Feeling better...

I'm feeling a bit better... and yes I always put the decision in God's hands, believe me I've been bugging him for four years on what I should do and I'm still not hearing his answer... so each time a position comes up, I wonder if that is him telling me to be a supervisor and I keep passing it up.... and I know for now, son3 is still only 7yrs old, and a few years more time when he is older would be better... I just don't know........ it's just nice to be wanted and seeked out for a promotion...

Ohhhhhhh... Ghost Whisperer was so sad!! I can't believe it.... I won't spoil it yet in case you haven't seen it yet....

Son2 finally got off the phone with his friend girl and friend boy, it was a three way call...

The boys are now all set up in the family room to sleep for the night... son3 is asking for a snack...

I've had too many snacks... pretzels, hubby's crackers, hot dogs with chili, popcorn... no wonder I drank a gallon of water, all that salt...

Dishes are done, except for the pans, the ants went to the water park in the dishwasher.... silly ants...

Hubby should be home any minute... off to tape Numbers for him...

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The Question...

I'm a bit grumpy today... maybe just tired... I was originally scheduled to work til 11am today but the other day they added training hours so we could finish up our computer training for the month... I only had a two minute test left to take on my list but never could get a free computer... another associate was supposed to work on training hours this morning as well but said she had already made plans and couldn't come in... originally it was only the supervisor scheduled today... she was the manager on duty... good thing I agreed to stay as I ended up being floor coverage for the day... so that made me a bit grumpy that I wasn't even scheduled and yet I was the only one there.... I mostly stocked the men's work boots and opened a few boxes, but otherwise I wasn't very motivated today...

Of course the day started with one of the managers that is my friend that got promoted saying she had a opening for a lead and that it wouldn't hurt for me to just post... now those of you that know me know that I was a supervisor for fifteen years until four years ago when they eliminated my position and there were no lead openings unless I transferred to another store plus the lead positions were changing hours that I wasn't able to adhere to due to the boys but I was lucky to keep my full time status and work in shoes.... Of course over the last four years they have wanted me to post for lead positions but with hubby working nights and me mornings, it is a good schedule for the boys... of course now the boys are getting older and hubby is working more days now...

Anyway I am always undecided when it comes to this question... Do I want to be a supervisor again....

Of course it would be more money but more hours and less time with the boys... I don't want to work until five or six.... I don't want to work most or every weekends... I don't want to work a closing night once a week... and yet even the position I am in now, if they followed the proper schedule instead of what I request, as a full time 30hours, I should be working those hours...

I don't want to be manager on duty and have to answer the phone and customer approvals and complaints, although I am sure over time I would get used to it again... however with my old lady hormones I don't do well with confrontation and I have no patience, lol...

Of all the positions that have come in the last four years, most of them I had already done as a supervisor, this position now would be Brand Central/large appliances and a higher position than what I had in the past...

Of all the managers the one who now has the department is my favorite to work for and I know she would give me good communication and training of all the new procedures I am not familiar with...

But at the same time I always tease her that we can't work together any more cause we always ask for the same weeks off for vacation... she has been with the company as long as me so we both get five weeks a year... of course as a lead my vacation can get cancelled at a moment's notice, where now as an associate I always get to take them... plus we both need Wednesday's off so I would have to put son3 back in daycare just for Wednesdays...

I don't want to be in shoes forever... and yet I'm stuck in a comfort zone...

My supervisor is making me mad... every day she comes in with an attitude that she doesn't want to be there and is it time to go home yet....

I called hubby and dropped the question in his lap, as usual he hesitated as he doesn't want me working all the hours... and yet he's not even working 40 hours at his full time job as a supervisor... doesn't one of us need to step up to earn more money, or just keep going on faith and charging up our credit cards... I lost $500 a month when I lost my supervisor position four years ago and now medical insurance is eating up half my paycheck and I don't want to count on it but when it comes it's handy... but I haven't received any past due child support from the ex for two months now....

However becoming a supervisor again isn't really about the money but what do I want to be when I grow up... And we don't really get to be whatever we want when we grow up especially when you have kids.... Hubby and I aren't really go getters but we are responsible and hard working....

However I'm mad at hubby for not being more supportive and I'm sure later he'll try to smooth it over and say I can do whatever I want but too late, he already hesitated so I know he has doubts... He's way too cautious sometimes....

So I'm just gonna sit here on my butte and sulk on the computer, while the ants crawl all over the dishes in the sink, the ants just showed up when the sun went down, and the boys fight over my old skateboard that son2 put some new wheels on and fix me and son3 some hot chocolate and it's time for jammies since it's dark outside....

Yay Ghost Whisperer comes on tonight... and Smallville and Supernatural were way good last night....

