I saw it last night and LOVE LOVE LOVED it!!!!!!  Male nudity, lots of buns, good story, and romance.  What more could a woman want?!??

So I get a call night before last, “Mom, can you come get me and Whitney?  I think the engine just fell out of my car.”  I think she’s over reacting, but know I can’t get the car home by myself so I call my parents.  Their response, “That motor mount must have finally given away.”  ?!?!?!?!  WHAT?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  YOU KNEW there was a possibility that her motor would fall out and you didn’t say anything to me about it????  “You didn’t have the money to fix it….”  !!!!!!!!!!!!

My dad gets there and there car is maybe an inch off the white line.  At the very least it has to be moved over farther into the ditch.  The doors were locked though and we couldn’t get into the car because her key wouldn’t work.  My dad says, “Just back your truck to it and push it…”  …and I wanted to slap him.  “The tires look turned back to the road.  1)  We’d push it further into the road and 2) My truck bumper doesn’t line up to hers.  How badly do you want to mess up her car?”

I went after the spare key from my mom’s (she still had it from when they took it to get the repairs done last time) and on the way, Robert from work called.  He said that he and his brother would bring their trailer and wench  to get it back to my place.  My dad called the Sheriff’s office instead though.  He had them come with the little door jam thing and pop the lock.  Now her door won’t shut right.  /boggle

Then this morning, Vanessa leaves me a note saying she’s still in love with her old boyfriend and I just don’t understand…

*sigh*

I’m going to make her go out with at least 3 other boys and kiss at least two before I let her go back out with him.  I honestly think it’s just a chemical thing.  He’s the only one she’s been with for two years and therefore has all these feelings are attached.   Until she has new feelings with someone else, that’s not going to go away.

Oh well.  We’ll see how my plan works.

We went to see Indiana Jones last night.  I liked it.  The guys said they didn’t think it was as good as the other movies (which they’d just watched last week).  I haven’t seen the last movies in years though and it was definitely an action adventure…which is what made me love the other movies to begin with, so I loved it.   My main draw back with going to see it was Harrison Ford’s age, but that played right into this film since it was set later than the others and he was supposed to be old.  Rather than being the 4th Indy film, I think this was the 1st new kid film…and maybe the name should have reflected that rather than having the large Indiana Jones stamp on it, but that’s okay.  It was still good.  I did not like the villainess.   She looked straight out of Rocky and Bullwinkle…which I suppose fits as it’s a 50’s movie and the idea for Natasha and Boris had to come from somewhere, right?  ;)  It had some hokey and some cutsie stuff thrown in, but didn’t all the others as well?  The guys had issues with the sci fi theme, but it started in Area 51.  What did you expect?

I liked it.  Go see it. It’s fun. =)

Nope.  Nothing.  I was supposed to go to six flags today, but doesn’t look like it’s going to happen.  I was supposed to go see Narnia this weekend, but doesn’t look like that’s going to happen either…lol  Instead, I’m sitting at home with no children doing a bunch of nothing…lol

I got a wild rose bush and a gardenia bush from my grandmother’s funeral.  I’m going to make a front flower bed again and try to keep them alive.  I bought some begonias and some moss rose to plant around them.  I’ve just been too lazy the last couple days to go out and dig up the flower bed…lol  I hope to get that done this weekend.  Beyond that, I’m sitting at home doing nothing, so if you want to do something, come on by…lol

I was going to make a post explaining how many mother’s have influenced my life:  my mom, my grandmother, my aunt, and my older sister being the main four.  I may still do it, but I didn’t get to it yesterday or this morning before work.  I didn’t forget though.

Happy Mother’s Day to all you moms.  You may not always think you’re doing a good job or that what you are doing makes any difference, but believe me when I say, it’s not just your child that is learning from you as a mom.  You’re making a difference in lots of the people around you.  =)

There’s just been too many raw emotions going on.  I didn’t want to subject you all to several blog posts about how much I love my grandma and about how that despite being glad she has finally passed on rather than suffering more, I’m really feeling a strong loss and sense of being alone.

