Well we have been out of our house for 2 months now. The fire happened on the night of December 3rd into the early morning hours of December 4th. We lived for 20 difficult days with my husbands mom and her husband before a blow out, in which my MIL said something so hurtful to me that I am not sure I can ever forgive her. We have been in the hotel for 6 weeks. It is not an ideal situation and I certainly wish we were home, we have adjusted to the everyday.
Our house reconstruction is coming along. Our bedroom has been painted and the old cracked toilet removed. I expect that work in the upstairs of our house will be completed this week. The carpet guy I believe has been scheduled for tomorrow.
Plumbing and electrical have been completed downstairs and the ceilings have been drywalled, painted and textured. The walls of the living room and dining room have been primed. The kitchen ceiling is closed up but needs texture and the kitchen walls need to ne primed.
We have picked out the tile for the fireplace surround, it is not exactly what I want but it will do. We are still discussing new furniture for the living room, we will see.
Meanwhile my daughter is not getting adequate sleep. On Monday she threw a fit that probable registered a 10 fo the fit meter. It started when she lost a game of sorry. The crying, stomping screaming, talking trash continued throughout the shower. It continued after the shower while she put on pajamas and had her hair combed. It continued after she went to bed and now included kicking. I simply shut off the light and the TV and layed in the next bed facing away from the Isabella tornado and let her continue. I did not talk to her, I did not engage, this behavior was unacceptable and I wanted it to stop (I also wanted to spank her but didn't) My assessment: She was over tired and wanted attention. After only about 10 minutes the tornado calmed down and when I turned over to face her she was sound asleep. She slept until 7:00 and she was much better for it. Bella is not typically a fit thrower but when she does she really does it.
Report cards came out last Friday. Accademically she is doing ok but is still having issues with behavior and the teacher is still giving us very little feedback.
Last night was her brownie meeting (cookie pickup is this weekend-she only sold 30 boxes and actually Scott and I sold them) I stayed for the meeting to see how Bella handled herself and honestly I was not thrilled. The kid is loud and obnoxious! She must of said " what the heck" 15 times. That has to stop. I am guessing this is how she is behaving at school as well.
The kid is quite something in a lot of ways. Last week on the way to work and school we heard on the radio that Puxatony (sp?) Phil was texting. What follows is our conversation:
Me: "Bella how do you think a ground hog texts?"
Bella: "With his claws"
M: "Well don't you need a cell phone to text?"
B:"Yes"
M: "Well where do you think a ground hog gets a cell phone?"
B: "He walks down to the store and buys one"
M: "Don't you need money to buy a phone?"
B: "yes"
M: Where would a groung hog get money?"
B: "Babysitting"
M: "like other ground hogs/"
B: "Yes"
M: "what about a skunk?, Rabbit?, Squirrel?"
B: "No only ground hogs"
Alas to Bella's disappointment Phil saw his shadow-6 more weeks of winter-believe me if Phil lived in IL he would not have seen his shadow on Tuesday!
I am currently involved in a large project at work and Bella knows this. So I pick her up from Ycare the other night and she asks me: "How was work?, Did you work on your project?' to which I replied "yes" Bella says "Is this a gluing project" , " No baby it is not a gluing project" I say. Bella says "Is it a project to make a big sign that says "I Love my Job!', "no it is not that either but maybe Bella can make me a sign that says that as there are times I could use it.
Bella is currently missing her two top front teeth. Yesterday the radio was playing the new "New Orleans Saint's song" I look in the rear view mirror and Bella is sitting in her car seat bopping her head back and forth smiling from ear to ear. That kid cracks me up way more than she stresses me out-"its a good thing"
Obese girl out.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Living Space
well for the past few weeks Scott, Bella, Lady and I have been living in a small room at the extended stay America hotel. We have 2 beds, 2 chairs, 2 plates 2 bowls, 2 glasses, they did give us each a towel. We have a two burner stove, a refrigerator and a microwave. I am tired of living in this space. One it is messy all the time! 1. we have too much stuff in a small place and 2. a couple of people are having a hard time picking up after themselves (its not me). If we all want to eat together we have to move the table over to the bed so one person can sit on that. For Bella to go to bed on time and to go to sleep the rest of us also have to go to bed at 8:00 otherwise the light and/or TV is keeping her awake. I am not sleeping well. The sheet doesn't stay on, the matress pad is lumpy, the room temperature fluctuates and the heat and refrigerator coming on desturbs my sleep as does the dog and/or my husband. I am tired of living there and who knows how long we will be there. I guess we are waiting at this point for Benson Stone to schedule install of the vented insert and until that is done they can't close the walls us because we need an inspection. I just hope Benson stone finds a time to squeeze in our install. After that the restoration folks are saying things should move along fairly quickly.
