Archive for May, 2008
Well just as the title says , Our Blazer broke the motor went .. ok that was last week or so ago.. well today while helping our daughter our truck broke down . I think its the fuel pump .. Man its been hard the last few weeks getting back and forth to work with hubby working and me working but through the help of family its been managable but now with no vehicles we are really dependent on the help of others.
My Mom said she would take me to work today thank god.. Thank you Mom.. But I have a happy outlook and hope to stay positive .. The Blazer will be fixed soon I hope and the truck will get its new fuel pump today hopefully .. otherwise its back to having Dusty pick me up and take me home. tonight.
There isent much to do but just go on with life.. I was thinking in the shower today .. do you do that too? I run all types of things through my mind about what if.. and then say to myself it will be ok. Its in the hands of God now so I figure that what happens happens.. My thoughts are of what if something happened to my Hubby .. I so worry about him he is overweight and has high blood pressure and wont take his pills because it gives him gout and thats very painful .. and he wont attempt to try to lose weight..
I have tried to get him to eat healthy but that don't work he sneaks candy bars . Bad hubby.. I being a diabetic am trying so hard to keep to my diet , its hard sometimes .. I do not eat candy bars i do not eat the really sugary things that im not to eat .. my downfall is Lay's potato chips and pasta .. those are so bad for me they bring my bs up so fast and then drop me .. you know that old saying you cant eat just one.. well I try to limit myself to like 10 chips but sometimes I just get carried away expecially when Im stress.. Me have stress no way .. right .. I think we all have a little stress here and there . The stress I think can be controlled really we just have to deal with what ever life sends our way the best way we can .. if we can fix it fine if we cant just go with the flow.
Well got to get ready for work , so have to be happy with life.
Posted by toni on May 29th, 2008
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Today my Granddaughter Kelcee turns 9 years old .. it seems just like yesterday that she was born all small and beautiful even as a baby .. them brown eye and dark hair.. she is one beautiful girl now below is a picture of her just recently ..
Love you Kelcee Girl.

And another one

Sounds like she will be very busy today on her birthday and throughout the weekend so I'm hoping sometime to get together with here come Monday to give her , her gifts and cards..
Posted by toni on May 24th, 2008
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I know title sounded more inviting to read this but it was just the same old day.. get up play with my knitting machine and then do some errands and then find a way to work .. I cant wait till the Blazer is fixed its making me nuts not having a car..
I really having withdrawal's not being able to just get up and go .. oh sure we have a old truck but its a pain to drive and i can hardly see over the steering wheel.
I do have to say that I love working at night and enjoy working with my co-workers .
I'm in the mist of making a afghan on my knitting machine will take a pic of it when Im done with it. I want to make another one after this for my Grandson Jonathan he wants a Black and White one .. I just need to get to the store to get the yarn. So if your reading this one Jonathon im going to be getting your yarn this weekend as soon as I can get to the store to get it , not having a car is hard to get places. I hate having to ask people to take me here and there also I get to use my Daughters Car this weekend she is going out of town .. get to do my laundry using my own washing machine and dryer so i can get caught up with that too. I'm excited to be able to get all of it done .. I love her house is so perfect she is a immaculate cleaner and it never really looks lived in. so im always careful when i go over there as not to mess anything up.
Its going to be great to get all caught up with my laundry , I just might be able to pick up that yarn for my grandson. I love him so much he has such a sweet shy side about him. all I can say is that is in Jonathan ..
I love when we are alone together just me and him .. I might just see if he is going to be home this weekend and go pick him up so he can pick his own yarn out ..
Well off to bed one more day of work and then i'm off and don't go back till Tuesday night yeee yaa.
Posted by toni on May 23rd, 2008
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To begin with let me tell you that my Blazer took a crap motor is shot have to get a new motor.. thus start out of crappy day and what followed.
First of all it my annual day for the yearly lol.. fun fun next month for the mamogram .. So the place is like 5 blocks from my house so I say since hubby has to take a run up to Iowa city that I will walk home from this place .. He took me I said no problem I will walk home.. I'm wearing a tee shirt and a sweater a light sweater... at that.. well after a hour there and im done im getting ready to walk home or walking home I should say.. and talk about windy and cold .. gezzzzzzzzz I had to put my hood up on my sweater thank god for that..
I finally make it home and get situated yea home. but now there is a big problem hubby dont leave till late to go to iowa city and now I have no ride to work .. I call my Mom to see if she can take me she is sick with a cold dam.. then I call Dusty but she is working and her car has been acting up .. so then I call Christy she is sick with cramps gezzzzzzzz dont anyone friggin care if it was something they needed or wanted me to do seems I if I can will help them out .. so then I call Stacey cause I have only one more child left and he is work cause I already talked to him. She says she can take me im happy now but she said she wanted to take a nap
She calls me at 1 p.m. and comes and picks me up we go eat lunch.. then she tells me I can use there other car to take to work tonight..
