Good bye 2007

Well here I sit all alone on New Year's Eve!!! This year kind of flew by.. nothing to exciting happened. In someways that is good.. but in others so sad..

Here is hoping that next year I am not sitting alone..

HAPPY NEW YEARS to everyone hope all your wishes come true for the new year!!!

Love to all!!!

Its a family thing

Lets see how has my last week paned out...

Jen brought mom up on that Friday before Christmas. Mandy came that evening. Mom, Mandy & I went to dinner and did some shopping. We got home and we had a quick visit from Ruth & her friend Chris. Everyone stayed in my tiny little house. Mandy was up bright & early to go to work. Ruth & Chris left around 9 to beat the weather. (can I just say I am sick of winter & snow & ice) Sunday was pretty nice so Mom and I did some more shopping. Monday came & I took Mom to work with me she got to meet everyone. Got to leave at noon and Judy & Mandy was at the house. They took the boys out shopping to get me a Christmas present.. I got busy cooking. I had the Strausbaugh family Christmas get together that evening. I left the girls to eat the turkey I baked... Had a great time at the party.. but a funny thing happened ... as I was leaving I started to feel sick ( see a family trend going.. see all posts from everyone..hehe) Got home did Christmas presents with Mandy LOVE the throw she made... it is so warm.. Went to bed got up made some cinnamon rolls for breakfast. Still feeling kind of icky.. but I have a big day in front of me pushing through!!! Kids woke up Mandy left we opened all the gifts.. The boys were super excited with their presents.. I got them a Nintendo DS can I just say I am now hooked also.. I WANT ONE!!! hehe.. They got me a new comforter thanks Mandy for your help in that decision.. anyway started cooking dinner.. still feeling crappie so I took some meds.. helped a bit.. Get a text from Christy she is on her way.. not even 5 min later I get a call from Gloria.. Christy in a accident .. SO glad she is ok.. Jan & Jaser came over.. we ate did some more presents .. they left.. by this time i am achy feeling like crap.. Judy takes mom home with her.. I go to bed.. get up to go to work I have to get better to die this is how bad I am feeling.. I have to go to work since there is only 3 in our office and Josh has the day off.. I go in Lu looks at me and says as soon as she gets done with her dad for me to go home.. I leave at 12:20 I get home go to bed.. achy snotting all over.. cant breath.. head hurts.. coughing.. Thank goodness I am on vacation oh and what fun it is.. HA!!! I crawled out of bed on Friday and took the boys to a movie.. came home and went to bed again!! Saturday I decided I am not going to let this be a bad vacation so we went to the Mall.. Today I think I will stay in bed most of the day.. my head feels like it will blow off.. I have tomorrow & Tuesday off.. sure hope I feel good by Wednesday .. have to go back to work then... Well hope everyone who hasn't gotten this crud don't.. Talk to you when I can breath again

Christmas Time Is Here

Happiness & Cheer!!! (love that Christmas song!!!)

So sad no honey baked ham this year.. oh well turkey it is.. I will have to have a ham also (just not the best ham in town). McKinley told me mom this is messed up!!! we have ham for Thanksgiving and Turkey for Christmas.. messing with his little world.. hehe

Going to be very busy till the end of the year. Tonight I have to get the presents for my bosses.. (we are having our holiday luncheon tomorrow. on top of shopping i have to make ornaments for the office guys to put in their stockings. Tomorrow night will be spent cleaning a bit since I will be getting mom for Christmas.. Saturday night i have a surprise party to go to for an old friend of Bill's (haven't seen them in 6 years will be fun) Sunday will be relaxing.. Monday i have to work for a 1/2 day and then that night is the Strausbaugh Christmas eve party.. Then there is Christmas day.. i will be cooking up a storm.. have to work on Wednesday and then off for the rest of the year!!!!! YEA!!!

Hope everyone has a great holiday and excited to see everyone that is coming to my place!! (lets pray the weather holds out) Wish only good holiday cheer for everyone else.. take care and be safe and have a great time!!

Love to all

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

It's My Birthday & I will cry if I want to!!!!

Well 45 found me..... AHHHHHHHHHH

Not much changed this is how my day is unfolding

got my licence this morning.. (put my goal weight on my licence didn't even lie to the guy told him I wanted to change my weight to my goal weight since I am loosing weight..... he just chuckled at me.. )

Got to work had to park in the crappy part of the garage because now I am late ..

Had a bagel

opened gifts.. from co-workers got a $60 gift certificate to Bath & Body Works (looking forward to those after Christmas sales!!!) Scone mix & some ear rings..

