Cornbeef and Vampires...

We are celebrating St. Patrick's Day today, on Wednesday, since I had to work the last six days in a row and I am finally off today and have time to cook the cornbeef that is simmering on the stove as I type.... mmmmm can you smell it....



We have inventory at work one week from today... I am frantically trying to get all the new spring/summer shoes opened and put away.... Our stockroom is looking pretty good... I think we are ready... and we have been busy, all those people shopping with no money?.....



Son3 got his new glasses and prescription... He is doing good in school... well of course hubby has been doing homework with him now, lol... his stress now, not mine, except on Wednesdays.... It is getting toward the end of the school year so they start to focus on the next grade, so his teacher is now treating them like third graders... where they are expected to do their work on their own, so he has been bringing home classwork along with homework.... don't know what hubby decided to do on talking with the office yet... yesterday son3 was reading me a story he wrote and I thought he did really good reading out loud and knowing every word, he is a good loud public speaker... so maybe he will be ok in third grade... of course the first part of third grade, they review second grade... and maybe this summer we will be good and do practice work....

Son2 announced yesterday that he wants to try out for cheerleading... I had talked to him about it before and of course we want to support him but the things he comes up with, lol... he even got all the information yesterday... I told hubby don't think about the money or anything yet as he has to try out... does he even know how to do a cartwheel.... of course there is a meeting at the school next month for the parents of what all is involved... why does everything have to involve the parents... can't I find stuff out after I find out if he even got picked yet.... I'll wait and see if he remembers next month... This morning he wanted to go to school with two different shoes on, one black, one brown.... hubby and I said No.... then I told him just don't announce it and you would have been off to school and we wouldn't have even known, lol... so he tried that but hello I'm still standing here, change your shoes.... meanwhile he has had a whole month to read Call of the Wild, he writes the report in class tomorrow... He started the book a month ago, read all through class yesterday and said he will finish it tonight.... nothing like the last minute with him...

Hubby had son2 text son1 on Sunday.... to tell him to call us... son1 responded who is this, my phone numbers were lost from my cell phone... son2 text him who... son1 responded oh that's what I thought... son2 text a lol or something... nothing back from son1 and no he still hasn't called... we figure when he hits bottom he will be at our door... meanwhile he is taking care of things himself.... no more phone calls from the girlfriend...


Holly is still working out her own routine in the family... I don't think she likes being home all alone all day while we are at work and school.... and I am sure she is still a kitten as she wants to play all the time.... she likes to be in a room where we are except in the evening she sleeps in my computer chair... while I am on the computer she sleeps behind me on the back of the couch... right now she is outside as it is nice and sunny and she is getting some fresh air... she is still pushing her luck at getting to stay in at night instead of spending the night in the garage.... between 2 and 4am she decides it is time to get up and sits on our heads while we are sleeping.... if we close our door she wakes son3 so he will call us and then we too are awake, lol... son2 is safe as his door is always closed... she also likes to crawl all over the radio alarm clocks trying to turn on the radio knowing that will wake us up... however if she is on the bed while the alarm goes off she looks at you so concerned with her face saying it wasn't me and goes to try to turn it off, lol... she is such a character... she still tries to bite us but I think she just wants to play and not mad.... she does however meow in protest if she doesn't want to do something when you pick her up... son3 loves that she lets him pick her up....


I am on the fourth book of the Twilight series, boy did I get sucked in.... However most books you don't want them to end, you are enjoying the characters too much... these books I just want to be done so I know what happens... no, don't tell me... son2 is saying nothing, but I told him I better like the ending or he's gonna get it, lol... We both had read the first book before Valentine's and then I got son2 the whole set... He has been done with them for a couple of weeks already and I am on the last one... You just can't put them down... I get to work early in the morning after I drop son3 at school, so I'll read then and then again at lunch and then every second in the evening when I get a chance.... I'm not thinking she is gonna be a vampire though..........




We got Captain's Courageous from Netflix and we were gonna watch it on Sunday but the boys are it's black and white, nooooooooo don't torture us.... So I said fine we are gonna watch half on Monday and half on Tuesday... So on Sunday we watched Shangai Noon... Monday comes more protests but we put it in... I set the timer for forty minutes so the boys could get to showers by 7:30pm, the timer goes off, I say time to turn it off, the boys say nooooooooooooo.... lol... they loved it! It was so funny partly for good writing and partly cause of the things they said back then compared to now.... so we watched it til 8pm and finished it last night...



