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I am so tired. I don't even know why I am still up at this hour. I really should go to bed.

We have the boyz over for awhile. Long story there. But it is nice to have my brothas here.

I am looking to get a cheap mac for a project coming up.

Not much else is going on. Still working. Needing more hours, but that will come in time.

In my iPod right now:

• Madeline Peyroux
• Mariah Carey - The Emancipation of Mimi
  
• Reba Live
• Queen Latifah
• Allison Kraus

An Upper and a Downer...

We had a pampered chef party last night, which was fun it was a Tappas party.

We had some amazing food. We only had two other people show up, other than Amy, Charmin, Cindy and myself.

The end of the night, somehow Amy got some shrimp on her and started having an allergic reaction. Our pampered chef lady is a nurse, so she had Amy take some benedryl and sit down and relax.

This next part I didn't want to post, but I am tired of just keeping my feelings all in and I need to vent somewhere, so here goes:

When everyone was leaving her mother wanted us to call the doctor and maybe take her to the emergency room. The only problem is I have no insurance and no one to watch the kids for me. She assumed I meant for her to take Amy, and she started complaining that she had work/school and coulnd't stay out all night, etc. etc. (Which, I never asked her too)

She wanted to have Tony stay the night in case I had to take her, but he didn't want to, because he had no clothes to wear. So he got upset and she started getting upset and I told him to just go, cause I didn't need to deal with attitude and a bitchy boy, while trying to take care of Amy. So I told her, "It would be fine and I will handle it, we'll just take the kids with us."

So then she decided to have Matt stay, but he didn't want to and got upset and I told him, "just go, it's fine." So he was upset and then Mona started in on him, saying, "Do you even know what's going on?", he said, "Yeah I do"

I told her it was fine, I don't want him there or Tony, and I started getting upset and then she told me, to "Just Quit".

I got furious. You don't tell me what to do in my house. I had already told her it was fine, I have other people we can call, just go. And then she goes and tells me to just quit. Sorry, but your not my mother. And frankly, my mother wouldn't tell me to do that in my house either. And she lives here!

So I got pissed, and Matt started for the door and she started in on him and I just turned towards everyone and said, "Everyone, just get out of my house." I don't remember if she said anything back, because I was so pissed off, and mainly at her, because she wouldn't let it go.

Matt got to the door and said something, and she said something back and he said something about, "Your the Problem" and I wanted to agree with him, but I held my tongue. Or I was just to pissed off to say anything.

So she kept telling me to call the doctor and basically made me feel like

1. she didn't trust me to take care of her daughter.
   
2. Made me feel incompetent. (Okay, so maybe they are the same thing or very similiar, bite me)

I just wanted everyone out of my house. I would handle it. I didn't need all these people telling me what to do.

Even though all through the night, I was doing other things and wasn't right by Amy's side, I had my ear and eyes on her. I was listening to her.

Apparantly, I was the only one, because if people would have listened to her, she said she was feeling much better and even though her throat was tight, it wasn't as tight as it was before. Just a few weeks ago, she accidentally touched wool and the same thing happend and it too passed.

People make me so mad and after the fact I always end up telling Amy what I would have said. Since she has finally been telling people off, I decided I should probably start too, otherwise people won't realize how I feel.

So there ya go. Don't tell me what to do in my house, and if I say I will take care of something, I will. I don't need someone to keep telling me what to do.

Let's scrapbook

I have really wanted to scrap book. I have so many photos it is insane. But the thought of buying all those supplies and then trying to find room for it and crap. Just was not appealing.

But, I have a new laptop and I am a graphic designer and have some really nice design programs. So why can't I make scrapbook pages on the PC?

So I have scanned all my stamps that I have collected and certain stickers I found and stuff and I have been making some scrapbook pages on the computer.

Which, is really nice, considering the majority of my photos are digital. And I found a website that has downloadable scrapbook pages.

So I am all set!

Smart House.....hmm....

I have been thinking a lot lately about the Monolithic Dome Home I want to build. I want to have in it:

• Wireless infrastructure.
  
• Sunken Game Table
• Plasma screens
• a plasma screen builletin board/calendar system that is linked to the network and can show 4 months at a time (touch operated).
• intercom/videocom system
• networked touch screens in every room to access contacts, calendar, messaging, music, video, etc.
• A grand office where all my kids computers are lined up against a wall and networked to a huge screen on the wall, so when I am in there with them and they are having a homework problem, I can put it on the screen and help. Or if we are in a networked game, I can have the game up on the wall, etc.

But I know a lot of it is wishful thinking. But I have managed to get some of this in place at my new house.

I have a wireless infrastructure (not quite mapped out like I want it, but I am working on it)

I am trying to inexpensively have all my computer users be able to connect to a main calendar file in outlook (and contacts).

I have taken an old laptop (that was collecting dust) and put it next to my phone base (on the bar in our kitchen) and placed a cool phone log program to keep track of everyones messages (which can be emailed to them) and a recipe program (connected to the server) for us to access recipes in the kitchen. And even browse the net.

I can stream my music out to any computer and to the surround sound system out in the living room (hopefully someday I will buy the router that will let me send my video out there too!

I would like to get a better modem for my old laptop and then it could be my answering machine and email the voicemessages to the appropriate people. If someone called for me at home, I would be able to get it at work and call them back!

I love technology!