Squirrel Is In

Headlines...

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News from Oklahoma today is:

Today is the 16th consecutive day of rain.

The winning Powerball lottery ticket was purchased in Oklahoma and it wasn't mine!

News from my house:

Thanks to FlyLady and my diligence my house is slowly getting VERY clean and organized!!

C-man leaves tomorrow to spend two weeks with his mother.

Saturday T-man comes home from church camp aka the Baptist Breeding Grounds. Yeah scary huh?

Sunday will be my first day of teaching Sunday School. 

Squirrel ~ OUT.

I'm flying with FlyLady, waist deep in water and living with an octopus...

I found a website that has changed my life!!  FlyLady.net is a system to declutter and organize your life 15 minutes at a time.  I cannot seem to get my house in order.  I feel so overwhelmed everytime I start that I just can't get it done.  Believe me this is NOT a sponsored post, this is just me ranting and raving on a gold mine of a website.  Since I found this website yesterday morning I have cleaned most of my living room, put up shelves that have been sitting in the living room for months, shined my kitchen sink and counters and gotten all my laundry done.  It's amazing.

Now onto the story of the year.  Oklahoma is flooding.  Send help.  Our creeks and rivers are busting their banks.  Roads are washing out.  It has been raing nearly non stop all year and it seems there is no end in sight.  Here are some pictures I took this moring of a creek, yes a creek.  This creek is normally two feet wide and one foot deep. Click on the image to see it full size.

Oh OK i'm going to tell the story of what C-man did at bible school.  I was going to keep this to myself because I was so totally mortified and embarrassed.  But then you guys don't go to my church and I don't have to see the freaked out looks on your faces when you hear it.  He walked up to our pastors 15 year old daughter and stuck his hand up the back of her shorts and tried to grab her ass.  He then grabbed her and tried to get her to kiss him on the lips.  C-man is only 8 years old!!!!!!  He is constantly going up to teenage girls and talking like a baby and asking them to hug him and when they say "aww you're so cute, ok" and give him a hug he presses his face into their chests.  I chewed his ass out and told him about sexual harrassment and inappropriate touching and made him sit in his room with no tv for two days.  He then went to my mother in laws house and told her he wants to live with them because I gripe at him all the time.  He'll be going back to his mothers house for two weeks on Friday.  I'm sure she'll be getting an earful of me being "mean" to him.  **SIGH**

I never read this blog before but my heart goes out to the writer.  His son drown the other day, I believe he was 4 years old.  If you have a PayPal account you can go here to donate $5 and get a support button to help the family out.  If not you can just go by and leave him well wishes in his comment section, last time I looked he had 300 comments on his last post.

contagious children, church camp, where in the world is T-man, short summer vacation, my dieting nightmare and church hymnals selling like hotcakes...

I think I'm allergic to little kids!  Last week I helped with vacation bible school.  I helped with the 1st graders.  I was sick all weekend.  Every time I help at my sisters daycare center I get sick.

My teenage son went to church camp this morning.  He'll be gone all week.  I already miss him!  Except that part about him taking my computer time!

C-man has hardly been here since school got out three weeks now.  He spent two weeks at his mothers house.  We then went camping for two days and when he got back he stayed home for 4 days then went to his grandpas house for the weekend.  Then last night he went to his grandmas house for a couple of days.  On Friday night he's going back to his mothers for another two weeks.

I just saw a sign at the school telling that school starts again on Aug 16th.  It is so weird because when I was a kid we didn't go back until the first week of September.  These kids only get two and a half months of summer vacation.

I stopped drinking diet soda after Bluepaintred told me it may cause Alzheimer's. I then stopped taking the Trimspa after Titania told me it was bad for you. I'm already gaining weight!  Titania please e-mail me a diet plan that will work!!  Or send me a link to a site that I can go to and get some information!  Yeah I know I need to exercise.  Here in a few weeks football practice will start and I'm going to start walking around the track while my husband is practicing the little league kids.

OK, gotta go now.  I'm putting a pile of old church hymnals I got from an auction on Ebay.  It seems there is a market for those things.  First, I'm going to visit all your blogs!

Vacation Bible school, long naps and camping hazards...

This has been and will continue to be a really busy week.  We are having vacation bible school and I am helping with 17 1st graders from 8:30am until 12 noon every day this week.  On Thursday night we are having family night at the church so I will be really busy. 

