Vomit & Madi's Birthday

I did not make back yesterday but I do have a good explanation. I have been sick with the vomit comet flu since wens and yesterday it infected Ms. Madi. She put me to shame with her vomit comet skilz. WoO hOo that girl can hurl.

We tallied it up today on a trip to the grocery. I counted 4 and she said 2. I had to explain to her that the number of times hurled is counted by the number of areas in which you mar with vomit. Luke's bed & wall count as 1 because the wall was caused by splatter from bed. The complete masking of the toilet in my bathroom counts as #2. The 3rd was the floor of the bedroom and the 4th was the masking of their toilet. See logically it was 4. She counts it as the number times she got up to run for the pot. So she counts 2. Hmm kid logic I bet $100 when it is her kid doing the hurling on her floor it will be 4 not 2...bet me...

In other news it is Ms. Madi's 9th birthday today. 9 years ago last night I was enjoying a beautiful pan of lasagna with friends and watching movies. I remember being a bit aggitated we had been to the hospital that morning and was sent home because I was not dialated. WoO HoO a little vagina talk sorry guys:) But damn I was uncomfortable just little twinges of pain all day and evening and a desire to pee every 3.2 seconds. After our friends left Brent went to bed and I sat up because the pound of noodles and gooey yummy cheese was not sitting right. I was feeling a little funky about 3 hours later and woke Brent up cause I knew something was not right. This was my 1st time of going into labor unassisted so the signs were unknown to me until I was really in dire need of being at the hospital. With Lillian I went from a 4-10cm in less than 5 minutes and then had a baby 2 pushes later. I had no clue what transition was I just knew it was a bit painful and we should move it along. I remember Brent telling me the entire trip to the hospital "Do NOT push Melissa, BREATH" we arrived at the hospital and in less than an hour we had Madi. A fierce screaming red head that had big clear blue eyes and the pinkest lips.

9 years later she has faded to a delightful strawberry blonde with freckles and sparkling blue eyes. She is a spitfire with that red head temper is still going full speed. She is my mini me. My sweetie, Maisi Pie, Trucker Mouth Sally, Lil Bit and Diva Brato Supremo. Happy Birthday Madi!! I love you babygirl:)

Momma

Birthday Girl!!

It's my birthday......I am 32.........back later to give you the details. Until then feel free to lavish me with love & good tidings:)

I had an amazing holiday with my family and friends. The food was excellent and the wine bountiful. I am lazing the day away in my jammies. Today is a day of rest for me. I did some black friday shopping but a slight hangover helped me back into bed at 7:30am until 1. Now I am feeling relaxed, my mom sent me this video and I had to share:o

beyonce single ladies guy dancing

Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday weekend!

What the F*ck Friday!!

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My friend Theresa started this a few weeks ago and it was fabulous. Today is WTF friday and this has been a week plum full of them.

I am looking for a job in a town that is laying people off left and right. WTF people quit firing your employees it is the fucking holidays assholes. Some companies need to do some internal reorganization instead of firing people, it is a week before Thanksgiving and instead of a turkey people are getting pinks slips…WTF!!

Speaking of the holidays, where did the year go? I swear it just flew by. I am not ready to go shopping and fuck I don’t have a job & that just blows monkeys balls. WTF

We have 0 children tonight and instead of going out and doing something we are home. For like the 3rd time this year he has to work sat at 6am….WTF!!


I have a pound of ground beef, 6lbs of pork shoulder and 20lbs of turkey in the fridge and we are eating Chinese takeout for supper…WTF…lazy much?


I do have a serious love affair with Crab Rangoon they are wonderful yummy creamy crunchy bits of heaven.


I have ruined every single batch of chocolate chip cookies I have made this week….really what in the fuck is up with that…..I am concerned….WTF

I have gained 4lbs this week...WTF…oooh may be all the stuff I have been baking…note to self give more away….WTF is the point in baking then.

Ok my food is getting cold now, I have had some interruptions on this post. Now my food is needed reheating…WTF

So please add your WHAT THE FUCKS for the weekJ

Sioux Falls, SD

If you are in my area or will be for Thanksgiving. I encourage all of you to attend this wonderful event!

Thanksgiving Day

Run For Food

Thursday, November 27 8:00 a.m.

The Banquet is very grateful to be the recipient of the "Run for Food" event.
Runners and walkers are gathering at The Banquet on Thanksgiving morning to get in some exercise before feasting on turkey. You may chose from a 3 mile or 6 mile run or a 1 mile walk.
Organizers suggest a $10.00 donation to The Banquet. There is no registration, no t-shirts and no frills. This is just a time for runners to get together.
The run starts at The Banquet at 900 E. 8th St. The route goes to Falls Park and returns to The Banquet. Last year’s run raised $3,570 for The Banquet.

I was shocked I have not blogged for a week thank goodness I did not sign up for NaBoPoMo this time I would have failed.

Well there have been some interesting happenings since I was last here. Obama won the Presidential election and I am thrilled. I will not go into more detail as I have spent the past week debating with uneducated people who would rather spread hate and rumors than get to know our new President and truthfully I am fucking exhausted by it. If your view is different from mine lets agree to disagree and move on. I am sick of people bitching about it. DONE.

I am looking for a job. I know I said I was going to wait and just go to school but nope have to do something before I become a certified lunatic. BORED BORED BORED. I have been baking my buns off and found myself unable to come up with something new so now it is time to walk away from the kitchen for a bit. For some reason I come up with better recipes when I am supposed to be doing something else...hmmm...go figure.

