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I'm not sure why my luck has turned but I am thankful.  C3 and I will be spending our vacation ALONE!  My evil scheming has worked out!  Dee decided that she would take the in-laws to the funeral and they left yesterday morning.  She told them that once the funeral was over today she planned on heading back, barely giving them 24 hours to spend with family.  She called me on Saturday and told me that this 'extra' expense would keep her from being able to go on vacation with me.  Hmmmm... not sure how much extra expense she was going to incur since Dad offered to pay the gas and they were staying at relatives last night, but I was not going to argue.  Thankfully I had not made the reservations which required me to pay the entire price upfront.

I debated all day Sunday on calling Grace and making up some excuse that I couldn't afford the big house on my own unless she could pay for half, which I knew she couldn't do.  I never got around to it on Sunday but planned on doing it on Monday.  Luckily I didn't have to call, she called me to 'thank' me for offering to drive her parents to Corpus when I went on vacation and to let me know how 'sweet' she thought I was.  They had told her they were okay with spending a short time at the funeral since they could go back in a few weeks.  Then she backed out because there wouldn't be enough room for all of us in the car.  Oh, darn...

Last night, C3 and I went online and I gave him three options of places to stay and let him pick the one he wanted.  He's decided not to take a friend, that it will just be the two of us (except for the drive) and he picked out a cute little 1 bedroom cottage, walking distance to the beach and with a pool to boot.  No internet access, so still trying to figure that one out since I won't be able to live without it for work and he wanted to be able to do his xbox live stuff.

Thankfully the original plans are back in place with a few additions like transporting the in-laws but we have cut the days at the beach down by one night so that we could spend one day with my BFF and her son at their new home for one day.  We will spend the night and then pick the in-laws up and drive back home.  I'm actually excited instead of dreading it and cannot wait for the 12th to get here!!!

Special shout out to Connie for tagging me - NOT!

What were you doing ten years ago?
1. WTF? Are you serious?  I can't even remember this morning...

2. Working 60+ hours per week starting a new business with the Big Guy.

3. Chasing a 4 year old around while dealing with the early teen years of the other two.

4. Traveling for business too much.

5. Being young(er) and thin(ner)

6. Hmmm...

What are 6 things on my to-do list for today?
1. Work

2. Work-out

3. Cook dinner

4. Sleep

5. Sleep

6. Sleep

Snacks I enjoy?
1. Anything Chocolate

2. Cinnamon donuts

3. Pretzels

4. Chocolate

5. Chocolate donuts

6. Chocolate pretzels

Things I would do if I were a billionaire?
1. Purchase my own island

2. Build my dream home on my island.

3. Hire a staff to take care of me and my dream home on my island.

4. Retire on my island.

5. Hire women to be the mother’s of my grandchildren off the internet so that they can live with me on my island and I can spoil them.

6. Never leave my island.

Places I have lived?
Fort Worth, Texas and surrounding suburbs – BORING!

How did you name your blog?
I originally thought that I would detail the excitement of raising three boys. Once I discovered that detailing the efforts of raising three boys was NOT exciting, I was stuck with the name. Hmmm…

Who am I tagging?
Sarah because she needs something else to do. Hawkeye Chick because I want to. BJB because I miss her. Pat because she thinks she can slack through the rest of the week because she already told everyone to have a Happy 4^th. So Not June because she IS a slacker. Tricia because she won’t want to…

This was TOO funny NOT to share especially since it is my favorite phrase!

What the ...? N.C. offers new license plates

If you know what WTF means in text-speak, you’ll understand why

RALEIGH, N.C. - Thanks to some text message-savvy grandchildren, North Carolina drivers whose license plates have the potentially offensive “WTF” letter combination can replace the tags for free.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Tuesday that the state Division of Motor Vehicles has notified nearly 10,000 holders of license plates with the letter combination. Officials learned last year that the common acronym stands for a vulgar phrase in e-mail and cell phone text messages.

But this week, the DMV officials got another surprise when they learned that the same letters appeared on the agency’s own Web site on a sample personalized plate.

“I can’t believe it,” DMV Commissioner Bill Gore said Monday when told about the online glitch. “Obviously, I didn’t know it was there.”

Officials are working to remove the sample plate.

The WTF-5505 used on the Web site’s sample plate was the first random letter combination available when the DMV switched from blue- to red-lettered plates, officials said. DMV spokeswoman Marge Howell received a sample plate WTF-5506 to use as a prop for news stories about the switch.

A 60-year-old technology teacher from Fayetteville complained about the plate last July after her teenage grandchildren clued her in.

I mean seriously - WTF?  LMAO!!!!

I am so hoping that today is going to be better than yesterday.  So far, so good.  Employees are scared shitless and not saying a word while they work like busy bees!  That is a good thing.  I brought my whip today just in case, muwahahaha!

By the end of the day I had such a migraine and was SO pooped that I didn't even make Hubby take me to dinner but I did not cook!  He will however PAY tonight with an even MORE expensive dinner, muwahahaha!

