We spent the morning at home. A representative from South Western Publishing came by and I bought (spent way more than I should have) a set of books for the kids to enjoy. There are 6 books centering around natural science, the body, history and geography. They look interesting and fun to read. Hope I'm right. Afterward, my mom and dad and I took the kids to Sam's and then we had dinner with them. This morning, my mom woke up and came downstairs to see my brother asleep on the couch. Evidently he had moved back in in the middle of the night. I knew he wouldn't make it on his own and he never really was. My parents were still paying his bills because of course his part time pizza delivery job doesn't do anything. Here is a 23 year old who moved out and didn't even tell our parents where he was living. His bills come to them and they pay them. He didn't ask if he could move back in, he just did it. Then his work calls and mom tells him he is supposed to be at work to put out flyers and he says "Its too hot and I'm tired." The jerk was still on the couch asleep at 3:30 when we got home from Sam's club and then has the gaul to order my mom to go downstairs and do what she has to do to get his work shirt clean and also fussed at my daddy because he didn't let HIS dog out of the house. The very dog that my mom doesn't even want living back in her house. Hes a JERK JERK JERK JERK JERK!!! Of course I KNOW that its their fault for letting him abuse them this way for so long. I told her that I thought there needed to be a rule that if he lived there, 1)he HAS to sleep in his bed 2)he HAS to work full time and 3)he HAS to help out around the house. I know I really shouldn't tell them out to run their house, but I am just SO sick and tired of his lazy whiney ass around their house. Now that he lives there, I won't be taking the kids for long visits and that will suck for megan but I refuse to let them be around him any more than they have to be. :(

Friday Five

1. Where are you right now? In my living room at the computer desk. David Letterman is on.

2. What have you lost recently? a piece of plastic that goes down the middle of Megan's kite. She REALLY wants to fly it too. :(

3. What was the first CD you ever purchased? Does that embarrass you now? Amy Grant or the Monkees probably. I don't care for Amy Grant anymore but still love the Monkees. :)

4. What is your favorite kind of writing pen? Anything that has ink in it that is close by.

5. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? Breyers Coffee or Cookies and Cream.

feeling a little better

The kids woke me up at 6am yesterday and both of them screamed their heads off when Josh left for work. I was just in a grumpy mood.
Mom and I went to the health food store and Big Lots yesterday. I take my mom along to help with Megan but its usually me doing all the work so I don't know why I bother. Growing up, mom lost us all the time. I got lost in Sea World in a sea of people after the show was over. I got lost again in a mall in Indiana when I was probably 3. I remember this one. I remember being lost of a little while at Disney World. The worst time was when my brother was a baby. Mom lost him in a mall and an hour later the security found a woman carrying him around. I think she was trying to leave with him. He was 1 I think at the time! Last summer in Big Lots, Megan ran around a corner and I yelled at mom because she was closer to Megan and she stopped to look at something on an aisle. Mom won't be allowed to take Megan out in public alone I'm afraid. At least not until Megan knows the importance of staying close. In the hfs, M rode in mom's cart for the majority of the time. But, when we got to the bulk section, M wanted down and the next thing I knew, she was eating granola out of the bins. :-0 So, I bought her some vanilla/cherry flavored snacks and she was happy. I can't believe how much stuff cost in there. Then we went to Big Lots and the disaster started. I needed to look for sposies and sposies only, but once inside, we have to comb every inch of the store. Megan was running around wild and every time I started looking at something, mom would quit watching her and I would have to pay attention to both kids and then I feel upset because they have some really nice quality clothes on sale and I can't really afford to buy anything. Mom got M some stuff for next summer but I gave up on getting D anything because I don't know what size he will be in. I was bummed. We get outside and M wants to ride the little carosel, Dawson is melting down and my formerly made up face is dripping in sweat. Why do I bother? I get to go grocery shopping alone this morning when J gets home from the gym.