Other than that I am addicted to Facebook if you are on it and want to be added to my friends list shoot me an email. I am reading everyones blogs just been lazy commenting. Hello I have been using my facebook chat like a mad woman though. OK I will be back later. I know this post sucks...deal with it...my boobs are being smooshed right now by my VS Very Sexy push up so I am losing the bra and going to the couch!!

Time for Change

I started this post as a little encouragement to get out and vote tomorrow but decided to head a different direction. If you do not vote in the election I do not want to hear a flipping word for the next 4 years about how any one thinks the president sucks. My philosophy is "Don't Vote Don't Bitch" by not voting you take away the right to have any opinion on what our countries next 4 years are like. Got it?

Tammy, Theresa & Tash if McCain & Palin win I am moving in with one of you. Please pray you do not have a 4 year house guest!!

I am in a pretty good place this morning...sitting here listening to some Marley and nursing a super sized headache. I infiltrated the man cave last night and ended up staggering to bed after a few to many beverages. It has been so long since I drank a few to many was 3...sad fact is I am old. I will return.............................

In the interim this makes me sick!! There are some seriously sick fuckers in this world.

Sunday Fun Day!!!

This weekend was amazing. Perfect baking weather cool crisp and a perfect 2 days to fill the house up with yummy smells. Yesterday I made new biga in hopes to have some flavorful enough for sourdough by Thanksgiving. Last night I tried out the first round of bread with the fresh batch and it made a heavy crusty wheat with a good nutty flavor. I was impressed with the texture. I did leave Ms. Maddy in charge of the kneading while I had a beer in the garage and she did a very good job. I made some sandwiches for the kids with it and they liked it. Brent well since it was a healthy food he will not touch it.

I did make a 7lb pork loin and did my Georgia pulled pork. There is pretty much nothing left. The kids and guys devored it. Makes me feel good when I cook and there is not even a crumb left. Then I know it was goooooooooooood!

I am done now for the night with baking I swear the oven sighed in relief when I turned it off.

We have unexpected company tonight Brent's cousin Jeremy is here from Denver and is going to stay with us. He is back until wens the guys are going to try and go riding Tuesday for the last time before the snow flies. Currently they and another friend are sitting in the garage bonding as males do. I am not allowed out there. That is fine by me, like I want to hang out with 3 grown men that act like they are 12....no thanks.

Other than the baking I did get to read a ok book this weekend. I read Dean Koontz's The Darkest Evening of the Year. It was ok not one of his best. I have also been looking at tat designs I have the itch bad. Something has to be done prior to my birthday I have a good idea of what I want just working out placement. It will be in black I think I am good with color but like the black. My wrist is healed and surprisingly I have had alot of remarks from people on it. Who thought putting believe there would be so noticeable. It is. My Dr at my appointment Friday thought it was very appropriate.

Believing in yourself is half the battle the rest is up to God.

Life....

I really need to get a job...This is seriously my life right now. I laughed through this whole song. You have to listen to it all it picks up at .30....LOVE IT!!

Oh Vey!!

I was really a good blogger today. I took lots of pictures to post, that documented the day I had. Right on down to the start of the day. Lets just say this, running 10 mins late-freezing cold-raining-grumpy kids and drum roll......a flat tire. What a lovely surprise this am. I think I have tire gremlins because some days I go out and the tire is flat, Brent has taken the tire off and did the tire diagnostic (fill and water bath) to check for leaks. No leak so really WTF...gremlins I tell ya. You get no pictures though because the gremlins stole my camera cord when they flattened my tire.

I did however get to spend half a day home with my hubby because he got rained out at work. It was great and fun until 4pm when I needed a 20 min power nap. I snuggled down in bed thinking that I was in heaven and started to drift off into dreamland then......he shoved me....and asked me to cook some dinner. ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME??!!?? He continued this every 5-7min for about an hour intermittently inquiring about what I was making with the chicken I had thawing. I believe I gave him 10 different answers because each time I told him he said "Nah not that".

His choices were chicken parm, stir fry, chicken & dumplings, potpie, cordon blue, rice stuffed, baked, BBQ or fried. He wanted none of them. I finally flew out of bed in a temper leaving in my trail a string of trash talk that would have made a sailor blush. I was pissed I needed that damn nap. Instead I was up making 2 step fried chicken in olive oil with paprika, garlic & ground pepper. For side dishes I made garlic mashed potatoes & stuffing. I feed the kids and Brent comes out and has the nerve to ask where the bread was. Hello I did not make bread today he was pouting because he had to use store sliced bread. I will be making bread in the morning now obviously. I am going to make some Harvest Bread also I am in the mood. It has been raining steadily here for the past 18hours.

*Update on the whole previous post. The friend of a friend I contacted was male and never did contact me back. OH well. I did however do some more looking and found another one of my good friends from that time in my life and I am happy to say he did email me back today. That was really cool he is married with 3 kids. His family is opposite mine 2 boys 1 girl. I think it amazing to see how we have all grown up. I am hoping that we can rekindle some of the friendship we had all those years ago.

Don't worry Theresa you did not make me feel bad at all. I will bet there are some girls from my life that get a little ill thinking of me. I am the type to rip people to shreds if they mess with me or my friends. I am not proud but I have made many a big ego girl cry cause she got a bit big in the mouth. I am still that way I am an excellent verbal sword thrower...some would just say I am a bitch...oh well it is what it is. Happy Birthday I hope you found time to sneak out and pamper yourself. Hugs from SD to Estonia!!! Happy 30th!!

OMG I just hit post and Blogger gave me an error message Thank God for autosave!!

People are strange

Good morning. I am up early after a night of not sleeping so well. Yesterday I attempted to contact an old friend through one of their old friends. I figured that after 16 years of not knowing where my old classmates were it would be nice to catch up and see how their lives are. Well little did I know that an animosity from back when I was a freshman would still burn steady for this person.


