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Lets say you came up to a bus stop bench just as the bus pulled away. You sit down to wait for the next bus and grab at the newspaper that was left sitting on the bench. Just as you open it an envelope falls, you pick it up and it has money in it. Not a large amount, just enough to make you wonder what to do next. Lets say it has an odd amount like $283. What do you do?

According to the rules…

Each player of this game starts with the “6 weird things about you”. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave a comment that says “you are tagged” in their comments and tell them to read your blog.

I was tagged by Chelle! Thanks, girl, now here’s my list:’

1. I freak out when I drive right next to semi trucks on the freeway. I just know I’m going to blow a tire, my car will swerve and I’ll skid sideways then land right under the truck and die. I just know it.

2. Even as an adult I still can’t park on a curb that has a sewer drain. I’m afraid I’ll either slip and get stuck or drop my keys.

3. I cannot sleep if the closet door is open or ajar. Just can’t. I must get up to close it then go to the girls’ room and make sure their closet door is closed, too.

4. If I’m wearing tennis shoes and I take my shoes off I need to change my socks before I put my shoes back on again. Not because my feet stink or anything, but its like my socks have gotten out of the shoe shape and won’t sit right again, so I change them instead of being uncomfortable.

5. Even during the summer months I sleep with blankets up to my neck.

6. I can pick things up off the floor with my toes!

That was fun! Now I tag The Mind, Sassy, Beth, Angie, Jen and Craze Dreamer

Yesterday we lost our puppy, Lucy. She was run over in our driveway by a neighbor. It was an accident, of course, but her injuries were too much and we had to put her down.

Drama Queen was walking her when it happened and saw the whole thing. I knew what had to be done, yet I didn’t want to make the decision. Mister made the official decision and I had to make the call to the animal hospital. The girls were there with me and I asked them to be very discrete about what we decided to do, I didn’t want to break the news to them there. Once home I sat them down and told them she didn’t make it. My God, the cries and tears from those two were so heartbreaking. As I told my girlfriends, as a parent, that was THE hardest thing I had ever done, telling my kids their dog is dead.

My sister, grandma and I took the kids out to lunch as to get their mind off of Lucy. But once home, the tears began again. And then when my niece got home from her visit with her dad we had to go through it all over again. I was most worried about Drama Queen because she witnessed it, but she seemed to sleep soundly last night. Probably out of sheer exhaustion. But The Snitch slept with us and did a bit more crying in my arms last night. Today the three of them sound sad but so far the tears have subsided. For now, at least.

A girlfriend of mine just recommended Dog Heaven for the girls, so I ordered it. I hope this will help them cope better.

Lucy was 7 months old when she died and is survived by a mommy, daddy, two sisters, a cousin, a doggie cousin, a nina, two grandma’s and a grampy. She will be missed.

My Friday morning began at 3:42 a.m. I had my alarm set to go off at 4a.m. but had to get up to use the restroom and didn’t go back to sleep.

Mister and I get up and he tells me he’s going out too. He needs to pick up two televisions and a digital camera so he was headed to Circuit City, which opened at 5am, he should’ve been there at 3:00, but he didn’t believe me. Fine. I went to my mom’s house, got her ready and helped her downstairs. I loaded her wheel chair into my car and we were ready to go pick up my sister when I get a phone call from Mister:

HEY! Do you know how many fucken people are out here????
Uh, yeah.
That’s crazy! The line is wrapped BEHIND the building.
I know, that’s why I told you to be there at 2:30-3:00.
Fuck that I’m coming home. I’ll go with you to Target.

So Mom, Sis, Mister and I hit Starbucks then headed over to Target at 5:45 (which is SUPER LATE for us). We were in and out in an hour and on our way back to my house to drop off my sister and our first load of bags. From there we jumped on the freeway and went to a mall in Orange County. Mister was pushing mom around in her wheel chair and was SUCH a big help. Since we had him with us we didn’t hit every store like we usually do, just the ones where we needed to make purchases. We dropped Mister off about 10:30 then mom and I hit mall #2.

