I knew about that one. I thought it was another one since then. Sorry. I liked the pictures in your entry. Talk to you soon.

Chad

Ok thanks. Hint hint? Are you telling me to move on?

Chad

When I was teaching 8th grade Englsih 21 years ago, kids came to me to tell me that they had seen one boy hand a gun to another in the stairwell. The receiver was aboout to enter my class. I intercepted him in the hallway and insisted that he turn the gun over to me which he did. The principal showed up a few minutes later to accept the gun and to escort the student to his office. The student was back in my class the next day. The principal said "it was only a pellet gun." Wrong decision. That was my last year teaching kids. I'm glad my son is grown and out of school.

Your story about Carly's apology tied into the story about gun violence in schools shows that you helped her see the connection between bullying and social unrest. We don't all have to love each other. We don't all have to understand each other. But we do have to respect each other's right to peace of mind amidst the chaos of daily living in a diverse society. Even the slightest bit of unsolicited antagonism can lead to unexpected reactions out of proportion to anything we might ordinarily expect. Sometimes we might even surprise ourselves with our own overreactions to social exchanges. We have to constantly work at finding moderation in our lives.

Gosh what a scary thing have a treat of a shooting at the school... I remember a couple years ago there was a week during the end of the school year wherere everyday for 3 days theree were bomb threats at the high school, middle school, and on the last day even the elemtary school... It was scary... Im glad you kept your daughter home...

Sounds like everyone is doing good... I like to hear that....

Have a wonderful weekend....may it be filled with many blessings...

Love and HUggs

Janica

you have the cutest kids ever...although i guess kat's getting a little old for me to be calling cute...but you know what i'm getting at.  glad everyone's doing well. 

and i'm with you.  bomb the desert and get rid of those things.  there's no need for them.

Take a look at this link..facts on camel Spiders....Scary glad I don't live in the desert

http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp

Ugh..teen drama , I feel for you. I think your orb hunting is really cool. I'd like to do that sometime...but, only if someone will go with me. Are the orbs, the spirits or something like that? I've heard something like that and I think maybe you talked about it one of your other entries...or I may just be retarded  Anyway...great pics!! Kat's hair looks really cute.

Hey Ravens,

Thanks for your note. Dealing with bi-polar is beyond my knowledge, so I appreciate your specifying the diagnosis. One thing that has occurred to me is that on the issue of money, there may be a gap between your perceptions of Chad's condition and his perception and what is actual. You say when you talk to him everything is going well in his world until the discussion turns to money. Money is fairly concrete and accountable. Are the other things in his life that he presents as being fine as verifiable or could it be that he is glossing over some of his difficulties when he presents the non-financial aspects of his life as being just fine? Your resentment and the anger that grates on your nerves might be eased if you were to discover that things are never as rosy as Chad may paint them, but that he can get away with presenting a rosy picture so long as he doesn't have to reveal that  perhaps things are not so rosy. He hits a wall with money as a topic of conversation because with regard to money, he may be forced to face the shortcomings of his situation more certainly when you ask for money for the children that he doesn't have and therefore cannot offer.

You say that he functioned well enough to re-marry, but apparently he didn't function well enough to make the second marriage work. It sounds as if Chad, himself, is somewhat overwhelmed by his difficulties to the point of seeing himself as unable to function adequately. Does he function well enough to earn a good living and is he just selfish about providing for the children, or is he struggling to maintain a basic existence for himself? From what I've read from others who claim to be bi-polar, there seem to be major emotional swings that wear the person out physically and emotionally and create enough unevenness that it is difficult for them to function steadily on a job, at least without medication that works for them. And even finding a balance with medication seems to be difficult to do.

Can Chad be helped to find balance? And if so, is he getting the help he needs from professionals?

I realize that Chad's condition places an enormous burden on you and the children, but I suspect Chad himself is also shouldered with quite a burden. It seems to me that when you speak of the children's attitude towards Chad, they have a great deal of anger toward him. On one hand, as young as they are, they can't be expected to life with his excuses in place of his attention and emotional and financial support. On the other hand, perhaps understanding his illness in more detail might help them to achieve understanding, a degree of forgiveness, an ability to cope better with the problems he presents, an opportunity to defuse their anger in regard to the gaps between when they want, what they need, and what he can offer. The whole situation seems to leave each of you between a rock and a hard place (forgive the overused phrasing) in different ways.

