Favorite Christmas Pics

Hello All,
Every year at Christmas I always have a pic of two that tend to be my favorites....this year it is these three. I am not exactly sure why. Well yes I do...my dad was a HUGE AC/DC fan before he died and I got in trouble in school when I was in 1st grade for singing the Big Balls song! LMAO!!! I still love that song. And to be able to get these shirts for both my sister and my daughter and see how wonderful they are both turning out and how beautiful they both are...just warms my heart!!!! Love ya mom and dad...hope you were in heaven smiling down on us in your rockers on your mansion on the hill!!! Shannon

The Morning after....

Thanks Jenn for pointing out that NOTHING is showing up here BUT the title! LOL Who knows what I did wrong...kinda hard to get this kind of stuff done and work and have family all over the place....anyways...here are a few photos of what "santa" brought!

Here's Lane showing off....it is kinda big for him....but after a few bumps and falls I think hes got it! LOL

And here is Zachary and Shelby....they both loved their bikes too...I didn't have a good pic of them in the house on theirs! LOL

Merry Christmas

Merry Merry Christmas!
Well so far so good! I got to Texas and back with very little problem, biggest problem was the whole not getting home till 3am but that wasn't to bad! Got up yesterday morning..had a minor malfunction with the running of the show and all is good. I was pretty upset with DJ, and truth be known I am still not to happy with him. BUT he walked over to me with a gift and said here open it.....well turns out the fucker actually does pay attention to me....It was a Barbie doll I had pointed out to him once a few months ago and told him oh wow look at that.....I had that same Barbie when I was a kid....(will post pic here later) and so he went back and got it for me. Knowing that most of my childhood memories are full of disappointment and sadness and he said he could tell by the look on my face it took me back to a good time...which it did...so that is why he got it for me! What a sappy ass!!! LOL He isn't always useless. I am still not happy with him and he knows it but A it is Christmas and to stay showing my pissed offness at him would just ruin it and B well there is honestly no B!
Anyways...got loads to do today...Anna forgot to pick up the cottonseed oil and there is NO WHERE around here I can find any so I have to get the turkey in the oven. Thought about trying Uncle Enroes proven high heat method for the bird, but it is the only one we have and I don't wanna mess it up. I will try it on a chicken or something after the first of the year!
BUT I have my sister here and Anna will be here soon and Regina has been here since Wed and the girls have had a blast!
I better run before one of them gets up and I am not ready with the camera....(will insert santa gift pics here soon) Merry Christmas all!!! With love, Shannon

Oh Christmas Tree

Look at this sad sad tree!!!!

Kinda look like I am in pain huh....well I kinda was...I was trying to find the exact right ornaments....and I was wearing those damn jeans that cut into me...OH WELL.....

Kiddos decorating the tree....they had a blast...BUT what I can't get Shelby to understand is that that shirt DOES NOT go with those jeans!!! Fashion is not her thing! LOL

Pics

This is Lane and DJ playing around...can you tell Lane is a camera ham!!!! Don't look at the messy house! LOL

This is Lane and Zach...can you tell Lane is trying to be scary? LMAO....and this is what Zach thinks of lanes attempt!

This is my beautiful daughter!!! I am sooo proud!!!

Yeah this is me....I am a goof nut!!!

