In the Moon Garden

So, evidently, I'm not a very good blogger! Oh well, life can take crazy turns sometimes. And my life has certainly taken some turns in the last few years. New job, new home, new relationships, etc.

Most things for the better though! Good life changing desicions and finally following through on getting what we want out of life. The kids and I are healthy and working and living.

We are currently counting down the days for vacation to Florida. Ready to leave these cold winter days behind us!  My daughter and youngest son are going along with my fiance and his two kids.

Yep, I said fiance... Surprise! The girl who said "Never again" is recently engaged. My son and I moved in with him a few months ago. My older two are on their own now....of course, I still help them out when they need it.

I miss writing and blogging. I started letter writing again so I thought I would try blogging as well. It's so convenient now with this handy little app I downloaded to my phone. Hopefully my few blogger friends remember me!

This sucks!

They say it takes two weeks to break a habit. I hope that's true because I'm gearing myself up to go on a massive habit-breaking run.  I know it's probably better to do one thing at a time but for some reason, I've never been able to do things the easy way.

I have started a list and I figure I'll knock them all out at once. Guess we'll see where this goes. I've got a lot of stuff to do over the next few days so on Sunday, my two weeks will begin.

And of course, my list:

1.  Break off a negative relationship with a "friend" that has become a bad habit.  Yes it's a guy, but I'm so over it, just need to completely break ties. This one will be the hardest.

2. I've gotten in the habit of taking my kids for granted. They are so independent that I forget sometimes that they do still need me whether they like it or not. I need to plan more things to do together as a family. I'm sure they'll love that, ha, I can hear the groans now hehe. This will be a fun one.

3. A simple one ...... maybe. Stop grinding my teeth. Ugh, gives me a headache.

4. Stop worrying about everyone else's problems. I got enough to deal with. I need to take care of me for a while. Selfish, I know, but sometimes you just gotta do it.

I think that's enough for now. Even if I only accomplish half of that, I'll feel pretty good. Well as long as its the right half. Wish me luck, I'll need it!

Simple answer is that I have no freakin' idea! Little things started changing and not all for the good.  Then it all just kind of snowballed and before I knew it I was ready to get out of where I was and go back home. Twelve years ago I left the place where I grew up and lived most of my adult life too.  I moved to start a new life for my kids and me and that worked out good but they were growing up and wanting to go their own way and I was homesick.

For people like us who love change, we had just been in one place too long.  We needed to get out of there and so we did. Long story short, the house is sold and we now live in an awesome apartment near my hometown.  I've gotten back with some of my old friends and picked up some of my old attitude and I'm finally starting to feel like me again. 

Now don't get me wrong, it was ok where we had been living but it served it's purpose and it was time to move on.  My job went the same way.  Got tired of being unappreciated for 10 years so I moved on and finally found a good job that I like and has great benefits.  Something I never had at my old job.

There's a lot of little things that happened along the way but I'll save some of that for later. 

More big news... Sean is home from the army!  I never really liked him being in there and now he is home for good!  He is married and found a job as soon as he got back, which was only a few weeks ago. So glad he is home!

Brooke is graduated from high school last year and she will start college this coming fall.  She took a year off after high school but is ready to go back to school.  That was a seemingly never ending drama that I will talk about later also.....some of it is really pretty funny stuff.  She's a little crazy, hehehe.

Kellen is doing good, getting back into public school.  He's already made a pack of friends here and I can't keep him at home anymore.  When he is home, his friends are with him eating all my food!  lol  I don't mind, that's just what boys do I guess.

OK, that's enough for now.  I have to take pictures of everybody and the apartment...I love it!  We have been decorating and I still have a lot to do but it has such great potential.  It really is a neat old place and has just as much room as a house.... two floors and big rooms. Wait til you see the living room...so cool.

Off to get started writing some letters.  Have a great night! 

Logged on to see if my blog was still on here.  Yay, I'm glad it survived.  Just finished reading my old posts.  I miss blogging and letter writing.  Miss my friends who I only had contact with through these chanels.  Sad that I've lost touch with them. 

Lots has happened in my life for the past 18 months.  Crazy times that are just now settling down. More about that later.  Off to "catch up" on what everyone else has been up to.

WooHoo 2 posts in one day, I'm on a roll!

Brooke has begged forever for me to let her have her own little baby.  Brooke is very irresponsible so I decided that since I was fine with taking care of a puppy if Brooke slacked off (which she has), I would let her have one.  We found Bailey and everyone in the house fell in love with her.  Even Star, the meanie old grouch cat, likes her.

 Bruno didn't want anything to do with her for the first week but now he is her favorite playmate.  Matea loved her the first second and plays very well with her.  She has learned to be careful with smaller dogs because Bruno only weighs about 15 pounds.  It is funny seeing them play and watching Matea's patience with a mouthy sharp-toothed puppy.

 Oh, sorry, you don't want to hear all of this stuff.  You want the pictures!  She is about 3 months old now and a little over 3 pounds.

The first time I saw her, I told Brooke that she is the one to pick because she is so darn ugly!  Of course, now we all think she is adorable!  I'm sure I'll have plenty more posts about her antics, especially when her and Matea get to running around the house.  It gets a little crazy!!

Let's get this update out of the way so we can move on to happier posts...


So, I walked into work a month or so ago and my boss informs me that because my back went out and I missed a few days of work, he can no longer rely on me and is going to hire someone else.  WTF??? Now I normally don't use that type of language or I guess, initialism in this case...BUT it made me so mad!  I have worked here for crap pay for 9 years.  No benefits, no sick days, no paid holidays and only one week vacation! 

Oh well, he'll never find anyone to replace me because even he doesn't know how to do half the stuff I do.  So I told him it was fine with me, get someone in here part time and they can cover when I can't make it.  So far, he only has someone who can answer the phone and take messages. Of course, I'll be expected to train the guy.

 THEN, a couple of weeks ago, he tells me that someone will be calling about selling the company.  He met with some business broker on my off day to talk to him about helping to sell the company.  So that means, if someone buys it, I'm totally out of job.  My boss keeps telling me that if the company is bought, they would be stupid not to keep me on because I know everything.  Well, that's all fine and dandy if they could keep the business here, But that's not going to happen.  Right now we are on my boss's property, the company will definitely have to be moved. I already drive 30 minutes to work. People are already coming in a looking things over, and they aren't from around here.

 I know what he is thinking.  He is hoping I keep my job so he won't feel like he has to give me severance pay.  I knew he would probably retire 2 years from now but this has been dropped on me within a few weeks time.  I am making some life altering plans right now!  More about that later.