enough is enough

drove to work in blinding snow, drove home on snow covered roads, scooped a snow path to the house for katie's sleepover friends...the snow thing is getting old.
The Brad Pitt Jesse James dvd comes out next month...pre-ordered on amazon.com. I've been waiting for this a long long time!

finally friday~

survived another snowy day of work, Katie went to a friends house, then brought the friend home with her to spend the nite...then the friend burnt her finger taking her own Banquet meal out of the microwave (breaking a time honored Dailey family rule), so this has thrown the production of their movie even further behind than the supper break they took (resulting in said burn) when the camcorder battery charged...no wonder Hollywood productions cost so much! Honestly!
The gist of the movie is that the girls are New Years People, responsible for the safety of everyone on New Years Eve. They have computer databases & everything.
Got all traces of xmas safely stored back in the garage for next year. Still dragging boxes out of Katie's room to garage so she can clean her room (all Barbies, Bratz, My Scenes, their 2 trunks of clothes, their trunks of furniture & cars & shoes & boots & accessories that she doesn't need anymore.) When I cleaned the garage for Brownie Halloween party, I threw all the unused lids off her trunks up in a corner on the ledge over the staircase to basement...so now I have to climb on a chair, then up on the chest freezer, then onto ledge to find the matching lids to put on the boxes since the cats will not stay out of the garage (& concrete in front of garage is cracked & shifted so door won't shut right).
I thought I'd have to work tomorrow, but the boss asked someone else to. Yeah, me! 2 whole days off, then I work Monday, chaperone Kate's New Years Eve party, & have New Years Day off.
Kevin had his ankle xrayed again, they want him to see an orthopedic specialist, to be on the safe side, one view they took still showed a crack or gap or something. They're setting that up. Now I get to worry some more.

deb can't drive...

I got home from work---Kate has decided she will have a New Years Eve sleepover party--with 2 friends. Kj wanted to pick up his friend Corey. I tried to beg off, Kevin had took the 4wd to work, my car was covered in snow & the doors were froze shut, so KJ got the doors opened & cleaned off the car. I made him stay home with Katie (the lake roads are notorious in winter & I would rather be stranded/& or dead by myself while my kids were safe & warm @ home)I did fine until I was in sight of Corey's house, the hill up to it was a lot steeper than I realized, until my car started spinning & going sideways & backwards. I took a couple of good runs at it & probably could've made it, but I could smell burning rubber & the car sounded like it was going to blow up, so I eased up just a sec & that was it. Corey's nice father came out & backed the car down the hill & aound the sharp curve & brought it in another (less hilly) way. The road under the fresh snow was ice. (duh...we're actually having winter this winter...)I honestly can barely back out of my driveway. So, I told Corey just to bring clothes & spend the nite, I wasn't up to taking him home, Kevin can take him home tomorrow in the truck.
have to volunteer again to work a 1/2 day of my weekend off since we still don't have a weekend kid. I'm hoping KJ will consent to work on my weekend when he turns 16 until he is comfortable with the job & then I can eventually have more days off.
took down the outside decorations last nite ( a tiny tree, & santa & reindeer tree faces) but have yet to start in the house. I went thru the Current catalog we got looking for valentines for Katie's class, & found a xmas tree storage bag so ordered that. The box is a pain, takes about a roll of tape to hold it together, & of course it never went back into the box like it was when I got it...

locks of love

Kevin took Katie to the beauty shop today for a locks of love haircut...her hair is now almost touching her shoulders. her hair is now bouncy & swingy & she is very happy with it.

insurance is good

insurance is a necessity. insurance is one of the reasons I go to work everyday. But it sucks when you have to call the tollfree line on a claim & try to form comprehendable sentences. Even when I write down what I'm going to say, I can screw it up...
kate is refusing to go to tonites ballgame, so will just drop kj & corey off & pick them up. I guess I can be a grownup & miss one pepband performance...
yesterday I was the only non-school-employee volunteer in the craft room at the school xmas party, sent off the world thinking day postcard exchange badge order, went to Dollar General, bank, picked up my wedding rings, ate the new pizza hut pizza, shopped at Orshelins, then went to see Alvin & The Chipmunks.
then today it was back to work...
I should so be a stay-at-home mom...

it's only tuesday?

monday--my riser week---hiking the risers in the snow--with a flashlight in the a.m. when it's still dark---again after work with wet hair---
home varsity BB game--pep band played, & there was a Band Boosters meeting--we had to go. kate wasn't in the mood. she tried really hard to convince me she had to stay home & do her homework. she finally grudgingly came along. (we really need a live-in nanny for such occasions.)
tuesday--risers in the dark--risers with wet hair---the school xmas program---ran out of laundry soap--so bought more at princeton p.m.--& therefore am behind on laundry. I do 2-3 loads everyday to stay caught up. livingroom needs picked up again--kate has a project going on & it's taking over the whole floor.
kevin picked up his gun from shop & had his ankle x-rayed again.

and now...

it's snowing...a lot...on top of the piles of broken tree limbs & frozen slushy roads...