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Sunday, August 08, 2004
I had nothing. I still have nothing. I'm only writing because I haven't written in weeks. I have nothing to say, nothing much on my mind. I'm just tired, exhausted, I wanna go to sleep. I wanna go shopping, I wanna hug. Thats about it. I'm sorry. Sometimes you just feel blah! Today's that day for me. I'm not sad or anything, not depressed but I'm not happy either. I just .......am. So thats me for today. Aren't you glad you checked me out?? Thought so. Don't worry, I'll be back up next time!
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That vexes me. I am terribly vexed. ~Caesar, Gladiator
Posted at 2:40:06 pm by JennyTECC
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Wednesday, July 28, 2004
I must be crazy. I can't sleep so I'm on the computer wasting valuable sleeping time. It's been a crazy two weeks so far. Having my sister's kids along with my own four has proved to be exhausting. But it's slowly coming to an end. Heather and Genaro will be here tomorrow night and we are all looking forward to seeing them arrive. They will stay a couple nights and leave on Sun. It should be a nice visit. Eli swallowed a marble at lunch today and Aunt Jenny had a mild heart-attack. All is well though and things should pass in a couple days. :)~ It's been great getting to see them and have all the cousins play together even though I felt all I did was yell. I hope they had a good time.
We got a cable modem yesterday so I am getting used to the pros and cons of not having AOL, which I am very used to. It's soooo much quicker and we downloaded like 12 songs in a matter of minutes as to where a dial up connection could take HOURS and I mean HOUR. The kind of hours that make up several days! So already it was worth it. It's just hard transferring all of your email addy's and buddy list people and letting everybody know whats up. Hopefully everyone got the email I sent with the new info. If not just write in the comment section and I'll let you know whats up. Well I'm freezing so I'm gonna get into bed now. Nice talking with ya'll. Until next time..........
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I got nothin, sorry! It's too early to be creative. ~Jennifer
Posted at 4:41:47 am by JennyTECC
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Friday, July 16, 2004
And Then There Was A Modem.........
.........And Jen said it was good!!! Yes, people I realize it's been an extremely long time since I enlightened you. But Alas, it was to no fault of my own. Well over a week ago, we had this massive thunderstorm that decided to seek out and destroy our modem. So I went a long time with no access to my computer, email or my blog. Thanks to my computer hubby all is well in the house of Faber. A lot has occurred the last two weeks. But I doubt I can recall it all. I will try. I am once again talking to my friend Faith. She is doing really well and is moving on nicely with someone single, unmarried and a little closer to her age. She's hard to keep up with.
Tuesday morning Jeremy and I drove to Atlanta to meet my sister Heather so we could pick up her kids, Gabby, Elijah and Kelsey to spend a couple weeks with us. It's making for a full house since we now have 7 kids here. It's like having 3 sets of twins because I have two 5 mos olds, two 3 yr olds and two 4 yr olds, and then there's Gabby, the 7 yr old. Fun Fun. We are having a good time. They are all terrorizing the neighborhood and making friends. I am going to take them pretty soon to see the fireworks on the beach. They are every Friday night during the tourist season and they are really good. I am looking forward to Heather coming in a couple weeks, hopefully with her husband to spend a few days. Should be fun.
The boys are now just over five months old. They are getting so big. Connor can roll over completely now, and Cade can only get 3/4 of the way from his back to his tummy. He just can't get over his shoulder yet. I had to take them to get shots yesterday. They did really good. Cade didn't even flinch this time. But Connor made up for it. He stopped crying after I picked him up though. Gabby is quite the little helper with them. She loves to feed Connor. And she's a little too eager to pick them up and carry them around, no matter how many times I have to tell her. Well I gotta get ready to go. Until next time..............
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"I get to keep everything I find on the floor" ~ My 3 yr old neice Kelsey after she found a penny on my bedroom floor.
Posted at 7:45:39 pm by JennyTECC
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Boy, it's been a long time. Sorry folks!! I've been busy around the house and haven't stopped long enough to write in here. Not much has really gone on, just normal everyday stuff. Jeremy and I did get to go see The Terminal this past Saturday afternoon. It was a really good movie, and I really enjoyed spending time with Jeremy. Movies always used to be our thing, since thats how we met, working at the movie theater. We would go ALL the time before the kids were born. It made it really hard to rent movies with other people because we had already seen them all. Now we hardly ever see any, together that is. We hardly get to just get out of the house together, without the kids, for that matter. We need to institute a "date night" and stick to it. We both need it.
