it's muh birfday!

29.  are ya outta yo mind?

i'm over my boss/tooth fiasco from yesterday.  now onto my birfsday.

so, every year grandma tells me happy birthday in the morning when i drop the kids off and gives me some cookies or cupcakes or whatnot to make my day special.  but THIS morning......nothing.  i wasn't expecting anything.  i know they are in a financial bind.  i know it's hard right now.  but she couldn't even bring herself to mutter a happy birthday?  really?  well, alrighty then.

hayden got on purple again yesterday, so now i get to meet with the school to discuss further plans.  hoping he doesn't get kicked out.  especially after JUST getting blaine enrolled.  i keep praying over hayden, talking to him, doing everything the school has asked, but it's not enough.  lord, help us.

sis made me spaghetti at my request for birthday lunch.  yippee!!  and she got me the j. crew locket that i wanted. :) :)  which, btw, i asked my husband for a week ago.  but we all knew he wasn't going to actually order it and surprise me and make me happy, because that would just be too kind.  sis also ran cash for me at work this morning.  she's too good to me!  thanks for always making me feel special, even when no one else does, J!  you're truly the best!

my mom and dad and other sis are pretty special too.  they always reach out to me on my birthday to make me feel loved.  when you have no one else, you have your family.  even though they can be completely nuts, they're the best!

J, God gave me you for the downs (it's an inside thing). :P

happy birthday to me!  purple j. crew skimmer pants and gray leopard flats.  casual and cute.  now, if i could just do something with that drab hair....

naturally....

so my boss saw me toothless today.  he walked in right in the middle of me trying to glue in two of my teeth.  have i mentioned that i cannot wait for nov. 29th?  2 1/2 more weeks.  uggggggghhhh!  i just hope it's finally worth it when i get the veneers put on.

in the meantime, how humiliating??  my boss of all people.  pretty hilarious though.  i ran out so fast, he didn't know what was going on.  all he saw was dentist instruments and poligrip on my desk.

later, he comes to the copier to give me some work to do, and he wouldn't even look at my face. 

happy birthday eve to me.

oh, the sadness

she's moving.  brooklyn, that is.  what does that mean, you ask?  only that my sweet 1st grader's first love is leaving and his heart is broken into a million little pieces.  he has liked brooklyn since kindergarten.  his first crush.  he has even fought for her on the playground.  they are glued to the hip.   the story i've gotten is that over thanksgiving break, she and her family will be moving to padre island.  to paradise.  i asked if he was sure that she didn't just mean a vacation, because really?  who just up and moves from rowlett, tx to padre?  anywho, he seemed 100% certain that he only had 4 more days to see her before he would never see her again.  he said he intends to cry and cry the last day he sees her.  we'll see.  a part of me wonders if brooklyn just THINKS she is moving there.    awww....paradise.....how nice.

cold monday

well.  here i am.  at work.  cold.  tired.  sinus headache.  tooth still falling out.  this is the life.

eventful weekend i had.  saturday, helped out at The Friendship House.  while alot of people were helping package up thanksgiving meals for the less fortunate, i got to help reorganize the pantry, check the dates of all the food, stock the pantry.  the boys got to play with their friends from church, but they also helped clean and sanitize the place. 

afterwards, grandma (my mother-in-law) came and picked me and the boys up to go check out her most recent rent house now that it's "staged" with furniture.  oh, how i would love to call that house home.  such a nice house. 

then, it was back to my house to do some MAJOR cleaning.  i am still impressed with what all i accomplished.  i really should have taken before and after pics.  the before was just flat out frightening.  i can't believe i had let it get so bad.  but these things happen when you're constantly busy with things.

oh. my. gosh.  i am so tired.  feel crappy too.  want to go back to bed.  bleh. bleh. bleh.

looky

today, i'm wearing the necklace i won in a giveaway about a week ago.  such vibrance.  i just loves it.

sooo......

the anniversary party was a success.  my sis and i ALWAYS say we're going to leave early every time we go to one of these things, buttttttttt that's never the case.  actually, this time, instead of sitting at the "trouble makers" table (the group of folks that just gossip about everyone and have nothing of any essence to say) we sat at our own table.  we had all the important folks come and sit with us and chat and all the others kept glaring our direction wondering what we were laughing about, why the vice president from the bank and the guy from cf & co and the cfo of our company and the head of HR and the entire office manager were sitting at our table.  oh, it was glorious!  a victory for us, for sure.  learned so much about some people we really hadn't known at all. and, for the first time, i don't feel dirty afterwards.  usually, we sit with the accountants and the controller, and all we do is gossip all night about everyone in the office, and i regret every moment the next morning.  but i feel great this morning.  it was a good night.  although i did miss my boys.  :(

boy, am i tired though.  i can only imagine how some of the ones that got toasted last night are gonna feel today.  drinking at office parties.  exactly why i stopped going to these things.  but it was the boss' 20 year, so we felt obligated.  i think he was glad we were there too. ;)

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