I was very nervous to contact this person as I knew that I rated in the bottom of the food chain with them back when I was 15. I figured live and let live I am 31 years old now and honestly could not tell you why this person did not like except that they were jealous. Jealous of the time I spent with their friend. They may have been a little angry that I caused some heartache for the person I was looking for but my God, I was 15 and my parents chose to move back to SD not me. I had to go and when you are 15 getting a job and living alone are not exactly realistic goals. What happened was my parents decided to move to SD to start their own publishing business and I had to leave all my friends including my 1st love, his amazing sister and the friends I had made. It was devastating. I was a mess for weeks and it was hard. We kept in touch as much as possible until life and distance got in the way. That distance is a bitch when you do not drive let alone own a car.


Well yesterday I sent them a friend request on MySpace. I checked a few hours later and it was gone. Hmmm I am so new to using that service I resent it thinking I was technically challenged as usual. Right before I clicked send I stopped and thought damn what if that person denied it and that is why it is gone. So I Googled how to deny a friend and if there is a notice sent....I know I am lame like that. I did resend with a follow up note letting them know that I was not looking to be their BFF!!! Last night I checked again and sure enough email read and request denied.

I was a little shocked and a bit annoyed but not super surprised. I did not sleep well last night, I sat and tried to remember everything about this person and every single conversation to see where me, the queen of democracy and tact went wrong. I am an easy going person, I like people and usually people like me. I have friends from all over the world and have the same best girl friends from 16-17 years ago. I am wondering what kind of fatal character flaw I had at 15 to make someone not like me 17 years later.

Piss Police

“Hold your wiener when you’re peeing” is the latest mantra at my house. The boy has been peeing on the floor, in the trash, on the wall and in the tub. I am Master Piss Cleaner Upper these days. It is so damn annoying to be sound asleep and then suddenly you awaken to the sound of urine alternately hitting water…then splashing on solid surface… then water again. I am not sure how else to deal with this except for yelling “Hold it and aim” I am sick of toilet duty 10-15 times a day.

My favorite is when he does not put the seat up and in the middle of the night I wander in only to end up with a wet ass and bad attitude.

What is the deal? He has been awesome about bathroom etiquette forever and now all of a sudden he is a desecrater and I am the Piss Police. I just do not get it.

Happy Chilly Sat!!!!

I am off to run errands!! Have a great day. If you get a chance stop by an give my girl Bluebella a shout out today is her birthday!!


Until later here is some music

Violent Femmes-Kiss Off


Drowning Pool-Let the bodies hit the floor
Going to see the guys in November!!! So excited!!!


Smashing Pumpkins-The world is a vampire


Korn-Falling Away From Me
Bad ASS song-I missed this concert 2 years ago still pissed!!


Korn-Ya'll Want a Single?
The one video you will not ever see on TV


Rage Against The Machine-Freedom


Rammstein-Feuer Frei



Have an awesome day!!!

I am just in a funk right now. I am feeling a bit on the down side and if you know me I do not go there often at all. So today it is just music.

Linkin Park-In the end



This was on Fabric of Life a Blog I love.




Linkin Park-One Step Closer



REM-Everybody Hurts


Theory Of a Deadman-Bad Girlfriend


Papa Roach-Forever


Free Credit Report Songs-LOVE this guy he is adorable!!

Coming soon....A real post with real pictures in the mean time miss me....

Well now.....

If you drove by a church with your children and saw this what would you say to your kids?

I found this on MySpace and soda shot outta my nose as I was super offended.

Come and see my new fun blog featuring holiday ideas and receipes.

http://thelittlechristmasshop.blogspot.com/

This website is for anyone who wants to have a fabulous holiday season and learn some new low cost tricks!! I love the holidays but always spend to much or end up feeling overwhelmed by all of the hoopla. Good lord most of my long time readers can remember last years holidays with me.

Come on over have a cup of cider and let's get ready for the holidays together.

Melissa

A damn good song.....

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Mom's Night Out

Where do daughters take their mom for a good time? Well in our family we take them to a ROCK concert. I am not talking soft rock were talking BuckCherry, Shinedown & Saving Abel.

My sister is friends with Keith from Buckcherry and he gave her 5 tickets to last nights show so we took our momma. We were in the 2nd row in front of the stage in standing room only with a bunch of way to intoxicated people (including my darling husband) with our mom. It is an experience I will not soon forget.

Mom got a wee bit pickled prior to the show and she was hilarious. She was checking out the boys and shaking her ass to the music. Honestly I am scarred for life from some of the comments she made. There are just some things you do not share with your kids no matter how old we are.

BTW Josh Todd my mom says you have a potty mouth:)

I will leave you with a taste of what we listened to last night.

Buckcherry

Crazy Bitch!!!!

Shine Down

Second Chance-I love this song it touches my heart....listen to the words they are amazing

Remembering.....

(Those pink kiss marks on Joel's headstone are kisses from the girls...this is the way they kiss their daddy now)

Sept 11 is a day no one will ever forget. It is a day that changed us all. That date in history set in motion a series of events that forever changed our family personally.

May we all remember those who perished that day and may we all remember those who took the oath to protect our country and our children from it ever happening again.



For our family we will never forget the sacrifices that were made.



To Mary, Brenna & Faith we will never forget............

Love,
Uncle Brent, Aunt Melissa, Lillian, Madison & Lukus

Is anyone out there?

Just wanted you all to know that life has been a bit crazy but I am still here. I have been reading everyones but have been lazy about updating mine. I shall return with something good by monday. Hope everyone is well!!

