Endings.......

Ok, I am a geek, a nerd, a bookworm....Whatever.

I finished the 7th and final HP book about half an hour ago. My oldest son finished it earlier today--but he also had a cross country plane ride to do it on. No details will I leak, but I was surprised by quite a bit, had some thoughts confirmed, and enjoyed working my way to the end.

I honestly hope they continue to make the last 2 movies, even if they go straight to DVD. I think this last book would make a hell of a flick.

I wish more people would write books like this, that engage your imagination and emotions. That even make you want to root for the "bad" people, because you can see their humanity. Books that enthrall young and middle-aged and old alike. Because the underlying theme is so universal.
Now it is off to craft land--I need to crop and otherwise mutilate the 300 plus pictures I downloaded from my camera today---fun fun fun. It is what I get for not having a working computer for 3 months. Then at some point in the next few days, I want to visit some quilting
websites to get some tips on how to feed a queen size quilt through the standard sewing machine so I don;t have to do the quilting part by hand. AYE YI YI.

Wish me luck.

522 pages done, only 200+ to go.....

Obviously I am talking about the last Harry Potter book. I got two chapters read yesterday afternoon, several more late last night, and am now on page 522. No I'm not going to give away any of the plot--you will just have to read it for yourself. Suffice it to say that there are a few things I have read that gave me a surprise, but then these books generally do.

I'm going to have to get up with Ron in the morning and get into the garden and get the rest of the beans and peppers picked, as well as some tomatoes and some zucchini. It's going wild out there!

Mom and Dad just stopped by and checked out our new dining room table. Oak dark burnished finish with 8 very sturdy chairs---they had better be--it took me almost 4 months for the order to come in--after I was told 2-4 weeks or so, so imagine how long it would take to get replacements.

Halllelujah!! I don't mean to sound whatever, but we have had my stepdaughters since Wednesday night and I'm ready to take my house back. I love them dearly, but I don;t feel like my home is my own when they are here for more than a night or two. And Kris and I were probably coming to the end of our good period together---starting to irritate each other some.
Kate was pretty good--actuallly had her nose stuck in the first HP book all week.

Well, gotta go into work in a little bit, so better get done what I got on here to do in the first place.PICTURES!!!!!!!!!

Thoughts on turning 40....

Actually I have none. It's a birthday and I am not listed on the obituary page. Must be a good day.

I don't get why people freak over turning older. It beats the alternative by a mile and a half at least. But the only thing that even remotely bothered me was the fact that for the last 7 years I have had that day off and this year I didn;t. We normally take a nearly kid free vacation---all we usually have to have is Shellie, since she is ours and there is no visitation for her. The boys are at their dad's and the girls staying with their mom instead of being here on the odd day or so is no problem. But this year we didn;t schedule for us--we scheduled around when the boys would be here, so I worked on my birthday.

And got my driver's license renewed.

And paid the taxes on the cars to renew their registration.

And changed my address on my voter's registration.

And went to work.

But today I got my computer back, so all is right with the world again.

Damn this margarita is good.

Thank you Ronnie!!!!!!

I'm BAAAACCCKKKKK...........

I know--just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water---da dum da dum da dum---or however the Jaws theme goes. Thanks a whole bunch, more than I can say, to my brother the computer guru. He found a power supply for $30 for my faithful 5 yr old HP Pavilion---even after the HP guy laughed me off the phone----and he fixed it and updated it in no time. After 3 months of being offline----Halllelujah!!!

So yeah I have a lot stored up that i would love to talk about--from the table games the state is forcing through, to the stupid teachers and the stupider school board who don't know what in the f$%#%#$ hell they are talking about to dumbass drivers and so on and so forth---and I assure you that we will get into all of it (for those of you who don;t like to hear anything contrary to your own views--THIS IS YOUR WARNING!!!!!) right now I am dying to get into the 7th and final Harry Potter book, so I may not rant for too long today.

Not to mention the fresh from the garden zucchini, beans, fried green tomatoes, etc that we will be cooking for my delayed birthday dinner in just a bit. MMMMMMMMMM..........

Now it is off to email land, so I can email my boys and let them know I am back online--as they are in CT with their dad for summer visitation.......

At least my priorities are not completely screwed up......

late night musings.....

My best friend from my first post college job and I just spent the last hour and a half IM'ing each other. It was great----you have to understand that when I first moved back to the state in 1998 after husband #1 decided he wasn't happy anymore, she and I spent a long time online just sorting things out. Now we just try to email once in a while to keep up, with our schedules. I love my husband and family dearly, but nothing takes the place of old friends.
I have two really good ones-----the one I was talking with tonight, and my old college roommate, who I talked with a couple of weeks ago for the first time in months, and just talking with them, the years melt away. Jobs and responsibilities are different now, and so are our outlooks on life to a great degree. But even after long periods of time apart, we can still talk like we have never had to part.
Makes this old broad feel great.
Even though now we no longer talk about our sex lives or boyfriends, as old married women, there is still plenty to talk about.
And even in trading pictures of children not seen since they were babies, and are now teenagers, somehow the feeling of being old is fleeting.
Because we have reminded each other that we have purpose.......
And we have laughed........

weather or not......

Ok, bad pun. But it was 80-odd degrees Tuesday, and didn't even crack 40 today. Plus we had snow flurries--hard ones. What screwy weather.

But I still don't believe the global warming as spewed out by the Hollywood types.

On another note, starting the process of getting used to a new store manager. I think he will be good for the store, but he will take a little getting used to. His style is quite different from the former manager, who left for family reasons a couple of weeks ago. I think once we get the store into the kind of shape he wants it to be in, it will run smoother but there may be a couple of bumps along the way--not uncommon when dealing with so many different personalities.

I finally just had my say with Ron concerning the shop and his lack of pay from it. He plans on having his say with his partner tonight. We'll see what comes of it.

Kids are officially on spring break. Good Friday is tomorrow and so the boys are looking forward to having the house to themselves while Ron and I are at work. They have their list of chores, and Chris has English homework that will be due his first day back, so he is under orders to do it tomorrow so it's not hanging over his head.

Ben is very impatient for me to come in and play a game of Rook, so I'd better get going--I still have to shower and get some sleep before the alarm goes off at 3:30 am.

one more milestone.....sigh....

Well, I guess it had to happen, but I hadn't expected it to be this soon. Shellie is 5, and has her first loose tooth. She came home from the shop with her dad tonight and teh first words out of her brothers' mouths were "Shellie's got a loose tooth!"
I am devastated. This is my baby. We just got done enrolling her for kindergarten, she is begging to have her training wheels taken off her bicycle (NOT!!!) and now she has a loose tooth. I asked her if she had banger her mouth in any way, or if someone had knocked into her by accident and maybe loosened it, but no, she is just hitting another milestone on the way to growing up.

I hate to tell her this---but she still can;t wear makeup until high school!!!!