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Friday, September 16, 2011

September Sixteenth

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One of my mornings where I wake up at 6am and can’t go back to sleep as my brain is thinking so I doze in and out having weird dreams… Up at 6:30am to get the big boys off to school and work, tried to go back to sleep and then up at 7:30am to get son3 ready for school…

Hubby called the plumber this morning and he was here within a half hour and pipes fixed for $90 within an hour… Would have cost hubby as much just to get the tools needed to do the job… and less hassle with the plumber doing it… they were the original plumbers from when the house was built anyway… Now hubby has gotten the rest of the parts needed and has just finished installing the water heater… still less than what the installers would have charged and we probably still would have had to call the plumber as the installers wouldn’t have fixed the existing pipes to the house… now hubby has turned the water back on and just waiting for the pipes to clear so he can check and make sure the water heater is working…

So yay I get to have a hot shower before going to work this afternoon… son1 came home to a surprise last night of a cold shower and hubby and son2 had cold showers this morning… so glad my co worker asked to switch closing days with me as I would have had a cold shower this morning too… so hopefully the night at work goes as smoothly…

The doctor office also called this morning, so no, hubby did not make it to work today with all the water heater and then doctor calling… His surgery is October 3rd… and his pre op appointment is Sept 19th… So I will put in for vacation for Oct 3-9… I am originally off the weekend after his surgery so that works out perfect so I don’t have to switch weekends or have anyone cover my weekend for me… the only problem may be my closing night as the other manager may be out on maternity leave but with all the vacations and medical leaves lately we have all been covering for each other so someone can cover for me too… they will have a temp lead by then to cover for the manager on maternity leave…

Hubby is here now talking to me so guess he is done and the water is back on… so need to do some laundry and dishes before I head to the shower and then to work…

Happy Journaling…

Thursday, September 15, 2011

September Fifteenth

 

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We watched Thor last night… It was very good and quiet funny…

Discovered yesterday that the reason son1 had made dinner the other night was because whenever I work late hubby usually makes pizza for dinner and son1 wanted something different for dinner besides pizza…

Son1 picked up our new water heater yesterday… hubby installed it this afternoon only to discover that the main water pipe had corroded… so the water heater is installed but not able to work until the pipe from the water heater to the house is repaired… so hubby may have to have a plumber come if he can’t sauder a new pipe himself… he was quite grumpy when I got home today… so cold showers until we get it fixed…

Son2 got a haircut yesterday… he was also nominated at school for best hair for the yearbook…

Son3 didn’t have much homework yesterday and we had time to study for his spelling test and do some extra language/grammar practice… Son3’s teacher chose to leave a phone message for me to call her instead of just replying to my note… I have a feeling she was responding to son3 taking three hours to do his homework instead of my question of him having a detention for not finishing one question…

We are watching Twilight Zone Marathon II from Halloween 1988 that hubby taped…

We did not have our visit at work today, it was changed til tomorrow… More time to get ready… Today was an ok day… I just wish we could get more done in a day or at least look better from all the work we are doing… I wish my associates were more motivated to feel more accomplished instead of just getting through the day til time to go home… I spent most of the day doing price changes… had the manager on duty phone a couple of hours in the morning… had a very upset customer who I never had the chance to help as he just wanted to yell, get more upset and then hang up… went to lunch… finished the schedule… finished the markdowns… opened boxes… and time to go home already… 

I had lots to write last night but I was too busy watching Thor and now I can’t remember what all I was thinking…

The kittens are becoming such characters… Indy has a paper fetish especially napkins… she carries whatever paper or napkins she finds around in her mouth… and Maple has an ice cube fetish since she has discovered that sometimes we drop ice from the freezer when we are filling our glasses… so now she comes running even if we haven’t dropped a piece just to wait for a piece to fall…

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On this day, God wants you to know

... that YOU are the gardener of your soul. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of expecting someone else to leave you wilted flowers.

On this day, God wants you to know

... that your deepest connection to God is through your beloved. You are most open to God when your heart is wide open, and your mind is settled and worry-free. For most of us, this happens in the presence of our beloved.

