Irreplaceable…..
August 31, 2007
Ain’t life just a kick in the pants? I been working on updating my resume, it took me all afternoon yesterday, they sure have changed some things in format of resume’s since I last made one over ten years ago. So I am ready to hit the streets next week when hubby is on vacation to see what I can find. I would like to get in with one of the hosptials here if I could working 7pm to 7am three nights a week, so I am really keeping my eyes peeled at their employment site. This way I am home during day tending to things with my son going to school online via a charter school, still prepare meals for the family and have dad’s meds ready for him so all Harry has to do is give them to him at 9 at night and all is well. This way should dad have a difficult spell in needing more help, hubby can help in the evening…..and usually once he is in bed, he is good for the night…
So I go online to check out the local classifieds, why buy a paper where they have them online now. So I am browsing the ads and came across an ad for child care, so I peeked at it, I always do for location, in case hubby says no way I can work those hours (he is having diffcult time with this) and if I had to resort to placing an ad, but I read the ad and the phone number….it’s the boy’s dad’s cell. OMG!! So I am irreplaceable am I?? He is gonna do babysitting? Wow! So I called the girls mom to tell her and she said OMG he definitely had an agenda and she said see, this proves they could not find someone like you who is as giving and reasonable. Hmm maybe I was too reasonable in my fees!!! But I know how hard it is just starting out and having two little ones, the expenses. Yes I know I hear those voices saying hey stop that, you can’t think like that! I know I know, lesson learned!
My daughter told me the other evening that the boys mom told her when she babysat for them the one weekend, that if something ever happened she never put her boys anywhere else. So maybe mom told dad then its time for you to be Mr. Mom!!!
Back to the classifeds now…..
Unconscious Mutterings
August 29, 2007
A new week, a new mutter LOL I really enjoy playing along with this. Ya never know what I might think of first!!! You can find Unconscious Mutterings here……ready? Here we go!!!
- Uneven :: not equal
- Wonder :: think about
- Spider :: eww Don’t like em
- Emma :: Novel by Jane Austen
- Swing :: Love to sit and swing on my porch swing
- Orbit :: Realm
- Flirt :: Body Language
- Donation :: Red Cross
- Veil :: Mysterious
- Atmosphere :: Surroundings
Either you TRUST me…or you don’t!
August 28, 2007
I think it’s time for me to retire my hat that I have dawned the past 10 years, and doing in home child care, and find a job outside the home! I made a difficult decision in not watching the boys anymore. When you place your children with any child care provider, you have to trust them, until given reason to not be trusted. I have never ever put any child in danger. I never would! But dad seemed to have a hard time with the fact that I was uncomfortable with him calling my home 5 to 6 times a day, especially when mom calls me each day on her lunch to see how the day is going. That’s fine and dandy and I welcome that. But hang up the phone and ten minutes later dad calls? Heaven forbid that I be busy with your kids and not answer the phone, say for example when I am changing a diaper, if we are outside playing or taking a walk, or perhaps feeding them a meal, then assuming OMG something is wrong! He is very controlling with his wife and she puts up with it. That’s her choice but I don’t have to put up with the controlling behavior and the need to call my home and use a tone of voice with me and need reassurance is just beyond normal. So because I said, I think its best that you find someone else to watch your boys that you say to me “Why you gotta be like that” what the hell is that? The bottom is line either you trust me with your kids, or you don’t. Simple as that! So his wife takes the phone in his defense he is like that with me, his family, my family and well that’s fine if you all choose to tolerate that. I on the other hand do not. I don’t appreciate not being paid on time. I don’t appreciate having to track him down to get paid at the end of the week, nor do I think I have to travel to his place of employment to meet him to get paid. Err please do inform me of any day care that does that. Not to mention the lack of bring enough baby food for the baby and keep forgetting to bring it. Sure I went out and bought some, I mean I am not going to let the baby go hungry, what kind of person does that really? So yes each week when I got groceries I bought some. Plus they drink almost over two gallons of milk per week and they only brought me one. Baby had rash but no diaper cream so who went out and bought it? I realize money is tight all around and I made little allowances like that.
