August Twenty Eighth Evening…

Well I got a few things done today… washed the towels and did two loads of laundry, ran the dishwasher twice, found a bunch of websites for printing center places for hubby to apply at, watered the plants, updated the checkbook, made a cake…

Son2 painted the shelves and played his video game and went online in between while they were drying between coats…

Son1 worked on his Jeep clutch all day… still a few things left to adjust but it is back together… tomorrow he is going to a baby shower for his cousin…

Hubby worked on this and that all day… moved all these pavers from the front of the house to the back temporarily since all our projects are on hold until we have some income coming in again…

Son3 played Heroscape all day and watched TV… surprised he didn’t play video games very much…

Holly finding a cool spot under the rose bushes… actually we are done with our 100’s for the week and back to the 80’s…

We are done with dinner and watching The Road to El Dorado, animated movie… I’m tired… and heading into my grumpy week… and trying to have patience with hubby… we will be fine one minute and then remember the next but not always at the same minutes… hubby’s fine most of the day though but then starts dwelling in the night and can’t sleep… Me, I go to sleep to escape… today everyone just seemed loud to me and hubby was talking all day… maybe I’m just thinking he is going to be here every day for a while, lol… I need quiet time already…

Tomorrow it’s off to work early, another ad to set up… think I have help…

Today I ate: water, vitamins… Lunch: chicken strip, Bugle snacks, cola… Raisinets… licked cake beaters… spoonful of peanut butter… Dinner: chicken, rib, peas, rice, water… and will have a piece of yellow cake with chocolate frosting before bed…

Happy Journaling…

August Twenty Eighth

Yesterday was a sad day for me so didn’t feel like posting last night… I think I was past the initial shock and fight mode and the reality of everything hit me and I was on the verge of tears all day…

I was also unproductive at work… plus the handhelds were not cooperating nor were the batteries charging well… I did get the ad set and a few boxes opened and a lot of talking to supervisor…

Hubby got a lot of little things done around the house and spent over two and a half hours on the phone with ATT support… they even had to do research and call him back… they were stumped as to why the computer would not go online when we were online due to DSL, so nothing wrong on their end… but a Big Thumbs Up for ATT support… so when I got home we downloaded Internet Explorer and Firefox from the laptop… first tried installing internet explorer but still wouldn’t recognize anything so installed Firefox and TADA able to connect to the internet and see web pages… YAY!! so hubby put internet explorer in hide mode so no one will accidentally click on it and freeze up the computer…

I spent most of the evening on facebook just hanging out… Dinner was whatever you could find… son1 was off with friends after work so never saw him… We watched some more Wild Wild West episodes… son2 was catching up on his facebook withdrawals… and son3 was playing with son2’s Heroscape… after getting the boys settled in bed, hubby and I watched a Bones episode and I don’t even remember falling asleep…

Yesterday I ate: vitamins, water… Lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… chips… Dinner~chicken strip, baked beans, beef stew, 2 croissants…

This morning I am feeling better… Hubby is doing fine, but he knew about it longer than I did, so has had more time to adjust… Has plans for his resume… I paid the house payment for September… figuring out how we can live on my income, although half of my paycheck goes to medical benefits, til hubby gets unemployment or a job… keeping the little bit of savings we have for house payments…

We told son3 so he understands as best a 9 year old can… the biggest change for him is hubby will walk him to and from school to save on gas… the school is a five minute walk, lol… He is playing with the Heroscsape again this morning and watching cartoons…

Son2 is painting my black shelves white and has chores to do today… plus don’t know if he has homework this weekend…

Son1 has friends over helping him replace his clutch… so far they have broken the gear shift and now need to replace that too…

Hubby is working on cleaning up to get stuff out for our big garbage pickup next week… actually hubby would have been on vacation next week…

I have lots to do today!! Clean the kitchen, clean the bathrooms, laundry, wash rugs and towels, maybe wash sheets, go through my paper piles and update checkbook, hubby has unemployment to fill out, I’ve pulled out the phone books so we can look up companies in the area to apply at for jobs, water the house plants…

Ok, an hour later and I am back… hubby is now all signed up at unemployment and registered at their job search… now the rest is up to him to update his resume and fill out job applications online…

It is 12:30 already and I need to get busy and get some things done…

Happy Journaling…

August Twenty Sixth…

Good day at work today… helped finish counting the women’s shoes, opened boxes, went to lunch, got the signs ready for tomorrow’s ad, opened boxes, talked with supervisor, opened boxes…

