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This week I had fun playing with Windows Movie Maker. 

Open and uncork ye’ nearest alcoholic beverage.

For the 2nd time in 6 months, I have a new job.  Let’s hope it lasts longer than the last loser company.  I know, I really shouldn’t put down the last company that I worked for, but I just can’t help it.  Being hired for 2 months only to be laid off after your position was eliminated because the company can no longer afford to pay you….just…plain….sucks.  I’ll cut the negativity at that last comment.  I will leave the past in the past and move forward. 

I don’t know what my new position is exactly called.  I don’t know if you can put "Jack of All Trades" on a resume.  Anyway, I start July 7th.  Which is just in the knick of time because I file my last unemployment claim on Sunday.  I already have arranged for the daycare to resume full time care for the kiddos that week.  All systems are go. 

My head is spinning from all of this excitement so I’m not really sure what to say about all of this yet.  I’m just trying to take it all in.  Plus there’s about 90% humidity in the air today so I feel like a hot sweaty ghetto mess right now.  It is oppressive outside right now.  I can’t even breathe without working up a sweat.

More later.

Anyone else find it disturbing that Kids Bop is doing a cover of "Take You There" by Sean Kingston (clicky for lyrics)?  Ooh Ooh, Me!  I think the part when the kids sing about going to the slums is so cute.  Who actually buys these mind numbing trash CDs?  Like my kids already dominate what we watch on TV, what we eat, where we go, what we do, etc.  I don’t need them dominating my speakers as well.

Who knows, maybe they don’t actually sing the slum part, but I still don’t think its appropriate.

If I were elected President, Kids Bop CDs would be the first thing abolished from the planet.

This is my very first Boobtube Youtube Weekend post.  I’m not a sell out, really I’m not. 

The kids on the new trampoline:

In other news, Owen has developed a mystery rash all over his body and I will need to call the doctor about it tomorrow.  Oh and I have a horrible sunburn all over my back and nose from doing yard work yesterday.  Duh, yes I did use sunblock, but it was the spray kind and apparently I missed a big portion of my back when I sprayed it on myself.  Next time I’ll have someone else spray my back for me. 

2:01pm.  Power is back on.

According to the UGI guy:  A squirrel crawled up there and chewed on wires grounding it out.  Apparently we have an electrocuted squirrel laying around somewhere.

Smells like dinner to me! 

(kidding)

Since about 9am the power has been out here.  UGI had no idea it was out and wants to know if our neighbors are having the same problem.  Um, hmmm, you see I’d ask them if any of them were actually HOME right now.  Around 11am they said they’d roll a truck to investigate the power issues.  I have yet to see this truck they speak of.

I’m posting this from Rich’s laptop (battery power) and a wireless modem.

Everytime I think of something to do, I realize that I need power to do it.  Hmmm…I should vacuum, oh wait can’t do that.  I could wash some dishes up.  Oh wait, can’t do that because the well pump runs off electricity.  I should microwave or make something for lunch, can’t do that because the stove is electric and so is the microwave.  Right now, we can’t even flush toilets. 

Its a cool day, so no fans are needed, thank god.  I hope the food in the fridge/freezer and deep freezer can keep until we get back online here.  If it were winter right now, we’d be so screwed because all of our heating is electric baseboard.

This suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.

"We don’t have an ETA"

Yeah, well thanks for nothing.

Yesterday the heat and humidity combined together to make it feel like an oven outside.  The back of my neck is sunburned and I didn’t even do anything outside but sit. 

I took the kids down to my Grandmother’s house and my Mom showed up.  She had some clothes she bought for the kids and hasn’t seen them in a few weeks, so I figured what the hell, I’ll drive into Wilkes-Barre again (for like a 5th time this week).  The kids ended up playing on the old swingset in my grandmother’s yard and had a ball.  My mom picked strawberries and lettuce out of my Grandfathers garden. 

Then the mailman showed up.  I think he thinks he’s some kind of stand up comedian or something.  He tells my grandmother…"Here’s your stimulus letter, and here is your stimulus check".  (Insert 30 seconds to wait for a laugh from us)  From what he was saying you are supposed to get them a week away from one another, but most people’s letters/checks are arriving on the same day, or the check will arrive first and the letter will arrive a week later.  Yeah, its hilarious that our government can’t get their paperwork correct. 