Some of you have asked and some of you may not remember, but I did find out yesterday afternoon that I actually was going to be a grandmother.  Sadly, she miscarried.  Strangely, I didn't know if I was relieved or sad, but for some reason sadness won out and I cried like a big fat baby.  I felt a little odd feeling like that.  I mean it was not the ideal situation and neither of them were ready for that and it was a relief that they did not have to go through with it.  But I guess I really wanted it to be true, if only for my own selfish reasons.  Two very good friends told me that my sadness was a combination on my crappy day and the news, and I guess it was.  They sure made me feel better when they told me even though it wasn't my time they thought I would be a fabulous grandmother!  Thanks girls!  Anyhow, C2 and the porn star have broken it off and I guess that is an okay thing too.

Okay, enough of that, I thought I would leave you today with a good funny!  To my chagrin this is a true story, I am thankful that mine and my families real names are not used in this blog, THAT would be too embarrassing...

Last week one of the casseroles that I was making had egg noodles in it and Hubby asked me if egg noodles were pasta? I looked at him like he was an idiot and said,

“Yes, they are the same kind of noodles that are in chicken noodle soup and it is considered pasta.”

He said “Chicken noodle soup doesn’t have pasta in it.”

Again, I looked at him like he was an idiot and C3 started laughing hysterically and I said,

“What do you MEAN chicken noodle soup doesn’t have pasta in it? What the hell do you think the noodles are?”

So he says (and I swear to GOD),

“Those are pasta? I thought those white stringy things were the chicken that got squeezed through some kind of machine and since they looked so funny they called them noodles.”

So I said,

“Are you fucking serious?”

And he said,

“What do you mean am I serious? I didn’t know that was pasta.”

Then I said,

“You are a fucking moron – you can’t possibly be serious. I have never heard anything so stupid in my life!”

Then C3 said,

“Dad, what do you have noodles in your brain?”

And he got his feelings hurt.  Now we continually call him 'Chicken Noodle Head' and that makes him him real mad!

I’m almost embarrassed that I shared this…

SO I got to work LATE today.  WHY?  Because last night when I was giving a couple of the employees a ride to the bus station, one of them rolled the window down in the back and it wouldn't roll back up!  This has happened to every damn window and twice to the driver window AND this back window since I've had the damn jeep.  So we took in to the dealer last night (thankfully since it stormed so bad) and it will be fixed today to the tune of $500 fuggin dollars.  The rent car place was already closed but SMART Hubby says, "no problem you can drive C2's car tomorrow since he drives to our house and rides to work with me."  I started to call him to ask him and Hubby says "No, it will be no big deal I promise you."

SO the power was off until 4 fuggin am, needless to say it was HOT and I couldn't sleep and tossed and turned all night long.  I had actually fallen asleep at one point only to be awaken by Hubby bolting upright in bed and screaming "What time is it?"  Scared the piss out of me and almost gave me a heart attack and I retorted, "How the HELL do I know, there's not any fuggin power!"  When the power went off at eight we had lights and TV's on and we were suddenly awaken again at 4:00. SHIT! Heart attack number 2.  Once the air came on I finally could sleep and Hubby got up to get ready for work. 

SO at 5 minutes to six, C2 calls and says he overslept so he will drive himself to work today and STUPID Hubby says 'OK'. 

SO I ask "WELL, how am I supposed to get to work today?"  He says "can't your Mom take you?"  I said "I'm sure she has to work today!" He mumbled some other bullshit about wishing we had a spare car (that's another story for another day).  I was so pissed and I told him "Don't worry about it, I will WALK to the rental place and take care of it all by myself."  He said he was sorry but it wasn't his fault.  IT SO WAS HIS FAULT!  You better bet your buns that when he picks my butt up from work today that he will be buying me dinner because I will not be cooking for his butt.  Besides I don't know if the stuff in the fridge is rancid or not.  The ice in the ice machine had started to melt and was one big chunk of ice but the meat seemed to be still frozen.  A few minutes after he left for work his mom calls and says that he called and told her I needed a ride to the rental place.  Doing some back pedaling there aren't you bud!

SO my FIL shows up to take me to the rental place and they have NO cars.  I ask where another place is and they gave me two more places in my town.  GUESS FUGGIN WHAT?  Neither of them had cars.  HOW can three places in my little town not have any cars?  We are not a tourist town.  I even called Budget before we went there and got a reservation AND a confirmation number but when I arrived the guy said too bad I have no cars - bastards.  I was near tears and I couldn't ask my FIL to drive me to work because he WON'T drive on the fuggin freeway.  There is NO other way to get to my office.

SO I told my FIL just to take me home and then I had to call my mother and ask her to come take me to work.

SO while driving around looking for a rent car, I think that I convinced my FIL NOT to go to the funeral because they just shouldn't be traveling alone.  Guess what I offered him?  I told him that C3 and I were going to Port Aransas on July 13 and if he and mom wanted to go to Corpus (on the way) and spend the week with her sisters to help out and console, I would be happy to take them and drop them off and pick them back up on our way home.  Are you with me here?  That means there will be no room for the sister in laws and if they can't or won't drive then they can't come.  Seeing as both of them told their parents that they couldn't take them to the funeral because of car issues and other shit, me be thinking they won't want to drive for vacation either.  I'm a genius!

SO far my morning has sucked, thankyouverymuch, and I am doing two jobs for two weeks and just got a phone call about a MAJOR screw up by one (or more) of my employees and got my ass chewed on and spit out by the Big Guy and the wife.  Look out people - heads are about to ROLL...