We also have been busy keeping up with all our shows: Two and a Half Men, Rules of Engagement, Masters of Illusion, Reaper, Criminal Minds, CSI NY, Bones, CSI, 11th Hour, Smallville, Supernatural, Ghost Whisperer, Numbers, Terminator, Dollhouse, will be glad when Fringe returns and we started watching a new one, Castle with Nathan Fillion, so funny...

We are looking at temps in the mid 70's this week... but dropping back to the 60's with rain this weekend...

And now as usual I have a million things to do on my list.... I liked the comment that Tina left in a few entries back: we are never done, only in progress, or better yet under control... I like that under control... so now my new goal is to get under control...

Happy Journaling...

A-Z Photo Challenge-X

To Play Visit Martha at Menagerie....

I'm gonna add a little twist to this week's challenge and just mention my favorite X-Men.....

Wolverine/Hugh Jackman...



































and I did find some X's in the garden....

























































Happy Journaling...

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

Happy Journaling...

Mornin...

I am up! Hubby is off to work, son2 is off to school... we are working on a morning schedule with everyone up at the same time now, lol...

I got most of my chores done yesterday except never did get to the bathrooms... Son3 got all of his homework done and hubby was home early... Sent hubby to the store for me some cola and salad and bread for dinner... He also picked up a carrot cake for dessert... We settled in to watch Transporter 3 that came from Netflix yesterday and it wouldn't work in the family room DVD player but worked perfectly fine in the bedroom DVD player... Every so often we run into that problem with DVD's from Netflix, haven't figured out why.... So we watched an old Incredible Hulk on the retro channel, studied son3's spelling words and got the boys in the showers... I was back on the computer for a bit and discovered that Linda at Linda's World had lost her dear Gabi... She and Raisin had a long distance relationship going... now they are both together and my heart is just breaking... Then the phone was ringing all evening; son3's new glasses are ready to pick up, son2 has his second tardy in a class that the teacher does not accept tardies, one more and he is in detention, son2 had missed his bus yesterday on the way home and took a bus that we do not approve of that he has to cross a major expressway to get home, and girlfriend called crying and wanting to talk about son1 two times, no I did not pick up, I haven't heard from son1 in three weeks since he called to ask if he could move back home....

So we did not have a relaxing evening and we were all in bed asleep by 9pm....

Now I am off to get ready for work and get son3 off to school...

Happy Journaling...

Days are Flying...

Wednesday again... My morning time just for me...

Got the boys off to school this morning and hubby off to work... I see him in the mornings now that he goes in at 6:30 instead of 5:30am.... I am now all caught up on email, journals, and facebook... I have had a cold for a week, stuffy nose and low grade fever... I am finally feeling better today... Now son2 is getting it.... might explain why he has been so grumpy lately besides being 15... We have had temps in the 60's, however the last two days we have woke to ice on the cars, but then by next Tuesday it is supposed to be 79 degrees...

Sunday I went to work as usual to set the ad... Supervisor and I were confused however as the report said only two signs to put up and over 400 to take down... Also when I got there, there were only two other cars in the parking lot.... hmmm guess everyone has a small ad.... So I take down all the signs ending on the 8th and proceed to put up more than two signs I had for the 9th.... Print all the signs I needed to replace ones I had taken down, stop at restroom, set down signs and wonder why they all have the end date of the 8th, did I click on wrong date to print... Start thinking and remember that Sunday is the 8th.... Understand completely now that the ad did not end on Saturday but on Sunday and I had set up the ad for Monday.... why do they play with my mind, lol... Meanwhile this weeks ad ends on Friday instead of Saturday and we set the new ad up on Saturday instead of Sunday... Just keeping us on our toes I guess...

but of course I could of had Sunday off and had more than fours sleep due to the time change but then I wouldn't have had Monday off with hubby....

Sunday I came home to hubby and son2 mowing lawns and washing cars... I can't even remember what we had for dinner or watched... I have moved to the next step of perimenapause: brain fog and memory loss, lol...

