Sunday November 28th 2010

So today I am very tired but am up at 8am after going to bed at 4am. I get up and go get coffee and some full-throttle for Buddy. I then get in my shed and there are mice everywhere, I hate this because mice ruin everything.

Don't think we are dirty because we get mice, when you live on a farm mice come in from the field to nest in everything in the winter. We still haven't found a good cat to keep the mice away! We got two and they were a pain cause they wanted in the house. I want one that lives to KILL!!! not birds but mice.

Our Chihuahua (scrappy) is a way better mouser than any cat, he sees a mouse he plays with it, he grabs it up runs across the yard, throws it in the air, lets it believe it is getting away, pounces on top of it, bites it, lets it go again, lets it get a head start and starts all over again... he is hillarious now once it is motionless he has nothing more to do with it cause the fun is over.

I cleaned my whole shed out, got our Christmas decorations out ( yes 4 very large tubs full of Christmas items)! Buddy loves to decorate, even when it is not a holiday he decorates, he has our living room decorated with out-doorsy type items. Deer, bear, and a slew of other old cabin stuff.

So we have lots of decorations. I couldn't decorate a bathroom honestly.

So I finally get the stuff packed into the house and he starts opening each large tub like a kid in a candy store! He is tired so he is a bit more stressed by it than normal.

I leave the house with kailey for a while, we go to the christmas parade down town though we were 15 minutes late we got there at the right time, we got a good parking spot walked over she got candy, there were ponies and santa, lots of floats, old cars, old trucks, wagons with large horses pulling them. We enjoy the parade. Last year we were in the parade, kailey riding buddy saddle on my missed and loved horse Sophia.

For some reason the following below makes this big beasty draft looks really skinny

See! I think it is my crappy cell phone.

Ok after the parade, I went home and packed everything back in the shed, I then left kailey with her father and went to get a present for kailey we found cheaper than Toys R US yes the high ticket items your kids will play with for a limited time can be found on CL. I bought her the Smart Cycle from a guy who his son got bored with it after a couple months, though his son was older than kailey I think she will enjoy it.

It came with 2 games for 40.00. The one on Toys R Us website was 80.00 with no games! Games are 20.00 a piece and we purchased 2 for her on Toys R Us website and she will get this used but in new condition item for christmas! So I got a Kick A** deal a 120.00 item for 40.00! Can you say more stuff for my pumpkin for christmas.. I know I can.

I am very thrifty with money, I shop around and buy at will when it is a great deal! I don't like to pay full price for something unless it is something you wouldn't want of someone elses. Especially when it comes to electronics that you will either get bored with or for your children that they will out grow. Clothes and certian types of shoes to. I am not paying 80.00 for a pair of boots for my daughter, NO, I am going to craigslist or Ebay cause she is going to grow out of those boots and I will just blow another 80.00 or more on another pair. Instead I can buy them in various sizes for 50% off or more from someone else who has taken care of them and their kids out grew them.

I just don't care if someone else used it first! As long as it is still in good, working condition and a fraction of the price I would buy it new (normally with accessories you would have had to buy separately)! I bought my wii with 7 games including wii fit and board and 2 controllers and 1 nunchuck for 200.00! Works great and I love it. So to all of you out there shaking your head right now saying "She is buying used toys for her child for christmas" I am going to have money left over to buy her stuff that she needs or wants that is not a video game she may get bored with or not even use!

So thanks for checking in with my blog! I hope you all have had a wonderful time reading my blogs and I hope your thanksgiving was a great as mine!

Football time in TN Nov-27-2010

So it is football time in TN. I wake up at 8am and rush to get a shower, then i wake up my munchkin and rush her to get dressed and take her to get some breakfast. Afterwards I take her to her grandmothers, she is upset about this stating that it is wrong for daddy and I to go to the Football game without her (you can tell we hardly get out togeather)!

I drive back to the house, throw on some make-up, flat Iron my hair, and we are off to the game! We park 100 miles away and walk about 40 blocks to a bar and go inside they serve me alcohol without IDing me! Luckly! Cause I left mine in the car. Buddy bought my drinks and brought them to the table. This may be the reason they didn't get the op to ID me.

We then walk on to the game. It is kind of chilly and our seats are in the shaded side of the stadium. We watch the game ( it was really exciting as it was close for a while and the Vols took off). There were some good plays and the VOLS played their butts off and did a good job!

I will say that the stadium is kind of messed up, if you want handicapped seating you have to pay outrageous prices and they don't give you a parking pass so you have to go just as far as everyone else! Not SO bad if your the one in the wheelchair but kind of difficult if you are diabetic and pushing the one in the wheelchair 10 blocks! (this happened to a friend of mine at work and is very aggravating as this was his pre-teen daughters first time to UT) She had a great time, they both did though this was at the last game!

