Dominick is doing good. He got his first injury that required an urgent care trip. He was at school and being chased by a girl, who then pushed him down. When he stood up he hit heads with the girl, he glasses snapped in half cutting them both. Dominick's needed 3 pieces of tape but no stitches by the time they saw us. His glasses where totaled. That makes the 6th pair of glasses in a year, although 4 were from wear and tear on the lenses. So how would you ask your ex who doesn't seemed interested in his son to actually pay for a pair? Court orders say he should have paid 50% of all the ones I needed to pay for which is 3 of the 6 but he hasn't... Dom needs a new prescription anyways.. So I need to talk with his father.. hmm... suggestions?

Ok so, I am working now, And I really like my job, I am a part time teller for Key bank and have been there for over a month now. There is so much to learn I love the challenge.

At night i come home, relax for a bit while cooking dinner for my son, sister and her kids. Then I try to balance homework/school work with my son and my house hold projects. I am happy to say that the Basement room is partially done, To the point I can live in it, I just got help from my step dad Jack this weekend in hanging the closet system and the door. It looks good and I have learned how to texture. Not that I like Texture.. I prefer smooth walls or plaster... Anyways. I need to finish the rest of the rooms taping and mud and then texture it too and paint. Exciting.

My truck also became a running part of my house this weekend. Thanks to my Dad Shannon and I. I have spent tons of time under the hood, replacing the fuel filter, fuel pump, cleaning the fuel line, replacing the master cylinder.. and now I need to get a new Alternator. it runs.. but doesn't charge batteries. Which finding the alt is harder then it seems because the last owner wired it for a different year alt then it is suppose to have. So I have to hunt for the right one or rewire the truck.. Which one would you do? I loved the sound of it running. And need to get tires for it soon so I can drive it to the gas station at least.



I got notice that I made honor roll at school for winter term. And I am really starting to feel the pressure of doing good this term with work and school. It is already really hard, midterms and finals well suck! I am really starting to get close to a panic attack when I think about everything I need to do. I am looking forward to cutting back for the summer. For those of you I know, you'll know I was planing a b-day camping trip but since I got a job I couldn't go... I needed it.. I hope I can get away for a weekend at the end of term.. It would be great to see the ocean, or the forest. to wake up with fresh air instead of basement air, to be under the sun all day, instead of under a ceiling, to have grass or sand under my feet, instead of the soles of my shoes.

I have been playing with my camera whenever there is something going on I can take pictures at. I love the quality. but it well take a long time to get to know all the settings...

My sister is looking into churches, reading the bible, which gets me thinking about how balanced my life was when I went to church, how fulfilled I felt even though emotionally I was being put though the ringer, How much strength I had to do what was needed, I wonder if I could achieve that again. If I could give back control of my life to god again... If I could let him be my everything again.. For so long I have lived in sin, looking for a man to be my everything, I have turned away from god, looking for the comfort of anothers' arms to heal the ache in my heart. The relief is only temporary. And I know doubt, not the ability of god, but my ability to allow him back into my life fully. I NEED TO FIND A CHURCH..

Health wise I have been sick as a dog for 3 weeks. I got a bad cold, it turned into a sinus infections after week 2, now it is week 3, and i feel like my sinus is dripping straight down my cheek into my neck.. It hurts, my teeth hurt from clenching my jaw, My nose has stopped running full time, so I hope it is close to over.. Anyways back to school work.

Thanks for reading this.

The other night I went for a walk, The cat still outside, Started walking with me, She walked right out in the street behind me, which by then had a car in it, and she almost got hit.

Is it sad that I just then at that point realized how much my cat loves me...

I feel a little fuller in my heart knowing that at least an animal can love me that much...

So I joined Match.com... Like I am actually paying for it for 6 months. Well see what happens.

I am back to work. As a part time teller for Key bank. If you sign up with Key Make sure you tell them I sent you, no matter where you go, Thanks, (giggles)

I Got 2 A's and 2 B's in school. and am Nervous about this term because it is working and doing 14 credits. Pray for me. LOL

Dominick is doing good. He loves living with his Aunt and her children.

I should be heading to bed now. I'll try to post more later.. Goodnight everyone!

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1. Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of Your happiness or misery.
2. Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent.
3. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
4. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
5. Be forgiving of yourself and others.
6. Be generous.
7. Have a grateful heart.
8. Persistence, persistence, persistence.
9. Discipline yourself to save money on even the most modest salary.
10. Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated.
11. Commit yourself to constant improvement.
12. Commit yourself to quality.
13. Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.
14. Be loyal.
15. Be honest.
16. Be a self-starter.
17. Be decisive even if it means you'll sometimes be wrong.
18. Stop blaming others. Take responsibility for every area of your life.
19. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
20. Take good care of those you love.
21. Don't do anything that wouldn't make your Mom proud.
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How many times it life do we look around and find beauty?
Are you content with it?
Or do you also look ahead into the fog and wonder what well become of everything that is now?

Lovers of the English language might enjoy this. It is yet another example of why people learning English have trouble with the language Learning the nuances of English makes it a difficult language. (But then, that's probably true of many languages.)

There is a two-letter word in English that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is 'UP.' It is listed in the dictionary as being used as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v].

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP, and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our friends and we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lockUP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has a real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.

To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.


And this up is confusing:
A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.

We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UPabout UP !

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP , look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions

If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP . When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets UP the earth. When it does not rain for awhile, things dry UP.

One could go on & on, but I'll wrap it UP , for now ........my time is UP , so time to shut UP!

Oh...one more thing:
What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night?

U P

Don't screw up. Send this on to everyone you look up in your address book.

Now I'll shut up

So after 4 interviews and even the start of a background check I got a call that they went with someone else. I was so excited to have finally found a job. It is really disappointing.. The say 1/2 million Oregonians are on Food Stamps and the unemployment rate for Nov was 8.1.. That was 7.6 in September.. I project it'll be 9percent for Dec. I hate being one of those... I am about to apply at a fast food place.. I mean I didn't even get picked up by target for the holiday season. It is so hard to think about only making min wage... Key Bank was only 10 an hour... At this point is using all my unemployment up worth trying to wait until I can get a decent paying job... I mean how is any Single Parent Live off anything less then 12 an hour? I know I am doing it now but I also don't pay rent and I want to be able too..

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So I finally fall asleep at 2am... Just to be woken up at 340Am but a weird noise from the basement.. "Oh Shit" I think.. A pipe must have cracked.... So I get on my shore and shuffle down the stairs to find the condensation pump on the furnace is going.. But is has been running forever and it is still full... So I get dressed and crunch my way to the pipe out side.. Frozen.. So at 4am I am running a hair dryer out my sons window to defrost the line... At 5am it is unfrozen and I go in to shut his window.. which is also frozen and breaks on it's way down because the seal is frozen the pressure of my hand against the glass pushes it out of the frame on one side it stuck on all the other sides and cracked... So then at 5am I am using a circular saw in the basement to cutting wood. I got the prefect cut the first time!

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Christmas 2008