Monday hubby and I got the boys off to school and we headed straight to Walmart... needing shampoo, cat food and such, not to mention the $5 DVD bin where we found movies we had to have... We watched Sahara last night... the others were Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story, a Vietnam documentary for hubby, Smokey and the Bandit for son1, Transporter 2 and all Lethal Weapons in a set (this one was $13)... and a bunch of other stuff I can't remember, Easter egg dye, socks, humming bird juice, blank cds, ............ came home to find the DSL was down and it never came back on til we were eating dinner... So I watched The Women from Netlix and hubby hung up my humming bird feeder from Christmas.... then it was boys home from school and homework...

Tuesday I was back to work... Asked supervisor if she noticed anything about the ad, nope... No complaints about the signs coming up the wrong prices, nope... so I proceed to take down all the signs that I had printed for the tables and such that I had reprinted with the ending date of the 8th cause that sale really did end on Sunday and found the rest of the signs and finished putting up the signs for Monday... Helped Supervisor put up our new ceiling signing, so we were on ladders most of the day.... I have a ton and a half of boxes to open, will work on those Thursday and Friday.... I so wanted to call out on Tuesday with my cold but it turned out to be an easy day any way and I'm feeling better now....

Tuesday hubby picked up son3 from school and he and three other parents were ambushed by the teacher who wanted to let us all know that our children were the slowest in the class and that she couldn't hold up the rest of the class for them anymore.... And that third grade is not gonna wait for them, they will have to keep up... Have we not been telling her our concerns and she continues to say everything is fine because she wants all the control.... We are torn between requesting to hold him back and pushing him into the next grade hoping things will get better... Did I mention that teacher/conferences are the end of the month for those below average... I will be surprised if we have one... We had similar problems with son2 and he finally got a clue by fourth grade or just a better teacher, I'm not sure... I just know I never recognize his fourth grade teacher when she says hi cause I never had to know her, lol... Son3 has made some good improvements with his maturity and control of his anger and getting along with others plus I can hear a big improvement in his reading and I even hear him reading the screen when he is playing his video games now.... His thing now is being able to do his work independently.... I don't know if he just thinks he has to wait for permission to proceed with each work problem or he can't read it or he doesn't listen to instructions or he is just afraid of being wrong or a combination of all of the above.... Hubby is going to still talk with the office so next year we will have record of our concerns so we can have some support from the office staff.... on whether he needs reading lab or anything...

Now I am off to do my chores... straighten up, dishes, put away laundry, pay bills, clean both bathrooms from top to bottom ( I never seem to finish this one), fill the bird feeders, clean out the magazines, vacuum, pick up son3 first and then do homework.... I think we will have pasta and garlic bread for dinner....

Happy Journaling....

End of the week, finally...

I'm so glad it's Saturday.... Hubby was off to work early... The boy's are off playing their video games... I've been back and forth between facebook and blogger all morning... I did start a load of laundry, had a fried egg sandwich and showered and dressed...

Work was up and down all week, with us wondering how stressed we should be about the visit we had yesterday... We didn't get everything done but we are way under control compared to this time last year... and I didn't think the visitors would really have time to see the store as they were locked up in their meeting all day... I have a ton of boxes to open tomorrow but it is a small ad so I will have time to work on them... Plus I want to reorganize all our signing back into our stockroom... I work both Saturday and Sunday next weekend as we start our Mad About Shoes Sale... So I have this Monday off with hubby... We are going to Walmart! We haven't had a chance to shop in a while and I am out of shampoo and son3 still needs some more jeans as he is outgrowing his clothes lately....

Hubby has been doing good with his 6am-2pm schedule, however he crashes at 9pm, lol... so we have all been going to bed early and getting up early... Next week however hubby moves to 7am-3pm, as they changed the store hours... He has also been doing most of son3's homework, so I have been reprieved from homework for a couple of weeks now... He and son2 however are working on a new afternoon routine and learning who son2's friend's are and that dad has stricter rules than mom, lol... I warned son2....

The last two days have been lecture days for son2... First off son2 doesn't really see his friend's outside of school much as they live on the opposite border of the school boundaries but we are all for him seeing his friends and encourage him to establish a routine of hanging with his friends... however son2 will see a friend and then nothing for months... and then we'll get into a situation like yesterday where son2 has been asking for a week to go to his friend's who have somewhat of a band... but then come Friday it is now at a different friend's house and now we are not going to do band stuff we are just going to hang for a friend's bday, with no time limits so hubby agrees but gives time limits, phone rings, now we are going to a 3hr R rated movie but K's mom is taking us and watching it with us... Now our yes has turned to a no and we are the bad guys... but his friends do this every time... I ask son2 why don't you ever invite your friend's to do stuff so I can see how many times their mom says no.....

