I have a complaint. I like to make these little cupcakes in ice cream cones. You just make regular cake batter and pour it on into the ice cream cones. I have made them a few times, and they are always delicious. The last time I tried to make them, I poured too much water into the batter. I didn't realize it, but when I did, I tried to offset it by throwing a little more flour in. The cupcakes baked for a good 45 minutes, and they were *still* really runny. The batter never got fluffy. Well, I decided to give it another try tonight. The cupcakes are in the oven as I type this, working on dang near 40 minutes and what do ya know- they are STILL runny. I have no idea what is going on. I am doing what I have always done to make them. This time I was extra careful to measure the water exactly and everything. I am getting very frustrated at these silly little cake-cones. I am gonna go check on them AGAIN!
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Well.....runny. I give up. Maybe I wasn't meant to bake.

I enjoyed my weekend off. This weekend and next weekend will be the last Saturday's Chunk and I have off together. We had some quality time together as a family. Saturday we had pizza for sinner-and we ALL sat at the table!! Tonight I made Pork Loin and Stuffing, and the kids wouldnt touch it. Chunk and I gobbled it up though. It was good stuff.
I have another week of work ahead of me. Bah.
At least I enjoy my job. I wish it paid more and had better hours, but I enjoy being there.
I should probably go check on those cupcakes again, I gave them ONE last chnce to solidify before I toss them. Love you all!

I have decided to blow up this blog.

Ok I looked..I didn't blog about the fish. Hollie won him playing a carnival game. That's all I wanted to add.

Ok...still working a ton. I was supposed to be off today but I went in for 4 more hours of overtime. It's good..I want to try to make up the difference of the health insurance they take from my check now. They yank $85 a paycheck for our family to be insured. It seems like a rip-off, but I know if one of us gets sick we would have wished we had insurance.

I still like my job a lot. the only thing I complain about now is the pay. It's ok for Decatur standards, but if I were in Alaska this would be considered minimum wage. I work with a lot of really great people, all very easygoing and friendly. We're all helping eachother get situated. Since I work on the Qwest project, no one really knows anything, because it's a new program and we were there on the first day it launched. Everyone is learning together, and I like it that way. There is no hierarchy yet really.

The kids are great. They love being home with Chuck in the evenings. I call home on my breaks and they both beg to talk to me. it helps the hours at work to go by faster. I miss them a lot when I'm at work. Hollie always asks me incredulously, "Mommy, you're still at work?". She also always asks me if I am going to come see her at her house. I always tell her I'll be home in a couple hours.

I don't rememebr if I blogged about the fish. I am too lazy to go look. We got a fish. His name is Orange. He is not orange, he is red. He is also a betta. We like him a lot, and he likes us, I think.
That was my fish recap, just in case I already blogged it I decided to be brief.

I am dead tired, it's late. I am used to getting off work late and I'd usually be unwinding from the day still, so on the weekend it's hard for me to adjust back to a normal schedule. *sigh* I wonder if we will EVER have a normal schedule. Someday I hope.
Ciao for now!

This was me this morning after a heinous sneezing fit. I just wanted to share. My eyes were watery and snot filled my nose to capacity, I couldn't breathe through my nose anymore.
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Ok....I need to update.
I am no longer working till midnight..I get off betwen 9 pm and 11 pm now. A little tiny bit better of a schedule. I really like my job. I work with some really neat people and they help the day go by much faster. the job itself is ok, but sometimes I get cussed out and yelled at, and it makes me feel like a loser. I know I shouldn't let it get to me, because these people don't know me, and i don't know them, and they are just mad at Qwest, but it still stings sometimes *tear*.

I am still infatuated and in love with my husband, I could go on for paragraph after paragraph about my love affair with him, but I will save you all from the stomach wrenching sugary-sweetness of it all, and just leave it at this: CHUNK IS THE BOMB ,YO!
I am PMSing today. I am cranky. I want chocolate. I wish people would drive faster. I ate McDonalds and now I feel sick. My head hurts. My stomach hurts. I wish I had a heating pad. I wish I weren't a girl today.

Just needed a little gripe session. Having to be perky, bubbly and super-nice to customers on the phone all day leaves me wanting to just freak out and scream at someone. but I won't...I will just rant in my blogs. So bear with my little digressions into complaint.

My husband and I need to get back in school. With us both working full time, it's a little worrisome to try to figure out just how we're going to swing it. The only solution we've come to so far is for us to take some online classes. I am not thrilled about it because the 2 online classes I took before were no good. Another major problem with getting Chunk into school is the fact that he is not yet an Illinois resident and it will cost him over $300 a credit JUST to go to the community college here. he looked into taking online classes from his community college back in Colorado, but found that he would actually have to come on campus to take tests. BLAH! BYU has a great independent study program, and it is about $150 a credit, BUT most of their classes are foo-foo easy stuff that don't really apply to a degree. Don't worry folks, we'll get it together. We have a couple more weeks to figure out what we'r going to do about Mr. Chunk and college. We both agree it is very important that he keep up with it, so nag him, I shall.

It's raining tonight. I am glad because it's been very hot, and I have forgotten to water my poor litle pink geranium for weeks. She'll get a good drink tonight. I had a spare minuet to blog as my lovely husband finished up a game he was playing, but I think it is now time for me to go harass him for a bit since I just got off work and we haven't seen much of one another today. I will write again soon....probably in a week or so! Cheerio!