We are just going to his parent's house today and my mom is joining us. Daddy's American Legion team is playing today so he won't be joining us.

where are all my friends
sniff

I was sick for 2 days with mastitis and not one hug or feel better soon. :(

still sick

I thought I could manage getting out of the house today. I took the kids down to my IL's and put D down for a nap so I could water my plants. By the time I had watered my veggies and a few flowers I felt achy all over again and had to go inside. I felt dizzy too. So, I came right back home when D woke up instead of shopping for the things I needed at the HFS. That will wait for tomorrow I suppose. I really didn't treat this as well as I normally do with the C and echinacea. I had to end up taking grapefruitseed extract. BLECK! I felt much better within a few hours though so I suppose its worth it. :P The kids played around me while I laid on the couch watching Trading Spaces from the weekend. Then they went into our bedroom and Megan stripped her bed and then tipped the whole thing over! Then she got on our bed and stripped the crib mattress. If I hadn't felt so bad I would have just let her play like that and stayed in there, but that wasn't going to fly today. My head was pounding.

American Idol is tonight. I'm so excited! LOL! Apparently one of the finalists is being disqualified. Josh thinks it was all set up but I don't believe it. Maybe I'm too naive. (well I know I am but I feel pretty sure in this case that I'm right.)

Mom is coming over in a few minutes to fix us dinner. I'm going to take it easy for the rest of the night so that tomorrow I really will feel better!

I definitly have been fighting off mastitis all day. :( I have felt like shit and just when I thought I was past the achyness, it came back again. Right now I feel mildly bad so I'll be doping up on advil before bed. I think this has happened because Megan isn't nursing to sleep anymore and my supply hasn't adjusted. Plus Dawson sleeps on the side that wasn't sore and Megan isn't nursing as much during the night. So, hopefully things will even out for me soon and we won't have to go through this again. Dawson doesn't seem to be nursing for as long when he does wake up to nurse either. I do need to get out tomorrow though because we are out of nighttime diapers (sposies) and I want some Spirutine. Being cooped up all day isn't good for me. All I had to do was call Josh though and ask him to come home early and bring a pizza and my wish is his command.

He said that attitudes around Valley Chev haven't been as high as they were today in a long time. I hope it stays that way. Hitting the 80 car point has been a goal for a long time now. Before Tim bought the store 4 years ago, they were a 100+ car a month store, but that hasn't been true in a very long time. Maybe now things will continue to pick up. Basically now, Jody gets to tell Tim "up yours" because he didn't think the sales staff had it in them. I really could care less to be honest. My attitude when it comes to that place sucks and I could care less if the place burned down tomorrow. (better hope that doesn't happen though now that I've said that. LOL!) Josh didn't hear from the person he called about the other job though so he is giving himself 30 days to see real changes in his attitude/sales/motivation and if he doesn't find that things have really improved in all 3 aspects he said he would actively persue something new. If he stays he said that he would (for reasons I understand) wait until January to look into other avenues.

He gave his parents the cruise tonight. I can't wait for them to get to go. They were SO thankful that we gave it to them.

The Dealership hit their goal

If everything sticks this morning, everyone in sales wins a cruise to the bahamas. Josh gave ours to his parents. I am happy to do that considering all they do for us but dammit, I want a vacation too!!! I have given up 2 because we couldn't afford to go. Oh well, we need the extra money for new furniture anyway. :/ So, in order to hit the goal, Josh didn't take ANY time off last week. He was there everyday including yesterday after church. I can't complain becauase he sold something, but there has been one really really unhappy 2 year old in this house lately. He is off thursday instead of wed this week but we have no plans. We don't have a partying family of friends. If we were in our house I would have hosted something but oh well.

Speaking of the house, we have settled on a silvery-grey color in the living room. After I figure out what our furniture situation will be, I will choose other colors in the room. Our large entertainment center is a forest green color so it will need repainting too. I had a great idea for our play room yesterday. I am going to periodically mark the kids height on the walls and on the same day I will make their handprints next to the marks.

I woke up this morning feeling mastitisy. I hope its nothing but a sore neck and back. (as well as maybe a slightly clogged duct that is now unclogged but left a sore spot)