Lock the door and hide!

Hurricane Dennis might pay us a visit. Lovely. All the years I have lived in this area, we have experience many different weather conditions, but hurricanes are new to us. We usually get the rain or tornadoes that spin off a hurricane, but like when Ivan came though, we are suppose to get some massive high winds. *sigh* This happening weather event brings with it something almost as devistating. My mother-in-law. Now, I do love this woman very much, but argh! WHY? She is in a Georgia hospital recovering from hip replacement surgery and will be released possibly tomorrow. Since she cannot return to her home in the panhandle of Florida due to the hurricane, she will be brought up here to our lovely, quiet home to do part of her recooperation. NICE! Okay, not only do I have a new job, kids, house and various other things to attend to, now I get to be a nurse, maid, escort, and helper to someone recovering from hip surgery. Oh yeah, and did I mention how anal she is about EVERYTHING? "Why this?" "How come that?" "What are you doing" "Why are you doing it that way?". Don't you just wish you were me? Since I am the part-time worker, and hubby is a 12-15 hour a day kind of guy, that leaves me to deal with it on my own. Comeon, I know you are jealous. Please help me. Please?

On the job front, everything is going well. Looks like I will be 5 days a week (25-30 hours) instead of the lovely 12-15 hours a week job that I applied on. Why is it that a company will advertise a job as part-time, but when you get there and they find out you have a brain, they want to hold on to you and not let go. Yesturday when I was learning something pretty complicated, I was secretly saying to myself, "What have I done? What possessed me to go back to work?" I almost got a little teary thinking about missing my old life of sleeping however long I wanted, and doing whatever I wanted, when I wanted to do it. But, this is something I have decided to go for and it is a great place to work so far and the people seem pretty fabulous. It's pretty flexible and they do not seem very anal at all. Except about wanting me to stay longer than I accepted. Argh. However, the money is pretty good and I get to decide when I want to leave, so that in itself is worth it. I decided to leave at 2:00 today, so I did. Awesome. Did I mention we could use the extra money? My money is our fun money, and I like having fun.

Also, I wanted to mention my sadness over the bombings in London yesturday. I do not understand how any religion can condone the taking of human lives, but the people that are doing this are not humans, they are animals. They are too stupid to understand there will be no virgins waiting for them in their next life or lives, or whatever the hell they believe. I really don't want to talk much more about it because it just makes me angry and sad. I have my own beliefs about the way things are and the way things are going, and there are many that share my view (obviously), and then there are many who do not. I have always said I have friends on both sides of the fence and some in the middle. I love my friends not matter their beliefs, and I try to take the view of agree to disagree rather than to lose a friendship over political differences. I do however, pray for the families and friends who have lost loved ones in this horrendous terrorist act, and hope that those who are involved, however they are involved, will be brought to justice in one form or another.

Nuff said about that.