Christmas is near

I am a procrastinator..... pure and simple...... So every year I think that I'll just start shopping after Christmas and I don't.. I wait until the last minute and then it always seems like I'm really broke....So here's the things that have been put on my shopping list by some who still believe (or if they don't then they haven't told me otherwise).... smart kids!!!
He's the little man:
Ipod touch... wanted one also last year and didn't get it and not gonna this year either
Bath robe
cell phone (same deal as Ipod touch)
Xbox 360 and games
DSI

Ea:
Barbies
Dolls
Bathrobe
DSI

Em:
Skates
Dolls
DSI
Bathrobe

Sweet Pea:
Bless her heart she's going to get what nana wants her to have since she doesn't know to ask for anything yet.... I've got her 2 small things already.... probably going to get her a gift card since she's going to have a lot already from everyone else and her mom can buy her some spring clothes...

G-Rock:
Mattress for a twin bed (he needs one so bad)
Class ring and also his State Championship Ring for Weight Lifting
Clothes
Shoes
Tires and Rim

Faith:
Gift card..... she's hard to buy for.... at that age already.......

Grown Kids:
Well it's like this.....I'll be broke after I get to you all.... lol....

Herb:
If I can buy him a train ticket to NC for Christmas then that will be his gift....

Emergency is what I'm thinking

Woke up this morning to Gage barking and wanting out. Let him out and something's wrong with his wireless containment system. He's GONE!!!!!!! So nothing I can do about that at the moment so I decide to start studying for my ARRL class... Of course.. I'm not prepared for this class at all. We were supposed to get the book 1 month before our first class. We got it 3 days before the class started. There is so much information to learn and I'm not one of these that will go and take a test without knowing whether or not I"ll pass it. It's I'm going to pass it ...period!!!!!!!!
So I need plenty of concentration right now. Not gonna happen....The dog comes back home and gets under the house and I hear him spashing around in the water under the house(which happens to be water from where he's busted a sewage pipe a loose.
Well then along comes P#@# $$ telling me that she needs to make an extra $30 for her trip next week. I just ignore her. Then she goes in my restroom and leaves a non too pleasant aroma that she tries to cover up with Bath and Body concentrated spray that she sprays too much of. Why can't she use the bathroom at her house???
When I get ready to go and get my clothes together... The clothes I want to wear are not found in my closet... I paid someone to wash my clothes and clean up my house this week. Why would my clothes be crammed in a clothes basket for me to either fold or iron???? Makes no sense... Then when I go to the bathroom... It still reeks!!!!!!!!!!
OH.... and it gets even better..... P#@#$$ lets Gage back in the house and when he comes inside.... He of course is smelling like a sewer and he shakes himself and now I've got to mop and wipe everything down....
So I'm like Nope I'm not gonna go to the class. I'll take the test at LEMA on a later date...
Somedays you just know that you'd be better off to stay in bed. This is one of those days...
And after all this... P#@#$$ comes back to my house and says.... Oh well you just might as well get ready and we can go to town... I told her "I'm not going anywhere today.... no not anywhere....I'm just going to sit here and study"
But I guess that you can't study too well when you're neighbors across the street have hired someone to come and use chainsaws and weedeaters to clean off her fence line..
GRRRRRRRREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

So would you call this an emergency?????

What to do????

Herb woke me up this past weekend telling me that someone was wanting a price on our property in Bellamy. He was excited to say the least. I was sick with the crud and could have cared less. Mind you....... I do want to move but I don't think that it's possible at this time.
Obstacles seem to be in the way.
1. J.J. is still in school... 1 more year until he graduates.
2. What will we do with all this junk?
It is just mind boggling to think of going through this all and getting him to let any of it go.
He's got so much stuff that I don't know what he will do with it all.
Pays $45/month for a storage building in N.C. that has some of his parents stuff..
Now I can understand the cedar chiffarobe, bookcase and antique table but please..... I'm not going to use his mom's 1970's living room suit..... nope.... not gonna happen.....
Then he pays $55/month for a storage building in Livingston.
You see his problem is he's a clutter freak....... He's a HOARDER!!!!!!!!!!
I am not perfect by any means but I can probably load up all I want out of my house in the back of a pickup truck and be perfectly happy with my few possessions. Just give me my clothes, fabric, sewing machines, laptop and pictures.
3. What happened to I was going to go to school????
If we sell out and have to go and pay rent somewhere then it will take all the money I make for rent and I won't have time to go to school.
4. He's already called me today saying...... well did you figure out a price yet????
I'm like no cause how are we going to survive right now while I go back to school...
He said....well I'll think about that then.
5. What's he going to do with the animals?
So many places are NO PETS!!!!
Mind you, Gage is HUGE!!!! so even if there is pets allowed it generally is <25 lbs.....
6. If we move...... where to?????
I'd like to be able to move where there is a VA so that Herb can use his medical benefits there and also..... If I could get a job with the VA then they will pay me while I go to school. So that is really the only way that I could move and have my rent taken care of while going to school.
Problem is Gulf Coast and Tuscaloosa both do not have any LPN jobs right now.
So I'm feeling like it's not meant for me to do that right now. I don't really want to live in B'ham and that's where the LPN jobs are right now at the VA.
I had thought about just going ahead and biting the bullet and enrolling at UWA. But now.....I'm like what the heck am I supposed to do. Maybe I'm just not meant to be a RN..... But I really need the money that they make. It's so hard to make it on LPN pay.
7. How much can we afford for rent??? Do we want a house or an apt????