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Well....what should I do today! Well I need DJ to get off his ass and take me over to his dads so I can fax some pretty important papers. I would take myself and have few minutes to myself, BUT then I would have to drive in the snow and ice...and personally I would rather not! Just me though! I love the snow and stuff but I do not drive well in it!
Must be something to do with that "almost" wreck I had in my camero when I was 16 coming off the Hope Rd bridge and being the immortal little shit I was I was going way to fast and it was really nasty outside....and before I knew it I was looking at two big trucks barrelling down the interstate off the bridge trying not to lock it up and trying not to hit me or each other...it was a scary situation...so scary in fact my dog shit all over my back seat! Yeah that was scary as hell...then I get up a few miles down the road, stopped at the Loves to get gas and clean the crap out of my car and my pants, and I look up and off flys a car off the overpass! BOOM onto the frontage road he hit...head on with the pavement...it was not a pretty sight! SOOOOO ever since then...I don't do the snow and ice well. I can but I don't want to! I need to get the village put up today which won't take but maybe an hour...I don't have room for all of it this year so I am gonna be pretty picky! But I looked it over last night before bed and I am pretty sure I know what I wanna do. Then there is a matter of 2 tons of laundry that needs to be wash, dried, folded (yuck) and put away....think I will recrute the family to do that part of it..I wash, dry and they can fold and put away...YEAH!!!! I need to finish cleaning everything....Gotta go pick up Regina tomorrow in Sayre! YEAH!!! I am ready to have another kid here that balances out the testostarone! And then friday I will go to Vega to get Denise and possibly Ben! Which I am really looking forward too! Wished she was 21...would stop at the casino on the way! LOL
I here I sit with all that shit to do...and I am typing on the computer. I tried to paint my nails like candy canes...didn't come out right....not sure what all I am gonna do just yet...don't really like any of the polish I have so I might stop by and pick up a french tip kit...we will see!!! Who knows...I do know I need to get going and here I sit somemore. It is cold and snowing outside and I am not looking forward to getting out of my hot ass office...one if one day the family will realize I keep it this hot in here so they stay out of here!!!!
OH I do have a rant!!!! The damn white trash neighbors!!! They REALLY piss me off!!!! I am so sick of their shit!!! Their damn dog...ya know the one they feed and water but swear isn't theirs! He has drug up all kinds of shit into our yard again gotten into the over flowing trash can, which the other neighbors use that they aren't suppose to be using because it is for renters only! But whatever...it is just the two of them and they really don't have much. That doesn't bother me...what bothers me is that Ma and Pa trash over there don't bother to clean up any of the mess in their yard...fine their yard, just because everytime I go out of my house I have to look at it and I have family coming and they have to look at it, doesn't mean jack. WHAT really gets me is the shit the dang dog drags up in our yard, two blankets and a coffee container and some cans and some POO yeah thats right he doesn't crap in his yard but will shit in mine..ON my porch!!! I shot him for doing it the other day...right in the face...it was a pellet gun...BUT I am so sick of the crap!!! Anyways...he has now taken to the road, now there is trash and broken bowls that I am sure the people up the road ran over when coming in yesterday, and trash trash trash...it is centered in front of their house....and they do NOTHING...I watched then walk over the trash to get to their car yesterday! And ran a lot of it over leaving!!! OUR dogs didn't do that...they get chained up or supervised when they go out! WE paid a pet deposit and took responibility for our dogs!! THEY didn't!!! AND they got their kids taken away from them because they were SELLING drugs out of their house (not this one) and just got them back and BITCH when the state doesn't pay their propane bill or phone bill or rent!!! You gotta be kidding me!!! YOU did something wrong YOU have to pay for your crimes YOU got your kids taken from you and YOU are gonna bitch about the state not taking care of you because they wronged YOU in some way? OMG I almost fell out when she was saying that crap to me the other day. Then there is this girl on TV last night...very pregnant, lost her job couldnt pay her gas bill and they shut her off till she pays all back bill which is like 120 bucks and pays 3 months in advance!!!! WHAT is wrong with the system? Where drug dealers who get their kids taken away from them and the state sees fit that they have them back, and they get food stamps, medical and EVERY I mean EVERY BILL they have paid for them and they are both abled bodied working adults! And this pregnant single mom can't get heat for her 1 bedroom apartment? You gotta be shittin me! I am so disillusioned with the system! That is so wrong!
OK I will stop about that because I could ramble on and on about that one!! I hate the fact that these people live next to me and I can't stand their kid! I will post a pic of him some day...PEOPLE pay attention to that face you WILL see this kid on Americans Most Wanted in a few years!!! He is a lying, cheating, violent, evil little shit! And I love kids....most peoples kids are great...just because they get to go home, but this little shit! NO WAY...I told the kids they CANNOT play with him anymore. Well the little shit came over the other day when we weren't here and talked Lane into giving him some of Zachs Yu Gi Yo (?) cards! Went over to get them back, swears they are his! BULL SHIT...Zach puts his name on everything, then it was well Lane gave them to me, well they aren't lanes to give, give them back...REFUSED....his mother said you can't Indian give!! Are you in 3rd grade? HELLO...give them back...wouldn't do it!!! I said fuck it....fine....next time I see those kids breath on my yard I am calling the law...I have No trespassing signs all over our house....they are trespassing! No I really wont do that but I am praying they move soon...which hell if everyone is paying your bills why not stay!!!! ARRRRRRRRRRRRRR It pisses me off so bad!!! The other dogs have minded their manners since I shot AT them a few times, I didn't shoot them...just AT them..they don't come over here anymore, but this one...Arrrr....someone told me dark bakers chocolate will kill one...well a package of that later the bastard is still alive! Digging holes in my yard....shitting on my porch dragging up trash! I am so mad at all of it! Anyway
I better go!!! I need to get things done! and it is already 10am! Need to get busy! Shannon

A different kind of Christmas Story!

A Christmas Story

'Twas the night before Christmas--Old Santa was pissed.

He cussed out the elves and threw down his list.
Miserable little brats, ungrateful little jerks.

I have a good mind to scrap the whole works!

I've busted my ass for damn near a year,

Instead of "Thanks Santa"--what do I hear?

The old lady bitches cause I work late at night.

The elves want more money--The reindeer all fight.

Rudolph got drunk and goosed all the maids.

Donner is pregnant and Vixen has AIDS.

And just when I thought that things would get better

Those assholes from the IRS sent me a letter, They say I owe taxes-

-if that ain't damn funny Who the hell ever sent Santa Claus any money?

And the kids these days--they all are the pits

They want the impossible--

Those mean little shits I spent a whole year making wagons and sleds

Assembling dolls...Their arms, legs and headsI made a ton of yo yo's-

-No request for them, They want computers and robots...they think - I'm IBM!