First Communion Photos

I was not going to share these pictures because I did not want a certain person who could not be bothered to attend to see them but I figure my mom and family deserve to. Just proving that I will always be the bigger person. The high road is a nice place to be:) BTW the date is for 2008 still have not reset the date stamp.

Oh Pee up a tree I forgot my camera at home. I am working and I have all the kids with me here. Brent is out enjoying the beautiful weather we are finally having. He is dirt biking with his cousin and I am stuck inside. BOO HOO that is the breaks of being managment. YUCK what did I sign up for? Just kidding I love my job just a bit bummed that it is sat day and I am working.

Have an awesome day and enjoy your weekend.

Love,

Mel

I am alive and kicking. I have been working the fingers to the bone each and everyday. I will post the pictures on sat of the house I am on for a 18 hour shift then. I will have plenty of time then.

Love and miss you all:)

I am back after a short break. I do have some news I got a promotion at work and am now a manager. I am a little apprehensive due to the last manager in this building only made it 4 days before the employees ran her out. They are a tough bunch but they all know me and I hope respect me. I am a little nervous because I think I am going to get lynched now that I have to cut 2 day people out and run a 2 man shift but we will see. I am putting the schedule out on friday so if you do not hear from me then you know the new schedule went over badly and I am wearing concrete shoes in a lake somewhere.

In other news I have a confession to make. My mother in law has found my blog and I am feeling a little weird that she reads it. Sorry Brenda but it is weird cause this is a pretty blunt and to the point place. I feel a little guarded about writting some stuff. How many of you have relatives read your stuff??? I gave my info to my SIL to try and get to know her a little better and she has a blog also but that is it outside of my momma and good friends. It is not that I am going to trash anyone or write something that I could not say in person it just feels weird. Tell me what you think.

We are completely moved now and the unpacking is almost done. I will add some pictures when I finally download the 1st communion pictures and the spring concert pictures. My memory is full and the cord is MIA.


Thats it for now I will make a better effort to blog I promise.
Melissa

We are moved!! Sorry about the no guest bloggers I was busy and did not think to check the email so sorry to those who wanted to blog for me.

It has been an interesting move I swear hubby and I are hiring out the next time due to the good possibility one of us may not survive another move. He was a grump ass the entire time and whined about all the shit we have. I will post pictures of this he has 2 garage stalls full of stuff and I have one. I may have won the closet space but he has way more shit.

I am going to blog some more later I am so tired right now it is not funny.

Love,

Me

I am handing the reins over as of wens to a guest blogger and I am scared you may all be a little shocked by this person but I think you will find him funny. If you don't well there is something wrong with you.

I have emailed the hot BlueBella to do a little something friday,

now I need next weeks guests.

Hello who wants to do some blog whoreing?

If you are interested email me at...

mentelebags@yahoo.com

Love,

Melissa the Mighty Moving Momma

Hey kids remember me? Yeah I have been MIA for the past 2 weeks I know that sucks big wank but hey life got in the way. I anticipate being even busier the next few weeks with moving. Never fear remember when I asked my best blog friends to do some guest blogging for me? Well the 2 weeks are here so stay tuned you never know what may pop up around here.

In the mean time here is some humor.....

Hello

We went to the appointment with the Cardiologist on Monday as scheduled. The final results are Brent has Cardiomyopathy which is a big word for Heart Failure. It is not at a state where it is serious or life threatening but it is still there. He will have to take Lisinopril and Coreg daily for the next few years and be monitored monthly for awhile. We are both a little scared and unsure of the future but well the Dr said not to worry so we are going to do what he says.

The medications are used for 2 different purposes the Lisinopril dialates the blood vessels and the Coreg makes the heart beat slower and regulates blood pressure mixed together they are supposed to allow his heart to heal and beat stronger. The totally fucked thing is that all of this was caused by a virus....yes you did read that right a virus. We are not sure of what one but it does seem weird that he came down with Influenza B and has been sick for the past 8 days with a fever over 103 at times. I am not sure if that could have caused it but is a possibility.

He was on bed rest this past week and did pretty good except for Thursday when I worked he snuck out of the house and went to work. I guess the manager of Casey's a few blocks from our house told him he was crazy and she was telling on him. I know he regretted it because friday we ended up napping all day and then just watched TV for date night and slept. We are so exciting. I did let him go to work at the casino today and he was missing me and called a hundred times. He works at a casino on Sundays to help a friend who owns it out otherwise she would have to work 7 days a week. It is easy so I figured he could go. He goes back to his regular job monday. We will see how he does.

We are in the countdown for moving now we were going to start Tuesday but I think we are going to wait and move on the 1st of May. The kids will then only have 10 days of school at the new school and I switch to nights on the 15th for the entire summer I will go back to days in August when the kids go back.

I do not look forward to nights but it saves me 300 a week in daycare. If I worked days I would be paying another person 1200 to spend time with the kids and that sucks. I was thinking of doing daycare that was fun but I have found that not many parents want to spend money on making sure their kids are safe all the calls I have gotten have been regarding $$$ and if I would go any cheaper. I figure if the parents are only worried about the money then they can go to the ghetto and find some mom who is cheap and does not give a shit about the kids. I will be taking mine to the water slides and the pools all summer plus making good money still.

The kids are doing good and excited about moving, I am overwhelmed by all the shit that needs to be done prior to us moving but oh well my lovely house awaits.

Sorry this post is like a bad holiday newsletter I hate the newsy posts some do but here I am guilty of doing also oh fucking well......

Melissa

We are still alive, it has been a hectic week. Brent is not a great patient and listening to the Dr has been a challenge. It did not help that he came down with Influenza B last week also.

I will give a post Sunday with details.

Taking a short break back Monday

Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets.

So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason.

