Squirrel Is In

I think i'll worry about that next year...

Well my signs are up.  I called the daycare and they can watch C-man for a couple hours after school.  My husband says that on the weeks C-man is at our house in the summer (his mother has hime two weeks in June and two weeks in July) he will use his vacation to stay home with him.  My husband has 4 weeks vacation per year.  And the two weeks in August before school starts C-man can stay one week with his grandfather and one week with his grandmother.  Yesterday I was thoroughly pissed because the election is in just a few days and my husband hadn't done anything to figure out what to do with C-man.  C-man will only go to daycare during football season then after that T-man will pick him up from school and watch him for and hour and a half after school until I get home.  I'm going to pay T-man the amount I would pay the daycare.  Now i'm just worried about what we'll do after T-man graduates but that is two and a half years away so I think i'll worry about that next year because my stomach can't handle any more worrying!

Don't listen to me i'm just a female...

I know i've probably blogged on this subject before but here I go again...

It is so hard to be the only female in a house of all males.  Pretty much not a one of them listens to me unless I am crying.  And these days I don't cry much so you know what that means.  C-man only listens to me if i've recently made his dad spank him, then I can threaten him with that and it's fresh in his memory.  T-man argues with pretty much everything I say.  Hell, both the boys do that.  It's like they think because i'm female I'm not as intelligent.  My husband has gotten so "important" at work that he no longer has 10 seconds during the day to even pretend to be interested in my phone calls.  Most of the time when I call him I get sent straight to voice mail.  I know it's just because he's busy and it's probably nothing personal but after spending the day with these two "i've got a penis therefore I don't have to do what you lower life form female says I have to do" boys of mine it's a little hard to take.  I can't even blame my husband for how the boys treat me because we only got custody of C-man recently and honestly I think his beast mother is telling him exactly how to drive me crazy.  And I think T-man's problem is he's a teenager and basically a jerk.  When my husband is at home he is very sweet to me and listens and gets onto the boys for being disrespectful so he's trying.  To get right to the point, I CANNOT WAIT FOR SCHOOL TO START!  And if there's a God in heaven (and I know there is!) please hear my prayer and send the year-round-school program plague to Oklahoma!!!!

AMEN.

Let me babysit or else...

We're being strong armed by a fourteen year old girl.  She wants to babysit C-man.  But we never go anywhere to need a babysitter.  She is calling every other night asking to babysit.  So last night my husband gave in and told her he would bring him over to her house today at 1pm.  I am home and C-man doesn't even need a sitter.  Then just now my husband comes home for lunch and says he doesn't have time to drop him off over at her house and he wants me to do it.  This is ridiculous!  I said no.  I don't need a sitter and HE made this appointment.  So now he's mad at me for not taking him over there.  He left and on his way out says "You've got to pick him up".  Meaning I've got to face the girl and ask her how much I have to pay her for services I didn't even need in the first place.  Argghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I'm not doing it.  C-man can sit over there until 5pm when my husband gets off work and he can pay her.  I think this girl is part of the Babysitters Club a branch of the Mafia.  I can't for the life of me figure out why he won't tell her no.  Everytime i've talked to her I've told her we didn't need a sitter but when I did I would definetly call her first.  But she still calls every other night.  Everytime my husband answers he tells her yes even though we don't need one.  Then on the day we're suppose to take him over there my husband calls and cancels.  Then this time he was going to cancel again.  I told him he made this stupid babysitting appointment and he was going to take him and pick him up and pay her.  I've got to give it to the girl she knows how to wear a guy with a soft heart down.  Either that or she's threatening to bust his knee caps if he doesn't say yes.

Get that man a tampon...

My normally great husband is pissing me off.  Well more specifically just last night and today.  Yesterday he was going over his credit report that I got off the internet and he was getting really upset about a bunch of stuff on there from when he was with C-man's mother.  After he left her and before the divorce was final she moved into a couple of different apartments over a year each time running up electric, water, and cable bills all in his name without him knowing it.  She even got a credit card in his name and a cell phone and ran them up over two thousand dollars each.   Then in the divorce the judge gave her the house that was in his name only and didn't make her get her own financing.  The judge ordered that she get the house and he had to maintain financing and the kicker was that only if she became 90 days late on the payments could he sell the house and then she would get all the proceeds from the sale.  So she kept the payments late, at about 80 days late before she would make one payment.  She TOTALLY ruined his credit.

Soooo he was reading this credit report I ordered off the internet and it didn't look right so he asked me to meet him at this office in town.  When I got there it was the office of this gorgeous young (his age, 33) smart woman that he went to high school with.  She was really nice don't get me wrong but she started telling him that those reports you get off the internet are not always correct.  He then glares at me like i'm stupid or something and says "just cancel that damn thing it's not doing us any good!"  and then askes her nicely if she can get him a "good" copy of his credit report making me look like a complete idiot who can't do anything right.   OKAY I know that's stretching things a bit but that's how I felt.  So I said "sorry I was just trying to help I didn't know that it wasn't a good credit reporting agency".  He apologized.  But then when we got home he starts reading over his report again (the one she gave him) and it doesn't really look any better that the one I gave him.  He starts snipping at me and making comments that I should be the one fixing his credit and straightening out the mistakes that are made on it because he's too busy.  Once while he was on the phone with one of the companies I whispered to C-man and he snapped at me really hatefully to "BE QUIET!!!".  Thennnn this morning he starts griping that his shirts aren't ironed.  And he's walking into the bathroom mumbling to himself about me and then won't tell me what he was mumbling. 

I, at this point am thinking that I'm going to have to seriously hurt the man.

