Thanks to all my friends out there in Blogger land!!!

Well I really want to tell you all thanks for you supportive comments on my last post.....Each and everyone of you are right!!! She is a user and always has been, after all look at the whole babysitting dilemma that I was having months ago, that was her. I love being a good friend and I know that you should not expect anything in return for what you do, but sometimes just the return of being a good friend is enough!!

Well on to more exciting things, yesterday we took the kids to Jacksonville to Chuck E CHeese, my youngest acted like he was strung out on crack. He blew through all of his tokens in no time, I belive that this is the first time we have taken him since he was old enought to understand what Chuck E Cheese is all about. Don't worry mom and dad had a great day too, we found an extroidanary liquor store called Total Wine. It has just opened and we went down to see what all of the fuss was about. This was not just any liquor store they had everything imaginable. THey had more imported beer than we knew what to do with. They had a carton for you to build your own six pack. Now my husband loves beer, I stick to the regular old Miller Lite if anything. But he went hog wild, he built 2 six packs and got beer from all over the world. Just recently we had a British Submarine in port and they introduced him to Strongbow for any of you that have heard of it well he found it there so he was in all of his glory. It is a hard cider for all of you that are wondering. Years ago when I went to London we had cider and black current. The black current is so hard to find here, I have yet to discover it in the states. No Total Wine did not have it. So now my husband is on a mission to find the perfect beer, he is starting a project of drinking all of the imports and IPA's and documenting them until he finds his favorites. So any of you drinker out there that have any suggestions please let me know...He is making another run tomorrow with his buddy.

Well we ended last night on a good note and had dinner at Outback, it has been a while since we made it there and it was well worth it. We ate at Longhorn a couple of weeks ago but it is just not the same to us.

Today we took the kids fishing and Dylan my 7 year old caught his first bass today!!! We were so happy for him and he was so happy to boot. It was a great day

All is well in the Chaotic World of Me For Today

A Change of Plans

Well with that said, I am a little pissed today and this is the only place I can vent and say what it is that I really need and want to say. I WAS supposed to go to Daytona this weekend for a Nascar race. My best friend, Alison, had been asked to go by a guy off of my husbands boat. Well the guy asked if we wanted to go too, but we had a limit on the amout of money that we wanted to spend. Now back to Alison, we set her up with this guy and he is really nice, has a good personality but he is a little chubby. Well she kept telling us that she was not physically attracted to him but she really liked him. She made it a point that I knew and understood that there were no sparks between them. I told her the best thing she could do was to tell him that it would not evolove far from a friendship anytime soon. Well now back to the race situation....we told the guy that we had $200 dollars and we were entrusting him to get good seats. He was gung-ho about it or so we thought. We never talked directly to him it was always through Alison. She made it sound like he was going to be purchasing the tickets soon so we were guaranteed 4 seats together. He was supposedly going to Daytona on Friday to get them and that we needed to just trust him....well he calls her on Friday night to tell her that he couldn't find any good seats for less than 140 a piece. This was fine with us, had he called us we would have ok'd it and we would now be on our way. Well he then told us that he was going to bid on tickets on ebay and that the auction was closing out on Sunday night and that these were awesome seats. Well he lost the auction but did not bother to tell us once again. He bid 3 minutes before the auction ended and never bid again. THe tickets sold for way less than we were willing to pay!!!! Well in between him telling us about the auction and the auction ending, Saturday night Alison decided to tell him that she was not looking for anything serious and that she wanted to be just friends. And she did not talk to him again until Monday. Well of course we think that he is mad at her and decided not to go to the race period. Then we finally go a hold of him yesterday, he proceeds to tell us that you can just get tickets at the gate when you get there on Saturday, that is how he is going to get theirs. Well that is a chance that we just do not feel like we want to take, driving 2 hours to Daytona, just to get cheap crappy tickets because we waited until last minute. But this guy and Alison would end up sitting somewhere nice because he has the money to spend, after all he did ask us to go too. So with that we decided to pull out of the deal last night, I think he was relieved but we were just turned off by all of the bull shit that we were going through. But Alison she is really working this whole thing to her advantage, her "friend" is still taking her, so she is playing the neutral card and going with everything that he has said about the whole situation. He has made us out to be the jerks in the deal and now either one of them do not understand why we were in the rush for the tickets. See she has nothing to loose here, he is paying her way and without us she will get to sit in the better seats. Through this situation she has become the fair weather friend. We do not have the better offer for her so she is going to stay where the getting is good. She has known us for 4 years and him for 3 weeks. I think I see where her loyalty lies. I have always seen that she was never left out of anything but now I am starting to wonder why I did any of this for her. I am really bitter right now, she is now blaming it all on lack of communication, hell we were communicating through her from the get go!!!!! What should I do, How should I be feeling????

