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Is It Over Yet?

Friday, February 11th, 2011 at 10:47 am  
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*SIGH* Is the school year over yet? I keep telling myself, only 3 more years to go!! :)

Joe had a VERY bad day at school yesterday and it all started in first period. He did the wrong worksheet that was due in Science that was worth 20 points and he already has some zeros in that class so he “borrowed” Dylan’s paper to quickly do it and was caught and he AND Dylan got zero’s on their papers and BOTH got detention. Joe was DEVASTATED!! He felt horrible for getting his best friend in trouble and a zero on a paper he actually did the work for! They served their detention yesterday after school and Joe talked to his mother and apologized for what happened. It’s not that he doesn’t know the work, he does but still, it’s still cheating! :( He knows this and knows it was the wrong choice and what he should of done was tell the teacher the truth, that the night before he did the WRONG worksheet and could he finish this one before the end of the day for at least half credit. *SIGH*

Joe is having a VERY hard time remembering things even if he writes them down a few times! He is almost in tears saying that his bad memory is causing him problems in all areas of his life and he’s angry and depressed. This isn’t knew, he has cried (literally) about this before many times. He asked if there was any pills he could take to help improve his memory. I wish there was a class around here on note taking/organizing for kids that have issues like this. There was a paper I was supposed to sign for 20 points on Monday and he wrote it down but by the time he gets home he forgets and he finally remembered and I signed it last night but he’ll only get 5 points for it now and of course this is for Science! On Monday he forgot about something he was supposed to do for English and got a zero! He got SO mad yesterday that he did EVERYTHING for English and all his classes even if it wasn’t due for over a week.

It’s not that he comes home and just wants to play video games. He gets home at 6pm, takes a shower, eats and falls asleep. He’s exhausted from wrestling, which this year he hates because they make him wrestle heavy weight which is 285 pounds and he’s only 200! So, he’s getting beat up on and he just wants to be done. There is only a week left and then I think he needs some time off to de-stress. He also has high blood pressure which he has NEVER had before!!! The school nurse checked him twice and one day it was 146/50 and then again another day it was 150/60. I think it’s the stress he’s feeling but I have to call the doctor anyway and let them know.

So, I am upset because I so badly want to help him but I just don’t know how! :(

Oh and if you got this far, the doctor’s office called me yesterday and all my tests came back fine so maybe it is acid reflux as I have heard from others that this can cause your voice to do this. I am feeling better today and can talk a bit better too.

Been A While

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011 at 8:55 am  
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Sorry, didn’t even realize it’s been this long since I have posted anything. I haven’t been feeling well and it’s been over 2 weeks. My voice is horrible and I’m tired all the time so I finally went to the doctor yesterday. Actually, it was the first time in over 2 weeks that I went to SNAP and then I went to quilting. My friend Barb made me go. Doctor wondered why I was there since I wasn’t coughing and my nose wasn’t stuffed up. But, he did blood work, an EKG and I had a chest x-ray. He thinks I just have acid reflux and gave me heartburn medication! LOL!! So, I have no idea why I can’t talk and why I am so tired all the time. Maybe I just need more sleep? I go to sleep around 10pm and I get up at 6am so you would think I was sleeping enough.

I have been spending my days writing articles. I am getting burnt out on them but I need to keep going. I don’t make much but it keeps the phones on and the electric barely on. I start writing as soon as I get home and I don’t stop all day long. I only stop when I have to go someplace and even then a lot of times I take my computer with me.

Joe is happy to miss wrestling practice today since he has an orthodontist appointment today. His back hurts really bad from the match this weekend so he’s glad not to go today. He needs to see the chiropractor again but it’s $15 every time he goes and he was just there. He’s almost done with wrestling and I’d like to wait till he was done before taking him again. He wants to do baseball next so he’s going to try out for that.

CJ just has science left to finish up and he’s done for this 9 weeks. I really don’t think he is learning that much with their computer school. I might just have to add to it myself, though the math is good not to sure about the rest of it though. I should have him watch the History channel every day to be learning something, LOL! I just wish he liked to read, but he hates it and isn’t that good at it though I have been trying for years to get him to read. Joe likes to read and does it well, oh well!

School Grades

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 at 8:31 pm  
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Joe just found out that he got a low C in Science and he is CRUSHED! He asked the teacher and he said don’t worry about it I don’t have stuff from Thanksgiving put in and I just looked and while we were in NC he gave Joe ALL zeros!!!! Joe actually came home went into his room and sobbed! He wanted so badly to have straight A’s again. I guess he has a B in English so he’s just so upset, thinks the rest of High School is needless because he’ll NEVER have a 4.0 GPA now because of this LOW C! It’s a 73%.

Chuck and I will be going into the school and have discussions with the guidance counselor and the teacher. By the time Joe gets home from school, he showers, eats and falls asleep! I told him we are going to stay on top of his grades this 9 weeks and we will know what he has at all times so we don’t get any surprises!

CJ is doing well, I believe he got all A’s and he has started his 3rd nine weeks. I am going to help him tomorrow with his History and English. He failed a test twice and I said I’d help him as you get 3 chances after that the teacher has to approve a re-take. It’s on sentence structure. The math he doesn’t pass I’ll have Nick come out and help him.

CJ goes twice a week to therapy now so we go Monday and Thursday mornings and we have to leave the house by 8:30am. Nice to be home by 10:30 unless we have to stop at the store since Wal*Mart is across the street.