Happy Journaling…

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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September Fourteenth

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I’m so ready for Fall and cooler temps so I can turn off the air conditioner… 92 degrees today with mid eighties to low nineties into next week…

I am enjoying another quiet morning with everyone off at school and work and me having a day off… I have dishes piled in the sink and laundry waiting to be put away… bathrooms need cleaning… and I want to do a BIG declutter of the house that will take the next five years… but here I have sat on the laptop all morning… but I actually feel accomplished… as I have posted picnic pictures to facebook and my photo blog Not Just Roses… and scheduled my entry for  The Motivation Station for tomorrow and posted an entry for today… and I have left comments and sent emails… and even clicked on some facebook games but nothing longer than a minute or two…

I was up early this morning although actually slept til 6am and didn’t wake up at 4:30am waiting for it to be 6am like I seem to do lately, to get the boys out the door… and I needed to print out the receipt so son1 can pick up our water heater today after work… then hubby should be able to install it this weekend and we won’t have water all over the garage floor anymore…

I worked last night so wasn’t here for son3’s homework… another reason for being up early to be sure all homework was finished (hubby and son2 do help him) and everything was signed and I had to write a note to the teacher as I didn’t agree to him getting a detention for not doing one math problem that he didn’t understand… but I think son3 misunderstood when she asked whoever didn’t finish their homework to write their name on the board and son3 figured since he didn’t do that problem he didn’t finish… remember the over three hours of homework from Monday night… and then he gets a detention… I don’t think so… Teachers and Doctors, they really shouldn’t mess with me…

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Monday night after all the homework and we had a good time watching Easy A, there was a tense moment when everyone was cleaning up and getting ready for bed… Son1 has a temper… gets it from his Dad… maybe a bit from me… Anyway he was passing son3 in the hall and son3 was being 10 as he does and son1 was being annoyed as he does… and hubby tried to interject not that we usually do as it just sets son1 off more… remember Twilight Zone where you get banned to the corn field by Billy Mumy… that’s how we feel sometimes… so anyway son1 gets defensive like a brother to us and all parental to son3… so I think ok I’m feeling calm, here’s my opportunity to say something… son2 doesn’t want any trouble and says Mom don’t… but I calmly say to son1 that I’ve noticed how we never discipline or correct or ask anything of him as he is 24 and we are trying to respect him as an adult but how it seems so easy for him to parent/discipline/yell at son3 and son2… so he gets all defensive as to how son3 was acting and I tell him this is about how you are acting… why can’t you just ignore him (we also have this problem with son2 and son3 but they are still both under 18 so we expect it)… and I know they are all brothers and it will happen… but it was my chance to let son1 know that we didn’t need his help raising the other boys as much as just his help living in the house, not that I said it like that exactly… just that he needed to stop yelling at them all the time like they have three parents…

So anyway when I got home from work last night son2 and son3 were already asleep but son1 was still awake… he told me that he had made dinner of BBQed burgers and hot dogs with side dishes and had done chores that I can’t remember cause I was so in shock I can’t remember what all he said and that he was going to use his new truck to pick up the water heater ( we could have picked it up in the van)… son1 can be very helpful when he wants to and offers it all the times but usually only follows through at home if it benefits him… and son2 was afraid we would be banned to the corn field…

And speaking of son2 he did his usual rising of everyone’s tempers when he got home from his friends last Saturday as he feels since he is almost 18 our rules are too strict… mostly because we don’t like him out after dark unless he has a ride so we wanted him home at 8pm and he didn’t get home til 9pm and he did get a ride but didn’t let us know… just like he didn’t let us know that he had fallen off his bike on the way there and scraped up his legs and that his friend’s house had a gas leak and the fire department came and that he had gone to Toys R Us… isn’t this why he has a cell phone just to give us a heads up… and we weren’t really mad until we try to state our concerns calmly and he gets all lawyer on us to the point no matter what we say he defends the opposite even if it goes against what he was just defending… so I tell him we have to get out of this habit of everyone getting angry and raising voices when by time we are done we are all laughing and agreeing and understanding each other… but he is a teenager and has to push our buttons first… I also tell him that part of the problem is we can’t get past this one rule of coming home on time which is a 13 year old rule so we can move on to the 15 year old rules… and he’s almost 18… sheesh… I may never let him drive…

Wow yesterday morning flew since I had to go to work and this morning is so nice probably cause I don’t have to go to work… still ten minutes til I would have to get ready if I was doing a closing shift… but I still have over an hour and a half before I have to pick up son3… then I can supervise his homework while I clean the kitchen and such… I’ve got pork chops thawing for tonight's dinner…

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Hubby says that his work bought some programs so he can work in the store now instead of at home… but yesterday when he went in to install them internet explorer was conflicting with some things so today he will try again or be hitting the sidewalk to drum up more potential clients…

