I was telling them on the phone.
Scout, our Den Cheif, did a name game and then we did our opening ceromony. We then had the boys elect a Denner. Guess who won...Feret. So my big plan to have one of the other kids responsible for the spirt staff had failed. But I'm proud that my son was elected.
After that we practiced the skit that we are preforming on Saturday. We picked who was going to do what and we ran through it about ten times. I then thought they had had enough so I told them to go get some cupcakes and juice. When everyone was done I had one boy come up to me and tell me that he was going out of town on Saturday and he could not make it to the skit. I said "You what?" I mean we only had this one meeting to practice and he was a big part of the skit. I also told him to have a safe trip and see you on Tuesday. I was not mean to the boy at all so don't take it that way. But I was kinda upset...Now I only have four boys to do the skit and I have to figure out who is going to take his place.
I told Feret and Scout about it on the way home and Feret said he could do it. That's my boy ..takeing one for the team, no wonder they elected him! : )

Weekend Highlights

Friday I had a leaders meeting for the new folks in scouting. Had a good turnout and got a lot done. Scout went camping with his friends and Feret went to Tylers.
Saturday I picked up Feret and Tyler and went to Marco. They had a lot of games and things to do. The boys played on the new playground equipment and had a ball. We also participated in an attempt to break the world record for the most people in a balloon fight. They called the event "Simply Silly Celebration". I'm not sure if they broke the record or not, It did not look like 2200 people. But it sure was fun.
Sunday I just missed church but I showed up anyway. My brother Chris came down and we all ended up going to my other brother Kevin's house for hambergers and hot dogs. So I left my car at moms and drove over with them. Then when Chris was leaving Mom and Dad decided to go to Cape Coral where Chris was staying so I had to hitch a ride with Kevin and Rita. I got home around 3 and I tried to call Feret but they never answer the phone at tylers. So I waited a while longer. Scout came home from camping with a twisted ankle. He was jumping off a dock into the Peace River and he landed wrong. He can bearly walk. I went and picked up Feret and went home to cook dinner. Man were those steaks good, if I do say so myself!
Glad for the short week I have a Den meeting tonight, hope there is no drama. It's all for the boys and I intend to keep it that way.
Till next time...

My lucky day...

Thats what the gas station attendent told me. "It's your lucky day".

I was on my way at a roundtable meeting and realised that I was on empty. I pull onto the main street and the cell phone rings. It's my mom ans she starts telling me that there are lines a block long at all the gas stations that still have gas. I say "What!?" And she tells me that they are driving around trying to find gas and they are not having any luck. Shoot! I tell her that I'm on my way to get some gas now and that I will call her if I have any problems.
Sure enough there at the station I was heading to there was a long line of cars so I go a little further down 41 to the next station...they are all out. I am finally convinced I will be late for my meeting and I pull into one of the line at the third station I came to.
So I'm waiting in line and Baby starts fussing. I try talking to him but he has worked himself up a bit. We pull ahead a few feet and the attendant says to me "It's your lucky day, your gas tank is on the right side of your car so I want you to pull right up there." Right up there just happened to be up to the pump behind just one truck. Meanwhile the cars that I was behind in the line are three cars behind me now. I felt a little guilty but glad!
Another attendant pumped my gas and took my money. It took $38.00 to fill it up while last week it only took $32.00. I paid $2.64 last week and last night it was $2.89. Wow I sure hope this does not last too long. I am already broke and I don't need anymore expenses.
I did make it to rountable and everyone enjoyed Baby being there. He smiled and laughed a bunch.But after about an hour he had tuckered out and got fussy again so I snuck out the door and headed home. There were still lines at the gas stations on my way home at 9:30pm
I have a leaders meeting tonight and I guess I am looking forward to that. Not too sure of what we will be doing except showing the new leaders the meeting place at the church and trying to convince them to go to training.
My brother Chris and his wife Tina and their two kids Kelsey and Colin are down for the weekend but they are staying at Tina's Mothers house in Cape Coral (about an hour away). I think they are comming down on Sunday to go to church with Mom and Dad.
Thats about all going on right now so I'll talk to ya later...

What is going on around here?

I have a couple of things that concern me and I guess the best way to let you all know is to just list them but they are in no peticular order...

My brother Brad is going to Iraq today. I talked to him on Wednesday night and he sounds great. He always has funny little stories to tell. He told me the one about how the guys play jokes on each other. They duct tapped a guy working at a gate and put signs on him. When a couple of guys came through the gate and it didn't open they went to the gatehouse and found him there. Brad said fun was had by all, I asked him if that was concidered hazing and he said no cause they didn't beat him! I guess you think my brother is crazy and bad but he's not.

I had a cubscout meeting last night. The main thing was to get the parents to sign up as leaders for the boys. Everything went well until one of my moms from last year came up to me and asked to talk to me outside. I find out that she and two other parents are very upset cause the other parents did not ask her opinion. Please know that I was not in the room when this happened. We left the parents in the room by themselves to find vollenteers amongst themselves. They all knew that I was already a leader so they just had to pick an assistant and a committee member. Easy right? I learned later that when I went out of the room one guy asked for any vollenteers and Kathy said she wanted to be the assistant. Then the other mom Carol said she will be the committee member. The three parents that were upset did not say anything. Here's the kicker...The three who felt bad are all hispanic and the two who spoke up are white. Mary, the hispanic mom who spoke to me outside thinks that because they are hispanic that the others didn't think that they could do the job. I actually lost sleep over this. I felt very helpless and said to Mary that there are plenty of things to sign up for and she is more than welcome to do that. Mary and Ramona were a great help last year and I don't want to loose them. When she was leaving last night I told her that I will see her later and her response was "Yeah, at Publix" (Thats where she works.) They would not put their sons names on the sign up sheet. I feel so bad! What can I do?

Hey its a long weekend and you all know I love those. I hope to get this sorted out. Its a big misunderstanding. The fans should come out today. I have a scout meeting tonight and tomorrow night. There is a thing going on in Marco, they are triing to set the record for the balloon toss. Should be fun.