Work is still stressful and this past wednesday we were suppose to have a staff meeting about the re-arrangement of duties but it got canceled. I guess MC stated that she was not going to admit she was wrong but just try and be pleasant. I am not sure she really did anything wrong in the first place. And MC is one of those folks who you can see right through her Pleasantness. Andrea says she is going to do the same thing, but this stick you head in the sand, paint a smile on your butt technique is not going to work. Leadership is lacking, somehow I think work is getting done. The meeting has been rescheduled to Monday 4-5 but the GC has a meeting before and after so I hope it can be done in the hour time frame especially when we never seem to start on time.
Scott works the weekend. Bella and I need to take the car for an oil change and probably a wash, we need to do laundry and work on the basement at the house and find some baptism pictures so she can complete her faith journal which is due on Sunday. If She gets her faith journal done I told her she could go spend her gift cards from Christmas. I don't know what else we will do this weekend and then Bella is off on Monday because of MLK day. Scott is off too so they will be spending the day together.
I sure hope we are home by Valentines day.
Work is still stressful and this past wednesday we were suppose to have a staff meeting about the re-arrangement of duties but it got canceled. I guess MC stated that she was not going to admit she was wrong but just try and be pleasant. I am not sure she really did anything wrong in the first place. And MC is one of those folks who you can see right through her Pleasantness. Andrea says she is going to do the same thing, but this stick you head in the sand, paint a smile on your butt technique is not going to work. Leadership is lacking, somehow I think work is getting done. The meeting has been rescheduled to Monday 4-5 but the GC has a meeting before and after so I hope it can be done in the hour time frame especially when we never seem to start on time.
Scott works the weekend. Bella and I need to take the car for an oil change and probably a wash, we need to do laundry and work on the basement at the house and find some baptism pictures so she can complete her faith journal which is due on Sunday. If She gets her faith journal done I told her she could go spend her gift cards from Christmas. I don't know what else we will do this weekend and then Bella is off on Monday because of MLK day. Scott is off too so they will be spending the day together.
I sure hope we are home by Valentines day.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
HAPPY NEW YEAR
WOW the holidays are behind us. They were really terrific in some ways-Bella loves the Barbie Camper that Santa brought. In other ways the holidays were stressfu. The day after Christmas we decided it would be best if our little family unit were to move to a hotel so now home sweet home is the Extended stay. We are cramped and bored but less stressed by the MIL and her hubby. It was wonderful seeing the Houston Meyer family and attending Caroline's baptism.
The house is coming along. We had to move our cat out while they did some special process to eliminate smoke particles in the air. We took her to my friend/co-worker Andrea's house. She didn't do so well there so we had to go retrieve her yesteday and she is back living in the basement at the house.
We had a wonderful time last weekend visiting my sister in Appleton. Lady tried hard the whole time we were there to make friends with their cat. I think Lady misses being with Isis.
We are in the middle of a snow storm, school was on so we treked across town and I dropped Bella off at school and I went on to work.
Today I visited a private Baptist school because I am looking to send Bella somewhere that has smaller class sizes so maybe she will get more individual attention. we shall see.
Tonight we have nothing on the agenda so once we are across town to our hotel we may stop at Woodmans for a few groceries and then probably a few games of kerplunk and sorry before turning in for the night.
Still not exercising or really watching what I eat. I did purchase the Beck diet book with a gift card I got for Christmas.
I know that is a brief update but it is all I have time for now. this not having a phone or email is not fun.
The house is coming along. We had to move our cat out while they did some special process to eliminate smoke particles in the air. We took her to my friend/co-worker Andrea's house. She didn't do so well there so we had to go retrieve her yesteday and she is back living in the basement at the house.
We had a wonderful time last weekend visiting my sister in Appleton. Lady tried hard the whole time we were there to make friends with their cat. I think Lady misses being with Isis.
We are in the middle of a snow storm, school was on so we treked across town and I dropped Bella off at school and I went on to work.
Today I visited a private Baptist school because I am looking to send Bella somewhere that has smaller class sizes so maybe she will get more individual attention. we shall see.
Tonight we have nothing on the agenda so once we are across town to our hotel we may stop at Woodmans for a few groceries and then probably a few games of kerplunk and sorry before turning in for the night.
Still not exercising or really watching what I eat. I did purchase the Beck diet book with a gift card I got for Christmas.
I know that is a brief update but it is all I have time for now. this not having a phone or email is not fun.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
CRAP!
