I made enough $$ for rent :)

I was nearly $100 short on rent money...went to walmart too many times this week I suppose, lol. My mom owed me $30, and then I made almost $100 at work today :) It was really slow and I didn't think I'd make it, but I got some good tips. One guy (who I think has a crunch on me) tipped me $10 and only had the salad bar and a soda. Another one, who I'm assuming wanted to outdo the first, gave me $14 and only had the salad bar, ROFLMAO. Because of those 2, I hit what I needed to hit. It was unreal, LOL.

I had $24 left after I got the rent Money orders, so I went with my mom to the new LSS up in Litchfield Park. That place is AWESOME! I owe my mom $15 now though, ROFL. I got a bunch of GinX & Wild Asparagus papers, some chipboard, and a bunch of ribbon. And I'm still waiting for more ribbon from SWS to come in :) Half the order was on backorder though...so I'll be waiting a while for that.

Oh, and I got my first TOOT!! I've had a few cards published a while back, but this is my first layout! I got an email from Cantanta books requesting one for their "Kids We Love" idea book. I'm so stoked!!!

The hummingbird is ALIVE!!!

Last night I was on the porch talking to Jen on the phone (she has to protect me via phone so the hoodlums don't bother me....I have issues). Anyway, Babycat comes running past and I swear I heard him squeak. A few seconds later DH starts screaming like Ned Flanders (read: a woman) "He's got a bird! Get him out!"...just then babycat turns around and runs out. He stops out in the middle of our "yard" (the space between us and our neighbors across) and looks like he's going to munch on something. I scream at him, pick up a handful of gravel and throw it at his furry ass. He drops whatever it was he was about to snack on, and it ran past my feet. I look down and it's a teeny, tiny little hummingbird! I shuffle Babycat back inside, informing him that he shant fuck with hummingbirds because they are a part of Jesus! (another long story involved there, lol). He runs inside - hummingbird is safe to die in peace. I was sure he was gonna die after having spent a time inside my cats mouth.

I come inside b/c I hate watching animals die, but I didn't want to pick it up b/c it wasn't dead yet..ya know. Anyway, Stupid DH about 15 minutes later goes out to smoke and lets the cat out! By this point Mr. Hummingbird is up on our porch. It starts to fly and flutter right in DH's face . Then it plopped down in the dirt. I went and found a small box (a xyron 510 refill box), put some paper towels in it, and DH got the bird to go inside. He sat it on our porch (babycat is back inside again at this point). But the poor thing was squeaking so bad! Not that it was a bad squeak, but I didn't want to hear it suffering...so I moved it, ROFL. I put him over by the neighbors window :D He was just hanging out in his box, sqeaking...looking at me with those beady brown eyes. I was crying and all sad for him :( Well, this morning Dh came in and said "Good news. Hummingbird just flew off and left us some poop in his box as a thank you gift!" Awwwwwwwwwww

Don't fuck with hummingbirds.

Should've listened to him...

So I'm sitting here, catching up on my boards..uploading some layouts. Joey comes u to me and starts pulling on my arm.

Joey: Mommy, come here just one second
Me: Hang on, I'm busy
Joey: Just one second. I got a 'prise for you.
Me: Hold on, let me finish uploading these!
Joey: Just give me your hand, I'll take you!
Me: I said hang on! I'm busy!
Joey: Okay
tick tick tick 5 seconds goes by tick tick tick
Joey: Okay, times up. Come with me
Me: Fine!
Joey: I'll hold your hand. Close your eyes! It's a 'prise!
Me: *fumbling thru apartment with my eyes closed*
Joey: See mommy! Is that just so silly!!??

What he's showing me...is in the bathroom. He went #2 and apparently tried to wipe himself (still has issues with it, lol)...SOMEHOW the roll of TP landed in the toilet along with his..you know..stuff. That was my 'prise. I asked him how it got in there...his reply...

"I was going potty and was wipin' my butt and then I got very ang-er-y at the toilet paper because it hit me. So I beat it up and he drowned in the toilet! Is that sounding like a great idea?!"

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...good thing he didn't try to flush it, lol (like the time he tried to free his new Nemo underpants)

Hey Rosemary!

Wassup?? ;)

Stupid UPS

DH was waiting for a package. We tracked it, was going to be delivered on the 25th. Well, I tracked it yesterday morning and it said it was rescheduled for the 26th (today). I was taking today off, so I'd be here for it. Well, DH is one for instant gratification, and to supress his feelings of having to wait, he went to Toys R Us and spent $25 that we couldn't afford (it's rent time) on a stupid toy that broke the first time he used it.

