NoJoMo Day 2-Good/Bad day

Well, where should I begin?  I got up at 6 a.m. because I wanted to go to the "Share your clothes" day and see if I could get some clothes for Sammi.  I was going to take Bec, Syd and Shabree, but Bec decided it was too early for her.  She more than likely didn’t even get to sleep until 2 or 3 a.m.  Typical teenager.  You know, there’s a physical reason teens have such trouble with their sleeping patterns.  Their melatonin doesn’t kick in right.  Teenagers have the most interesting brains, with hormones wreaking havoc on them, but their brains are not at all fully developed, and won’t fully develop until they’re 25… explains a LOT, doesn’t it?  Time magazine ran a very interesting article on it a few years ago.  So Syd and Shabree only went with me.  So I got quite a few clothes for the younger girls, but nothing really for Alex or Becca.  OMG, the crowd!  We went into the Hall (it was held at St Jospeh’s Church), and people were shoving us from behind.  It didn’t open til 8, so we stood around for over an hour waiting.  But they had toys in addition to the clothes, so Syd and Shabree made like bandits, and got a BUNCH of toys, and Syd got a popsicle "maker" for lack of a better term.  I got Jerry some jeans and shorts, the jeans are a LITTLE long, but not bad really, and they fit him perfectly around the waist, which is good because most of his older jeans fall down off his butt, lol, unless he’s wearing a belt.  He’s lost quite a bit of weight, I must say, and he looks pretty sexy as a result.  Of course, to me, he was always a good looking man (yummy, you know?).  So I’m proud of him.

So we left around 8:30… I have to admit, I was sort of tired of people’s attitudes, especially with their grabbing things out of my children’s hands, and I didn’t have much gas, but needed to get some things.  I wanted to go to Big Lots, because I wanted some french fry seasoning, but I realized at 8:30, they weren’t going to be open.  So I passed Big Lots and went to Wal mart.  Well, as I was pulling into the Wal mart parking lot…. I noticed a police cruiser behind me.   He didn’t flash his lights until I was well into the parking lot, and I got a ticket.  We’ve registered the van, but haven’t been able to get the smog done, so the tags are from March.  So it was a fix-it.  He told me he could have towed it, but wouldn’t… I was so nervous my hands were shaking.  I have NO idea how I’m going to pay this ticket.  None at all.  SOOOO frustrating.  I couldn’t even be grateful that he wasn’t going to have the van towed.  I just couldn’t be happy about ANY of it.  So my nerves at that point were pretty much shot.  Since I was already parked, we just walked in.  I almost always park at the back of the lot anyway…one of those "weight loss tricks" you know… park and WALK.  So that we did.  So I got that piece of shopping out of the way.  But I was too nervous to go back to Big Lots, so I skipped the french fry seasoning.  I did get some half price Halloween candy, soda, zip lock bags and toilet paper, and that was it.  And I took my last 75 cents in my wallet and put it in the gas tank.  I think I’m just going to stop driving.  It was SO nerve wracking, and there are SO MANY cops in this town.  I always feel so nervous when I drive now.  Dad said he’d help get the van smogged.   I totally lied about having insurance!  He asked if we had it, I said YES!  I wasn’t going to deal with that.  Dad said he’d help get insurance too.  I need to be legal.  I cannot take this.  And I’ve got to do it soon, because I need to take my driver’s test so I can get my license.  Sigh.  I wrote about the driver’s test a number of entries ago… it’s so they can see how I drive, since my eyes don’t see as well as they’d like.  They want to make sure my eyes work together, since my right eye compensates a great amount for my left eye.

