Work all day.  My work is exciting at times, but for the most part very dull to the onlooker.  I type and do paperwork all day almost fruitlessly.  Randomly calling someone or hugging someone who just hit a deer.  I listen the the crazy stories of the lives of my customers.  I am the person that knows a lot about them, but they hardly notice that I do.  I see them once a month for the most part, try my hardest to remember every name. 

It is funny because I remember working so hard at remembering the kids on my school bus names too.  It is ironic how similar these completely different jobs are in the details.

I get home from work, I used to always have to cook something.  Now, Stephen is already home, so I either cook, help cook or eat what Stephen has cooked.  Play with the dogs, read with Kyra, Kyra gets a bath, watch Curious George and go to bed.

That is a typical work day right there.

Weekends though, they rock.  We change everything up.

This past weekend on Saturday we went to a rock show in the morning.  It was raining, so we didn’t go to fall festival like we had planned.  We came home and worked on sorting toys.  I am cleaning out Kyra’s baby toys so we have room for new bigger kid toys at Christmas time.  We cleaned for quite a bit on Saturday.  In the evening, Kyra went to play with Hannah and Gage and Stephen and I went out to a band.

It was really fun. Brad came out from Philly.  It is good to be back with my friends.

Sunday, we went shopping.  Stephen got 2 new cell phones.  Yeah, weird I know.  His Verizon one died and it was under warranty, so he got a new one from them.  I hope to sell that one on ebay and make the money that he spent on the other one.  He then got onto my AT&T plan, so it would save us some money.  I think that instead of spending like $160 a month we should save about $40 a month by being on the same plan.

We ate out at Bonanza where Kyra is free.  Free is really a draw for that place, but they really do get ripped off.  Kyra eats more than I do usually.  I guess I paid $10, so they make out in the end.

Anyways, that is my typical day and my last weekend.  It is all a really great life.  I am so happy to be me.  I am one of those people that don’t envy others who loves being right where I am at right at this minute.  It is truly great.  I used to not be at this place mentally and this is truly way better.

After the haunted house we went and got Kyra from her dad.

I ended up staying up really late. 

Saturday, my grandmother, aunt, and 2 cousins came to visit.  Everyone says I look like my aunt Janice, I don’t agree but with this photo somehow I do see where they get it.  I never used to have a clue what people were talking about.

Kyra played with her cousins a little bit.

They didn’t stay very long.  It was a good visit though.

After they left we went to Tarin’s to discuss Stephen and I and to play with Hannah and Gage.  Stephen and I still weren’t back together…

I was at Tarin’s, Kyra was playing.  Tarin had to cook like a million pounds of stuffing (really she had 3 crates of stuffing) for a charity dinner event thing, so we were in her kitchen.  I laid on the floor talking to her and bam.  I fell asleep, goodness…. they let me sleep right there on the floor for 2 hours.  LOL…

I woke up well rested.  I went and chased and caught all her loose chickens. 

We left and went home.  Kyra was playing and I was on my computer nothing unusual. 

I wanted to go to Purse before winter came, so Stephen popped up online and I asked him about going to Purse with me.  Well, I had talked about it the night before.  Well, he was like lets go, so our adventure began at 8 or 9 pm from out of the blue.  We are going to the beach.

We stayed in a Holiday Inn Express somewhere close to Waldorf, MD.  We woke up and went to beach.  The beach is at the end of this long trail through the woods…. The beach was so high tide that there was virtually no beach.  There was no chance of Sharks Teeth findings and it was really cold.  We stayed only a short while.

We than headed to York, to the Nixon center where Geology Weekend was about to end.  That is a pretty neat little museum if you haven’t visited it….everyone should go there once.  More than once though is overkill…unless you like the trails.  The trails are the only thing that really change any.

We left the environmental center and went to a friend of ours who lives in York.  They have a little boy that Kyra likes playing with, so we stayed there until pretty late.  We left and came  home.  Our surprise weekend get away. 

We are back together afterwards of course.  We never really had a good reason to be separated as we never really fought.  It is really bizarre to me because it seems like we didn’t even skip a beat.  I always like being with him.  He makes me laugh.  He still does. 

Now we are back to deal with things I never dealt with before, that is his parents.  I never really dealt with in-law per say parents, so I am a bit more awkward than I usually am.  I am nervous even though I haven’t seen them again yet.

All in all it was a really great weekend.  I am really happy and my family visit was really nice.

