Thank Goodness It's Monday!!!!!!!!

Well this weekend has been an interesting one and worth sharing to those who care to read it, so hear goes.

It all started on Friday. I had gotten the house cleaned up on Thursday, therefore Friday was my day of rest. After doing nothing most of the day, Scott's drunk dad comes by, confused and irrate about thinking it was Saturday....wtf? I tell him to straighten up in a not so polite manner and showed him the way out. I did not feel like doing much on my day of rest so I convinced Scott to figure out what his mom and sister were doing for dinner (mostly for me to avoid dirtying my kitchen). Pat was still at work in FS and Becky would not answer her phone. After Scott gets home from a trying day, we continue to pursue his family. I finally bit the bullet and called Brian to find out where Scott's sister was. He wasn't sure and was also unable to get ahold of her, but assured me she would be into town shortly to retrieve Dreyton from his visit to his dad's. Okay, some progress. Scott and I drove around town, running mindless errands, until we spotten Becky's vehicle at the grocery store. SCORE! I ran in quickly and suggested my plans of going to her place for dinner, by inviting my family out there. She agrees and we attempt to rummage through the grocery store to find something appropriate for dinner. We shared responbsibility in the purchase of said dinner items and left. She still had to wait in town until it was time to pick Dreyton up. We proceed to go to her place to shoot .22s. We arrive to Becky and Brian's to find Brian's mom tilling their garden. Poor woman, 80+ degrees and she's tilling a garden. We visit with her for awhile until she left, then went to shoot. After shooting, Brian got home and started working on his bale stinger, which is another story on its own. Becky and Scott's mom arrive with the meat to be grilled for dinner. Becky insisted I grill the meat so I light her grill and begin grilling, all while the four children were playing outside being typical boys. After scarfing down some deliciously grilled meat we sat on the front porch and B.S.ed for awhile. Brian's parents had returned and joined our conversations. The kids continued to play until it got dark and we shuffled them into the house for some relaxing TV time. Dreyton picked what we watched, to avoid arguing with him anymore than we already had that night, he decided on The Smurfs on DVD. Hurray! Becky, Pat, the four children and I all sat inside watching Smurfs while Scott and Brian worked on the bale stinger. Everyone, except myself, eventually crashed on their respective seating. I encouraged Scott to hurry, as the clock read 12am. We load my sleepy boys into their carseats and head home for some much needed sleep.

Saturday we woke up a little late, but considering the circumstances of the previous night, it was necessary. Scott and I decided to scrounge up lumber to make the deer blind, which has now been named "The Hunting Hut". To obtain the needed lumber, we needed to go to Scott's uncles. Scott's uncle lives south of Mapleton, north of Scott's grandmas house. He has at least one of anything you would ever need for a construction project. The lumber we retrieved was that of an old deck that had been torn down. Scott, the boys, and I dig through piles of this lumber to find what we needed, load it up, and head home. In the midst of all this, I was sent to retrieve Scott's dad's nail guns and air compressor, which took longer than originally planned, due to lack of organization, but succeeded. Everyone else in Scott's family was down at Good Ol Days so we started building by ourselves. Colton and Dakota were extremely helpful at gopher-ing. The boys kept their day interesting by switching back and forth from helping us to digging in the dirt to singing to the radio. Scott had done a lot of work when his dad showed up at the perfect time, to help us flip our platform over. Terry stuck around helping Scott, giving me a chance to sit back, relax and figure out what was for dinner. I decided hot dogs and brats were a superb idea. Terry finished helping Scott with as much as we could accomplish for the day. We now need more lumber to finish the project. Terry left. We ate. Scott, bored, decided to get ahold of his Mom and see what she was doing for the evening. She was bored also. Becky had returned from Good Ol Days and visited Brian where he was haying. After Brian got done for the night we all wanted to play cards. In the plan to avoid my house getting trashed, I suggest card playing at Pat's, which everyone was up for. At 9pm when we sit down to play cards, while Becky looks through the cabinets of her Mom's house to find something to feed her family. They had not eaten dinner yet, due to Becky's lack of cooking. Becky found items to make Grilled Cheese and makes her mother cook them for her and her family. Meanwhile, Scott and I wait to play cards. While Becky was feeding her face, Dreyton decided he was going to argue and throw a fit about what color plate he ate off of. This was completely expected behavior from him. After threatening and arguing with him for an unreasaonable amount of time, he finally ate off the green plate instead of the red one he had been wanting. After Brian finished eating his burnt grilled cheese he heads to the back porch for a break, Scott and I follow for conversation and cool air. Becky decides she needs to be in the middle of it and comes outside with Connery and the remainder of her food to eavesdrop and butt in. Connery kept trying to get off the porch and Becky insisted on bitching at Brian for him not helping her out while she was trying to eat. Brian simply said, "if you spent less time bitching and more time chewing, this wouldn't be a problem. Stuff it in your mouth and call it done." Good argument Brian! We went back inside to play cards, finally. All the kids, except Connery, had passed out while watching a movie. He began to get cranky and very annoying, bawling for what seemed like forever, while we continue to play Phase 10. While Becky held Connery at the table, trying to play cards, he finally went to sleep for good. He had had several moments where he was asleep and was woken up by Becky hurrying to lay him down, which drug the process out entirely too long. Becky made some rude comments about not winning at the card game and we continued to play. After the clock struck 12:30 we decided to call it quits in the middle of the game. Scott and I load the boys up and head home to bed.