So this morning I track it again to make sure it's on the truck. Son-of-a-bich - they delivered it yesterday at 10am! Well...WHERE did they deliver it? We were home ALL DAY with the DOOR OPEN and NOBODY ever came to our door!?! So I call UPS and find out where they took it - they took it to the office. That's no big deal, b/c when we're not home that's where the stuff goes...but aren't they supposed to bring it to OUR door first and then leave a YELLOW SLIP if they leave it in the office? This is the 3rd time that this has happened. THey're too farking lazy to come back here and leave a damn note, so I have to dress the boy and myself and treck all the way to the office - which is like a quarter mile from where we're at - and pick up the stupid package.

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I made Joey ditch school today, which I'm glad about. At 7:15 they tried to call me into work. Sorry. No can do. Kept the boy home today :) Neener Neener! How come I knew that they'd try to call me in?? huh? teehee. Fuck 'em. I'm staying home and scrapping. So there :P

2 whole days off!

In a row even!

This morning I cleaned the house, and took a mini-nap. Picked up Joey at school and hit my Walmart. Got some stuff for us to grow vegetables. They'll probably die, and that's fine because I hate vegetables. I just want to show him how to 'grow' stuff..for at least a little bit. If the seedlings don't shrivel up and croak, then we'll probably take them to my moms to be transplanted. I can't keep a chia pet alive. I'm suprised my hamster is still breathing, even.

I'll do laundry in a bit, and probably do a bit of crochet while I'm there. I'll put the boy-child on the PS2 to keep him out of DH's hair (he's editing a stupid video about his stupid little cars...have I ever mentioned those? they're stupid).

I have tomorrow off too!! WOOHOO! I'm going to make the changling ditch school and stay home with me because I really don't want to go on an outting to pick him up from school. It's only like 2.5 miles away but turns into a 3-4 hour trip via the bus + 2 miles of walking - and that's a good chunk o'my day. Screw that. We're staying home :)

I'm going to scrap too. I have to do a few cards and got some layouts in the works in my squeaky assed brain. Had some pics printed today that are really cool. Can't wait to work on them...

I'm awake, I'm awake!

I went to take a little nap after work, at around 5pm. I just woke up. It's 2am. I'm probably up for the day now *greeeeaaaaaaat*

Who knows if it'll be busy at work today. Nascar has been in town and normally it's a nightmare, but this time it's night races so it hasn't really been hitting us too bad during breakfast/lunch time. Although, the one's that are coming in are tipping fairly decent. I did almost $90 yesterday with barely $500 in sales. I was slooooooooow.

Had one butthole though, earlier in the day. We got hit with a rush at around 10am. Still, food wasn't coming out too slow or anything. I got this guys omelet and brought it out to him. He was standing up, grabbing his crap and I say "Are you leaving me?" and he says "I've been waiting here for over 45 fucking minutes, of course I'm leaving!" all snotty like. I point him to the computer screen, which he's sitting right next to and say "Um, no...it's only been 16 minutes since you placed your order, sir". He rolls his eyes and was like "Fine, I'll eat it" HRUMPH. I hate when dumbasses have no concept of time - even when there's a 4 foot clock right across from him *rolling eyes*

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Got Joey registered for Kindergarten on Monday. Met his teacher and everything. Had a meeting on Thursday with his teacher, 2 speech people, school psychologist (from the new school), and another teacher (from the new school). Psychologist had the odacity to tell me that my child might be autistic. Joey is FAR from being autistic, and if she'd spent any time with him, she'd know this. She's taking this information from a survey that she gave his teacher about his behaviours. Well, for one thing, he acts differently at school than he does at home, and secondly, he's a WEIRD child! Not so weird that he needs to be labeled as Autistic - and I say LABELED b/c that's what their doing. They're not 'diagnosing' him, or requesting he be checked out for it or whatever - they're just sticking a fucking label in his record that will follow him.

He has quirky habbits and sometimes odd behaviour, but he gets that totally from me - I'm weird, I'm a freak, I'm a dork - and so is my child. The ONLY thing that I would say about him that might be an autistic tendency, is his eating backwards. But that's just something he started after he started going to head start and doesn't even do much now. Like, if he's sitting on the couch, or on a chair or something munching on a bag of chips or whatever, he'll turn around to face the back of what he's sitting on. Maybe he just doesn't like when people watch him eat? Whatever.

And sometimes (i know he does this at school), when he's in one of his weird moods he'll toss himself on the floor. He does this for like attention, like showing off. He'll be laughing and giggling about whatever and then plop down or lay down on the floor and say things like "Oh now, I fell. Was that just silly!!!!!!!!"....he's a clown if you will. Don't label my child. I will defend until I'm blue in the face if I have to. Strange yes. Autistic - no.