It's normally empty when I look too, I almost clicked off without actually looking haha.

Ugh. Yeah, I get that. I grumble every month when I check in with my brother to make sure he's not tied up in a basement somewhere. I just.. want to be done with him and everything else LOL.

Yep. And it's not even that we can't get along or anything ... It's just I am tired of the BS and didn't realize how much of it there was until it was gone.

So much done with BS that I even gasp spoke up for myself even tho that apparently almost backfired too ... That whole blocking someone situation I mentioned .. eh. But the blocking seems to have worked. No idea for sure as I don't know if that person HAS posted anything but I haven't seen if they HAVE so.... 😉 I'm happy for now about it. I think I explained enough after the almost backfiring with the other person involved in the whole shebang to settle things down there.

Edit- So the lady I emailed this morning didn't reply? But the stuff was technically due today? (For those doing summer classes and she told me to turn them in this week even tho I told her I wasn't doing classes in the summer).... Oh well. Maybe she will later. I'll check again around 5.

Hi guys Kat glad the meeting at the bank went well and she is hopefully able to help you. You're Ex sounds a right piece of work I cant believe he's holding the house over your head like that and that he wont sign the quit order stupid ass.

Whoo Hooo!! kat congrats on the new job youv'e worked hard and deserve it Sorry you're assignment is being so awkward glad you emailed the teacher hope you get it sorted out.

Mieke good luck with the school secretary Job i'm sure you will get it and thats sweet of those people who gave you refrences. Glad Alex has figured out what's wrong with the van and it's not an expensive fix.

Whoo congrats on your BHH find its always empty for me :P

You SHOULD be speaking up for yourself :P

OK SPILL ABOUT THE BLOCKING who will ever know? WE MUST KNOW SPILL THE TEA KAT.

New HA courtesy of Iz. :P

Hahaha that is why I usually share with you all here. Who will know?

Ok. So Anna was posting all kinds of pictures of "look I am cooking for my new hubby, he is so spoiled" type of pictures. I made a comment or two about how he can cook too and he can do things for her as well but I guess that didn't go over the way I meant it. So I stopped and didn't comment anymore. FOUR days later my ex mother in law who has only JUST re-friended Shane (and friended Anna) now that she knows he is having a baby, remarked in reply to one of MY comments that "some people don't know how hard it is to be an over the road truck driver and how exhausting it is, and how nice it is to come home and just relax and be taken care of by their spouse" Maybe not those exact words but pretty much very similar and very deliberately with the "some people" comment to make it seem like she was NOT specifically saying me.

So yes I was hurt and upset by the snarky rudeness. And I realized that I didn't want to ever see anything from her again. (She has not liked me since day one and even tried to get Ryan to break up with me for the first five years we were married, yes even after we had kids!!!) And I thought wtf has she got to say about MY relationships or about a truck driver? She never was one, she was never married to one. But I didn't get rude or ugly back to her on Facebook I went to bed. But was still bothered by the comment and the fact I would see more of it in the future no doubt. So I texted Shane and Anna and explained how that comment was aimed directly to me, and that my Ex MIL had NO idea what my life or household was like and had no reason to comment about it And I informed them (very nicely with a GOOD explanation, I thought), of how they were allowed to be friends with whoever they wanted ... I was not going to tell them not to be friends but I was not going to put/keep myself in the situation where I had to see more hurtful comments from her and that if I had to stop being friends on Facebook with them if that was needed to protect myself then I would. But then asked them if they knew how to block her.

Anna got upset (I was going to unfriend her because of a comment?!), called Shane. Who got upset (I involved Anna?! And will unfriend him due to a comment?!). Who called his dad. And sent him my message to Shane and Anna to ask his opinion. Apparently then Ryan called his mom. Not sure if it was Ryan or Faye (his mom) who told Shane that she would "no longer make remarks like that" Shane didn't call ME until that night when he calmed down. Shane was also mad at me for texting Anna instead of JUST him. And he wanted to know why I said it was about me, Faye didn't say any names. (Quite obvious it was about me, it was replied to on MY comment and deliberately used "some people" which is how she has always talked when trying to avoid naming a person) Edit - (and she pretty much admitted it herself when she said she wouldn't make remarks like that again too) - end edit I got a little mad that he involved his dad who contacted my ex MIL. Edit - my whole point of texting Anna and Shane instead of commenting back was to NOT involve my ex MIL. - end edit But I stayed calm and re-explained that I was only protecting myself from hurtful remarks. When he asked ,"to the point that you would not be friends with your own son on Facebook?" I said yes. To protect myself and not cause drama. I guess he understood where I was coming from a little better from the phone call ( no surprise as Shane isn't great at reading or comprehension of what he reads). Edit - Maybe I should have called instead in the first place. But it was 5 am my time an he was in Utah so 3 am his time. And Anna was at home in Texas (4am) so best to text I thought and get it off my mind before I went to work. - End edit

After I got off the phone I realized I should have told him that it's only Facebook, I wasn't unfriending him in real life and we would still be in contact....which we have been. He has sent me pictures and texts and called me since then. So I guess he finally understood

The only thing still bugging me now (which I am doing my best to ignore and not be wondering about) is what exactly Ryan said to Faye. Not my business anymore but I can't help but wonder since I know it was about me.