I have been SO busy writing articles for people online. I’m making some money just wish I could make a LOT of money! *SIGH*

Outsouring In America

Sunday, January 9th, 2011 at 11:06 pm  
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So Busy

Thursday, January 6th, 2011 at 6:10 pm  
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Oh my, I have been so busy that I realized that I never even called my mom for Christmas or New Years! Good grief!! SORRY MOM!! *SIGH*

I have been trying to make money with odesk and I’ve been doing okay. Nothing to write home about but still it’s SOMETHING! I’ve been busy with CJ too. His new psychiatrist wants to up his therapy before we trying switching his med’s. He’s as high as he can go with Lexapro so she was thinking of changing to Zoloft but we are going to try doing therapy Monday and Thursday’s and see how that goes first. His therapist was going to mention the same thing so we are all on the same page.

I am also trying to get CJ to get all his school work done by Friday. Nick has been over here twice this week and he’ll be here again tonight. He has just a bit of Math left and he’ll be all done. I am pretty sure he has all A’s THANK GOD!! I never mentioned it, but he was in the hospital again in Nov. for almost 2 weeks and he lost almost a month of school time so he’s busting his butt to get done. I have no clue why the school won’t give him more time, they were just going to give him D’s and F’s!!! NO WAY!! So, I have been helping him and Nick helps with Math as I don’t understand Geometry very well.

Well, the other day I went to take Joe to school and my rental had a flat tire! I was NOT happy as all I had was that darn van that runs like crap and has NO heat!! ARG!!! So, dropped Joe off at school, went to SNAP and then went quilting. Then all us ladies went out to lunch and then I got home at 1pm, took the flat off and put the donut on and called Enterprise and they said to take it to Ashtabula and have them fix it.

Got there at 2pm and they said they’d be done at 4pm! YIKES! So, walked 15 minutes in the freezing cold to the library until they were done and walked back 15 minutes in the freezing cold. They said it was a little nail! *SIGH* They changed the oil too since I have put 4,000 miles on it already.

Then Wednesday, Enterprise called and said there is a recall on the car and that I had to take it in first thing this morning to have it fixed. Something about seat belts. So, after I took Joe to school I took the car in to be fixed. This time I was out of there by 8:30am. I went to Walmart and wouldn’t you know it the lady in front of me checked out just fine and as soon as she was done the computers in the entire store went down!!! I had to wait 15 minutes for them to come back up to check out!

I finally got home at 10am today. I had lunch with the girls at 1pm and I have to get Joe here in a bit (5:30) and then I have to come home and make dinner and clean up. Nick will be here at 6:30.

Oh, and last night my washing machine kicked it! It will agitate but it won’t spin. It was smoking and stinking so badly last night that I thought the mudroom was on fire!! Thank god it wasn’t. I was to busy today to call someone but I need to find out if I can have it fixed because a new unit is over $1,400!

Yesterday we got our Network Extender!! YA!!! I went to verizon to check out getting new phones and we got to talking about why our minutes were so low and they looked up our account and they could tell we never used them at home so they gave us this extender for FREE!!! It came yesterday and it’s SO COOL to use the phones anywhere in the house!! WOW!!! No more huddling in the mudroom for a signal. SO AWESOME! I called and canceled my long distance as I was paying $35 a month for unlimited long distance so now that I can use my cell phone I ditched that bill!

A New Year

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011 at 10:35 am  
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Well, it’s a new year and I haven’t even posted anything yet. For New Years Eve, we went to a family bowling tournament and had a lot of fun. Then we dropped the boys off at a friends for a party and we went to Chuck’s parents house. We left there at 10:30 and went home. We watched TV till midnight and Chuck went to bed and I went to get the boys. I finally got to bed at 1am.

New Years Day we did nothing but watch movies all day! That is nice sometimes when you don’t have to go anywhere or do anything and you can just relax all day. Today I have to make sure all the laundry is done and the dishes all get done and I work projection at the church tonight. Tomorrow school starts back up and we are back to our regular routine.

I have to make sure CJ gets done with all his school work by the 7th and all we have left is his math so we’ll probably make it just fine. So far he has A’s in all his classes!

Shopping Sucks!

Friday, December 24th, 2010 at 11:50 am  
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For the past few years we have waiting until a few days before Christmas to do ALL our shopping. This year it was because we just didn’t have the money to shop any sooner. Chuck and I went last night and the stores were SO crowded and the lines were SO long! We only got a few things as Christmas this year is rather small.

Again this year, we have no tree. There is just NO room for a tree at our place since we bought the piano. Maybe next year I will put the piano in CJ’s room and put up a tree. We haven’t had a tree in about 3 years and it bothers Joe a bit. A virtual tree on TV is just NOT the same.

So, I made a note in my day calendar in the month of October to buy at least 2 or more gifts for everyone and figure out where the tree is going to go. I want to have a tree up and the house all decked out by Dec. 1 and have all the gifts bought wrapped and under the tree!

We made sure to buy the boys each a video game so they at least had something new and fun to do on Christmas day since Christmas is small this year. Clothes just aren’t that exciting, LOL! The games are $60 a piece (nothing like buying 2 of the same game!) so that was their main gift.

On another note, Baby Peter is STILL in the hospital. He’s very sick! In the x-ray they found the problem. His bladder has somehow dipped way down making a pocket where urine can sit and get nasty because he can’t get it out of that dip. He had a nasty huge mucous plug that finally came out and that is what was causing this problem of late. So, he had surgery yesterday to fix that dip in the bladder. I haven’t heard from the vet and I will be calling today to see how he is doing and when he can come home. The vet told me NOT to worry about the bill and to just make regular payments (even if they are small) until I get it paid off.

Just called, he’s doing great and can come home but they close at noon so I have to run right now and get him! They removed part of his bladder but he is urinating fine and purring this morning! YA!!!

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