I hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I will skip the subject all together.
I am working on my Christmas card list and talked to a GF that lives in OK. Well, we got onto the subject of a place that we used to work at in Tulsa called CFS. It was a debt collection company and it was an absolutely awesome place to work. The training we got was extensive and hard as hell. The job was a good one, there were tons of perks. The hours were awesome, there were company trips, he flew the WHOLE company and their families to FL, Insurance was $1 a month for the WHOLE family, there was free child care for the people that worked there. It was too good to be true, and in the end thats the way it ended up being. Everyone got laid off and supposedly the VP was doing naughty things. I do not quite understand all the details just remember us all losing our jobs. In the end I just did not care, we ended up in TX so really my life was not impacted too much. There were quite a few lawsuits and I guess we were all automatically involved and ended up with like $300. Which was nice since I did nothing for it. Then a couple of years ago I got a check for like $2 which was rather funny. Anyways, the reason I mention all this is I really think that the guy that owned the company was behind it all. My girlfriend and I were talkin about it and now he is a MOTIVATIONAL speaker... he was acquited on 57 accts of whatever. Again, I do not remember all the details I did not keep up with it. You can have him come speak at your business for like $15,000 for an hour and a half and he is now a BILLIONAIRE. Amazing, all of it if you ask me. HERE is his website. Oh, well, no biggy to me either way. Just amazing how things turn out. HERE is another story that was in INC about him. And HERE is an article on the verdict on what happened. Here is one last article.

First and foremost.... HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!

I guess I should get a post in before I go another week without it. I have been really busy preparing for my mother in law, sister in law and nephews arrival. We had a lot of cleaning and reorganizing to do. Things are in order so now all we have to do is wait for them to get here this evening.
A big congrats to Geoffery and his new bride on their recent marriage. Its about time, Geoff :o)
Lets see, My best friend will be 30 really soon so her hubby and I are planning a birthday party for her, nothing too big, mostly family and a few friends since she still has to take it really really easy. Her doctor let her off bed rest but she cannot do any chores, any cleaning, lifting or anything that will get her going. But since the doc took her off bed rest we thought a small party for her would be good. She has also found out what the baby is and has picked a name... I am so very excited and pray that this is the pregnancy that she will keep.
Tomorrow morning my grandma and I are going to go to see my grandpa. It has been a few weeks for me and I am really having a hard time dealing with it. First holiday without him is going to be really hard on me. We have also decided that we are going to do our own Thanksgiving here since my in laws are going to be here. I am doing the whole meal so that should help keep my mind off things. But to get to spend some time with my grandma will be good for both of us.
To someone tuff.. 14congrats on killing 3 deer :oP I am sure you had a great time and I hope you get that last tag filled, just do me a favor and make it something mountable. :o)
Ok, well I am going to get off here! I hope that everyone has a great Thanksgiving holiday!

OK, I am completely over being bitchy... for the moment :o) I tend to get rather crabby when hubby is out of town...dealing with the kids morning noon and night from the time I wake up to the time they fall asleep gets rather old. Things are sorta back to normal.
Tonite I am going to play bunco with some girlfriends and then tomorrow my best friend is moving into her new house so I am going to go over there and help her clean since she is still bed ridden and needs the help. Its a brand new house but with everybody walkin through the place its going to need some cleaning. So that is where I come in. Other than that I have no plans.
I need to start planning for Thanksgiving dinner...we are going to fry the turkey again, I have some of the other stuff planned but plan on doing everything else from scratch.
Ok, off to clean house before I leave this evening...Oh, and hunny... I love you!!!! :o)

HUNNY ITS ALL GOOD I LOVE KNOWING... DONT LET IT PISS YOU OFF!!!! :o) Oh, yeah and I am over the whole MEN ARE STUPID thing... I will just have to accept it and move on or turn lesbo or move to my own private island... which all of those are options... eventually I will choose. OK, I am done being a smart ass for the moment.

Can someone please explain to me WHY men are so fuckin STUPID???? Ok, so that seems a little harsh, but in my opinion its just the tip of the iceberg.
Example 1. I am getting 4, YES 4 children ready for bed and I get a phone call... what do I do during this call... tell the kids to do this, that and the other cuz for some reason in the 10, 8, 5, and 3 yrs that they have been going to bed they STILL need to be told to brush their teeth, get their PJs on and GO TO BED... The last one being the most difficult task to comprehend. So I am barking orders and have a husband pissed off on the phone cuz I am not talkin to him but talkin to the kids instead... I am sorry, have you forgotten that we have children that need to be told EVERYTHING?????? AND THAT I AM DOING THIS BY MYSELF?!?!?!?!?!???
Then today there was an issue of LYING children, so I am tryin to get the truth out of 3 of the 4 children and yet again, he wants to talk and wants to know WHY I am in such a bad mood...Oh and to top it off... I have been MOODY all day and WARNED him of this right off the bat... COULD IT BE BECAUSE OUR CHILDREN DID SOMETHING THEY WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO AND I WANT THE FUCKING TRUTH???? So we hang up and I do NOT answer the phone the next 150 times that he calls back. I am in a really bad mood, DONT want to talk to him and am trying to deal with the children...3 of the children are crying and denying and he BITCHES when he calls and he cannot hear me... Well, he DEFINETELY would not have been able to HEAR me since I had 3 CRYING children... YET AGAIN I AM DOING THIS ALL BY MYSELF!!! So, you tell me.... WHY ARE MEN SO FUCKING STUPID????
Ok, done with my rant for now... Back to being the house bitch....