And there you have it. My great big drama over blocking someone on Facebook. I blocked my ex MIL Faye.

Edit And yes I feel this is probably a petty thing but it is about ME and MY feelings and I wish I didn't get upset by her comment. But I did. So I wanted to protect myself from further comments in the future And that is why I stood up for myself because normally I would just ignore things and keep moving on in life.

I feel like it's definitely something blockable. And heck, you don't need to be bothered like that!

I can see how the kids thought it was drama, but I'm glad that it all got fixed up! AND now everyone is happy, especially you, because you don't need to see her anymore :P

Yea :) Thats the best part. I don't have to see her posts anymore. (I haven't been online friends with her for over 5 years, maybe closer to 10 at this point, and I can't even remember if I unfriended her or if she unfriended me). Suddenly seeing comments, and nasty ones at that, was a very unpleasant experience that I do not want to repeat. I just couldn't share it right away, I was too upset and trying to think clearly. But its been enough time and I feel better and calmer. :)

Drama is over rated. I don't like drama. In fact, my brothers often say I live in Lala Land - and have since I was a child - because I ignore things that make me unhappy or uncomfortable and pretend it never happened. Or I'll be totally self-absorbed in whatever I am doing and not even notice things happening near me. Like I used to never see my brothers fighting right in front of me when I was reading books. I was absorbed in the books. Or I ignored the fact my Ex-In-Laws didn't like me, until it became too much to ignore (like the time they called me white-trash-b**** - but Ryan stood up for me at that point too - because the issue that caused that remark to be made was decided upon by BOTH of us, not just me!) Stuff like that. Why make MY life harder when I don't have to? I didn't have to interact with them on a daily basis, so I could ignore a lot of crap. I prefer to make my life easier thank you. No drama or at least as little as possible.

edit: you could probably tell that about me somewhat already, since I keep not putting up a fight about things - like about the divorce or the house. Or other random things probably :P

[edit] 320pm I have been doing school stuff off & on all day, in between doing dishes and cooking myself lunch. Just asked Nathan to make sure he digs holes for my rosebushes, as I would like to go to Lowes and buy 2 more trellises and potting soil and replant the two roses that are by the fence (they don't get enough sun and I am afraid they are dying, but I am hoping transplanting them will revive them, not kill them!!) I also need to re-stake the two trellises that are by the kitchen windows as the handyman tugged them out of the way when he was doing the siding there and now they won't stand up straight.

Anyway. For school stuff. I have posted my discussion and journal for Tech. I need to go take pictures of my "classroom" and make the animoto video to post in it for a "welcome to my class" video - intro to me and quick run thru of how to get to assignments basically is what I've decided on.

I also will go post my next (pre-written) book connection tomorrow - and I've worked the last couple days on the author/illustrator project, and just added my last bit today - and noticed that the other lady has done most of her part as well! Yay for other people doing things early!! :P (she did change up the whole layout/scheme of the PowerPoint, but I don't really care lol) So I guess on Monday (if we get time during class, I don't think we are going to this week) or Thursday (which is when we set up our personal zoom meeting to discuss the project) we will talk about if we are satisfied with how everything looks/sounds and then we can submit it! :P

That leaves responses to the tech posts, responses to the book post (before next Sunday hahaha plenty of time) and turning in my "classroom" by Thursday.

Did Nathan take care of your holes? :P

Hopefully your rosebushes thrive with the transplant!

Guys everyone who signed up for the paint n sip turned up, and it was really a great time! People kept coming up to me to say how well it was run, how much fun they had, etc etc etc. I think we're going to make it a twice a year thing!

He did dig the holes. Not perfectly. I think they may end up needing to be a bit bigger. It is chilly here this morning, so I am waiting til this afternoon to go dig the roses up and replant them. Although, I read that I should have been watering them all week :P But it did rain a lot Friday and even some Saturday, so maybe they'll be damp enough LOL I have NO IDEA how big the roots are, I doubt they are root "balls" because they've been in a rectangular box - but could have grown under it pretty well (its just sat on the ground, no bottom to the box, I filled the box with potting soil/dirt when I planted them, then removed that one and made a bigger box later after they grew...) I really hope they don't die. They're alive, and already starting to grow again, oops. Supposed to transplant them while dormant, BUT they always start growing before it stops freezing here!! So. Eh. It is what it is, But hopefully they live! They'll have much more sun, and I'll try to remember to water them on days it doesn't rain for a couple weeks. (another transplant tip) I also hope the roots haven't intertwined, tho that is a possibility :P also might by why they aren't thriving as well, too much shared resources in the space. It was a pretty big box tho...

