it's really happening !!!! WOOHOO!!!

I meet with the builders tomorrow to go over everything that will be going into our house . I can't wait because I have all the details down and I am ready . It still doesn't feel real yet so I am hoping that once we break ground it will sink in . We should sign the contract by the end of this week or the first of next week , right now we are still finalizing those last minute things . I did get awesome news today though , once all the figures were put in and all , our intrest rate was much lower than we expected so all of that research and weighing our options really paid off . Our house payment is going to be about four to five hundred dollars cheaper than we estimated so that is really great .

The kids are out on fall break this week so we are doing a lot of sorting through their belongings and seeing what they want and what they don't want and once that is all done I am going to have a yard sale and let the kids label and price their things so that they can get the money for it , then what is left from the yard sale we will box up and take to the Knoxville Rescue Ministries . I am doing some sorting through my own things because I am hosting a Home Interiors party this coming Thursday night . Two things in life that I absolutely love and indulge in is Home Interiors and Pampered Chef . I could break a millionaire with either ! I love a variety of things and it shows in my decorating because I don't really have a theme that I do , I just put out things I like . When our house is built and we move in, my office will be done in lighthouses and that will be the first time that I have ever had a room done in one complete theme and it won't be just lighthouses , it will be more of a beachy , tropical kind of thing because that is what relaxes me and what better place to have a relaxing effect than in the office where I will spend a lot of my time . Mr . Breazy and I are also going to build some pieces for our home like our dinning table and end tables for the living room and a few more things I have in mind . By building our own we know that they are unique and we aren't going to walk into someone elses home one day and see the exact same pieces we have .

Am I the only one that is this excited and nervous or were any of you this way when you bought/built your homes ? I can't wait to post the first pic of them cutting into the dirt and believe me , it will be here along with the progress of each stage of the building . Anyways, enough of my excited babble , I need to get to bed because tomorrow is going to be a busy day . Y'all be safe , take care and have a good day !

WOOHOO, WOOHOOO ! We took the plunge !

Hey all ! Sorry but I don't have an HNT going here today , however you can go over to SWHAB and see my friends and I .

Okay, so what this post is about is good news ! I have posted on here several times about building a home . I even showed a pic of the house we wanted to build . Well , we really go to thinking about that big two story home and we ended up changing our minds because #1 the kids won't live with us forever and we don't need that much house for the two of us when the kids do go their own way #2 aging people don't do stairs well . #3 who wants that much house to clean ?. We finally recieved our deed about three weeks ago so it is ours free and clear . Before that we weighed some optioins and looked at several different avenues we could take . With the way time is for us right now there would be no way we could build the way we wanted to which was us doing all the work except for the electric , sheetrock and a couple other things ourselves . A friend of ours, which is a pro. baseball player, just bough a modular home back in the summer . For those of you thinking that modular and mobile home are the same thing let me say that would be wrong . A modular home is a bit different because # 1 it is built with better materials #2 you can design your own or do as much customization to one of the company's floor plans . We ended up deciding against this as well because it seemed that our friends were having too many problems with the completion of their modular home . So we set out to search out some contractors to build our home at a good price . It didn't take long to find what we were looking for at a price that we were very much in agreement with and a floor plan that my husband , children and I fell in love with .

My husband and I have never taken a huge plunge like this before. Many years ago we bought a singlewide mobile home , which actually sat on the land that we now own, and lived in it for four years . It didn't take us long to figure that we needed something bigger but my grandfather owned the land and we couldn't build . Now that the land is ours we can do what we want and we don't have to worry about the extra cost of having septic and fill line put in or electricity or water because it is all there .Last Friday my husband and I made the decision to take the plunge and let this one particular company build our home . Like I said I have never done this before so I didn't know how long it would take for the approval to go through and all that , nor did I realize just how nervous people get over this huge step in life . This morning I got the call . The construction loan has been approved , not only that but for way more than we need . I AM SO EXCITED !!!! (insert groovy victory dance here with squealing , tears and all mixed in) . I wished I had known how this experience was going to be with all the nervousness and then excitement .

We go sign a few papers today then there will be a meeting set up to meet with the contractor on our land and stake out where the house is going and all that . I do know that I will be moving into my new home sometime in March or April . I will be posting pics of the construction and all that . YOOOHOOOO!!!!!!! The pic at the beginning of the post shows what it looks like , of course my outside colors will be different . This home looks small from the outside but is surprisingly big inside . It is a very well layed out plan . This plan doesn't come with a garage either because my husband wants to do the garage later on himself . He wants more than a two car bay so that is one addition that will come in the next year or two .

I hope your day is as exciting as mine has been !!!!! HUGS & KISSES !!!!!

for the ladies..