Hubby was better when I got home as he had been to work to get papers and final paycheck… he also told son1 the news… son1 just got home from being with girlfriend… hubby got homework done with son3… I fixed some chicken tenders to go with leftovers… sink still full of dishes… I’m sure hubby will get them done tomorrow… with all his nervous anxious energy he will be getting lots done around the house… today and yesterday he has been trying to fix the main internet computer…

We have been watching more F Troop and The Wild Wild West… all these shows are from 1965…

It’s getting late… son1 and son2 have already gone to bed but son3 is still up… of course he is the last who has to get up in the morning… I have to be to work early too tomorrow…

Today I ate: Breakfast~Capn Crunch cereal, vitamins, water… Lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… Dinner~chicken tender, rib, baked beans, carrots, rigatoni, beef stew, slice of wheat bread, water… just a bit of each as I pulled out all the leftovers… popsicle…

Happy Journaling…

It’s Thursday…

It’s Thursday visit me at The Motivation Station…

Happy Journaling…

August Twenty Fifth…

Just finished eating dinner… Deli chicken family pack… watched an episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and now watching first episode of Season 1 of F Troop with Ken Berry…

Today was my day off… son1 went off to work, got son2 off to school, got hubby off to work, didn’t even get son3 up or take my shower and hubby was back from work… He lost his job today… stupid reasons… eleven years with the company… this past year, they have a new policy… three infractions and automatic termination… #1 a year ago he went to lunch late past the five hour period because he was busy with customers… #2 he told a secret shopper they couldn’t do something over the phone, never tell a customer no even if it’s really no… #3 told a secret shopper on the phone they did not sell rubber stamps, when they had just started selling them, he had forgotten… these three happened over a years time… he still has to go back tomorrow to receive his final pay and turn in his keys… doesn’t sound like a good plan to me, if you are let go, then every thing should be ready at that time, you are not in the mood to go back and see every one…

We have spent the day on a emotional roller coaster… and making plans… at least F Troop has distracted him for the moment and he is laughing…

I didn’t get too much done today… my entry for The Motivation Station for tomorrow… laundry… hubby helped with the dishes, still more to do… I watched Emergency on Retro TV but still haven’t opened my new DVD yet… homework with son3… son2 went with hubby to the store after school to get milk, dinner and talk about hubby’s job situation… no sign of son1 yet this evening… yesterday he worked on his clutch after work… he borrowed his dad’s truck til he finishes fixing the Jeep…

Son3 had math homework that he did on his own… spelling sentences that I helped him with… forgot his reading book… I forgot to mention that last Friday when he brought home his papers for the week… he got a 105% on his spelling test and a 90% on his math test…

Today I ate: Breakfast~frosted flakes with yogurt, water, vitamins… popcorn, cola, beans and chips… Dinner~3 chicken wings, baked beans, potato salad, macaroni salad, green salad, roll, french fry, cream soda… 3 squares of Hershey chocolate bar… I’m full but not overstuffed… popsicle later… it was 111 degrees today and will be only 81 on Sunday…

son1 is home now, hot and tired from work…

Gonna have my popsicle, put away laundry and probably watch Season 2 of Bones with hubby…

Happy Journaling…

 

August Twenty Fourth…

Hubby and I are watching another Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea… son1 is off at friend A’s house, they haven’t hung out in quite awhile, since son1 has been spending all his time with friend S… Girlfriend started back at college tonight…  son2 is watching WipeOut… son3 is in the shower and heading to his room to watch something for a minute and then sleeping…

Another good day at work… we were supposed to have a visit yesterday or today but don’t think we did… supervisor is back to work tomorrow after her little vacation… Today at work I scanned men and athletic shoes for missing signs… then had coworker finish women and kids… then showed him how to print them out so he could put them up… I opened boxes all morning, went to lunch and then opened boxes all afternoon… I think that is part of my losing weight is all the exercising I’m getting at work… walking, lifting, up and down ladders…

according to the scale I’m down over 22 pounds now… I’m hoping next week to start adding exercise at home too…

Got home… hubby was having grumpy time homework with son3… hubby is choosing to have son3 do his homework on his own with lots of poking and prodding… so it took over an hour just for son3 to look up definitions for ten of his spelling words… he said he did his math and language homework just fine without help… I would have chosen to help son3 with the definitions to get it done quicker… not do it for him, but guide him through the dictionary… he is still learning by repetition of doing it every week… it’s not like we are half way through the year and he is still not using the dictionary.. it’s only two weeks into the school year… I’m more for knowing how to spell the words… and getting the homework done in the 40 minute time period that the teachers swear it takes… also would like to have time to do reading… hubby just chooses to pick different battles than me… also found out son3 brought home the wrong math homework yesterday so got a detention slip for it… but then he forgot to bring home the detention slip today for us to sign so tomorrow he will get a detention slip for the detention slip… argh… he is in the upper grades now and they get reward trips at the end of six weeks or so, although  I thought they had stopped doing this as they could not afford so many field trips a year… anyway… more than three detention slips and no reward field trip for the student…

