Not Me Monday

I think everyone knows the concept of Not Me Mondays by now. So here is my "Not Me Monday"

I didn't watch the "16 & Pregnant" Marathon on MTV yesterday. Nope! Not me!

It wasn't me that laid around ALL day yesterday in my gown & a fluffy pink robe feeling dizzy & accomplished NOTHING!

It was NOT ME who went to the gym & took it easy this morning instead of pushing myself like I needed to. (still dizzy)

It was NOT ME who belly laughed when my son was having a whole conversation in his sleep & shortly thereafter fell off the couch waking him up. No, it wasn't me who laughed at his dazed look as he was trying to figure out where he was. It wasn't funny at all.

Road Test, Attempt # 1

Rod & I get ready & get to the place to take his road test for his drivesrs license today before lunch. We wait, and wait, and wait. We have filled out our paperwork, signed in. We are the second on the list when we realize, it is suddenly 12 noon. The one man office (one lady) comes out & goes to lunch. She takes lunch from 12-1230. That's fine. Everyone deserves a lunch. We wait. Patiently we wait. Lunch is over & she comes back & three people that she ha obviously told to come back after lunch or something are there. She starts their driving tests. So, even though there is a sign in sheet & our name is second on the list, we wait. It is standing room only. Someone in there smells like they have dipped themself in pure nicotine & my head starts to feel like someone is trying to put an ice pick thru the right eye socket. I stood until my hips hurt, my headache has gone from a splitting headache to a full blown migraine (because I wasn't upset enough with my baby getting his drivers license). But the lady comes back from doing drivers tests for those three folks that weren't there the whole time. She gets them taken care of & gone. Then she says she has to take care of some of the folks that are in there & starts doing some other things (written tests, renewals, whatever). So we wait some more. I am thinking at this point, why do we have a sign in sheet if you aren't taking us in the order that we arrived? But, that is just my thought. I am hungry, I need to use the bathroom (the one there was totally out of order) and my head is to the point I would not have trusted mysef to drive. THe lady finally comes out & tells us that she won't be able to do any more road tests today because she has work she has to do here in the office & will be leaving at 315 to go back to Huntsville. The sign for posted hours say til 430. I am just furious at this point because if she had said this when she came back from lunch, or even after the first three drivers road tests, I would have been like, oh well. But to have us wait and wait and wait & not tell us until the last minute that you aren't going to go by the sign in sheet & you are going to do your own thing & you have decided to take off earlier than posted hours is ridiculous. Of course, we will hop our happy bottoms back down there in the morning bright & early because we have nothing in the world better to do than to spend all day every day down there. Rod is upset that he didn't even get to take the test. I am upset that I stood down there until I am sick from the smells.

End Result: No road test today on a pretty day.

Homeschool

http://bit.ly/dw3cJm

the link above is to an article about a school bus crash today.

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.waff.com%252FGlobal%252Fstory.asp%253FS%253D12011435&h=e609a375e6c9b398573c8528687ce20b&ref=mf

The link above is to an article about a weapon found at a local middle school & the school being locked down.

Those were today. Here is the link to a gun found outside a school yesterday:

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FdfHikq&h=e609a375e6c9b398573c8528687ce20b

This is a link to an article of survivors talking about the shooting of fellow staff members by a professor at a local college LAST Friday (a week ago)

http://bit.ly/aFqGFB

A week before that (two weeks ago today) a middle school boy was fatally shot by a fellow middle school boy.

All of these are within the area that I am from, a fairly safe area.

Now, ask me what made me decide to homeschool (and try to look confused when you ask!)

Thank you!

Crawmama's Pictures

These are really late being posted. The pictures are from when I was in AL the first part of Feb. celebrating Rod's 16th Birthday. We always wind up celebrating for a full month it seems. I think that no matter how old he gets, we all remember that we thought we were going to lose him & the older he gets, the more we thank the Lord for His mercy & His blessings allowing us to enjoy him.

Pics are of my Dad & my son Rod, My son Rod, My son Rod & me with the big Crawfish, My Mom & Dad, and all of us together at Crawmama's. Just a note: If you live anywhere withing driving distance to Crawmama's in Guntersville, AL & you haven't been, you are missing out on a real treat. Try a peice of Gran's Rum Cake or a piece of their Cheesecake. All of the desserts are made right there & they are worth saving room for. Delicious, big servings, homemade & not too pricey. The food is awesome! The seafood is great & Sunday lunch is also.

We had a great time, as we always do there. My parents had not been before & enjoyed it enough that we all went back. My son & I had not been since back in my dating years & we missed it a lot (Crawmama's, not dating, haha!). It is so enjoyable.

If you like seafood, you can see their menu at www.crawmamas.com. The atmosphere is great, the service is wonderful (ask for Red, she was awesome for Rod's birthday) & you will not leave hungry. I have never had anything there that I didn't enjoy.

I have great memories of us going to celebrate with my son.

Valentine's Day

Yes, I realize that my posts are out of order. I promise to do better once/if I have regular internet access ever again. When you are trying to share a laptop with DH & it's HIS laptop, your time is limited. That is why I am posting at 6 in the AM.