At mall #2 it was after 11:00 and the parking was a struggle, even trying to locate a Handicap spot. After sitting behind a car parked in the middle of the aisle for almost 5 minutes I managed to go around it and doing so yelled MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE!!!!!!!!!!! They yelled something back but I didn’t hear what it was. Finally we found a car leaving, and it was close to an entrance so I didn’t have far to push my mom. As I was waiting to pull in I was in la-la-land and my mom said You better honk at that lady she’s trying to take your spot! Looking up I see a lady standing in the parking spot I’m waiting for, flagging down another driver! So that’s how they do it, eh. I honked, rolled down my window, pointed at her and said You better NOT even think about it! Now MOVE. She moved alright.

Once in mall #2 mom & I hit a couple of stores then I took her out to lunch, chips and salsa were definitely a much needed staple after our day. And you have NO idea how hard it was for me not to order a Margarita instead of a Diet Coke. But it was only 1:30 and I was going to my mother-in-laws in a while and didn’t want to go smelling of tequila. After dropping mom off and getting her settled in, I went home and napped with Mister. *ahhh*

Once we got up from our nap it was time to get us all ready to go to mother-in-laws house for Thanksgiving dinner. But before that we had to stop at a viewing service and pay our respects to the family of a very close friend who lost her uncle earlier this week. With them being of the Philippine culture there was food involved. We ate with them and met aunts and family who had just arrived the day before. That was a bit exhausting itself.

From there we went to MIL’s house for dinner. After eating with the family friends at the viewing I wasn’t really hungry but served myself a small plate so I wouldn’t hurt her feelings. You know how that goes. We were headed home about 8:00′ish when I texted my sister and asked if she wanted to go to Wal-Mart.

Off to Wal-Mart we went, bringing my grandma with us, at 8:30. As we were leaving the cashier was counting the cash I handed over and asked how much I gave her. I had counted out the exact amount, but then began second guessing myself, too. Now I’m waiting for a call from the Wal-Mart’s accounting office to let me know if I did give her the exact amount or if I gave her too much money. From there it was a quick return of items to Old Navy, at 10:00pm.

Finally, we get home at 10:30 when grandma realizes she’s missing a baeg. She calls Wal-Mart and sure enough she left it there. So back we go to get it. I finally parked my car for the last time at 11:00. Now grandma can’t find her house keys! I told her I’m not going back! *lol* Luckily she found them and we called it a night.

And that, my friends, is how I spent Black Friday 2006. Tonight my aunts are coming over for fondue, mixed drinks, music, gossip, a fire and chill time. Much needed is all I can say.

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My sis and I are 10 years apart. She’s 23 and I’m 33. I was a teen of the 80’s and she was a teen of the 90’s. I love and appreciate 80’s music and movies. She can’t and doesn’t. She just doesn’t get that era. Can you believe she has never heard of Wham!

Last night the two of us were having a couple of drinks outside in front of the fire pit and I had asked her if she watched 16 Candles yet. She said she tried but just can’t get into it. So I was the (slightly buzzed) jackass trying to give her the story with hopes it would make her want to watch it. Didn’t happen. She just had this blank look on her face, while I cracked myself up just talking about it! Can you believe she doesn’t know who Anthony Michael Hall is?? I wanted to be just like Molly Ringwald in those days.

I was a teen when house parties were the thing to do on the weekend. Promoters would stand at the gate of our high school and pass out flyers left and right! Anyone else remember those days? Teen dance clubs were not only popular, but SAFE too! We didn’t have cell phones, if you were lucky you had a PAGER! Yeah baby! Stone wash overalls were in and so was M.C. Hammer! Those were the good days. Oh shit, I sound like my parents now.

As I’ve told my friends before, she says The only good thing that came out of the 80’s was Me and Aqua Net. Oh well, so much for trying to influence her with another pop era. I give up. I’m just going to go home and watch Valley Girl.