How about the fact he de-pants his son when he walks past him and his son decides to de-shorts my seventeen year old daughter? Yeah that’s amusing and funny NOT!!!
I am not like most day care places, where a child is just a number. A child is a flower that needs to be nurtured, and loved. I have always taken care of the kids I watch like they are my own. I am not just a sitter, I am the nanny. I have had the girls since they were both three months old and the oldest is 5 now. I made a commit to the family…. I never call off sick, I arrange my schedule and doctor appointments accordingly, and most times the specialist do not do Saturdays so I don’t go. I never EVER had any parent have to miss work, ask the girls mom. Even when my dad was in the hospitals my daughter was here!
So the mom then proceeds to tell me how hurt she is, and her mother is?? WTF her mother? OH please. Spare me. So what because I feel that he does not trust me and I am no longer comfortable under the circumstances to baby-sit for you I hurt her mother’s feelings? OMG, when my son asks to see you I have to say you will never see her again, yeah ok, tell you what… you tell your son your daddy has trust issues and is insecure and paranoid and feels the need to stalk the sitter every waking moment and she didn’t feel comfortable with the situation any longer and did what she felt she needed to do.
Never EVER in all the years I have been doing this have I ever had a father call me 6 times a day so how is your day, what are you doing? What are you doing for dinner? Did you watch Wife Swap last night?? What does that all have to do with How’s my kids today? So they say is just a caring father unlike other fathers. So what are you saying that because the girls dad does not call me umpteen times a day, that makes him a bad father? Does it make their mom a bad mom because she doesn’t call me when the girls are here to check on things all the time? No, they know if there is a problem I will call them. They TRUST me! And that is what it boiled down to…. Either you TRUST me or you don’t!
“Over Reacting”
August 25, 2007
So teens, can really be something else no? Heck kids in general can be not just teens but I am ready for school to start…
So the kids complained about the speakers on their computer in their room, they are old and static like, ok no problem so two months ago I got a set of speakers for them and asked my daughter to switch them out. Did she? NO! So I sent the school’s computer back to them as they sent me a laptop for my son to use this year so he can work in the kitchen would will cut back on his goofing off or going off track as much as he did last year when he was in his room working. I didn’t send the surge protector back because I assumed I would need it for the new laptop and they would not send another one, but they did and said not to worry we could just keep the other. So I put the new one away. So yesterday I go to set up his laptop for school, with our new internet service I needed to put the wireless connection code and such in the computer and do all those fine updates and what not’s. I didn’t have the boys and didn’t want to wake my kids so I got the new one out and started to work on it. Later on once I was done I thought wow no kids today, I just get out my laptop, plop on the couch and just chill and relax for the afternoon, maybe hang out a pogo for a few games of Gin and Canasta. So I ask the kids for the surge protector that I left in their room so I could use it for my laptop as I don’t want to plug it in without protecting it… this of course lead to them telling me I took it and use it some place else, its not in here, blah blah, argued with me, so I went in to their room to get it myself and OMG what a flipping mess it was move the computer cart to look behind it and found dirty socks and underwear, paper spit balls, and dust bunnies and those flipping broken hanging by a thread speakers STILL hooked up. So I get ticked and raise my voice and start pitching the shit in the corner out and also found computer games just thrown behind there instead of putting away. Well ya know what, that’s is, no more computer it can go to someone else who will appreciate and take care of it. I am so sick and tired of begging, pleading none the less for them to clean their flipping room, is it too much to ask to put the games back in cases and put them away? And what about the movies I asked them to put away?? Did they put them away in the movie cabinet or just throw them on top of it?? What do you think? If you said just thrown on top of it, your 100% correct, and lets talk about the board games? Really if you got it from the top shelf of a closet does it not make sense to put it back where you go it from in the first place? And the DVD player for their room just thrown off in a corner all cockeyed with other shit piled there and I guess that’s ok too. So as I am taking the computer part, go out to the garbage can at the curb to throw away those flipping speakers that should of been gone over two months ago and come back to take the cart out what does my son say to me? I am just over reacting!!
Just over reacting? OMG, WTF are you flipping serious? So now because I am fed up and ready to take things away I am OVER REACTING??? That’s a load of crap and well that didn’t exactly make me wanna dance and be all happy and gitty if you know what I mean!
