Saturday, May 27, 2006

work at home

I need to find a job. If something should happen to Terry ... I have no where to live, no job to work at and I'm on the streets.

I don't particularly want to go to work outside the home yet so I'm looking for something I can do at home.

Anyone have any ideas?

I really enjoy being at home and being on the computer. I get to spend as much time as I want with my daughter and go to school functions and the like. But when my daughter reaches 18 I will no longer be eligible to get Social Security. What that means is I'll be going back to work at 41. Now I don't have to work because with Terry's income and my income we make it alright. What makes it bad is I'll have been out of work for nine years by the time I go back to work which will probably be close to impossible.

Well anyways if anyone comes up with an idea for working at home. pass it on!

SCHOOL'S OUT SCHOOL'S OUT`

Ok now maybe you're asking why I'm so happy. Can I count the ways?

Number one ... no early mornings unless we have a doctor's appointment or something like that.

Number two ... my daughter will be in Illinois for the next two months visiting with my family and her father's family. Don't get me wrong we'll be up there every couple weeks to see her and we talk to her every night but she always has a great time up there.

Number three ... we are going to run away and hide. We won't be with the stress and the crap that we have been putting up with. Yucko.

They start school back August SECOND! I personally can remember not starting school until after Labor Day. Since when did being back in school that early become such a priority?

My youngest stepdaughter didn't end up getting Nat last night. It was raining like CRAZY and her Blazer broke down.

I'll be glad when hail season is over. There is about 2300 dollars worth of damage to the Nissan Frontier that we have. Well it actually belongs to him. I don't pay the payments and I certainly didn't pick it out. It's a VERY nice truck though and I love to drive it. In any case. We are afraid to have it fixed. About the time we get it fixed it'll come another hail storm and we'd have to have it fixed AGAIN! So ... we've put it off for a bit. Besides the fact we have to pay the 500 dollar deductible. :(

Friday, May 26, 2006

storms

I swear... every time I turn around it's storming here again.

Last night there was a storm, night before last it stormed. And when it storms I'm not saying it rains a little. The wind blows like crazy and it doesn't just rain ... it looks like monsoon season out there. It will storm all night too.

The other day we went out fishing and got caught in the middle of the storm. My loving boyfriend only had one rainsuit in the boat. He put it on HIMSELF. I had a jacket but it only repels water to a certain point. So ... now we've decided we need two rainsuits for the boat so both of us don't get soaked. :)

It's supposed to rain tonight well all this coming weekend I guess. :(

Tonight my youngest stepdaughter (well we aren't technically married yet but she calls me mom most of the time) so I introduce her as my stepdaughter. anyways she's supposed to come and pick up my daughter and take her for the weekend. I don't know if weekend means until Memorial Day or what but in any case it will be peace and quiet around here for at least one day!

Thursday, May 25, 2006

anniversaries

Today would have been mine and my exhusband's 10th anniversary. No I don't really celebrate it still but ... we were only divorced a year and a month before he passed away. Course the other thing is we got along BETTER after we divorced than while we were married. And when he got sick he was living with me. I was with him every day while he was sick and even held his hand and watched as he took his last breath. We got along better and were more in love when he died than the whole time we were married. All the things that were bothering us before we actually had a chance to talk about. He knew he was not going to make it long and I knew it and we got everything out in the open. Even before we divorced we could talk easily but not NEARLY as easily as after he found out his kidney's were failing. I'll be honest I wasn't the best wife I could have been. On the other hand he wasn't the best husband he could have been either.

I know now that I lost a VERY good friend and lover when he passed away. Even though he's been gone a little over two years now there are still times I miss him. I'm happy where I am with another but I'll hear a song or smell the same kind of cologne he used to wear and this ache in my heart HURTS. Terry and I don't dance, never have and probably never will. I think that's the single biggest thing I miss about Gary. That and talking to him. I loved to listen to his voice (if only I had a recording now). But when we danced... it was like no one else in the world was there. Most of the time we would either two step, sometimes waltz though I wasn't all that great at it or line dance. When we started dancing I had two left feet. When we met he told me if I was going to be with him I better learn to dance. I'm pretty good at it now I must say. I can even still remember most of the dance steps. in fact, the other day a song came on and I did the same dance we used to do quite a bit together. Now if I could only get Terry to do the dance with me but since he doesn't like country music I don't see that happening.