Son3 had a good week at school after he was done being sick... Tuesday he had an eye appointment and got new glasses, we are waiting to pick them up, she also said that his right eye improved by two points and his left lazy eye improved by four points so we don't have to wear the patch anymore if we don't want to.... she said we did great and hubby said he hadn't really worn it since before the holidays... she said well probably all the focusing and concentrating with school work probably helped too... I was thinking maybe all the video games on weekends, lol.... Wednesday he wore his Cat in the Hat shirt for Dr. Seuss week, Thursday he wore his Incredible Hulk pjs, I was surprised he did and Friday was red and white day.... Also on Friday they had a special guest of the Cat in the Hat himself, well herself, son3 said there was a girl in the costume.... He also got a bday invitation but it is for next Saturday the one Saturday I have to work, grrrrr.....

Still no word from son1....

Tomorrow night is the premiere of the Extreme House Makeover that was filmed in Fresno... and don't forget to move your clocks forward one hour tonight.... that means it will be 3:30am old time when I get up for work tomorrow, ugh....

Netflix movies this week: Martian Child with John Cusack, very cute with sad parts; Appaloosa, we'll watch tonight; Strange Wilderness, son2 and I will watch; and Surfer, Dude that I thought would be like Fool's Gold but was just Matthew McConaughey being grungy, so I didn't watch it....

I still need to watch Ghost Whisperer from last night... Melinda is telling Sam what she does and that he is really Jim...

And I want to watch some old episodes of Emergency online while I get my tax papers all together... Need to get started on these taxes soon!

Son2 is bored and I just gave him a 'so where are all your friends' lecture... I know it sounds mean but after all the drama of him having to go out with them last night and now there will be nothing for months... There are at least ten friends in his group, and he can't call at least one to do something...

Son3 is in my bed watching Godzilla and Mothra and son2 is texting with his friends who I am just finding out didn't get to see the movie cause the mom didn't know she had to actually sit with them through the movie, she thought she could just buy the tickets.... so they ended up watching a DVD at someones house...

Ok I'm off to do a bit of chores, make oven fried chicken and a chocolate cake and get those tax papers together, oh and watch Ghost Whisperer, might not get to the Emergency shows....

Happy Journaling...

A-Z Photo Challenge-W

To Play Visit Martha at Menagerie...

White Feather...












White Fluffy Clouds...
























Waiting...
























White Allysium...












Wings on a bird...












White Pear Blossoms...












White Holly in a Tree...












Wet Raindrops on Rose Bush Leaves...












Wings on a Bug...

Happy Journaling...

Real Quick...

Son3 is well and off to school today... He did not make it to school yesterday but hubby had the day off so it worked out... I am so tired and so behind in everything... I was not motivated at work yesterday so just got all the boxes opened... I did have a brain storm at the end of the day and moved the woman's wall around so I now have more room to put out athletic shoes today... and I'm sure there are lots more boxes coming for me to open today... I just wish we could get past this visit on Friday... but then we have inventory at the end of the month... always something... I worked 10-5:30 yesterday... I do not like the staying til 5:30... by time I get home it is 6pm, hubby has dinner ready but we eat, get the boys ready for school, we watched Masters of Illusion, everyone was asleep by 9pm except me, I watched Two and a Half Men and Rules of Engagement and then I was asleep by 10pm... but I didn't get anything done around the house... hubby was able to run some errands during the day with son3 and got some yard work done... Today son3 has an eye check up appointment after school... Hubby will take him... I work 10-5 today... I'm afraid of how much homework we will have with him missing school yesterday... I am so glad I am off tomorrow... We were supposed to have rain all week but I have yet to see it... Time to get son3 up and start the day... Let's see how much laundry and dishes I can get done before I have to leave for work....
Happy Journaling...

A New Week Begins...

