He can not be left alone though. I hate putting him outside in the rain even though he has a house and would be fine. I also hate putting him in his giant crate for the day. I want to just let him have free roam of the house…so he isn’t cooped up all day. He is fine outside when it is nice or in summer, but for the winter and for bad weather days. I want to keep him in house.
That said I keep giving him chances with my things. Today was one of those days, so I get home to my living room have all sorts of junk scattered all around including a wicker basket shredded…not even sure where that came from yet. My shoes though what is up with dogs and shoes? He only really tore up 1 shoe this time…he has gotten at least 20 pair since I have had him. When I first got him he went mad on my shoes one day…so now my shoes are put away in this shoe thing, so he can’t get them. I put a blanket over the shoe thing this morning as extra caution.
I closed all the room doors, so he only has access to the living room kitchen area.
He took 8 shoes out of the shoe rack though…mind you only actually chewing one individual shoe. He took them out though and had them all over my living room.
This much be why the previous owners got rid of him. I mean…why shoes and why chew things? When I even give him bones he is more than welcome to chew. He chooses to chew my things.
I scream and get mad because I am mad and he acts like he gets it, but does he really??
What do I do? How do I stop this madness. He doesn’t do it while I am here of course.
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Kyra had a rough day today. She didn’t use the potty at the babysitter’s today. She instead peed her pants twice. Now, Kyra is potty trained. She just simply doesn’t do this. She is past accidents for the most part and if she does have accident at home it is standing in front of the toilet unable to get her pants down. We are going to try to leave the light on in the bathroom there tomorrow thinking maybe she wouldn’t go in there with it dark.
It is wonderful to go get her though. I walk in the door to the big announcement “My Mom” sort of like “Woo Hoo”. It is comical. I wisk her away and home we go.
We played blocks a long time tonight, she can do towers with her Legos now. She really likes them. We ate super and that is pretty much it. The evening goes so short. We have mornings too though. We play in the mornings too and get our showers. It is a really different day dimension than it used to be.
Oh, yeah…I have to rename this site. Do you have any good ideas for it?? I have a couple, but would love your input.
Have a great night.
]]>I stood talking and laughing with 5 drunk men. There were ladies there, but they were in the house watching a movie I had already seen and while it was okay. I didn’t need to see again. At midnight, the men all got guns out and started blasting into the sky. They must have sent 50 rounds off.
I stood contemplating though, what is going on with my life. I imagine that this is what you are supposed to do with the coming of a new year. I am at a crossroads that I never imagined being at.
My life can go in several directions from here and I am basically very confused.
1.) The first direction is get a full time job and go to college part time. This is probably the smartest option financially in the present. It would take me about 4 years to finish my degree with this approach, but I would have a slight amount of spending money through these years. I would have to pay full price to college more than likely.
Now, I have been looking for a full time job, but I haven’t really found one that I am willing to do except one an hour south of me, which is really dumb because Adam lives an hour north of me. Kyra would be 2 hours away from me if I worked there, so it isn’t happening.
2.) The second direction is to say screw it, stay driving my bus to pay my bills. While going to college full time plus some. This option would entail signing up for every single help program there is, to assist getting my bills paid.
I am not one to ask for help though even when everyone tells me that this is what those programs are for. I mean things like health insurance for Kyra and stuff. I still pay for that out of my small income instead of going with Chips or whatever programs I definitely qualify for. I would probably get food stamps too in this time. I would exhaust all the government available college funding.
This option I would probably have my degree by the end of next school year. It would essentially be 18 months of complete studying all the time.
What do you think of my options for college?? What would you do?? Do you see more options??
There are other details of my life all in questions too.
Some of my older friendships are on the rocks because of my relationship issues and religion basically. I don’t think they will survive honestly.
I don’t know where my relationship with Stephen is going. It is nice now of course, but thinking of the whole next year. Man, I can’t think that far ahead. It is still positively crazy that I am divorced this year from where I was in life last year. I do find it amazing that Stephen is almost exactly my same religious opinion and political opinion though, I think that it has to be hard to find in a person. It is crazy to agree with someone on those hard topics which most of the time, I am the odd one out in my opinion.
There is one known positive though and that is Kyra. She is going to be my shining star and positive force for the entire year.
So, bring on 2008. It is going to be one heck of a roller coaster ride around here probably, so be warned.
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The hours are the big issue for me. They are from 7 am to 5 pm Monday – Friday, so 10 hour days. I would have at least an hour driving by the time I get Kyra taken care of. That bumps it up to 12 hour days. That alone is probably fine.
They also require one weekend a month, which would mean another 20 working hours over the course of a weekend.
This also means I would once a month work 12 days in a row without a day off.
Does all that seem excessive to you or am I paranoid/spoiled??
]]>So what should I do…?? This site is a site about me, but I have worked hard on making the driver news section and over all the site very informative for school bus drivers. I am ranked for most searches involving things with school busses. Last month I had 2,000 visitors from search engines with terms involving school busses.
Should I continue to keep up with that section or let it just slip away? Should I talk to my other blogging driver friends and allow them to keep that section up. Do you enjoy reading that section?
What should the site name be…surely it shouldn’t be “The Life of a School Bus Driver” if I am not one. LOL….
Oh the changes…..do you have opinions. You know I love my readers opinions right?? LOL..
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Here is what I decided for the M&M giveaway. Your chance to enter starts now..til next week. That is Thursday 10 pm US Eastern Time, your chance ends.
Here is what you need to do….
How did you get to school?? What is your best memory of that, was your driver mean??
- if you are a blogger write a post on your site about getting to school. It can be fiction or non-fiction. If you were homeschooled maybe write about not riding the bus and your feelings about that. If you walked to school write about that… Basically any post referring to getting to school will be accepted.
- if you are not a blogger write a story anyways, but instead of posting it, e-mail it to me my first name at ladylike4.com is where I will get it. I will post it here on my site.
Leave a comment here in the comments, so I know you are entering and as your official entry.
I will select the winner randomly with your comment number and the random number selector, so double comments and non-entering comments will be deleted.
There are no link requirements or anything like that…it is just M&M’s. Yes, yummy… yummy M&M’s, 3 lbs of them. You may link though of course if you want…do almost anything you want. Super simple…
The winner will be told next Friday evening. I will e-mail for shipping information and the M&M’s will go out with Saturday or Monday mail depending on how quick you are. I will even ship internationally (flat rate envelope), so most all can enter.
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