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

fishing!

Terry (my boyfriend) and I went and ran a trot line today. Well he calls it his leg line. A trot line that catches fish bigger than your leg. Well if you picked my leg that wouldn't be hard to do but most anyone's leg. Saturday he caught a flathead (a kind of catfish) that weighed 23 pounds. A BIG FISH! Good eating though :)

In order to run (bait) the leg line you have to of course have fish to put on it. Oh by the way ... it's a TROT line not a trout line. Who knew I was saying it wrong all those years. If I had to I could run it but nah. I'll let him do that.

We went up to the creek and got some bait. The creek isn't too far from here. Less than a mile I'd say but they have the prettiest fish in it. Creek perch is what they are called. He also caught some polys. Apparently that's a little yellow and black catfish type.

He's been fishing Reelfoot Lake for YEARS. Well ever since he was a kid. Even made a living at it when his kids were growing up. We still go about every day when we get the chance. He's teaching me to bass fish. I've only been a few times and caught one bass but it was with a friend of his wife. She wanted to go and knew I liked to go and said hey you and I should go sometime so a few days later I went with her. Worked out great. We get along great and she makes a great fishing partner.

We also fish for bluegill. Terry spends most of his time laughing at me. Just cause I can't get the fish to the boat as effectively as he does. Course he doesn't stop to think I've been doing this a couple years and he's been doing it all the time since he was a kid.

I'll see if I can post some pictures to the site later so you can see the pictures of the lake and some of the fish we've caught. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of the 23 pound flathead catfish. I'll take some when we run the line tomorrow.

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Voting

Well I voted for the first time in my life. It's kinda funny. I moved down here to Tennessee and I'm doing all kinds of new things. Today I voted in the city primary where I live. I didn't know anybody running. And actually there was only like two races that had anyone running against them. After all it was just a primary. A Democratic primary no less. In the past ... had I voted I would have voted Republican. Only because in Illinois where I'm originally from most of the people that I knew and liked were Republican. But I never voted up there. Mostly cause I hate the idea of doing anything new by myself and two because ... well I didn't ever see the point. LOL

In any case I went and voted today. After I was finished a friend of ours (mine and my boyfriends) came over and he said well who did you vote for and I said I just picked one. He said did you vote for this one and I said nope. he said well what about this what and I said nope. I just went eeny meeny miney mo! and picked that way. He said well I'm not sure I want you voting again and I said well when you don't know anyone how else you gonna pick. So ... I picked. Not the right one of course. They shoulda put the guy I should have voted for in the mo place. LOL

After that I took a nap.

Monday, May 01, 2006

turtles

I've got three turtles now. Terry calls the Mississippi Map turtle that I've got a hicleback (he doesn't know where the term comes from) and the other two are southern painted turtles he calls line turtles. Because they have a line down their back. They are just too cute. One I found as he was crossing my shoe when we were putting the boat on the trailer after fishing. The other he found in the moss lookin at him. His oldest son brought me the other turtle. When I get paid this month I'm going to put them in two seperate tanks. They are just beautiful. When they get a little bigger I'll take pictures of them. They are in a 10 gallon right now but they will soon outgrow it. I haven't named my turtles yet. Not sure what I want to name them. They haven't started begging for food yet thankfully!

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Neopets Cybunny Day

Hey there! Now what kind of bunny owner would I be if I didn't get a cybunny on Neopets. Well... I got one. hehehehe.

they only come around once a year so they are really hard to get. And people create too many (IMHO). But hey ... they didn't ask me. People are creating 20 at a time. What for I have NOOO idea but. Well actually I kind of do. It's just like sniping on ebay. You wait for that LAST second and when you get it ELATION! you really won. or in Neopet's case... you got something you can only get once a year now. Pretty cool, she's yellow and named JollyBugs, after my own Bugs bunny that I have :)

I also have two Eyries. One blue and one red. The red one I adopted well frankly cause I like Eyries and I couldn't get a Cybunny.