If the issue turns out to be one of Chad willfully not living up to his capabilities, it becomes a more clearcut issue than if the emotional and chemical imbalance he experiences tends to depress his capabilities. I know my comments don't help you or the children in any concrete way. My goal is to try to find some way to relieve the anger and resentment which in itself becomes a burden to you and colors what you reinforce in the children's perceptions of what Chad's problems are.

It sounds as if Chad isn't able to contribute much to the children's well being for some reason--health or mental health? It's hard to tell from what you've said whether his behavior was abusive or neurotic. Financial resources seem to be a problem for him for whatever reason.

Children are better off if they can have some sort of positive, peaceful relationship with both parents. I know your first concern is your children. When Chad visits, does he stay with you or does he stay elsewhere? If it's possible for him to stay elsewhere, that might be best for you. Your feelings, sanity and well being count for a lot. Can he afford a hotel? If not, does he have any friends who could put him up.

I suspect you prefer that his visits with the children be monitored by you, which may be why his visit involves you as much as it does. It would be nice if he could visit with the children away from you, but that may be problematic for all concerned. Is there anyone else--does he have any in town any relatives whom you trust enough that he could visit with the children in their presence? Or is there any other structured setting in which he could visit witht he children without your having to be responsible for the expenses and the logistics.

Is there any way that Chad's visit with the children could be turned into a counseling session facilitated by a professional? If there were some way to develop and improve Chad's communication skills and perhaps the children's as well, to set limits and boundaries, to clarify friction points, to sensitize each person to the triggers that set off one another in the interactions, perhaps some of the misery could be replaced by something more comfortable. If you could think of workable ways to improve the situation, perhaps then you could view Chad's visit as an opportunity rather than a burden.

I know there are a lot of imbalances involved and probably everything I've said is impractical. Somehow I sense that there are factors that upset you that are beyond Chad's control. Maybe not. Do you feel that you fully understand why Chad behaves as he does? Are that any extenuating circumstances that might make you or me behave as he does if we had to contend with something with which he has to contend? Maybe not. You talk about Chad as though his problems are selfishness, self-centeredness, insensitivity to others, indifference to other people's needs, laziness, possibly depression, possibly mental imbalance of some sort, maybe social immaturity. Is that an accurate perception on my part? Is there anything about his behavior he could learn to change or is it all so much a part of who he is that there is no hope for improving anything about the situation?

Please ignore this comment if my remarks are so far off the mark that it's irrelevant or if you just don't want to discuss it in this context. After all, this is none of my business. I apologize for the intrusiveness of my comments. I was trying to brainstorm for solutions, but I'm not really in a position to get it right.

well you're stressed and anal--hey, that's better than being stressed out from anal!

Speaking of stressed out, I found my cause...normally I drink lots of coke and it dinna bother me---well yesterday, I tried this little container of something  called 5 hour energy, then I had these nice mints which after eating about 50 ( size of tic tacs) saw contained taurine and caffine---2 mints = 1 nodoz...and I had a piece of chocolate cake...

I am still paranoid as I write this---so help me god if anyone finds this---remember who I was just in case they come to get me--you know...I mean...my god I mean oh my god its just OH my god..

Do you know what I mean??

freaky pics.. i love paranormal state . It was awsome the other night .. 

 one of the nights when he was really at me, when he learned of paul.i remember we were yelling /fighting in bedroom. i closed my eyes, hoping the noise wud go away . it was pitch black, with a lil , very light dim from next door, coming thru the  'curtains '. ............

he says to me . ' ok, so let me ask you something ?".I was ready to hear a 'stupid  Q of paul... then he sayds ' Do you see this fog over here , right next to the window, on the ceiling area,  to the left of window above bed ?". I looked & I seen it.

Now. as it was almost 4am, but i was wide awake.. so was he.  it was liek a black fog , not moving, but weird floating, about the size of a 1/2 washign machine, weird, to  compare to a washer, but thtas how big , and weird shaped it was...I sware the house has spirits,.Ive seen ( and he knows ) a few times, maybe 5-6 a darker shadow, not even a silouette , just a blur thingy int he hallway between our bedroom,the office & emilys room. he always  said I was nute.. so i cudnt help it that nigth , i jump out of bed, as I jkept staring at the 'thing ' on top near ceiling, and put lights on in bedroom, and of course i didnt see it.  I think it 'lightened up the night emotionally '.. Not that we forgot about our problems, but we got sidetracks, then he wanted sex after.lol. I think we did do it after too. just the mood was weird. must have been the spirits.haha .

but weird..weird...see when we bought home, it had paneliong thru whole thing,, built & never had realyl naythign done to it since 1937 ....he disected the whole house. we kept the frames, but all walls were torn out.. so..if..if. there were spirits in the house, he says they wud have left, but if anything , I think he & grant ( his best bud who helped w. whole house ) interuppted the spirits. I do know the original owners, and thent he son lived here, maybe the original owner passed on  here. I know the previous owners, bought a condo, and sadly the husband last yr sometime, maybe the yr b4..yea yr b4 last went into a nursing home.. so ??idk..

