I love it! These shirts are awesome!

     I was looking for a great gift for a few of the men in my life namely my father and father in law. What do you get a man who has everything? Better yet what to get them when they are sarcastic and love gifts with a huge shock factor? Offensive and/or a funny t-shirt!! For my dad's birthday back in April my daughter husband and I found a perfect t-shirt for him. But now how do we out do our selves for the next gift?? Well I was browsing and came across this site that sells these type of t-shirts. They sell for men and women but I think I have found the next gifts. Too bad I found it today and my father in laws birthday is tomorrow so I cannot get it in time. I cannot wait for Christmas so I can hand the father in law a gift that he will totally love, use, and never forget! Check them out I just bet you can find something that will fit for a great gift or just for your self! Not for those easily offended! Funny and offensive t-shirts for everyone!!!

Another day still without a dollar...

I HATE BEING BROKE!! I will be glad when I am done with some more of my schooling so that I can work in a job that pays more than minimum wage and where at least I may be helping someone at some point. Now I am looking at a government freeze on my hubby's and daughter's benefits and wondering if they do this how we are going to get by until they restore benefits to them. I have been taking every mystery shopping assignment I can and every survey I can and anything I can to try and make some money. Any ideas on anything else I can really? I have to watch how much time I spend doing these type of things because i still have to make sure there is enough time for school and taking care of those ho need to be taken care of. 
         On a different note my father in law had a stroke about a month ago he is doing well right now and working towards doing great, my daughter graduated from her  program, my brother in law is back with us for now as he may have lung cancer... I am almost done with my associates degree I am in week 5 of 9 of my last class!! Graduation ceremony is on Aug 21st  I am real excited and just cant wait! Just found out  friend of mine was diagnosed with lupus today. While i know that is a hard diagnosis and she must be scared and worried it is manageable. I wish her the best of luck and hope she knows that I here for her even though I am so far away my ears work real well and shes not sooo far that if she needed me that I couldn't get there... glad she has a boyfriend that seems to be doing everything she needs for her right now. It is about time she has found someone who treats her the way she has always treated everyone else. Now if she will just slow down and take the time she needs to heal and get her condition under control... i was watching ice road truckers last night and it made me think of tony. I saw them do an old truckers trick with ethanol in the tire and i thought wow I gotta ask tony if he ever did that and I started to cry. funny how you can miss someone you almost never saw when the opportunity to see them at all has been taken away from you. In short appreciate the people you have in your life. make time for them all even if it is just a small amount, you will cherish those times when those people are no longer there to make new times with. that sounds so cliched but it is so true. take time for the friends and family that you have because tomorrow they may not be there!

here we go again

     SOOOOO much is going on that I am surprised that I am even able to post anything! My hubby has finally gotten on some new meds and while they are not the ones we were waiting for he is staying awake for the most part. He was prescribed the stimulants to stay awake but his meds manager for his bipolar changed his meds so he is not taking the stimulant unless needed. I am a little upset that it took over two years for them to change his meds after we had all said something had to give but what is done is done and we cant change it now. time to move forward. My daughter is almost doe with her program now she has been in this 6-9 week program for almost 5 months and she is now like a different person. I feel like I have my litle girl back well mabe not but it s sooo much better than it has been in the last few years. i am almost done with my associates degree. As of right now I have 6 weeks and 3 days left untill I finish (aug 28th)but there are only 5 weeks and 3 days untill graduation (aug 21st). I am pretty excited. this is a huge accomplishment for me. I really never thought that I would ever go back to school and get a degree no less looking forward to staying in school and get another and then a masters and even a doctorate. I know this will take time and I might have about another 10 years of school to get through before I get to that point but I relly want it. I mean 10 years sounds like a lot of time and true it is but think back over the last 10 years and you most likely will find yourself saying where has the time gone? That seems like it was yesterday!! 10 years ago my daughter was 3 and I feel like I can remeber every day and onder where that time went. 15 years ago I was still hanging out with my friends and living it up as we thought we should. I can reember going to Rocky Horror every friday and  sleep overs and doing the things we knew we shouldnt be but being young enough not to care. I dont know why it all seems like it was just the other day. Yes I do because time is relevent. Sit at the doctors office for 3 hours wehn you dont feel well or be at home sick and fll asleep for 3 hours and youwill know what I mean. Just like waiting for the last bell to ring at the end of the school day that last  inute time seemed to go backards instead of forward. But be one minute before curfew and the time seems to be going twice as fast (still no excuse for being late getting home young lady!!) but 10 years is a large chunk of time. If I do not do it then i will always wonder what if I had. Then again 10 years is over in no time at all and then I have what I have already set the foundation for and can use for the rest of my life! Enough rambling off to bed many cars to work on tomorrow and never enough timein the day to get them all done... See time is relevant!!

