Well, Halloween is over ( and it's hAlloween. Why is everyone spelling it with an o? ) ..... The splash page will get redone in normal SE Fashion. Otherside.... I've got to start working on the coding. I really really do.

Love to all. My pic for halloween will go up tonight. Laters.

So a good friend contacted me yesterday, via text messaging, and we talked throughout the day. I mentioned months ago to him about thinking about going back to school, but I had never told him more than that. Well yesterday I told him that I got accepted, got the money, and that I start on the 9th. He gushed about how proud he is of me, like others have, and every time tells me how proud they are it makes me feel so much better.

I told him I hadn't celebrated yet and wanted to do something and asked if he wanted to celebrate with me. We were originally thinking of going out but there's really nothing to do around here and the place we always go to didn't sound like a good idea. So he brought me food and alcohol and we hung out here and talked for hours. Best time I've had in awhile.

So I had a little celebration and I'm still thrilled about school.

Ok, well... I am off. Laters!

Here's the gypsy pic from halloween:

Astrology.com: Life often meets (or exceeds) your expectations. So if you're expecting that it'll hurt, it probably will. If, on the other hand, you learn to expect only the best, that might be just what you start to receive.

I wholeheartedly believe this.

By the way, as of yesterday, I am officially the mother of a 12-yr old female. May her hormones have mercy on us all.

A lot of things have been going on the last few days, so I do apologize for not writing. I think I'm doing pretty decently in the courses I'm taking and it's taking up a lot of time. I'm enjoying it, too and that's what is going to make it worth my time.

Tomorrow is going to be hellacious. The Boss and Gang will be in the office tomorrow. I almost had the urge to call off today because I had one of those 'gut feelings' that today was going to be aggravating. It wasn't as bad as I had thought it was going to be. But I've been keeping mainly to myself anyway, so it is not affecting me as much as it normally would with the attitude and whining.

I've been getting a cold. I have a sore throat and I've been wanting to sneeze all day but it doesn't seem to get to come out. Perhaps tomorrow. I've been taking only one alka seltzer liquid gel instead of two because they make me loopy, at least at work they do. I only took one at home tonight so I could make dinner and eat and take a hot shower.

Well. I am gonna go. I am going to go to bed soon and I want to get off of here, finish watching Heroes and make a phone call.

Goodnight.

Ok, so the head cold is trying really hard to defeat me. I didn't sleep at all Monday night but I still went to work on Tuesday. I spent the day drugged up through the day, out of it, with the Boss and Gang in the office. And of course, no one will send you home.

So Tuesday night I didn't sleep either. I called off Wednesday because I refused to suffer and get clients sick. I slept last night but still felt pretty awful today so I called off again. Slowly I am starting to feel back to normal and I'm hoping it's just not a lapse.

I wrote a note on the site for my courses to the professors that I have been suffering from a head cold and the medicine I'm on makes me loopy and tired.

I think I'm gonna stop at the store tomorrow and pick up some vitamin c supplements, you know those new chewy things they have. I think they'll help the Kid and I stay healthy for the winter. I don't know. I'll see.

Waiting patiently for January to come around.... ok ok.. attempting to wait patiently. It just seems pretty far away. Waiting.. waiting... ok, I'm off.

I go to sleep at night wishing I could feel your arms slide around me to hold me tight. The heat of your body seeping into mine. Slight shifts of movement as you figure out a way to get us even closer to each other. In the morning when I wake up, I swear in the half-sleep state, that you are there, that I can feel your arms and your warmth.

Well... Face it. You're mine.

I've been at work 9 hours a day ( that includes lunch since I don't come home anymore ), I'm going back to school half-time and they require lots of attention when going online, full-time mom who has to make dinner and do laundry and cleaning. Luckily the kid has no problem doing dishes. So I haven't been posting too often.

So I just want you to know that nothing major is going on. I'm making lists of the things I need to do to prepare for company coming in January and I've got to start counting days regarding that, too.

There are so many things I need to do, things I want to do. I've got to go grocery shopping this weekend, probably tomorrow if the store I want to go to is open, so that I can feed the Kid.

So every holiday I am either bleeding to death or sick, and of course there are the times that I am both. This holiday I am both. I am still a bit under the weather from the horrible head cold I was experiencing last week. I'm sure for Christmas I'll be both again because that is the holiday I am usually sick and bleeding for. I know, you so wanted to read about this didn't you?

