Straight From The Mind of Callie

Blah. Is pretty much how I am feeling today. Why? I had to come home from Georgia! :( And now.. I have to clean. Even more blah. Oh well. Life goes on, right?


We left for Georgia on Friday and spent the weekend with my Grandpa, Roxy (his wife), my brother Ryan, and my daddy. We had an amazing time. It was a well needed vacation for us.. and at the same time I got to see the part of my family that I haven't seen since 2004. My grandfather has an awesome house on the top of a mountain. Talk about beautiful! Saturday is was bright and sunny.. until the afternoon.. but never hot. Then it started to rain, and the fog that settled on top of the mountains was absolutely beautiful. :) Here are some pictures from our trip..

We arrived home yesterday evening, earlier than we expected. And now we are back to the normal routines. I'm off to do my cleaning and tending to the kids.. while Paul works his butt off. Fun Fun. I cannot wait till May - thats when we get to go to Tennessee for Ryan's graduation. We are planning on being there for a week - I'm siked!! =]

It takes a lot for me to get interested enough in a book that I will continue to read the whole series. Mainly because I have soo many other things I could be doing rather than sitting down and reading. But Stephenie Meyer has managed to capture me in her love triangle of humans, vampires and werewolves! I am unmanageably trapped in this world. I find myself reading a 600 page book in less than a week.. mind you I have 3 kids.. so thats pretty dang good if you ask me. Haha. The series I am completely addicted to is called "Twilight". And I just found out they are making a movie based on the book. Yaaaahoooooo!!

On a different note.. tomorrow I am headed to Georgia. I am excited because I am going to see my family that I don't get to see very often. It's gonna be a pain with 3 kids.. but oh well. It's worth it!! Woohoo!! I'll post some pictures up when I get back.

I didn't get nearly as much done this week as I wanted to and should have. It's kind of aggravating, but at the same time... it's my own fault. I just get soo wrapped up in something, and everything else is kinda like "blah". When I get back from Georgia though.. its gonna be me and this house. It's gonna be on like white on rice. I hate clutter.. and I'm going to get rid of it. If that means I'll be spending a lot of time at the dump getting rid of things.. then so be it. I have got to figure out a place to get all this stuff put away. Of course.. now that I have the shed up again, and we are able to use it.. I will have some storage places in there too.

Well.. I reckon I need to go get my packing started to I am not running around in the morning like a chicken with its head cut off. Haha.

I feel like I have done nothing but run in circles all afternoon. Blah.

I'm exhausted. I'm anxious. I'm bored. Yet, I have soooooo much to do still.

I have busted my butt all day today, and yet.. sadly, I feel as though I didn't get ANYTHING done. *Sigh*

We finally moved the shed back into it's place. We had a REALLY bad storm about 2 weeks ago, and 2 days of VERY heavy winds that followed. Around like 2:30 in the morning I heard a "BING.. BANG.. BOOM!". I jumped and said to Paul.. "What the hell was that!?" His response... not a worry in his voice.. "I think it was the shed." What?!?! I wanted to smack him.. haha. Did he really just say what I think he said? I go to the back door and look. Guess what? The shed? Forget it. It was about 50 feet from where it should have been... on it's roof to say the least. And my husband? Not really much help.. he was bound to the bed with gout. So sleeping the rest of the night was out. Running through my head over and over was "How the heck amd I going to get the shed back where it belongs... by myself?!" At 5:30am, I gave up and just got up.. got dressed, and went out to inspect. Haha.. the wind blowing me all over the place. I knew if I didn't get it up soon, the way it was moving.. it was going to move again. And it did. About 3 hours later.. when I made Paul get on crutches and come help me at least attempt to get it flipped back over. It worked.. and since then it has been sitting at the end of my house... bent up to hell. But it's up now.. and we are using it. Woohoo!!

