Nine Days!!

The boys are now out of school for the next nine days!! I have two of those days off, one being Thanksgiving... but no homework, although I told son3 we would try to work on his practice book... I think yesterday he was on vacation already and that is why he didn't do his work in class, lol... However either because I'm sick or I was ready for them to be done with school a few days too, I discovered when I was showing hubby the work son3 didn't do in class that we had skipped about six pages... I was busy doing my work and not paying attention, so when he turned the page, he went from page 1 to page 5... so while I was making dinner, between me and hubby we got the rest done... so much for my early evening, we didn't eat dinner til after seven... We did get to watch Smallville and Supernatural, they were so good... Now they are done to the middle of January... Son2 and I have Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 to watch this weekend... And now that everyone is wanting to watch my Alien Nations, I have to wait til we are all home to watch them, lol... Ghost Whisperer comes on tonight though...


Work was good today although I had a headache all day from my cold... Still do, my head feels so big and heavy, lol... I found out that the other associate that worked yesterday also called out sick... of course she is the one who gave me the cold... Today I didn't get distracted and opened a ton of boxes... that is my goal this weekend to get all caught up on the boxes so we have all the shoes ready for the day after Thanksgiving... I do have an ad to set in the morning and then again on Sunday... and then I close Wednesday night to set the ad for the day after Thanksgiving... which I will be at work bright and early Friday morning at 5am... We don't get busy til about 7am though, as it is wise to clear the aisles when they open the doors as everyone is heading for brand central and electronics...

Well son3 is already on his games and son2 is waiting behind me for a turn on the computer and I am starving, so I'm going to see what kind of soups hubby got at the store today...
Happy Journaling...

Marie Antoinette Award

Thank you to MA-Pam, Linda in Wa and Chrissy who have all picked me as a recipient for the Marie Antoinette award shown above - Real People - Real Blogs. This is an award for those that write about real things, not necessarily on every entry, but those who share information about themselves or where they live, what is happening in their area or in the world.This award is for passing on to other people. Now it is my turn to choose.

Here are the rules:-

1. Please put the logo on your journal - Real People - Real Blogs.

2. Place a link from the person, from whom you recieved the award.

3. Nominate at least 7 or more.

4. Put the links of those on your journal.

5. Leave a message on their journal to let them know.

Here are my choices... I'm hoping I picked some people that everyone may not know, so some new friends can be made....

Enjoy....

Insolent Muffin

the dawn of a new day

My Random Thoughts

"Cultural acceptances and Southern hospitality"

Time And Thoughts TNT II

Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm

The Misadventures of a Nurse....well, sort of...

Happy Journaling...

One More...

I'm starving and feeling a bit better... just a tickle in my throat and still tired... I got all the laundry done, just have to fold it and washed all my bedding for my bed... Barely made a dent in reading blogs, need to get into a more consistent routine... The boys got home from school and son2 did his chores and the dishes... who was that and what did he do with son2... Son3 had a bad day at school... Refused to do his classwork... So instead of just having to write his missed spelling words, he also had about six pages of classwork to do... So I got all the bills paid while he was working on that... Both boys have already had their showers... I was thinking of having one, but time to get the omelets made before hubby gets home... Smallville and Supernatural are new tonight, so that will be good... And I didn't realize until this afternoon that today was my 28th Anniversary working at Sears...
Happy Journaling...

Home Sick

I'm home sick today... It started yesterday with a sore throat, last night I tossed and turned all night, Raisin woke me at 3am, son3 woke me at 3:30am, the alarm woke me at 5:30am... I got up for work, was taking a shower and thought you know, I really am sick, I should stay home today cause after this weekend, we are going to be lucky to get a day off til Christmas... My throats not sore anymore, but my head hurts, my nose is stuffy, my teeth hurt, my back hurts, my ribs hurt, I'm starting to cough... and I'm so tired.....

So I got son2 off to school, called into work, someone answered by the third time I called, hubby got son3 off to work and then himself off to work... I have had hot chocolate, lots of orange pineapple banana juice, cola, and chicken soup... I got all the ecards for December bdays ready to send... I did a bit of Christmas shopping for hubby online... And two loads of laundry... all from the comfort of my computer, lol... Next I'm hoping to get caught up a bit on blog reading, I am so far behind.... then when the boys get home from school, I can do a bit of paperwork and such while they do homework... then make some ham and cheese omelets for dinner... I think Smallville and Supernatural are repeats tonight, not sure, but if they are we can watch some more Alien Nation, I've got the whole family hooked on it now, lol...

