My favorite show is Maury's "who's your daddy" shows. I love them. It's hysterical! It's always either, I ONLY slept with him. He has to be my baby daddy. .... 12 guys later. HA LOL

Or there is the guys that say, well, I slept with her, but there's no way I can be the daddy. Look, she doesn't have my ears! HA LOL Too funny. Where do they get these people? They must pay them a good amount of money. And you know they tell them what to say and when to cry and when to walk off the stage. "The doctor told me at 15 that I had a low sperm count and could never have kids... I can't be the father." Ok, first of all, why was a doctor checking your sperm count at 15? He says in high school he got his girlfriend pregnant and she miscarried and then the doctors ran the test and told him that. Uhm... how does the doctor explain that last pregnancy? hmm, magic? Second, it only takes ONE sperm. You can have a low sperm count and still knock someone up.

Then when it breaks that they are the father, Oh, I'll be the best father. Uhm, yeah, ok. Today they have a guy who says, I can't be the father... I was, wait for it... IN A COMA! HA! Beautiful. I'll let you know the outcome when they say it. I know you're at the edge of your seat.

OMG, Why the HELL am I talking about this. I think I've lost my mind. Someone call the men in white coats.

Some of my other favorite "funny" shows....

Family Guy. Now, if you've never watched this show, or have only seen snippets of it and waved it off, please please please, sit through one show. You'll be pleasantly surprised. It is hysterical. It's jaw dropping funny. Like, OMG, I can't believe they just did that or said that. It's so funny. It is definitely NOT a cartoon for kids. Do NOT let them in the room when you are watching it. The "family discussions" you would have to have... too much.

Two and a half men. Another show that is too funny. I love the rich brother, poor brother scenario. One responsible father, the other a womanizing spender. It's just a really funny show.

What's the name of that other one... hmmm Hold on, need to look it up.

Still Standing. This is a show that was cancelled, unfortunately. This show is like Rosanne (which will always be my all time favorite) for 2000's. It is so funny. It's still on in reruns, so make sure you check it out. It is our life. A middle class family raising kids, but basically still kids themselves. Hmm, let the kid go on a field trip with school or get the concert tickets to the band you love.... hmmm HA That is sooo us. Check it out. It's played on the Lifetime channel. Here it's on at 5 and 5:30. That's one that should never have been cancelled.

Coma guy is coming up next!

Oooops, seems that the HO isn't so much of a ho. Looks like his Mamma put him in his place and when it turned out he WAS the father, his Mom made him get down on his knees and beg the girl for forgiveness. HA!! That is SOOOO something I would do.

Gotta love it. Damn, I have no life. You realize that when you get joy from watching other people acting like fools on tv. I'm going to do laundry so I can at least feel like my life is worth something. LOL

So, Friday night I had plans to go to a gallery psychic reading in Sparta. I called and reserved my spot and everything. This is for a place that Margaret and I had gone to once before for a class on learning how to use your own psychic powers. It was very cool. They had recently moved to a new location though.

Did you know.... There are TWO psychic places in Sparta. Both on the same road and BOTH having a function on Friday night. Needless to say,... such as my luck, I went to the WRONG ONE! I waited in line and they asked me who I wanted to see. ??? I thought this was a gallery reading. No we're not doing that. Oh.. uhm ok, well anyone I guess. Turned out to be $10 cheaper, but not that good. I wasn't really impressed. I was very disappointed that they weren't doing the gallery reading.

As I went to leave I looked at the sign outside and thought, well now that doesn't sound like the right name. I went and looked at my directions again and realized... well, you know what I realized. So I went looking for the other place and found it. But now I was an hour late and didn't have enough money on me to go in. I did walk up the stairs in hopes that maybe they would let me in at a lower rate seeing as I missed most of it. But it sounded like they were all in one room and she was in the middle of the readings. I didn't want to interrupt, so I left. Very down hearted.