Well, since the Kid isn't going to take a shower yet I'm going to take advantage of the hot water and go do so myself. Ok, go imagine me all soaking wet in a steamy hot shower covered iin suds. You know you want to.

So I have been almost completely kid-free this weekend. She went over to the Mom's house with her cousins twice and spent the night, last night she went over to a friend's house and spent the night. Over the last few days I've only seen her a few hours. But I got her to clean her room while she was here! The threat that I was going to do it Monday and Tuesday while she was in school and I was off work must have worked.

So Friday after I dropped her off at the Mom's I decided to do a little shopping. I bought some groceries and I bought some stuff for the bathroom. I got a really nice shower curtain and liner (you know, the fabric curtains that tie back) and I finally got a trash can in there. The trash can came with a toothbrush holder, soap holder, and cup. I couldn't pass it up for 4 bucks. There are still a few things I need in general. Side dishes being one and shampoo being another. But I have enough to where I can wait a bit.

Today so far I've done a load of laundry, dishes, swept the kitchen floor and wiped off the counters. I still have to vacuum and finish cleaning in the living room. Monday and Tuesday I am going to spend hanging and folding the laundry that I haven't been hanging and folding.

The only thing that irks me is that I know when I get home from work on Wednesday that the house is going to most likely be a mess again. I don't know how she does it, but the Kid enters a room and a tornado follows. She can't find this, she can't find that, she absolutely needs it right then and there. She tears things apart looking for it and it wasn't even anywhere near where she was looking. I've tried to tell her where stuff might be in the past but I'm always wrong.

Anyway.

I'm trying to get everything in order so that I can relax the week I have company coming in January. Alright, I'm off.

The Kid will no longer be called The Kid. She is now the Little Lady. I know, confused? Don't be. She came to me yesterday and said she thinks she started. Yeah. STARTED. My beautiful 12 year old baby has started her period 2 years before I was prepared. My niece started hers at this age, too. I don't understand why 12 year olds are having periods. I didn't start mine until I was 14. Most of the girls I went to school with didn't start until 14 or 15 either.

I keep thinking of the olden days, days when America was still in the pioneer stage. Women were married by the ages of 12 - 14 and having kids then, too. So maybe somehow we are going back to those days. History repeats itself all the time. Although it still baffles me as to why girls are starting their periods at the age of 12. The Mom would say it's all the hormones in the milk we drink or some oddball thing like that.

Ok well. I've got a shitload of homework to do and it's a damn good thing that I am off work today and tomorrow. I am going to need all the time I can get. Laters.

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See. I have always known that I am inherently evil. This just proves it. Bow down, kneel, prostrate yourself and beg for mercy. Although I cannot guarantee that any of that will save you.

Now go take your own, dammit.

Yeah well.. it's his birthday and I wanted to give him something good. Thousands of miles limit what I can do. So.. yeah. Stripped. Mmhmmm.. I think he might like it.

Happy Birthday, Mine. Yes, Mine, but you already knew that.

I refuse to be sick in January. I think Mother Nature heard me say that or saw me type it or something. Perhaps she read my mind and is trying to keep me sick. I don't know. I really hate being sick. I even bought orange juice to have vitamin c kill whatever is trying to survive.

I had Monday and Tuesday off, so I only have a three day week but it seems to be much worse than a full five. November is the busiest month for our office. I just think it's insane about how people can be so needy. They call 5 or 6 times a day all week long. We had someone call yesterday and leave a voice mail and in the message they told the agent that she didn't have to call back. That person called in today bitching because the agent didn't call him back. Whatever.

Walking into work caused me to have chest pains this morning. I'm not even 30 and I'm having chest pains walking into the office. I swear the place is covered in a big black cloud full of gremlins who are just waiting to ruin our day. On top of that it's cursed. I've got to get my resume out.

I'm in my fourth week of courses starting today. I don't have any assignments due until tomorrow but I want to start working on them anyway. The problem is that I am exhausted. I think I might take a couple of advil to help take away the pressure on my sinuses and see if it helps.

Well, Velvet is requiring that I use both hands to pet her. I must go and obey,,, Laters.