Scribbles 'n Scraps

I don’t normally do these here, but thought I would start doing a couple every once in awhile.

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1. When my blog is broken, I’m basically having a heart attack and frantically trying to figure out why!

2. I saw the most amazing man this morning – he was in my bed!!

3. Enchanted is the new movie I’m most looking forward to seeing. (can you tell I’m a mom!)

4. Work: Necessary and I love it. I’m lucky enough to work from home though.

5. Of all the new tv shows, I enjoy Life Is Wild and Gossip Girl the most.

6. If only there was a third day attached to weekends, I might actually get more done.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to hanging out with my family and watching a video, tomorrow my plans include shopping and trying to get ahead on Christmas and Sunday, I want to start wrapping and finish getting all the decorations up!

It’s time for my Christmas list. Mike asked me to make one, and tell him what I wanted. I’ve asked him to do the same (several weeks back) and still neither of us ever did it.

But I have a problem. I don’t really know what I want. I’m not longing for anything in particular. Mostly if I want it, we buy it at some point. I’m sure there is something I can think of, but I thought I’d ask others what they are wanting this Christmas. And while happiness, peace, love and joy are all wonderful things and I badly want them, they aren’t going to fly on this Christmas list. He is looking for something he can purchase. LOL

Help!

Ugh. Photography Tip # 23, 545: If you typically take photos of your Thanksgiving meal, because well, you just always have. Then don’t forget to do it one year. Because then you are terribly tempted to stage a photograph with a whole second Thanksgiving meal (minus the Turkey because for the life of me I cannot handle another 19lb Turkey for awhile).

*sigh* Yup. I forgot to take my traditional photograph this year. I just realized it and as a scrapbooker, it’s going to feel weird not having it. Ah. Big deal. I’ll live. And I promise, I won’t create a whole other meal just to stage a photo. I’m too frugal to waste food and while I love what I made, my waist line did not.

Yes. Indeed. There was an email. Sent at 6:46pm. Could you please go back and look at last nights post and see what time I called her at (yeah – 6:45!)
I’m so dang ticked.
I think she sincerely forgot. Realized as I called – oops. I won’t deny that she might have composed the email before last night, but it wasn’t SENT until last night at the same time I called her. Ironic? Coincidence? Sickening!

And lets pretend she DID send an email on time. We were in the Ozarks all week. Exactly when did she think we were going to get the email? Monday morning? Still the day of!

Now I understand completely why the “rules” are the way they are.

Irritatingly Simple. That’s all my life seems sometimes.

We had another ordeal with “the mom” again. First, might I ask what the laws are in your state regarding communication with your ex spouse? Is email a suitable method for communicating when or if you want the children?
I got divorced in Texas and was told by both my lawyer and the courts that email was not a reliable nor suitable communication method for contact between both parties regarding custody issues. They gave the reason as being not …hmmm… reliable. How do you know that person is going to check their email that morning. How do you know that a server won’t be down somewhere making it take longer to get the email out to the person, etc. I am in Missouri now and I don’t know if Missouri has the exact same law, but I do know that a friend of mine with two kids just got divorced and was also told by her lawyer that emails don’t hold up in court as a suitable method of communication regarding custody.

So that said. Brings me to last night. Or rather last week. B.mom allows us to leave for our vacation a day earlier, giving up her night with them. Now, before I go on and everyone thinks its a selfless act, it wasn’t. I assure you. She has to drive well over an hour on Tuesday nights to see them. There are frequently times she changes the night or doesn’t come at all. She chose to move that far away several months back. So last Tuesday she communicated with Mike that she would instead like to have them on Monday and would that work? He says yes without checking with me first (he’s not home on Monday – he’s at work!) so I was irritated with him because we did have plans, but they were certainly easily rescheduled. It was more the principle. SO I called b.mom on Tuesday and told her thank you for letting us leave early (I did it to be nice, not because she did us a favor, etc.) and told her that Monday was just fine, and that I would switch our plans to Tuesday, which was easy. “We’ll see you on Monday, I’m sure the kids will be really excited to tell you about our trip.” Final words before I hung up.

So I look at the clock tonight – 6:04pm. Hmm…she seems to be running a few minutes late. She’s usually here at 6:00pm. I tell the kids to get their coats on, get their books together (they go to the library), etc. They are sitting waiting there, again I look at the clock. Now it’s 6:22pm. Hmm… I want to call her, I really do. Especially because B and I are starving and really want to go eat. The three girls waiting for mom are starving, but sometimes when traffic is bad, she doesn’t arrive until 6:20 or so. I give her a little more time and finally at 6:44pm I call Mike. He answers (unbelievably) and is shocked that she isn’t there. Says he knows he told her it was fine, blah blah blah. So now I’m torn and confused. Did the conversation really happen? And lets pretend for a moment that it did not. That Mike dreamed it. I did NOT dream calling her and leaving a message on Tuesday. Where I clearly stated several times that Monday was perfectly fine. Didn’t she think that was weird?

So I call her. She answers. (SHE NEVER ANSWERS – EVER!!) and I thought that meant she might be on her way. Nope. She was very obviously sitting in front of a television set. *sigh* In my opinion she forgot. Instead, she lied. She said that she didn’t remember having that conversation with Mike and insisted that she had said Thursday. So I did the only thing I could do. “Didn’t you think when I said Monday a half dozen times to you on the message that you should call and let us know I had the wrong date?”
Her answer.
“I sent an email.”

An email, that quite interestingly Mike says he never got. (She doesn’t email me!)
So in the morning, when Mike returns home, I plan to have him look and see. I want to see exactly what it says. I’m so damn annoyed.

Try feeding children who are starving when you have to fast cook something because you were not prepared (B and I were going to go eat dinner out). They didn’t eat until 7:30 and then we headed out to the library at 8:00pm. Not my favorite time to leave the house, ya know? Except the library was nice, because it was quiet. I like quiet. Especially when I’m stressed. And now I’m so angry I can’t sleep. UGH!!!

Most of my regular readers know that we escaped to Lake of the Ozarks for Thanksgiving week. We got home yesterday and had a fabulous time!!

We made a new friend while we were there, providing her with loads of cereal and marshmallow snacks. I’m sure quite healthy, but she kept coming back for more. Every single day at least four times a day! The kids absolutely loved her and we took dozens of photographs. These were rated our favorites of our cute little squirrel friend.

This completely cracked me up. I found it while surfing blogs today.
Here is my paycheck for the past year. I sure as heck wish I had that check for real!!

Click to view big!

I don’t mind being

a housekeeper
a teacher
a cook
a household manager
a janitor
a taxi driver
a nurse
a psychologist
and about a dozen other titles….

but could I at least get paid better for it? The hugs and sugar and love I get is almost compensation enough, but boy a big fat paycheck would be really uber amazing! Find out what you’re worth here.

This completely cracked me up. I found it while surfing blogs today.
Here is my paycheck for the past year. I sure as heck wish I had that check for real!!

Click to view big!

I don’t mind being

a housekeeper
a teacher
a cook
a household manager
a janitor
a taxi driver
a nurse
a psychologist
and about a dozen other titles….

but could I at least get paid better for it? The hugs and sugar and love I get is almost compensation enough, but boy a big fat paycheck would be really uber amazing! Find out what you’re worth here.