Kyra is of course perfect, especially when she is asleep as like most kids.  She is a real joy awake though too.  She is so smart, puts things all together.  She asks smart questions and always wants to play.  She helps me cook everything.  She enjoys being able to do things herself…for example today she opened a single serving bag of Oreos.  She makes you laugh because she says I squeeze it and they come right out all the while laughing hysterically like it is the best thing to ever happen.  It gives you a whole new perspective on opening Oreos though that is for sure.

My last week was pretty standard…my weeknights are get home late, cook, play outside an hour, get bath, watch TV, and go to bed.  It is the weekends we live for here.

We went to the fish hatchery with Tarin and her son.  It was so fun although her son called it boring…blah on him.

We had fun taking photos after.  I don’t have many photos of myself because I am always the one taking them, so I got about 5 new ones of me.  Look at that big butt…

Sunday we went to a friends house and picked up some stuff I left there.  We went to the Legion though after and had burgers.  There food is yummy and well for me and Kyra to eat it was less than 8 dollars… I can’t do burgers with the fixings for that price at home.  There was another man and his daughter in there eating, Kyra and her were playing.  I told him we were going to the park after, he was like could we tag along.  I don’t know where the parks are around here.

So…off we went to the park.

When we got there…it was like I knew everyone there.  Laura was there with her kids, so Kyra played with them and I got to talk with them for a bit.  We walked around the trail to the other side and who shows up… Lyn and her kids, so Kyra was playing with them.  It was really cool….all the while I am with this strange guy whom I have no idea even his first name.  It was a bit strange.  LOL…. 

We went walking around the trail back to the other side of the park, we had been there like 2 hours.  There is Stephen’s gram walking around the trail, so I give her a hug.  She is actually nice to me and hugs me.  I loved her… I miss some of his family a lot.  She would be tops of the list.

The guy I’m with his name is Clark and he owns a body shop in Chambersburg.  He turned out to be pretty nice.  Our girls played pretty good together. 

It was none the less an interesting time at the park way more entertaining then my usual chase Kyra which I still got to do of course.

Monday was really good.  I like sleeping in.  I changed my work hours, so I don’t have to get to work until noon.  I got up and cleaned the house for about an hour.  Adam came here to get Kyra and took her to get her almost last vaccination.   I think she has 2 left now.

She went and played at Laura’s today instead of Tom’s house because he was taking Brittany to Pittsburgh.  She did really well though, so everything is all good.  We cooked ham with Pepsi glaze for super.  It actually turned out yum.

Deuce has fleas, again…I swear if I am a day late on that Frontline thing he gets them again.  I think I am going to get some of those disgusting bug bomb things for in my house…. I don’t really like the idea of poison going in the entire air of my house, but I also don’t like the idea that fleas never die.  That maybe something that happens sooner versus later though, we will see.

Have a great time…..

I was like okay, so off me and Kyra went with 3 of my customers.

I never watched the little cars race.  It was a blast.  We ended up being with like 20 people when we got there because the uncle to my one customer was an actual driver and had his whole fan section.  It was great.  Kyra had a blast.

Saturday, we took one of my friends Brad to the apple festival, so we were there like 6 hours.  We watched Indian Dancing.  We ate apples.  We went through there petting zoo area.

Today we went to Walmart.  I got photos printed, so that I can have actual pictures of Kyra in my office.  We went to the park for a few hours.

All and all….it was a really great weekend.

If your homeowners go up, just think all your buddies will have there’s going up too.  We are just the first to step out and do it.  I truly believe if you are my customer and you get this increase, you can leave and get cheaper.  If you suck it up though, I believe you will notice that where you would have went price goes way up within the next year or two…. and mine will become more competitive with that.  Possibly even beating that price because we stepped out first…

I sold 2 policies today at work.  I got a lot of work done.

Anyways….  Kyra is doing great.  She spends Thursday with her dad though, so I don’t have much to say here.  She enjoys being with her dad.

1. What is the most useful gift you’ve ever been given?
2. Name the most terrifying moment of your life so far.
3. One hot summer afternoon, while walking through a parking lot at a large shopping center, you notice a dog suffering badly from the heat inside a locked car. What would you do?

Answers:

1. I have been given a lot of useful dishes, but I have to say probably the best was getting dishes from my brother.  When Adam left he took at the dishes no not complaining.  He deserved them.  I just didn’t have many and Jason came down with a big box of really nice dishes.  It was really nice.  We still use those dishes now although they seem to chip easily.  I have added to them.
2. I don’t know….I have had a lot of scary moments.  I try to forget them.
3. Go into the store and have them make an announcement that the car owner left there lights on or something like that to get them out… I probably wouldn’t confront them though.  I am a woose about this type of stuff.  I think it is terrible though that some people do this.  Man, my dog is so spoiled….

