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2nd October 2007

Our New Dog

20071001_02805p Let me start with some photos from yesterday because I didn’t post them last night.  Here is Tom holding Kyra ever so gently.  It was a wonderful visit after the last one where I was so rude, but he says not…oh well.  I feel better now.

20071001_01205p The neighbors brought home a new kitten, so Kyra was playing with that.  We all know how she thinks about kittens.  The cool thing about this one though is, it isn’t ours.  We can pet it and give it back.

20071001_00204p She was also very helpful with the pig, she was with her dad all day and as soon as she got with me we were out feeding and watering the pig.  She really does help filling the water til over flowing.  I cleaned out the old water and we put all fresh, what a spoiled piggy.

Ok, so that leads today.

This morning I raised my voice on my high school route.  That is probably the first time in 2 years on that route as I have good kids and usually just tell one to stay on the bus when we get to the school to have private “behave” conversations and “that was the last time” talks.  Today…though I screamed.  I think the whole load was on full alert when I did too.  It is amazing.  LOL…

There was a student fighting letting another student sit in his seat.  Well, that is not something that happens because my bus is full.  FULL, so when that 3rd person says “slide” you do it.  There aren’t options for other seats.  This student was trying to not let him sit there and blocking and I raised my voice, “SLIDE IN” and then a few more words, not cursing of course.  Nice basically, but loud and angry sounding. 

20071001_00611p We went grocery shopping afterward, only got some essentials though.  Bananas are what it seems like we are always needing.  Stan is like a monkey with them, he eats one every morning.

I did my afternoon routes.  They went smoothly.

I have been going to get a dog ever since Adam left because I want one. (Adam doesn’t like dogs, so with him here not an option.)  Kyra would love one.  I think that one could possibly alert me better when Stan needs help (hopeful thinking).  I entered my application online at the Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter a couple days ago. I was approved of course.  I am as gentle as a bird and take good care of my animals.

Anyways, I wanted a big dog that wasn’t a hunting howling breed.  I wanted one that would be somewhat lazy.  I, of course, wanted one that would be good with Kyra and my cat.

Well, I got one.  We went and visited him at 5 o’clock to see if we liked him.  Kyra almost immediately said “My dog”, which I was pretty much sold.  We walked him for about 30 minutes though and just were around him with Stan and Kyra and stuff.  We brought him home. 

20071002_01206a He is a Great Dane mix, but with what we don’t know.  He is housebroke and he came from a home that had kids.  He was given up by his previous owner for some roommate issues, not sure exactly.  He was immediately fine with Kyra welcoming her kind of attention really.

We went to McDonald’s for super with him because Stan has to eat at a certain time.  I hooked him to my foot while we sat in the car eating…that photo of him is while we were at McDonalds.  He didn’t beg for food or anything.  It was remarkable. 

20071002_00706a While we were there though, there was this flock of birds.  There were probably thousands of birds.  They were straight in front of us, probably 10 feet.  I have this dog standing there and they weren’t scared at all.  They all sort of landed and were drinking from this mud puddle.  I couldn’t believe it.

20071002_00409a I think he is at home though as this is what he looks like now. 

He is 8 months old, so still has some growing.  The name the pound had for him was “Lucky”, but he doesn’t come to it.  I think we are going to name him “Dexter”.  He comes running though when you whistle, so I wonder if I will ever really use his name. 

We walked a few dogs at the shelter as well.  It is amazing how nice the animals are that they have.  I have never had a shelter animal, but I think it is a good thing to get.  I am forever watching them on Animal Planet testing and such.  There are so many animals that need homes. 

The shelter we were at was over run with cats, cats everywhere.  I would have taken some of them too.  I think they should lower the price on them and they would have better luck though.  There are free kittens everywhere that people can pick up.  I know it takes a whole lot of money though to do all the vet stuff and spay/neuter all those animals, as well as feed them for however long they are there.

The dog we got had been there since August, so wasn’t a new arrival.

So, anyways that was my day.  Good Night.

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27th September 2007

Officially Separated…

20070927_00104p  We signed the paperwork today.  This is the agreements on what property between us is each others and what debt is mine versus his. 

I didn’t know it was uncommon to take pictures of such events…LOL.  The attorney said that it was the first time someone had taken a picture of this in his 30 years.  It is a happy day for me though, so why not save it??  (Yes, I was also happy the day I got married and many days between, but this is happy too.)

Our divorce is officially final in December, but I feel divorced as of today.