I heard my grandmother yelling at me the entire way home. Telling me I should have looked at the directions closer and not assumed I knew where I was going. Also, she yelled at me because I had stopped for gas and asked the guy where the nearest Dunkin Donuts was and he told me. I didn't find it, because it was further up then I had went, BUT, if I had kept going and found it, it would have been right across from the building I was SUPPOSED to be at. Just wasn't my night I guess.

I was hoping Gram would come through and let me know that my surgery was going to ahead without a hitch.

2 weeks until my surgery. I have to call them tomorrow because I'm supposed to do some class or something before the surgery. I'm really happy that it's the weekend AFTER the Rockaway fireworks, cause as Shelly said in her comment, bring on the yummies!! I am already tasting the clams and the funnel cake. Plus a party at Shell's for Tyler's birthday, so more food. Gotta get it all in now cause in two weeks... NO FOOD. No food at all for at least a week. I'll be on pure liquids until the insides heal and then I can start soft foods.

Ya know, I really thought I was gonna be worried about not eating all the food I normally do, but I honestly.. don't care. It's not like I'll NEVER be able to eat food again. I will, but it will be food that's good for me, not just something to fill me. And my body wont let me get away with eating crap.

Ok, so everyone that has the following size women's clothes, please start packing some up for me... 16, 14, 12, 10, 8 I'm hoping to be a permanent size 6 at some point. HA, we'll see. I'm in an 18/20 now but hope to throw all those away for good. Or give them away.

Have I told you about my poor cats?? They have been trapped under the couch for a week. Our new roomies dog (an old boxer) has been stalking them and not letting them out. The food has been eatin, so I assume they're coming out at night when he's upstairs. Muffin does temp fate and comes out on occasion, but Mocha... she's taken up permanent residence under there. Poor cat. HA

So, my daughter has given me her germs. She had a bad runny nose last week. Friday I woke up with my nose running uncontrollably. Yesterday it got worse and I was up till 3:30 am. I couldn't sleep cause I was totally congested and had a headache. Finally at 3 I gave up and took something. I don't like taking meds, especially sleepy ones, cause they knock me out. John woke me up at 11:30 cause he was gonna kill the kids. LOL But at least he let me sleep some. Today I've just been in a fog, my head weighing about 3,000 pounds. He just ran out to get me some sudafed since the dayquil did nothing. I hate being sick. I'm such a baby. I'm right up there with a guy!

Ok, off to take my meds and try to eat something.

Ok folks... looks like July 15 is the day!

I went to the surgeon today. Although I seem to have shrunk 2 inches (hee hee hee) I hit the 40 BMI. They had me scheduled for July 16th, but that is actually the day he does Lap Band surgery and I had switched to the Gastric so he said he'll do it the day before. Good news is it's only 2 days in the hospital, not three. 90% weight loss in about 1 - 1 1/2 years. By Christmas... oooo baby.

I can't even tell you... I'm excited, nervous, but excited. This is going to be the most awesome thing ever. My biggest worry is what I'm going to wear. I don't want to buy new clothes every week as I loose weight. YAYAY This is so awesome.

EEEEeeeeekkkkkkkk!!!!!!!

Uhm, my mind is spinning right now, so I can't think of anything else to right that wont be mish mosh.

Let the chaos ensue!

The brood moved in on Monday. Since then, we have been soooo busy that none of us has had time to put anything away. There are bins of things everywhere. They also brought a ton of food that I haven't had time to find places for. I need to reorganize everything.

So far, all has been fine. We barely even see them. Heather leaves for work at the crack of dawn and takes Cameron with her. I get up and get Calli, Nick and Liam breakfast. Get Calli off to school and then Kelly is usually off to work or where ever and takes Liam with her. They all don't come back till after 8. They're still on the run trying to get things done so I'm sure that will change. But, the kids get along well, if a bit rambunctious.

