finally got to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince!!

I know I have not been keeping up on my blog posts, but a lot has been going on; and I have been trying not to come here just to bitch!  I have been playing zuma instead, just to try to keep from losing my mind.  As I lost my mind years ago, it hasn’t helped much. 

Anyway, I finally was able to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.  As Lunatic and I can’t afford to go to the theater at the moment, I had to find a way to watch it online.  Lucky for me, watchmovies.com had it (as well as all the Harry Potter movies).  I had to watch it in 2 parts, and my computer froze up a couple of times; but the picture quality wasn’t bad and I was able to watch the movie without too much hassle.

OMG!!!!  It was awesome!!!  I was laughing and crying throughout the movie, occasionally at the same time.  I want to own this movie sooooo badly.  Even though I knew he was going to be all right, my heart nearly stopped when Ron was poisoned!  I laughed until I cried when Lavender ran from the hospital wing after Ron called out Hermione’s name.  Served her right, the insufferable twit!!

I felt so sorry for Draco, and think that Tom Felton did a wonderful job in this movie.  I cried at the end, I knew I would.  I cry every time I read the book too.  I WANT MY BOOKS BACK!!!  Sorry, just a bit of a rant.  I have loved all of the movies, and I feel that each one gets a little better…and darker.  I don’t recall the Burrows being burned down in the book, but thought that it was an interesting addition to the story.

I can’t wait until the final movie comes out!!!  I read tat J.K. Rowling actually might continue the story in more books…she wants to see what happens next as much as all the H arry Potter fans.  I hope she does write more.  Even though anyone who has read all of the books knows what happens in the distant future for Harry, Ron and Hermione; it would be nice to see how they got there.

I hope to be in Texas when the next movie comes out, so that hopefully I can go see it with my soon to be sisters-in-law.  I love that we all are such major Harry Potter fans!!

Well, that is al for now.  Good night and sweet dreams everyone.  I will try to keep up on my posts better from now on. 

Computer thief speaks

While I am pretty sure I know how my sister got my blog link, I am still trying to figure out why she decided to all of a sudden comment on anything I posted here.  After all, when I saw that she was on yahoo messenger the other day and sent her an IM to thank her for telling Kelli how to get in contact with me; she responded with a very snotty message telling me that she had told Kelli NOT to contact me.  She went on to say that she had told Kelli that I act like I am still in high school and all I do is use people.

As I had been trying to reach out and mend fences with my only sister, and my twin sister at that; her comment hurt me.  My Lunatic does not like seeing me hurting like that, so he took it upon himself to send my sister an email, asking how she can treat me the way she does, even when I am reaching out to her.  She sent him an email back telling him that our problems are none of his business and going off on him for butting in.  He kept trying, until she completely pissed him off with her last email.  She told him that all I do is think of myself and use people and that I haven’t tried to ontact her since Grammy’s funeral and he needs to mind his own business.  He told her he was done with trying to help and stopped emailing her.

What gets me is that she said that I hadn’t tried to get in touch with her since the funeral and that she had no idea how to contact me.  First of all, as the last thing she said to me on the phone was that Grammy hadn’t wanted me around anymore anyway and that I was nuts if I expected her to give me a ride to the funeral; why would I have tried to contact her again?  She had given me no reason to want to talk to her any time soon.  As for her not knowing how to contact me; well until February of 2009 I never moved from the address she picked me up from to go visit Grammy in the hospital, and she knew Lunatic’s cellphone number.  So, how could she not know how to contact me all that time?

I don’t understand my sister.  I keep trying to reach out to her, and she just keeps slapping my outreached hand away.  It hurts every time, but I will continue to do so, as she is my twin and we are supposed to be closer than other siblings.  We were very close at one time, then she somehow got her head stuck up her ass and from then on has acted like everything I do is wrong.  I think she needs to see a protologist as soon as possible, because having her head stuck up there for so long has to have become rather painful.

Oh well, I love my sister no matter what; even if I can’t stand her at times.

Have a good one everyone.  Sweet dreams.

One Hundred and seven hours

making it folks!  I have selected a small reward for the first hundred hours.  The money I saved on cigarettes will be spent on a game that will give me no end of pleasure and relaxation.