I  have said..and you wont  laugh.. I have said out loud a few times..

" ok, you may stay here, and wont be  forced out, as long as you dont hurt or scare us , esp emily '..

so , even though I know I 'see ' something a couple times a yr,  i just 'accept  it '.

gtg. but have a great day.

~me

[fromthisdayfwd]

tight hugs

what awesome fun!!!!!!!!!!!

I am dying to do something not ordinary! I love that show

poor chris.  i can't imagine feeling that out of control in my own world. i think a counselor would probably really benefit him.  can't do any harm, right?

Crying is a release that counts for something. It's not the same thing as whining.

You face some tough issues. Protect your brain cells. Sometimes prayer and giving my troubles to God help me at least to center and focus and preserve my nervous energy.

The old standby--networking--should not be overlooked as you seek Plans A, B, C and so forth in seeking alternatives in case you don't get what you want at work.  Hopefully you will, but cut backs and layoffs are often somewhat impersonal and somewhat mechanical even though they wreck havoc on our lives in very personal ways. Online job hunting is said to be more productive than newspaper want ads. Have your resume appropriately formatted and ready to send.

Meanwhile I hope you find the right counselor and I hope counseling helps both Christopher and you. Good luck.

hi & thn x.. oh photobucket, so you know how involved it is to get downloads..lol. have a wonderful safe wknd my friend..

~me

[fromthisdayfwd]

10n is a difficult age

I am sure she will shave her legs tho

patience  my friend

hugs

good morning..

cud be sinuses ?.i know i used to get every yr ( summer time ) a cold, caugh.)..ughgh. claritan has helped that .

 shaving so young.. i sent a comment  to your friend on here of  her 10 yr old daughter 'caught ' shaving her legs.. omgosh . i think id be more  scared she'd cut her legs open, then how young that is.. lol.

  as i said to the other.. i dont care , call me old fashioned, emily isnt shaving her legs till i say its time.lol.  i giggled w. the 'ruining my reputation '.. its so sad ,the kids have to 'keep up w. the jones'' these days . Im only 39-- but we never had to do that(coem to think about it..lol.i dont think i shaved my legs until I ws 15..lol.. had very light hair too, so that helped w. my 'repuation '.i guess..lol.) , i think it was the friends I had.. i wasnt popular at all, but said hi to all & ya know what - they all said 'hi'  back-even if i never 'hung out w. them '.....  but i remember the 'preps ' needing to 'keep up with each other '.lol...the lil clics they all had.. so sad...

  oh boy,, what am i headed for in 5 yrs.lol.

God Bless.. have a beautiful wknd. :)

~me

ps.. i just absolutely love your lil cartoons. where do you find the 'codes for  all of these '..I usually have to place pics in 'photobucket ' & get codes from there.., and its so time consuming..is there a web site for all these ?if you dare to share .lol.

[fromthisdayfwd]

loved the pics

your diary didnt appear as updated so I hadnt checked it until today

you have a beautiful family

and yes love is blind and stupid and deaf and  grrr I hate loving him but I do hopefully it is starting to go away  I will never be able to forgive him for this...he seems to place all the blame on me but wtf

time will tell what will happen with all this mess

tight hugs

Ohhh.... the prom!! Dun dun DUN!!!  I graduated from high school in "05" and the prom will always be my greatest memories. Just let your daughter know to be careful and not to go with a jerkoff of a guy. (which she seems to bea very strong very independent young lady so Im sure she already knows that.) =] She will have fun if she ends up going. Its always fun to get "dolled" up and go out for a night like that. =]

oh the dreadfull monkey bars... my neices and nephews play on them all day at the park too. haha. They have to go across without falling off into the "water" (what they pretend is water but its really the sand). I love kids their imagination is just amazing!!! Dont you wish that carried over into adult years??!! haha. =] 

Is that your dog??? Sooo cute!!!! Looks like Toby (i think) from the wizard of oz!!! love it!!! =]

Well Have a good day.. your entries are always so interesting to read. =]

lol. now I NEEDED that smile.. thnx .lol

[dissapointedwife]

I have missed your entries

hugs you tight

wowo those are alot of bdays for a month!!!

