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I'm back !!!!!!!

2011-02-03T07:06:00.002-05:00

Hello everyone !
I am back to blogging. There has been so much going on since I "officially" posted a blog. I am still employed (Thank Goodness). My wife has started school at the end of 2009 for Nursing. She has been taking all her pre requisite classes and also took the CNA course. She worked a short time as a CNA and is now teetering between nursing and psychology. So this month she started her psychology class and thinks its going to be a very good class. My oldest daughter has a girlfriend and they bought a house together not far from me. In case I forgot to mention, My oldest daughter (22) moved here 6 months after we did. I am so glad she left Florida. She has a job in management, a great Girlfriend, a house and our relationship is better than I ever thought it would be! My 2ND oldest daughter turned 16 a few weeks ago and has her instructional permit. Wisconsin is no longer safe. LOL ! she is actually a decent driver when she does get behind the wheel. My 12 year old daughter has taken up snow boarding, softball and anything else she can do outside or athletic wise! I just wish her hobbies were not as damaging to the wallet. My son who is 10, well lets just say the last 4 months have been a road never traveled. He was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome, which is on the high end of the autism spectrum. We have our daily challenges at home, school and anywhere public. Its going to be a long, challenging and learning experience for my wife and I as well as the other kids. But we will keep our head high and make it through this and come out smiling.

Our weather is unreal. I like snow, couldn't wait for the snow to come. Well I meant I wanted snow over the entire winter, NOT all in the first weekend. We continue to get snow, but not as bad as southern Wisconsin or the northeastern states.

All in all we are doing well and I am looking forward to sharing more with you all. I just started working 3rd shifts so my work hours are 10pm-6am. I just got home from work and have to run 2 kids to school before I can crawl under my blankets for a night of sleep.

I am out for now, I hope this finds everyone in good health and spirits ! until my next post, Good Night ...

Holy Cow has it been awhile !!!

2011-02-01T02:30:00.002-05:00

I have decided I am going to start blogging once again. I have missed reading and following my blog buddies. I have alot to share since I have last blogged. This is just a quick "HELLO" and short blog to let you know I am coming back and will be blogging, following and commenting.. I hope everyone is doing well.... Good Night for now...

THE LAW IS THE LAW!!!!!

2008-08-25T23:56:00.000-04:00

THE LAW IS THE LAW!
I really love this one. This is one of the better e-mails
I have received in a long time! I hope this makes its way around the U.S.A. several times over!!
"So Be It."THE LAW IS THE LAW! So 'if' the US government determines that it is against the
law for the words 'under God' to be on our money, then,
"So Be It."And 'if' that same government decides that the
'Ten Commandments'
are not to be used in or on a government installation, then,
"So Be It." I say, "So be it," because I would like to be a
law abiding U.S. citizen. I say, "So Be It," because I would like to think that
smarter people than I are in positions to make good decisions. I would like to think that those people have the
American public's best interests at heart.
BUT, YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE I'D LIKE?
Since we can't pray to God, can't Trust in God and cannot post His Commandments in Government buildings, I don't believe the Government and its
employees should participate in the
Easter and Christmas and Thanksgiving
celebrations which honor the God
that our government
is eliminating from many facets of American life. I'd like my mail delivered on Christmas, Good Friday, Thanksgiving & Easter. After all, it's just another day. I'd like the 'U.S. Supreme Court to be in session on Christmas, Good Friday, Thanksgiving & Easter as
well as Sundays.' After all, it's just another day. I'd like the Senate and the House of Representatives
to not have to worry about getting home for the 'Christmas Break.' After all it's just another day. I'm thinking that a lot of my taxpayer dollars could be saved, if all government offices & services would
work on Christmas, Good Friday & Easter. It shouldn't cost any overtime since those would be just like any other
day of the week to a government that is trying to be
'politically correct.'
In fact....
I think that our government should work on Sundays, (initially set aside for worshipping God) because, after all, our government says that
it should be just another day....
What do you all think????
If this idea gets to enough people, maybe our elected
officials will stop giving in to the 'minority opinions'
and begin, once again, to represent the 'majority'
of ALL of the American people.
"SO BE IT."
Please Our Dear Lord, Give us the help needed to keep you in our country!
'Amen' and 'Amen' Touche!
These are definitely things I never thought about but
from now on, I will be sure to question those in
government who support these changes. At the top, it says 'I hope this makes its way around
the U.S.A. several times over!!!!!'
Let's see that it does.

In ref to my post "1st Grade Assignments" from December 8, 2007

2008-06-22T23:49:00.005-04:00

I have just received a comment on my post about my 1st graders homework assignments..

Let me post his or her (as they are to afraid to identify them self) comment here at the end of it I will say a little something.

Anonymous said...
Dear complainer....What is the big problem with calling the teacher Dr. The teacher went to college for YEARS and did LOTS of work to EARN that title! Having your child call the teacher Dr is a respect thing...which CLEARLY the child's parent don't understand!!!! If you think it is so easy to get that title, then take your complaining butt off the computer long enough to work and obtain your own title. Second of all, your child should be the most important thing to you. Of all the things you do in life to waste time, you should NEVER complain on the time you invest in your own child... especially when you are teaching him something! The education of a child should be a team effort!YOU SHOULD BE PART OF THE TEAM!!! Parents need to help extend their child's knowledge base...and if you don't want your child to be knowledgable, then don't put the time in with him and sit on your computer and spend hours complaining like you are doing now! It's obvious that this web site took alot of your time to set up! In reading your post, I didn't hear you complain ONE time about the amount of time you had to invest in making this web page; yet, I heard you complain MANY times about having to invest time in helping your child become a better person! Sounds to me like you really need to do a reality check and get your priorities in order!!!!!! It is disrespetful parents like yourself that make the educational system in the United State sink lower and lower in the ranking among other nations. Go ahead and complain in front of your child. Teach him it is 'ok' to be at level with everyone one else and never extend or strive to go above and beyond. Prove to him that education is really not that important to you by whinning about every project instead of looking at them as opportunities for your child to learn new things. You can help make this country, that used to be the leader in the world when it came to new inventions and problem solving, slump lower and lower and depend on other countries (such as China...whose student by the way go to school 7 days a week and are tutored by their parents when they get home from school)for the solutions to tomorrows problems.I can promise you if you spent half as much time helping your child with school as you do complaining on the web and trying to "rally" other parent to not value the investment of time with their own children, you would be done with home work and have spare time to do something productive instead of destructive. And yes ma'am, the actions you are displaying are damaging whether you are intelligent enought to see it or not!!!
June 21, 2008 4:32 AM

OK,
Yes, I have put in ALOT of time working on this site, its usually at night when my kids are sound asleep or when I am home alone while trusting my children to said teachers. I have also spent many years raising my children and teaching them what they need to know in life. You want to sit there and tell me I am complaining about wasting time with my children and that I should be a part of the team.. I am more than a part of the team !! I spend countless hours working on projects, homework and attending school functions, volunteering at the schools as well. I am sorry if I do not want to be a part of the team that while I am putting my trust in them to teach and take care of my children during the course of the day, my 6 year old daughter was bit by her teacher in school leaving a ring of teeth marks on her shoulder. I have the pictures to prove it and the police reports to back that. I have a 3rd grader whose teacher was just arrested in January for disorderly conduct and child endangerment in the Class room. So forgive me if I do not totally RESPECT the teachers or want to be a part of "their" team as much as you would like me to. I would have to assume that you are a teacher, but then again maybe your not. Maybe you have some witty Title you like to go by.. But then again, you were not brave enough to list it if you do.

You want to sit there and tell me to get my butt of the computer and get a title for myself. Well have I got news for you , I have a title, I have several titles as a matter of fact, BUT I do not go forcing people to call me by said titles. I would rather be called by my name and keep things on a more personal/friendly level. I do not feel like I am superior over someone because of my titles. But since you would like me to have a title which one should I go by? MA, CMA, RMA, CNA, RN, EMT, FF, PARAMEDIC, CSO or EMD.. These are all titles I have acquired and am actually in the process of acquiring more.. But again, I do not feel I need to be addressed by any of those titles.

So until you are with me 24/7 do not insult my parenting skills just because I complained about projects my 1st grader had to do. And since you think that's complaining, let me guess, You would approve the letter my 7Th grader had to write in Language Arts begging her parents for school supplies because the county budget was not big enough to cover supplies for the students. So there for its OK to teach my children to beg for things? I would NEVER ask or tell my children to beg for anything in life and I do not APPROVE of a stranger teaching my children to beg either...

And let me just add, you are a big and great talker, try using spell check before you submit your rants as I have found some mistakes for you... and I am copying your sentences here.

and if you don't want your child to be knowledgable,
It should be "KNOWLEDEGABLE"

It is disrespetful parents like yourself that make the educational system
This should be DISRESPECTFUL

education is really not that important to you by whinning about every project
And this should be WHINING

And yes ma'am, the actions you are displaying are damaging whether you are intelligent enought to see it or not!!!
And this should be ENOUGH.. .

Oh and this last sentence, you addressed me as Ma'am, Well if you noticed how much time I spent on this website, you would have noticed that I am a Father , not a Mother..

So maybe you should go back to School and learn how to spell and become a little more observant.

Hello Remember Me???

2008-06-01T18:09:00.007-04:00

Hello all Remember me??
I am sorry it has been forever since I have blogged anything. But I have been so busy with life getting settled in here in Wausau. I have 2 weeks left in my training at work and then its time to be set free. I am enjoying life here and the fact that I am spending the time being a Dad with my family. I had very little time for that in Florida. My family has grown together more and more since we have moved here. My wife is enjoying being the Stay at home Mom she deserves to be.

I hope you all are doing well, I have been so busy getting settled in and enjoying life being the Dad that I always wanted to be that I have neglected many of you and your blogs. I am going to make it a point to start reading up on you guys and posting again..

In the mean time, enjoy the pictures !!!!

lost a few pounds....

2008-04-03T22:11:00.003-04:00

Just a quick hello and let you know I just weighed myself. Are you ready??

216.4 lbs or 98.1573889 kilograms ( Happy Arjan?) HaHaHaHa

I am excited. Well its off to work and my last night shift for awhile..

Day One of my Gym adventures...

2008-04-02T08:38:00.002-04:00

Well, today I have started using the gym at work. I am going to make an effort and start working out regularly. I have gained a few (umm, yeah a few) pounds since moving up here. So I worked from 10pm last night until 6am this morning and when I got off work, I went down to the gym and got my use of the Treadmill. One of my co-workers is showing me the ropes in county gym. I have a LONG way to go to get to the level he is on on the elliptical. I did 45 minutes on the treadmill did 2 miles and burned 200+ calories. I guess that's good. So I figured I would start posting and log my successes and or failures on here.

Day 1
Starting weight 221.8 lbs ... Wish me luck !!!!!

OH and I only have 2 more shifts on nights.. I start days 6am-2pm on Sunday the 6Th. I will be on Days for 6 weeks training, then back to nights for a few weeks.. So I will be on here posting more frequent.

HAPPY HUMP DAY EVERYONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Easter !!!!!!!

2008-03-23T07:14:00.002-04:00

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE !!!!!!!
May your Easter be safe and full of Friends and Family !!!!!
I just wanted to post a few pictures Showing the Easter Spirit in my home.

I love all my Family, Friends and that includes all my blogger world friends.

I am very sorry I have not been doing much blogging lately but with my training at work , its takes up all my free time. I am due to be signed off training June 14th. So please cope with me and drop me a line from time to time and once I am done with me training, I will be back in full force here on the Blogs !!!

May God Bless all of You and Your Family and Friends on the Glorious Easter !!!!!!

1 gets sick, They ALL get sick !!!!

2008-03-03T09:45:00.003-05:00

I guess I could have added this as part of my "Life in a Snowball" post.
The BUG is going around my house like crazy. Last week this was my kids school schedule.
SATURDAY: 3rd grader starts running a fever and lasts until Monday so ..
MONDAY: no School. 1st and 7Th grader go to school. 7Th Grader already at this point has a cough started.
TUESDAY: 3rd grader no fever goes to school with 1st grader. 7Th grader stays home sick from coughing.
WEDNESDAY: 1st and 3rd grader go to school, no fever, no cough. 7Th grader still No School. Later that evening 1st grader gets in shower and says his stomach hurts. Gets out of shower and vomits all over my toilet (at least he tried). Spends the night vomiting.
THURSDAY: No School for 1st and 7Th Grader. 3rd grader makes it to school.
FRIDAY: Decide to keep 1st and 7Th home again to give them the extra resting period.
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY: All are doing well hence Mr Snowman was created.
SUNDAY NIGHT: around midnight 3rd grader gets up passes out in the bathroom, comes to and then the vomiting starts. Passed out again around 2:00 am goes face/belly down to the hardwood floor in the bathroom, comes to and vomits. Wife and her goes to sleep in our bed and 20 minutes later she passes out again sitting on the bed, comes to and vomits.
SOOO here I am stressed out because My medical insurance does not kick in until May 1st. I call the local Emergency Room and plead my case they tell me to come in.
We finally come home around 5:15 am with a 3rd grader that has the stomach flu and is suffering from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasovagal_syncope.
Wife and 3rd grader return to my bedroom and I camp out on living room floor and a quiet corner. I am asleep for 45ish minutes when I hear my wife yell "OH MY GOD, JOHNNY" I leap and run to the bedroom where 3rd graders is on her back between the bed and dresser after passing out and hitting her head on the dresser on the way down. When she comes to she informs us she was going to the bathroom and only made it about 3 ft from the bed..
MONDAY: 3rd grader home sick, 1st and 7Th grader went to school.
All during my kids sicknesses My wife and I have been fighting a cough (we both had flu shots and hope we are safe from anything worse) My brother in law who came up here with us has been through the cough/fever and vomiting as well. The ONLY one who has not gotten sick "YET" is my Mother in Law.

So thats been my last week give or take a day ... BUT I AM STILL HAPPY that I moved here and WILL NOT go back to Florida.. LOL

My life in a snowball...

2008-03-01T15:54:00.004-05:00

Well, I figured since I took a leave of absence from the blog, I was due for a post. So, Here goes .....

I have finally started working again. I started on Monday February 25Th. I was so ready to go back to work after NOT working since the 30Th of January. I was watching the funds dwindle down and boredom take over. I have slept, ate and crapped more in the last month than I have in the last year.. LOL I was more than ready to start back at work. Everyone at the Sheriff's Office I am working for is more than polite. I have never worked somewhere with people as polite and friendly as up here in Wisconsin. Hell EVERYONE in the town we live in is like that.

OK, It is now 2:30 on Sunday. I am picking up after a 24 hour break.. I had to stop this post yesterday to go rescue my Mother In Law from work. She was stuck in the parking lot because she couldn't steer her Durango. I drove it home with quit a bit of effort because the power steering pump went out on it.. SO its now parked in the garage until I can get it fixed.. WONDERFUL...

Anyways. Work is going well, We have all settled in and transitioned into the new lifestyle up here. The kids are all doing well in school. Well let me rephrase that. My 13 year old still thinks her life is over as she knows it and it will never be the same as it was in Florida. She has made a couple of friends in school but lives on the phone with her best friend in Florida. Thanks God I have unlimited long distance with my home phone. And to add to the fact that we ruined her life , We changed cell phone companies and were only approved for 3 lines instead of the 4 lines we wanted. So this caused he not to get a cell phone and ended her Texting Lifestyle.. LOL
But life goes on and she is dealing with it...
My son who is in first grade is not doing as well in reading and they requested a conference with us to talk about maybe holding him back next year. We are going to enroll him into summer school to help with his reading so hopefully that will help him move into 2ND easier.
My third grader, Lets just say she has adjusted without any problems..
All the kids love the snow and want to get out and play in it every chance they get. They even built a snowman today. I will post the pics at the end of my posting ..

My wife has decided to just get a part time job in the mornings when the kids are in school so she can be home when they get out of school. She is going to get her RN degree but there is a 3 year waiting list at the Tech school here. So over the next 3 years she is going to start taking a class here and there to get some out of the way.

We had a snowfall again on Friday and got another 4-5 inches of snow. Today we were supposed to get freezing rain up until noon and that never happened. Tonight is supposed to lead to more snow showers, so we will see.

