Emotionally Drained

Oh it has been a very long week. My poor emotions are at their fragile end. Mark broke the window in his car trying to take it out to tint it. So he is driving my car. Well my car has something wrong with the brakes. I noticed that the brake light was coming on when I engaged the brakes, but didn't know what it meant. Well come to find out it means one of the pistons in the Master Cylinder going to the back brakes. So because of that it cuts off all power to the back brakes and only uses the front ones. NOT GOOD! So we have to fix that and also get the new window in Marks car before he can drive it. Why can't it just be one thing at a time?
Jacob is going to his mother's for two weeks on friday. Sad to say, but I am in some major need of time off. I love my little booger, I just can't handle the constant negativity about everything all day long every day. Which is why I am emotionally drained.
I am so excited. Harry Potter is coming out Saturday morning. I got my copy reserved and have to pick it up somewhere between Midnight and the end of business day Saturday in order to have it waiting for me. I know Brandon that you didn't like them, but I do. :P
We got a new alarm system put in. Started it on Friday and they finished it yesterday. I love it. It is so much better than our other one. Everytime the front and door to the garage are open it will tell me, and I have a little key chain thing like mom's. I can actually use it when Mark is at work. Our old one I couldn't. If you turned it on for staying at home, if you opened a door the alarm would just go off automaticely. So I never got to use it when I am home alone. Now I do and I feel a lot safer.... we all I know some major night and dark issues so hopefully this will help in that department. I just hope that the kitty cat doesn't set it off... it is suppose to be 40 pounds or over but we see how that worked with moms. I am very excited... I have to watch the darn dvd to figure out how to use it though.
Oh I had jury duty.... boy was that a waste of time. I don't know why but they never ever pick me. When I went in Washington County they didn't pick me, and they read my questioneer and said I could go home. I was there from 7:30 in the morning till 10 in the morning. That is how long it takes just to get that far... silly. So I am good for the next two years unless I want to do it.
Anyway I have got to go destress somehow.

Another day gone

Man do I look ugly! I look like a snake shedding it's skin. Gross. That is what I get for getting sunburned I guess.
Great news. Jacobs front teeth are loose hehehehee. I am so excited. We have been bugging everyday to wiggle them. I am bound and determined that i get to rip one out with the string on a door. He likes that idea too. We were going to do that with his first tooth that he lost. Got the string on and everything and he tugged on it just to make sure the string wasn't going to come off the tooth and out popped the tooth. Broke my heart. Thank you Grandpa for warping me :)
I got more stuff on Craigslist today. Man am I on a getting rid of stuff spree. I am so tired to having stuff just laying around. Today I spent hours shreading papers that have been sitting in paperbags down stairs waiting for someone to do something with them. So I did it today. Oh my goodness I filled 5 paperbags with shreaded paper. And that was after stomping on it to make it fit more. The shreader finally had it with me and stopped working for a few hours because it just got used to much. I have tons of stuff I want to take to goodwill. Just need to figure out if other people are taking some stuff so I can take those if they don't. It feels so good to get it out of the way. A few weeks ago I made Mark go downstairs with me and go through some of his stuff that he hasn't seen for 15 years. 4 boxes got dwendled down to a shoebox. It just made me want to cry. I love doing this for other people but it makes me so sad to think that I am one of those people that has so much stuff that isn't used. Other people need it more than I do and I have it sitting here collecting dust doing nothing. I wonder when I let myself become this way and why I didn't notice.
Oh well I better get some sleep. Jacob is bound and determinded to have Victoria spend the night tomorrow. I don't think i am prepared for that just yet. But he really wants her to, or him over there, and he is trying to negociate with anything he can to get it to happen tomorrow. Sadly I will give in if I get enough sleep. Those two are so darn cute together. Earlier today they were watching Animaniacs sitting on the floor of the livingroom with Victoria in front of Jacob leaning against him and Jacob with his arms around her. Hmmmm, maybe I should be scared, but it was so darn cute.

So it has been a while. I had a kidney infection which is what kept me from writing. Not very pleasant.
Mark and I went camping this last weekend. It was so gorgeous. It is a river called Breitenbush River out east by Detroit Lake. It was wonderful. The water was clear and clean. Lots of masqitoes though. Speaking of which did you know that only the female masquitoes drink your blood. Interesting isn't it. Anyway, our camping spot was great. Long way from other camping spots and away from the road. Our new tent did great. Kept all the little creapy crawlies out. It is soooo big. I love it. It can be turned into 3 rooms. It is great. It is so easy to put up that one person can do it too. That is very helpful! I got to see a black bear that was crossing a very unpleasant dirt road. He was so cute. It is amazing they can run so fast when they look so clutzy running.
Mark and I didn't do anything for the 4th. Just stayed at home and hosed off the house and lawn.
We got Susan all moved a few weeks ago. Happy to have that done. I love the new place. Can't say I did much though. I mostly took care of the kids. We had a few very bad times though. Jacob almost drowned. I decided to take the kids swimming to get them out of everyone's way. I told Jacob that he needed to stay in the shallow end and showed him where he can't go past. Well he thinks he can swim, just because he can move himself while touching the bottom of the pool. So he thought he would not listen because he knew what he was doing and jumped into the deep end. Lets just say that made for some very unhappy people because I wouldn't let him back in after that. So I left the kids with Mark and went with Susan to go work on the old apartment. It was a great break.
Jacob went to his mothers for the 4th. He will be coming back this wednesday the 11th. He went to his grandmothers after his moms. So I gotta figure out fun stuff to do.

