October Ninth

Thursday I was up and off to work for the certification… Took me all day just to finish putting toddler shoes in numerical order… We had others from other departments helping with the sales floor… The VIP was at another store in the morning so still hadn’t gotten to our store by time I left at 2pm… Can you believe we passed with a 94%… Seems everyone was passing… We could miss up to three things… so he was giving everyone a chance to fix some things so you could pass…. So he’s not coming back on the 25th but he is coming back with his boss the second week of November…

Came home, walked to pick up son3 with hubby… did homework with son3… and had dinner… we watched two episodes of Hercules with Kevin Sorbo… Bones and Fringe came on but I fell promptly asleep at 8pm… So I still need to watch Bones… I’m not into Fringe at the moment with all the alter world they are doing…

Thursday I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… tortilla chips… dinner~blackeyed peas on rice… orange soda… two brownies…

Friday I was off to work to set the ad… had help though… changed out some sale tables and hanging signing… wasn’t able to print missing signs as the sign machine was out of ink…

Went to lunch and my friend who had left to work at another store came to surprise me… so she vented about her certification and we got all caught up on our families…

I did some online training and discovered that the system is giving me 40 hours a week vacation again… So the one for this week can be deleted but my pay check was all messed up again for this pay period… giving me overtime and double overtime…  I did discover though that it only paid me for 18 hours of vacation as I didn’t have 40 hours left to take… So I will hand it over to HR to sort out on Monday… and keep an eye on my time statement every week til we get passed this… I had requested vacation for this week but just one day and deleted it… So now I’m thinking of just canceling my vacation for Halloween and just taking two personal holidays to have Halloween off… and then in January I will see what vacation I have left and take some then… Our year for taking vacation ends in January…

Came home and son2 was home again with an upset tummy… Hubby was going to take him to school when he was feeling better but he had missed half the day by then and just had part of Biology and Art left… But son2 got lots of homework done Thursday night and Friday…

I was home early on Friday so hubby and I went to Walmart to check on pants for the boys and a few odds and ends… We got home in time to walk and pick up son3 and I put enchiladas in the oven for dinner…

We watched The Big Bang Theory, William Shatner’s new show, CSI which ran out of tape when taping so we finished it online… then the boys went to bed and hubby and I watched Criminal Minds…

Son1 and girlfriend were off at The Big Fresno Fair…

Friday I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… tortilla chips… chicken enchilada, corn, beans, tortilla chips, lemon lime soda… ice cream cone…

Today we all slept in til 9am… so nice…

Hubby made breakfast of scrambled eggs…

Son1 was off to friend S’s house to work on jeeps and trucks…

When son1 came back all the boys were playing video games…

Hubby and I were going to go to Hillcrest Farm Pumpkin Patch but I couldn’t figure out if they were open yet as their website said the last three weeks of October which starts next weekend but then another page said the 9th to the 31st… So we will wait til next Saturday and then maybe the boys will want to go too…

So hubby has been decorating the front yard for Halloween…

I decorated a bit more inside…

Son1 was off with Friend S again…

Then off with girlfriend…

I trimmed the roses a bit…

Played a bit on Facebook…

The house is a mess…

I did son1 and son2’s laundry…

Now I am doing mine…

Hubby is watching Legend of Sleepy Hollow, animated version with Bing Crosby…

Boys are fighting over the internet…

I think it is time to start pulling out the leftovers for dinner…

What should we watch… we have Hercules, McHale's Navy, and F Troop…

Our team only has 36 hours this week… I automatically get 30 since I am full time… not good for the other two… tomorrow I only work til 10am, just four hours… so time to clean the house then…

Gonna eat dinner before I post this so I can finish “today I ate”…

Dinner is done… We watched Hercules, a couple of F Troops and now son3 wants to watch Van Helsing with Hugh Jackman… I got caught up a bit at Fronterville, Farmville and Yoville on Facebook…

Son1 and girlfriend are back from the movies, they saw Life as We Know It… now they are watching 13 Ghosts… girlfriend wanted to see a scary movie even though she was scared of our decorations in the front yard…