I'm working on getting a Packrat Avatar. Which means you have to have 1000 in your Safety Deposit Box and it's kinda hard to do but I'll get there eventually. LOL I'm already up to like 140. If I had known about the avie before... I probably would be halfway there by now. I've sold a bunch of stuff and well ... given away some and donated some so ... oh well. That's life. Ah the things you learn after the fact.

The cybunny boards are insane. Some of them get mad cause they can't get them. the ones that have so many are mad cause the ones that don't have any are mad. LOL It's too funny to watch the boards. I'm perfectly happy with my one cybunny JollyBugs!

Monday, April 17, 2006

birds and bird baths


Well I've found yet ANOTHER hobby to play with.

Birds. We fixed a bird bath two days ago. Yesterday I had it filled with water. It worked pretty good except that it's made in an old stump and doesn't hold water too well yet. :( We have decided we are going to get some cement and make the stump that we have level before trying to make a better bird bath. I took some pictures, I'll put them up tomorrow after Terry goes fishing.

We were supposed to go to Marion, IL to take him to the doc. Nothing big just normal stuff. But he wasn't feeling good so we didn't go.

I'm getting lots of birds in the bird bath now. I think it's HILARIOUS to watch them taking their bath. Once we get the nice one done it'll be bigger. This one isn't very big and it doesn't hold water very well. I'm pretty happy with it now but Terry isn't and honestly I think the ideas he has will work out great and it'll be REALLY pretty. Only one way to find out. We probably won't get it done for another week anyways.

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Easter

Wow! The year is already moving faster than a speeding bullet. I can't believe how fast the time is passing. It's already April. In a short few days (April 14) my boyfriend and I will have been together 2 years. Wow.

Sunday will be Easter and I'm not quite ready for it yet. Everything piled up on us last week and I didn't have time for ANYTHING! It seemed like I was trying to get things together and then all of a sudden I ran out of time. Today (sometime) I've got to go and get Easter candy and eggs for my daughter at school. Not fun.

I'm trying to get an aquarium for my two little baby turtles. One of them decided he needed to crawl over my foot... so I stuck him in my pocket. The other ... well my stepson came in and gave it to me. So now I've got two lol

Friday, April 07, 2006





When Terry and I went fishing the other day ... this is one of the MANY pictures that I took of the lake. I thought this one was the best of the bunch don't you???

I also took some pictures of little ol me to show off LOL my face is a little sunburned between the walk that I just returned from and the time I spent on the lake in the sun. but hey ... I turned a couple heads when I took my walk this afternoon. LOL

Thursday, April 06, 2006

vacation??? hahaha don't make me laugh

Well ... this week has been just SOOO much fun. We told everyone STAY AWAY. Don't call, don't come by don't bother us. Well.. that worked well the day I took Natalie to Illinois.

I took her up Saturday afternoon. Which meant that I didn't get home until about 11 p.m.

Sunday Terry went fishing without me. I walked around town and generally goofed off at home.

We were enjoying our time together Monday and knock knock knock. The oldest daughter was at the door. I said hey ... we said NO company. She said well I've got a message from a friend of Terry's. I said alright fine. So she came in to tell him the message and to find out if she could borrow some money. We didn't and don't have it of course. So she said ok I'll tell momma to bring the baby in. So ... they came in and stayed for a couple hours. They hadn't been gone more than 10 minutes when the oldest boy called. I picked up the phone and said we don't want to be bothered today. He said well I've got a flat tired. I said I don't care. He said well screw it and hung up on me. I was half kidding. I wouldn't leave the kids so they couldn't get to work. So I called him back. He needed a ride to work. Which meant spending an hour to pick him up and then take him to work.

Monday night I went to go get something to eat and got into a MAJOR hail storm. Was NOT fun for me. I put the truck into park, put on the flashers cause heaven forbid someone should come from behind me and hit me. Put my arms over my head and said ok just hurry up with the hail will ya. I called Terry on the phone scared to death and almost in tears. I went ahead and went to get something to eat since if I had turned around to go home I would have been running right back into it. NO THANKS!