So that was basically the weekend, we went to Church on Sunday and that was very nice. Monday night I went to AppleBees, to bid farewell, along with many others, to my friend Eileen. She is in the van as we speak, well as I type and you read, to move to Alaska. Her husband got orders a couple months ago, out of the blue. They left probably within the last hour. It is going to be a 10 day trip in the van. 5 Days to get to Washingtion and then 3 days just on the Ferry to Alaska and then 2 more to drive to their base, which I think is in Anchorage. That is a long trip, especially when you include a grumpy husband, two kids, a dog and a $600 bird that *rings* like a telephone. Jim, her husband, said that if that bird *rings* the whole trip its going to become a Lynard Skynard song!! :) I thought that was funny. That song always reminds me of you, Mom. Boys Suck! Anyways, Tricia and I went over to where they were staying last night so we could say goodbye for real, and we gave her a picture of the three of us that was taken Monday night. We matted it and wrote things on the mat and framed it for her. It was a nice picture. She seemed to like it a lot. We're sad to see her go. I would love to live in Alaska one day. I hear it is soooo beautiful! My across-the-street neighbors were stationed there and they loved it so much that that is where they want to retire. So it must be nice. It would be hard to get used to it being dark half the year and light the other half. Thats very interesting to me. We got home a little later than I wanted to, and then I didn't get to bed for awhile, which was bad, because I had to wake up early for an 8:30am dentist appt. AAAAAHHHHH!! I had to get my root canal finished. My tongue is still numb and tingly, I hate that feeling. I hate the pain that shows up when the meds wear off. I have to back in a month to get the partial crown put on and then 3 weeks after that I get the real one. Hopefully I will not continue to have problems with it. I am n my 4th round of antibiotics to take care of the infection that is making a home in my molar. I hope it takes this time. Well I am starving because I have not eaten yet so I'm gonna go for now. Until next time.........
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God answers prayers!
Posted at 11:08:57 am by JennyTECC
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Tuesday, June 15, 2004
7 Years, One Day and The Rest Of Our Lives
Yesterday was Jeremy's and my 7 year anniversary. I am so amazed at how time flies. We didn't intend on being able to do anything because it was the day before payday and we had no money. We planned on going out to dinner and a movie this weekend. Well, thanks to Bank of Tricia we were able to go out to eat last night. We came up with the brilliant plan that I would write Tricia a check and she would "cash" it. So thats what we did. She came over last night at 7 and Jeremy and I had a nice dinner at Ruby Tuesdays. I always get the New Orleans Seafood Platter. I LOVE it!! And for dessert, Jeremy ordered the Strawberry Tall cake. Which basically is Strawberry shortcake but in a huge glass bowl thats on a pedestal. The waitress brought it to us with two spoons. It was VERY romantic. We had a really nice time together, very good conversation. I loved every minute of it. It was nice to celebrate on the actual date. We are planning on going to the movie this weekend. We have both decided that we want to see The Terminal, which releases this weekend and stars Tom Hanks, one of my favorites. I am excited. Happy Anniversary Honey, I love you . I can't wait to have more anniversary's with you. Here's to finally getting our shit together!! :)
Today I was VERY productive. I am turning into quite the little housewife. It's about time. I did massive amounts of laundry, cleaned and beautified my back patio, cleaned my bedroom (and even made my bed mom, aren't you proud?) kept up my living room and kitchen and the list goes on and on. Somewhere in there I still managed to feed and dress my kids. I love it when my house is clean, makes me feel like a good wife and mom. Think I'll keep it up. Well I am tired so I guess I'm gonna hit it. Until next time.........................
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I got you babe. ~ Sonny and Cher
Posted at 10:48:50 pm by JennyTECC
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Thursday, June 10, 2004
I am soooo tired today and I'm sick to boot. I was planning on going to church last night but around 6pm I started to feel like I was coming down with a cold. Emma had woke up from her nap about the same time and said she felt sick and Jeremy took her temperature and it was 100.6 . Tanner has had a small cold since the beginning of the week and I guess it's making its way around. The babies woke up around 6:45am and I got them fed and changed and back in bed. Tanner and Emma came and laid down with me and we all went back to sleep. It was so nice, I love to sleep when I'm sick. But about 8am I get this phone call, which is not abnormal for me because Faith usually calls me every morning, but it wasn't her. It was my friend Eileen, and she need a babysitter, in 15 minutes. I was not happy about having to get out of bed, especially when all four kids were sleeping and ESPECIALLY since I was very fatigued from being sick. But she was in a jam and what are friends for. It was all I could do not to pass out during the Baby Looney Toons. My head is killing me, I just want to hibernate. After Jeremy came home this morning from P.T. he told me that he will have off tomorrow due to the President closing up shop in rememberance of President Reagan. I was very happy to hear this.