I haven't had a chance to read anyone's blogs as I am so exhausted when I get home at 12:30 I am napping all afternoon, the the hubby gets home and plays POGO games until almost bedtime.  The only reason i'm able to post right now is because hubby went to the other room for a minute and I jumped on here to post real quick. 

I hate summer!  I have to share the computer with EVERYONE way too much!

We had a great time camping although it rained a lot.  Our tent held up really well in the rain but we have decided that this will be our last year to camp in a tent.  We are planning on looking for a camper for next year.  We are just getting too old to sleep on the ground.  Ok well we weren't exactly on the ground because we bought an air mattress.  But we really can't stand not having air conditioning!

Well I'd better get off here before the POGO master returns and see's i've hijacked the computer!

I'll Be Back Monday!!

Secret Squirrel has gone camping and fishing!  She will be back to visit all your blogs on Monday!  Have a GREAT WEEKEND and FATHERS DAY!

Letting down the preacher and my coconut cream pie downfall

I feel like such a freaking heel!!!!!  I'm sure there are worse things you could do than what I did, like commit murder or rob a bank!!!!!!!  I promised the pastor of our church on Sunday that I would come to the church this morning at 9:30am and take care of some kids while he was attending a funeral.  I FORGOT!!!!!!!!!!!  At 10:40am I get my lazy ass out of bed and remember.  I race to the church and the people are starting to come out of the church.  I feel horrible!  I haven't gotten to talk to him.  I wrote him a card and put it in the mail and then I sent him an e-mail.  Oh well.  I'm sure he will forgive me.  Pastors kinda have to don't they? LOL (actually that was a very nervous LOL not a jovial one)

OK on to the diet report.

Day one:

10:00am: I took two Trimspa and drank a big glass of water.

11:00am: I have drank two more glasses of water, those pills make me thirsty.

11:30am: I'm getting a little hungry so I ate two french toast sticks.

1:30pm: I am getting hungry again.  I took the mid-day Trimspa and drank another glass of water.

1:45pm: I ate 1/8 of a piece of coconut creme pie.  Not exactly eating diet foods am I?!

3:00pm: I have drank 6 glasses of water and my eyeballs are floating.  Still, I'm not that hungry.

5:30pm: I just took the evening Trimspa.  I'm getting hungry again and I think i'm going to go eat a steak for dinner.

6:30pm: I ate a steak, corn, squash and a dinner salad for supper.  I seriously eyed the dessert menu but successfully avoided it.  Secretly though I knew I had Coconut Cream pie in the fridge at home! Mwahahahaha....

7:30pm: I went to the grocery store and bought strawberry and french vanilla slim fast for tomorrow.  "No more Coconut Cream Pie!" is my new motto.

8:00pm:  Decided that it would be a crime to let the Coconut Cream pie go to waste since the kids don't like coconut and making my husband eat it would be wrong since he is fatter than me.

There ya go Erin I bet you didn't think I was going to do it did ya?

I received this from Erin over the weekend and took her challenge because I do not hate her! LOL

A WAY TO LEARN A LITTLE ABOUT EACH OTHER


DIRECTIONS: Now, here's what you're supposed to do...and please
do not spoil The fun. COPY AND PASTE TO an E-MAIL, delete my answers
and type in your answers. Then send This to a whole bunch of people you
know....and send it back to me at secretsquirrel@sbcglobal.net so I can See your answers or post it on your blog. The theory is that you will learn a lot of little known facts about those who know you.

1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?
No, it was just a popular name back in the day. Shhhh I'll tell you what it is if you don't tell anyone... Kelly Renee.

2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?
Sunday before last when I found out the Sunday School class I greed to teach is going to be a class of 20 instead of 8.

3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?
Not really

4. WHAT IS YOUR Favorite LUNCH MEAT?
Turkey

5. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?
Yeah 'cause I like to do everything I like to do. LOL

6. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT?
Only when talking to my husband and my two sons who live with me.

7. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?
Yes

8. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP?
NEVER

9. WHAT IS YOUR Favorite CEREAL?
Cinnamon Toast Crunch

10. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG?
No

11. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM?
Schwanns Dulche De Leche

12. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?
I am the worlds worst for not looking people in the face the first time I meet them then the next time I see them I don't recognize them.  So I don't really notice anything about them I guess.

13. RED OR PINK?
Pink

14. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF?
My ever increasing mid section.  I just started taking Trimspa today!

15. WHOM DO YOU MISS THE MOST?
I'd have to say all 4 of my grandparents who are now deceased.

16. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU?
Sure.

17. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING?
Jean shorts and no shoes.

18. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE?
Two Trimspa tablets.

19. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?
Silence and my washer running.

20. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?
Peach

21. FAVORITE SMELLS?
My husband after he's taken a shower and used Axe body wash.

22. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?
That guy who smells good. 

23. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU?
Although I've never met her in person she seems pretty cool to me!

24. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH?
I don't like to watch any sports on TV.  I do like to go watch our local CHL team and my boys play football.

25. HAIR COLOR?
light brown with blond highlights

26. EYE COLOR?
blue

27. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?
No I have better than 20/20 vision.

28. FAVORITE FOOD?
This is hard because I love all kinds of things.  Right now I love Shwanns Pierogies they are about 1 1/2 X 1 1/2 inch mashed potato and cheese filled pasta that are fried in butter.

29. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?
Happy endings

30. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?
I was some movie about Saddam Hussein, I can't remember what it was called.

31. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?
light blue and white striped tee shirt

32. SUMMER OR WINTER?
Summer even if is is hot as the surface of the sun it's still better than freezing and wearing lots of clothes.

33. HUGS OR KISSES?
Kisses

34. FAVORITE DESSERT?
Cake, any and all kinds of cake.

35. MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
I dunno.

36. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
I dunno.

37. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING?
I started a really big book about that show Saturday Night Live called Saturday Night Live a couple of months ago and got 3/4 way through it and put it down.  I need to finish it now that I just got reminded.

38. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD?
The one that came with the computer that says Dell.

39. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT?
What I usually watch.  A crap load of true crime shows.  'Til Death Do Us Part, Psychic Detectives, Anatomy of a Killer, some show about the BTK killer.  My kids think I'm crazy for watching the stuff.

40. FAVORITE SOUND?
My husband and the kids wrestling, playing catch or doing stuff together and laughing.

Oh wait I also love the sound of a fish on my line splashing water as I reel it in.

41. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES?
If I had to pick one, I'd go with the Beatles

42. WHAT IS THE FURTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME?
Washington State.  And I hope never to return as my ex is living there and that pollutes the whole place.

43. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT?
I can crochet an awesome afghan.

44. WHERE WERE YOU BORN?
Des Moines, Iowa

45.  WHAT MAGAZINES DO YOU READ?
I subscribe to Cosmo and Better Homes and Gardens but rarely read them.

Fridays Random Facts about Squirrel

I am totally stuffed up. 

I feel like a concrete truck dumped concrete up my freaking nose last night.

I went fishing again last night and didn't catch anything but I still had fun.

This morning I started doing exercises and drinking water.

All it did was make me ravenously hungry.

I want to stop drinking Diet Pepsi and drink more water.

I don't think it's possible without professional intervention.  I. AM. ADDICTED.

In a moment of temporary insanity I believed that Cheryl Tiegs has the secret to younger skin.

I bought her Rejuvafirm serum that "visibly reduces wrinkles" after watching her infomercial.

Thank you for visiting this installment of "Fridays Random Facts about Squirrel".  Which may or may not become a regular feature of this blog.

The people in my life...

I was tagged by Mz Jackson. So here goes:

1 person who has changed the course of your life for the better:
My husband.  He has brought love and spirituality in my life.  He has made me want to be a better person.

2 teachers who have contributed to your learning:
I really didn't have any teachers who made that much of a difference.  Well Mr. Sperry my history teacher in 9th grade made me love history.  Oh and Ms. Elliott in 2nd grade fed us Japanese food and made me to where i'm not afraid to try new things.

2 colleagues who make your job worthwhile:
Since I don't work outside the home I guess I would have to say my two sons who are still at home.  Without them and their messes I would have nothing to do. LOL

4 people who make you feel special:
My four children.  It is a special wonderful job being their mother.

5 people you need in your life & why?
Hubby Squirrel. He makes every day fun.  He makes me feel loved, safe and secure. 

My kids: I need them on so many levels I can't even describe it.  The thought of not having each and everyone of them makes me cry!

My parents: I've not always been close to either one of them but now that they are getting older I am learning to enjoy them more and more.  They are a great source of information about my grandparents that I never really ever got to know before they died.

My siblings: Living so close to each other me and my siblings have started taking each other for granted.  Just doing this meme has made me realize how special each of them is and makes me want to spend more time with them especially my only sister and my younger brother who just graduated college.

Well all in all those four groups of people include nine individuals so I'm stopping there!

I think everyone has been tagged on this one already, but just in case, I tag Wander and Titania.