April 6, 2008

• Is it just me.....

  So, tell me if this shit ever happens to you.....

  Yesterday I agreed to take a car load of loud, silly ass teenagers to the IX Center to celebrate my nephew's upcoming 14th birthday.  The IX Center, for those of you not in the Akron/Cleveland Ohio area, is the International Exposition Center, a convention center boasting over 1 million square feet and used for the Home & Garden Show, car shows, boat shows, and many other events, including the yearly "Indoor Amusement Park" for which we went yesterday.

  So, dressing for this event was casual.  I wore jeans and a Glenn Beck Tshirt sold to help pay legal expenses for our border guards, Campeon & Ramos, currently serving time in prison for the shooting & wounding of a Mexican drug smuggler.  The Tshirt has a large circle with Border Patrol in the center and underneath it says "To Protect and Serve Time".

  Yesterday was The 4th Annual La Fiesta Latina Celebration.

  I need to start looking at the event's calendar before I go anywhere.

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  I'm sick of politics, so I only have this one thing to say and you can decide if it's really about politics, or if it's about parenting.  One of the silly ass teenagers in my car was a kid who I thought was a boy for the entire hour drive to the IX Center.  I have no idea what they were talking about, having shut them out after the first 4 minutes of the trip, but suddenly I hear this girl/boy say, I just want to see Bush die.  Of course I unstop my ears and hear him/her say He really sucks and he just needs to die, I'll be glad to see him dead. 

  So, this kid is 14 max....you think he/she is really paying attention to President Bush, or has he/she heard this countless times in his/her own home?  Parents, teach your children well.  Why would you speak like that, especially in front of your children?  I was disgusted with Bill Clinton and I seriously cannot stand his wife, but I would never have wished them dead, especially in front of my children. 

  But, you know, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, when we got to the IX Center & I mentioned this to my sister, she filled me in on several things.  The first being that the boy was indeed a girl.  Secondly, the girls mother is one of those people who refer to the insurgents in Iraq as "Freedom Fighters" and she likes to go to bars, get on the dance floor, take off her shirt, accost other women by simulating a sex act from behind while reaching around and grabbing their boobs.   Yeah...a real nice classy lady.

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  Well, I  lost my job the first week of March.  Sounds like the beginning of a country song, huh?  My bosses have decided they don't want to do this anymore.  So, now John sits in the office with all the lights off, listening to books on cd and playing solitaire on the computer, while Ric goes out and spends 1-2 hours a day finishing off little jobs we had and then drinking beer for the rest of the day back in the shop.  And me, after 12 yrs, got my last paycheck and a Thanks for everything.  

  I haven't even started looking for a job, I've taken the time to get some work done around my house.  I tore up 30 yr old ceramic tile (the little tiny blocks that come on 12"x 12" squares of mesh) from my upstairs bathroom floor and am going to go in a minute to find some vinyl flooring for in there.  Also finally painted Nate's "new" bedroom downstairs and had carpet laid in there Thursday.  It's lookin pretty fabulous and I can't wait for him to move this bedroom furniture down from my spare room so I can scrub the carpet, maybe paint, and get my "office" together.  Looking for a day bed or something to go in there for when my friend, Diane, comes in May from S. Dakota.  And other "Spring" cleaning type things.

  I have a subcontractor that told John he would love to have me work for him and he'd be calling me in a week or so. They had that conversation the day I got laid off so....still waiting for the call.  Thinking I better start looking elsewhere.

  Oh, my brother lost his job too.  He worked the same place as me.  Yeah.  Nice for family to share in the good times and the bad, huh? *L*

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  Nate is doing well.  He's disgusted with his boss and vows to quit as soon as he gets his car paid off.  He bought a 2001 Mustang from his boss, paid for it by working unpaid overtime.  The car is paid for, now it's in the body shop getting a little work and a new paint job, which he's also paying for by working unpaid overtime.  His boss does take advantage of him but I don't know that he'll actually quit.  He's got a lot of freedom there.  I just wish he'd go to school and get certified in diesel mechanics and then he'd get paid fairly for what he does naturally. But he's not interested in school.

  The kid is a mechanical genius and I'm not just saying that because I love him more than life itself.  His Sgt told me that everyone wanted him in their patrols because if something went wrong with the vehicles, you give Nate a piece of wire and some chewing gum he could fix anything *L* 

  He's not dating anyone but I think he's working on it.  I hear the name Mandy a little bit here & there lately.  I sure hope she's not another idiot girrrrl.

  He was 24 on March 13th

  

   

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  I'm not seeing anyone, and getting pretty content with that I guess.  I still talk to Joe and see him at the bar on Friday nights but we haven't gone anywhere together in ages.  Works for me, can't hardly be accused of having an affair if the entire "relationship" is conducted in a public place and goofy emailings back & forth.

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  That's about all I got.  Guess I'll get out of here & go look for some flooring.  Hope you all are doing well.

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  For your viewing pleasure....My great niece, Ava

  First taste of lemonade..with Aunt Alexis

  

  Banana's.....Yum!

  

  With the birthday boy, Uncle Beau

  

  First Easter candy...

  

  See ya next time. 

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