This afternoon I talked to the college advisor about starting classes in the Fall. I'm getting things ready. My major will probably change a million times but for right now I am going to get my A.A. in Art, which if I continue, will get me a four year B.F.A. degree. I'm kinda thinking of getting into education too, so I can teach one day. My passion, my dream, my ultimate desire is to be a photographer but there isn't a school that is close enough to me right now. Hopefully one day I can do what I really want. It's going to take me longer than the usual 2 years to get my Associate degree because I can't go full time, but I'm hoping I can finish before Jeremy get's orders for another base. I have about 4-5 years, I figure. And I'll probably need it. I really hope I can do this. I would be so proud of myself if I got a degree. Even if I didn't do anything with it, I could still be a housewife and mother with an education and thats worth a lot to me. Right now, God forbid anything happen to my husband because I have no idea how I would support my family. I have nothing, no money, no home of my own, no education, nothing! I think this would help me feel better about myself. Pray for me, that I will be able to apply myself and learn and still take care of my family and myself. Thanks. Well, I gotta feed the chub. Until next time...............
Quote of The Day
A Warrior of the Light does not waste his time listening to provocations; he has a destiny to fulfill. ~Paulo Coelho
Posted at 3:31:58 pm by JennyTECC
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Saturday, June 05, 2004
That's how I feel right now. It's been a really good week here in Mississip. A lot of you are going to think I misspelled that, but thanks to my brother-in-law thats what I call it now. My friend from back home arrived Tuesday night and we've been rolling ever since. Yesterday, we got up early and went to the Triangle to watch a Drill Down. I've been wanting to see one of those for over a year now so I took the opportunity to take Andrea and see one. It was very cool. Unfortunately 10 guns were dropped before it was all said and done. If you don't know what a Drill Down is, watch the first 5 minutes of A Few Good Men and you'll see. After that we came home and got packed to go to Dauphin Island so the kids could go to the beach to swim. We had a lot of fun and we all got sunburned in one way or another. While we were there I cut off all of Andrea's hair and we watched it float away. It was good stuff. She was sick of dyeing it and wanted to start over fresh. She is now in recovery from losing her locks. It does grow back and thats the good news. A lot more happened after that but I have a lot of catching up to do and I don't want this to be too long.
Today was Charity and Travis' wedding shower, so we all went to Bay St. Louis to Uncle Waynes house for a crawfish boil. There was a huge turn out and it was a lot of fun. On the way home I got the itch to cut my own hair so when we arrived thats just what Andrea did. I love my hair short, I just don't feel myself any other way so I am going to stop trying to be something I'm not. And I'm not a long haired girl. Everybody loves it. She did a great job. Better to me than I was to her. SORRY!!
I am excited to go to church tomorrow. I'm hoping it's as good as it was last week. I am getting everyone up early so we can go to Sunday School, so I better get off so I can get some sleep. Until next time....................
~I almost forgot!!!!!!!!!!! I have decided to go back to school. I am making plans to start some college classes in the Fall! I am so excited about the prospects!!!
Quote of the Day
The man who defends his friends is never overwhelmed by the storms of life; he is strong enough to come through difficulties and carry on.
~ Paulo Coelho
Posted at 11:40:05 pm by JennyTECC
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Monday, May 31, 2004
Today Faith and I checked out a new church. It was awesome. It's called New Life Family Church. It's a First Assembly, I think. The music and musicians were awesome, they sounded like professionals. The preacher was great and it's full of people my age. I am very excited about it. I can't wait til Wednesday!! Until Next time.............
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2 LARGE
One Topping Pizzas
$16.99 ~Papa Johns
Sorry, I had nothing!
Posted at 12:26:10 am by JennyTECC
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Thursday, May 27, 2004
Today started so early. I am so tired I wish I could sleep for a week straight. I managed to work up enough energy to clean up around here a little. The front half of my house is always my priority, since more people see it if they come over. So I got my Living room and Dining room cleaned up and I finally cleaned the space behind our recliners that had all the books and clothing I threw there after our yard sale two weeks ago. It looks really nice, which Tanner confirmed. He said it smelled good. I am addicted to Orange Glow. I love the way it smells and it cleans very well. They kids wanted to go swimming so I filled up their pool in the back yard and they spent the majority of the day outside working on their tans. Emma tans so well it makes me sick. She never burns and I don't know how she does it because she is just as fair as I am.
Jeremy had to interview, I guess you would say, with OSI so he could be cleared to get his Top Secret Securtiy Clearance. They had to ask him all sorts of questions. Unbeknownst to us this involved questioning two of our neighbors. So of course when OSI came knocking on their doors they were scared out of their minds because they thought they were coming to question them about all the crap thats been going on in the neighborhood. They were very relieved to find it was just about Jeremy. The lady asked them if he drank or did drugs or beat me. If he was a good father, what he did for fun and what his hobbies were. Did he have any overseas connections or something, the list goes on and on. They really talked him up, but its easy to do that because he's such a great, low-key kinda guy. They are now expecting baked-goods as payment. We'll see. I cooked dinner and then Faith and I got a brilliant idea.
