Bad Day.......Getting BETTER!

So my week hasn't been the best and my morning was NOT going great!!  But things are starting to LOOK UP~

Let me go back a little bit and let me fill y'all in.  I have REALLY been struggling with some personal issues in which I am not really going to talk about on here.  I know I tend to put it all out on here but there are just some things I am going to keep private.  But I have been trying to deal with them the best I can on my own.  I have made some major decisions in my life that I didn't make lightly y'all.  Some have some over a period of time and others, just in the last couple of weeks.  So I have kinda had a lot on my plate so to speak. 

One of which is to be A LOT more serious about getting my FAT ASS back in shape!!  I am sick of feeling the way I do about myself and seeing what I see when I look in the mirror! So I decided I was going to set my alarm and get up and start the C25K on the treadmill in the mornings before work..........................FAIL!!!!!!  Why is this SO HARD FOR ME?!?!?!!?!?  I REALLY want to do this but I just can not seem to get up in the mornings!!!! 

I set the alarm and even put it on the other side of the room so I can't just it snooze.................so what do I do?????  Get my FAT ASS up and hit snooze and take my alarm to bed with me and go back to sleep!!!  (My alarm is my cell phone by the way!)  I know, I am the most pathetic person ALIVE! 

So for three days in a row I have NOT gotten up to do the C25k or anything for that matter!  Yesterday I hardly made it up in time to shower and get myself and B dressed and out the door.  I dropped B off at school and made it just in time to work!!!  I thought I hit snooze and I really turned OFF my alarm!!!

And here we are to this morning and once again, LAZINESS hit me and I didn't get out of bed.  I did get up in time to actually pack a lunch and get B dressed and myself and not be totally rushed this morning.  However, on my way to work I almost had a MAJOR accident because PEOPLE DON'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE!!!  I was cruising along on the road on my way to work and went around someone in so I was in the fast lane.  Well an IDIOT turned out in front of me and was going about 30 miles per hour and continued to go that speed!!!!!!!!!!  I had to SLAM on my brakes and so did everyone behind me! It was ridiculous!  Everyone went in the "slow" lane to pass me and the idiot in front of me and that took a good 5 minutes off my time.  I know, I know, what is 5 minutes but when you cut it as close as I do it is a HUGE difference! 

Moving along to the next part of my journey I have another person that thought they should just pull RIGHT OUT infront of me too! I must have had a sign on my car this morning or something, I don't know!

Now on to the better part of my day!!  I FINALLY got B dropped off at school safe and sound mind you! As I am pulling into the parking lot of work I am waiting to hear a prize give away on one of my favorite radio stations. I never win anything y'all but I just had a feeling this morning for some reason they were going to say my name!

I am a HUGE country music fan, incase you didn't know..............I might be a little bit of a redneck y'all!!!  The prize was two tickets to the Rascal Flatts concert this Friday night and I WON y'all!!!!!  I am SOOOOOO EXCITED!!! Now, who should I take to the concert..........................stay tuned for pictures and a recap!!!  Super excited!

On a side note.............B got his second hair cut last night and it went WAY better than the first one!  If you don't remember how that went you can read it here.  He looks like such a little man when he gets it cut!  They are doing school pictures tomorrow so he had to look "fresh"!!  Here is a picture of my gangsta for y'all.  He is just so adorable I could eat him up!!! Not the best picture but I haven't had one on here for a while.

If I wanted him to have his hood up, he wouldn't! But I didn't care I guess so he wanted it on!!

 

 

 

 

Piece & Chicken Grease Y'all!!!

Getting Old!

I must be getting old.........things that never really bothered me, or I felt were that big of a deal, are REALLY starting to bother me!!

Now I know being a mom changes you but I am REALLY starting to he my MOTHER come out of my mouth more and more these days!!!!  LOL

I can remember when I was going up when we would go out to eat at a restaurant that was a pretty big deal.  I am not talking about McDonald's or  something like that, although that didn't happen that much either!  I mean like a sit down and eat type of place. 

I am telling y'all, people are just rude these days!!  Customer service is a thing of the past I think!!  Went to eat at the Village Inn around the corner from the house.  The tables were not full and when we walked into the place there were people waiting to be seated. This I have NEVER seen in the almost 10 years I have lived here!!  VI is never that busy!! 

The hostess takes FOREVER to come up to see how many and then tells us there will be a 7-10 minute wait.  I look around and see plenty of empty tables.  She says her waitress are a little overwhelmed and she is giving them time to breathe.  I have NEVER heard of this in ALL my life!!  I have worked in food service since I was about 15 years old.  If it is busy and you are overwhelmed you just keep going!! Not at this VI location! Their manager/hostess likes to make other people wait while they get a chance to "breathe" and get caught up. 

Let me take a step back here.  I should have known better than to go here in the first place anyway.  I have went to this location several times and always TERRIBLE service EVERY TIME!!  So I really should not be surprised by this happening. But I thought I would give them another chance.  WRONG!!  I won't be making that mistake again!

After waiting there for about 7 minutes and the 3 other tables ahead of us had not been seated I decided I wasn't going to wait any longer.  So we headed up the street to Perkins.  I was in the mood for breakfast food.  We get there and I think there were 3 cars in the parking lot.  Great we will be in and out in no time................or so I thought!!