Flying through the air...dodging the trees

Falling down chimneys and skinning my knees I'm quitting this job there's just no enjoyment I'll sit on my fat ass and draw unemployment.

There's no Christmas this year now you know the reason, I found me a blonde.

I'm going SOUTH for the season

Christmas Gifts

Hey Y'all!

Well I ended up with my christmas gift early! My big gift...which is I would have to say the only one I will get BUT that is ok with me....this is what I got http://www.nikonusa.com/template.php?cat=1&grp=2&productNr=25524

Isn't it cool! I love it...replaces the one SOMEONE broke!!! And I use the crap out of cameras when I have them so it is worth it to me! Anyways.......
Here are a few pics I have already taken with it.....



This is DJ and the kids last night after we got the tree up...can you tell the kids are so happy! HAHAHAHA!!!!

People and Songs

Hello Everyone!
I have been thinking a lot the past couple of days about the people in my life and how much my life has changed this past year and how much I know it is going to change even more with the new year approaching. Well I got bored as usual.....because there is no good TV on and the radio sucks after 9am and I have loads of work to do in the office so I figured I would get out all those gillions of CDs I have made over the last year or two. Well I got to really listening to them and paying attention to them and I figured something out....when I was making those I had to have had one person in mind when I made 99% of them. Or a certain group of people. My mom and my sisters are the most important woman I will ever have from the time I can remember till I can't remember anymore! My daughter will become part of the group someday...right now she is the most important young lady in my life. I was looking at her this morning...with those beautiful blue eyes and her hair done just so...and I realized that I was looking her square in the eye....she had on her tennis shoes...I had on mine...and here is my precious little baby girl, the only baby girl I will ever be blessed with and she is damn near full grown! Yes she is only 10 but when you start looking your kid in the eye...makes you wonder where the hell all the time went! It won't be long, and she will not have ANY time for me at all...I remember those days. Then I put in this CD after I got them off to school and here are songs that remind me of my mom....Close to you...by the Carpenters....Lmbo...she used to get so excited when this song would come on the radio...she would grab my face and sing away...coffee breath and menthol ciggs...still can't smell the combo and not tear up!

Why do birds suddenly appear
Every time you are near?
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you.
Why do stars fall down from the sky
Every time you walk by?
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you.
On the day that you were born
The angels got together
And decided to create a dream come true
So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold
And starlight in your eyes of blue.
That is why all the girls in town
Follow you all around.
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you.
On the day that you were born
The angels got together
And decided to create a dream come true
So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold
And starlight in your eyes of blue.
That is why all the girls in town
Follow you all around.
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you.
Just like me (Just like me)
They long to be
Close to you.
Wahhhhhhhhhhh, close to you.
Wahhhhhhhhhhh, close to you.
Hahhhhhhhhhhh, close to you.
Lahhhhhhhhhhh, close to you.

Why my mother loved that song to me is going to be one of the great mysteries that come along with what she left behind. My mother left behind three girls who are very stubborn and strong headed believe all men are pigs, but pigs need love too! Three grown woman now. She didn't get to see that happen. She sees whereever she is I am sure of it...or maybe not...that is another one of those mysteries I was talking about....who knows what happens when you die and where you go. I would like to believe if there is a heaven she found her way there. If not...I just don't know! Then here comes this song that Oh wow...I think of so many people when I hear this song....one gentleman in paticular who has become the bestest friend I have ever had in my life....I can tell him anything and he never judges me or expects any more of me than what I am! Knows my family very well....DJ hates the fact that I have him as a friend, not sure why...maybe inimidated maybe scared, maybe I dunno! Maybe because of his intimate relationships with both of my sisters, who knows. BUT you know how there is one person in the world that just gets you and you get them....well this is that person....Lord only knows why! And he is also the only person I know that is allowed to call me a bitch! LOL Well DJ does sometimes and usually gets away with it...but only when I KNOW I am being one! I think of him everytime I hear this song....just because if it weren't for him I would have never paid attention to this song...he broken heart about one of my sisters spawned a love affair with this album for him and I began to listen to just see what my friend was going though and maybe some way I could help him.....but I also think of my sisters...and my mom....it is just a beautiful song...PERIOD DOT...but then again 3 doors down doesn't do bad songs......

Here Without You
(Music by Arnold, Roberts & Harrell)
A hundred days have made me olderSince the last time that I saw your pretty faceA thousand lies have made me colderAnd I don't think I can look at this the same
All the miles that separateDisappear now when I'm dreamin' of your faceI'm here without you babyBut you're still on my lonely mind
I think about you baby and I dream about you all the timeI'm here without you babyBut you're still with me in my dreamsAnd tonight, there's only you and me.
The miles just keep rollin'As the people leave their way to say helloI've heard this life is overratedBut I hope that it gets better as we go.
I'm here without you babyBut you're still on my lonely mindI think about you baby and I dream about you all the time
I'm here without you babyBut you're still with me in my dreamsAnd tonight girl, there's only you and me.
Everything I know, and anywhere I goIt gets hard but it won't take away my loveAnd when the last one falls, when it's all said and done.It gets hard but it won't take away my love
I'm here without you babyBut you're still on my lonely mindI think about you baby and I dream about you all the time
I'm here without you babyBut you're still with me in my dreamsAnd tonight girl, there's only you and me

