December Eighteenth

Three days down, three more to go… I didn’t think very carefully when I switched Tuesday off and went to work today… I’m working six days in a row… Oh well… just working 6-2 and opening boxes… which they need to bring the boxes faster… I am still way behind and only six days til Christmas… and someone is bringing up boxes from the wrong side of the box mountain as I am opening sandals… There are a whole lotta winter shoes/boots to get to the floor before we start on sandals…

I do work all day on Christmas Eve… 10-6… not sure what is up with that… plus the fact that I have 37hrs next week and the other two associates on my schedule only have 9hrs each… plus I get paid for Christmas Day so I’ll have 44hrs for the week… How rude…

Watching Bones reruns with hubby… he made a bundt cake yesterday by adding pudding mix to the cake mix… something he discovered when researching all his cookie cake recipes… it’s yummy… I have been eating since I got home today… had a chili dog…  a creme soda… hubby made baked potato wedges with lots of seasoning… tomato soup with cornbread for dinner… it was yummy… hubby had split pea soup… the boys were still full of hot dogs from earlier… hubby just brought me hot chocolate too… I’ll work it off at work tomorrow…

Come January First I’m back on losing weight… I want to get back to the 30lbs lost from the up and down I’ve been doing… and then lose another 11lbs… just cause it will be 2011…

Son1’s girlfriend was over last night… she and son1 were playing a card game… is it wrong that she changes into her pjs/loungewear when she comes over… I don’t even put on my pjs til I go to my room… Son1 was telling us that his dad is getting engaged for Christmas and going to New York to meet her family… son1 is not happy about it… I think not happy more about not seeing his dad for Christmas…

Son2 needs to catch up some sleep or something… he is so grumpy already on vacation… growling and snapping… he and his friends are still trying to get organized to pick names for gift exchange get together on the eve of Christmas eve…

Son3 is just too excited waiting for Christmas…

Just waiting for a couple more online orders to come in the mail and then wrapping will be done… Hubby wants to make cookies with the boys this week… and we want to drive through the neighborhood looking at Christmas lights one night, maybe Tuesday… On Wednesday I want to make cards for each other, son3’s idea… And read the Christmas Story out of the Children’s Bible…

I’m almost done with my Nora Robert’s book so think I will go read while hubby figures out if we are going to watch anything Christmasy… Son2 and son3 are off on their video games…

Happy Journaling…

December Sixteenth

Son3 has no homework, well, except study for his spelling test… Yay!! and tomorrow is the last day of school!! Son2 got out at noon today with finals… so he has been playing son1’s XBox all afternoon… Son3 is watching all his PBS shows, Electric Company is on now… Hubby worked on the Saturn, cleaned out very old papers in his room and shredded today… and I’m sure looked for jobs… I am making chicken, stuffing, broccoli and corn bread for dinner… Son1 is off Christmas shopping with girlfriend and texting son2 his ideas… he is getting son3 a build a bear/dog with Star Wars theme… I got to work this morning and we waited in the parking lot for an hour as the person opening forgot they were opening… we had to do our weekly count… the sales floor is looking ok but the stockroom is a disaster… so I cleaned it a bit, put shoes away, went to lunch and opened boxes… it was a fast day…

I was disappointed in my two days off as I was in a bit of a funk… I’m sure it’s the weather… I need sun… I have been taking my vitamin D although I did not yesterday… however I wanted to have a comfy day of reading and watching movies but I did not allow myself… but then how did I allow myself to sit on facebook all day playing FrontierVille… hmmmmmm…. mostly I have a bad habit of waiting for something… right now I am waiting for Christmas to come and hubby to get a job… I always do this… when I should be doing something while I am waiting… We are supposed to have rain from now til Christmas… I wouldn’t mind a BIG storm with lightening… we’ll see if we at least get rain… was foggy this morning a bit… and then when I left work one side of the sky was completely black but when I got home, all blue skies… with a couple of fluffy clouds… and cold….