Son3 is better!! He never did sleep yesterday til 3pm and then only for an hour... He was asleep by 9pm though and then woke up three times in the night throwing up... hubby got up with him, I had to be at work at 6am today.... I set the ad and then called home at lunch and son3 was keeping liquids down, drinking diluted Gatorade... after lunch supervisor talked my ear off for an hour and then it was time to go home... short day today... no hours this week with just me and supervisor all day and then one closer and that's it, still with a visit on Friday.... Before coming home though I picked up son2 some beach shirts that I had seen for him to put away for Easter and I got son3 some socks and jeans, he has outgrown his socks and jeans and I found hubby and I some green flannel sheets on clearance.... Came home to son3 chattering away, don't even know how many DVD's he has seen in the last two and a half days...

He's watching Cat in the Hat now... This week at school is Dr. Seuss week... I always forget to get ready for it by looking for Cat in the Hat stuff to buy... Monday is crazy hat day, Tuesday is crazy sock day, Wednesday is Thing One and Thing Two day, son3 has a shirt to wear that day, Thursday is pajama day, son3 didn't like the idea of wearing pjs to school, lol, and Friday is Red and White day.... So we are not even ready... I think the bigger kids get into it more anyway... Actually son3 said earlier he is not going to school tomorrow but then a little bit ago he said he feels great and he's going to school...

We are supposed to get rain tonight and maybe more during the week...

Hubby is off at the grocery store... Stuff for the week and thinking whats for dinner...

We watched Babylon AD, ok but wrapped the ending up too nicely leaving out a few details; and Deception, slow start but actually ended up having a few interesting but predictable twists and turns, City of Ember, good story idea but no emotion and it just ended... Tonight hopefully we can stay awake and finish a few of our shows we started this week...

March already.... I really need to get started on my taxes... lol...

Son2 finished the Twilight series and says he ain't talking.... I am still on book two... it's getting a little better...

Almost 4pm and I'm sure there is something I could be doing while hubby is at the grocery store, but can't think of anything...

Happy Journaling...

Snagged from Guido...

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an ‘x’ before those you have read.
2) Tally your total at the bottom.

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien started it once...
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X my favorite...
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X all of them...
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee got this one for Christmas...
The Bible not all of it...
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X
Complete Works of Shakespeare
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien started this one once...
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X and the sequel Scarlett...
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky X
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame started this one once...
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens X
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis on my list to read...
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe also on my list...
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X
Animal Farm - George Orwell X
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown have this one to read...
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding X
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert started this one once...
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens X
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas X
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick - Herman Melville X
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X
Dracula - Bram Stoker X
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce X
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker X
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB White X
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albomx
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams X
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas X
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl got this one for Christmas...
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

32 out of 100...

Happy Journaling...

Tired...

Son3 is sick....

Friday hubby got up for his third day of getting to work at 6am... His alarm goes off and he jumps out of bed, lol, he is used to leisurely getting out of bed at 7am... I told him he is going to hurt himself if he doesn't slow down at 4:45am... Of course I am also awake at this time, but I am used to it, although now I don't actually get up til 5:45am so I can get son2 off to the bus and then get son3 up at 7am to get ready to go to school... Except Thursday night at 2am he woke to say his head hurt... Hubby yelled out darn that cat... I said the cat is right here with us and not waking son3 up, lol... Of course the next day he did not remember saying anything... So anyway I get son3 up and he says his head still hurts, so I give him some Tylenol and by time he is brushing his teeth, he is singing... He did not eat breakfast though and I was very tempted to call out of work but off we went... 1pm I just sit down to lunch and I am being paged, it is the school, son3 is complaining his tummy hurts... I talk to son3 and then the school and arrange for hubby to pick up at 2pm since he is almost off of work... Of course I do ask unless you want me to pick up right now, no he can lay down in the nurse's office... almost got off work early, lol....

So I got off work at 5:30pm, came home to pizza and son3 in bed on his third movie... He hadn't eaten all day except for one bite of pizza...

Son2 was off to bed at 8pm to read the fourth book in the Twilight series that he got for Valentine's...

Hubby and I watched Terminator, Sarah Conner Chronicles, hubby was snoring half way through it and then Dollhouse, I was asleep half way through that one, lol...