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20th September 2007

Exciting Day…

20070919_00307a Today Adam had Kyra so you would think it would be boring, but it was actually one of the more exciting days driving.  I did my morning routes like normal every one was perfectly behaved.  My one student that seems to be the instigator of problems wasn’t on. 

Adam was here to get Kyra when I got back from my routes.

In the middle of the day, I went to Circuit City and installed two camera’s on the display.  It was a quick easy job.

I went on my afternoon routes and this is where everything got a little exciting.  LOL…  I did my high school route like normal, nothing unusual.  The middle school girls are now making lists of the boys they like which I find sort of comical as they read them off like a grocery list and compare one to another.

My little kids route, I am still in strict bus driver mode, so I have to say sit down every 10 seconds of the route.  I hope they figure out soon that if they actually sit down for the full ride, I become pretty nice and easy to get along with.  They hate me at the moment though.

Anyways…that isn’t the exciting part.

We were driving along on my back country roads like normal.  Well, look ahead of us and what do we see??  A horse!  This isn’t really that unusual the horse part, but this horse was all by himself and under no supervision.  I put my flashers on and stopped the bus with this horse coming straight at us.  The kids were all on full alert.

There I was stopped in the road and the horse ran right into the bus.  Yeah, he ran into us.  He sort of fell back a little dizzy and off he continued to run.  LOL…

I can hear the transportation office tomorrow saying I hit a horse, so I called my boss and told him.  It was pretty funny, the bus is okay and I think the horse is too. 

Well, we continued on a little further up the road and there was a farmer who had lost one of those giant bales of hay.  The ones that are like 10 normal bales all in one.  The kind that take like 4 people to move.  We just drove around it.

All the while, what ever was put in the water to keep the kids behaved was removed.  I had a young man throwing spit balls on the bus…blah.  He is going to clean the bus tomorrow though and boy does it need it.  The fact that it really needs it makes me smile as I almost cleaned it myself today….sorry little guy you picked the wrong day.  LOL..

I came home and Stan needed a prescription, so off we went to the pharmacy.  We weren’t gone long when we got back Adam had Kyra home returning her to me.  She was petting the neighbors cat, so I sort of just took over supervision and she continued to pet their cat.  She waved and kissed Adam good-bye and off he went.

We played outside for quite a while with the neighbors.  I had bought pig feed today, so we took that out to the barn and gave her a good helping.  We picked a load of weeds/corn stalks from the garden.  Oh, that makes me sweat.  We took those to the horses and that was our day. 

We came in watched 1/2 a CSI with Stan and now we are both about to go to bed.  Isn’t she cute in her picture from yesterday with that darn horse thing, she loves rocking on that.  Adam took it back to his house…as she can ride the real horses here.  I need to get a picture of her on the real horses.

My cold seems to be slightly easing, but I still have it.  It is very mild though, so hopefully it just stays this way.

Anyways, I am going to bed.  Have a great night.     

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14th September 2007

Kyra had a Wonderful Day!

So, instead of telling you about my day today.  I am going to tell you about Kyra’s.  Yeah, I hear you they are pretty much one in the same, but this could be fun.

Kyra writing:

I got up early today before the alarm clock went off, Mom was snoring away.  I couldn’t handle it another minute, so I climb up on her bed and jump on her.  Yes, I almost knock myself out when my head hits hers and she screams and jumps at the same time.  I calm her down though with a kiss, she loves it when I kiss her.

I reluctantly use the potty when she instructs me too, but I do use it.  I convince her we have to go to the bus and she finally agrees.  I take her by the hand and as fast as I can run to the bus outside.  I take my post and we are off.

The high school kids are boring and I wasn’t really as enthused about waking up as I had appeared.  I decide to take a quick nap, life is good.

We get rid of those kids, so it is time for me to wake up.  The fun kids are coming next.

They play peek-a-boo and sing ABC’s with me all the way to school.

Mom tells me we are going to the park today, this makes me very happy.  I clap my hands every time she looks at me all the way until we get to the park.  It seems like I am clapping forever, but I keep on clapping. 

I decide to take Zoe with me to the park.  It is fun when I have friends there and today.  I have all my friends.  This is one of the playgroup park days, so there are a whole lot of other kids my age to play with and Mommy says it is okay.  I prefer Zoe though and sort of keep to myself.

20070914_00508a See Zoe go down the slide??

20070914_00808a See Zoe swing??

20070914_00308a 20070914_00908a Yeah, I go down the slide too and swing as well.

