Hi, my name is...................

Loryn and I am a bookaholic. Some of you know this, some of you don't care. I am the one you see reading at red lights. My book is always somewhere within arms reach. I have a panic attack if I am almost out of book.

Even homeschooling 3 hooligans, I manage to read about a book a day.

Today was a *lost* day. The book I was reading was so good that I actually did dishes with the book open on the counter. Same for drying hair, etc.

Now I am bumming because I am done with it and I know the next book I will start just won't quite measure up.......................

The Color of Law by Mark Gimenez. I would suggest that anyone looking to *lose* a day pick this one up.

Wednesdays...........

Wednesdays are when my wonderful hs group meets. I truly do mean the wonderful part.

We have a local church that lets us use there basement/play area in the winter.

It takes a day or two to decompress after 4 hours of the joyful sounds of happy kids in an area with really bad accoustics. Seriously, I can still hear all of them.

I also have to bring 3 of them home with me, geez, can't get a break.

Winter has barely begun and I am already seriously looking forward to park days!

Still lacking a spreadsheet.

However, Chris did manage to get home early enough for me to get some Hanukah shopping done. The kids still believe in the Hanukah Fairy, so it makes it a bit hard. I think I got about 3/4 of the way done. How's that for power shopping?

I guess I won't have to dump my kids on the hs group tomorrow after all;)

Pooey on Cyber Monday!

I had really hoped that I would have oodles of order from my Amazon storefront today. Not only did I have no orders, I had to rip out about half a skein from my Dad's scarf.

Note to self: do not crochet while seriously involved in a movie.

Poor hubby does not have a day off until December 3rd. Hanukah starts on the night of the 4th. I still have to shop. This so sucks!

WARNING: I might have to abandon them at HS group. (To sneak out and shop). Guess I won't see Renee or Christine this week:)

A skein a day

is going to drive me crazy.

This is the amount I have to crochet per day if I am going to get all these holiday projects done in time. Hanukah is the first week of December this year. My in-laws decided, just this week, to have the family get together on December 15th. Then there is the rest of the people who I need gifts for on the actual week of Christmas.

Top that by being sickish all this week.

This year I was very thankful that, for the first time in 8 years, Thanksgiving dinner was not at my house! I drug myself to our friends house, sat around, and fell asleep on the couch.

I am thankful for a wonderful husband who did the cooking that I was supposed to, loaded all up, and basically took care of everything, kids included, without instructions. That is truly hard to find.

This day SO sucks.

That said, I won't go into gory details. I don't even know that I can right now.

Lets just say that I have no alcohol in the house, tomorrow is my birthday, and my neighbors dog died in my lap about an hour ago.

I guess I never should have asked for the milk.

Also, to follow a friend's brilliant idea: Tampax, Always, Bandaid, Coors Light, Jose Ceurvo, Puffs Plus. Send away folks, I have a need for all of these!

If this post makes sense to you, you must know how I think.

Hmmmm, methinks there is an issue here......

So, I added AdSense to The Blog. Somehow some super computer somewhere is churning out advertisers and scanning your/my blog for relevant content and matching the two. So, on my 2 ads that are showing has there been anything about headaches, books, milk..........

Nope, they have all been about ways to relieve anxiety.

Ready for that Jack and Diet now!

Edgar Allen Poe Day

My head has been thumping along all day. I keep waiting for the raven to land.

I watched a couple of girls from homeschool group for several hours this morning. It looked like my living room had thrown up. Worse than usual even. (I did not even realize that was possible!) They became amazingly deaf when asked to clean up before they left. S declared herself "Mom's Maid" and did clear through most of the mess.

Thump, thump.

I would endorse some wonderful headache curing treatment, but since I have not found it yet today, thump, thump.

My morning was saved last night when the neighbor let us know they would be gone for the next 5 days. Yep, I asked for her milk! No manners here. Just cereal with milk.

The new definition of lazy........

We are almost out of milk. Yet, even knowing what a huge ordeal it will be in the morning for the kids to have to eat actual food, not cereal, I am too lazy to go get some milk. The idea of traipsing 3 kids into this lovely wind, driving to the gas station, herding them all in, etc, etc. Not gonna happen.

Of course, if it was say............coffee..............we would be hitting the road!

I am sure I will deeply regret this in the morning as I am cooking the actual food.