Last night hubby came home from his appointment for his colonopscopy and boy was he all worked up, in more ways then one, lol... ok, poor thing, I'll be nice... His appointment was at 2:15pm, he finally got in the office at 3pm and finally was with the doctor at 3:30pm... By time he got home it was after 5pm and no chicken... He was all mad cause everyone kept reassuring him that it would be a piece of cake and he believed them... and no one told him that the doctor filled you with air so he could see what he needed to see.... so he comes home all bloated and uncomfortable, trying to tell me what the doctor said but all agitated and yelling at me, so I yelled at him, got him calmed down and let's start at the beginning of the story and not the end... he kept trying to tell me that everyone has what the doctor found and it's no big deal and the doctor took a biopsy just in case on the polyp he found and he was sure it would come back benign.... and I'm like what the heck???!!! Why is it every time hubby goes to the doctor they have to put thoughts in his head... can't they just do the test and send him the results without all the what ifs... Sheesh when I go to the doctor, I get nothing and then the results come saying all is fine... And then they gave hubby a pamphlet in Spanish all about Diverticulosis and Diverticulitis, which is what the doctor told him everyone has to some degree... Whatever........ I asked hubby do you ever have any pain when you eat nuts, he said no, the doctor said nuts is an irritant... I said OK then, you don't have it... Hubby told me that when I get my back pain from eating popcorn, that I have it... I said no, I had my gall bladder out and I shouldn't eat popcorn cause it can't travel through as well now, and that is what causes my pain... So anyway after hubby calmed down a bit, he decided that he would take son2 to Carl's Jr to get dinner since he could go through the drive thru and not have to get out of the car, lol.... By 8:30pm his air had cleared and he was feeling much better, lol... We watched Bones, so funny, Criminal Minds, hubby is getting into this show now and we both fell asleep at the beginning of CSI NY... the boys were asleep early at 9pm... This morning hubby did say he was up at midnight with heartburn but this morning he was feeling better and glad his ordeal was all over, for five years anyway....

Happy Journaling...

Wednesday's Goings Ons...

Today has been a short slow day... It's already 4pm and yet, it's only 4pm... lol.... Hubby is finally at his appointment, which I think made for the slow day, waiting for it to be time for him to go, although he was busy drinking the yucky stuff he had to drink and the water and then the you know, to get ready for the appointment....

So I got son2 off to school this morning and then son3 and on the way home I finally stopped by the overflow pond to take pictures of the birds... There weren't the hundreds I have been seeing there, but there were still a couple except they were on the far shore, so I couldn't zoom in too close... But the sun was glistening on the water just so....

Then back at home I got the Thanksgiving greetings done, checked online for son2 a cellphone and plan from Cricket for Christmas and Smuckers online for some ideas for Christmas... My books I ordered all came, and you do realize they are all for me and son2... The big question of the year is send out gifts this year, or not.... I'm thinking just Christmas cards with family photos in them this year...


Son2 got his progress report... Six B's and Two A's.... Very good.... Son3 has already finished his homework for today... He and son2 are watching Splat, a paintball movie... I now have two double feature Alien Nation movies to watch and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2... Fringe was very good last night and then I fell right to sleep, lol... Tonight is Bones, Criminal Minds and CSI NY...

The drama from yesterday continued today as the boy's toilet overflowed on son3... He comes running in and stares at me with big deer eyes, and I tell him you left the water on, go turn it off, so he runs back to the bathroom, and the runs back and stares at me with big deer eyes again, and says no mom, the toilet.... oh my goodness, water everywhere... well at least now the boy's bathroom got cleaned today...

I told hubby since he hadn't eaten solid food since Monday night to bring home deli chicken family pack on his way home from his appointment... So I'm just waiting on some chicken wings and to hear how hubby's appointment went... I think I'm getting a cold, sore throat, cough, headache.....


Happy Journaling...

Tuesday Day

Back at work today... I got to work this morning and could not find our hand held price scanner, so wasted a half hour looking for it and then gave up... Cleaned off the go back rack and the table in our stockroom of supplies... Stocked the men's and women's athletic clearance.. Stocked the kid's clearance... Stocked the men's work boots, oh, and look what I found on the sales floor in the work boots, the hand held price scanner... Put it on the charger and stocked the women's hanging shoes... Store is now open, so I scan the men's shoes and all athletic shoes to find what styles are missing from the floor with the hand held... 11am, time for lunch, phone rings, associate due in at 11am, asking what time they work today, 11:40am, associate finally arrives, off to lunch... The rest of the day I opened lots of boxes...