Had a TV Dinner for lunch WOO HOO!! Oh then a tasteless blueberry granola bar

Was going to go to dinner with Paula but she bailed.. guess I will have a peanut butter sandwich now..

Well I am just to exciting......

Hope the weather stays good so Mitzi can come in..

So over all 45 kind if suck like the rest of the days .. haha..

Hope everyone is good.. looking forward to seeing who ever is coming to Christmas!!! For those who are not coming well be safe

Tonsils, Nose job & a birthday

Well lets see McKinley went to the Doctor on Wednesday for his breathing problems.. They don't want to fix his nose till after he turns 16 because that is about when your face stops growing it is after puberty. So they have decided that his tonsils & adnoids are coming out. he will get that done after school gets out. He wants to have perfect attendance and the Dr. said he has lived this long with it a few more months wont hurt. We were going to do it at spring break but the dr is on spring break with his kids at the same time.

On the birthday.. McKinley turned 11 yesterday.. We had a pretty good evening. Even though it was nasty all day by the time i got home the roads were pretty ok.. so we went to Burger King for dinner and then to see a movie. We saw Mr. Morguriums Wonder Emporium. It was an ok movie.. Saturday he is having 2 friends spend the night.. pray for me.. haha

McKinley has started playing basketball again and they played their first game last Saturday they won in overtime.. it was an exciting game..

As for Quentin ..not much is going on with him right now. Just plugging away he soon will be a teenager.. think he already has the attitude..

Next weekend Mitzi will be coming in for my birthday. I turn .. .... ..... .... AHHHHHHH 45.... anyway.. it should be fun. Christy & Mandy will be joining us on Saturday for some fun.. anyone else is welcome also..

On the weight loss front I am still stuck at 85 lost.. no changes.. grr I hate being stuck.. I want to loose at least 4 or 5 pounds before Christmas.. but wont beat myself up if it don't happen..

Ok time for work.. Till next time

Did we have fun or WHAT!!!

It was great to see everyone this past week. Cant believe we were all able to get together. We must do that again before to many years pass again.

Nothing else is new with me. Just bidding my time till my vacation after Christmas. Oh by the way Christmas is at my place so if anyone wants to come the fun starts at 11 or 12.. Would love to have who ever and everyone there.. just let me know so I can get a turkey big enough to feed my army of family & friends!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Yea it is only days away till we get to see all the family!!! how exciting.. I know this will be a fun day...

Everyone be careful driving .. see you all soon!!!!

A sad happy birthday!!!

Ok so all this week I have been feeling out of sorts and not sure why.. well as i was running some errands yesterday Quentin says today is Dad's birthday.. he says how old would he be..he would of been 40. So we took a trip to see him. we put some flowers and a angel on grave. So today i am still feeling blue.. I guess i am missing him alot right now..

On a brighter note i am looking forward to seeing everyone in 5 days.. it will be great to see everyone again.

Alright already!!!

OK I am bloggin.. the end!!!

HA!!

Saturday night I went to dinner with Chris, Gloria & Mendy.. we tried a new place called Calentie or how ever you spell it.. well anyway food was not so good!! oh well!! Fun to try new places sometimes it is good sometimes it is bad..

Not much else going on right now.. looking forward to seeing everyone at Thanksgiving...

YEA

Yesterday Quentin got his cast off!!! YEA I am glad it is gone. He kept raising his arm up and down saying it feels weird...

Well this is what is happening in my life

blah, blah, blah, work, blah, blah, blah, traffic, blah blah, blah, sleep, blah, blah, cast gone, blah, blah, blah, weekend, cleaning, blah, blah, ... more work, blah, blah, more traffic, blah, blah, cooking, blah, blah,

Hope your life if more exciting..

FUN FUN FUN

This was a pretty good weekend. Friday night we went down to LaCygne and it was good to see everyone. Then the next morning we went to the Craft Fair in Mound City. Christy, Ruth & I had a good time. I found some cute ornaments.

Well I am official I have now lost 85 pounds... I am getting so close I am getting excited. I can almost see the end of my tunnel.

Quentin has to wear his cast for 2 more weeks. Wish it would of came off last Friday but oh well.. got to get it healed.

Well another week closer to Christmas AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH so not ready for that day.. at least we have Thanksgiving to get through.

So close

I am so close to my goal now I can almost smell it!! I lost 3.2 pounds last week to make my total 84.8. I am SO EXCITED!!

Hope everyone else had a good Monday!!!