I also am going to take this moment and say hello to everyone that has been stopping in to read my blog. Thanks for all the wonderful comments.
To all the Blog-Hoppers out there, thanks for stopping by and visiting, I am glad to be your "JOHNNY ON THE SPOT" I hope you cleaned up after yourself when you were done.. I need to get a list of everyone thats a Blog-Hopper, so if you have a list of them all let me know so I can add them all to my homepage..

I will end this with a God Bless you all , be safe, healthy and enjoy life. To Christy , My Florida Friend, I miss ya lots and Mean it... when you coming to visit???

Here are a few pics....

Here is Mr Snowman that the kids built today.

A shot of Mr Snowman with his Creator.

Here is a picture from my back deck during the snow fall on Friday

Just another pic from the back deck...

Snow, Snow and More Snow....

2008-02-17T21:06:00.004-05:00

Well it has been snowing since we woke up this morning and its supposed to snow tonight and all day tomorrow too.. Gotta love it..
Here are some pics I took today...
Jordan's First Icicle.. Which by the way , I had to take a bite of..
Jordan working hard in the driveway.. This snow is from about 8 hours worth of snow fall.
Jayme clearing the path on the hill in our side yard...
John Laughing the whole way down.. Oh to be a kid again !!!!!
Jordan always finds time to strike a pose, no matter what she is doing...
John decided to come down on his belly and face first..
Come on now, You really didn't think I would just stand and watch did you????
My pic of my standing in front of my house..
Jordan making a snow angel. In the middle of the street.. Don't ask..
John making his snow angel in the front yard, atleast he's not in the middle of the road... LOL
John and Jayme playing out in the front yard....
Jordan, playing and working both at the same time...
The neighbors cars.. All were snow free when we went to bed last night..

Just some scenic pics from my back deck... Love the way the trees look.

More tree shots.
My back deck railing. Which was empty when we went to bed..

Still alive

2008-02-15T17:16:00.004-05:00

Just wanted to say hello and say Thanks for all the good wishes.
I will hopefully be getting a moment or two next week sometime to get caught up on everyones blogs and leave a few comments. I am also looking forward to getting a post in on my own blog. I have been neglecting it something bad.

Well thats all for now. Take care all and God Bless !!!!

I have arrived in Wisconsin

2008-02-11T10:08:00.001-05:00

Just letting everyone know that I have finally arrived to my HOME in Wisconsin.

It is Monday morning at 10:09 am and our current temp is 16 below 0 !

We are loving it and could not be happier to be away from Florida and its heat.
This is my cars "FIRST" snow cover. This was as we were passing through a snow storm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the way here. My first time having to drive in snow as well. It was not fun passing alot of cars that lost control and were stuck in snow banks. Oh and driving 30 mph for an hour was not fun either.. LOL
This is the front of my new "HOME". The driveway has a layer of ice on it. Makes it fun trying to get to the mail box.. LOL
This is the view from my kitchen window. Love the view !!!!
Here is the back of my house. We are in a dublex so the fist set of steps is mine.
A view of the back yard.

2008-02-08T08:19:00.000-05:00

Passing through tennessee on way to wi.

My last day at work.....

2008-01-31T15:00:00.001-05:00

So today is my last day at work. My co-workers have bought me a cake. I really did not think it was going to be this much of a emotional roller coaster ride. But I am here to tell you that it is hard saying goodbye. I have worked with the County here for around 9 years and have formed alot of close friends. I have started yesterday saying goodbye to some of them and tears wanted to flow. I have collected everyones addresses and email addresses so I can keep in touch with them. I will really miss ALOT of people here at work, REALLY MISS THEM. But I am looking forward to making new friends in my new County and forming friendships like I have here. Starting a new life and hopefully becoming happy deep inside myself. If you can understand what I am saying.

I will try and post here before I actually leave Florida on February 7th. I do not know when we will have our internet turned off at the old house. Buy my new house is scheduled to be turned on Feb 9th, My birthday. I may just from time to time post a quickie from my cell phone to let all of my Blogging Friends know I am still alive and well..

Until then my friends Take Care, Be safe and I will be thinking of you all. To those of you who know me personally I will make sure do a face to face goodbye soon..

KissimmeeJohn aka JohnnyOnTheSpot....

All Flows well in Johnnys World....

2008-01-28T08:11:00.000-05:00

So here I stand at the over flowing hole from hell, which today has delivered dirt/sand all over my floors. I had to leave work at 11am on Sunday to come home to the water making its way into my kitchen. I called the sewer company again and told them they needed to come TODAY and locate my lines outside. I ran to Home Depot and rented a 75 ft power snake and while at the Home Depot the Sewer company arrives and starts hunting for lines.
After I finally got all 75 ft of snake down the hole the guys from the city said they could hear it in my front yard.

They dug a hole and found a 45 degree elbow pipe fitting. What are the odds of digging at the right spot the first time? they figured out which way it went to the street (which by the way was not the direction or side of house they originally thought) and which way the line was running into the house.

This in turn led them to the spot where my Drain out was buried in the grass. The cap was not even on correctly, thus causing mud to get into it every time it rained outside. So I brought the snake around the the drain cap and fed it through. Let me tell you it was a Glorious site seeing WATER FLOWING with ease through that pipe.

All in all I snaked about 150 ft of pipes to get it all flowing the proper way. I spent a couple more hours getting the house dry and then another hour cleaning my floors, etc with bleach water and pine sol water.
MISSION COMPLETED !!!!!!!!!!

Sewer Nightmare ! Oh and dinner nightmare too...

2008-01-27T06:46:00.000-05:00

Well, let me just start out by saying I am EXHAUSTED !!!!!!

I got home at 6:15 pm last night from work and had planned on just getting some dinner and relaxing since Today would be my 3rd 12 hour shift in a row. I washed my hands in my master bathroom which is upstairs and the towels were missing from the towel rack. I questioned my wife as to who stole the towels and she said she did because the downstairs toilet overflowed and she needed towels. I went and got another towel out of the closet and went on with my night..

Why is this titled SEWER NIGHTMARE you are asking... Well let me tell you why...

As I was downstairs making spaghetti noodles to go with the left over meatballs/sauce from the meatball subs the night before the sewer nightmare began.. Before the water even started boiling the downstairs bathroom which is only a half bath (toilet and sink) I hear water pouring out onto the ceramic tiles from the bathroom. I quickly ran to see what it was and My toilet bowl is overflowing and flooding the bathroom and laundry room. I Grab a hand full of sheets from the laundry room and throw them on the floor at the door to the laundry room to keep the water from making its way to the kitchen.

But before I get any further on that let me quickly tell you about the Pasta that I had to throw away. I got the water boiling and slid all the noodles out of the box, broke them in half and added them to the wonderful boiling water. Lifted the lid on the sauce/meatballs to stir, replaced lid and moved my eyes to the boiling pot of BUGS and NOODLES !!!!! YES you read right Bugs !!!! There were there black bugs floating on the top of my water.. I was a victim of pasta bugs. I end up throwing that batch of pasta away and grabbed a box of bow tie pasta from the pantry. Started a new pot of boiling water and returned to the flood.

I grabbed my wet vac from the garage which mind you is only about a gallon big and start sucking up water. This gets old quick as I am standing in a good couple of inches of water. I have a mud room where the garage comes in between the kitchen and laundry room that has a door leading to my back patio. I grabbed the garden house dragging it into the house through the laundry room and stuck it in the toilet bowl. I ran back outside and turned on the water, unhooked the house from the faucet to get a siphon started and began draining the water from the toilet bowl as fast as I could. I ran back to the garage and got my handy dandy carpet cleaner and used it to start sucking up all the water. Let me just say the water coming up from my toilet still hasn't stopped. At this point, I turned off the water to the tank, disconnected the water line, unscrewed the floor bolts and ripped the damn toilet off the floor sticking it in the corner of the bathroom. ***WATER STILL COMING FROM THE HOLE IN THE FLOOR***

Now in case you have forgotten , there is a pot of water boiling on the stove for the freaking bow tie pasta and all I wanted to do was just relax tonight. My mother in law comes and asked if I wanted her to add the pasta, I said yes but just make sure there are no bugs and told her about the last batch.. A couple minutes later she comes into the laundry room as I am up to my family jewels in water ( not really but it gives you a good idea how much water is coming out) and says "Now you have me scared, as she is shaking the box trying to see bugs in the pasta. I told her just add it to the water and if there are bugs she will see them floating.. She adds pasta and NO BUGS !!!!! I go back to the water adventure.

So now I have taken the hose and started feeding it down the hole in the floor and figured I would just get the siphon going and hopefully get the back flow stopped. Oh forgot to tell you that by this time I had already called my power/water/sewer company and got this guy who was a complete ass. He was like I have no clue what your talking about and what you want me to do. I said "I want you to tell me why I have water coming outta my floor when I have City Sewer?"

He told me he would get a tech out. So I have a nice siphon going on and am able to get a good amount of the water cleaned up. I walk through the kitchen and there is the pasta just boiling away with no one watching it. I go upstairs where my wife and 2 older daughters are just sitting on the bed watching TV. Now I am still in my work clothes and my pants are wet up to my knees. I exclaimed "CAN SOMEONE COME TAKE CARE OF DINNER?" to which my 13 year old comes down to finish and serve dinner to the kids.

If your still here and reading, let me say the nightmare is not over yet. I go to the back corner of my garage (which is up against the bathroom) and my entire back half of garage is flooded. Water is running through my garage and out from underneath the overhead garage door and the back door. I Am just ready to Scream at this point.

After I finally get all the water finally cleaned up and to a point where there is no more water coming outta the hole in my floor. I decide to re-attach the toilet and turn on the water. I should have just stopped right there, but NOOOOO I have to flush the freaking toilet to make sure it works and the Flooding starts all over.... I shut off the water again, get the hose back in the toilet and again get the siphon going. Again get all the water cleaned up and decide I am going upstairs to shower since I have spent well over an hours playing in toilet water and just want to be clean and run to Quizno's for a sub. As I get ready to jump in the shower, I look out the window and the sewer company has arrived. I spend about 30 minutes walking around outside with them as they are trying to find my drain outs at the house and their drain outs at the road. I finally go inside, change into shorts and the wife and I run to Quizno's while they poke around my 1/2 acre lot. Wife and I are gone about 30 minutes , come home and she takes our dinner inside as I head outside to meet with the group of sewer people that are now in my yard. They are unable to find where my sewer lines go to the main sewers and tell me they need to have the locate company come out on Monday to locate and mark my lines. They also tell me that if there are no drain outs on their side, they will have to dig up my yard and install them at their cost.

They leave, I go upstairs take a shower scrub like I was contaminated and throw my PJ's on. I go downstairs threw my sub in the microwave, went and checked on the freaking toilet and STILL EMPTY !!!!!!!! I take my food to my room, ate and went to bed. Woke up at 5am this morning, showered again cause I can not proceed or function without my morning shower. I get dressed for work and head downstairs scared to death of finding my whole downstairs flooded. No water found and toilet still empty !!!!!! So lets just hope it holds out for 2 more weeks and I can move out of Florida and not have to worry about the over flowing toilet again !!!!

Sorry I have made this such a LONG post , but that's what it took to tell you about my night. OH and by the way, it was around 11pm when I finally crawled into bed to just RELAX after work.

Have a safe and enjoyable Sunday !!!!

Wife annoyed at me from a dream...

2008-01-26T13:50:00.000-05:00

Have you ever had your wife annoyed at you because of a dream she had? She took a nap this afternoon and had a dream.
Well, As I am sitting here at work, my wife sends me a message that says:

WIFE: I forgot to tell you that I am annoyed with you ... LOL

ME: Me? Why? What did I do now?

WIFE: I was having a really good dream about Dr McDreamy (Patrick Dempsey from Greys Anatomy) and he was rubbing my thigh. When I turned to look at him it was YOU !!!!!!

ME: LOL, That's Freaking Hilarious !!!!!!

WIFE : No that means you stink ! I can't even have a good hot dream without you insinuating yourself in it

ME: Sorry

WIFE: it's OK, your hands were nice and warm .. LOL

So even when I am at work, minding my own business I get in trouble. LOL

My wife has had dreams on several occasions to where she wakes up mad, annoyed or just won't talk to me. Then when I finally pry it out of her she is made about something I did in her dreams.. I find it quit funny when it happens.

Anyone out there with similar experiences? If so Do share !!!!!

Its Saturday !!!!!!

2008-01-26T11:40:00.001-05:00

I am an IPOD victim .....

2008-01-26T07:53:00.000-05:00

Well, I have managed to last as long as I could. On Thursday night we broke down and became an IPOD victim. I would have never bought one for myself only because I did not see why I should pay money for a brand name. Well my brand new 13 year old Daughter has been asking for once since Christmas time. She has wanted an IPOD Nano and thus far I have been successful in not getting her one. Well Her Birthday was January 20th and she got $70 bucks cash from Grandma and Grandpa and her Nana. My wife has decided we would pay the difference. We found them on sale at Staples for $149. I spent last night trying to set the time and date, etc. Let me tell you what.. WHY of WHY did I avoid buying one of these? This thing is pretty kewl and I now want one for myself... I have included a picture of my Daughter with her new IPOD. Could she look any happier? LOL

Johnny on the Spot says HELLO

2008-01-26T07:50:00.001-05:00

What a better way so say hello and show my respect for all my fellow "Blog Hoppers"
With all this hopping going on there is always a need for a "JOHNNY ON THE SPOT"

Please lift the seat and clean up your mess and thanks for stopping by....

Superstar take 2......

2008-01-21T14:40:00.000-05:00

I have once again felt the need to share my Son's second Guitar Hero Video. I just do not understand why over the last couple of months he has taken to living in his underwear only. As soon as he walks in the house off come the clothes and he will spend the rest of the day in his underwear. If I can manage to get him to wear clothes, he wears his shirts inside out. He is making his own fashion statement I suppose. LOL

I had to take a break from packing. I can not stress how much I hate packing and I feel like we are getting nothing done in this house. We have around 2 weeks to get everything completely packed and it just seems like its not going to be done. We have gotten rid of so much stuff already and have alot more to get rid of. We are trying to get rid of as much stuff as we can so its less to move with us. Oh well, just needed to take a breather from the packing and crap that comes with moving, Thanks for letting me vent and take a break...

Stole this from Clare's Dad - Ipod meme

2008-01-19T07:24:00.000-05:00

Here are the instructions:

1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. Press forward for each question.
3. Use the song title as the answer to the question.
4. NO CHEATING.

Q: What does next year have in store for you?
A: Anything but mine - Kenny Chesney

Q: What does your love life look like next year?
A: Baby I'm Yours - Shai

Q: What do you say when life gets hard?
A: Baby's gone home to mama - Josh Turner

Q: Song that reminds you of good times?
A: Backwood Boy - Josh Turner

Q: What do you think when you get up in the morning?
A: Beer In Mexico - Kenny Chesney

Q: What song will you dance to at your wedding?
A: Big Star - Kenny Chesney

Q: Song that reminds you of your first kiss?
A: Bless The Broken Road - Rascal Flatts

Q: Your favorite saying?
A: Buffalo Soldiers - Bob Marley

Q: Favorite place?
A: Cats in the Cradle - Cat Stevens

Q: Most Missed Memory?
A: Comforter - Shai

Q: What song describes your best friend?
A: Ground Control to Major Tom - David Bowie

Q: What song describes your ex?
A: Does he love you? - Reba ( THIS IS SO NOT A GOOD SONG FOR HERE !!!! ) LOL

Q: Where would you go on a first date?
A: Cleaning out my closet - Eminem

Q: Drug of choice?
A: I'm sorry Momma - Eminem

Q: What song describes yourself?
A: Like Toy Soldiers - Eminem

Q: What is the thing you like doing most?
A: Stan - Eminem ( AGAIN THIS IS NOT A GOOD SONG FOR THIS ANSWER) HA HA HA

Q: The song that best describes the president?
A: Every Rose has its Thorn - Poison

Q: Where will you be in 10 years?
A: Fall in Love - Kenny Chesney

Q: Your love life right now?
A: Fancy - Reba

Q: What is your state of mind like at the moment?
A: FireCracker - Josh Turner

Q: How will you die?
A: He gets that from me - Reba

Let me know if you play along...

United Airlines (Mesa Airline) is outta control !!!!

