September Eighteenth…

Today was a lazy Saturday… I’m feeling a bit better, no sore throat and only a bit of a stuffy nose… Still settled in my chest though so waiting for that to clear… And a bit of a cough…

Today hubby made breakfast… son1 was here for breakfast.. said he was going to have a quiet day at home… but of course that never happens… his friend S called and they were off to help friend S clothes shop… and they went to lunch… son2 and son1 had planned to go to Blockbuster to get an XBox game to play all day… but then girlfriend came over and they were off to Blockbuster to get a movie and eat dinner here… They are watching When in Rome… son1 hates romantic comedies but is very good at doing things for girlfriend he doesn’t like doing…

Hubby cleaned up the kitchen a bit, fixed the light in the oven and worked on the side fence… I also worked in the kitchen and yet there is all the dinner dishes waiting in there now… I mailed the PGE bill and got three more bills ready to go on Monday… I did a couple of loads of laundry and finally finished moving all the books around with the new bookcase… I checked all my email and played on facebook awhile… I want to have a day to just read blogs… Soon…

Nothing in the mail from unemployment yet… But I did update the checkbook and look up my paycheck which was Oh So Wrong… I worked thirty hours with the holiday and took a vacation day… My paycheck showed me getting 40 hours of vacation, 21 hours worked as overtime, holiday pay and double time for working the holiday which we only get time and a half… so it was about $4oo too much… Wonder how HR will sort that out… I imagine I won’t be getting paid for a couple of weeks since the money was already deposited in my bank account…

The day has gone so fast… which is a good thing… our past few Saturdays were very long… we must have felt a bit back to normal today… Although it is 7pm already… Dinner is done and we are watching Lord of the Rings, son2’s choice… Now son3 is saying it is time for ice cream… I think I will have mine with a banana and a bit of chocolate syrup…

Today I ate: breakfast~vitamins, orange juice, scrambled eggs, hash brown, English muffin with jelly… tortilla chips with salsa… dinner~chicken, scalloped potatoes, peas, carrots, beans, croissant, water…

Happy Journaling…

September Seventeenth

Last night I definitely had a fever… and was asleep by 7:30pm… I was up at 4:30 this morning feeling a bit better… I got the signs ready… had a bit of help putting them up… changed out some sale tables… found out from the supervisor that we have two weeks to make sure the floor and stockroom are set correctly for our certification… We have a lot to do to get ready… Went to lunch… and opened boxes til it was time to go home…

Still no word from unemployment… but I think that is a good thing and we will probably just get a first check… hubby says that the person on the phone said they would notify him within 48 hours but it’s way past that… so maybe she meant something else… or we’ll get something in the mail tomorrow… It’s interesting that right before this happened we were cleaning out some papers and found hubby’s unemployment papers from last time… and they still do things exactly the same… and he never got a letter or call from the last time when he did a phone interview… he did however have another phone interview at the end of his unemployment but he had gotten a full time job so he did get a letter stating he was denied unemployment because he had a full time job plus his benefits had run out for unemployment…

So once home I changed so we could pick up son3 from school and go grocery shopping… Just got some basics to go with what we have… went to Food Maxx that we used to shop at way back before they put in the big new WinCo… Food Maxx is exactly the same but seemed way small and hardly anyone was there for a Friday afternoon…

Son1 is off with girlfriend… Son2 has just got home from hanging with his friends… Son3 has been watching Transformer with hubby and me… I went through all my email… getting tons of junk email from all the job websites that I have been unsubscribing from… and we have been getting tons more hang ups on the house phone than usual… From go back to school to insurance to shopping… Now the boys have showered and we are getting ready to have ice cream and finish the movie…

I’m still tired and feeling yucky so looking forward to sleeping in a bit tomorrow… It’s not good for me to be sick though cause than poor Holly got left out two nights in a row… It’s not cooling off in here as well tonight… It’s only 81 outside but 85 in the house… I have all the fans going as usual… I have just finished my ice cream cone… It was so good… the store had chocolate and vanilla… like Neapolitan but without the strawberry… tasted just like the ice cream at the Zoo…

Today I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… two crackers with peanut butter before going to the grocery store… dinner~Top Ramen soup, tortilla chips, water… ice cream cone…

Happy Journaling…

September Sixteenth

I was up at 4:30am… I’m scheduled early this week, which means then I get off early… but boy I am tired… Made sure son1 and son2 were up and I was out the door before  them… I helped with the weekly count, changed out sale tables, put up some signs, took down some signs, got all the signs ready for tomorrows ad, went to lunch, cleaned the stockroom, put away and located shoes in the stockroom, opened boxes…

