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…you watch way too much YoGabbaGabba with the kids then eat some bad fish that results in being up sick all night….

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An open letter to DJ Lance Rock and Co.

There most certainly is not a party in my tummy tonight.

“Try it, you’ll like it.”

“I like fish, I like fish!”

Sage advice all, sir, but no…

Whilst my fish dinner at the eating seemed to be a delite to my palate… that fish turned it’s tail on me.

Some gangland violence in my stomach and a third-world uprising in my esophagus but most assuredly not a party in my tummy.

Perhaps I should have told the fish not to bite his friends!  Or maybe my lovely piece of fishy met up with the tiny ugly germs.  I’m sure the morning will reveal that swimmer’s true nature.

For now, I must consume yet more antacid in hopes of some small relief.

Good night to you sir.

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Not too bad for 3AM brain-addled, stomach-cramping ramblings eh?

Current Mood: Amused

Current Mood: Ellie & Ellie Kisses & Happy & Happy & Happy Babies! & Happy Birthday! & I Love You! & Ja Ja Ja & Marcus & Sweet Marcus & Twin Kisses & Twinnies & Yeah! Yippee!

PARENT- Job Description

This is hysterical. If it had been presented this way, I don’t believe any of us would have done it!!!!

POSITION:

 Mum, Mummy, Mama, Ma
Dad, Daddy, Dada, Pa, Pop

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Long term, team players needed, for challenging, permanent work in an often chaotic environment.
Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work variable hours, which will include evenings and weekends and frequent 24 hour shifts on call.
Some overnight travel required, including trips to primitive camping sites on rainy weekends and endless sports tournaments in far away cities!
Travel expenses not reimbursed.
Extensive courier duties also required.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The rest of your life you…
Must be willing to be hated, at least temporarily, until someone needs $5..
Must be willing to bite tongue repeatedly.
Also, must possess the physical stamina of a pack mule and be able to go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds flat
in case, this time, the screams from the backyard are not someone just crying wolf.
Must be willing to face stimulating technical challenges, such as small gadget repair, mysteriously sluggish toilets
and stuck zippers.
Must screen phone calls, maintain calendars and coordinate production of multiple homework projects.
Must have ability to plan and organize social gatherings for clients of all ages and mental outlooks.
Must be a willing to be indispensable one minute, an embarrassment the next.
Must handle assembly and product safety testing of a half million cheap, plastic toys, and battery operated devices.
Must always hope for the best but be prepared for the worst.
Must assume final, complete accountability for the quality of the end product.
Responsi bilities also include floor maintenance and janitorial work throughout the facility.

POSSIBILITY FOR ADVANCEMENT & PROMOTION:

None.
Your job is to remain in the same position for years, without complaining, constantly retraining and updating your skills,
so that those in your charge can ultimately surpass you.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE:

None required unfortunately.
On-the-job training offered on a continually exhausting basis.

WAGES AND COMPENSATION:

Get this!   You pay them!
Offering frequent raises and bonuses.
A balloon payment is due when they turn 18 because of the assumption that college will help them become financially independent.
When you die, you give them whatever is left.
The oddest thing about this reverse-salary scheme is that you actually enjoy it and wish you could only do more.

BENEFITS:

While no health or dental insurance, no pension, no tuition reimbursement, no paid holidays and no stock options are offered; this job supplies limitless opportunities for personal growth, unconditional love, and free hugs and kisses for life if you play your cards right.

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 Forward this on to all the PARENTS you know, in appreciation for everything they do on a daily basis, letting them know they are appreciated for the fabulous job they do… or forward with love to anyone thinkin g of applying for the job.

