August Twenty First

We’re watching Furry Vengeance with Brendan Frasier… It’s silly but funny and son3 likes it…

I forgot to mention yesterday that when we got son2’s material at JoAnn’s… when son2 finally found the right kind of material in black he needed for his pillow he is making for home economic at school… he brought the bolt which was 40% off to the counter and pulled a number to have a yard cut… meanwhile I found a yard of the exact material in the remnant area for 50% off… good deal! of course while we were in line paying, they were calling his number… oops sorry…

I am back… the movie ended… wrestled with son2 and son3, tickle fight… put away dinner… sat with son2 and hubby outside for a bit… and now we are watching an episode of Bones from season 2…

Son1 and girlfriend ended up going camping with some friends last night… girlfriend had camping supplies but off son1 went, no change of clothes or a toothbrush… too far from home to get anything…  ewwwww… lol… tonight they are off with the same friends having a BBQ with tri tips that son1 marinated for the last couple of days…

Today was a nice quiet day… got to sleep in til 8am… hubby made breakfast of scrambled eggs, sausage, toast and juice… Saturday morning talk with son2 and son3 on their week… hubby did yard work and hung some curtains in the front living room and did a quick grocery shop… son2 did some chores… and I cleaned all the kitchen counters, ran the dishwasher twice, washed two loads of laundry and tried to fix the main internet computer and put ribs in the crock pot… still have to put away the laundry and the sink is full of dishes again… we have decided to replace the CPU for the main internet computer… it’s ten years old and has crashed a couple of times… now we keep getting error boxes every time we try to open enternet explorer… the CPU is still usable so will go to son2 for doing homework and playing games… just not powerful enough anymore for the internet…

Danny had a bit of an adventure today… hubby was replacing a board on the fence and I told son2 to let Danny out in the backyard not knowing that hubby was fixing the fence… so guess while hubby was out front getting the board Danny slipped out the fence in the back… and hubby put in the new board, locking him out… was at least an hour and a half before son2 and hubby kept hearing scratching at the fence, thinking it was Holly… hubby opened the front door and in came Danny, who went straight to his water bowl… don’t where all he went but he had a little outing and luckily came home… of course he knows where the food is…

Today was a nice long day… even now it is only 9:30pm… of course I started this entry at 7:30pm… son3 is settling in his room with a movie… tired out from playing Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 all day… son2 is tired and falling asleep in the chair next to me… hubby and I are getting ready to watch more Bones and he is bringing a popsicle…

Today I ate: Breakfast~scrambled eggs, sausage, toast, juice, vitamins and I tried a green tea tablet today… Lunch~cola… Dinner~pizza, scrambled eggs, sausage, broccoli, cauliflower, beans , rice, tortilla chips, water… not as much as it sounds, had a bit of each, except the beans and chips, I had seconds… and now I am having a banana popsicle…

Tomorrow is back to work… another day of setting the ad and opening boxes and putting away shoes… son2 has homework and laundry to do… and son3 has to finish his ‘All About Me’ poster…

Happy Journaling…

August Twentieth…

Friday night! We are watching Quigley Down Under with Tom Selleck… son3 is playing video games to catch up from not being able to play all week being back at school… son1 is off at girlfriend’s house…

Today was a quick day at work… went in early to set the ad… changed out some sale tables in athletic shoes… went to lunch… opened boxes… after work we went to JoAnn’s to get son2 some fabric for his home economic class so he can make a pillow… then we stopped at Taco Bell to bring home dinner… half way home we had to go back as we were missing one of son3’s items… finally got home at 7pm and here it is almost 9pm…

Today I ate: Breakfast~orange juice, vitamins… Lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… Dinner~taco salad from Taco Bell, cactus cooler…

Thursday not as quick a day at work but it went along… Spent the whole day opening boxes… did get a bit grumpy at work as it starts to wear on you to continue to do the work of several people and get no where fast… also found out the supervisor called out this week too with a migraine…

Got home at almost 6pm and son3 was still doing homework… over two hours of homework a night and the teachers say no more than forty minutes… Phooey! he has math and spelling/language every day… and last night he was writing the final  draft of his Georgia O'Keeffe report… hubby had to go to a meeting so after the boys finished up their homework and we had leftovers, I went to my room to watch the first two episodes of True Blood, Season Two… and then hubby came home and brought Its It ice cream… then we watched an episode of Bones, Season Two…

