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Tue, Dec 11:42:23 2 GMT 30 http://greasy.com/fobstateside/long_time_4.html It's been awhile.A long while.Lots going on,Cub Scouts,Soccer,practices.He got accepted into the Choir so that is going to take up more days.WOW being a good parent is a hell of a responsibility.I wish kids that are having kids would realize this before they had sex,and babies.Maybe I'm being harsh?But I'm just saying if you want your kid to be in and into things your busy,busy.The older he gets the more hectic it gets.I wouldn't trade anything for it.Now she (C)is almost 2 she already can ... http://greasy.com/fobstateside/long_time_4.html#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:15:27 GMT http://greasy.com/fobstateside/gone_3.html Wow it's labor day.Goodness before we know it here's Christmas..I've been doing the same ole things.Housework.My neighbor asked them to leave her house.They did.Without a fuss which is great.I visited her this morning and asked her how it felt to be alone? She loves it.She misses the little boy running around.I think she will miss them a little,but only for a short time.I don't know where they will go.No car,no job,no home.Seems to me that i would make an effort to get a job and someone wo ... http://greasy.com/fobstateside/gone_3.html#comments Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:08:32 GMT http://greasy.com/fobstateside/me_15.html I have grown close to this women on the next block.I went to school with her daughter so that's how it came to be.Anyway she has breast cancer,she started Chemo the middle of last month.I love this women to death.She reminds me of my grandmother that passed.I go sit with her just about everyday for the past wk and half.Her husband wanted a new pool building put up so they found this guy who was on work release from jail.(we all make mistakes)he seemed nice enough but when he got out of jai ... http://greasy.com/fobstateside/me_15.html#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:44:15 GMT http://greasy.com/fobstateside/tripboy_hell.html The beach with it's smell,wind,tide,waves.I love it.We were going to stay from Fri to Fri,well Tuesday night rolls around and i look at A and say i will not make it til Friday as bad as i want to stay.C took a friend.I just assumed that this friend would love the beach and wouldn't be a problem.Oh was i wrong.They started fighting so bad you could hear them in the elevator,at the pool (we were on the 9th floor)I was just awful.This boy would not stop picking at C.I would tell him to stop,A ... http://greasy.com/fobstateside/tripboy_hell.html#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:41:36 GMT http://greasy.com/fobstateside/beach_trip.html Well i just posted and it went blank!I am packing for a 7 day trip to the beach.C1(my son) is taking a friend that has never seen the ocean.So he is very excited.I hope all goes well,that we all get along for 7 days.C2(daughter)is getting so big,i can see her running from the waves like little 17 month old will do.I will post lots of pics when i get back.I haven't posted any pics at all in a long time.So I'm off to finish packing.See ya'll on the 8th.(hope i'm sane)Ang http://greasy.com/fobstateside/beach_trip.html#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:42:49 GMT http://greasy.com/fobstateside/die.html My daughter is me made over.(BAD!)She is stubborn,won't listen to a thing i say.I know she hears me.Yet she just goes on with whatever she wants to do.See i never have been thru the terrible 2's.Chan was a great kid.My hubby says this is what they are.Pushing the limits to see what happens.I'll smack her little hand,and i swear to you she giggles.I just look at Al like what are we going to do?I swat her butt,she laughs.Oh good grief i hope she grows out of it.(oh please)So i get to my wits ... http://greasy.com/fobstateside/die.html#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:47:16 GMT http://greasy.com/fobstateside/better_day.html Well i seem to be a little better today.I was having this "hate my husband day" yesterday.I feel better about him today.Why is that?Does anyone else feel or have those (he gets on my nerves days)?I hate when i feel that way.Truly.It makes me miserable and him.So school is almost here for the kids.Heck i hardly saw my son this whole summer he has been so busy.Swimming,staying here and there,camping,lake.I think i will see him more when school starts.Well it's lunch time and got to get to it ... http://greasy.com/fobstateside/better_day.html#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:54:47 GMT http://greasy.com/fobstateside/poor_pitiful_day.html It's been a very long time.So it's school,soccer,etc coming up soon.This summer has gone so fast.Do you ever feel detached from your life,yourself? i do.I am.Why other than it's that time of the month.Who knows.I've woke up and thought the unthinkable-i never thought my life would be this way,turn out like this.Midlife crisis?Maybe i don't know.I love my family,I'm just in a rut.I walk around like oh one more thing to do.I am not seeing the beauty in anything,at all.I go see my mom and she ... http://greasy.com/fobstateside/poor_pitiful_day.html#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:28:26 GMT http://greasy.com/fobstateside/rainy_day_3.html We finally got some tables together for a yard sale this wk-end.Low and behold it's calling for showers all wk-end.So the tables are just wet,it's cold and gloomy.Well this will give me more time to get it together.I didn't have that much stuff together.I just don't know what people will buy?My husband said honey people will buy anything.Absolutely anything.So will see won't we.So today I'm off to the basement and garage to sort through things i want to get rid of.Whatever doesn't sell I'm ... http://greasy.com/fobstateside/rainy_day_3.html#comments Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:06:49 GMT http://greasy.com/fobstateside/just_note.html Hope everyone's summer is going well.Mine is full of daily things.It has been so hot here.With a low at night of 69-73.Shew i feel like I'm in MS.Except with