**AND A FOOTNOTE ‘THERE IS NO RETIREMENT   —  EVER!!!

Current Mood: Amused & Doh! & Love

Did you ever notice…

• Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.
• I don’t understand the  purpose of the line, “I don’t need to drink to have fun.” Great, no one does. But why start a fire with flint and
  sticks when they’ve invented the lighter?
•  Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you’re going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and  walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do  something like
  check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture  and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area  thinks you’re crazy by randomly switching directions on the  sidewalk.
• I totally take back  all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.
• The  letters T and G are very close to each other on a keyboard.  This recently became all too apparent to me and consequently I will 
  never be ending a work email with the phrase “Regards” again.
• Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn’t work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would 
  magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem?  There was no internet or message  boards or FAQ’s. We just figured it out. Today’s kids are  soft.
• There is a great need for sarcasm font.
•  Sometimes,  I’ll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly  realize I had no idea what the heck was going on when I first saw  it.
•  I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I’ll end up  wasting
  90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that  everyone’s laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a  little
  bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I’m still  the only one who really, really gets it.
• How the hell are you  supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
• I would rather try to carry 10  plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my  groceries in.
• I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
• The only  time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a  text.
• A recent study has shown that playing beer pong contributes to the spread of mono and the flu. Yeah, if you suck at it.
• Was learning cursive really necessary?
• Lol has gone from meaning,  “laugh out loud” to “I have nothing else to say”.
• I have a hard  time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
• Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a  Scantron test is absolutely petrifying.
• My brother’s Municipal  League baseball team is named the Stepdads. Seeing as none of the guys  on the team are actual stepdads, I inquired about the name. He  explained, “Cuz we beat you, and you hate us.”  Classy, bro.
• Whenever someone says “I’m not book smart, but I’m street smart”, all I  hear is “I’m not real smart, but I’m imaginary smart”.
• How many  times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile  because you still didn’t hear what they said?
• Every time I have  to spell a word over the phone using ‘as in’ examples, I will  undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete
  idiot. Today I had  to spell my boss’s last name to an attorney and said “Yes that’s G as  in…(10 second lapse)..ummm….Goonies”
• What would happen if I  hired two private investigators to follow each other?
• While  driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively  swerved to avoid it….thanks Mario Kart.
• MapQuest really needs to  start their directions on #5.  Pretty sure I know how to get out of my  neighborhood.
• Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they  told you how the person died.
• I find it hard to believe there are  actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the  water.
• Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
• I can’t remember the  last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.
• Bad decisions make  good stories
• Whenever I’m Facebook stalking someone and I find  out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning  who just got
  the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures?  Don’t mind if I do!
• Is it just me or do high school girls get  sluttier & sluttier every year?
• If Carmen San Diego and Waldo  ever got together, their offspring would probably just be completely  invisible.
• Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole  room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get  so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I’m from, this  shouldn’t be a problem….
• You never know when it will strike,  but there comes a moment at work when you’ve made up your mind that you  just aren’t doing anything productive for the rest of the day.
•  Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don’t want  to have to restart my collection.
• There’s no worse feeling than  that millisecond you’re sure you are going to die after leaning your  chair back a little too far.
• I’m always slightly terrified when I  exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten  page research paper that I
  swear I did not make any changes  to.
• “Do not machine wash or tumble dry” means I will never wash this ever.
• I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There’s so much pressure. ‘I love this show, but  will
  they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we  weren’t watching this. It’s only a matter of time before they all get  up and
  leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?’
• I  hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello?Damnit!),  but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and
  goes to  voicemail. What’d you do after I didn’t answer? Drop the phone and run away?
• I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
•  When I meet a new girl, I’m terrified of mentioning something  she hasn’t already told me but that I have learned from some  light
  internet stalking.
• I like all of the music in my iTunes,  except when it’s on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen  songs in my iTunes.
• Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like  the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles…
• As a driver I  hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter  what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.
•  Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still  not know what time it is.
• It should probably be called  Unplanned Parenthood…
• I keep some people’s phone numbers in my  phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
• I think  that if, years down the road when I’m trying to have a kid, I find out  that I’m sterile, most of my disappointment will stem from
  the fact  that I was not aware of my condition in college.
• Even if I knew  your social security number, I wouldn’t know what do to with it.
• Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys  in a pocket, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey – but I’d bet my
  ass  everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3 feet away, in about  1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time…
• My 4-year old  son asked me in the car the other day “Dad what would happen if you ran  over a ninja?” How the hell do I respond to that?
• It really  pisses me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com and the link takes  me to a video instead of text.
• I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.
• I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
• I  disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday  night more kisses begin with Miller Lites than Kay.
• The other night I ordered takeout, and when I looked in the bag, saw they had included four sets of plastic silverware. In other words,
  someone at  the restaurant packed my order, took a second to think about it, and  then estimated that there must be at least four people
  eating to require such a large amount of food. Too bad I was eating by myself.  There’s nothing like being made to feel like a fat bastard
  before dinner.

Current Mood: Amused & Ja Ja Ja & Naughty

Wow!  I can’t believe it’s April!  Ellie & Marcus will be a year old in just 2 weeks!  It was beautiful out today, even after 5!  It was nice that I was able to take the babies outside for a walk without bundling them up!  Austin is visiting his cousins over spring break so it’s kinda quiet here.  I think he sometimes makes more noise than the twins do together!  I had surgery on Tuesday which seems to have gone well, have to follow up in a few weeks.  I twistedmy ankle (again) but I suppose I’ll get over it.  I always do.  (-: 

Still going through the paperwork and procedures for buying my house.  And I thought the Army was nothing but paperwork and hurry up and wait… well now I know that bankers and realtors win the red tape prize!  Waiting now for a letterof committment from the bank which my broker says is no problem… just some more paperwork.  The seller is refusing to do the agreedupon repairs without the letter even though we have a singed amendment to the original offer.  Whatever… glad my close is still 2 months away at the rate this is crawling along.  Tenative move weekend is the last Saturday in May, Memorial Weekend – cause it gives me an extra day to unpack.  But this is allreally in a holding pattern right now until the paperwork and repairs are done.

Anyhoo… I’m looking forward to warmer weather and being outside more with the kids and eventually (hopefully) being closer to my family.

Current Mood: Hey there!

