September Twenty Fifth

Yesterday was Friday and payday and off to work day… I had to set the ad, update the sale tables, stock the tables, went to lunch and continued resetting the men’s shoe stockroom by brand, numerical order and sized… Have to have the whole stockroom done by October 7th…

Came home and walked with hubby to pick up son3 from school… Son3 was supposed to go on a sleepover with two of his friends who are brothers last night… they had been asking all week so hubby and I told them yes and got their phone number… The boys and son3 had everything all planned out and what time… So last night I had son3 call and verify with one of the brothers that he indeed could come over by having them ask a parent while son3 was on the phone… He came back that the parent said it was tonight instead since the carnival was last night, which we wondered about… Anyway we never heard from the brothers today and son3 was busy playing his video games although he went to bed and woke up upset that he didn’t get to go to a sleepover… It was almost noon before I finally heard him laughing and enjoying his video games… I didn’t push the sleepover for tonight cause I was going to let him go but still not quite ready for him to be off at a sleepover… I told him to talk to his friends on Monday and find out what happened… Another one of his friend’s was also supposed to go too… I told him in a couple of weeks or so maybe he can invite them over for a sleepover…

Son1 was off to dinner with his friend S and then girlfriend came over and they were out and about and then back and then out and about again, but I was going to sleep by then…

Son2 had the best night… as he went over to some friend’s house, then met up with friend A and went to the carnival with him and then called to ask if he could sleep over at friend A’s…

Son2 got his progress report… PE~A, Anatomy Physiology~B, English 3~B, US History~A, Geometry~A, Zoology~B-, Cooking and Sewing~A, Draw&Paint~A…

Hubby and I watched Smallville and Supernatural…

Yesterday I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… potato chips… chocolate covered raisins… dinner~pork roast, potatoes, lima beans, biscuits, grapefruit soda… chocolate covered raisins… pudding…

Today we didn’t get up til around 9am… Son1 was here… Hubby made eggs for breakfast… I discovered over at The Motivation Station, MarthaM had written up a GIT challenge for the day… GIT is Get It Together, where we motivate each other in comments all the chores we are getting done for the day… I had already made a list so I was ready for the day… Hubby was working outside, son1 and son3 were on the computers and son2 got home about noon…

I cleaned both bathrooms, three loads of laundry, washed the kitchen floor, washed the pots and pans while the dishwasher washed the dishes, updated the checkbook, paid three bills and the house payment, vacuumed, washed the kitchen garbage can, watered the houseplants, played on facebook and made hotdogs and turkey burgers for dinner…

And hubby went to the grocery store to get some milk and a couple of things for the week…

I also watched a True Blood earlier while I hung up the laundry and now we have watched F Troop and CSI NY…

Son1 had to pick up his Dad at the airport today and he’s still out and about… Son1’s Great Uncle died in a motorcycle accident the other morning, the reason for his Dad being in town… Of course his Dad just had two hernia surgeries a week ago and not sure if he should be traveling just yet… The funeral is either Monday or Tuesday and son1 has already arranged with work to go…

Son2 and son3 are reading comic books and I have just discovered an encore showing of Hawaii 50 from Monday that didn’t tape well while I was watching Castle… We are also all waiting for ice cream… It’s still 82 outside and 86 in here…

Son2 and son3 are going to camp out in the family room tonight so son3 has the feeling of having a sleep over…

I’m off to fix ice cream for everyone… Do you want ice cream in a bowl with sauce, in a cone, root beer float or a milk shake…

Today I ate: vitamins, water… breakfast~scrambled eggs, hash brown, toast, hot chocolate… cola, popcorn… dinner~turkey burger on bun, chili hotdog on bun, curly fries… ice cream with caramel sauce or actually I think I will have a root beer float instead…

Happy Journaling…

September Twenty Third

Keep thinking cool thoughts… We had our two days of fall and now we are heading back to 99 degrees this weekend…

This morning I was up bright and early for work… no son1 this morning… Once at work I replaced the missing men’s display shoes, helped with the weekly count, went to lunch, and started locating the stockroom in numerical order by size starting with the men’s shoes…

Came home and walked to pick up son3 and have just now finished doing homework at 6:30… he brought home a classwork report project to finish too so that took the longest…

Hubby said he found another place today to apply at… seems he is averaging about one place a day, as some days he finds a few and some days not…

Son1 was home from work on time today but didn’t go for a walk with son2, still time for them to go yet… he starts the part time job around the 4th of next month…

Son2 has made a bet with his friends that they will not eat meat for the next month… we are discussing the terms according to me… I agree he can forgo the meat… however just because I made the potatoes with chicken broth doesn’t mean he can’t eat them… so he’s being difficult and is now eating the meat too… saying it’s all or nothing… and I’m saying there is a difference between saying you are not going to eat meat for a month and going all out vegetarian… so fine…

Ok dinner is ready and I need to fix my plate… wanted to get this in early as Bones, Fringe and The Big Bang Theory come on tonight…