2008-01-19T06:25:00.000-05:00

OK Guys and Gals here is how my trip to Wisconsin went. I was to depart Orlando at 0550hrs on Saturday the 12Th on United (Ted) Airlines based out of Mesa, Arizona. I am very pleased to say that the Flight from Orlando to Chicago left without any problems. We watched their version of NBC clips/shows during the flight. I was really impressed with the flight due to the little T.V.'s that drop down from the overheads. I ended up getting to Chicago O'Hare 25 minutes early (0800hrs) and my next flight was not due out until 1025hrs. NO BIGGIE. HA !!!!!!! While I am sitting there another flight was ready to board and running 40 minutes late because they couldn't find the Captain for the plane. After another 15 minutes they cancelled that flight and sent everyone upstairs to reschedule flights.. I was thinking to myself that would so freaking suck. So after I sat there for a couple hours watching people come and go and come and go it is now around 1000hrs. Time to start boarding my little plane that I have to walk outside across the tarmac and up the stairs to my little plane to go to Central Wisconsin. They start boarding all the planes that are do out after mine. At 1025 when I should be departing, they announce as soon as they locate our Captain we will board and depart. (here is where I start worrying that I am going to be stranded in Chicago and my plane will be cancelled like the previous one.) 1115hrs arrives and we have finally found our Captain. (where the hell was he? at the Bar?) We board, and the plane then turns around to prepare for take off. Do you really think we took off? NO, we didn't take off. They could not get one engine to start, so they pull the plane back to the gate and maintenance arrives and declares the plane is a no go. Time to unboard my already late flight and back into the terminals until they find us another plane. It took them 45 minutes to find us another plane and move us to another gate. Are you ready for whats next? WHERE IS THE CAPTAIN???? they spent another 45 minutes looking for a Captain. Did we check the bar AGAIN? I finally lost my cool by this point and the guy that was working the United counter got to be the first to deal with me. He was wearing the United clothes, standing at the United counter and answered the Phones "United Airlines". He told me he works for United but the planes I was flying was Mesa Airlines out of Mesa Arizona and I needed to call their customer service to complain. No one in a united uniform wanted to talk to us. CAPTAIN found and on the plane now. Needless to say I ended up arriving in Central Wisconsin at 1400hrs (2pm) when I was supposed to be there at 1115hrs. On our short little flight we had the nicest flight attendant. She was with us on the grounded plane as well. She took time to talk to me and the guy seated behind me about the airlines. She informed us that Mesa Airlines treats their employees as bad as they do the passengers. She was saying how she was in the hospital with kidney infections for a couple of days. Mesa was calling her in the hospital harassing her about coming back to work. She was like " I am literally in a hospital bed, what I am a supposed to do?" She is only staying with them a few more months and is going to law school. Good For her. She did make the flight enjoyable because with it being so short they did not serve food/beverages. She told everyone she was breaking the red tape on the beverage carts and serving us beverages. Whats the worst they can do to me? FIRE ME she says... Everyone one the plane got FREE, I repeat FREE beer and wine. She also handed out cans of soft drinks for those who didn't want beer or wine.

So I finally arrive In Wausau and get home in time to watch the Packers Game, GO PACKERS !!!!!!!!!
My job testing/interview was Monday the 14Th. I passed all my testing and did great in the interview. I ended up spending almost 4 1/2 hours there. They have already called me since I have been home and they have started my extensive back ground check. Tentative start date Feb 11Th.

Flight home was good. I had no problems leaving to get to Chicago. I had a 3 1/2 hour layover in Chicago which sucked but what can you do right? I took at seat at gate B 20 something (the last gate in the A terminal.) 25 minutes before boarding a very inaudible announcement about Orlando was made. I could not hear what was said. I sat there to see if anyone moved. NO ONE moved. I got up and looked at the screen behind my gates counter. My flight was no longer there. I grabbed my bag, went running down to the departure flight screens and my flight was moved to gate C21. I had 15 minutes to get to another gate to which I had no clue where the hell it was. I go running through O'Hare and find myself going through a tunnel to Terminal C. I get there 3 minutes before boarding starts. They ended up changing actual planes sometime during my sitting at the wrong place for 3 hours. We boarded and took off without a problem. They even played the movie "December Boys" with Daniel Radcliffe from Harry Potter. It was a very good movie.
So I made it home as scheduled and yesterday was my first day at work on the day shift. I overslept this morning for work, but still made it here on time. I really have to get used to getting up at 0430 hrs in the morning now.

Okay, if you are still reading at this point, I suppose I will let you go and gouge your eyes out.. LOL
Be safe and have a Great Day everyone...

The next American Rock Star????

2008-01-18T22:14:00.000-05:00

My Mother has bought the kids a PlayStation 2 for Christmas. Along with that she bought them the Guitar Hero III and the 2 pack of guitars. John my 7 year old picked up the guitar on the first day we brought it home and was able to hit 90 % of the notes. Let's just say he literally kicked Dad's ass on this game. He is addicted to the Guitar Hero and can usually be found jamming away in the living room. Mostly wearing only his tightie whities. I was lucky enough to get him with pants on (dress pants at that) He would look over to see if I was still recording him and that's when he would start missing the notes.. It was to cute and figured I would share the video with you.

Well I am back from Wisconsin

2008-01-16T20:02:00.000-05:00

This was above my Friend Sean's front door. I loved this picture and wanted to share.

Well, I am back from my interview. This is just a quick update to apologize for my absence for the last week or so. I took a mental break from the Internet, emails and life. Its much needed from time to time.
The interview went well !! They loved me and have already called me today to talk more to me. They are having the rest of the interviews on January 21st. They only did 2 interviews on this past Monday for the 2 out of state applicants.
I also found us another place while I was up there this past weekend. Its not as nice as the first place I found, but its still nice and a place to call home. I put my money down on the place so at least I do have a place to call home. I am off tomorrow and will try to post more then....I will also get caught up on all my fellow Dads and their blogs.. Missed you guys !!!!

It is official !!! We are moving

2008-01-05T04:20:00.000-05:00

Well, just a quick post. It is official. We have all given our notices here in Florida. We are planning on loading up and heading to Wisconsin the first week of February. The only bad news is, we lost the house we were trying to get. Someone got their hands on it before I was able to get back to the realtor to make my final arrangements. So we are now looking for another place. I fly out on January 12Th back to Wisconsin and will hopefully find a home and put money down on it while I am there. I have the big job interview on Jan 14Th at 8am. So everyone please keep your fingers crossed and say a prayer or two for me that I get this job and will not be stuck working at McDonald's for awhile there. .LOL
I will post more tonight when I come back to work at 6pm. It is now 0424am and I am ready to call it a night and go home.
I am glad everyone has survived the Holiday rush and glad to see everyone back on the blogs safe and sound !!!!!

Happy New Years !!!!!!!!!!

2008-01-01T00:28:00.000-05:00

I just wanted to say Happy New Years to all my Friends in the blogger world. I hope you all remember the great times of 2007 and can forget all the hard and or bad times of 2007. Lets all welcome 2008 with open arms , open minds and positive outlooks..

I hope you all were able to spend time with your loved ones/family and friends. I unfortunately had to be at work while my wife is home safe and comfortable in our bed. This is my FIRST New Years Eve EVER not being with my wife and family/friends. Wow was it hard. But I have a job to do ...

Be safe and I hope everyone wakes up in their own beds and home safely !!!!

Johnny

I found this picture funny and had to post it..

Seven Random Facts.....

2007-12-27T12:32:00.000-05:00

PG aka Pat Glennon from Annoyingly Boring tagged me with a meme today (Pat has tasked me with my very first meme...Thanks Pat). I was pleased to see that he wrote some nice things about me and some fellow newbie bloggers. So I guess I will follow through with the meme.
The rules for this one are:
Link to the person who tagged you, and post the rules on your blog.
Share 7 facts about yourself.
Tag 7 (4) random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.
Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
So without further ado….

1. I Was born a preemie. I was born on February 9Th, five weeks before I was planned on entering the world. For the first five weeks of my life I lived in an incubator to help me breath and develop my lungs.

2. I Have the ability to wiggle my ears. I can wiggle them one at a time or together. I can actually sit and wiggle both ears separately to the beat of a song I am listening to. Its actually quit comical to watch. I have no clue how I taught myself to do this or why I even figured out how to do this. But I can and many people can not ....

3. I am a collector of the movie "Toy Story" Paraphernalia. I have all the toys they sold in stores. I have digital watches, card board advertisement signs, action figures etc. My favorite toy from the movie is my Slinky Dog.

4. I was born in Lantana, Florida lived there until I was 6. We then moved to Kissimmee (Central Florida) and that is where I spent my next 26 years of my life. I have only visited a total of 6 other states. I saw snow for the very first time 2 weeks ago while my wife and I were on vacation in Wisconsin (my 6Th state I visited) And By the end of February I will be living in Wisconsin.

5. I dressed in drag once. When I was a senior in high school our school had a pep rally called "Man of the 80's". I was asked to represent the year book staff for an event. I said sure why not. Not knowing what the event was going to be. After I promised and agreed I was then informed that I would be having 4 girls dress me in woman's clothes, put make up on me and make me walk around the gym in a mini skirt, shirt , jewelry, make up and High heel shoes. I am just thankful that I have not seen any pictures of that floating around. Oh and that is where I learned I was allergic to the make up they put all over my face..

6. My Sister and I are the second generation to be born in the U.S.A of my family. My Mom and Dad were born here. My Mom's Parents are from Finland and my Dad's Parents are from Poland. How cool is that? LOL

7. OK... I must be a dead beat, cause I am struggling for fact #7...
I try my best to be a great father/husband and friend.
Once I become friends with someone I am a friend for a life time. I have several friends that I have been best friends with for 20+ years and I am always looking for more friends.

Well, there you have it! I have spent the last 3 hours trying to complete 7 random facts about me.
Now, who to tag?
I am going to follow PG’s lead and do just 4 people. I want to call out….
Christy from http://cms70.blogspot.com/
Darren from http://www.claresdad.blogspot.com/
Gabe from http://run4urlyfe.blogspot.com/
Matthew from http://cre8buzz.com/profiles/1676
Don’t hate me guys! You all have great sites and I smile when your new content turns up in my reader. I look forward to learning more about you guys.
And now I am off to comment on their sites to let them know.
My first meme in the books, I hope you enjoyed it. I did.

One word "HAIR"

2007-12-24T04:39:00.000-05:00

OK, I have decided to post about hair. Any kind of human hair of any kind and any place. Tonight at work we had to clean our positions. I complained about there being long dark hairs all over my desk top. It just totally grosses me out. I then mentioned how I can not STAND pulling my wife's hair out of the hair brush before I use it. I will gag trying to pull it off the brush. I have started using my own brush many years ago, but every now and then I will find "hairs" in my brush. I would much rather throw away the brush then have to touch the hair and pull it out. But after awhile that can get to be a little costly. So I do my best at removing the dry, discarded hair from said brush. All I want is a clean brush to use.

OK, now that I am on a Hair roll, lets move to the shower. My wife has the naturally curly hair and when she washes it, she always ends up with hair in her fingers. When I go to get in the shower, there is hair stuck to the sides of the shower and all in the drain. So here I go, More gagging as I try and remove the run away hairs from the drain. Am I the only one that has an issue with Run away hairs? Am I over reacting ? Or do I have a legit reason to gag every time I have to do something with runaway hairs?

Why is it that as we get older, us Dads start getting hair in places that we NEVER had hair before? I have tried for many many years to grow facial hair. I finally got to the point where I can grow a decent goatee. But when it comes to a full beard I have bald spots all throughout it.

As we get older we start loosing hair where we want it and it starts to grow where we do not want it. I have not had the pleasure of loosing hair on my head yet. BUT I have had the pleasure of finding new hairs popping up where I do not want them. Like the edges of my ears..

NO THIS PICTURE IS NOT ME !!!!!!!
Why the hell am I getting hairs there? What is the purpose of them? So now I have an added chore of periodically shaving the edges of my ears.. LOL that must be a hilarious mental picture I put in your heads. Moving on from the ears to the eyebrows. Can we say unwanted uni brow?
AGAIN NOT ME IN THE PICTURE !!!!!
I know you can, say it with me, "Unwanted UNI-BROW" Very good... My eyebrows are not that dark in color but still, I am getting very blond hairs connecting my 2 eyebrows together.. Again another chore of having to get rid of that hair. Just below the eyebrows there is that nose. I have gone all day with no sign of a hair and then all of a sudden I will start rubbing and rubbing cause what I think is a mustache hair curling up tickling my nose ends up being the monster nose hair. How does something grow that freaking fast to where it sticks out as far as it has been found protruding out of my nostril. Here is a VERY IMPORTANT tip. DO NOT , I repeat DO NOT pull that one little nose hair by accident because it is powerful enough to bring a grown man to tears and in the fetal position. So my wife has ordered and given me this nifty little nose

hair trimmer.

WARNING, does not trim as good as you think, it does pull hair from time to time and there I lay in the fetal position on my bathroom floor. I just want to say Thank Goodness that as of this posting I have not had the nightmare of back hair. I asked my wife a few months ago that If I had started to grow back hair would she shave it for me? Her reply..." HELL NO, I WILL DIVORCE YOU." I am so not feeling the love from my wife.

Guess I won't be getting any kewl shave patterns from her.. LOL

Now here is a question I am going to ask all you Dads and Moms out there. Feel free to comment and tell us Dads what your opinion is.

{Body hair.} Mom's Do you like body hair? Do you like your Husbands/Boyfriends to have body hair? Will you shave your husbands backs? Uni brows? Ears? Nether regions?

Dad's .. Do you feel its fair we have to suffer with this unwanted body hair? Do you like having body hair on yourself? Do you shave it off? Leave it on? Do you make a ritual ( and yes I have my rituals) of shaving the face, eyebrows, chest, back and or the nether regions? I guess this all leads to the whole Metro Sexual phase of life men have had to endure. I am sure there is a whole other post I can do about the Metro Sexual Male. ( the skin care products, the hair products etc) and if we should start that discussion, lets get it going.

OK , who would have thought that finding Runaway hairs on my desk at work would get me going about Body Hair in general.. LOL

Some Vacation Pics

2007-12-22T13:33:00.000-05:00

Christine and I. Our first morning there. I love this picture...

Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow......

This would be My Best Friend Sean and I as we were walking around his acreage.. I was a beautiful view of nothing but snow.....

Was going to fall backwards and make a snow angel, but Sean just told me I would be soaking wet from the type of snow on the ground.

Christine scrapping the snow off the top of the deer feeders...

If only I had my Camo jacket on, then you couldn't see me hiding.. LOL

Christine throwing snow up in the middle of the woods.. We had a great 5 days there. We had highs in the upper 20's and it was just a nice relaxing get away. The flights all in all were good. Had a little turbulence on the way up. On the last flight home it was a completely full plane. No room at all. But it was good to get home and see my kids. I missed them so much while I was up there.

We also went and saw the Packer Stadium and took the following pics.

The Lambeau Field Stadium. It is huge. I have never been inside an actual stadium like this before. We walked around the inside of the atrium. I was really wanting to see the field, but you have to pay for a tour to see it. I will have to do the tour once I am there. I am a MAJOR PACKERS FAN !!!!

This is just inside the atrium. The floor is designed to look like the actual field with the yard lines and end zone markings. The interesting part is, whatever line you are standing on, it is actually lined up with the exact line on the field.

This is the front and main entrance to the Lambeau Field Atrium.

G-FORCE all the way !!!!

Just a close up on the top of the atrium.

Had to get a picture with the Cheese head. This was actually at the St Paul airport waiting for our changeover flight.

Sean standing on the frozen river. It was about 8" of ice we were standing on.

My first picture standing in the Snow !!!! and on a river at that.. LOL

This is Sean and his youngest son Bryce. Bryce was my fill in son while I missed mine. He was my buddy the whole time.. LOL

This is Sean, Dakota(the oldest) and Bryce (the youngest)

This was the view from our bedroom window the First morning we woke up..

I had a good laugh over his bbq grill. covered in snow and a Bud Light can still sitting on it..

The view from the back deck of Sean's house.

Here is the House we found and are looking to get ....

This is the front of the house. It looks small, but its actually a 1 1/2 story plus the full basement.

