Saturday...

We have been watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer that I got for Mother's Day... Son2 and son3 are hooked! We are on Season 2... Episode 3 of season 2 is where Spike the vampire enters the picture... He's my favorite vampire....

Here we are half way through another Saturday and I have got nothing done as usual... Son2 is watching Big Daddy with Adam Sandler and son3 is conquering the galaxies on his Star Wars video game... I've gotten dressed, yay me, lol, washed and dried two loads of laundry, ventured into son2's room and found all his dirty laundry and am now on load one of that, ate a banana nut muffin for breakfast, had a cola and my headache is finally gone, wandered outside and killed two black widows and trimmed the roses, rescued pictures from Picasa and Photobucket that I saved to the computer to replace the lost ones in the computer crash, played a bit on Facebook but it kept freezing up and decided what I will cook for dinner....

I had planned on washing the floors today and washing the dishes and pots and pans... fill the birdfeeders and put a flea collar back on Holly... get all the bday cards ready for the month and pay the bills... and fold and put away all the laundry... I might get to it...

Son2 got an 81% on his effect of video games on teenagers report... imagine what he would have gotten if he had spent a week on it researching instead of just the weekend... still amazes me how he just throws things together at the last minute and still gets good grades... he brought home some sort of packet I have yet to see of homework for the summer for advanced English next year... and he and his friends yesterday were making their summer plans for sleepovers and such...

Son3 still had homework up til this past Thursday but he is now done... Next week they have fun activities planned all week... Monday is Movie day and Water Day to play in the school sprinklers... Tuesday is game and drawing Day where they can bring games and such to do in class.... Wednesday they are going to the park next to the school... and Thursday is the last day of school!!!

Hubby and I have been so blah lately... neither of us doing a great job of keeping up with our chores around the house and going to work too... My work has gone back to being stressful again when I was just getting into a routine and enjoying it... Sunday is ad set again and finish opening the boxes... Monday we have to do the count on Men's shoes this time plus we are having a VIP visit... Tuesday I really need to stock athletics... Wednesday I am off... Thursday I have to scan the men's and athletic shoes but I have a short day as I have to pick up son3 and then I am on vacation for nine days... Next Friday is my bday and then the next week we are going to Monterey... Can't wait... Hubby and I are so in need of just getting away and having a day off together...

I don't hear anything of washing and drying in the laundry room so better go switch things around....

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June is here...

Another week gone by... the weeks and days are flying and yet there are still six more days of school left.... I'm worse than the kids... Last week we did not go to Back to School night... we did go to the movies but saw Night at the Museum... It was funny!! lots more action and characters too... of course the next day the teacher asked son3 why he didn't go to back to school night and he told her he was at the movies, lol....

Son3 has field games tomorrow at school... relay races and such... he's not sure about it... says he can't run fast and last year he fell down... I told him you are not a first grader any more, you are in second so I'm sure you will do better and it's just for fun anyway... then next week they have a field trip to the park right next to the school... wonder if they will have an end of year water day playing in the school sprinklers... Son2 is just waiting for finals next week....

Had a lot of drama last weekend... Not sure if the computer crashed or just wigged out but in my attempt to fix it, I erased the whole computer... And all our pictures from 2008 to now... plus the boys folders, son2 said he didn't have too much in his, I'm hoping son1 had transferred all his pictures to his zip drive to put on his new computer, but hubby lost a lot of pictures and a lot of artwork he hadn't transferred to his new computer yet... I had even put all the pictures in folders just waiting to transfer to CD's, what was I waiting for... Plus other instructions and such we had scanned into the computer for safe keeping and all the graphics I had collected last year.... Mostly we are sad for losing our San Diego and Monterey vacation pictures from last year and bdays and Halloween and Christmas... I have some from blogger/picasa that I might be able to retrieve... and I put some on smilebox but I can only view them on the blog not save them back... I lost all our emails we had saved from friends and family and all the pictures friends and family had sent... I have always wanted to clean up the computer, lol, well it's clean now, except the stuff we have put back in just to be online again... I didn't even install AOL as I can access it from my SBC account which I have linked to Internet explorer... So we are limping along on the basics... Hubby is wanting to get me a laptop for my bday, so we went to Best Buy on Sunday and liked the Dell's we saw... I was surprised how much lower the prices are compared to the last time I was wishing... Of course feeling guilty for getting a reward for crashing the computer... so am thinking of getting hubby a new Canon camera he has had his eye on for his bday at the end of the month...