Then we all decided to go to Kohl’s to look at clothes.  Well more like my Mom decided, we just all went along for the ride.  Gabby and Owen were bad pretty much the whole time.  They were in the dual stroller, but it didn’t matter, they were still bad.  I can’t tell you how many clothes I had to put back on hangers because they pulled them down.  I was going to buy a few shirts and an outfit a piece for Gabby and Owen, but I don’t know.  Its like between my Grandmother and Mom they felt sorry for me because I’m out of work and decided to pay for everything I was going to buy myself.  I hate being pitied.  I am thankful they bought them, don’t get me wrong…but at the same time I don’t want to be pitied.

After that store, I decided to take the kids home, because they were whining and crying.  Rich and I decided we were going to take the kids out to dinner after I got home.  Our original plan was to go to Wal-Mart and then go out to eat, but Rich was supposed to buy his Dad something for father’s day and forgot the size of what he was going to buy.  So we just ended up going to eat.  We went up 29 and headed into Tunkhannock.  Oh my god, it was raining so hard you couldn’t see anything.  Streets were flooded.  Trees were down, Bowman’s creek was really high.  I can’t believe there were no flash flood watches or warnings posted for Luzerne/Wyoming counties.  It was really dangerous out.

At any rate, the kids behaved at Dinner (we went to Perkins) and we headed back. It was 8pm when we arrived home and the kids went to bed as they fell asleep in the backseat.  I settled in to watch The Notebook on CBS.  That was about it. 

I have some new resumes to send, new videos to upload to youtube and apparently Rich bought a trampoline for the kids at Kmart, so that should be interesting.  You know I’ll have some pics/vids soon.

Stay tuned.

Well something bit me on my right foot in a few different spots.  I’m so itchy right now and the toe next to my pinky toe is swollen roughly up to the size of a carrot.  And it huuuuuuuurts to walk on.  I would take some benedryl or something but I have to go out and I don’t want to fall asleep behind the wheel, so I guess I’ll just suffer for now. 

I used the Bug Stick on the area and I just about went through the roof because of the ammonia in it.  It still itches, damnit. 

And no, I’m not taking a picture of it.  Not because I don’t want to gross you out, but because I’m embarrassed of my ugly feet.

Update:  The exterminator has been called and now we are waiting for a callback to setup an appointment.  This is outta control.

Body fluids I’ve cleaned up this week:

• Gabby puke:  2 times
• Cat puke:  3 times
• Owen pee:  1 time (he took off his diaper and peed clear across the room this morning)

Bugs I’ve seen:

• Bees (Paper Wasps, Wasps, Honey, Hornets, Wood Bees)
• Spiders (Big, Small, Medium)
• Earwigs, EWWWWW!  (Apparently they like humidity and were hanging out in a basket of the kids clothes I just washed and folded….needless to say I’m rewashing EVERYTHING IN HOT WATER)
• Ants,  Big BIG Ants
• Japanese Beetles, they sound like helicopters when they fly.
• EDITED TO ADD:  Crickets.  There is now an infestation of crickets coming through the bilco doors in the basement.  You should HEAR how loud it is down there at night.  There are like 3 of them down there right now.

Things to do:

• Buy Rich a Father’s Day present
• Call exterminator
• Clean up more cat puke
• Send more resumes out

There are 2 cats that keep hanging around our new house.  I had to buy approximately 31 bags of mulch to freshen up the look of the outdoor flower beds.  Had I originally known it would take 31 bags of mulch I would have had a truck deliver a ton of it here, duh.  Anyway, it cost $MONEY$.  These cats that keep hanging around have it in their mind that the mulch is there personal litter box/puke pit.  There are at least 3 areas directly in front of the front porch that are puke.  I attempted cleaning them up, but it does not hose off. 

I sprayed some of that deer off crap I had laying around from the Squirrel Bastard at the other house (who by the way dug up my plant on the front porch in my absence from the other house).  I did that last night before dark.  Woke up this morning, to a fresh pile of cat fucking puke.

All I’m saying is that someone better get their fucking cats out of my yard or drastic measures will ensue. 

I’m not kidding either.  I am fully prepared to trap your cat and sell it to the local Chinese restaurant. 

So help me god.