Just Jeri

This is a very cool new idea for teaching kids about power consumption.  I want one.  My kids are absolutely CLUELESS when it comes to power consumption.  My electric bill is outrageous, especially in the winter but this would certainly help me in  my quest to lower it!!

You plug it into the wall and plug the unit (like the tv) into the snout and put a coin in and it will run for 30 minutes and flash red when it is about to run out of time.  The kids have to keep plugging it with money in order for it to keep powering whatever they are using.  :)   I absolutely LOVE it!  Sooo…my birthday is coming up…if anyone wants to figure out what one of these little piggy’s cost!  Oh..and…I need four of them(Jessie is home now too)! Maybe five.  I think Brian could use one too.  He’s not so hot at power saving either!

Sitting around watching t.v.  Tired from work.  Brian tired from his day too.  Someone mentions chocolate cake.  Ugh.  I don’t want to make a damn cake.  Brian doesn’t want to make a cake.

Billy…“I WILL MAKE IT!”

Brian…“NO!, I don’t want to have to get up and help!”

Me, “Awww..he can make it.”

Billy… “YESSSSSSSSSSSS!” (Brian glares at me…and I give him puppy dawg eyes and pouty lip).

Me…“Billy, just read the directions, it tells you everything.”

Billy…“I know! I know how to make a cake!” He gets the box out of the cupboard…starts reading.

Billy…“When it says 1/3 cup of oil..does that mean butter?” (Brian glares at me…….and slowly gets up and goes into the kitchen.)

Me…“oops” (Jessie and I struggling to keep our hysterical laughter quieted by the pillows covering our faces! Not easy!)

Yes, I too started reading the Twilight series. You know…the one with the vampires. My daughter Karlynn read them first. Then it was Jennifer, then it was Jessie, Sara and Karsen.and then I started.  I made it through the first one and part of the second.  Then I got busy and put it down.  Haven’t picked it up since. I am going to finish the series, I just haven’t had time.  My youngest, Kendyl, wanted to read the books.  Told me her friend was reading them.  So, I said sure!  She is an avid reader.  Like all of us in our family.  Once she finds something she likes, I don’t see her for days until she is done.

Anyway, I was talking to Jenny one day and told her Kendyl was reading the series.  She said something like this…”WHAT?!!! There is sex in that book!! She can’t read that!!”  So, of course I freak out and tell Kendyl she can’t read it anymore and she stomps off to her room whining and being a pain in my ass. This was months ago.

About 5 days ago she brought it up again.  I told her, “I’ll tell you what.  Let me read the second and third and if I think it’s ok for you to read I will let you read it”  (Because she told me her friend told her there was no sex in it until the 4th book).  But I will be damned if I am going to believe that crapola!  For two more days she nagged me and nagged me about reading the book.  She said “You will take two years to read them!!!”  I said “That may be true..but you still cannot read them before I do”!  End of subject..right?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!  Not the end of subject!  Tonight, I come home from work. Have my dinner.  Then sit on the couch to watch AI, because I worked late last night and didn’t get to see it.  After it’s over I go into the kitchen and see little missy’s light on. (and it’s passed bed time!)  I walk into her room and she is ..get this… laying on her bed..with her light on…with her covers up to her chin and looking all bulky below them.  Not doing anything but laying there staring at the ceiling.  WTF???!  I give her the evil eye.  She looks at me all innocent and smiles.  I then…slowly…walk up to her…look at her and…RIP THE COVERS OFF HER IN A SPLIT SECOND!  Guess what I find?  hmmmm go ahead…GUESS!!!!  THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE TWILIGHT SERIES!  THE FOURTH BOOK!  GOD DAMMIT!  She is 11!!!!  DAMMIT.  I am PISSED!  I grab the book from her (which is open to almost the END) and ask her what book is this????!  She said very calmly, “I don’t know, I just took it off the shelf”.  MY ASSSSSSSSS!!!!  Little miss sneaky.  Took it off the shelf behind my back, without my permission, lying little …grrrrrrrrrrrr.  OMG, I am so mad right now.  I took the book, whacked her on the head, and walked out of her room.

Now..I plot revenge.  No more of this I say.  I am done with her antics.  First it was stealing money off the teachers desk.  Then it was paying some little boy 35 cents to beat someone up.  Now it is sneaking the twilight SEX book off the bookshelf and reading it behind my back, when she was forbidden to read it until I decided if it was ok first.  AND lying is out of the question!! I forbid it!

So…let’s have it everyone.  I want opinions for punishment.  One month.  That is what I am giving her.  Plus NO MORE TWILIGHT BOOKS. See if I let her finish the LAST part of the book.  She will be 18 before that happens!  T.V is coming out of her room, Nintendo DS..GONE, and no friends over and she is definitely grounded.  Plus…she will be blessed with CHORE CITY!  I will however continue to let her read…but it will be Nancy damn Drew!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.  Very angry. Very, very angry.

