ok, just a little bit.

my daughter has been having BFF issues this summer. i found out last night that the former BFF (i just love the way that sounds!!!) called her and her new BFF "fucking bitches" on the last day of school.

pretty.

from a 12 year old girl's mouth.

katherine says it made her and shayna cry.

well i imagine so!!!

anyhoo, we're dealing with that now with school starting in 2 weeks. katherine's step-mom just called to tell me she overheard katherine on the phone with shayna getting phone numbers for all the other BFF's and a plan to slam the former BFF with all the other BFF's.

i know. my head's a'spinnin.

i've spent most of my life trying to rid my aforementioned life of all the drama.

i've just now realized that with a daughter, the drama will never end.

i knew i wasn't smart enough to have kids.

oh well, too late now.

moving on...

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friggin skeeters are still at it. hubby bought an "off powerpad lamp" which is sitting beneath me on the patio. (got a new battery for the laptop, so i'm wireless again). and i'm spraying on "off" as well. don't bother plunking down $12 for the lamp and another $7 for refills. either it ain't working too well or we've the most ferocious skeeters anywhere.

and did you know that skeeters can bite thru clothing? which means, yes, i DO have skeeter bites on my ass!!!

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i found some type of insect yesterday morning on the chair leg out here on the patio. it was either a locust or cecada??? it had already shed it's skin, which i kept cuz i'm gonna get out the microscope and take a good look at it. morbid curiosity on my part.

i would post the pic's i took of it cuz it was really pretty, but i don't know how and i can't remember what netta told me to do and the email she told me in is wayyyyy old and i don't want to go back thru them all. short term memory loss??? maybe. too many drugs??? probably.

after it shed it's skin it started moving around and i ran in the house. they're kewl to look at, but i don't want the damn thing on me!!!

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(hey, netta...do you think it would be safe to spray "off" on my flower??? they're biting me there too thru the holes in the chair. it's not like i'm ever gonna use it again anyway!!!)

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today while i shopped for bandanas to work in i picked up led zeppelin's new and old greatest hits. i've been craving their music lately and since i didn't get it for my birthday i decided to treat myself.

at one time i had all their albums, and i do mean albums. now i think my ex has all their *my* albums. the full cd's are always best, i know, but the greatest old and new music will satisfy my need, and it was only $9.72 at wal mart AND a double set.

that made me extremely happy.

hubby has already loaded it onto the ipod, so i'll be rockin out while cleaning house tomorrow AND in the car everywhere i go.

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i kid you not, a skeeter just landed on my nose. and hell yes, i killed it there!!!! someunabotching farthing bastridge!!!!!!!!!!!

the blood smear on my nose is well worth smashing the friggin little bastard. besides, i've yet to shower this evening.

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oooooo - smashed another one!!!

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mother told me on tuesday that she "never asks anybody to do a damn thing for her - i take care of myself!".

i really thought i was gonna fall over!!!

she was bitching about how my brother is out of work AGAIN and doesn't have money to pay rent AGAIN and doesn't have any food AGAIN and needed to borrow money AGAIN...well, you get the picture.

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hubby has been on vacation this week and has been working like a madman around the house!!!!! squeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! he's cleaned out the office and all of his clothes and i now have the stereo in the bedroom hooked up (did somebody say zeppelin??? squeeeeeeee!!! again!!!) and the dresser is cleaned off in there.....oh the list just goes on and on!!!

and i did tell him how much i appreciate him working so hard while on vacation. and i do, i really do.

i also insisted that he at least go and hit a bucket of balls at the golf course.

he's not a hard core player - he never plays or does anything recreationally for himself - but i think he should go out and have a little fun every now and then. so he did, and he actually enjoyed it.

i think he's happier just playing video games or computer games, tho, so i guess i'll let it go. who am i to say what he should or shouldn't enjoy??? i guess i shouldn't try and project what i consider "fun" on him...he just doesn't seem to have as much social activity as me and the kids, but maybe that's what makes him happy???

i dunno.

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daddy's friend is still hanging on. he's at home with hospice care. he's in great spirits - always giving us a thumbs up - and really is at peace as much as one can be. he says he's ready and not afraid to go, so i guess that's as much as you can hope for when facing death just around the corner.

i just hate to see daddy so sad, especially after just losing one of his big brothers.

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so i suppose all is ok for now. i hope this finds you all as well as can be expected.

i'm goin in the house and into the shower.

goddam skeeters!!!

xoxo