OMG!!!

I swear there has GOT to be something wrong with me. I woke up this morning sweating, fear, dread and anxiety FULL FORCE!!! I mean I sat straight up in bed, ready to run. I hate when that happens. Nothing good EVER comes from a wake-up like that.

I was dreaming that it was the children's first day of school.....and I was afraid that some unknown thing was going to hurt them. Specifically my daughter. I was afraid to leave her there. This school year they are both starting in new schools in a new county with no friends yet. I guess that is where my anxiety comes from. Of course as any good mom would do, I let them know everything is going to be great and they will have so much fun. But on the inside I am dying for them. They have never had to be "the new kid" until now.... I keep reinforcing the fact that it is a new fresh start and life from here on in is going to be wonderful.

I hope so...

I'M SO DUMB....

I just wrote a whole post on how my life blows and I just deleted it. I started reading it and realized I have a pretty sweet life after all. Why did it take me all this time and energy to have to read it to figure it out???

My brother finally came to pick up the spawn. YAY! I am free from spawn!!! My niece isn't a bad kid, she is just REALLY annoying! She also tends to make my kids annoying. I am just glad she's gone...

BLOGATHON HAS BEGUN!!!

O.K. Now... everyone who is anyone has to help keep CP going. She is da'bomb! She is raising serious money for charity. She already has all her pledges (or you can donate if you would like), she needs moral (or immoral) support. So, if you are here reading this, hop over to her page (updated hourly) she is entertaining us hourly!!! I'm so excited. She has got to be one of the most honest, brilliant and sincere people I have ever had the pleasure to meet.

Are you still here?

Just go already, there is nothing more to see here...

I AM NOT THAT WRAPPED UP.....

I am not so wrapped up in my day to day that I TRY to ignore my blog, really....

I hate working the end of the month in real estate in a law office. I am the "post closing" person. That means that I take care of ALL the details after we close a loan. I know a lot of people out there have bought a house. You go to the attorney's office and sit down talk a little and sign your life away. Well when it's all said and done. The big bad attorney walks over to my desk and plunks a big fat disorganized file full of papers and checks on my desk and expects me (and only me) to make sense of the mess in there. What a BORING job. I am good at shuffling papers and for the most part I stay on top of it. But of course the end of the month rolls around and we get slammed with closings. I make sure all the payoffs go to the right banks, I make sure all the money balances, I make sure that everyone that is getting a check gets it and finally I make sure the courthouse gets all the deeds to the properties so these people officially own their property. Not a lot of fun, not a lot of money, but for the most part it is a happy transaction. Someone is happy to be buying a house and someone is happy to be moving on.

Sooooo.....

Don't think I am ignoring this blog on purpose, I am busy (taking work home with me) and busy at home with company too.

I AM SUCH A SLACKER....

So sue me, I know I have been slacking on updating. But it not for lack of want. Let me "splain".... K? O.K. My mother in law is now residing in my computer room at home and I feel funny sitting in "her room" even though I know it is MY room in MY house. I am SUCH a dork! I want her to feel like she has a place to escape to. And well, with me there, it is not much of an escape.

I hope she doesn't mind me being in there for 24 hours on July 29th for the Blogathon!

Well, I WAS looking forward to it.....

My mother in law came to town and I love her a LOT LOT LOT..... My husband went to pick her up and bring her to our house. I was so excited.... Uninvited and unbeknownst to me. My brother's spawn came with. Ugh! So her visit for the next week is tempered with my niece. With the culmination of my brother, wife and other spawn coming to get them on Saturday and probably staying overnight. Just so happens that she asked me if she could stay with us for a week and I told her no, in no uncertain terms.... Looks like I have a lot of say as to what goes on in my house, huh?!?!

I love having my mother in law come, she is loving and caring, she is a great cook, she devotes all of her time to my children. How could you not love this woman. I took her shopping yesterday and enjoyed being alone with her. I know I am grumpy and should just be happy that she's here and I would be if I liked my niece. She lurks around the house like Lurch from the Adams Family. Everytime I call my daughter she comes running like I called her?!?! She waves to me all the time, WTF is that???? You are 13 years old and I don't feel the need to wave to you every time you wave to me. No need to get upset about it, just grow up and go away already!

