Eating and Pedometer steps…

 

The days got away from me again, so just posting my eating and pedometer steps so I can move on with a regular entry…

Sunday I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… chips, cookies… dinner~ chilli dogs, french fries, lemon lime soda… candy…

pedometer: 7601 steps

Monday I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… cookies… cheese dog… dinner~black eyed peas, rice, corn bread, water… candy…

pedometer: 11664 steps

Tuesday I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… cheese dog… dinner~chicken, teriyaki noodles, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, water… candy…

pedometer: 15998 steps

Wednesday I ate: breakfast~hot chocolate, yogurt on cereal… popcorn, cola… lunch: tuna sandwich, water… dinner~pasta, pizza, garlic bread, cream soda… candy…

pedometer: 10186teps

Thursday I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… teriyaki noodles, water… dinner~pasta, macaroni and cheese, split pea soup, ham, water… candy…

pedometer: over 15000 steps

Happy Journaling…

November Thirteenth…

Thursday I was on the go the whole day at work… I set the ad, did the weekly count, printed the missing signs for the ad, stocked the men’s work boots, went to lunch, located shoes in the stockroom and prepared some clearance shoes… once home… hubby went grocery shopping and I did laptop stuff, homework with son3 from when he was absent, made dinner and fell asleep at 8pm while hubby watched Bones and Fringe… son2 and son1 were playing XBox online…

Friday we all had a day off except for son1 who worked both jobs… I was up at 6am… lots of stuff on the laptop, and tons of laundry, vacuumed, cleaned the boys bathroom and cleaned the kitchen, made cookies and black eyed peas with ham, and did more missed homework with son3… we watched The Big Bang Theory and William Shatner’s new show… they were extra hilarious… then we watched Smallville and Supernatural…

Today we were all off again except for son1 had overtime at his full time job and then is still spending the rest of the day with girlfriend… hubby made a big breakfast this morning… then I finished son3’s missed homework with him while son2 did his homework… I did more laundry, changed the master bedroom sheets, dusted the living room and watched Bones that I missed and then the new Nightmare on Elm St… It was ok, not as scary as I was expecting… I got caught up on my facebook games this weekend too… I had too many snacks today too… grrrrrrr… But I work the next three days so I’ll use up a lot of calories… Now we’re watching GI Joe…

Received some sad news this weekend too, as two of my friends lost loved ones… one her mother and another her sister, so I’ve been thinking of them and feeling sad…

I could use a few more days off, still need to clean my bathroom and I haven’t been out in the yard in weeks so I’m sure the roses need some attention but I’m anxious to get to work too as the visits are now over and I can concentrate on getting all those boxes open that I am so behind on… my goal is to get them all done and out for Christmas…

G I Joe is ending and time to get everyone ready for bed so I can get up early for work tomorrow…

Thursday I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… tortilla with turkey burger, squash, zuchinni… dinner~pork roast and veggies, split pea soup, french bread, water…

Friday I ate: hot chocolate… breakfast~ oatmeal… vitamins, green tea tablet… cola… lunch~PBJ sandwiches… peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies…  dinner~black eyed peas with ham on rice, pork roast and veggies, water…

Today I ate: breakfast~scrambled eggs, corned beef hash, hash browns, toast, hot chocolate… cola… cookies… chips… dinner~black eyed peas, rice, veggies, pork, lumpia, water… candy…

pedometer: over 13000 steps; over 2500 steps; over 220 steps…

Happy Journaling…

November Tenth

I get so distracted so easily… I started this entry an hour ago… Son3 needed some scrambled eggs and Kool-Aid… I clicked on email… and I clicked on facebook… got distracted with photos on facebook… receiving my gifts on facebook… a friend had very sad news so I had to reply immediately… I was trying to find graphics at Google for this entry… and we are watching Ironman 2… oh look a piece of candy… writing the entry now… now the dryer is buzzing…

Yesterday was a very busy day at work… finished organizing the women’s shoes in the stockroom and located them all in… finished this or that around the supervisor helping her get last minute details finished for the visitors… went to lunch… relocated the men’s shoes in the stockroom… and put away some boxes… visitors arrived… the highest visitor introduced himself to me as we were in the stockroom and we chatted a bit about stockroom procedures and then he and supervisor were off to walk the sales floor… I won’t see supervisor til next week to find out how the rest of the visit went…