The animals on the other hand still need a bit of work. Jameson (their boxer) is very old and not quite up to dealing with young peppy animals. Kelly said he's never been around cats and it shows. He keeps sniffing at them and they just hiss and swat him. He'll learn. We're keeping him and Maggie separated right now until John has time to sit with them and make sure they don't try to kill each other.

1 week down... 8 more to go. LOL So far, so good.

Been really busy at work. My 8 hour work week has gotten up to about 40. I kept asking for work, now that I have it... yeah, I liked it better when I didn't have to work and could clean my house and do stuff with the kids. Some day. I'll win the lottery. At least I'm home with the kids.

Speaking of them... Calli is now fully healed from her tonsillectomy. Although, she's talking through her nose, which is really annoying. Hopefully that goes away. And the mouse has returned. When she was born, she was so premature that her lungs weren't fully developed and when she cried, she squeaked like a mouse. Now that she's all healed, her real voice has come through. It's so high, it funny.

John got bit by something the other day. He's got a tiny little spot the right side of his elbow. But the whole inside of his arm is all swollen. It's bright red and hot to the touch. And it aches to the bone he said. It's not looking to good. He took some benydryl today and it went down a little, but it's still really red. We're gonna have to keep an eye on it. I really don't want to have to take him to the hospital.

Ok, I'm tired of looking at this computer. I have a bunch more to say, but ... not right now. Off to make dinner.

Heather has most of her stuff here. She took today off of work to finish up. She was freaking out that my house would look a mess, but it's really not that bad. They have their stuff in the designated rooms, so all's good. They should all be here as of tonight. It should be an interesting 2 months. Seems her sister isn't too pleased about moving here, but oh well. Be happy you freaking have some where to live! We'll see what happens.

Beth (my friend from TX) texted me today. Seems there was a fire at there house yesterday. Now they're all at a hotel. They were renting a trailer so now they have to figure out if they can go back or if they need to find something else. From the way it sounds, they're not going to be able to go back. There's basically no front on the house anymore. Wish I could help them.

Nick's home today. He's got this week off and goes back to school next Tuesday. I'm going to loose my mind! Thank god for drugs (for him, not me). It would be fine if I didn't work and I could just take them to do things to keep them occupied. But I can't. I'm stuck here "in case" someone has work for me. Arg. At least we have the pool now. But of course, it's supposed to storm all day today. The rest of the week looks good for swimming though! I'm going to be stuck watching kid shows all week. I feel bad taking Calli to school when Nick is off. But I don't think I'll be able to deal with the two of them trying to kill each other all week.

I have so much stuff to do today. I have mortgage people to call and make payments too, blood
work to get, laundry to do, children to beat. It's going to be a busy day.

Oh, brief moment to mention that George Carlin died. I'm shocked. First I'm shocked that he died, but most of all I'm shocked that he was 71! I so did not think he was that old. I swore he was 10 years younger. He was a ground breaking comedian. Causing supreme court rulings on the 7 words you can't say on tv. My sperm donor used to watch him all the time. I really liked him. He seemed like he was an ass in real life, but he was an outstanding comedian. He could tell a joke like nobodies business. It's a great loss for the comedic world.

Off to make my calls, and take a nap... not in the order I think. I have to throw a shower in there somewhere too.

Shelly has finally started to sell some of her cakes. She just did this one and it came out great. This is for a kids Jonas Brothers birthday.

She's very critical about her cakes, so everyone make sure that you tell her how great it is. AND, if you're interested in purchasing one of her yummy cakes, feel free to email me, I'll forward your info and take a cut of the take!! MMMUUUAAAHAHHAHAhahahahahaaha


On my way to drop Calli off this morning, I was listening to Opie and Anthony (shock jocks around here). They had Mike Myers on. He did a really great interview. BUT, he sounded like he was completely drunk or stoned. He was slurring all his words. He sounded intelligent, not like "out of it" but all his words were slurred. Very strange. I love him. I think he's hysterical.