Last weekend I was hanging out with an uncle of mine after watching a boxing match on HBO. We were in the front yard of my grandparents house and we were just bullshitting. Out of the blues he said he has always wanted to know if it was true my cousin and I use to play the Ouija board. I told him Yes. He said he heard we did and some funky shit happened but didn’t believe it. So I told him the story…

I was about 17 and my cousin 15, she lived with us for a couple of years during high school. My boyfriend got this Ouija board from his mom’s house in Lake Elsinore and loaned it to us because we were a bunch of dumb, curious teenagers. We invited a school friend over to spend the night on a Friday night and test the board out with us. We waited til it was midnight to start. We had lit candles in my room and made it as ‘witchy’ as possible. Of course when we began asking questions we got no response and kept giggling like 15 and 17 year old girls do. Then my cousin took over and asked if anyone else was in the room with us. Immediately the plastic ‘eye’ platform slid to YES. We looked at each other and then at the board because obviously one of us moved our hands to make it move, right? Wrong. It moved on its own. She asked a few questions and the board kept responding. As freaky as it was, it was equally exciting. Eventually enough was enough and we stopped playing, but our friend was back the next Friday to do it again!

We continued playing for a few weeks, but when the ’spirit’ began to get attached to my cousin and started calling her Mama (dammit I just got chills!) we knew the time had come to get rid of the board. At one point she said If you know all about me and Mario (her boyfriend) then what is his phone number? (fucken chills again) and it began rolling over numbers. She looked at me, shook her head NO because it was wrong. The ‘eye’ SLID across the board and landed on YES. Its like it knew or saw her shake her head no. That was the last straw, we put it away and the next day I sent it back with my boyfriend. We had enough.

So I had told my uncle this EXACT story and he still didn’t believe me! What does he do? He calls my cousin and she tells him the same thing! So he was officially freaked out. Too freaky I tell you. But there is nothing better than a couple of drunk people scaring the shit out of each other!

Christmas is in 35 days. Are you ready? I’m almost ready. I went a little nuts in the gift wrap section at Wal-Mart last Friday afternoon. Then again at Target yesterday. But I’m happy to say that I will not be running out of wrapping paper this year! I also bought new lights for the house, those will be up this Friday or Saturday. And we get our tree in two weeks, that is what we look forward to.

It would all be so perfect if it wasn’t fricken 92 degrees outside! Yes, I said it is 92 degrees. Yesterday after taking the kids out for ice cream to cool down, they came home to change into their bathing suits and went outside to go get wet with the water hose. Yeah, in the middle of November, my kids were playing in the water. Its totally nuts.

I’m suppose to go Christmas shopping with my mom this Friday, like we always do, but after pushing her around in the wheelchair this Saturday, I don’t see much shopping getting accomplished. I need suggestions on how to push her and hold large shopping bags at the same time. Suggestions? Oh well, that’s ok, if she needs to call it a day a wee bit early I’ll take her home then head out again, on my own. I just pray that day goes smoothly.

I thought this week would never end. Its been a busy week, that’s for sure. I’ve been leaving work at 4pm the last few days so I can go to my parents house to get their dinner started so dad wouldn’t have to do it and running errands for mom. I haven’t seen Mister since…umm.. Sunday? No, wait, I know we had sex the other night…oh hell I can’t remember the last time I saw him awake.

I’ve been 5-15 minutes late to work the last 4 days because of fucken traffic and construction. Dude, is there some sort of conspiracy going on with the city and construction? Seriously, who plans road work on 3 MAJOR streets all at the same time?? Niiice. I’ve got to get on the freeway this weekend and practice an alternate route for next week. Speaking of next week, thank GAWD its only a 3 day work week for me with no school drop off! Woohoo!

We got a dinner invitation for my 17 year old cousin’s upcoming birthday. Its on a Wednesday night. Next Wednesday night. Who plans dinner parties in the middle of the week? And the DAY BEFORE Thanksgiving?? Oooh I know who, people who don’t COOK for T-day! Well, I’m going to have to let my aunt know we can’t make it because Sis and I have plans to head over to our parents house and help dad start the prepping of turkey stuff.

In addition to all that I’ve come down with a cold and now I’m cramping and bloating. *sigh* TGIF alright. And to put the icing on the cake a bird shit on the center of my windshield. My car was just washed.

Have a nice weekend.