If you get a chance, take it.

If it changes your life, let it.

Nobody said that it'd be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

update.....

After 7 1/2 hours at the Heart Hospital a million tests and a consult with THIS guy we have some answers but no good ones.

My hubby has Pericarditis, Fluid around the heart & a cardiac ejection of 45%. Which means that he came home on a portable heart monitor (Holter?) and 2 different meds plus another appointment Monday morning at the heart hospital.

I am freaked out and scared to death so is he. He is worried and stressed because we found out today that our new health insurance does not kick in until the 1st of May not April 1 like we originally thought. Sucks to be us.

Sometimes in life no news is not good news. I have had two of the most terrifying experiences of my life happen in the past 4 days. I am heading for a breakdown I can feel it.

Sat night was date night for Brent and I, we rented movies and made dinner. Layed on the couch and relaxed from 6pm til about 10:30pm. Brent went to the bedroom and layed down about 10 min laters he says to me in a real funny voice "Melissa I am having chest pains" I go in the bedroom and he is white as a sheet and sweating. I asked him to sit up and when he does he passes out. I get him up and get him on the couch and call 911.

The ambulance arrives and by this time he is so anxious and freaked out he refuses to go in the ambulance cause he wants me to take him in. The nearest hospital is 20 min away and I am scared to death he will arrest on me in the car but he does not waver even after the EMT's strongly encourage he go by ambulance. I then get him in the car and we are about a mile away from home when he starts gasping for air and starts to pass out, I wiped a shitty and drove him back to the ambulance bay. He is then taken to the heart hospital given a full work out and sent home with strict instructions to report back to the Heart Hospital at 8am monday morning for more tests.

Monday morning comes and he skips the appointment, I make a appointment for Tuesday morning for him he skips the appointment.

Today, Tuesday 3 hours after he was supposed to go to the doctor I get a call at work that he has collapsed. I leave and meet the crew bringing him in with the same symptoms as Sat night....another full work up and a CAT with contrast is done. Nothing no firm results so now we are headed to the Heart Hospital at 8am for the tests he needed to have monday.

I am scared to death that he is going to die or have something terribly wrong with him. He is only 36 how does this shit happen to a guy like him? Active, Healthy, Perfect weight & no family history......I am baffled and scared to death.

Explanation.

Let's chat about how shitty my day was yesterday. I am going to do a little soul baring if you cannot take it please come back another day.

I am one of those women that is pretty strong and always there for my family and friends the one huge weakness I have is my husband. He has the ability to make me go fucking crazy in 3.2 seconds. My biggest fear is him messing around on me. This summer we almost ended up getting a divorce and during the 6 months of us flirting with the idea of not being together there were a few things that happened that neither of us are proud about.

Fast forward to now we are in the rebuilding stage and bridges are partially rebuilt (think popsicle sticks here) I look at his phone Wensday night and find a number for a girl that he told me he wanted to date this summer. I instantly get upset sick to my stomach and pissed but I play it off because I should not have looked at his phone. But me being me there was no FUCKING way I was not going to say anything to him.

I held it in and acted sorta normal yesterday before he went to work but obviously not enough cause he left and about half hour later he called to see what was up because he knew I was upset and I straight up told him either he figures out why the fuck he felt he needed the number (just put in his phone monday) or we are done I am not playing the fence sitting game with him. Just not gonna do it. I also told him I was hurt and pissed that he had so little faith in our marriage that he needed to have a back up. He swears he had never called her but I am not so sure I believe him. He gets really jealous about stuff it makes me wonder if I am getting the whole truth.

I love the dumb fucker so it makes it hard for me to just kick his ass out and deal with his shit in my own time. We also just went and closed on our new house today at noon so I am double confused and double pissed. I asked him if being with me is what he wants and he swears I am his world and he would never hurt me but I do not know. I am super pissed that he has made me so insecure that I have to dig through his cell phone because I do not trust him further than I can see him.

I am a fucking paranoid mess and I have no one to blame but myself.


Thanks for the support girls and Tammy I have added you to my IM.

devastated

Some times you just don't understand why you should even bother today is one of those days.

I am pooped it had been a weekend that is fo sure.

Lovely little scam my husband and his father pulled on me Easter Sun. I was fully aware that we would be spending Easter with my sexy hubby's dad because of the divorce. No problemo what I was not fully aware of was that I would be cooking the entire meal at his dads house.

The kids and I arrived at 1 to hang out and put toghether the last minute food stuff for dinner at 6 not a big deal what was a big deal was sexy hubby's dad bought 2 Farmland Hams and they were sitting in the fridge still in the packages. OH NO FUCKING WAY....I thought to myself.

I poked through the cupboards and decided a trip to the store was needed so I packed up a kid and off we went. First thing after pulling out of the driveway I called hubby and chewed his ass for their dirty trickery. Second I went and bought a real ham ya know the picnic ones with the bone in.....not the pressed ham product Papa Bear had bought.

Then I went back and put together a fabulous dinner Ham, red garlic mashed potaotes, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, buns and a black and white bundt cake. Can you say I am fucking fabulous? I can.....

Happy Easter!!

A little funny for the day.

I am off to the Dr and out for a meeting at work, I am leaving you with some funnies for the day. Thank you to all my bloggy buddies that have volunteered for duty while I move if anyone else is interested let me know. I am excited to see what you all have to bring to the table for posts.

Easter Humor

Help a girl out here???

Ok kids I am in need of some assistance....LOL

I have been busy as hell lately and am going to be busier while we get ready to move so I have an idea. I want to invite some of you to be guest bloggers here at Melissa's corner!!!