Not much going on. Seems like everyone is enjoying their friday and not giving me any work. WOO HOO! So I'm spending the time cleaning out the spare room. I'm actually almost done. YAY ME! Any of the big stuff will wait till tomorrow. I told John he has to help me tomorrow and then he can goof off all day on Sunday.

Mom asked me to go with her to an open house Sunday for someone from the bird club. Supposedly they have hundreds of birds and huge aviaries. It should be interesting. The kids will love it. I need ear plugs! Mom has like 8 parrots and I know when I go there it's deafening.

My cats are insane. They stalk each other and then CHARGE and tackle. They're nutty.

Oh, speaking of animals... I need to clean the dog run. It's been a while and it's pretty full. Heather will be bringing their dog with them too, so I need to get it done this weekend. Maybe I'll call professor pooper scooper. I think they charge like $10 or something. Hmmm, let me go look that up.

Have a great weekend folks!

UPDATE*** Rock on, $12 for Dr. Pooper Scooper! He'll be here tomorrow. YAY. I was soooooooooooooo avoiding doing that! I love the dog, but HATE the clean up.

In the city yesterday and today. Ya know, I love the city, but I hate coming in here when I can't enjoy it. It's a long ride to come and sit in the office all day. So not worth it. But at least this time they actually are TRAINING me instead of doing crap work! YAY

Nick's last day of school is tomorrow. He's been a nightmare to get out of bed lately. He just doesn't want to wake up. One more day kiddo. Unfortunately, that will only last about 2 weeks before he has to start getting up again. He really doesn't want to do the summer program, but I really don't think it would be wise to let him veg for 2 months. Not to mention that he'll drive me insane!

Heather and the gang move in next week. I still haven't cleaned out the spare room. Hopefully I can do that this weekend. I don't know where it's all going... but, we'll see.

Pool is up and ready to go. We finally got it clear. YAYAY. But now of course, it's a bit chillier. I'm sure it'll get hot again, but now would be good. I wish the pool was heated. Oh well.

Haven't had a chance to get my blood work done for my surgery. Hopefully I can squeeze it in tomorrow. But then I have to figure something out. It gets REALLY busy here the end of July through September. I'm not going to be able to take a week off. I'll have to see if they can schedule me in July or not. If not, it'll have to wait and be a Christmas present I guess.

I've had heart burn for the last few days. It's awful. Not your plain old, I ate pizza, heart burn either. This is, someone is in my chest making puddles with a bottle of acid. It's horrible. Like, I'm going to DIE!!! I OD'd on Zantac yesterday but it still wouldn't go away. I woke up this morning ok and so far so good. Everyone cross your fingers. John says it's probably not heart burn. I'm probably having a freaking heart attack. Oh hey thanks hun. I was thinking some kind of tomato poisoning or something. Who knows.

I haven't been able to watch the news in a couple days, so I have no commentary on that. But I did get in an episode of H2O and I think the girls are right to keep their secret that they are mermaids. See what happens when you have kids!

Oh, I watched Ghost Hunter last night and they got a REALLY good thermal of a ghost. Totally cool.

Ok, I'm off to do work so I can get out of here as quick as possible.

Crazy Times

It's been a crazy week.
Saturday, Nick had his last baseball game! We got our asses kicked, but Nick made the first run of the game and the last run of the season! Go Nick!

Heather, Pat and the kids came over Saturday, went to the game with us and stayed afterwards. We barbecued and then Weeder Dave came over, Chris too. The guys fished most of the time. Then, because of the rain, we had to set up the beer pong table in the living room. HA

We are going to set up a tournament and give awards at the end of the "season". LOL Pat and Dave are reigning champion, but I told them it doesn't count because we don't have the score board up yet. Neener, Neener!

