Feast or Famine?

Ok, so those of you who are familiar with the End times in the Bible, this is my take on it.
This last week at work I have seen lots of people buying staple items for storage. One woman bought 17 of the 25 pound bags of flour. She bought lots of jello also, but she was buying things like honey, vinegar, vegetable oil (24 bottles) and rice, not much because it had already been bought up. Where does one store that much flour without the mealy bugs getting into it? Freezing is fine, but you would have to have an empty freezer, maybe two big chest freezers at least just for the flour. Anyway, in the Bible it states that at the end times, a loaf of bread will cost a man a days wages. I believe that when it talks about bread, it means groceries. That certainly is a fact. Also, when I was younger and the preacher talked about Armageddon, and people riding on horses, we wondered why anyone would ride horses when we had cars. Well, look at gas prices. Of course there were no cars back then anyway, but still. I look at it this way, God promises to take care of us, and I think that these people are either so afraid to trust God, or smart to stock up, but guess what. If it comes down to a famine, people are going to raid their stockholds, and they won't have any of their food. We can hope for world peace and lower prices, but we can't prevent the inevitable from happening. So, by putting your faith in God and letting him take care of your needs, is all he asks.
Ok, I'm done preaching.
Can you beieve how cold it is again? Monday was 80 and today is supposed to be a high of 47. I have strawberries to plant, but I'm not sure if I want to put them out yet.
Oh yeah, and Dody started getting this little sore just on the outside of her right nostril yesterday. I just put my hands over my mouth to stifle the laugh. Then said "Hope it doesn't get like mine." She worried, and I don't blame her. Mine still has a sore, but it doesn't hurt any more. It still looks red, but I did get a sunburn on my nose on Monday also.

The BBQ

The BBQ went well. We had about 25 people here according to Dody's count. Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. We invited our new neighbor's Joey and Jackie over. Joey graduated with Ken and Jackie graduated with Jared. Jackie is real quiet and she was doing yardwork, so she didn't come over, but Joey is very sociable. He used to be a truckdriver, and he has a racecar and had a race on sunday, so after the race he came over. He's quite the redneck, but is nice. He's originally from Arkansas, loves to drink like a fish and tell jokes.

Last week, on Cleve's days off, Cleve had patched the hole in the tire on his tractor lawnmower, and needed to air it up, well, they both decided that using the can of carburator cleaner and a lighter would do the trick. Mind you, both had been drinking quite a bit before, so they used the aerosol can to fill the tire, and when Joey put the lighter up to it, the tire swelled up like they wanted, but the flame caught his hair on his hand and arm on fire, so he's swatting the flames and getting it out, if that's not a redneck neck thing, I don't know what is. I can only imagine what the rest of the summer is going to be like. Joey likes to sit by the firepit and drink and talk. His wife goes to bed and he says he can party all night, as he puts another log on the fire, and cracks open another beer, staggering the whole time.

We had Friends that Cleve works with at Home Depot over, Mark and Mindy and their three boys, Amber, Jaime, Ashlynn and Gabbo, Dad and Mary, Jared and Clint, Barb and Don and their three kids, Dody, Cody, Jasmine, Tori and Ken. We had pork riblets, about 20lbs, and they were slicked up pretty fast, along with potato salad, coleslaw and baked beans and veggie tray.
Lots of drinks, Mindy made a 5 gallon jug full of punch and I made 2 gallons of tea and 1 gallon of lemonade, besides the beer that different ones brought. Afterwards, we had a delisious cake, smores cake that Amber brought, and at dusk we started the firepit and roasted marshmallows.
Tori still hasn't had the baby, but still having the contractions, so maybe this week!!

It's Our Anniversary

Well, today is Cleve's and my 26th anniversary. He went to work at 9a.m. and I start at 12:15p.m., so that how life is. We hope to have a BBQ with family and friends on Sunday, if everything works out.