Finally home, the boys are home from school, Raisin is yelling at me, son3's cereal bowl is still out from breakfast, full of ants, son3 bumps me causing me to spill the bowl of cereal, put the meowing cat in the garage, clean up the milk, clean up the ants, boys relaxing with PBS, walk down hall to shower and change from work, find cat throw up in hall, reason for all the meowing, clean up the cat throw up, take shower, put on jammies at 4 in the afternoon, lol, 225 crunches, let cat back in, feed cat, check email, computer keeps freezing, AOL kicking me off, fix easy dinner tonight just for me and the boys, whatever you want, let son2 have time on computer, time for son3 to do homework, load the dishwasher, wash all the pots and pans, help son3 with spelling sentences and reading, hubby home, pry son2 off computer, boys in shower, boys out of shower, me writing entry.... phew... it was more relaxing at work...




The reason me and the boys had a quick dinner before hubby came home is because he is having a routine colonopscopy tomorrow, so he is on a liquid diet today of chicken broth, jello and 7-Up... and we didn't want to eat in front of him... Tomorrow I have the day off and hubby is off because of his appointment... But more about that tomorrow... Meanwhile Fringe comes on tonight, so off to get the boys settled and hopefully I can stay awake for Fringe and a few more shows of catching up... But I don't know my eyes are already feeling heavy...

Happy Journaling...

Walmart Monday

After two weeks of working Mondays, hubby and I were off together today and what did we do.... Go to Walmart of course, lol... Got the boys some jeans for school, cat food for Raisin, laundry soap, dishwasher soap, people soap, some things for Christmas, stocking stuffers, some treats for the boys advent calender, toilet paper, socks and undies, and a few other unmentionables... We checked on the TV's the boys will be getting for Christmas to update them for digital... We were there for hours... that Walmart time zone change really eats into a day.... Other than that we got the boys off to school, talked a bit over breakfast and got the boys home from school.... Now the boys are having a snack, then homework, dinner of leftovers, showers, Sarah Conner Chronicles and then bedtime... Tomorrow work and school for everyone... Right now hubby is installing the wireless weather station we got him for Father's Day, that he is finally taking a moment to see how it works... so far we haven't got it to work... it's not showing info for our time zone.... we'll give it a day or two to link with the weather station transmitter.... Otherwise nothing exciting today... The sink is full of dishes, the laundry is still waiting, bills still to pay and plants to water...
Happy Journaling...

**Sunday**

Today was a fast day... Up at 4:30am, off to work by 6am... Set up the ad... Store opens at 10am... Finally done setting up the ad by 10:45am... Off to lunch... Back to work at 11:30am... Stock workboots, stock workboots, stock workboots.... Off work at 2pm...





Now I'm home... hubby had cleaned up all of the leaves from the patio this morning... of course new ones are now falling, lol... The boys have about fifteen more minutes before the game computers get shut down til Friday... I have chicken, potatoes and cream of chicken soup all baking in the oven... As soon as it's done I'm gonna broil some ribs... fix some corn and garlic toast and heat up any leftovers from the fridge...


Last night hubby and I watched last weeks Numbers and Eleventh Hour, although I think I fell asleep during Eleventh Hour, so will need to rewind, lol... Tonight we will watch Clone Wars with the boys and then get caught up on CSI and maybe CSI NY or Ghost Whisperer... I saw Ghost Whisperer but hubby is curious about it now... Not sure if I like where they are going, will have to wait and see where they are going with this new plot... Tomorrow hubby and I are off, so after the boys are off to school we will make a strategy plan for Christmas shopping...
Off to check on the chicken...
Happy Journaling...

One more for today...

The lemons need picking...

The strawberries are still growing, not that anyone ever picked any and ate them this year... I think the snails and bugs enjoyed them... No more tomatoes, I guess I should pull the plants out now... The patio is messy...

But I raked and cleaned up this side and trimmed the roses... And I pulled out all the morning glories, they were drying up and it is too hot for them here in the summer, so in the spring I may put them behind the cement bench... and I raked up all the fallen bird seed and grass growing... In the Spring I want hubby to put some stepping stones and a bird bath or such... so all the bird seeds won't grow so much... Of course this little guy wasn't too happy I pulled out all the morning glories as he was living in there... Sorry... Mr. Snowman on the patio...

