Okay, my sister Candy has informed me via email that I haven’t updated my blog is SIX DAYS, God forbid, LOL!!!!

Well, sometimes my life is just boring! What can I say. I’m not all drama you know!

Well, today gas here is $1.99, can you believe it, they have dusted off there 1! I didn’t even know they kept those 1′s! LOL!! It’s nice to fill my tank and not even get to $50! I used to get $50 and not even fill it up. This gas station only let’s you get $50 on your debit card at a time. Amazing!

Yesterday, I grabbed the mail on my way to get the boys from school. I get there and I usually wait about 30 or so minutes. I like getting there early. Anyway, there is something for me to my old address on Mill Street in a big square envelope with just a PO box for a return address. I was going to toss it, since I’m assuming it’s junk mail. I open it since I’m bored and a bit curious. To my amazement, it’s from Google and it’s a check for $309.88!!!! Wow, and I was going to throw it away!! LOL!!! Now, I have NO CLUE where this money came from. It says AdSense, which are those clickable adds I have on my blogs and websites. Now I make about $100 a YEAR with those. I checked my account and it says I have $41 made so far. They only cut checks if you have $100 in your account. Now, how did I get $309.88??? Plus, I have had the correct address on my AdSense account for months. So, I emailed google to see why I got this check, we’ll see what they say. I cashed it anyway of course LOL!!

Other than that, I have been running the boys here and there every evening. I take Joe Swimming on Monday from 4-5, on Tuesday Joe has Jr. Phil from 5-6:15 and CJ has gymnastics from 6:30-8:30. Chuck usually takes Joe and I take CJ. On Wed. CJ has music lessons 2:30-3:30 and Joe has jazz/pep band practice from 2:30-4:00. Then they go to Youth Group from 6:30-9:00. On Thursday CJ has gymnastics from 4-6 and Joe has swimming from 7-8. Joe has to come with us because both are in Ashtabula, so we are gone from 3:30 to 8:30 on Thursday nights! On Friday Joe has swimming from 6-7. And on Saturday mornings Joe has music lessons in Erie from 9:15-10:15 and every other Saturday he has a swim meets (which last at LEAST 6 hours). He has one this Saturday and it’s about 45 minutes away! So, that is how my life goes right now. It’s peaceful till I have to pick them up from school and then it’s just crazy!

On Monday morning I met with Sandy’s lawyer and he has decided to just go after the APL and he is getting the licensing board involved and looking into the Dr. that supposedly gave Sandy the first spay. He filled on Monday and the paper will run the story some time next week. I will keep you updated on that as things happen.

Just thought I’d share a picture of my back deck. It snowed today big fat flakes. I loved it!! I dug through my CD’s and put on “Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow” LOL!!!! The dog thought I was nuts! I even went out and shoveled the walkway!

We went to the wooden nickel today and man we were all VERY disappointed!! I spent about $60 on all of us there and it just makes me sick to think about it!! It’s a buffalo farm that has a gift shop/restaurant/ and corn maze. We were all very excited about going and eating real buffalo. We all order cheeseburgers and then come to find out fries are only on the platter so we all go with a platter. It was $3 more for a “bit” of fries!! UGH!! Chuck wanted Cider, nope, they were all out. The platter comes with fries OR soup and CJ and Chuck ordered the pepper souWe get our drinks and sit down for a VERY LONG time!! I have a TV blaring in my ears cuz it’s 2 feet behind me. The place was rather full and only men where cooking and serving. They messed up just about everyones order and had to re-fill quiet a few. There was a dog roaming around begging for food from everyone. Nudging them and being quiet annoying! Then the guy comes out to tell Chuck and CJ that they were out of soup. They were both upset but went with fries. When our food FINALLY came out the cheeseburgers where served on HOT DOG BUNS!!!!! He said they ran out of hamburger buns. Probably on all those orders they had to re-do!!! ARG!!!! Non of us got full, I’ve had better burgers at a fast food joint for a buck. The fries were home made and actually quiet good, but I make the same at home all the time, LOL! So, I said maybe it will be better once we get out to the corn maze.

This is our first corn maze ever! We have always wanted to go to one and so this was our first one. BOO HISS!! The corn was about waist high or smaller. There were a few that might have been as tall as me. It was very thin and you could see the whole field by just standing there!! So, we made the best of it by finding boxes with stickers to fill our paper so we knew we went through the whole thing. I told CJ while we were in the maze, thank God we are going to WalMart when we are done, at least we know we’ll have fun there! LOL!

