Saturday, September 29, 2007
Week Four
AWB - Atlanta
Lucy - Houston
Baltimore at Cleveland
AWB - Cleveland
Lucy - Baltimore
Oakland at Miami
AWB - Miami
Lucy - Oakland
Chicago at Detroit
AWB - Detroit
Lucy - Chicago
New York Jets at Buffalo
AWB - New York Jets
Lucy - New York Jets
Green Bay at Minnesota
AWB -Green Bay
Lucy - Green Bay
St Louis at Dallas
AWB -St Louis
Lucy - Dallas
Seattle at San Francisco
AWB - Seattle
Lucy - San Francisco
Tampa Bay at Carolina
AWB - Tampa Bay
Lucy - Carolina
Kansas City at San Diego
AWB - Kansas City
Lucy - Kansas City
Denver at Indianapolis
AWB - Indianapolis
Lucy - Indianapolis
Pittsburgh at Arizona
AWB - Pittsburgh
Lucy - Arizona
Philadelphia at New York Giants
AWB - Philadelphia
Lucy - New York Giants
New England at Cincinnati
AWB - New England
Lucy -New England
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Week Four
Update: We are going to bet on football this week afterall, I will put the picks up in the morning, AWB is planning on being home to watch the games on Sunday, I hope his wish comes true for the sake of all of the nurses!!! hehehe....
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Single parenting can be so hard.....
Once upon a time ago I married a man I loved. I had three children with him. We set out to raise our children together. We had the same beliefs. We backed each other up on disciplinary issues. Over time we grew apart. He became an absentee father. We rarely saw him and never did anything together as a family. Finally the day came when we split up. At that point in time, he did not know the security code he needed to have to pick up our youngest son from daycare and he had never changed a diaper on him and he was just a little over two. He did not even know what grade the other two kids were in or who their teachers were.
Suddenly, on an endeavor to impress the judge and increase visitation in hopes of reducing support he became super dad. Available for anything and everything that had to do with the kids, field trips, parent teacher meetings, sporting events, you name it, he had it all. Then he started dating a gal who had jealousy problems. She quickly came between him and our oldest daughter. He has not had visitation or any type of a relationship with our daughter for four and a half years now, because of the "bimbo". She also has issues with our youngest son because he requires too much attention, so her son and her make his life miserable when he visits. She does like our older son because he is the same age as her son and they can entertain each other. She does not behave in any manner that is fitting for any children to be around, my sons have witnessed her in various states of undress which is totally unacceptable and she and my ex both drink around them all of the time.
Its difficult because my exhusband and I had the same hopes and dreams for our kids at one time. We had the same set of morals, which included not living in sin. He has lived with four different women since we separated. I have dated, but no man has spent the night in my home when my kids are here. I just don't understand him and his thinking process.
He throws a fit if I don't give him information regarding things going on at school with the kids. He throws a fit if I do give him information regarding things going on at school with the kids. If they are doing well, nothing is said. If there is a problem he and his girlfriend go off on me and blame it all on me being a horrible parent. My son is carrying a failing grade in English right now and I passed the info on to his dad tonight. His girlfriend called me and said I was a poor excuse for a parent and went on and on blaming it all on me. I tried to talk to my ex and he explained that I should do our son's homework with him every night. I check my kids' homework, but I do not do it. My son is a freshmen and he needs to be responsible for his own work. He tells me he has it done and does not bring it home from school. My other two kids make honor roll. Are their grades the result of me being a bad parent also?
I have been so upset by all of this all evening. Its like once you become a single parent, you live your life under a microscope with everyone just waiting for you to screw up so they can take you to court and try to take your kids away from you.
Friday, September 21, 2007
The gourds have been harvested.....
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Week Three
Sunday, September 23
Miami 28 @ NY Jets 31
AWB - San Francisco
Buffalo 7 @ New England 38
AWB - Philadelphia
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Something....
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Week Two
Houston 34 (6.5) vs Carolina 21
Lucy - Carolina
Cincinnati 45 vs Cleveland 51 (6.5)
Lucy - Cincy .5
Atlanta 7 (10.5) vs Jacksonville 13
Lucy - Atlanta 4.5
Green Bay 35 (1) vs NY Giants 13
Lucy - NY Giants
Buffalo 3 (9.5) vs Pittsburgh 26
Lucy - Buffalo
San Francisco 17 (2.5) vs St. Louis 16
Lucy - St Louis
New Orleans 14 vs Tampa Bay 31 (3.5)
Lucy - New Orleans
Indianapolis 22 vs Tennessee 20 (6.5)
Lucy - Indianapolis
Seattle 20 vs Arizona 13 (2.5)
Lucy - Seattle
Minnesota 17 (2.5) vs Detroit 20
Lucy - Minnesota
Dallas 37 vs Miami 20 (3.5)
Lucy - Dallas
NY Jets 13 vs Baltimore 20
Lucy - Baltimore
Kansas City 10 (12.5) vs Chicago 20
Lucy - Chicago
Oakland 20 (9.5) vs Denver 23
AWB - Denver
San Diego 14 3.5 vs New England 38
Lucy - San Diego
Monday, Sep 17
A Baby Chipmunk
The boys were doing their yardwork this evening and somehow they managed to sweep up a baby chipmunk with the lawn sweeper. After much arguing, I convinced them they had to turn it loose, after the addition of the kittens on Thursday and the death of a tadpole last Tuesday, a chipmunk would have just been too much! ;) Thank goodness there was no discussion about keeping the huge bullfrog they caught last week.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Announcing the addition of....