My second gripe about this stadium is the fact that YOU PAY for your tickets, you can't smoke in the stadium which is respectable I can handle that. But if you leave the stadium they will not let you back in Tickets or Not they don't care they will keep you from coming back in, I think this is wrong, If you have your stub they know you just walked out they should let you back in... normally you stand directly in front of them at the curb so I don't understand it.

We watched the game final score 24 to 14 great game but we were cold the whole time cause the sun never hit us once! lol. We went back to the bar had a drink then hiked back to our vehicle. That is sobering in the cold. Neither of us were drunk though.



I didn't get the final score board! Sorry


We drove to The Spice Rack on Kingston pike. Their a Mexican type restaurant with skimpy waitresses, unlike hooters these didn't show their racks lol. They were mostly dressed like teenage girls. There chips and dip are fire HOT and their food is OK. Buddy got himself a burger which he said was excellent! I got some chicken burritos kind of remind you of some kind of chopped chicken from a can spiced and rolled up in thin long tortillas but it was still good. The price was a bit much for that but it was OK.  

We then proceeded to go to a place not so tasteful just to see what it was like, no doubt buddy had been to one of these many times but I had never and apparently you have to have a man with you to get in.

Most of you know what i am talking about, I am 25, I will be 26 in December on the 11th, I want to see and know everything.. yes I want to be a know it all lol.

So we stopped by a place called the mouses ear! It is a hole in the wall joint that is tacky but OK. It was nothing like they show in the movies, there was a stage but it had small walls around it, it was a platform with about a foot of wall around it... there was no pole, and the ladies walked around in thongs and a bra or bathing suit bikini top.

The ladies were average skinny, and young, no big fake top halves lol... (you know what i mean I am trying to keep it PG). Most of them had very small upper bodies, there were no playboy bunnies or hooters girls in there. It wasn't anything like I had thought it would be. They didn't serve alcohol in the club! Not that I wanted any but most of the time you envision a place with this elaborate stage overly fake women and a pole on the stage, with all these drunk men throwing money at them, trying to touch ects.

But none of that was going on. It was totally not what I thought. It was dominantly a place for pervs though there were lots of single men sitting at tables by themselves and 2 women from the place would go sit with them and talk to them and keep them company while taking all their money.  There was no touching and it was more like a scam for the rejected men to come and sit and be tag teamed by 2 attractive girls for his money... with no incentive but to keep him company.

I could never do it even if I were a perfect ten, it is very degrading and although I love to talk, I don't want to sit with some guy who could wait around and kill me at closing time for feeling rejected or whatever else. Besides that, they couldn't pay me enough to disrespect myself enough to get on stage and dance naked.

We then headed home and my mother brought Kailey home about 10pm. Kailey went to bed and we stayed up checking out things on the Internet, talking and watching tv. We stayed up too late.. but it was all good. Things seem to look up the more we do togeather.

Thanksgiving throughout the weekend

Friday November 26th 2010 Part 2
This day was not so eventful. We are getting our Critter to start behaving though! We sat at home most of friday! My mom stopped by and so did my brother. My daughter smacked her father in the face and got into trouble for it. It was a very eventful day for her as she got punished by 3 people for misbehaving and now she thinks we are all on the same page and all I can think is it is about DAMN time something good happens!

So we did almost all of our christmas shopping at toys-r-us.com as we didn't want to get out on black friday, and we didn't want to have to get a sitter on our come to Jesus vacation! (this is the week we make our kid realize she is the child and these things wont be accepted any longer!)

So with al that said we finished our toys R us nightmare and now we like nothing more than a few objects. Toys R US never said how long it was going to take for these items to get there hopefully not long christmas is getting closer and closer!

Friday we stuck to the house eating left overs and drinking that is it! Nothing more nothing less. Made myself some spiked eggnog, turned on Nancy Grace, and went to bed.

Before that I put togeather our 7 ft fake tree! (yes fake indeed, no live tree to have to try to get rid of after the holidays! So thankful) but I had failed to get all the decorations out of the building so we didn't decorate FOOTBALL TIME TOMORROW GOING TO THE GAME

Thanksgiving day! Part 1. Thursday Nov 25th 2010
Yes that is right Thanksgiving throughout the weekend! LOL!
So we ate turkey till we couldn't eat turkey no more. We deepfried 2 of those birds. Now with the turkey deepfryer you must be careful. So we had come up with a method all our own.

Step one thaw your Turkey very well a few days! Once thawn out you should start injecting with the injection of your choice! Creole butter is my choice it is not spicy, but very buttery.

So after you inject it for atleast 24 hours using up to 2 bottles of creole butter you put the turkey on the Stand that comes with your deep fryer set it somewhere where it can drain any excess liquids and that way you don't have an over boil in your pot.

Get your pot heated to the proper temperature 375 is recommended but you want it to be a 400 as once you get the turkey in it will come down and you can let it get back up to 375 and then turn your heat down.