But then I stop and think

DO MEN HAVE PMS?!!!!!!!!!!  BECAUSE THAT BUTTHOLE IS DEFINITELY ON THE RAG.

Okay now that I typed it all out I feel much better.

Alright the truth is I called him once he was on his way to work and chewed him out and he said he was sorry and he was just kidding about the shirts this morning.  Do I believe he was just kidding about the shirts?  NO.  But I took the apology anyway.  I guess men are allowed to have their moody days too.

Happy Birthday Son!!

T-man is 15 years old today!  Unfortunately for him there is all kinds of things going on today so he is having his "get together" with his friends tomorrow.  I'm taking him and a few of his friends to the movies tomorrow.  I'm just dropping them off.  God forbid I actually  go with them and he have to been seen with me.  You know how teenagers are.  :)

The school is having a Fall Carnival this evening and this afternoon is a little league football game that Hubby is coaching.  Hubby is very upset that I think C-man shouldn't play in the game today.  C-man says he feels "fantastic" and Hubby says "it's been 48 hours he should be over it by now!".  They are both making me feel like a ogre for poo pooing on the game today.  Hubby was yelling at everyone this morning about it.  I've been thinking about it and I'm about to tell him that it's his son and he can do what he wants.  Who am I?  Just the freaking lowly stepmother who doesn't know anything, I guess.  Or i'm the evil stepmother just trying to ruin everyone's day?  Whatever.  Of course i'll be the one sitting with him all next week after he collaspses on the field today.    I almost wish Hubby would get strep throat so after 48 hours I could tell him to get over it and get his ass back to work because "he should be over it by now!"   Men are soooo annoying!!!!! 

Simmer down male readers... Ok, not ALL men but the ones around here are!

Pasta? Phlem? Pasta? Phlem?

At the risk of looking like an uncaring mother, i'm going to spill my guts here.  I am soooo frustrated and upset that C-man had to come down with this damn strep throat this week of all weeks!!  My husband gets very few chances to take vacation days.  I have been looking forward to these three vacation days for months!!!!!!!!  He gets three weeks per year, but only gets to take a day or two here and there sporadically throughout the year.  I get only a handful of days per year that are just for the both of us.  In a week he sleeps 56 hours, works 50 hours (at least), spends at minimum 10 hours on the phone while at home, on the home computer 10 hours, watching television 10 hours, coaching little league 7 hours, in the bathroom 6 hours, 5 hours sitting at T-mans football games, 2 hours in church.  That leaves 12 hours or 1.7 hours per day to spend with me.  And we are only completely alone (meaning children are asleep) for 45 minutes of that.  If he goes to bed early my time is cut to zero.  Today he is on vacation and he left at 7:30am to  drop off T-man at school then he and his dad went to go look for car parts for T-mans car.  So here I am sitting here alone with C-man who feels better because of the antibiotics.  He isn't well enough to go to school but well enough to be bouncing off the walls here at the house. 

I wanted to be sitting in Johnny Carino's eating fantastic pasta with my husband today!!!!!!  He is out having lunch with his dad while I am making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches listening to a 7 year old hock up phlem.

What is wrong with this picture?!

Go ahead take that shower...

I'm in one of those moods.  My husband woke up this morning and said he was going to take a shower.  It really irked me.  The freakin' honeymoon is apparently over.  Use to, he would take the shower at night before he got into bed with me.  Now he gets into bed dirty and takes the shower in the morning.  It's really starting to piss me off that he is starting this habit.  Actually it's hurting my feelings and I DON'T LIKE TO GET MY FEELINGS HURT.  Hurt feelings= pissed off. Period.  So he slunk out of the house without a shower.  If i've got to sleep with it he can work with it.  Maybe tonight he'll take a shower BERFORE he gets into bed.  Oh I know you are thinking I didn't let him take a shower.  No.  I told him to go ahead and take one because he needed it.  But I think he thought better of it.  I don't know what he thought i'd do if he got into the shower this morning.  Did he think I would flush the toilet multiple times, scalding him?  I would never do such a thing... mwah hahaha!

"Only something truely evil could bleed for a week and not die" ~ Hubby

Happy Halloween!!! 

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Repairs are being made...

Today I called the pastor of the church and asked to come in and talk to him.  Hubby said he would go with me.  The pastor made me feel much better when he told me a story about a man who jumped up and joined the church leaving his wife still sitting in the pew.  It could be worse.  At least people weren't staring at me while my husband joined without me. 

We are going to go to the Wednesday night service and I am going to join.  Sunday morning Hubby, T-man and I are going to get baptized together along with 7 other people.  Hubby and I along with the pastor decided that C-man, not having been going to church very long and he is so young and doesn't understand the concept, will not be baptized at this time.  He will be visiting his mother this weekend and won't be there anyway so that way he won't feel left out. I was baptized when I was twelve in the Assemblies of God church but this church states in their by-laws that you must be baptized in the baptist church to be a member of the church.  So I'm going to do it again.  I don't mind.  Like I told the pastor today "that way we can do SOMETHING as a family" ; )  Hubby was sinking lower and lower into the couch.  Poor guy.  I felt a little sorry for him.  He was trying to do good, he just got a little excited and FORGOT ME.

Ok that will be my last post dogging him on THIS issue.

I love you honey and I forgive you!

Bad squirrel, bad, bad squirrel!!!

The visits from concerned church members has begun.  I think i'm going to have to get mad at him all over again.  Two sweet older ladies from the church came tonight while hubby was at football practice.  They wanted to see how I was feeling.  They wanted to make sure I really wanted to join the church.  I'm going to pop his little squirrel head off when he gets home. 

Notice the new catagory... "Hubby's in trouble"