Then here comes Five for Fightings song...100 years...and that is where my daughter comes in....since the moment I heard this song I have thought of her....she is so full of life at 10 and has so much to go though just yet...and I know the heartbreak and the let downs and such will be there BUT I also know the wonderment of life too..the special moments, becoming a woman, becomming a wife and a mother....becomming part of a sisterhood of woman....and I pray every day I get to see her do all of that. My mother didn't get to see my sisters do all that...and that is hard for me to deal with....and I feel so blessed that she did get to see all of that happen for me...guess there was a reason for starting so early! LOL I just hope when the day comes for Amanda and Denise that they know that I am there for them!

100 Years

I'm 15 for a momentCaught in between 10 and 20And I'm just dreamingCounting the ways to where you are
I'm 22 for a momentShe feels better than everAnd we're on fireMaking our way back from Mars
15… there's still time for youTime to buy and time to lose15…there's never a wish better than thisWhen you only got 100 years to live…
I'm 33 for a momentStill the man but you see I'm a theyA kid on the wayA family on my mind
I'm 45 for a momentThe sea is highAnd I'm heading into a crisisChasing the years of my life
15… there's still time for youTime to buy and time to lose yourselfWithin a morning star
15… I'm all right with you15… there's never a wish better than thisWhen you only got 100 years to live…
Half time goes bySuddenly you’re wiseAnother blink of an eye67 is goneThe sun is getting highWe're moving on...
I'm 99 for a momentDying for just another momentAnd I'm just dreamingCounting the ways to where you are
15… there's still time for you22… I feel her too33… you’re on your wayEvery Day's a new Day
15… there's still time for youTime to buy and time to chooseHey 15… there's never a wish better than thisWhen you only got 100 years to live

The next song on that CD reminds me totally of Amanda....if you dont know Amanda....boy are you missing out...LMAO!!!! As any of you who know me know me as a talker...well magnify me by about 20% and you have Amanda....She talks like she is from the Valley! LMAO...haha!!! But she is a good kid. I say kid because I remember the day she was born...and how tiny she was...she is still tiny...the shortest one of the three of us...BUT she has the biggest set of tatas you have ever seen! No just kidding...the second! I love to to peices though! Big boned and all! HA! Amanda left home when she was 13...never to return! Not that it was a bad thing...it was actually the bes thing for her. I could go into it all but for her sake I wont! That and you never really know what the truth is with her! Just when you think you got her figured out..she does something that totally defies everything you think of her! Go figure she is one of us.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/amandatveidt/

She talks to Angels
Black Crows

She never mentions the word addictionIn certain companyYes, she’ll tell you she’s an orphanAfter you meet her familyShe paints her eyes as black as night, nowPulls those shades down tightYeah, she gives a smile when the pain comes,The pain’s gonna make everything alrightSays she talks to angels,They call her out by her nameShe talks to angels,Says they call her out by her nameShe keeps a lock of hair in her pocketShe wears a cross around her neckYes, the hair is from a little boyAnd the cross is someone she has not met, not yetSays she talks to angels,Says they all know her nameOh yeah, she talks to angels,Says they call her out by her nameShe don’t know no lover,None that I ever seenYes, to her that ain’t nothingBut to me, yeah me,It’s everythingShe paints her eyes as black as night nowShe pulls those shades down tightOh yeah, there’s a smile when the pain comes,The pain’s gonna make everything alright, alright yeahShe talks to angels,Says they call her out by her nameOh yeah, yeah, angelsCall her out by her nameOh, angelsThey call her out by her nameOh, she talks to angelsThey call her outYeah, they call her outDon’t you know that they call her out by her name

The next one of course would be about Denise....my baby sister...the little one...the quiet one..that is till you piss her off then she can't' shut up! Which is ok because I can out talk her still! She turned 20 this November..heartbreaking that we couldn't be together...in fact we didn't even speak on the phone it was just to hard. She and I have a bond that is unmistakeable. Maybe years of living together have something to do with that. After her parents divorced and she ping ponged back and forth she finally landed at my house...and for years she was there...God I miss her so very much! Not that I don't miss Amanda, but I have had oh what it is it now...almost 10 years to get used to the idea that she isn't gonna be around..that and she was much better off where she went....now she lives in Japan...well at least I think she does..I haven't spoken to her in weeks so who knows where she is now! The moon! OK back to Necy Nay! Between boyfriends, kids, husbands (ok well I am the only one married) and all that jazz we have always been together. I begged her to move to Oklahoma with us....but we both knew it wasn't gonna happen. It was time for her to be cut loose and to become an adult! She has her own place now...with a guy who is a sweetheart...and I hope for her happiness everyday. We don't speak all that often...I could call all the time, but I know how she is...unless it is dire need she isnt gonna call...and I am not gonna bug...don't want to be the overbearing bitch ya know! HAHA!!! Back to that bond thing....the day I got the call that our mother died, the second I hung up the phone...she called me and I composed myself enough to say hello...and she said IMMEDIATLY whats wrong...I said what do you mean...she said she had woke up and she knows something is wrong AM I OK!?! I have to say that was the hardest conversation I have ever had in my entire life!!!! I told her to wait there I would be there in a minute we needed to talk...telling her was heatwrenching...since she was moms favorite, yes I am ok with that...and they were the closest! I love her as much as I love my kiddos...anyway...here is hers
(yes I know not the most flattering pic, but the true Necy Nay)