I just don't understand!!!

I just don't understand why it is easier to gain weight than to loose it. How come I can starve myself for a week straight and loose maybe 2 pounds or I can eat myself silly for a week and gain 6 pounds. It just doesn't seem fair. I would rather be happy and gain the 6 than be miserable and loose the 2!!

I just dont understand why society makes women feel like they have to be thin and beautiful. Why, wouldn't you rather live in a country where every woman is happy just because or live in a country with a bunch of dieting women that are always miserable because they just can't eat what they really want.

I just don't understand why I can go into a store and fit into one size but turn around and go to another store and that same exact size won't even button. I thought that measurements were supposed to be universal.

I just don't understand why when I am looking for a particular piece of clothing in a store they never have it in my size. The same with shoes, why should I feel punished because my feet and hips are bigger than the average woman.

I just don't understand why they do not make fat free and low calorie chocolate, they can put a man on the moon but can't simply alter chocolate!!! Go Figure.

Better yet I just don't undertand why scientist have not come up with a pill that just melts the fat away.

My feelings are that overweight people are contantly taken advantage of, why is it we can loose weight but Weight Watchers is going to charge us $12 a week to step on their scale and listen to their meeting. Or we can pay to nutrisystem and get all of our meals delivered to us for one large price just to loose weight. Or Jenny Craig will charge us for their meeting and their food so we can loose weight. It is all a scam. These companies are cashing in on fat people that are unhappy to beging with. Sure we may look and feel better in the end but we will be really broke!!!


I just don't understand, nope I just don't!!!

What do I write??

So I lost my financial aid for school this year. My husband re-enlisted and the bonus posted on Jan 1, 2005 so when I figured my financial aid that was factored in, making us look like we actually had money. Now I am going to have to pay for my classes out of pocket, which really is no biggie. Next year the 07-08 school year I will more than likely have my financial aid back and be in the swing of things. But the financial aid worker at the college gave me a scholarship form, I am sure that I really would not be a canidate for the scholarship, there are people out there with much better grades and higher needs than I so I figured what the heck....give it a try. Well I have had this form for almost a month and it needs to be turned in by June 30th for consideration. The only thing stopping me from doing the application is the paper I need to attach. I have to write a paragraph about my career choice and career and personal goals and accomplishments, my work experience, and why I think I deserve the scholarship. I have never written a paper all about me. How does one write about themself??? I am not even sure of who I am and what it is that I desire. I know I want to be a nurse because I am a helper by nature. I also feel that I am taking on a great challenge, going to school while being a mom and wife. But how do you put all of that into words??
I have started to write this but seem to have writers block. I have 8 more days something has got to come to me.

By the way we just decided today that we are going to Daytona on the 1st for the Pepsi 400 race. I am excited I have always wanted to go to a Nascar race but have never had a chance. The inlaws are coming to watch the kids and I am going to have a blast.

Its official....I am a college student...yet again!!!

