Pumpkin and Twinkies

So my little issue at work was kinda resolved today. Basically here's what happened....I was threatened by someone that wanted to kick my ass. I walked away and told my supervisors. I know you are totally shocked, right? Me not fight? Well that's what happened. This started a whole tornado of crap. Gossip, meetings and frustration. Today that person was disciplined. End of story. Whatever! If I wrote what I really wanted to say I would probably get fired so I'll leave it at that.
Other than all that mess work is going really well right now. We are very busy and somethings are starting to come into play that will make the day better. Things are up but as usual I'm waiting for them to come crashing down. I thought it might come with the evaluations but it seems that everyone else's went just as well as mine. At least I didn't hear anyone complaining. Well except about cell phones. There has been a lot of complaining about people texting and some people even making calls on the line. To that I say whatever!
Maybe all this exercising has caused me to chili out. I've been working really hard and trying new exercises. Some of them hurt! It's OK though. I need to burn the extra calories so I can eat the yummy pumpkin twinkie dessert that Mike was talking about. I thought I blogged about it before but I was too busy to look it up. So this is for you Kristy! Pumpkin Twinkie dessert

Can I Get Off The Ride Now?

I am embarrassed to say this.....I love this song!
Those of you that are my friends on facebook probably saw that I wrote "This week has been one wild roller coaster ride". Oh has it ever! Most of the ups and downs have come from work. There are things that happened this week that I can't talk about yet because they aren't resolved. It's all crazy. My job is not in jeopardy or anything like that but it could have been. I hope it all gets straightened out because I'm tired.
To add to that stress we also got our yearly evaluations. Do you remember last years? They went much better this year. They addressed good things that I am still trying to analyze. Everyone knows that I over-think everything. This just added to the stress of what had already happened the day before.
My new exercising goals really helped with all that stress! I exercised everyday this week except Saturday. I feel great! I hurt just about everywhere but "No Pain No Gain" Right?
All that exercise will help with the yummy Thanksgiving dinner that's coming up! This year we will not be having it at my house. I think it will be at either Mom's or Stacy's. Not sure yet. Dinner will also be earlier. We always eat at 5 but Jason's brother and his family are in from North Carolina so we will be going to his Mom's house to spend time with them. I need to go see my little princesses. Abbie was born in August and we've hardly spent any time with her. I'm sure Miss Becka will have plenty of stories to tell me about Hannah Montana! LOL
I'll let you all know once the dinner plans are finalized!

Here We Go Again!

Almost every year my place of employment has some kind of get healthy contest. This year the prize is up to $600! Of course this is a weight-loss contest and a physical fitness contest. The whole point is to get people to live healthier so our insurance doesn't cost so much.
Those of you that are long time readers know that I am always looking to loose weight. I am not happy with what I weigh but I love food! I don't mind exercising but sometimes there is no time and most of the time I fail to make time.
So anyway.... here's what I have to do. I have to do some form of physical activity at least 24 times in 1 month for the next 12 months. I have to have 1 preventative exam, dentist will do. Lower my waist measurement, lower my blood pressure, lower everything else! No vehicle moving violations for 1 year and I am not allowed to miss more than 3 days of work in 1 year. I also have to lower my BMI, loose 8% of my body weight or do something with body fat percentage. That sounds like a lot but the payout is $600. Who doesn't need $600?
Today was the starting day. I went and weighed in.....YIKES! I guess I have to adjust the numbers on my weight tracker. Stupid scale! I did walk down town to get the boys from school and got on my long lost friend the treadmill. My butt hurts!
I'll try not to bore you with the everyday details but I will be writing about it once in a while.
A few other unrelated tidbits..... Jarrett is selling Market Day Cookie Dough for his 6th grade camp fundraiser. If anyone would like to order let me know. The dough will be in before Christmas.
Speaking of Christmas, I started my shopping. I really am not going to do all that much this year. We've severely cut our gift giving list. I know a lot of people that have had to do that. I just wish some others would do the same. Oh well. As hard as I try I can't control everything! Ha, ha, ha!

I Lied!

I guess I lied about that posting more thing. Facebook is taking all my time. I'm nosey so that feeds my need for info. (Dumb and repetitive as some of the comments are!)
We are getting a little break from sports right now. Jarrett doesn't start basketball until November 23. I worked some overtime today and Jason has been picking up some too. Christmas is approaching fast! We have a Christmas Club account but all the extra money is helpful. I need new breaks and 2 new tires. Anyone want to do my breaks for some extra cash????
I need to start Christmas shopping. I think I'll start today. I have major cash off at Old Navy. My boys are pretty easy to buy for and Jason is too. Deciding on what to do about the nieces and nephews is the hard part. I would love to buy for them all but 4 little fellas and 4 little ladies is just too much. Maybe we should have a little party or something. Any ideas?? They are all spoiled, including the 2 of my own, anyway! I just need to win the lottery! I don't need to win it all just $10,000 would be nice!
Speaking of money....I decided to bite the bullet(ha, ha, ha) and try some deer meat.(get it now?) I'm not a big meat eater in the first place. It all grosses me out. I can't even smell it when I cook it or look at it when I'm eating it. No bones, no skin, and none of the fatty hard stuff! Yuck! So anyway, Jason got a deer and I asked him to have most of it made into hamburger(mixed with sausage). First Jason made spaghetti. Not a big spaghetti fan so I didn't eat it. Then we had deer tacos. Not bad. Since then we have had deer chili and deer sloppy joes. Couldn't really tell the difference. I still had to hold my nose when I cooked it though. Anyone have other deer recipes?
We are really busy at work. Ford is kicking ass and that keeps my line hot. Too bad that people are so stupid! Enough said!
I really will try to post more! If you just can't stand the time between waits, look me up on Facebook. I know you are all dying to join!