Sunday morning I woke up at a decent time and made waffles. We needed Brian to come into town with his truck and trailer to haul our partial deer blind to our hunting spot so Scott, his mother, the boys and I truck out to Becky and Brian's until they got around. Scott and Colton shot a few rounds while we waited. After shooting, Scott got on the 350 and went into the pasture to pick up a bale with the bale stinger they had welded on Friday night. Becky comes out to observe, as usual. Becky, Brian, Dreyton and Connery load into Brian's truck with trailer attached and head to our house. The rest of us followed. With everyone at our house, Scott, Brian and I shove the 10.5' x 6.5' x 6.5' platform on to the trailer with all our might while Pat and Becky watch. Everyone heads to Mapleton to drop it off. We all got down there, inspected our disappointing food plot, then tried to find an appropriate place for the enormous platform. After finding a suitable spot, Scott, Brian, and I shove it off the trailer. We killed a little time, B.S.ing and resting, then headed to Scott's grandmas house nearby. Brian had had his '47 parked there for 6 months and decided to take it home. Pat, my boys, and I were in our truck, while Scott drove Becky and her boys in Brian's truck with trailer. Brian preferred Scott driving than Becky b/c of the gooseneck....and believe me when I say this was a smart decision on Brian's part knowing Becky. Brian jumps the '47 as usual and we head out. While the '47 sat for 6 months the gas tank started to rust. This caused problems getting chunks of crap into the fuel lines and the '47 kept dying every half mile or so on the trip back to Becky and Brian's. I don't know why they didn't load the '47 onto the trailer that was available, but whatever. After several stops, Brian decides he is going to invent a makeshift gas tank to get home. This make shift gas tank consisted of a 20 oz Mountain Dew bottle and electrical tape.....that's Brian for ya haha. This gas tank took him about 2 miles and needed refilled. After several pitstops for fuel we eventually made it to the finish line, Brian's parent's house. Scott took Brian's truck to their house and I go to pick up Brian in our truck. After explaining the comical situation to Brian's parents and Boie and Tara we headed to Becky and Brian's. Scott offered to help Brian attach a canopy to the 1066 for some much needed shade. They looked at the instructions and started to attach the brackets to the fenders. Becky was not going to allow this. With the canopy attached it would remove the "passenger seat" from the fenders. Becky threw a HUGE fit about it and suggested it be mounted differently to allow for a second rider. For it to be mounted differently, the canopy would only provide shade on part of the driver and would look retarded. Brian said no, it would be mounted correctly. This is where the fight started. Becky started bitching at Brian for not realizing he has a family and would have other riders and for being self-ish. Brian made a great point in saying they never ride with him when he's out in the field, but maybe once or twice a year, so it didn't matter. Becky rebutted with the self-ish comments again as Brian threw the canopy off the tractor and got down. He told her to buy him a new tractor with a cab and a/c and he could strap carseats in it like a family-mobile so EVERYONE could ride. Scott and I listened to this ridiculous argument as we laugh inside our heads. We both knew Brian was right. After a heated argument between Becky and Brian about him being self-ish and him needing to realize he has a family, then to her needing to get a job so he wouldn't have to cut hay, etc....Brian storms off and turns in to a "dick" and "asshole" according to Becky. Wow... Pat, Scott, and I kept looking at each other wondering what to do now. Scott followed Brian to give him some company and let him vent a little. While Becky is sulked and mentioned how worthless Brian was, Boie and Tara show up on their 4wheelers. Thank goodness someone had arrived to lighten the mood a little. Boie b.s.ed with Scott and Brian, Tara visited with the rest of us until Becky