I had a birthday....ewww I'm over 40

This is my beautiful baby girl and she really has nothing to do with me being a year older except for the fact that the older she gets, I do too. I really don't care that the numbers say that I am 41 because I don't FEEL 41. Now, if my body just wouldn't look like (or feel) like I'm 51 it would be much better.

I had a really nice birthday. My oldest brother called around 8:30 and left me a msg since I was in the shower, one of my sisters sent me an email to apologize that she get over to see me that day, I got birthday cards and over 60 Happy Birthday's on my facebook 0.0. Yeah, that last one shocked me BIG TIME. I had Happy Birthday's from a few people I totally didn't expect, no wishes from some I did but overall, wow. Olivia gave me the Feature Family Films version of Rigoletto - one of my absolute favorites. I love the music and just the moral of the story. The boys gave me an Itunes card that I've already pretty much spent >], Dean gave me a book that I wanted entitled, "Through His Eyes" (something about accepting your true self). We went to dinner at Applebee's, came home for Cheesecake (YUM). Around 9:30 I got online with friends I've never met personally, only electronically from Canada, Michigan, Arizona, Oregon, and Alabama. We all met playing a MMORPG called Yohoho Puzzle Pirates. It's a multi-game real player game filled with puzzles. You heard me right. Tetris type games, matching games, etc however, you are a pirate. So you can have a house, a boat, furniture, clothes, a whole little world - different oceans. You go out on Pillies with people and the only shooting is at other boats but that is a puzzle also. It ranks you on skill of the puzzles and that makes it addictive - well for me, trying to be better than I just was. Some of my best buddies got on after all of us not being on game in over a year, recreated pirates and all just to say Hi or come pilly with me :).

All in all it was a very nice day; however, I don't know why but I was extremely sad all day. Almost depressed but not totally, it was just hard to describe. It started before I found out that one of my best friends Mom died unexpectedly that day. I'd met her, I loved her, I had her on facebook - so that added to my sadness but the weird thing is that it was there before. Idk, can't explain it.

It's RAINING...again (eye roll)

I should really be grateful for the rain, it is saving me major water bill money - not only for my lawn but for the garden I have on someone else's property. His parents have yet to show him how the irrigation works so when we need to water the garden we have been using the house water and giving him some money. Therefore, I should really be grateful for the rain and I am...just maybe not so often?!?! I don't think I could live in the NW, I've decided that I really need sunlight to help my mood. I've also discovered that yes, working in the earth has healing powers. I really don't know why and I absolutely hated it when I was a kid/teenager.

Speaking of the garden, we went to visit it today and found little starts! WAHOO! So exciting to see that things are growing and we aren't total failures at green thumbing :D. I have a 1 pumpkin start, lots of lettuce, lots of carrots, cute little bean shoots, teeny tiny peppers, some zucchini, corn shoots...how fun! Dean brought home red potato's that are sprouting so we will do the cuts probably Monday and than plant them sometime after Wednesday. Now if I just had a cold cellar so that my potato's and onions can be harvested and not go bad that quickly. My next project is building myself some shelves so that I actually have somewhere to STORE the salsa, canned corn, carrots, beans, and pickles. I can shred the zucchini and will freeze it with some of the corn.

School is coming to an end. This is going to be very interesting. My kids have never not had me home during the summer. They will be fine and I am not worried, they are old enough. However, the 16 yr old is gonna want to go places (driving) and the 10 yr old is gonna want to go to friends (how to get there) and I will have the vehicle. My sister's house is only 10 min away and I could come home for lunch each day and if I switch vehicles with Dean than that could be a plan. However, my Tahoe will eat all my gas making more than one trip up and back a day. I'll have to think on this. I LOVE having a teenager driver! Anthony promised me when he learned to drive that he would run my carpool for me and he started to 2 weeks ago! Wow - so cool! I almost don't know what to do with myself..lol. Actually I have WAAY too much to do and no idea where to start so, I haven't. Ugh I need to fix that.

What to blog............

Okay, I really don't want to fall back into old habits by blogging at 1am >.< but I see that my girlfriend has been checking this regularly and I am not holding up my end to entertain her. :D My life is just so boring, what is there to blog about?

I paid bills, I paid a few bills off (WOOT!), than I added a bill by buying a new lawnmower (it finally died after 24 yrs RIP), I drank waaaaaaaaay to much Diet Coke today after telling myself I'd do better >.<, ummm....I found the chirping cricket out of the 3 boxes of crickets and fed him to Harold :D, I helped my sister come up with how to do her buttons without creating the plastic button thingys, and I decluttered my desk I share at work. Wow, exciting day - my blood is racing is yours? :) Oh, and I weeded! Actually upon getting migraines and than them starting to fade, I go into OCD mode. I cannot STAND filth when I don't feel good - it makes me feel, idk, sicker or something. So yesterday when my migraine reverted to just mildly annoying, I cleaned the bathroom, the kitchen, and started to bake. Three loaves of bread, 12 Snickerdoodle Muffins, and grilled Pork chops later, I recleaned the kitchen LOL.

Abstract - don't know where this came from but did you know that my freakin' camera on my phone records sound but I can't hear it?!?!? No sound when I play it back on phone, no sound on the stupid email, no sound in movie maker! AH! BUT, if I upload the stupid video to youtube or facebook - viola! SOUND. >.< This annoys me. I was playing with this today also, maybe that's why I thought of it. You see Anthony uses my digital camera to record his movies. Than Anthony usually forgets to remove his movies from my camera - ergo I have no memory on my camera when trying to film his percussion concert on Wednesday night. >/ grumpy mom. My camera on my phone will do video but only in 30 second intervals. Hello - rec...save...rec....save.rec...save...rec get the idea? I'm missing snippets of the one song I taped - their song they played at regionals and I can't HEAR anything to try to put all 8 clips together to form a song. Is this how deaf people feel? I could ask Darran, but I'm sure he wouldn't care.

Cross your fingers - so far my seeds and little tomato plants have survived the rains! Yay - no drowning victims I can see yet! And I hope not...I don't know why but this year I WANT to go play in the dirt - I want an escape and I think it will provide it for me. Dean is bringing home sprouting red potato's from a friends farm this week and we will take those out and plant them also. I'm sure I will have enough to feed Tyson (landowner), my family, and anyone else who would care to benefit from the rain soaked survival garden. :) Okay, I'm getting tired - Choir concert tomorrow night for Olivia, Band concert Wed for Anthony, Awards Assembly for Anthony at 1pm on Friday and than I think maybe Saturday I might be travelling up to Huntsville to get my hair dyed with highlights...woot! Yes, this is how I spend my birthday money and with my grey roots it will only last a freakin 10 days....but yay for 10 days!