So they are cleaning stuff up and I am looking in closets, drawers, cabinets in garage, in my utility room, every where and any where. Then my daughter is begging me if we clean our room and promise to keep it clean and do this and that can we please have the computer back. So I said I think about it, so they are doing their thing and a trash bag goes down the hall (I told you it needed cleaned) and they move the cart back in their room that I was pushing to the curb if I got it out the door and put the computer back in and got the new speakers out and I hear her in there and if you don’t put your games away I am taking and hiding them and your not playing this computer anymore to my son, I see the play yard is still in living room and it goes under my son’s bed when the little ones are not here so I called for my son to come and get it and I took a piece down the hall and he shoved the pieces under the bed and I walk around to the other size and low and behold guess what I seen laying there on the floor???? Come on guess?? Yep the flipping surge protector that they swore up and down, left and right that I TOOK! OMG I could of smacked the crap out of them both!! So what does my daughter say when she seen it?? “What the hell….”
And I was OVER REACTING????? And this was all before NOON! After I talked to hubby at 12:30, fried to the max nerves wise, got the laptop out and set it down on the floor by the couch. I thought I just lay down a second, I ended up falling asleep till 3:30!!
I tell you what if my room ever looked theirs or I talked to my parents like my kids talk to me, I would not have any real teeth in my mouth!!
I get fed up, decided to take things away…and they call that OVER REACTING!!!
Long week but good news….NEW ROOF in few weeks!!
August 25, 2007
I gotta tell you, I am just exhausted!! It was a long, long week. I don’t handle things like water coming into the furnace, or leaks or things that go wrong kind of stuff at all. I feel pressured because all of a sudden its my responsibility to did you call this person, did you call that person. Hey I called Bidwell and another company for quotes. Since one of my friends is married to a master carpenter, I most definitely heeded her advice and told hubby this isn’t waiting any longer. There are programs like 12 months same as cash, so we gotta get it done, can still pay off majority at tax time if not all and then do like I am doing now putting money away to pay off the carpet which I am proud to say by end of October it will be paid for and I still have three months!! Wahoo!!
So the first quote was just to put a roof on, they wanted $4000.00 OK thank you and have a nice day… That didn’t even include fixing the soffet and adding a downspout to the gutters, covering up exsisting vents and installing the new ridge vent…. This was for the cheapest material and 20 year wear. Nope… So last night Bidwell came out, this guy was nice didn’t try to talk down to me like someone who doesn’t understand like the other idiot did. That was a refreshing twist no? LOL
This time our quote was $3,200, which includes a 30 year slate shingle, eliminating existing roof vents and antenna (lordy we have an antenna up there? LOL), replace missing soffit and fix existing soffet on the north side of our house, and adding a down spout in center of gutters on each side of the house. Our house is a long ranch so we really needed those middle down spouts. So for all the work they are doing and getting the better shingle I think it’s a reasonable price. Then its done and we don’t have to worry about it. Twelve months same as cash program.
Plus after this and they do good and all, they also do windows so next fall or spring after that, we will call them for windows.
I had one other person who did a “drive by” and said $5,650.00 and I was like dude keep on driving……
The joy’s of owning a home and this weekend is getting that toliet from hell installed. Now I think since I did my leg work and ordered parts we needed online which btw explain to me if you do priority shipping why it still took two weeks to get the parts when it said 1 to three business days????? So you know I will be up their crawl until they credit me for that extra amount I paid. That was not priority shipped. I saved labels from when they said it shipped and when they actually shipped (two day air too boot), now you know they screwed up and should credit me back for that!! So won’t that be loads of fun this weekend? Heck no!
School starts next week, and I am so ready…. I got my son’s school laptop set up, and I am impressed this time they have it where you can not use messengers and other programs and I am like why didn’t you do that last year with the other computer cause lil pornie hornie would not of been where he was know what I mean? But they did allow me to install the att yahoo browser so he can have launch cast to listen to music and I get to listen to him sing country off key. OH gotta love it LOL. I really think this year since he won’t be in his room and have that freedom to goof off and watch tv, and stuff he did last year when he should of been working, he won’t have to be at the computer as much and praying this means less stress of me getting on is behind to get his work done or better quality and no short cuts charlie!!!
