Happy Halloween!!!

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Happy Halloween!!!! Or as my son said this morning "Happy Hineyween" I guess he misunderstood me..lol.

yummy yummy in my tummy

I made a pound cake for work tonight and Nathan had a blast licking the bowl! :)

The other cake

here is a picture of the other cake i made for my son's birthday! i really hope he likes it :)
it is 2 cakes in one ( a McQueen cake on top of a sheet cake). this was a first for me (as far as decorating one like this) and i think it turned out pretty well. i do a cake every year for his birthday but i am really proud of myself this year :)

birthday cake

so i just finished one of my son's birthday cakes for tomorrow!! i must say it turned out better than i thought it would :)

We had a family picnic on 9/24 and I just got the pics from my brother. Here are my parents' 5 grandchildren together again for the 1st time since about a yr ago. One of my brothers lives in NY with his wife and 2 girls and the other brother's little girl (oldest one) stays with her mom most of the time. The little guy is my oldest brother's child also. they are 7, 3, 3, 1, and 1 1/2 months old. Check out my son's really red hair!! of course, when my dad's family, two brothers, and husband have red hair, he pretty much had no choice!! :)

my nieces and nephew

okay, so here are my nieces and nephew. The two little girls are Ava and Claire (claire is the tiny baby) and the boy and girl together are Sonoma Kieran and Ian. I am excited now that I can finally show off pictures on here :)

Scissor Sisters I Don't Feel Like Dancing

just for Myra!!! I couldn't resist!!!!

Baby Fart

this was too hilarious not to post!!! or at least i think so! :)

Well, I am happy to report that I am feeling much better today about everything than I was yesterday. I guess I was mostly upset not because I couldn't leave until 12/3 but because I only joblined to get out of the dept that I am in now before year end. And now that I can't leave until December I just feel it was useless to jobline. On the other hand however, this will be a new dept where there is room for growth and opportunity! Plus it doesn't hurt that I have applied for 2 positions with another company today :) I am hoping to hear something from them. One is right up my alley with mortgage loan servicing--dealing with taxes, insurance, and customers. Exactly what I do here :)

So I am going to look on the positive side of things and take what has happened as a good thing in that everything happens for a reason!

Red Tape

Well in a past post I wrote about being worried at finding a job seeing as my company is basically doing away with the tax dept. I got a phone call today and was informed that another dept in the same company wants me for the position. I was thrilled. Not thrilled that I am still at Wamu (and trust me I need a job so I can't quit and I have been looking elsewhere) but thrilled that this was a new dept with chance for quick growth. I was told that my start date would be 10/23. That excited me even more cause taxes is going to be HECTIC in November this year trying to get taxes paid a month earlier than normal because a lot of our loans are going to Wells Fargo. So, I tell my manager, I accept the position, and move on with my day. About 4 this afternoon my VP calls me into the office to inform me that there is no way they can let me go on 10/23 and that I now have to wait until 12/3 (2 months from now instead of 3 weeks) to start my new job. I was pissed off. This company has so much red tape it is pathetic. The tax dept told us to jobline and said that they had 29 postions that could go. They didn't look at the big picture at that time and see that we were going to be swamped with jobs going left and right. Now, the ones of us who want to leave the dept and are getting jobs are told as of today that we can't leave till we service the loans that are going to another company because the same managers that told us to jobline now can't cover their ass!!!!!! As if that wasn't bad enough my manager could see I was upset and all she did was laugh at me cause she thought it was funny that I had been let down. Several other people thought it was funny as well and just said "i knew they were going to do that." My manager told me as she walked away from me that they got an email yesterday informing them that the dates had to be approved. Well, then be a manager and forward us important emails instead of sitting in your cubicle talking about all kind of stuff other than work and walking around talking and then asking us why we are not working when you woudn't allow us to get work from another group when we ran out. She is not upset though cause her transfer date to another dept is 10/16. She is being allowed to go on that date. like my title says "red tape" is all that is there at that company. Needless to say I will be pounding the online pavement as of tomorrow resubmitting my resume to whoever will take it.