Here is my back yard and if you look right where the Date is you will see the HOT TUB !!!!!!!!!!! I am finally getting my hot tub... LOL
Everyone is invited to come have a good soaking with us...

This is the living room, Gotta have a fireplace too.. OH and hardwood floors...

Here is the Kitchen. Its not huge, but it is big enough to entertain with.

This is the top floor. The upper floor is the entire Master Suite. This pic shows one side of the master bedroom.
All in All, its a 5 bedroom, 3 bath 2 1/2 story if you count the basement as a floor.. We love the house and have talked to the realtor already and he is willing to work with us during my job interview process..
JOB INTERVIEW you ask? YES Job Interview. I have a Job interview with Marathon County for a 911 Telecommunicator position. I have been talking with Human Resources daily and They informed me yesterday that I am in the Top 10 out of 40 plus applicants. The interview process is over a period of days for testing, interviews, etc. Human Resources has spoken to the supervisor of the department and explained how costly it would be for me to fly back and forth several times and they are all willing to do all my testings and interview all on the same day. January 14Th. I am so freaking excited I can not describe how excited I am. I would get hired in making more than I am here in Florida, get a raise in 6 , 18 and 30 months. My house payment in Wisconsin would be 1/3 the cost of my current house payment. Isn't that sad?? My kids are all excited about the move. Jordan is going to fly back to Wisconsin with me on Jan 12Th so she can see the area while I am interviewing and testing.
Well, That's about all for now. I will post more Sunday night When I finally go back to work.

I want to apologize to you all for not reading/commenting on your most recent posts. But I promise I will bet caught up Sunday night at work..
Have a Great day/night!!!!

Back from vacation...

2007-12-20T15:16:00.001-05:00

I am back from vacation. It was beautiful up in Wisconsin. I will be posting pictures and blog more later. Just want to get settled back in the swing of things here at home..
Later all....

Osceola High School Kowboys

2007-12-14T21:41:00.001-05:00

I am sitting here watching my old High School team playing for state championship on tv and unfortunately they are loosing. But anyways, while watching the game on the Sunshine Network I see my Mom, Step Mom, Dad, Sister and other members of my family in the crowd. Me having DVR , Rewound and paused and took a picture.. LOL here it is...

My kids Ginger Bread Houses

2007-12-14T21:32:00.001-05:00

I am just posting the pics for now. I will blog about it later. It is now 2133 hours and I will be on a plane to Wisconsin at 0745 hrs in the morning. I will Probably not blog until after I get back on the 19th.. Until then everyone be safe and have fun !!!!

For Sale, Teenagers and life.....

2007-12-11T22:20:00.000-05:00

Well, Today I have officially put my house on the market for sale. I am not looking forward to the people that will be coming off and on to look at my house. I am not looking forward to having to keep it clean on a daily basis. Which I think is going to be very hard to do with 3 kids, 2 cats and a dog living in it. It is going to be a challenge but we will keep up with it. I hope.. LOL

Unlike most of you who come and read my rambling on, I do not have babies/toddlers in my house. I have a 19 year old who has temporarily moved home with her girlfriend until they can find a place to live. Who feels she has the right to come home well after 1am in the morning and all she has to do is Knock on a bedroom window to get someone to let her in. I have told her time and time again if she is not in the house by 11pm then she doesn't get in at all. Well She knocks on my mother in laws bedroom window to be let in. Of course the MIL gets up and lets her in. There are nights when she has some of her friends come over and they will hang out in the driveway in the wee morning hours talking. I don't find this out until the neighbors mention to me they were outside. Why is it she feels like she can come home and live how she wants etc. That's the reason she moved out at the age 17 because she didn't want to live by our rules. She is putting so much stress on my wife and I because I won't tolerate the behavior and my wife who doesn't want her daughter living on the street.. WHAT DO I DO???
Then
I have My in-betweenie. She is 12 and driving me insane. She is Miss Popular and has to be invited to everything that fellow in-betweenies have and has hosted several functions at our own house. She has attended party after party and Just got invited to a pool party tomorrow after school. We have decided we are going to have her skip this party. Can we say "THE WORLD HAS COME TO AN END?" she has thrown the best pre-teen fit a child can throw. Hell I think California received tremors from this fit that was thrown. I bet if I Google searched her, she would show up for the next "Best Supporting Actress" in a mini series of life.. LOL
She told gave my wife the biggest guilt trip possible too after I went to work. Boy she knows how to work the system at home doesn't she?
So while I am on the topic of kids... Let me go ahead and include Jayme and John tonight too. Sunday night while I was at work, my wife informed my today that Jayme (8years) is locked in her bedroom. When Mom goes to check on her she has to convince Jayme to unlock the door which she does and Jayme is bawling her eyes out. Mom then has to get her calmed down enough before asking her to please tell her whats wrong so she can figure out what to do. Jayme then looks up at her all Teary eyed and says... Are you ready for this???
"I Don't want you to fly up to Wisconsin...." Now this is the First trip my wife and I have taken anywhere alone I many many many years. My wife's heart melts right there. She calms Jayme down and tells her its only for a little while and it will go by fast. So once Jayme is in bed and settled and John is in bed, Mom crawls into bed to call it a night. ENTER the in-betweenie Jordan, Bawling her eyes out. Mom again has to calm crying child down enough to find out what boy broke her heart? what Girl said something nasty to her? Jordan then tells Mom that she just watched a video on Myspace about animals being tortured and beat. Now Jordan who wants to be a veterinarian and any animal domestic or wild has a natural attachment to her is just devastated by this. Mom to the rescue tells Jordan that there are some very mean people in the world and They will get what the deserve when their judgement day arrives. Jordan stops her tears and resigns to her room. I am so glad Mom was home to handle the tears. LOL

Well Today is Tuesday. I work tonight and tomorrow night and Then I am officially on vacation Until December 22ND. 10 days of NOT having to work. 4 more days until we fly to Wisconsin. I am getting nervous with all these ice storms and snow storms in those areas. Are we going to be able to fly in OK? Will I be able to fly out? I hope everything is smooth flying in and out. I want a stress free vacation.

Well I suppose that's all I have to ramble on about tonight.

Worlds Best Friend Award

2007-12-11T22:08:00.000-05:00

“Do you know the relationship between your 2 eyes?
They blink together, move together, cry together, see things together and sleep together. Even though they never see each other, friendship should be just like that! Life is like Hell without FRIENDS.

Its ‘World Best Friend Week’.
Send this to your best friends to let them know you appreciate them. “
Your Love is Ur Heart,
Your heart is Ur Spouse,
Your spouse is Ur Future,
Your future is Ur Destiny,
Your destiny is Ur Ambition,
Your ambition is Ur Aspiration,
Your aspiration is Ur Motivation,
Your motivation is Ur Belief,
Your belief is Ur Peace,
Your peace is Ur Target,
Your target is Heaven,
Heaven is no fun without FRIENDS.
I’ll pass this on to:

Gabe, Christy, Joe, Darren, James, Pat, Mitch, Ian (whom I stole this from) and Struglas !!!

You guys are the greatest friends online and in life for those I personally know.

Trying to be a man... Is it working?

2007-12-10T10:53:00.001-05:00

What do you think? I am attempting to due the full beard thing. I have for many years only had the Goatee. Its slow growing , but its growing none the less. I decided to grow it when I booked my flights to Wisconsin. Am afraid of freezing my face off.. LOL

So let me know what you think. Should I keep it or Shave it?

5 MORE DAYS UNTIL I AM ON A PLANE TO THE MIDDLE OF NO-WHERE AND LOTS OF SNOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You have been Mooned !!!!!!!!!

2007-12-10T05:30:00.001-05:00

The holiday moon war started. moon everyone u can except the one who got u. Happy Holidays !!!!!!!!!
John

1 week from today...

2007-12-08T05:50:00.001-05:00

One week from today I will be in Merrill, Wisconsin. When I got off work at 6am this morning, this is what the Temps were there. I am really starting to re-think this whole trip considering I have NEVER really seen snow before. I am going to freeze to death..

My Thoughts and Prayers for Christy.....

2007-12-08T01:36:00.000-05:00

I would like to take a moment of Silence for my Friend Christy and her Family who has lost a Loved one............................................................

Christy has lost her Father In-Law Thursday Evening. She is my Friend, Co-Worker and Neighbor. She along with her family have left for a road trip to North Carolina to say their Final Goodbyes. I pray that they have a safe trip there and back. May her family be surrounded with love and memories while there.

Please feel free to leave a comment here for Christy and I will be sure to have her check my comments to see your thoughtfulness and kindness.

1st Grade homework assignments

2007-12-08T00:02:00.000-05:00

Okay, here is where I am going to vent/complain/gripe about home work assignments.
My son is currently in 1st grade and has a teacher that goes by DR. Has to have those 2 letters in front of her name on EVERY thing she sends home. If you are so proud of your Title, then teach at a college or something, after all the work you are sending home is not 1st grade related.
Each week, John comes home with a piece or thick art paper that has a little note attached from said DR. All projects are due in by Friday of that week. OK, here is where you are saying sounds simple, why is he complaining? Well, these projects end up having to be done by the parents due to the level of requested task. I have talked with other parents who have children in the same class and they all agree that these projects are a little much for 1st graders. Anyways these projects are mostly done by the parents and the children at most either glue things to the paper or draw at their best and color pictures.
One assignment wanted the kids to look in magazines, newspapers and the Internet for pictures showing different types of weather, example: windy, rainy, sunny etc. Well we do not have magazines sent to the house nor the newspaper. So we are stuck going online and searching for pictures for him to glue to this paper. Then he has to write under each picture what it is.. OK so this one is not that bad. It gets better.
Second assignment, has to find pictures of Bugs and Insects and then write under each one what is a bug and what is an insect. OK, last I know bugs were insects and insects were bugs right? Again , no magazines at home, so here sits dad on the computer Google searching bugs and insects. Well I'll be Damned, there are different pictures listed for bugs and insects. I still am failing to see what the difference is. They are all creepy looking and need to be sprayed with RAID in my opinion. But I printed out, cut out and then we glued. Now if you remember he is supposed to write bug/insect under each picture. ARRRGGGGHHHH forgot which was which and am ready to throw the project in the garbage. But me being the "Patient" father I am , researched the bugs and insects and we titled them appropriately.
Project number 3, Abstract art. He had to blend several colors together and make an abstract art. Here is our conversation...
Dad: Do you know what an abstract art is?
Son: A What?
Dad: AB-Stract art?
Son: No.
Dad: Did DR Blankity Blank teach you in class what Abstract art is?
Son: No
Dad: Your not learning about painting and colors?
Son: No
OK, I am ready to scream at this point. So I took a few moments to let him know they wanted him to blend colors and make this picture called an Abstract art.
OK, he said he understood and went to work at the kitchen table with the paints and the paper he was sent home with. The completed picture turned out Black with very small streaks of color here and there. Guess he really Blended the colors. My kitchen table on the other hand, looks like a wonderful abstract art. Can I just send the table in as his project?
Fourth project: POLLUTION
He had to draw a before and after picture of pollution. My conversation with him about pollution and learning about pollution was about the same as the abstract art. I finally said, OKAY !! I drew a line down the middle of the paper dividing it into 2 sides. I said on this side draw a pond with fish and plants and no garbage. On this other side draw the same pond with fish, plants and alot of garbage all over. I will take a picture of his pollution project and post it sometime tomorrow when I wake up after work.

Oh and I forgot about the very first project , here he had to write about a career choice and why he wanted it. Ummm HELLO, he is 7 years old and shouldn't be concerned about that right yet.
Maybe its just me, cause after I sit here and re-read this, they do not seem all that bad, but when its time to do them it is. Maybe this is a whole new level of 1st grade then when my other 3 kids were in first grade.

How innocent they look....

2007-12-07T16:27:00.000-05:00

How innocent they can look when they are in the company of Santa and Mrs. Claus. You could never tell by the looks on their faces that they have been tap dancing on the naughty list all year. HA HA HA

John looks as though he is in shook or fear and wouldn't even crack a smile.. Jayme on the other hand, smiled enough for the both of them. Looks like Mrs. Claus has fallen asleep during the photo sessions..

I also have a new photo software program that I bought this weekend and this is my first picture I edited with the program. I darkened the back ground and added text. Not bad for my first edit job..

Just got to work, so I will try and post more later.

Tooth Fairy Spotted in Florida....

2007-12-06T15:36:00.000-05:00

Well, The Tooth Fairy has been spotted in Florida YET AGAIN ....

John has lost his 2nd top front tooth. His bottom teeth are coming in nice and slow and now he has to try and eat with out the top 2 teeth. The boy thing has finally started being able to properly say the letter "S" in words after taking speech classes since the start of school.

Now it is like day one of school all over again. Can't say an "S" word if his life depended on it. I will be so glad when all the baby teeth have fallen out and I will not have to worry about some little "fairy" coming into my house at night..

My wife has this wonderful little collection of baby teeth hiding in her dresser drawers. I have no idea what she plans on doing with them. Maybe give them back to the kids when they get older? LOL

Well thats all for now.

Will blog more at work tomorrow night.

John Gets A Haircut... 2nd posting

2007-12-06T15:10:00.000-05:00

HO HO HO

2007-12-03T21:52:00.001-05:00

Well I got suckered into assembling the Christmas Tree at work. It's hard to make a $30 Christmas Tree look good. But hey , I did the best I could and Christy did a wonderful job hanging the bulbs and garland on the tree.

1 Sad Tree.... $30

Ornaments... $15

Accessories.... $20

Christmas Joy at work.... PATHETIC !!!!!! I mean PRICELESS !!!!!

My living room floor transformed into a bed

2007-12-03T07:49:00.000-05:00

I came home from work Sunday morning at 0600hrs (6am for you military illiterates ha ha) and my living room floor had been turned into a giant bed. Jordan had 2 of her friends spend the night and they decided to camp out in the living room instead of the upstairs bedroom. They ate junk food and chips/salsa and Had plenty of soda and gator aide at hand. Well This is what I came home to. I had to snap a couple pictures to use against them at a later date.. LOL DAD WITH CAMERA STRIKES AGAIN !!!!!!

OK. It is now 0754hrs and I am going to bed. I have to work tonight at 1800hrs and I will try and post more when I get to work. I hope everyone has either had a great Monday off or a great Monday at work. Good Night everyone....

New Slide Shows Added....

2007-12-03T06:51:00.001-05:00

I have added a total of 2 slide shows in the right side bar of my Blog.
1. Gross Out Night (at the kids school)
2. Christmas Parade

I am trying to put a 3rd album up for the Kids Christmas Party, however it is not letting me for some reason. I will keep trying
Anyways.....
Check out the pictures and enjoy the show.

Hat and Sunglasses for my dog JO-Jo

2007-12-03T06:47:00.000-05:00

So I bought a hat and sunglasses for my Dog Jo-Jo. I thought they were the cutest things at the fair Saturday. I haven't decided if Jo-Jo likes them yet or not.

ITS VACATION TIME !!!!!!!!

2007-12-02T04:48:00.000-05:00

Well it is official. My Wife and I are flying to Merrill, Wisconsin on December 15 and will be returning to Orlando on December 19Th. We have booked our flights and paid for everything. This is the first time in probably 5 years that just the two of us have taken time to go somewhere by ourselves. The last time was for her Birthday and we just went to the Disney Resort area had dinner and got a room in a nice resort comped by a friend of ours that works there. We are so looking forward to it and we called my best friend up there to let him and his wife know we are definitely coming. They are so totally excited that we are coming there to visit. It has been 3 years since we last seen them and that was when they came to Florida after all the hurricanes hit us. I am looking at weather.com right now and it is currently 30 degrees there. Yesterday my friend told me they were getting the first snowfall of the year and that we better bring some heavy duty winter clothing because there will be plenty of snow for us to enjoy. I looked at the next month forecast for up there and the highs will be in the mid 20's and lows in the single digits. HOLY CRAP I am going to freeze my man parts off. I can not wait for the 15Th to get here. It is going to be the longest 13 days of my life. I will be taking picture after picture up there and I will have more than enough pictures to share of my visit to Wisconsin. It is now 5am Sunday morning and I have 1 more hour left of my 3rd day in a row of working. I only got 3 hours of sleep after the Christmas Parade we attended on Saturday before having to come to work. So my apologies now for not getting some pictures that I took at the parade posted. I will try and get them posted after I wake up sometime today. (If I wake up, which I know I will because my wife's company is having the annual Kid's Christmas party at 1730 hrs today) So needless to say I will have to wake up to attend that. **WARNING, there will probably be more pictures for me to post after that Kid's Party **** You will probably regret that I have learned how to post slide shows on my blog.
Well that is all for now. I am closing this blog with a very sleepy farewell and safe wishes for your Sunday ventures.

