February Nineteenth

These pictures are from Wednesday I think… the weatherman keeps telling us rain but then that keeps changing… We did have a bit on Wednesday and a bit yesterday but just a sprinkle or two in between… Lots of clouds keep passing over though but they don’t stay long… the weather is on now saying a lot of rain tonight… although online only says a 10% chance of rain tonight…

I had my interview yesterday for the shoe lead position I applied for… I was a bit nervous and talked too fast but she was impressed with my experience and was surprised to learn that I’m not quiet since she doesn’t know me well as our paths don’t cross… even though she is my boss’s boss… I realized afterward that I actually seemed eager to have the position… darn, lol… I’m leaving it up to faith on whether I get the position, so I can get off this fence on whether or not I’m supposed to be a supervisor again… One day at a time either way…

We had til today to get all the boxes open and caught up at work… By time I left work yesterday they had all the boxes up even the ones from the truck this past week… Hopefully last night and today they got a bulk of the last of it opened… Tomorrow I have to set the ad, scan the floor for missing displays, open boxes and we have to start scanning the stockroom again to get the shoes located in…

Had all kinds of plans today while being in my room so son2 could entertain his guests but actually the time went by quite fast… I read a few blogs, played on facebook for just a bit, wrote a couple of entries, had big plans of sending hubby’s resume out to some printing places but that didn’t work out as planned as the websites were being difficult, still need to put away the laundry and wanted to clean my bathroom but we did get caught up on all our shows we taped for the week…

The boys have a three day weekend and son3 does not have homework… woo hoo… son2 does but that is on him… he is picking his classes for his senior year, he turned it in yesterday… he went to tennis yesterday but no one was there, don’t know what was up with that… he also got the papers for ordering uniforms and the match schedule…

I finally decided on what book to read next~Stephen King’s Dark Tower… the last time I read that book was back in 1982 when I graduated high school… I was trying to read The Dark Matter by Peter Straub but I couldn’t get into it nor understand a thing that was going on… Stephen King and Nora Roberts just have a way with words that just draw you right in…

I told son2 to start ending the party around 6:30 which it is now… I’ll give him fifteen more minutes and then may have to send hubby out there to start wrapping things up…

Anyone for more pizza…

Happy Journaling…

Party Day

Son2 is having an after birthday get together with a few of his close friends today…

I washed the floors, vacuumed, dusted, son2 cleaned the bathroom… Hubby did the grocery shopping…

Hubby made the cake and the iced tea… I made the pizzas, bean dip and popped the popcorn…

Hubby, son3 and I are banned to our rooms to watch TV and play on the computers… Such torture, lol… well for son3 it is as he wants to see what the big kids are doing and what all the laughing is about… He’s playing his computer games… Hubby and I have watched Castle, Bones, Fringe, CSI and now The Mentalist… Our popcorn is all gone, only one piece of pizza left and we’ve had chocolate reeses and chocolate covered raisins…

I wonder if there is any cake left… Only one more hour til the party is over…

Happy Journaling…

Pudding Cake

chocolate cake~chocolate pudding…

chocolate cake~banana pudding…

Here’s how hubby makes his pudding cake…

One box of cake mix prepared per box instructions…

Two boxes of pudding mix prepared per box pie filling instructions…

Pour cake mix in glass pan…

Pour pudding mix in center of cake mix…

Heat oven to 350 for 50 minutes…

Happy Journaling…

February Sixteenth…

Some pictures of when son3 and I made Valentine’s…

He’s signing his cards for his classmates…

His box he made for school…

Me making a card for hubby…

Hubby and mine cards for each other…

Here’s the cake that hubby has been making since he has been home being a homemaker while looking for a new job…

He’s been making chocolate cake and chocolate pudding…

The ones in the above picture are chocolate cake with banana pudding with banana cut up in it…

We are thinking lemon cake with lemon pudding next…

And hubby even saw strawberry pudding for strawberry cake…

The possibilities are endless…

And it is less than $4.00 to make… two boxes of cake mix and two boxes of pudding…

Holly sitting on son3’s library books… She was getting in some reading…

I can’t decide what I want to read next… For Christmas son1 got me the fourth book in Nora Robert’s Wedding Quartet, Happy Ever After… So since Christmas I read it then all three of first ones again and then Happy Ever After again… They are that good!!