Sorry Memory

So to answer Memory's question. What did I get for my birthday. I got the new God of War 2 playstation game. I know none of you would like it but you all would be amazed at the graffics on this thing. It is stunning and just amazing! Oh yeah and I got a new purse. Susan got me a military type game. hehehehe she knows me well! So there you go Mem, that is what I got.

Birthday fun/and sickness

Well the last few days have not been to fun for me. As most people know I have a kidney infection. My back is in so much pain because of it that most of the time it hurts just to breath. The antibiotics are just killing me. They make my stomach feel like something is sitting there twisting it in opposite directions. I unfortunatly believe that I am going to have to get on the medication more than a week. I am not looking forward to that if that be the case. My temp is getting dangerously close to having to go to the hospital. I have to give Mark hourly updates because he is so worried. I have to go to the hospital if it reaches 100 degrees. I just checked it and it was at 99.6 degrees. It is just sitting there trying to tease me.
To make me feel worse I feel just aweful watching kids when I am like this. I'm in so much pain and so sick from the medication that I have no patience for most of their challenges. I would seriously like to go find a very dark quiet cave where I can crawl into a little ball and escape reality until I feel better. Not going to happen but it is such a lovely thought.
So anyway on a happier note. Dad, Mark said you would be so proud of him for what he did yesterday. So the boys came home from camping. Got everything put away and we decided to go out to dinner for my birthday. Mark suggested the Roadhouse. I was craving cow so sounded great to me. But I knew he was up to something because of the look on his face but for the life of me I couldn't figure it out. So we get there, and those to boys of mine were sitting there wispering to each other. So when our waitress comes up to ask if we want dessert or anything Jacob bursts out that it is my birthday. Than it hit me where we were and what they do to you. They get all of the waiters and waitresses, put a toilet seat cover around your neck and a coffee filter on your head, they yell for everyones attention in the resturant and than sing to you. So embarrassing. Granted it didn't beat the Who song and Larry's on, but I don't think anything could do that. Mark was so proud of himself and Jacob was so excited that he got to be a part of it and embarress me. Although he was scared that he wouldn't get his surprise that I got him while he was gone camping. Silly boy. All in all, a nice birthday. Didn't do much except for go a few places with Susan when she came over and dinner. That was it. The rest of the time I was lazy because I didn't want to move and bring pain to me.
So all be proud of Mark that he got me. We had gone there a few months ago and it was someones birthday. He at that time threatened to take me there for it and I totally forgot. I don't think I will be doing that one again.

What a day

Wow talk about hot out. Although it wasn't to bad if you weren't out in it. I took Jacob to the park today because he wanted to go play baseball. Of course we silly little ones went at the top heat of the day. Smart move I tell you. We both could only stand to play for about half an hour. I don't know what he was complaining about. I was the one having to go retreive his balls when he hit them a long way. It amazes me how great he is at baseball. With a little help and discipline he would make a great one. He can hit those balls so far. His only down fall is getting frusterated after missing a couple hits. I really hope he plays in school when he gets older. I think it would be a great outlet for him.
Yesterday he fell off of his Razor and took all the skin off of his knee. Today he fell off of his skateboard and took all the skin off of his elbow. He bruised it pretty badly too. It is still swollen and icky looking. I told him I am going to have to get a membership with the local hospital so everytime he hurts himself he can just go have new skin made for whatever he hurt. He thought that was funny and made him stop crying.
Camping is more than likely going to be canceled for the weekend. It is suppose to rain, which the last time they went it ended up raining and wasn't fun for either one of them. That is alright. Susan said she would watch him so we can go out to dinner or something. Very nice of Susan. THANK YOU! I already got my birthday presants. :) Silly me couldn't wait for them. Sometimes I have no patience.
So in short today was a good day with Jacob. We had fun, did lots of fun stuff and only had 2 meltdowns. It was the best we have had so far and it has only been 4 days since we picked him up. Today helped my blood pressure level go down. Very good for me.
So now I am going to go play my birthday presant.

Jacob's hair

Mark is very proud of the job he did on Jacob's hair. I just found the picture so I thought I would share it. I don't like it than again I don't like mohawks on anyone children more so. I have to admit one this, that kid has a great shaped head! One of the pictures is with Jacob and his first fish. He caught it, and wasn't happy that it was to small and he had to throw it back. But he was pretty proud of himself that he caught it all on his own.