I'm still alive, boring, but still here. I'm enjoying the new wheels, very smooth & quiet, very different from the hemi. Seth thinks it's the best thing since chocolate milk. He loves the 3rd row seats & has been talking about how we can take it to 6 flags because we'll all fit. He's something else. He's going to see his daddy Sunday for the first time in a long time. Since nothing's on paper, I've just kept him with me until he says that he misses daddy. Which has been a surprisingly long time. He's really comfortable in our routine I guess. But soon enough I'll have to hand him over every other w/end whether I like it or not. The divorce would be done this week, but Chris isn't here to sign the final papers. Awful that it's taken this long to go through. He's in Colorado working on a rig up in the mountains or something. Awful pretty place to have to work. We had thought about going to CO sometime at the end of the year, but it's pretty close to that time & we haven't made any set plans so I don't think that'll happen. And I was really looking forward to drinking hot choco in the hot tub. Oh well. I have never been on skis before, see, and the idea of my legs flailing about helplessly isn't really so appealing to me. I can't believe it's almost October! This year flew by, but then what else is new I guess. Christmas'll be here before we know it, & that makes me nervous. It's so sad that the first thought I have when I think about it is how expensive it can be. And when I think about money I automatically get a little..aaaahhh! Like the supra for instance, everytime I thought about all of the things that Tony wanted to have done to it I got antsy just thinking about it. He could spend money on cars like I could on clothes. He got a connection to fix the supra & it ran fine for a minute but... he thinks a seal's broken & he talked to the guy & we're s'posed to take it back up there after it's inspected & has current tags.(It sat for probly 7 months.) Well, so, I think I've done enough rambling for one sitting. Night all.

Hello all. It's been a long week and we've all had head colds but the front porch is looking good, it's almost done, and we have our Tahoe finally. Looks like we won't even get any rain from the hurricane. What a mess. And those poor people from the old folks home. That's so sad. Well, Seth isn't feeling good and he's callling for me so....ttfn

This morning was noisy. We are having our front porch rebuilt becau.....it all started with,"Let's get gutters." This was a rent house and wasn't taken care of. The porch wasn't built right to begin with, it just sort of hung there. The back was the same way. Project after project. I ran lots of errands today to get away from the bang & hack. Then I rode with Amy to pick up the boys and we went to the Book Fair at the school library. That was fun. Tony is on the road at the moment. He had a run to St. Paul MN, then a back haul to Houston. I think that they(he's running with some other guys) are staying in Tennessee tonight. He has a flight booked out of Houston already so he shouldn't have trouble getting away from Hurricane Rita. He talked to our Tahoe guy again today, sounds like we'll be picking up our black Tahoe on Friday. I'm not even excited anymore. A little more like..AAHHH. But we are getting a ridiculously great deal and I'm sure we'll love it once it's actually ours. If it doesn't go through this time, I am really just not meant to have one, and I'm going to be done with the whole idea of getting one at all. I'm so tired of thinking about it & talking about it. I even dream about it! I think I'm going bonkers. Seth is already in bed and the house is so nice & quiet. Now as soon as my cleaning lady cleans up my messes from cooking chicky fry & Seth's tornado of a mess that he always brings in after school I will be happy. Oh wait. I don't have a maid huh. I guess I've got some work to do. Goodnight then.

I need to change a line in the last post where it says, "I have a Tahoe now." Our guy David went 250 miles to pick it up & called & said that it was scratched up & he left it. Should I take that as a sign? A sign of what I don't know, but I'm frustrated now. Tony did say that that Kenny had called, and that his aunt, who trades in her vehicle yearly, is ready to trade in her 2004 Tahoe, which is fully loaded, with sunroof, leather, dvd player, the works. But it's white, one of my least favorite colors, with tan interior. Ick. Low mileage too, 24kish I think. I guess if we could get a good deal I'd be crazy not to want it just because of the looks. But then again, I wanted a Touareg to begin with, and being picky hasn't agreed with me thus far, so, I guess I should stop being a brat and just be glad to have anything at all. Hmm, maybe I just answered my own question. I usually wake up being thankful and go to bed being thankful. Maybe I've been a little ungrateful lately. Changing the subject, Sethers & I ate at Amy's tonight, some yummy potato-ham casserole-very very good. Thanks Sis. We wouldn't smile nearly as often if you weren't in our lives.:) Speaking of something to smile about, I have some banana pudding to eat so this is where I get off of this time consuming gadget. Haha, I'll be moving my butt to a different one to watch a show while I eat my pudding. Night.