One of my pet peeves is when you walk into a restaurant and they have a host stand, they should greet you right away and be pleasant!  Well the manager was talking to one of the staff members behind the counter and just glanced at us and said "I will be with you in a sec."  OH that drives me NUTS!!!!  NOT professional at all!!

Once we got seated our waiter came over for our drink order.  We just got water so that was pretty simple. Then he came back to get our food order and that went pretty smooth also.

Here is where things went down hill!  It took FOREVER for our food to get there.  Now when you have a little one it seems like YEARS when they are hungry and it takes a long time to get their food.  And remember, there wasn't very many people in there at all!  Then when he did finally bring our food out, he dumped my glass of water all over the table and wasn't really apologetic about it.  Or very quick to clean it up to be right honest with you! 

I have started to see customer service go down hill and it really makes me sad!  I remember when it was important to treat your customers with respect and they were always right.  Remember if it wasn't for me being there you wouldn't have a job.  Now, everyone feels entitled to having a job and owed something rather than needing to earn it!  It just makes me sick!!

I am not one to talk about religion or politics on here.  It is just a MESSY topic either way.  However, I am glad the BIG BABIES in Washington took their heads out of their ASSES long enough to get something figured out!!!  Not that it matters, it sounds like it will happen again in January if they don't get their shit figured out! I am just tired of the little man in middle America doing all the hard work being the ones that have to feel the pain of the ASSHOLES that CONTINUE to get paid and don't feel ANYTHING from what they are doing to everyone else!!!  If I was doing what they do at my job......................I WOULD BE FIRED!!!!  Maybe they all should be FIRED too!!!!!!!

Well there is my soap box for the day y'all!!

Piece & Chicken Grease Y'all!!!!

P.S. Drive thru at Subway is the BEST invention EVER!!!!!  I love that I don't have it get out of my car to eat something semi-healthy!!!!!  LOVE SUBWAY!!!

PUMPKINS!!!

Well yesterday was the day that B got to go to Howell's Pumpkin Patch and he had a BLAST!!! 

Of course this mama forgot to make sure the camera was charged so didn't get much for pictures but there will be many more chances for that!!

At first when we got there B wasn't sure about getting down and seeing what all there was to look at there.  But once he got used to everything, he was on the go!

Howell's has so much for kids to do.  If you live in the area and are looking for a good pumpkin patch you should check it out!!  They have a corn box that B LOVED playing in! Then we just had to check out the pedal tractors of course!! 

Then it was off to the REAL tractor ride out through their pumpkin patch and flower garden.  This place is amazing! They have so many acres of things to look at.  They have a HUGE corn maze out there too.  We decided not to go through that as I am TERRIFIED that I will get lost in those things and not be able to get out!!  The tractor ride took us out through all the fields and back to the barn. 






Now was the time to pick out the "Great Pumpkin".  We got a wagon and off we went to find the best ones we could find!  We got two really big ones and one "just right" for B.  I truly think he enjoyed riding in the wagon more than picking out the pumpkins!!

All in all it was a GREAT trip!!  B had a wonderful time and I believe this will be our yearly destination for pumpkins! 

I will make sure to get pictures of our carvings once we get those completed!  I am SO excited to see how B does with that......................should be interesting!!!

Piece and Chicken Grease Y'all!!

The Bucket List

So how many of y'all have a "real" bucket list?  

I have always had one but not that I had written down or kept track of.  So with all the strange and new things going on in my life I decided to start one.  A REAL one.  I don't know how much of it I will actually do but we shall see!

Don't laugh y'all...........some things might sound silly to you but this is my list remember!  What is yours?!
The Bucket List:

( )Go to Canada
(X) Go to Mexico
(X) Go to Florida
(X) Go to Hawaii
(X) Swim in the ocean
( ) Go to New Orleans
( ) Kiss in the rain
( ) Stay up all night on the beach and watch the sunrise
( ) Visit every state in the United States
( ) Go sky diving
(X) Go Disneyland/ Disney World
( ) Own my own motercycle
( ) Own a farm
( ) Attend the NCAA Finals
( ) Watch my son grow up to be a man!


This isn't finished by any means but I will have to think on some of the things I want to do.  I heard some sad news last night about someone who was taken from his family way to soon.  We really never know if we have tomorrow y'all so live each day to the fullest!! 

Kiss your babies every chance you get and never have any regrets!

I will leave you with the lyrics to my new FAVORITE song! It is my motto right now y'all! Life is too short to hold your tongue!

"Brave"

You can be amazing
You can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug
You can be the outcast
Or be the backlash of somebody’s lack of love
Or you can start speaking up
Nothing’s gonna hurt you the way that words do
When they settle ‘neath your skin
Kept on the inside and no sunlight
Sometimes a shadow wins
But I wonder what would happen if you

Say what you wanna say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave

With what you want to say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave

I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I wanna see you be brave

I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I wanna see you be brave

Everybody’s been there,
Everybody’s been stared down by the enemy
Fallen for the fear
And done some disappearing,
Bow down to the mighty
Don’t run, stop holding your tongue
Maybe there’s a way out of the cage where you live
Maybe one of these days you can let the light in
Show me how big your brave is

Say what you wanna say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave

With what you want to say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave

And since your history of silence
Won’t do you any good,
Did you think it would?
Let your words be anything but empty
Why don’t you tell them the truth?

Say what you wanna say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave

With what you want to say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave

I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I wanna see you be brave

I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
See you be brave

I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you

I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you