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September 03 I Suck at this GameWell, it's been forever since I've been here. Part of that reason is that I have a new email address so I don't use the one linked to my space anymore. Does anyone know how to change that or is it possible? I really don't want to re-create my space, this was a lot of hard work! LOL It's been pretty much the same as always, workin, movin, workin, kids birthdays, workin, Christmas, workin, and a little bit of sleep squeezed in there. I'm sure it's been the same for just about everyone else. Almost had a boyfriend for a little bit there, but then I discovered that he's an idiot. Where are the good ones? I think they're all hiding from me LOL. Well, must get some work done. Hope to be back again soon. Y'all take care!
Carrie December 15 A Whole Year has gone byWell, it's been almost a whole year since the last time I wrote anything here. Things are pretty much the same. I've moved once, and am moving again at the end of the week, so the kids are bugging me because we haven't got the Christmas Tree set up yet. I don't see the point until I move.
Anyhoo, things are good, all is well, but it's -40 without the wind outside, so we're all pretty much staying inside (except for work, they still make us go).
Y'all take care
Carrie August 15 A Newfie Mother's Letter to her sonI've been looking for this for ages and finally found it again! WAHOOOO!!!!!
Deer Son, I am writing this slow because I know you can't read too fast. We don't live where we did when you left. Your Dad read in the paper that most car accidents happened within twenty mile of home, so we moved. I can't send you the address as the last Newfie family that lived here took the numbers with them for their next house so they wouldn't have to change their address. This place has a washing machine, but the first day I put four shirts in it, pulled the chain and haven't seen them since. It rained only twice last week - three days the first time and four days the second. About the coat you wanted me to send you. Aunt Sue said it would be a little too heavy to send in the mail with them heavy buttons, so we cut them off and put them in the pockets. We got a bill from the funeral home and it said that if we didn't make the last payment on Grandma's funeral, up she comes. About your sister - she had a baby this morning. I haven't found out whether it's a boy or a girl, so I don't know if you are an aunt or an uncle. Your Uncle John fell in the whiskey vat. Some men tried to pull him out, but he bravely fought them off and drowned. We cremated him and he burned for three days. Three of your friends went off the bridge in their pick-up. One was driving and the other two were in the back. The driver got out - he rolled down the window and swam to safety. The other two drowned - they couldn't get the tailgate open. Aunt Mabel is knitting you some socks. She would have sent them by now, but I told her that you had grown another foot since she last saw you, so she has to knit another one. Not much more news this time. Nothing much has happened. Love, March 08 Still KickingJust thought I'd drop a line to say I'm still around. Been busy getting nothing accomplished, trying to find a new place, as per usual.
Well, that's it for now. Will let everyone know how things are going again hopefully soon.
Carrie December 20 Why does everyone love a REAL Christmas Tree?A little while back, Mom came into town after cleaning out some of her place and brought me two Christmas tree stands. I decided that this year, we would get a real tree. The kids have never experienced a real tree and they don't understand why I never want one.
So the oldest and I are out on a hunt for a tree. In previous years, I've seen tree lots at least every three blocks, ya think I could find ONE? Eventually, we discovered trees at Superstore. So we go and look at the trees (which are in a fenced off area outside the store) and find one we like, now to find out how to pay for it. Of course, there's a sign that says to "Please Pay Inside" so we pick up the tree and start going inside. We walk through the doors and set off the "you stole something" sensor, which freaks out the little man guarding the doors. We asked him what we should do, how to pay for the tree. He's a little confused but says to leave the tree out between the doors and take the tag in, so back through the doors we go (setting off the alarm again) and set the tree down, we take the tag off the tree and back into the store (sensor again). We go to customer service and hand her the tag, which is probably the only one that didn't have the scan part on it so she had to look up the price. She rings it all through, I give her the money, and we leave. We go out the doors (yes, alarm again) and the little man wants to see the receipt, so back in we go (alarm) show him the receipt to make him happy, and leave again (alarm, it was getting fun, I wanted to keep going in and out). We pick up the tree and throw it into the back of the van to take it home.
Now we need to make a spot for the tree. I take the dog kennel and move it from the front door area and put it by the back door by the dog's food dish. I shove the desk over against the book shelf and voila, there's a spot for the tree. I get the oldest to clean off the tree stand (there was bird shit on it from being in the quanset at mom's), we put the tree in it, fill it up with water and put the nice pretty new tree skirt around it. This has been a long and tiring thing, so come to the conclusion that the decorations can wait until the next day (give the tree a chance to "settle" anyway).
So the next day, I pull out the lights and straghten out the tree skirt (damn cat likes to play), well, the skirt is wet, WTF? Fine, we'll grab the other stand! So we get the other stand and have to clean that one off. I undo the screws on the stand and fight with the tree to get it out, I lift and put the tree onto the other stand and can't figure out why it doesn't feel right; I guess I didn't undo the stand well enough, cuz I had the one stand attached to the tree sitting on top of the other stand. Well, it's not like I can hold it from the bottom and wiggle it free. I get it out and into the new stand finally and SHOVE the tree into the corner. I fill it with water, put the skirt on, and decide to put the lights on. Of course, because the tree has been shoved into the corner, I can't put the lights all the way around, so I put them from one side over to the other and then back again until it's all the way to the top. Then it's time to take the oldest to dance class.
So we get home from dance and the two younger ones have put their ornaments on the tree, so I get mine and start putting them on the tree as well. I put on one ornament, and two fall off. I get them on and three fall off. I manage to get about five to stay on the tree and decide that's enough. I can't get a string of lights to work (they've got the spinning ornaments) and get frustrated and decide they don't need to spin this year.
We're sitting on the couch watching tv and I notice something odd out the corner of my eye and there's the tree, slowing making it's way to being horizontal instead of vertical. Well, it hits the couch and the majority of the ornaments are now on the floor, and because of the way the lights were put on, they're on the floor as well. That's it, I erect the tree again, and tilt it into the corner, pick up the lights and set them on the tree, and move the ornaments so they won't be stepped on.
Is Christmas done yet?
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