Manic Monday has been going on so long.  All that time I stopped posting…they were still going strong.  Here is where you can find them ever single week.

I felt bad for Deuce today, I wasn’t real nice to him after he chewed my shoe.  So I have a guilty conscience.  Today we had to go buy some more pizza crust mix because Gage and Hannah were possibly coming to make pizzas with us.  It wasn’t to hot out and stuff, so we loaded Deuce in the car and off we went.

We went to Walmart got out stuff.  It was pretty good…I got in an out of Walmart with less than $10 spent.  Amazing huh??

Deuce is pretty good in the car, he gets nervous though.  I just think he has a lot of nervous tendencies… he loves going though. 

We took him to the park and went on the long walk.  We took the short lease and the long lease, so both Kyra and I walked him around the trail.  He did really well.  He is out asleep on his chair already tonight, so he must be tired.

Kyra did good.  She is such an amazing kid.  She loves walking Deuce.  Every person that walked by us, she told them she has one dog and his name is Deuce.  I think everyone that heard her got a big smile.  A couple told her about there dogs which was kind of cool.

We came home and cooked vegetables, more of the potatoes from the garden.  Oh, they are so good….  Kyra just had a hot dog for super with the vegetables.  It was a good night.  We drew, painted, read stories, jumped on bed, played blocks, played in sand outside.  We cleaned the porch off.  I ran the vacuum, but you can’t tell.  She is laying on the bed watching Sesame Street right now, occasionally she will say “Hey Mom, I want to do that”.  I say “OK” and that is that.  We have lots of things to do though.

Hannah and Gage put off the pizza until tomorrow…I think they are a bit nervous with Deuce.  I hope they will get over it though as he sleeps in with Kyra and me.  I think they would have fun here and it would give there parents a night out.  Parents need nights out…..I know I do.  It helps put into perspective the times I have with Kyra and keeps me grounded even though that seems opposite of what you would think.  That night off and that night of missing Kyra keeps me from getting complacent or whatever that word is.  I appreciate my time having her more I think.

Anyways, today was a great day.  We had a lot of fun.  Tomorrow is looking to be a really fun day too….maybe we will clean some more.  However, laundry is all done here.  Good Night…

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.

I went out last week…as you all know.  I wrote about it on here.  Did I drink, NO.  Did I do anything wrong, NO.  Is it bad that sometimes I pick up my girl at 2 am, yes maybe.  Do I do it all the time, NO.  Are there worse things?  Yes…  Should I never go out and do things I like?  I don’t think I shouldn’t, being a mom didn’t come with a grounded for life bulletin.

So my mom calls Adam and threatens that Child Services is going to take Kyra away from us.  Both of us….yeah get that, why because I spend so much time in bars.  She is the biggest BITCH on the face of the earth. (Sorry, Mom, but it true.)

I like watching bands.  I like dancing.  It is stuff I enjoy.  They don’t even start until 10, what is so wrong with me going out once in awhile and having a good time.  Yeah, last week.  I spent less than $10 total for the full night out.  I picked up Kyra afterwards and went home to bed.  I was after all about 2 miles from her.

Saturday, Kyra and I went to the park for 4 hours.  Sunday we walked Lake Henrietta.  She is the most loved little girl in the world.  She spent 2 full days…Thursday and Friday with her father, doing fun things.  She then came to me and spent the following 2 full days with her mom doing fun things. 

What is the problem?  I’m not out getting in trouble.  I have a good job, my daughter is well taken care of, we have food and live in a nice house.   I didn’t do anything wrong…I am grown and can do what I want and nobody should interfere, especially from over 200 miles away. 

You don’t know what you are talking about, so shut the hell up, MOM and anyone else who has an opinion.  It isn’t your business nor your place to decide what I do and how I live.

Kyra had a busy day.  She went shopping with Tom at like 4 stores.  She wore her pants inside out all day until she got a bath tonight.

When we got home we dug up fresh potatoes from the garden and cooked them up with a meatloaf.  It was probably my most complete meal in a whole long while.  I tend to lean towards partial meals here as I don’t eat that much.  So tonight we had a whole rounded healthy meal.  The garden potatoes though were definitely a highlight.  They were go yummy.

They were so good.  I think they put Kyra right to sleep.  She was out within 15 minutes of super.  She didn’t even watch Curious George first…she was just out.

Now, I’m on here and also dead tired.  I have left overs though for lunch tomorrow that I will probably actually eat.  Good Night….