I just spent 87 minutes (62 of them on HOLD) on the phone with NJ Unemployment. I do qualify for the extended benefits.

Good morning! I feel like I have neglected my blog.. but I have good reasons why! LOL! Mom came down yesterday morning with her car full of stuff, including Nana's jewelry box. My grandparents wedding anniversary is tomorrow. God - April sucks. Moira goes back to school today - thank you sweet Jesus! She is being a booger this morning... dragging her feet and moaning "My stomach hurts" and "I don't want to go to school". Too bad! BUH bye. It looks like I will be driving her to school this morning since I got up about 15 minutes late. Crap. Well - actually - that's not such a bad thing. I have a ton of errands to do so Olivia will be eating her breakfast a la carte this morning. Moira starts soccer this week and it runs until mid-June. I have to buy her cleats since she out grew hers from the fall. Well- I have to wake up the baby beastie and get her ready. I will catch up later. TA!

From David - How to measure success: At age 4  success is . . . not peeing in your pants. At age 12 success is . . . having friends. At age 16 success is . . . having a drivers license. At age 20 success is . . . having sex. At age 35 success is . . . having money. At age 50 success is . . . having money. At age 60 success is . . . having sex. At age 70 success is . . . having a drivers license. At age 75 success is . . . having friends. At age 80 success is . . . not peeing in your pants.

Oh my gosh - I almost forgot! I got my unemployment check! LOLOL! (thank God - we really needed it!)

Well - Mom never made it down today. She wasn't feeling too well..poor Mommy. : - ( She should be down tomorrow. I had a very busy day today. I cleaned out 7 storage boxes full of kids clothes from the attic. I got 2 garbage bags full of clothes to give away. I have them all packed up and ready to go to a friend who has an adorable 1 year old little girl. The other boxes I consolidated, relabeled and retaped shut. Paul put them back up in the attic. He had also pulled down a bunch of boxes of my old clothes ::sigh:: too small :::BIG sigh::: Mostly old skirts, sweaters and sweatshirts. So, I stuffed them into 3 large garbage bags and will donate them to the local old/new shop. I also rearranged the furniture around in my bedroom and vacuumed. UGH! Major dust bunnies! More like dust elephants. My bedroom seems a WHOLE lot bigger with the furniture being rearranged. My Mom will be bringing Nana's jewelry box down for me to use ::sigh:: Her birthday is coming up.. April 19th. While I was doing all of that, Paul was at our neighbors, helping them move their storage shed to the opposite side in their yard. They are getting a pool and needed to rearrange their backyard, including moving the shed and swingset. Lord - I am tired! I have church in the morning and I will be teaching Sunday School the following 3 Sundays. Ack. I need a vacation!

Don't you hate writing a long post to your blog only to have it disappear? Poof! Gone! Dagnabit ::muttering cusses:: Ok - let's start again. I had problems with Blogger last night and couldn't post. I hate that - grr! So, I decided that I would read my JavaScript book last night, in bed. Hahaha! I lasted about 20-25 minutes. I must have fallen asleep because the next thing I remember was jolting myself awake around 3am. Ooops! I dropped my books, pen and glasses over the side of the bed and went right back to sleep. LOL! Lights still on and everything. My father in law was down here around 9am this morning to pick up some lawn equipment. I zipped out to ShopRite to pick up some bagels (the only kids KIND that Olivia can eat) and "cream cheese" by Tofutti. It's actually not too bad. They also have an online store - guess who will be doing some shopping?? Mom is coming down today with a bunch of things for my garden, including shasta daisies! YAY!

Friday night and I am learning about parse intergers. Ack!

Prompts, functions, if else.. OH MY!

Passed the quiz - wheee!

Busy day today - I am blogging from class. We have a quiz today (ACK!) but it's open book and open "notes". Thank God!

It's the Friday Five! 1. What are the first things that you do in the morning to start your day? MUST have coffee. I cannot function without my first cup. Then, I make breakfast for the munchkins. While they eat, I am reading my email. The computer is right next to the table. So, we all chat and eat breakfast 2. What are the last things that you do at night before going to bed? Shut down the computer.. check the locks and fire up the dishwasher. 3. What daily routine have you recently added to your day? Blogging and homework. 4. What routine do you wish you get rid of? Laundry - ugh! 5. What's the one thing that makes you feel like something is missing if you don't do it some point within your day? Probably taking some time to sit and read.. even if it's for a few minutes.

We made it back in one piece today. Got home around 3-ish. Picked out the cutest little things for Olivia.. she really cleaned up. A lot of Moira's old clothes just don't fit her. It's pretty frustrating! I have a niece who is 16 months old who is practically wearing the same size as Olivia, who is a year older. Moira got some cute capri pants. She has a TON of tee shirts. We also picked out some adorable sandals for the 2 of them as well. I even picked up a few things for me! I love Target!

Paul took the day off today and we are all headed to Target today (oooooooooh). The kids need some stuff and I want to wander around.. it's in a H U G E strip center so I can hit BestBuy, Michaels, Babies R Us, Old Navy, etc... It's a nice day so we will walk the strip center. Ta ta for now!

A BIG thanks to Jason who sent me a bunch of JavaScript links. THANK YOU! THANK YOU!! The instructor is tough but she seems decent. She is pretty no nonsense. But, surprisingly, JavaScript makes sense to me.. at least for now. Who knows, maybe one day, programming might be right up my alley.

Does anyone out there use geneology programs? Paul's uncle is doing the family tree and has done a wonderful job on it. I would appreciate any tips about how to get started. Any good programs? Recommendations?

The bonus to this class is that I can use my website from the previous class and "jazz" it up with pop ups, etc... what fun!

Oh God help me ...JavaScript is NOT easy. I hope I make it!

Well - it went from super sunny to super cloudy. It's now extremely windy and thundering. I hope the power doesn't go out. But, to be sure, I will be shutting down the computer. I will blog later from class. Bye!

Just got back from the College Bookstore. It was pretty quiet there - most people were off for Spring Break. The kids had a good time. They saw where I take my classes, saw some ducks. We stopped at the Performing Arts Building and looked at photographs of all the plays that were done there. We saw my sis in law and her boyfriend in a lot of those pictures. The kids were impressed! I had the AC on in the car - it was hot and sunny.

My Java class starts tomorrow night. Kinda psyched about it! Woohoo!