Thats how I feel today, Like Crap!!! I know that most of it is probably related to PMS but not all of it.
Last week stress at work was at an alltime High we have about 150 Physician contracts to get renewed by the end of the year, so everyone was pulled off their projects to work on that, but we really did not seem to know what we were doing, we made the deadline on Friday for most things but not all things. Some of the contracts that did not get done were for a certain speciallty that my boss, the systems general counsel took to work on. If the boss is unable to adhere to a deadline how can he enforce one on us. A few of the agreements I did had a half page of performance criteria so I cut and pasted it to the botton of the renewal and was then told to put it back on 2 seperate pieces of paper. It was so wastefull especially when the rationale was "we have always done it that way in the past". While we were all working on Physician contracts work was continuing to pile up on my desk, I am buried.
On the home front, work has slowed down while we wait for the fire investigator hired by our insunace company tries to figure out if the fire can be blamed on the company that did the inspeciton. They have taken out the kitchen ceiling and it looks like we will have to pay for one of the pipes to be replaced because it is so rusted. They have taken out the upstairs carpet. I guess they will give me an allowace to pick out new carpet. It still smells like smoke in the house. I did 15 loads of laundry at the laundramat over the weekend and I am still not done. I did manage to dig out our Christmas stockings so we will have something of our own. I also brought over all the presents to get wrapped.
Sunday while Bella was at religion class Scott and I went to Target but they did not have the Barbie Camper or the CD Bella wants. We missed the birthday in a box assembly because I could not find the schedule.
Friday night we did have fun as we went to the White Pines Dinner theater production of Scrooge the comedy. The food was good, one of the entrees was beef stroganoff so Bella had plain noodles and fruit. The play was good. There were only 2 actors-one played charles Dickens and the other played Scrooge. All other parts were played by people chosen from the audience. It was really fun.
It is already becoming old living with Scott's mom and her husband. I hope I can last.
Obese girl out
Last week stress at work was at an alltime High we have about 150 Physician contracts to get renewed by the end of the year, so everyone was pulled off their projects to work on that, but we really did not seem to know what we were doing, we made the deadline on Friday for most things but not all things. Some of the contracts that did not get done were for a certain speciallty that my boss, the systems general counsel took to work on. If the boss is unable to adhere to a deadline how can he enforce one on us. A few of the agreements I did had a half page of performance criteria so I cut and pasted it to the botton of the renewal and was then told to put it back on 2 seperate pieces of paper. It was so wastefull especially when the rationale was "we have always done it that way in the past". While we were all working on Physician contracts work was continuing to pile up on my desk, I am buried.
On the home front, work has slowed down while we wait for the fire investigator hired by our insunace company tries to figure out if the fire can be blamed on the company that did the inspeciton. They have taken out the kitchen ceiling and it looks like we will have to pay for one of the pipes to be replaced because it is so rusted. They have taken out the upstairs carpet. I guess they will give me an allowace to pick out new carpet. It still smells like smoke in the house. I did 15 loads of laundry at the laundramat over the weekend and I am still not done. I did manage to dig out our Christmas stockings so we will have something of our own. I also brought over all the presents to get wrapped.
Sunday while Bella was at religion class Scott and I went to Target but they did not have the Barbie Camper or the CD Bella wants. We missed the birthday in a box assembly because I could not find the schedule.
Friday night we did have fun as we went to the White Pines Dinner theater production of Scrooge the comedy. The food was good, one of the entrees was beef stroganoff so Bella had plain noodles and fruit. The play was good. There were only 2 actors-one played charles Dickens and the other played Scrooge. All other parts were played by people chosen from the audience. It was really fun.
It is already becoming old living with Scott's mom and her husband. I hope I can last.
Obese girl out
Monday, December 7, 2009
FIRE!!!!
At 11:55 PM on Thursday December 3rd, my husband called 911 because our house was on fire. Bella and I were sleeping but we were awakened by the smoke alarm an abundance of smoke. 4 squad cars and 2 fire trucks and 2 hours later the fire was out and we are in need of a new wall on two levels of our house. The good news-we are all safe (3 people, 1 dog and 1 cat) We did loose track of Isis for a couple of days but as we expected she was safe and sound and hiding out in our basement. Needless to say this will not be the Christmas we envisioned. We are staying at Scott's mom's house for now. We are back at work and school and the fire restoration folks are at work. Today the insurance adjuster was there and they packed up our belongings. I will stop back at the house on my way home tonight. Our newly decorated Christmas Tree took a dive and many of the glass balls were broken. We have a lot of laundry to do and to make matters worse our toilet tank cracked and flooded the upstairs bathroom, ruined the kitchen ceiling and water was dripping all the way to the basement.