Back To School!

I know it's been a while since I posted. The boys are done with football and only Jarrett is playing basketball. I should have time to post more.

Today Jason and I had a meeting at the school with the IAT(intervention assistance team). It was for Brandon. We had to do this once before in 2nd grade. You can read about that here. His 4th grade teacher is really concerned with his handwriting. Duh! She also noticed that he seems really distracted and she is having trouble keeping him on task. I explained to her that he has never had attention trouble before and it's probably that he is so frustrated with how hard he has to try to write. Here's an example.

That handwriting is actually pretty good for him. Remember he is in 4th grade. Anyway, the team decided that he needed to be evaluated by this guy that was in the meeting. He determined that Brandon would probably get a low score on his test and that would lead to the occupational therapist reevaluating him. She saw him last time and determined there was nothing wrong with him other than the bad hand writing. I think she's wrong!

Last time I went to the meeting I didn't know what to think. This time I did my research and found something that might explain Brandon's hand writing. It's a learning disability called Dysgraphia. The motor dysgraphia fits him perfectly. I think it all started when he nearly cut the tip of his ring finger off in kindergarten. His hand writing in preschool was better than it is now. According to my research a cure could be as simple as some physical therapy to strengthen his fingers and hand. Something about the muscles being so weak that the brain can't properly communicate. I'm not the expert so we will have to wait till next month to see what the tests reveal.

I feel bad for Brandon because he is such a good kid and this is affecting all his grades. All his teachers since he started school have been great about all this. They've made exceptions for him and try not to signal him out. I just make sure to keep reminding him that he has done nothing wrong. He tries hard but it gets him nowhere. Poor little guy. I'll keep you posted!

Sunday's Browns Game, Through My Eyes!

Last Sunday we took the boys to the Browns game. I wasn't too thrilled to get up at 6 am to go sit in a parking lot full of drunks and weirdos. I was told it was all part of the "experience". Uh, ok whatever. I guess also part of the "experience" was driving through the ghetto. And I mean real ghetto. Not Kristy ghetto. I'm talking "I locked the doors ghetto"! This was Jesse's super secret shortcut. So anyway, after the ghetto drive we got to "experience" paying $25 to park like sardines in a dirty parking lot, littered with already half drunk people.

We got out set up chairs and whatever and the boys started to play football!

Of course they got in a big fight and started hitting each other. So......

Jarrett went to the truck all pissed off and ate doughnuts......

Brayden and Brandon sat around bored. ( aren't those cute little eye thingies?)

Then it was time to eat....

Then just as we started to eat, Brayden had to go #2 really bad! There was only 1 port o pot in the whole lot. My idea was to have him go in a Ziploc bag in the back of the truck but no one went for that! Jesse took him to wait in line for half an hour only to have the thing almost full! Gross! Then there was no toilet paper so Jesse had to get half a napkin and do his best! Right about that time Jesse's friends also showed up.

Right before we went up to the stadium one of the girls attempted to pee in between Jason's truck doors where the guys were going. Let me tell ya.....there were yellow rivers flowing everywhere!

On the way to the stadium the boys and I stopped to people watch! What a bunch of freaks! I should have gotten better pictures of some of these people but I was afraid to get shot! Even though they thoroughly checked us for weapons before we went in!

At the game they handed out breast cancer pins and even had one on the field.

During the game it was pretty exciting.......People were getting thrown out left and right. There were Bengal's fans everywhere!

This guy

And this guy

were going to fight right in front of us! It was great! There were F-bombs flying everywhere! The guy sitting next to us yelled at them and told them to watch it because there were kids right here! Yeah, like my kids have never heard that before. I wanted to see a fight!

Oh, remember those cute little eye thingies? They came in handy later when we had a Bengal's fan sit right in front of us. Brandon and I laughed forever!

I did actually watch some of the game...

Oops! What I meant to say was, I watched Brady Quinn on the sidelines!

There was one point in the game where I got really excited! I wanted to run out onto the field...

Yep! That's right where I was going to run! I wanted to cut this guys hair off soooo bad! It was driving me nuts!