Changing of Seasons

2007-12-01T02:20:00.000-05:00

Since we are here in Florida and we really do not get to enjoy the Changing of the Seasons like our northern friends do, I figured I would post a picture of the one leaf that Jayme managed to find on the road showing signs of our unnoticeable changing seasons here in Florida. We were at the bus stop the other morning and she happened to see this one little leaf all by itself on the road and just HAD to pick it up. She held onto it the whole time while waiting for the bus. Once the bus got there I could not tell you what happened to the leaf.. Its probably just a memory now.. LOL

My wife and I have decided today that we are going to list our house on the market and sell it. We are going to find us a rental in the area where the kids will still be able to attend the schools they are currently in. We have also decided that after the holidays and the New Year rolls in, we are going to start looking outside of Florida and in the northern states for a job and a home. We are really ready to leave Florida and I think that maybe 2008 is the year we should really follow the dream and just do it. We looked online tonight and found some airline rates and may very well be booking a flight later today (Saturday) for my wife and I to fly to Wisconsin for 4 days to look around where my best friend lives. I will keep you posted as we make the final arrangements.

I have also decided to give the Ferrets away to a Co-worker since It would probably be easier to sell a house without the ferret cages and mess around. I am sure they will be taken care of by him and They will be missed by us.

We are going to take the kids to the Christmas Parade in St Cloud today at 10am. I am looking forward to spending time with the family watching the parade. I will post some pictures of the kids at the parade later today. They usually make out like bandits with the candy that gets thrown from the floats. We also walk around the craft fair afterwards and usually spend some money on Christmas gifts for family members while there.

My Nephew is a senior at Osceola High School and he has been playing football while attending there. Well the team is undefeated still after winning against Tampa Chamberlain and they will be traveling to Jacksonville, Florida on the road to The Championships !! I wish them luck as they are my home team and the school I myself graduated from. GOOD LUCK KOWBOYS !!!!!!! What away for my Nephew to end his high school days....

Well thats all for now, I will post more after the parade and the events of the day are completed...

DADisms

2007-11-30T21:53:00.000-05:00

I bought a book tonight at Publix titled "DADisms, What he says and What he really means..." by Cathy Hamilton.

I have decided to add a section to the right on my sidebar with a new DADism each week. Make sure you check them out....

This one picture says it all.....

2007-11-30T04:02:00.000-05:00

I found this picture while surfing the internet after sitting in the same chair for 10 hours at work. I have 2 hours left. Anyways, I thought this picture pretty much sums up the adventures that any parent has while raising kids...

Where Do Babies come from??

2007-11-29T18:39:00.000-05:00

So, last night was very interesting. My sister in law was over visiting and she is a hefty girl. Well my son (7 years old) was telling her she needed to hurry up and have her baby and started telling her what she should name him/her when the baby is born. My brother in law moves over and sits next to my wife and says "I think he thinks she is pregnant" and he and my wife had a good chuckle. Well My wife then says to my son "John, you do know Aunt Tasha is not pregnant and not going to have a baby right now right?" To this my son comes running over to my wife and loudly says "She needs to swallow the same seed you swallowed.

My son then asks where babies come from.. I told my wife to hold off a few days on the answer as I was renting a cute cartoon from Blockbuster called "Where Did I come From" and just to let him watch that.

* If you have kids starting to ask questions, this is a very cute cartoon for them to watch, it used to be a free rental at Blockbuster, you should check it out **

Now let me update you about me. I am sitting on the living room floor folding laundry and this is Where I am trying to hold in the burst of laughter that is starting.
This is the conversation as it continued....

Mom: I didn't swallow any seeds, who told you that?

Brother in law say to sister in law : well she's not a swallower...

Me: collapsed over laundry baskets trying to conceal my laughter...

Son: You told me that..

Mom: No, I told you that Daddy planted a seed in Mommy's tummy.

Son: How does Daddy do that?

Mom: Well, when two people love each other like mommy and daddy, they touch each other in a special way.

Myself, my Brother in Law and Sister in Law are now trying our best to cover the laughter erupting from us..

Son: How does the baby get inside you?

Mom: What do girls have that boys don't?

Son: A butt?? as he giggles

Mom: no everyone has butts, little boys have peepers right?

Son: giggles and agrees

Mom: well Girls don't and that were the baby get in.

Son: looks at her confused and giggling still

Mom: Girls have Woo-Hoo's

Son: What's a Woo-Hoo?

Dad: can no longer control laughter and has tears running out of my eyes as I am collapsed over the laundry baskets.

Mom: When you get a little older , I will explain what a Woo-Hoo is... Go take a shower..

So needless to say, this was a very entertaining night at my house. My son went and took a shower and by the time the Christmas shows started at 8pm, He had lost all interest about where do babies come from..

Thanksgiving has come to an end...

2007-11-25T19:10:00.000-05:00

Well I figured I would go ahead and post the events of my Thanksgiving. So sit down, grab a drink and you might as well run and pee or whatever you need to do before you read.. LOL

Well I worked from 1800-0600hrs Wednesday night so I was not home the night before to get things prepared as usual.
I am the cook in the house, since most of you do not know that
I started running a fever around 2am Thanksgiving morning and by the time I got off at 6am my fever was running 101.9. What made it worse was I had to start cooking as soon as I got home. I ended up going upstairs and sat in the tub with the shower running on hot just to warm myself up because I was freezing thanks to the fever. I came downstairs and started making my stuffing for the Turkey. We were due to leave my house at 11am to go to my sisters house so by 10:30 My daughter Jayme and I were stuffing the turkey.

My son John wanted nothing to do with sticking his hands into the 21lb bird. LOL
I put the turkey in the cooker. The directions called for 4.5 hours at 350 degrees. So I figured I would put it in at 250 degrees and it would be fine by the time I got home around 6pm. Oh yeah and I forgot to mention prior to leaving the house I had to make home made dough for my dinner rolls, I have to let it rise for 1 1/2 hours then beat my dough (lol) and separate into balls in the respective pans and let rise 45 more minutes. I brought the dough to my sisters with us so it could just sit in the bowl until around 2pm. Then I would separate them and let them rise in the pans for the 45 min. Well I am here to say... If you let them rise longer then it calls for.. the entire texture is different.. LOL anyways they turned out well enough to eat.

So if you remember and or are still reading, I have my turkey at home cooking at 250 degrees.. I crashed at my sisters house on the couch until 6:15ish (thanks to the fever) we then return home and I am looking forward to the turkey being done and my just having to carve and go to bed since we were doing the actual meal Friday with some our friends and my wife's family. Well TURKEY WAS NO WHERE NEAR BEING DONE. It was warm and that's it.. I was sooo mad. So I turned up the heat and Jordan my 12 year old was up watching movies so she kept waking me up hourly to check the Damn Turkey. Needless to say by 1230am I was taking the turkey outta the cooker. I took the stuffing out and threw the bird whole into the fridge.. LOL

So Part two of my Thanksgiving hell was on Friday. I finished preparing the rest of the meal. Had my pies baking, the bird rewarming. Here is were the circus comes to my kitchen, as I am cleaning out the pan to put my spiral ham in, my wife decides its time to put the game "sorry" away in the cabinet above the sink in which I was washing the ham pan. I got annoyed and went to the oven to get the pies out so my wife could "put away" the game. While I am reaching into the oven getting the cookie sheet with 2 pies on it, my daughter Jordan (12 year old) decided she wants a drink and squeezes in between me and the cabinet with the glasses. Well here is were it goes down hill. I ended up burning myself right threw the hot pad, have no clue how, started to drop my pies while tap dancing around Jordan and 1 pie goes to the floor landing upside down. I threw the cookie sheet with 1 surviving pie on the stove and swore I was done trying to cook since "EVERYONE" else had better things to do in the kitchen and I left the room.
I finally cooled my jets, went back to the kitchen and started making yet another batch of dough...Put a stick of butter in the microwave to melt for said dough and completed dough and placed in warm spot to rise. Well here is where my multi tasking kicks in. I decided to hang the Christmas lights outside. So I did that while dough was rising. Lost track of time doing lights and putting the inflatables up etc, etc, etc.
Oh also watching my son John (7 years old) learn how to ride a bike with no training wheels because Jayme (8 years old) decided he should learn that day and took them off his bike. I watched him ride into a concrete curb introducing little boy parts to the handle bar.. Needless to say took a licking and got right back on. Only to allow him about 20 minutes before he rode right into the neighbors large Rubbermaid mailbox and post. "Head meet mailbox" He got up, rubbed his head as he ran to me. I checked his head and told him he wasn't bleeding and off he went to get back on that bike. He just doesn't give up.. LOL
So we all are now going inside since people are arriving to the house and I have to make the green been casserole, bake the rolls and make mashed potatoes. I open the microwave to throw "canned" gravy in to warm and whats in the microwave? THE FREAKING MELTED BUTTER FOR MY DOUGH.... So to end this nightmare of a holiday, We all ate, talked and laughed. Everything turned out well and it was nice being able to get together with friends and family 2 days in a row even though I was still running a fever.. LOL
Today is now Sunday and It is now 1904 hours (7:04pm) and I am only 1 hour into my 12 hour shift. I will be here working until 0600hrs Monday morning. So feel free to say hello to me on here as I will be checking this and reading other peoples blog postings.

Later to all my friends old and new on here and to those of you I have yet to meet that are reading this..

Is my son the next Musical Artist????

2007-11-23T13:17:00.001-05:00

This is my 7 year old, John. He was playing and singing on my Mom's Keyboard. Is this the workings of the next Musical Artist?
Sorry its in two parts, but new cell phone was not set up to record longer then 15 seconds. ( I found that out after I started recording.)
I hope everyone had a GREAT THANKSGIVING !!!!!

2007-11-23T13:14:00.000-05:00

Happy Thanksgiving to EVERYONE !!!

2007-11-22T00:44:00.000-05:00

Happy Thanksgiving to those of you reading this. I am Thankful for my family and all my friends both those I know in person and those I know from the Internet world. I am thankful for a number of things in my life which I will not bore you with on here. I was lucky enough to get a vacation day off for Thanksgiving to spend with my family. I have to work until 6am Thanksgiving morning however I do not have to sleep all day to go back to work. My family and I will be going to my sisters house to have a feast with her family and my mom. I am looking forward to it. Its supposed to be in the 80's so the kids will be swimming since my sister has turned on the heater in the pool giving us adults time to sit and visit. All this while at home I will be having a 21 lb turkey cooking in the cooker for us to have left overs of our own at home the next day. I will be doing the whole meal at my house Friday all over again so my wife's Sister and her Husband can come over and eat with us. We will spend the next couple days just eating turkey, ham and all the sides. I am even venturing a little further with the cooking and will be making from scratch dinner rolls like they used to serve in school when I was a kid. So wish me luck that they actually turn out. My Dad and Step mom will be having Thanksgiving in Pennsylvania this year because they are up there hunting with friends of the family. My Step mom and Grandmother will be flying into Orlando on Saturday and I will be picking them up from the airport so they can return home and the men can stay and hunt..

I have finally gotten my replacement cell phone today. When I got off work Monday morning, I had text messages that I was unable to open. My phone would turn off and restart all by itself when I pushed the button to read my messages. I ended up going to Verizon and had them look at it. They informed me that I had gotten a virus on my cell phone and it was covered under the manufacturer's warranty. I had no clue that cell phones could get a virus but guess what.. WELCOME to the computerized world of today. So my new phone came in and I was not able to get all my custom ring tones transferred over which sucks.. But oh well at least I am virus free..

well that's about all I can think of talking about for right now.. So Eat plenty and enjoy the holiday !!!!

Our Christmas Tree is now up....

2007-11-19T00:22:00.000-05:00

I will try and get a better picture with my actual camera and not the cell phone.

Well, My wife and kids have put the tree up and have started decorating for Christmas. I now officially get to stress over trying to get all the Christmas shopping done every time I walk into my living room and see our tree. I am so not looking forward to the Holidays this year because its going to be a very tight year financially. If it were up to me, I would just skip all the Holidays this year and take a break from the stress. But I can't because I have 3 kids looking forward to Christmas morning with 2 of them even more excited about what Santa is going to give them. I just wish I could magically make everything work out and the Holidays not so stressful, but I can't. I get to sit here and stress.

Tonight has been an interesting night at work. I am answering the 911 calls tonight. I have had 2 callers that have made me want to ride with the units responding just so I could beat the tar outta them and maybe knock some "English" common sense into them.

Then I had one call that was coming in and I sat here listening to the phone ring thinking
it was the fax machine and thinking to myself "Self, what hospital is asking for a divert now?" then it dawned on me it was a incoming 911 call.

I hope that over the next two days, I can pull myself together. I am on call Monday and hopefully I will not get called in because I am taking my mom to the DR at 8am and then I have to go and get the grocery shopping done for the regular groceries and then Thanksgiving Dinner.

I will end this post from hell with a good night to all..

Pics from last night...

2007-11-17T20:24:00.000-05:00

Christine and her sister Tasha whose Birthday we celebrated..

I have no clue.. Christine being herself????

my step mother in law, thats her toothbrush holder.. lol

Rockie doing Jello shots

Montser truck.. pic is dark but you can still see

Me next to the truck I want.. look how big the damn tire is

after Christine changed shirts in the bar... She started a trend ,everyone bought shirts and changed.

Rockie starting to change , Tasha holding her shirt

Rockie having problems changing.. I was laughing my ass off and Tasha started to change.

we were doing the midget dance on our knees.. LOL

My brother in-law and I... we had everyone laughing.. LOL

A night of GoldSchlager

2007-11-17T18:25:00.000-05:00

Well last night we went out to celebrate my Sister in-law Tasha's Birthday. We got to sidelines around 7pm. ***This is where I tell you, I had been up for 27 hours and had only planned on making an appearance and then going home***** Well I ordered myself a French Dip and fries for dinner and had a mixed drink called a Pineapple Upside Down Cake. Here is the recipe for it for those of you that want to know what it is.. It was very good.

*PINEAPPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKE*

1/2 oz vodka

1/2 oz Bailey's® Irish cream

1/2 oz DeKuyper® Buttershots liqueur

1/2 oz pineapple juice

1 splash grenadine syrup.

Pour Irish cream, vodka, DeKuyper Buttershots and pineapple juice into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice. Shake and strain into a shot glass. Slowly add a splash of grenadine to the bottom of each shot glass, and serve.

So I ended up staying there for a couple hours. Then we left and went to a place called The Cracker House. It had country music there, so I was singing along with the songs and decided to have a GoldSchlager.

Well They kept buying rounds of drinks and I had some more of the GOLD. We left there and went to Lenny's Bar in St Cloud. Where I had some more of that wonderful liquid Gold and was feeling really good at this point. I will post some pics from last night as soon as Tasha emails them to me.. There was 6 of us drinking and having fun and needless to say, my just showing up and making an appearance ended around midnight... We are planning on going to Lenny's again next Saturday night because Rockie that was with us flirted with one of the guys from the bar who has this huge monster truck and convinced him its my birthday and would he take me for a ride in it. Well he said yes he would next Saturday when we go there. You will see the truck when Tasha sends me the pictures. I want a truck like that sooo bad.

It's been a few days since I was here last....

2007-11-14T22:43:00.000-05:00

Well, I guess it has been a few days since I have blogged. So I do have a few things to get everyone caught up on so here goes.......

Lets start with my son's Birthday party. Can we say it was a mess? Yes we can... We only had 1 RSVP from the school invitations and only 1 child from school showed up. Of course we had my Mom, my Father and my Step mother there, with my niece and her friend. John didn't seem to mind however. He enjoyed the play time with his friend Spencer. They were the typical boys running and playing. The party was supposed to be from 2-4 and we were going to order pizza for everyone. I called Pizza City at 1:30 to place my order for 2:00 pick up. Well they answer the phone and say the do not open until 3pm. So it seems like everything we planned was a flop. And to top it off it was a holiday weekend so kids probably had plans with families already. Oh well..