When it is time to put the turkey in, get a friend and use pot holders on all hands! Now take the lid off the deep fryer take the deep fryer off the flame (this is why you get it up to 400....drop your turkey in once you are a safe distance from the flame. Lower it in slowly but once you have it in put lid on pot have a towel handy to wipe excess juices off sides (do all this quickly you don't want the temp dropping too low.) then place pot back on fryer burner!

Hopefully your pot is still at a steady 350 or 375! If not turn heat up as high as it will go... get your turkey back to 375! turn heat down low and deepfry for three minutes per pound!

So we said our thanks! My daughter though cute very mischevious was thankful for all her pets.. she named them off.. heres about how it went I am thankful for Daisy, Big Boy, Scrappy, Kitty, Party, TUCK, Mommy and Daddy and Grammy and papaw.

My parents showed up finally and Buddy told them she said she was thankful for them and I not thinking said "she also said she was thankful for the dogs! I got scolded lightly for that one!

You get beautiful juicy turkeys! like these:


Turkey #1



Turkey #2 yes we had 2 turkeys of our own

Ok so now you know you can get beautiful crispy on the outside Juicy on the inside for days TURKEY!

Thanksgiving Feast Preparation

So with it being the night before thanksgiving I had started preparing way early today!

I had to clean the Turkey Deep Fryer, that took some time scrubbing it with a steel whool scrubber or SOS pad.

Then I prepared the Turkeys, I began by taking all the JUNK out of inside them any plastic peices or parts had to go. As we deep fry our Turkey every year we are doing 2 this year... or atleast that is what we plan on.

We have taken the time to clean our birds.. then we inject them with the Creole butter. This stuff locks juices inside the turkey and tomorrow by afternoon we would have used maybe 2 bottles per turkey injecting them multiple times a piece.

So then I cleaned pinto beans. Put them in a pot to boil and ready for the crock pot. I will then add a large side of salted pork to it and let it cook in the crock pot all night adding water as needed until late tomorrow afternoon.

I am making my deviled eggs tonight as well. I love deviled eggs and will make plenty so I can splurge on them for a few days lol. Just thought I woudl share what I am cooking tonight I also readied my pies which are all home made tonight I made a pumpkin pie as well. So hope all yall have a good Turkey Day

11/23 - 11/24 Almost TURKEY DAY

Wednesday
11/24/2010
So as most of you know it is almost Turkey day. I am excited and aggravated cause my house is a wreck. My Four year old is going through a phase as well... most of you have heard her mouth run. Either way today has been totally uneventful. I am scrubbing the Turkey Deep Fryer pot as we speak and getting it ready to do yet again it's one of two duty's this year. We deep fry up to 3 turkeys at thanksgiving and about the same on Christmas.

I am not a big fan of pork, I don't care for ham. I am very particular about how my pig is cooked. I am very much afraid of trichinosis! I have read some old articles about it and it is very dangerous and no one is safe... (dramatic effect music in the back ground) Either way I just steer Clear of the pigs... they are cute and cuddly, but dangerous to eat.

Kailey and I played some Wii Fit, I tell you what I feel like a lard sometimes, the fit told me that my Fit age is 48 which means I'm horribly overweight and out of shape. Not only am I 26 with grey hair, arthritis, and a slew of other aging physical problems. But I am trying to eat right. Yes I took up clean eating back in September lost a bit over 10lbs by the end of October and now I have tapered off. I am bound and determined to get back on it though.

Now so goes my day. I talked to Anna on the phone she is headed out of state with her hoard of children to go to see her daddy, this may be his last thanksgiving and she is going to take them and go spend it with him. Hopefully their feast is good... her hubby went to.. so I hope they have a good visit with him. He has Pancreatic Cancer and things haven't been well for him.

Buddy just left to get out of the house for a bit. I am going to continue to scrub my turkey pot shinny, measure out how much oil I'm going to need and figure everything out tonight so that it will be ready for tomorrow.

I am going to make a great green bean casserole in the morning, some mashed potatoes and gravy I got me a nice TURKEY serving dish very heavy very pretty. I got a matching GRAVY boat lol... YES I am now the proud owner of a Gravy boat he he.

I went up the hill and made inventory of my mom and dads house because they had a guy move in who was supposed to remodel it while they were not living in it, well needless to say he fixed it up before he moved in. Lived there for 2 years rent free... demolished the interior and exterior grounds of the home and left it like that.

This guy took the tongues under the house... yes it is a double wide, and they are on a trailer type frame that is suspended by pillars and the tongues are shoved underneath them so if you ever have to move the house you would remove the pillars lower it to the ground, pull the tongues out and lock them into place separate the 2 parts of the house and move it with a large truck... but now you would have to get new tongues.

This guy wrecked my fences him and his drunken buddies took my fence down (where animals were living) and decided they were going to make big stacks of junk in my pasture. Then they proceeded to burn the big piles and the fire department was called I bought replacement items and he stole them instead of replacing my fence. Goats were out police were called. He acted like he had nothing to do with it.