Son3 tried to ride the skateboard in the kitchen....... he's decided he doesn't want one now since the wheels made him fall.....

Son1 called yesterday morning while we were all at work and school, his message just said he would call back last night but he never did... I just found the message this afternoon...

Hubby went grocery shopping this morning and the checker forgot to give him the eggs....

I'm a week behind in reading blogs, hope to get caught up tonight and tomorrow but son2 wants some Internet time too...
He's on the phone with a girl right now.... she's just a friend...and he's emptying the dishwasher for me so he can have Internet time...

Off to find jammies and hot chocolate....

Happy Journaling...

Thursday...

Home from work... the boys are home from school... Son2 is helping son3 with homework... They are studying spelling words and son3 is trying to slip away... He also has a vocabulary test on their story tomorrow too... Son2 still needs to check if he has any homework, he usually doesn't... They want to be done so they can watch Get Smart again and play Heroscape... After tomorrow they have a four day weekend for the Veteran's holiday... So no homework for five days, yay! but I did tell son3 we were going to work in his practice book...

Heard we did fine on the visit at work yesterday... Today I had to set the ad again this week and then after lunch I never stopped moving, stocking all day and answering questions... Tomorrow I was supposed to be off at 11am, but I said I would stay til 2pm, not like I don't have plenty to do...

Last night I made a whole chicken for dinner, practicing for Thanksgiving, lol... I started hubby a shopping list for Thanksgiving for the grocery store... We finished watching Get Smart and watched Bones... I taped Criminal minds and CSI NY but we still have Criminal Minds from last week to watch... Tonight Smallville and Supernatural come on and CSI...

I have dishes calling and ants, yes we are still battling ants, would someone tell them it is winter time and they can hibernate now... I also need to get some bills in the mail before the holiday... We have left over chicken so dinner is easy... and homework is done and it isn't even 5pm.... sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... Now hopefully hubby gets home on time... Last night he got caught up cause another associate called out, so it took him an hour to get out the door... and then the car wouldn't start, so hopefully he fixed it today... son3 just told me that he went to school with the neighbor today as the car wouldn't start.... hmmmmmmm... well hubby and the car aren't here so he must have got it running... but wonder if that means it's fixed...

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Everchanging Routine

The voting is done, I'm home from work and the boys are home from school... A bit of relaxing before we get to the homework and the sink full of dirty dishes and then hubby will be home and I'm thinking breakfast for dinner and we have the new Get Smart to watch tonight... On the way home there were people on various corners encouraging people to vote and on one corner was one guy with a sign that read vote Yes on 8(canceling gay marriage in California) and on the same corner four guys with a an American flag and a rainbow flag and a sign that read vote No on 8.... When the light would change the one guy with the yes sign would cross and then all the guys would follow right behind, lol....

Work was good today although I barely made a dent in all I wanted to do... We're still having the VIP's tomorrow in the afternoon... Today I wanted to stock the men's shoes, the men's work boots, open a ton of boxes, stock the women's hanging shoes and clear up some areas in the stockroom... I didn't even finish stocking the men's shoes, the day went so fast... But we are still way more ready then the last time when we lost control due to the remodel... Also at work there are talks of schedule changes, actually I've thought of it myself, as we are still trying to adhere to the correct way of how shoes should be as open sell instead of commission... So my days of 7am may be disappearing if they decide to try it... We're not supposed to schedule anyone before 10am, although the store opens at 9:30am... I just know I don't want to stay past 4:45pm... which I thought of even with eliminating the daycare... And then starting the week before Thanksgiving I will be working Saturday's until Christmas, which may mean I get Monday's off with hubby for a while again so we can Christmas shop... I just hope I can stay with Wednesday as my day off now... I'll need to update my availability as I'm full time 30hrs and need to be available so I don't go below 30hrs plus even be available to go up to 35-38hrs if needed... and to keep my medical insurance...


About a half hour before I left work today guess what they are now playing on the P.A. system.... CHRISTMAS MUSIC... half regular music and half Christmas, actually I expected to hear it when I went on Sunday as November had started... and it's really not too early as you only have three weeks to get those packages in the mail and then just four weeks til Christmas after that...
Now that all the Halloween hoopla and all the AOL hoopla is over I need to get back on routine of a few things... like the crunches and weight lifting I was doing so well... Now that I'm back to work from vacation, I'm back to eating yogurt and although I've been drinking two sodas a day instead of just one, I'm compensating with water... and son3 has got out of the habit of wearing his patch after school to strengthen his left eye, so got to get back on that... And I hate that it gets dark so early now... I run out of time to take pictures of the roses, yes they are still blooming and I'm ready for bed at 7pm when I still have things to do, lol... It's very windy today and finally the temps are in the 60's...It rained up til yesterday but mostly at night when I'm sleeping and can't see it... and Gas is $2.49, can you believe it....
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An Entry A Day...