I’m ready for sleeping…

Today I ate: vitamins, water… breakfast~scrambled eggs, sausage dog, English muffin, hot chocolate… cola… tortilla chips and beans… lemon lime soda… dinner~enchilada, corn, rice, black eyed peas, water… chocolate frosting…

Happy Journaling…

October Sixth

We’re watching Hercules with Kevin Sorbo… Son3 is glued to the TV…

Yesterday I did terrible on eating… I felt anxious all day… Either due to son1 dropping the not having any money and waiting to see how is week would go, which he has seemed fine or because of the certification at work that we are trying but not going to be ready for on Thursday…

I am also waiting on Chuck who is a week late… Although I would be glad if he never came… he so plays with my emotions… so I have been down and blah… and need to snap out of it… and get my mind wrapped back around the better eating that I was doing…

Yesterday at work I finished putting the girl’s shoes in order but that was it… Too many distractions again… Fortunately whatever we don’t pass on Thursday they will recheck on the 25th…

Came home and walked with hubby to pick up son3 from school… Did homework with son3… seemed like forever… had dinner… watched Castle… watched Glee… watched True Blood…

I finished Percy Jackson and The Olympians Series…

Yesterday I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… spaghetti… tortilla chips… dinner~turkey burger, chili dog, curly fries, baked beans… brownie with ice cream…

Today I got to sleep in til 6am… then was up getting son2 out the door… It was foggy this morning and he was hoping it was foggy day bus schedule but it was not…

Checked email til hubby and son3 got up at 7am… showered and walked son3 to school…

Came home… hubby worked on Halloween card… fixed a broken sprinkler that was shooting ten feet over the house… I put some black eyed peas in the crock pot… worked on my TMS entry for tomorrow by cleaning out Halloween decorations… watered the houseplants… filled the birdfeeders…  took pictures of the roses… vacuumed… three loads of laundry…

Walked to pick up son3… found him sitting in front of the office crying… seems he got caught up with some boys calling another boy names… he just thought it was funny and that everyone was playing as the boy they were calling names was his friend… his friend didn’t think it was funny though and put son3 in a head lock til he said he was sorry… and then the friend went and told the teacher… so son3, the friend and another friend all ended up in the office… it was the end of the day however so they have to go back to the office tomorrow and finish discussing the situation… son3 was upset as he probably won’t be going on the ice skating field trip now as this will result in a detention… he was also upset that he thought we would be mad and ground him from video games… I told him we would wait and see what the principal says… but that it was good that he was worried that we would be mad as that meant we were doing our job… and that when the teacher tells them they are big kids now this is what she is referring to, choosing what is right from wrong…

Then we had to do homework… son1 came home and then went out with friend S for a bit… son2 was playing video games in his room… we had dinner and watched Hercules…

Since the weather is cooler we are trying to figure out if son2 and son3 have long pants to wear… son2 has outgrown all of his jeans but one pair… so hubby gave him a pair to borrow and he was trying on son1’s for sizing so hubby can maybe pick him up a couple of $10 pairs from Walmart… and we were all having good fun laughs helping son2 try on hubby’s and son1’s jeans… meanwhile son3 just keeps getting taller for his pants…

Now the boys are ready for bed… son3 finally took an AR test on his Trick or Treat Berenstain Bear’s book and got a 90%… he barely read a book the other day and only got a 40%… and the week before he didn’t take a test and got a 0%… when we have been ready to take the Trick or Treat test for a couple of weeks now… So now we are reading The Berenstain Bears Go to Camp…

Hubby has started another Hercules… Hopefully I can watch the last True Blood tonight of season two before I fall asleep… I’ll tape Criminal Minds now that we switched the VCR’s around it’s so nice that they work for taping and playing…

Time for Jammies… and fold the three loads of laundry…

Today I ate: water, vitamins, green tea tablet… breakfast~oatmeal… cola… tortilla chips… tuna sandwich… dinner~two bowls of black eyed peas with pork and rice, water… brownie…