Guys , you can read these but please don't take offense to any of them because I just wanted to give the ladies something to laugh about today ! Thank you ! :)
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Ladies , here are a few jokes for you that were emailed to me . I hope you enjoy ! .

One day my house work challenged husband decided to wash his sweat-shirt. Seconds after he stepped into the laundry room he yells "What setting do I use on the washing machine"
I replied " it depends , what does it say on your shirt "
He yelled back " University of Oklahoma "

And they say blondes are dumb...
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A coupe is laying in bed when the man says " I am going to make you the happiest woman in the world "
The wife replies " I'll miss you ....
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" It's just too hot to wear clothes today " Jack says as he steps out of the shower , "honey what do you think the neighbors would think if I mowed the lawn like this ?"
"Probably that I married you for your money " she replied .
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What do you call an intelligent , good looking man ?
A rumor
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Lord I pray for Wisdom to understand my man , Love to forgive him , and Patience for his moods because Lord , if I pray for Strength , I will beat him to death .
AMEN !
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Why do men whistle when they are on the pot ?
So they can remember which end to wipe !
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How do you keep your husband from reading your emails ?
Rename the folder " Instruction Manuals"
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Y'all have a wonderful day !

long time , no post ..

Hey all ! Sorry it has been a while since I have posted but I have been a bit busy with other things. Sometime tonight I am going to try to read some of your blogs that I have not had time to read lately .

Saturday we recieved 6 inches of rain and on sunday we recieved a bit more . I didn't think it would ever quit raining saturday . It rained just about as hard as it could rain for hours and of course we chose that day to go to Knoxville . We were supposed to go to the Knoxville Zoo with some friends but when we got there we waited in the car for over thirty minutes and the rain kept getting harder so we decided to grab an early lunch and wait the rain out . Needless to say , we ended up going bowling which was a blast . I am not a good bowler but I have so much fun .My youngest daught broke a hundred which is pretty good for someone who has only bowled two times . My son scored in the high nineties which beat my lowly score of seventy five . I should have known something was up on my first roll and I got a strike !

Anyways , I wanted to post something around here to let y'all know that I am still breathing and kicking here in good ole' East Tennessee . Y'all have a good one !

I have to do something here ...

that under normal circumstances I do for everyone else when it is their special day however, this week has been very tough trying to deal with the loss of my aunt and even though we buried her today I am not feeling any better about things . What I need to do is something special for someone very special to me . Tuesday , September 12,2006 my son , Ty, turned 9 . We took him out to the restaurant of his choice and let him open a gift but the one thing I didn't do was acknowlege it on here like I do for the rest of my family . So , here it is ....

Ty you are one of four lights of my life and I am so blessed that God chose me to be your mom . I miss you being a small toddler but at the same time I am excited to watch you grow into a man and see what you will become . No matter how old you get , I will still expect my daily hugs and kisses that you give me now . Thank you for being such a precious soul in my life. I love you !!!

Love ,
Mom

HAPPY 9th BIRTHDAY !!!!!

I won't be around at all Satufday because I have a birthday party to throw for my son so y'all have a great weekend . God bless you and once again , thank you for all of your kind words reguarding my loss . :)

just a little talk ...

Hey all . I am posting tonight because I just need to talk a bit and I don't really know what to say so I am just going to let it flow out . I am not doing too good right now . As most of you know , this past year has been really rough for my family because we have had a lot of deaths . It seems like just when we get to the point of not being uncomfortable when the phone rings that someone else passes and I am so sick and tired of it . I am tired of mourning for those that I love who have gone on . I believe that God would never put anything on us that we can't handle but I will tell you that I am pretty close to the point of not being able to handle anything else .

You see , Saturday evening I was at a friends house for an open house Home Interiors party and my husband called . I answered and I could tell immediately that something wasn't right but I thought that maybe my son had got sicker because he had a stomach virus . All my husband would say was " you need to come home honey " . Finally I was starting to panic and I told him that I wasn't moving until he told me what was wrong . I could tell that he was struggling with what he wanted to say and I figured either someone has passed away or they are close to but who could it be ? After a minute my husband told me that my uncle had come home from work and found my aunt dead . I don't remember much after that except for not being able to breathe and my friends calming voice in my ear as she held me .

