walking on egg shells

So because someone is tired of no one picking up after themselves or being considerate of the others that live in this house we are all dodging the yelling and avoiding the one in a bad mood.  Yet for years I did it all while you lived in your bubble and there was no model for anyone to learn anything different.  So we walked around and did everything for you and you were in a bad mood and now that I don't do anything you are still in a bad mood.  Yes, I know you were stressed but you should be relieved and glad to have dodged a bullet.  But no, you are in a crappy mood and we all know it.  I'm sorry you're tired but so am I.  

Yes, I am tired of living in a place where no one does anything...(ok except you)... IF the kitchen sink was fixed I would do dishes but I am really tired of finding them in the laundry room sink and I was tired of doing dishes to cook dinner to do dishes again.    

dishes all over the house

people up at all hours

people not considerate of those of us that need to get up in the morning

I could go on but it gets too depressing.  I'm so overwhelmed that I can't seem to get started - and most of the time I don't want to start because no one will appreciate it and whatever I get done will be undone almost as soon as I finish.  

I bought new towels for the parents to use when they come to visit.  I wanted to keep them nice and asked my children NOT to use them.  Yeah, right that didn't last - the visit was postponed they think they can use them when there are no other towels are clean because they have left them all in balls in their rooms and if I take the time to get them all together and washed the cycle just begins again.

And I wonder why I'm so tired....

Friday Night

So lasts night i took my blood pressure...it was higher than I'd like but I suppose it is what passes for normal for me. For those of you that care it was 125 /89...it has been a stressful week. I'm not entirely sure why. I've been more of the anti anxiety medicine which seems to help but i don't like being able to tell when i haven't taken it. I need to get something that i can be on longer term -I've been taking my "emergency" stuff. And of course as i get closer to the end of the prescription that i will have to call the doctor to get more i want to take it less often. I may have to break down and go see the doctors just to get it all worked out. it would be nice to know what they want my blood pressure to be...it's up, it's down...i feel faint, i feel bloated...i gain weight, i lose it...it's just annoying. Sort of like this time of year.

It snowed one day all day and it was really pretty out. i took some pictures in the dark as my camera's battery died. I will try to download them here. I'll show the car too...the one that Colleen's friend gave her that Royce is driving...he got rid of the other two. I feel bad for her because she really wanted it to be her car and he will probably drive it into the ground like he does all the vehicles....looking at this picture makes me think it's my car...shows how much i know - NOT


The pictures are reversed, I will have to work on them tomorrow...it's too late to worry abou them now.  

Not much else going on.  

six words telling a story

our past confuses our future hopes

fork in road take the other

phone rings smile its for you

another chance love don't blow it

broken heart mends slowly tread softly

this life not what i expected

nothing ventured nothing gained try again

the last one was pretty cliched

this is harder than one would think.

I'm not sure i got what i wanted in any of them...can you do it? tell a story about something in six words?

Cold Morning in January

so these pictures are two years old but they make me think of warm places.

Today isn't as cold as it has been but the house is chilly and the one child awake is grumpy. Makes me want to look on sunny days when we were happy. We're going bowling later today, maybe i will take my camera and see what we end up with there.

Life is busy as ever. I'm looking forward to another week of hunting for addresses and trying to get 1099's mailed and then correcting those we sent out to the wrong people...fun.

I like how Colleen and Tim are coming through this rock.

This one is on the far side of the island. We love to watch the waves spray into the sky and when it is really windy it blows on us.

There's another one of colleen in a similar pose but i like this one with Tim and Sarah too. I need to fine a more recent picture of Sarah so you can see how grown up she has suddenly become.

Here she is at Christmas -sorry if it has been here before...

This one is Colleen last summer. I like the color of the sunset on her face.

More Pictures

Saturday night before heading to Steve's for dinner we got a picture of all the "kids". We even got Andrew & Leslie to join in the fun. Didn't see much of them either trip.

Katie working on taking 2008 pictures on her trip

Jon hugging the mysterious van we found in the neighborhood

Sarah at Steve & Nina's

The Jones boys doing dishes

Steve & Dylan building a fire

Almost Christmas

Time to try to put pictures back on my blog...I got some pics when in DC last weekend. Wish I was there today because more family is in town and I only have a little time there again this weekend.

Here's Sarah & Kaylie!




Here I am with Steve!



Here's Grandma Thea and Mikey...Isn't he CUTE???

Wrapping Gifts for a Cause

So yesterday sarah and i went up to the local outlet mall to wrap gifts to raise money for ACS - Relay for Life. We had 4 people stop in (one i dragged in from the bench outside our door) in the 3+ hours we were there...BUT the people that came in were incredibly generous....so now if Sarah can get $5 more dollars she will qualify for a t-shirt...and I still have to do my own fundraising but it is a little easier for me. well, i can drop into branches and see if i can get people to give me $5 a shot. that worked for me last year...

Today needs to be spent getting my own holiday decorating and presents on their way...

It was a nice experience although i had hopes for more people both wrapping and coming in to wrap.

Off to work on Christmas for us now.