Monday, May 30, 2011
Memorial Day Weekend Blowout...Texas Style
As usual, we can't be plain jane normal people. Dave was home for the Memorial Day weekend and we were so freaking super busy. But it was a blast.
Didn't happen. B's hubs called while I was grocery shopping and told me to pack my shite, they were taking me crabbing today. Amazes me how well someone can know you huh? So instead of sitting around feeling sorry for myself, me and my girls learned to crab. Freaking hysterical.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Lately, in Texas
We've been busy! I rang in my 34th birthday, the girls finished school with honors, Dave is home for an extended weekend visit, and we are beating the heat while having some family fun! Hope life is good for you guys too!
Yeah, I hysterically laugh for no reason sometimes.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
End of School Time
So a whole school year has rolled past us once again, holy smokes. I'm so freaking proud of my girls. Considering that they were homeschooled last year and then the higher standards of this school district I was nervous when we began this year. Silly me, gotta have faith.Prin's math has always been a challenge, and while homeschooling we addressed this quite heavily. So she placed in accelerated math this year which was a huge step for her. And today she got the honor roll for the whole year award. Not to mention, she kicked the TAKS tests ass. Flying right on through to seventh grade.
And Duchess well that is a different subject, she child is well ahead of curriculm and has stayed that way this year. She got A honor roll for the entire year. She also got the award for highest science average of the entire second grade............go duchess go duchess it's not your birthday! She got an award for highest AR points in the second grade too. She was also voted "most fashionable second grade girl"........ oh lord.
So winding down this year, I'm pretty happy!
And sick. Damn plauge.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
It's Barely Noon and I'm spent....
So a great older guy I work with is on the board of the local, with a long waiting list gun club. Today the girls and I were his guests, if I like it....he's sponsoring my membership. I SOOOOOOOOOO LIKE.
We hit up the club in time to watch the cowboy shooters, who only shoot reproduction or authentic weapons and dress the part. Then there were the snipers on the 600 yrd range working on wind speeds. Lastly we got to watch the close quarters speed handgun competition which George was participating. It was awesome. I had to decline the offer to compete today (they had a gun, holster and ammo ready, sigh) but with three girls with me today, I just couldn't take my eyes off them. It was live rounds and being their first time in that kind of environment, I was paranoid. Crazy, cause all three girls (mine and a friend) were fabulous and loved it!
And now, I'm exhausted. Naptime!
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Just When You Plan Things Out....Hello Lord
So this week has been an experience! I really have few words for it, it's actually taken some time to sink in before I can really verbalize where I'm at here.Dave's job is in full swing, he's onsite in Idaho somewhere being a safety advisor. He seems really happy with it, BLESSING.
So, this week I gots my official official you be done stuff from my college. The same day, his recruiter called me.
She offered me a position as an associate with her firm.
Working from home.
Scared crapless but after going round and round and round.
I'm in.
Although I still have my current job as well for now, until we see where the cards fall.
Blessing!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Like I said, there are no words sometimes, but Blessing covers everything that could be said doesn't it?
Sunday, May 15, 2011
I earned it....
I got up at the very butt crack of dawn. Who knew that once school was over officially I would actually get more than 5 hours a sleep a night. Last night after 8 solid hours, I woke up with energy. Holy heart failure batman! So I cleaned and scrubbed tubs, toliets and other nastiness. Then before the kids even rolled over, B called. Kids up and dressed, we hit the track.
We started with a half mile jog (okay, honestly there was a little walking in there too, cause we were yaking but mostly jogging).
Then we walked another half mile.
Then we stretched some more and decided to torture the kids. Softballers need endurance so the girls kept asking how to increase their "wind" per Billy so we showed them. They about died.
We hit the bleachers. Up and down, four times. Best part, I didn't fall and I smoked'em! Although it was fun to watch B walk with jello legs to the water coolers. I'm evil. The girls just couldn't hang with the 30-something-year-olds but they tried.
Then we did wind sprints. Hysterical.
Then we played ball for an hour. I seriously have to get my over-hand throws stronger. Pitching underhand for years, my over-hand throw is average. Twelve year olds were smoking my glove dude. Ouch.
Duchess hit and we shagged our buckets of balls and came home.
So I burned some serious calories today, I earned this huge ass batch of peanut butter rice crispies.
Sugar coma commencing as soon as dinner is out of the oven.
And It Spreads....like a virus
Yeah Duchess!
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Today....cause we couldn't cram more into this day if I tried
So this morning was Billy camp, and afterwards we came home to veg on the couch before I drug my lazy self outside to clean out my jeep. Which led to Prin going missing when she was suppose to be doing laundry. But I found her, hiding in the far corner of the yard, doing her daily pitching drills.
Then I embraced my inner mechanic (shut up!) and fixed the wiring problem when my tail lights refused to go off. I only got stuck under the dash once. Yeah me!
B, the photo harpy, taking a million and one shots that will end up on facebook later tonight. I looked like roasted ass so I'm sure I"ll be untagging myself.
Our softball girls! Exhausted after a full day of field time then swimming.
Did I mention that we be in southeast Texas, close enough to the Louisiana border to spit...? Yeah, we eat a shitton of these things. And afterwards, I put their little corpes on my fingers and did my off-broadway show of "yo boudreaux, watch this".... it was hysterical, really....okay, probably not.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Week in Review
Pitching basics with Ms. Ally. Learning her form and techniques.
Buoy
Sometimes you have to be the buoy. When you're not sure where you're going, be the buoy. I'm awaiting my confered degree email to make it official that I"m now a college graduate. My second degree and it feels a little anticlimatic. I'm really a shit sometimes.But I'm not entirely sure what to do with myself. Work is great and I love the people there, I could do the job in my sleep. I am working on the volunteer board now which puts in the local schools doing hands on presentations about our line of work; freaking fun as crap. Apparently I'm all down with the shitz cause I know cool band names and what movies are hot (from a sixth grader's view point anyway).
The summer is coming on winged feet and I'm just not sure what it will bring.
But I have my babies, and I have softball and I have my music.
So this buoy is just freaking floating along, things around me may get crazy, but I can't hear it, I'm jamming.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
First pitching lessons......oh boy
She wants it, so let's see if she has the drive. Seems like she has a really good starting form
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Counting my weird ways
Soooooo....I kinda got bored, and when I'm bored and lonely I do stupid things like color my hair, over-pluck my eyebrows, rearrange entire rooms of furniture (then forget and fall/hurt self in middle of night).. so it shouldn't be a surprise that I went and got impatient when I forgot my appointment with Lance the fabu hair guy.
Yep, I colored it myself.
And I luv it.
How very goth of me.
I'm gonna keep it awhile.
It's like being incognito. BOO!
Otherwise it's been too quiet around here. The kids are all about outdoor play, and then they go to bed. Last night I was writing a paper and between the ipod/tv and Murphy snoring up against my leg, it was still too quiet. I was literally crawling out of my skin. I hate that. Cause I'm mentally challenged that way I guess. Then I watched what I thought would be a good movie, but turned out to be a sad movie and cried. Cause apparently I'm still a girl. Huh!
Dave is now on his new job in Idaho. It appears to be going well. Good for him! Funny part is when he goes "gee, it's kinda snowing up here" as I'm wearing the least amount of clothing possible and running around sunburnt and baked from the Texas sun.
So does anyone else ever have internal monologues? Cause I have caught myself doing this often this week.... is that a bad sign? Oh well, at least myself and I are catching up.