Well today I had to meet with my student advisor. I am officially back into school and this time I am really excited. I have signed up for Microbiology, this is the class that always seems to be full when I need to enroll. I had to get into this class for the nursing program. I am going to be growing bacteria and neat stuff. I love these kinds of classes. The only problem is the new school I am enrolled in requires more for the nursing program than the school 30 minutes away. I need the Micro class for both schools so I am going to take it and I just might transfer back down to the other school when it is all said and done. According to the college here, I need a literature class, another math, a political science, 3 physical education classes, and something else. But the one in florida I need the micro and a math. Go Figure!!! So I am sure through the fall you will be reading the trials and tribulations of a stay at home mom back in college with kids that were in kindergarten when she was in high school!!!!!
Anyway I had to call a babysitter in so I could go to the school and decided to have lunch with my friend to make it worth my while since I was already paying her for the college thing. I needed the quiet time with out the darn kids and it was worth the money.

By the way for any of you parents out there, what are babysitters charging now a days? My friend had a sitter on Friday night and she charged $5 an hour for one kid. Mine takes 5 for 2 kids or even 3 if my friends kid was here.

My Computer Chair Dilemma

Well my lesson for this weekend is, I spend too much time at my computer. My beloved chair has broken!!! My husband said my big ass broke the welds. That makes me feel real good!!! Just kidding, he sits here too!!! Now I have to steadily balance myself while typing, this has become sort of a challenge for me. This chair is not that old and it did cost quite a bit. If you look closely at the back of the chair you will see the yellow foam peeking out, this is where my kitty cat, Trouble had the misconception that this was her scratching post. I tried everything to deter her from doing it but in the end she won!!! Yesterday I was at the computer getting ready to blog and I was talking on the phone, I forgot that I could not lean back and I did. My husband had to come and rescue me!! Now I am on the lookout for a new chair, and it has to be comfortable.

Yesterday we went to see the movie Cars. I really enjoyed this one and I can't wait for it to come to dvd. It was 2 hours long but it held my youngest sons attention for the whole thing. My friends daughter was not as interested in watching it she lost attention about a hour into it. But not my Avery, man he was in his zone!! My friend Alison cooked Father's Day dinner for my husband, he has been an acting father to her daughter since she seperated from her husband and moved down here. We had a really nice time. I hope everyone else out there had a nice day yesterday too.

I must tell you a funny story before I go, on Saturday night we were in the garage playing pool and the door opened and smoke billowed out from my house. It seems that my 3 year old son, who wanted to watch cartoons decided that he wanted a piece of pizza from earlier heated back up. He somehow figure out the microwave and cooked his pizza until it started to flame up. When I got in the kitchen the microwave had 5 minutes of cooking time left on it. Needless to say my house smells and it was full of smoke. Has anyone ever burned a bag of popcorn, it was 10 times worse, it took your breath away to smell it. Now the microwave is on the back porch and Avery is not allowed to cook anymore.

Happy Fathers Day to all of the Dads out there!!!

I have not seen my biological father since I was 13 years old. And that was just by chance, I was visiting my grandmother in New Jersey (his mom), someone told him I was there and he literally ran over. He was barefooted and drunk. All of my memories of my father seemed to have being drunk as a common factor. Somehow over the years he has managed to piss off everyone in his family and no one talks to him anymore. He is married to wife #3 and raising her grandaughter, and get this lives in Georgia now. He is like 6 hours from me. I used to think that he was the best dad in the whole world, I was 8 when I moved away from him and he made me so many promises and kept in touch, it was more my step mom than him, I later found this out. He had 2 more daughters with my stepmom and the youngest one he only saw once at 3 months old, that is the last time any of us have seen him, that is when he bolted to Georgia. I am still close with my stepmom and my sisters. They are all wonderful people and my sister just finished her first year of college for early childhood education. I am sure she would not have been half the person she is now if he was in her life. We have all realized that we were better off with out our father rather than with him!!! I have a good step father, times between us were rough but I have learned to accept him as the father that I needed and he did the best he could considering. I wrote about him in my mothers day post and I was not nice about him. Yes he was not easy to get along with but I am who I am today because of him. My sisters both had a wonderful man in their life too that have helped them become the wonderful girls that they are today!!
For all of you Fathers out there I wish you a Happy Father's Day.