About 7PM last night (Wed) Katey was picked up by the police.   We took her to the hospital to have her checked over and she was medically cleared.  She refused to go to detox.  Right now she is safely out of Wausau with family.   We are going to tey to work with what resources we have to get her the help she needs.

Thanks to everyone for keeping eye open and for the kind thoughts and prayers.  Your support through this time has been invaluable and clearly illustrates what a wonderful family and group of friends that I have.  Thank you all.

On March 5th, 2010 my 16 year old daughter, Katey, ran away.  She left a note and her cell phone.  She also left a video of herself on the phone saying good-bye in which it was clear that she was under the influence of drugs. I considered publishing the video here for her friends to see but decided that she’s getting more than enough attention.  (Those of you close to the situation will understand that.)   She jumped out her story and a half bedroom window and ran on foot and was last seen around 4PM north of Wausau on highway 51.  From the onset we suspected she was with her (I thought, EX) boyfriend.  For those who did not know, Katey was recently in trouble with the county with this boy – in fact, she was almost charged with assault and she had pressed cahrges against him for the same.   As various reports came in from her friends and their parents we didn’t know what to think or make of the information.

3/6/10 She was seen on Saturday by one of her girlfriends.  She is in town and on the run with her “boyfriend”.  They are running from house to house trying to evade the cops – not because they are looking for Katey but because they are looking for her drug-dealing, meth-head of a boyfriend.  Reports from her girlfriends are that she is using drugs and has been kicked out of at least one friend’s home once the parents found that she was a runaway (sadly it sounds as if they kicked their own kid out for the offense as well). 

She is apparently telling everyone that I kicked her out and took her phone because I forbade her from seeing this boy.  The sad truth is I only found out on Friday after she left that she was even having anything to do with him again.  Though, I certainly would have tried to keep her from seeing him — that much is true since he was hitting her when they dated several months ago.  I thought she was dating another boy the last 2 months and when I called him Friday night he told he’d brokeen up with her the week before because he found out she was messing around with this other boy.  At this point we believe that she has been seeing him again since early January and that she has been using drugs with him since then as well.  We think that her recent medical issues may be a result of the drug use. 

3/8/10 She did not attend school today which is no suprise but soon the county will issue a truancy warrant.  We still do not know where she is and according to her social worker and Wisconsin law there is absolutely nothing more I can do but wait for her friends to call or e-mail me information.

IF YOU SEE KATEY CALL THE POLICE @ 715-261-1200 and tell them you want to report on the time & location of a missing person — this is the only way I will get them to help.  This the last update I am going to put here until she is returned home — thanks for all of your support and the kind phone calls and e-mails.  While I truly hope she gets sober enough to come to her senses (hopefully before he beats the hell out of her) there is nothing I can do until she decides to seek help.  We need to take care of our other three children , we have jobs to maintain and we are in the process of moving into a new house and those plans are not going to change.  

For those of you who think I’m being callous or I haven’t tried hard enough to find her you are welcome to give me the money for a private investigator to track her down and bring her in and the money for a  private treatment facility that I can admit her too as a parent without her consent because short of that happening my hands are tied.

Act 1,  Scene 1 – Good-bye freakish hair… next time all of it goes!

Current Mood: Aaarrggghhh!!!!! & Yeah! Yippee! & yes yes yessssss!!!!

 

February 5th, 2010 (9 months + 21 days) 9-month Check-Up  – Doc says they are perfect!

Statistics				Growth Percentiles
	Height	Weight	HC*	HC for Age	Wt for Age	Ht for Age	Wt for Ht
Ellie	2′ 3″	22 lb 5 oz	47 cm (18.5″)	98.13%	90.64%	20.83%	99.04%
Marcus	2′ 4″	19 lb 10 oz	45.8 cm (18″)	57.47%	26.46%	29.30%	61.22%

*HC = Head Circumference

Ellie is a crawling machine and Marcus is getting there.  He can pull himself along pretty quickly with his arms, he just hasn’t gotten his belly off the floor yet.  They are both walking along the furniture and pulling themselves upon everything.  The are both getting a top tooth to go with their bottom two.  Ellie is hell on wheels in her walker… nothing in her reash is safe!  Marcus still only goes backwards but he grabs all he can reach too.

The both love pancakes and orange juice on Saturday morning.  Ellie likes to dance and Marcus likes to sing.  Austin has already worked out all the instruments they are going to learn so the three of them can have a band.

It’s hard to believe that they will be turning 1 in a few short months… geez, where did the time go?

Current Mood: Ellie Kisses & Sweet Marcus & Twinnies & Yeah! Yippee!

trep·i·da·tion

  (tr?p’?-d?’sh?n)   

n.  

1. A state of alarm or dread; apprehension. See Synonyms at fear.
2. An involuntary trembling or quivering.

[Latin trepid?ti?, trepid?ti?n-, from trepid?tus, past participle of trepid?re, to be in a state of confusion, from trepidus, anxious.]
trep’i·da’tious (-sh?s) adj.

 

“trepidatious.” The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. 06 Feb. 2010. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/trepidatious>.

…made an offer on a house today…

Current Mood: Anxious