started bitching to her about Brian. Tara obviously got pissed off and walked away. Come to find out she went to Scott, Brian, and Boie and bitched about Becky ha. After what seemed like forever Brian decides to avoid Becky at all costs by hauling the 1066 to Mapleton to work up our food plot. Pat, my boys and I decide we were going to go to the grocery store to get something for dinner. Becky insisted she follow us. We all go into the store where I get stuck with Dreyton, Colton, and Dakota making scenes in front of the meat department. After scoulding them several times I grabbed some hotdogs and made my way to the check out, annoyed. While checking out, Pat and Becky appeared with Connery to check out as well. We made our respective purchases and I rearranged the cooler in the back of our truck to accomodate such items. I ran home to grab our Weber and propane and headed to Mapleton to fix dinner on the tailgate. Once arriving back to Mapleton, I got a scoulding from Scott's uncle about being courteous and such. Being confused on the entire situation I tried to find Brian and Scott to warn them about Scott's uncle being upset. I'm still not entirely sure what went on between Scott, his uncle and Brian, but immediately wanted to leave. We waited around until Brian got done running the chisel through our food plot and headed back to Becky and Brian's to grill. After pulling into the drive way I started grilling our hotdogs on the tailgate, all the kids were playing in the dirt, all seemed well. Brian's parents were out in the pasture checking on the cows and Becky starts in about them. This hurts my feelings when she bitches about Brian's parents, they are the nicest people in the world and mean to cause no trouble. Brian's parents pulled up by the tailgate where I was grilling and we chat for a few minutes. Becky made some unnecessary, rude comments toward them and they leave. Becky kept bitching, this time, at the 4 boys for being too rough and wild outside, dragging toys out, tying toys together and other misc. bullshit. I ignore her attitude and focus on the grill. After the all beef hotdogs, which is the only kind Dreyton and Connery can have, were finished I told Becky the food was done. She yells at the children to come eat. They don't. I walk over to them and reason with them. The faster they ate the faster they could get back to playing. They agree that's a good compromise and head toward the food. I fixed the boys their hotdogs and sat down to eat my own. Connery, in the midst of everything, had gotten mad at Becky and threw his hotdog at Becky, ketchup, mustard, bun and all. She makes him ANOTHER one! So in response to this when Dakota tripped and dropped his half-eaten hotdog I said to Dakota "These are the expensive hotdogs, you're not getting another one, too bad. You can eat something else." In hopes to somehow knock some sense into Becky about her parenting I was overly harsh on Dakota. I felt bad about it too. Scott and Brian eventually return from delivering the 1066 to another spot to be hayed. They ate. I was exhausted from the heat and listening to all the bitching. I was ready to go home, crawl into bed in a fetal position and sleep for a few days. So we packed up and proceeded to say our goodbyes. Dreyton was not happy about us leaving and threw a big fit, as usual. I heard tons of threats but never saw anything followed through, as usual. Once we got on the road I had to take a deep breath in relief that the weekend was over. Scott and I came home, he took a shower, we all sat on the couch and watched a movie. Colton and Dakota had been incredibly good the entire weekend and I was so proud of them. After the movie was over, we climbed into bed.

That's how my weekend went. There are many details left out due to lack of being able to remember them all, but you get the idea. If you happen to know Becky, then I'm sure you can imagine the gravity of it all. There aren't hours in the day for me to tell you about all the things she has said or done that are similar what I have mentioned above. I am actually glad its Monday this week, b/c I know that means atleast a few days with no Becky drama. TGIM.