So Sunday night Jordan ends up having a friend spend the night. Said friend has two pet ferrets. I have wanted a ferret for as long as I can remember. Well when I went to pick up her friend the friends mom asked me if I wanted them and if so I could have them and the cages. I got back to the house and asked Christine if I could have them and she said yes. I was soo excited we went back then and there and got them.

The Lighter of the two is named Boxer and he is about 1 year old. The darker is named Lucky and he is about 1 1/2 years old. They are alot of fun to watch and play with. I can sit and just laugh watching them run, hop and play dead in the middle of running.. My Dog Jo Jo barks at them like crazy and is not brave enough to get next to them. The cats could care less whether they are here or not and want nothing to do with them.

This is the cage set up I have for them. I have a 3rd cage to attach to it but with the 3 cages together it is just two wide for the upstairs area. I need to find away to connect it while it sits on top of the one to the left. That will be my project on my next couple days off next week.

Now for the update on Christine. She had an allergic reaction last week to the new heart medication she was switched to and she was on for 2 1/2 days. She had to stop taking it and went for 4 days with out any heart medication. Monday her DR decided to put her back on the original heart medication she started on prior to the switch. He increased it to 2 pills a day at a low dose for now and will gradually increase the dosage strength as she goes. So far it seems to be controlling her heart rate pretty good, lets just hope it stays that way.

My Dad and Step mom are leaving tomorrow for PA and will be there for Thanksgiving. They all go up there for hunting season, So I am hoping for some venison roasts.. I love my venison. My step mom and her mom will be flying home the Saturday after Thanksgiving so I will be picking them up from the Orlando Airport. They have left me their 4 Runner for the time being while they are gone and so I can pick them up from the airport. Let me tell you what. It is soooo nice having the second vehicle. I wish I could afford to get a second one I really do.

Last night at work we all found out we are moving squads around. I will be moving to another squad with my fellow co-worker Phil. I will be loosing my best friend Christine at work because she is moving to a squad that will be on nights for another 4 months and we will no longer be on the same squads. I feel for her having to be stuck on nights AGAIN, I really do. But we still live next to each other and will be able to see each other from time to time I hope.. (you better keep in touch with me Christy). At least until she sells her house and moves somewhere outside of Florida. Speaking of which, my wife has decided that maybe we should move outta Florida. If for any reason at all for the kids sake and raising them somewhere that would be a better area for them to grow up in. I am thinking/hoping North Carolina. She has mentioned that by the end of this coming summer she is wanting to be gone from Florida. So lets see what happens... I hope she holds words because I am sooo ready to go.

I will be working again tomorrow night (3rd night) in a row and I am not looking forward to it. I have one day off and that would be Friday, which is when my Sister in law is having her birthday get together. Soooo I need to make an appearance when I would rather stay home and just rest and relax. I have to work the weekend which sucks. And then life gets worse after the weekend. The kids are outta school all next week. I will be bouncing off the walls and will probably have a child duct taped to the wall more than once over the week. They were home this past Saturday, Sunday and Monday and by Monday, I was ready to have a mental and nervous break down.

Well I guess that should be enough to get everyone up to par with my life over the last week give or take a day or so.. Until my next posting..

As usual, be safe and enjoy life..

My son Busted singing in the shower...

2007-11-09T23:10:00.001-05:00

My son learned the song "Proud to be an American" Wednesday at school. Christine and I were laying in bed watching t.v. while the kids were getting showered and what not. All of a sudden I hear John just singing away in the shower. We layed there listening for a few then I grabbed my cell and quietly went into the bathroom (the doors were both open making it easier to sneak in). I stood in the sink area of the bathroom and recorded a few seconds of his singing. I have no clue what made him peek out but the curtain all of a sudden opened and he sees me standing there. I started laughing.. He was too cute.

So I have taken tomorrow off so this will be my second weekend in a row off. Christine and the kids are all off and outta school Monday due to the holiday so We all have a 3 day weekend together. John is having his birthday party at the house Sunday from 2-4 pm. Hopefully some kids will show up. We sent 12 invitations to school and so far only have 1 RSVP. I really hope that some more kids show up. We will see.

There are times in life when everything gets a little over whelming. And I am thinking right about now its one of those times. I am really wanting a break from life for just one day. I just want to escape for a day or night. I am ready to go buy a small tent and just go camp somewhere overnight by myself. No t.v.s, no cell phones, no work no nothing. I want peace and quiet and some alone time. Time to just clear my mind and relax. But that will never happen. Its kinda hard to do when you have a family and 4 kids.

Well that's all for tonight, just wanted to post my son's singing debut, maybe I have a country star in the works and he can take care of Mommy and Daddy with his success.. LOL

Peace to all....

Happy Birthday to my Son John.....

2007-11-06T00:54:00.000-05:00

Well today, November 6th, my son the youngest of the bunch turns 7. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOY, I LOVE YOU !!!!!! It is so hard to believe that he is 7 years old already. It seems like he was just learning how to walk. Before I know it , he will be graduating High School. ( As I sit here and smile ever so slightly at the thought the last child growing up and my house belonging to my wife and I once again. The thought of cheaper grocery shopping trips, the freedom to go to dinner, the movies or a mini vacation whenever we want........) OK, back to reality... LOL We are just planning on having a small party at the house on Sunday. He brought 12 invitations to school yesterday for the 12 friends he wants to invite. I hope some show up since his cousins here in town are all high school age so its not that easy to get them to show to a younger kids party...

I also want to add that I am soooo proud of my kids for their success in school. Report cards came out and John (1st grade) , Jayme (3rd grade) and Jordan (7th grade) all got straight A's and B's on their report cards !!!!! WAY TO GO KIDS , LETS KEEP IT UP......

Here is were I am going to vent a little about kids.... Jordan on Friday was sitting on the concrete roadside drain when the dogs leash knocked her cell phone out of her hand and you guessed it, right into the storm drain. She comes and wakes me up from my sleep since I worked that night, I go out side in my pajamas and look into the drain and see nothing but water. I tell her there is not much I can do and return to the house. (mind you the drain is right in my front yard on the corner.) So when I got off work at 6am Saturday morning I wasn't tired so I just sat in bed. it was around 730 and I drug my wife to the above mentioned storm drain to pry the manhole cover off the top. She spots the cell phone and I reach in with a fish net from my aquarium and pull out a cell phone that is just full of water.. And what really sucks is we didn't have the insurance on the phones like we thought so we were going to have to pay more money for a replacement. I decided at this point I was starving, so my wife and I woke the kids up and I called my Father and Step Mom and asked if they wanted to meet in Haines City for breakfast, which they did so we all met. It was a little mom/pop type joint called John's and it was a very good buffet breakfast. Well worth the drive.. (why am I telling you this with the cell phone story, well it all adds up to whats next) Jordan whom appears to still be fighting a cold or something was a little moody on the 35 minute ride back to Kissimmee to get the replacement phone. We get to the Verizon store and the cheapest phones were just over 100 bucks, so I told her if I am going to have to spend alot of money on a replacement phone, then her Mother or I would get a nice phone and she could have ours... AND LET THE POUTING BEGIN !!!!
Well the store ended up cutting a deal with us, charged us a $50 fee like they would if I had the insurance for the same phones as we all now have but in black. I also had to buy a new battery so I spent a total of $85 bucks. Ok , so here comes some more pouting by Jordan because they had to give her the battery cover from her old phone to put on her replacement phone. Now if you remember I said the replacement phone was black. The old phone was red so now she has a black phone with a red back, IT'S THE END OF LIFE AS WE KNOW IT !!!! So I proceed to tell her, I will take her phone away from her and she does not need one if she can not be thankful for what she does get. ** SIDE NOTE , I am now steaming mad cause over the last 3 weeks we spent around $500 on her Halloween party, contacts and glasses and replacement cell phone ***

New paragraph because here is were the fun begins. We are now about 10 minutes from the house and my wife informs Jordan and Jayme that they are switching chores a day early (Jordan on kitchen duty and Jayme on living room duty) OMG I had 2 girls in the back seat of my little bitty Honda Civic start bawling like there is no tomorrow. *** My nerves are now slowly snapping from being stretched to the point *** I just do not understand how kids can be so ungrateful at times and not appreciate the things they are given and the things that are done for them. They just want more more more... I love my kids with all my heart BUT I did not raise my kids to be like this, where are they getting it from? School? Friends? Where???
Ok, enough negativity here moving to Saturday night now....

We took my Brother in-law and Sister in-law (my wife's sister/husband) out to dinner for his birthday. We also had another friend "Gary" come along, his wife backed out last minute. We went to Sweet Tomatoes in Orlando. It was very good and our first time going. It was on the lines of buffet but with soup, salad, pasta bar and dessert bar. It was a very busy place and the food was GREAT. I will definitely go there again sometimes..

Sunday we went to the Grocery store and for 2 weeks worth of food for the house and stuff for kid's packed lunches we walked out of there spending $380.00 . This is just crazy that it costs so much now adays to eat and feed a family. The good thing is I saved $67 dollars from the buy one get free and the other sale items they had. I can't wait until my kids are grown and on their own and my wife and I can go and spend $100 bucks for 2 weeks or more .. LOL Wouldn't that be nice? ? ? Or we could just go eat dinner at our kid's houses instead..

I am now at work its 0145 in the morning on Tuesday the 6th and I AM TIRED AND READY FOR BED. We have a new hire that has been here for about 45 days and she has been late/sick/taken off/or went home sick for 15 of those days. Today she called and said she would be late. We start at 1800 hrs(6pm) and 8 hours later she is still not here.. This girl just needs to throw in the towel and call it quits. It is time to move on...

I reckon this is enough rambling on. I am sure I lost some of you after the first paragraph, for those of you that are still here and reading, THANKS, you are great friends...

Take care and be safe and remember when no one else does or your having a bad day that "I LOVE YOU"

Later !!!!!!

The weekend is HERE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-11-03T00:25:00.000-04:00

I can officially say that the weekend is here and I do not have to work AND I am not on call. I am also off next weekend as and again I am not on call....

This weekend we are planning on relaxing Saturday and then take my Sister and Brother in-law out to dinner for his Birthday. We are going to go to Sweet Tomato's in Orlando. Gary and his wife may also come with us. Hopefully we will all have a good time and Gary will not get called to in for an injunction or purge since he is on call Saturday night. Sunday we are planning on going to Busch Gardens and spending the day there in Tampa.

Next weekend we are planning on doing a birthday party for John. He is going to be 7 on The 6th (this coming Tuesday). They grow up so quick. I am thinking we should maybe have a party at the bowling alley and let him and his friends have fun for a couple hours. Beats having to clean the house after a party.

Well I guess I will end this for now, Waiting for my co-worker "Christy" to put Licensed to Wed on... She is stuck watching the Jay Leno show on T.V. with the Back Street Boys singing... I could have gone the rest of my life without having to watch them on T.V. HA HA HA HA HA

November has arrived...

2007-11-01T20:45:00.001-04:00

Well, here it is November 1st and a new month. I had posted previously that September has come to and end, and it was a new month and I was going to have a new outlook.. Let me just say I did have a new outlook and for what? Nothing has changed everything is the same its just 31 days later. I was really hoping things would have changed for the better over the last month and it didn't... Oh well that just shows that life goes on and what happens , happens.

Last night we went to my sisters for trick or treating with the kids. We did a hayride for the festivities. All had a great time and all the kids we had about 10 kids had gotten at least 5lbs of candy each. They will be set for awhile. We got started around 7:30ish and didn't get back to the house until 10pm. When we got back we had a nice spread of food and drinks. It was all in all a fun time had by all.

Thats it for now.. Peace out...

SpiderMan 3 Rocked !!!!

2007-10-31T11:40:00.000-04:00

Let me just say that I waited until it came out on DVD before watching it. IT FREAKING ROCKED !!!!!! I enjoyed it totally and am glad I watched it.

Dress like a bug day at school

2007-10-31T07:45:00.001-04:00

John had to be a bug for school. So I made him a fly costume. Not bad huh? I made this at like 7pm last night. Nothing like waiting until the last minute huh? But all in all I think it turned out great.. It was funny watching him try to get on the bus this morning.. The bus driver was even laughing.. He walked up to the bus, stood at the door and then turned sideways and walked up the steps sideways.. Poor thing, at least he thought about it before running up the steps and ripping his wings off.. LOL

Monday..........

2007-10-29T23:13:00.000-04:00

Just figured I would blog something even though I really do not have much to blog about.

Jordan's party was Saturday night and it went well. She had around 6-7 kids show up and they all seemed to have had a good time. They hung out in the kitchen/dining room and listened to music, then they were in and out of the house. They decided to all cram into the downstairs bathroom to do the Bloody Mary thing in the mirror, so I stood outside the bathroom window and once they turned off the lights I banged on the window. It was like a stampede of kids trying to get out of the bathroom and run.. I about pee'd myself outside the window. They all settled down and started watching Jeepers Creepers 2, I went outside and was wearing a Grim Reeper costume and stood in the window next to the t.v. It took only a few seconds before someone noticed me standing in the window and let me just say, all you heard were screams as they cleared out the living room. They quickly started closing all the blinds, Jordan than went to the french doors in the dining room and opened the door right as I was getting ready to open it, well she screamed and about took out the table trying to get away from the doors... It was fun and over all I think everyone had a great time.

My wife has found our dream place in Bangor, Maine. Its a two story building and on the 2ND floor there are 5 apartments with 9 bedrooms total, and downstairs there is a general store and a separate little diner. It costs about 20k less then what I paid for my house I own now. If I knew I could live off the store/diner I would so buy it and move. I think it would be so much fun to own something like that. We could run the business' and live above them.

Well, that's about all I have to talk about so I will end this blog for now. If I can think of anything else worth blogging, I will come back and add to the post.

Be safe....

OK, I am back just to add that the Packers won the game 19-13

2007-10-27T08:40:00.000-04:00

We have carved the pumpkin.

2007-10-27T08:39:00.000-04:00

Just some thoughts I have been having.....

2007-10-25T22:47:00.000-04:00

This will probably be a long posting, so you better run and pee, get a drink or get comfortable....

Well, let me start off by saying its been a few days since I posted anything on here. I have been sorta depressed with my not getting the job I interviewed for. My friend Patty had told me this "I am sorry about the disappointing news with the job, but they probably didn't deserve you anyways. Keep your head up and keep looking." I have to say , that was very nice of her to tell me that and I have decided she is right. They didn't deserve me and I will find someplace that does!!!! So enough about the job thing, Moving on the the next thing that's been running endlessly in my head and I just can't stop worrying or wondering about and that would be my wife. So lets skip a line and start a new paragraph on that...

Ok, The Dr's are not going to do the lung scan on her to check for pulmonary embolisms because all the Dimer tests in the hospital for that come up negative. The Dr did however check her pulse and performed another EKG and in both her heart rate was elevated. He has told her she has Idiopathic Ventricular Tachycardia. She can't even walk up or stairs at home without her heart rate increasing, even just walking from the car to the Dr's office, increases the heart rate. This is not a good thing. They have her on medications to try and control the rate of the heart. So last night while I was at work, I decided to look up IVT and there was like 3 different stages of it. All of them mentioning "sudden death" That is a very scary thought. I am so afraid of her getting worse with this condition rather that getting better. I am concerned about her having to go up and down the stairs in our house. I am worried for her health and not being there if something happens to her. I mean I am sure I am just getting to lost in my own thoughts on this, and that the Dr's will be able to control and or correct this with medication and or surgery. But I still can't help but sit here and wonder... Should we stay here and continue life as we know it today or should we finally open our eyes and move on. Move somewhere that we would actually be happy and live the rest of our lives doing what we want and enjoying life. Move somewhere that is less congested and crowded. Where she can actually slow down and enjoy life.

As for me, I really need to wake up and start taking care of myself. My blood tests came back in, and I am borderline Diabetic AND my triglycerides are 350. I have got to start exercising, eating better and really get myself in shape. I am over weight and I have the stuff at home to work out, I just do not have the motivation. I have the reason, my health, but still no motivation, I am just to freaking tired anymore. I know that if I started exercising and eating better I am sure I would have more energy. I have a couple friends I can start doing things with, its just a matter of finding time to do it. Its so hard to buy special foods for a healthy diet and then buy foods that my kids will actually eat. Because we all know that kids will not eat healthy no matter how you try and disguise the veggies.. (All this while I am sitting here eating Peanut Butter M&M's) how sad is that?