Martha signed up for a challenge to do an entry every day for the month of November and then coaxed me to join in... lol... So I'm home from work, hubby ran off to the store really quick to exchange the windshield wipers for the car for the right ones... Son2 is setting up Heroscape and son3 is supposed to be doing his homework so he can play with son2... But since I'm not out there supervising, they are distracting each other... Yesterday while I was catching up on reading blogs and hubby was putting away Halloween, I made a roast with potatoes and peas; and riblets with broccoli and cauliflower... So we have leftovers for tonight... We also watched Wing Commander and the Simpson Halloween Special... Then got the boys settled for the night and hubby and I sat down to finish CSI and I fell asleep again not five minutes into it where we left off last time I fell asleep, lol... Work was good today and it did not even seem weird going in on a Monday... We're still having the visit on Wednesday but I only work tomorrow til 2 and then I have Wednesday off... yay... So when I go back on Thursday the visit is over and I can continue on with business as usual... I did have to finish setting the ad today, they were way busy yesterday and I guess they forgot to finish the signs I left for them, plus the asst. manager had them doing projects too... Also today I stocked a bit and opened a ton of boxes that were waiting for me while I was on vacation... Now hubby is back and I am off to help son3 with homework, heat up dinner, go over our choices for voting tomorrow and Terminator Sarah Conner comes on tonight...
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Oh The Drama!!!

Son3 has had a loose tooth for weeks, one of his top front teeth... actually a bottom tooth came out since this tooth has been loose... We keep telling him to wiggle it... Just having him let us look at it causes lots of crying and running and hiding... He was happy to go to the dentist, if it meant we would leave him alone... The last few days it has just been hanging by a root... If we could just get close enough and one quick pull and it would be out... I come home from work today and recognize the sounds of drama of hubby trying to get a look at the loose tooth... I retreat to the bedroom to change my clothes... I then hear louder crying and yelling from son3... However I hear laughter from son2 and hubby... I yell down the hall, is it finally out... Seems hubby had son3 working on wiggling it and so son2 passed by, hit son3's hand on purpose and out popped the tooth... We were rejoicing, son3 was beyond mad... However he is fine now and peace once more prevails over the house... I'm thinking the tooth fairy might owe him two dollars for this tooth....

I was back to work today... Only worked 6-12 but had to take a lunch and by 12:15 when I actually left I still wasn't done with the ad, so had to pass on to other associates, so hope they finished... and then the ad only runs til Wednesday and Thursday I have to set up a whole new ad.... We still have a visit on Wednesday so lots to do the next two days... And the only day I would have needed daycare this week if we still had it is Thursday for twenty minutes... All the other days I get off before school gets out... and then Thursday I'll use my backup plan, lol...

Hubby is busily putting away all the Halloween stuff... Son3 is now happily playing and eating nachos... I think son2 is on one of the game computers... I'm doing laundry, still have tons to put away... Now son3 is asking to play on the game computer... and trying to get son2 in trouble cause son2 didn't ask to go on the computer, lol... and I'm trying to think what I want to defrost for dinner... hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.........

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Halloween Fun

The day after Halloween and everything is down, lol... But let's start at the beginning....




Halloween morning got the boys off to school... Son3 had a substitute, she looked to be about 15, found out later from son3 she was 23... ok, lol... He had a good day and behaved for the substitute and they had a Halloween Party... Son2 got to school in the midst of a power failure... Two minutes before they were going to let the students go for the day the power came back on... So son2 had to go to English class and write his essay on The Hobbit.... Hubby and I went to Denny's for breakfast... They were all dressed for Halloween... The host was dressed as a hostess... Had his Denny's uniform on, pants and a polo shirt, but a wig that hubby thought was his real long hair, I said no, you can not see his scalp through the part and I think he was wearing makeup but not sure... He just pulled it off so well... But the clincher was when he seated us I noticed he had boobs, lol, but barely B's, just a subtle touch to the costume... He had a ring on his left hand but not sure if his wife helped him with his costume or a significant other... Our waitress was Cleopatra and Zorro and a Witch were around too... Breakfast was yummy but it was very quiet... Don't know if service is usually so quiet or they were just all self conscience in their costumes...

Then hubby and I came home and set up the yard, washed the kitchen floor and hubby cleaned son3's room a bit... We watched Numbers from a couple of episodes back and then it was finally time to pick up son3... Actually son2 was picking up on a practice run and we were just backup... Son2 was actually there before us so thinking this will work out just fine... We were worried though cause with the substitute didn't know if teacher had left instructions on who went where after school and son3 ending up at daycare... but it was all fine and Monday will be another practice day for son2 with hubby home as backup...

