On my way to freedom

So today I have decided that it is time I begin to look forward to my future and life as a single happy parent.

I am not going to make any major changes untill after May but I am currently making decisions and plans on how to move on with my life and onto a happier,less emotional, me!

Add comment April 27, 2009 tucsonmom

Drive Thru ATM’s

Now before I begin to possibly embarrass myself I want to see how many people agree with me on this one. If it is an ATM in a drive thru, does that not make one believe that it is a drive thru ATM? Not a walk up ATM?

This afternoon I stopped at my local Wells Fargo Branch to make a deposit. As I am DRIVING to the DRIVE THRU ATM I see a lady walking. I begin thinking to myself no way, she is not going to walk up to the DRIVE THRU ATM and do her banking when she can clearly see, and hear me coming….. I was wrong. She did, she stepped up to that ATM and began to look for her card. Meanwhile I honk at her and ask her what she is doing? Her reply “using the ATM”. I look at her and very nicely in my most bitchest voice ever tell her this here is a DRIVE THRU ATM. She tells me who gives a F*&k and once again begins to look for her bank card.

Now before I go any further, one of my biggest pet peeves is when people go to the ATM and are not prepared. You know you have to put your card in that little slot, you know you have to have an envelope for a deposit, and you should know the drive thru ATM is not the place to conduct more than on transaction. If you need to make deposits different accounts, or transfer money, or check your balance, please for the love of those of us who are busy go inside! We use the DRIVE THRU ATM for a reason, we are in a hurry and don’t want to have to wait for you slow ass people to do your damn banking. That’s why those very nice people inside the bank get paid the big bucks… to help those of you who are not smart enough to do your simple banking thru the ATM.

And on another note a DRIVE THRU ATM is for people who are in a CAR!!!! For those of you idiots who don’t know what that means really.

Ok back to my story, at this point woman has gone and pissed off a mom who is already on the verge of kicking some ass. I place my very lovely freshly manicured hand on that beautiful black space on my steering wheel that is referred to as a horn. And I HONKED that bad boy. I didn’t stop honking for like five minutes, at which point the woman begins to walk over to my door. Ummm duh you just lost your place in line genius. I maneuver around her and put my card (that was in my hand and ready to be used) into that little machine and begin to deposit my paycheck. At which point she calls me a Fat Bitch. I replied to her “How about you tell me something I don’t already know?” And she proceeds to walk away. To the ATM’s in front of the bank where people are expected to walk up too!

Now for those of you who do not know me personally I am not a small woman. In fact I am a 6 foot tall woman. And I am on the heavy side. And if that woman had not walked away when she did, she would have seen me unfold all six feet of my body and stomp on her ass. Not only that but I do carry a gun in my vehicle. So for all those involved it was probably best that dumb shit 5’4” woman walked away.

2 comments March 5, 2009 tucsonmom

Can’t Sleep

It is two am here where my butt resides. The only things awake are myself and my trusty little pooch Bella. She is exploring the kitchen for anything to eat other than dog food. I got up to use the bathroom and now I cant go back to sleep. I found Cody asleep in the hallway on a blanket, covered his little butt up. Everyone else is asleep in their beds.

I applied for a job on Tuesday. Target has built a 975,000 square foot distribution center here in town. They are looking for shippers, clerical, just about anything to do wtih loading and unloading trucks and shipping. The pay is 12.50 to start with a guarantee of 14.75 in two years. I am keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that the call will come next week. They are having a big job fair Mon, Tues, and Wed of next week. So I doubt I will hear anything before then. So send out some good vibes for me. If I got this job it would open up so many opportunities for me and my boys.

Danny and I went to Dairy Queen tonight (a very yummy ice cream place here in the AZ) and on the way home I realized that my first born son will be 18 and graduating from High School in two short years. I told him right then and there that we need to spend as much time together as we can, it will all be over soon. He will be moving on, going to college, meeting new people, and not wanting to be around his family as much. It is sad, but on the other hand I am very excited to see where the next phase in life takes him. We have talked about college since he was little, but were never able to put any money away. He says he is confident he will get a scholarship to the U of A based strictly on his AIMS testing. Seems if you pass it the first time you get a scholarship. I need to cruise the internet and see if I can find anything about it.