Also this school year son3 has 35 students in his class… the teachers at our elementary school are used to having only 21 or so… I think we are at maximum classrooms and teachers just too many students this year… especially with kindergarten going to morning only this year…

I checked email and threw some stuff together for dinner… when I do homework with son3 I make dinner at the same time… not hubbys though… lol… we had leftover ribs and sides… plus I heated up a frozen rigatoni dish hubby had bought, a can of beef stew and some cheese bread… now dinner is over, the sink is full of dishes plus more and it’s already 8:30pm… I still haven’t gotten to open my new Emergency DVD… I’m off tomorrow with too many plans to fit in one morning…

clean the house, dishes, laundry, wash bedding, yard work, blogging, facebook, read, watch tv, wash cars, projects, and then some… but first… lots of sleeping…

Today I ate: Breakfast~apples and cinnamon oatmeal, vitamins, water… Lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… After work~chips and beans… Dinner~rib, carrots, rigatoni, beef stew, slice of wheat bread, cheese bread, water~I had just a bit of each in a small plate and just a bit of stew in a small bowl… popsicle~I’m sure I’ll have one here in a minute… it was 105 degrees today…

Happy Journaling…

August Twenty Third…

We are watching the original Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1… so far the boys are still here watching… son1 is being tortured by girlfriend and is watching The Last Song with Miley Cyrus… We had the ribs for dinner that I cooked in the crock pot on Saturday… they could have been a bit tangier but ribs are always good… son1 had Subway and girlfriend had Chinese food…

I was busy at work today and I am pooped… scanned the men and athletic shoes for missing displays, made signs for the ad change, opened boxes, went to lunch, opened more boxes, located women fashion boots in the stock room as they were filling up my room with more boxes to open… got home, son3 had just finished homework but he had did his Thursday spelling homework, so had to do his Tuesday spelling homework… just remembered I have to write his spelling words on the white board… son2 had already showered and finished his homework…

If you have been following me on The Motivation Station, you know that I ordered a white, 5 shelf bookcase at the beginning of the month from Walmart… and then it came damaged so I had to order replacement shelves… well they finally came today… they are black shelves… argh! there was nothing that stated color when I ordered them, just to state the part numbers from the instructions… so hubby said he will spray paint them… so meanwhile still no bookcase…

But I’m still happy cause this came in the mail today… I just love this show… call me crazy…

First episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is over… there were explosions, some ice caps and now they are drinking coffee and happy… I have no idea what it was about, lol… even hubby is not sure and he grew up watching this show… he’s starting the next episode…

I have dishes to do… I’ll do them in the morning before work…

One more day of work and then a day off… and last week of five day weeks… four day weeks til middle of October and then vacation the week before Halloween…

Time to get son3 in the shower… son2 is asleep on the floor… guess Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was too much for him… I’m ready for bed too… but first a popsicle…

Today I ate: Breakfast~apples and cinnamon oatmeal, vitamins, water… Lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… Dinner~2 ribs, au gratin potatoes, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, beans, tortilla chips, water… popsicle…

Happy Journaling…

August Twenty Second…

Today was the fastest day!

I got to work early and couldn’t believe it, no ad to set up… have signs to set up tomorrow though… so since I did not have to fiddle with signs for a change, I stocked… I haven’t go to just stock in quite a while… so I worked on men work boots and athletic shoes… then I put away and located a bunch of shoes in the stockroom… went to lunch and then opened boxes the rest of the day…

Came home… son1 came in right behind me from the night before from his friend’s BBQ… I helped son3 finish his All About Me poster, watched Hot Tub Time Machine, it was OK, a bit funny, finished reading The Lightening Thief, hubby came home from work, everyone was on their own for dinner, don’t know if son2 has everything ready for school or finished his homework or laundry, I checked on Facebook, son2 is having internet withdrawals since the computer is down in the front room, so I let him go on the laptop while I was watching the movie, laundry still not put away, loaded the dishwasher but not full yet, boys are watching Simpsons and getting ready for bed, hubby has put in a disc for Bones Season 2 and bringing popsicles…

Today I ate: Breakfast~juice, vitamins… Lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… Dinner~chips, cheese, beans, water… popsicle…

Off to watch Bones and then to sleep… Where did Sunday go… It’s almost Monday already…

Happy Journaling…