I didn't sign up for drama club!!

So, my friend Stacy wrote in one of her previous posts about the week of Hell!!! Well, I am living it as well. I cannot seem to get away from the drama induced mania caused by my husband's family. I just haven't grasped the concept of growing big enough balls to stand up to people yet. I could probably write a novel and 2 sequels with all the madness that abounds in this lovely little gift wrapped package of a family that I have so luckily endowed through marriage.

I guess I will begin with the fact that everything was just fine up until about a yr ago when my brother in law decided that he had had it with his wife and her cheating. He just couldn't seem to grasp that by allowing her to strip for extra cash during their marriage that it might lead to her being a little unfaithful. So, 6 yrs into the marriage he decides to kick her out. Now, he really hadn't spoken to his mom (my mother in law) in 6 yrs either because she and his wife didn't get along. Now that he is getting the witch out of the house, who's help does he need? Yep! His mom's. Dear old mom who he didn't want there when his own child was born, dear old mom who wasn't invited to the child's baptism, and dear old mom who gave him the land his house sits on.

Fast forward almost a year from last November and you will see me and my husband basically being the ones to suffer. I invited her into my delivery room for the birth of her 1st grandchild, I called with all doctor's updates on me and the baby, I called her with the first teeth he cut, the 1st steps taken, etc... I let her keep him overnight, took him over there. When she and her husband moved into the house they are in now, my husband and I drove to help them clean when her own son NEXT DOOR couldn't even come over and help much less offer her a bathroom or water.

She doesn't call us and check on us anymore cause (in her own words) "she is trying to spend time with the son who was away from her for 6 yrs and the grandchild she has barely seen since he was born". Well hello that would be your son's fault for not letting you have anything to do with him yet here lately she can't seem to stop taking up for him. She is trying to help mend the damage that was done with one son and really show she doesn't care about the other. I tried talking to her about it and all she says is that we were the ones to back away. Well, when you are treated like you aren't wanted somewhere and that you and your child (who was basically your life for 2 years) aren't as important now as they were, then you tend to quit going to that place.
I can think back on the times that she said my brother in law was a bad parent and now he can do no wrong.

It's almost as if the past 6 years have been forgotten in her eyes. So, this past weekend my hubbys' granny was put in the hospital. Basically, she is on her death bed. His mom has not even called us to give us updates, but she can call her ex-husband and see if he can pick up the other grandchild for her since she will be up there all week. WTF??!! You are too distraught to call your own son and tell him how his Granny is doing, but you can call and make arrangements for yourself. So, the brother in law calls last night. "Why hasn't kyle called to check on Granny?" I replied "he did twice today. however, no one has bothered to call us about anything -- we didn't even know the room she was in". Him- "oh well I have been up here every night and I am checking on mom and walking her dog for her, and taking care of the stuff at the house for her." He also lets me know that he doesn't think it would be a good idea for my husband to be there cause he doesn't do well in those situations. Well, of course he doesn't want me or Kyle there. Then he wouldn't be the center of attention. Then he wouldn't look like a saint for being the only one to care. I was livid. How dare he call and accuse us of not caring. It is not his place to call us about that. Oh and mighty funny that he has the key to her house to walk her dog when just 3 years ago she thought that he and his wife had something to do with breaking into the house and stealing stuff while she was fixing it up.

All I know is that for the past 5 years I have done nothing but be a good daughter in law and this is the thanks I get! I tried talking to her about 2 weeks ago and of course it is all mine and my husband's fault. All this on top of the stress of trying to find a job. When it rains it pours. My mom just told me to quit worrying about it and what goes around comes around. I guess we will see.

Anyway, sorry for such a long post but the people at work just keep telling me not to worry about it. I appreciate their advice but I don't know how to stand up to people like they do. I just worry too much what people think and really need to work on that. In a nutshell, I am too sensitive for my own good and don't have big enough balls (so to say) to do anything about it.