So those are just some of the things that are going through my mind right now.....

HELP!!!!

Valentine's Day

Well I thought that I'd try to write something concerning Valentine's Day and what it means to me. I always associated Valentine's Day with cards and candy when I was a child. I loved the party at school and getting all the little cute cards and conversation heart candy. I remember having this fear of leaving my cards at home and being embarrassed about it. Of course this never happened but I do remember leaving my name list at school and having to go over in my mind exactly where everyone sat in class so that I could remember the names. Now adays with all this technology....we could just text someone and get the list. But that of course was in dinosaur age days...lol.. After I got older and mom and dad had a floral wholesale business... I remember blooming, delivering and arranging flowers at Valentine's Day. And it always seemed to be freezing cold when we would be doing all this stuff.... OMG!!!! My hands would get so cold fooling with all that stuff. I still love flowers and I wish that I could always have fresh flowers on my table.
I went shopping today with the grandkids on the coast for their Valentine's Day gift. I didn't buy any chocolates, cards or the usual..... They got what they needed... New tennis shoes. Santa had just gotten them some for Christmas but they are already getting worn out so that's what I got them. Grace has a really cute pair of P.J.'s for this spring/summer. J.J. got money out of me this week so that was his gift. And Herb.....well he needs a new pair of glasses, so I guess that's what he'll get when he comes down to the coast. I bought myself ...with his money of course.... a pair of initial earrings. I did buy myself 3 tops, lingerie, and 2 pairs of glasses with my money. I have to treat myself every now and then.

Sick people can wear you down

I haven't posted anything in a couple of weeks because I've been sidetracked. I just plumb forgot to post anything. So..... I've been down at the coast with Leigh's sick children since Sat. morning. Olivia was running a fever, cough and had to have and IV to get some fluids in her on Sat. am before I got here. She ran fever all weekend and is now doing so much better. Blake and Emily had spent the night at Holly's on Friday night and they came home on Sat. afternoon. They have been having some fever, headaches, and cough but not as bad as Olivia. Called the Doc and got them some antibiotics called into the pharmacy for them. And Leigh has come down with it also. The only ones that don't have it here are Robbie, Me, and Gauge. Hope I don't come down with it. The doc said it was mycoplasma pneumonia. So much for me thinking that I might get to go and see Grace tomorrow after the dentist. I think that she's going to be walking before I get to see her. I read on Cherish's newsfeed that Grace was screaming today.. I'm sure it's because she knows that her Nana hasn't been to see her. Her papaw is planning on seeing her tomorrow afternoon. I thought that it was today but he said tomorrow. NOT fair!!!But I'm sure he thinks the same thing about me getting to see these down here all the time and all he gets to do is drive and come home and argue with J.J. and I'm at the beach..lol
Anyway..... I'm fixing to take a little nap and rest my eyes. Gotta drive home tomorrow morning and then go to T'town to the dentist...Fun!!!

Getting regrouped

Looks like I'm going to try and get focused and make a plan for my education. I'm not getting to go to school this semester due to lack of funds. :( But at least it's giving me some time to look at all my options. I'm going to start today.... applying for the lpn to rn theory and clinical programs. I've put this off too long. I'm really leaning towards taking online theory at Snead State and then doing a clinical closer to home. The clinical has to be one that is approved by the Al Board of Nursing. So... we'll see. I also need to start planning what I'm going to do for Christmas. Looks like I'm going to need to be in 2 places in the same time. Hmmmm... I need to start planning on what I'm going to get everyone. MONEY!!!!! I need to win the lottery. My car should be ready in a couple of weeks and that's going to cost. Anyway... I'm going to figure this all out and do what needs to be done....... Oh... and I need to lose some weight. My husband was making a remark about a woman on NCIS having dimples on her lower back. I said..well I'm sure that I have dimples... don't I.... He said no... just one big crack like the Liberty Bell!!!!! So I'm not going to be losing weight for him but for ME!!!! I just laughed and told him a few choice words.... He still thinks that it's funny...NOT!!!! He'll miss me one day when I'm gone... and there won't be a second chance for him..

My First Day Blogging

I'm new to blogging so please bear with me. I enjoy reading everyone's blogs. I hope to get mine decorated cute but I don't know how long that will take me. I want to be able to show pics of my kids and grandchildren. But that will depend on if my daughters will send me some pics of the grandchildren to post on here or not.
So for today..... I have had a really good day at work. I've worked on the review of systems some and also on some medical diagnoses for the Dr.
I do dread going home though. Cherish's cat has been feeling poorly and I don't know if he'll be alive when I get home or not. He's been such a sweet cat always loving on us and playing with Precious. So we'll see how it goes when I get home.