well my last week here in Los Angeles is finally here. I am really excited to move. But at the same time so many things are still up in the air! Jake doesn't have a job yet...!!! And so we are moving in with his parents until we can afford to get an apartment of our own. We still haven't packed ONE box yet! We are so bad. But we are starting tonight. Speaking of tonight... tonight Micah my brother in law is flying into Los Angeles to spend our last week here with us :) We plan on going to Malibu once, taking him out for some good food, and we are going to a Dodgers game as well. And hey, if he wanted we could even show him what the inside of a Los Angeles County Courthouse looks like :P Because I have my second court date the morning we are moving! Monday morning at 8:30am. I hope that goes well. As it goes I am going to plead guilty and ask for traffic school and community service. Because if we wanted to fight it we would have to come back for at least one more court apparence. Plus if you want to fight it you have to pay the full amount of the bail until you are able to win the case, if you can win the case. So way too much hassle, I've learned my lesson. I just want it to be done and over with. So thats that. Anyways, moving on. I got to see my dad in sacramento and my dad (in law) in San Francisco on Fathers Day! It wasn't planned out that way, but it was a nice surprise for the day. I have kind of been in a little bit of a crafting funk. Can't seem to kick it. I think once I get settled into our own new place and I can get some nice stamps and papers from this company that I like I will have more to work with. So we'll see. I almost bought some this weekend, but I didn't. For the past couple of days I have been having and on and off again pain in my stomach! How annoying. And my muscles have been SO sore, for what seems like no reason. Jake thought maybe it would help me feel better in general to get out and get some exercise... so we went down to the park and played tennis :) It was a lot of fun. And in the end we tied 3 games to 3 games. it went ME-HIM-ME-HIM-HIM-ME!!! And the last game, that I won, was so much fun! I was so happy to win it :) At first when we were playing I get tired really fast. But as we kept playing and I worked through that tiredness it went away. So that was nice. We had a great time, but this morning my muscles are even more sore! Blech. Another thing. It seems like I have had a runny/stuffy nose for almost six months now! Its so annoying. I have to make sure that I have one of those pocket sixed tissues in my purse at all times! It got worse when we went to San Francisco because of the park right across the street. And its just all together an area I am not used to. And since then I have had bright green snot, which usually means an infection. But why hasn't it gone away?! Also in the past few days my chest (on the inside) has been itching like crazy. And I have a cough. Its a dry cough though. So last night Jake got me a big glass of water to put next to my bedside so that if I needed it in the middle of the night I wouldn't have to get up, he's a sweetheart :) There are SO many people right now that I want to send a card to, it just seems that I don't have the right time or amount of time to do it. So maybe I will just put it off until after we move. Its not like they will even know that I meant to send it sooner anyways. This way its one less thing for me to worry about this week! Wow, my last week of work with the Cokers. They have really been such treasures to me. I know that I am going to cry when I say goodbye to them. And I am going to miss them so much. Life isn't going to be the same not going out for coffee and breakfast every morning with them! Jack is a really great guy/old man. And I hope that he gets a lot more years out of life! Peggy, well I think its time for me to leave according to her anyways. She is getting frustrated with me being there for some reason. I think it might be because she sees how connected I am with Sarah and Jack and how much I care for them and that upsets her. Because if it wasn't for her strokes she could be in my shoes. But I still love her dearly...(even though in the last two days of work last week she spit, yes I did say spit, at me three times, she hit my sholder, she kicked at my face as I was trying to put her shoes on, and she slapped me square across the face, and a lot of yelling, and refusing to get out of the car!). I am going to miss her too. Anyways, enough sappy stuff! I am reading a neat but weird and kind of creepy book right now. Its called the Thirteenth Book, I think. Anyways, its a very interesting book. ok well I have hit the point that I just want to move on to something else... so see ya later!
