September Third

What a long, fast day! Got to work early… Big Labor Day weekend ad to set today… Had help… I put up all the sale and hanging signing… Changed out the sale tables… Printed missing signs… went to lunch… spent two hours clearing all the 2500 sign exceptions in the computer because I did not have a hand held to scan the signs… put up the signs I printed… and had one hour left to open boxes…

Came home… checked the mail… hubby has a phone interview with unemployment on the 13th… changed my shirt and walked with hubby to pick up son3… back home checked email and had a tuna sandwich… son2 asked if he could go online and I said you know the answer to that… “do his chores and homework”… of course he is thinking three day weekend, I have lots of time to do chores and homework… He huffed! I got Grumpy! yelling and lecturing by me and hubby… son2 went to his room to do homework… as quickly as it came my grumpiness was gone… Sheesh, did I not warn everyone when I got home that Chuck had come… I’m seven days early… everyone save themselves… but no, they like to live dangerously…

Hubby and I went to the grocery store… We are stocked back up for the time being…

Got the deli pizzas for dinner… Three for $21… and we watched Disney’s The Emperors New Groove… and now it is 9:40 already… son2 is asleep on the floor… son3 is fixing his water bottle with cold water… hubby is watching a lady paint flowers on TV… she makes it look so easy… son1 got to be supervisor today at work, of course haven’t seen him yet today, he is probably off with girlfriend or friends straight from work…

It was supposed to be 106 today but only got to 101 or so…  it’s down to 86 now… will be 101 tomorrow and then only 77 next Thursday… I noticed on the way home some of the trees are starting to change their leaves for Fall…

I am so tired…. and so ready for bed and sleeping in tomorrow…

Today I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… tuna sandwich, water… dinner~two slices Hawaiian pizza, two slices vegetable pizza, water… popsicle…

Happy Journaling…

September Second…

Today was a nice quick day at work… Got there early to help a coworker finish our weekly count… located shoes in the stockroom,went to lunch, prepared the signs for tomorrow’s ad, opened boxes and it was time to go home…

Hubby spent the day looking for places to apply online… he also got son3 to school, washed the dishes and picked son3 up… I got homework done with son3 and we read four Bernstein Books for his AR reading that he is behind this week… We are still only using what we have in the house for meals… so dinner was leftover, veggies, rice and chili… we also added a frozen macaroni and cheese dish, canned raviolis and pizza rolls… son3 also wanted corn dogs… tomorrow after I get home from work, hubby and I are going grocery shopping… we have not spent a penny yet since hubby was let go… we will also need gas in the car so I can get to work next week… and the van payment is due but it is the last one and the van is paid off…

Hubby got his unemployment papers today explaining his benefits… now we are waiting to see if his job will appeal or hopefully it was just ugly rumors he heard…

Son1 and girlfriend are off celebrating their anniversary… son2 said he talked to son1 earlier and he had already given her the ring right after work and she cried of course… will have to wait til this weekend probably to hear how their date went…

Son3 is watching Chicken Run and we are watching a couple of episodes of Star Trek Next Generation… showers have already been taken and we will be in bed early tonight… last night we stayed up til 11:30 watching The Back Up Plan, but it was good… and too funny…

I still need to finish cleaning up from dinner… we have all the fans going and the air set at 82… it got up to 100 today… I have 15 minutes of my latest True Blood to watch and hubby and I will probably watch a Bones while going to bed… son2 has to finish the last two McHale’s Navy on our current disc and then they both can go back to Netflix… tomorrow we are getting Balls of Fury for son1…

Today I ate: water, vitamins, green tea tablet… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… dinner~rice, chili, green beans, corn, macaroni and cheese, ravioli, 2 pizza rolls, cactus cooler…

Happy Journaling…

 

September First

I am pooped today! Hubby and I were busy today…

I was up at 5:30, son1 off to work, son2 off to school… hubby was up, we walked son3 to school… son3 had a misstep and fell and skinned his knee on the way to school… so stopped at the nurse’s office for clean up and band aide… sent son3 off to class and walked back home… once home hubby gave me a haircut after breakfast… I set him up on the computer with places to look up for applying… worked on my entry for The Motivation Station… I’ve been doing laundry all day… still have all to fold and hang up… As hubby was applying online, I was getting alerts and emails for them that I would check on the laptop… Fixed us tuna fish sandwiches for lunch… hubby was still applying and I was watching Emergency and still finishing my TMS entry while helping hubby find more dates today…

Time to pick up son3 so walk back to school and back home… Hubby back online finishing up final application for the day… I did homework with son3… Got another email reply that sent us to another job search website finding anther place to apply at… So I filled it out quickly for hubby while he told me the answers and started dinner… I’ve lost track at how many places hubby applied to today…

Son2 got home from school and was supposed to be doing homework as son1 was on his way home and wanted son2 to go the mall with him… hubby found son2 playing video games instead of homework, son1 got home aggravated that son2 wasn’t ready… hubby reprieved son2 after a lecture and off son1 and son2 went to the mall…

