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Thursday, March 6, 2014

March Sixth

 

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My Japanese Maple tree all of sudden went poof with all it’s leaves…

Yesterday at work: reports, email, Pebble (it’s like Facebook for work), talked with associates, updated .com board, made next weeks schedule, called in candidates for second interviews, talked with associates about Thursday’s tasks, went to lunch, held manager on duty phone to cover a lunch, opened boxes, helped members, posted list of tasks for week…

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Today hubby got son3 off to school…

Son2 didn’t go to school today because his dinosaur class was cancelled and he had a substitute in his algebra class who already covered all the assignments for the week…

I am all over the place with my emotions today…

Took hubby on a whirlwind tour of all kinds of conversations, mostly the conversation that we are not communicating very well lately…

Our usual topics of conversation: work, the boys and the weather… I’d like to talk about other things, which he will listen to me all day but he has no input of his own… and this from the man that can get up on his box and talk all day… very frustrating…

He also didn’t realize he has been working for six months now… he keeps waiting for his schedule to settle… he works part time retail, that is not going to happen… so he needs to figure out how to balance his time again now that he is working…

I have been back in shoes for just under four months… Feels like a year…

We are trying to balance work and play without having to wait til all the boys are married and we will really be too tired to work and play… lol…

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Once our conversation volume had gone down and son2 found it safe to come out of his room this morning… Plus he was part of the heated conversation in that he needs to get his license and stop relying on us to take him to school at different times every week, even though hubby makes him go most of the time at the same time even though son2 has to stay there all day for only one class…

Anyway I had started moving the family room around, when actually I was supposed to be getting a haircut from hubby but he had gone to the art room and was working on some four leaf clover pictures he was making for me to use online… hence us not communicating of what is the plan for the day and if we decide to do something different then said, then say that…

I have been wanting the file cabinet next to the desk for quite a while now, so I moved it… Even found some papers that son1 had been looking for and I thought I had put them in the file cabinet; they had fallen out of the drawer into the back of the file cabinet and I found when I took out the drawers to move it…

So there it is…

I am still very wordy today, hubby is at work now and not here for me to talk to/bug…

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I moved the desk to the other window since the file cabinet is moved… It was never convenient tucked in between the entertainment center and the desk when I needed to file papers or pull papers out I needed… I also moved Indy’s cat tree from the hallway to the family room and now she can see outside and all that is going on… Maple’s cat tree is to the right on the other side of the patio door… the cat tree was in the way in the hallway when bringing the laundry to the laundry room, in that the basket didn’t fit unless raised up by your head when walking past the cat tree…

I even vacuumed under and around everything with the vacuum attachments… so that side of the family room is all clean…

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I did some laundry today… Ran the dishwasher… Cleaned the master bathroom sinks/counters… Vacuumed all around the house… Went online here or there… Had breakfast and lunch… watched Goosebumps while I was eating lunch… We have Netflix at the moment and it has all five seasons of Goosebumps… I’m on season two… the boys think it is silly… I like the TV show and the books…

Hubby did give me a haircut/trim before he went to work…

Son3 finished his homework and did his chores, so he is on XBox… I don’t like him being on during school nights but it has kept him motivated to do chores and homework…

I went outside and took some pictures of the backyard… So much to do… Son2 actually went out yesterday and cleaned up some more where we cut back the lemon tree…

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My bulbs are coming up and some even blooming…

And as you can see some of the roses are blooming too… I never did finish cutting them all back but they have all come in even fuller then last year… so the bit of rain we had was good…

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The pumpkins we put out from Halloween are starting to grow too… we put them in a different spot this year so hopefully they will do better… get more sun and water… we’ve noticed the snails have found them already so we put down some snail snacks…

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Now it’s the part of the day when the boys are settled and it’s not quite dinner and I don’t know what to do with myself… because I don’t allow myself to relax… and I start to snack… so I’m here writing a blog entry… because it’s one of the things I don’t allow myself to do… so I’m trying to do more things and it’s ok if it’s not cleaning the house or working… I got a couple of things done in the house today so that’s good… I just remembered I even paid some bills… So now it’s ok for me to do something fun… like write in my blog and read all those books I have bought… or watch tv… or write in my hand prayer journal that I bought…

Most important: I’m not snacking… two days into lent and I am doing really well eating…

And then tomorrow morning I can do a couple more chores before work… and start to learn how to balance my time between work, home and play… I want to stop being so hard on myself… I’ve always been like this but it seems like it has been worse either since I became a lead again three years ago, or was it because hubby was out of work for three years or because of his cancer or because of this Gabapentin I have been on for two years for my neck from the car accident I was in two years ago… So much has happened in the last three years, lots of good and a bit of bad… but sometimes it feels like we are still waiting for the other shoe to drop… even though we tell ourselves every day that we are going to be fine and just enjoy today…

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The book I am reading now… Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter based on his personal journals… It tells the history of his life while telling a tale that vampires were responsible for his mother and his first love’s death and his life goal to rid the earth of vampires while befriending a vampire along the way… It’s nicely written, not all blood and gore, and very interesting…

I’m off to read now and have some soup for dinner… We’ll see what the boys want for dinner… last night it was individual frozen pizzas…

 

Joyce Meyer Ministries

Turn your situation over to God because He can do more in a moment than you can do in a lifetime. -Joyce

The more you believe that God likes you, the more you will like yourself. –Joyce

 

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Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

as you immerse yourself in the beauty of the world, the beauty of the world immerses itself in you.

The more you see beauty, the more beautiful you become. Let yourself be one of God's most glorious creations.