Again we are all fine, although it really put a wrench into my exercise schedule.
Obese girl out.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Whats new?
Well I have not written in a week or so. I have been busy. I took the day before Thanksgiving and the Friday after off so I was home.
The good news is that I am still exercising daily and I have not missed a day since 11/9/09. The bad news is that I still do not have control of my eating and it shows on the scale which has basically not budged at all.
I was pretty busy on my time off. I did a lot of housework-worked in the basement which is still far from being clean-we sure have a lot of junk. I still have some Christmas projects to complete mainly my bowl painting and picture frame painting. I do have the majority of my Christmas shopping done. I need to get some stuff wrapped so I can take it to cookie day this weekend.
I went out shopping at 6:00 am on black Friday and got lots of stuff on sale including a cricuit machine for me.
Our Thanksgiving was nice. We watched the parade in the morning and then went to Donna and Carl's for lunch I took scalloped corn, salad and snacks. I did have a small breakdown when talking to Scott's aunt but I feel I am always just on the verge of having an all out breakdown most of the time and it has not been helped by my daughter telling me "I ruined her life" I am overwhelmed by work and home and being a parent and getting ready for the holidays as well as being depressed about how heavy I have gotten and then not feeling as if I have anyone to vent too. It is hard, but I am getting by the best i can.
Last Saturday we went to North Freedon, WI to ride the Santa Train. Donna and Carl went too. You would think I would have learned my lesson last year but I didn't. Nothing and I mean absolutely NOTHING can just be fun with my family. I am so tired of the whining, crying, complaining and lack of appreciation that I want to SCREAM. I made chicken and dumplings in my crock pot so we all had supper together in the evening.
We recently bought a new TV-42" plasma (How is it that we went to the store to buy a $800 TV and our receipt from Best Buy says we spent $1,600?) we also had to get a new TV stand which is being delivered on Monday. Scott has been messing with the TV however instead of doing what I think he should be. So what if you can't get the VCR to tape and you have to miss a day of "Days of our Lives" Is the world really going to come to an end???? His priorities are screwed up if you ask me.
Scott has a birthday next week which is why we bought a TV, it is suppose to be his birthday and Christmas gift together. I made reservations for Scrooge at the White Pines Dinner Theater for Friday the 11th, but I am sure Scott and Bella will not enjoy that and will be again full of complaints punctuated with whining!!!
Being me these days is exhausting!
Obese girl out
The good news is that I am still exercising daily and I have not missed a day since 11/9/09. The bad news is that I still do not have control of my eating and it shows on the scale which has basically not budged at all.
I was pretty busy on my time off. I did a lot of housework-worked in the basement which is still far from being clean-we sure have a lot of junk. I still have some Christmas projects to complete mainly my bowl painting and picture frame painting. I do have the majority of my Christmas shopping done. I need to get some stuff wrapped so I can take it to cookie day this weekend.
I went out shopping at 6:00 am on black Friday and got lots of stuff on sale including a cricuit machine for me.
Our Thanksgiving was nice. We watched the parade in the morning and then went to Donna and Carl's for lunch I took scalloped corn, salad and snacks. I did have a small breakdown when talking to Scott's aunt but I feel I am always just on the verge of having an all out breakdown most of the time and it has not been helped by my daughter telling me "I ruined her life" I am overwhelmed by work and home and being a parent and getting ready for the holidays as well as being depressed about how heavy I have gotten and then not feeling as if I have anyone to vent too. It is hard, but I am getting by the best i can.
Last Saturday we went to North Freedon, WI to ride the Santa Train. Donna and Carl went too. You would think I would have learned my lesson last year but I didn't. Nothing and I mean absolutely NOTHING can just be fun with my family. I am so tired of the whining, crying, complaining and lack of appreciation that I want to SCREAM. I made chicken and dumplings in my crock pot so we all had supper together in the evening.
We recently bought a new TV-42" plasma (How is it that we went to the store to buy a $800 TV and our receipt from Best Buy says we spent $1,600?) we also had to get a new TV stand which is being delivered on Monday. Scott has been messing with the TV however instead of doing what I think he should be. So what if you can't get the VCR to tape and you have to miss a day of "Days of our Lives" Is the world really going to come to an end???? His priorities are screwed up if you ask me.
Scott has a birthday next week which is why we bought a TV, it is suppose to be his birthday and Christmas gift together. I made reservations for Scrooge at the White Pines Dinner Theater for Friday the 11th, but I am sure Scott and Bella will not enjoy that and will be again full of complaints punctuated with whining!!!
Being me these days is exhausting!
Obese girl out
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