Last night we watched the new Cats and Dogs… had split pea soup with ham and cornbread that I made yesterday… hubby and I watched The Defenders from last week… now we have to watch Criminal Minds and the Defenders from last night… tonight is just The Big Bang Theory and William Shatner’s show… Son1 came home from second job last night and had son2 hold the flashlight so he could put the part in the jeep… just took a few minutes to replace the pulley… he did say though that part time job is now going to let him go after the holidays as they are way over staffed… plus his full time job has been complaining about the part time job interfering with him staying for overtime as they have been very busy and this is their slow time…

Yesterday I did do some computer file maintenance and laundry which I think the dryer has a load still… and I really want to get back in a blog reading schedule of some sort… I have over 211 blogs I follow so yesterday I went through them to eliminate those that haven’t updated in a year or those that I was polite and followed as they follow me or commented… I only got rid of twenty… still too many… I need to make it manageable so I can visit all my favorites again…

I’m back… was talking with hubby… dinner is ready… the boys are grumpy… and bickering… need to feed them… watching Santa Clause 2 with Tim Allen…

Happy Journaling…

December Fifteenth

I switched my days off so I was off yesterday and today… so hubby didn’t have to get up early and take me to work… son1’s part for the Jeep came yesterday so tomorrow evening when he is off work, he can put it in… I was wanting the day off as I got to have two days off in a row and I got to have an hour all to myself while hubby was at his doctor appointment… I’ve been so tired with the winter weather, being dark all the time and all the working… of course now I have to work the next five days in a row…

Hubby got his refill on his blood pressure medication… of course when he went yesterday his blood pressure was high as he has white coat syndrome in that it is only high at the doctor office… when he takes it at home it is fine… he has even taken in his blood pressure device to show the RN that is works fine… but of course she doesn’t believe in white coat syndrome… so on Monday he has to wear a blood pressure device to check his blood pressure continuously for twenty four hours…

Son3 is off on a field trip today to see the new Narnia movie… he was all excited, even brought some of his own money so he could get popcorn and a soda… they have been talking about the Nutcracker at school this week so he brought The Nutcracker book and an actual nutcracker with a Nutcracker on it… and in doing so got a free homework pass… he wanted to use it last night but his homework was too easy… so I talked him into saving it for tonight so he could have a whole free day on field trip day plus it is early day… besides I have a feeling spelling homework tonight will be writing sentences… and he is getting the new Cats and Dogs from Netflix today… So he’s having a good day…

Son2 is counting the days til vacation… just two more days and they are half days for him as he has finals… he and his friends are exchanging names this week for their annual eve before Christmas eve get together… he has decided on a gift of $10 but instead of a gift card he is going to use the money/paper itself to make an origami piece of some design… he and hubby have been making/researching, as they haven’t finished anything for me to share, Christmas origami ornaments… I told hubby to make something for son1’s girlfriend and he has a pink pinecone ornament he made for her… when she comes over she stands in front of the tree and says how she just loves our tree….

Son1 is getting burned out working two jobs, spending time with the girlfriend and friends and still having time for himself to play his games and do his errands… he did tell his part time job that he would stay on after the holidays but just one or two days a week… they tell him what a good worker he is and his sales are really good… he still wants to train to be a fireman and hubby said son1 mentioned joining I think the Army to get his fireman training that way… but don’t know for sure til he actually commits to one of his plans…

Just me and hubby home today… last day before the boys are off for three weeks… Christmas lights are on and Christmas music playing… hubby keeps finding one more Christmas decoration to put up or ornament for the tree… he has been fighting with his lights burning out fuses outside… and we lost the female reindeer, only her butt lights up now… partly from the rain and partly from how many lines in each outlet… so he keeps rerouting and he wants to reroute so certain ones can still be on in the rain without everything being on that can’t get wet… keeps him busy in between job hunting… although he really needs to find a job just to get out of the house… he’s talking out loud more than ever… and the dog and cat aren’t always near by to answer…

Yesterday I spent the whole day on the laptop… cleaning up files, playing on facebook and don’t know what all that didn’t seem like it should have taken all day… I did take a break and put away laundry and watch Criminal Minds since I fell asleep the night before… Last night we watched Rules of Engagement, Mike and Molly, Hawaii Five O, and CSI… Just had a quiet day reflecting… lately my head hits the pillow and I am out only to open my eyes it seems a minute later and it is time to get up… I think hubby is wrapping some toys up that son2 cleaned out over the summer for son3 that we hadn’t given him yet… I did tease the boys and say I was going to wrap up things from their rooms that they hadn’t played with in a while… I need to get the laundry started, put some split pea soup on the stove and pay some bills…

Happy Journaling…