The thing of it is , the aunt that passed was my favorite aunt . She kept me from Monday to Friday when I was a small child because my mom and dad both worked jobs that required long hours and my brother was in school so I stayed with my aunt and uncle . Once I started school I would go spend the weekend with them . To make a long story short my aunt , uncle and their two daughters are like a second family to me because I spent so much time with them as a child . Her death has come as such a huge shock to most everyone in my family . We all knew that she hadn't been feeling well for the past few months but she was seeing a doctor and nothing bad was wrong . She did have a bad heart and we are pretty sure that while she slept saturday evening that her heart just gave out . She went in her sleep so it was a peaceful passing and I thank God for that . There is one thing here that blesses my heart more than anything ever could . I am a christian and I believe that the only way to heaven is through Jesus Christ .I am not telling you this because I want everyone of you to believe the way I do , I am just telling you how my family and I believe. My aunt had never been saved but she had started going to church about three months ago . Last sunday night she went to the alter and accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior .

Even though that blesses my heart , it doesn't make the loss hurt any less . To be completely honest with you , I am tore up pretty bad over this . Maybe that is because it was so sudden , I don't know. I can't sleep and nothing sits well on my stomach at this time , I have cried enough tears to fill a river and I can't seem to stop . I dread the service coming up on wednesday night and the burial on thursday because I haven't saw her yet and it all seems like a bad dream to me now but when I see her the reality of her death will be upon me . It is hard because part of me is rejoicing because she was saved and the other part of me is so sad because I will never hear her voice again or see her smile , hear her laugh , not on this earth anyways. I just ask you all to pray for my family and I because I am not the only one that is a basket case right now , we all seem to walk around like zombies . Have any of you ever had to write the obituary for someone you loved ? Let me tell you it is one of the hardest things you will do , last night was the second time in my life I have done it but my uncle and two cousins asked me to help them and I wouldn't have said no to them for nothing in the world . I am sorry to be posting this but I just needed to talk and I don't want to burden my husband . He has been such a blessing to me through all of the deaths that we have had this year and I seriously don't know what I would do without him because at night when I go to bed and can't sleep because I can't quit crying , it is his arms that hold me , his voice that reassures me and his heart that prays with me for peace so I can sleep . I will tell you all this , I am so glad that I am a child of God because without Him I would have fallen apart by now . My favorite poem of all time is "Footprints in the Sand" and in this time I know that He is there , my soul can feel His whispers of peace but the flesh and blood part of me can't quit weeping . I can't wait until the day that I don't have to worry about losing those I love and I will be with the ones that have gone before me . That belief keeps me going through every single death that comes along .

Thank you all for listening to me . If there is someone in your life that you love , give them a call or go see them tomorrow and tell them because we are not promised another breath and you never know when they will be taken from you or you from them . God bless each and everyone of you . Good night . :)

Finally Friday .....

Actually it is Thursday night but I am getting ready to get myself in bed . I am feeling better than I was yesterday and I hope to be back to complete normal by tomorrow . Isn't it amazing at how those 24-48 hour stomach viruses pack such a punch and of course if someone (Mr. Breazy this time) around here catches something they will have it no other way unless they share with at least one of the others . LOL! Oh well , that is okay what are families for ! I recieved an email the other day and I thought it was so cute so I am going to share it with you ......
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(Btw... as you will see , I left the original spelling in each letter)
Through A Childs Eyes

Dear God ,
Instead of letting people die and haveing to make new ones why don't you just keep the ones you got now .

Jane
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Dear God,
I went to this wedding and they kissed right in the church is , is that okay ?

Neil
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Dear God,
In bible times did they really talk that fancy?

Jennifer
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Dear God,
I am American , what are you ?

Robert
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Dear God,
Thank you for the baby brother but what I prayed for was a puppy.

Joyce
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Dear God,
I bet it is hard for you to love all of everybody in the whole world .There are only 4 people in our family and I can never do it .

Nan
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Dear God,
If you watch in church on sunday I will show you my new shoes.

Mickey
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(this one is real cute)
Dear God,
If we come back as something else please don't let me come back as Jennifer Horton because I hate her .
Denise
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(on this one most of the letters were written backwards)
Dear God,
I would like to live 900 years like the guy in the bible.
Love,
Chris
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Dear God,
We read Thos Edison made light . But in sunday school they said you did it . So I bet he stoled your idea.
Sincerely,
Donna
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Dear God,
If you let the dinasor not exstinc we would not have a country. You did the right thing .

Jonathan
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Dear God,
Please send Dennis Clark to a different camp this year.

Peter
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Y'all have a wonderful fun filled weekend !!!

Heartbreaking..

I was sitting in the living room watching tv with my son this morning when my oldest daughter comes out of her room screaming frantically to turn the tv to Fox News . I didn't know what was going on and my first thought was another attack on our nation however , when I turned to the channel I heard some really sad news . Steve Irwin " The Crocodile Hunter" was killed this morning when a stingrays barb went through his chest while filming for a childrens show that he had started for his daughter Bindi . They were snorkeling at Batt Reef, which is part of the Great Barrier Reef , about 9 miles from Port Douglas when Steve swam over the stingray that was hidden in the sand . As soon as Steve swam over the stingray it threw it's tail up and caught him in the chest . They say that most stingray attacks aren't fatal but this is one of those freak incidents . Steve leaves behind his wife , Terri, 8 yr old daughter Bindi and 2 1/2 yr old son Robert .

