November Thirteenth…

Thursday I was on the go the whole day at work… I set the ad, did the weekly count, printed the missing signs for the ad, stocked the men’s work boots, went to lunch, located shoes in the stockroom and prepared some clearance shoes… once home… hubby went grocery shopping and I did laptop stuff, homework with son3 from when he was absent, made dinner and fell asleep at 8pm while hubby watched Bones and Fringe… son2 and son1 were playing XBox online…

Friday we all had a day off except for son1 who worked both jobs… I was up at 6am… lots of stuff on the laptop, and tons of laundry, vacuumed, cleaned the boys bathroom and cleaned the kitchen, made cookies and black eyed peas with ham, and did more missed homework with son3… we watched The Big Bang Theory and William Shatner’s new show… they were extra hilarious… then we watched Smallville and Supernatural…

Today we were all off again except for son1 had overtime at his full time job and then is still spending the rest of the day with girlfriend… hubby made a big breakfast this morning… then I finished son3’s missed homework with him while son2 did his homework… I did more laundry, changed the master bedroom sheets, dusted the living room and watched Bones that I missed and then the new Nightmare on Elm St… It was ok, not as scary as I was expecting… I got caught up on my facebook games this weekend too… I had too many snacks today too… grrrrrrr… But I work the next three days so I’ll use up a lot of calories… Now we’re watching GI Joe…

Received some sad news this weekend too, as two of my friends lost loved ones… one her mother and another her sister, so I’ve been thinking of them and feeling sad…

I could use a few more days off, still need to clean my bathroom and I haven’t been out in the yard in weeks so I’m sure the roses need some attention but I’m anxious to get to work too as the visits are now over and I can concentrate on getting all those boxes open that I am so behind on… my goal is to get them all done and out for Christmas…

G I Joe is ending and time to get everyone ready for bed so I can get up early for work tomorrow…

Thursday I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… tortilla with turkey burger, squash, zuchinni… dinner~pork roast and veggies, split pea soup, french bread, water…

Friday I ate: hot chocolate… breakfast~ oatmeal… vitamins, green tea tablet… cola… lunch~PBJ sandwiches… peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies…  dinner~black eyed peas with ham on rice, pork roast and veggies, water…

Today I ate: breakfast~scrambled eggs, corned beef hash, hash browns, toast, hot chocolate… cola… cookies… chips… dinner~black eyed peas, rice, veggies, pork, lumpia, water… candy…

pedometer: over 13000 steps; over 2500 steps; over 220 steps…

Happy Journaling…

November Tenth

I get so distracted so easily… I started this entry an hour ago… Son3 needed some scrambled eggs and Kool-Aid… I clicked on email… and I clicked on facebook… got distracted with photos on facebook… receiving my gifts on facebook… a friend had very sad news so I had to reply immediately… I was trying to find graphics at Google for this entry… and we are watching Ironman 2… oh look a piece of candy… writing the entry now… now the dryer is buzzing…

Yesterday was a very busy day at work… finished organizing the women’s shoes in the stockroom and located them all in… finished this or that around the supervisor helping her get last minute details finished for the visitors… went to lunch… relocated the men’s shoes in the stockroom… and put away some boxes… visitors arrived… the highest visitor introduced himself to me as we were in the stockroom and we chatted a bit about stockroom procedures and then he and supervisor were off to walk the sales floor… I won’t see supervisor til next week to find out how the rest of the visit went…

I also noticed yesterday that the shoe lead position was available again at our store in the next town over… I was tempted for half a second… it would be working for my friend that left to go to the other store… but I’m sure it would not be that much of a raise to accommodate me having to commute twice as far as I do now… it’s a tiny store compared to ours so I would probably not only be the lead but cashier and stock person for shoes too with a small team… I know I could do it but still need to be home for son3… not knowing what hours hubby will have at future job yet… we still share drop off and pick up duties for son3 and homework and early days and school vacation days… can’t always rely on son2, he’ll be a senior next year…

Son3 missed school again yesterday… he was well by the afternoon though and hubby picked up his homework… he was back to school today… and now has a four day weekend… and all the homework to do… mostly math pages… and a mission report/poster board due in a few weeks that we have to start thinking about…