SBP looks sooo adorable

take care

keep writing

So good to hear from you!! I know what you mean about Christopher not getting the guidance that he needed. Ash just started 9th grade and nope....nothing for her either. So, yes PISSED is what I was and of course had the meeting, all is good now. She was in such a mess, feeling like she was all alone. Luckily, we went a week before school started to find her locker and her classes...still......

All those parties....glad you all had a wonderful time. Again, it's great to hear from you. I have yet to post an update. I have also been super busy all summer. (((HUGS)))

I have a "towel baby" picture of myself in my baby photo album--only my parents labeled it "maharaja."

Glad to know how you and your family are doing.

no wonder you haven't been on!  i was wondering about you the other day and actually looked to see when the last time you had updated was.  glad to see the little yellow update thing by you when i checked this afternoon. 

LOVE that pic of michael phelps, even though normally i don't find him incredibly attractive...i certainly wouldn't kick him out of bed, but i wouldn't hang pictures of him.

boy you have been busy! all those parties!

I agree about the opening ceremony it was so awesome!

also about micheal Phelps don't tell my hubby! :)

oh ya I agree about red lobster too! i LOVE lobster!

  Sorry to hear about those back pains, and I hope they're getting better now? I've never experienced that kind of spasm...and hope not to of course...but it sounds awful. You must be quite a determined lady to still function thru it anyway....I know I would probably whine just a bit if it was me.
  Happy birthday to basically everyone in your world!!!! That's really a lot of them in a short time........good luck with celebrating them all. But little SBP gets the biggest shoutout;

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!!!!!!!

OUCH ..  i cant even imagine.. didnt you write that you aught  a tazer ? so I thought it had gone fof somehow & you got yourself.lol. then reread.lol

 ouch.sorry for your pain.

  birthdays, birthdays. they are all over the place lately.

Happy b'day to all.

gtg, but hope  the pains gone , been gone, and GONE!!

xo.. ~me

aww first of all

happy birthday to SBP!!!!!  tons of hugs and love for her

I hope you feel better soon!!!!

take care  you are not superwoman although you come darn close to being one

tons of love

Hope you back feels better soon....

Happy Birthday to everyone in advance...sounds like a lot of excitement to be had coming up....

Sunday is Trins birthday she will be 15 and startign drivers ed on Monday...

They grow up way to fast...

Have a great weekend...

Love and HUggs

Janica

By "Not eating right before bedtime" I meant "Not eating just before bedtime." Anytime one is going to eat, one should eat right.

I sympathize with you on the leg cramps. They HURT bigtime! What has helped me at times:

• Sleeping flat on my back, not on my side.
• But when sleeping on my side, using a body pillow between my legs to support my upper leg and to keep them from pressing against one another
• Keeping my feet and legs covered at night, particularly in air conditioning
• Taking water pills and potassium to drain the legs when they retain water
• Gentle feet and leg massages
• Sitting for a while in a recliner that allows my feet to be higher than my head
• Using a rocking chair for light leg and back exercise (be careful--this can backfire)
• Keeping the tummy tucked in, shoulders gently back, and spine aligned
• Wearing good support inserts in my shoes and shoes that offer support as well
• Wearing loose fitting soft thick knit socks that cushion the foot without cutting off circulation
• Using frozen clay packs for pain relief to head off spasms and reduce chances of inflammation
• Getting regular leg exercise (a friend with MS gets frequent leg cramps that he will walk off for a half hour or more at a time)
• Not eating right before bedtime (I made that up. It may not be true, but it seems to me that the oxygen in the blood would be a factor in leg cramps)
• Not putting my foot in my mouth (More difficult for me than putting my foot in my mouth)
• Not appearing on "Dancing with the Stars" or "So You Think You Can Dance"
• Singing with good breath support--great way to improve oxygen in the body

[NightListener]

the toilet paper thing I am thinking it is cointagious and has gone universal hahaha

hugs

Here's a possible solution--bring "her" (Frances? Hazel?) over to your house. After she poops on your floor, clean it up and put a roll of toilet paper in every room of your house in case it happens again. Before you clean up the poop from the floor, look around and allow yourself 3 wishes--especially if you want to live happily ever after. Your first wish will probably be to clean the poop off the floor. That will leave you 2 wishes to go. You decide which other 2 things you want to take care of and let the rest go.