I don't know about any of you but my family and I loved watching The Croc Hunter . About five years ago Steve actually taped a show on Rich Mountain which is in The Great Smoky Mountains . He was looking for rattlesnakes and let me tell ya , he sure found some . That show was done because a lot of people say that there are no rattle snakes in this part of Tennessee but I guess Steve showed them eh? Anyways, RIP Crocodile Hunter !


Happy Labor Day !

breakin' it down Tennessee style ....

As of 5:30pm(EST) tomorrow it will officially be FOOTBALL TIME IN TENNESSEE !!! We are playing the California Golden Bears and I am excited to see how the Vols have shaped up since last year . From all the reports we have been getting on tv and on the radio things are looking pretty good for us this year . Anyways , watching the game makes me happy and you can't even think about the Vols without one little thing that will have every single Volunteer fan screaming and cheering . That one little thing is called Rocky Top ! Sit back and enjoy because we are going to break it down Tennessee style for ya ! GO VOLS !!!!

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ROCKY TOP

Wish that I was on ole' Rocky Top
Down in the Tennessee hills
Ain't no smoggy smoke on Rocky Top
Ain't no telephone bills

Once I had a girl on Rocky Top
Half bear the other half cat
Wild as a mink but sweet as a soda pop
I still dream about that

Rocky Top you'll always be
Home sweet home to me
Good ole' Rocky Top
Rocky Top Tennessee

Once two strangers climbed ole' Rocky Top
Lookin' for a moonshine still
Strangers ain't come down from Rocky Top
Wrecken they never will

Corn won't grow at all on Rocky Top
Dirts too rocky by far
That's why all the folks on Rocky Top
Get their corn from a jar

Rocky Top you'll always be
Home sweet home to me
Good ole' Rocky Top
Rocky Top Tennessee

I've had years of cramped up city life
Trapped like a duck in a pen
All I know is it's a pity life
Can't be simple again

Rocky Top you'll always be
Home sweet home to me
Good ole' Rocky Top
Rocky Top Tennessee
Rocky Top Tennessee
Rocky Top Tennessee !!

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Good luck to all who have games this weekend ! Have fun watching the games !

GO TENNESSEE VOLS!!!!
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wOOt! The Vols won ! The final score was
Volunteers 35
Golden Bears 18
I hope this is the start of a great year because todays game got my orange blood moving a wee bit faster through my veins ! Y'all have a good one !
Happy Labor Day !

opening up ....

Hey all ! I have wondered all day what I would post tonight when I got on . As you know , the name of my blog is "A Breazy Life" so that is kinda self explanatory right ? Also y'all read my posts so you know that basically all I post about is my day to day life . I know that in the past I have mentioned some of my weird little phobias, fears and obsessions but I have never really went in depth with any of them and told some of the things that I deal with from day to day and why . The past two weeks have been kind of hard for me and I have made some changes in my life in the past couple of months that I haven't mentioned . I have this blog and I feel comfortable stating my feelings on here but sometimes I have a hard time telling to someone that is sitting right in front of me so dear friends I don't know how deep this post is gonna get but there are some things that I just need to talk about .

First of all I want to get this out of the way . Most of you know that I started going to LA Weight Loss in March and I have been successful so far . Well , I have made the decision not to go back to the center and to continue my weight loss on my own without the products that LAWL pushes on you . At this point I find that I am loosing more weight since I quit going because making sure that I get my certain foods and portions in was about to drive me nuts and it was also making me want things I couldn't have so I have changed my diet to basically whatever I want but I do this in moderation and I am also continueing my exercises five days a week , I walk three days and do a twenty minute video workout two days a week. Now , I am sure you all are wondering what my weight loss has to do with the price of eggs in China and I will have to say that I really don't know but I felt like I needed to get that off my chest , like I said , I don't know where all this post is going to lead because I am typing what I am feeling .

Second of all as I said the past couple of weeks have been really hard for me . One reason being that I haven't been sleeping but maybe two hours a night and it is really starting to wear me down. There are several reasons why I haven't been sleeping and this is where things are going to get a bit deep . One reason is because I am starting to feel some anxiety over our coming move. I really want to be moved and settled in before cold weather hits and most definately before the holidays.