Once home, changed my clothes, got some water, walked with hubby to pick up son3, had a talk with son3 about meeting us after school and not hanging with his friends, came home, started homework with son3, hubby and me and son2 had a talk about his schedule tomorrow at school-he’s in the 350 club so they are going to a swim party after lunch and then he wants to hang with his friends after school but as usual there is no exact plan and which friends house, so that talk went on a while, still doing homework with son3, checking my email, helping hubby with a question on the main computer with job hunting, son1 came home and he was hungry, I was hungry, started pulling out leftovers, I’m now more tired, have a fever, but getting whiney, no yelling… Finally sit down for dinner and watch an episode of Hogan’s Heroes…

Now son1 is in the shower and son3 needs to study his spelling words, test tomorrow… Son2 is doing some laundry… Hubby is patrolling the yard… Now son1 wants to take son2 to Blockbuster to get a new game…Son3 is getting in the shower now… 

We watched the last half hour of America’s Got Talent last night… I felt bad for Captain Poppycock and son2 was mad cause Fighting Gravity didn’t win… And I wasn’t surprised that Michael Grimm won, I had a feeling… and hubby made a good point that Jackie was only ten and not really Vegas entertainment… Besides I’m sure they will all be getting a lot of phone calls for offers…

We still didn’t hear from unemployment today…..

Now I’m ready for bed at only 7pm… Back to work early again tomorrow… But I have a cold and a fever so I need my rest…

Today I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… dinner~beans, rice, peas, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, corn bread, water…

Happy Journaling…

September Fifteenth

Monday was an up and at work early again day… I set the ad, scanned for missing displays, stocked athletics, went to lunch, opened boxes and scanned shoes into the stockroom…

Hubby had his unemployment phone interview on Monday… They said they had to call the former employer and then we would hear in 48 hours if unemployment was approved… Today was 48 hours so maybe we will hear something tomorrow…

Monday son1 brought us humongous burritos from an actual Mexican restaurant for dinner… They were so good and we all ate the whole things except son3 who had chicken noodle soup… so son1 had a second burrito on Tuesday… We watched Role Models again… I forgot son1 had that movie and hubby really likes it and it is so funny… My favorite line is: Since you are in my personal space, can you sign my time sheet….

Monday I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… dinner~humongous burrito, water… mini chocolate chips, lemonade, I made smores for the boys so I had a marshmallow…

Tuesday I had a vacation day… But I was still up early getting son1 and son2 out the door… then hubby was up and we had breakfast and got son3 out the door… I am liking all this extra walking of taking son3 to school and picking him up… He however is not… especially when we get all the way to the school and he is not where we are supposed to meet so we get him and continue walking the long way home… Hubby was online job searching and I was online job searching in between cleaning bathrooms and vacuuming and general cleaning of the house… Son1 and girlfriend went to the last concert in the park of the season… and we watched Batman: Under the Red Hood… It was the last of the America’s Got Talent so hubby and I watched… Tonight is the announcement of the winner but they are dragging it out for two hours so I will just wait and check online to see the winner… It’s tough though to say who it might be… Probably Jackie the ten year old opera singer… although son2 wants it to be Fighting Gravity…

Tuesday I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… breakfast~oatmeal… lunch~yogurt, corn dog, cola… dinner~two bowls of beans and rice, corn bread, water…

Today was my day off… Got all the boys out the door and walk son3 to school… More online job hunting and house cleaning and walking to pick up son3… homework with son3… still have to finish his nightly reading… he got a 100% on his reading test today… We watched some of season one of Hogan’s Heroes earlier… And I still need to finish Date Night that I started earlier today… Son1 and girlfriend are off to the mall shoe shopping and out to dinner… Hubby is cutting son2’s hair… It’s just been getting to 90 all this week… so just leaving the windows open and fans going is keeping it at 84 or so in the house… I have a sore throat and stuffy nose this week so I’m hoping to be in bed early watching Date Night and resting for work tomorrow…

Wednesday I ate: vitamins, water… breakfast~apples and cinnamon oatmeal… cola… lunch~two corndogs… lemonade… dinner~lasagna, garlic bread, peas, carrots, lemonade… maybe I’ll have some hot chocolate later to sooth my sore throat…

Happy Journaling…

September Twelfth…

Here it is Sunday night already at 8:30pm and I am still trying to have quiet to catch up on an entry since Friday…

Friday was off to work to set the ad… more taking down than going up… went to lunch… open boxes… talk with supervisor too much…

Came home.. tried to relax by playing facebook games but they just keep freezing up the computer, so have stopped playing them again… son1 and girlfriend went out to dinner and watched Killers at her house… and we watched Killers with Ashton Kutcher at our house, lol… and then probably watched an episode of Emergency…

Friday I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… BBQ chips… dinner~baked potato, chili, veggies, cheese, lemonade… two smores…