Keep you updated as it progresses!

Well, I found someone i was looking for

Or should I say that she found me.  No, it was not Jasmine; but it was almost as good.  Thanks in part to my sister telling her how to find me on myspace, my very best friend ever got back in touch after 12 years.  I have missed her so much.  Kelli was my rock for nearly 10 years and then due to extenuating cicumstances that I cannot go into without her permission; we lost contact with each other.  When I lost Kelli from my life, it was like losing a part of myself.  She was my sister in my heart even if we weren’t blood related.  The only thing that hurt worse than losing Kelli from my life was losing my girls.

Kelli called me yesterday, and we had one of our marathon gab sessions.  It was like no time had passed.  God how I have missed talking on the phone with her!!  She, like myself, has had to go through some rough patches.  I wish I could have been there to help her through them.  She said she wished we had found each other sooner, like around the time I was losing my girls.  Even though she was going through a divorce at the time, she said she would have taken my girls in a heartbeat, and I know she means it.  She adored the girls!

It is funny the way we had our children.  I had my first and 14 months later she had her first.  She had her second and 14 months later I had my second.  I have just learned that she has 2 more children, and again I had my third child and 14 months later she had her third.  The only difference is that i never had a fourth child, but she did.  Unlike me, she never gave any of her children up for adoption either.  I miss my son, but I know what I did was the best thing for all of my children.

Kelli spoke to Lunatic on the phone, and says that she thinks I picked a good man this time.  They discussed her and her family coming to visit when we finally move to Texas.  I would love for her to come see us here first.  Janice says that it okay with her, as she sees how happy getting back in touch with Kelli has made me.  I love her to death and have missed her these past years with all my heart.  I hope she knows just how much I love her.

Even though my family doesn’t want me, I have Kelli, Lunatic’s family, my brother, Kat, DJ, Jessica, Janice and her boys, and Lunatic.  Once I find my girls, my family will be complete as far as I am concerned.  I don’t need people who judge me and treat me badly.  I have so many people who love me for who I am, warts and all.  That’s all I need.

Kelli, I know you will be reading this, as you said you have read some of my blog already.  I want you to know that you have always been a sister to me, and I never stopped thinking of you as my best friend in the whole world.  I am glad you found someone who loves you unconditionally, you deserve it.  You are a beautiful person inside and out.  Though I am a bit ticked off that you haven’t changed in the least since high school and I went up 5 or 6 sizes.  But, I am working on at least getting down to a size 16.  I know there is NO WAY I will ever get back down to a size 12.  I want to see you in person again so bad.  If you come visit me, I will buy you White Castles!!  LOL 

My mom really got you hooked on those things.  Lunatic doesn’t like them, they give him gas; but I loved having a White Castle a mile away when he and I lived in Wayne, Michigan.  The restaurant was combined with a Church’s, so he would get spicy chicken and I would get my sliders.  Anyway, I would just really like to see you again.  I have missed you so.

Good night and sweet dreams everyone.

pulling my hair out!!!

For some reason, Janice’s landlord included in the lease that every six months she is able to come to the house and inspect it inside and out for damages and whether or not it is being kept clean.  If she feels that there is any damage being done or that it is not being kept clean enough for her taste, she can evict everyone living here.  I don’t understand this, as with kids living here it is hard to keep it clean all the time; and with kids there will sometimes be accidents that may cause damage.

I have never before lived anywhere that the landlord had the right to do this.  Everywhere I have lived, the landlord did a walkthrough inspection when I moved in and again when I moved out.  If there was any damage that was not reported or repaired by the time I moved out, I was liable for it; but the only way I could be evicted is for non-payment of rent or willful destruction of the property.

Anyway, the landlord came over last Friday and informed Janice that she would be back on July 1 for the inspection and that if the yard and house weren’t cleaned, the yard wasn’t mowed and the railing on the back deck weren’t repaired anyone living here would be evicted.  She also complained about the fact that the mailbox had been knocked off of its post.  The mailbox and the posts on the railing of the back deck were knocked off by neighborhood kids in the middle of the night, who also like to bully the dog (Benny) and put snakes in the mailbox.