Today I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… tortilla chips, lemonade… dinner~pork roast, potatoes, lima beans, bisquit, lemonade…

Happy Journaling…

September Twenty Second…

I was off again today… I made sure son2 got up and out the door but then I went back to bed til it was time to get son3 up… Son3 is having his school carnival this week so it has been theme week… I didn’t get the newsletter til Tuesday so we missed Monday Jersey Day… Tuesday was Crazy Sock Day and today was Crazy Hair/Hat Day… Tomorrow is Mismatch Day, hubby will dress him so not a problem, just kidding… and Friday is Spirit Day and the carnival… son3 put gel in his hair for crazy hair day… at first he wanted it sticking up but then he wanted it all combed down flat… I forgot to get a picture…

Due to hubby not having a job at the moment it is a perfect excuse to not have to go to the carnival this year… We feel bad for son3 but then son3 has been going to the carnival since he was born, son2 went to the same school… and the carnival is the same every year… they were going to cancel this year due to very low involvement but for some reason they did not… Meanwhile two of son3’s friends who are brothers want him to spend the night this weekend so if that works out then he will be distracted from the carnival…

Hubby spent a bit of time on the computer job hunting and a bit of time working in the yard and a bit of time working on the computer on his artwork…

I checked email, put a roast in the crock pot, put up Fall decorations, started the dishwasher, cleaned the glass on the entertainment center, shredded papers, vacuumed, and sorted through all the paper piles on my work table… Watched Emergency and hubby watched an episode of Babylon 5… It was early day so walked to pick up son3, put potatoes and lima beans on to cook for dinner, did homework with son3, typed up my entry for The Motivation Station for tomorrow, ate dinner, hubby and the boys were watching F Troop and I washed all the pots and pans…

Now son2 is on the computer, son3 has showered and I am going to give him a practice test for his spelling words, hubby is on the computer working on his artwork… son1 came straight home from work so he and son2 could go for their walk… then he was off to his part time job to turn in more paper work and now he is at girlfriend’s…

Now I am testing son3 and waiting for Criminal Minds to come on…

I forgot to mention so I came back and added this paragraph to mention about unemployment... Nothing came today so I went to the website, although I checked before and didn't find anything that there had to be a way to check your account/status... the first time I could only find sign in stuff for job hunting... this time however I found a phone number you could call to create a pin number to call in and check the status on your checks... so called and got that set up and it said that it takes ten days from talking to the representative to receive your check... so hubby's phone interview was on the 13th so ten working days is this Friday or next Monday... so at least now we have a guide and something to call to track status...

Today I ate: vitamins, water… breakfast~apple and cinnamon oatmeal… lunch~bowl of beans, cornbread, cola… chocolate covered raisins… dinner~pork roast, potatoes, lima beans, biscuits, water…

Happy Journaling…

September Twenty First

Glee starts in just a few moments!!

This morning got off to a shaky start… Son2 left without any lunch money… said he would be fine… he did have pizza that his friends shared with him… Son1 was still having trouble with the jeep starting and then forgot his paper work to do his drug test for part time job, so had to come back to get it and then remembered he needed to get gas, so think he was late for work today…

Hubby and I walked son3 to school… then came home and I filled out three job alerts applications we found online while hubby did the dishes… and I checked my email… then I watched Emergency while I cleaned out drawers for The Motivation Station Challenge… and then I watched True Blood while still cleaning out drawers… Washed four loads of laundry that still need folding while I’m watching Glee… Hubby made lunch and I was back on the laptop reading blogs… and then it was time to walk and pick up son3 and do homework… no unemployment again today but I have a feeling it will come this week… We had leftover chicken noodle soup and watched Castle since son2 and I fell asleep half way through it last night…

Son1 found a pedometer today so he and son2 went on their walk… they are working up to running so they can be firemen…

I had plans of getting lots more done today, like putting up fall decorations, cleaning the kitchen and washing the floor, sweeping the garage, dusting, filling the birdfeeders and then some… maybe tomorrow…

Hubby finished fixing a new gate for the side fence to the back yard today…

Today I ate too much: vitamins, green tea tablet ( I had stopped taking them since I was taking cold medicine, but I am all better now), water… breakfast~apple and cinnamon oatmeal… tortilla chips… cola… lunch~PBJ, water… tortilla chips… lemonade… dinner~chicken noodle soup, tortilla chips, water…

Happy Journaling…

September Twentieth…

Last night I didn’t quite get to watch True Blood til way later in the night as son3 was watching TV with me so we were watching Funniest Videos and Family Guy…

Meanwhile son1 and girlfriend were online and son1 filled out an application for college to become a fireman… I’m thinking the girlfriend is influencing son1 to better himself… Which is good but what are her reasons… And wasn’t son2 planning on becoming a paramedic… son1 says he has wanted to be a fireman for years now… I’m not quite remembering  that… And there was talk of quitting his full time job to go to school… I hope not… I can’t keep up with his plans… He needs to pick one and stick with it… but he wants everything to just take a minute and not years….