Well it's almost 6pm and I didn't get much done today except for the patio, one load of laundry, I ran out of soap, and I loaded the dishwasher, and a couple of entries... I didn't get to the reading part of the blogothon... Being it that week of the month, I've gone from raging to whiny to down... So I think I will make one more sweep of the kitchen and watch another Alien Nation show and maybe hang up some laundry or work on the checkbook or just veg til hubby gets home...

Tomorrow it's back to work... Not a big ad tomorrow so hopefully I'll get a few things done there...

Happy Journaling...

Books!

I went shopping online the other day at Doubleday book club... they were having a 60% off sale... I might have gotten a little carried away... but they are all for Christmas and some are for son2... of course now they are having a buy one get one free sale.....

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

THE LAST COLONY

2 BOOK SET BORN IN FIRE/DARING TO DREAM

KINGDOM KEEPERS II: DISNEY AT DAWN

THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HERE

PS, I LOVE YOU

BRISINGR

NEVERLAND: ESCAPE FROM THE CARNIVALE & CAVE OF THE DARK WIND

JUST AFTER SUNSET

THE DA VINCI CODE

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

CHARLIE AND THE GREAT GLASS ELEVATOR

BREAK NO BONES

SOMEONE TO LOVE

THE EDGE OF WINTER

THIS CHRISTMAS NIGHT

A CEDAR COVE CHRISTMAS

WHERE ANGELS GO

SILVER BELLS

COMFORT AND JOY

Happy Journaling...

*Last Saturday*

This is my last Saturday off til after Christmas... The next five weekends it's all hands on deck to be available for all the Christmas shoppers... It works out though cause I can still keep my Wednesday off and have Monday off so hubby and I will have a day off together to get all our Christmas shopping done...


And I'm home to participate in Martha's Blogothon weekend, lol... We have to do at least five entries and read through all the blogs we follow and read all who are participating in the blogothon... Not a problem since this is what I do on Saturday to catch up from the week...

I also have some chores I'm hoping to get done... Clean the fridge-I read somewhere that it is national clean the fridge day, lol..., checkbook still needs more attention, dishes, little bit of laundry if I have laundry soap left, work in the backyard a bit and general straighten up... and fix something for tomorrow's dinner...

Now hubby's off to work and the boys have gone to their corners... We have several game systems and two game computers with a million games and they always have to fight over the same game and system/computer... at the moment they are settled...

Somehow sometime in July the preference in my email set to save all incoming mail so I have been deleting thousands of emails and locating the ones to save that should be in there... anyway I found an email from AOL that said I could have AOL for free for my email if I had an alternate Internet provider... This email was dated in 2006... about the time I signed up for DSL through SBC... I'm wondering what I was thinking when I saved this email but didn't act on it... Did I even read it or just think it was a confirmation of my AOL at the time... I know a lot of people get AOL for free but I wasn't gonna be picky and have just been paying $9.99 a month plus my SBC DSL... I am a little worried though of what AOL will look like with just email, will it look the same with my toolbar still intact... I will find out on the 23rd when my current month runs out as I clicked on that free button... Oh wait I know why I kept AOL, cause we could only update our journals with an AOL account... With blogger we can log on anywhere and it recognizes us as being the user of the blog...

OK I'm off to shower and work in the yard for a bit while the sun is up and it's warmer... Then later I can come in and blog the day away while I do some chores....

Happy Journaling...

A Picture Day

I left for work this morning and there was a huge wonderful moon in the sky, but I had no camera... I turn onto the main street and there is a huge orange ball of a sun spreading colors across the sky, but I had no camera... All the leaves on the trees are finally changing to red, orange, yellow, but I had no camera...

The hormones are playing with me as it was a better day at work, plus I whined at the supervisor for a few minutes not that she will do anything about anything... She's going to another store for a couple of days next week to help them get ready for a visit... I put out the men's dress shoes and about half the work boots... It was a fast day and that's all I had time for, in between talking to the supervisor and answering questions for the customers...

On the way home the red, orange and yellow leaves were even more pretty against the hazy sky, but I had no camera... On the way home all the flowers in the neighborhood are blooming due to the temps being in the 70's, but I had no camera... On the way home I passed a city overflow pond covered with hundreds of seagulls, but I had no camera... Actually those seagulls have been there for weeks and one of these days I need to get a picture especially since it is in my neighborhood, lol, before the seagulls leave... and no I won't bring my camera in the car while I'm at work, as it could get stolen and then I would have no camera....