So Tuesday of course we had to go take the truck into to have the damage estimated at almost 2400 bucks. We also have a 500 dollar deductible. I was supposed to take the oldest daughter to the store with me. Well when we got back from having the guy do the estimate for the hail damage the two oldest kids were here. The boy who had the flat tire the day before needed a ride to go get the tire and then to the truck to pick it up so he could go to work. Never mind that he was driving a truck when he got here. He said he didn't think it would make it to where he wanted to get the tire from. so ... the oldest daughter took him to get the tire and said she'd be right back. Two hours later she finally showed up. She was supposed to go to work so I said well I guess that means we won't get to go shopping huh? she said no I still need to go. So we went ahead and left and I took the estimate up to the insurance company to give them the estimate and hope they would give us the check. We had almost decided that we wouldn't have the truck fixed and just get the check and pay off some of the bills. Wrong again. They said oh well we'll have the guy fix it and have him send us the final bill and we'll pay him direct.

Wednesday we actually got to go fishing for a couple hours. We came home to the oldest daughter and his wife here. Yeah he's still married.

Today we were getting ready to go fishing and the youngest child called and said hey can I borrow 50 or 60 dollars so my husband can get home and back to work and home before he gets paid Friday night. :(

I don't understand. We told them ... don't call us this is our time for a break and yet they have been "needing us" more this week than any other time. Course Sunday I have to go get my daughter back from Illinois. Maybe then it'll slow down.

Whew. I'm tired of all the running around.
have a great day!

Monday, April 03, 2006










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My creature looks like a crossbetween an Eagle and something else I'm not sure what. :) they've got some REALLY cute ones and some ugly ones and some ... I'm just not sure what they are. LOL

Have a great day and if you decide to join me. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

complaint of the day!

My daughter is on vacation this week and I wanted to go fishing but instead it looks like I'm going to be running all over the place trying to get the truck fixed. We got some HEAVY hail damage last night. It wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't been IN the truck. That was NO FUN! It broke the bug shield, one of the windbreaker things on the back passenger door and the driver's door. I don't know what they call em but those little visor things. Broke the cooler that was in the back all to smithereens. it was NOT fun!

Today I visited with my boyfriend's daughter and his wife. Yeah I said wife. They are still married. I have the papers all drawn up. All he has to do is find a notary public to have them signed and then take them to the courthouse and have them filed. After 60 days it's all done. I'm not real worried about it. We aren't ready to jump into the marriage thing anyways.

Tomorrow he's supposed to go fishing with his best friend which means I won't get to go AGAIN! Wednesday, Thursday and Friday it's supposed to be bad weather! So ... i won't get to go fishing at all and it'll be back to ... I can't go cause my daughter will be coming home from school and he doesn't like to come back in just so I can get my daughter off the bus. Oh well typical of the way shit goes around here. he does what he wants and I get to sit at home and do nothing.

Saturday, November 26, 2005

My day today

In two days... my ex husband will have been gone from me for two years. Sometimes... I miss him terribly and others... I go almost all day without thinking of him. I find the closer to his birthday and his death ... I think of him quite frequently.

Today... I have done little else besides think of him and wish he were here.

I'm VERY happy with the man I am living with now, Terry. He is great to me and great to my daughter.

Today, his oldest daughter had a little girl named Angel Torrell. I haven't seen her but if she looks anything like him or his children she HAS to be beautiful!!!!

So today ... for the most part has been a good one.

Saturday, June 11, 2005

Saturday

Well there isn't a whole lot to say but I will say this... the woman who set me up with my pal that I don't know ... WOW! It's amazing to me at how much we are a like. We like so MANY things a like that I just can't get over it. It's like I don't know. Having a twin almost.

Haven't done a whole lot today. Just relax and enjoyed the day.

Friday, June 10, 2005

Heard from my secret hare pal

I got the cutest card from my Hare mail pal. And we have written a couple LONG notes or do they call them books secret pal? Anyways. I can see that we have a LOT in common and I'm going to enjoy getting to know you.

I have also heard back from my secret pal for Hare mail and the email one too that don't know me yet. The hare mail pal I have a lot in common with and the email one and I'm going to enjoy getting to know them too. hehehe

I asked for permission to make this blog so that I could post pics of my goodies. So here goes my blog.

Have a great night all.

My secret pal

Well I got to hear from my secret pal who I don't know. And both the hare mail and the Hare email pal that don't know who I AM.

I am so excited.