This morning he was back on getting the part time job…

I was off to work early again in the dark… Had a little ad to set, scan athletic displays, request missing signs, print signs and put them up, go to lunch, stock men’s shoes and open boxes…

I also talked to HR about my big paycheck… It’s mine to keep… I had the choice to pay back my vacation… but I decided to instead not take my next three vacation days and save them for the week I am taking off at the end of October to that I will at least get paid enough to cover medical… So technically I already got paid my vacation in advance… and I’ll still take those three days off just not paid til later on my vacation…

Home in time to walk and pick up son3… checked email, homework with son3, made a big pot of chicken soup, ate dinner, watched Hogan’s Heroes and here I am…

Son1 took son2 mudding, washed the jeep, stopped at Walmart looking for a pedometer but didn’t find one he liked, washed the jeep again at home, having trouble with the jeep stalling out so checked on that, they ate dinner and now they are going for a walk… He also stopped by his old part time job site that he finally got the paper work for and is now in the hiring process… since he’s been gone from them for more than a year, he has to go through all the drug testing and background testing again…

Son3 is getting in the shower, the sink is still full of dishes and the new shows come on in twenty minutes… Tonight is How I Met Your Mother, Rules of Engagement, Two and A Half Men, Castle and Hawaii 50… I am off tomorrow though so can get some chores done around the house, hopefully… No unemployment today but like I told hubby, if it was denied I’m sure we would have got a response right away… Now he is just in the system and he will probably get a check this week, which is two weeks after the first statement he got without a check attached, just bubble in the answers to did you look for a job…

Today I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… potato chips… heading into my eating/salty craving week… dinner~chicken noodle soup, tortilla chips, water… maybe a bit of ice cream with caramel sauce in a bit….

And did you know that when you lose weight, you also lose weight in your feet… I usually wear a 10 1/2 wide but it is hard to find that size, so I usually get 11 which is too long or buy men’s shoes in an 8 1/2 or 9… but today out of curiosity I tried on a 10 in the stockroom and it was still too snug but I got it on, which means I might can fit in a 10 wide again…

Happy Journaling…

September Nineteenth

Last night I had a bit of a nap after my ice cream while the boys finished Lord of the Rings… Then I got up, folded the laundry and watched an episode of True Blood Season Two…

This morning I was up bright and early at 4:30am… although it is dark now still before 6am… I got lots done at work today… I got 32 hrs this week while my co parts only got 9 hrs each… Guess supervisor wants me to redo the whole stockroom, open new receipts and set all the ads… Hubby said I would be wearing an S to work this week… Today I changed out all the hanging signs, put up all the signs for today’s ad, scanned for price integrity, scanned the men’s displays, took an online training quiz, cleared the ad exceptions, went to lunch, opened boxes and located shoes in the stockroom…

Checked on my punch sheets for the last two weeks and found instead of giving me 8hrs of vacation that I had requested it gave me 48 hrs of vacation for both weeks… Fortunately HR can fix the ones I didn’t get paid for yet… Still don’t know what will happen with the paycheck I already got… Will find out in the morning when I go to HR…

Came home… hubby and I looked a bit online for jobs… I checked email and facebook… Son1 and girlfriend came over… I made hotdogs for dinner… Nice afternoon of laughing with son1 and girlfriend… son2 and son3 were playing video games… Now the sink is full of dishes… hubby and son2 are watching Hogan’s Heroes… son3 is squeezing every minute he can on his games before shower and reading… son1 and girlfriend are watching I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry… Everyone is waiting for ice cream with bananas and toppings… I ended up having caramel instead of chocolate topping last night… forgot we had choices…

Son1 is still waiting to hear about his part time job he is getting… think the manager has been on vacation… he originally wanted it to pay off his cards… but now he is saying he wants a car but still keep the jeep… the jeep is more a toy than a drive to work car and go out on dates… plus he is having transmission problems… and he is worried about when it starts raining… he also said now that friend S asked him to get an apartment together… so then the part time job would pay for rent… I don’t think he will be getting an apartment though… although hubby did say son1 mentioned if he got an apartment if he could have our blue couch… hmmmm… he has been taking the jeep mudding all weekend… mudding is when you find a puddle in a field or vacant lot… I don’t know where the puddle came from as we don’t have rain… but he found one… as he and friend S went… and then girlfriend went… and then today son2 went… and the jeep is all muddy and he didn’t wash it and is taking it to work like that tomorrow… guess to show off that he went mudding…

It is getting dark in here already at 7pm… At least it is only in the 80’s this week… supposed to be cloudy tomorrow but no rain… we never get rain…

The sink is full of dishes but I think I will go watch some more True Blood while waiting for ice cream…

Today I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… crackers and peanut butter… dinner~chili hot dog, french fries, grapefruit soda… ice cream with banana and caramel topping…

Happy Journaling…