Broken once again

For those of you that didn't know.. Quentin once again broke his wrist. He had bumped his head on his bunk bed reached his arm up to rub it and smacked his wrist on the bed. So 200 dollars later (a couple of trips to the Dr a couple of braces and some pain meds) he is in a cast. We had to go a couple of times to the Dr before they figured out it was broken. So next Friday I will take him back to see if it healing ok. So more money to the Dr that I don't really have.. I have insurance but my deductible is high.. so that just sucks!! So we are extremely broke!! hope this clears up some issues for anyone out there!!

Have a great weekend!!

Drivers Licence Weight

You know there is your real weight and then there is your drivers licence weight... I am almost the weight on my licence.. how cool is that!! Guess when I get my new one in December I will have to set a new goal weight...hahahaha I have now lost 81.6 pounds.. only 52 to go.. wow that is getting so close!!!

Hump Day!!!

Well here it is Wednesday!! Not much going on here...

My fridge is on the fritz here. Called my apartment complex.. and well lets just say March cant get here soon enough!!! Cant wait to move I really hate this place. They wont return a call they take forever to fix anything. Ever since this new company took over it has been a nightmare!!! So as a result of the fridge having issues we are having a ham tonight.. anyone want some ham tonight for dinner...hehe just bring a side dish

Well not much else to report in my exciting life.

Oh one thing you all know i will be 29 (OK cough, cough... 45) this year on my birthday.. so instead of sitting around feeling sorry for myself i am going to pamper myself. the plan is to go to a place called Serenity Day Spa it is a $90 per person package you get 2 30 minuet sessions of either a massage, facial, pedicure, manicure and there are other things.. you get snacks and i think wine. if you are interested let me know my friend Jen Scott is trying to get this together for me.. hope to have all join me to celebrate this depressing day...hehe

wooooooooooo hooooooooooooo

At last my I have gotten over my last hump!!! I have now lost 79.8 pounds. I am glad. I was getting very frustrated.

Well really no other news going on. Went and visited mom on Sunday. Good to see her again.

Challenge

I am giving everyone a challenge to update their posts.. here is mine

Nothing much going on .. Took Quentin to the Dr on Monday he sprained his ankle.. McKinley hurt his pinkie toe.. the end...

I didn't get to weigh in because of the Monday visit to the Dr.. so still no word on if i lost any.. well hope everyone elses life's are more exciting then mine

DEEP THOUGHTS BY MCKINLEY STRAUSBAUGH

On yuck mouth:

My mouth tastes like poop because Quentin farted in my face (a day ago)!!! (couldn't be because he didn't brush hit teeth for the last 2 days)

On getting the bathtub first:

why are you taking so long since I want in if I were first and knew you wanted I would go fast (2 days later taking the shower first... Q says hurry .. Mac says WHY...)

Got to love kids!!!

More later..

still at 75 pounds lost i keep loosing and gaining the same .8 pounds that was tucked neatly behind the 75 ...hehe

Hope everyone is having a good weekend!!!

BLAH-BLAH-BLOG!!!

Well school started and the boys are doing pretty good. Work is going good.. Yesterday a woman who works for one of our vender's came in it is her last day on that job. She is changing to a new company who is in need of an Administrative Assistant. They all looked at me and laughed.. and later I asked her how much it paid.. well it is about 4000 more then what I am making.. humm... I love my job but I am thinking about giving her my resume.. It would depend on insurance & vacation if I really give in and go.. oh did i mention that it is here in Lenexa.. so much closer then St Luke's.. Ok my mind is swimming with WHAT SHOULD I DO!!!

Nothing else happening in my life.. it is DULL.. I need some excitement.. I need a date... I need to win the Lottery...hehe

My weight is staying the same again AHHHHHHHh so close to 199 I can smell it... Please let me break my not loosing..

THURSDAY YOUR ONLY A FEW DAYS AWAY!!!

Wow summer is at an end!!! Thursday is the first day of school. We have been trying to get all these school supplies that they schools demand!!! I have been to 3 stores and I still need some junk. Guess we will go tonight and see if we can wrap up this merry-go-round of supply shopping. Last night we had open house at Quentin's middle school. Man is it big.. they said there is like 500 7th graders.. AHHHHHHHH glad I'm not a teacher....

McKinley school will be the same just a diffrent teacher.. Mr. Jahnke (it is prounced like yunkee..) strange name but good teacher. I think he will like him. He will be in the 5th grade. He is all excited I am sure he will do good. His open house isnt for a week or so after school starts.

Last Friday I took the day off and took the boys to Science City at Union Station. We had a blast!!! it is a cool place. We saw their 3D move Dinosaurs Alive it was the best.. I ducked and jumped and had to reach out to see if I could touch them.. I would go to another one there that is for sure...

Not much else to report except that it is HOT!!! but you all already knew that ... well take care and I will see most of you on Saturday...