Sounds exciting huh? I need help and you can do some shameless whoring of your own site sounds like a perfect trade. Almost like blog prostitution...and we all know we all are fans of prostitution:)

So Southern in the Rockies, Bluebella, Slick, Busy Dad, Chelle, Tammy.....anyone?? You interested?

Jana I know you are busy with Lovey but if you have time you are sure invited:)

It is one of those days

All weekend long I looked forward to having today off. I was gonna sleep in and have the hubby take the kids to school and daycare while I enjoyed being a kept woman for one day. I woke up at 7:30 and woke Lil up to shower and took a peek at my cell to check the time and saw I had 2 missed calls from work.

I was gonna ignore them and go back to bed but something inside my head said I better check and see what they wanted so I listened to the messages and relised I did not have the day off and I was over an hour late for work.

I then looked out the window and saw that Mother Nature dumped 8 inches of pretty powder last night. Oh for Fucks sake..,...It is Monday....I HATE mondays.

So instead of me sleeping in I quick jumped in the shower with Lil and got ready, fed the kids breakfast, drove them all to school and daycare then commuted 30 miles to work on shit ass roads while hubby laid in bed like a kept man.

It is Monday and it sucks!! My next day off is Sunday then back to work on Monday til the next Sunday.

It is Monday and I am thinking it sucks huge donkey dick but I did get a 50 cent raise even though I was 2 1/2 hours late for work:0

My husband is a dirty bastard tonight. Our children have pushed every button of annoyance I have and I am ready to blow a gasket. He however is sitting at his dads 4 blocks away from our new house drinking beer and bullshitting. I have packed a ton of shit this weekend cause you know I work a shit ton the next few weeks and he spent sat out at the shop hanging out with his buddies drinking beer. Are you seeing the pattern here?

I should be out with my oldest friend drinking vino and celebrating her birthday but nope I am here with the devils spawn. Not fair!!!

But I guess after children mommas lose the fun parts of life and miss friends birthdays.

I call Bullshit on that.

I am still here just have been really busy with work, kids and numerous other mundane life shit. I also have to kick my 9 y/o off my laptop to blog and she is all over it like flies on shit. Pretty bad when your kid steals your toys:)

I do have some news. I know most of my readers know we had a major house fire last May and we have been trying to get our house back to normal but it is just not happening and we have used 70,000 of insurance money and all of our savings to try and fix things but it is just not working out. We finally made the choice to sell our home back to the bank and let them deal with the rest of the bull shit. So that means we are moving the 2nd weekend in April.

After much discussion and looking at houses we have decided to buy a new house and I mean a NEW house. The contractors were just finishing up the outside masonary work when we looked at it the first time a month ago. We were a little leary about moving back to the city but it is time to do it. Gas prices are a fucking killer and I commute each day almost 60 miles in a Explorer so you know I get bent over and poked with out the lube each time at the pump. But that is a whole other post...FUCK YOU oil prices.....

I will be leaving our quiet little town of 4000 and moving back to a place that has fast food and entertainment on every corner I cannot fucking wait.

This is the new house the pictures are from the real estate listing not the best but you get the idea. I love it soooooooooooooo much.

It has a 3 stall garage that is already insulated and sheetrocked the basement is finished with a huge family room with slate tile fireplace. It also has 3 bedrooms and 2 bath plus a lovely mudhole for a yard. I shall be debt till I am 100 for buying this house.....sorry kids there goes your college funds.

Well it has been a week that is for sure. Thank you all for checking in and for the prayers it means alot.

I am going to get up on my soap box for a minute here and tell all my female readers that your health is something that is very important most of us are mommas, wives, sisters & daughters we tend to put ourselves last.

You need to know that can be a very dangerous thing. My friend Toni who passed away was diagnosed and died from cancer all within 15 days.

Can you imagine that 15 days....there were some warning signs like the serious weight loss and you all know that after 25 losing weight is like chiseling concrete off your ass that fat just wants to hang out and spend its golden years with your butt cheeks. Toni lost almost a 100 lbs in a year doing NOTHING....ladies it may sound like a miracle but it is not. She also complained of no appetite and abdominal pain all something we experience but if it lasts longer than a week or so go see your doctor.

Toni's pathology reports came back on monday during the palliative care conference and the results were unbelieveable. The specemins were sent to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN and came back she had 3 different kinds of cancer. 3 KINDS!!! 2 different types of Ovarian and Pancreatic Cancer.

God Speed Sexy Mama I will miss you

*You see the chin tilt that was her thing doesn't she look proud?

I guess God had big plans for her and was hedging his bets. I do not know what else to think

I promise that I will post soon maybe even today after the funeral. Thank you all for the prayers and well wishes.

Love,

Melissa

Thank You all for the prayers the support is greatly appreciated.

Toni was removed from the ventilator at 10:40am Tuesday and continued to breath on her own all tubes and IV's were removed. She continued to breath and rest at times she even snored. At 4pm I spoke with her daughter and at around 4:15 Toni very quickly passed from this world into the next. Her death was dignified and she did not suffer.

Melissa

The past few days have sucked enormous donkey dick. I received a call from my mom on Wednesday that a good friend of mine was in the hospital for surgery to remove a mass on her ovary and when the Dr opened her up they found cancer everywhere. I have not seen my friend Toni in awhile but have talked to her on the phone the last time being in the beginning of Feb and she said nothing to me about being sick….not a damn word except that she had lost a bunch of weight and was really busy with her restaurant but not a damn word about not feeling good.


It seems from the conversations I have had with her daughters she did not say much to them either.

