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Valentines day or as some like to call it, singles awareness day....ROTFL.... is coming up soon. Brian sends me an e-mail yesterday saying that plans have been finalized and that we will be leaving right after work to pick up the kids and take them to the sitters the Friday before. This will apparently only be for the evening, he says he "thinks we can get everything done that he wants to do" by 11 or midnight. Hmmmm....I keep thinking. I want to know what we are doing!!! But I will make myself wait because I really do love surprises!!!! I believe we will be going to dinner since he said that it took him weeks of calling to get a reservation at where ever we are going and we have to dress up, he said suit and tie kind of thing. So those are my only clues. I'm sure this will be the best valentines day I've had....and since I've never had a special valentines day I think anything will be awesome! I love so much that he loves to do things like this for me. He is so excited about it he can't stop talking about it....that may lead him to trouble...LOL....since he is more likely to give something away!! LOL....I can't say enough how much I love him. It is still so bizarre to me that there can be a love like this. I really never thought it was possible. I am beginning to wonder if I will ever get used to it.

I'm sitting here watching Dylan as he plays his preschool game on the computer, he is soooo cute. He has finally decided he can play things on the computer other than the games Brian and I play. It is so good for him. He is getting excited about school now. They had the first of the tiny trailblazers which is his schools way of getting the kindergarteners familiar with the school and their teachers. I think it is really awesome. The school in IF never did anything like that. That was one thing I hated about that school. I can't wait until he starts and we are hoping to get him in all day kindergarten if they are able to offer it this year. Since he didn't get preschool this year it will be really helpful to his learning and also because he is such an active kid I think it will really help him work out all his energy. Boy, I have sure gone on and on so I'll wrap it up and try to post again soon.

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It's been forever since I posted. I have been pretty busy, what with work and ummmmm....sleeping and taking care of the kids and oh yeah....Brian's brother bought him this game called Diablo II for Christmas and it is freaking awesome. So, needless to say I've ending up spending much time playing it with Brian and Braden. I do have to say, I kind of wondered how well we would all do having Braden live with us for a while when we first moved. Now, I don't know how he really feels about it but I really don't mind it at all. He doesn't do anything that totally annoys me like has happened in the past when I have had someone live with me. He also does all kinds of nice things for us, which is really awesome! I wish we could do more for him. So, anyway, Christmas was good, Brian absolutely spoiled me and I think we all got spoiled at mom & dad's house. We spent some great time with Brian's kids while we were there, I wish so bad we could just get custody of them. I'm not saying I'm the best parent in the world since I certainly don't believe that but I know that Brian and I would give those kids a much better home. At least they would get a bath on a regular basis and would get their haircut and not look like the kids did it themselves and they would just have all of those normal things that a decent parent would give their kids. Brian went to get the kids carseats out of their grandma's car because we were going to have all of the kids on Sunday and he found mold growing on the seats of her car. Can you say disgusting!!!! I can't believe anyone would allow their children to live in that! If the car looks like that can you imagine what the house they live in? Their carseats are just gross, I couldn't even look at them without wanting to puke. We thought about trying to get them new seats for Christmas but I am really glad we didn't since they would just end up looking the same way. Oh and she is dating this nasty guy that we used to work with at CP who is a registered sex offender. Ok, seriously? You have got to be kidding me, this guy was convicted of a sex crime against a minor, who in their right mind that has kids would date someone like that! Alright, enough on my rant here.

Things are really good here, I have been a temp at Albertson's doing accounts payable. It is really a good job. I was worried about how long I was going to be a temp but they posted for a permanent position and I didn't realize that's what it was for, since I have been there they have only posted for promotions which are only for permanent employees, so I didn't apply. Then one of my trainers came to me after the posting had closed and asked if I had applied. I said no because I thought it was for a promotion. She was like "oh, well I was just wondering," then a couple of days later she came to me and asked if I would be interested in applying if they re-opened the position. I said yes of course! She said she would let me know if they re-opened it. Then the next day she came to me and said that they probably would not be re-opening the position but that someone from HR would be calling me to tell me how I could submit my application. She also told me that she was pushing this because she really thought I was doing awesome and would like to see me become a permanent employee. I was totally floored!!! So when I talked to the lady from HR later she told me that the trainer that had been talking to me about all this and our office manager had called her and told her that she needed to accept my application!!! Holy crap!!! So anyway, I had an interview with the 2 accountants in our office that report to our office manager. They both told me that my "interview", it was more like a very informal chat session, was more of a formality than anything. Greg, one of the accountants, told me several times that as far as he was concerned there were no other applicants and that they would be offering me the job. The only problem is that I have only been there 2 months and so I have not completed the contract time frame for the temp agency. But, Greg said the only thing that might cause is a delay in when I actually become permanent. YAY!!!!! He said that we have a director that isn't afraid to tell the temp agency to shove it or we'll pull everything, which is a lot, so that was really, really cool!!!! Alright, well, I think I've gone on long enough, happy new year everyone!!!