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Monday, December 31, 2012

December Thirty First

 

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I am cleaning out my graphic folders, one folder at a time… These are all my Happy New Year graphics… I’m deleting all the graphics I don’t use so I can enjoy and use the ones I do like… I collected so many graphics during our years of AOL journaling…

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Today is the last day of 2012… I am so looking forward to 2013…

Number one being that this is the year that hubby gets his new job…

Number two that I lose weight again… I’ve already started this week by trying to get my mind in the right place… but there’s still too much Christmas candy left in the house…

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I’m making black eyed peas today… trying a different recipe this year that I found but changing it a bit and putting it on the stove instead of in the crock pot like in the recipe…

It’s frozen black eyed peas, collard greens, bell peppers, purple onion and pork stew meat…

We’re also having pizza, bean dip with tortilla chips, salad…

And sparling cider and arbor mist for the new year’s toast…

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I’m putting away all the Christmas goodies today… especially the candy…

Hubby said he would start taking down the decorations tomorrow…

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I really need the boys to clean their rooms while they are still on vacation… of course I’m hoping to get the cleaning started while I’m on vacation to set the standards for the new year…

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Son1 is bringing Danny over to spend the night… He’ll be celebrating the new year with us home bodies… while Kona will celebrate with the young folk…

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Son2 came home around 2pm after a night of Dungeons and Dragons with his friends… now he is showering and eating… then back with his friends to ring in the new year…

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I’m doing the Christmas Thank you cards today…

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I actually started this entry last night to get a start on today…

I did put away all the Christmas goodies this morning…

And started the laundry… hubby ran the dishwasher and then I emptied it, filled it and am now running a second load…

Son1 brought Danny over… he was so happy to be here… he was even happy to see the cats but they didn’t seem to remember him…

Son1 brought Kona’s bed pillow for me to sew since she chewed the side open…

Son3 finally got up just before noon… he’s been watching cartoons and is now gaming it…

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I made the black eyed peas…

This is the link for the recipe I found: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/greens-peas-ham-50400000124733/

And this is how I made them…

32oz water with 2tbl chicken powder broth

2 pkg frozen black eyed peas

1 purple onion

1/4 cup apple cider vinegar

1 green bell pepper chopped

1 red bell pepper chopped

2Tsp brown sugar

2Tsp spicy brown mustard

1 pkg collard greens

1 pkg pork stew meat, browned and seasoned with salt and pepper

I cooked it on the stove top instead of the crock pot…

It simmered for about an hour or more and then I added the collard greens for the last twenty minutes or so….

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Now I’m fixing the bean dip in my new pan I got for Christmas and munching on chips…

Time to do the Thank You cards…

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Thank you cards are done…

now on to the 2013 wall calendar… putting all the birthdays and anniversaries on it…

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Calendar is done…

hubby has taken son2 to his friends New Year’s Eve get together…

Pizza is in the oven… I’ve already opened the Arbor Mist… now what shall we watch tonight…

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Dinner was so good! We are so full…

The black eyed peas were excellent…

Hubby and I are watching Ghost Adventures…

I’m sewing Kona’s bed pillow…

And having another glass of Arbor Mist and breaking out the candy…

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Even more full now after eating candy…

Watching Bones and The Big Bang Theory…

And Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin Eve…

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Back to work tomorrow…

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And then off on Wednesday again…

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Two hours til New Year’s Day…

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Are you ready…

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I’m off to welcome it in…

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Happy 2013!!…

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Happy Journaling…

Sunday, December 30, 2012

December Thirtieth

 

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I need a new routine in the new year…

I find myself first thing in the morning, checking AOL news, checking email and then checking Facebook…

Then ninety minutes later I find I never did what I came on the computer to do in the first place… Blog…

But then it’s time to get off the computer and start the day…

But then I find myself throughout the day checking in on email and Facebook again and again…

I have things I want to do…

Like clean out all my graphic folders on the computer and save all my photos to cds and such…

And clean out every box, drawer and room in the house…

And clean the house…

And the yard…

I have big plans for the new year…

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I was off today… and tomorrow… and then again on Wednesday…

And then I am on vacation the week of the seventh…

I had another interview for the new supervisor position on Friday… they had one more interview to do before making a decision… and so the wait continues… I’m torn between staying and going… I really want out of shoes but then I’m comfortable in shoes… It’ll take a bit of adjusting as I’ve been in shoes eight and a half years now…

Hubby got his unemployment extended again for another three months… so amazing and humbling… so very thankful…

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Son2 is off at friends for the night playing Dungeons and Dragons… Son3 is playing with his Halo Mega Blox and watching cartoons… Hubby and I are watching XFiles…

Today hubby made pancakes for breakfast… the boys slept til noon… so I guess it was really lunch… then hubby and I went grocery shopping at two… and by time we got home and put everything away it was five… so it was time to fix dinner… then we watched the new Spiderman… son2 was right, I did like it better then the other Spiderman movies…

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Today

 

Partly Cloudy 54° Precip 20%

Tonight

 Clear 34°

Tomorrow

Mostly Sunny 52° Precip 10%

Happy Journaling…

Thursday, December 27, 2012

December Twenty Seventh

 

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Merry Christmas!

How was your Christmas…

We had a wonderful Christmas…

Even Indy and Maple got some toy mice and ping pong balls…

Holly got her favorite food in the pouches…

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Stockings are filled…

Our new M&M Christmas decoration…

Isn’t he too cute…

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Son3 was too excited…

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And got everything he wanted on his list…

 

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We were even able to surprise son2 with a couple of things he didn’t know he was getting…

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Son1 and DIL stopped by and opened all their groceries we got for them… they loved it all… they got us a gift card to the movies…

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Even though I told hubby we weren’t going to shop for each other, we bought each other a couple of treats anyway… with Christmas decorations 50% off I got hubby this Woodstock sledding… I also got him a Snoopy to match which just came in the mail today, so he’ll get another surprise tomorrow after I wrap it…

We did get some really good sales this year…

Especially son2 who was able to shop for Christmas this year and did most of the shopping for Santa… he was so excited that he said giving was even better then getting… he got really good deals on Amazon during all the Black Friday sales…

And then he got carried away and spoiled me…

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He was also sneaky… He got me all the Vampirates books I have been wanting since they came out in 2005… It’s a children’s series… He wrapped them so I opened the first novel and I thought “oh thank you I’ve been wanting to start this series”… and then a couple of gifts later going around the room and I opened the box with all of them…

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Snowman boxes hubby got me at the grocery store for just 68cents each…

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Again son2 tricked me with the open one book and then later the whole series of The Game of Thrones series… of course he wants to read these too…

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Hubby and son2 each got me a rose mug…

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Hubby and the boys painted me Christmas ornaments… they were wrapped in the snowman boxes…

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Hubby got me new spoons/spatulas to replace our used up ones… and a new frying pan and sauce pan to replace my two favorite sized ones that I had to throw away recently as the Teflon was wearing off…

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Son2 also tricked hubby and I with season 3 of Supernatural that we have not been able to find and then he got us season 4-7… of course another thing that he also will benefit from…

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Hubby got us all horoscope mugs…

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Son2 got hubby new movies…

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The book/card that I made for hubby…

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Son3’s goodies…

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More son3’s goodies…

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Son2’s goodies…

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Cards hubby made for me, also in the snowman boxes…

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Goodies from work… Candy, bath soap and movie tickets…

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New snowman decorations that were 50% off…

Happy Journaling…