The sad thing is she is dying and right now is in the hospital strapped to a bed on a ventilator fighting to recover enough from surgery to only be told she is dying…..this is tearing me apart. The docs have told her children that they are surprised that she has lasted this long…..the docs do not know her very well she is stubborn and has the soul of a gladiator. I am sad that she did not take care of herself the way she takes care of everyone else. Sometimes you have to put yourself first she has never learned that.


Toni is one of those people that either you love her or you want to beat her we had the perfect love/hate relationship. I worked with her for 2 years and I swear the first 6 months she would have loved to kick my ass because I am such a smart ass. I got my ass chewed many a time for being a “asshole” as she likes to call me. I used to tell her I was gonna take her down and she would just give this look that would make me feel a bit guilty but also make me say something else that was equally politically incorrect. She has some back problems and used to say Oh I am dying from the pain and I would tell her no way woman only the good die young. I have great memories of her. I will be honest I think she could read me like a book, the first time I cried in front of her she laughed at me and told me to stop faking cause my cold hearted ass did not have tears to spare. I love that about her the no holds barred honesty and I am a cold hearted bitch tears are not my thing at all.

Sitting with her family at the hospital yesterday someone made a comment about her being a bitch and I more than likely stuck my size 8 right in my mouth by responding “Well that is who she is” in all honesty she is. She will tell you to Fuck off like she was saying its going to rain today. There is not a damn mean bone in her body and that makes her bitchy-ness a good quality. I have a lot of respect for her and the way she choose to live her life by her standards and fuck you all if you had a problem with it.

Please do me a favor and say a prayer for her daughters, grandkids and all the other people that love her. They could use all the help talking to the man upstairs and I will also ask that you pray for Toni to pass from this world to the next pain free and knowing she is loved.

Love,
Melissa

My baby sis

I am gonna pimp my baby sis tonight and share her video.....This is her video from the Sturgis Bike Rally. She is a Jagger model and has been for 2 years. This job is fun but is also very intense and requires someone with a strong knowledge of there self. Here is Jamie with her friends and with her good friend Keith.

In August she was the unfortunate person who Shaun Morgan's brother Eugene commited suicide in front of. These are some of the last pictures of Eugene from the night he died. For those of you who do not know Shaun Morgan is the front man of the amazing rock band Seether. It was a devastating event that she will never forget and it has changed her I think part of her healing is making this video and actually going through the pictures from that night. I wanted to share it with you all.

The dreaded stomach flu hit our house hard on monday with Lil coming home from school at 11 and 10 mins after I walked in the door from work the boy was blowing chunks like it was a contest to see how far they would shoot. Nasty!!

Quite funny the scene of the first round of projectile vomiting was I must share with you all.

Hubby and I were having a chat in the doorway of our bedroom when the girls started screaming "Oh my GOD he is puking....mom....mom....he is blowing chunks....but he is still sleeping" Yes thats right baby boy was losing lunch in his sleep.

Hubby and I come running wondering what the fucking hell was going on. We come upon a scene that was gory as hell (Hubby fed the kids spaghetti and meat balls about an hour prior) so use your imagination.

Hubby instantly starts gagging and I grab the blanket covering the boy to catch the puke in but not before it was everywhere. The first words out of my mouth were "SHIT he defiled the chair" because yes he was sick and of course I felt bad but he puked all over and inside our BRAND NEW MICROSUEDE RECLINER that chair cost me 600 bucks.

During the clean up Hubby walks past and says "Hey make sure you get all the noodles" then went and locked himself in the bedroom for the rest of the night.

This is a post copied and pasted from http://www.momknowseverything.com/ please pass it on to your friends and family with children who are using the internet. Myspace is only one place where predators find children there are numerous game sites, message boards and other online communities that children frequent let this be a reminder that keeping kids safe is a job we all should take seriously.

MYSPACE WARNING
MYSPACE: A Must Read for All who have children or grandchildrenEVERYONE NEEDS TO READ ALL OF THIS and HAVE YOUR
CHILDREN READ IT TOO!


After tossing her books on the sofa, she decidedto grab a snack and get on-line. She logged on under her screen nameByAngel213. She checked her Buddy List and saw GoTo123 was on. She senthim an instant message:


ByAngel213:Hi. I'm glad you are on! I thought someone wasfollowing me home today. It was really weird!

GoTo123:LOL You watch too much TV.
Why would someone be following you?Don't you live in a safe neighborhood?

ByAngel213:Of course I do. LOL I guess it was myimagination cuz' I didn't see anybody when I looked out.

GoTo123:Unless you gave your name out on-line. Youhaven't done that have you?

ByAngel213:Of course not. I'm not stupid you know.

GoTo123:Did you have a softball game after school today?

ByAngel213:Yes and we won!!GoTo123:That's great! Who did you play?

ByAngel213:We played the Hornets. LOL. Their uniforms areso gross! They look like bees.

LOLGoTo123:What is your team called?

ByAngel213:We are the Canton Cats. We have tiger paws onour uniforms. They are really cool.

GoTo1 23:Did you pitch?

ByAngel213:No I play second base. I got to go. My homeworkhas to be done before my parents get home. I don't want them mad at me.
Bye!

GoTo123:Catch you later. Bye

Meanwhile.......GoTo123 went to the member menuand began to search for her profile. When it came up, he highlighted itand printed it out. He took out a pen and began to write down what heknew about Angel so far.

Her name: ShannonBirthday: Jan. 3, 1985Age: 13State where she lived: North CarolinaHobbies: softball, chorus, skating and going tothe mall. Besides this information, he knew she lived in Canton becauseshe had just told him. He knew she stayed by herself until 6:30 p.m.
every afternoon until her parents came home from work.

He knew sheplayed softball on Thursday afternoons on the school team, and the teamwas named the Canton Cats. Her favorite number 7 was printed on herjersey. He knew she was in the eighth grade at the Canton Junior HighSchool.