Meet Virginia-Train

She doesn't own a dressHer hair is always a mess, You catch her stealin' she won't confessShe's Beautiful.Smokes a pack a day, but wait, That's me, but anywayShe doesn't care a thing About that hair,She thinks I'm beautifulMeet VirginiaShe never comprimises,Loves babies and surprises,wears high heels whenshe exercisesAin't it beautuifulMeet VirginiaWell she wants to be the QueenThen she thinks about her scenePulls her hair back as she screams"I don't really wanna be the Queen"Daddy wrestles alligatorsMama works on carboratorsHer brother is a fine mediator For the presidentAnd here she is again on the phonejust like me hates to be alonewe just like to sit at homeand rip on the PresidentMeet Virginia, Mmmm...Well she wants to live her lifeThen she thinks about her lifePulls her hair back, as she screams"I don't really wanna live this life"She only drinks coffee at midnightWhen the moment is not right Her timing is quite, unusualYou see her confidence is tragic, but herIntuition magic And the shape of her body?UnusualMeet Virgina I can't wait toMeet Virginia, yeah e yeah hey hey heyWell she wants to be the queen and then she thinks about her scene Well she wants to live her lifethen she thinks about her lifePulls her hair back as she screams "I don't really wanna be the queen"I, I don't really wanna be the queenI, I don't really wanna be the queenI, I don't really wanna live this

Well that is about it for now...this is gonna run long and it is just me rambling on and on! Emotions are running high today with my family and the kids are gonna be home soon so I better go! Shan

HELLO

Ever have one of those days that you just wanna go back to bed and start over again? Well THANK GOD today was not one of those days! Although it wasn’t the best day I have had in a while….I think the best day I had this week was hmm…I would have to say Sunday or Monday….anyways….I got up this morning and it was 5am…which is pretty typical for me…my first thought was
GO BACK TO BED

BUT as I always do I worked though my first few thoughts and made my coffee found the toilet seat make me go Owww it is cold in here…and turned on my computer! Low and behold my inbox is full of wonderful messages from the best site on the net, atruckerswife.com which I just love! And I have messages from the wonderful ladies I have grown to know and love! I read and write back and so happy to see a few there and a few that have decided to not be there at this point it makes me sad because they are such smart wonderful ladies!

Then I chat with a couple of my favorite people and find out how their days are gonna go and check in with my sister whom I believe has fallen off the face of the Earth (YES Amanda that is about you HINT HINT)

Anyway I have my day..which included a quick trip to Walmart to buy a phone charger that we didn’t need anyway and about 30 bucks worth of cookies and such for the kids, whom are gonna be home soon! Anyway ended up having to give DJ my phone because his took a crap…won’t work at all…NOTHING NATTA DAMN IT! So I don’t have my cell, which after bitching about getting it I feel lost without it! LOL

I get home to see that I have more messages from my wonderful new friends and that brightens up my day! I also have three packages from the post lady…who becomes my best friend this time of year. One is the purse Kaci Dawn is gonna go nuts over…it is the one with the soldier kissing the girl at the end of WW2. We went to every store in Amarillo for three months looking for one and no one ever had it…BUT that is ok I got it on Ebay!!! YEAH!!! And then my make up from Karen came in..oh BTW anyone wanna buy Mary Kay let me know and I will put you in contact with the best rep they have! And then the summer sausages I always get from my grandfather at Christmas got here today..so it is official…IT IS CHRISTMAS!!!

That spirit I was looking for smacked me upside the head! YEAH!! I am so much happier now! I will have a good Christmas! That and the kids will be getting out of school soon…Friday in fact. I know I will be ready for them to go back when it is time, but knowing that Regina will be here to let them have someone to play with and then Anna will be here and hopefully Denise and Ben and Kaci and Brenna and Hoey Joey! That is the hope at least!