I am still trying to figure out the lesson for losing everything on the computer... because I am spending too much time on the computer... maybe to appreciate the computer more instead of being mad at it for taking up so much time... we are past the shock phase and into the grieving stage of having lost so much... we have the memories... and I told the boys we will just have to do everything again so we can take more pictures...

Work has still been stressful with all the processes and more computer frustrations... probably why I didn't have patience with the computer at home cause between work and home computers both running as slow as molasses I had had enough... Eight more days til my bday and I will be on vacation....

Hubby will be home from work any minute and we are going to the grocery store to fill our bare cupboards....

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Weekly happenings...

Wednesday again and my day off.... Hubby is off today too as he had his annual doctor check up appointment... The boys have early day and will be home from school soon... I've just been tending my crops in facebook, washing dishes and doing laundry...
Hubby asked if I had been out to see the roses today... told him I'm still updating the roses from the weekend, lol, actually do a blog entry on the day it happened...
Sunday and Monday work went fast with the new processes we have to do now and going in at 6am both days... Sunday was set the ad and open boxes; Monday was count women's shoes and open boxes; Tuesday was stock men's shoes, stock clearance and open boxes...


Holly keeping cool over the weekend in the sprinklers...


Burgers cooking... looks like a face... Didn't seem much like a holiday on Monday between going to work, we didn't even get to dress in patriotic colors like we usually do, and the boys having homework, and I forgot to put up decorations in the yard...


But dinner was tasty...


Son3 and his finished rain forest diorama that he and hubby built... I helped him with his report... that wasn't as much fun...


Son2 working on his report on teenagers and the effect of violent video games... he had a list of topics to choose from and that is the one he picked... He was a bit stressed as he waited til the weekend and hadn't even done the research yet... I also realized the project he told me he did before spring break could not have possibly gotten done as he saves everything to the last day... so hubby was not happy with him for lieing... he did tell me that he forgot over spring break and showed up for school the day it was due... that I believe... the problem is school is so easy for son2... he aces all his tests and papers he does write, but then gets zeros on the things he forgets about or thinks are no big deal... so then he gets C's on his report card where he should have gotten an A...


Tonight is Open House for son3... Would I be a bad mom if I suggested we go see Star Trek instead... We didn't get to do anything fun over the holiday weekend and we are all home early today... Hmmmmm will see what everyone thinks... of course son3 will want to do both....


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Son3's Rainforest Diarama...

Make a Smilebox slideshow

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Happy Memorial Day Weekend!!

We are so busted, lol... Hubby came home two hours early since work was so slow... and here me and the boys are, still on the computers and no chores done... well I did a couple of loads of laundry, filled the bird feeders and trimmed the roses... and tried on my new work clothes that came in the mail... everything fit, some a little big even, so will order the smaller size next time...

I put out my new mushrooms that I got for Mother's Day in the yard today... So what's everyone doing for the holiday weekend... we have to work... well hubby worked today and I was off, but then I work Sunday and Monday and hubby is off... of course he will be doing homework with the boys... son3 has a diorama and report due on the rain forest and son2 has a report due on he doesn't know what yet until he reads the paper... Sunday at work I have to set the ad but with a new process and a new associate starting and Monday we have to do the new counting process again but it should be better this time as we are the only store in our district doing it, so the handheld will be quicker... so both days I go in early and get off around 2pm... so still the afternoon to enjoy the holiday...

The Indian Blankets are coming up!! they grow so slow though...

And the pumpkins are coming up... so maybe this year we will have pumpkins by Halloween...

Otherwise not much this week... well except son2 was goofing around with his friends and scratched his back at school and went to the nurses office... but he was well enough to go to his friend's swimming after school... and son3 didn't quite make it to the end of the year without going to the vice principle's office this week... he was dared by some other boys in his class to do something you shouldn't do at school... I am so hoping these boys are not in his class next year, he's had them for two years now and every time son3 gets in trouble, their names come up... so we will be changing classes next year if they are...

Son2 is doing chores and son3 has been sent to his room to learn how to clean it... I'm off to clean the kitchen and broil pork chops for dinner... and put away all the laundry... and clear up some paper piles... and put the school projects on the table so hubby will know where everything is for homework tomorrow... Terminator Salvation and Night at the Museum, Battle for the Smithsonian came out this weekend but we haven't even seen Star Trek yet... We have Paul Blart: Mall Cop to watch tonight...