Saturday hubby was up early, I slept a bit longer… Emotions were a bit high on Saturday again, or maybe it was just me… Hubby made breakfast after I told him it was OK… Then we had showers and were getting dressed for the day when I lost my mind… Or maybe I just wanted to fight with someone and picked hubby forgetting he won’t fight with me… The more I yell, the quieter he gets… I was feeling discouraged as I am trying to have faith and keep a good frame of mind and go with a plan… and hubby wants to pick the worst scenario and go there and put him self down when it comes to finding a job and deciding he is not qualified for the job when that is up to the people doing the hiring… Anyway we don’t hold grudges and aren’t mad at each other just the situation and the way we each handle it is so different…

And hubby and I aren’t strangers to losing jobs… Thirteen years ago, we decided to move here from the Bay area as our apartment rent was going up to a higher price then our house payment is now… So I sent tons of resumes out to random companies in the area til one called and hired hubby… He moved here a month before us, staying with family while I packed up the apartment with son1 and son2… We barely pulled up with the moving truck when Sears called and wanted me to come in and interview for a position here… Unfortunately the company that hired hubby let him go a few weeks later as the owners didn’t know what each other was doing and who hired hubby and changed the positions and told hubby he wasn’t qualified for the changes… But I figured hey it got us to Fresno… So hubby was on unemployment and just as it ran out got hired at his current job that he was just let go from… Six years ago my supervisor job was eliminated and there were no supervisor positions in the store at the time, nor full time… so as I wanted to leave for the day and plan my next move, they wouldn’t let me leave as they were creating a position for  me in shoes still at full time but with a major pay cut, but hey I still kept my full time with medical and all my vacation benefits…

But yet that was part of my grumpiness too with hubby’s job loss… and that my ex is now on disability for the next six weeks with two hernia surgeries coming up this week… my ex has had quite a few jobs and used unemployment quite a few times and been on disability just as much… I have worked for 30 years, only being off for three times: son1, son2 and son3… My job has seen me through college, bankruptcy, two marriages, three boys, buying a house and everything in between… I did quit once for my first marriage and son1 being born, but that only lasted five months and they hired me back on the spot and since I was gone less than a year, it was as if I was never gone, as I kept my anniversary date…

So after my outburst with hubby I went out and washed both cars, hosed off the driveway, hosed off the front porch, watered the plants, threw away the front door mat, changed out the decorations to some fall ones… when I finally went back inside, they boys, even son1,  had done all their chores, cleaned their rooms, did their homework… I was like, how long was I outside… guess they knew Mom was in a mood and best to be on my good side…

Hubby was on the phone with internet people again as the DSL was down, so he got that back up and running and was doing more job search and filling out applications… partly it’s frustrating as there are so many job sites that want you to sign up, that we’re signing up with too many… and then a lot promise things but after you fill out, get to the part where they want money… ummm NO… and then we are getting offers for jobs in our email but they are all automated replies for insurance sales, or work from home, or start your own business opportunities… plus going to the different job sites hubby has applied to a couple of jobs twice since they advertise at the different sites but the sites each look different so you don’t always see the company name til the end of the application…

Son2 went with son1 to the grocery store and Walmart and son1 got lunch stuff for two weeks and dog food and tooth paste and such that he needed… then son1 was off to see girlfriend as she has a cold and has not been feeling well. so he took her something to eat and our Netflix move Date Night with Steve Carell… we haven’t seen it yet… We watched Wild Wild West with Will Smith, then an episode of Emergency then I fell asleep at 9pm, I was Tired… Hubby and son3 watched Jaws 3, I woke up for the ending so we could go to bed…

Saturday I ate: breakfast~scrambled eggs, three toast w/jelly, chocolate milk… popcorn, water… dinner~two chili dogs, green beans, mixed veggies, broccoli, cauliflower, cola…

Today I was off to work… no ad to set, so got to stock men’s dress and athletic shoes all morning… went to lunch… opened boxes…

Came home, son1 was off with girlfriend at the mall… checked email, fixed dinner, got the boys in the shower early… watched Wimpy Kid… read with son3 for his AR reading for school… finally snuck off to my room to work on this entry for the last hour… hubby has his unemployment phone interview in the morning… It’s almost 9:30 and the boys need to have lights out for bed for school tomorrow… and I have to get up extra early this week as I go into work even earlier… If we can go to sleep as it was hot yesterday and today, about 94 and we have not turned on the air conditioner… we have all the fans going and the windows open though… It’s still 86 right now… but each day this week is supposed to be cooler…

Sunday I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… boys were eating Lays potato chips, I had my hand in the bag… water… dinner~beans and rice, it was so good so I had two bowls, water…

Happy Journaling…