I said something to my father and he said something to them and the guy never replaced anything. His children knocked doors off hinges (they have 5)... he replaced the doors with doors that didn't fit and wont shut.

Tore light switches off walls (how? I'm still not sure) Wrote on walls, knocked holes in walls, molds everywhere on the walls, floors are sagging like someone spilt water all over them and just let it stay there. Screens are gone off all windows, window panes are missing... why you would take the interior or exterior window I am not sure but I tell you these people are crazy. Pieces of wood screwed over holes in walls! I think the insurance company is going to consider this a demolition project

Piles of junk in the back yard stacked over your head.. including a toilet just sitting in the back yard why i am not sure, I guess they wanted an out house without the house!

So I guess cleaning and cooking will be the highlight of my night! Oh, by the way Kailey is already in bed its only 8 I am SO excited!!!

Tuesday
11/23/2010

So today work was uneventful. I hate that I am SO Tired Kailey kept me up late last night and I feel SO drained. I can't hardly walk or stay awake. I need to get that kid straight.

I am kicking ass and taking names at work today I have gotten a lot done by now. I am SO excited I have to leave early though cause I am going to take Kailey to CHEER yay.

So I get Kailey to cheer and we are waiting on Anna, needless to say with Anna's hectic life she has forgotten about cheer and I am trying to call her but no one is answering. She finally calls back and she is running late cause she did forget.

She gets to cheer and she and I run to the bank so she can get money to pay for Norah's outfit cause the competition is coming up and the parade and they have to have their whole cheer attire to be in either.

Kailey isn't doing SO good tonight, she said she didn't want to cheer tonight and she is being really rude and not even trying. I want to let her quit but if I do what am I teaching her?

When she did pageants, yes I did the whole pageant thing but I wasn't crazy pageant mom. At first she loved them and did well, she would get up on stage smile and wave and blow kisses and have fun. Then Last year in January I took her to one and she didn't want to do anything but hide behind me. My dad bought her a gumball out of a machine and told her after she went up on stage for the last time he would give it to her but she had to smile and wave to him.

She did and everyone liked her but the judges had already made there decision on another little girl that didn't hide when she went up the first time (Yes the kids had to enter the stage 3 times) After that I didn't make her go back or do another pageant... I figure if she didn't Enjoy it and had to be bribed I wasn't going to do it.

With cheer its a bit different I mean after this season I will give her the option to do cheer next season but I have questioned weather I should just let her quit or force her to go. Some days she is excited about it and does good when she goes, but others she acts out and says she is bored and doesn't want to do it.

I am not sure what triggers this reaction on these days. LOL I am not sure what triggers her to be anyway on any day. Either way I don't bribe her I just tell her that "We signed up for cheer, cause she was given the option to do it with her friend Norah, and she is going to stick it out weather she likes it or not!"

When I was a kid I would have killed to have gotten to do anything that had other little girls at it. I got to go to girl scouts and I loved it. But most places I didn't fit in cause I was only exposed to farm life, and boys! I had a brother and he had lots of friends, they came over all the time. My grandmother babysat a majority of boys.. the few girls were much older than me!

So therefore I didn't know how to fit in with other girls my own age! I want Kailey to get to do all the things I would have done if given the chance and parents with the means and money for me to be involved. Also it is healthy for her to do things that don't involve TV and sitting on the couch!

Since Kailey is an only child it is key I do things outside and with other children cause I want her to know how to act around other kids sad thing is I didn't know anyone with other kids until Kailey was around 2 or a bit older! I think she was 2.5 years old. So she was already kind of a loner spoiled only child!

She wasn't handed everything don't get me wrong just spoiled with attention mainly from all the adults surrounding her.

So we went to McDonald's after cheer and then home. The bed time dance began at 9pm and even though I tried to lay down with her I fell asleep she did not! She woke me up and I have been supper sleep deprived by this child! I am way too tired to deal with this and I yell at her and crap and it becomes more of a BLOOD PRESSURE rising mind about to explode ordeal. Her father comes in yelling at me and going on, and he ends up taking her to bed with him.

I am down for the count yet again Kailey 20 Amanda 0. Now you see why I blog. I feel like my life doesn't belong to me anymore at this point and is being ran by a 4 year old who acts like she is in her 20's, and a man who makes up excuses for her every little move! He is causing our child to be a blamer! Yes you know that kid who blames everything on someone else... if there is not someone else to blame it on she blames it on the DOG!! OK so scrappy is mischievous but he can't climb into the fridge and knock over eggnog! Or pour his own glass of milk!

Ok So for now this is it. It is an ear full and probably boaring you out of your gourd but thanks for checking in and with the words of Nancy Grace lol GOOD NIGHT FRIEND!