Heather 2 (the one moving in) came over with two of her neighbors to play. She was great, ... her friends.... not so much. First of all, they stayed in the smoking room all night. They never came in to socialize at all. At one point in the night, we went out there and they were gone. Turns out they had taken Pat's $400 fishing pole and walked over to the lake in the neighbors yard and were fishing!! He comes walking back over with a fish on the pole which is bent almost in half. HOLY CRAP. I swear, I thought Pat was gonna kill him. They were being so stupid that I flagged them. Told them no more. So they start sneaking them. OMG, I took the cooler away and every time we walked out there they had more. We kept taking them and dumping them out but I swear they had magic powers and kept coming up with more. Heather 2 had "gone to sleep" and we kept telling them to call a cab. They ended up calling Heather 2's sister to come get them. They continued to chug beers until they got in the car. Needless to say, they aren't invited back.

Besides them, the party went great. Everyone went to bed and in the morning, Heather 1 and I went to get breakfast for the daddys. The guys spent the day fishing and Heather and I cleaned and then went in the pool.

The pool is great. It's almost clear now. Turns out that if you fill a pool from your well and it's iron rich and then you add chlorine... chlorine oxidizes the iron and turns your water brown. HA. It's still really cold too. We just need some more warm days.

Two more days in the city this week. I'm not happy about it and I'm going to have a chat with my boss later. Hopefully we can work it out.

Nick's last day of school is Friday! He's very happy. He wants to sleep in which I think it's hysterical because he was my kid who would be up at 5 am every morning. Now I have to drag his butt out of bed every morning.

Ok, off to put clothes away before our west coast people wake up and send me work.

Crazy week folks. Donna has given me a moster project and it's taken most of my time. My poor kids have no underware and there are no clean dishes. Ug, hopefully I can get this done tonight. Then I have another project waiting. AAAAAaaaahhhhhhhh. At least I wont have to start that one until monday. I can spend this weekend cleaning.

Not much to report. Calli had a spring concert last night at her daycare. It was really sweet. She sang and danced her heart out. She did wonderfully.

Ok, sorry for the VERY short blog today, but, gotta get this thing done. I swear I'm going to be cross eyed when I'm done.

Did you see John's comment yesterday regarding my plants he killed? Yeah, trying to push off the blame. I DON'T THINK SO! It's so sad

WE GOT OUR CHECK!!! The government finally came through. The mortgage companies will be so pleased!!

100-110 heat index today. Arg. The little baby pool just isn't cutting it. We're going to talk to the neighbors. They had one of those big blow up pools with the ring at the top. They used it for one summer and hated taking care of it so they packed it away and never used it again. I can't remember how big it was. John's gonna ask them if they want to sell/give it to us. I need a pool that my fat ass can fit in. Not just go in up to my ankles in the baby pool. And if this week is an indicator of the summer weather to come.... DAMN!!

OK, my time to vent! I'm watching GMA and wanting to jump through the tv and strangle someone. There is an autistic group out there that wants to stop people from finding a cure for autism! Have they lost their minds? They think that instead of "wasting" money on finding a cure, it should be spent on education and services. WTF? Now, I'm not saying that money shouldn't be put into those things, don't get me wrong. Training, classes, education therapies for these kids and us parents is an integral part of helping with this disease. BUT, I think that money needs to go to finding a cure. Whether it be changing the vaccines or doing stem cell research, money needs to be spent.

They were asked if they or their child could take a pill to cure them, would they. They said no. .... BULLSHIT! I live every day with an autistic child. I see the struggles that he goes through. I know what we go through. Let me tell you something, if there was a way that I could take that away and give him an easier life, I'd jump at the chance. Any parent who says otherwise is NOT a good parent or are totally fooling themselves. Any autistic person that says they wouldn't have changed their lives is also lying. It's not that they still can't be productive parts of society. It's that they have to fight tooth and nail to get there. As parents, we all want to make our kids lives easier.

Not to mention the medication. The amount of medication these kids need to take is insane. And it just grows in quantity as they grow. It's never ending. My son has Asperger's Syndrome which is on the far end of the autism spectrum. Which means he is very high functioning. Actually, if you looked at him, you wouldn't know there was anything wrong with him. (Spend the day with him and you'll get it) He needs meds to stay in control, focused, to keep from melting down. He'll need these all through school, just to make it through. As an adult, he will most likely need it to work, have friends, have relationships. To think that you would rather he stay on this crap for his whole life is just crazy.

