A Tired Wife

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It’s Wednesday, it’s not Tuesday.  I know this.   But I’m here and that’s got to count for something, right?

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It has been a whirlwind lately!  First up – just check out this latest sonogram picture of my grandson in the making.   Adorable, yes?   He looks like his Daddy!  And while he is a boy, I don’t that that is what it looks like.   We’ve seen his little boy parts on some of the other sonogram pictures and baby boy isn’t going to be lacking in that department at all – but I think this is cord or, well …. something.

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Only 12 more days at this job.   My official start date at the new agency is December 21.   I’ll be heading to the Bahamas that week.   Gotta love starting a new job with a vacation week!   And while cruising out to the Bahamas, I’ll turn 50.  FIFTY!!!!   How in the hell did this happen?   Fifty????   I don’t feel fifty.   I don’t think I look fifty.  And the funny thing about turning 50 is that it seems to be when you start thinking “In 10 more years, I’ll be 60!”    Yep, yesterday while driving home from work, I marked the 10 year increments off in my head.   “10 years after that, I’ll be 70!!!”   “10 years after that I’ll be 80 and maybe I won’t make it to 90.”       I think being on a cruise ship with plenty of mojitos on hand – the actual 50th won’t be too bad! 

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The Christmas decorations are up!   We’ve got quite the “baby boy blue” theme going on and I found the most adorable ceramic baby shoe ornaments …. see?

Next year I’ll be able to fill in the soles of the shoes with the baby’s name, date of birth, weight and length!

And my tree is all about homemade ornaments.   I’ve saved every ornament my kids have made me in school.   Some are pretty hidious (like those wreaths made on a paper plate covered with macaroni shells and then painted green … do you have any of those … and were your kid’s teachers smart enough to use a SMALL plate?   Because my kid’s teachers thought it was rather funny to use a full size plate and with the dried macaroni and paint they must weight a pound.   Try hanging something that heavy – never mind the fact that it’s the size of a paper plate!! – on your tree.  And I’ve got two of ‘em.)     Sorry.

Some are pretty adorable.   Or they were.   This is a “snowflake” that my 27 year old son made in kindergarten.   It’s a styrofoam ball with toothpicks.   And most of the toothpicks are broken off now.   And it is my MOST treasured ornament and ALWAYS gets front and center of the tree!

Don’t you laugh now.  

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Happy Random Tuesday a day late!

For more great pictures , like this “DeMotivation” poster that I’m currently in love with … head on over to

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I love the show Survivor.

Thursday at 8:00 pm used to be family time and we’d all gather around the television to watch Survivor.   Hubby dropped out.   My son dropped out.   But me and my little Peanut (16 yo daughter) are hanging in there.   We’ve migrated from the living room to my bedroom where the two of us crawl under the covers and spend an hour watching Jeff and the gang.

Not since Rupert decided to play the part of pirate so well as he made off with the other team’s shoes has someone on Survivor proved to be such a player.   Russell’s going down in Survivor history.   I didn’t care of this obnoxious man from day one.   I wanted him voted off from day one.   And now – I can’t think of anyone (well, other than the gorgeous Ozzie) who deserves to win this game as much as Russell does.   I’m 100% in this guy’s corner and cheering him on … and can’t believe that I’ve done such a turn around.

Do you watch?   Who do you want to win?   Who has been your all-time favorite Survivor?

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I’ve been thinking about this feeling like I’m scooped up in a tornado feeling.   And a factor in this feeling is because of that “middle man” thing that I’ve talked about before.   Add to that the “questions I couldn’t possibly answer” thing.   An example … yesterday morning hubby calls me at 9:00 am.   He talks a bit and then he asks “Why didn’t Rachel (son’s fiancee) go to work today?”

How would I know that?   Everyone is still asleep when my daughter and I leave the house in the morning.   Son is the next up and out.   Hubby and the fiancee are the last to wake up and leave the house.    And unless something is terribly wrong, why would I care?   She’s an adult with a great job – great pay – lots of leave.   I’m not her momma and she doesn’t need to report to me.

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Hubby won a raffle.   Two Washington Redskins Hoggettes  (yes … men  with pig noses wearing dresses) …

… will be coming to a Redskins party that we are hosting on November 29.    See, here comes that tornado again.   WE are now hosting a party.   A big party.   Seems that part of the raffle  deal (you know, the raffle that hubby entered .. not me) is that someone (maybe more than A someone) from the local media will attend for pictures and a story.   Pictures and a story because the raffle was to raise money for adult day-care in our county.   Oh man.    At least hubby had a very good initial thought … which is to call the local firehouse and see if we can have the event there.   And he’d better get the word out that everyone needs to bring a dish/drinks because this is quickly going to turn huge and I’m not cooking for all these people.   Even still – you and I both know this is going to be a whirlwind trying to get this party organized and nailed down in less than two weeks time.   Whoosh … I just got tossed around by that tornado again.

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My rings are spinning like crazy.   This is a good thing.   This means my fingers aren’t quite as fat as they were a month ago.   I’ve lost about 10 pounds.   The same sneaky 10 pounds that found their way back home after I lost them last year.     Perhaps all that whirling around in the tornado makes a person drop a few pounds.