Today 11/22/2010

So today at work was pretty uneventful. I hardly got anything done while helping susan. I went to lunch with Amanda P. from my work and we just got it to go and brought it back to the site and ate at the picnic table.
So I stayed at work until 7 pm and then got a call from my cousin Erin last minute to tell me that Emily's B-day party was tonight and I had to rush to wal-mart (who has a birthday party on a monday night?) While there she wanted me to pick her up some medicine and I needed some laundry detergent.

So I grab Emily a presant and high tail it to my house and hurry up and get kailey and head to Erins. It is mainly wes's family and just the kids, of course it is a 3-year-olds birthday party. So Kailey has a great time, Emily loves her little doll, although I wanted to get it in black, my cousin erin was adopted when she was 2 months old about a year after I was born.

We were practically born and raised togeather and I never noticed she was a different color until I was a teenager. I think she is Portarican/black mix, but no one will ever know not even my aunt who adopted her from a hospital in KY back in the mid-eighties. Apparently Adopting a non-white child back in the eighties wasn't very highly liked, but my aunt wanted a baby and she got Danny the same year I was born when he was a few weeks old, and Erin the following year from the same place.

Our immediate family didn't mind it..it was other people who just didn't understand. My aunt couldn't have children because she was stricken with Juvinile diabetes and it messed her up some how and cause a lot of problems for her to successfully carry a child, and the technology wasn't as good as it is now.

Ok so back to Emily she is the cutest little girl got beautiful eyes, geourgeous skin and is very soft spoken... I wish Kailey was like that, but since Kailey was born she has been a loud obnoxious child and since she was way less than a year old she hasn't quit talking.

Either way She is a great little girl and I got her this little baby doll that simulates a baby (like when they are standing in a crib) bouncing up and down,  for her birthday. She loved it and I was happy that I got her something no one else had. I wish I had taken the time to get my camera cause I don't think they have hardly any pictures of Emily and the only pictures i have are on my myspace page of the day she was born... most of them got flagged because there are too many perverts out there and I suppose they have something against a new born baby naked! She was just born they don't come out wearing clothing! Or atleast Kailey didn't and as far as I saw (I arrived right after Emily had escaped from Erin) Emily wasn't wearing clothing Either so a few of her pics got flagged because you could see her WHO-HA!

So anyways, I came home, fed animals, did laundry and now its 11:00 and I am doing the bedtime dance with Kailey the child who never sleeps. It seems like the older she gets the worse she gets. She was fully potty trained by the time she was two. Now she had problems peeing on herself and she is 4. She is also staying up till 1 in the morning and fighting with me tooth and nail the whole way.

 I have tried lots of forms of torcher to get her to go to bed but none work. There has been the butt whoopins, taking things away, the corner, and yes the no TV! Nothin works! I am soo Tired I can't get to work on time, I can't get up on time, and I can't get on a sleeping schedule myself cause she is keeping me up. I have tried to just go to bed and ignore her, which was the couch, cause Buddy don't want to be disturbed by her! (Yes after I had her he promised to get up with her a night or two, and he would wake up and say please take her out of here)!

So now I am stuck in the re-play that is my life of staying up till almost one getting up between 5 and 6 and making it to work by 6:30 or 7 and sometimes 8. Kailey has cheer for the next 2 weeks, On tuesday instead of Friday. So I have to leave work early to take her to CHEER on tuesdays I work 4 day work weeks. I wish we could just stick to Fridays.

Friday's are normally my hectic days cause I pack all dr.s appointments on fridays and anything else that can not be put off till a saturday is packed into a whole friday. Yes, sometimes I have had to be at my own family physician at 8am, kaileys at 9:30, dental apointments at 10, and Asthma alergy and sinus center at 11:30 and an OBGYN at 1pm so you can see how a friday can get kinda hectic sometimes.

Well enjoy the below pictures these are from Cheer Friday night. Maybe some more tomorrow. Hopefully she will get her VEST tomorrow. :-) then she will have her whole uniform.

                                                                  Crazy RANDOM QUESTION of the day: Lionesses have no manes. How do they know when they've grown up? 

Answer : When they find themselves yelling at cubs that don't belong to them!

SAT and SUN 11/20/10 - 11/21/10

So today we went to the Sevierville Flea Market.. yes a flea Market those in the west call it a SWAP Meet. Either way I call it back yard breeder, and puppy millers heaven. Can you believe they had dogs up there they wanted 2500.00 for. Some girl asked one lady where the puppies came from the lady said " well im from KY so we get our dogs from all over" what a distant answer.... I wonder how long it took her to come up with that... what she meant to say is well from our back yard, we have 200 yorkie females and 2 males in a small pen and we just free breed them until one dies then we replace it! OR the alternative is we get the dogs from the paper for about 100 bucks we scoop up the cheapest deals with papers, and we then in turn try to sell them for TOP dollar though we know nothing about background or Genetics!