Happy Journaling…

October Fourth

It’s Cold!! I’m wearing socks even… It’s only 70 degrees… We even had lots of lightening last night… It may rain tonight… It’s very windy right now…

I fell asleep at 8pm last night while everyone was watching Simpsons…. Family Guy…. in my bed while I was sleeping…

Son1 and girlfriend were back from Disneyland… they were fine… they had a good time…

And then I was up early for work this morning… Son1 was up and off to work too…

I had a teeny ad to set… then I requested all the missing signs from the shoe displays… and put them up… went to lunch a half hour early… so I could spend the rest of the day organizing the girls shoes… didn’t get very far though as we had extra people working today to get ready for Thursday so too many distractions and a bit in each others way…

Got home and went with hubby to walk son3 home from school… I need to figure eating after work since we don’t eat dinner til after 6 when son3 gets done with homework… and I eat lunch at 10am… cause I was extra munchy hungry this afternoon… so from 4-6, homework with son3… right now son1 and son2 are helping him correct the ones they found wrong…

Today hubby searched for jobs online… worked on this year’s Halloween card… and traded the VCR from son3’s room with the one in the family room since it won’t play recorded tapes anymore… so now hopefully I can tape my shows again and then we can actually watch them… We finally were able to watch Castle from last Monday tonight…

Son2 is still helping son3 correct his Math… it’s funny but not…

Son2 was home sick today with an upset stomach… but he’s fine now…

Son1 and son2 walked today over four miles round trip to Blockbuster to get a video game

Now it’s time for everyone to get ready for showers… and my shows are coming on, How I Met Your Mother, Rules of Engagement, Two and a Half Men, Mike and Molly, Castle, Hawaii Five-0… and I am almost finished reading Percy Jackson and want to finish so I can read a grown up book next…

Holly’s in now… She says brrrrrrrr too but is loving it with her long fur coat…

Last night I ended up eating tomato soup with ritz crackers and a bit of spaghetti… then I had jelly beans while reading Percy Jackson… and then hubby fixed me a bit of ice cream with caramel sauce….

Today I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… pasta veggies… jelly beans… dinner~chili dog, curly fries, cream of chicken soup with crackers, water…

Happy Journaling…

October Third

It actually rained last night… It woke me in the middle of the night… It was pouring and then done, as if someone switched the rain off… I didn’t sleep well… It was hot… I had lots of dreams…

And then I was up early for work this morning… Set the ad, scanned all shoes for missing displays, replaced the men’s shoe displays that were missing, printed missing signs for the ad… went to lunch… finished organizing the boy’s shoes in stockroom, located some athletic shoes in stockroom, started organizing girl’s shoes in stockroom by brand, in numerical order and sized… I may be done with girl’s shoes by Thursday but I am not going to be done with the whole stockroom for our certification… I still have toddler, all of women’s and all of athletic and athletic takes up about a third of the stockroom by themselves… Meanwhile the new receiving boxes of shoes continue to pile in the warehouse… I am getting so behind… We’ll just have to see what happens…

Since being home I am just on the laptop… not too much email… facebook keeps freezing… no word from son1… they are probably on their way back from Disneyland…

Hubby did some grocery shopping today… and took son3 out front for a bit to teach him to ride his bike without training wheels… don’t think it went as well as hubby was hoping… and son3 read one of his library books… otherwise he and son2 have been playing video games all day…

I’m hungry… is it time for dinner yet… I need to get back on track with my eating, or should I say not eating… I have been eating too much lately… last night I was munching on jelly beans while reading Percy Jackson… and hubby bought brownie mix at the store… and someone at work brought candy and I had three pieces, Hershey kisses…

Today I ate: water, vitamins… three pieces of candy… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… tortilla chips, lemonade… dinner~my goal is just spaghetti and water… and a brownie if hubby makes them…

The Simpsons and all that comes on tonight… I should get up and do something before dinner… like put away laundry and work on my drawer challenges for The Motivation Station… and get the boys ready for school tomorrow…

Cloud pictures from yesterday……………………..

Happy Journaling…