I have realized though that I need a break…I need a break from being Mom and wife and business person. I am going to schedule a weekend in January to go to Vega without the kids…that is pretty much the only place I have to go and have a free place to stay! LOL

Well the kids are home so I better go for now…know this one was lame but I have a rant or two in me that I will get out later…I am sure of it! LOL Shannon

Snakes

THEY GROW 'EM BIG IN TEXAS!!!This snake was recently found at the old Turkey Creek gas plantlocated just south of the Alibates Turnoff on Highway 136 south of Fritch Texas.[THAT'S JUST NORTH OF AMARILLO]A reminder that these creatures are actually out there and no matterwhat you believe, sometimes they should get not only prescriptiverights to be there but the full right of way!9 feet, 1! inch - 97 lbs.No matter what anybody else tells you, kill the snake before you try to do anything else to it! It's the safest way for you and the snake doesn't care anymore.DEEP-FRIED RATTLESNAKE1 medium-sized rattlesnake (3-4 lbs.), cut into steaks1/2 cup flour1/4 cup cornmeal1/4 cup cracker crumbs1/2 cup milk1 egg1/4 teaspoon garlic powder (not garlic salt)1 teaspoon saltdash pepperMix dry ingredients. Whisk milk into beaten egg and use to dip snake steaks. Then coat them with dry ingredients. Fry, uncovered, in 400 degree oil until brown.

Hair Color

Hey There
So tell me something…which is better…..Red head

Or real dark brown….I would have to say blackish

I am going to cut it again either today or tomorrow and be done with three different colors and I am trying to get everyone’s opinion on it!!!

So what do ya think?

Light or Dark?

PS OK Jenn this is for you....although I have to warn you I was accused by a sweetheart of a man of being 'stoned" in this photo....Yeah you know who you are that accused me of that! He has since recanted and knows darn good and well that that isn't the case...although I do believe some allergy meds and sun had a lot to do with the look...Shan

A Brand New Day

Well today is a brand new day! I am going to try to keep looking at it as just that!!! Time to start over with me and with the kids. I know some of their problem is MOM has no desire to have Christmas this year!!!! I have been so POed about being in this house and it not being big enough and being cluttered and then I get the decor out to put up and it is all for my house in Texas.....the last few Christmas' I have made that house look wonderful and all the decorations had their own spot and I have even bought things that would go great in the house...and poof I am stuck in this dang trailer that has no room to breathe in it!!! BUT I have always been proud of myself for being one of those kinds of people that can adapt to anything!! And this I have to adapt too!!!! I have got to get over myself and just do it!!!! That is part of their problem....MOM doesn't seem to give a crap so why should we? SOOO it is time to be the example and not the whinning butt I have been being!!! Hey isn't that so adult of me?
As for the grounding...Shelby is ungrounded...she is the only one that didn't come out of her room 100 times and beg and cry and plead to get out...she took her punishment and got though it!! Zach on the other hand is still grounded....he would NOT stop coming out of his room and whaling all night....so he gets one more day. I explained it all to him and he doesn't like it but says he understands!!!! We will see how today goes. Hopefully tomorrow night we can decorate the tree. I have yet to get them any special ornaments this year....see I just don't have my crap together yet!!! I gotta pull it out!
There is another problem too.....I am trying to keep this business running and get work done and I am the only one doing it on this end, and of course not getting much understanding on certian ends of this. I CANNOT make this business the ONLY thing I do I have kids to pay attention too and I feel as if I have forgotten that. SO I have to get my crap together and realize that I can only do this certian times of the day....
OK well I am done rambling for now at least I think I am! Wish me luck today....hopefully I will get everything else back to storage and get the rest of the christmas stuff out and get this show on the road...maybe even drop by walmart or big lots or somewhere and get ornamets! We will see........

Do you know......

Do you know what it is like to try to put up Christmas decorations with a howling kid in the back ground because he has pushed it so far that he got himself grounded....and I am not going to give in because that is what he wants and expects....I gotta make a stand and that is what I am trying to do but Christmas spirit and howling bawling children.....no matter how many times I say STOP IT...he doesn't stop...they just dont go together!!!!!!!!!!!!


I am sitting here tears running down my face so bad I wanna say OK you can come out if you promise to be good...but I know he won't be and I will be the push over once again.....so I am gonna stop decorating for tonight....and go about my night...baths, dinner and bed....that is all I can do! Maybe tomorrow I will have a better outlook on it all!!!! Maybe......

Oh and of course there is no support there....I call their dad to say hey ya know this is what I am going through....all I got was hey I gotta go I am loading up....call ya later!!! Sucks sometimes....just sucks....

My final word for the day....BAH HUM BUG!!!!!!!

I have said it once...I will say it again...

THIS IS WRONG........



'Brokeback Mountain' wins best pic of 2005 from the L.A. Film Critics Assoc."Brokeback Mountain," the film adaptation of Annie Proulx's story of the enduring but thwarted love between two cowboys won the award for best picture of 2005 from the L.A. Film Critics Association.


I can't stress how wrong this is and how people are eating this shit up!!!! As I stated before I grew up with Cowboys and there are some damn fine cowboys rolling in their graves as we speak!!! THIS IS SICK AND WRONG!!!
Now if you make a movie about a drunken cowboy screwing a cow on occasion or even beating his wife and throwing his kid on a horse that no one was ment to ride...then yeah I would say Heck yeah that is a good fine way to show what a cowboy is like!!!
WATCH LONESOME DOVE...those are cowboys and there was NO love story in that between two men!!!!! There was a friendship story but damn it they LOVED WHORES!!! WOMAN WHORES!!!!!!