It is a sick market people. If you want a REAL dog adopt one from an animal shelter.. if you want one with papers just to be your lap dog... check the local papers then ask for health certificates on them before you buy one. See the parents ask to see Health certificates on their parents make sure there is no Genetic defect or skin conditions which can only be proved by a thourough work up. Don't spend more than 500.00 on a dog and don't by cross breeds cause that is just stupid you can get a labradoodle at the pound say it with me a labradoodle is a mut cross of a poddle and a lab! So therefore this means the neighbors lab jumped the fence and screwed the poodle for real normally back in the day they would shove the pups in a burlap sack and throw them in the lake or send them to the pound and let them be put to death. GOOGLE the breed and make sure that it is going to be the kind of dog for your family also. If you don't want a hyper dog you may not want a LAB if you want a water sports dog you will love the lab though.

Don't get me wrong all pets need a good home. I have heard bad things about certain dogs that are cross bred. I have a chihuha and he is a great pet for my family! Yes a chihuha. For pit bull people we always hated chihuhas and joked if you crossed a pit and a chi you would get a dog no man could handle lol... I still think this is true for most chi's! But our little chi is a sweet, friendly loves everyone type of dog, not a yapper he don't sit and yap at everything that moves and he doesn't cause trouble.

Remember that most small breeds are hard to house train.. do not let breeders tell you any different, we had a weiner dog and did everything but walked across hot coals to get him house trained and by the time he was 3 he would crap in the house to spit us lol! So with all that said most small breeds are this way you have to be adimit at day one with house training and if you don't have time don't get a small dog. Best to  have a fenced in yard to if you want a medium to large dog. It is good for the small dog to!

So they had monkeys up there aswell... these things were awesome. They had KING JULLIAN as kailey said! The ring tail lemur was awesome wearing a little diaper and was soo cute. But of course monkeys do not make good pets. They do not throw poop like all have said before maybe some but there were no poop throwers at the market. It was three Dollars to get in and see them and kailey had a good time.

So this was a good day I got her a PILLOW pet she loves that thing. maybe she will sleep better at night. I don't know why my kid has been on a no sleep at night KICK she wont sleep for nothing. She will stay up till midnight or later and then finally fall asleep from exhaustion.

We finished our Turkey day shopping and I went and got a new deep fryer thermometer. Finally my night is coming to an end.

SATURDAY
Saturday I downloaded my pictures and video from my camera. These were of Friday nights practice it was soo nice to get video so we can practice. We have a parade on the 3rd and a competition on the 11th (my birthday) Kailey is doing well and starting to do way better than she did.

She and I didn't do much on Saturday we went out and she rode her bike she is doing real good with this but she got totally freaked out when i got too far away from her and flipped it over on herself while doing a little freak out. lol. It was funny and sad at the same time.

So after that Anna's husband Leland came over and played video games with buddy and watched football. It was nice having company. Anna's phone was broken and she was still sick. I took kailey out on a dinner date. We went to chineese and then to walmart and that is about all we did on that day.

Another day in my life I will never get back

So today is one of those days that makes you question why you are still here! You know one of those days that you just say WHY DO I STAY IN THIS LIFE, can I just get in my car and drive away from it and pretend this part of my life was never reality! This is what I call a MANIC day lol.





It all started when I woke up today at 7am thinking great Ill get a shower and be at my Dr.s appointment early.. but no that just couldn't happen. Instead I go in the bedroom to tidy up after getting everyone breakfast and thinking it was going to be a good day... is it ever? When I move the pillows there is HAIR all over the bed... like someone just got their hair cut at first it was black synthetic hair, maybe from a baby doll? Then there was blond hair ... that would be my daughters hair.

Now those of you who do not know my daughter she is unlike any 4-year-old she is extra smart but extra hyper! she uses big words and has since she was about 2-years-old. She will cry if you try to cut her hair but had decided that she would cut it on her own just to cause trouble this morning! (I know she has cried when another kid tried to cut her hair and protested that girls don't get their hair cut). So I was upset not only did she try to lie I spanked her and told her if she continued to lie that she would just continue to get spanked. So she told me that she cut her hair and that she got the scissors from the kitchen. She went on to say that she cut Dora the explorers hair as if she didn't have bad hair already! (come on most moms would agree Dora's hair is hideous).

So with all that said I freaked out about the hair, and was upset, but her father comes running in and gets angry with me and causes a big confrontation over the fact that I am upset that she cut her hair... just to cause trouble.

So he and I go to fighting and he starts telling Kailey that it is her grandmothers fault that she acts this way. I go on to tell him that he shouldn't make up excuses for her because that is only allowing her to be bad think he is going to just make up a reason she is doing it. He tells me that I am now some child guru and that I think I know everything. Well since I have known my daughter for four years and he has been a part time parent the whole time you would think he would respect the fact that I know my shit right? Well NO!



So this is what it feels like

So I leave I go to my Dr.s Appointment I am 20 minutes late for! I get all my shit checked, blood taken, urinalysis and when we get to the blood pressure part it is a whopping 180/98 UP SO fricken high, and I can feel it too... cause the hole way there i have someone on the phone calling texting and IMing me with BS garbage falling out of his mouth!! I can not stand days like this.... I literally can feel my blood pressure rise... it feels like a vein in my neck is about to explode.