So now I don’t know if I am in the mood for Stephen King, Richard Castle, more Nora Roberts, Narnia, Harry Potter~the last book to get ready for the last movies, or reread The Dark Tower series again…

Look at all the daffodils that came up this year…

And the non fruit bearing flowering plum tree is blooming in the front yard too…

Today was my day off… Got son2 off to school… Hubby drove son3 today as it was raining… Then hubby and I had breakfast and went to Walmart… I haven’t been to Walmart since before hubby lost his job in August… But finally had to breakdown and get some shampoo, deodorant, vitamins…. I was running low on a few things… Also got the boys an umbrella as the old one was broken and found son3 a backpack for school as his had a broken zipper… Son3 also needed socks and briefs as his were getting small… I was mainly looking for me some pants for work as mine are all still too big although not as much since I still haven’t lost those pounds I gained over the holidays… And plus I need new ones in case I do get the lead position… as I have been wearing jeans and we are not supposed to but I get away with it since I am mostly in the back opening boxes… They had nothing pant wise, well nothing in my new size, had some bigger sizes in the styles I was looking at… I did find a pair of jeans in a smaller size than the ones I am wearing… So I got one pair… I have ones that are size 14 that I wear at home and they are too big… I wear size 12 to work that were getting too big but have been fitting ok since the few pounds that came back… So today I bought a 10… First thing when I got home I tried them on… They are skin tight but I did button and zip them and I could still breath… Yay Me!! maybe just the motivation I need to stop eating again… Hubby has been cleaning the garage and we can now get to the weight system again… and we were doing so much more walking before the holidays…

After Walmart hubby and I watched Emergency and I ate popcorn this afternoon… I had bought some for son2’s party… Did I mention he has about six friends coming over this Saturday for an after birthday get together… They’ll have pizza, chips, dips, popcorn, and tea and soda… Movies and XBox games and board games… Hubby, son3 and I will stay in our rooms with our computers and movies… maybe I’ll even clean my bathroom…

Son3 and I got his homework done… I made chicken quesadillas for dinner… and hubby had to pick up son2 from tennis as it was hailing, so they got out before the buses came… Now we are watching Mike and Molly and Hawaii 50… Son2 has to pick his classes for school for next year by Friday… and he brought home the order form for his tennis uniform… and son3 brought home a permission slip for his field trip to San Juan Bautista Mission next month…

I’m gonna finish watching Hawaii 50 and get everyone ready for bed… I’m tired… I am happy to report that at work they have brought up all the boxes from receiving… we have til Saturday to get them all opened and put away… Anything in the warehouse is new that came off the truck this week… Woo Hoo… We were supposed to have a visit from the district shoe guy today, I wonder if he came…

Tomorrow is Thursday so don’t forget to visit me at The Motivation Station for Thursdays With Linda…

Happy Journaling…

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February Fourteenth…

Happy Valentine’s Day!!

I worked today… Lots of helpers this week as we only have til Saturday to get all the boxes open that we are behind in…

Tomorrow is the last day to apply for the shoe lead position… Two have backed out, two probably won’t be considered because of attendance issues, so down to me and two others who also have lead experience…

Son1 has plans with girlfriend… dinner and exchanging cards…

Son3 had a party at school today… Brought home lots of candy and Valentine’s Cards…

Son2 is still at tennis should be home any minute…

Hubby was home cleaning the kitchen, making chocolate banana pudding cake and applying for jobs…

We have left over lasagna for dinner plus I am heating up some soup and making more garlic bread and there is a bit of salad and veggies leftover too…

Hubby and I will exchange our cards we made later…

But first we are watching Valentine’s Day that came from Netflix today… I’m sure the boys will be tortured…

Then I’ll be taping Hawaii 50 and Castle and sleeping…

Happy Journaling…