Jordan is having a Halloween Party at the house on Saturday with a bunch of her friends from school. My Dad and Step Mom are taking John and Jayme to Seaworld on Saturday and then to their house for the night so they are not in the way of Jordans party. I think it will be fun for John and Jayme, however this is John's first night of sleeping away from home. I hope he does well and doesn't start crying in the middle of the night. I would have to drive to Frost Proof to get him in the middle of the night.. Lets hope all goes well.

I will end this by saying, I love my wife, my kids, my family both immediate and extended and all my friends. I hope and pray my wife will be able to live a full and happy life, because I could not imagine my life without my wife.. I love you Christine and I always will love you...

Good Night to whom ever is reading this and I love you too...

Well, It's Official, I hate my life...

2007-10-22T17:33:00.000-04:00

Well, I just found out that I didn't get offered the position I applied for. I am going to be stuck in that hell hole of a job I call Dispatch. I am so freaking depressed right about now that I just can not put into words my true feelings and or thoughts. So with that being said, I am going to say Good Night and hopefully I will be in a better mood in a couple days to blog something else..

What book am I ? Thanks Toma for this posting..

2007-10-22T04:45:00.000-04:00

I have spent the night reading and getting caught up on Toma's blogs from day 1 of her blog adventure. While there I came across this book quiz she had taken and posted the link so others could take the test. Well, I took the test and this is what my outcome is. I have yet to decide if its good or not, any opinions would be helpful.. And I want to Say hello to "TOMA" and thanks for keeping me entertained with your blogs. You have convinced me you have become very "Wealthy" in your life in just family and friends. I only wish I could be 1/8th the person you are. You have given some very helpful and informative words of wisdom/encouragement in your blogs even if you do not think so..

You're The Sound and the Fury!

by William Faulkner

Strong-willed but deeply confused, you are trying to come to grips
with a major crisis in your life. You can see many different perspectives on the issue,
but you're mostly overwhelmed with despair at what you've lost. People often have a hard
time understanding you, but they have some vague sense that you must be brilliant
anyway. Ultimately, you signify nothing.

Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

Update on my wife

2007-10-20T22:36:00.001-04:00

Well, after sitting in the emergency room for 14 1/2 hours before they finally put her in a room/bed we found she is having a problem with her heart. They scheduled her for a nuclear stress test and will she was just walking on the treadmill, within 2 minutes her heart rate had double itself. Which according to the DR is not good. The pictures they took during the test showed everything is good with the heart itself and the arteries etc. But there is something that is causing the rapid elevation of the heart. She was released Thursday evening and allowed to go home and sleep in her own bed. I had a DR appt for myself to follow up on my lab work etc and she went with me to the appt. Well she stole my time, The nurse and the DR talked to her more than me.. LOL The Dr told her he has been thinking about this heart rate issue and asked if she was having cramping in her calf muscles. She had said yeah however she just thought it was like a charlie horse. He then told her he thinks she may have Pulmonary Embolisms. So he wants to schedule her for a lung scan. This is a scary thought. People have died from this. She was also sent home with several medications, she now has to carry Nitroglycerin with her, she takes a medication to help with the heart rate and was given a pain medication. I am worried about this, but I am trying not to let it be known at home. So as I get updated with whats going on with her, I will in turn update on here..

I still have not heard anything from the Job I applied for. I haven't even received the "We are Sorry you suck and didn't get hired" letter , so there is still hope.. LOL

Will post more later..

My son's newest toy....

2007-10-20T22:34:00.000-04:00

Found this at a yard sale yesterday. I had to buy it for my son. Its a life size stuffed spiderman.

Last night after he was in bed for awhile, he comes downstairs with "spidey" and says "can I leave this down here? It's kinda scaring me out." It was too cute.

Just over 11 hours later, still in the SAME E/R bed....

2007-10-18T04:46:00.001-04:00

5am updated view from same room. AND WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR A BED. My wife was admitted to the hospital at 3am .. But they do not have enough nurses available to cover the patients they could fill the EMPTY , yes I said EMPTY beds... So now its just a freaking waiting game. I am tired and Hungry and ready to GO HOME !!!!!!

It's going to be a long night at the Emergency Room....

2007-10-17T21:26:00.001-04:00

My view from my wife's emergency room bed. She is having xrays and other tests done now. We came here because she was having pressure in her chest, back pain and left hand numbness.

Best way to sum up life...

2007-10-17T00:09:00.000-04:00

This made me think of my life in general............
It is now officially Wednesday. I was told I should hopefully hear something by today. This waiting for the phone call on this new job is driving me totally and completely insane !!!!!

So I figured since it is Wednesday I might as well post a Hump Day picture...

I really wish I had something more to blog about tonight, but I don't. Sorry... Maybe Tomorrow will be more promising...

2007-10-16T22:22:00.000-04:00

What a job.

2007-10-15T20:45:00.001-04:00

Found this online.

Monday, Monday....

2007-10-15T20:22:00.000-04:00

Well, Monday has made it here. I was supposed to work from 6 to midnight today. Well I get to work and someone ended up calling in sick so the on call person got called in. I told him I would work the full shift if he wanted to leave at midnight since he worked yesterday as well, he took me up on my offer. Oh well, I can use the 12 hours of time and half pay anyways. Guess its a good thing I ended up sleeping all day.
Christine seems to have enjoyed her birthday. The kids woke her up and gave her her gifts. She liked everything she got. She wanted to go to Red Lobster for lunch because she got a gift card from my father for her birthday. So we got dressed and went to lunch just her and I. I had the Shrimp and Lobster Fettuccine Alfredo. It was very good, loaded with shrimp and ONE chunk of lobster.. LOL I really wanted lobster meat and guess they try not to put much in it.. Over all lunch was very good and I enjoyed my time alone with Christine. We went home and her sister and brother in-law came over, we had cake and visited.

So I get this text message from Christine telling me Jordan is having a meltdown cause the house isn't spotless. She washed the kitchen floor with my dishes sponge. Nice Job.. EWWWW
I replied why is she having a meltdown and was told Jordan's friends are coming over Wednesday.. No clue why, but oh well.. LOL, Just got another text, Christine was designated pickup driver from Volley Ball practice and they will all be picked up from our house I guess. Oh what fun.. I am soo looking forward to that.

I am hoping and praying that I get a call over the next couple of days with a job offer.... I would love to walk out the door to this comm center and know that I am not returning.. I get so excited with that thought. But my luck is my luck and I will probably be returning everyday here. BUT I can hope right? RIGHT !!!!!!

Well thats all for now, will post more later if I have more...

Happy Birthday to my Wife !!!!

2007-10-14T00:05:00.000-04:00

Today is my wife and I want to say "HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRISTINE" , I love you very much. I am glad I am spending another birthday with you. I hope we have many more birthdays, holidays and special occasions together !

Well, I am hoping the sickness is done in my house. Jayme has broken the fever so as of today no one in the house had a fever. Lets hope it stays that way..

Not much to blog about, nothing exciting happened today. I slept until around 3pm. So the only thing I really did was called McAfee about my virus protection etc not working. It was blocking me from the Internet. They had me un-install the software and now when I go home from work, I have to re-install it and hope it works.

I am off at 6am and have Sunday off, however I am on call. So I will try and stay awake to spend the day with Christine for her Birthday. I work Monday from 6pm to midnight, So I will try and blog some more then.

I have told another friend of mine about blogging, So maybe I will soon have a link for Gary on here too.. Lets see if he shows up.

hoping for a better week next week....

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Well this week has been a long week. It started with my running a fever Sunday and Monday. Then my son got the fever Monday and Tuesday. Christine stayed home with John on Tuesday and by the evening she was sick, spent Wednesday home sick. She and John go to work and School on Thursday and Jayme starts running a fever Thursday night. She is home from school Today and is still running a 102+ fever. She has the highest fever out of all of us. I have warned Jordan the oldest of kids that live at home that she is next to be prepared. This 24-48 hour bug has almost run its course through my whole house. Then I parked in the garage Wednesday afternoon diagonally because of my kids leaving their bikes in the way. My wife goes to work Thursday morning and is worried about hitting her moms truck so she watches that. Needless to say the drivers side is not being watched and she turns the wheels enough to hit the drivers door on the side of the garage door opening leaving a large white paint scuff mark on the drivers door and breaking off the drivers side mirror. I hope and pray for a better week next week..

My Dad and Step mom came up Wednesday night and gave my family a huge pumpkin that weighs over 100 lbs and took my dad and I both to carry it in. (see picture below of John and Jayme sitting next to it) He was in PA hunting and the potato farm up there was growing/selling them. So he bought 4 and brought them home for my 3 sisters and I's families.
He is always kind and thoughtful about little things like that.

Well I have put in for vacation from October 31st until November 5th. I did it that way so if I do get this other job, my 2nd week of my 2 weeks notice will be while I am on vacation.. SMART, NICE !!!!!!! I have gotten my hopes up way to much about this job. So I am going to be in a depression if I do not get it. I just want things to work in my favor for once in my life.. If I get this job, things will improve all over I think.. Or should I say I hope.
Well that's enough for today.

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Gift from grandma and grandpa

Midweek and this is my desk tonight at work....

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My desk tonight.

Isn't that sad, tonight to keep me going I have from left to right, My book "Thriller" edited by James Patterson that I started reading, a box a raisinets that my supervisor didn't want to finish, a box of Little Debbie Chocolate Chip snack cakes, a box of Little Debbie Pumpkin Delight Cookies, a bottle of MT Dew and a bottle of Gatorade. Then on 2 of my 4 monitors I have my Gmail open with my conversation with Christy and my blog.. Boy am I working hard or what? LOL

Well, here it is Wednesday and its been a crazy last few days. I started running a fever Sunday night and monday. While I was at work Monday night my wife emails me to tell me that my son is running a fever. I get off work at 6am Tuesday morning and he is running a 101 fever, so my wife calls in sick from work to watch him so I can sleep and be rested for my interview. On my way home from my interview I call my wife to tell her how it went and she tells me she isn't feeling well and throwing up. I get home and she is all pale and just doesn't look good at all. So by the time bedtime gets here, my son is still running a 101 fever and will be staying home Wednesday from school and my wife is debating on whether or not she should call in again or go to work. She doesn't want to miss more work. I told her if she called in, I would stay awake and take care of John while he is home so she can get some sleep. Then Jordan sends me text messages asking if I am picking her up from Volley ball practice at school and if so can her friend come home with us until her mom gets off work. I told her if everyone is home sick I would rather not, so I get the "well if she can't come over then she can't go to practice after school" text. Well not my problem, but I still feel bad cause I want the kids (whose ever they are) to be involved in school activities etc.

My Dad and Step Mom are coming to town Wednesday evening to see my family and my sister's family. They have some things for all the kids, no clue what but they do. It will be good to see them. They only live about an hour and half away but I miss them. I have dreams all the time about being around my dad and living near him. I wish I could spend more time with my father then I do. He wasn't around much once him and my Mom divorced. I value the time I do spend with him and wish it was everyday.

I have finally got in touch with my Mom today after playing phone tag for the last 4 days. She only lives about 10 minutes from my house and I don't see her as much as I should either. Its so hard to visit with family when I am working nights and they are all on days. I really hope I get this job that I interviewed for so I can once again spend time with my family all around. I get so excited thinking about the holidays knowing that I would be off and not scheduled to work in the new position. I would be off by 5pm every day and have every weekend off. What a life. Its been sooo long since I have had that I forget what its like. I would also be working in the building right next to where my wife works, so I would be able to have lunch with her whenever I wanted. Oh man, I am doing it, I am getting tooo excited and getting my hopes up way to high, so that means I won't get the job. BUT I CAN'T HELP BUT BE EXCITED, with the posibility of having a life again. OK, I will stop talking about it and just sit patiently until I get the call next week saying yes or no...

I have been thinking about adding another posting to my blog. I have several dreams a night and can usually remember them all in detail. I am thinking about posting my dreams each morning creating a dream diary or dream log. What do you think? Sound like something interesting? Or maybe I will create a second blog that is nothing but my dreams and add my link to this blog site. What would be the best thing to do??

Well, It is now 5 minutes until 1AM . I better call this a post. I am sure its long enough and I have probably bored everyone to tears.

My Interview went well !!!!!

2007-10-09T19:35:00.000-04:00

I had my interview today at 3pm. I got there about 2:50 and was called in early and didn't get out of there until an hour later. I feel the interview went very well, I am trying to feel real confident about it without crossing over the line to feeling cocky. The Director returns Monday and will be given the chosen applicant and if he approves I should know by Next Wednesday as to whether or not I got the Job. I think if I did get the job, things would be soo much better at home and in life in general. I just wanted to post a quick little bit about my interview and will blog more later tonight...

No blog last night.. Just a picture

2007-10-09T04:32:00.000-04:00

All I have to say is...... HOW TRUE THIS IS !!!!!!!!!!

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OMG !!!!!!
I am ready to crawl over this little glass partition between me and my supervisor and have at it with her.. She has returned from vacation and is back to her normal, immature little self. I just had to throw this on here real quick, will blog more later...

so far not called in to work...

2007-10-07T12:47:00.000-04:00

Well its 1pm on Sunday, and so far I haven't been called into work!!! YEAH that's a good thing. I have been able to have a whole weekend of with my family. We sat up until almost 2am last night playing cards with my sister and brother in-law. We try and have card night once a week. It's sad that its our only entertainment lately. Chris had to take Jordan to a school friends birthday party at the skate reflections. So I figured while I had a few moments alone I would throw out a blog for the day.

My Dad just called, he got back in last night from archery hunting in PA. Out of the 3 of them that went, My step grandfather is the only one that came home with a deer. My dad said he hit one and they followed the blood trail, then lost the trail and spent about 4 hours hunting for this deer with no luck. So he is either one lucky deer or is providing meals for the other wild life out there.

Time to put the spotlight on my wife for awhile.. She has lost around 24lbs total now. She is soo happy and feels good about herself. I am soo extremely proud of her and jealous.

Well my nephew had his home coming last night and I saw him and his girlfriend. I took a couple pics of him in front of a custom coach bus all their friends got to use. He has grown and changed soo much. Here are two pictures of Him and his Girlfriend.

I am stressing over when Jordan get to be that age where she needs the fancy dresses and all for dances, yet I can not wait for the time excitement of seeing how beautiful my little girl will be on her special night.

Well I am gonna call this a post and will post more tomorrow when I go to work.

The longest night at work !!!!!

2007-10-06T04:35:00.000-04:00

Let me say that this has been the longest night at work EVER !!!!! It is now 0435hrs and I am fighting my hardest to stay awake. The non stop yawning and the watering eyes are not making this night any easier. No one is talking to each other in here, I have been watching Scrubs on my laptop for the last 4 hours I think. I have sat here with my eyes shut, but keeping one part of my body or another in constant motion, either the foot or leg shaking, or the whole chair going from side to side or rocking back and forth. I honestly think I actually dozed off once or twice. NOT GOOD !!!!! I have even had a few moments when I was just sitting here comfortably with my eyes closed, listening to my Scrubs and all of a sudden my body would do that uncontrollable jerk. Damn near fell out of my chair once.. LOL I have to admit that was funny though, I would look around and no one would be looking at me thankfully. I haven't had anything to eat or drink since midnight because I am fasting for blood work that I have a 1015am appt for. I want a MT DEW.. Thats why I am probably so tired. Well that and the fact the Christy has taken the night off and I have no one to talk to and keep me entertained. I actually enjoy working with her and If either her or I gets a job elsewhere, I would have to say I would miss working her.
Its now 0509, and I look back at what I just typed, boy I am either a really slow typer or, Well I just don't know what else I could be. Oh wait, yes I do, I AM FREAKING TIRED !!!! I want to go home, curl up under the covers and pillows and sleep for a couple hours before I have to wake up and go get my bloodwork done.

Well, I sorta got sidetracked with scrubs, so I am gonna call it a post and log off.. Will try and post over the weekend but since I am off I don't know if I will have a chance to sign on or not.. until next time, GOD BLESS.....

I'm in good spirits tonight....