I like jumping on that moving bridge also, it is pretty fun place.  There were like 10 other moms all smiling at the way I get the bridge to shake and how loud I laugh.  What is wrong with these people??  Don’t they know what fun is??

20070914_01809a I wore myself out and decided to swing with Zoe in the relaxing baby swing.

Mom says it is time to leave, so I cry and kick my feet.  It doesn’t matter where we are leaving.  It is always fun to kick my feet and pretend to be mad.  I am really hungry though, so mom talking about food makes me smile again.

20070914_02011a I eat my beans.  I had a pork chop too.  It was good and I ate it all.  Mom says I eat more than she does, but I don’t believe her.

Mom says it is time to go get the kids again.  I am ready to go because this is a good resting time for me.  I slept for almost the whole time, except I did wake up to be played with at the end.  The last kids are the most fun. 

We go home and I play with the horses.  The brown one is nice and always lets me pet him.  We are working on getting him moved to his other pasture, but there is an apple tree in there.  Mom and I go pick up apples, so the horses don’t get belly aches from them.  We pick up 6 buckets, but it is raining and we are wet and tired.  We decide to finish tomorrow.

20070914_04907p We go to the house and I read some of my books.  Today was so busy, I just climb up onto mom’s lap and go to sleep.  She is so warm you know.

Good Night…

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3rd September 2007

A Day You Won’t Believe…

It started like any other day, doesn’t that sound novel like?? LOL… It did though honestly. We woke up, Kyra asked for Barney like she does every morning. I honestly don’t think she realizes that she has slept because she was watching Barney before she went to bed too usually. I turned on Barney because she is spoiled.

I rolled, moaned and groaned, like usual summer and weekend behavior is.

I got up checked out my site here. Yeah, I do that before I brush my teeth. I am a true addict.

I did all the hygiene stuff we do.

Than we got on the car and left to take Kyra to Adam’s. That all went fine.

We went to my first job at Walmart. That went quick.

I gave Stan the option of doing my longer Circuit City job or my other Walmart job and than eating. The Circuit City job taking up to 2 hours and the Walmart job taking like 15 minutes. He said the Circuit City, he wanted to sit in the car while I worked, so I left it running for him. He was fine when I went in.

I came out and he said his sugar was low, so I ran…yeah….I was that girl running like a maniac being stared at by everyone into the Target Pharmacy. I bought 100 glucose tablets because he was out anyways…we used them all last week when he passed out on me. I was lucky the lady behind the pharmacy is a friend of mine sort of. We talk whenever we see each other, but I don’t know her name and she doesn’t know mine. She rang me out very quick. I ran like mad back out of the store…you would have thought I was stealing based on how quickly I was running. I wasn’t….I was expecting bouncers or something to come chase me down. LOL…

I gave him 2 tablets. We were on our way to eat anyways…

We went to the restaurant, Ryans a buffet. You get food the quickest there of anyplace I know because it is a buffet. Anyways…He walked on his own power about up 1/2 way to the door. He said I’m getting dizzy. I took his arm and ,yeah little old me, carried a 250 lb man into a restaurant not a single person asked if I needed help. The lady at the register finally took the other hand and helped me get him to a table.

I told her he was diabetic and he just needed food. I gave him a couple more glucose tablets. I could feel people looking at me like why the hell is she bring this man that can’t walk into the restaurant. Those same people didn’t wait to see him walking out though so they are probably home telling there kids they saw the strangest thing today.

Anyways…we ate. Yeah, he came back just fine. This disease is completely crazy.

He walked out, I think he could have jogged out.

We went to Walmart. I did my other job and we grocery shopped. We didn’t have any food, well now a cart and a half later. We won’t starve at least. I am glad Stan has money to eat. I would have really been scrounging…but Stan has a special diet. It is really hard to scrounge with his diet.

We came home and watched TV some. I fed my poor little piggy, which is sort of a challenge because she has two horses that are grain hogs in there with her. I have to distract the horses with hay. I can then grain my pig, so the horse won’t know he is eating. The horses will be out of there soon though rotated into the other pasture…LOL…our neighborhood pasture rotation.

I found the fate of my goats. They are on there way to auction tomorrow….they get out of the neighbors fence too. I don’t feel so bad getting rid of them for that reason now. Someone should have a very tasty meal from them.

I was going to make my bed time which was 20 minutes ago, but at 9:10 Robin calls and says we have a bon fire come over and check it out. I said for a few minutes, but I have to get to bed which really means blog and then go to bed since this is my routine.