Made the Decission.....

Well this will be a Christmas to remember for my children!
I have decided, well we decided that this is NOT going to be about gifts this year! Not because we can't afford it...but because I know they have had a hard year, I understand that, but it has brought out the worst in them! I have no control over the situation anymore!
After the spitting, bitting, and all the other crap that occured yesterday and the threats of NO CHRISTMAS going in one ear and out the other, we have decided that there will be minimum gifts under the tree this year, and mostly things they need! They will get a couple of toyish gifts, that I have already gotten them! BUT they are not going to get the special stuff they usually get!
They will learn this year it is about being together and having a family! There are to many people in this world that dont have that! And they do...they have parents who love them to no end, they have each other...I would give almost anything to have one more Christmas with my parents and my sisters like it was back in the day! The pasta suppers on Christmas Eve and my clutzie sister spilling her entire plate of speghetti (SP) on the freshly shampooed carpet! And watching the sheer terror in her eyes as she looked up at Mom and Mom laughing herself into hystarics because she just KNEW it was gonna happen anyway! Maybe those three beers she had while cooking and preparing for everyone to be there had something to do with that? Hmm.....
Those are the things I remember, I could not tell you one dang thing I got that year....but I can tell you that that stain stayed on our carpet till we moved out! And my uncle brought his guitar and we all sang together! I can tell you the holidays that I had with my uncles whom I adored and the years they came home from college and what all we did...football in the front yard, golfing and whacking a ball into the church window! Things like that....I can't tell ya a dang thing I got though!
I can tell you my mom tried her best to make sure all gifts were equal in price and size and how she would fret looking under the tree counting gifts every day till Christmas to make sure it was all fair...and how she went all out every year to make it a great Christmas.
The only gift I can tell you I ever got was Trucks! When I was 3 or 4 that is all I wanted was a set of trucks! And when you are the only child of a very poor woman who worked her ass off to make the bills...and you got the ONLY thing you asked for, how she pulled it off I am not sure, I think my Grandfather had something to do with that, that is what is special! I want the kids to feel that! To look back and know exactly how it felt to wake up Christmas morning and smell the coffee and breakfast cooking, and how warm and toasty the house was and how great the hot chocolate tasted....not what I got when I was 11!
OK I have worked myself into tears thinking about all if it! It is about family and dang it we are a family! It broke my heart to hear Lane say yesterday, I hate this family, you all suck and I wished I had a different family! That hurt...we do so much for them, and they take it all for granted...well this year that isn't gonna happen!
This isn't gonna be easy...trust me it goes against EVERYTHING I know not to get them EVERYTHING they want! BUT it will be worth it...maybe not till 20 years from now, but it will be worth it! OK shannon keep telling yourself that and maybe you will believe it! HAHA

I have made loads of plans of things we are all going to do together, and have FUN...DAMN IT...we will have fun!!! LOL We are going to make Santa cookies, we are going to go to Bricktown and go sleding at the ball park, we are going to go look at all the lights, and sing Christmas carols, and we are going to make gifts for our siblings!!!!

Wish me luck!!!!!! Shannon

Kids for Rent....CHEAP!!!!!!!

I used to have a red shirt and with white letters on it when I was a kid that said that..."Kid for rent...CHEAP" LMAO!!! I now understand it!
If mine aren't doing EXACTLY the opposite of what I have asked them to do today, they are trash talking one another, or trying to rip one another apart!
This all stems from all the pent up BS Shelby had in her head from her Daddy being home this past week....she acts like an angel when he is home and a total monster when he isn't! I called her on it today...well actually I asked her what the hell her problem was...and Zach popped up...She is getting out all her anger since Daddy aint here! And the light bulb went off....he is right she is a terror when he is gone and lil ms perfect when he is around! Zach acts different because he is defending himself constantly with her. NOT to say he is always the victim all the time because I am not stupid I know he instigates a lot of it with his mouth! I do know that....BUT DAMN IT...she is really pushing everyones buttons today! As I sit here and write this I can hear the banter back and forth! I just don't get it! I am so frustrated with them..I have ever threatened to have no christmas! NONE NO gifts NOTHING and anything anyone gets them will be put up till next year! And nothing...I got no response out of them...maybe it is because they know I won't do it...man if I just had the will power to do it!!! I just can't...that is to much! Maybe Santa will visit this year and that is it! I am at my wits end. Can ya tell!!!!!!
Lane got in trouble ALL week long at school again...minus Thursday the day after his Dad got onto him and he was good other than that he has been a real brat! Getting up and talking in the middle of class, not paying attention, flipping someone off....the list goes on and on...I think I get more emails from HIS teacher than I do from my entire family!!!! That is bad! I have had it with them!
I did however impliment a new thing. IF it is on the floor come bed time it is mine and they have to buy it back with chores! And I have made a list of chores that are specifically for that reason. Anyone think that is a good idea? We will see how it works out! I am just done!
Back to Shelby, I asked her why she isn't a bart brain when her daddy is here but is a totally disrespectful hateful brat when he isn't! Her response...Because Daddy is loud and he scares me when he is getting onto me...he yells real loud! I about fell out...I YELL all the time...I scream sometimes...and on occasion I have been known to throw myself in the floor to show how crazy they look when they do it! I don't spank though...that is my thing...I don't spank and I don't hit! I can count on one hand how many times I have spanked or smacked Zach and Shelby! Lane that is another story...I swated him with the belt Tuesday for calling a girl in his class a bitch...he goes to school the next day and flips someone else off!!! They are out of control! Anyone have any parenting ideas...I am all ears!
Well crap listen to this...last night while Lane and I were sleeping Zach and Shelby decided to paint Lanes toenails and finger nails and put makeup on him and marker him up with I have no idea what on his legs and "Princess" on his ass!!!! LMAO Yes that is funny I agree it is funny....BUT I have to be the parent...and Lane was devastated! I will get them back...I told them that would be their punishment! I would get them back!!! Sleep with one eye open kids!!! LMAO!!!!! BUT the point in all of that is they got along enough to do that...SO I know they can get along! I know they can....they got along so well I was sleeping right next to Lane and never heard them!!! NOW that is scary!!! But in my defense I had taken some cold meds before bed!
Anyways I better go before they hang each other in there!!! Any help is greatly appreciated!!!!!
Shannon

