Is It August yet???

Currently Listening Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge By My Chemical Romance see related

So much for the update

So, here we are six months later, and I haven't wrote a thing!  Go figure!  So...what's new....my hubby and I are trying to buy a house...through a govt. program.  We can get a repo'd house for 1/2 price and are currently working on getting one for 30,000.  The only problem is that there needs to be work done (like $35,000 more) and there are TONS of firey hoops to jump through.  Looks like we won't be able to close on time, which means we have to pay a fee for every day that we are late.  GRRR....not quite sure yet if the great deal is really so great.  On top of that, I am going back to college in August!  YAY! I am going to attempt an 16 month program which will allow me to get a second bachelor's degree in elementary education.  Then I can be a real teacher! Not just a glorified paraprofessional.  So....lots of things going on all at once, my poor brain is about to explode with all the stress.  But, I am sure that I will live through it, and it won't be as bad as I am anticipating.  On a positive note, I get to travel to Minnesota in three weeks!  We are going to a family reunion on my side, and will also be burying my mother's remains....so some closure will come from that trip.  I'm just excited about the Mall of America!  WooHoo!  Anywho....I suppose that I will go for tonight, hopefully I will find the time/motivation to write more often!

Currently Watching Wedding Crashers - Uncorked (Unrated Widescreen Edition) see related

TGIF

Currently Listening Dookie By Green Day see related

- Basket Case

The Leach has Won

Well, it's been a few days since i've wrote, and I have some new news.  My little brother is getting married.  Now, before you go "aww" let me tell you the background surrounding this tragic event.  This "girl" that he's been seeing for the last couple of years is a psychotic- manipulative- know-it-all-hypochondriac.  She has weaseled her way into our family right under our noses.  There is so much to say, that i'll give the last few months details to save you from being overloaded.  At my wedding...the only thing that I asked her to do was make sure the parents had their flowers and to hand out programs.  As soon as my brother was sent off the get the video camera, she dropped everything and followed him...because he can't be alone-she needs to know what he is doing and where he is at all times.  So, subsequently, Mark's parents didn't get their flowers, and my DAD ended up handing out programs until he had to get in the lineup with me!  Then.....that night, the whole group was going to go out for dinner.  The consensus was Red Lobster, and since Miss Hyppchondriac didn't want to go there, she threw a tantrum and stated that she is so allergic to shellfish, that if she even smelled it she would break out in hives and stop breathing.  So...no one wanted to go anywhere else, so she stomped off, and my brother followed her like a lost puppy.  That's the last I saw of him until Thanksgiving break....which brings me to my next example.  Well...my mom was getting pretty sick, and it was coming down to the last days...so, I went home early to be with her and my dad...and with Justin if he decided to show up.  He came over once or twice, always accompanied by the leach who decided when they would show up, and when they would leave.  Well, it came to the morning that my mom passed away, and I called Justin around 5:00 in the morning and told him to get over there as soon as possible.  The what should have been a 10-15 minute drive took them 45+ minutes, and they had to stop for coffee on the way.  Yes...I said THEY.  She had to be involved in this "family" event as well.  I knew in the back of my head that she would show up, and I could have dealt with that....but she walked right in the room and sat on the same bed as my dying mother....for the duration of the event.  Now....my mother was a very opinionated woman and she saw right through the leach the moment my brother brought her home.  She didn't have an ounce of liking for this girl in her body, and if she would have had her wits about her during this time, she would have let the leach have it.  She took what should have been an immediate family situation, and butted her way into it.  I will never forgive her for that.  So, these are the two offenses that really have turned me against her, not to mention that she has outrageous stories to accompany any topic being discussed.  From her father playing poker with Garth Brooks, to her bumping into Robin Williams in the Cheyenne, Wyoming mall while he was hiding out from people in Denver.  Never is there a quiet moment from her end of the table/sofa/whatever.  Also, for some reason, his inheritence money from our Grandparents seems to be dwindling away...couldn't be because she has no job and has a  boyfriend she instructs to pay for her bills and anything else she may want.  Her "friends" in high school warned Justin about her, that she is a gypsy (jumps from person to person draining them of their money, and just basically living off of them, like a parasite, hense the nickname the leach").  During her last break up with a previous boyfriend, she took an ax to her bed and chopped it up....crazy?  I think so!  She claims she has at least 10 different diseases/ailments, is allergic to everything under the sun, and has been (self) diagnosed with bi-polar depression.  And yet, my brother thinks he needs to marry her.  He is the only one who can stand her.  Plus he seems to think that her white trash family is shiny diamonds compared to his own...which is fine with me.  If that's the way he wants to live, then he can have it.  I'm not going to put up with it.  These are just a few of the hundreds of tidbits I could share...but i will spare you the grief.  So...the past two days have been interesting...my brain desperatly trying to grasp this concept.  Come May something....he's going to marry the leach and all hope will be lost.  (He hasn't even told me the news yet, my dad found out because a postcard from the jewelry store went to his house in  my brothers name and he called him on it....he wasn't even going to tell my dad!)  It's really kinda sad, and I feel bad for him and especially my dad...who feels like he's failed in raising my brother.  It's not his fault, my brother just seems to be the kind of person who needs someone to tell him what to feel, think and do.  No amount of our side telling him he's making a mistaike is going to change anything, it's only going to push him further away into her realm.  She has turned an other wise smart, levelheaded, good guy into a scared and beaten dog lead around by a choke chain.  It really is sad.

On a lighter note, it's almost Friday....THANK GOODNESS! 

Currently Listening American Idiot By Green Day see related

- Wake Me Up When September Ends

Wow, what a day.  I left the hosue this morning at 7:50 and just now got home at 10:45.  Monday's are such a drag...not to mention draining.  I definately have to agree with Garfield on the Monday issue!  Anyway...the day went fairly well.  At my day job, we have a new child who is severly hearing impared, and subsequently we have an interpreter in the room with him.  He's so cute, and I am estatic that I will now be learning a lot more sign language!  My night job was interesting as well....I only had one child show up for class.  Do you know how hard it is to do a circle time with only one child!  Not to mention that I have a helper and also this week I have an observer!  Talk about good adult-child ratios!  Today is day 8 of atkins...don't feel any different yet, although I'm not as hungry as I usually am.  I weighed myself last Friday...250...(gosh, and I thought that 145 in high school was orca fat!) so i'll use that as a starting weight.  Unfortunatly eating only meat, cheese and salad is getting so old...but i'll manage.   I just have to switch my brain from eating for pleasure to eating for necessity.  Well, I suppose that it is late and time for bed for me.  More from the "exciting" life of me at a later date!