Except for Chip and most of the kids, we all started doing some cleaning that day and got more done on Saturday.  Saturday, Lunatic was working on picking up the trash in the yard.  Because of the heat, so that he wasn’t doing it by himself, Courtney was asked to go out and help him.  I was working on the office and our room, so I couldn’t help him.  Courtney did not do much to help, and Lunatic wound up doing it by himself and overdoing it.  Janice also overdid it and wound up in the emergency room on Sunday because she passed out, hit her head and gave herself a concussion.

We all decided that we would relax on Monday because of so few people here being willing to do much to help.  Tigger for one told his mom, Tina and I that it was on us to get the place cleaned.  Piglet has been helping whereever he can when asked.  Since he got back on his meds, he has been calmer and more helpful.  Tuesday, he helped Lunatic work on the yard some more (even though he was hurting badly from a third degree sunburn on both shoulders).  While the two of them were working on the yard, I was busy, busy , busy in the house.

I should probably say that the first thing that Piglet did to help Lunatic was to go to his doctor’s appointment with him, as I couldn’t because there was still too much to be done in the house.  Janice was on bed rest because of her concussion and Jerry Sue was at work, so that left me and Tina to work on the cleaning.  I did the dishes then went upstairs to surprise Lunatic by finishing the office.  This included cleaning and organizing his desk, inside and out.  I kept having to take breaks to discuss with Tina what needed to be done and who was going to do it, as well as to do any more dishes that found there way to the kitchen (Lunatic had acollection of dirty dishes on his desk, for one thing).  I think I did dishes 6 times on Tuesday.

Tina and I agreed that we would ask Courtney to clean the fronts of the lower cupboards in the kitchen, as it is much easier for her to get back up off the floor than either of us.  To our surprise, Courtney agreed to do it when we were finished with the sweeping and mopping.  Tina had to run out and pick up a few things, so I told her when I was done in the office I would sweep the second floor, down the stairs and all three rooms on the first floor if she would mop when she got home.  She agreed.

I finished the office, recleaned our room, sorted our laundry and put the hampers in our closet then went to get the broom.  I did all the sweeping, as well as the dishes I mentioned earlier.  Tina got home and went to take a nap, saying she would mop after the kids were in bed.  Jerry Sue and Gurgi 2 got home from work.  He went o bed; and after saying she would mop when she got up in the morning, so did she.  Tina came back up, and said she would do the mopping the next morning, then she ate and went to bed.

I was exhausted, so I vegged in front of the TV for awhile then went to bed too.  Well, I tried to anyway.  Lunatic wasn’t feeling well, so I stayed up to keep an I on him for as late as I could.  Piglet even stayed up to help me with him.  Finally getting to sleep after 4 in the morning, I didn’t get up until almost 11 a.m.  The mopping hadn’t been done and the living room and dining room needed to be swept again.

Courtney, having received an invite to a ballgame Tuesday night hadn’t gotten a chance to clean the cupboards, but said she would do them Wednesday, and she did.  Janice, Tina and Tigger went grocery shopping with Janice’s sister June, after telling us the landlord would be here at 4 p.m.  We still had a lot to do, mainly because half the household refused to help so far.

Piglet and Lunatic went back out to work on the yard again, until Piglet’s shoulders started to hurt him too much.  When he went inside, Lunatic worked by himself for a little while, then enlisted the help of Chip and the little boys to police the yard for trash and cigarette butts.  I asked Courtney to sweep the first floor so that I could then mop before doing the dishes.  I carried Janice’s and the kids laundry to the basement, helped outside some and then began to mop.  As I finished the living room, Courtney asked if I would like her to mop the dining room and kitchen for me.  I was surprised, but jumped at the offer.  While she was doing that, I decided to grab some rubber gloves and tackle the upstairs bathroom.  Courtny actually grabbed the other pair and got down and scrubbed the floors before mopping them…without being asked.  Her brothers even helped.

By 4 in the afternoon, we had the house as shipshape as we were going to get; including having all the groceries put away.  The landlord NEVER showed.  She called to say she would be here the next day (today).  Aaaaaaaarrrrrgggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, she did show up; but just long enough to get the rent, and after saying she would do the inspection today instead of yesterday.

Anyway, I am exhaustifried; so I am going to bed now.  Sweet dreams everyone.