Life

A glass of iced tea, brats, and Grillin' Beans. Great dinner.
Kids watching Ice Age: Dawn of the Dionosaurs.
Ready for bed.

New Boyfriend

It is a good thing that it is the year 2011 and not 1991... I now have a new boyfriend. I met him online. I have done this before, and all of my good relationships have started this way. So I'm not really worried. We are meeting in a public place and with friends. His name is Ethan, he has RED hair, and we have a lot in common. I love guys with red hair. :-)

Tomorrow, is going to be another lazy day. Wednesday is house chores day. Thursday is my date. Friday is also cleaning day. Saturday, me and the girls are taking the kids to the carnival. Busy week.

Done, Finally

So, we finished moving my bestie today, not a day too soon. As we are moving stuff out, her ex just sat and complained all day. He also scared the poop out of her son. I don't understand why when somebody is miserable they have to make everyone else feel that way too. After we got done, we celebrated her grandpa's bday. It was an okay, but LONG day. Ready for bed for sure.
Secondly, I guess I made the guy who was supposed to come and take me on a date mad. He hasn't talked to me in three days, and is online now, but isn't talking to me. He is like super religious and what not. I guess I'm the spawn of Satan because I watch Harry Potter and read books about vampires and witches. I don't see how reading such books makes me evil, but in his eyes it does. Oh, and let's not forget my tattoos. They make me evil as well.
Finally, I have decided that I really do not enjoy being single. I miss the cuddling, the loving, and the just having somebody around. I have been single long enough. Oh, and by the way, online dating sites now suck. What exactly is the point of the free membership if all you can do is look and wink. I mean, you can't even reply to a message sent to you. On some sites you can't even view said message. On Single Parent's Meet, I had a membership. Before I had it, I could at least see the messages, when my paid membership ended, I couldn't. It's ridicules. When I ended all of my membership I told them exactly how I felt about that. I don't think it's right to do that. Furthermore, you can't put your email address or Facebook name in your profile on said sites, or the administrator will delete your profile.

Moving

First of all, do not write to Mother Nature if you want her to be nice. It has the opposite effect. It not only rained today, but it snowed as well. We did get half of the work done today despite her best tries to drench us. So there Mrs. Nature! In the morning, we have just one more load of stuff to go, most of which is being stored in my old house until we can afford a place together in Craig.
Secondly, my ex is a moron. He was supposed to take the kids today, but didn't even call me until after 12. Then he precedes to tell me that his has stage two lymphoma and is sick and blah, blah, blah. Why would he even think I would feel sorry for him. He left me and the kids for another woman and didn't even look back. I really could care less if he died tomorrow. The time he is supposed to have the kids, he makes up excuses not to. I'm sick of explaining, or trying to explain why to my kids. They are too little to understand and have decided that daddy just doesn't want them.
Third, I really do like the Organo Gold products. My energy level is way up, my pants are getting too big, and I actually feel better. This is only day 4 after starting drinking the tea. This stuff rocks.

Mother Nature Letter

Dear Mother Nature,
Can you lay off the atmospheric pressure sometime in the near future?. I love rain for a short period of time, not two days strait with a nighttime snow fall. I'm kinda sick of the snow... it is May you know. *Starting to feel like a children's poet.* Aside from just feeling the pressure, my friend needs to move tomorrow. Rain + Moving = bad day.
Thank you for all of your wonderful work, but can't we have a short break? Thanks so much for any repreive you give us.
Yours Truely,
Joie.

Rain Rain

It has been raining all day long. It has been coldish and wet all day. Granted, the first few hours of the day were spent getting the above tattoo. I got it done by Joey at Liquid Flesh Tattoo. I think he did a great job.

Friday, I am helping move my friend finally away from her crazy ex. She has been in tears daily since he broke up with her and he likes to make her that way. I am looking forward for her, her sister, her sister's friend, and I to go to Denver. We are going to enter the dance competition at Coyote Ugly.

Cleaning House and Coffee

I spent the day deep cleaning house. In the process, I have managed to make my mom extremely upset with me. I put away her Christmas decorations. Oh wait... Christmas is over six months away. Why was it still out? The simple answer is that my mom is not only lazy but enjoys the Christmas crap all year long. I also threw some of her old crap out. Such as a coat she hasn't worn in six years. But when you ask her, she still may need it. You never know. I am sooooo done with her pack ratting.
The highlight of my day was going to a coffee mixer. Basically, it is a pyramid scheme to sell coffee, but as every business person knows, all businesses are pyramids. Any who, the coffee is a herbal coffee that is supposed to help with everything from allergies to high blood pressure. Also, it is supposed to help you loose weight. We will see. I will keep you posted. At the mixer we had fresh baked chocolate chip cookies which were so very good.

