Ash-tion-ary

Okay, I know what you are thinking. What the heck is an Ash-tion-ary? Well, my oldest daughter has her own arsenal of words. Where the heck she gets these words or how she makes them up I have no idea.

It all started when I had made the comment of how much this girl sleeps. I really think she has a disorder. She just loves to eat then go take a nap. She does however work from like 3 to 11 at night. Therefore, I have done a days work by the time she gets out of bed at 1:00 p.m. I was like what the heck, girl you need to get movin.

One day I was really tired and really did not feel like doing any laundry, dishes, and cleaning of the house and I thought to my self I am in the first stages of "Ashley-i-tis." I thought OMG, this is not good. Ashley-i-tis can be defined as; wanting to sleep, occasionally eat, and go to work minimal. Then come home and do the same thing, party on the weekends all hours and then start the week over. Ashley -it-tis. I am sure most of you who have kids at home may have this. Beware, this could go on for a while. Snap out of it if you feel like this could be happening to you.

I love my girls. They bring such life to mine.

Second word that I found out yesterday, while we were having lunch at BDubs just enjoying the day with the family. She told her DAD that she was his favorists. What? What kind of word is that? That is not a word, her dad said "Yes it is, did you not know it was in the ashtionary?" I just busted out laughing. That is funny.

Yes folks, I am building an Ash-ltion-ary for some of you who may have this problem understanding your teenager, oh wait she is twenty-somthing. HA.

They Are Like Peas and Carrots

I was just over at Edge of Insanity where Samantha talks about her wonderful cute boys quit a bit and it occurred to me that I have not really taken the time to talk about my girly girls.

So, here it goes, as I take in a long breath. I say they are like Peas and Carrots cause I just love Forrest. Yet, they are soooo very different. How in the heck can these two precious girls be my daughters. I have to shake my head in disbelief. Did I act this way growing up? Heck no, I never did that. Just ask my mom. (As I shake my head yes, and know darn well)

I tried to have them only 3 years apart. Both of them are beer babies. I was drinking when concieved, does that tell you anything? Jerry took advantage of me twice. That dirt bag. So, as you can see married for 22 years and really only had real sex twice.

Well, it did not work out to have them 3 years apart. I had them 6 years apart. I had to be drunk to do that. :)

Okay, so my oldest is 21 years old now. She has come along way. Keeping her butt out of jail and not pregnant has taken its toll on me.

Okay, got her through that. Now, I mentioned in my Tag I'm It that I had done several crazy things to my first child. I am really wondering if babies are as durable or as bouncing as some think. I really think maybe the brain cells did not fully develop with this child. She makes me laugh though. How can you not love this precious baby?
Yes, this is the precious baby that I accidentally threw up and banged her little head into the ceiling fan. hey, not my house, did not know it was there. She survived. Mentally, I think the short school bus is near by most of the time. Dee-da-Dee! She is my special child. How can this be? What did I do? I did not smoke, I did not drink (after I found out), I just sat on my big fat butt and did artsy fartsy stuff and ate. She is my special baby.

Okay, so now the clock has turned up to 21 years old. OMG, she has not changed. Still, that stubborn special child. I try to explain things to her, and it just goes over her head. She says truly says "How can I be broke, I still have checks" "My bank account said Friday that I had money, now it's Monday and all the debt card things I used cleared my bank account and now I am broke." Go figure Ash. I still love her. Who could not love her. Just look at her now, Miss Special Girl.

Well, now she rides a different bus. The West Texas Kind of Bus.

If she doesn't start paying attention to the bank account, this is what she is going to be riding to work. :)

Okay, now for the youngest. Well, she started off just like the first one. I had to have a party before I could get pregnant again. Oh, I forget, Jerry had taken advantage of me. Yes, that was it. memory starts to fade after a while.

Here is my precious baby number 2.

I don't have too many baby pictures of Connor, well, because look at them. They look just alike. If you want to know what she looked like, look at the first baby. Ha. Cute.

Connor is totally different. A lefty at that. Nothing against left handers, they are a smart bunch. It is just weird. Where did she get that from. Well, actually she can do things with either hand, which is such a gift. She is very smart. Now, when I was pregnant, I did keep walking a lot and really kept up with my exercising. I ate alot better. I did not throw her up in a fan. This baby was just content to sit there and watch. However, during delivery, she did turn blue on me. I am so glad she is here. I love her. Here is her today.

