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[MOmomof8]

I was actually asleep before 10pm last night. That's why I did do a journal.  However, I was awake by 3am.  So I've already been up over 12 hours but I'm more hungry than sleepy.  I hope I can stay awake for my tv shows tonight.  I hate it when I miss CSI.  I fell asleep watching Eastwick last night.  I must not have seen much cause I can't remember anything but the opening.  That's why I'm doing this early today.  My hubby doesn't wake me when he goes to sleep cause he's afraid of waking me up.  I would usually get upset about that but he had a cold so I don't want to kiss him anyways.  Sometimes I just get this urge to grab him a lay a big one on him.  It's usually when we are in the car or somewhere that it would be inappropriate.   He's been really depressed lately which worries me.  I am so afraid of him dying on me.  I finally found a man I am truly happy with, get along great with & really enjoy being with all the time.  I don't want to lose him ever but I know some day it will happen, I just pray that it doesn't happen for a very, very long time.  I do hope he goes before me, he's gone through 1 wife's death so I don't want to put him through that again.  Besides he has more insurance on him than we do on me....j/k but true.  The house would be paid off so I can pass it on to Brandi.  Now that she is married to Nathan, it's perfect.  The house will go to one of his & one of mine.  Besides Brandi is the only one that wants the house.  I bet Vicki will have a fit about it anyway.  She is our cry baby Sally.  I finally got 1 of my momma's purses, which to be fair, she didn't know about.  I had told her that when my stepdad is ready to let go of her things, I would give her one of her purses.  My momma has more than a lot of purses & all of them was priced over $80.  She didn't pay that much, maybe $40.  I have only paid that much for a purse once & that was a few years ago.  Anyway, she calls me today, after she picked up Chris,& asks if I have gotten any of my momma's purses yet.  I wasn't sure what to tell her cause I did but only 1.  She says she needs a purse cause the strap on hers broke.  So I tell her she can have the one I just changed out of.  She says sure then asks if I have a wallet she can have.  I swear that girl, this is like the 3rd purse I've given her, then she asks for a wallet too.  Well, she was lucky this time cause I was going through 2 boxes yesterday & found one of my old ones.  I don't know why I switched wallets cause there was nothing wrong with it.  So I tell her she can pick them up tomorrow when she picks up the kids.  No, she wants them today.  I told her that I'm going to the beauty shop so she says she'll meet me there.  My dh takes me to my appointment so I had him wait in the car for her.  He surprises me, after she picked them up he & Rose came in to wait for me.  I love getting my hair done, now I understand why mom enjoyed it.  I only go every other week cause that's all I can afford & about how often I get my checks.  I was really upset 2 weeks ago cause she straightened my hair & it looked so nice.  My dh has to take the band to a contest so I go with him.  We just sat down to watch the bands march & it opens up & pours.  I have never seen girls take so long to get into a bus in my life.  I've always rushed to get out of the rain cause it makes my hair go almost afro.  I was yelling & pushing on the girls to get them to move faster.  It's like they got up the stairs & had to stop to fix their makeup or something.  I swear.  So needless to say, my hair kinked on me.  This week I just had to going ahead & curly it.  So I have goldy locks curls.  I miss my momma being able to do my hair but she could never straighten it.  This woman is magic.  She can get my hair so straight, it's great.  I've never been able to get it as straight as she does.  Rose likes playing with their toys.  

I did have something great today.  I have been working on losing weight.  It's have cause most of my medicine causes weight gain.  So I haven't weighed myself for 2 weeks, I have lost 4 pounds.  I know that doesn't sound like a lot.  It's great to me cause I'm going in the right direction now & cause I was told I should lose 2 pounds a week.  So I'm right on target.  Now to just keep it up.  I'm sure all the walking we did last week helped a lot.  I really don't eat that much & I only eat twice a day.  But I've been eating a lot of chocolate & snacks which was the first stuff I cut out.  I even started snacking on carrots without the dressing.  Believe or not, I was really skinny in my youth.  In fact, I was a model when I was 15 & stopped when I was 19.  Even after my 2nd son was born, I got down to a size 3 which is way to thin for someone my height.   So I am very proud of myself today.  It would be wonderful if I could get down to a size 14 before my stepdad starts getting rid of my momma's clothes.  He told me I could have a few of her clothes but my momma told me if I lost the weight than I could got shopping in her closets.  Yes, I do mean closetsssssss.  She has 5 closets full plus 2 dressers full.  She has 2 closets full of coats, 1 double closet shelf full of purses up to the ceiling, & she has a ton of shoes but there is noway I could ever wear her shoes again.  I outgrow her shoe size when I was 18 now I wear 3 sizes bigger than her.  I suppose she went so crazy with clothes & stuff cause she didn't have much when she was growing up.  She even wore dresses & panties made of flour sacks.  I don't really understand why that was since her dad was well off.  I guess her parents just didn't care that much about clothes or maybe that's why he was well off.  You would've have thought her being the 9th living child of 9 that she would be so spoiled by her sisters & brothers since most of them were grown.  They lived with their mom & dad & worked for their dad so you would think they would buy her a few dresses.  There is a picture of some of them hanging in a museum in, I think, Mississippi but it could be Alabama.  That is where my momma was born, Moundsville, AL.  When I was little & we still lived in East Prairie, where I was born, my uncles spoiled me.  Their worked in St Louis so they would come home on weekends & always had a new dress for me.  Because of how my momma grew up, I always had a closet full of clothes & then some.  Everything matched to, from my skin out & from my head to my toes.   I've heard that Macy's is having money problems, that doesn't surprise me none.  They lost their best customer when my momma died.  She loved to shop there as far back as I can remember.  When I was a teenager, she would have a 2 hour break between her clients (she was a hairdresser) so we would run to Macy's.  It was only a 10 minute drive so she had plenty of time to shop.  Most of my clothes came from there back then, now they come from Walmart mostly.  That reminds me of what happen the first Christmas my dh & I were married.  When I traveled I always had a lot of suitcases, my dh has changed that about me.  We went to my momma's, she lived in KC,KS.   My dh & I both loaded up the car but when we got to KC I couldn't find my suitcase with my clothes, we had left it at home.  So on top of my gifts from my dh that year, I also got 4 new outfits, panties, socks, shoes & even some jewelry.  I didn't leave my jewelry at home but since he was being so nice I thought I would get a few new pieces.  Everyone thinks I left my suitcase at home on purpose.  I really didn't. 

Well, my dh is home with our Burger King, so until next time.  Hopefully, that will be tomorrow sometime.  L8R 8R

[ratchetgirl]

Oct. 16, 2009 at 10:04 AM

I love to shop too, and it is fun when you are loosing weight. CONGRATS! Your mom sounds fun with the shopping, my mom had a Gap credit card just for me when I was in high school, that is why I am so spoild now.

I think giving them the house is a fair idea, but I am sure it will  tick your other kids off. My sisters mil left her house to her, but she had to kind of buy it from the other kids. The house was 200k and they all got 10 % of the house. So, they got 10% off and had to pay the other kids their part. IDK,  something to think of in the long run.