The downs in life

I really hate the days that my kids go to their dad's house. I live for my kids and I tend to get a little depressed when they are not with me. It also makes me think about how bad being single sucks. I really don't like being single and I pretty sure a few relationships have turned bad because of long distance. I like to have a guy around.

That is all, and there is no more. :-)

Ugh

Why is it that some guys are such jerks. My bestie has been dating this guy for just over a year and living with him for about six months. He decided to break up with her, waiting until she got home from work at midnight to do so. Not only that, but he "had" to be drunk to talk to her. He then, for three days, told her that there was no way to change it and it was final. Then her "friend" who is also his friend talked to him and he decided that they should call it a break instead of a breakup and that he was going to Texas to get some "help". Now, a week later, they are still in the same house until she can move her stuff, and he is making her cry on a daily basis, scaring the bejesus out of her two year old son, and blaming her for the whole mess.

On a lighter note, my ex is just as f-ing wonderful. He tells me he will watch the kids yesterday while I help my bestie pack. I called him in the morning to make sure he was awake. He sounded perfectly normal. I got there and he is barely able to breathe and is doing a neb treatment. First of all, he said the problem started the night before when he supposedly got a bee sting (which of course he is allergic to) and used his epi pen. Did he go to the ER? No. Did he tell me on the phone he was having problems breathing? No. Instead he scares the crap out of our kids and my bestie's son. Okay, well maybe that wasn't a lighter note.

So any ways, I went to church this morning with my bestie after her ex made her cry. The kids love this church. I actually feel welcome. Now she is at work and hopefully not crying again. I am super excited for Wednesday to get here. I am getting a second tattoo.

It of course is going to represent my two best accomplishments in life thus far. I keep thinking that I get some of the weirdest tattoos. Most people get something other than Precious Moments. But it is definitely who I am.

Thor and Other Stuuff

So, I went to see Thor tonight with my bestie. It was a really good movie until the end. I won't give it away, but it's one of those movies that leave you with a DUH look and wonder what the heck. Kinda like in the movie The Mist. You sit there and think "really?!?" We saw a couple of movie trailers that made us plan our next night out. The new Pirates of the Caribbean, Xmen, and Captain America. They all looked really cool. Is this just the summer of super heroes??
My next thought is that I found a cool new summer food. It's Bratwurst Patties. They are awesome. Tonight for dinner we had those on whole grain white thin buns, steamed veggies, orange parfait, and salad. YUM. For dessert we had triple chocolate cake.
Tomorrow morning it's off to church and then home for a nice slow Sunday. Actually, I doubt that the second part of that wish will come true, but a girl can hope. Tonight however, my kids are refusing to sleep in their room and are hogging my bed. When they finally get to sleep they are moving.

Kids

As I am watching my best friend's son and typing this, he is playing with a simple bead on wire toy, not making any noise, and having fun. My kids on the other hand, are terrorizing the house and no where near close to winding down for the day.
Today I hung out with my best friend and went shopping. Tomorrow we are going to pack her stuff, or at least start packing her stuff. My kids are going to spend time with their dad. This of course means that when they come home they are going to be even bigger brats than normal and I get to hear about how daddy let us do this and daddy lets us do that.
This brings me to a new peeve I have. Every time somebody new meets me and finds out that I have two kids, am trying to go to school and am looking for a part time job, they say "well if you couldn't afford the kids, it was wrong to have them." When I had both of my kids I had every intention to be married still and have a husband that actually had a real job. Well life sometimes throws us a curve ball and we hit it foul. I love my kids and wouldn't exchange them for anything in the world. I am very glad that some people have perfect lives and can "afford" their kids. When I meet somebody like that, I'll let everybody else know. Kids are expensive. PERIOD!

Tired, but not sleepy

Why is it that when you are sick you feel like sleeping all day long and then cannot sleep at night? Why oh why did I decide to sleep today? In a whole five hours I have to get up. I am still wide awake.

I guess the bright side is that my two kids are asleep and I am able to start a new blog. The only point of this blog is to get my ideas, dreams, and thoughts down in writing. It has been a while since I have actually worked on a blog. I think I will also keep track of trips, awesome places to stay, eat, or play and any other random thoughts I have.

A Little History

I grew up in Hayden, lived there until my senior year of high school, moved to Craig, back to Hayden, to Lakewood, and back to Hayden, and eventually ended up back in Craig. I was married for about 4 years. With my now ex husband I had two beautiful kids. William is almost four and Robyn, or as the family calls her Ginny, just turned two. I finally started college last fall. At this point in time I am working on my associates in early childhood education. When that is done, I am probably working on my bachelors in elementary education. My best friend is my girl Sami. We have been best friends since middle school and have no intentions of replacing her.