I am really starting to dislike this place we are renting because the road in front of our home is a very busy road and traffic is through here all hours of the night which leads to a deep fear with me that makes me feel completely like an idiot because I have a fear like this . Most of y'all know what happened to me for ten years of my childhood and that has imbedded fears in me that I don't think will ever go away . One of my fears is that someone will come into my home while I am sleeping and hurt one of my children (sounds stupid I know but I can't help it). I am a very light sleeper therefore every little sound that I hear at night pulls me from my bed to go check on my kids . The thing that makes me feel like an idiot about this fear is that my house is locked up tight and double checked at night before I go to bed and I still get up to check my kids . Sometimes I wake up for no reason and I go make sure that all three of them are breathing . This makes me feel idiotic too because of the ages my kids are at , 14 , 11 , & 8. You would think that checking their breathing at night , unless they are sick , would have been over years ago but I still do it . Do any of you ever do that or is it just me and my messed up ways ?

Another reason I can't sleep is because I can't get my brain to shut down. I am always thinking about the errands and chores I have do get done the next day and I am mentally flipping the pages of my day planner at the same time . There are two elderly people at our church who have bone cancer and both are basically at deaths doorstep and I pray and worry for them at night . The kidney infection I am still fighting isn't helping me out at all .

Have any of you ever been so tired that you knew you would be asleep before your head hit the pillow but when you go to bed you find that sleep eludes you , basically you are physically and mentally exhausted ? All of these things are factors that are keeping sleep away from me at night . I know that most of them make me sound like some person who is a few bricks shy of a wall but I promise you there is nothing wrong with my noggin or what is in it . I do believe that we all have weird fears and phobias and that we don't always talk about them because they make us feel different and in some small way we don't want to tell others because we don't want them saying "hey , you are the biggest freak I have ever came in contact with" . I hope this post has made sense. If it hasn't please let me know in the comments and I will try to explain . Thank you all so much for listening to my moaning and groaning and any suggestions /comments are very much appreciated . Good night all ! Have a good Friday ! :)

thunderstorms, a first aid kit , & a nerve wracking driver

Good Wednesday morning all ! Monday night was like a night from hell around here . Shortly after I went to bed it started raining like something awful then came the thunder . From about midnight til 5am it was nothing but thunder , lightning and torrents of rain . The rain was coming down so hard that it sounded like a train going by . This particular storm dropped almost three inches of rain on us between midnight and five am. The thunder was so loud and booming that you couldn't sleep through it , however , my kids didn't have a problem sleeping through it . We live in a brick house and each boom of thunder was shaking the house and at one point it thundered and I thought a tree fell in our yard near the house . Finally around 5 it settled down a bit and I was able to sleep for an hour before getting up and starting the day .

I took my mom and my sister out to lunch yesterday . We went to my favorite local Mexican restaurant, Cancun. We were sitting there enjoying our meal when my cell rings , I answer it and this is how the conversation went :
Me: Hello ...
Mr. Breazy: are you still eating ?
Me: yes , why ?
Mr. Breazy : I need a first aid kit !
Me : Dear God , what have you done now ?
Mr. Breazy : It's not me this time , it's J. He was cutting the jams for me and got his thumb in the jamsaw .
Me: ummmmm... honey , you need more than a first aid kit , you need to take him to the ER don't ya think ?
Mr. Breazy : no , he won't go .
Me: Well , you are going to have to find a first aid kit some where else because I am eating with my mom and my sister and I am not leaving .
Mr. Breazy : no problem . I think I have one in the van but I know there are no bandaids in it , but don't worry about it , I will take care of him , enjoy your lunch and I will talk to you later !
Me: let me know how he is okay
Mr. Breazy: okay

Turns out J cut the end of his left thumb very bad and should have had stiches but he wouldn't go so when they got home yesterday I wanted to check his thumb out and I got the biggest laugh of my life. My husband had disinfectant in his first aid kit so they disinfected the cut then they took toilet paper and black electrical tape and bandaged him up . On their way home my husband stopped and bought a new first aid kit . Ya gotta love those men ! LOL!

My kids go to three different schools this year . The elementary school is one mile northwest of my home , the middle and high school are one mile southwest of my home . Our regular routine is that I leave home at 7:15 and drop my son off at the elementary , then I drop my 11yr old daughter off at the middle school , then I come home pick up my 14 yr old daughter and take her to the high school. I don't have time for slow moving drivers to be getting in front of me but this morning as I was turning into the elementary school this car comes from the other way and turns in front of me so suddenly that I had to slam on the brakes to keep from hitting it . Once behind this car it starts going real slow. Each curve we go around the woman practically stops to turn . I had to follow this idiot all the way to the middle school and I was letting her know that I wasn't happy about it . Every time she would slow down to a near stop to turn a curve I would lay down on my horn . I was glad when we pulled out of the middle school and she hit her blinker for the opposite direction I needed to go .