So… yea.   I got quite a bit of laundry done today, and Jerry made us pumpkin soup for dinner, and pumpkin muffins for dessert.  Yum.  I thought I’d bought pumpkin spice, but I’m not seeing it in the spice cupboard.  Guess I’ll just have to put that on the list.  Oh… one of the Halloween "candies" I got was a THREE POUND chocolate bar that looks like a tombstone!  It was almost 10 dollars, and that was half off, lol.  It’s got a lot of cool factor, lol.  Jerry thought I spent too much for it.  I probably did.  I used the EBT card.  I bought Sydni some Hannah Montana candy bracelets too… and peeps.  I HATE peeps.  Yuck.  But the kids love em.  So…what the heck, they’re half off.  How could I resist?  I’ll have to make that the last of the "junk" food for awhile.  They were asking me for chips, I was trying to think what else I was supposed to get, and I just snapped.  I snapped at Shabree to just be quiet, I couldn’t think with her jabbering at me, and I’d almost had it on the tip of my mind, before she chased the thought away!  I called Jerry so he could tell me (it was the ziplock bags).   I told them they didn’t need any chips!  Good grief.  They are SUCH junk food junkies.  We do try to limit the junk food… as much as ANY American family does!  Which is probably not saying much, is it?  I mean, we buy a bunch of candy because it’s half off, and that’s trying to limit the junk food?  Gimme a break!  This after a 2 and a half hour trek for candy the night before!  Oh, and if this year repeats previous years, we’ll be throwing out the bag of candy for them sneaking it.  Around the middle of November, it’s inevitable, we find they’re sneaking it, and in the trash the bag goes, and truthfully?  Good riddance to the %&#$ thing!  However, we do try to limit the junk food, and now we rarely go out to eat, so there’s not a lot of fast food happening here either. 

Oh… I tried to feed Alex the other night… some peas.  She was too tired to really make it work, and she kept shoving the food out of her mouth with her tongue, which I’m not sure if that’s bad.  I’m thinking I’ll try again on Thanksgiving.  WIth Kim and Jane coming, well, they will LOVE to be able to help feed her, lol.  And that’ll give me a chance to get some really cute photos.  They both just adore the baby.  What’s not to love?  I always find it so… funny that Jane and I get along so well.  Well, she’s a fun person.  You can’t trust her much, but she’s a blast to hang out with.  Basically with her, if you loan her money, you just resign yourself to the fact that you are GIVING her the money, not really loaning.  As long as you think of it like that, all’s well.  Because once you give her money, you’re never getting it back.  Jerry’s had much grief not taking that stance.  But he wants her to be responsible.  Well… it’s not her nature to be responsible.  Once you accept her for who she is… life is much better for all involved.  Actually, Jane told me once that Jerry and I are all the f

amily she has.  She makes her own family so MAD.  She’s always asking them for something or other.  And always making promises… so yea, they get mad at her, and we don’t.  We will give if we have it… assuming we want to give it.  And if we don’t have it, then we don’t give it to her.  She can be a big black hole, and that money’s not going to be used for things she needs, or things her kids need.  That’s the only thing that really makes me mad.  Though I WILL give her credit because she will tell you exactly what the money is for, she doesn’t lie about it.  She just asks for money so she can go see Duran Duran in concert…after complaining that her kids have no milk.  She’s one of THOSE kinds of moms.  And while she’s better now, there was a time when I swore she was the entire reason her kids suffer from some form of Autism, because she’d rather be on the computer than take care of them.  I won’t get into it.  I genuinely like her, despite her faults.  And in the end, she’s Bec and Syd’s mom, and that alone makes her important.

Well, it’s 12:20, and I should get off the computer.  I went to be around this time last night, and got a pretty decent night’s sleep for once.  I was pretty proud of myself.  I did end up taking a nap around 4:30, to about 6 or so… I went to nurse Alex, and next thing I know, I’m waking up and it’s dark.  Oops.  I did NOT mean to fall asleep.  Thankfully, Jerry could have cared less.  I’m so glad to have him.  I think Bec’s going to drop Alex on me here soon… I can hear her fussing.  She probably just needs to eat.  I have noticed that kid’s appetite is GROWING (go figure, huh!  LOL)  I’m going to have to have WIC give me more formula, I think.  I went through 5 cans this month, and thankfully I HAD 5 cans.  I’ve got one check for 3 cans, so I’m kind of wondering if I should… or not.  Dang.  I am supposed to have a re-cert appointment on the 6th or 7th, and I so DO NOT want to drive over there.  I wonder if I can reschedule for later in the month, so I can get the van taken care of.  Sigh…  I am just hating this whole thing.

Well… I really had better wrap up.