Cinco de Mayo!

Wow! So much going on. I have decided the reason I don't write more on here is because I think some of it is really too personal and I'm afraid who is going to read it. I'm not sure what else to say about that. But I do tend to treat this as more of a diary than a blog that others can read, and that is very, or feels very exposing sometimes. When I opened this today I realized I had written 3 drafts that I never sent. Oh well. I'm sure I'll work through whatever. 


So, one thing is I've been seeing a personal trainer. I have lost 53lbs. Yesterday when I saw her she said I should change my profile picture on facebook because I looked thinner now. That was a great thing to hear from your trainer! So now I have to find the camera and do just that. She said I had all my before pictures and now I needed some in-between. 


School is fixing to end and I've got that summer fever already. Trying to hold it together for 4 more weeks. You know, it's funny how this sparks a reaction in me as if I was still in school and I was about to be out until Fall. I would think as an adult you would have a different reaction, but no! I am excited too! lol 


Jeri just got a promotion at her work. She will now be working in the field that she has been going to school for! Also very exciting news. It will be a very good thing for us, and I'm very excited for her in her career prospects! 


Other than that things are good. I've been dreaming crazy dreams again. My therapist said I needed to keep a book by the bed and write them down. But I haven't been very good at doing that. However, I still can remember them, so does that mean I need to write them down. lol Yeah, I probably do. I think it would read like a Stephen King novel though, maybe even Clive Barker. Whatever. 


So this is all for now. I'll think about putting the dreams up here soon. 

23 Dec 11--Sad news

We got a call day before yesterday saying my wife's grandmother had passed. She was 94 and had lived a very full life. But the news is sad all the same. It looks like the funeral won't be until Tuesday, after Christmas. So we'll be doing a little something here for the kids and going to our youngest sons house for Christmas Day. I guess Monday we'll go to Macon Georgia, I'm not sure where we're staying yet, and the funeral will be Tuesday. Keep Jeri in your hearts/prayers/thoughts at this time. She is having a hard time but is very thankful that she got her grandmother for as long as she did.

20 Dec 11 Last day of school before Christmas break

Today I start my Christmas vacation. I thought this would be a great time to renew my efforts of attempting a blog. I really do have funny stories, especially from my kids on the bus, and they should be shared. Shouldn't they?

Most recently "they" opened a new school and "they" decided, in their infinite wisdom, that the high school buses should share with the elementary school. Instead of just giving us extra on top of our already established routes, they figured it would be best to completely change everybody's route: new areas, new kids, and in my case, new bus. Also, remember I mentioned infinite wisdom, they decided we should try out these new routes a day and a half before Christmas break.

Let me explain "day and a half". Monday morning I would do my regular route, same as always. That afternoon I would begin my new route, thus the half. Tuesday I would run my new route both AM and PM.

Now all we had to go on were the computer-generated routes that were supposed directions. LOL Seriously, I do mean supposed! I am normally good with directions. My wife will tell you I can get us out of most all situations where being lost would be an issue even before the invention of GPS. But these directions were so bad and so confusing that I have been lost, that's right, lost in neighborhoods where I am supposed to be picking up kids. Parents have been running after my bus and saying, "I took my kid to school because I thought we missed you." That's how late and how lost I have been. LOL

Finally today after my morning run I came home and freaking google mapped my area so at the very least I could see the layout of the area. It did help. Google map wins out over the division of route makers at the school system HQ. LOL Hey, whatever--it did help. And now I get about two weeks off and I get to forget everything I have sweated over learning for a day and a half.

Ahhhh, joy. I do miss my other kids and I know they miss me. Everyday I've seen them standing out there waiting on their new bus and they all wave at me and grin real big. But I think I've got good kids on this new route, too. I had one girl tell me today that I needed my own stand-up comedy gig. I had to laugh. One and a half days and kids are already saying, "I think I'm going to like this new bus driver." Maybe I have a pied piper's touch! B-D

Wed 27July 11

Well, I know summer is coming to an end because I got a letter in the mail yesterday about when I'm supposed to go to meetings for the new school year. But, lucky me, I get one last trip to the beach before the year begins. I feel pretty fortunate about the beach this year. We went to Atlantic beach, NC in April. We went to Daytona Beach, FL just last week, and on the way home stopped by St. Augustine Beach. And next week we're going to a small town called Metter. It's about an hour away from Savannah and after we push through there we hit Tybee Island, GA. I'm excited about it.

If I admit it to anyone, or myself, I'm kinda excited about school starting back as well. I had some good kids last year and I hope that continues this year. I am liking working in the school system too. I mean it has its perks with holidays and all.

We fenced in the back yard of our house this summer. Our dogs love it. I'm loving it too. I'm looking forward to using our yard more.