I am glad that Tropical Storm Ernesto decided to go East instead of West as they had first predicted. I am sure that all along the gulf coast those folks were holding their breath especailly since yesterday was the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina . I am also glad that Tropical Storm Ernesto petered out before making landfall in Florida .

I guess that is about all I have to yack about at the moment so I am going to sign off and try to catch a wee nap before I go to the grocery store which is one of my most hated wifely duties . Give me dirty dishes , dirty floors and dirty laundry all day long but please don't make me go to the grocery store . Have I mentioned in the past how I hate to shop? LOL!

Y'all have a great day and be safe ! :)

Monday...

Good Monday morning all ! I don't have anything of real importance to gab about today so I will just gab .

I noticed last week while picking my fourteen year old up from school that there are stacks of building materials on top of the building . Could this mean a third story? I believe so ! When the school was built they were thinking ahead because they made it possible for a third story to be added if it was ever needed . No one thought they would ever actually add a third story but I do believe that is exactly what they are preparing to do , I sure hope it is anyway.

Only 5 days til "FOOTBALL TIME IN TENNESSEE" and I can't wait ! I am hoping my beloved Volunteers will have a much better year than last year .

I have noticed that the air has a different feel to it late at night and first thing in the morning . Even though we experienced low 90's this weekend , I can feel just a bit of added coolness especially first thing in the morning . I am really excited about fall coming because I have had it with this thick humidity around here . Plus we will be moving and getting settled in soon and that has me absolutely jumping for joy !

Tomorrow will mark the one year anniverary for Hurricane Katrina and on this anniversary all the folks in the gulf are going to be watching a new storm that is possibly headed their way . Ernesto was downgraded to a Tropical Storm yesterday afternoon but is expected to be upgraded to a hurricane before it makes landfall . Weather forcasters expect the storm to hit within the next 36 to 48 hours . They expect the storm to be a Category 1 when it makes landfall. Just remember to say some prayers for them .

Well , I guess that is about all I have to yack about so , y'all have a wonderful Monday and be safe ! :)

mmmmmmmmkay

Did anyone besides myself notice that I title yesterdays post " Mowing and kidney infections" ? If you noticed that did you also notice that not once did I mention the mowing ?Frankly I have no idea where the mowing came from , it must have been on my mind because I had been outside to have a cigarette and I was thinking that the lawn needs to be mowed again . Then again it could have been the vicodin talking ! LOL! Now I know what NOT to do while well into pain meds . I do have some pain meds in me now but I just took them so they haven't hit yet , now if things start sounding strange you will know the pills are taking effect . Anyways........

My sweet little eleven year old daughter done dishes for me after supper tonight and that made me real happy . We are currently renting here and I do have a dishwasher but I would swear that Moses' mother used the thing . I have to practically wash them before loading them into the dishwasher and then you start it and it sounds like a 747 hoovering right over the kitchen area of our home , then when they are done they are not dry even though the dishwasher is set on the heat dry setting . I can't wait to get into our new home because my dishwasher there is one that you don't have to rinse the dishes , you can leave dirty dishes in it for a week and they will clean as well as if you just put them in and you don't have to dry them either . That will be so wonderful for me .

I am feeling a bit better today except for the migraine coming on and I knew that could happen because sometimes if I take antibiotics I end up with a migraine . Hopefully I will be as right as rain in few days . My eleven year olds girl scout meetings just started back up for the year and in two weeks they will be having a special ceremony in which they will earn a 9/11 badge . The reason they are doing this is because the troop leader is from Manhattan and this is the fifth anniversary. In June the girls will be going to Niagra Falls in Canada . The girls have been working towards earning the highest award that you can earn as a Junior girl scout for the past two years and in the spring when they bridge to Cadettes they each will recieve the afore mentioned award which is the Bronze award . Cadettes earn Silver and Seniors earn Gold . I am really excited about that because girl scouts is my daughters one thing that she absolutely loves and it is good for her . If she stays in the scouts as long as she can , which she plans on doing , she can get a full paid scholarship to college which would be fantastic if you ask me .

Well y'all it has been nice chattin with ya but I am going to have to go to bed now because my meds are about to kick in and I don't want to be sitting here when they do because things could get ugly and I certainly don't want to embarass myself !heehee ! Good night ! HUGS ! :)

mowing and a kidney infection ...

