Those icky kids...

Hey I really do like kids as long as they go home with you at the end of the day. My daughter and I have a great time and she is older now. We spend a lot of time together and usually have a good time. But other kids I have about a 6 hour limit. Maybe it was 4 hours. But I have a very good feeling it was some kid who gave me strep this last week. I'm going to live but do you know how bad a throat can hurt even if you don't have Tonsils any more. I promise to get back on here again and keep my nonsense rambling but I still want a pain killer...

EX GOV. Mr. Blagojevich

Please do not help us any more!!!

Who gave me this?

In bed again off and on for the last few days. I ended up with one of those things floating around my daughters school or was it at a friends house from hugging on her kids? No idea but I am not touching a kid ever again. Please pass the NyQuil and Tylenol and I am going back to sleep for a while maybe the rest of the day. OK I'll try this again tomorrow if I get out of bed.

Today She is 11!

WoW!!! She turned 11 today! Where does the time go? This was taken a few years ago in Fargo at Space Aliens. I think we are little to happy on caffeine. I thought it was the perfect picture for today. She heads out tomorrow for her favorite water park that she always goes to for her birthday. Love you Punk!!!

Maybe some one should call a cleaning crew...

OK It isn't as bad as I make it look. We had gone thru a really bad snap with weather and had either been in 2 rooms. The living room or my bedroom. Well they both need Help and I just don't feel like doing it yet. I just feel really lazy after all that cold. I will get it done. Right? Right after I make lunch and maybe a nap. By the way those soda cans are from yesterday and today. I bring them in to the local recycling center every month so I just cant throw them. Time to break out a new bag to put those in. It never ends...

These 2 selpt the whole time...

I went in and tried to wake these 2 up on commercial breaks. Didn't work at all. They are in there sleeping mode and will be up to address every one in about an hour or so. They are night Owls. They wait for the child to go to school in the morning and then they head off to bed till 12 or 1p.m. then have a snack and a stretch and back to a nap again for a little while again...

Every one glued to the t.v.?

WoW, Here we go...

I am excited to see where we go with this new administration.
I am a republican when it comes down to it, but I have been brought up that what ever party has the office We will respect. We respect the person and stand behind him. I will probably be watching t.v. for then next 3 days to see.

It is all done!

By the way I just want every one to know that Christmas is over, no more, see you all next year. Now will some one get over here and haul it out put it in the garage, and don't forget to put labels on the bins this time. K Or we will have a hard time all over again next year. And we are not up for that...

Let us all have a fun week!

I know that this Girl is. She has a Birthday on Thursday! She has plans for this week and has bigger plans for the weekend. Can I turn 11 again to please? I know I started off really deep and I will answer myself here as I find them. I just know that I still want to find and do more then I am. Does that make any sense? We are going to watch every thing at the Capitol tomorrow and then we are planning a cupcake night on Thurs. for this goofy kid as she turns 11...

Getting down to the Nitty-Gritty!

How do I get down to the Nitty-Gritty?
To all of us it is different and the basics are very different for each of us.
This is not a New Year hang-over wake up call. Jeez, I was home alone and
had 3 glasses of wine. It's a wake up call about what I want to see in my future
and where I want to be in the future.
10 years ago I was a extrovert. Life of the party, always on the go, had to return every
phone call. Couldn't sit still had to keep the world moving around me.
How many credits could I take in college, how many hours could I delivers pizzas
2 or 3 nights a week? How much time could I put into Student Senate in a week?
How many Senate trips can I do in a month? I did it!!!
Did it all turn out the way it was planned? Nope!
Before all that, I had a daughter on January 22, 1998.
I was with her father for a while. It was both our faults it didn't work.
I always thought I was tyring to make it work. I was so wrong.
But I moved forward.
Really? Where has this forward taken me?
After 10 years here I am. I live in Central Minnesota.
It has been a great pausing place and I love being back by the lakes I grew up with.
I am very happy that we have lots of Snow, but the Cold has really taken a toll.
So the Nitty-Gritty of this is now what?
Get to the heart of what I want for the future?
I really do want to stay in the country. Set my own pace for every day for my daughter and I.
But I really want to be more connected to Peeps...
I guess I have a lot of thinking, and pro and con lists to work out.
Maybe I should pick up a large map, some pins and a blindfold.
Ha Just Kidding!!! Kinda

Who am I?

I have been asking this question of myself recently, and I need to start nailing this down. I am almost 32 and this is a question that most start wanting the answers by 30. So really who am I?

I am checking for 10 Fingers and 10 Toes!

Yipeeeee
We are going to reach above zero today. I checked last night and
also this morning, I have all my fingers and toes still, no frostbite
here. I'm still waiting till the afternoon to run a few errands.

I have to say some thing to a little boy I know in Fargo.
Happy Birthday Finn!!!

But Thank God it is Friday!
My daughter M doesn't have to trudge out to the bus tomorrow.
We will sleep in till 9 or 10 and have waffles with local maple syrup.
I did the laundry early on this week, so that is done with the exemption
that M has to put hers away and tidy up her room.
So all N all we should have a pretty boring weekend. I could only hope.
I know that it will not be that boring. When you have neighbors like
mine there are going to need some thing over the weekend.
I already know that their cars wont start and the last time they were at
the grocery store was Mon... I am sure they are out of their basic needs and
will want to go to town tomorrow. I really hope that R's boyfriend is around
this weekend to take them. I know that sounds bad but I need a break from
their needs and now just focus own my own for a while.
My daughter M will turn 11 next Thursday. Good Grief I am getting older and older.
My Mom, Grandma from up North and I buy her things all thru the year so we
really dont buy big things at Christmas and her B-Day. I think that was kinda
hard for her to understand at first but she really sees the benefit now...
Spoiled child!!! She deserves it...
The only thing she really wants next week for her birthday is to load her Mp3
player with music. And of course to have PIZZA.
Well off to tap the mercury in the thermometer again to see if it will rise a little...
If it wont rise I will use one of the cats as a foot warmer or maybe a neck wrap.
Keep warm...
Rambling on Rachel

Is there any thing else to complain about???

Good Morning!
I am finally doing this. Plunging into the scary world of Blog.
Well not that scary, just I'm now going to let people that I don't know
into our little world of 1 parent, 1 child, 2 Cats.
Yes I do know that I am pathetic. Really Cats??? 31 years old
and I already have 2 Cats.
We are at about the coldest day of the year in Central MN and since
there is now way of getting me to venture outside, I have started a Blog.
Just to remind any one who reads this, this is where we are...
-32 below Zero with Wind Chill @ about -55...
Come on, really?
I think I also should open another Savings account to retire to Costa Rica.
I only have 20 years to work on that...
I have been watching our local news channel and there are only 2 schools in
about a 100 mile radius that isn't either running 2 hrs late or closed.
My daughters school is one of the 2 that is staying open. I am not sending
her out there. I know she shouldn't miss but I really don't think that it is
safe for children on a bus at these temps. That is my opinion.
Wait, wait there is the Weather Channel again. I am having an OCD problem
at the moment. It's always on if I am not watching some thing else.
I need back round noise. Don't ask it's just one of those things...
Well I need to turn up the heat on the electric blanket again and maybe
try a nap.
Thanks for reading
Rambling on Rachel