I appreciate that you want a sense of closure when you go to bed and that you don't want a big "To Do" list hanging over your head for when you get up in the morning. I also appreciate that you want to set a good example for your children and be able to take pride in your home if friends should stop by or if the kids should bring someone over.

So rather than allow yourself only 3 wishes, maybe you could decide on 1 or 2 things that you could let go of in order to practice the art of living with imperfection.

The thing in my marriage that keeps me faithful is that a long time ago my wife made up her mind that what she couldn't change about me she'd go ahead and accept--like my procrastination and my failure to get the mail or water the plants. Talk about exceeding my expectations in life! That's a real gift from God and from my wife. And I've learned to take the edge out of my voice and sometimes even to keep quiet altogether when my wife goes out on the patio and leaves the door open so that the insects can get in or when she overfills the trashcan under the sink so that I have to get under the sliding shelf to wipe up open Splenda packets that fell off the top of the overflow or when I have to pull papers out of the trash with our name and address on it as a big invitation to identity theft. (Okay, so I'm paranoid!) So perhaps now you will understand why I'm hesitant to throw away all that balance and compromise on an extracurricular org**m--not that I'm not tempted now and then--but I know I'd never find someone else who would know me for who I truly am and love me anyway as generously as my wife does.

The story is told that the ancient Chinese potters intentionally threw a thumb print or imbalance  or flaw into a piece of pottery to prevent themselves from getting carried away with the pride of perfectionism.

And consider this--if you insist on having your house in order before you go to bed, you're depriving those poor little elves from earning their livelihood by coming to do your work while you sleep. Apparently they get paid a percentage of what the Tooth Fairy delivers. Also the Sandman needs all the sand he can get so stop sweeping it away before bedtime. "Stop it!" I say.

toilet paper ON the spinny thing is a big one at my house.  i don't think paul actually knows how to operate one to take the old roll off and put the new one on. 

i love your don't take life too seriously icon.  i have that one too.

Amen to putting toilet paper on the spinny thingy. I have the same problem at my house, I have a holder that holds three  rolls on the back of the toilet but do you think that someone could put it on the spinny thingy.....ummm NO!  They sit it on the floor or on the side of the tub! Seriously is it that hard to change it. LOL

 so ..before you see this clip..lol. emily hears me say all the time.. 'Im cinderella.."..

she says to me ..knowing I except her cutness.lol.

"cinderella, I mean mommy-- ( and giggles ) please throw this way ".lol

Cleaning laboriously all day can be exhausting, but doing some here and some there in passing through rooms can be meditative and keep the blood flowing. If you do what you can to conserve your energy as you go and get rest as needed and take breaks to do a few fun activities now and then, there's no reason for Nancy to think you would need relief, particularly if everyone else pitches in.

Sometimes the one with the tighter standard has to assume more of the work. Do you all agree on a standard of cleaning or do you have to work to get others in the family to toe the line you draw? Consensus on a standard helps with shared responsibility.

Nancy's suggestion that David and you work together to clean your house seems highly inappropriate, both from the standpoint that David has a home of his own and from the standpoint that David has a girlfriend of his own. Is she feeling insecure about David's participation in Carly's life? Is that the real issue for her? On one hand is she trying to assure herself that you need her and that she's earned the right to be your partner and on the other is she testing your feelings for David by suggesting that he and you do things together?

I understand Chad's desire for assurance. He probably feels, after taking you and all the children for granted, that Carly is abandoning him now that she has a choice. He may also have concerns about your feelings for David. I don't know if there's a way without being cruel to suggest that the other kids see Carly getting attention from her bio father and are hurting at not getting similar attention from theirs. Comparisons can be hurtful, especially since David so far seems really together and Chad seems to have a lot of personality problems and no pattern of being particularly giving. Family counseling including Chad and all the kids, including Carly at least at times, may be in order--or at least some open conversation within the family about the issue. You've already indicated that Kat has some anger issues about this matter. Of course attention to Chad's relationship with the family in addition to David's could make Nancy all the more uncomfortable. Since she is YOUR primary relationship apart from yours with the children, you probably need to work with her in figuring this out. Her ability to work with you on this is essential to the success of your relationship.

