Empty Nesters? Really?

Yall think I was busy when I had 3 kids at home and they were all running me ragged with every activity under the sun?

 Lord have mercy - I dont think I have sat down for more than 30 minutes in a month.

 Update on the children - #1 is still at home and 1 month away from age 22 and unsure of what she wants to do or where she wants to go - currently she is a nanny for a special needs child that she adores - him and his little sister who I swear is a carbon copy of #1...its kinda crazy actually - no wonder they bonded so quickly!

 #2 turned 21 in June and has moved out with her boyfriend about 2 months ago - working in a daycare and not sure where she wants life to take her but she is doing it on her own so not a lot of input from mama is needed....well it is needed but clearly not wanted at this point and I do understand...the last person I wanted advice from at 21 was my mama - she didnt know anything about me or my life or what i was going through??? @@ yeah anyway....

 #3 my baby - my only boy - has left me - and gone away to college - to the dorms - where I cant monitor him or make sure he eats - or gets a haircut (which he has NOT done)- I shed one little tear and then I put my big girl panties on and bought him a new toothbrush and some towels and spiderman sheets :) Actually his ex gf bought them for his bday last year - I just made sure they were clean so he could take them to college because they matched the spiderman comforter that his grandma bought him..... 

 Hubby is on a deep night shift which is kicking our butts...So in the evening its just me and #1 - I dont cook - no sense in that - I swear we must have had wings and mexican food 4 times last week - but we go during happy hour :) cause we are cheap like that - 

 Drinking with my kid...wow - never thought I'd see that day - 2 margaritas on the rocks - extra salt - lite on the ice please with a straw and an extra lime! or 2 tall Dos Equis Drafts - with extra lime - OR 2 bloody marys with a short dos equis back....lol - sometimes we scare every one? and have a dirty martini (extra dirty with extra olives please!) 

 I dont know that I have really slowed down any? 

I have all my littles that call me aunt kelly - the youngest two have cheer at 8 am every saturday morning - my nephew has baseball (which i have not been to yet - shame on me) one nephew plays football on Thursday nights....its kinda never ending! Its like my kids are little again but I dont have to pay for anything and they are always wrapped around my leg or waist hugging me fiercely and are SO happy to see me and so thrilled that I came to watch them cheer - pass or bat! 

 Once a month I play Bunco with an awesome group - we have a ton of fun and the laughs dont stop till 10:30 when its time to pass out the money and pack up to go home :) and then the laughs start again....lol.... ABout once a month several of my friends come over and we play cards....and drink and have a party....hubby usually sits on the couch and shakes his head - we are like teenagers when we get together...lol 

 This summer has been the summer of concerts - I saw Kenny Chesney - Eric Church - Kacey Musgraves - Eli Young Band - Brad Paisley Chris Young & Lee Brice - Kid Rock - uncle kracker - Miranda Lambert - Brett Eldridge and Dierks Bentley - The Cadillac 3 - wow that even seems like a lot to me...lol 

 Hubby and I have been visiting lots of farmers markets - going to lots of garage sales - eating a lot of breakfast out - its just been kinda non stop for us both - and when we arent doing that? we are driving to pick #3 up from school and bringing him home for the weekend or driving there for the day to take him and roommate shopping.....lol

 OH best part of my summer? Spent the weekend in Oklahoma with the best friend - we went to the first OBU game in 70 years and THEN that night? I went to my first OU game everrrr - it was AWESOME! Barry Switzer walked past us and spoke - I think she wet her pants... 

 Thats all i got for today - I do intend to post more often! I so wish it would get cold again!

http://gsalr.com/" title="Garage Sales by Map">Garage Sales

im having a garage sale this weekend!! come one come all! :)

I'm meltttinnnnng...

Have I mentioned that I really dislike summer?  I love all the fun summer stuff 

• bbq's 
• days at the lake
• sitting outside drinking really cold beer
• having impromptu cookouts for no reason on a sunday
• watermelon
• iced tea
• margaritas...
• fresh veggies out of the garden..

HOWEVER - I DO NOT LIKE 112 degree weather! 

Summertime in Texas is not kind to anyone... :(

I have FRECKLES on my shoulders people - FRECKLES! 

Our electric bill is $338 for this month - of course that is down $150 from last summer which was even hotter.... ugh....


Right now - I would kill for a snow storm :) BUT what i would love? is for it to stay between 45 and 65 degrees 24/7 - 365 days a year :)  wouldnt that be sweet?

Just a day

Remember when I used to post from work all the time? and I would post in bullets? Because depending on how my day was going - that might be all I have freakin' time for?

Yeah thats what this job is like...

NEVER BORING!

So the last time I posted in my blog was 2/21 and since that time i obviously have found a job - yeah me!

A good job at that!
A job I enjoy!
A job I am good at!
What are the odds?