Thursday I ate: Breakfast~blueberry poptarts, orange juice, vitamins… Lunch: chimichanga, yogurt, cola… Dinner: chicken, rice, broccoli, cauliflower, potato salad, water… Its It ice cream…

Wednesday I had a day off and it was the fastest day ever… I got everyone off to work and school including son3… came home and was a on the laptop… got my entry written for The Motivation Station… accidentally deleted it… rewrote it again… watched an episode of Emergency on the Retro channel… ordered season one of Emergency, a new book called Home Comforts and a new bra at Walmart… and it was time to pick up son3 as it was early day… I got no housework done at all… did homework with son3 for almost three hours, I timed it… math, spelling sentences and write his final for his heritage report… fixed dinner… we watched Cop Out with Bruce Willis… it was hilarious… too many F@#$ words but every line in between the swearing was hilarious… son1 and girlfriend watched Hot Tub Time Machine… they said it was ok, but obviously our movie was funnier with all the laughing we were doing…

Wednesday I ate: Breakfast~Capn Crunch cereal, water, vitamins… Lunch~popcorn, yogurt, cola… Dinner~chicken, broccoli, cauliflower, rice, potato salad, water…

And now it’s Friday… Yay a day off tomorrow… but of course we have homework… argh… son2 has geometry and history… and son3 has to do an All About Me poster… I don’t want to go to school anymore… I graduated from high school about 28 years ago… and then went to college for five years… then son1 was born and six years later, I’ve been going to school ever since… I’ve found a flaw in having the boys seven years apart… as soon as one starts junior high school, another starts kindergarten… lol… three more years son3 will be in junior high and I will finally be done with elementary school…

But first it is time for the boys to get to the showers so we can have some sleep and sleep in tomorrow… no work or school!

Happy Journaling…

Color Carnival

To Play Visit Martha…

Open the door, I can see you in there…

Baboon at the San Francisco Zoo…

When we first saw this… we all looked at each other and said, “Color Carnival”!…

Happy Journaling…

August Seventeenth

Waiting for the boys to settle for the night so I can relax… son1 is playing XBox… son2 is doing homework, he’s been doing it off and on all evening… son3 is watching WipeOut… hubby is playing RollerCoaster Tycoon 3… Holly is sitting with me…

Son1 was filling out job applications on line last night… looking for a part time job again to go with his full time job… wants to pay off his credit cards… and still go to the driving school… he was looking at Scholastic Books, Target and furniture stores… don’t know which ones he filled out…

Back to work today… No one even said anything about me not being there yesterday… my stuff was exactly where I left it on Sunday… We are quite messy with back to school… I helped clean the floor a bit and then opened boxes All Day…

Came home, hubby was still doing homework with son3… son2 was needing a printer to print out his homework… of course the printer did not want to cooperate so we were finally eating dinner at 7pm… I hate getting off at 5… I like going in at 9am though cause then I get stuff done before work in the morning… although I am up at 5:30am making sure son1 and son2 are up and out the door… and then get hubby out the door… if I just ignored all of them I could sleep til 7am… lol… hubby made more chicken to go with the chicken and rice he had made yesterday… we finished disc 1 of Kolchak: The Night Stalker…

Today I ate: Breakfast~graham crackers, orange juice, vitamins… Lunch: chimichanga, yogurt, cola… Dinner: chicken, rice, green beans, lemonade… two cookies…

9pm! time for all boys to be in bed for school tomorrow… I’m gonna watch a Bones on my season 2 discs and then I’m going to sleep too… I’m tired! Where’s that hubby… Yay Day off tomorrow!

Happy Journaling…

August Sixteenth

The weekend got away from me and I didn’t get to blog…

Let’s see if I can remember what we did…

Saturday we had our usual family breakfast… even son1 was here… lots of talk of school and what son2 and son3 needed… think son1 was a bit jealous as he mentioned he needed some new school pants (for work) and some shaving cream… He did find the jeans he likes at a hardware store he hadn’t been to before, for a cheaper price than he usually pays, so he was happy… and I got him some shaving cream since son2 was using it too… also some pizza snacks for Danny…

but first hubby and I exchanged our Anniversary cards/presents after breakfast… I had hoped to do it just the two of us, but he brought the presents out while the boys were there and they wanted to see too… I got hubby season two of Bones and he got me Season one and two of Angel… we had found season three and four of Angel as a two pack for $19.99 so he was excited when he stumbled across one and two as a two pack too for $19.99… otherwise they are about $40 for each season… and we got a new stereo for the van as the one that was in there died on our trip to San Francisco… even the back speakers work now… we thought they had gone out but must have been the stereo going all along… son1 installed it for us Saturday late afternoon… 