Now we're home and hubby works late, the boys have already finished their movie and we are grazing through the fridge... I have found more Christmas songs for the playlist, lol... I'm off tomorrow and thinking of what all I want to get done... Tonight Ghost Whisperer and Numbers come on... Smallville and Supernatural were so good last night!! All the other shows are taped and still in need of watching... The boys have a Veggie Tale movie to watch next and I have some Alien Nation movies to watch... Does anyone remember the TV show Alien Nation...

Happy Journaling...

Do Not Disturb...

Son3 has been waiting since summer and it finally was released on DVD and came in the mail today from Netflix... Star Wars: Clone Wars... Son3 is all things Star Wars, he has seen all six movies, over and over... He has the action figures... He has the legos... He came in the door from school today saying where is it, I know it came in the mail today... And is now happily watching the movie... Son2's there too of course...

Remember he was a Clonetrooper for Halloween...

Happy Journaling...

Running late...

I've only got a minute... It's 5pm and we haven't even started homework yet... I've been looking up Christmas music for the playlist... If I have to listen to it at work all day then you can listen here, lol... I've got teriyaki chicken started on the stove... still need to make rice and cheese potatoes... Work wasn't too bad today... realized today that it's not so much I offend others when I tell them something but that they don't want to be told... everyone wants to just do it there way or forget it, even if it's wrong or not effective for the person working with them... argh... I scanned the athletic shoes, cleaned and stocked the men's clearance shoes and all the athletic clearance shoes, went to lunch and then started stocking the men's regular athletic shoes... Tomorrow I will work on men's dress and casual shoes, work boots and then back to men's athletic shoes...

Smallville, Supernatural, CSI and Eleventh Hour come on tonight, so off to get the homework done, eat dinner, clean up the kitchen, get the boys in the showers, into bed... will I make it by 8pm...

Happy Journaling...

Waiting for hubby...

I'm so tired and I have a headache... Hubby and I stayed up til midnight last night watching Fringe, Eli Stone, news, since I didn't have work today... However we still had to get up and get the boys to school and hubby had to go to work, lol... This was my second Wednesday of having the morning to myself... It is so quiet with no one here... Of course I spent most of it on the computer... I did finish the laundry, well once I go fold all that is on my bed and the dishes are all done, so the kitchen looks tidy... I updated the checkbook and there is a bit of money in it, of course there are more bills to pay... still need to balance it though... I did my crunches again today but am still eating too much feeding the hormones... Son3 got all his homework done as soon as he got home as it's early day on Wednesday... Had a few math pages, timed reading, spelling words in sentences, vocabulary words and read library book... Son2 never has homework... I have some boneless chicken, rice and carrots in the oven for dinner... Was waiting for hubby but he just came through the door... Tonight is Bones, Criminal Minds and CSI NY...


A funny son3 said the other day: We were talking to son2 about responsibility of some sort and being an adult vs a teenager and saying that son2 was not an adult yet... and son3 says: but Mom son2 is an adult cause every time we go to the movies you always say three adults and one child.... LOL!!! so had to explain to son3 how business' make money based on ages and labeling you an adult, lol....

Happy Journaling...

I've Been Tagged

I've been tagged by Martha at Menagerie to tell you six things about myself that you may not know...

1. I collect birdhouses and snowmen; read horror novels (Stephen King) and listen to Christian music...

I was born in Rhode Island, grew up in Florida and Texas and have lived in California since I was 15yrs. old...

2. I attended De Anza college for five years majoring in Business, was accepted to San Jose State but stayed at De Anza to finish my GE courses; took Geology three times and still never passed; got pregnant with son1, however did not return to college; and only needed Geology and Accounting to get my Associates of Business.... I know I should have finished but I still need to graduate high school two more times with son2 and son3...

3. I had Spanish both years of Junior High, all four years of high school and two years of college... I stopped when it got to the communication classes as I was too shy for public speaking in English, never mind Spanish too... So I can understand Spanish to a point and can read it but do not practice enough to speak it... Living in San Jose and Fresno though gives lots of chances for practicing...

4. I have worked for Sears for 28 years on November 19th... this will be my 29th Christmas with the company... I was originally hired as temporary Christmas help... Isn't Christmas over yet... I have done pretty much every job in the store except loss prevention and automotive... I was a supervisor for about fifteen of the years... My first department was children's and now I am in shoes... My favorite job was when I was in display (we don't have that job anymore), dressing the mannequins and setting up all the foo foo... I love merchandising, putting out all the new product, and maintaining a neat and empty stockroom...