Here is a little history of how Father's Day Became
The creation of a national day for Dads began back in the 1900s when a grateful daughter wanted to express her deep appreciation for her own father. A gentleman by the name of William Smart, a civil war veteran, was widowed when his wife died in childbirth. Mr. Smart raised his six children on a rural farm in eastern Washington State. When Sonora Louise Smart Dodd, one of Mr. Smart's children, was grown she wanted to show her appreciation for her father. He had shown her a great love and strength in raising her and her siblings as a single parent. So, in 1909, she proposed a day to honor her father in June (the month of her father's birth).The very first Fathers' Day followed on June 19, 1910 in Spokane, Washington. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge showed support of this becoming a national holiday. However, it wasn't until 1966 when President Lyndon Johnson officially proclaimed Fathers' Day a national holiday to be celebrated on the 3rd Sunday of June.

From Mermaids to Pirates, I'll settle for a Sailor in the end!!!

Alright readers, I know I have not been the best with blogging so I am updating on minimal time. There are only 22 more days until the new Pirates of the Caribbean on July 7th. WooHoo. In case you all could not tell I am a huge Johnny Depp fan, I love all of his stuff. The normal and the weird movies that he has made. My most favorite is the Pirate look on him....Mmmmm.......I really need a pirate!!!He played the part of Jack Sparrow so well in Pirates, I think he is an eccentric actor and the parts he plays are the right ones for him. The first movie I ever got hooked on him was CryBaby in 1991, I was just a kid but my step sister and I watched that movie almost every single day that summer, we knew every word. We could talk the lines without the movie on. My mother had taped it off of HBO I think and we wore that copy out. Well it has been awhile since I saw that movie and then it was on HBO like 3 weeks ago so I TiVo'ed it now I will have it forever!!!!! My husband will be nuts from it before it is all said and done. I love all of his movies!!
This was an awesome remake, no it was not like the first one so I can love it on a whole different level. He was a great Willie Wonka. He made the part. Once again totally eccentric. I loved the big glasses he wore in the TV room, once again for those of you that know what I am talking about.
They say that Johnny Depp is one of the nicest actors to meet in public, that he has no problem with autographs and pictures. They featured that not so long ago on MSN and that Cameron Diaz was the worst to get them from. I wish could meet him so much!! I don't think I could say anything to him though, I would be dumbfounded!!
But yes my readers I have had dreams about him too just like my Tim McGraw dreams, only with him I was at his apartment in NYC and we were dating. Then his girlfriend came over to drop off his kids so I knew it was too good to be true he even introduced me to his girlfriend and then he ran off to the subway. Hmmmmm....I could settle for that in a meeting. But by far I love the Pirate, Johnny Depp. I guess I am close enough, after all I am married to a Sailor!!!!! If only they resembled one another a little. Ahhhh I will always have my Johnny in my dreams though!!! And I know I have a date with him on July 7th. I am already deciding what I should wear....LOL

Update on Dylan, he made it through the surgery just fine, the last 2 days have been a little rough on him but I have a feeling it is getting better. He is catching up on TV. I told him he is going to fill his summer quota this week and have to play outside from here on out. Even in the rain.....Just kidding. I think we are going to try some broth today, he hasn't been doing the popsicles and ice cream like I though he would. I guess he'll come around and be starving soon.

Mermaids, Roller Coasters & Now Alberto!!!!