Sadness

I have sad news. I got a call from back home yesterday telling me that a young man that I have known for as long as I can remember passed away.
He was taking a shower and there was carbon monoxide in the room and well you know the rest. I ask everyone to pray for his family. This has got to be a horid time for them. He was 15 years old. This has got to be quite a blow to the family. I can't imagine losing one of my children. It saddens me to think of their loss.
One good thing that did come about all of this....it sure did make me take stock in what is truly important in life. I was whinning about my piddly little problems and they just don't seem that important in the grand scheme of things.
Anyways...I wanted to share that with you all...please remember the reason fo the season is not to buy gifts....and max out your credit cards....and make your kids happy for about 2.2 seconds....it is family and the birth of Chirst. Not santa and elves and mass marketed BS!!!!!!!!
Shannon

Soccer is over!!!

Yes that is right soccer season is over! Our last game was a tie 3-3! Not to bad...if we would have had 10 more seconds we would have scored one more time...the kid was right there. Oh well...Zach did well this season has a few assists and quite a few blocks! I was pretty impressed with him this season.
AND YES we will do it again in the spring! Coaching...hmmm....not something I really wanna do but I will!!! It is fun and if we can get a good team going and they learn some team work we will do great!!!
As for everything else going on.....hmmmmmm......not much else is happening. Trying to work on this trip and get DJ going on it. This morning he has a date with the kids to take them to breakfast at McDonalds...which is great because I wasn't invited!!! YEA!!!
Gotta go for now! Laters...Shannon

DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!

As some of you know I have been working my buttenski off this week to get my office moved out of the living room into the other bedroom that we don't use! Well, as of 1pm today I got it done!!
NOW if someone would like to come over and take care of the mess in the living room and take EVERYTHING else to storage I would appreciate it!!! LMAO!!!!!
I am pretty proud of how it turned out! AND had my digital camera had not got broken I would take a pic so you could see it...BUT maybe Santa will be nice to me this year and replace the one "he" broke!!! HINT HINT HINT!!!!
Anyways I wanted to share the good news!!! Thanks to everyone who let me vent this week!!! Shan

Yeah Yeah Yeah...I know

Yes I know I haven't written in a while. I feel as if I cannot get anything totally accomplished these days. I have about 10 different things going on and none of them are getting finished. YES I know one thing at a time...but they are all requiring my attention at the same time. I forgot just how demanding this business that we both really love can be. Get him here and there and everywhere. Talk to this person that person and keep it all straight and remember who is in what time zone and who is paying what and when. You have at least two to three different people you have to talk to per horse. It is fun and the pay off is great...ALL bills for December minus two have already been paid. Some Christmas has been done. And DJ got his birthday presents...which I would like to add that I got NOTHING for my birthday from him...therefore he got sweat pants from the Family Dollar from me! Although the kids did make me beautiful gifts for my birthday with his help so they all put their allowance together and bought him the Garth Brooks boxed set...I told him he was getting the Dukes of Hazard movie from them! HAHA!!!! And that is what I told Lane too that way the surprise value will still be there!
As of this morning there is heavy smoke in the air and it smells awful, and they are reporting on the news no one knows where it is coming from but there are 4 counties full of people that can smell it! I guess the collective group of us are all just losing it! At least that is the way the chick on the news acts!!! OH well screw her!
Well I have to go for now....kids need to go to school today and I need to finish my office, get things into and out of storage and get this house looking somewhat like a house instead of the junk room!!! Anyone wanna come and do my laundry for me? At least fold it and put it away...that is the one real problem I have with laundry....I once had a teacher in high school that said she would rather eat a live bug then do laundry....her husband brought her a live bug and she ate it in class....he did laundry for a year! I believe they are divorced now.....hmmm wonder what they is? LOL Laters, Shan