I also noticed yesterday that the shoe lead position was available again at our store in the next town over… I was tempted for half a second… it would be working for my friend that left to go to the other store… but I’m sure it would not be that much of a raise to accommodate me having to commute twice as far as I do now… it’s a tiny store compared to ours so I would probably not only be the lead but cashier and stock person for shoes too with a small team… I know I could do it but still need to be home for son3… not knowing what hours hubby will have at future job yet… we still share drop off and pick up duties for son3 and homework and early days and school vacation days… can’t always rely on son2, he’ll be a senior next year…

Son3 missed school again yesterday… he was well by the afternoon though and hubby picked up his homework… he was back to school today… and now has a four day weekend… and all the homework to do… mostly math pages… and a mission report/poster board due in a few weeks that we have to start thinking about…

I love the new Hawaii Five-O show that comes on Monday night… watched the Monday night shows last night that I taped including Hawaii Five-O… I have not switched over to the new time change… I tape Castle too cause I never stay awake after the first commercial… and now since the time change I can’t stay awake to watch it on tape past 8:30, as I fell asleep last night then… and then in the morning I automatically awake at 3:30am as I usually get up at 4:30am… so this morning on my day off I was up at 5am… it’s 815pm and I’m still awake so far… need to tape Criminal Minds at 9pm…

Today I did lots of laundry and made a pork roast with potatoes and veggies… Looked for jobs with hubby… talked with hubby about things… cleared out my email… did my Motivation Station entry for tomorrow… helped hubby make a grocery list for Thanksgiving and needed items, so he can go grocery shopping tomorrow… watched Emergency… still need to watch Glee from last night… and son2 and I have the new Nightmare on Elm Street to watch this weekend… after work tomorrow I have two days off…

Hopefully will get a bit of house cleaning done, homework with son3 and reading, watch all our shows and get caught up on our sleep… It’s so nice to be able to deal with things when hormones aren’t raging… still will share entries as I have time of the notes I took while I was raging…

I’m back to working on my weight loss plan tomorrow… want to lose the five pounds I gained back by Thanksgiving… I’m still 30 pounds down but since I've been eating too much and not walking as much, I feel fat like I was… Although with me being a bit skinnier and the coldness we finally have that is winter coming, I had a bit of a scare for all of a second today that I had lost my anniversary band that I wear with my wedding band… My rings just slide off now and this one fell off today and luckily it was just under the chair where I was sitting when I noticed it missing… I’m always afraid at work that my rings will fall off in the boxes and get thrown away… so as it gets colder I may have to take them off or wear them on a chain until hubby gets a job and we can have them resized… actually hubby’s ring is two sizes smaller than mine, but I tried his on today and it fits me perfectly…

Yesterday I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… chips… candy… dinner~split pea soup, turkey burger, pork and beans, water… candy…

Today I ate: hot chocolate… vitamins, green tea tablet, water… breakfast~yogurt, cereal… lunch~macaroni and cheese, cola… popcorn… candy… dinner~pork roast, potatoes, veggies, rolls, water…

Pedometer(yesterday): over 9800 steps…

Pedometer(today): over 2000 steps…

Happy Journaling…

November Eighth…

I am feeling better… and it was mostly due to hormones…

Now son3 is home sick today… he told me that the bad dream he had yesterday morning that had me up at 3am, had all the scary movie characters in it… Jason, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, and Tommy from Halloween… not that he has seen those movies… last night he had me up at 1, 2:30, 3:30 and then I got up at 4:30 and then he threw up getting hubby up at 5am…. we should have realized yesterday due to he didn’t eat all day, except for dinner he had two corndogs… he hasn’t eaten again today and has finally fallen asleep at about 4pm… so he may not be at school again tomorrow… with Veteran’s Day this week, they only have a three day week and four day weekend…

It was a long day at work today… I scanned for missing displays, scanned for missing signs, went to lunch, and organized and scanned the women’s shoes into the stockroom… I also had a couple of supervisor’s helping to rescan the stockroom to correct the locating… Now tomorrow our VIP visitors will be coming about 1:30pm unless their flight is cancelled, we can hope…