Well I promised you all pictures from our weekend!!! We had an awesome time, I did not take a whole lot of pictures because I forgot about my camera. This is a picture from the underwater Mermaid show at Weeki Wachee Springs. The did The Little Mermaid, I know how original, but I really enjoyed it!!! During the show there were fish and turtles swimming all around the mermaids, apparently where they perform at is 14 feet under the water. The waterpark was also neat, 3 of the slides emptied out into the spring and the water was cold. It is 72-74 degrees year round and as warm as that sounds it is still frigid!!!
Here is a picture of my little pearls!!! Aren't they darling!!! They really had a good time, I kept trying to convince my oldest that the mermaid was real but he wasn't going for it!!!
We just so happened to stumble upon this mermaid for a photo opportunity, I can't imagine having to learn how to swim in that lycra tail!! You can see the water park in the back ground.
On Sunday we ended up going to Busch Gardens. Thanks to Anheiser-Busch they honor the military each year with free admission into any one of their parks so we chose Busch Gardens Tampa this year. I was a little hesitant about going, I hate rollercoasters and I would have rather went to Sea World. I was also worried about the crowds, anyone know that a theme park in Florida in the Summer is not a good thing, that is when everyone else and their mother is there. Well Busch Gardens was absolutly empty. I kid you not we rode every single ride in the park and some of them multiple times. I hate the roller coasters but I managed to get over my fear and ride every single one. I think it was a little to do with peer pressure!!!!

This is a computer image of the Sheikra, yes I rode it. I did not take any pictures so I had to find this on the internet. This has a 90 degree drop and 70 miles and hour from 300 feet up!!! I did this last because I was scared shitless. Everyone says that I should be able to ride every single roller coaster in the country now. Gee...I am excited now!! We left the park at 9:30 last night and got home around 2am. We are all tired but all in all we had a great time and I am glad that I got the opportunity to go. Tomorrow is my son's Tonsilectomy. They changed our time from 10am to 6am so I should be in bed right now but I promised everyone that I would post.

Now you see after this awesome weekend we just did escape the grips of Alberto. Apparently we are going to see the effects of the storm this week here on the East coast of Florida/Georgia. We really need the rain my baby grass is looking sad but its hanging on.

For all of you that read about my pool dilemma, we are over it now, the pool is nice and clear. I have put so much chlorine in it that I am sure it is safer to drink than the city water!!!!! Hope everyone had a great weekend...........

I can get the Job done!!!!!!

Alright the latest battle at the Casa de Chaos is a green pool. Not just any green pool but 4,000+ gallons of green, cloudy water. I have been trying to tackle this beast all week and I have had absolutly no luck what-so-ever!!!

Last week the husband vaccuumed the pool out, it is just a 14ft X 3.5 ft, vinyl pool with the ring at the top. Well this is the first time this season that my husband has helped me with the pool, maybe that is the first problem. I left to take my son to Karate and came home and the pool was free of all leaves but a little on the cloudy side. I just figured that it would settle and go back to normal. NO Why would it do that now??? It gradually got cloudier and cloudier and greener and greener. So on Monday I bought some new test strips and checked all of the levels in the water, I went on the aquachem and put my results in and they analyzed my water. I got a nifty printout that told me everything I needed down to how much I needed to put in. So on Tuesday, I bought PH stuff, clarifier, shock, algaecide, and some other junk. Spent all day putting this crap in the pool and no positive results. I have cleaned the filter with the fancy filter cleaner that they sell and nope nothing. The pool is so gross and the kids just want to swim. But I am not going to let this pool get me, nope, I will not be had by a freaking pool. SO I shocked it again, someone else gave me this advice and still nothing, it looks no better, so tonight I cleaned the filter and added a super dose of chlorine, seems I have forgot to put it in since Sunday.....ooops certainly that is not the whole problem. Well I guess I will find out in the morning.

We are leaving tomorrow for Weeki Wachee Springs, It is a natural spring here in Florida and they have the only live mermaid show left in the country. I have never been but it looks to be quite interesting. They also have a water park that is spring fed. So I guess I will not be posting this weekend but I will have stories for you all on Monday. Unless a gator gets me, then you will all see me on the news I guess. Speaking of alligators, here on the Naval Base they have a 9ft gator in the pond by the running track, they had to remove it due to all of the recent attacks in Florida. Those things are not taken lightly around here!!!