Tomorrow is son1 and girlfriend’s one year anniversary… son1 ordered her an edible Hello Kitty fruit bouquet to be delivered to her work tomorrow… He and son2 went to the mall to look at rings, so she is getting a small diamond on a silver band… and he got her a card and rented The Back Up Plan which I am hoping to watch tonight before he takes it to her house tomorrow… He says she can take him out to dinner tomorrow…

Now hubby has been watching McHale’s Navy… son3 is still watching it and drawing pictures… son2 is in the shower… son1 is impatiently waiting for son2 to get out of the shower so he can take a shower… and son2 still has homework to finish and needs to print out his report…

We’re all up bright and early tomorrow to do it all again…

Today I ate: breakfast~shredded wheat, no milk, water vitamins green tea tablet… lunch~tuna fish sandwich, tortilla chips, cola… dinner~two corndogs, rice, chili, corn, green beans, water… popsicle…

Since we are back in the high 90’s to low 100’s I have the air conditioner back on and set at 82… still warm and muggy but better then the 84 it got up to yesterday with the windows open…

Off to get everyone settled so I can watch The Back Up Plan…

Happy Journaling…

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August Thirty First

Just a quick entry before I become a complete lump for the night… I had a vacation day today… I was up at 5am… son1 off to work, son2 off to school… hubby and I walked son3 to school… it was nice and cool this morning… this evening a bit warm at 84… hubby and I spent four hours on the computer this morning uploading and editing his resume for unemployment and career builder… even applied at one place at career builder… also got all the dates/phone numbers/addresses from the past twenty years for all resume and application needs… and hubby cleaned out a bunch of papers he came across…

I vacuumed, started filling the new bookcase with son3’s books, washed sheets and blankets, between hubby and I we got the dishwasher loaded and dinner made… and I did homework with son3 after we walked to pick him up… I spent time playing games at facebook which I need to just let go for right now… but needed a bit of vegging…

son1’s new plan of the day is that the company friend S works at is hiring drivers with just permits… so he would just have to pass the written driving test at the DMV and he could do all his training at his friend’s job if they hired him… so he wouldn’t have to go to truck driving school and wouldn’t have to get a part time job to go with his now full time job but of course would have to quit his now full time job as the driving job would pay more…

We watched a couple of episodes of McHale’s Navy… showers are done… and now watching Family Guy… We’re all ready for bed…

Today I ate: breakfast~shredded wheat-no milk, vitamins, water… lunch~chicken strip, rice, peas, tortilla chips… dinner~chicken, rice, corn, chili… yellow cake w/chocolate frosting…

Happy Journaling…

August Thirtieth

Watching Wild Wild West with hubby and son2… son1 has gone off to bug son1 and girlfriend or keep girlfriend company as son1 is looking for original Jeeps that people want to get rid of for a couple of hundred bucks so he and his Papa can rebuild it…

I’m tired… I’m getting no where fast at work… yesterday and today I had small ads to set up… yesterday I stocked the sale tables and today I scanned my divisions… both days I am trying to put shoes away in the stockroom but because we have to locate them on the handheld it takes forever…

Yesterday afternoon I signed hubby up for Career Builders… today he spent five hours rewriting his resume so now we can put it on Career Builders and at the unemployment website… since it has only been in the 80’s I turned off the air conditioner (we’ve had it set at 80 anyway), opened all the windows and turned on all the fans… it was a bit hot in the night when I closed all the windows back up but not bad… we’ll see how we do on Friday when it’s back up to 102… we watched Evan Almighty and we were all in bed at 9pm…

Today son3 was up at 5am… I go in to work early again since hubby is home… so hubby takes son3 to school and picks him up and then I’m home to do homework… son3 has a cold today though… headache, stuffy nose, sore throat… hopefully he is able to sleep tonight after being up so early… he did his two pages of math homework and two pages of spelling homework ok tonight…

Hubby has also been trimming trees and cleaning out big garbage for our big garbage pickup tomorrow… not that anything is left after the guys in their big trucks going scavenging through the neighborhood…

Son1 and girlfriend have gone off to look at a Jeep that someone had on Craig’s list… son3 is off watching Family Guy… son2 and I are eating cake… I am still 23 pounds down… it is all about the portions, so far anyway… I was reading in a magazine that our plate portions have increased 66% since The Last Supper with Jesus and the Disciples…

I am off the next two days… I have so much to do… Help hubby with online resume posting, blog entries, housework, fix the books in the new bookcase that son2 finished, homework with son3, laundry, dishes, and watch True Blood…

Yesterday I ate: water, vitamins… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… chicken strip, tortilla chips… dinner~scrambled eggs, 2 toast, turkey burger (no bun), rice, peas, pasta, water… yellow cake w/chocolate frosting…

Today I ate: water, vitamins… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… turkey burger on a bun, chili beans and corn… yellow cake w/chocolate frosting…

Happy Journaling…