She is strange and I don't like the way my kids act around her. It's as simple as that! Next week is the last week before my kids start school. I just wanted some time for myself, my kids, my hubby and the mom in law is that so much to ask. Now I am not going to take my vacation time, why should I? I would have to spend the entire time reprimanding the 3 stooges. That's right, when she is there it is utter chaos. Maybe next summer I'll get a little vacation. You don't have to join in my pity party, I am just grumpy this morning.

POSITIVE OUTLOOK....

That's right I am going to have a positive outlook today. Yesterday was about as bad as I have seen this place. My co-workers monster-in-law passed away yesterday morning (to top it all off). She could not stand the woman but her heart was breaking for her husband. She went to be by his side for most of the morning. She actually came back to work because we are ultra busy. (she deserves a raise) I felt bad because there was nothing in my power that I could do to make her feel any better. She wept silently for the whole afternoon. Poor thing. The workload has been tremendous and with the end of the month coming up I don't see an end in sight.

On a WAY better note do you all remember my friend CP? Well yeah of course you do, she has been in my blog all week! She is doing a Blogathon for charity. I think everyone should at least give it a looksee...

She is raising money for the Pediatric AIDS Foundation and she has a personal goal. Just remember every little penny counts. I am planning on granting moral support, 24 hours is a VERY long time!

O.K. enough with the fundraising. This weekend I promise to update my life and my world and I promise to stay out of everyone else's business *grin*....maybe....

IS TODAY MONDAY AGAIN???

Nuff said....

THE NEWS IS OH SO SWEET!!!!

"Nick the Great" is cancer free!!! Did you hear me??!!! NICK IS CANCER FREE!!! This is just the news we want to hear. My friend CP is still going through some tough times, so please keep up the good karma for her, she REALLY deserves it.

On another good note, my hubby bought a car last night. He is in love with it. It is a Dodge SRT-4. (It is the same color and make as this one but his has a lot of custom junk on it with turbo...) Don't ask, I just know it's fast and he's happy. That's all that matters. He is such a good man and takes good care of me and the kids. He deserves it.

BITTERSWEET....

We did it, we sold the house. Hubby and I signed on the dotted line today and the monkey on our backs is officially gone...

On another not so sweet note... A dear sweet person who I consider a friend had some bad news today. She is as real a person as was ever made. I have a lot of respect for her. She has a sweet little boy who needs all the prayers and good Karma we can muster. Please if you do nothing else today, say a prayer for Nick, he needs us. They need us.

TODAY IS THE DAY!!!

Yep, today is the day we sell the house.... I am not going to believe it till I sign on the dotted line. I brought some bubbly (to work) to pop as soon as we are done and I have that big fat check in my hot little hand. I love working in this place. My kids are here with me today. I woke up (WOKE UP) at 8:00.... I had a lazy morning and strolled in here about 10:00 with alcohol. My kids are in the back room playing.... Have I said I love this place yet???

We went over to the other house last night to mow, sweep and vacuum. The neighbor invited me in for margaritas?!?! I have never even seen the inside of her place. I came in and we sat and giggled for a little over an hour. I had a coke instead but I really enjoyed our visit. Why now AFTER I move did she decide to spend time with me. She had another friend there and she told her friend that we have always been nice to her. Our son played with her grandson. He is a neat kid. Anyway after living next door to her for !?!?! Lord knows how many years.... I got her phone number and a promise of some lunch together, LOL!!! Anyway I hope to get a pic of all of us at the closing table, wish us luck....

NOT MUCH TO SEE HERE FOLKS....

Slower traffic to the right, reserve the left lane for passing only....

Today had to be the s-l-o-w-e-s-t day on earth today.