Since we are open this year for Thanksgiving at my job, hubby and I have been trying to figure out when/how to fix the turkey that week… Son2 was there so I included him in the conversation and boy was he MAD that I had to work Thanksgiving… I was telling him we would just have the day on my day off and he said NO we couldn’t celebrate on the non holiday day… Plus I had thought I might have Wednesday off since we will be going in on Thursday, we could get ready for the Friday sales then and so we would cook on that day but then I found out today that I will work on Wednesday night from probably 3-11pm to set the ad for Thursday… and then Thursday set the ad for Friday… and then probably go in at 3am on Friday… I probably work 7-3 on Thanksgiving so we’ll eat when I get home but prepare the food throughout the week… although son2 said that wasn’t right either as all the cooking should be done on Thanksgiving…

Only 5:30 and very dark outside already… and only 61 degrees today… Snow in the mountains even… Son1 works both jobs today and son2 is doing History homework… no homework with son3 today… yay… poor guy being sick… Going to heat up the left over soup one more time and maybe make some sandwiches… Hubby put in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea season 1 and Rules of Engagement, Castle, Hawaii Five O and all the Monday shows come on tonight…

Today I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… Lays chips, 4pcs of candy… dinner~split pea soup, top ramen chicken soup adding zucchini and squash, ham and cheese sandwich, water…

Pedometer: over 6500 steps…

Happy Journaling…

November Seventh…

Thank You Betty and Sheri… You guys are great!

and yes I guard my words when it comes to writing in my blog… don’t want anyone to worry needlessly… and this is supposed to be my pretty place, not my whiney complaining place…

but then it is good to write them out, to sort them out and not let them build up and explode on loved ones…

However I do my best thinking at work and in the car so by time I get home, I forget everything I want to write about… so I’ve been jotting some things in a notebook as I think of them this evening…

 

For today I’ll just elaborate on what happened the other morning that set me off… One being that I have not had Chuck for two months now, but I think he is trying to arrive this week so I am PMSing big time… For the past six years or so I tell hubby every Christmas that we are going to cut back and not go all out… just get the boys the main things they want from Santa and not a bunch of extra stuff that we think is cute, they did not ask for and then never play with… but each year hubby goes over board, I see a few more things the boys need and then we both get too much stuff for ourselves and once again Christmas morning is huge… So I figured this year with hubby not working, we had the perfect excuse not to shop, no money… we told son2 and son3 that they could make a list of ten things and Santa would bring them five each… I told hubby nothing for either of us, nothing from us for the boys and son1 just needed a movie or such… and stockings could be the usual soap and shampoo with a candy or two… but that’s it… trust me we are not suffering for wanting anything, especially the last year we have all been out of control buying stuff, especially books and movies…

Anyway to Saturday morning, son2 and son3 were arguing over the toy catalogs, son2 was telling son3 what he couldn’t ask for cause that was what he wanted and just general brother bickering… but I saw red, as they were both being greedy and selfish and told them I could cancel Christmas in a second… as hubby doesn’t have a job… of course son3 was in tears as Santa brings the presents and son2 was just teenage mad… you see I am all about the cutting back for the four to six months that hubby isn’t working… it’s the other people in the house that don’t seem to want to work with a plan…

Of course I don’t want this to be the year that son3 learns there isn’t a Santa… son1 and son2 were literally teenagers and still believing in Santa as I had them so convinced they just weren’t sure and didn’t want to jinx anything…

Besides Thanksgiving is first, and I am not ready for Christmas yet… I have been trying for this year to relax and do one thing at a time… so figured with hubby not working, this was our chance to do nothing so as not to spend money… but everyday everything is still happening all the time… just so busy here with three boys at work and school and life…

I’m also trying to reel hubby in as he is the biggest shopper… but you would think he would be the first to not shop as he is the one not working… he promised the boys each a bag of 50% off candy after Halloween… he came home with four or five bags… $13 worth after the 50% off… what happened to one bag each… of course he and I are also eating them… I’m trying to get back to losing weight…