This is the end of the study I was in for Rheumatoid arthritis. They aren't approving the medicine even though it worked for me! I hate that... they said it didn't take on a significant amount of people and putting in for approval would just be a waste of time. So now I am on my own again when it comes to the only medical problem I have, besides some asthma which I have pretty much grown out of... what little i have now is just triggered in the mornings due to my smoking habit that I just can't seem to kick... that is my own fault now though..

Today's lesson is do not blame other people for what you have done or what your children do. It is up to you to teach them that certain things no matter WHO else does it, is inappropriate and not allowed for them! It is kind of like when I was a child, parents cursed, but children did not. If you were to say a 4 letter word your mouth would be smacked and you would have to get soap in the mouth. We knew better and never did. Also picking your own switch was appropriate and being respectful and thankful for your parents and the things you got were a common thing. Now kids show no respect I discipline my daughter and it holds no barring and I am just sick of it.

I make no excuses for her and I try my best to catch myself before I say things like "I can not quit smoking because of all the stress of being with someone who isn't supportive and having a child that is disrespectful." Because that is just an excuse. Yes I smoke more when I am stressed out and I feel bad... (I replaced over eating with smoking) It is a mental and oral fixation and I will one day beat it. I have quit smoking 4 times... it gets harder the more you do it! So as you know if you are a former smoker especially the odds are stacked against me I plan to have fully quit smoking by the time I am 30 though!



Also I would like to just say neither of my parents smoked or drank growing up.. none of my grandparents did either... (well my grandfather on my mothers side did both, but we weren't hardly exposed to it as he lived over 3 hours away). My mother who is 46 years old decided at 44 she would start smoking and hasn't quit yet. I guess the Smith/Wisdom women aren't quitters! I know I am not normally a quitter I will try my guts out and normally give up if the try is 100% not worth it! Believe me I have been in the trying game for over 20 years now and have won about 60% of the battles only because I never gave up. I am a 60% 'er folks yes I win 60% of the time and 30% of the time I lose. But hey life isn't fair and 30% looser is not sooo bad. So I have to go now I gotta get a particular little munchin to Cheerleading.

What should be going on!



"Oh and she told her father she cut some of her hair to make me get upset with her so that he would yell at me" I guess because she knows I will get upset and get agrivated with her or spank her which sometimes before he even knows what is going on he goes to yelling at me cause he thinks I just like to spank our kid which is just not true!

And again

Last Saturday UT FOOTBALL TIME!!!

So while the men folk were out at the UT game ANNA and I and the herd of children went to free day at the zoo... Ill share some pics later of that. But thursday I worked hard to get my hands on some tickets for a very special friend! My friend Toms daughter Mandy and I have become friends on Facebook. She is a very sweet girl I think she is 13-years-old and she had said she would like to go to a UT game as she had never been before. So some of the ladies here at work and I decided we would pitch in and get her some tickets. Also a gentleman pitched in to. So a few people from my work aided in paying for the tickets. She needed a handicapped seat as she is in a wheelchair and I didn't want to inconvience anyone with having to (maybe endanger themselves) carry her up steps at the game or down them :-). So we called and got handi-capped seating for her.

So after the game I met up with them at the Taco bell. It was great cause I had never met Mandy in person just on facebook. I have been friends with her father for 3 going on 4 years. I have met her mother a couple of times and she is also my friend on Facebook as well. So I was excited to meet Mandy. I drug my critter Kailey along with me to meet her. I had given Kailey a talkin to before we got to the Taco bell, as I didn't know how touchy mandy was about being in the wheelchair and honestly figured she probably wouldn't be offended by my 4-year-old eyeing her chair or maybe even saying something.

Mandy Morrow, and Amanda

So I nipped this prob in the bud before it even became a problem. I told Kailey that she shouldn't stare at anyone, because Mandy is in a wheelchair and it wouldn't be nice to stare. She took this a bit overboard though as she didn't look at ANYONE even if they were talking to her. It was kind of funny but she didn't sit still long so no one much noticed it. So here are some pictures, thought I would share them and I hope that everyone likes my blog!

I also hope that Mandy and I can meet up again soon and enjoy a little conversation. I'll try to talk more next time and not have to chase my critter who wanted to spend most of the time in the bathroom!



Kailey Nichole

Today's GOOFY QUESTIONs:

Why don't you ever wear a scarf? It doesn't need to be cold outside for your neck to feel naked.

Because Im hot natured as my neck has a supper extra layer of fat ha ha

That can't really be a fish you're standing on, can it? Why yes it is, the infamous foot fish that is!

45 Lessons In Life

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the

next small step
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick.Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don't have to win every argument.

Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than

crying alone.

8. It's OK to get angry with God.

He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your

first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate,

resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won't

screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don't compare your life to others.

