I nearly cried when I got the mail today. Not happy tears either. I got a questionnaire for jury duty!!! Oh, what bad timing!!!! I was required to do jury duty a little over 5 years ago and here I am facing it again. My mom told me 5 years ago that once they got me in the system..... I really wish she would have been wrong on this one. Normally, I wouldn't mind participating. But there is SOOO much going on in my life right now, the addition of that is just... wow.

To have to put everything on hold feels a bit overwhelming. Plus, who's going to take care of the kids? Who will take Pumpkin back and forth to school? Or what if she gets sick? How am I supposed to be resigning from one job, searching through money avenues from home, and the other multitude tasks?

Obviously, I'm trying to figure out right now just where to put this additional news into the grand scheme of things. Hummm.... Gracious sakes, what bloody timing is this! Plus, I just don't want the responsibility of sending anyone to jail right now, if it came to that. I can barely make decisions affecting my future, I don't want to screw with someone elses.....

And Honey's reaction.... "DAMN.... you got this again? Why don't I ever get one!" I told him he could take mine, but ya know, I just don't think he'd pass as a very good woman.....

Cheers! ~MacKenzie

I want to go back to sleep. I woke up tired this morning. I hate that when it happens!!!!! Top it off, I have to go go my cleaning job today. Right now, I'm waiting for the plow to go by because we got another few inches or so of snow last night.

Well.... this weekend Honey tried to figure out what was going on with the water. He messed around with the pressure tank, but thinks it's okay. He wondered if one of the pipes that froze about two weeks ago might have cracked. Or maybe, with all the cold weather one of them is still partially frozen (can that happen?). Or it's possibly the pump in the well. So Honey went looking for a way to crawl under the trailer to take a peek at the pipes. It's so full of snow and ice, he couldn't find a way under (good for insulation purposes, I guess). Well, how frustrating. I want to hire a plummer. I am tired of trying to take showers that don't even get all the shampoo out of my hair. (Yeah....it's gross, gross, gross!!!!) However, I suppose I need to look at it that at least I have indoor plumbing, such that it is. I'm trying not to complain, truly I'm not. How on earth did those of the 1700's and before manage it (of course they did not know what we do now, what with bed bugs and microscopic thingies that live in our eyelashes...or worse)? Honey is refusing the idea of the plumber, by the way......

Yesterday we took advantage of the warmer weather and we all went to play outside for awhile. It was great to get out of the house. The one problem we have in this location is that we have no really good sleding hill. There's one a quarter mile behind the house, but it's covered in big rocks and trees!!!!! Possibly we can clear out some trees and have a cool sledding hill. Meantime, there is a tiny slope in the front of the house that slides into the ditch by the road. It was something at least and after awhile we tried to start packing snow in the worn parts of the sled path. The girls had a good time and that's what counts. Well, Monkey and Parrot after awhile lost interest in bringing their sleds back up (house rules of sledding...if you don't bring back your sled, you don't go down again). So, Honey dealt with keeping the twinadoes busy while Pumpkin and I remained by our "hill". All was well until she went down after a forceful push, hit a dry patch and she fell forward into the ditch, broke through the fresh snow to the sand filled snow that the plow had pushed in there. She's got a long scratch from her nose right past her eye onto her cheek. Let's just say she does not want to go sledding today........

Rats, there goes the snow plow down by. That means I have to get to work. Okay, Okay....sooner I go, sooner I get back.

Cheers, sweetlings!!!!!! ~MacKenzie

Okay... Lucy has been giving me lessons on giving my blog and comments a little spice. Sooooo.... let's see if the student has learned and retained anything!!!! If not, Lucy did the very best she could.....i've never claimed to have a lot of brains anyway!!!! Forgive the mushiness of tonight, but it's been a mushy week, what with Valentines and anniversaries and all. Honey and I watched the movie "Say Anything" when it came out in the movie theater and loved it. The song "In Your Eyes" is from this movie and if we were to create a CD of some of our favorite songs, this would be in it. In fact when Honey did a college radio station program for awhile, this was one he dedicated to me!!! This song brings many wonderful memories..... In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel love I get so lost, sometimes days pass and this emptiness fills my heart when I want to run away I drive off in my car but whichever way I go I come back to the place you are all my instincts, they return and the grand facade, so soon will burn without a noise, without my pride I reach out from the inside in your eyes the light the heat in your eyes I am complete in your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches in your eyes the resolution of all the fruitless searches in your eyes I see the light and the heat in your eyes oh, I want to be that complete I want to touch the light the heat I see in your eyes love, I don't like to see so much pain so much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away I get so tired of working so hard for our survival I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive and all my instincts, they return and the grand facade, so soon will burn without a noise, without my pride I reach out from the inside in your eyes the light the heat in your eyes I am complete in your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches in your eyes the resolution of all the fruitless searches in your eyes I see the light and the heat in your eyes oh, I want to be that complete I want to touch the light, the heat I see in your eyes in your eyes in your eyes in your eyes in your eyes in your eyes in your eyes Hopefully I will be able to pop in later tonight, but if not, I wish you a WONDERFUL Saturday night!!!! Cheers!!! ~MacKenzie

Okay, so I stole the title of my post from SNL.... it was the first thing that stuck in my head!

What a strange week this has been for both Honey and me. He has forgotten appointments, left for work without his wallet, has had to bail his work auditor out of jail.... lots of stuff..... Right now he is at one of those ridiculous mandated agency retreats where every one is supposed to regain team spirit and be all lovey dovey by the end of the day. They have all sorts of team building activities planned. Honey absolutely hates these things. I kissed him good bye this morning and told him in an unusually perky tone..."Have an absolutely wonderful day!!!!" The grimace was enough to keep me chuckling as he headed out the door. Poor baby.....

For me this week has just sort of slipped by as I prepared for the next work meeting, that I wasn't supposed to be doing by now, but since Mom C still hasn't found anyone.... it's come back down to me. Plus, I have been working on trying to finish up a report from the meetings held two weeks ago. I've been trying really hard to figure out what the State wants even though I have not gotten any really good feed back from them (although I asked one of the regional coordinators and she told me basically they want what they want..... ). I have no more meetings scheduled for the month but I suppose when I go into the office on Tuesday I will have to sit down with the books and figure out what meetings have to be held and when for March and April. If there are any, then I'm already late starting the planning process, but do I care? Well....not really. Mom C knows I want out and truly, I should be ENDING this process now. So....I'll go with the flow.

We were very lucky on Wednesday in regards to the weather. We got about 7 inches of snow, then it turned to sleet/freezing rain. The winds picked up and we thought for sure the electricity would go out. Honey told me to stay off the computer because in the past, we've had power surges and such with brown outs or those one minute power outages that storms during this sort of weather sometimes bring and he didn't want the computer get fried. (like our microwave and printer one year....and the printer was even attached to a surge protector) In the middle of the night, we got heavy downpours and by morning again, it began to snow and we got a few more inches from that. I think we could go skating on parts of our driveway and if the sun stays out this afternoon, we may try sliding with our boots across it.

This week has left me with little time to myself. I have tried to establish that Saturday mornings is MY TIME to do as I wish. Unfortunately, I have 3 sets of eyes staring at me. They are bored. I'm not going to get anything done any time soon with this going on. And the morning is almost up after all. Such is life...... I keep thinking that soon things will fall back into place. Soon I'll find a rhythm that works well for all of us. With change comes adjustment. I'm just impatient!!!!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!
Cheers! ~MacKenzie