I cannot believe Thanksgiving is right around the corner. My Mother in law, Sister in law and nephew are comin up for Thanksgiving. We decided that we would just do it here at our house and not have my in-laws and my family at the same time. My aunt is hosting it out at her house and it would be a mad house with all of us there so I will prepare Thanksgiving. Hubby will fry the turkey and I will do everything else. They are coming in late on Wednesday and staying til Sunday.
Our great dane is officially an IT. We had him fixed a week ago and he is doing great. He weighed in at 103 lbs last week. I am sure he has gained a good 5-6 lbs since then. He really is an excellent dog. There are times he plows the children over or me, but he just does not realize his size and tends to pout after being scolded for it, so there is no stayin mad at him. He still tries to sit on my lap but obviously that does not work without cutting off circulation to my legs.
Hubby is out of town again. Had to go to CA to fix some stuff at a clients and could possibly be heading to Kansas after his job there is done. The CA trip was unexpected and the Kansas trip has been planned so it screwed up the KS trip but he still may have to go. If he does go to KS he will not be home til Saturday which really sucks since that is the day my best friend is supposed to be moving into their new house and I do not have a babysitter to watch the kiddos.

A lot has been going on around here it seems. My best friend is preggers and could use all the prayers possible. She is somewhere around 13 weeks preggers and has been on bed rest since she was 9 weeks. A bunch of different issues are going on and I wont get into them here. Needless to say its been a rough go at the pregnancy. A few more scares than I really care for.
The kids had a good halloween despite all the rain and it being cold. My oldest was a Stealth Ninja, my older daughter was a Punk Pirate chic, my younger daughter was a Bratz and my youngest was Batman. Hubby put on a Burglar mask and I was a Heavenly Devil.. half Angel half Devil. Hubby says there is a lot more devil than angel but I disagree :o)
One thing I have to say I am thankful for of my ex not being in the picture with my son is... I DON'T have to share my son!!! I hate the idea of having to share my babies with anyone on special days. ANY special day. Even as minimal a holiday as Halloween. I get the pleasure of ALL holidays plus every other day. Of course I enjoy the break from my kids, but those are just ordinary days and not for long periods of time. I know a lot of people that have to share their kids on a regular basis and it sucks. I am sure my ex could care less but I am thankful!! I get to pick out costumes, I get to see all the awesome things and see the happiness on my childs face and not have to worry about missing those special times. Sucks to be my ex... HIS loss :o)
Anyways, we went around our neighborhood and one other neighborhood then went to see my grandma. She enjoyed seeing all the kids in their costumes. It was just last Halloween that we took the kids to the rehab center that my grandpa was in to see him and visit with him... and now hes gone. Days like that really hit me hard. The playoffs for the Cardinals hit really hard too. I was used to talkin to him during that time and hubby was always givin him shit that the Astros were going to beat the Cardinals and this yr that is exactly what happened. I did go and put a Cardinals banner by my grandpas headstone though. I need to get a Rams one for him :o)
OK, well on to next subject before I cry.... This last weekend was a busy one. Saturday we did a bunch of running around and went to the Applebutter festival in Kimmswick. Its something that I normally do with my best friend but since shes bed ridden hubby and the kids went with me. Not the same but overall we had a good time. Sunday we watched the football game and got some stuff done and my cousin babysit the kids for me so that hubby and I could go to a meeting at Harrah's. We met with some really awesome people, I wont get into detail of that one either since its still in the works and I dont want too many ppl knowing. But needless to say it was an awesome meeting and I really enjoyed the ppl. We had the buffet there at Harrah's. There were 7 of us there. Just 2 women, myself and another lady and we had a blast with the guys. After eating and the meeting we went down to the casino for a while. I lost $30 but still had a lot of fun. Well I guess technicallyI llost $50 but one of the guys fed a $20 into the slot I was playin on. I managed to lose that too :o( Over all it was an awesome time. While we were at the meeting my cousin and aunt took the kids to an indoor playground and wore them out and they also had a blast.
This Friday is my brothers last football game. They only won 2 games, but I think he had a good time playin this year. We will go to his last game on Friday since its a home game. I have made it to 2 of his games and I want to go to his last one. Its senior night so he may not play at all. But either way, I want to see him hold down the sideline :o) He is supposed to come over tomorrow so that I can get pics of him in his uniform before he has to turn all the crap in. I will post some when I get a chance... I also will post a pic of us girls from the wineries that I have not done yet....