Then we had a bit of drama when we got home... I have been asking son2 all month what are your plans with your friends for Halloween and his answer I don't know, too soon yet... Well Thursday he came home from school upset cause all his friends had been invited to a party and he hadn't yet... So he reassured himself that his friend just hadn't gotten to him yet... I said that was fine however it is too late now as it is now Halloween and we have our plans set now.... So of course he came home on Friday with a verbal invitation but no times and they were actually mostly going trick or treating at the party and it was at a friend's that he would have to be driven to... So of course we reminded him that we had already told him it was too late to go if he got the invitation as we like to have plans set a couple of days in advance... Anyway son2 of course denied that we had told him that and was mad that he couldn't go, hubby and I went into lecture/discussion mode, feelings were hurt all around, everyone got angry, me especially.... son2 went off to sulk, I went off to sulk... Son2 didn't want to participate with us for Halloween... I was ready to cancel Halloween... Poor son3 was waiting patiently... Hubby was trying to get everyone back together... I calmed down and got me and son3 ready... Hubby coaxed son2 to put on his costume and join us....We were in the front yard at 5:45 armed with 120 treat bags... Son2 was feeling better and getting into character patrolling the yard as Joker waiting for trick or treaters... Son3 and the neighbor boy were bugging us and his parents to trick or treat, lol... At some point the neighbor mom took the boys trick or treating for a half hour, then they were playing back and forth between houses and giving out candy... We ran out of treat bags about 7:30 and I had to break out our good candy bars, lol... I figure we had about 150 kids... by 8:15 it was quiet and we started dismantling the yard and bringing everything in... By 9pm, the boys had showered and we were finally having dinner and watching Journey to the Center of the Earth with Brendan Frasier.... Son2 crashed at 10:30 and the rest of crashed at 11pm....

However the hit of the evening was son2! He had a blast! which I knew he would and why I got so frustrated with him when he got all teenager on me cause he couldn't go with his friends...

I was in the driveway by the porch with the candy and the kids had to walk up the drive to get the candy all while son2 was walking back and forth as the Joker with his cane in total character of head tilts and voice, lol... All eyes were on him as they made the dash for the treats... Many I had to go to the end of the drive and bring them their treats... Son2 would take of the mask if they were too little... And then people wanted to take pictures of their kids with the Joker... especially the kids who were also dressed as the Joker... All the trick or treaters costumes were great... Even one grandma was trick or treating, lol... The boys saw people they knew... and it was mostly little kids, there were only a couple of groups of bigger kids up to high school.... I thought it was hilarious that some had king size pillow cases... and then one group of kids came up all saying Happy Halloween, Happy Birthday, Merry Christmas, so I was telling them all Happy New Year.... We had a blast!!!

Now son2 is wandering the house still wearing bits of his costume... I think he is going to wander out and see how his friend's Halloween went... Son3 of course is off on PlayStation saving the world....


And hubby is back to work today and I am doing tons of laundry from all the Halloween dummies I made... I use blanket sleepers to hold towels and sheets to form the dummies under the costumes... So all that has to be washed and then tomorrow while I am back to work, hubby will box all the Halloween stuff back up for another year... Actually he mentioned Christmas decorations this morning, lol... I brought out some more Thanksgiving decorations but haven't put them up yet... I'm still in my pj's even, lol... and thinking what's for dinner... and dishes need to be done... and fix my apron for work tomorrow... but I have Ghost Whisperer from last night to watch while I fold all the laundry...

And just a reminder to all, of my snowman obsession... I have snowmen up all year around the house, but now that Halloween is past I can now pull out all the snowman tags, woo hoo!!

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A Scary Day

Today is a day of endings and beginnings... Today is officially the last day of AOL Journals... Mine was one of the ones that would not migrate over... and while I'm OK with it, It's still tugging at my heart... I was going to delete it myself yesterday but just couldn't, lol... So will be glad when it's done already.... I did copy my first entry:

Saturday, January 1, 20058:31:00 PM PST Feeling Hopeful Hearing son 2 coaching me on starting journal. Delete Entry
Happy New YearWelcome to 2005. I have been reading journals and enjoying them so much that for the start of the new year I have started my own. As one of my new year resolutions is to take one day at a time and not worry about tomorrow, but enjoy all that is today. Don't know if I will have any words of wisdom or give any inspiration as I have gotten from many journals that I have read. But I hope to share my daily joys and trials about my family and friends with others as they have shared by allowing me to read their journals. So to all a Happy New Year and Happy Journaling.Written by fasttrack58 Blog about this entry Add to del.icio.us digg this

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Look zero comments, lol.... But here I am almost four years later with 55,793 hits to my journal and as many great friends... I am already following over 120 blogs and still haven't found everyone yet, lol.... I am missing Trick or Treat through JLand though this year, maybe we will be all settled and comfy cozy in our new blogs in time to Carol through our new blogger homes.....