~Vanessa
Monday, June 23, 2008
Monday, June 9, 2008
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So I have not been on much due to work work work! Plus I have picked up a new hobby... making greeting cards. I'm practically obsessed with it :) I have all my stuff "set up" around and on this card table in the corner of our living room. Its a pretty cluttered area, but I love it. If you want to see/read more about it I am going to post a new blog solely for my greeting cards and othe crafts. So... Friday at work was horrible! LOL, I don't even normally work Saturdays. But I was doing it as a "make up" day because I had to take Wednesday off to go to court. So I offered to work Saturday so that the son (of Jack the old man I "watch") that had to skip work on Wednesday could go in to work on Saturday. Little did I know how bad of an idea this was! You see the main thing was that on Sunday it was Sarahs birthday party, the 7 year old granddaughter. So when I got there at 10am she was watching her Hannah Montana show on tv. So I just got to work around the house. But then when it was over I told her it was time to clean her room (which is always an AWFUL mess). She started to throw a fit, and it just got worse from that point on. Her fit went on until at least 1pm. But during all of that, as she was SCREAMING, and throwing things, and hitting walls, and stomping, and saying rude things, Peggy, the gradmother got upset too. So then she came wheeling out of her room (with no pants on mind you, because apparentlty she was out of underpants) yelling too. Then Peggy got even more mad because I was there, and it was Saturday. And I think she was mad because she was frustrated that she didn't know and couldn't understand what was going on. And then she started crying and yelling because of Sarah, and me being there. Meanwhile I am trying to figure out what to do, and the two uncles in the house are not making it any easier. Steven has taken a "parenting" course that has told him to not fight with your child, to just listen and sit there. Because you will never win in a fight with your child because they want to win. (WHAT THE HECK?!?) So he just sat there on the floor in her room seemingly doing NOTHING about everything that was going on. Then John came out of his room because he heard all the commotion. He kept trying to get Peggy to calm down because she has high blood pressure and could have another stroke that would more than likely kill her this time. So then Jack (the grandpa), for some reason, decides now is a good time to tell John that Peggy had a bad visit with the doctor on Fri because her blood pressure was really high and that John needs to be giving her her pills, because apparently he hasn't been. And he hasn't been because she won't swallow them and she won't eat them if you grind them into her food! So John got really upset then too! He started storming around the house using the F*** work every other word, and yelling and banging. And Jack was yelling at him to watch his language and calm down. And oh my goodness I wanted to get out of there so badly! Eventually John left the house with Peggy to get her to calm down (he took her to the beach ALL DAY LONG). And Kathy (Sarahs mom) came to get Sarah and take her out. So then it was just Steven and I to do the work of the house. And there was a lot of work to do. So Steven sits down on the couch with some meatloaf and cheesy potatoes and a newspaper and just SITS THERE. Meanwhile I have COMPLETELY cleaned out the bedroom (changing the sheets on both beds, re-folding their clothes and putting them away, taking out the trash, vaccuuming, and so on), the bathroom(sweeping, and mopping, with mopping detail around all the edges of the floor, cleaning off the counter and scrubbing out the sink, then I had to scrub out the bathtub for more than 30mins, it had like mold and mildew in it!), the kitchen, doing all the dishes, sweeping, mopping, clearing the table, the stove, and the counter) and the living room(the couches, cleaning behind the tv corner, cleaning off the tv entertainment center, clearing all 4 tv trays so that they could be used in the party, and the big shelve structure in the living room, Steven surprisingly vaccuumed the living room while was I was mopping the kitchen floor)!!!! And all that Steven had done so far was water his flowers in the front yard, and vaccuum the living room floor! At this point I was tired, and hungry, and so stressed out. I said I would come into work (for a normal work load) just so that Steven could go into work and catch up on anything that he missed on Wednesday. But Steven decided that I was coming in to work on Sat just to clean the whole house for him for the party, I overheard him telling this to Jack. So at 1:30pm I went out of the house to get something to eat for lunch. Then when I came back I went to clean out Sarahs bed. I took ALL the clothes out of her THREE dressers one by one and started folding and putting them into sorted piles on the bed. When I finished the whole bed was covered about 2-3 feet high! Then I put everything back into the three dressers, just sorted this time around. Then I printed off labels for every drawer and stuck those on. Then I washed her comforter and cleaned off all the toys, beads, papers, books, dvds, and other nicknacks off her floor and off her desk. The end result, an AMAZINGLY cleaned up room. Then I went into the back yard and put away a lot of the things they had just sitting around out there. Then I left for the day around 5:50pm. A few minutes early :) What a rough day! But then I got to come home and craft my worries away ;P First Jake and I went out for dinner because I was way too tired to cook, plus my body was so so sore! Then we came home and walked to the bank to deposit my check and mailed off most of Jakes graduation announcements. And once we got back home I started making some cards. On Sunday we went to church, went to the fish store, stopped off at Sarahs party, went to Costco, and Albertsons, and then we finally arrived back at home! Whew! So now today, Jake has a final, and I have work. But then tomorrow on Tuesday, I have the day off and I plan on sleeping in!