Tyler is doing better and will be cleaning graffiti off walls this weekend. I am also looking for a volunteer service that he can join to clean up tagging. Football is starting again soon here, thank god for that. I am so glad we found a league that does a fall and spring season. I feel like the more I keep him busy the less likley he is to get into anymore trouble. I also want to put him in some sort of art class after football. Just keep him busy…

Cody is doing fine. Becoming very independant and mad at me because I wont let him do everything he wants. He is also excited about starting football.

We are also planning a trip to FL in May. My mom has decided that this will be our last big trip together. And she wanted to make it a big one. We will spend two weeks in FL going to disney world, epcot, and all the beaches we can find. I am very excited about it.

I guess I will go turn on the mindless box and see if I can bore myself back to sleep. Although at this point I should probably just go clean something.

Add comment February 6, 2009 tucsonmom

TSP

I have three boys, my middle Child known as T is in the sixth grade and attends our neighborhood school. T and his little brother C were attending a Charter school but I decided to pull them out because it was such a long drive and I really need to find a job. Having them in neighborhood schools would make me having a job easier, no day care, no baby sitting, they can walk home and everyone would be safe in our home.

Today I had to do something that literally broke my heart, I had to tell the school that my son T was “tagging” walls in our neighborhood. Now the initial plan after I found this out was to just go pick T up from school take him home and beat him till he screamed for mercy. T is my rebellious, outgoing, very impresionable son. He has made friends with the wrong kind of peeps. After talking to the Asst. Principal we hatched a plan to scare the “sh%t” out of T. We called the school security officer, who in turn called his friend in the Tucson Police Department, who in turn pulled T from his class and had a little talk with him. The officer was able to get all the details from T, who was involved, how often, where, and when all of this is going down. The officer called me and told me what a joy it was to talk to my son, and that he was deffinatley honest and fortwright with his information. He also said how scared T was.

I nevr thought I would have to be that parent. But if this works and my son turns around and never gets down that path of guns, death, prison, drugs, etc. I will be one happy lady. So lets hope that this is the last time T will get into trouble with the law…..

1 comment January 31, 2009 tucsonmom

Christmas Baking Cont….

Well we started baking at like 9:30 this morning and just finished up. (6:00) We made the traditional chocolate chip cookies, some peanut butter hershey kiss cookies, no bake oatmeal cookies, a white chip chocolate cookie, and a mint chocolate chip cookie. We only had two things go wrong. lol

I found a recipe online for a mint chocolate chip cookie that sounded fantastic, what is better than mint and chocolate… this is what we ended up with…

Those went directly into the garbage disposal.

We did burn a batch, I left the oven on a higher temp this is what we got there….

These went to the trash also. =0) Now with these we basically added some mint flavoring to a traditional chocolate chip cookie recipe, we also added M&M’s so we would know thses had the mint flavor in them. They are very good.

Now for some of our beautiful cookies that came out almost perfect… =0)

Traditional chocolate chip cookies

Peanut butter Hershey kiss cookies, we added different kinds of kisses, almonds, hugs, and a cheesecake flavor. These are especially yummy

These are the no bake oatmeal peanut butter yummmmy

I guess I didnt get a picture of the white chip chocolate cookies. I am cookied out… =0) Proud of myself though because I didnt eat a single one!

2 comments December 14, 2008 tucsonmom

Christmas Baking

Ok so I have a confession to make. I tried to bake pecan pies for Thanksgiving, the first two were more like Pecan soup, and the second two were really over baked. I was disapointed but not gonna let that get me down. Tomorrow my sister older sister (the one I still love and care for deeply) is coming over and we are going to bake some Christmas Cookies.

I am not a world class chef, I can boil water add noodles and open a few jars or cans and get spaghetti. I can microwave anything and my specialties are pancackes, eggs, and frozen pizzas. I of course leave the grilling to my husband, but we dont get to do that very often. So most of the time it is frozen or box or cans that we eat.. lol But I feel confidant with my sister here that we will be making some fantastic cookies.

We are doing chocolate chip, white chocolate chip, hershey kiss cookies, no bake cookies with oatmeal, and a mint chocolate chip cookie, oh and some butter cookies. I am very confidant that we will do good!

I plan on taking pictures and posting what we made, or burned.. lol

Add comment December 13, 2008 tucsonmom