Here is the amazing corn maze!

Here is Joe getting the stickers out of the little house to put on our paper. There are 16 of them in all.

Here is CJ getting another sticker for the paper. Notice how you CAN NOT get lost in this field of corn!

Here are the bison in the field.

Last night we took the boys out to eat at Texas Roadhouse. They have big barrels of peanuts where you walk in and also small buckets at your table. We all sit around and eat a bunch of peanuts before our dinner gets there. The boys eat got a 24oz steak and CJ ate ALL of his and Joe ate about half because he had a swim meet the following day. He told the waiter that he could eat the whole thing, and usually he can, but we remembered he had a meet half way through the meal so I hid the other half under the table so the waiter thought he ate the whole thing and shook his hand and everything! It was so funny!

On the way out CJ stops at the big barrel of peanuts out by the front door where there are at least 20 people waiting for a table and opens his pockets wide on his hoody and starts shoveling in the peanuts!! OH MY GOSH!!!! He did this with BOTH pockets!! Then just walks out!! I was DYING!!! He didn’t realize that everyone was watching him. In the truck he told us that he forgot to put some in his pockets at the table and saw the big barrel and just thought he’d fill up on the way out!!! He didn’t realize that people were watching him till he turned around to leave, LOL!!!

And they think us parents are embarrassing!!!

Yesterday we went to see a guy that collects violins. He has well over 36 of them in his house. Mr. Lyon (the boys violin teacher) sent us to him because they are all in wonderful shape and for good prices. Here is the table he had set up for the boys to choose from. They started with the cheapest and went around the table to the most expensive.

Were you see Joe standing back there is where it started at the cheapest. See the two at the end of the table on the right? Those are the two they choose. I told them to choose from that side of the table as the ones on the other side are $2K and up.

They have needed full size violins for a year probably. I just never had the money to upgrade. I didn’t want to get them student violins again. They have been playing long enough that I wanted really good sounding violins for them. Now, since they are used and from a collector they don’t come with bows or cases. So, I still need to get those. He said that what ever your violin costs you want your bow to cost half that much. YIKES!! I may not get that good of bows for them yet. But I won’t get the $30 ones either. Some where in the middle I think will be fine for now.

What was really nice is Lance (the violin guy) gave us the violins to try out and see if we really want them for a couple of weeks! He even gave us cases to use and gave Joe a bow. CJ has a full size bow already that I bought him some time ago since his died. We’ll have Mr. Lyon look them over and have the boys play on them for a while and then we will decide. Can’t do that with any music store or catalog!

Joe feel in love with his violin as soon as he walked up to the table! LOL!! It has a dude on the scroll and Joe just thinks that is so cool. He also loved the way it sounds. Here is the scroll.

I went to the dentist again today. I got two more fillings done so only 5 more to go! Get this though, after Mike drilled out the cavities, a lady came in to fill them up. I fell asleep!!!! I must have been really tired. I woke myself up by snoring!! LOL!!! I wonder how long I was out and snoring? I have NEVER fell asleep in the dentist chair with my mouth wide open and all before. Now that I’m back home all I want to do is lay in bed and watch a movie. I feel like doing nothing today!!

Good news is gas is $2.59 a gallon bad news is this morning it was 25 degrees out!! LOL!!

We were late leaving the house this morning, so I was in a rush. Right by the school I guess I was doing 42 in a school zone of 20. Oops! I saw the cop there in the parking lot. First one I saw there this year, and of course I was speeding. He let me drop the boys off and then I guess he thought I was going to turn right but I went left so I saw him turn around and come for me so I just pulled over. I gave him all my info and he said, running a little late today? I laughed and said, “Yeah, a little.” When he came back he told me my plates expired yesterday!!!! GOOD GRIEF!!! He said, “Can you get them renew today or tomorrow?” I said, “Sure, no problem.” He said, “Good, thanks.” and walked away?!?!?!?! Okay, I guess I wasn’t getting a ticket for anything??? YEAH!!!!! I could have gotten slammed! I wonder if he knew the last name? I have gotten off before because the cops all seem to know the family. Well, what ever the reason, I’m glad I didn’t get a ticket! Yes, I will be slowing down from now on.

I did get my plates renewed and I got them renewed for 2 years! I had no idea you could do that. My friend Elizabeth told me about that while I was there waiting for them to call my number. So, I’m good till 2010! Thanks Elizabeth!!!