2007-10-04T23:21:00.000-04:00

For some reason, I am in a really really good mood right now. My spirits are good, my attitude is good and I have no idea why. My night at work started out with me being a little negative, so thats why I find it odd that I am in a good mood. Maybe its because I have a possibility of leaving my current position to a new one that I can expand my education and actually learn something new by on the job training and maybe take a few courses. There is so much more room for growth and advancement in the new position. I sooo really really hope I get this new position. I am doing what I swore I wouldn't do, and thats getting my hopes up and to excited about this other job. So, just be ready and prepared that if I don't get the job for me to be moody, depressed and who knows what else.. LOL YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED !!!!!!

So I watched Fantastic 4, Rise of the Silver Surfer, let me just say... LOVED IT..
Of course I am a fan of all the super hero movies like that.. I am still patiently waiting for Spiderman 3 to come out on DVD.. I will be at the doors of Blockbuster at 10am when the open for that one. Hoping to get to watch 1408 tonight if we have time at work. I have been wanting to see that one too. I don't see the movies when they come out in theaters it just costs too much. I wait for them to come out on DVD.

I am off this weekend, well sorta off, I am on-call Sunday. Hoping no one calls out. My wife wants to do something fun this weekend instead of just sitting at home. So I am sure we will be hitting a theme park or something. It just is so hard to go out and have fun when you are wanting to sleep during the day because thats what your used to. My wife just doesn't understand and I feel like the worst person in the world because I am tired and want to sleep through out the day. So to keep from being the bad guy and ruining everyone elses weekend, I am going to have to be awake and go and have fun with the family.

It's a couple minutes before midnight, I have 6 hours left of work. Our cost of living raises are here, and I made a 44 cent increase.. Its better than nothing. I just wish I was able to show that I actually got a raise after deductions and taxes come out. Well, I am going to call it a night and will be back on here when I come to work tomorrow night..

I have an interview

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I am soooo excited !!!!!
I got a call today from Code Enforcement and I have an interview on October 9th at 3:30pm.. I am so excited and can not wait for it to get here already. I am afraid to get my hopes up in fear of being let down and not getting the job, but I can't help it. I am soooo hopeful that I get the offer and that I am able to get out of Dispatch. I want so bad for a normal life with normal hours. I want to be able to spend time with my family. Spend holidays with my wife and kids and not be sitting at work answering phones. I just have to find something impressive to wear to my interview. I may have to go buy something nice to wear, I don't really have anything nice and interview like. So I will update this and let you know how I did on the interview.

A friend/co-worker had interviewed for a human resources position and found out today that she didn't get the job. I feel really bad for her, as I was really hoping she would have gotten an offer. She wants and needs out of dispatch as bad as I do. I really hope she is able to find something somewhere so she can use her knowledge in a position where she can grow and become even better at what she does. Where we both are now, there really is no chance/room for growth and or advancement.

Not much else to blog about tonight. I will blog more tomorrow while at work.

Tuesday's Bog

2007-10-02T14:28:00.000-04:00

Well here it is 2:29 pm and I am officially awake for the day. I fell asleep around 9am and slept until 1:30 to my phone Vibrating away. I had 2 missed calls, (thank you Blockbuster for being soo concerned about my late movies) and a text message from Christy asking if my power was out. Luckily my power didn't go out and my A/C was working just fine during my sleep. So I forced myself out of bed and to Blockbuster. I did however get 3 new movies, Fantastic 4 Rise of the Silver Surfer, 1408 with John Cusack and Two Weeks with Sally Fields. They are all 2 day rentals, So I need to make sure I get them back on time to avoid the freaking phone calls. LOL

Earlier this morning, I added to photo slide shows here. I decided I wanted to show some of the art work that myself and Jordan have drawn. She has drawn some wonderful pictures and I hope she continues to draw and never looses the desire.

I posted last night that I was not going to look at my pager on my two days off, well I am stuck covering the on-call for Wednesday night because we have someone that is not ready to be on-call as planned due to an illness and missed days at work. Oh well what can I do right?

Well it has rained all night and appears most of the morning. As I am sitting here all snuggled in bed under the blankets I can hear thunder rolling outside. Guess we are up for another round of storms.

Other than that , there isn't too much to blog about today. Maybe more will happen that I can blog about tomorrow.

I hope everyone is safe and has a wonderful night...

A few drawings that I have done.....

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Jordan's Artwork at age 12.......

2007-10-02T08:50:00.001-04:00

Whats up???

2007-10-01T23:02:00.000-04:00

Figured I would pop up and say Hello to everyone and post some thoughts and quotes I found interesting..
I feel these are the best words to use to describe myself.....

Well today is the start of a new month, new challenges, new adventures and new lows I am sure. Alot has happened during the past month and I have decided to Put it all behind me and Make the best out of what tomorrow will bring.
I really liked this Cherokee Indian Proverb.

I guess thats enough of the little pictures cause its making it a long blog for today.

I am still in limbo about the jobs, The job I applied for is no longer posted and it still shows I am in review in human resources. I just don't know what to think about it. Then there is the Sheriff's Office, I have tried and tried to get in touch with the person I need to talk to and he is never in the office.

Ok, I have a gripe, are you ready? Well too bad... My daughter is in 7th grade this year. Well her homework assignment over the weekend was called "The Begging Letter". Let me just say I soooo do not approve of this assignment. She had to write a 5 paragraph letter to one of her parents begging for supplies. Paragraph one, she had to use flattery on the parent to get supplies for her school. Paragraph two, she had to ask for tissues, paragraph three was asking for copy paper, paragraph four was to ask for another item and then paragraph five was to thank the parent for everything they do and to ask them to become a volunteer at the school. Then at the bottom of the assignment sheet it says they will not be graded on the ability to donate items.

I mean come on.. Why are our children having to write letters begging for school supplies for a public school? Where are all the tax dollars and budgets for the school being spent? Not on school supplies etc obviously. I just really do not know how to react to this. It makes me extremely angry that she had to do that.

So I took a break and now its 20 minutes after midnight, all I have to say is:

5 hours and 30 minutes left until I can go home and get some sleep. Well I won't actually go to bed until around 8am once the kids get on the bus and go to school. I did want to try and go to blockbuster and get 2 movies coming out today. Room 1408 and The Silver Surfer... Can't wait to see them... I am off the next 2 days and I am not on call either, so I will pay NO ATTENTION to my pager. I will spend some time working on my blog, really making it look the way I want it to. Something that will grab your attention as soon as you open my page up.
So I am ending this, as I have become bored and am ready to fall asleep. I have to find something to do to keep me awake for the next 5 1/2 hours... I hope you all had a peaceful nights sleep...

September comes to an end.....

2007-10-01T04:28:00.000-04:00

Well, lets just say that I am glad that September has come to and end !!!!! It has been a not so pleasant month for me. I am hoping that October is more eventful and promising. It's just been a rough month all around, between bills, stress, bouts of depression and hospital visits. I had 3 hospital visits during this month. 2 with my son because he decided to play with a little metal ball from a magnetics kit and ended up swallowing it. The first visit the xrays were done and the Dr. said it will take 24-48 hours to pass. So we spent several days checking what came out with no ball to be found. We called his regular Dr. 3 days later and are told to bring him back to the hospital for another set of x-rays to make sure it wasn't stuck anywhere and it was ready to pass and by the end of the day we would be the proud parents of a metal ball... WRONG !!! 2 more days pass and finally so did the ball. So then we make it to the 29th with no injuries to kids. Then my 12 year old goes to Adventure Island in Tampa, gets it with a water spray , falls and hits her hand, causing it to swell. By the time she gets home with her friends, she can not move her hand and is in tears. So trip #3 to the hospital comes. We sign in, they do the x-rays first thing and tell us nothing is broken, just hyperextened and swelling to the hand and tendons. We are then told to wait in the waiting room to be seen by the actual Dr's. Well after sitting for a couple hours having over half the room fill up with people, and loud obnoxious kids , I finally went and asked how many more people were before us to be seen and was told 5. We decided since it wasn't broken, it was time to go home and make an appt with the Pediatrician for a follow up. So thats the excitement with the kids over the last month.

I have applied for another county job and still have yet to hear anything. My application is still waiting to be viewed by human resources, so I have decided to go ahead and pursue the possibility of going back to the Sheriff's Office, and that has not been eventful either. I can not catch the person I need to talk to in his office. I have been trying for 8 days now and am ready to just give up on that all together.

So with October being the new fiscal period at work, my wife and I are both getting our cost of living raises. Even though they are not huge raises they are still raises And I am just happy about that. We are waiting for paperwork to apply for a modification of our home loan, so I can hopefully get a new start and not be so behind on my mortgage. I am keeping my fingers that we get approved and something can be done if not the house will be going up for sale by the end of October.. So everyone take a moment and pray that it all works out for us.

Off topic , I am sitting here watching the screen as I type and am noticing things flash on and off below my post when I type and pause. I have noticed that it automatically saves your post as a draft everytime you pause briefly. How cool is that.. LOL yeah, it doesn't take much to amuse me...

Anyways, my wife's Birthday is the 14th of this month and I am trying to come up with a nice gift idea and plan a special night for her and I. Anyone have any ideas, please let me know..

Jordan is having a Halloween party at the house this year, so I have to plan for that, get decorations and all the things to make a great party for a bunch or 11 and 12 year olds. So I will take all the help, advice and donations of decor for this party... I want it to be fun and something she will remember.

Well I think I have went from one topic to another and talked endlessly about things. May have made no sense at some points of tonights blog. But as I have said before, I have ADD of the brain so its half expected. Until the next posting, God Bless and Thanks for allowing me to Blog another day...

Just my random thoughts......

2007-09-28T00:34:00.000-04:00

It has been a few days since I have posted on here. So I figured I would post some of my thoughts over the last few days. So here goes .........................

Thoughts #1, the cost of living here in Florida..... With the cost of living, property taxes, homeowners insurances etc, is it really worth staying here in Florida and struggling to live and have money left over at the end of the payday? Or would we be better off, listing the house for sale and moving further north somewhere where the cost of living is better. Find a good job somewhere and start a life that would be easier and more enjoyable? Could it be easier and more enjoyable?

Thoughts #2, My job.... I am currently working with Fire Rescue as a 911 operator. I enjoy my job, its the hours I don't really care for anymore. I work 2 days on and 2 days off thats all good, but every four months I rotate from days to nights for 12 hour shifts. Thats what sucks about the job. I hate the night shift. Plus having to work holidays sucks when you have a family. So here is were my dilemma is... On Sept 6th I applied for a job with Code Enforcement as a Licensing Tech. It would be a Monday through Friday job regular hours. My application is still in review with Human Resources and has yet to be forwarded to the Hiring department. I have also been debating as to whether or not I should try and transfer back to the sheriff's office doing what I am doing now. My communications center is planning a consolidation which would be run by the sheriff's office, therefore making me an employee anyways. Thats not going to be for at least another year. Thats where I am trying to decide to wait or just go ahead and transfer now if I can and get it done with. But I really want the Code Enforcement job and if I transfer to the Sheriff's office and then get offered the job, it would be morally wrong for me to take the new job. So this is my confusing mess as far as my job decisions.

Well , so much for my thoughts right now, my co-worker has put in the movie "Knocked Up"
and its hilarious. So I am going to end my blog for tonight and finish watching the movie...

LATER !!!!!!!!!

Friday Night Cards and Booze

2007-09-22T19:09:00.000-04:00

Well, lets just say that we decided to play cards last night and had some drinks to go with it. There were 6 of us playing, so we ended up ordering Sonny's BBQ for take out. We ate dinner played some Hillbilly Horseshoes and then started playing cards. We had some shots, some mixed drinks and all in all had a good time. It was my wife and I , My in laws Tasha and Richard and some friends of ours Tim and Felicia. with Felicia being the only sober one there since she is with child.. Here we have Tim Taking a shot of Brandy well into the night.. It was alot of fun, we laughed, talked and best of all we all felt good.. This went on until around 0200 hrs this morning.
At this point in the Game Chris was feeling fine and sporting the shades, the alcohol tends to intensify the lighting.. LOL She called it a night and went to bed....
And here, well here we have Tasha Who also was affected by the lighting, but hey, she was definately having a GREAT time.. as you can tell by the laughing episodes we got to experience that night. Tasha was well past her limits..

I ended up going to bed around 0300 this morning once everyone left and I cleaned up the mess we made. And I slept until 1600hrs today. I am now sitting here at work and let me tell you.. I am soooo happy to be here.. NOT

anyways thats all for now, will try and do my actual blogging a little later tonight, just wanted to add some pics of my Card Night. I have a video too that I need to try and figure out how to get on here as well..

0503HRS and Wide Awake

2007-09-20T05:03:00.000-04:00

Well, here it is , 0503 hrs and I am wide awake and not at work. I wanted to go to bed early tonight, but instead I sat up talking with some friends until 2 something. Went and layed in bed and tossed and turned. So I came back downstairs , logged on and added some pictures to my blog. Trying to figure out how to transfer some of my old blogs from my myspace to this one. Everyone in the house is SOUND asleep even the cats and dog. So as I sit here and think about the progress reports that came home today, I am pleasantly pleased with the results. Considering its a new school, first marking period. John and Jayme are doing good, John just needs to learn how to sit still and not move around as much. They are both working hard, I want to believe and by the time report cards come out, they will be on track and ready to go. Jordan had mostly all A's and 1 C there is another grade I will not mention, which she claims she will have brought up by report card. I have 100% faith that she will get the grade up so she will continue to be on the A/B Honor Roll again this year. All in All I think they are doing very well considering they all started a new school and are having to make new friends, learn their way around and ride the bus to and from.
My wife has started her new hours this week , she is now working from 0630-1530hrs mon-fri. She is really happy about that because she gets to spend more time with the kids and gets to be more of a mom again.
I want to at this moment tell everyone how very proud of my wife I am, because she has been working hard over the last month, trying to get herself eating better, loose a few pounds and over all get in better shape. She has lost a total of 19 LBS and I am extremely PROUD OF HER !!!!!! I almost envy her as she is more determined and motivated than I am. She makes the time to exercise and eat better. Me, I am too exhausted and just can't get the motivation going. I had some motivation when My friend Gabe was talking to me about running a marathon in January. I started eating better, started riding a bike, look for his encouraging words from time to time. But Gabe has become a little too busy with his own training and busy life that we don't talk as much as we used to. I want to Congratulate Gabe for completing the OUC Triathalon this past weekend. I only wish I had 1/2 of his energy and determination. In away I envy his will and was looking up to him as my mentor. But as I said, we don't talk much lately, alot to do with my working nights now to.

Its amazing how once I start typing on here, my thoughts go from one to another. As I type one thing, my mind has moved on to another issue/topic. Its almost like I am ADHD in my thoughts. Because I now sit here wishing I had done this or done that as far as continuing my education. I wish I was able to let my wife take a couple years of work off so she could go to nursing school and become the Best Nurse I think she is capable of being. Then while thinking about wishing we were able to go to school etc, I fear when my kids start college. How am I going to get 3 Kids into college and still afford to live? I mean I want more than anything in the world for my kids to Graduate College, and become successful in whatever they choose, just as any parent would. But I still have atleast 5 1/2 years before the first one will be college bound. Then there is my oldest. She is 19 and hasn't found herself yet. Has no path of life she wants to follow. I worry about her and her actions, but as a parent of a 19 year old, its hard to get them to listen to you and understand what you are saying is actually truthful, knowledgable and worth listening too. I want her to have a steady job/career so that one day she can have that house and car she wants. But no matter how much I try or my wife tries or anyone for that matter tries to tell her, She has to WANT it for it to actually happen. I love Ivey (my oldest) even though its hard for me to show her because of our relationship over that last few years. I want nothing but the best for her and I hope and Pray that one day she will wake up and realize "Crap, my parents have been right"

Anyways, I guess I should just end this with I hope my wife, best friend and love of my life, grows old with me, so we can enjoy (and I am afraid to say this but I will) our grandchildren and maybe even a Great Grandchild or two. I want to grow old with my wife and travel the states when we retire and not have a worry in the world about my children because we are doing the best we can to lead them down the right paths, make the right decisions and become who or what they want to be.

It is now 0533hrs and I am going to call it a night and try to lay down, even though I have to get up at 0700 to get the kids on the bus for school.

God Bless......