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I just came back from having a drug test.    And while the idea of someone wanting to test me for drug use (it’s a requirement of the new job) is understandable, it still cracks me right up.   Like I have time to be a druggie.    Drugs are not allowed in a tornado.

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Now, go on and visit Keely and then have a wonderful random Tuesday!

I’m not sure exactly when it started.   I suppose a quick look back over the dates of my posts would tell me, but I’m too lazy to do that and it wouldn’t really matter anyway.      I feel like a tornado came in through the front door of my life and scooped me up and I’m still just up there in the air going around and around and around in circles.

My son’s fiancee is now halfway through the pregnancy and I have absolutely no idea how that much time just slipped through my fingers.   We’ve just about emptied out the garage so hubby can get to work on the conversion.    This was supposed to have been done in October – and it’s coming up on Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving.   That means Christmas is right around the corner.   I haven’t even thought about Christmas.   The last few years, I’ve been on the home stretch of my gift buying by Thanksgiving.  This year …. eh.   Hubby wants to give cash to the kids and I’m all for that.   But he wanted to give cash last year and then decided that there had to be SOME presents under the tree which translates into …. last minute shopping.    It’s just so stressful.   And no, I really don’t want or need to hear anyone say that they are finished.   You early shoppers just talk quietly amongst yourselves … over there ->

I’m working frantically making lists and cheat sheets for the person who fills in this job behind me.   I’m just like that.

The dog goes to the vet today to have his stitches out and my daughter lost a filling this weekend, so Friday I have to take off of work so I can take her to the dentist.

I thought once the kids grew up, things would get easier.   I think I thought wrong.

I missed Random Tuesday and Wordless Wednesday and find myself here on Thursday.   And it’s been a heck of an AWOL week.

First – I GOT THE JOB!!!!   Looks like around the second week of December, I’ll be an investigation program assistant!  I interviewed last Thursday morning and before I could get home from work that afternoon, they called and wanted to meet me again that night.    We, meaning my soon-to-be supervisor and one of the agents, all met at a Wendy’s that was at the halfway point for all of us.   I felt like a spy … meeting at Wendy’s … sitting in the back corner … talking in hushed tones.    I was told that night that they were 99.99% sure the job was mine, and the next morning, it was confirmed with a phone call.

All day on Thursday my upper back was tight and I figured it was mostly nerves about the interview.   Wrong.   By bedtime, I was miserable.   I couldn’t stand … couldn’t lay … couldn’t sit … without it hurting something fierce.   I went to the doctor on Friday morning and was diagnosed with an upper back sprain/strain.   Got some yummy muscle relaxers and stayed in bed until Tuesday morning.   Even now, it’s tender – but I’m trying to be careful with how I move and I’m not lifiting anything heavy.

Now, it’s time to catch up on some work … and start pulling my personal stuff off my work computer. 

For more great pictures , like these jellyfish taken at the Baltimore Aquarium … head on over to

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Casey just sent me an email letting me know that something, somehow has hacked into either my email or my WordPress account.   So, passwords have been changed and if I’ve left any messages on your blogs letting you know what I suck or don’t suck … um, it wasn’t me, ok?

Carry on.

Random Tuesday is brought to you by our favorite SuperMom … Keely!

G’head. Join us in our random ramblings.

You know you want to.

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What’s up with people using their GPS devices while driving back and forth to work?

Don’t they know their way yet?

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A 10 TON Japanese trawler capsized while trying to haul in a smack of Nomura’s jellyfish.  Normura’s jellyfish can weight over 450 pounds!!   A 450 pound jellyfish!!   Get Out!   Check out these pictures of Nomura’s jellyfish next to divers.

And you guys thought Paranormal Activity was scary stuff!

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Spring Forward.
Fall Back.

WHY are we still doing this?

I’m time change challenged.   Every time we Spring Forward or Fall Backwards, I end up a confused mess.   I always want to know what time it feels like.   I like to know when my alarm clock goes off at 4:30 am, it will feel like 5:30 am … or will it feel like 3:30 am?   Of course, none of them are good choices and all of them are way too early to wake up in the morning.

Add a time change challenged person to a husband who can’t handle being wrong or being questioned about anything and it’s a wonder we even have clocks in the house at all this week.

On Saturday, our daughter asked if the time change would make it light in the morning again.  I said that it would.   And because I always have to get into the ‘what time it will feel like’ deal, I explained to her that when her alarm clock goes off at 5:45 am, it will feel like 6:45 am … and when we leave for the bus, it will be light outside again.

Hubby jumps in the conversation and says that I’m wrong.   He explains that it will be darker (which is more than dark, I guess) in the morning and will be dark earlier in the evening.   This left me scratching my head because I’m thinking that usually you get extra light at one end or the other.

My 49 years and two husbands have taught me when to fight a battle and when to let it go.   So, I said “Oh, ok.”   That’s it … just “Oh, ok.”   And hubby explains again about the darker, darker thing.   I said “Ok.”  And then he explains AGAIN.   What does he think I am, a moron that can’t understand his words until he says them three times?  So, I showed him … this time I said “OK” … you know, all loud and with ‘tone’ which he doesn’t hear or just ignores.   Wasted tone.   What a pity.

The next morning, this maybe not so time change challenged person woke up early and left for the bus stop … in daylight.   Ha.   The little victories in life!

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Happy Random Tuesday!   See you next week!