trees.I love when a breeze is blowing.Wow the weather in the middle of the states.Iowa, i feel so bad for those people.It keeps telling about the rain but not about the people.I feel so bad for everyone.Well just checking in i guess you'd say.Have a great day. http://greasy.com/fobstateside/just_note.html#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:51:05 GMT http://greasy.com/fobstateside/health_neglect.html I tell ya,it gets so frustrating with your stubborn loved ones that just will not take care of themselves for anything.You get this I'm trying.Oh really if you were trying you would stop smoking now that they have put you on oxygen.HUH??!!This person has told me that some of the behavior is for attention (unknowingly).I can only give so much as y'all have read in my blog.I have a Post Traumatic husband trying to deal with retirement,1 1/2 yr old,9 yr old ,my hot flashes.I try i really do.E ... http://greasy.com/fobstateside/health_neglect.html#comments Sun, 8 Jun 2008 13:21:43 GMT http://greasy.com/fobstateside/away_day.html  Hubby is off to a gun show.Make the house payment.So i was going to try the impossible maybe.Moving the furniture around by myself.I just don't know yet.I want Chan out of the house when it happens.I just want to do some progress while he is gone to show him that I've been working.Ridiculous huh?I mean he has worked so hard this past month.The things i work on you can't really tell what I've done.It just looks like I've picked up piles of clothes off of everything in sight.So I'm trying ... http://greasy.com/fobstateside/away_day.html#comments Sat, 7 Jun 2008 11:34:35 GMT http://greasy.com/fobstateside/pack_rat.html I"ve totally burnt myself out on this house today,yesterday.I'm finding things from when i was 13.Lord have mercy!Pack rat i am.I don't know how to stop saving everything under the sun.I just don't.I get it naturally from my granny and mom.Hell I'm finding Thank you card to my granny from 1970.How i ended up with this stuff I'll never know.I guess when you have a big house and start stuffing things into containers and the yrs certainly go by,things get stored under beds that spare bedroom ... http://greasy.com/fobstateside/pack_rat.html#comments Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:50:38 GMT http://greasy.com/fobstateside/random_daybedroom.html Notes on getting the bedroom ready for son.I have so much stuff.It's all meaningful in some way.Can't just get rid of it.I swear that i need to be on one of those shows Clean Now or whatever where they come in and make you get rid of things.I so need that right now.I'm afraid the attic is going to fall in on us.From all the stuff I'm making hubby put up there.I would like to turn it into a room on day when we have the money.I've seen it on a show.Awesome.Well Campbell is so whiny today,it' ... http://greasy.com/fobstateside/random_daybedroom.html#comments Thu, 5 Jun 2008 19:23:04 GMT http://greasy.com/fobstateside/army_wives_.html I have stayed up all night long.Couldn't sleep.I have been recording Army Wives on Lifetime.Hell it's been May 04 AL left for Iraq.Tonight the last episode,they're leaving with the big C4 on the runway and the buses lined up.I started balling my eyes out.I haven't cried like that since he had to deploy.I couldn't stop.My eyes are so red and feel swollen.I've watched lots of things about deployment,movies,TV shows,hell i lived thru it.Nothing got me like this.Maybe it's because it is from u ... http://greasy.com/fobstateside/army_wives_.html#comments Wed, 4 Jun 2008 10:07:18 GMT http://greasy.com/fobstateside/silence_.html AL went to pay a house pymt today and gave a puppy away.We are down to 2.I still miss Duchess but not the heartache.I know good people have the puppies.I just wish i could have picked a couple for her.I swear i worry about the littlest bugs,fly,crazy shit.I shouldn't even think of.I used to not.All of the sudden I'm worried about swatting a fly.I think well when it flies to the window I'll raise the screen and it'll be free.What the hell is that??Do you knowhave a clue what is going on wit ... http://greasy.com/fobstateside/silence_.html#comments Wed, 4 Jun 2008 05:11:31 GMT http://greasy.com/fobstateside/shelter_update.html They absolutely loved her.Had her doing tricks.She was such an intelligent dog.That is what made us so mad when she wouldn't come back when we called.So it was incredibly sad but a great weight lifted off me at the same time.Is that awful?I hope not.SO here's to a great older couple getting her.Angie http://greasy.com/fobstateside/shelter_update.html#comments Mon, 2 Jun 2008 22:06:48 GMT http://greasy.com/fobstateside/animal_shelter.html Awhile ago i was staying with my mom at Christmas and there was an abandoned dog that come round.You could tell she was beaten and hungry.SO i feed her and when i moved back into my house i brought her with me.Well every-time the door is opened she darts out and just starts running and running the only way to get her is to get into the truck and she'll jump in(sometimes)this is getting old.I bring in groceries she leaves,check the mail she leaves.I've got way too much going on to worry abo ... http://greasy.com/fobstateside/animal_shelter.html#comments Mon, 2 Jun 2008 11:44:03 GMT http://greasy.com/fobstateside/beach_cluster_.html Well for the first time in 5 yrs.We are going on a vacation.Yes!well we have invited my mom.(not sure about that)So my son asked a friend.So picture this--A 02-03 durango with luggage for 6.Me,hubby,baby,mom,C,and friend.OH my.We will be leaving on the 3rd of July til the 9th.Hope we know what we've gotten ourselves into.The friend has never been to the beach.So that is exciting.He has a learning disability.So he gets excited very easily.I'm excited for him.Yet i can hear it now.Mom saying ... http://greasy.com/fobstateside/beach_cluster_.html#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 20:17:24 GMT http://greasy.com/fobstateside/screw_ups.html I seriously don't know why i have such a hard time copying and pasting but i do.SO i get mad and just pick random titles.Sorry Ang 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