At home today another ending is son3 no longer has after school daycare... With the change in the school times this year and the cut in hours at work, most of the time he was at daycare I was already home or I only needed daycare for like fifteen minutes... So even though I've thought this through for weeks now and am sure I have missed a snag somewhere, as of today son3 no longer has daycare... So between hubby, me and son2 one of us is able to pick him up.... It does mean I change my day off from Monday to Wednesday... Hubby was reluctant on that change, as Monday is our day off together... But with him getting off at earlier times now, we see him most evenings for dinner, since he doesn't have to close every night any more... And being a bit selfish, I now have Wednesday mornings just for me, Yay!!...

Today is also hubby's last day of vacation and he's taking me out to breakfast, so I best go get ready!! and take son3 to school and then after breakfast, we finish setting up the front yard with all the tombstones and dummies for our cemetery theme for the trick or treaters....

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The Day Before Halloween

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70 Things About Me

Found this at Michele's...

1. DO YOU SNORE? Yes, since I was a kid...


2. ARE YOU A LOVER OR A FIGHTER? A fighter, lol...


3. WHAT’S YOUR WORST FEAR? Losing hubby too soon in life...


4. AS A KID, WERE YOU A LEGO MANIAC? No, but son1, son2 and son3 are...


5. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF “REALITY” TV? Hate it!


6. DO YOU CHEW ON YOUR STRAWS? No...


7. WERE YOU A CUTE BABY?

8. IS THE SINGLE LIFE FOR YOU? Not as long as I have hubby...


9. WHAT COLOR IS YOUR KEYBOARD? Black...


10. DO YOU SING IN THE SHOWER? Yes, A Bicycle Built for Two and Little Drummer Boy... Don't know why, lol...


11. HAVE YOU EVER BUNGEE JUMPED? No...


12. ANY SECRET TALENTS? I can wiggle my ears...


13. WHAT’S YOUR IDEAL VACATION SPOT? BEACH!


14. IS JAY LENO FUNNY? Not as funny as he used to be...


15. CAN YOU SWIM? Yes...


16. HAVE YOU SEEN THE MOVIE “DONNIE DARKO”? Yes...


17. DO YOU GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE OZONE? YES!


18. HOW MANY LICKS DOES IT TAKE TO GET TO THE CENTER OF A TOOTSIE POP? Three...


19. CAN YOU SING THE ALPHABET BACKWARDS? No...


20. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ON AN AIRPLANE? Yes...


21. ARE YOU AN ONLY CHILD? No, three brothers...


22. DO YOU PREFER ELECTRIC OR MANUAL PENCIL SHARPENER? Electric...


23. WHAT’S YOUR STAND ON HUNTING? Don't like it...


24. IS MARRIAGE IN YOUR FUTURE? Sixteen years and counting...


25. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? Sometimes...


26. WHAT ARE YOU ALLERGIC TO? Nothing...


27. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SAID, “I LOVE YOU? Yesterday to hubby and son3...


28. IS ELVIS STILL ALIVE? No... when I was in tenth grade we had a speaker come to our Science class who had seen the autopsy report...


29. DO YOU CRY AT WEDDINGS? Yes...


30. HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR EGGS? Depends on my mood, scrambled, fried, omelet... but always with cheese...


31. ARE BLONDES DUMB? Excuse me... No...


32. WHERE DOES THE OTHER SOCK END UP? Sock monsters take them...


33. WHAT TIME IS IT? 9:24am


34. DO YOU HAVE A NICKNAME? Tom, Jack... and one year in jr high at summer camp I went by Michelle...


35. IS MCDONALD’S DISGUSTING? No, but we like Carl's Jr. better now...


36. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WERE IN A CAR? Yesterday to pick up son3...


37.DO YOU PREFER BATHS OR SHOWERS? Showers...


38. IS SANTA CLAUS REAL? OK, why do they keep asking this question, of course he is real...


39. DO YOU LIKE TO HAVE YOUR NECK KISSED? Yes........


40. ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK? Extremely...


41. WHAT ARE YOU ADDICTED TO? Duh... Blogging...


42. CRUNCHY OR CREAMY PEANUT BUTTER? Creamy...


43. CAN YOU CRACK YOUR NECK? No, but son1 can... ewwww....


44. HAVE YOU EVER RIDDEN IN AN AMBULANCE? No...


45. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU BRUSHED YOUR TEETH TODAY? Once so far...