 

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Tonight

 

Partly Cloudy 49° Precip 10%

Tomorrow

 

Mostly Sunny 69°

Tomorrow night

 

 Partly Cloudy 48°

Happy Journaling…

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

March Third

 

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Tomorrow is Lent, Ash Wednesday…

Do you know what you are ‘Giving Up’…

I could say candy, soda, snacking…

Which those things I will do…

But what I really want is to replace bad habits with good habits…

And to just be able to do anything consistently for 40 days…

I’m always saying when I get to my day off, or after this visit, or when the boys are done with homework, or when hubby has a day off…

I want to do things today in spite of what is going on around us…

We shall see…

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I am back… Fed the boys… I am stuffed… cleaned the leftovers out of the fridge… hubby is at work…

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I had my audit today… I really like the new audit with better questions and each question is graded from A-F with no overall score… I had some B’s, quite a few C’s and a couple of D’s which require action plans… so I have some action plans to follow up on that are due in two weeks, one in a month and one in three months… The district manager will be back in three weeks bringing the regional manager… Our next audit is not til the summer… He will email the final audit sometime this evening… I can’t wait to have a printed copy so I can get the associates started on the action plans… It’s mostly just things that were not finished before the audit and a few new ideas… That’s what I like about this audit better, it causes the district manager to have to discuss things, own the stores and follow up… He was at our store from 10:30-1:45pm… In the past he would come for an hour, point out things to fix or just walk around asking questions that you wonder is he testing us or does he not know what he is talking about…

Tomorrow I have to do my paperwork/reports, make the schedule for next week, call in two potentials for second interviews for Friday with my boss, fix all the little things district manager pointed out, open boxes, walk the floor with my full timer to discuss the visit and get everyone started on the action plans…

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Plus start my lent…

And then Thursday is a day off…

 

Joyce Meyer Ministries

A Prayer for Wisdom: I pray that I would diligently seek You in the decisions I make. Lord, I need Your help today. Lead me to Scriptures that apply to my life right now and give me a fresh understanding of Your Word. I am laying aside all my worldly wisdom and putting my trust in You. Amen.

Think beautiful thoughts and there will be no room for the ugly ones. –Joyce

 

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Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

a soft answer turns away wrath.

When everyone around you seems to be in bad spirits, bickering and complaining, take a step back. It's so easy to answer in kind, but instead feel into your heart and answer gently. Let peace radiate from you.

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Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

God is there for you to hold on.

Hold on to what is good, even if it's a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe, even if it's a tree that stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do, even if it's a long way from here. Hold on to your faith, even if it's easier to let go. Hold on to God's hand.

 

Tonight

 

Partly Cloudy 52°

Tomorrow

 

Mostly Cloudy 75°

Tomorrow night

 

Mostly Cloudy 57° Precip 20%

Happy Journaling…

Sunday, March 2, 2014

March Second

 

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View out my backyard window Saturday morning…

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Hubby, I and the boys had the whole weekend off together… Well except for an hour tonight that hubby had to go to work for a little tri tip thanks for all the hard work get together…

Saturday hubby made cheese omelets for breakfast with blueberry muffins and banana muffins…

Then hubby and I went to OSH, Walmart and Food Maxx for grocery shopping…

We had chicken enchiladas, mini tacos, taquitos, and beans & chips…

Then we stayed up til midnight watching our shows on the DVR… Big Bang, How I Met Your Mother, Crazy Ones, Supernatural, Grimm, and Haven…

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Hubby and I also went for a walk yesterday through the orchard to check on the new mall they are building next to son3’s middle school…

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We heard a blue pickup truck honking at us, it was son1 going up the road in the opposite direction…

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Can you see the snow in the Sierras just above the trees…

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It was very muddy in some areas from all the rain we had this weekend… There were some guys riding quads…

The picture on the right is the new road they put in to join the new mall to the neighborhoods… hopefully it will eventually go all the way through the orchard to our neighborhood…

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Our Store Manager’s wife will be the new Store Manager for the Burlington Coat Factory opening this month…

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There were cars in the parking lot for the Target as they are getting ready to open too… Son2 applied at the Target… This is only the first part of phase one of the new mall… still lots of stores to build and then after all this is done there will be a phase two including a movie theater…

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Son3’s middle school is across the street from the new mall…

We walked back through the neighborhoods to get home instead of back through the muddy orchard…

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The view out the back yard window today…

Today I did some chores this morning while hubby slept in… Then hubby made pancakes for breakfast… The boys were on games/computers all weekend… So hubby and I joined them today and we were on our computers… We even took a nap… I made oven fried chicken for dinner…

Now it is time to get ready for school and work tomorrow…

And then when hubby gets home we can watch the best parts of the Oscars that I taped on the DVR…

 

Joyce Meyer Ministries

The only way to break the chains of fear and doubt is to know in your heart that God loves you—no matter what.

You are not alone. God is with you right now! –Joyce

Jesus looked at them at said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." -Matthew 19:26

 

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Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

you have so many gifts! - use them.

God has given you so many gifts to sow love and to give hope, to shine light and to spread joy. Abundant gifts. Use them. Give to yourself and give to others. There is an endless spring where they come from.

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Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

happiness is contagious.

When you are happy, sing your heart out! Let your joy and well-being radiate and transform all around you.

 

Tonight

 

Partly Cloudy 47° Precip 20%

Tomorrow

 

Mostly Cloudy 68°

Tomorrow night

 

Cloudy 53° Precip 10%

Happy Journaling…