I did not want to go but some school supplies were needed that we did not have in the house and I was out of vitamins and a few other things so I agreed to go to Target, no Walmart… Target wasn’t too bad and we found almost everything we needed… except for the two main school supplies: notebook paper and a composition grid/graph paper book that son2 needed… so I said we would just run in quick to Walmart, which we did, but then we waited in the huge line… and they did not have the composition book… so waiting to hear from son2 today on suggestions from his friends on who carries it…

Girlfriend was over for a bit, had lunch and helped son1 put in the car stereo… as he’s color blind, he needs someone to verify wire colors for him…

Son3 and I made his cutout man for his heritage report… or should I say I made it, he kept wandering off… he did pick out the parts and glue on some parts but we know that the parents do most of the work… told him I would put my name on it so I would get the A+ he says he’s gonna get…

Saturday night we had leftover pizza and salad and watched Clash of the Titans and more Lost in Space… I keep falling asleep and missing the end of all the Lost in Space episodes…

Saturday I ate: Breakfast~scrambled eggs, cheese sausage, English muffin and orange juice… Lunch~I didn’t have lunch, but I did have some tortilla chips and a cola… Dinner~pizza, salad, chicken leg, bread stick… water, popsicle…

Sunday I was up and at work at 6am… set the ad, got to use the new sign printer, fancy, went to lunch, and opened boxes… Not a good day as Chuck was a whole week early, you know Chuck, he comes once a month and brings his own luggage, you might know him as Aunt Flo… anyway it explained all my rages out of no where and why I have been wanting tortilla chips all week… however he wasn’t being nice to me Sunday with many trips to the restroom… Got off at 1:30 to discover I was actually off at 1:15, really! I worked longer than I had too… lol… At home all the boys were playing video games… I straightened up, reminded them that it was almost back to school again and their chores to get ready… I helped son3 take notes for his heritage report on the United States…

And I finished season one of True Blood… I think I can actually say I like it… not something you want to watch in mixed company but something I can watch just for me… I was like awwwwwwww when Bill sacrificed himself in the sun for Sookie… I knew he would be ok as they are now in season three… but what happened to Lafayette, was he a vampire snack… don’t tell me… I have season two already to come next on my rental queue at Netflix…

Everyone was on their own for dinner… son2 had some salad, son3 had corned beef hash and pizza… son1 went off to the movies with girlfriend to see Dinner for Schmuks…

Hubby got home late… he, son2 and I were talking about our day… then I was on the laptop, son2 was on the computer, son3 was on video games, hubby was watching nothing on TV… I watched a Lost in Space with hubby and of course fell asleep and woke up at 9:30  and the boys were not in bed yet… fortunately son3 had already taken a shower… so lights out for everyone and I went to bed and fell back asleep… so not a good start to our first Sunday getting ready for our first Monday at school…

Sunday I ate: Breakfast~nothing… Lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… Dinner~tomato soup and cheese bread, cactus cooler… 

Here it is Monday and I called out of work today… Between Back to School last week, Chuck not treating me nice, all the boxes I have been hauling at work… I am tired… I was light headed a couple of days at work last week and I had heart palpations two mornings… thought it was sugar in my breakfast too early in the morning but maybe it was just chuck coming… I know I ate enough last week as I was eating more than I wanted, hence chuck coming… and yet I get on the scale and down the weight goes… mind boggling…

So today I did the laundry, sorted through the paper piles, paid the bills, figured out some finances, dyed my work clothes, made potato salad and made some cookies… watched Emergency and enjoyed the completely quiet house…

Now son1 and hubby are home from work… son2 and son3 are home from school… hot, sweaty and grumpy… son2 is showering and son3 is having ten minutes of PBS/Martha Speaks and then we are starting homework… Spelling, Math and rough draft of his report…

Hubby said he is making dinner… chicken and rice with cream of chicken soup… for breakfast I had yogurt with frosted flakes, water with vitamins… for lunch I had chef Boyardee beefaroni and a cola…

Off to do homework….

Happy Journaling…