and my day starts out..

So my day started out with the alarm going off way too early---wait til next week when i go back to work!! So I facebooked for a few minutes, and then grabbed a quick bath so Ron and I could head out to get our errands done...got Shellie on the bus and came back in to fix my hair, and POW---my curling brush blew up on me....

Poop.....I guess I can't complain too much. I've had it for just over 9 years, so I am pretty sure that is a record for me and curling brushes....but it meant I had to go out looking like a greaseball. Threw as much of my hair as I could up in a clip and reminded myself that every day I see people go out looking worse than I did today......LOL...trip to Walmart accomplished the purchase of a new curling brush..at least now my hair is out of my eyes....

No I am still not watching the news--still too much Ted Kennedy coverage....come on people, it's not like he was Reagan!! And I didn't watch too much news then either....

I have discovered during the course of this week as I was so ill Tuesday and then have been recovering ever since--today being the first day I even came close to feeling like getting in the car---that I do not like ginger ale.....I got desperate the other night, tired of 7up and sprite and water......I sent Ron out to get ginger ale for me, hoping it would help my stomach.....well, stomach has kept down food since Tuesday evening, albeit not always willingly, and I have not experienced the other half of the equation since Wednesday evening, so something is going right.

But I still do not like ginger ale.....

My oldest stepdaughter bought a new for her car today...waiting for the child to pull up to show it off....

Trying to figure out why I got a call from the alarm company today at 10:45...not that I was here to take it....about the store.....called the mgr on duty when I got home and he said he had no clue..no one had called there, but that the other mgr said they had called her at home too. Nothing wrong...not gonna worry about it...I am still on vacation after all, and I don't get paid the big bucks to care when I'm not there.....cynical yes......

Ben needs new gym shorts..says his are too short, as they only reach mid thigh.....I asked if the girls have to wear them too or do they still get to wear the ones that cup under their butt cheeks and leave half of 'em hanging out.....neither of my sons seem to see anything wrong with that....I guess they are normal boys.......but I still think it's gross---just as gross as a guy who wears gym shorts so short that things that shouldn't be seen in public are......ewwww.....

Soccer games begin next week for our league...all thru September and then we are done first part of October.....then we can batten down for the colder months.....

Shellie has decided she is a girl after all...got her ears pierced this summer and she is now to the point that she can switch earrings out--or should I say, her dad can. She has decided she would rather have daddy change her earrings out for the time being. When we went to buy her some new ones when her 6 weeks were up, the lady where we got them told her no dangling ones for at least the next 6 months--they all have to have a post and back to them....she wasn't happy, but we had already told her no, just to keep them from getting caught on something while playing...she does her own nails and is very much in love with the whole skirts w/leggings look....

Looking at putting a perm in my hair.....really want mom to do it for me, but I cannot in good conscience ask her to stand that long after all the hours she is putting in at work after going back after breaking her ankle last winter......

well, rambling is done for the moment....going to grab something to eat and hope it does not grab me back....

Where's my new boss and other tales

So for the last 2 weeks or so we have known at work that our store manager was leaving to take over another store in the district....what we have not known is who is coming in to take ours.....I've even been questioned by the associates as to why I don't take it over, as I've been the ranking assistant for several years....truth it, and I've been up front with them as well as my soon to be former boss, I don't want it......been there done that bought the tshirt with Family Dollar years ago....will not do it again.... I can not put in those hours and still have a family life..others manage it somehow, but I've never found that balance where neither suffers. So I call work today and get my schedule for next week as I am on vacation now, and there is still no news as to who we are getting.....lovely....sarcasm meant.

The kids started back to school yesterday, which always brings out my best side....yeah, right. Getting them up and out the door, no problem. Even the 7 yr old is highly self sufficient in the mornings, with the occasional nudge usually all that is needed. Then they come home with the first of the year homework for parents--you know, the blue cards and all that....As I am reading and signing the high schooler's syllabi(?), I am noticing that yet again several teachers are requiring that tests and the like be made up at their convenience...either prior to school start and after the end of the school day. So it begins, with notes next to my signature that under no circumstances are my kids to be subject to this--the school bus is their ride to and from school. They do not drive, and I only drive them if they have had a dr. appt. Therefore such work is to be made up during the school day. I am waiting for the first time it is put to the test, so to speak...

Then there was the tale of no locks for my senior's homeroom's lockers....So I told him that if there was not one by the end of today, then tomorrow he would take his own, supplied by me, and I would not be supplying a key for the school, and I dared them to cut it off. He had a lock on his locker this morning when he got there......so this was a case of simple bad timing.....My sophomore got to school yesterday to discover they had taken him out of his piano class and put him in a photography class instead. He is now trying to get it changed back, since it was done without his knowledge....we'll see....but I did tell him that if he cannot get it changed back like he wants, then take the class and enjoy it......

Onto bigger and brighter things.....Senator Ted Kennedy has died. So I am therefore not watching the news channels, as I have no desire to see the lovefest that I am sure is going on. He may have done some good in his years in office, although I am hard pressed to think of some right now---give me a break, I'm not from MA and I have been severely ill this week---but there are also things he has done that he should have been held accountable for decades ago, even. And that any non-Kennedy would have been.....I shed no tears...I am waiting for our Sen. Byrd to kick the bucket just so I can laugh at all those who would still feel the need to kiss his cold dead butt.....

There is a lot of junk going on in this country right now and I swear I will get to spouting off about some of it, but the oven is calling---trying to rush lasagna before soccer practice.......yeah, buddy......