I am so glad they had fun. I see pictures of that kind of thing sometimes and it seems like it would be fun. But we priced it once for the girls youth group, and I don't think its anything I want to pay for at this point in my life ... maybe later with a friend or two when I have more $ :)

[edit] ARGH. having to worry about copyright is annoying hahaha since its for the technology class I am being stricter on myself on what I use. I cannot find a good picture of an empty preschool classroom. Going to take a picture of MY class room. THEN ITS MINE AND I CAN USE IT !!! Otherwise, I think I have the animoto video all set, and now have to figure out how to post it into the google classroom hahah!

[edit] 7pm The roses have been replanted.

Oooh, they look nice!

Well, for 49 people, we spent $141 on supplies, we charged $25 a person. It was a GREAT fundraiser! It helps that we had someone to lead it, though :P

When we did the one for Izzys birthday, I ALSO probably spent around $130, but that's because I had to buy paintbrushes and then they weren't on sale, because I was going to borrow them until the last minute :P

It's really fun to go to them though! But I think $50/60 is SO much, especially when normally there's not really good snacks or anything? Like, if it's $60 I want like.. food :P

Yes exactly! $25 isn't bad. But $40 or more? Like you said it better include food and drinks!!! And I still probably wouldn't go because I wouldn't want to spend that much. I'm not sure I'd want to spend $25 honestly but if I knew it was a fundraiser for something my kid was doing...well...that I might do.

Naptime for kids. I want a nap today too. I am tired.

I think next time we're goign to raise it to $30 and have snacks included, but still.. it was a good fundraiser!

And honestly, I really enjoy the painting, like.. I made art? ME?! Incredible! :P

Went shopping today to pick up some last things from the bunny for baskets (sandals), and also I picked up little glow chickens and bubble wands and plushies for the kids egg hunt at grandmas. Rachel is buying candy and some other little toys for in the eggs, so it'll even out pretty well. The five of them are each getting their own color, so they'll get the same stuff mostly.. but then whoever gets all their eggs first gets to pick their stuffed animal first, and so on and so forth.

Oh that sounds so cute and fun~ We only ever did one Easter as extended family that I remember. It was still only 2 of my kids and 2 of my nephews. They just hid the eggs and then we came over and the kids all hunted them and we ate lunch or something. My kids may have done more egg hunts at my moms, but it was w/o me....the few times they went down over Spring Break instead of christmas. My family is too far away and his family just didn't do get togethers very well or often. Eh. Still don't.

Makes me wish my kids were little enough to do an egg hunt again! LOL Although honestly, they did an egg hunt, maybe not last year, but for sure the year before LOL Wesley was having a lot of fun and was surprised we still did it LOL We do the confetti eggs now too, and they LOVE that. I sent Shane and Anna stuff to make a little Easter basket for them, and included some confetti eggs. Anna had never - so they each got each other with one egg to test them out for her LOL (sent, hahah I actually did a walmart pick up and made them go pick it up!! no shipping costs that way)

I do like doing art. So I think I would like the paint n sip type thing, with the right people to go with. I don't think I'd want to go by myself. Maybe one day I'll go with my neighbor, or with Wesleys mom/sister. If its not too expensive. I like to draw with the kids when the art teacher does a video lesson, where a dad/teacher shows a kid how to draw something. We did a Leprechaun Bunny last week in art class, mixed the two holidays up LOL

I think we talked about them last year but I don't remember at all.. what's a confetti egg?!

We still hide eggs and do baskets here at home, this afternoon El was like "Wait, I still get a basket?" and Alex was like "Uh, do you still live here? You're still our kid, even if you're technically an adult now". Like, of course you still get a basket, the easter bunny isn't just going to stop coming for one child out of three :P

We're NOT doing anything exciting for the big kids at the in laws though, just the 5 little ones. The big ones, Lily is really the only one who wasn't honestly a little bitch about it, even though they all complained that they wanted to do stuff too.. then they complained about finding them, what was in the eggs, the fact that they had to compete to actually get the most, etc. Like.. that's it, I'm absolutely done with you guys :P

But we hide eggs here from the bunny, and that's for all three. Some are REALLY hidden, especially the ones with $1 and $5 in them. Last year we went to dinner before we found the $5 one, and turns out when we got home that LILY HAD LOOKED WHERE IT WAS BUT DIDN'T SEE IT.

Iz and I found it after Alex's hints haha.

Yeah, they're fun! There's this artist that I follow on tiktok that does watercoloring and I really think that I could do it when I watch hers, but I haven't tried it yet.