Tori went to the Dr yesterday and she has definately dropped. She is dilated to 1, and has been having contractions the last week. She said the Dr called her shortly after she got home and her dilantin (anti-seizure meds) levels were at a 9 and they need to be between 10-20. The Doc wants her to start taking 8 pills a day instead of 6. Hopefully she doesn't have a seizure. I figure she will have the baby within the next week. Hopefully on my days off!! I told her that her sisters had theirs on my days off, which was very considerate, thank you Amber and Dody.

Oh, and by the way, it was brought to my attention (thank you Nic) that I only put Jared's birthday as November 1983, and forgot to put the 28th in there. Sorry about that, Jared.
Hope everyone has a nice day and weekend.

Who Am I?

Ok, here goes. I'm not one for going to chat rooms or IMing very much, so I hope I can do this. I'm not sure how to do alot on the computer either. I kinda know how to copy and paste, that's because Dody has shown me several times! Dody? She's my third child. Well, maybe I should start from the beginning...not THE beginning like on The Goonies when Chunk is told to "Spill his guts" but just a brief overview. I was born in Broken Bow, Nebraska on my oldest sister's third birthday, and I'm the third of five children (kids are goats you know), and I have one brother and he's the youngest. I was 13 when my Mom wanted to move back to Idaho to be by her parents, go figure. That was in June of 1976. I graduated from Parma High in 1981, met my husband, Cleve, in January of 1982 and married him April 25, 1982, had my first baby, Amber January 25, 1983, second, Jared November 1983, third, Dody March 10,1986, and fourth, Tori June6, 1989. Three girls and one boy. Jared came 10 weeks early (actually a couple years early!). He's okay, at least that's what we like to think. (Just kidding with ya Jared) He does have cerebral palsy from being so early but he's okay. Now flash forward a few years. I'm a cashier at WinCo Foods in Nampa, been there for 12 years, and enjoy it. I think I'm a people watcher, and that's one reason why I like my job. They can be funny at times. It's the money they pay me that keeps me coming back week after week though.

Cleve and I have had our share of ups and downs, probably more downs than ups, but we manage. Right now, we have Dody, her husband Cody and 3 year old daughter, Jasmine with us, AND Tori her boyfriend Ken and soon to be baby (due May 12) with us also. Our little house is pretty much overcrowded, but we manage. Always looking on the bright side, eventually they WILL move out.

It seems that I always have some kind of issue going on. This past month it's been my nose. Yep that's right, my nose. It all started while Amber and Jaime went to San
Antonio, TX for an awards thing from Bank of America where Jaime was getting an award for his great job he does at the bank. Cleve and I went over to their house to babysit Ashlynn 6, and Gabrielle (Gabbo) 2, while they were on vacation. I got a little sore in my nose, but it went away, then the next week, I got one again, only this time both sides just on the inside, well, by the time my two days off were up, my nose was pretty red on the outside, I really didn't want to go to work with a rudolph nose, but calling in sick for a red nose just didn't seem right, so I went. Well, everyone couldn't help but notice it, and then even though I was putting triple antibiotic on it and peroxide, it got worse, and bigger. The thought of donning reindeer antlers was a real idea, or putting very blue eyeshadow on, arching my eyebrows and wearing red lipstick, but I did neither. Finally, and on a Sunday, I woke up with my left eye area real puffy, I knew my home remedies were not working, so on my lunch break I went to the expres care and got an antibiotic. If the Dr. had asked my why I was there, I might have socked him a good one, but he didn't. I did ask him if it was from chronic nose picking, but he said no, just a bacterial infection in the skin. At least everyone could tell by looking at me that I don't brown nose!!! Maggie at work said "yeah but what have you been doing?" No comment. I took my last antibiotic pill this morning, so hopefully it doesn't come back. Amber took pictures of my nose when it was at it's fullest. If she sends them to me I'll put them on here.

I think Tori's baby has dropped. She sees her Dr tomorrow, then we will know more, I don't think she will make it to May 12. Ultrasounds show a girl. She has the name Yesinia picked out but not the spelling yet.

I guess that's all I'll post for my first one. So how did I do?