You have no idea what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an

eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath.It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful,

beautiful or joyful.

18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make

you stronger.

19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion.Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go withthe flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these

words ''In five years, will this matter?".27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.

29. What other people think of you is none of your business...

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32.Don't take yourself so seriously.No one else does.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not

because of anything you did or didn't do.

35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and

saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.


So I am going to try to live by the above 45 statements! I need to atleast! I hope everyone else tries to as well! I know most men will just skip over it but women more than likely will read it and say they are going to live by them aswell. :-)


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Yesterday :-) November 18 2010

Just about got drove crazy at work lol. But got home and mom had dropped Kailey off and my day was pretty much event less. So Kailey and I hung out a little while in the bedroom and watched some cartoons. I got some laundry done. We had to grab some no no food (fast food) As some may know most don't that I am supposed to be on a diet. Well here lately my diet has gone down hill. Because good healthy foods are way more expensive that not so healthy food, we are on a budget so we don't eat out normally. We don't buy foods that are for fun, just foods we need. So there are no snack foods in our home.

We drink water and no not out of the tap cause I am afraid of what is in it. Yes I am aqua phobic when it comes to tap water and waters from sources unknown. So with all that said we do spend money on water. I hate buying it by the bottle cause it seems we are polluting more when we do that, but it is healthier and we don't have to worry about kidney or gallstones when it comes to tap water these are things you have to worry about. I know my brother had his gallbladder removed when he was 16 because of stones. The doctor told us that gallstones can sometimes form from items found in drinking water straight from the tap. So this is why we don't drink the Tap water, we live on the same property that I grew up on and if we make cool aid or anything like that it is going to be made with nursery water it is the safest way.

So pretty much the no no food was bought and I spent the rest of the night relaxing. I also had a Dr. Pepper cause I don't want BK's tap water either (yes they get it out of a tap line that is run to the machine with no filter) I use to work there so I know more than I would like to.

I uploaded new pics of my DD to my space and her little friends that motley crew of mischief makers has a big spot in my heart, even though sometimes on my more Manic days they really get to me, I still love all of em. My favorite being Mason... he is like the safety, quite, cute, and cuddly lol...but not clingy! Ha ha! So this is why I like him... the rest of them are wild sporadic children... mine included... they come up with the craziest stuff!

Buddy informed me that when my mother brought Kailey home that Kailey walked in and Announced "I told you GRAMMY IS NOT STUPID" This is classic Kiddom as children don't put sensors on things and they will repeat everything.

Kailey will take everything you say and eventually use it against you, we have to be careful what we say in front of this one. Although, my mother has been coaching her to lie to us... this is something we don't allow. Kailey knows this and has been sat down about it and now she doesn't lie to us anymore she tells us everything weather we would like to know it or not.
I plan to keep it this way personally! The video below was from back in the day :-( I miss those days... Kailey is a classic character and I enjoy taking her places, now that she is older. I really think though that I need a break a lot of times cause she is SO hyper active and nothing can keep her attention

Yesterday :-) November 16 2010

So, yesterday was a fairly crappy weather day! Now as a small time farmer you can see why we dont care for the crappy rainy cold weather. In the winter there aren't soo many crops to harvest, and crappy rainy cold weather just makes for property problems, such as, giant mud holes, animals living in mud, poor conditions to feed in, well you get the picture.

I work 4 days a week and it is a full time job aside from home which no matter how much I work at a "real" job home is always a full time job. So my real job required that we go to an after work mandatory dinner/meeting. Work always puts on a good meeting... there is always food.

So I get there after doing my make-up, and I meet up with another lady who use to work in my department. I sit at my table for an extreamely long period of time waiting on her to come back and I have a lot of time to observe my surroundings and my table... cause I get board really easy I had to get into everything in front of me there was a nice salad excuse the pictures as they were taken with my BB phone.

So there was a large BUTTER BALL on our table I thought that was a little different for how exquisit the place looked. It was a nice setup but the food came out speratically such as there were like 30 tables and they would put food in front of 2 people at table 1 and then go to table thirty and put food out for 1 at that tabe then table 25 and so on. So at one point or another someone was starting a plate at your table and someone was finishing. I thought this was rather odd.

After all of that though we finished eating and went on to this huge hunk of cheese cake. I am on a diet, or supposed to be. I have lost 10 lbs but probably gained every bit of it back from eating all this food.

steak and tater



Jeri





shannon and susan



 

Butter ball on our table






Jeri and Amanda

My little girl was excited when I got home and my friend anna said we should do the pouty face pictures to post on Facebook... so I dont do a good pouty face but kailey my 4-year-old does.. so I spent time in the bedroom with her doing pouty faces, and trying to perfect them... but we just had fun playing with my BB takin pictures... also I had a ton of clothes to fold.

So here are just some fun pouty face pictures for yall to enjoy.






kaileys pouty face







kailey and scrappy





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