We went to bed at 10pm, with son3 waking up at 11, throwing up, 12, 1, 2, 4, and then 7am, hubby had to get up for work... At 4am I put in a movie for son3 to take his mind off his tummy... I don't know how much sleep he has gotten... I'm used to the house being absolutely quiet when the boys are sick, but son3 has been moaning and calling me every half hour, poor thing... he was still throwing up at 8, 9 and 10, not that he has eaten anything except two sips of lemon lime soda and one fishy cracker... He has been quiet for an hour now but son2 says he is not asleep.... He's watching another movie...

I'm not thinking I'm gonna get much done today or maybe a whole lot done if he finally falls asleep... I'll gets lots of laundry done though... ewwwwww...

Hopefully next week we'll settle into our schedule's better... I told hubby I expect it to be a long time for him to adjust to his schedule... I've been working that schedule for over fifteen years so I'm used to it... The good thing now is everyone finally goes to sleep early, lol, like I never got to do...

Well now that the day is half over, I should get dressed and wander out to the backyard and see if anymore bulbs have come up....

Happy Journaling...

Spring has Sprung

Happy Journaling...

We are Here! We are Here!

I feel like the Who's in Horton Hears a Who calling out to you all that we are here, lol... Can you hear me calling as I walk past the computer... I haven't written in the journal since over a week ago, how did that happen... I'm on the computer enough but still not enough time... Working 9-5 opens up time for some things but blocks out time for playing on computer... well of course then there is stupid facebook, lol... I love My Farm, Eco Racer and lots of other little applications that are fun to play...

So what have we been doing, I don't remember that far back, lol... It has been raining a lot! But today is Sunny and 66 with no rain til maybe tonight or Saturday...

We finally saw Wall-E, very cute...

At work we are getting ready for yet another visit for next Friday... we have a ton of hours this week... Working 9-5 isn't too bad, I have time in the morning to check email, throw in some laundry, load the dishwasher, get the boys to school and this or that... but then in the evening it's finish homework, dinner, watch a show to relax and fall asleep... Sunday I still go in at 6am to set the ad and Monday's I go in 7am but only if we have hours, like this past Monday...

Hubby worked his first 6-2pm yesterday but now today he is back to 10-7 for a training class, then the next two days 6am, so we will see how he is by Saturday... of course they have talked now of changing the store hours so he may go to 7-3pm, which doesn't work as well for school pick up....

Son3 has been doing better on spelling, his reading has improved, but he still brings home too much classwork.... I wonder if it is him or the teacher trying to do many things and they run out of time.... Hubby had a bit of a chat with her the other day but he may still have a conference with the counselor...

Son2 is doing fine... He seems to have grown into his 15 years lately... Gets up for school on his own... texts with his friend that is a girl every day giving her advise on her boyfriend that is also son2's friend, all the while finally admitting to us that he likes her too.... He is on book 3 of the Twilight series, I am on book 2... I still don't see what all the excitement is about so we debate over the books every so often...

Son1 called a week ago asking if he could move back home.... said girlfriend was cheating and he was going to confront her.... He was coming over on Sunday to talk... Son2 text him if he was coming over, he never said yes or no all day Sunday... he finally text son2 that he didn't want to be a burden by moving home... Son2 text him back that he was not a burden and to come home and pay off his bills and start fresh... Son1 has not responded... So we are waiting for the other shoe to fall....

All the trees in Fresno are blossoming pink and white... All the daffodils are blooming in the front yard and a couple of the bulbs I planted in the backyard are just pushing up through the ground... The rosebushes all have new leaves sprouting and the trees are also sprouting new leaves... The birds are busy at the bird feeders... Spring is here...

And other than that, you can see you haven't missed a thing, same things going on now that were going on a week ago, lol....

And as usual I have laundry, dishes and what's for dinner all waiting for me and the boys will be home from school soon and homework will begin...










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Happy Birthday Robin!!

In case you didn't know... tomorrow is Robin's Birthday!!

Wish her a Happy Birthday, she'll love it!!

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Happy President's Day!!

I took a personal holiday today so we have all been home all day... We were going to take a drive to the snow but with all the rain that wasn't possible so we have been nice and cozy in the house... We slept in til nine, hubby made cranberry orange pancakes, blueberry muffins and fried eggs with hot chocolate... He has been playing computer games with the boys all day, but he did clean the microwave and checked on the yard in a few places where it is flooding... I did all the dishes, cleaned the counters, washed the kitchen floor, washed the bedding on mine and son3's bed and made brownies... For dinner we are having leftover bbq sandwiches, chicken strips, cole slaw, scalloped potatoes and green salad... And watching disc three of John Adams... quite appropriate for President's Day....