I have been up since 3am, new time, son3 had a bad dream… but I looked at hubby’s clock that hadn’t been changed and thought it was 4am and I get up at 4:30am for work… son3 wanted his TV on to forget about his dream, he also wanted the hall light on even though his bedroom light was on too… We watched Funniest Video Moments with Eric Estrada for a bit… I went back to my room and realized it wasn’t time to get up yet… turned the hall light on for son3, laid down for a half hour but didn’t get any sleep as hubby was snoring big time… got ready for work, son3 was back to sleep and I was out the door…

Set the ad at work, printed missing signs, hung the all on sale signs and cleared the exceptions… went to lunch… and continued organizing the women’s shoes in the stockroom…

It has been raining all afternoon and windy… hubby raked all the leaves on the side of the house and then the wind blew a bunch more out of the tree again…

I have been on the laptop clicking this and that…

Son2 and son3 found a little frog in the yard that they put in the fish tanks with rocks and a bit of water… we researched what they eat, live insects… so I have talked them into letting it go back in the yard, as it misses it’s mom…

son2 just came back in from letting the frog go, he got freaked out as it jumped on his arm…

Son1 worked his part time job today… now he is playing his XBox…

the boys need to get showered, read a book with son3 and Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XXI comes on tonight…

Today I ate: vitamins, water… 4pcs of candy at work… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… lasagna, rolls, water… 2pcs of candy at home… dinner~split pea soup, cornbread, water…

Pedometer: over 9600 steps…

Happy Journaling…

 

November Sixth

What a day… I was grumpy… Yelled at the boys… I know we will be ok… I know hubby will eventually get a job… I know we will get through the holidays… I’m ok now too after a bit of yelling and a good cry… I just get a bit overwhelmed at times… Lots of thoughts but hard to type them out… Back to one day at a time, and trying not to let my thoughts get the best of me…

Son1 stayed at a friend’s last night, then he met up with girlfriend, they went to another friend’s to work on the Jeep that still hasn’t passed smog, then they were here for dinner and now they are watching a movie… son1 has hooked his XBox  to the internet and is now able to watch Netflix movies on his XBox… so we are getting more out of Netflix for our money as we were watching The Karate Kid that came in the mail…

Son2 has been playing his XBox all day with his new hard drive… although he was having problems getting one of his games to play…

Son3 was bored all day after he finished his morning cartoons, as he wanted to play XBox but did play some of his computer games… and playing with his Nerf gun all day…

Hubby cleaned in the garage,  part hiding from my grumpiness and part cause it needed it… hubby had bought the boy’s candy at half price off at Target since they didn’t trick or treat, so he sorted it out evenly between the boys today…

I did lots more laundry and put it away… Made split pea soup with ham, carrots and potatoes… Updated the checkbook and paid the bills… and went through most of the books in the children’s bookcase to find books in son3’s reading level that he can read for his AR reading tests…

We finished watching The Karate Kid, the new one, it was pretty good and they stayed to the story… Now we are watching Lost in Space… Gotta love that Dr. Smith…

We turn the clocks back tonight… more sleep right… lately I am not sleeping through the night, waking up every few hours thinking it’s time to get up… and when I do sleep son3 wakes me up with a bad dream or the cat bugging him…

Gonna finish watching Lost in Space and still have a bit more clothes to put away…

Today I ate: hot chocolate… breakfast~yogurt on honey grahams… bbq chips… cola… dinner~split pea soup, top ramen chicken soup, rolls, water… 3pcs candy…

Pedometer: didn’t wear it today…

Happy Journaling…

November Fifth…

I went back to work today… Still not myself, bit teary eyed… think it is hormones causing me to react to the situation at hand of hubby not working and holidays coming… and eat too much… but think I am feeling the will to not eat coming back as I am feeling yucky after eating, too full and bloated, instead of comforted…

At work today I set the ad, rescanned in the kids shoes in the stockroom and cleared a whole section of athletic shoes in the stockroom to make room for women’s shoes… and the day was over…