So I have not been on much due to work work work! Plus I have picked up a new hobby... making greeting cards. I'm practically obsessed with it :) I have all my stuff "set up" around and on this card table in the corner of our living room. Its a pretty cluttered area, but I love it. If you want to see/read more about it I am going to post a new blog solely for my greeting cards and othe crafts. So... Friday at work was horrible! LOL, I don't even normally work Saturdays. But I was doing it as a "make up" day because I had to take Wednesday off to go to court. So I offered to work Saturday so that the son (of Jack the old man I "watch") that had to skip work on Wednesday could go in to work on Saturday. Little did I know how bad of an idea this was! You see the main thing was that on Sunday it was Sarahs birthday party, the 7 year old granddaughter. So when I got there at 10am she was watching her Hannah Montana show on tv. So I just got to work around the house. But then when it was over I told her it was time to clean her room (which is always an AWFUL mess). She started to throw a fit, and it just got worse from that point on. Her fit went on until at least 1pm. But during all of that, as she was SCREAMING, and throwing things, and hitting walls, and stomping, and saying rude things, Peggy, the gradmother got upset too. So then she came wheeling out of her room (with no pants on mind you, because apparentlty she was out of underpants) yelling too. Then Peggy got even more mad because I was there, and it was Saturday. And I think she was mad because she was frustrated that she didn't know and couldn't understand what was going on. And then she started crying and yelling because of Sarah, and me being there. Meanwhile I am trying to figure out what to do, and the two uncles in the house are not making it any easier. Steven has taken a "parenting" course that has told him to not fight with your child, to just listen and sit there. Because you will never win in a fight with your child because they want to win. (WHAT THE HECK?!?) So he just sat there on the floor in her room seemingly doing NOTHING about everything that was going on. Then John came out of his room because he heard all the commotion. He kept trying to get Peggy to calm down because she has high blood pressure and could have another stroke that would more than likely kill her this time. So then Jack (the grandpa), for some reason, decides now is a good time to tell John that Peggy had a bad visit with the doctor on Fri because her blood pressure was really high and that John needs to be giving her her pills, because apparently he hasn't been. And he hasn't been because she won't swallow them and she won't eat them if you grind them into her food! So John got really upset then too! He started storming around the house using the F*** work every other word, and yelling and banging. And Jack was yelling at him to watch his language and calm down. And oh my goodness I wanted to get out of there so badly! Eventually John left the house with Peggy to get her to calm down (he took her to the beach ALL DAY LONG). And Kathy (Sarahs mom) came to get Sarah and take her out. So then it was just Steven and I to do the work of the house. And there was a lot of work to do. So Steven sits down on the couch with some meatloaf and cheesy potatoes and a newspaper and just SITS THERE. Meanwhile I have COMPLETELY cleaned out the bedroom (changing the sheets on both beds, re-folding their clothes and putting them away, taking out the trash, vaccuuming, and so on), the bathroom(sweeping, and mopping, with mopping detail around all the edges of the floor, cleaning off the counter and scrubbing out the sink, then I had to scrub out the bathtub for more than 30mins, it had like mold and mildew in it!), the kitchen, doing all the dishes, sweeping, mopping, clearing the table, the stove, and the counter) and the living room(the couches, cleaning behind the tv corner, cleaning off the tv entertainment center, clearing all 4 tv trays so that they could be used in the party, and the big shelve structure in the living room, Steven surprisingly vaccuumed the living room while was I was mopping the kitchen floor)!!!! And all that Steven had done so far was water his flowers in the front yard, and vaccuum the living room floor! At this point I was tired, and hungry, and so stressed out. I said I would come into work (for a normal work load) just so that Steven could go into work and catch up on anything that he missed on Wednesday. But Steven decided that I was coming in to work on Sat just to clean the whole house for him for the party, I overheard him telling this to Jack. So at 1:30pm I went out of the house to get something to eat for lunch. Then when I came back I went to clean out Sarahs bed. I took ALL the clothes out of her THREE dressers one by one and started folding and putting them into sorted piles on the bed. When I finished the whole bed was covered about 2-3 feet high! Then I put everything back into the three dressers, just sorted this time around. Then I printed off labels for every drawer and stuck those on. Then I washed her comforter and cleaned off all the toys, beads, papers, books, dvds, and other nicknacks off her floor and off her desk. The end result, an AMAZINGLY cleaned up room. Then I went into the back yard and put away a lot of the things they had just sitting around out there. Then I left for the day around 5:50pm. A few minutes early :) What a rough day! But then I got to come home and craft my worries away ;P First Jake and I went out for dinner because I was way too tired to cook, plus my body was so so sore! Then we came home and walked to the bank to deposit my check and mailed off most of Jakes graduation announcements. And once we got back home I started making some cards. On Sunday we went to church, went to the fish store, stopped off at Sarahs party, went to Costco, and Albertsons, and then we finally arrived back at home! Whew! So now today, Jake has a final, and I have work. But then tomorrow on Tuesday, I have the day off and I plan on sleeping in!
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