***Saturday***

I happily read blogs last night, starting at the bottom and working up through the N's, lol... Having to work til 5pm today and then fighting with the printer for the last two hours to print out photos for the Christmas cards and eating some dinner, I did not have time to read tonight... I did eat dinner though and feed the boys and I did get the printer to finally cooperate and finish printing the pictures... Son2 is watching The Postman with Kevin Costner and son3 is watching Space Chimps now that I have pried his fingers off the game computer... Hubby is home and came in panicked cause I had not turned on all the outside house lights... I did not know if he had finished fixing the ones on the roof so waited til he got home... He has been coming home everyday to a strand of lights somewhere not being on... He even had to take some back and exchange them cause they were already broken, so he is not having good luck with the Christmas lights this year and they are making him frustrated...


Work was good today... Even though it was Saturday we were not quite as busy as we have been all week... Everyone's still messy though... I put up some more sale signs this morning and changed out some empty sale tables... And then I spent most of the day stocking men's work boots... I got all the boxes caught up, there are no boxes in receiving until the next truck comes, Yay!! So I have lots of shoes to put out now... Tomorrow I have the whole ad to change out with all new signs and then after lunch I will either start on stocking the men's dress shoes or work on athletic shoes or put out some more clearance... all depends on my mood and how busy we are...
I had all kinds of witty things to write about in my head while I was at work and now that it is 9pm I can't remember what they were, lol...
I have not even been out in the yard, the backyard needs mowing badly, but it is grey and dreary and cold out there by time I get home... I still need to cut back the roses too and plant the bulbs for the Spring... At least next week's schedule I am back to my 35 hours instead of 40... That 5 hours makes a big difference on the home routine...
Tomorrow after work gotta give son3 a haircut and hopefully finish up the Christmas cards so they can all be in the mail by Monday... And clean up the kitchen, even though son2 has been emptying and filling the dishwasher, he doesn't wash the pans or counters, lol...
Hubby has the next two days off so lots more decorating will be going on... And I want to get on wrapping the presents next... Christmas day is going to be here before we know it...
I already have thoughts for some New Years resolutions I want to accomplish in January.... OK sorry I won't go there yet... :)
I think we are almost caught up on all the TV shows, everything is starting to be repeats now for the holidays... I think we just have a Criminal Minds and a CSI NY to watch... Maybe we can watch one before I fall asleep... Have to be up at 4:30am to do it all over again....
Happy Journaling...

***Friday***

Ok I think I have it figured out on why I haven't been able to get into a routine of reading blogs... I thought it was so cool that all the blogs listed on my blog say when they posted putting the most recent on top... Well that is the problem, the blogs keep moving and I don't know where I started or left off from the day before... So I have now selected the alphabetical order instead and will remember where I left off reading, lol, like the alerts used to be in emails... I had them in alphabetical order so I could select which letters to read each day....

Work was OK yesterday... The days are just so long since I am working full shifts and then I've been shopping a bit after work and then come home to fix dinner and son3's homework... Yesterday I just spent the whole day opening boxes again... Today I spent most of the day doing price changes for athletic shoes and men's shoes and cleaning the clearance racks and filling them... Then I opened boxes, so today went by way quicker...

Let's see Tuesday night we watched Space Chimps and Fringe, then Wednesday night we watched Meet Dave and last night we watched Fly Me to The Moon and Eleventh Hour... So tonight I have to watch the endings to all those shows, lol... Cause I can't even stay awake lately if I sit down... This morning son2 and I both overslept, fortunately son2 had foggy day or he would have missed the bus... I got to work on time as usual, even when I try to be late I still get there on time, lol...

Tonight's goals are read some blogs, work on the Christmas cards and finish all the shows... Son3 is off on his computer games... He's still wearing his patch, shh don't tell him, lol... I usually try to have him wear it at least a half hour, but the longer the better, he's had it on for an hour and fifteen minutes now... Son2 is gonna do the dishes for me and then he is gonna watch The Happening...

Happy Journaling...

A Quiet Morning

A nice quiet morning just for me... The boys are at school, hubby is off to work... I've been checking email, ordered son2's cell phone for Christmas, made a list of what I need to get done today... Wondering why I am so far behind in reading blogs, lol, I have just not gotten into a routine of reading lately and I don't like it... Seems on blogger I write more, where's in journals, I was always reading more...

Monday night we ended up getting Japanese food at Teriyaki Fresh, it was so good, even the boys gobbled it up... And we watched Polar Express... Last night I cooked pork cube steak with all the thanksgiving leftovers and we watched Space Chimps, very cute and funny, although I fell asleep and need to watch the end...

Work was good yesterday but long as I had to stay all day, a full shift, I'm spoiled I know... But I scanned the floor and generated the report, stocked all the work boots and then spent the entire day opening boxes... We are so almost caught up...