That was my crazy LABOR day though. Good Night….school is back tomorrow. Woo Hoo!!

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27th August 2007

I Should Have Got Lost…

Yeah, I survived today.  It really wasn’t that bad, but I am dead tired.  I did my routes this morning without a hitch.  I didn’t get lost and the kids are like zombie’s on the first day.  The real kids will emerge tomorrow.  I still had a behavior chat with a middle school student and had to keep telling my new kindergartner’s to sit down.  It seems I got a talkative bunch of them and they all know each other already which is pretty cool.

The new school bus loops seemed to be more hectic almost than helpful.  We have this new giant loop at the one school, every bus that loads at that school can fit in the loop but we are only loading 3 or 4 busses at a time.  We may as well have kept our small loop at least it seemed productive.  Hopefully we will be able to do this more efficiently as the next few weeks go on.  I don’t know as my boss is so hopeful though as he now has us all going to the other more organized school first.  LOL… It make sense though for the turn issues too as we won’t have to cross traffic either.

20070826_04111a I got home from my routes though and that is when my real fun started.  I had taken these extra assignments auditing BP stations because I didn’t think school started til Wednesday.  That made me extra busy.  I immediately left and did my two audits that I said I would do today.  I also did my normal Sears job.  I had hoped to get my Circuit City job done too.  I had an appointment to get my bus physical at 11 though.  I didn’t get my Circuit City done though because I was at the doctors for 2 hours.

My appointment consisted of reading and eye chart, testing my pee for sugar level, and squatting for the doctor.  This took 2 hours.  I sat in the waiting room even with an appointment for that long.  I was very disappointed.  Thank goodness I only have to do that once a year.  Next year…I will be more prepared and do it slightly before school starts, like in July.

I did my afternoon route.  Everything went fine except I got an extra child that wasn’t supposed to be on the bus.  She was supposed to stay at the after school program, so it was no harm done really.  I took her back to school when I was done with my route, but that took an extra 40 minutes.  It is still unclear who made the mistake with that.  Oh well though.

I got home, ate real quick and off we went.  I took Stan this trip.  I went to Circuit City, did that job.  Stan went shopping in Target while I worked.  I then went toward where Adam lives and did another job at Office Max.  I called Adam and had him meet me there with Kyra to save him some gas.  It worked out real good.  I got his car seat from him too, so I won’t have to move it daily from the bus to the car.  I only have to give him one when I take Kyra to him.

20070827_02607p We got home, basically my first time today.  It was past 8 pm.  We went out to the goats and look at the little guy that was out there.  He has been there a couple days now, but I have been trying to deny him to myself in my brain.  I feed cats out there though, so he wasn’t starving there.  I took him to the neighbors to see if he belonged to them.  A few of my other cats originally belonged to them.  They assured me he wasn’t their’s though, so I got him some milk and let Kyra hold him a bit.  We took him back out to the barn though for the night.  I don’t really want another inside cat.

I came back in and have been entering all my jobs of today.  It is quite a mission all these different jobs.  I am not done, but have til Friday on some of them to get them entered.  I’ll do it sometime later I guess.

Kyra is having an awake attack.  She is still awake now and it is almost 11 or an hour past my new bedtime.  She will learn tomorrow that sleep is good when I get her little butt up with me at 6.

So that was my crazy day.  I have a couple of other interesting news stories to write about, but I am going to bed instead.  Tomorrow should be slightly less full, but we have our last diabetic training class which is an extra hour long. Good Night…

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23rd August 2007

Sesame Place…

I think I set a record with 8 posts yesterday, so I am going to cut my average with just this short one tonight.  We went to Sesame Place in Langhorne today.  We had a great time, but I carried Kyra most of the time…in the lines mostly.  My hands and forearms are very tired.  Here are some of the photos:

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It was a great day…can’t you tell.  That is what we did all day.  We just got home.

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19th August 2007

Rock Show…

   Today, I went to the Lebanon Rock Show.  It was so much fun. It is amazing how nature can put together some of the most amazing pieces.  There were about 100 different booths, so lots to look at.

20070819_15002pI was starving though by the time we left.  We went to Ruby Tuesday’s after though and it was well worth the starvation feeling and it filled me so much I didn’t need super. 

20070819_08210aThis is my favorite rock picture that I took.  I took about 200 though, so I am going to work on getting some of them wrote about for on my Franklin Rocks page.  I am currently e-mailing them to various members to write something about.

