woohooo!

isnt that the coolest trophy EVER?

to top it off, playoffs started last night in the rain, jackson hit a great line drive single, reached 2nd on a balk call on the pitcher, stole 3rd and stole home! he also had a walk, a strike out(on a lousy pitch below the knees @@ only his 4th S.O. of the whole season) and another single. he also got the save as the closing pitcher with a strike out and 2 pop flies(caught). faced only the 3 batters in the save. coach agreed with me and said hes never seen him looks so strong, so the daily 80 pitches to his dad in the back yard is really working for him. pitchers have to throw every day, now i know. he is very happy with himself right now and the daily throwing gave him lots of confidence. he told me he wasnt even nervous! they won it 4-0 and play against a stronger team on Thursday night. jackson is the starting pitcher i think. i took a short(crappy) video of the win, but have NO IDEA how to put it on here. he flexed for us last night after his shower and has these rippling back muscles and big guns on his throwing side. hes really growing up.

on a side note, while he was showing us some skin i noticed one of his areolas is HUGE and swollen like an 11 year old girl. whats up with that???? he says it doesnt hurt and has been that way for months. weird!

will write more tonight if i can, i know youre on the edge of your seat!

i totally STOLE this picture...............

from Kristin's boyfriend's sister's graduation photos. i feel no shame. it's good and i wanted it. so there! great pic, Amy! can someone who has a clue mail this to Stellan's mom for me? she'll love it!

just cute

Mid Life Crisis?

before

during, yes, those are grocery bags

after!

too light? i love it but the roots will drive me crazy. do i look like a french whore? it's fun so far. Yog hasnt sen it yet.

thanks LIBBY!

40 has been weird so far

its starting off quirky. for starters, i woke up in a puddle of urine. Not mine. then there was the dog officer thing, i won't trouble you with it, but let's just say it ended in a verbal SMACK DOWN of sorts with yours truly as the clear winner. anyway, to commemorate this glorious occasion i decided to dye my hair platinum blonde. the roots will be ugly, but i dont damn care. Blogger is acting strangely today, this text may look all screwy. the rain is forecast to continue for another 24 hours so i'm not sure whats going on today, but damnit, i want a frikkin CLOWN! jackson is being his RADical self, Ken didnt feel like getting dressed for school and i think the garbage disposal is on the brink of implosion again, but FEAR NOT. my 40th will end on a high. make note of it, folks. can you say ANGEL FOOD CAKE???? so.. lets see... ive spent the last few days re finishing my yard swing and ripping out the 18 month old wall-to-wall carpeting(disease mat) in the living room. back to the hardwood that could use a re-finish, but i scrubbed & polished it to a decent shine. with kids and dogs and cats and guests, carpeting just didnt work out. i was constantly having it professionally cleaned and as sweet and adorable as The Carpet Guy is, i dont want him to have to move in here to maintian a disease free environment for us. besides, he dated my sister, so it would be awkward! dont get me wrong, T.C.G. was devastated when i texted him to tell him the carpet was gone, but he relaxed when i informed him that my foster dog pees on my bedroom carpet nightly, so he'll be invited back very soon. he was worried, i could feel it. so the light blue plush you always see in the backround of pictures will now be hardwood again. youll see it soon enough i guess. what else? oh-jack thought that if he didnt hand in the signed paperwork for summer school he wouldnt have to go. DUH. when will he ever learn? my sister has been doing the ancestry thing. turns out my grandmother who lived to be 106 1/2 was really 107 and change! she was born in 1899, not 1900 as we thought. she also was born in Stowe,VT. not Canada. 107 years is a long time to screw up a story lol. why doesnt the ENTER button work in BloggerVille today????? i better sign off now and make sure this is even working. will check in later and finally post my last 50 Facts About Me.

THIS IS THE REAL ME

i'm admitting it to all of you now. i'm not so squeaky clean. i'm bad. i'm real bad. in fact, i am likely going straight to hell like the 2 bad guys in that movie GHOST.
Kristin turned me on to this websight and i.am.so.into.it. i cannot stop reading it. i laugh so hard i wet my pants and wake babies in China . wanna see it? come on, ALL your friends are doing it. you know you wanna see it. ok, ok, stop groveling for Pete's sakes GEESH:
http://textsfromlastnight.com/
OMG funny. people send in texts they sent or received while under the influence in some way. my favorite so far?
"dude, how drunk was i last night? we had to pull that girl out of a Salvation Army donation box!" BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!! its updated daily and i am HOOKED. i may not even shower tonight. i'm just sayin'.

RAD RAD RAD, SAD SAD SAD

just when ya think things are going great, ya know?
yesterday SUCKED was really hard.
Jackson found a wallet in the morning on the bleachers. it had 35$ in it and belonged to his friend. 3 other kids saw him take it, it was no secret. george kept trying to steal the money, so jackson moved the money to another pocket. that looked bad when the teacher asked him for the wallet after some girl told the teacher he had it. jack had no idea how to stick up for himself when it all went down and was his RAD, silent, no eye contact self.
Yogi & i were on a lunch date when i got the call. yay. the story doesnt end there, sadly. a mean kid named Kyle put a hate note on a gay kid's locker. the gay kid had already seen it and laughed with a bunch of his friends, jackson included.... but later, a teacher saw jackson with kyle sticking the note back on the locker after it had fallen down and jackson was blamed for writing the note in the first place. he was ent to in school suspension for sexual harrassment! its a long story and i just got jacks side thismorning, it still isnt all clear and although i was fuming mad yesterday, today i just feel bad that my son is so misunderstood, is thrown under the perverbial bus for EVERTHING, has no idea how to state his case or defend himself and processes information so slowly. i really need to stipulate in his IEP that when he is sent to speak to the principal about an incident that he have an advocate of some sort with him. but who? who understands him like i do?
RAD RAD RAD is SAD SAD SAD.
on a happy note, his baseball team is 11-2 and in the playoffs beginning the 15th. one more regular season game monday night. we are #1 by 4 games!
Yogi's 46th is today. he loves his new Ipod! and case to attach it to his belt. he lost his old one at a baseball game last year trying to catch a wayward fly ball into the stands. OOPS!
jackson looks so sad. we had a long talk about:
1. being a follower/leader and advantages and disadvantages to each
2. guilt by association
3. "finding" things and who to give them to when you do/how to handle situations such as this
4. life lessons
5. how you want others to see you and think of you/setting up your future
6. peer pressure
7. the 7 thousand dollar sports car doug just bought and what a moron he isfantastic decision that was on his part. but thats a story for another blog post!
have a happy day