So we go to her house I pick up the car and then go to HyVee to get something to take for dinner tonight at work. Well as I was leaving HyVee waiting to get onto 18th Ave there was a car ahead of me and next thing I knew was he was backing up right at me I honked my horn and then he stopped.. just as he hit me .. I quickly took his license number down in my head and was ready to get out of the car when he speed off out into 18th ave almost hitting another car I pulled over a half a block down to put the license number in my phone as not to forget it .. I called my daughter and let her know .. she wanted me to come by and show her the car were she was at work .. I did which actually its not damaged its just got white paint on the front bumper were he hit me no breakage.. well she calls her insurance and they say i have to file a hit and run report on it .. gezzzz ...
I get to work she calls says I have to go right now to file the report .. what I didnt know is that she had taken out the insurance card out of the car but didnt put it back ..
I get down to the police station after not even going into work to file a report and dont have the insurance card police man says to come back tomorrow and file a report when I have it otherwise he will give me a ticket for not having it grrrrrrrrrrrrrr... I said your not serious my daughter had it and its her car he says nope we can just call it a day and you come back when you have it ..talk about almost having a panic attack.. he did tell me that once I went to court it would be dropped when I shown the proof of insurance and stuff.
Ok fine after losing a hour work here I am , Very frustrated and tired from all the walking I did today plus .. there is no parking down at the police station .. ok so I park were there is a parking meter pay my nickel I'm telling the lady in the station that I am parked at a meter and only put in a the nickel for the 30 minutes I hope I dont get a parking ticket she tells me I better go check cause there is nothing she can do about it .. I said there is no parking anywhere down here she said I know .. shit thats all I needed is to get a frigging parking ticket for coming down to report a hit and run and if i didnt I could get a frigging ticket for not reporting a hit and run that a car I didnt hit . grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Well I know one thing .. Never depend on anyone else to get were you need to go .. or if you do it would be the least likely person that will help you..
I have also been feeling down the past week or so .. Mothers day was great .but felt as if one of my children didnt care.. I know they all love me but just been feeling like I dont know.. oh well probally goes along with the day I had,.... Sure glad I wasn't dying or anything and I needed someone to help me .
Hope your day was better than mine..
Posted by toni on May 20th, 2008
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Well today was Grandparents day and what a day it was .. when I got to the school , I went to Kyle's room first since it was downstairs and the closest .. Well I sat down with him and there was this little girl on the end seat and she said Kyle this is your Grandma ? and Kyle said yes.. Well she looked me staight in the eye and said that she had 4 grandma's and one had died .. I said I'm sorry she said thats ok because you look like you are getting ready to die soon too? I looked at her and said why do you say that (this is coming from a 5 year olds mouth remember?) She said because you look old like my other grandma did when she died .. wow I was floored what do you say back to a child after that .. I just said thank you and spent time with my grandson ..
After a few minutes it was time for the kids to go out for recess so I went upstairs to Kelcee's room what a trip that was when I got there they was just getting ready for there music lesson it was so much fun the kids all sang beautiful and was great to hear all there little voices .. this is Third grade kids ages 8 boy , the boys kept getting closer and closer to Kelcee she just ignored them like they werent even there lol..
I guess they better keep a close eye on her when she gets older ..
After that I walked the kids back to there house which is only like 2 and half blocks away and we waited till there mom got off of work .. see my blazer broke down and havent had a car since mothers day..
After Dusty got there we all went to Mulkeys to eat met my Mom and Josh , Dustys Hubby there and we had a good meal and then it was time for me to get to work .. what a long day didnt get to sleep till like 2 am and then go up at 9 .. I just need 8 hours of sleep no more no less but if i get less im done for the day..
Well I'm at work now and tired and things are running slow so makes the time go slower.. come on time fly a little faster.
Later..
Posted by toni on May 16th, 2008
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Well its been quite the day .. I went to lunch with my Mom we went to Ihop and then to get her some gas in her car, i'm here gas pumper lol.. money was tight so we didnt get to go shopping which is ok but just spending time with her is so precious, I treasure each time we do..
After that I came home and decided to clean up my hard drive get rid of a bunch of files and to move all of my movies and pictures to my external hard drive .. once that was done I decided to try and make this sweater I seen a pattern for well that got to complicated and ripped it out.. then I decided to try and make a afghan with the same stitch that i was making the sweater with .. well a fourth of a way through it all of a sudden going back to knitting a row I all of a sudden the whole machine fell forward cutting the top of my left hand and hitting my shin and bruising it oweee.. but I will survive but I ended having to take the piece off and making a hat with what I had knitted lol. will post a picture of it tomorrow ..
So i'm thinking that I have to find a way to keep this thing from being front heavy I dont know if i have it to close to the edge or what .. but its twice that had tilted on me but only once fell on me ..
Well got to get to bed Saturday night at 1.20 a.m.
Posted by toni on May 4th, 2008
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I have a few more videos to post from Sunday since i finally figured out how to do it in wordpress .. its them plugins lol.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0muaLVUrk
Well i was going to add another video but have to get some video editing software to reduce the size of it down .. before I can add it on here .
Will write more tomorrow.
Posted by toni on May 1st, 2008
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