2003

18 hours left in 2003.
Here is a first attempt at recalling my year. I may go in and re-edit many times as I am certain that during the last 6 brain surgeries the doctors removed the part of my brain that recalls short term memory.
JANUARY 2003
Was in-between brain surgery 5 & 6. Had one each month since August of 2002 and I was feeling pretty good! I always did between those surgeries-LOTS of good drugs!
The kids and I sat on the front porch and banged pots and pans and screamed “Happy New Year” to the neighborhood.
Note- I did NOT eat black-eyed peas this year. First year, I think, since I had been born!

FEBUARY 2003
My eldest of daughters turned 11. We had a big party with lots of friends, food, gifts and laughter!
My 2003 Chevy Caviler was repoed.

MARCH 2003
Received a letter stating that our home was going to be foreclosed on.
Filed Chapter 13 Bankruptcy.

APRIL 2003
Celebrated Easter, Ostara as we see it. Colored lots of eggs and had a BBQ at my brothers.

MAY 2003
Bought the kids a big swimming pool so I could listen to hubby man bitch all summer.
Took kids to the Zoo. Having a pretty okay summer. Just a few ups and downs with the health thing.

JUNE 2003
Took kids to Six Flags. Had a great time. Totally over did things. I am having trouble knowing when enough is enough when it comes to my health.

JULY 2003
My babies turned 9. Had a party. Too many kids, lots of fun.
Went to Grants Farm. The twins are related to Ulysses S Grant. He is their Great, Great, Great, Great,…….. Grand father. They enjoyed learning about that!
Their Bio-dad came to visit for 2 days on his way to Nevada to live closer to his mom. Promised the kids he would call when he got there.
Note: It is now Jan. 1, 2004 and still no call, child support payments have stopped.

AUGUST 2003
Back to Six Flags- too damn hot
Back to school time- yeeeeeehaaawwwwwww

SEPTEMBER 2003
Back in hospital for me, in St Louis twice and in Columbia twice. Had Intestinal Peritonitis. Allergic to shunt tubing from my VP shunt-had it removed.
Also had Gall bladder removed because they thought that was the problem.
Married for 2 years to a very amazing man!!

OCTOBER 2003
HALLOWEEN
Got way too drunk! Got way too crazy with neighbors on front porch! Still embarrassed about some of the goings on. Had a great time to say the least! LOVE THY NEIGHBOR!

DECEMBER 2003
XMAS turned out to be truly wonderful! I got a stove from our friend Chad and $200 from mom and dad. Dan & Terry paid to have my car fixed and the kids really raked it in!
Soon I will have photos up to show you all.


All in all it turned out to be a really awesome year. The best I have had in a very long time! I am sure that 2004 will be even better and with BLOG I am sure to keep better track of it!

What's In A Name??

Today is the Centennial of the Worlds Fair and the Bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. St. Louis, of course, is having a humungous celebration {cuz we are special}. The celebration for tonight has taken years to plan-four years in fact. They have everything you could ever dream of, including an eleven foot Ferris wheel.
Now, in the past St Louis has had some good fairs for New Years Eve. I have attended a few. We have had the VP Fair and First Night.
This one....the biggest of them all.....the biggest in 100 years shall be called.....get this......04eve!
BLAHHHHHH Doesn't anyone own a damn Thesaurus any more???
For goodness sake people- this is suppose to be HUGE- give it a HUGE name! Here are some words to choose from;
Majestic
Fabulous
Phenomenal
Revelry
OK- Here is a Name for ya.....MAJESTIC REVELRY '04
Sounds a heck of a lot better than wimpy 'ol '04eve.

EPHEDRA

Attilio {from-Attilio's Discount Sports Supplement Inc} seems to be a bit perturbed at this whole ephedra band. I wonder if it is because it means he will actually loose some business? He was on the news this morning talking about how there is no scientific research stating that ephedra is causing these health related problems. The white house on the other hand states that there have been over 16,000 cases of SERIOUS health related illness and death directly related to the use of ephedra.

I do not need any scientific research to know that this shit is bad. Since I have known my husband he has been completely addicted to it- taking bottles of mini-thins a day just to function. It alters moods, makes you a completely different person. Brings about rage disorders. The withdraw symptoms from ephedra are even worse, ranging from extreme mood swings, profuse sweating, pain, hallucinations, ect. I know, I have seen it first hand! When it was made difficult for my husband to buy the mini-thins, he resorted to other drugs that gave him the same affect such as Dayquil and began to take boxes of this on a daily basis. It is the Pseudoephedrine in Dayquil that gives the SAME effect as ephedra if you take enough of it. It is ALSO the Pseudoephedrine in over the counter cold medication that METH AMPHETAMINES are made with. YES METH! And it is also Pseudoephedrine that is replacing ephedra in weight loss pills. So, everyone- instead of killing yourselves with the use of Ephedra in weight loss pills, why not use METH INSTEAD??!! Make since to you?

After several long, exhausting, sleepless nights since Xmas I have found an answer. An answer to why I can not sleep. I have come to the conclusion that if there are any human bodies in this house that are awake- then I, too, am awake. Somehow, even drowning out the sounds, meditating, medicating, it does not matter what I do I am still awake until the last person falls fast asleep.