We still haven’t heard from unemployment…I need to pay some bills today too but we are still ok for the moment… I would just like to be better than ok someday so I can pay off my credit cards… and not have to always rely on them… One day at a time and God knows the plan…

Yesterday went so fast at work… I got nothing done but then partly as I knew I wouldn’t so I didn’t try… I cleaned the sale tables a bit, I had the manager on duty phone not that it was busy more that I was talking to associates and coworkers, it did get busy when it was time to pass the phone off so I didn’t go to dinner til after 6:30pm, then I made the schedule which made me late for closing duties and then it was time to go home… very fast night… and now tomorrow I open instead of close and we have a visit… so I’m glad I’m there in the morning to get ready as they are coming in the afternoon…

Well I could keep talking all day but I think I will go get some chores done as I still have so much time before son3 gets out of school…

Happy Journaling…

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

September Thirteenth

 

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Hubby talked with the doctor yesterday... they had a good talk and hubby feels good about the doctor doing the surgery... the doctor has done both procedures over ten years, we just don't have the robotic equipment at our hospital... and there is a smaller chance of incontinence after the first year with the open surgery vs robotic... hubby asked him about radiation pellets that his boss’s husband had used but the doctor said at hubby’s young age the surgery is the best and the results are usually cancer free and live a full life... which is why surgery was our first choice... so now we are waiting for the nurse to call to set a surgery date and pre op appointment... See it’s better if hubby talks to the doctor and not me…

I did not get as much done at work yesterday that I wanted, actually I think I only got one thing done and not what I wanted… I had planned on working in men’s work boots but started in the women’s clearance and was interrupted with the morning manager meeting, going to lunch, having the manager on duty phone, working with my new associate as the associate I had assigned to him called out sick, organizing a few men’s work boots in the stockroom and then it was time to go home…

Today I have to make the schedule for next week, have the manager on duty phone, prep my associates on what they need to do for the visit from the boss’s new boss for Thursday, go to dinner, maybe start on organizing the women’s fall shoes in the stockroom and then it will be time for closing duties…

Son3 had a ton of homework last night… hubby was distracted with waiting for the doctor to call so son3 only got one page of language homework done before I got home, then five pages of math homework and write his spelling words three times each in cursive… we finally had to break at seven to have dinner, luckily we just had left overs and then son3 finished his spelling after dinner…

We watched Easy A last night… it was quite cute and funny… girlfriend had let us borrow it and so son1 watched it with us… son1 is thinking of getting a different full time job… wants to look for something with chances of advancement… he doesn’t feel the company he is with gives him that… I’m thinking in this economy he is lucky to have a full time job… and girlfriend told him didn’t you just buy a truck, you don’t want to put yourself in a position with a new company of getting laid off… girlfriend started at her cosmetology school yesterday… she was excited and nervous… it is right next door to my work… she works full time and then goes to school at night… for the next eighteen months… I just remembered I’m supposed to call her fiancĂ© now, not girlfriend…

Time to start getting ready for work… I got a couple of chores done this morning and was on the laptop a bit but the morning goes so fast…

On this day, God wants you to know

... that the answers are within you. You're chasing in the wrong field. What you are looking for is inside of you, not 'out there'. Take a few days off to become quiet and look within, and you will find it.

On this day, God wants you to know

... that this world was made for you too. Enjoy it, explore it, experience it. Don't hold back. It is God's gift to you. Don't be a wallflower in the dance of life.

Happy Journaling…

Sunday, September 11, 2011

September Eleventh

 

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Just a few pictures from our picnic today… I took 96 so more to come…

It did rain but not til we walked around, had our picnic and walked by the river…

When we got under the covered bridge it got cold, windy and started to rain…

So cool…

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Son3 looking at the birds…

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Son2 brought his homework…

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Hubby being silly…

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We had PBJ, turkey subs, chex mix, peanuts, sodas and water…

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Horses pulling the Wells Fargo wagon…

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It was a great day… Now we are having left overs and the stew I made yesterday… and a brownie… We’re also watching Paul again since son2 didn’t see it yet…

On this day, God wants you to know

... that you learn what you do. If you worry a lot, then day after day you are learning how to worry even better. If you think about doing something a lot, then you are learning how to think about doing. Every moment you are happy, you are learning how to be even happier. Every time you act, you are learning how to take an action even better. What is it that you've been learning today? What is it that you want to learn tomorrow?

Happy Journaling…