School Starting

OK, Ok, when people hear that they think about their kids going back to school, however, I am the one going back to school - well for tonight anyway.

I start back to technical college tonight for another semester towards my accounting degree. I've worked long and hard to get to the last year - year and a half. I've had a lot of road blocks and detours I've hit. I've been slammed with things that would've made a weaker person give up totally and never to try again.

I wanted this for almost 20 years ago. Those who knew me in high school would probably recollect my wanting my accounting degree. Well I hate to say that I've been out of HS for 17 years now and am finally almost there. It has been a long haul, I've worked damn hard, and I feel that I really, really deserve this!!

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My boys start back to school Tuesday, Sept 4. They have all of their supplies and are bored enough to want to go back. I tell you, this summer couldn't end early enough to stop those boredoms!!!

Not just for work ~ sometimes life in general!

There are definitely a few of these that I feel like saying in my everyday life, whether at work or out and about. I hope they give you a chuckle like they've given me!

Logan

Well, what can I say about Logan. This is one young man that I am very proud of (just don't tell him I said that he might get a big head!!). This was at a friend's wedding this spring - Ain't he gorgeous?!?

Let me see where to start...this past 1 1/2 years he zoomed past me in height (I'm 5'8"), he's topping out right now at about 6'2". Most people think he's older than the 15 - almost 16 years old he really is.

I have to tell you though, he took the initiative to get a job this summer and work his butt off so that he could afford to take driver's ed this month.... driver's ed cost him $320 for the classroom and driving time. Tonight I'm taking him to go get his temps and that's going to cost him an additional $25. He agrees that he'll appreciate it more when he gets his license. He' got a ways to go according to Wisconsin State Law (6 months of temps, with about 2 years on GDL (probationary), then the regular license ~ at least that's how I'm reading the papers I've got!)

This was something that he dearly wanted (I don't blame him) and when I explained that we just couldn't afford to help him do it, he decided he could make it happen. Unfortunately it also came with some things that he had to give up - he's not getting in as many hours at work, and he decided to give up football. I tried to tell him to talk to the coach and work something out with him, but we all know how stubborn teenage boys can be!! :P

I hope that next year he can get out there and make the football team - I love going and yelling at those kids to move their butts. "Stay Low" may not be on the field this year, but I'm always rooting for him!

Logan will be 16 soon, 2 weeks from Friday. There are days that I cannot believe that I have children so old and can still be so young myself.

AAADD - Know the Symptoms

AAADD- KNOW THE SYMPTOMS.....PLEASE READ!

Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder. Somehow I feel better,even though I have it!!

Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it manifests:

I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and

decide it needs washing. As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that I

brought up from the mail box earlier. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay

my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that

the can is full. So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first. But

then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may

as well pay the bills first. I take my check book off the table, and see that there is only one check

left. My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I

find the can of Coke I'd been drinking. I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push

the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. The Coke is getting warm, and I decide

to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold. As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of

flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need water. I put the Coke on the counter and

discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning. I decide I better put them

back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers. I set the glasses back down on the

counter, fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the

kitchen table. I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I'll be looking for the remote, but I

won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it

belongs, but first I'll water the flowers. I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it

spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill.

Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.

At the end of the

day: the car isn't washed the bills aren't paid there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter

the flowers don't have enough water, there is still only 1 check in my check book, ! I can't find

the remote, I can't find my glasses, and I don't remember what I did with the car keys. Then,

when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was

busy all day, and I'm really tired. I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help

for it, but first I'll check my e-mail....

Do me a favor. Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't remember who the

heck I've sent it to.

Don 't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!!

Badges I wish I could wear to work!!!

Here are some of the badges I could wear to work somedays. Don't get me wrong I don't mind my job most days, but there are those days that the people from the front office just won't leave those of us in the warehouse alone!!

Poor Kitty

I've got to tell everyone this...it borders on funny :o). TJ, the grey cat, is a jumper. He likes to be up high on stuff.


Well last night he decided to jump up on top of the TV cabinet we have in the bedroom and singed his belly hairs (I had a tealight candle burning up there!!). Terry and I had fallen asleep while watching TV and awoke to smell singed hair - eeeeewwwwwww!!

So we got up and looked around. TJ came out of hiding mewing and looking very upset. Terry picked him up and you could really smell that burnt hair. TJ didn't seem to know what to do - squirm to get down or lay there in Terry's arms and cry about his predicament. Terry put him down, we went back to the bedroom and opened the windows a little wider to let the smell out.

I really hope that this time TJ has learned his lesson about having to jump up onto things to check them out now. He still seemed a little disgruntled this morning but he's no worse for the wear!