The kids had a great time! I think they really like the game, freezing butts and all! Oh, yeah. We lost 23 - 20 in overtime. :(

The Good, The Bad, and The What Was I Thinking!

One of the things I love about the boys being in sports (ok really it's one of the things I hate too) is seeing old friends, classmates, and old crushes. I've reconnected with a few people that were good if not great friends at one time or another. These are the people that I really want to make sure that they stay in my life from now on. You know who you are! The funny thing is that two of these people made me pumpkin cookies! How weird is that? I love anything that is pumpkin! Now, I'm not saying that you have to make me pumpkin anything just to be my friend , but hey it can't hurt! Ha, ha, ha!
Some of the other people that I have reconnected with were friends or acquaintances. I love seeing most of these people too. I love seeing how they have changed or even how they have stayed the same. I like seeing their kids and hearing a little about their lives now. Even the friends that I don't see but that I stay connected with through Facebook.
Then there are the people I see and I think "What in the hell was I thinking?". Old crushes that have done nothing with their lives. Well, except manage to get arrested a few times. Former friends that I am ashamed to say I once knew them. You know the ones.... The only thing that they are good for is using them as an example to teach your kids a lesson. Really! I did this once in Wally World!
Anyway it makes me wish that I had been nicer when I was younger. I just really hope that people see that I have changed in some ways.

Fall!

My favorite season is here! Fall! That means football, pumpkin recipes, falling leaves, fall colors and new fall shows! Jason was at work and the boys went to the Massillon football game so I was home alone last night. I was going to clean out my car but decided to catch up with my DVR. I thought that was a much better choice!
I DVRed all my old shows like:
Greys-Kinda one of my faves but slowly dying
Fringe- Joshua Jackson! Need I say more?
Private Practice- Good story lines most of the time. The season finale was a real cliffhanger.
House- I really liked the season premiere. I think House is hot!

This season there are a lot of new shows too. Some that I DVRed were:
Eastwick- It was ok. It has potential to be good. I think I'll keep watching.
Cougar Town- I laughed my arse off! It is a little kooky but really funny.
Mercy- I'm not even going to post a link for this one! It was that bad! The plot and actors totally sucked. Plus I've seen it all with ER.
Vampire Diaries- I love this one! Yes Twilight might be influencing my decision but hey the main guy is hot! Way hotter than Edward! There are two things I don't like. One is that I am constantly comparing it to Twilight. Like in one scene the vampire guy was sleeping. Uh, in Twilight they don't sleep! The other thing I don't like is the main guys brother. He looks like a young Rob Lowe but makes all these weird facial expressions and looks like he has too much make-up on.
I know Kristy watched Glee. Did anyone elese catch some of the new shows?

Fall Football Preview!

In case all of you haven't realized it yet......Football has officially started! The boys started a couple weeks ago, then high school, Saturday night was collage and the NFL started this week! Oh goodie, goodie! Did you read my sarcasm?
I love watching my boys play! They are both still undefeated and improving every game! I can watch a few high school games but would rather listen on the radio. Collage? Eh, I can take it or leave it. I like Ohio State but really only follow the scores.
Now the NFL, oh my! Do we really need Thursday, Sunday and Monday games? Wasn't Sunday and Monday night enough? Maybe they just don't understand the havoc it causes in my world. Sunday goes like this......Morning- check the line ups for fantasy league. Yes that cuts into my farm_____(enter either ville or town here). Then when the games actually start it completely takes over two T.V.s and the computer.
That starts the kids complaining and seriously cuts into my farm_____! Then of course Jesse comes over and I have to listen to them analyze every little thing. I tried to watch the Green Bay and Bears game last night and really ended up just looking for hot guys! LOL I found a big, bald one and it would be just my luck that I hear on ESPN (yes the guys have it on during lunch at work) today that he is out for the year! Gee, can't a girl ever get a break? Yes ladies! Brady Quinn is hot but looks too much like a little boy!
Speaking of the football players looks....I so very badly want to jump through the TV with a good pair of scissors and cut all that long nasty hair I see flying around from under those helmets! If I was playing those guys I would grab a fist full and pull real hard! Would that draw a flag? Oh well maybe they would cut it before they played me again! Or then again maybe they would just pinch me real hard back! Who knows what goes on at the bottom of those pile-ups!

Surprise!

After months of planning, every ones hard work payed off! We surprised Jesse with a 30th birthday party! Papaw RJ almost blew it that morning at the football game but luckily Jesse wasn't paying attention. Under the cover of Jason having a Ohio State party we managed to get everything ready! Jesse called Jason a few choice words when they pulled in the driveway so I think he was really surprised!

We had:

Family and Friends.....

Cake....

Corn hole...

Cold beverages...

And you can't forget the pinata!

Then everyone watched a disappointing loss for the Bucks.

It was a good party and everyone had a lot of fun! Jason and Jesse went up to the Browns game this morning. I hope it doesn't end the same as the Ohio State game.