Hubby did get two calls and two emails from a company he applied at for outside sales but turns out it is one of those companies that even though legit, it is work your own hours and pay is full commission, by selling a product to other companies… sorry we are looking for a time card punching job with hourly pay… all this online job applying is making me leery of which companies are legit and which are not so much… even though they all advertise at the job search engines like JobMonster…

Son1 only had to work his full time job today, then he and hubby set the timing on the Jeep but by time he got to the smog place they had closed early even though the guy had told him what time to come in…. so he wasn’t happy… nor was girlfriend that they were going to dinner and he was taking time to take care of the Jeep… hope they are having a good evening…

Son2 got his progress report today… PE~A, Anatomy~B, English 3~B-, US History~B, Geometry~A+, Zoology~B-, Home Economics~A, Draw&Paint~A… Son3 got a 95% on his Spelling Test today… They are both glad it is Friday today and the weekend has arrived…

Son1 got son2 an early Christmas present… He found him a bigger hard drive on Craig’s list for son2’s XBox so now he has more memory for all his games… actually he called two different people. The first person called and he spent the hour between his jobs yesterday going to purchase it, but then the second person called with a better deal so he went and bought that one too after his second job… so now he will sell the first one back on Craig’s list… He even put it in a gift bag to surprise son2…

I have been clicking around on the laptop since getting home, not doing much… hubby made dinner, I pulled out the leftovers… we watched The Big Bang Theory and William Shatner’s show… Now we are watching Smallville and Supernatural… Then I’m ready for sleeping and sleeping in…

Today I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… tortilla chips and salsa… dinner~pasta, scalloped potatoes, squash, zucchini, top ramen chicken soup, water… and I have been eating chocolate covered raisins for the last couple of nights…

Pedometer: over 9000 steps…

Happy Journaling…

November Fourth

Son2’s pillow he made in Home Economics of his school colors back in September…

I didn’t go to work today… actually I did go to work but then I went home and called out of work… I arrived at work but was not feeling well… as the opener was late to open the store and we were all now late for our shifts it gave me the opportunity to think for about twenty minutes as we waited… at that point no one had arrived and I had gone to sit in the car thinking why am I here not feeling well… so I went back home and called out, the opener had arrived by then… of course if they had opened the store for our shift I’m sure I would have stayed and toughed it out… I have lots to do and another visit next Tuesday… but I needed a day to regroup… and my hormones were in overdrive as I could have melted a snow bank with my burning ears/head…

At home I relaxed and worked on the computer… helping hubby look for jobs, enrolling in the annual medical benefits, and organizing files on the computer… I finished washing all the Halloween stuff, just need to finish putting it away… Watched Criminal Minds with hubby… and spent two and a half hours doing homework with son3… made pasta for dinner to go with the lasagna… still haven’t got my mind wrapped back around the eating like I did before… I really need to snap out of this funk I am in…

Hubby is cleaning up dinner, son2 is doing homework, son3 is in the shower and son1 should be getting off work in a minute…

I am taping Bones, Fringe, Big Bang Theory, William Shatner and CSI… We’ll watch Bones and then it’s nighty night for everyone…

Today I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, banana, water… hot chocolate… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt over cereal, cola… tortilla chips… dinner~pasta, lasagna, zucchini, squash, garlic bread, water…

Pedometer: over 3600…

Happy Journaling…

November Third

These pictures are from this morning as Hubby and I walked through the park after dropping off son3 at school…

We’re watching Lost in Space… Made lasagna for dinner…

Hubby and I finished cleaning up from Halloween today… I did over five loads of laundry and still have a lot more to go… I vacuumed a bit and swept the front porch… Put away all the laundry from last week… Put up the Thanksgiving decorations… watered the houseplants… made all the slideshows from the Halloween pictures… watched Emergency…

And did homework with son3… I have discovered that the homework is definitely what is making me grumpy… because I am fine all day even at work until son3 gets home and has homework… I know he has to do it but I am so over homework… my whole day has to end because he has to do homework… I’m being silly, rude and selfish… we need a new homework routine… He had two pages of math, both sides, took an hour and a half to finish it with interruptions and him taking a bathroom break… then he had to write sentences for his spelling words, that took forty minutes with me helping him… he had to color a cutout figure to go with his report that is due Friday… we went over the handout for the report he has to write for Friday, but we have not started writing it yet… he is supposed to read every night and take AR reading tests on the books but he hasn’t taken a test on the book we read last week yet so we haven’t read any new books yet… now he is off to take a shower and get ready for quiet time before bed at 9pm…