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Emergency

Does anyone remember this show... Did you watch it... I remember being on the school bus and a petition going around to keep the show on the air, lol.... I still love this show... Son2 and I are watching it on Netflix... We've finished season 6 and are now on season 5... yes, we're going backwards... It also comes on the retro channel here at 3pm... We can sit and watch up to three episodes at a time online... I don't know what it is... it's just such a calming show... it has heroes... everyone is always rescued... no one rarely dies... it's funny... the characters are all so familiar... so many of the episodes I remember seeing before... it was just such a simpler time....


Roy Desoto and Johnny Gage...


Roy, Dr. Brackett, Dixie, Dr. Early, Johnny...


Roy, Mike, Marco, Chet, Johnny, Cap. Stokes...

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Summertime Sunday #2

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Color Carnival #2 and #3

To Play Visit Martha...

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May Day!

This month is flying... This whole year is flying faster then the past ones if that is possible... Wasn't it just Valentine's Day... Hubby hasn't even had a chance to redeem his coupons yet, lol... and Easter seems like just a couple of weeks ago... but yet we have already had Mother's Day and now are heading for Father's Day... Three weeks from tomorrow the boys will be done with school for the summer... I haven't even organized a plan for my New Year's resolutions yet...

And here it is Wednesday again... my day off... my morning of me time... of course I always have a day's worth of plans for the morning and a week's worth of plans for the day...

This past week we saw 106 degrees... Now we are back in the 90's... of course it is a cool 77-78 in the house with the air conditioner... although it is always 78 in the house and yet it could be 74 or so outside...

I finished reading my Nora Roberts book: Trilogy; Born in Fire, Born in Ice, Born in Shame... Oh! it was so good!! I did not want it to end... Actually Born in Shame did end too soon, as we did not get to go to Murphy and Shannon's Wedding... nor hear more about Shannon's paintings or what children they had... But there was Maggie, the artist who blew glass who married Rogan the gallery owner, and she was pregnant with their second child... And Shannon, the owner of a bed and breakfast with the beautiful garden who married Grayson the author of suspense books, who she had a daughter with... The stories take place in Ireland in which you feel you are there the way Nora tells a story.... I want to go... I just wish I knew how to paint or draw.... hubby is the artist in our house... but then I wish I could be as good a housekeeper or cook as Shannon was in her B&B... lol...

Son3 is back to homework after our break for their testing... this week's spelling words so far: multiply, fiction, whole, narrow, private, silly, different, vertical, always, enter... We finished the pictures from magazines project... of course I went way beyond the ten pictures she requested but then she only chose five and sent the rest home... son3 and hubby still have to make the diorama but the teacher hasn't sent home any instructions on what the report should entail... Son2 still of course continues to not have homework... but he'll have finals coming up soon...

Work has been frustrating... we've finally got to the point where we are caught up and finally getting into a routine of sorts when they introduce this new process we have to do... each Monday we have to count one department in shoes... this week was athletics... so of course on Monday the entire Nation counted causing the devices to run so slow that it took 13 seconds to scan each shoebox... it took three of us twelve hours to count the department of course leaving no time to work the report... we were finally able to access the report yesterday but with days off we won't see the report til tomorrow... of course any updates to the report had to be done on Monday at the end of counting... hopefully next week this goes better.... hmmmmm... otherwise my 9-5 days are seeming way too long... I so have spring fever and just want to be home playing... three weeks til vacation....

I have not been organized with chores and dinners this past week.... we've picked up chinese and pizza a couple of days... last night was leftover chinese and if you were tired of that then cereal... We're almost finished with all the season finales... We watched all the Harry Potters, so are ready for when the new movie comes out in July... And we started watching Season 1 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer... son3 is really liking it... he likes scary movies that he is able to watch cause they are not too scary, plus he likes all the fighting action scenes...

The laundry and dishes await me... I do think I am all caught up on the computer today so I just may get to read some blogs... :) and homework with son3... and make a decent meal for dinner tonight... and I still haven't made that chocolate cake....

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Summertime Sunday #1

To Play Visit Martha at Menagerie...

Here's where we will be in four weeks... Monterey California...

With a room facing the water...



These are pictures from when we went last summer...

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Color Carnival Photo Meme...

Welcome to the Color Carnival photo meme!

To Play Visit Martha...

This is the picture son3 painted for me at school for Mother's Day...

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J-Land Encounter...