We took Kyra to Adam’s on the way to the show and she is staying there tonight.  We also took Stan for the day, we picked him up on the way back though.  I am surprised with Adam about that.  Stan said he was bored and he didn’t do anything with him basically.  He left with Kyra and he was more bored there than he would have been here.  I don’t think he will go again, but maybe that was the plan.  Who knows anymore.

picture525We got home and I took photos of fabric that I have from back when I used to list on ebay full-time, so new stuff but old stock.  Hopefully not to many other listings like these ones.  I will be having a sort of temporary comeback, to make some money for this month.  I took about 50 fabric photos.  This is my favorite piece of the lot.  I didn’t get them listed yet, but the photos are taken and edited ready to go.  So…if you like fabric panels, save up your cash.  There will be quite a few listed by me in the next week or so.  I just have to get my listing software updated and descriptions typed out.  I will list them all at the same time though, so they all end close to the same time and hopefully they all get paid for all at the same time too.  I am sure…I will tell about it here.  I am ladylike4 on ebay though, if you want to check out my 3000+ feedback.

That pretty much took up my whole day.  It was past 6 when I got back from the rock show, so a long day of fun.

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12th August 2007

Lunch Out…

Thanks for surprising me at lunch time, Andy.  Thanks also for making it so easy to convince you to buy our lunches.  Your a real push over you know…no matter what people say about you.

I was planning for another really boring day.  It turned out not so boring though amazing.  We went to lunch with Andy if you haven’t figured that out.  He came to get his tools he had stored in our garage and a desk or something.  The things around here I don’t notice all that much.  He popped in as I was thinking about our leftover ham for lunch.  We went to Perkins though and it was super.  The perfect breakup of the ultra boring weekend.

I went down to Robin’s to check in on her like I always am doing.  She had the hair stylist coming.  I wish they would give me more warning on when she is coming.  So, I got my hair cut…it looks great.  I haven’t taken any photos of it yet.  She made it shorter though on the sides where it was really annoying me and she thinned it some.  I feel a few pounds lighter.  I’ll have Stan take my picture tomorrow.

We stayed down there a long time.  Stan had her shave his head too, so now he looks like Uncle Fester again.  He always looks like him after a hair cut everytime.  I told him he should grow his hair though to impress the ladies.  There aren’t that many 70+ year olds that can grow a full head of hair like he can.  He just laughs.

We came home and that is when I was hooking Steven up with eHarmony, maybe someone will take him out from that site.  The personality profile thing is a joke though or at least in my opinion.  I mean…how can you rate yourself on sensual 1-7 and consider it even slightly accurate to what someone else will think.  The price is crazy too.  I don’t think I will be signing up in there any time soon.  We ended up taking him home too, so that was a slight ride.  He came down with Robin, so didn’t have a vehicle.

We got home watched CSI and here I am.  Kyra is getting a slight cold I think.  She has sort of been in that moody mood here lately.  I don’t think she is feeling perfect. She is also gorging herself on popsicles which I think is because she has teeth coming in more and they feel good.  I have been letting her have them when ever she wants.  I think the liquid is good for her too as it is very hot out.

Anyways, that was my day.  I am going to bed now.  Good Night.

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25th July 2007

Busy Busy…

Today was a strange day that will probably go down in history.  We signed our divorce today, so I will always remember that.

However, we went to the bank got that stuff situated.  We went to the car insurance talked to them, pretty much have it situated, but have to go do the final stuff on Monday.  We went to the lawyer with our agreements as far as everything goes and he is going to put them into a legal contract for us.  We also, like I said signed the divorce.  It isn’t final though for at least 90 days, but when we both go sign it again.

20070725_00110a We went to the courthouse and got an old mortgage taken off the deed which was sort of old business that I had just never done.  The flowers at the center of town were beautiful today.  We went to lunch with Stan at the Chinese Restaurant.

Yeah, I know it is strange to run around with together figuring out the division of your goods.  I think it is much easier though than the fighting way that seems to be the normal.  There are questions flying off to both of us in all these meetings.

20070725_00405p Yeah, than when we got home we went ahead and made it even weirder.  We went to the Community Fair.

20070725_02106p Adam and Kyra were riding on the dizzy cars.  Both look like this is fun though don’t they??  I was getting a little loopy just watching them though.

We came home and Adam went to our neighbors for some drinks with them.  They tell him divorce horror stories like most people seem to have.  I have to say, I don’t think I will be telling those stories.

It has been a day, so I am off to bed.  Good Night…

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