Got a call from son2’s school nurse today… he was in a fight sort of… at the beginning of lunch one of his friends was being punched by a guy who was upset about something that had happened on the bus a week ago… friends pulled the friend being punched back out of the line of fire… person doing the punching backed up just as son2 was coming around to see what was going on…. he turned as son2 said what is going on and proceeded to punch son2 in the face several times before running off… all ended up in the office/nurse’s office with the school police officer asking questions and filing a report… son2 and friend are not in trouble but person doing the punching is probably suspended… son2’s friend had several cuts inside in his mouth and very swollen lips… son2 has a swollen nose and cut lip… both were in the restroom spilling lots of blood… lots of texting and facebooking going on since he’s been home… hubby had to pick him up as they had to be released to a parent… son2 saw the person doing the punching leaving with his father yelling at him in the parking lot… son2 said he is definitely going to school tomorrow as he is making biscuits in Home Economics…

Criminal Minds comes on tonight but going to tape it so hubby and I can watch some Kolchak… Back to work tomorrow…

Today I ate: hot chocolate… vitamins, water… breakfast~yogurt over cheerios… tortilla chips… lunch~slice of pizza, cola… tortilla chips, beans, salsa… dinner~lasagna, garlic bread, squash, zucchini, cola…

Pedometer: over 5000 steps…

Happy Journaling…

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November Third

The rose pictures are from my yard Halloween weekend… It’s going to be 85 degrees today…

Yesterday I was grumpy, tired, whiney… It was everything but nothing… I could make a list of all the things bothering me but only cause I was making a list, not that they were on my mind… I think it was just all the stress of the visit which we passed with a 100%… But now we have another visit next Tuesday just for shoes which I still have lots to get ready… And Halloween is kinda like Christmas, all the excitement of getting ready for it and then poof it’s over… Which speaking of Christmas,  I had forgotten that we start playing half Christmas/half regular music on November first at work, so when I got to work on Sunday straight from Halloween night of fun, I was hit with Christmas music that I wasn’t mentally prepared for… Not to mention that I haven’t had Chuck for two months now, which I’m fine if he never comes again, but I’m sure that messes up the emotions a bit…

So now we are three days into November already… and I haven’t got a schedule going with all my November plans… well, son3 is going to be at 9pm now and brushing his teeth better for the last two days as that was one of the things on my list… now just need to get him to read everyday… and I am blogging again, that was another on my list…

I’m mad at myself for gaining weight in October and falling back to some bad eating habits… so I think I was mad about that yesterday as I was being grumpy and eating tortilla chips instead of getting back to my better eating habits in November… of course it’s not a switch I can just turn off so must allow myself a few days to adjust out the bad habits one at a time… I’m just too good at beating myself up…

Today I have a day off from work but lots and lots to do around the house… putting away Halloween; tons of laundry from Halloween and our regular laundry; Thanksgiving decorations; wash kitchen floor; put away all the laundry that I washed last week that is still in the baskets; update November calendar; clean up the computer files; make a slideshow of all the Halloween pictures; check on facebook; make dinner; homework with son3; and make a list of all the rest of the things that need doing….

Hubby already got all the outside Halloween decorations put away including taking down the fence he built temporarily…. and he applied at about ten places yesterday for a job…

Son1 is settling into a schedule of going to two jobs and now trying to find a balance of getting his other stuff done too… girlfriend is complaining she doesn’t get to see him but when he offered to quit his part time job she said no… he is also working on getting his jeep smogged which didn’t quite pass so he and hubby have to adjust the timing on Friday…

Son2 has been quite grumpy lately too or just being a teenager… he is getting a 106% in his Geometry class this year that he got a D in last year… has a much better teacher this time around… he has also been reading the first book in the Lord of the Rings trilogy just for fun… and plans on reading the other two next…