There is a couple who are going to call me about taking on their son for child care. I dunno, its so much harder to take on a child who has been bounced from sitter to sitter. Its so much easier to take them on when infants. If he is a handful like the two I have now which I just got them use to how things go at Susie’s house with rules and what not, I dunno if I have it in me LOL
Drip Drip water coming from the furnance!
August 20, 2007
Today was definitely a typical Monday for me. I me seriously it is. This morning I was just doing my routine for a Monday, getting up early to get ready for kiddo’s to arrive, do some cleaning, wash a load of towels, you know the fun stuff. So I put the towels in the dryer, did a few things, check email and all that fun stuff, Towels were dry, Hey that was fast!!
So I go in to fold my towels and I hear this drip…drip…drip… and its raining outside, no windows open and I keep hearing drip…drip…drip and I am thinking to myself Hello I have an attic above my head, I should not be hearing drip…drip…drip… And low and behold in front of the furnace there water I get some paper towels and wow we are talking serious amount of water, tiles are soak so I whip out the bath towels. I watch to see where the water is coming from and its from the bottom of the front panel of the furnace.
Now that ain’t normal. So I soak up water, made a mad dash for the phone to call hubby at work and told him, we have serious problem, where the water was coming from and what does he say to me??? Are you sure it’s not coming from the hot water tank?? Err I know the difference here I know I am a woman and all I am 100% sure. He comes home, in his work uniform (BTW he looks so handsome in his work duds), goes up into the attic and sees its leaking around the flute of the furnace from the roof. It’s been raining non stop since Sunday morning and I am praying for it to stop. OK home warranty claim time. But can we say NOT!
I called, I explained where the water was coming from they sent someone out that came clear from Cleveland, he then proceeds to tell me I have several leaks up in the attic. By this time I am really upset and freaking out. Then he talks to the warranty company, I need a flute liner inserted into the flute and hands me the phone and guess what isn’t covered under this warranty. So tell me again the they didn’t know this when I called and explained where the water was coming from. So now that you called out the tech clear from Cleveland I have to pay the service call from there. Had I known that I would of called someone local! So I ask about the leaking roof we have coverage for that and they wanted to send another person out to access and then decide. I said NO Way I can’t take the chance in you saying that’s not covered and being responsible for two service calls. I asked the repair guy how much it would cost to fix and he told me, I shit you not $875.00. I don’t have that just laying around. So nothing got fixed, and I had to pay $85.00 just to drive out here. I had to literally count quarters to come up with the full amount in cash. NO check policy ain’t that some shit. Can we say that’s not going on the books!!
So by this time I am in tears called the homeowner insurance to see if they cover the damage to furnace from the leak of the roof as I know that’s not covered. They said yes but we have a $1,000 deductible. But they said I had to call and get a roofer out to tarp our roof as its still raining. I called 12 roofers today and not one of them just come out to tarp. They want to give you estimates and replace roof. UGH. I actually called another service and explain the issue leaking roof, needs tarp per insurance company do you do that and can’t you believe that bitch said to me in a sarcastic way well they are roofers (was their answering service), and I said listen here I just called 9 other roofers and they don’t do that so don’t talk to me like I am stupid and hung the f’ing phone up. WTF was that? By this time I have zero tolerance for idiots.
Hubby came home from work and went into the attic to do his own assessment and comes down to tell me that guy was full of shit, the only place leaking was by furnace and one of the vents which is closed now. He climbed up on the roof, come back down and said the flute needed resealed and went to home depot for the stuff he needed (even works and you can apply in the rain), total cost $17.84 for a gallon of the sealant and a brush. He said that guy was trying to scare me because I was a “woman”. Took hubby about an hour he walked around to all the vents and put sealant around them all to be safe and the flute top that had a crack and around the flute.
In meantime I do have a roofing company coming out Friday for some estimates. We knew that within 5 years we have to put a new roofing material up. It’s only been a year. We had planned on doing this at tax time, then next tax time was for windows. Our two year plan. So have to see what they say.