My son is going on Tuesday morning to get his tonsils removed. So be thinking of us then. Hope everyone has a great weekend!!!!!!

I am Tagging Myself....Pathetic isn't it????

Four Jobs I’ve had in my life
1. Mommy
2. Wife
3. Pharmacy Technician (Wal-Mart)
4. McDonalds
Four Movies I can watch over and over
1. Mary Poppins
2. Sound of Music
3. Cry Baby
4. Hairspray
Four Places I have Lived
1. Pitman, New Jersey
2. Clanton, Alabama
3. St. Marys, Georgia
4. Groton, Connecticut
Four TV shows I love to watch
1. ER
2. Scrubs
3. Survivor
4. The Amazing Race
Four Places I have been
1. On my roof!!!
2. Jamaica
3. Mexico
4. England
Four Web Sites I visit daily
1. MSN.com
2. Navy Federal Credit Union
3. My Blogger friends pages
4. Ebay
Four of my Favorite Foods
1. Pizza w/mushrooms,italian sausage & onion
2. Chicken & Dumplings
3. BBQ Chicken Breast
4. Thanksgiving Dinner
Four Places I would rather be right now
1. A secluded Carribean Location w/ only the husband
2. Disney World with no other people in the park, just my family
3. On a boat somewhere warm or tropical
4. Paris France

I saw this on Dr. Johns page and I figured that I would tag myself, it always seems I never get tagged. But have been short on time so I think this it a sufficient post for now, I am going to be catching up on everyone's posts and adding more friends links to my page.

A Crazy Week & NO BOATS

Now that school is out for the Summer, I am not sure where my time has gone. Lately I have been horrible at posting. Everytime I get ready to post, someone needs something. This week we have managed to go to the local waterpark twice, the zoo, and Dylan had his Karate promotion this weekend(he is the one in the red vest in the picture). He is now a yellow belt green tip in Tang Soo Do. He has been in Karate since right after his 4th birthday. We started with Okinawan Karate Do in Connecticut, this was Japanese style. Then upon moving to Georgia they did not have that type locally so we changed to Tang Soo Do, it is Korean. He had to learn new terms and moves for this one but he is flourishing. I think that we are going to let him compete in the end of July.
Well since last weekends excursion on the river my husband has dilligently tried to convince me that we need a boat. When my husband gets an idea in his head he will just about drive you nuts with it. Most of the time I give in and say whatever but not this time. A boat is a lot and beings that he goes out to sea, it would get minimal use. I just do not think it is worth it right now. Maybe in a couple of year when he retires or is on shore duty and has the time to use it. For now we can go to Alabama and use his parents boat and have fun there. He had a boat before when we lived in Connecticut, he loves to fresh water fish and it was a real nice boat, just a little bass boat. He wanted to sell it before we left Connecticut because he would not have time to use it here, and there is not an abundance of fresh water where we are located. So I let him sell it and he did and that is all she wrote. We had a set of jet skis too, this was before we went to connecticut but we sold them because I was pregnant and they would get very little use because the water was so cold. He is always making rash decisions without really thinking them through and I just let him do what he wants. I hate denying him of things that he wants but c'mon now enough is enough. I regretted the whole jet ski thing, I really want them now. He sold them to his uncle so they are in the family still but we never use them, they are in Alabama. I also hate that he got rid of the little bass boat, it served its purpose and it still could be serving. Now he wants a ski boat. NO WAY I do not think so!!! I want a million things but you dont see me getting them. I am protesting the boat. NO BOATS, not now at least. He has even gone so far as to find a local boat on ebay and email the guy about it. Now he is giving the guy false hope and building himself up for a major let down when I say NO!! When is enough, enough???
I am starting to be annoyed by him, I think we have spent too much time together this weekend. Maybe next week will be better!!!