46. IS DRUG FREE THE WAY TO BE? Yes! It's Red Ribbon Week at school... Just Say No to Drugs!!


47. ARE YOU A HEAVY SLEEPER? Yes...


48. WHAT COLOR ARE YOUR EYES? Blue...


50. DO YOU LIKE YOUR LIFE? I must cause I need more time to do all the things I like to do...


51. WHOSE IS BETTER? The grass really isn't greener on the other side of the fence...


52. ARE YOU PSYCHIC? Yes...


53. HAVE YOU READ “CATCHER IN THE RYE”? Yes...


54. DO YOU PLAY ANY INSTRUMENTS? A bit of piano...


55. HAVE U EVER STOLEN MONEY? NO!


56. CAN YOU SNOWBOARD? No, but son1 can...


57. DO YOU LIKE CAMPING? Went camping on my honeymoon, so I must, lol...


58. DO U SNORT WHEN U LAUGH? No, lol...


59. DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC? Yes, but that magician who is revealing the secrets is kinda spoiling it for me...


60. ARE DOGS A MAN’S BEST FRIEND? Raisin the cat says No...


61. YOU BELIEVE IN DIVORCE? I am divorced from my first husband...


62. CAN YOU DO THE MOONWALK? Not really...


63. DO YOU MAKE A LOT OF MISTAKES? I have a bad habit of speaking before thinking... so yes....


64. IS IT COLD OUTSIDE TODAY? 79 degrees today, so no...


65. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE? Chocolate cake for dessert last night... Hot chocolate this morning...


66. DO YOU WEAR NAIL POLISH? Not so much since the boys were born, maybe on my toes once in a while...


67. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN KISSED? Son3 said the other day in the car that since I was married that someday I would be kissed, lol...


68. WHAT’S THE MOST ANNOYING TV COMMERCIAL? The Brooke Shields German car commercials... I don't get it...


69. DO YOU SHOP AT AMERICAN EAGLE? No...


70. FAVORITE BAND AT THE MOMENT? Third Day, Mercy Me, Casting Crowns...


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Taking a Break

I am surrounded by dummies, lol... OK stuffed Halloween props... There's Pooh dressed as a Ghoul dressed as Mr. Potato Head... A Dragon... Tigger... A Blue Power Ranger... An Alien dressed as a Hippie Farmer... The Incredible Hulk dressed as Spider Man... Still have more to make but phew it's hot in here... 80 degrees today... And almost time to pick up Son3... Son2 is home already and hubby is off to get gas for the lawn mower... He already put up the spiderwebs and more lights for the front yard... Now he just has to rake the leaves and mow the lawn so Friday we can finish putting everything outside... And then see what happens, lol, we always go trick or treating and are never home for Halloween... Yesterday after sitting on the computer all day and not even making a dent in the blogs I am behind in reading I did get a few things done on the list... The Halloween cards are all done and on their way in the mail, the dishes are caught up, laundry washed but not put away, treat bags are ready for the trick or treaters, took care of a few paper piles, the plants are watered and a chocolate cake was made and half eaten already... We had left overs for dinner again and watched Young Frankenstein, so funny... Then I promptly fell asleep at 9pm while hubby watched a repeat of Fringe... Today hubby is now on vacation with me, he got son3 off to school and we had breakfast and hung out this morning, til we started on the Halloween decorations... On Netflix they have some shows that you are able to watch on your computer instead of waiting for them to come to the house, anyway son2 and I were watching the old Emergency TV show and now I have found Hercules with Kevin Sorbo, Sliders and Quantum Leap... I'm so excited, lol... these were great shows... now if they would put Buffy and Angel to watch now, I'd be all set... Hubby and I were watching season one of Hercules while we were stuffing the dummies... Time to get son3, then I'm making chicken quesadillas for dinner and homework with son3... Amelia, Journey to the Center of the Earth with Brendan Frasier and Ghidora came from Netflix today...
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A Quiet Day Just For Me