The other day Seth ran in the house like a miniature madman. "Come outside, come outside! Prince did something bad!!" That's our neighbor's daughter's lil dog. And so he had a squirrel. So we tied up Fritz and put it in our yard. Well, it got late & he wasn't looking so good. So in the house in the carrier it came. The next morning I let it go. Didn't look too good, but...we kept an eye on Squirrelly and he made it in the tree. He's fine now after a few days recovery in the cottonwood tree. Well. I have a Tahoe now. Except it's being brought in from another dealership to the one in Irving so we won't have it for a few days. It was a good deal. We had a few friends over to watch some movies and it's late so ttfn. 

09/07/05 We made lots of volcanos, and we made caves for our dinosaurs to live in the day we filled up the sandbox. Good sandy fun. 

I took a picture of this jellyfish for Seth, thinking that he would get a kick out of seeing a real one instead of a cartoon on Spongebob. Nope, not so much.  

The beach was all the way to the second row of waves coming in. It was pretty cool to be there, seeing the norm of Ft Walton Beach, then the calm before the storm, & then the crashing waves. Thank goodness it turned or we would've been in trouble. A hurricane I don't want to see so much. Seth is having lots of fun playing on his new playground. I tried to go down the slide, but I'm too big, imagine that. Not much going on here, I'm on my way back to the oh so glamourous world of housework. Here's to your day being more exciting than mine...... 

08/27/05 Katrina was closer, but had already turned away from us. The waves got huge and the beach got very small. We "surfed" on our rafts before the waves started crashes really bad. Our friend Tayben rode one all the way in to the beach. It was a blast.  

Here's some of the kitchen/dining room. It's a little bit cleaner at least! We put sand in Seth's sandbox last week. Well, we lucked out bigtime, because the neighbor to the back of us have a wooden playground(slide, monkey bars, swing, fort) that his kids have outgrown & he offered it to us before putting it in the paper. For only $75!! I'm so excited & happy for Sethers. Shoot, I was just going to put a swing in the tree. He's gonna love it. I wonder how long that's going to take though?!(Taking it down?--I think it takes about 5 hours to put together.) It's going to be a long day. We also bought a printer/scanner/copier 3-in-one yesterday. Seth is loving that I can print out his favorite characters to color. He's begging for breakfast right now so......ttfn. 

Excuse the mess! Keep in mind, there were 9 people staying in the condo, and this was taken on the last day. I was so busy relaxing that I just didn't really care to take lots of pictures. 

i need a 2nd opinion........

so i've been looking at new vehicles and out of all the suvs i have it narrowed down to 2. one is the vw touareg. now, it's still new to the market, it's only been around for a few yrs and it still has a few kinks. however, these are mostly problems associated with some of the higher-end gidgets and gazmos that come with packages 3 and up & we're looking at a 1 or 2. also, the 05 model doesn't seem to have so much of the kinkiness. did i mention that i fell in love with the thing the second i looked in it at the dealership? it just fits me. but i think that the infiniti fx could be the more reliable choice even though ...eh. it's my 2nd choice, what can i say. i find it to be a little, oh, space cadet-ish. especially the interior. no jokes please, i know i'm a spacey girl but that's not my TASTE.:) here are the links- let me know what ya think. http://vw.com/touareg and http://infiniti.com/fx

just another pretty florida picture 

here's the right-side view. i guess i never got a picture of the pool. 

nothing but super-fine sand in front.(so fine that it squeaks when you walk in it) 

08/26/05 This was our view from the condo in Florida. We stayed at the Water's Edge condos at Ft Walton Beach. We were on the 4th floor. It was nice. We were talking about going back next year before we had even left! Get ready Amy, Mom's looking forward to it.Aug/Sept-when the off season starts, but before the red tide starts coming in. It gets all sea-weedy and isn't so clear and pretty. This was the first day that we were there, Thursday. It was calm and clear and the water was great. No sea weed in our beach..yet.