Everybody Loves Raymond

Guest post of the week by Deangelo Spencer




A show that will probably, one day, be deemed a classic: Everybody Loves Raymond. I find it hard to imagine a “family show” currently running with more humor, silly anecdotes, and “gut-busting” laughter than this. I always watch my favorite show on directstartv.com and even though it is now only re-runs€”still find myself chucking to each and every episode.



The writing for this show is superb and the all-star cast cannot be beat; Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Brad Garrett, Doris Roberts, and Peter Doyle as, the difficult to live with, Frank Barone. The chemistry shared between all these cast members is something of magic; they seem to feed off of one another's energy.



Ranked very high as one of the most-watched T.V shows of all time, Everybody Loves Raymond will bring any viewer to laughter in only a matter of minutes. The real humor is gained from the fact Raymond's parents live right across the street and are constantly coming over unannounced and uninvited to create chaos and stir up turmoil.



In an effort to live up to its name, everyone does love Raymond regardless of the foolish and childish antics he is many times a party to. This show is just as funny and captivating today as the day it first aired and will most likely be enjoyed for generations to come.

So very sad!

Been a long few days one of the people I grew up with has passed away.  He was one of the most gentle men I ever met but at the same time I would totally never want him mad at me. Actually I don't ever remember him being mad at me! He was a huge teddy bear with the heart to go with it. I will always hold him near and dear to my heart and he will live on forever in my memories. My only regret where he is concerned is that I did not have more time with him. He was a man that I thought the world of and always there to make me laugh when I needed it. I feel like  piece of me died the other day and that makes me so sad for his actual family. His daughters have always been the best of friends to me even when we were threatened with dish duty for fighting over stupid stuff. I wont ever forget the stories he told when my dad and him went on truck runs together and swear they saw Bigfoot in the Vermont mountains or how much of a kick he got out of his wife thinking my sister was stuck on her head at a dance recital and how he still loved to tell that story over 20 years later. He always made me feel at home and always had a warm word and a big hug for me. I will never forget the first time I heard his voice and it scared me but once I got past that and got to know him that voice was a comfort. I will surely miss you and remember you always. I know that it is not much now but I hope you know how much you always meant to me and that just because you are gone does not mean that you will ever mean anything less to me! There are no real words that can express this loss and my heart goes out to your family. For my pain pales in comparison to theirs of that I am sure. Good byes are forever so I will have to say until we meet again because I know one day I will hear the Bigfoot story from you again! Now I have to go and grill some food :)

This is the day that I would prefer not to relive

Last night my husband spent the night in the hospital for a sleep study. My daughter was at my moms. And my brother in law is staying with some friends in Pennsylvania for a while. I had the whole house to myself. So I cleaned a little and did my homework and even managed to freak myself out with some ghost hunters on TV...I finally fell asleep between 4:30 and 5:00 am. I got up and took an almost 2 hour drive down the shore to my aunt's house to go find her a new computer. On my way down there the car ran great but i heard a slight squealing noise. Once I picked her up and we got back on the parkway there was an intense burning rubber smell and we thought it was just the car in front of us or the construction that was going on. Boy were we wrong!! The power steering pump on my car was going bad and it chose today to finally give out.... Now I work in a repair shop and I know my car but these guys decided I didn't know what I was talking about!! Ugh men! Just because I have uhm well lets see a different anatomy does not mean that I do not know what is wrong with my car!! So I tell the guys what is wrong and the dude is like uh well we will check it out and let you know! Uhm duh I just told you so I leave my car there and then about a half hour later they call me and tell me you were right it is the power steering pump but that the pulley snapped off at the shaft and that if it weren't for the motor mount that the whole pulley would have come off and I would have been stuck. Uhm no i wouldn't I have AAA . So anyway my aunt tells me to have them fix it now I owe her almost $500 for the repairs... I don't know where this money is coming from but I will figure it out I am sure. I had to have my mom pick up my husband from the hospital and I did not even make it back home until almost 9 pm then the roast I had in the slow cooker/ crock pot was so over done it was dry. I am not happy about that but at least it still tasted good. Anyway it has been a long day following an even longer night and from the looks of it I will not get much sleep tonight because that long ride down to my aunts gave the sun enough tie to burn my arm shoulder and the side of my face and throat....at least there is proof I was wearing my seatbelt!  Off to shower than sleep I hope!

crazy crazy days

Well it has been a crazy month!! Working like nuts and almost never  a day off! Been doing all kinds of stuff at the shop...paper work, ordering parts, handling customers, working on the web site and updating our listing on others. the shop has been slow so I have spent the last few weeks reorganizing EVERYTHING!! I am not kidding form moving stuff to redoing the files and even organizing the supplies. I bought myself new pens since they all seem to disappear and the pretty girly pastel colors too. They are being taken as well....what man wants to walk around with  bright pink pen?!?! but they are doing it lol. things have been going well other wise.... well other than an asinine landlord who thinks she is above the law that is. But whatever...Life is good and so am I!!