But I hate how men do that. I had a house full of kids and running around with things trying to catch the rain as it dripped into my furnace, and he took advantage and tried to upset me and convinced me we had all this major crap going on! I was a wreck all damn day. Needless to say I am tired tonight. Yep, another typical Monday for Susan!
Weekend half over already??
August 19, 2007
Aww wow, the weekend is half over now. Sigh! Why can’t they last just a little longer? I was up late last night waiting on my daughter to come home, she was babysitting for the girls mom, was almost 1 in the morning before she got home. Tonight I am waiting up for her as she is babysitting for the boy’s mom. But she is making good money and plans on using it for another pair of jeans and makeup for school. I can’t go to bed until I know she is home safe and sound.
I am still trying to get another kitten but its still a no go. I keep telling hubby that twinkle needs a lil brother. He isn’t buying it LOL. She is just so young and I know she have a ball with another lil one. I know I know we have three cats now. But hey what’s one more I always say?
I got a cute webset from Angela. Sweets themed. Its really cute. I know I just updated the blog now but hey another sweets theme can’t hurt. Has a matching tag too. You must realize to me this is really cute and note worthy or I would not of purchased it.
This week coming is offically the last week before school starts. I am ready for it. But I surely hope I don’t have to aruge with my son as much as I did this past school year. I keep hoping the older he gets the more mature he will become. My daughter is excited to go back to school. I have the perfect picture picked out for her senior picture!!! You know its one I took LOL Its really good. I am taking her tomorrow for jeans. We got everything else but jeans. I hate when we go shopping, we so butt heads on clothes, its so hard compromising sometimes. She turns 18 in January and has this attitude that I won’t have a say anymore about things. Yeah right! Guess again!! I wonder if her ears are burning right now?
Its really cool this evening and tomorrow will be cool too so I am going to make a meatloaf for dinner and baked taters. Debating if I wanna bake a cake or cookies……
Sleep MD to the rescue?
August 15, 2007
I am really so very tired. I have been under a lot of stress and pressure the past few weeks. The sleeping issue or should I say the NO sleeping issue is really beginning to wear thing. Hubby mentioned a while back to try Sleep MD but I could never find it.
That damn toilet from hell. That’s right I said it. We have a toilet from hell. First one was leaking, had to order a special one for that back bathroom, then the closet metal flange broke, Monday night I made not one, not two, but THREE trips to Home Depot trying to find a flange that would work but because the cast iron soil pipe stick up above the floor a wee but we can’t use them makes the toilet not set right…. So I had to go online to order a super ring and got some plastic toilet shims to be safe. I am just sick to death of this crap. My third trip that night was for a cap I said that’s it, cap the f’ing thing I am tired of messing with it. The toilet we ordered had come that day and why hubby decided to try and do it that night when this clearly is a weekend project I have NO idea. So its capped. So thus this is the toilet from HELL!! I didn’t sleep well that night at all.
Last night was hubby’s last appointment to get his last crown put on. This evening it was back to Home Depot to return some items, then hit Half Price Books to get the kids some books, then Walgreens for shoe laces for hubby’s work boots. Came home took a bath and ta da here I am. You should seriously see the bags under my eyes. I am so tired and yet I can’t seem to fall asleep and if I do I can’t seem to stay asleep. So we are going to try Sleep MD. 100% Drug-Free.. now what good is that?? LOL
Well “RUMOR” has it a few pixel site owners are pissed off because I didn’t update with my new email address. Well that’s just to bad. Its my choice to elect to not receive updates. So I guess my log in will be suspended, hmmm its been months since I logged in anyhow so your point would be? So I am happy to say at this point besides the rumors getting back to me I am finally free of the drama.
For some reason my new internet service won’t let hubby send me email from work and I can’t send emails from Incredimail with my one email I have that is a free account, I even requested they remove the filter to block port 25 and still doesn’t work. I can get the mail but not send. Pretty damn annoying don’t you think???
I can tell fall is around the corner. It’s already dark outside. I missed the sunset tonight, I wanted to go down by the lake to watch it. But there is always something going on. I have lot’s of pictures I need to scrap scrap scrap! I have some I took when dad was in hospital I want to scrap so I am on the hunt for the perfect kit.
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