That's it for now. I'll keep you in touch about our Metter/Savannah/Tybee trip.

14 June 11 Tuesday - Project House

So, school ended on the 10th of June. I took the weekend and did nothing. Yesterday I started Project House. Now if you know Jeri and I then you know this needs to be done in stages. LOL First stage is cleaning normal stuff (everyday stuff) and putting stuff away, be it a place it needs to go, some body's home (that is not mine), or trash. With all that 'stuff' in the previous sentence I feel like I'm in a Snapple commercial. lol "Healthy green tea, tasty black tea."

Anyway, laundry is almost done. I will probably finish tomorrow. The floors are all swept and kept swept. We have hardwood so it needs sweeping all the time. Various items have found their home and some have found their way to the street for trash. The vents for various wall units have all been cleaned. The couches were vacuumed and luggage put away. Well I'm sure you don't want to hear all the nasty details, but you get the picture.

Now there is something I knew about my wife but I really get to realize it first hand as I'm cleaning. If she puts something down upon entry to the house, then that is where that thing will live forever more, or until I move it. Also she has a most irritating habit of leaving, um, say, mail that is meant to be thrown away, on the counter. Okay for the most part but I would like to say, on the counter RIGHT NEXT to the garbage can. I asked her one day why she couldn't make it the next step or two that it would take to actually put that mail in the garbage can. We laughed about it although I've yet to hear a really good explanation. Funny what quirks we pick up with each other after having lived together for 17 years.

Our house also needs repairs. That falls under huge projects and we'll get to them as the money just rolls on in, because you know we're drowning in it, money that is. Ahhahahahahaha Sorry I had to take a moment.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I realized I could sit on the couch for the whole summer and not do a thing, but that is not how I choose to live my life. I was wondering what I could do for 2 months off. Of course I'll visit mom and others, but in between the visits-what to do? Jeri said she would be more than happy to supply me with a daily list. lol At that thought I started making my own list of how to stay busy during my summer.

Now, where's the pool! :{D

Middle School Concert

Okay, so sometimes I forget to blog because I have a status on fb, and then fb freaks out and posts go missing or whatever. Then I remember this blog. lol So I'm back again.

As some of you already know I am now driving a school bus for High and Middle School kids. This is a quite and experience and can be a different experience every day almost. lol I am lucky I have some good kids, and for some reason they really like me. I'm happy about that. But I do have to say, when I started this job, that is what I thought it would be-a job. But those kids kinda get under your skin a bit, and you kinda get attached to them.

I don't really want to be liking them that much, because they start asking you to do things like go to their chorus concert. Which one did. And I did. Jeri said I must. She said it was important to the kids. Okay! I went. So did Jeri. Where we sat there were 2 men and a woman sitting behind us. All of a sudden one man starts talking very loudly, very loudly, about his buddy putting a bottle between his legs and "pissing in the bottle". I think I might have mentioned this was at a Middle School event.

As he is talking, very loudly, about this Jeri kinda turns toward him and looks in his direction. And then we hear his buddy proclaim, "Some people better find their own business to mind." Seriously! LOL I was torn between beating some redneck ass and laughing so hard as to bust a gut.

The end result was we ignored their stupid selves. Maybe the woman said something to them because they did shut up. Jeri did look at me and say, "I'm not redneck enough to respond." Crazy stuff! LOL

28 May 11

17 Mar 11 St. Paddy's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Tried to talk the wife into drinking green beer with me tonight in celebration. She said beer didn't have no right being green in the first place. Well, that made me laugh the same way it did the first year we were together and she said the same thing about the same celebration. She just doesn't believe food coloring should mar her beer in any way, shape, or form. So there ya have it.

As you've heard I tried to run. Unfortunately it showed me everything that I had let just fall by the wayside. Fortunately it has me determined to not be that person. For a while I never wanted to grow old, gracefully or otherwise, as the saying goes. But lately I think growing old/er is okay. Certainly I've learned a whole lot from this life and I am quite sure the lessons are not over. But I don't want to be old and decrepit. I want to be old/er and just as full of life as I ever was.

So about the running. I was having a really hard time. No, I mean really hard. Lots of pain involved. But I also really wanted to do this. So I made adjustments. I am no longer doing the couch to 5k thing. But I am walking on my treadmill and around the neighborhood. I am at about 3 times a week right now. My goal is to do at least 5 times a week, and to work my way up to running again. I'll let you know the progress.

In other news...I have applied at a college here with the hopes of joining their Physical Therapy Assistant program. Everything is almost in place and if all goes well they will accept me. I've thought about this for some time now and I'm making it a reality instead of just something I'm thinking about. I have another test to take and I need to do some observations for the school to move me up in priority. All that is being put into place so hopefully I will make it in.

That's about it for now I think.