I can see I'm gonna be lucky to update this thing a couple of times a week. It just gets pushed to the end of the list (the never ending list, that is). Darrell's over on the bed watching some silly teenage horror movie called Wrong Turn. It's got these kids trapped in the forests of West Virginia being hunted by some crazy inbred mountain men. I wonder how offended the people of W. Va are? LOL

We had to move the fish tank over today. It was stressing the floor too bad where it was. We had to move it to where it was closer to the cross beams or some such. I'm really not sure. But I tell you, moving that thing is a bitch. We had a 32 gallon garbage can, half of another one (Darrell had previously cut some of it off, reason unknown), and I had to go buy three more. We had to siphon all the water out, take out all the live rock, fish, corals, starfish, shrimp, snails, crabs, etc. etc. and put them in something else. We got the water down to about 2-3" with all the crushed coral still in the bottom and we could.not.budge the thing. We had to dip the rest of the water and coral out with a bowl, and then we could barely scoot the thing two feet down the floor. Ugh. It took all Darrell and I could do together to lift the empty tank up on the stand. IT is 6 feet long, probably 2 feet deep, and the glass is thick. Darrell started at about 9:30 or 10, and it was 2 by the time he got everything put back together and put up. I made him do most of the work, it's his tank. LOL

Shelby has been a whiny ass today. She's feeling bad, running a low temp and got throat problems. I don't know if anything hurts, she doesn't act like it. She has a slight cough, but it's not all the time, just occasionally. When she does cough though, or when she cries, it sounds like she's losing her voice, that raspy kind of sound. She's been tugging at her right ear too, but she's not having trouble sleeping or anything, so I'm comfortable letting it go for a bit longer and seeing if she can shake it. I'd like to avoid the doctor's office if possible at the moment. I don't want to go in for a slight ear infection and her end up with the flu.

This next week is the kids' last before Christmas break. Friday morning they'll just go in long enough to have a short Christmas party. Hunter's room is ordering breakfast from Hardee's, so I have to send in $1 on Monday for him to have a sausage biscuit. They aren't exchanging gifts in his classroom, and the teachers asked that you don't send them gifts either. I am still baking cookies for them, and for Kenzie's teacher too. Mackenzie's room is also having a breakfast, but her teacher is supplying the food. They are doing a coloring book exchange, we bought the coloring books last night - it's a $2 limit, so we bought two $1 books. I can't believe how much coloring books cost. The cheapest Wal-Mart had after the $.97 was $2.62, and some were even $3-4. That's crazy. I can go print a bunch of Spongebob pictures off the internet. Screw the $4 coloring books.

Someone is coming by in the morning to look at Darrell's truck and possibly buy it. Darrell doesn't like to drive anymore because of anxiety, and the Paxil doesn't help while driving. He got the truck in February, and hasn't driven it since July. He made a fairly decent check this week, but half of it went to the electric bill, and the rest was nickel and dimed up, $20 to send a few boxes at the PO, $30 at Wal-Mart for diapers, wipes, garbage bags, etc. Things like that. I still lack about $175 being finished Christmas shopping for my kids, and about $65 being finished shopping for our swaps. So hopefully the guy will want to give us $500 for the truck tomorrow and I can get finished. If he doesn't, I don't know what we're going to do. How am I going to explain to Hunter that Santa came for Mackenzie and Shelby but not him? Ugh, I don't even want to think about it. It'll work out, it has to. And starting next month, I am putting back $5-10 dollars of every paycheck in the safebox, so we'll at least have money at the end of the year to get our kids' gifts. I know December is slow every year, and yet I wait until then to try to pay bills and buy gifts all at the same time. I'm an idiot.