Now today I want to put some treats in the advent calendar, laundry, dishes, pay some bills, half the Christmas cards are done and ready for the mail but need to work on the other half, clean out all the Christmas catalogs that have been filling up the house since Halloween, open the packages that have come from ordering online and make sure they are all there, a few bday cards to send out, water the plants, vacuum, cut son3's hair and of course there will be homework to do... Dinner will be easy of leftovers and we have Meet Dave to watch tonight with Eddie Murphy... Hubby wants to put the Christmas lights on the tree tonight... and it will probably be next Wednesday til he gets all the decorations done, inside and out...

Happy Journaling...

Strange Shots

Are you ready for another round of Strange Shots?

To Play Visit Martha at Menargerie...













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A Few Pictures

Make a Smilebox slideshow

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December is here...

Today hubby and I shopped til we dropped... And we found not much... Everything is sold out... In the stores and on line... We went to the postal annex and got lots of stamps... We went to the dollar store and found lots of stocking stuffers and advent calendar treats... We went to Toys R Us and found nothing... We went to Walmart and just got basic stuff of cat food and toilet paper and cola and hubby did find two more strings of lights for the yard... Then we went to Target and finally found a few Christmas presents for the boys... We came home and had some turkey for lunch... Then online to Walmart and nothing in stock to buy... So off to Toys R Us online and we found a couple of toys... Finally at Target online and we found a few more toys... Seems this is the year that we keep finding lots for son2 but not much for son3... Last year it was the other way around...
Today son2 started his day back to school with foggy day schedule of a three hour bus delay... Son3 got off to school just great and came home all full of energy... Son2 came home all grumpy, tired probably... Now son3 is doing homework and son2 is talking with hubby about something that happened just before vacation started... Seems some of his friends thought it would be funny to put son2's school binder in another friend's backpack and so the friend had son2's binder all vacation and son2 had a paper in it that needed signing and brought back to school today... Costing him twenty points for not turning in the paper today, however most of the class didn't turn it in so the teacher gave them another day, so he got lucky... And they dumped out perfume in another friends sport bag and tied knots so that she was late to practice... And another friend they filled his backpack with wet leaves and dirt... Of course they all thought it was just funny... Son2 was mad, however now he is moving past mad at them and mad at me cause I said he could no longer go to the Christmas party at the house of one of the friend's who pulled the pranks... So he and hubby are talking it out...
Son3 is needing my help to do homework and I'm not feeling like making dinner or eating turkey so thinking what can hubby can pick up for dinner... and last night we didn't watch any of the Santa Clauses cause no one could agree on which one so we watched The Grinch with Jim Carrey instead... Tonight Terminator is on and I need to finish CSI cause I fell asleep last night while hubby and I were watching it... lol...
Happy Journaling...

Concluding...

Today is a day of concluding things... Concluding, is that a word, doesn't sound right, lol... Today is the last day of the NaBloPoMo challenge of posting every day in November... And you just thought I had lots to say... And today was the last day of the weekend and the last day of the busiest shopping time... Woo hoo... Today was a normal day at work, arrive at 6am and we didn't open til 10am, no early opening today... However it took me til 1:30pm to finish setting up the ad, when usually I finish by 10:30am with or without help... I had to take down all the signs and change all the tables and then put up all new signs... Supervisor came in at 8am and signed kids and women's... Then the next associate came in at 10am and signed the athletics... I signed all men's and changed all the men's tables by 10am, then it was time for lunch... Came back and changed the athletic and women's tables and then went to make all the signs I was missing but had to wait 40minutes as other associates were also in need of signs, so finally by 1:30pm I had put up the last sign... So the last half hour I opened a couple of boxes and called it a day... Tomorrow I finally have a day off! Yay! So hubby and I can go shopping at other stores, lol...
Hubby and the boys have been putting up more Christmas lights and the big blow up Snowman in the yard... Now hubby is doing dishes... And having son2 do his chores... Son3 is filling up on chips and dips, so I need to get dinner started... Hmmmm what should we have, maybe Turkey, lol... Both hubby and son2 asked what was for dinner... Duh, turkey.....
They are deciding what Christmas movie to watch tonight, maybe one of the Santa Clauses with Tim Allen...
I finally got the picture to delete and changed the heading, yay, I thought it was going to be Christmas all next year without being able to change the heading... I think I know my mistake... I clicked on browse computer but the web choice was clicked too so it made a link to the picture in my computer, so deleted the photo from the computer, but it still took a bit for it to fall out... So hopefully all is fixed now and I can happily change out the picture all month to different Christmas themes...
Ok hubby is pulling the leftovers from the fridge and commenting that we need more potatoes and stuffing, so I'm off to cook and feed the men....
Happy Journaling...