The boys are off to school, hubby is off to work and I have a whole day just for me.... It's so nice and quiet... Raisin's here but he's taking a nap... He was flying around the house today, playing, he even pulled toys out of the cat house that he never plays with... He is so happy to have his favorite cat food once again, lol... Yesterday hubby and I went to Walmart... Son2 is finally too big for the boys department and needed jeans from the men's sizes, also picked him up a sweat top for the chilly mornings, he has been squeezing into a boy's size of that also... Plus I needed some St. John's Wort, cat food, found a couple of Christmas presents for the boys, just looked at the Christmas decorations and just looked at the TVs but all three boys will be getting new TVs this Christmas for the new digital change over... We also had son3's teacher conference yesterday... She says he has made great progress in both behavior and academic... He excels in Math, however we have lots of work to do on the reading... She said most of her class this year is behind on the reading and has trouble focusing and getting motivated through the day... She made reference that she blames having new first grade teachers last year and teachers who didn't want to teach first grade(that would be son3's teacher) and so that the kids are struggling more in second grade due to they didn't learn everything they should have in first grade... For example knowing all their sight words before entering second grade, the class just finally knows all the words as of a couple of weeks ago.... So she is picking her priorities of what she needs them to know to get to third grade... I just need to spend a bit more time on homework, lol, we get the basic done so much quicker this year, so I should use the extra time to do a bit more reading and studying with him instead of releasing him to play... Speaking of homework it's a good thing we had teacher conference as he forgot some homework in his desk... Then last night I made out half the Halloween cards and got them in the mail this morning and we had left overs for dinner and watched Haunted Honeymoon with Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner... Plus hubby and I finally watched CSI with all the people art, very freaky.... Today I have a list a mile long of all the things I want to do... I'm sure I won't get most of them done, but then I still have all week while hubby is home getting his list done, lol... I want to finish the Halloween cards, dishes, laundry, clean the bathrooms desperately, balance the checkbook, finish the trick or treat bags, some paper piles put away, water the plants, Raisin needs a new flea collar on, and make a cake... Tomorrow I need to start assembling all the dummies for the front yard for the cemetery/yard decorations... Oh and today I have to get back on my exercising; 225 crunches and weight lifting... And find the Christmas cards I bought last year so I can start those next... Christmas is only about eight weeks away ya know... And in between all my list I am going to be catching up on all my blog reading!!!

A side note: if you live in Florida and your name starts with an R, a package is being mailed for you today, I sent it off special delivery with hubby this morning.... :)

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Vacation

Woo Hoo I am now on vacation for a week.... Hubby is still waiting to hear what days he has off... I worked til 10:45 this morning setting up the ad... Came home and we were off to Kinkos to pick up our Halloween cards that hubby had printed out... And then on to the pumpkin patch again... Son3 picked out a little pumpkin, we walked around a bit and then headed back home... Son2 just finished reading The Hobbit for English class, son3 is playing video games, hubby is on his computer and I am making lasagna, teriyaki chicken and we are munching on chips and bean dip while we are waiting...

Here are all the goodies for the trick or treat bags... Candy, Halloween spinning top, Halloween sticker and Thanksgiving foam leaves...

I just need to tape all the bags closed and they are ready... Last night I watched Ghost Whisperer, it was very good... then when hubby came home we got caught up watching some vampire movie on TV that we had seen before and Criminal Minds and back to the vampire movie and then hubby wanted to see Ghost Whisperer so we watched it again... At 11:30pm we were still awake and watching Bananas Comedy show on the Christian channel, so funny! by 12:30am I was finally going to sleep as I had to be up at 4:30am this morning, what was I thinking... So tonight I'm sending everyone to bed early... and hubby and I can catch up on some more shows... Hubby's work just called and he only has to work Tuesday and Saturday and has the rest of the week off... I need to make him a list, lol....

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~Saturday~

Raisin is circling my chair... He's mad cause he doesn't like his cat food and it was the last can and he doesn't want the dry either... He says where is that left over chicken I got to have yesterday, well, you ate it all.... lol.... I slept in all the way til 8am today, yay, tomorrow I will be up at 4:30am... Hubby and son3 slept til 10am... and son2 got home from his sleepover at noon... He had a great time! He said he did get scared about three times, the characters dressed up were great and the best part was his friend was afraid of everything, so son2 and friend's parents had more fun scaring friend and listening to him scream, lol... They went out to dinner too and of course stayed up til 2 or 3am playing video games... Son3 was home all day playing video games, while I was off and on the computer... I didn't get any housework done today but straightened up the front room and did the dishes... We watched Gremlins the other day and so we watched Gremlins 2 today while we packed up all the goodie bags for the trick or treaters... I just remembered I was going to make teriyaki chicken for tomorrow... Supervisor never called today so hope that means I am still off at 10am tomorrow so we can go back to the pumpkin patch... And I was gonna watch Ghost Whisperer today too, maybe I'll go do that now while waiting for hubby to get home from work.... and get the boys in the showers and settled for the night so when hubby gets home we can watch our shows from the week... I think we still have CSI, CSI NY, Criminal Minds and Numbers... Supernatural and Smallville were so good this week... Supernatural will be a Halloween one next week and maybe Clark will get his cape this season... OK I found Raisin a little piece of chicken in the bag of frozen chicken so cooked that up for him and I think it's done... off to feed the spoiled cat....
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Joker