Yesterday I got to work at 6am to set the ad and found I got off work at noon... Yay! However I came home and spent too much time on the computer... The power went off two times yesterday too... When I first got home it was off for 45 minutes and then again later for about fifteen minutes... I did make a lot of yummy things for dinner, see leftovers above but I also ate too much chips and dips and too much soda... arggggggg..... I want to get back where I was before the holidays hit, when I was doing all the crunches and not drinking soda... I have a plan when hubby starts his new hours... So one more week... Meanwhile I am getting back into the frame of mind... of course part of the problem is I can't think about eating better cause then I eat... Have to be distracted and not be aware of my plan... That is why I like my new schedule, I won't be home from two to five snacking.... We also watched The Untouchables with Kevin Costner and Sean Connery, pretty good...

Valentine night hubby got home from work about 8pm and son2 and I had just put in When Harry Met Sally... hubby went off to change his clothes and get a snack, watch the news what have you and came back in the room just as the movie was ending, lol... So son2 and I spent time together eating conversation hearts and watching a romantic comedy... He loved the movie though laughing through the whole thing...

Hubby is putting in John Adams and I am off to heat up dinner... the boys need showers as it's back to school and work again tomorrow... Hubby got released from jury duty on the first call so that is a big relief off his mind.... And I just remembered I promised myself I would sort through some paper piles while I was watching the movie....

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Happy Valentine's Day!!

I hope everyone is having a nice Valentine's day with their favorite Valentine's... We got to sleep in til almost 9am today... Hubby is closing tonight so we got to have a breakfast of scrambled eggs, sausages, english muffins with apple butter and waffles and exchange our Valentine surprises before he left... In the last entry for the letter V there is a picture of the Valentine packages... I got hubby a shirt he wanted from Cabela's and a special hubby card with coupons to redeem for a date, a candlelit dinner and breakfast in bed... He of course made me a card and a devil in a mug, shown in the last entry... I was feeling festive this year so I got the boys treats too... Son3 got computer games, Ice Age the Melt down and Open Season and hubby got him a Star Wars figure... And I was worried cause son2's package hadn't arrived yet... I ordered him all four books to the Twilight series, so I printed out the pictures of the books and rolled it like a scroll and wrote on it coming to your front porch soon... It worked out perfect cause as we were eating breakfast I saw the mailman go by so after a bit I checked out the front window and there on the porch was the package so after son2 opened his scroll we told him to check the front porch and he didn't believe us, lol... so it was perfect timing... Hubby also got him the movie, The Punisher...

So I have installed both of son3's games that he is already bored with, son2 has already watched his movie, we are having some hot dogs, I have been loading pictures into the blog which has taken forever and I am not even dressed yet today and it is already 3:30pm...

I came home from work yesterday and son1 was over doing laundry... He's a bit tight in the funds at the moment and doesn't get paid for another week... He did say he has been finally getting more hours again... He had gotten a bit behind on his credit card payments but after his next paycheck that is caught up... He also got another fix it ticket on his car but said that is fixed just needs to get it signed off... However his landlord says he has his last warning for working on cars in the apartment complex and the next time he is evicted... And that he and girlfriend are on a break of some sorts... she has been staying at her mom's all week... she is mad cause he spends more time with his guy friends than with her... His dogs are doing good and the hamster cage needs cleaning... He named the new dog, Abby... He and son2 did the dishes while he was here and he helped hubby figure out why the new bulb for the van brake light wasn't working, so I can now drive the van again... I didn't want a fix it ticket... I sent him off with three bags of groceries and a a bit of money to cover his checking account til he gets paid... I'm sure he'll be back soon as he mentioned something about taxes needing doing...

It rained most of the week here, so nice... Today it is clear with blue skies and white puffy clouds... We are forcasted with more rain through Thursday and if we get another inch and a half we will finally be up to the normal range for this time of year...

The boys are watching Jack Frost and eating their hot dogs...

I was hoping to get in a lot of blog reading today, but I still want to see Ghost Whisperer from last night and maybe vacuum, clear up the dishes, put all the laundry away and maybe take a shower today.... Not to mention the forty something requests I have in Facebook, lol...

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