While I was trying to fall asleep last night, I was thinking of FATIGUE and how it relates to me. Keep in mind- this is my thought process as I am in bed after midnight on about 5 hours of sleep in 4 days.......here we go.....Why am I fatigued? hummmmmmm Lack Of Sleep, maybe?? How can I get rid of it? SLEEP - damn it.........And maybe exercise.......Clean my house....Stay busy during the day......Exercise..Yeah and that would benefit me with my sex life too! whooohoo sex? what's that??? Damn- I NEED to exercise so I can get sex!! Sex....."Homer Voice"....ummmmmm sexxxxxxxxxxxxxxx........ ohhh yeah- FATIGUE.......must get back to fatigue.....Fatigue as a Code Word...Must tell friends that when they hear me use the word "fatigue" then what they are really hearing is this..........
F ast A ssist T rish I n G etting U nbounding E nergy!!! lol that is too cute..........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Ok this sharing the computer stuff is for the birds! I have a hubby and 3- count 'em- THREE PC Literate children all of which need at least 20 hours a day to themselves.
ok-maybe I am exaggerating just a bit- they need like 8 hours a day to themselves on here......teehee
I JUST DO NOT SHARE WELL!!!!

Just keep swimming - just keep swimming...........

Here take this quiz and if you haven't seen this movie yet - WHAT IN THE %^&$#% ARE YOU WAITING FOR??!!!!


I got............

What Finding Nemo Character are You?
brought to you by Quizilla

AWWWWWW

While I am sitting here messing with Blogger - AGAIN- STILL.....
My wonderful husband is doing his -being wonderful thing- again.
He is letting me lazy-not saying a word! Goddess knows there is PLENTY to do around here but he never complains. Not like me-I ALWAYS complain about everything-if you can't already tell!
So I am sitting here at the PC messin' with HTML and he tells our bored 9 year old daughter to help him. At first she cringes- "ohhhh geezzzz" I can hear her say "Now I've done it".......He puts a Steak n Shake apron on her and fits it to her tiny frame and takes her into the kitchen to cook dinner.
I can see them from where I sit. It is such a great thing to watch-the bonding. These two have always had a bonding problem anyway. They just put the Lasagna in the oven and he is teaching her how to make his "OH so famous BREAD". LOL She just can't seem to get the concept of YEAST though......lol

Ok ummm- that last blog was just a LITTLE pre-mature-damn-it.....grrrrrrrrrrr
Instant gradification is what I NEED- so GIVE IT TO ME. NOW
POST NOW

yippy yeeeeeehawwwwwwwww Took me hours but I got Blogger to work!!!!
WOHOOOOO I am soooooo HAPPPPPY!!!

At least I am not the only one

I feel a little better knowing that blogger is not out to get only me. My friend A seems to be having a good ol' time with blogger herself. I have yet to contact them. I MUST wait until ever strand of hair is plucked from my head before I write to the wonderful blog-folk.
I posted a rant about this at 8:34 my time....also made template changes....and NOTHING......NADA......ZILCH and I can not sleep-so I RANT! Bear with me- This too shall pass!

OK- GEEEEZZZZZZ and I wonder why I haven't blogged in so damn long!!! Ok Ok So I really should not complain- I mean- It IS free but WHEN I MAKE CHANGES ON MY TEMPLATE AND SAVE IT- TWICE - and it DOES NOT SAVE then there is a PROBLEM.
There are only a couple VERY general templates to choose from anyway- I tried to make mine comfortable enough to come to everyday-nice to look at- spent about 3 hours here by now and NOTHING.....SAVED NOTHING........ BLAHHHHHHHHHHHH
rant rant rant bitch bitch bitch
I think I will spend the next 30 minutes looking for another FREE online journal site to sign up with- wish me luck!

Well, it has been quite awhile since I have blogged. Let’s see if I can get back into the groove.
I decided to blog again because of the most wonderful of holidays we just went through. The past several years I have been very ill though the Christmas season, unable to enjoy my friends, my family, my children…….always wishing for it to end quickly. A couple times I even spent Christmas in the hospital…..BA HUMBUG.
THIS YEAR- THIS YEAR it was different!
This year…….. I am on a new medication……. ONE pill- three times a day that is actually making a difference! This year, I was feeling so very good that I hosted Christmas day and dinner at my home! My WONDERFULLY, TALENTED hubby cooked a very grand meal and I cleaned and prepared our home for our guest.
Our lil’ Imps woke us at 4AM- YES 4….they set their alarm clocks stating- “It’s a tradition, we always wake you at 4 on Christmas day!” Ok- so THAT tradition will change! They raked it in this year! TONS of gifts all under our tree! They were/ are very happy!
Hubby went back to sleep- I could not- millions of things running through my head, along with the kids each running in to have me take toys out of boxes.
We had the family here. Mom, dad, brother, wife and their baby…..Great Aunt and then MY special guest…..C and her hubby…and S and her hubby and son….then my girl L and her hubby!! WOW How WONDERFUL!! I LOVED having them all here! I especially loved the fact that I was well enough to enjoy them all! S’s hubby wasn’t feeling too well cuz of a bad back and C’s hubby was trapped by my kiddos but all in all I am pretty sure they all had a good time! C cleaned my kitchen….I tried to stop her! LoL then she got to see first hand how VERY fast my kitchen gets messed up after it is so beautifully cleaned. Ummmm Yeah in my house- it is like fighting entropy.
So I want to send out a GREAT BIG – I LOVE YOU ALL AND THANK YOU ALL for making this the most wonderful Christmas/Yule/Solstice in a very long time!!