I know there are people out there who are all about excepting what you're dealt and all that crap, but come on. This is about innocent kids who are put through the ringer for God only knows what reason. I would rather they find a cure so that my grandkids don't succumb to the same fate. So that my kids don't have to go through what John and I have. Every day is a battle. Most people don't know what it takes. Even our friends and family. They don't see the day to day and most of the time they forget that there is a problem. We don't and can't. It's a constant. It's also very hard to distinguish between his autism and him just behaving badly. It's nearly impossible to realize the 90% of his behavior is his AS.

I would give anything for my son to have a "normal" life. To not have to struggle with his own mind and body on a daily basis. If I could take it all away, I would. I would give my own life for him in a heartbeat. How dare these parents and autistic adults try to fight against something that could one day be amazing breakthrews for our kids and future kids.

Ok, vent over. Arg... People make me so mad!!

This heat is unbelievable!! How do we go from freezing our asses off to two weeks later about to melt!! It was in the 40's and 50's and this past weekend it was in the upper 90's with heat indexes in the 100's.

We had a good weekend. We had a garage sale and sold... well, hardly anything. But whatever. At least I know what's left in the garage and can start getting rid of it. I set up the little pool for the kids Saturday morning and they spent most of the weekend it in. Calli got a sunburn yesterday. We loaded her up with block, but it didn't seem to help and she refused to go in. We had to force her finally. She's still sleeping this morning, so I guess it hit her. I was so yucky. I took a shower last night, got up this morning and I feel all gross again.

Nick had a game scheduled for yesterday. MY GOD!! I couldn't understand how they expected the kids to play in that heat. We got there, walked to the field and only our team was there. YAY. The other team bailed! We got to go home. I don't think I would have been able to sit through that for two hours in the sun.

Heather had it all together. She brought a cooler filled with juice and water for the kids. Plus a bunch of spray bottles filled with water to mist the kids down. She's so smart. While we waited for the other team the two of us hosed down the kids.

Watching the news right now. As we complain of heat, looks like the midwest is complaining of water. Half the states are flooded. That SUCKS. Oh, and of course gas prices have gone up. Gotta love that. Used to cost us about $40 to fill the van. Now it's about $60-70 That's just insane!! John filled the tank the other day. I refused to look at it. I didn't want to know.

Still haven't gotten my stimulus check, but hoping every day. I'd like to buy some stupid stuff, like ya know... food. Hmmm such a waste of money, but the kids yell when I don't.

Oooh, IHOP commercial. Yummy pancakes!

I have an owee on my head. It itched, I scratched it and it really hurt, now it really itches but hurts lots. What the hell! It's a TUMA!!

Oh and before I forget, had to tell you my sad tale! A couple weeks ago I bought a pot set of kitchen herbs. Calli and I planted them and had a couple little pots that she planted flowers in. They were growing really well. And considering that I kill EVERYTHING I was really excited. I had the herbs outside in the sun one day and John felt that they needed water... so instead of "spritzing" them, he HOSED THEM DOWN!! I went out there and noticed they looked funny. Picked one up and they were freaking FLOATING!! He drowned my plants. WWWAHAHAAAHHH. I tried to pour some of the water out (ending up dumping out one of the plants in the process - saved some of it). They look so pitiful now. They just haven't come back. I can't believe I finally got something to grow and now they're toast. Well, at least it wasn't me that killed them.

Speaking of growing things, I want to plant flowers outside but I don't know what to do or where to do it. Of course where ever I say I want to put stuff, John has a problem with it. SCROOGE! I don't know, I'll figure it out I guess. Although, yesterday I was thinking about it and realized that I would have to be outside in this heat weeding and shit. Uhm... no!