I love the new Hawaii Five-O show that comes on Monday night… watched the Monday night shows last night that I taped including Hawaii Five-O… I have not switched over to the new time change… I tape Castle too cause I never stay awake after the first commercial… and now since the time change I can’t stay awake to watch it on tape past 8:30, as I fell asleep last night then… and then in the morning I automatically awake at 3:30am as I usually get up at 4:30am… so this morning on my day off I was up at 5am… it’s 815pm and I’m still awake so far… need to tape Criminal Minds at 9pm…

Today I did lots of laundry and made a pork roast with potatoes and veggies… Looked for jobs with hubby… talked with hubby about things… cleared out my email… did my Motivation Station entry for tomorrow… helped hubby make a grocery list for Thanksgiving and needed items, so he can go grocery shopping tomorrow… watched Emergency… still need to watch Glee from last night… and son2 and I have the new Nightmare on Elm Street to watch this weekend… after work tomorrow I have two days off…

Hopefully will get a bit of house cleaning done, homework with son3 and reading, watch all our shows and get caught up on our sleep… It’s so nice to be able to deal with things when hormones aren’t raging… still will share entries as I have time of the notes I took while I was raging…

I’m back to working on my weight loss plan tomorrow… want to lose the five pounds I gained back by Thanksgiving… I’m still 30 pounds down but since I've been eating too much and not walking as much, I feel fat like I was… Although with me being a bit skinnier and the coldness we finally have that is winter coming, I had a bit of a scare for all of a second today that I had lost my anniversary band that I wear with my wedding band… My rings just slide off now and this one fell off today and luckily it was just under the chair where I was sitting when I noticed it missing… I’m always afraid at work that my rings will fall off in the boxes and get thrown away… so as it gets colder I may have to take them off or wear them on a chain until hubby gets a job and we can have them resized… actually hubby’s ring is two sizes smaller than mine, but I tried his on today and it fits me perfectly…

Yesterday I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… chips… candy… dinner~split pea soup, turkey burger, pork and beans, water… candy…

Today I ate: hot chocolate… vitamins, green tea tablet, water… breakfast~yogurt, cereal… lunch~macaroni and cheese, cola… popcorn… candy… dinner~pork roast, potatoes, veggies, rolls, water…

Pedometer(yesterday): over 9800 steps…

Pedometer(today): over 2000 steps…

Happy Journaling…

November Eighth…

I am feeling better… and it was mostly due to hormones…

Now son3 is home sick today… he told me that the bad dream he had yesterday morning that had me up at 3am, had all the scary movie characters in it… Jason, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, and Tommy from Halloween… not that he has seen those movies… last night he had me up at 1, 2:30, 3:30 and then I got up at 4:30 and then he threw up getting hubby up at 5am…. we should have realized yesterday due to he didn’t eat all day, except for dinner he had two corndogs… he hasn’t eaten again today and has finally fallen asleep at about 4pm… so he may not be at school again tomorrow… with Veteran’s Day this week, they only have a three day week and four day weekend…

It was a long day at work today… I scanned for missing displays, scanned for missing signs, went to lunch, and organized and scanned the women’s shoes into the stockroom… I also had a couple of supervisor’s helping to rescan the stockroom to correct the locating… Now tomorrow our VIP visitors will be coming about 1:30pm unless their flight is cancelled, we can hope…

Since we are open this year for Thanksgiving at my job, hubby and I have been trying to figure out when/how to fix the turkey that week… Son2 was there so I included him in the conversation and boy was he MAD that I had to work Thanksgiving… I was telling him we would just have the day on my day off and he said NO we couldn’t celebrate on the non holiday day… Plus I had thought I might have Wednesday off since we will be going in on Thursday, we could get ready for the Friday sales then and so we would cook on that day but then I found out today that I will work on Wednesday night from probably 3-11pm to set the ad for Thursday… and then Thursday set the ad for Friday… and then probably go in at 3am on Friday… I probably work 7-3 on Thanksgiving so we’ll eat when I get home but prepare the food throughout the week… although son2 said that wasn’t right either as all the cooking should be done on Thanksgiving…

Only 5:30 and very dark outside already… and only 61 degrees today… Snow in the mountains even… Son1 works both jobs today and son2 is doing History homework… no homework with son3 today… yay… poor guy being sick… Going to heat up the left over soup one more time and maybe make some sandwiches… Hubby put in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea season 1 and Rules of Engagement, Castle, Hawaii Five O and all the Monday shows come on tonight…