The boss is out for a couple of days (which is an act of Congress with him). So of course being the busy little bees that we are, we have really come together to make the office purrrrr like a kitten. It is so much easier when he isn't there interrupting our flow. He is an awesome man and an excellent employer. I really look up to him a lot. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. BUT it is nice when he is gone for a few days. We have a young 27 year old attorney that takes over his affairs when he is gone. He is like an obnoxious sweet little brother type. Love him to death. But it is not JB the big bossman. Well.... unfortunately two problems arose today and they are BIG HUGE problems that are so far out of my league that I cannot fathom the impact when all is said and done. Wish us luck and keep your fingers crossed. Wow, I am asking for a lot of that these days. Come Friday afternoon, the boss will be back, he can solve any problems, my house will be sold and I will be walking away with a HUGE check in my pocket. I am excited. I am thinking about going in to work tomorrow morning and taking off for the afternoon. Maybe go to the bookstore, grab a book off the shelf and curl up in one of their many comfy chairs until my kids get out of camp. Of course I know me and I know that my work ethics have a problem taking off for no reason. There is ALWAYS work to be done.

On another note... I have been having chest pains today. I think it is a little bit of anxiety (due to the BIG HUGE problems that have just come up). I am hoping it only gas....

I wear my heart on my sleeve, always have and I guess I always will. Anytime I feel hurt, scared, overwhelmed, sad, happy, nervous, etc... it shows. I can't help it. So after internalizing these feelings of failure at these BIG HUGE problems, my body is mad at me.

I also can't lie and trust me I have tried, I just really suck at it. Then I realized that is so not worth it. Everyone knows exactly how I feel about them, good bad or indifferent. Either I love you and want to spend more time with you, I don't care for you and am only civil to you because that is the right way to be.... or I don't care one way or the other for you. It's not that I don't like you, I don't know you and you don't know me. We haven't taken the time to get to know each other. My mother has always said that I have never met a stranger. That everyone out there is just a friend I haven't had the pleasure of meeting yet.

Yeah, I am reserved yet outgoing. Go figure that one out. I am a Gemini after all....... I love to listen to what other people have to say. I also love to be the one in the middle of the circle doing my standup routine.

OMG! I am SO rambling on over here, I need to stop that! I noticed that my last post got a lot of positive response, thank you everyone. YOU RULE!!!

Oh and ~deb next time I make it up north I am taking you and Mad out for drinks. I'll be the designated driver, LOL!!! I love CP's accounts of your awesome time. I am gonna have to hook up with her and make a northbound road trip! Oh and you know.... you are always welcome down here too~~~

LIFE LESSON #???...

While out picking up some shorts for LM (who has grown incredibly this summer) at Wal-Mart we experienced something my children have never experienced... They saw their first transgendered person. No it was not a Drag Queen, they have seen plenty of those. This person was an honest to goodness male to female transgendered person. She was walking away from us with blue jeans and a white spaghetti strap tank top. She had long curly blonde hair, a braod back and was obviously very conscious of the way she walked. She still had a man's gate and hadn't lost the adams apple. But she looked ok. Both of my kids said,"she looks like a man..."

Ahhhh, perfect time for a life lesson. I asked them if they knew what transgendered meant. My son did, my daughter didn't. So I explained it to them and of course added that it is normal and that person is doing what they can to make their world right. I love when I can take a few minutes to teach my children how to be tolerant of the world around them. We talked about what GLBT was an abbreviation for. We talked about how this is normal just like being straight is normal. I am and always have been intolerant of ignorance. Just because someone doesn't live the way I live doesn't make it wrong or bad, it just makes it different. I can only hope that other people feel the same way about me.

SATURDAY FINALLY...

I have to admit that this week has been one of the longest most difficult weeks on record. We were swamped, the boss was a bit grumpy, I had a migraine and the kids were endless in their bitching about having to get up and go to camp everyday. Sorry folks but I am not extremely wealthy so I can not stay home with you. If I were THAT wealthy you guys would be in boarding school! (Well not really...) Well the work got done, the boss stayed grumpy, the headache went away and I put the kids in their places. So thankfully today is a "do nothing" kind of day. I am doing laundry and a little bit of cleaning (very little).

Remember when I said my friend and her hubby and baby James came to spend the 4th with us?!?! Well they did and we took some really sweet pics, I swear he knows what the camera is...