I’m not alone though.  I have you guys and I can’t tell you how much I appreciate all the calls, emails, and texts I’ve gotten checking up on me.  I’ll be back to my warped self soon enough. =)

The guys at work have given me a list of movies to watch.  Stuff that I’ve missed that they think I need to see.  I watched Ninth Gate and Oh Brother Where Art Thou last week.  Both pretty good movies although Ninth Gate’s ending was…dumb.  This week, I rented Lucky # Sleven.  It was really, really good.  I had bits and pieces figured out, but not the whole story.  …and there were so many stories within the story…  I love stories!  Of course it didn’t help that the first 1/4 of the movie was a guy walking around in a towel.  Eye candy is always a plus.  Definitely by far the best they’ve suggested yet.

Got a letter from the school yesterday.  In two of Vanessa’s classes, they say she’s missed more days than allowed.  We have to go before the school attendance board.  w00h00!  Oddly enough, these two classes are not together, 3rd and 8th period.  I can see 8th as that’s the last class of the day, but 3rd isn’t even the class before lunch.  She just misses a random class?  *sigh*  Luckily, most of those days have doctor’s notes.  The rest?  I’m betting they’ve made some mistakes on her attendance.   Worst comes to worst, she’ll lose credit for Spanish II and have to retake it.

I’m just ready for a break.

*cries*

Vanessa called me while I was at the doctor’s office with Ethan on Monday, “Mom! Cody and Dakota blocked me in at the gas station and Dakota tried to pull me out of the car to fight and I ended up hitting her with my car!!!”

I’m sure you can guess the state of panic I went into, but she went on to explain that Dakota was in front of her car at first and wouldn’t move. She couldn’t back up because their truck was blocking her in. She told the girl to move many times while inching forward and eventually just hit her. At that point, the girl came around to the door, tried to open it and pull her out. The door opened, but Vanessa kept the car moving. Since the girl was reaching in to pull her out, she got hit a second time.

Vanessa looked up, saw the SRO at the school across the street, and went directly over and told him what happened. The next morning, I went with her to the school and we spoke to the SRO who said she could make a statement and he could warn both the kids not to have any contact with her or they would be charged with harassment, a class B misdemeanor. She made her statement - three pages long of all the threats, texting, etc that went on and I left school feeling as if the kids would not bother her at school any more.

I texted her at lunch and she said, “Mom, I left school.” I called her, “The principal talked to Cody and Dakota. He called me back in there and said that our stories didn’t match up and that I needed to leave Dakota alone. When I went back to class, he made an announcement on the PA that there were too many drama queens and that what happened across the street from the school was nothing but drama; what happens outside of school, should stay outside of school.”

During the day, Dakota continued to call her names and make threats as she walked down the halls of the school. Vanessa was called into the office off and on all day long. When she went to her car, the windshield was cracked and a headlight was popped out. She went back into the school and told the principal that he needed to pull the tapes to see that they were still doing these things to her. His reply was, “The camera’s where you park your car do not work.” She said, “Then pull the cameras in the hall and see for yourself that she mouthed to me every time she walked by me.” …and she left school.

I called the SRO who told me, “Now Mr. Taylor didn’t make that announcement about just her. There’s been all kinds of this stuff come in today.” Riiiiiiight. After I told Mr. Caviness that I wasn’t worried about all the kids or adults at the school, just my daughter, I then called and left a message with the superintendent. About fifteen minutes later, I had a phone call from the principal, “Ms. Bray, I would never single out a student like that. My message over the loud speaker wasn’t directed at Vanessa; I didn’t even know about her incident when I made that announcement.” That’s right, he point blank lied to me. I was mad and almost in tears. I was on my cell phone in the pharmacy during 5PM rush hour for us. I told him I couldn’t talk and I’d get back with him today. He continued talking, but I hung up.

Now I was nice. I played by the rules here. I told my daughter to do what was right. The school resource officer failed her, the school principal isolated her, and the bullying behavior continued. I’m going back up to the school today. Lord help us all. I have no idea what I’m going to say or what I can do, but it’s time for me to find out. I wanted the harassment by students on school grounds to stop, not for her to now be bullied into silence by the adults of the school. I think it’s time they realized they’re not dealing with just another student here. It’s my daughter and she’s been through enough. I won’t subject her to their incompetence.