Today I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… Lays chips, 4pcs of candy… dinner~split pea soup, top ramen chicken soup adding zucchini and squash, ham and cheese sandwich, water…

Pedometer: over 6500 steps…

Happy Journaling…

November Seventh…

Thank You Betty and Sheri… You guys are great!

and yes I guard my words when it comes to writing in my blog… don’t want anyone to worry needlessly… and this is supposed to be my pretty place, not my whiney complaining place…

but then it is good to write them out, to sort them out and not let them build up and explode on loved ones…

However I do my best thinking at work and in the car so by time I get home, I forget everything I want to write about… so I’ve been jotting some things in a notebook as I think of them this evening…

 

For today I’ll just elaborate on what happened the other morning that set me off… One being that I have not had Chuck for two months now, but I think he is trying to arrive this week so I am PMSing big time… For the past six years or so I tell hubby every Christmas that we are going to cut back and not go all out… just get the boys the main things they want from Santa and not a bunch of extra stuff that we think is cute, they did not ask for and then never play with… but each year hubby goes over board, I see a few more things the boys need and then we both get too much stuff for ourselves and once again Christmas morning is huge… So I figured this year with hubby not working, we had the perfect excuse not to shop, no money… we told son2 and son3 that they could make a list of ten things and Santa would bring them five each… I told hubby nothing for either of us, nothing from us for the boys and son1 just needed a movie or such… and stockings could be the usual soap and shampoo with a candy or two… but that’s it… trust me we are not suffering for wanting anything, especially the last year we have all been out of control buying stuff, especially books and movies…

Anyway to Saturday morning, son2 and son3 were arguing over the toy catalogs, son2 was telling son3 what he couldn’t ask for cause that was what he wanted and just general brother bickering… but I saw red, as they were both being greedy and selfish and told them I could cancel Christmas in a second… as hubby doesn’t have a job… of course son3 was in tears as Santa brings the presents and son2 was just teenage mad… you see I am all about the cutting back for the four to six months that hubby isn’t working… it’s the other people in the house that don’t seem to want to work with a plan…

Of course I don’t want this to be the year that son3 learns there isn’t a Santa… son1 and son2 were literally teenagers and still believing in Santa as I had them so convinced they just weren’t sure and didn’t want to jinx anything…

Besides Thanksgiving is first, and I am not ready for Christmas yet… I have been trying for this year to relax and do one thing at a time… so figured with hubby not working, this was our chance to do nothing so as not to spend money… but everyday everything is still happening all the time… just so busy here with three boys at work and school and life…

I’m also trying to reel hubby in as he is the biggest shopper… but you would think he would be the first to not shop as he is the one not working… he promised the boys each a bag of 50% off candy after Halloween… he came home with four or five bags… $13 worth after the 50% off… what happened to one bag each… of course he and I are also eating them… I’m trying to get back to losing weight…

I have been up since 3am, new time, son3 had a bad dream… but I looked at hubby’s clock that hadn’t been changed and thought it was 4am and I get up at 4:30am for work… son3 wanted his TV on to forget about his dream, he also wanted the hall light on even though his bedroom light was on too… We watched Funniest Video Moments with Eric Estrada for a bit… I went back to my room and realized it wasn’t time to get up yet… turned the hall light on for son3, laid down for a half hour but didn’t get any sleep as hubby was snoring big time… got ready for work, son3 was back to sleep and I was out the door…

Set the ad at work, printed missing signs, hung the all on sale signs and cleared the exceptions… went to lunch… and continued organizing the women’s shoes in the stockroom…

It has been raining all afternoon and windy… hubby raked all the leaves on the side of the house and then the wind blew a bunch more out of the tree again…

I have been on the laptop clicking this and that…

Son2 and son3 found a little frog in the yard that they put in the fish tanks with rocks and a bit of water… we researched what they eat, live insects… so I have talked them into letting it go back in the yard, as it misses it’s mom…

son2 just came back in from letting the frog go, he got freaked out as it jumped on his arm…

Son1 worked his part time job today… now he is playing his XBox…

the boys need to get showered, read a book with son3 and Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XXI comes on tonight…

Today I ate: vitamins, water… 4pcs of candy at work… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… lasagna, rolls, water… 2pcs of candy at home… dinner~split pea soup, cornbread, water…

Pedometer: over 9600 steps…

Happy Journaling…