I am The Queen

of NOT quitting. I give. I have been trying and failing miserably, although I have cut down to less than 1/2 a pack a day. Today was going to be THE DAY..................again. I made it 22 hours. My head is going to explode. I could not take a deep breathe. I thought I was going to have a heart attack. Can you say major panic attack?? Can you say "it's all in my mind"?

Yeah, but don't, I will break your fingers;)

So, I give. I am a smoker.

It's really a good thing I never tried hard drugs, I could be a poster child by now.

Congrats to my friends that have quit. For those that are in the area and have not, see you on the steps tomorrow!

You mean, she is actually serious?

Yes, tonight I was brave and energetic. I also felt like pissing off the troops. After the third warning of "If it's on the floor or one of the end tables, it must not be important to you and it's going away", it actually went away. One large bag of trash. Another large bag that needs sorted into age appropriate groupings to Freecycle.

They hate me. Chris caught J actually flipping me off behind my back. BOY, that outcome was alot of fun!

I can see the floor. That is the only down side right now. That means there is some serious corner dusting and general mopping that needs done.....................crap.

Belonephobia

Sounds like a bunch of baloney, but I guess not, since J suffers from it.

He had a wart on his foot that defied gravity. The doc tried to remove it with a local, scaring the crap out of j and prompting extreme fear of both the doc and needles. Actually, I think its more like hatred of the doc.

Yesterday they had to sedate him to remove it. Which was a blast. Over confident nurse assures me that she will insert the IV, no problem. Yeah, you haven't met my son before right? When I say he is terrified, I mean it.

Nurse tries to approach with IV needle. J's blood pressure drops, heart beat rises to dangerous levels and he vomits.

See nurse, I told you!

Surprise, they decide to take him back and use inhalation gas priot to the iv. Great idea, until they get him in the back and tell him this. I am now waiting in the waiting area and hear the story later.

Once they told him the NEEDLE would be inserted after he falls asleep from the gas, J jumps off the table and says that he is going home now. One large male nurse and 2 smaller females wreste him back onto the table and hold him down for the gas. 1/2 of me is pissed, the other 1/2 is thinking thanks for getting this over with!

Wart was apparently ginormous. In need of its own zip code. J was scared enough that he was willing to give up his gymnastics team and just live with wart foot forever. Is there a wart colony lurking somewhere?

This is either the wart, or J on Halloween, I have forgotten.......

So much for those dreams of his as a career as a stunt man. I think that would require a needle or two on occasion.

Contemplating my naval.

Ex still pursuing the issue. Grandfather spoke with him today. Kind of. No calls since, so that's a good thing. I think.

Need to calm. Really need to sleep!

My life is a really bad made for TV movie........................

So, I had a husband previous to the sane one I have now. I have not seen this other guy in, oh, 15 years?

I do not live in the same state anymore. (Mentally or physically).

Now, he is stalking me through my Grandfather and parents.

Started Saturday with a polite call.

Now it has escalated to calls every 5 minutes. Threatening calls, calls where only old 80's music is played, calls where its dead air. Calls where I want someone to reach through the phone and strangle him. Only, my family is too civilized for that.

The guy is 43 years old.

My Pop-pop is 87. He very recently had back surgery. He cannot get up yet unassisted. He is scared for his life.

I think I am too.

Pop-pop called the police. Woo-hoo.

I called past friends and tracked down a cell number which I turned over to parents for their police report.

It only takes 3 1/2 hours to get to this state from that one............................

Today's peeves

Apparently I cannot get as good as I give.

It appears as if I only have one friend who actually reads this boring blog.

My tazer did not arrive in time.

I started smoking again last night, so I would unpack.

My clutter is mating.

My kids are old enough to realize that I am actually eating all of their Haloween candy.

Pet peeves of the day.........

Things seem to be annoying me today...........

My city has no laudromat.

My city has no corned beef and rye.

My kids never want to eat any of the $600 worth of food we happen to have in the house currently.

Dishes and laundry actually have to be done EVERY DAY.

Kids selling things door to door that live no where near this neighborhood.

My son's new *tone of voice*.

People's cruelity and inflexibility in the name of religious superiority.

The headache I have had for I forget how many days now.

No does not actually mean no to my kids. It means "I am going to ask you 72 more times", until the screaming starts.

No matter what time I get up, as soon as I hit the shower there is a child on the other side of the curtain wanting something...........right now.