I am here… I am tired… I am overwhelmed and don’t know what to do first so I do nothing…
I am thinking lists are not working for me anymore for a long while now… My new thought is to walk into each room and do at least one thing, it could be anything that catches my attention…
But first I have to get my butte out of the computer chair… Or to at least do all the things I want to do on the computer… but I get distracted with Facebook… and games on the phone…
And yet I always have time to eat…
With all the not doing of the things I want to do, you’d think it would be easy to not do all the things I don’t want to do…
I am off today and I was off yesterday… Tried not to overwhelm myself with plans so I wouldn’t be disappointed and spoil my two days off…
This morning hubby and I got son3 off to school… Three weeks from tomorrow and he is done with elementary school… He has a power point project on Germany that the teacher gave him an extra week to finish that he has barely started… So hubby has been helping him with the research so he just has to go to school and write up the power point… Yesterday I put pork chops in the crock pot so dinner would be easy, but since hubby was helping son3 we did not eat dinner until 8:30pm as son3 had to finish his regular homework first… Seriously still regular homework with only three weeks of school left…
Son2 is on summer vacation… Last night I dropped him off at son1’s house so they could play Xbox… Today is DIL’s birthday, she is 23…
Yesterday I was cleaning the kitchen and pulled everything off the top of the fridge and you would not believe how many inches of dust was up there… Son2 surprised me and cleaned it all off for me… I also cleaned all the counters, ran the dishwasher twice and washed the floor…
This morning I was walking down the hall and the vacuum that is always there rammed into my toes on my right foot… the middle toe was very effected… to the point that I couldn’t walk on it… hubby taped it to my second toe and I took an ibuprofen and gabapentin and it is much better now… So I continued on with my plans and made chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies and brownies…
Son2’s blackberry bush has blackberries…
I don’t know if this is the mom or the dad but they have a nest in my climbing rosebush…
There is the nest…
You probably can not see in the picture but I could just see the baby beak sticking out of the nest…
Maple lying under where the nest is…
Indy laying across from where the nest is…
The birds are having fits yelling at the cats and us every time we go to this side of the yard…
This is either the mom or the dad giving Indy what for…
Then the other one came and gave Indy what for…
They are going to hurt themselves with all the yelling about us being too close to the babies… I know they are just doing what is instinctive to protect their babies… Although I’m afraid they are going to land on my head and peck out my brains for trying to look in the nest… I’m just peeking and saying congratulations…
Maple says doesn’t this flower smell nice…
Yesterday after we got son3 to school and I cleaned the kitchen, hubby and I went out and about… We went to Dollar Store, Payless Shoe Store, Anna’s Linen & Things and the Grocery Store…
Look what I found at the Dollar Store… I know, I need an intervention… I’m addicted to books lately… I think it’s my comfort/reward since hubby’s not working… They are romance novels and two are authors I actually read and one has vampires…
I was just going to Payless to check as I need work shoes and didn’t expect to find anything but I found two pairs, one for home and one for work… Plus hubby found a pair for twelve dollars… Son3 needs shoes and we saw some for him but he is getting picky in his pre teen year and needs to pick them out for himself…
I wasn’t impressed with Anna’s and didn’t see any rugs or curtains that I was looking for…
Hubby has been working in the front yard… The barrel used to house the hose, son1’s idea… However now hubby has installed a fence post that he will put a holder on to wind the hose around… And the three flowers below will go into the barrel… Hubby however has gotten distracted with the side yard between us and the neighbor’s driveway and has removed all the poppies and the rocks around the tree and is redoing the sprinkler system since the grass is dying on that side…
Son2’s strawberries in their new strawberry pot…
I can’t believe the year is half over already… Three weeks from tomorrow is my birthday and son3’s last day of school…
All I do is go to work, go to work, go to work… We have inventory next Wednesday and I haven’t even done anything to get ready for it yet…
And when I am home, we watch TV… I do like the phones that when I check email and Facebook, it is much quicker then when I am on the laptop… with the laptop I get distracted with other things and the phone I put it down as I am done…
I do like that the sun is up longer now but then I am tired from working all day and that we have been staying up til midnight and then I am up before six in the morning… We so love that we can watch all our shows on the DVR…
Hubby still applies for jobs every day… No calls lately though… He got the results yesterday from his PSA test and still cancer free…
Maple looking intently at something in the grass…
Holly looking at Indy…
Indy wondering why the birds keep yelling at her…
I am back… got up to see about getting something done… scanned in some cards into the computer for the blog… put away the laundry… watered the houseplants… son3 came home… his regular homework is done… now hubby is setting him up to work on his power point… still an hour before I will start heating up dinner… leftover pork chops and I’ll add some sides…
The internet was down for a day and a half… so no computers, tv or house phone… tech guy came out, discovered someone had cut our wire while working on someone else’s wire and he had us back up and running… we lost the bedroom phone again though… don’t know why we have trouble with that phone whenever we hook up a new internet company… I told hubby now that we have the cell phones we won’t worry about the bedroom phone… telemarketers just wake us up when we are sleeping anyway…
I was seeing if I could remember anything else we have been up to since I haven’t blogged in a few days but I think this entry is long enough… I will move forward and get back into the habit of blogging again…
Off to go through my work papers before I go back to work tomorrow… straighten up my desk… get some cards to mail… and straighten up the kitchen and get ready for dinner…
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