I am getting locks on the bookshelf….and maybe the snack cupboard (she sneaks that in the middle of the night too!)

Ok..so yep..New Diet.  Nutrisystems.  I like it.  Spendy but hey…It works..if you follow it.  I’ve lost 16lbs so far. Started in February.  My only thing with diets that gets me is cheating. Yup..I said it.  I am a cheater!  I’m a cheater.  Damn it…I’m a cheater.  There! I said it!  I can’t help it.  I am GREAT at dieting.  I mean who wouldn’t be that does it 24/7/365.  Except for the cheating that is. ha!  I think I am a professional dieter.  And yes, I’m still fat.  But hey…if I did not keep on trying to diet, I know damn well I would be one of those 800 pounders! Ewwww.  At least I still look good..well, good-ish. haha.  Although sometimes I walk by a mirror and go..Oh  my God..that woman needs to go on a diet! Ewww.  Oh shit…that was me.  OMG!!!  WTF has happened to me???!!  But..like I said.  Keep trying.  I feel damn good right now.  16lbs! I have now lost more than I gained after coming back from Jenny’s wedding.  That is a good sign.  I also just bought an elliptical.  It’s hard.  Hurts my legs.  I’m such a wooooooosie.  So out of shape.  But, I am motivated.  I WILL do this!

The think I like about Nutrisystems is, one..the food is not that bad.  Really.  I only found one lunch I hate.  Someone online told me instead of adding water to add fat free chicken broth.  I have not tried that yet as my first experience with it was quite upsetting, but I will get the courage again sometime!  I do absolutely love the desserts, although some of their desserts are not what I would call desserts…BBQ rice cakes….cheese curls…..pretzels, etc.  I call those snacks.  Desserts are…ummm chocolate cake, chocolate ice cream, chocolate bars, chocolate whatever.  I ordered these chocolate mint crunch bars.  OMG! To die for! I’m serious!!!  They are SOOOO good that I orderd 20 of them in my next order. HAHAHHAHA  The hell with pretzels (which are sawdust ..eww) and on with the chocolate.  I sit here at night after dinner watching t.v and slowly, savouring this chocolate mint bar like it’s my last one.  HAHA! YUMMMY!  What kind of a diet is this anyway???!!  God..if this diet works and I have been eating these..HAHAHA I’m fucking freakin out here!! Love them.  Did I tell you that? I LOVE THEM!  16lbs..hahahaha! Yep…I like this diet.

The only and I mean only downside is that it takes me a few mins over an hour to get to work and usually  longer to drive home.  Sooooo…I am MOVING!!  Woohoo!  So excited.  It’s like a new life.  Again.  And it’s a good thing, because I think I was falling deeper and deeper into ..um…old age or something not good living here in nowhere land.  I love the property…hate where it is.  So..now I am in the process of packing up stuff.  Trying to De-Clutter!  Pain in the ass..but you have to de-clutter before you can put your house on the market.  I have been looking at houses now for 4 months and believe me..some of those photos people put of their houses with all their shit all over the place.  EGADS!!!  It’s disgusting.  I know when I put my house up it is going to be EMPTY of clutter!!!!  Nothing personal.  No junk.  It’s not easy but we are actually doing pretty well.  ALL of the kids packed up their rooms.  Now it’s my room.  Ugh…that is a chore in itself.  No it’s 10 chores. Yuk.  Anyhow, I have motivation.  LOTS of motivation!

I can’t believe it’s been this long.  I have been a busy bee.  I started a new job.  Which by the way, has me absolutely consumed.  My boss is ..hmmm…part chinese, part japanese and grew up in Korea.  Something like that.  She is the most wonderful person.  FUNNY as hell.  Speaks Chinglish.  God..she is soooo funny!.  Gives me major shit.. and I give it back.  She calls me brat. hahaha!  How did she know that was my nickname????! Weird.  Her office is out of her home and her home is on a hill in a beautiful house with a view of Coeur d’Alene and the lake.  My little part of the office is surrounded by windows…yep..she loves me! :)  I love my job.  Demanding…but it sure feels good to have a real job again.  Seriously my last job was the most boring job I have ever had and trust me…that is saying a helluva lot.  God, was I ever bored at that “electric company”! Spent most of my time falling asleep at my desk. Definitely not enough to do to fill an 8 hour day. Ugh..so glad I had to quit there.  Anyway, this job…holy crap.  Am I bored? HA-HA…NOT!!  I love it.  Stressful at time..but damn I do like my job.  PLUS…I am getting PAID.   I did not think it was possible here in PO-DUNK to get paid a good wage and I am! I love it.  All I can say is thank God I called my insurance agent and bitched at him for taking too much money out of my account without letting me know! I ripped his head off because I was not working and they took an extra 200 out of my account without telling me.  ARG!   Next thing I knew (2 weeks later) he called me while I was grocery shopping and asked me to send him my resume because he knew someone looking for an accountant. haha.  What the hell.  And now..here I am.  Woohoo!!