Son2's new Joker mask.... It is so freaky!! LOL..... It was the only thing we had to buy for his costume and a bit of face makeup.... He's using his own dress shoes and dress shirt and hubby's dress pants, vest, tie and suit jacket... We were going to try and dye an old suit jacket from goodwill purple, so I had son2 try on hubby's suit jackets for sizing and then hubby tried on his suit jackets and realized they are all a bit small, lol... So son2 is borrowing a black one and not worrying about it being purple... still looking for purple gloves but may not worry about the gloves... and to think at the beginning son2 wanted to spend $50-$200 on a Joker costume from the Halloween store... but now he agrees with us that a costume is actually better with things you put together yourself.... Now what do I do with this box of purple dye......

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Goodbye~Hello

What a week! Well I have finally come to terms with the AOL journal and I am letting it go... I don't know how many times this past week and all the countless hours I have wasted, and even Robin tried helping to migrate the old journal over and it just ain't gonna happen... I have deleted all my photos from AOL Pictures, but I think since I copied and pasted so many pictures into the journal that blogger just can't understand or handle the volume and it just freezes up at the end and won't migrate over... Of course all the pictures keep going into Picasa Album and I had at one time 153 folders of 500 pictures each (90%) in the Picasa Album... I can't believe I haven't gone over my limit, I'm wondering if they are giving us migraters a grace period to house our pictures temporarily while we migrate over... So now I have to finish deleting all those folders, that's gonna take some more time so that I'm back down to my original 16% of what I have put in the new blogs so far... But I'm ok with it, it was becoming more of just that I was gonna do it then actually wanting the journal... lol... So now I missed out on a whole week of blogging with everyone and now I'm so far behind on what everyone has been up to.... But I'm now on vacation, except Sunday morning of just going in to set up the ad, so I've got a whole week of blogging catch up time... and I didn't want to waste it agonizing over the AOL journal...
Plus this week I worked six days cause we had a visit on Wednesday that was then canceled Tuesday night but another visit is still coming when I get back from vacation.... So we are looking presentable once again and our mountain of boxes that we were behind on is now about caught up, I had a bit of help though... now just hope we don't get behind while I am on vacation... and all the mismate shoes are gone and displays are done and the floor is finally looking full again...
Son3 had a good week and is now happily playing PlayStation...
Son2 is off to spend the night at a friends and go to a Haunted Forest... they also have a haunted house and haunted hay ride but they are just going in the forest... so he was too excited and just left a few minutes ago...
We are still battling ants... of course it is high 80's and heading for the 90's again so everything thinks we are having second spring here, even the iris' are blooming again... crazy iris, lol...
My house is a disaster, although actually I got a few things done while waiting all the hours for the journal to migrate... a bit of filing, some little projects and such... the Halloween cards are almost ready to mail, just waiting for hubby to print them out at work...
We had lost the Transformer DVD in son3's room so even his room got a bit of cleaning, I'm hoping to continue while on vacation, and I even hung up his new SpongeBob curtains... The DVD was found in his underwear drawer, lol... Had fallen off the DVD player into the drawer...
I have not even been outside or taken any pictures except when we went to the pumpkin patch... I went to work on Sunday thinking I was off at 10am cause we had no hours, but when I got there discovered we had a ton of hours to get ready for the visit and I was working til 2pm... We had planned on going to the pumpkin patch plus I hadn't brought my lunch or anything thinking I was off early... So hubby had everyone ready when I got home including me some lunch and we went for about an hour... We're hoping to go again this Sunday cause we didn't get any pumpkins yet...
Hubby is still waiting to hear if he got the week off for vacation... He does get Halloween off... so we can finish getting everything ready for our yard decorating for the trick or treaters... Son2 is planning on going trick or treating with his friends, but I have talked son3 into just going on our street and then helping me hand out candy... He had more fun last year handing out candy when we got back from trick or treating then actually trick or treating... He gets tired and says he's done, lol... me and hubby say one more house, one more house........ Tomorrow I want to fix all the bags of goodies for the trick or treaters... and son2 needs to finish putting together the foam castle decoration we got... Halloween's as big as Christmas here, lol...
And with all the drama of the week I haven't even been doing my crunches or weight lifting, but I have been drinking more water and I have my yogurt everyday at lunch... I have been having ice cream every night though as hubby found these toffee ice cream bars that are soooooo good.... but the scale is still being kind...
Speaking of which what are me and son3 gonna munch on for dinner...
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Pumpkin Patch

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