I'm determined to get my green thumb now that I have a yard. I laid seeds out about a week ago around the porch and our designed driveway near the porch. I water twice a day and all. I am impatient with that kind of thing though.. and was beginning to get aggravated when nothing was showing up with 1 day.. haha. I see sproutlets though.. so I know flowers will blossom eventually. The sproutlets are enough for me to know that I am taking good care of them! :) Yay!!

This weekend I am going to Georgia. I am soooo excited! I didn't think I was going to be able to go with Paul being out of work, and money being tight because of it... but my dad is going to help us out some. Thank goodness!! Because I was sooo bummed that we might not be able to go. I haven't seen my dad & brother since the end of 2003. And I am also going to get to see my Grandpa & Roxanne!! Yay!! Paul has yet to meet them.. Austin too. And I know Paul is anxious to meet everyone. He's just as excited as I am... he thinks anyway! Haha!

Tomorrow is going to be eventful. My family is getting together. Not all of them though.. just some. I'm doing a birthday party for Austin & Paul. Two birthdays in 1 shot.. since they share the same day anyway! Woohoo! I'll be up late tonight making the cake and all. Fun.

The Ebay thing hasn't kicked off like I had hoped. I'm determined though. I haven't done any advertising.. and I know that is the problem. I just have to think of some neat ways to advertise it. I'm also thinking about putting some other things up there and seeing how that goes. We shall see.

Well.. the dryer just buzzed.. so duty calls. Time to go back to the real world! Blah!

So today I finally decided that I am going to start this blogging thing and stick to it. I have not been one, in the past, to stick to any kind of journaling, blogging, diarys, etc. I would forget to do it, or put it off until I forgot. And then I was like "screw it" and would throw it away. I know.. bad idea.. but hey.. what can ya say?

Since it is Monday.. and my first blog on my page.. I guess I will go through a quick snapshot of last week and all it's events. Fun.

After Paul was out all week last week with a gout attack yet again.. I knew something else was wrong. To me, it just seems like this happens too much for it to be gout alone. He didn't want to agree. As if he ever would. Since I had to go to the doctor and get a restriction form filled out for him to take back to work with him, I asked the nurse to get him in there to see the doctor because he hadn't been able to walk in over a week. She did.. and within an hour he was in and out of the office. They are referring him to a rhuematologist (not sure if the right spelling) because they think he has Calcium Pyrophosphate Dihydrate Deposition Disease (CPPD) or another type of disease that he cannot remember the name of. None of these are contaigious.. but neither one of them are good for him and are both very hard to manage apparently. They both have long term affects related to the joints and could possibly paralyze him later in life. He doesn't want to think about it.. nor talk about it for that matter. But this is something that I am seriously concerned with. I guess we just have to wait and see what happens with the rhuematologist appointment.

On a good note.. my grandmother went and had the xray on her chest done. Other than emphyzima and COPD (which we already knew she had), there was nothing there. THANK YOU JESUS!! I think her being as sick as she has been through recently has really scared her. I have noticed a very big change in her.. she's scared of more things than usual.. thing's she has never been scared of.. or at least didn't let anyone know she was. One good thing that came out of all this though is that she is no longer smoking. For a woman who has been smoking since she was 14, and is now in her late 60's - she always swore she would die smoking - hasn't had a cigg in at least a week. I am soo proud of her!!

My mother and stepfather also finalized their divorce on the 6th. Although my sisters may or may not agree with me.. I am glad its over. They have both moved on and are happy.. and for as long as it got drug on like it was.. it was only making things more difficult. *Sigh*

Uncle Joel emailed me the other night, he posted up pictures from Richard's birthday party in February, finally.. lol.


His party was excellent.. and the cake was to die for. =]

I have been totally addicted recently to Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series. I read a 460 something page book in less than a week... and and 1/4 of the way through the 2nd book that I started yesterday. I have never been one for vampire stories.. but omg! This series is amazing. She is an awesome writer!! Woot!