November 5

Okey dokeys. Nothing really going on yesterday so I didn't bother writing. Basically just went home Wednesday morning and hung out for a while, went to bed, got up kinda early and played a little more of the Halo 5 campaign with TK, then came to work. We had leftover chicken and rice stuff so I didn't bother cooking. So that was super duper exciting, lol.

Last night at work though, was kinda interesting. It rained off and on all night but never really got heavy or anything. There was one little thunderstorm right before I got off work so I got to drive home in a little bit of a mess. That was fun, lol. Oh, and I found a freaking rattlesnake! I walked outside and it was just...sitting there. It wasn't very big but it was a little freaky, lol. I called my buddy up at the clubhouse and he came down and helped me move it. We ended up flipping it over into a box with a coathanger and tossing it out into the woods. So that was my excitement for the night :-)

November 3

So, not much going on today. Got home and TK was asleep so I chatted with TH for a while then went to bed. Got up around 4:00 or so, made some banana bread, hung out with TH for a while, then took another quick nap before work. And now I'm here, lol. We still had leftover chicken so we had that for dinner. If I have the stuff for it I might make an enchilada casserole with some of it for tomorrow night. Just need to poke around in the pantry and see what all's in there, lol.

It was super foggy Monday and Tuesday morning and they're calling for more of the same in the morning. Definitely makes the drive home interesting :-/ Right now I think it's supposed to start raining either Wednesday night or Thursday morning and it looks like it's gonna be more of what we got last weekend. So this should be fun...

Noms for the day: MFP.

Song: Cowboy Mouth - Jenny Says. I likes :-)

Best thing: So yesterday was another chance to get the Black Spindle in Destiny but I didn't have a chance to do it. TK took my guy in and got it for me :-)

Worst thing: Ok so I had to change my tire yesterday, right? Well now I am so freaking sore it's not even funny. It was a bitch and a half to get the lug nuts broken loose >:-(

Yay.

November 2

Hey, check it out...2 in a row! So I totally forgot about this last night but when I went out to leave for work I discovered that my car had a flat tire. Like, a seriously flat tire. My tire pressure light had come on last Thursday or so and I kept meaning to get it checked out but never did. So yeah. Super flat. Luckily it was Sunday night so I was able to just take TH's car instead of having to mess with changing it. A while back TH's schedule got changed a little bit so that on Monday mornings he goes in at 9:30 instead of 6:30 like the rest of the week. It was all confusing and shit but something to do with being able to stay late a couple of days when they didn't have anyone else to work without it being overtime. Or something like that. So since I would be home before he had to go to work I just took his car. Got home this morning and tried to just air it up to drive it over to the tire place but apparently it was seriously fucked so I had to change it. Le sigh. TH went on to work and when he got off he came by to get my car and take it to the tire place. Cause he's awesome :-) So the good news is that we ended up putting a whole new set of tires on it. Which it really needed since it's a 2011 with like 55,000 miles and those are the original tires. The bad news is...holy fucking shit tires got expensive! They were "only" about $80 each but out the door was about $525! I did get the road hazard/replacement warranty thing though so if they crap out I can get them replaced. So yay?

Oh yeah, so we've been watching football this season! We used to watch it all the time but the last couple of years we just kinda got away from it. So that's what TH and I (and sometimes TK) do on Sundays now :-)

So other than that, not really much going on. I threw some split chicken breast in the crockpot this morning and made some rice to go with it for dinner tonight. I ended up staying up until like noon today so I'm a little tired tonight. Not too bad though. We took down a few of the Halloween decorations but the giant spider was still pretty wet. Hopefully he'll be dry enough to take down tomorrow because it's supposed to start raining again sometime Wednesday or Thursday and rain all weekend. Again, lol. So we'll see...

Noms for the day: MFP. Yay, lol.

Song: Fall Out Boy - Uma Thurman. A new one :-)

Best thing: Yay for new tires!!

Worst thing: Boo for new tires being so expensive!!

Woohoo.

