Here's a funny for ya

Right after I posted that lovely blog below, I go outside to get in my car and go pick up my daughter at her friend's house and I find this (see above).

GRRRRRRRR!!!!!

Again.

Btw. It took us all day to clean it up.

Revenge!

Wow

I am getting lazy again with my posts. It's just been super busy everywhere. Work, school, home. My Fridays off are not really Fridays off. Someone at work this week asked me since school started back if I would go back to full-time. Ha! Right! I hope I do not have to, but if forced I guess I would have no choice. This Friday I spent dealing with my younger son's car break-in incident. His car which was parked in the parking garage at college was broken into last week. The morons broke out his window and took his crappy stereo. Not only did they break the window out, they used screwdrivers to pry the thing out of the center console and tore it up pretty good. This may total his car because his car really isn't worth much so we will have to see what happens with this. It's always something. On my day off he drove his car here (about an hour) we took it to get estimates, parked it in the driveway, taped up the windows, and then I drove him back to school (he left it here so we could deal with it) and then I had to drive back home and run my daughter and her friends to their destination. I am pretty wiped out. Hubby would have been happy to help but he is working 15 hours a day 7 days a week, so it's pretty much just me. So much for days off. Here are just a few pictures from our trip. Ugh! Oh well, at least I had fun with my new camera.

Band Babies

Here they are! The trumpet section looking all sharp. You can see my little blondie on the back row, 4th from the left standing by her favorite trumpet guy (he is on the right of her - the curly haired one).



And here she is...the prettiest girl trumpet player ever!!!

Some sort of good news

After his visit to the doctor, my son came home with the news that the doctor thinks he has a sliding hernia. She has referred him to a surgeon who he will see on Monday. We will know more after that. If it is something as simple as that (evidently pretty common in very active men, especially hockey players - which he is), I will be very thankful. In the exact words of my son, "I just want the junk to be right." Got to love a kid that uses that kind of lingo. Will post updates as we get them. Evidently he doesn't want me or hubby to go with him, but it is perfectly fine for his girlfriend to go. Jeez. When he does have surgery, you better believe his mom will be there whether he likes it or not. I am really getting a little tired of the "I am a man" speeches. Looks like he might be out of work for awhile since while he goes to school he is working for a moving company. Hernia much?

Must be back to school time.

How can I tell?

This was our yard yesterday morning. One last hurrah I guess. Silly kids.

Today was my daughter's first day of high school. She started school at a VERY large high school. And when I say large, I mean crazy large. I think I was more nervous than she was. I thought about her all day while I listened to my co-worker crying off and on throughout the day. Seems the jerk she married two weeks ago is already filing for a divorce. I would like to say I was surprised, but all of us saw it coming and can't believe she didn't. The worst part is that she is a single mother and she already turned in her notice and now wants to change her mind. Not sure how this will play out since after she called in that her child was sick and then ran off to marry this jerk (while her child was sick...umm...right) and then proceed to not come to work and do several other stupid things (because I guess she thought she had nothing to lose since she was going to quit work)...I think people were getting tired of it all and was glad that she was leaving. She is a sweet person, but not sure about her reliability or her sanity sometimes. It did take my mind off worrying about my daughter. I am such a terrific co-worker that when I went to Target at lunch I bought her some lovely tissue in a very decorative box for her desk.

After work I went over to the school to pick Tallulah up and the traffic was horrible! I was trying to get over to the side of the school where she was and totally got land locked by kids trying to get out so I sort of just gave up. Actually I was pretty scared one of them would hit my BMW so I just sort of sat there and tried to wait it out. Next thing I know daughter is calling me and telling me to stay where I am and she will walk the loooong walk to where I am. As she walked across the parking lot boys kept yelling, "whoohooo!" and "hey cutie!" Something tells me she is going to like high school just fine. Ha! She had boys offering her jackets (because it was cold in class) and boys letting her borrow pencils (she only took a pen) and boys letting her borrow money (because evidently, her lunch was $8.20 - WHAT?) Shame on me for thinking she could eat a school lunch for under 5 bucks! Wow!

Tomorrow it's band pictures at the stadium and I have a strong feeling we will get rained out once again. Saturday I will spend my entire day at the stadium cleaning the concession stand. I am so looking forward to that! Not!

Well....I gotta go grab Tallulah and head to the store. I think we will skip the $8.00 lunch tomorrow and just let her take her own lunch.

Adios!

Running with Scissors

WOW. Have you ever tried to watch the movie Running With Scissors? WEIRD.

Last night daughter and I watched The Last of the Mohicans for the first time. After traveling all over the place looking for the DVD we finally found it on the complete opposite side of town. She is taking Honors English this semester, her first semester in high school and she has two projects due on the book the first day of school. I am not sure why they do this to kids (make them do projects over the summer) but she will spend the next few days working on them and you know she is so happy about that. Evidently watching the movie was a total waste of time since the movie is NOTHING like the book. I was scared that since the book was such a hard read, she did not remember anything about it, but the whole movie she kept saying, "Uhh...this was not in the book." That's a pretty good sign.

Friday and Saturday we spent school shopping for clothes. It is tax free weekend this weekend and the malls and stores like Target were absolutely packed. I spent WAY too much money on her. She has decided that she wants to go "Boho" and be a little Sienna Miller. This involves lots of Free People clothing. Ever priced that stuff? Wow. I didn't think hippies had that much money. If you have any idea where I can get any Free People stuff at a discount price, let me know. We were fortunate to find a good bit of it on sale at our local Belk's here and got some really cute stuff. I did really great at American Eagle since I have their access card and had enough points to get 30% off there along with the tax free savings (8%)! Go me! After saving a good bit of money there she talked me into a $98.00 pair of jeans. Can you say SUCKER? Evidently they are amazing! They better be!

On a more serious note, don't you just love it when life gives you a big ole slap in the face? On Thursday my oldest son discovered a mass on a private area of his body. I made him an doctor's appointment for this Tuesday morning, but needless to say I am scared to death (he is too). I have been googling it (doctors hate this), and have been reading some really scary stuff with words like Testicular Cancer. I really pray this is not the case, but I am preparing myself since he is in the targeted age range and I am the type of person that automatically goes for the worst case scenario. I am just thankful that he listened to me when he got out of the Navy and got himself some good health insurance. He use to never listen to me when he was younger, but now....I think I am starting to make sense to him. Thank Goodness!!!! If you are reading this, please pray for him and that the outcome will be nothing serious. I am praying in a major way! Hopefully after this exam I will have something positive to post, but I am sure our doctor will refer him to a urologist to be sure. At this point I am willing to do whatever it takes to make sure he is okay. Even if he is 23, he is still my baby.

Oh well...I have LOTS of laundry to do.

*sigh*