Son3 has been too happy and bouncing with too much energy… of course until it’s homework time and then he’s hungry and his stomach hurts and he needs help and he’s thirsty and he’s tired and he’s distracted… he’s already made his Christmas list which I’ve tried to explain to him that Christmas will be different this year with hubby not working but of course he says Santa will bring him stuff… and I explain to him that Moms and Dads have to help Santa now a days so Santa can’t bring him everything he wants…  next week is just a three day week with four day weekend for Veteran’s Day and then they get the whole week out of school for Thanksgiving… I am looking forward to a break from homework…

Time to get dressed and get son3 up for school… Son1 and son2 already left over an hour ago… hubby is up but I sent him away as I still had twenty minutes left of my quiet time as he was up too early… Hoping to have another post tonight and a Halloween slide show post too…

Yesterday I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… fried egg sandwich, tortilla chips… dinner~two ham sandwiches on roll, Top Ramen chicken soup, water…

Pedometer: over 10000 steps…

Happy Journaling…

Halloween Cookies

Son2 made sugar cookies in Home Economics class, so I told him to make some for us too…

Betty Crocker Sugar Cookie Mix…

Makes Three Dozen…

Prep time: 7 minutes

Bake time: 9 minutes

Took son2 three hours to make one and a half dozen…

Son3 helped decorate…

They were yummy…

Happy Journaling…

November First

 

Son3’s Jack O’ Lantern… Halloween was great!

We were all off Sunday… Hubby made pancakes for breakfast, the boys carved son3’s pumpkin, and we set up the yard for the trick or treaters… Son1 was home too and girlfriend came over… Hubby helped her carve a Hello Kitty pumpkin and son1 carved a Jeep pumpkin… I have lots of pictures to share in a slide show…

Son3 was a ghoul/crypt keeper but took off the mask to give out candy, got bored with that, took off the whole costume and ended up at his friend’s house next door… So I gave out the candy/pencils/toys… We only had probably about 100 trick or treaters if that… I still have lots of pencils left, a few toys and some how more candy than we started with as we bought two bags in case we ran out… Save it for next year… Although next year Halloween will be on a Monday, we will have to see how that works out with everyone at work and school for setting up the yard… There were still large groups of trick or treaters for a Sunday night but only from 6:30-8pm… Not many houses had their lights on though even on our street… 

Our yard got many compliments… and some remembered the werewolf from last year that son2 was dressed as, they were poking it to see if it was going to move… many were taking pictures of him, plus the whole yard this year and pictures with son2 as the scarecrow… Everyone said thank you as I handed out the treats… One girl said thanks for scaring her mom… another little girl of about 3 wouldn’t say trick or treat or thank you, her dad said she was shy… so I just waved good bye to her and when she got to the end of the driveway I heard her say to her dad, I don’t like this… too funny, not her being scared of son2 but that she got over her shyness to leave an opinion…

The star of the show: son2… No one believed he was real until he got down off the post, lol… but then they were just as amazed as he got back on the post to see that he still didn’t look real… I’m thinking he can be the scarecrow again next year as not everyone got to see him this year… So he can do an encore performance…

Today was back to school and work for everyone… but not quite… I was up and off to work, son2 was up but saying he didn’t feel well… son1 didn’t get up and later threw up… son3 went off to school… hubby was home cleaning up Halloween… son2 missed school and son1 called out of his full time job but went to his part time job… he’s home now, feeling better and hungry… son3 had a substitute so even his teacher was off today… I was supposed to be on vacation until Thursday… VIP visit tomorrow… Today was not a fun day at work with everyone getting ready for the visit…

First day of November starting my goals… son3 didn’t have too much homework since he had a substitute… started preparing the Halloween pictures… we watched Hogan’s Heroes… took apart all the Halloween figures… lots of laundry to wash now before packing it away… read a book with son3… now hubby and I are watching  Criminal Minds and getting the boys settled in for the night… we are all tired from all the excitement of yesterday… well except for son3 who is never tired…

Today I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… Halloween cookie… 3 pcs. of candy… tortilla chips and salsa… dinner~turkey burger, sausage hot dog, veggies, water… root beer float…

Not a very good start to my first day but actually less than what I have been munching on lately…

pedometer~14230 steps…

Happy Journaling…