We decided that it would be theraputic if we had this Burning of the Love Letters ceremony. I had a collection of letters from a past love that I needed to let go of. I have had them in my possesion for 10 years now and it was time that I give them up. She also burnt letters that she had written while being involved with the winner. We took turns reading each one out loud and then burning them in the fire pit at her house. It was very hard to do that. I burnt every letter I had, every card and every picture I had left from our relationship. But I felt it was finally time to do it. I have no need for those things anymore. I am married to a wonderful man and it wasn't fair for me to keep those things for so long. All in all, it was very freeing, a little depressing, but freeing. Faith was a little more depressed than I because her hurt is so fresh still. I tried to tell her that she is feeling the way I felt at that time but that I have so much more to be thankful for now. Four beautiful children and a man that loves me unconditionally and that would do anything for me. She agreed but quickly reminded me that it had taken me 10 years to get rid of the memories I had had with another. She got me. I shut my mouth and let her have her moment. Things will get better for her, things always have a way of working out for the best. The whole ordeal took about 3 and a half hours to complete. And now it's done and so is this blog. Until next time...............................
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To life experiences, and lessons learned. ~ Jennifer
Posted at 11:57:14 pm by JennyTECC
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Wednesday, May 26, 2004
And The Hits Just Keep On Coming
When I left you yesterday, I was updating you on how I finally spilled the beans. Well later that day Faith actually talked to the wife over the phone. It's pretty shocking if you think about it, the girlfriend calling the wife. It went fairly well until the wife got upset at the end of the conversation and hung up with her. Faith did tell her that she was in love with the butt-hole, (my words, not hers) but that she promised that she would not call him but if he called her she could not promise that she wouldn't answer the phone. So far he has made no attempt to contact her and I'm the happier for it, although Faith is really wishing she could talk to him. A feeling I hope will fade with each passing day. I can't expect her to get over 6 months in a day, so I am acting like her AA sponser everytime she feels weak. I am eagerly reminding her that he is a lying piece of crap but she keeps remembering all the "nice things" about him. I don't let her get very far with it though. She also told the wife that she has everything documented down. Every conversation, every fight she had with him and he had with his wife and anything they ever did with each other. She is forever writing something down. She has written down every fight we have ever had on her calender and in her journal. She wouldn't tell the wife about anything physical that they may or may not have done but told her that "whatever she felt in her gut was true." It was basically a conversation of questions and answers and realizations, on both parts. After that, Faiths ex called and told her that OSI (Office of Special Investigation) had paid him a visit but he wouldn't discuss anything over the phone because he thinks they have been tapped. Who knows, we haven't verified that actually happened yet. He has a tendency to bullshit us a lot and we hope that he is because this could mean serious business, all the way to a court-martial. Who knows. I bet its a bunch of crap. Still waiting for the verdict on that one. All in all, I think it's slowly coming to an end. There maybe another bump in the road. Until then Faith has decided to start writing a book on the last year and all that has happened. We changed everyones names and outlined the book. It's going to be a riot. She is having fun with it. I better get a cut when this thing gets printed thats all I have to say. Call it pain and suffering.
Faith and I took the kids along with her mom, sister, sister's boyfriend, Aunt April and the cousins to the "creek" today. It really resembled the chocolate river in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory because it was the brownest water I've ever seen. It was a little trying since I had the babies in tow but the kids seemed to love it. It was fairly shallow so the kids could cross it from one side to the other with no trouble but it did have this dip in it that got kinda deep. The older kids were playing in it. Tanner decided to join them and the next thing I knew I hear him start to scream as he's trying to keep his head above the water. The older kids were too far away so Joy and I started running toward him and Joy fished him out of the water, I saw his head go under and my heart dropped. I was so scared and so was he. I got him from Joy and wrapped him up in a towel and then he burped for an entire minute or two like he was an old man because of all the water he had swallowed. He was a little scared so he sat out for awhile but eventually got back in the water without any problem. We stayed out there a couple hours and came home. I dropped Faith and Cole off and then I took my four home to bathe and put to bed. I'm bushed. Later on I went to feed Emma's turtle, Lilo, and discovered that she was dead. I couldn't believe it. About a month ago Tanner left his turtle, Stitch, outside and who knows where it went to. So now I have a $50 fish tank and nothing in it. Emma was very sad so we buried Lilo in the backyard, near where our garden is. When we were done we started to look at our veggies but Tanner interrupted us because he wanted to pray for Lilo. So I told him ok and he prayed for Lilo himself. I couldn't understand everything he said but I did hear him say " In Jesus name Amen" It was very sweet and it made him feel better. Sorry this has been so long, I'm going to sign off for now. Until next time....................
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Compasion is YOUR pain in MY heart. ~Mom
Posted at 10:27:42 pm by JennyTECC
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