She plans on being a lawyer and hopefully do some modeling. Anyone interested? She is looking for an agency that will take her. She will finish school early. She will finish school 1 1/2 years early. You go girl. Love you.

Now, here are my Peas and Carrots. They are each others partner-in-crime. Peas and Carrots.

There you go, my two special girls. They keep me young and hip. Love you both.

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She works hard for the money!

Tell you what y'all, trying to make a living is freakin hard these days.

Just let me give you a run down of this week to catch you'll up in this crazy world of mine. Okay, the Monday blues, so on Monday I take my youngest daughter to school. I should make her start riding a bike to school with all the gas prices going up like the space shuttle. Holy Cow, what greedy politicians we have up in there. Well, you know what the Lord has to say about that, one who is greedy will fall, or something like that. I learned that from Dani Johnson. Let me tell you what, I am so happy to get my Christian Series audio program back. I have certainly missed listening to her. She is such a great motivator, that she is the reason for my hectic schedule this week. Sorry about that I tend to go off on many different ways, but that is my life and so I hope you all can keep up.

I drop her off at school, I stopped by to put some mo gas in the truck. I head off to Clyde, Texas, which is about 10 miles down the road. I measure some windows for this really nice lady. Did I mention that I install mini blinds for Lowe's? Well, okay that is one of the jobs I have also. I also teach at two local colleges in town, which we are on our summer break and I have to keep busy, cause if not, I would be big a my house. So, I go to measure her windows, and then she mentions to me, that Lowe's said to her that I could come back this afternoon to install them. What? Are they out of their freakin minds! Ughhh. I hate it when they do that. It is not like they are the only thing that I have to do. Well, it just so happens that I do have time that afternoon to go back. Well, okay let me tell you that I get $35.00 to go measure and then I do get some milage but not that much, which does not make any sense because, now Lowe's has decided to start charging twenty miles out of city limits. What, so that means I only got like no miles for that job which okay, I went out there drove back to Lowe's to drop off the measurements, they were supposed to cut them, I come back to pick them up and then drive back out to Clyde to install them and also put up a curtain rod for the lady at no charge, because I am a nice person. That was two trips of gas, that I did not get paid for. It used to be they would pay from the store to the person's house outside the city limits, but their cheap butts up in corporate who I am sure are living the good life while us peons are working hard for the little money that we get and trying to satisfy custmers. OH! lets not go there now.

I always take my youngest daughter with me (15years old, she has a blog coming soon too, check back and I will give you her blog site), she is always a great help to me and we have alot of fun going to these people houses. She is my analytical side of me. But she really pisses and moans so much, she really is a spoiled brat but I am her mom and I made her that way. I love her! I love my oldest too who moved back into the house (another story, she has a blog coming too. we call them twins, you will see what i mean) Ilove her much. Connor (my youngest daughter) tries to do everything for me and really just gets in the way, bless her heart though she is learning. It is like living with Mr. Jerkyl and Dr. Hyde or was it the other way around? Whatever! If any of you have a 15 year old you exactly what I am talking about.

So, we get the blinds in and then since the lady bought them off the shelf I knew they were going to be too long. Well, she asked me to shorten them, I told her it would be $17.50 a blind. She about choked, but hey you know what I have to make some money some where. Do you know how tedicious it is to shorten them things. They are a pain in the rear end or butt for some of you. So, I show her the steps because I am a nice person. Please don't call me. I know she will get them all screwed up. Hey it is not my house.

I have to get back to teach my class at my fitness studio, Thanks to my little friend Jen, she is teaching the Yoga class, so I have to just teach the Body Chizel class. This class starts at 6:30. So I go and teach just one person showed up. the summer time is so frustrating. All the of college students have gone back home.

That was Monday, so now Tuesday, shoot what the heck happened on Tuesday. I didn't have nothing to do with Lowe's. I just mainly got some stuff caught up like late Franchise tax done on the computer, went to pick my daughter up and then went and paid my late Business Appraisal crap, and did some cleaning of the house, made sure I watered my plants. I am so bad about that. I am really excited to get new plants and get them planted and then don't water them very often. I am really trying hard. I went and taught my Step with Salsa class at McMurry University and we had a great time. I had about ten in the class. All newbies. It really is just a nice cardio routine combined salsa with step. Lots of Mambos. I love it. Then I had to jet down to the studio to teach my older group of ladies. We do a total body workout using dumbbells. this group of ladies range from 40 to over 60 years old. check out their pics. They would kill me if they saw themselves. Why does everyone try to hide from pictures. I just love them. the class isn't on the original schedule. I added that class just for them, my friend Lynn who happens to be a massage therapist actually got a few of her clients and friends to come with her and made this group. Now, they all have to come even her or she will be calling them. I love her. Again, being the nice person that I am.

