If you don't know me by now ... in My Unpredictable Life ...

If you don't know me by now, then there is no hope for us lol. Seriously though, y'all know I'm famous for dropping off the face of the Earth at the drop of a hat. I don't do it on purpose. But it happens. So there ya go.

I hope you all are doing well. I have been so lost (and alone) without you all! Which, I know is my own fault. But I still have missed the hell out of you all! I will be spending a few days trying to catch up on everyone. There are so many of you with such major changes going on in your lives and I need to know how it is all working out for you. I'm nosey like that lol.

To catch you up on me, well, it'd take all damn day. And I don't have that kind of time. So I will do bullets and elaborate where needed ...

• Made it to/from Ohio in one piece. The Child had a blast, as usual. Hubby lost his "Man Card" to me en route on the 1st day of driving. I got off work at 7am, we were on the road by 8 am. By 10 am I was begging him to please let me get some sleep. For the next 4 hours I managed almost 3 total hours of sleep ( in between 2 potty breaks and numerous times of him yelling out loud at other drivers). After 6 hours of total driving time, he decided he was "too tired" to drive further. 4 hours later, as I pulled into the hotel parking lot, I turned to him and said, "Boom! And that's how you drive when you are tired, you damn Pansy!" So of course he got all upset at me. Tough titty! My ass worked all damn night while you were sleeping, and then when I've only gotten a total of 3 hours sleep, and not all at one time, I have to effin' drive? Why do I keep him around?

• One of the reason's I've been M.I.A. is due to I needed time to re-heal. If you remember last Oct., my best friend of 23 years and I parted ways. It's been a long, hard road learning to live life without her. Some days are harder than others. It was so very hard to be so close to her and not be able to talk to her or see her. Both times I passed her exit, I was so tempted to take it and ... well ... all I wanted was a hug from her ... but those days are gone. So with opening up that wound again, it has taken me some time to deal with it all over again and re-close it. Hopefully the next time will be easier for me when I am in her town again.

• Work. Oh geezus. I've been there 4 months now. Some days it feels like I started yesterday. The other days, it feels like I have been there for eternity. I'm still loving it. For the month of July we came in at #17 out of 704 properties world wide. So to say it has been crazy busy is an understatement.

• Little Girl and BabyGirl have both been cut back in hours. While their "attitude" has vastly improved, their work ethics have not. Some higlights from FB ...

"Fixing to go do 73 leg squats. This is so gonna hurt! Ugh."

"sigh Just love it when the US Marshall's come to pay a visit from next door ... at least this time there aren't any prostitutes running wild ..."

"Got called into work. My counterpart for the night left at 8pm instead of finishing out her shift. BabyGirl: "Let me know if you need me to work for you next week. I need all the hours I can get." Ô.o Uhm, okay BabyGirl, you let me know how well that works out for you, mkay?"

"So last night at work, after my counterpart left at 8pm, leaving me to run the show by myself, I managed to check in 17 rooms from 8:07pm till 9:47pm. During those check ins, the phones were ringing off the hook, where I managed to make numerous future reservations, help guests connect to the internet, and answer more questions than people have a right to ask. I also managed to pop a button off my shirt and split my pants during this hour and a half window of "fun", because that's how I roll, Yo! And just when I thought my night couldn't get any more "fun", a co-worker tried to do a good deed by removing a bug from out of my hair ... only to have it end up inside my shirt. I then had the pleasure of said bug (NOT) helping me drive home, from inside my shirt. Who knew that the "There's a bug in my shirt! dance" would NOT remove the bug from inside my shirt?!!!? (So in the future, don't always assume the person in front of you is driving drunk. They too could be trying to remove a bug from inside their shirt!)"

• Friendly Neighborhood Sniper Guy checked out for about 3 weeks. He's back. He asked his job to send him back. For the love of chocolate milk, why?

• Our breakfast attendant put in his 2 week notice. His replacement is a piece of work. We are all trying to figure out if she is going to last. She is a catastrophic, annihilating, nuclear bomb just a ticking away. I'm trying to find the humor in her but damn if she doesn't make it hard to! Example: Her: "Damn! He is too fine! I wanna crawl up all over that and wear his ass out!" Housekeeping Manager: "Yeah, the company frowns upon that. You might want to control your urges." Her: "Is that why y'all hire such ugly people? So they won't be tempted to sleep with the guests?" HM: "Yeah." HM walks away, sits down, and says, "Wait! She just insulted us? The hell?" Stay tuned ....

• The Child. Lord, give me strength. She is in the argumentative stage now. We want Burger King for dinner, she want's McDonald's. We want to watch this movie, she wants that movie. We want to do this, she wants to do that. Oi vey. She turns 13 in a couple of months. Something tells me I'm going to wish for the toddler years back. And those of you who survived those toddler years with me, know I don't make that statement lightly lol.

• Especially now that she is officially a "woman". Talk about a major meltdown! We've been planning/talking/preparing for a couple year now for this moment. And in the blink of an eye, everything went out the window. To make matters worse (for her) I had to work that evening. She kept texting me about it. Hell she even took a picture and sent it to me asking if it was time to change it yet. Holy hell, somebody just shoot me now. Please. I beg of you. I'm already dreading the next one.

I think that is the jist of the highlights during my absence. I can warn you that I won't be back for a couple of days. School starts on Wednesday. In the meantime, I work tonight & tomorrow night audit. The Child starts volleyball practice today. I get off work at 7 in the morning, have to be back for a mandatory meeting at 9:30 (you suck, Omar!), get up at 3 to have The Child at volleyball practice at 3:30, pick her up at 5:30, be back to the school at 6 for teacher meet & greet, then back home to bed to get back up at 9 to get ready for work. I can sleep when I am dead .... This is why I have no life lol

Till next time ....