Happy Monday all ! Sorry I haven't posted in a while but I am having some medical difficulties . Remember what I said in my last post about how I woke up that day and didn't feel right but couldn't pin point what was wrong ? Well , I should have waited a day or two to post because I got a little inkling of my answer Thursday night and was 100% sure by Friday morning . I have a frickin kidney infection . This is only the third one I have ever had in my 31 years and I hope and pray to God it is my last . I think giving birth naturally was less painful ( I say that now since it has been almost 9 years since I gave birth naturally...heehee) . Ah , don't mind me , I am just pissing and moaning , literally ! LOL! Okay , no more lame jokes , I promise !

I am feeling better than I was . Saturday and yesterday I had a fever and all but I also had some good vicodin to help with the pain and those made me happy ! :) I am not real big on taking any kind of medication especially pain meds because I have a real low tolerance for those . Just to explain to you my low tolerance of certain pills , I can take a Tylenol PM and I am out for more than a day . With that being said , you can imagine what a vicodin does to me . I don't take pain meds unless I am hurting so bad that it becomes more than an annoyance . And as if you can't tell right now , I have a bit of vicodin in me so if anything is misspelled , just over look it . Anyways , I am going to sign off and go beddie bye because I am about to drool all over the keyboard and that I am sure will cause a short circiut or something . Good night , sleep tight , don't let the bed bugs bite !!!

Have you ever .....

had one of those days where you wake up and everything feels just a bit off but you can't really pinpoint what is wrong ? Well , that was my day yesterday . I woke up feeling like poo but couldn't really tell you where I was feeling bad . I didn't even touch my computer yesterday and I done something else that I NEVER do , I fed my family sandwiches for supper last night . I always prepare a meal but last night they got cold sandwiches and they didn't seem to mind . I am feeling alot better this morning and I am ready to take on the day now .

I was listening to our local country music station this morning and they always do Weirdo-Wednesday news . This morning one of their stories ( and mind you the stories they tell are true and happen around the world ) was about a Russian woman who has a lawsuit on her local meteorologist . She planned a weekend camping trip around the meteorologists forcast which said that it would be sunny all weekend long but instead when the weekend arrived and she went camping it rained the entire time . She wants to be refunded for her cost of the trip and for doctor visits and medications for the cold she caught while being out in the rain . If I remember correctly someone tried this same thing a few years ago and the judge laughed them out of the courtroom !

That is about all I have for today but if you want some reading material then just look to my sidebar and go read some of the blogs on my blogroll ! Y'all be safe , and Happy Hump Day !

thank you !

Happy Monday all ! I wanted to do this post to thank all of you for your suggestions on the overcrowding situation at my daughters school . There were a couple of suggestions that I could move or pay for private schooling and to me neither of those are an option because we are preparing to move into our new home in a couple of months and our new home is in this school district . I really appreciate the comments and suggestions , y'all were really helpful ! I do not think that this overcrowding problem is the schools fault and I know that they are probably just as frustrated as myself and other parents are . I am checking into the fire codes because if they are outside of those rules then something definately needs to happen . Anyways, thank you so much for you help .

This week we are having somewhat cooler temps in East Tennessee , thank goodness ! We had rain most of the day on friday and some on saturday and that brought with it a cold front which pushed temps down into the upper 80's . We are actually supposed to hit 69 for a low tonight and I hope we do because all of this heat and humidity is killing me . My sinuses are feeling a bit better as well and I hope that we are done with the hot hot weather . I am sure there will be a few more days but nothing like what we have had .

I finally got see Final Destination 3 this weekend . I have been eyeballing it everytime I take the kids to the rental store but I haven't picked it up until saturday . I loved it and it will be added to my personal dvd collection . I don't allow my kids to view movies such as this so alot of time if I don't make it to the theater to see it then I have to wait for a night when they are all three away from home to watch .

My dryer is buzzing so I guess that is the signal for me to sign off now . Y'all have a wonderful day and be safe ! :)

school system...

I am have to say that I am fed up with our school system and the way they do things . As you know my fourteen year old daughter started her freshman year of high school monday . When my kids come home there are some questions I always ask , they are as follows : How was your day ? Do you have homework ? and What did you have for lunch ? . My fourteen year olds answers to those questions were this :" it was okay" , " yes I have algebra homework" , and " I didn't get to eat lunch today because after paying for it the bell rang before I could find a seat and eat" . The last one really upset me because not only does she pay $2.50 for her lunch but she didn't even get to sniff it. The reason being is because of the over crowding problem . That high school has a maximum capacity of 1,350 and monday the count was 1,860. That means that they have 510 more students than they are supposed to have . My daughter said the hall is so crowded that you just have to forge right through if you want to get to class in time . Today was the first day that my daughter got to eat her lunch and there was some huge fat kid , football player type bully trying to take her lunch or her money . Fat kid walks up to her in the lunchline and says " are you going to eat that" my daughter said she craned her neck back to look up at him and told him " yes I am , why else would I have it in my hand?" . Then the guy says " well then give me your lunch money" my daughter replies " and how am I supposed to pay for my lunch if I give you my money?" . At this time one of my daughters friends that is in line in front of her tells her to get in front of him in the line . She kept her lunch and her money and finally got to eat . I am not happy about this and if fat boy wants to try to take her lunch /money again then he is going to meet 5 foot , two inches of pissed off mama in his face ! I told my daughter that I know she wants to be nice to everyone but in high school you have to have a bit more back bone than that. She told me she couldn't be mean to anyone and I asked her was the person not being mean by trying to take her food and money .