Wednesday was a busy day. I had to drive out to Cisco Texas do a measurement. Okay, it takes 45 minutes to get out there and 5 minutes to measure the windows. This is crazy. I did get milage out it though. Got the measurements in after I taught my morning class of ladies. My fitness studio is just for women. I love it. They are not intimidated because there are no men to watch them. Picked up my daughter and came home and watched the reality shows. Oh, I am a junkie. I watch "Tila Tequila", "Top chef", "A Rock of Love", "Flavor Flav", "So you think you can dance", "Step it up", "Workout", I watch the last episode of "Bad Girls" and I watch "The Real Houswives, both New York and Orange County. I have to tell you that I like the Orange County ladies much better. Maybe it's because I am from California. So, I will talk about those shows.

Went and taught my Yoga class and my body chizel class and then came home, spent time with the hubby. Oh, you didn't think I had a hubby. 22 years. Can you believe it. What is his name again. I love him, he really has been my rock and supporter through all of my bright ideas.

Thursday, went and taught a Yoga class down at a treatment center, oh I do this at 7:00 in the morning both on Tuesday and Thursday and Saturday. I really want to make a nice Yoga video for those guys. I love it because I get to see new people everytime I go. I hate to see some go home, but I am glad that they get to go home. That means they are so much better. Good Luck to all of them, Okay, here is where the fun begins. I stopped by Lowe's after that to pick up the blinds that I need to install that afternoon. Well, I have to park down by commercial sales area because I have to sign for the blinds that I pick up in that area. I have to walk down all the way to the other side of the building in the back to find an instally salesperson who has to pull the blinds and take them to commercial sales. Well, noone to be found. I hate that. I tried to call them the day before so that the blinds would be ready, no one answered. Very frustrating. So, I pittle fart around the store looking for items for my studio. I finally find a person. The boxes that these little 4 blinds were in were ridiculous. Why levelor does that I do not know why, that means I have to put the seat down in the Avalanche (which is why I bought the truck) and it really is a pain in the butt. Why, because I always have so much crap back there, luckily I have been slowly cleaning it out. I have to get home take a shower and get ready to go to my web design class which was free by the way, thank SBDC. I go back home pick up my youngest and we head out to Novice, Texas. A place out in the middle of nowwhere. I really mean that, there is this house sitting on a little hill in this vast space of nothing, but cows, donkeys and the wind is blowing, which direction? I am heading into a headwind of course, great I should be in a tail wind when I start home. No, the wind shifted. the blinds go up perfect. There are days when I can get so frustrated at those things. People think they know how to measure. They don't. Want to know how to measure for blinds. Write at my e-mail address and I will tell, because I am a nice person.

After that, we head home and my youngest wants to stop at Kohls to find a bathing suit for next week when we go to Corpus Christi. Now, that I can wait. I love the ocean. We are thinking about moving down there next year. Who knows, we have too much crap and my bills are all late and we probably could not get a house and then I would be divorced because my hubby of 22 years would flip out. Oh, you don't know him, he is part Irish and German. Need I say more. No, wish I would have known that before I married him oh, and he is a Taurus to make matters worse. No pissing off my hubby. Well, we look only because I have no money. Connor gets all mad turns into Dr. Jeryl (or the mean one). Surprised she doesn't stomp her feet slapping that big bottom lip around. Ha! Maybe today I said. she really does need a new suit. She is not patient at all. Wonder where she gets that from. Both my girls are laid back but they both can flare up, just like their father. The nostrils start flaring, drooling at the mouth, oh it's horrible. Help me please.

So, now we have reached Friday, yes, just have to write this, go teach a class body chizel, I will get a picture of ladies for you to see. they are hilarious. I love them too. They are committed, and again no one under 40. well Sam comes and she is 20 something. She is a great girl.

So, more on the Lowe's issue and much more to come on my reality shows and comments. I cant help it. I am a junkie.