She had told him all this in the conversations they had on-line. He had enough information to find her now.

Shannon didn't tell her parents about theincident on the way home from the ballpark that day. She didn't wantthem to make a scene and stop her from walking home from the softballgames. Parents were always overreacting and hers were the worst.

It made her wish she was not an only child. Maybe if she had brothers andsisters, her parents wouldn't be so overprotective.

By Thursday, Shannon had forgotten about thefootsteps following her.Her game was in full swing when suddenly shefelt someone staring at her. It was then that the memory came back. She glanced up from her second base position to see a man watching herclosely.He was leaning against the fence behind firstbase and he smiled when she looked at him. He didn't look scary and shequickly dismissed the sudden fear she had felt.After the game, he sat on a bleacher while shetalked to the coach. She noticed his smile once again as she walked pasthim. He nodded and she smiled back. He noticed her name on the back ofher shirt. He knew he had found her.

Quietly, he walked a safe distance behind her.It was only a few blocks to Shannon's home, and once he saw where shelived he quickly returned to the park to get his car.Now he had to wait. He decided to get a bite to eat until the time came to go to Shannon's house. He drove to a fastfood restaurant and sat there until time to make his move.

Shannon was in her room later that evening when she heard voices in the living room."Shannon, come here," her father called. Hesounded upset and she couldn't imagine why. She went into the room tosee the man from the ballpark sitting on the sofa."Sit down," her father began, "this man has justtold us a most interesting story about you."Shannon sat back. How could he tell her parentsanything? She had never seen him before today!

"Do you know who I am, Shannon?" the man asked."No," Shannon answered."I am a police officer and your online friend,GoTo123."Shannon was stunned. "That's impossible! GoTo isa kid my age! He's 14. And he lives in Michigan!"The man smiled. "I know I told you all that, butit wasn't true. You see, Shannon, there are people on-line who pretendto be kids; I was one of them. But while others do it to injure kids andhurt them, I belong to a group of parents who do it to protect kids frompredators. I came here to find you to teach you how dangerous it is to talk to people on-line.

You told me enough about yourself to make iteasy for me to find you. You named the school you went to, the name ofyour ball team and the position you played. The number and name on yourjersey just made finding you a breeze."Shannon was stunned. "You mean you don't live inMichigan?"He laughed. "No, I live in Raleigh.

It made youfeel safe to think I was so far away, didn't it?"She nodded."I had a friend whose daughter was like you.Only she wasn't as lucky. The guy found her and murdered her while shewas home alone Kids are taught not to tell anyone when they are alone,yet they do it all the time on-line. The wrong people trick you intogiving out information a little here and there on-line. Before you knowit, you have told them enough for them to find you without evenrealizing you have done it. I hope you've learned a lesson from this andwon't do it again. Tell others about this so they will be safe too?""It's a promise!"

That night Shannon and her Dad and Mom all kneltdown together and thanked God for protecting Shannon from what could havebeen a tragic situation.

Tickle me purple and call me a pansy.....

Just wasting time today I am finally off for 2 days and I am not doing a damn thing and it is wonderful.....

What Kind of Valentine Are You?

My Result: a Cynical Valentine

Cupid? Arrows? Please. Good thing you're not the one taking aim. This time of year, you'd manage to shoot down just about anyone's hopes. You're probably the one who makes jokes about "VD." Your heart is cold and you wouldn't have it any other way.

What are you?
http://web.tickle.com/rd/50651/tests/kindofvalentine/index.jsp?testname=kindofvalentineogt&resultid=B

Blogger was being a bitch earlier and would not let me log in it gave me the "cookies" disabled warning well let me tell you this Blogger me and my computer are on a fucking diet and we do not want your stinkin cookies. Get that? I have a major problem with sugar with out you trying to push cookies off on me...have a little respect for us fat asses we need no help piling on the calories.

In other news it is Ash Wensday and I am sitting here in my scrubs trying to decide if I will do my Catholic duty and go get the ash rubbed on my head or be unholy and just drop my kids at the door for religion classes.....hmmm....I am really struggling with this I have not been to confession since hmmm....never...so does it really matter if I go? Can you imagine with all the F bombs I drop the number of Hail Marys I would get?

To many to even count.

Drum Roll Please...........

Well all my lovely blogger friends it is time for the

First Annual

I think you all rock awards

(awards ceremony will last from Feb 5th until Feb 29 so keep checking back:)

The best thing about blogging is meeting new people and getting a peek into their lives. I have a blog roll of people that I TRY and read daily because they touch a part of me

(no not that way perv)

There are some people that I read that I think I would actually be friends with...scary huh?

I do need to update that also there have been some new additions to my favorites including a Southern Girl who is spending her spare time snowboarding in CO...um I am a bit jealous.

Anyways here are the awards:)

This award goes to Sterling Girl & Lizarita....you girls saved a little face by blogging this week but you 2 are the ones I have to check on every couple of days cause you lazy:) Thats ok because then I do not get to far behind. BTW Liz you have another one coming for the 2 Pink Lines Story stay tuned.

This next one is for Blue Bella Babe for being real and telling it like it is no gloves on. She is also super sweet and funny as hell.

This is a little prayer for all my bloggy friends....love you all:)

Told you I would be back!!

Kids enjoying the tail gate fare of hotdogs, beans & chips
Me and the hubby he is so cute:)
Whew these are the ugly tree pictures damn I am looking like I am all gums.....pass me my dentures sonny....
I am number ONE!!!

Earlier today Blogger was being a whore and would not upload my pictures....lets hope it works this time.



I will promise you I am cute in real life these pictures make me look like I fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.