November 1

Wow. Ok I kinda hadn't realized it had been quite this long since I had written anything. So, yeah. We're all still alive and well and all that good stuff, so yay! TH's birthday was in September so we made him some birthday brownies and bought him a couple of little stuffed Star Wars critters. We just did Halloween last night and that was a lot of fun. Yay for sitting on the porch with vodka gummy bears handing out candy! Um, let's see. We played the betas for the new Gears of War, Black Ops 3, Star Wars Battlefront, and it seems like there was something else but I don't remember. They were all pretty entertaining. Halo 5 came out October 27th so we bought that and we've been playing it a little bit. A new expansion for Destiny came out September 15th and that's been tons of fun. Black Ops 3 comes out next Friday (the 6th) and as long as Target doesn't fuck anything up, I have the Juggernog Edition preordered. So that's gonna be freaking awesome! It's rained its ass off for the last 2 weekends, making this the wettest October we've had in like, forever. We ended up with just over 8" at the house each time. And they're calling for more rain next weekend. Lol, it's either drought or flood here. We've had like 5 new people at work in the last couple of months. They keep getting hired, lasting like a week, and quitting. So we've been super shorthanded which means lots of overtime. Like, LOTS of overtime. I think I've had 3 stretches of 12 days straight. So I'm kinda tired. The paychecks have been awesome, though :-) Oh, and my boss buddy quit to move back home :-( I still talk to him and we play together and everything but I kinda hated to see him go. The guy who took over as boss is nice enough though so it's not too bad. Hmmm. I'm still (mostly) on my meds and doing alright. Yay! Can't seem to really keep it together with the tracking and trying to lose weight though. I'll do great for a while and then it just kinda falls apart. Le sigh. I'll get there eventually...

Ok well, giant wall of text but whatever. So now all I need to do is make sure I don't wait another 2 months to write again, huh? Yeehaw.

August 30

Welp, still alive over here. Still (mostly) tracking stuff on MFP and doing alright. Just really haven't had much to say lately. TK started school last week. We're doing a slightly more relaxed version of the online stuff that we did last year. So far it seems to be going well. There was a big stink or whatever for a little while about what to do with my dad. We finally just decided on doing the cremation and having his ashes sent here. We still need to figure out if we're doing some kind of service or whatever but I guess we'll just wait and see what happens. So, yeah. That's pretty much it...

August 9

So, I found out Friday afternoon that my dad died one day last week. And I really don't know how I feel about it...

He had been living off by himself in a different state for the last 10 years or so, ever since my mom got tired of his shit and moved out here with us. He showed up here a few years ago and stirred up all kinds of shit but then just kinda dropped off the radar. Nobody has heard anything from him since, so we really didn't even know if he was still around or not. Then the nursing home that he ended up in called the other day to tell us that he was gone. So, yeah...

August 2

Sunday night, back at work. And holy crap somehow it's August already! That means there's only about 3 weeks until these little fuckers here at work go back to school and it calms down a little bit. I seriously cannot wait. We also need to figure out for sure what we're doing about school for TK. I definitely don't want to send him back to public school since the school district here is a joke. Last year we tried an online charter school but actually ended up pulling him out towards the end of the year because there was still just too much bs. I'm thinking about looking around at some of the homeschool curriculum to see what all is available. I dunno. We've got a few weeks to think about it.

So let's see. Last week was pretty much work, sleep, and hang out with TH and TK again. Thursday afternoon I got up early so TK and I could play some Destiny with my boss dude, the other guy from work, and a couple of random dudes we found online. We're working on doing some of the raids (the big boss fights) that require 6 people so it takes a little planning and shit to get everyone together. But we did it and completed one of the three so that was cool :-) Friday morning as soon as I got home TK and I went swimming! We have this huge spring-fed swimming pool near downtown that opens at like 5 am, and before 8:00 there are no life guards on duty so there's no entry fee, which is awesome. One side is concrete like a regular swimming pool but the bottom and the rest of the sides are natural limestone so there's a little bit of algae and stuff. We didn't venture down to the deep end but there's supposed to be fish and stuff living down there. And, the water is freaking cold! Since it's spring-fed it stays a constant 68º year-round. It's awesome :-) So we swam for a while, went by Randall's to pick up a couple of things, went to Target to look at toys and stuff, then went to Walmart for a few grocery type things and new shoes for work. Oh, and stopped by Gamestop to drool a little bit, lol. Got home and played a little while until TH got home, hung out with him until it cooled off a little bit outside, grilled some steaks that we found on sale, watched a movie, then went on to bed.