So the pic of my hubby in his Captain America Tee is one of his Valentine's Day presents. When you marry someone like my husband (the non-romantic or anti-romantic type) this is what you get him for Valentine's Day -- Tee shirts with his favorite super hero on them.

The cupcakes were a surprise from my hsuband He made them & surprised me for Valentine's Day. They are (uhm, were, hehe) Red Velvet with Cream Cheese icing with pink, red, and white candies on top. He did a great job & it meant a lot to me because it made me feel like he was thinking of me while he was making them. Time & effort are good things to give on Valentine's Day in my book.

So, I am only like 4 days later than I wanted to be on this particular post. Catching up as time permits! Maybe things will settle back down soon. Or for those who know me better, this is as settled as they get. It is always something and I choose to disallusion myself into thinking things get better or easier. haha. But when/if the computer situation is solved, I already have other things/complications going on to make life seem like I am trying to hang wallpaper with an arm tied behind my back. I often wonder if everyone has this type of thing in the same amounts I do. I think into everyone's life a little must fall, but at times, I feel as if I get my share & a whole other family's share at the same time. I do feel like the amount of inconveniences & issues sometimes seem to outweigh what is normal. Of course, when have I ever gone for normal.

King Cake Anyone?

Happy late Mardi Gras to everyone! I hate that my posts will NOT be in order by date things happened & are late to boot. But I do not have computer access still as my laptop is still out & we have yet to replace it. So I rely on precious spare moments when my DH isn't on his laptop that I can steal away.

So yesterday morning sometime before 5 am (I didn't sleep, so the hours run together. We'll just say it was still dark out) my DH asks me if I know how to make cinnamon rolls. Since I haven't slept, I am achy all over & stifle back the comment that Pillsbury knows how. I looked at him & let the question register in this early hour. I said that I think it is like a biscuit type dough. That is the last I heard of it until last night about 6 or 630 when my DH decides he wants me to make a King Cake. So I ask him to see his laptop so I can look up recipes. Forever later when he is through with his computer he hands it to me. All I can find is the recipes that call for yeast, etc. Anyone who has baked any type of bread with yeast KNOWS you have ot let it rise, punch it down, rinse & repeat, etc. So at this late hour of course, not only do I, the great breadmaker (tring to keep a straight face on that! haha!), NOT have any yeast in the house (shock! shock!), but there is no time to go get yeast, bring it home, make it up & do the whole wait, rise & pounch down thing with the bread. Also, if you know me, you know that when I do something I like to do it from scratch (start with flour, I would mill my own if I could). So taking the cheat burns my butter! Also, anyone who has ever even passed by me on the street almost knows that I DO NOT do well with surprises, last minute changes, or last minute anything. I like to have a plan, be prepared, have a list, plan out a route, etc. But here I am last minute scrambling. So I find the easy recipe that calls for cinnamon rolls,. I take my stiff achy self to the Commissary, fight the evening crowd that had worked until just now & get cinnamon rolls. I did come home & make a King Cake by that recipe. As you can see, I did already have the dusting sugars here. I do like to bake. I just feel like such a cheater not doing it "right" or the homemade way. I also of course had no baby to put in. My husband said since it was just the two of us this Mardi Gras that the baby didn't matter. we put nothing in it. I didn't even have a penny in the bottom of my purse (which I think would have been disgusting even for store bought cinnamon rolls). It was decent as you can see. Pics posted are of the "finished product", my DH "the King" holding it, breaking into it & devouring it.

I guess it isn't bad for a first try. I just wish I had it all planned out & done before having to scramble around last minute & fake it. It really takes the fun out of it.

Anyone else bake one? Have a good recipe for one? I would love to hear about it. I will try (but no promises) to keep blogging, but right now it is proving very difficult. Thanks to everyone who follows the blog as I am learning as I go in life.

It has been quite a day. I woke up with it being my sons 16th Birthday & knowing hta the was an hour away & it was snowing. Well, it was snowing where he was & sleeting like MAD where I was. I drove an hour to go get him on unpassable patches of road that I shouldn't have been on probably, but my whole thought was to get to spend some time with him on his birthday, get him back to my parents house. I got to him & he is staying there for another couple of days. He was upset we weren't going to get to hang out all day together doing whatever since the weather was so bad. By the time I got there, the roads were closed & I had to stay. I finally got to come home in the late afternoon. It was good to get to catch up with my friend & ex-neighbor for a while & hold her baby, see her new dog.

I got home in time to eat supper & hang out just a little. It has been a whole different day than I thought it would be. But then again, aren't most of them?

My son said, "Well at least you didn't cry!" He just didn't see me crying on the way to get him, on the way back, all night almost. My little boy is growing up!

It wound up being an interesting night for sure. I will just say that no matter how many times it happens to you, when someone pulls the rug out from under you for no good reason, you are always stunned.

I am reminded everyday of a piece of wisdom I learned before. Todays was: YOU Teach outhers how to treat you by what you allow.