This isn't the first year that the over crowding problem has occured and nobody seems interested in trying to solve it . There is a new high school going up in the county but none of the students from our high school are in the area to attend there so that solves nothing . Instead the new high school will be attended by students that are going to one of the biggest high schools in the county and they aren't even having an over crowding problem . I am really concerned about this and not just for my childs safety . I mean , what if they have a fire when 90% of those students are at school . How are they going to get them all out safetly ? And what are they going to do when alot of those kids are killed in that fire because nobody could get out the door because of the overcrowding ? At one point the school board was talking about moving the sixth grades to the elementary schools each child came from and then taking the freshman and putting them in the middle schools . Okay I have a problem with that because that isn't going to solve anything , instead it will cause more problems of overcrowding because as of right now the middle schools and elementary schools are under or at capacity . Another thing is that I am not going to put up with upper classmen trying to take my childs lunch and or money . If they want extra food then they need to tell their own parents so they can provide the means for that . I think I need to email Brian and ask him what he would do in a situation like this since he is a principal , maybe he can give me some insight .

Oh well , thanks for listening to me vent and if any of you have any suggestions please leave them in the comment section or feel free to email me @ eazybreazy@gmail.com . Y'all take care , be safe and have a good night !

he said what ?????

The kids went back to school yesterday and I missed them terribly all day and I also worried about my two girls because one started high school and the other middle school . Bethany loves middle school , thank goodness! Chesney is not sure about high school yet but she said she thought it would be good once she settles into it . My son Ty absolutely loves his teacher and new classmates so he is going to enjoy the year .

Yesterday when I went to pick them I had to wait in line at the middle school for over an hour . I have never saw traffic that bad nor had the principal , she was directing traffic . Bethany gets out at 3:15 and Chesney gets out at 3:30 but I didn't pick Bethany up until 4:20 and Chesney at 4:30. I told them they might ride the bus for the first month just to let traffic calm down some .

Chesney told me she got hit on by a senior yesterday . They were changing classes and she was coming up the stairs and he , the senior, was coming down the stairs . He stopped and asked her what grade she was in then he said " you have a nice rack" . Chesney said she blushed all the way to her toes then she looks at him and says , in a sarcastic way , "why, thank you ! I don't believe anyone has ever put it quite that way to me". She said the guy didn't even skip a beat before he looked her up and down then said "you're hot" . She said she just gave him one of those you've-got-to-be kidding-me looks and walked off . When Mr. Breazy heard about this he was ready to take a trip down to the high school and find the above mentioned senior and "teach" him some manners. I told him to calm down because it was going to happen whether he liked it or not , that doesn't mean that I agree with it but it isn't like I can walk with her every step of the day . Also I explained to Mr. Breazy and Chesney that he could have walked up and said " you are dog ugly bitch , don't let me see you again" . I think that helped Mr. Breazy calm down a bit . Anyways , Y'all have a great day and be safe ! :)

back to school..

Good monday morning ! Today my kids went back to school and I am once again at home all alone. It feels good to be here in the silence but darn it , I miss my kids ! The big question I have is " where did the summer break go ?" It was here and gone before we had a chance to blink our eyes.

This year is a bit different for the kids because they are all three in different schools for the next three years this will be the way it is . Ty is in the elementary , Bethany is in the middle school and Chesney just started her freshman year in high school . My kids are growing up so fast ! They were all excited and ready to start a new year which makes me happy because not all parents are fortunate enough to have kids who actually enjoy school . All this silence in the house is something I am going to have to get used to .. heehee .. not that it will be a hardship on me to get used to or anything. Anyways, I am going to sign off and find myself something to do . Y'all have a good day !

Changes and Celebrations...

Good thursday to you all ! As you can see I have once again changed my template. I prefer all the pretty colors against the black so I changed back . Second of all we are having a celebration here today for a special young lady that I know !

Today is my daughter's , Bethany, eleventh birthday .

HAPPY 11th BIRTHDAY BETHANY !!!!
WE LOVE YOU VERY VERY MUCH !!!