Mikey and Maggie joined our family Thursday evening and as you can see they are just the cutest little critters. We were not particularly in need of this addition to our family, but they had been orphaned and were doomed to death and well of course I could just not let that happen. They are a little over four weeks old and are drinking formula at four hour intervals and are keeping us quite entertained. Maggie is the white one, she is a runt, but boy is she a bully. Mikey just puts up with it for now, but I suspect one of these days....
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Budweiser-Clydesdales at ground zero.
Wish I would have posted this earlier this week, beware though, it will bring a tear to your eye
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
We cannot forget
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Direction of the wind???
If any of you followed my blog last year, AWB and I had weekly bets going on the outcome of the football games. He has accused me of stepping outside to see which way the wind is blowing in order to make my picks. Honestly, even he knows me well enough that the direction of the wind would only serve to confuse me. I am not so good at N, S, E and W other than North is up and if you remember WE instead of EW, it will help. I did pretty well with my bets last year, and am holding my own with the season opener this year. Trust me, I have seen my system go to hell in a handbasket in a hurry, but it seems to work more often than not.
So let me share with you the intricate workings of my mind and this high tech system I have devised. Its quite simple actually, I think even you menfolk can follow along...
I ALWAYS pick Indianapolis.
I ALWAYS pick Chicago (unless they are playing Indianapolis)
I NEVER pick a Florida team. (Unless two Florida teams are playing, then the one the furthest to the north)
The rest is quite simple, I pick the city I would most like to visit!!!
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Week One!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 06
New Orleans 10 (5.5) at Indianapolis 41 8:30 PM
LUCY: INDIANAPOLIS
AWB: INDIANAPOLIS
Sunday, September 09
Philadelphia 13 @ Green Bay 16 (+2.5) 1:00 PM
LUCY: PHILADELPHIA
AWB: GREEN BAY
Atlanta 3 (2.5) @ Minnesota 24 1:00 PM
LUCY: ATLANTA
AWB: MINNESOTA
Miami 13 (2.5) @ Washington 16 1:00 PM
LUCY: WASHINGTON
AWB: MIAMI
New England 38 @ New York Jets 14 (+6.5) 1:00 PM
LUCY: NEW ENGLAND
AWB: NY JETS
Tennessee 13 (6.5) @ Jacksonville 10 1:00 PM
LUCY: TENNESSEE
AWB: JACKSONVILLE
Denver 15 @ Buffalo 14 (+3.5) 1:00 PM
LUCY: BUFFALO
AWB: DENVER
Pittsburgh 34 @ Cleveland 7 (+4.5) 1:00 PM
LUCY: CLEVELAND
AWB: PITTSBURGH
Carolina 27 (1) @ St. Louis 13 1:00 PM
LUCY: CAROLINA
AWB: ST. LOUIS
Kansas City 3 (3) @ Houston 20 1:00 PM
LUCY: KANSAS CITY
AWB: HOUSTON
Tampa Bay 6 (5.5) @ Seattle 20 4:15 PM
LUCY: SEATTLE
AWB: SEATTLE
Chicago 3 (5.5) @ San Diego 14 4:15 PM
LUCY: CHICAGO
AWB: CHICAGO
Detroit 36 (1.5) @ Oakland 21 4:15 PM
LUCY: OAKLAND
AWB: DETROIT
New York Giants 35 (5.5) @ Dallas 45 8:15 PM
LUCY:DALLAS
AWB: DALLAS
Monday, September 10
Baltimore 20 (2.5)@ Cincinnati 27 7:00 PM
LUCY: BALTIMORE
AWB: BALTIMORE
Arizona 17 (3.5) @ San Francisco 20 10:15 PM
LUCY: SAN FRANCISCO
AWB: ARIZONA
And there you have it, AWB claims victory this week
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
New Job
Today I worked a full day. I am training as a temp for the switchboard. Its a great gig, you walk away at 4:30 and leave the day behind. But in the course of the day I am trying to track down any one of at least 400 people, not including out of building, international and production, that brings the total to at least 1200. This poor gentleman called in from India and was incredibly difficult to understand, I could not find any listing anywhere for the person he was calling for, he was even spelling the name. Later, after I told him I was unable to help him, I found the name of the person he was looking for, he was spelling the first name, not the last... You live you learn. I have this mental block against paging people. Tomorrow I will overcome that!
I think half of my neighbors work at this same company....I have never gotten around to meeting all of my neighbors, but I have met several in the last two days. Unfortunately, I don't know how I will ever learn the names of all of these people. Could be fun!
The gourd that ate my house...
Monday, September 3, 2007
Coming Soon!
Whew, what a weekend!
I am glad that I have decided to jump back in to life with both feet. Don't get me wrong, it is a bit difficult, I have been melting into bed and going into a deep sleep at night, but I am doing more and more each day and it seems to be hurting less and less. I hope this thing in my abdomen goes away on its on. I am starting a diet tomorrow, I am not sure if its a good thing to do when starting a new job, but it can't hurt to try. My thought process is because I am going back to work to a real job where I have the be there on time, hehehe, I am going to be setting up a lot of new habits, getting up earlier, getting the kids ready for school, planning the evening meal in advance so it will be easy, etc., etc... so I should be able to set up a diet and exercise plan also. At least I am hoping so!
It's kind of sad to think of this weekend as the end of summer, but for me it just seems like a whole lot of new beginnings are right at my front door. Its time to just do it!