THINGS I HAVE LEARNED SINCE I STARTED THIS JOB:

• THE MOBILE HOME INDUSTRY IS ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME AS IT WAS 6 YEARS AGO - SOME GREAT PEOPLE - SOME GOOD PEOPLE AND SOME TRASH - JUST LIKE EVERYWHERE ELSE....
• SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST STUPID - THERE AINT NO HELPIN' THEM - THEY ARE JUST DUMB AND WE SHOULD PITY THEM....LOL
• I LOVE HAVING MY OWN OFFICE!!
• EVERYONE IN THE OFFICE KNOWS EVERYONE ELSE'S BUSINESS...CAUSE LETS FACE IT - WHEN YOU ARE OFFICED IN A DOUBLEWIDE - YOU CANNOT HAVE AN ARGUMENT WITH YOUR SPOUSE OR CHILD WITHOUT EVERYONE IN THE OFFICE HEARING YOU - IT JUST AINT GONNA HAPPEN
• YOU CANNOT ADVERTISE ON CRAIGSLIST FROM THE COMPANY EMAIL ADDRESS FOR *AHEM* STRANGE - AND NO ONE FIND OUT ABOUT IT - SOMEONE IN THIS OFFICE DID AND IT WASNT ANYONE WHO IS STILL EMPLOYED HERE....AND I FOUND IT....LOL...AND GIGGLED FOR THE LAST WEEK THAT PERSON WORKED HERE EVERYTIME I SAW THEM...
• DID I MENTION THAT I LOVE HAVING MY OWN OFFICE/BEDROOM? :D

Time to fax in some septic contracts and septic inspections to the county....I will visit with yall later!

wow - once a month?

Seems I can only get over here about once a month -
I keep saying "I am going to post in my blog today"
and then I dont....

I have been job hunting -
I have to say -
I feel like my resume is pretty impressive...
Apparently others do not...lol

So today -
I will keep on...
keeping on....
looking for a job....

sigh....

more later....
maybe....
if i remember....

how has your day been?

Mine has been absolutely lovely....

16 years ago at 9:16 this morning - I gave birth to a 18 inch 6 lb baby boy - with brown hair....It was excruciatingly painful and like nothing i had ever felt because my first baby girl was like the easiest birth everrrr!

Austin has been my greatest joy and my biggest pain in th ass....lol...

I however am not prepared for him to grow up....

He has facial hair - muscles and a girlfriend....

I DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS...

He is my baby - my little man - I am so not ready for him to be 16 years old...

We started the day by letting everyone sleep until they woke up - which means everyone slept till after noon....lol...

His friends Corey and Matt spent the night - they spent like all night long playing video games and then slept on th floor.....

Normally I would get up and make whatever he wanted for breakfast - but he didnt ask for anything - so we all just laid around and did nothing all stinking day long....it was great -

For dinner he chose Kyoto's Japanese Steakhouse - or whatever its called - they do hibachi grill...

We all went - Wayne, me, Austin, Courtney, Nanny, Papa, Kadie and her boyfriend Adam, Austin, his friend Matt from elementary school and his cousin Kale....

I took some pictures - everone had fun...food was good.....I am still teary eyed....lol.......

He is just growing up so fast! I keep saying I cant wait for them to all be gone? and then i rethink that - what the hell will I do when they are all gone???

This last picture to the right? This is the photo session he grudgingly let me do this past summer :)

He looks all grown up....whatever will i do.....

green olives? and pickle juice? what is the blog you speak of?

It is has been awhile!

That restaurant that was on the horizon? We did it - we sold it - I am now sitting back on my couch - wondering what i am going to do with the next month of my life...lol...

Just so you are aware - the selling of the restaurants? that is pretty standard and a really good business if you are one of the ones receiving that end paycheck...lol..alas i am not on the receiving end of that paycheck....lol....but it is an amazing paycheck while it lasts

Basically we build it - we open it - we train everyone - and we have a broker that finds someone to buy it after we have it up and running and making money - lots of hard work for about 3 - 6 months depending on how long it takes to find a buyer....

There was however an issue with this restaurant on my part - every other place we have sold? When the new owners came in? I stuck around long enough to get everyone trained and acclimated and then I scooted on out the door - later gater - see ya on the flip side -

This particular restaurant - not sure why - but it had a piece of my heart - I was involved in this one from beginning to end - my brother was too busy with his construction company to have time to be a part of it and my niece has a full time job that requires most of her time - so everything pretty much fell to me - and I of course already had the title of General Manager which made me at large and in charge but every single decision in this place was on me - from employees hiring and firing to which type of caramel was ordered for ice cream sundaes and back up to running the line in the kitchen when necessary and ordering all the toys candy and gourmet jams and jellies for the general store....HUGE responsibility and I freaking love every minute of it....

When word came down of new owners only 6 weeks after we opened? I was a little sad - by the time they took over on Halloween day 10 weeks after we opened.... I was a basketcase....lol....I stuck around until Thanksgiving giving advice - teaching someone how to order from the food distributor and the infamous Blue Bell ice cream - what sells and what doesn't sells in the store....and then the meltdowns started....lol...I was standing in the store one day thinking about the fact that we needed to do a toy and candy order and deciding what to order and realized - "crap - it ain't my decision anymore" and started crying - there were about 12 more of those episodes over the next month before i left at thanksgiving....

The next venture is pretty much what i have been waiting for forever - my own restaurant - I am throwing around names and the one that keeps sticking in my head is "Sissy's" - Chris called me Sissy - Rory calls me Sis sometimes Sissy - I called them Bub and Bubba - so unless i have this huge revelation in the next couple months....Sissy's it is.....

I have several surrounding towns I am looking at - just not sure yet about demographics but will decide soon.....

I do believe i am going to pick up the rest of my "30 days of Kelly" again after I post this....since you know i have some free time and all.....lol