Ahh, now I figured it out. I was watching the local news before and saw a bunch of early school closing. I couldn't figure out why. Now they're saying schools are closing early because of the heat. Uhm... why? Keep the kids inside and there shouldn't be a problem. I guess if they send them home they don't have to keep the air up in the school and will keep from a brown out. I have to pick up Liam today, so I guess I'll have to see if Byram schools are getting out.

Ok, off to get Calli up (8:30 and she's still sleeping). Stay cool folks!

Crazy week folks.

Two days in the city doing stuff I could have done from home. Arguing with the chick in the city who wants me to come in 2-3 times a week from August to Oct and I told her to go to hell. Hee hee. Luckily, the big boss is on my side and has said that it's not gonna happen and she would rather they pay a bunch of money to have them ship me stuff. So far, I win!

Yesterday, Nick had his awards ceremony breakfast. It was so sweet. He got 6 awards, 1 was received by everyone. The others were special ones for attendance, computers, reading, art and music. YAY Nick! He's doing so well in school. I'm so proud of him.

His teacher is so great. She's so funny too. The tables had assigned seating. She said, notice how I did the seating? I put all the parents that annoy me as far away from me as possible. LOL Wanna know where I sat? In the seat right next to her of course!! I rock! I'm a cool mom! YAY ME.

After the awards, all the kids got up to sing songs with the music teacher. Of course Nick's little girlfriend Jackie (a third grader) ran over to stand next to him to sing. They just stood there smiling at each other. ADORABLE. I'll post some pics as soon as I can.

I've been getting a lot of work lately which is really great. I'm happy to be doing something for my paycheck.

Ok, off to work. I need to finish stuff up so I can clean my house and start emptying that playroom. 2 more weeks till our room mates move in.

Had to come into the city to work today, which as a side note is a total waste of time. I don't know why she calls me in here to do stupid work. She told me she had this huge project to do and nothing. I freaking made copies and bullshit work. ARG.

Anyway, got to the Netcong station and there was no one there. Hmmm, ok The train should be there in like 2 min. Waited, no train, looked at the schedule again and realized that I had been looking at the wrong station. Arg. Now I had to book it to Dover.

Get to Dover. Try to find parking so I don't get another ticket. Find a lot but none of the inside spots had meters... Find a cop. Cop says go park there or go to the court house and get a parking pass for the day. Don't have time for that. Go pack and find a spot with a meter and root around for quarters. PHEWWWWww.

Walk to the station, buy my tickets and ask when the next train is (thinking it was 8:15 and next train should be at 8:30) He says 8:57! WHAT?? ARG Turns out it was 8:40. I lost 20 min finding a spot. Fine but that just means I don't get into the city till after 10.

Get half way to the city and I'm just sitting there reading my book when I realize we've been at a station for a while. Normally it's like a 45 second stop and off we go again. We'd been sitting for a good 2 minutes. Uhm hmmm. Then all of a sudden the conductor is running down the isle. Uh? That CAN'T be good.

I hear CRANK BANG CRANK BANG over and over. I'm like, what the hell? Then the guy comes over the loud speaker and says, We're having a problem with our brakes. We have to dump them and then do a few tests. HUH???!!!?? Crap. We're gonna end up taking the express track to Penn Station and then going straight through it.

Needless to say, we made it to NY alive. Although, I didn't get in until around 10:30 due to the delay.

At my first smoke break Jen and I went outside and guess who we saw!! We got our very own serenade from the "Naked Cowboy"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLcy5Qd4s5s&NR=1#

I can't get youtube to link the video, so here is the link. His hair is longer now, but he's still got a great body. HA!

I stopped for gas today. I put in $10 since that's all I had and it gave me 1/8 of a tank. I went about 2 miles down the road and my gas light came on again. Arg. Damn gas prices.

I FINALLY got a notice from the IRS saying that our money is COMING!! Thank God. I'm sure the mortgage company will be happy, and the electric company, and the phone company and who ever else I can squeeze a payment too. Let it come NOW!!!