Are there any financial responsibilities that have been discussed regarding parenting Carly? Is the responsibility being shared fairly yet? Financial balance is delicate in such situations.

As for Carly's spending the night at David's, he is her father, and you seem to accept that it's you who will have to adjust your comfort level as their relationship progresses. If you have doubts about her safety when in his "custody," you need to deal with that. Since even the most congenial of parents don't agree on everything regarding care and discipline of and goals for their children, you and David have a lot of negotiation ahead of you until Carly is making her own decisions. Right now I'm guessing that you are still the custodial parent and what you say pretty much goes, but that you are making every effort to be giving for Carly's sake and out of trust and respect for David.

With so many parents and partners of parents (5 adults) involved, you have a situation that will always have some decision to make and always require some finesse to keep one another from having feelings hurt and from feeling they are being rubbed the wrong way, denied their due, excluded, burdened, ignored, slighted, being given too much responsibility, overlooked, thrust together into uncomfortable situations, feeling like a fifth wheel, possibly experiencing suppressed or unsuppressed anger and then guilt and remorse for the anger. And you're the lucky one at the center of all this who has to interact directly with Nancy, David, and Chad and perhaps somewhat less directly with GF while including her enough to have a working relationship with her since she IS in the picture and has to be acknowledged since she definitely has to give up some of David's time to Carly, plus she has a child of her own who needs to feel well treated in the situation where David and GF play parental roles.

Yikes! If it were I instead of you, I'd be in the kitchen mopping the floor right now just to relieve the stress of thinking about the complexity of all this.

You always seem to have your sanity when everything is all topsy-turvy..I admire that. Hopefully things will settle down and your day will turn into a good one. Take care...((Hugs))

Our pool too....I'm sick of them!!  You crack me up!!

Perhaps you should build a little a little memorial to those beetles.  Japanese are know to be suicidal aeronauts, although I confess to having thought that the practice had died out.  Well it would, wouldn't it?  But I am sure others of their kind would appreciate your efforts in raising a shrine to their sacrifice.

It is vital that the ducks are in a row.  Order is important to ducks.  Like 'dabbling'.

I hope your washing machine is near your garage. I'd hate to think that by the time you get your turtles indoors your ducks might be breaking formation.

Bone marrow transplant? The trusting part of me is sorry to hear it. The skeptical part of me worries that if it's not true. then someone's not dealing with a full deck. Still I hope it's not true for GF's sake or if it is true, I hope she find's a suitable match for her bone marrow.

the gf is probably acting up and she is inmature

good luck with that one

tight hugs

if i ever need a good laugh....i can always come here and be guaranteed one.  the japanese beetles got me.  that and something about your butt making it's way like a herd of sea turtles....roflmao.  i have no idea where you come up with these things.  but keep it up, because it's always fun to read your diary.

i think i'd be terrified of the woman who was dating my ex lover who called me in hysterics so bad i had to listen to the message 3 times to get it.  not to be mean or rude, but what do you care that she's going to alabama to find a long lost brother?  why would she have you pass along a message?  she sounds like she needs some serious help.

I know what the secret is now too Take care.

Chad

If you are looking for a good series of books to read try Stephenie Meyer's Twilight is the first book and after that you will be hooked....Trust me! I came acrossed it by accident and found out later that there were big to do's over the books and that they were making them in to a movie.

Laura

I hope you had a great day

hugs

if you like books like the Da vinchi code, you'll enjoy James Patterson and John Grisham, a lot fo murder mystery/conspiracy type books. All though Grisham writes a lot about trial and jury. If you want a change try Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series, there pretty funny. If your into the whole scifi thing, vampires, zombies, faries, and adult content try Laurel K Hamilton.

I like VC andrews too but she's a bit depressing, but I can't seem to put any of her books down.

yay the gf is almost gone!!!!!  I know I am bad but she needs to back off!!!  I loved that cleaning  pic so I am going to steal it  I am glad that things are going well for you

hugs

Mother like her mother .. hmmm. The question is, will you end up like YOUR mother????

*the horror!!!*

Family, you can't pick 'em, and there's not enough open land to bury the bodies so, yeah, ... burn 'em.

And that is my thought of the day .. lol

glad the GF isn't communticating anymore! :)

I am sorry about your mom I understand about a raging mom my mother used to explode a lot but the older she gets the milder she is and for that i am VERY thankful! :)