Oh I have never put $ into eggs. Well maybe some change when they were preteen? Poor Lily looking right at it and not finding it!! Lol

Confetti eggs are real eggshells filled with confetti paper and closed off by tissue paper. Then you crush them in your hand and.throw confetti at people. Or throw the egg at them and hope the shell breaks lol Walmart sells them. My daughter got.into it because one of her friends did it as a family tradition but with flour in the eggs....and the friend was allowed to have some friends over one year to do it too. They made their own rather than bought them.

Yea if they are going to whine about wanting to do stuff but then complain about doing it or what they got to do....tough. You do it yourself or you do nothing now!! Get the older girls, or all the kids, confetti eggs lol!!!

[edit] 610am Day 20 Bathhouse - You found 30 CSC in the pool!

That does sound fun!

Oooh! Yeah,. we've got a gold and a silver egg, so we put $5 and $1 into them.. and then we put some quarters and such into some other eggs, so it's not all just candy. Makes it a little more exciting, I guess!

Our walmart basically has nothing left this year, I went looking for.. you know those little chickens you put in your hand and then they cheep? I wanted those, but no one has them this year.. so I got bubble wands :P But I don't even think they had any plastic eggs left, let alone confetti eggs!

You have visited the bathhouse 55 days in a row! You found 40 CSC in the pool!

Aww I hate when the stores sell out of everything I used to love those little cheeping chicks!! And the metal bunny rollers. Like it's a metal frame you hold in your hand and move up and down, with a spinning rabbit that twirls around and up and down the metal bars? Do you know what I mean?? I love those. Haven't seen them in years.

[edit] 620pm Working on my google classroom for tech class. FORGOT the past two days to take a picture of my empty classroom ! :P I hope I remember tomorrow. I decided to make one more video, in addition to the one I need that picture for... As the instructions for getting a 100 say "several welcoming activities" - so I created an all about me sheet, and am going to do a short "video" introducing myself with it, and asking THEM (yes, them, the non-existent students lol) to fill it out as well (i already posted the sheet as an assignment lol)

Hey guys how you doing?

Kat your MIL sounds like a right bitchy cow bet you are glad to be rid of her :P lol glad you were able to block her on fb you dont want to be seeing those nasty comments, but Mieke is right you need to speak up for yourself girl, glad all that mix up with Shane and Anna was sorted out and everything is fine now :)

your Rose bushes look nice :)

Congrats on your 30 CSC in the pool!

Yeah Copyright sucks :P

Mieke glad your paint and sip went well and you were able to make money for the fundraiser :)

The Easter Egg hunt sounds like great fun I'm sure the kids will love it :)

Congrats on your 40 CSC in the pool!

I never had easter egg hunts when I was a kid :(

Oooh man Kat, I've got one of those spinners, but not a bunny, it's just a circle!

Awww Chelle, really? That's sad. :( At least to me haha. Though we didn't really find eggs either, they were just in our baskets.

Guys, everyone is annoying me today, just.. just one of those days you know? OR MAYBE EVERYONE IS JUST BEING ANNOYING. My MiL, I asked TWICE what we should make/bring for Easter dinner, told her TWICE that we were budgetting and weren't going back to the store.. then she asked today for a relish tray. Like.. I'm not going back to the store 3/4 days before Easter and spending another $40 on pickles and olives, you know?! I can't spend more money!

And then Lily.. Lily is once again doing. .nothing. Except asking for extra things, extra time, extra money, extra rides, can she go places, can people come here.

NO. NO, YOU CAN NOT. YOU KNOW WHY?! Because I had to dry off with a HAND TOWEL TODAY THAT"S WHY

Argh for Lily !! She was supposed to do laundry? I thought I remembered her job was dishes? You changed it up? And she still not doing it? Ugh I wouldn't go get anything more if you already bought what you said. And if she wants that stuff she can go get it.

I have no idea what we will do for Easter. Usually ham for dinner. But the good ham is too much for two people. Gonna ask Nathan if he even wants an egg hunt. He didn't last year so I doubt he will this year. But he might want to dye eggs. Then I can make some deviled eggs from them. Oh we totally had egg hunts as a kid. With well hidden REAL eggs that didn't get found til Thanksgiving sometimes!!!! Lol

Aww Chelle. Different traditions in other countries I guess? Or just a your family thing? And thanks. I'm happy with the situation now. And happy to have transplanted my roses. It down poured rain yesterday so they got well watered lol Not sure if I should water today or not since it rained so much!! Probably won't.

[Edit] I am not sure if I will ever understand this child So this kid ...has been a bus rider since day one. Today (139 day of school) asks me, as we stand in the hall, after me calling for all the bus riders to line up and go out in the hall as we do every day, as we are waiting for the announcement for BUS riders to go to the bus.... This child ...asks me .... "Am I a car rider?"