Yesterday I planned to get up, get Astyn off to school, go run a ton of errands, come home, clean, cook, check my boards, spend time with the kids and the normal day stuff. Didn't turn out like that at ALL!

I did get up, albeit late, ty got ashtyn off to school. I got dressed, got in the car, cranked it up and it was making weird noises. Figured it was all b/c of the cold weather and just needed warming up. I drove around town for a few minutes to make sure, because I dind't want to break down on the interstate and freak out in the country. So my car was fine, then all the sudden it started making weird noises again. I was pretty close to my parents house, closer than I was to home so I went there. I ran in the house and told my dad, and turns out, my parents were leaving to run errands too. UGH I hate doing that!! It's hard for my mom to get out because they have so much to do around the house, and my dad is a homebody as it is. Mom broke her arm 2 years ago (about 3 weeks before Anna was born) and still can't drive much. So my dad says crank it up and we'll check it out real quick, if it's bad I'll take you home and let your mom get all her stuff done, then work on the car when it warms up. That was cool. My stuff wasn't *that* important, and ty was off work, so I could always drive his crappy car. hehe.. it's very crappy.

So I walk outside and OMG I had FLAT tire!!!! ACKKK I drove about 1.5 miles on a flat. It must have popped and the second time I noticed the funny engine sounds, because my rim would have been ruined had it happened when I pulled out of my place. I changed the tire (aint I a big girl?? my daddy was proud, he didn't know I knew how! I learned in motor shop! and I've never EVER had a flat before) and then I left and went to walmart.. turns out there was a roofing tack in the tire. BLAH. They fixed it for free. Thank goodness my dad insisted I buy the tire plan when I got new tires last year. However, I had to wait about 3 hours in walmart while they fixed the stupid tire. I ended up calling ty, to get an ok on buying alliyah a nice bike for her birthday. It was a 20" mongoose that was $90, and marked down to $50. He said that was cool so I got it, along with some fabric and a few other things. Then I waited.. and waited and waited.. and walked and walked and walked.. I was SO bored. Finally they said they were done and I left. Brought the bike home and The training wheels won't go on. Why the HELL did I spend an hour staring at a bike and not realize that 1) it's to big for her to ride and 2) it's a 6 speed so training wheels won't work w/ the break deal that's on the back wheel??? WHY?? because, I'm not smart like that. So I call my daddy in TEARS. He comes to the house, gets alliyah and they go buy a bike together. Took all of 45 minutes even. And THEN he tells me it's her birthday present from them, so that is totally cool. I gave ashtyn the bike I bougt because it's a really good deal, just perfect for her and her old bike is.. not ride-able. It got rusted and it's old and just blah. You'd think alliyah wouldn't have liked the idea that ashtyn got something special too, but she was super happy. She even said "Now we can ride togethers and be best best friends!" awwww !

But no.. that wasn't the end of my terrible very bad day. I tried to run errands again, two places they seemed to have gone to lunch and never came back. Then my neighbor ended up in the ER. She's about 4 months pregnant and is now going through a partial placenta abrution. It totally sucks. She's right where I was a little over 2 years ago, not knowing what the future holds for her and her baby. She came home today and lit up some herb. I walked in (her hubby told me to) and the house REEKED. Omg.. that doesn't piss me off. it makes me so sad. I hate drugs, I hate it when ppl let drugs take over their lives and I hate it when they have kids and do drugs. It's just.. ugh wrong. It's not so much the pot tho.. it could be a gateway drug etc, but to me it's more of running the risk of being busted. KWIM? Kids don't need that crap. But whatever. I let her kids comeover whenever they want. Things may not be normal there, so at least they can know normal, if you can even slightly call me normal.

So anyways, their mom called and asked if they could spend the night.(this was last night when she was still in the hospital). I was cool with that, b/c otherwise their aunt would have taken them to jackson and god knows what they would have heard or if they would have gotten to school.

So today.. I've been using this zit stuff b/c my face is breaking out.. well it dried my face out like a damn prune. I feel like I have major sunburn/wind burn. Owwieeee.. I didn't put it on my whole face but still. uck. And I have a fever blister on my lip. *sigh* So I tortured myself with makeup and a dress and pantyhose (I"ll rant on pantyhose in another entry) for ty's employee of the month banquet. They bring all the ppl that had employee of the month last year (that's about 48 ppl, 2 per month) and one guest together in a tiny ritzy resturant and serve expensive food that doesn't taste all that great and give you one glass of wine and everybody claps alot. After the "party" was a lot more fun. Me and the wives of the IT department (read: women married to puter geeks lol) got together and "toured" the casino, yapped about the men and the fact they wouldn't show us their office (we accused them of having to many pinups ) and just had fun in general. We stayed long enough that they were cleaning up and we got to watch ty's ass of a boss play bus boy. now THAT was fun! teehee, ty might not get a raise after all the hell I put that guy through tho, but he SOOOO deserved some shit for ONE night. I made sure he heard me about having four kids and a dh on a crappy schedule too. I wasn't talking to him tho, it was womenfolk and he was listening in. Po him.

So we got home and amanda manages to get sick during the 2.5 hours we were gone. HOW does she do this?? Any time I leave her for ANY time it's like she gets a sudden case of athsma (did I spell that right?) it doesn't matter WHERE i take her. None of my babysitters smoke, they're all baby friendly etc. I don't get it. SO weird. If she's somehow missing me so much she gets sick this will seriously limit her college choices when she's older. The outlook just doesn't look to good.