Thanksgiving!

So, it's the time of year where you take a look at your life and regoncize what things you are thankful for. So, after taking a smoke and coffee break, this is what I thought up......

I'm first of all thankful for my little family, thankful for my parents, thankful I still have a job!, thankful for my friends who are there for me when I need them...thankful for Abner Doubleday for helping to make baseball!

Ok, go that out of the system and now on to our regular schedule broadcast.

So, I was talking to a customer Wednesday before Thanksgiving and jokingly asked if she was going shopping on Black Friday and she says, "We can't call it Black Friday anymore, we have to call it an 'Event Day'." I was like, why?! She said the company her daughter works for didn't want them offending our new President, so we couldn't call it Black Friday anymore. WTF!!! How stupid have we gotten? Pretty soon, I won't be able to order my coffee black, it'll have to be, I'll have a coffee....with out cream or sugar.

We had a great Thanksgiving Dinner at my grandmothers on Thursday and Brandi Lou will have the pics up later today and I'll get them posted too.

We missed our second Class Reunion last night....not having any money is really begining to suck butt!!

Nothing else really new to report, but stay tuned, you never know what may happen.

Happenings in the Alderman Family

I gotta get better at updating this thing!! Not that to many people read it, but.....

Anyway, not much new is going on here. We are still packed into Mom's little apt. as we look for another home. The prob is $$ or not having any. Kids are doing great, Brandi is back at work doing her on-line design stuff and work is work for me. Really not much of interest to update on. Maybe something good will finally come our way and I can update this with a smile on my face.

What a crazy month!

Wow, September has proved to be a crazy month for the Aldermans! Things had felt like they where getting back on track, but then our luck came into play and WHAM, another curve was thrown to us. As of Saturday, we are going to be living back with my mom for a bit. You can say our lease came up....It's a little more involved then that, but I would rather not get into it. Anyway, it's been a hectic week, trying to get everything packed and stuff taken care of. And of course the kids are really confused, and are acting out. Emmy has decided that everything thing on the floor or on the desk, or found in the couch is edible. She seriously has tried to eat everything from toys, to coins, to pieces of a broken necklace and bottletops! It's very tough to follow my little princess around and make sure she's not trying to but stuff in her mouth! Sky on the other hand, has ratcheted up his attidude a bit and last night we had to sit down and have a little chit-chat. He tells me that he hates getting yelled at and thinks he should run-away again. He said that he was gonna go back to Grandma DD's cuz she doesn't yell at him. After I explained that if went to Grandma DD's and didn't do what she asked him to, she would yell at him too... He thought about that for a little bit and I think he realized that he doesn't have it that bad with ol'mom and dad.

Work has been very stressfull, but I applied for a different position within the company and have had preliminary conversations with the hiring dept. regarding it. I'm not going to talk about it to much because I don't want to jinx myself or let myself get my hopes up to much. So, I'm just going to ask everyone to say a quick prayer for us!!

Not much else happening....tomorrow is our High School 10 year reunion and we are not going. Just not the right time for us, as we are moving this weekend and everything. It's hard to believe that it's been 10 years....I'm sure there will be lots of pics posted on FB over the weekend, so that will be cool. Also, my friends Jackie and Chris are getting married on Sunday and we are going to make every effort to go. I'm so happy for those two!!

So sorry it's been so long

So, yeah....it's been a long while since I've blogged. So much going on and some of it I'm not able to discuss (work related). On other fronts, let me catch ya'll up:

1) My father survived his bout with a severe infection of his lower intestines by having a small section removed. That was the easy part, the hard part was getting him off the ventilator, due to the diminished lung strength. But thank the good lord, we got him off and now he's in Maplewood Nursing home in Ballston Spa.

2) Skylar has had a great summer and is ready for 2nd grade. He's going to be in Mrs. DeMarco's class and has a few friends from first grade in his class, so that's cool.

3) Brandi has been looking for a part-time job to help with the bills, but hasn't had much luck. She's been bustin' her booty looking though and even had an interview with the Mechanicville Public Library. She didn't get it, but....maybe next time.

4) Work has been tough but we are moving along. I'm optimistic that I will eventually get a store, but I'm also hedging my bets by taking the Saratoga County Sheriff's exam this fall.

5) My 10 year high school reunion is planned for Sept. 18 in Troy, but I don't think that I'm going to make it. It's weird cuz I was kinda excited about seeing everyone I graduated with, but it's faded pretty quick.....I don't know, we'll see.

6) Good news is that Brandi became friends with some people I went to school with and our little circle of friends here in NY is growing! That's cool!

Anyway, not much else happening. Today is a relaxing, no noise, no rush, no nothing kinda of day and I love IT!


PS. - There Brooke...I updated it and will try to keep it up to date!! LOL!

Great......

So as if things weren't stressfull enough....Brandi Lou and I have strep and I can't go into work until after store closes cuz I'm contagious. Wonderful! Another thing for people to throw in my face. But I'm planning on working until very early in the morning to get everything done and I'll show them!!

A Proud Father

Yesterday was one of the proudest days of my life as a father. I got to watch my son play T-Ball and as a baseball freak, it was so awsome! Watching your children grow up before your eyes, mature, interact, show thier personalities...it's really amazing. I thank God everyday for my children and what they bring to my life. To see Skylar out there, in his little uniform and hat, I was so friggin happy.

And yesterday was also the 4 year anniverary of the day Brandi and I said our vows. I love this woman with all my heart and we have two beautiful children and no matter what we go through in this life, we will have each other, and for that I am truelly thankful.

On to some other things; my knee feels a little better today. I just hope that I can last the whole day at work. Yesterday was tough. I started the day feeling pretty good, but about 2pm it really started shutting down. But I slept pretty well last night and I can put a little more pressure walking on it today.

Here are some pics of Skylar playing T-Ball!

Happy Easter!

Well, just wanted to say Happy Easter to everyone. Hope everyone really embraces this day with your families and at some point, take a step back away from the commercialization of the this day and really think about why we celebrate this day.

On another note, I went to the doctor's yesterday about my knee and was told I have a strain of my Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL). I tore my MCL when I was 13 and this seems to be a strain of that injury. The doc doesn't think I re-tore it, but if the pain doesn't subside in a few days, it might be cause to worry. So, I'm taking some anti-inflammatory pills and rest it best I can.

The Easter Bunny was very good to the kiddies and I bet he made a stop of Grandma DD's! Sky is so into these Bakagun's and so is Emmy, which is very cute. So I'm thinking I might have to get a few and try to understand so I can help Sky Mike enjoy it a little more.

I've also started to add links to the left of blogs of friends and people I've graduated with and also site I find really interesting. Please feel free to visit and if you would like me to link to your site or blog, just let me know.