Do you see who is in my kitchen.... That is our very own Linda in Wa.... She is just the greatest and what a treat it was to meet her in person... For a bit though we weren't sure if it was meant to be... between my work schedule and them having a bit of tire trouble on their vacationing... we finally got together about 9pm in the nighttime... I'm sorry you weren't able to see the roses in the dark.... but we had a lovely talk... and son2 and son3 were there too... and Holly was lurking about... The men were taking the pictures so these were the only two hubby took... if you can Linda, send more please... Now one of these days if hubby can ever get a whole vacation week, we will have to head towards Washington...

Don't tell Linda but I was so nervous, lol... but I had no reason to be, it was like we knew each other for years....

Finally Saturday.... but the day is flying as usual... I've been up for four hours now and I am still on the computer and I have not read one blog... I have totally lost time for reading blogs and I don't like it... Partly it's from being on Facebook but that is just a click and a scroll to see what everyone is up to... I've only been playing My Farm and Farm Town and barely click on Yoville any more as it freezes up my computer... Working til 5pm doesn't leave much time in the evening between dinner, tv and getting everyone to bed for work and school again... But I'm working on a solution to have more reading time.... I also ordered a couple of shirts for work online this morning and checked on which shows are left for next week before the shows are done for the season... I had some Capn Crunch for breakfast and washed a couple of loads of laundry... but that is it... the boys have rolled from Saturday morning cartoons to video games... and hubby is off at work...

I have been working away at work all week too.... barely any boxes to open lately, usually only Thursday and Sunday... so I've been stocking and resetting the men's and athletic shoes and signing and making sure all displays are out...

Today I have to finish laundry and watch Ghost Whisperer while I put it all away... and find ten pictures with son3 of things he likes and doesn't like for his class project... should get outside and see the sun for a bit but I think it is going to be 90 something today... 100 and something tomorrow... clean up the kitchen and dishes... make a chocolate cake... leftover chinese food for dinner... watch Bones, CSI and CSI NY... Then back at work at 6am tomorrow to set the ad.... All shoes on sale, that's gonna take a while to set...

The boys are surrounding me... all of a sudden they don't know what they want to do with themselves... son3 wants son2 to watch his three hour dinosaur with him that he promised all week... Holly is circling me and meowing... son3 has gone back to his games... son2 is still sitting here not telling me what is on his mind... I could make him a list... He and hubby want us to go see Star Trek tomorrow... we'll see if they are ready when I get home from work...

Off to look through magazines for pictures for son3... is it cheating if I just print them off the computer...

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Mother's Day...

On Saturday son1 came over after work to borrow a bit of money... So he wanted to do some chores to say Thank You... I had quite a few ideas in mind but none that could be done so late in the day so I told him to do son2's list of chores... So he mowed and edged the front and back yard... He cleaned up all the weeds on the side yard by the garage where we keep the garbage totes... He re-emptied all the garbage and recyclables, son2 had done them earlier in the day and he took in all the cans and bottles to be recycled... He even stayed for dinner and we watched Knights Tale with Heath Ledger...

Son2 was laughing at his cowboy hat so me and son2 were spying on him out the front window and taking his picture... here is where I think he spotted us, lol... He came in and asked if we were taking his picture... no, we were taking a picture of Jose our gardener, lol...

Son3 went out and rode his bike for I think only the second time in his life while son1 was edging the yard...

Son2 not to be outdone mowed the backyard...

Then son1 came over again on Mother's Day, I got home from work at 2:30pm... He brought his new dog Abey... It was only her second time being out since getting all her shots... Also her first time being left at a strange place... when son1 went with hubby and son2 to get Carl's Jr she cried the whole time they were gone...

I gave her some doggie treats and she was ok for a minute....

Holly laying on the floor below Abey contemplating the dog's future...

I had a nice Mother's Day weekend... Son1 brought over Grumpier Old Men and we watched it with our Carl's Jr... All my special treats I got... Turtle stepping stone, mushroom plant stakes, cat windchime and season 1 and 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer...

Today was Teacher Appreciation Day... the school supplies the teachers all with vases and the students bring in flowers to fill them... When I picked up son3 today, his teacher was whispering to him to tell me Thank You and as we were walking to the car son1 said the teacher liked his best cause it had seven flowers in one...

This morning I made reservations to go to Monterey next month, this time with our room facing the ocean and beach... Can't wait... Last day of school is June 11th... still have to work on son3's projects... then June 12th is my bday... and June 15th it's off to the beach....

Now I'm off to watch Ghost Whisperer and make a chocolate cake...

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