Baby James & me...

Hubby making silly faces with Baby James...

Baby James laughing at me...

Most charming Baby James...

I love baby James even if he pooped on me, LOL!!! He is a happy little guy.

I may update later after I take a little nap, this "doing nothing" is SO good for my soul!

THIS WAS FRONT PAGE NEWS IN MY PAPER TODAY....

No wonder I am suffering from migraines. I am much better today everyone, thanks for the love and advice. Yes ~deb that 800mg does a good job, so does a dark room and long sleep. I still have a "halo" headache. You know the kind that isn't there but if you do something strenuous it will be right back again. When I lean forward/back I can feel where it was. BUT!!! Like I was saying, I opened up the local news and this article was the first thing I saw. Makes me sad...

Teen Brothers Arrested in String of Bank Robberies

Police say two brothers robbed one bank in Savannah and two in the Low Country in the past month. Police are charging the boys as adults. We don't know whether they were armed, but they passed the bank teller a note claiming to have guns. They got away with some cash, and now that robbery spree has landed the boys in jail.
Police say the joy ride is over for 13-year-old Baheem Frazier and his 16-year-old brother, Charles Ragland. Police say they robbed the SunTrust bank inside the Kroger on Mall Boulevard in Savannah on June 2.
Frazier and Ragland are also suspected of robbing the Wachovia Bank in downtown Beaufort on June 12 and robbing the South Carolina Bank and Trust on Lady's Island this past Monday.
South Carolina FBI agents released a surveillance picture of the robbers in action, but it was Savannah-Chatham police who broke the case. They started closing in on the brothers Tuesday when they found the white Ford Expedition they say was used in the crimes.
At 2am this morning, they arrested Ragland at Savannah's Courtyard Marriott Hotel on Liberty Street. Police say he was with his brother during the robberies and is charged with being a party to the crime.
Police got the big break when they got an anonymous tip around 11am this morning, which led them to the 1100 block of East 70th Street. They found Frazier and arrested him. They're charging him with armed robbery.
"As far as the motive and what else was going on about why they did this is still under investigation," said Lt. Jimmy Stevens with SCMPD. "When you have a 16-year-old and 13-year-old, it's good to get them off the street for public safety and their safety as well."
Police think the brothers may have had plans to strike again. Both Frazier and Ragland will be arraigned in Recorder's Court at 1pm tomorrow.
Police questioned the boys' mother and released her. Her boyfriend was also questioned, and arrested on unrelated drug charges.
Reported by: Michelle Paynter

MIGRAINE.....

Need I say more?

I HAVE NOT LEFT...I PROMISE.......

I know it's been a while, but I'm still here and starting to slow down a little (very little). Hope everyone had a wonderful 4th. My friend that had the baby, little baby James....you remember??? Well anyway they came over and spent a few hours with us. They had not seen the new house yet so we figured it was the perfect time to hang. We ate like pigs and relaxed. James pooped all over my lap, through the legs of his diaper. Wow, he really does love me!!!

We've decided to let LM take a few weeks off from his music lessons so we have one less thing to do. So it looks like I may (or may not) get a chance to get a really good post in this afternoon when I get out of work, woooohoooo! Finally!

Happy Independence Day...

I am back for a minute, only because I am too exhausted to go to bed. I am so tired I can't sleep. I have to get up early tomorrow to go to work, ugh! Yes folks, I have to work on Sunday (I guess that's technically today). Hey time and a half isn't so bad... I just hate working the end of the month in my biz, I don't get paid nearly enough for the stress that I go through.

On a lighter note, someone new made an offer on the house, wish us luck!!! Get those fingers and toes crossing again. I am going to need all the good Karma I can get! I had better get to bed and get at least 4 hours of sleep....

While I'm gone, please check out my sidebar(s) on this and my other blog and check out some of my favorite bloggers and other non relevant websites. Yes I know I need to refresh them and add some new and clear out some of the old.

Oh and Madeline if you are reading this, you will be on my sidebar very soon. Keep up the awesome thoughts and know that we are more than ready to embrace and love you. ~deb has made us believers in you.