5. I have been married twice... I met my ex through a friend at work while he was working at Sears through a temp. agency, he rode a motorcycle and is Italian, I was 22, he was 23... We had son1... We were young, he had trouble keeping jobs, I gave him many chances... I divorced him... He is still very active in son1's life but has never remarried or had any other children...

I met hubby also through a friend at work, however it was arranged as a blind date, I was 26, son1 was 3 and hubby was 31... Hubby was completely the opposite of the ex, overly responsible (he had already bought a family car for his future), overly cautious, so grew up the Leave it to Beaver life... Three months later he proposed in Yosemite, however 18months later we finally got married after changing our wedding date three times... Hubby is a one thing at a time kind of person, which means while he's working, that's one thing, so nothing else can be done til his day off... So just after son1's 5th bday we were married... We just celebrated our 16th anniversary...

6. I have three younger brothers and three sons... Son1 is 21, born on July 25... Son2 is 14, born on January 25... Son3 is 7, born on July 24...

OK, now I'm to tag six other people to play... I see 48 followers on my sidebar, I'm sure six of you have not been tagged yet, so it's your turn to tell us six things... We're waiting............

Happy Journaling...

Relaxing Evening...

Well work wasn't too busy, being a holiday and all... There were quite a few people but no one really asked for help so I was able to get a bit done today... I got all the price changes done and all the kids shoe clearance is full again... I just remembered however that I forgot to scan the athletic shoes for missing styles, I'll have to remember to do that on Thursday... At lunch I watched Who Wants to be a Millionaire, my book I am reading right now is not holding my interest very well... the contestant on the show was 21yrs, a college student and she won $250,000... Then after lunch I worked on putting out the men's shoes but did not finish the big pile that the receiving guys opened yesterday... I have not however got to the rest of the boxes that need opening as I keep getting distracted with these other projects that I am doing...

Then it was home to do my 225 crunches... It has been weeks since I last did them and I want to get back on track... I have also been drinking more than my one cola a day... I am past the munchies though, well except for the regular munching... Hubby had a meeting after work tonight and they decided to do potluck this time instead of their regular pizza or deli sandwiches... So hubby brought Stove Top stuffing... He fixed it, I didn't help, actually I forgot it was today, lol... I heated up some pizzas for the boys and I had the left over cube steak, kidney beans and macaroni salad...

Now the boys are in the showers... It's back to school for them tomorrow... I never did any practice book with son3 or even read his library books or wear his eye patch... Bad mom... but he did have a fun four days off; sleeping in the family room with son2 and hanging out with son2, watching movies; Get Smart, Kung Fu Panda, Mothra and Veggie Tales Lord of the Beans and of course playing Play Station and computer games... So they are in their rooms early tonight, well at least by 8pm, which is in ten minutes...

I have done two loads of dishes in the dishwasher and three loads of laundry which all the machines are quiet right now so need to go switch them all around... and I vacuumed after son2 got the family room back to normal... In the morning I have a date with the checkbook as it has been feeling neglected lately as I haven't done any updating or balancing in it in a while...

Fringe comes on tonight so as soon as hubby gets home we can watch it and probably fall asleep, lol...

Happy Journaling...

My Entry of the Day

I have been craving Carl's Jr all week, so hubby has gone to get some for dinner.... Also my snacking continues... hubby is not helping as he bought me some Chex Mix... and it called me all day long at work all the way from home... lol... so I have managed to get through most of the bag since coming home... Work was ok... Since it is my grumpy week, I tried to hide in the stock room so I wouldn't offend anyone with my rudeness... however it wasn't enough as I offended another associate, of course she seeked me out, so she was on her own then.... I did however get the price changes done for men's and athletics... just have to do kids tomorrow... just a quick check of women's as we just did a bunch last month so there shouldn't be much left... I was going to open boxes but the receiving guys were opening them today, so tomorrow I will have all the shoes they opened to put away... and then I can continue on with the ones they didn't get opened...
Hubby and the boys got our Thanksgiving turkey today, 18lbs... and more fixens... They were watching Beetlejuice when I got home... now the boys are on computer games when they are supposed to be setting up for dinner... hubby will be yelling when he gets back...
Last night we all watched Kung Fu Panda, so cute, that Panda was all Jack Black... Scadoosh... Hubby and I got caught up on CSI NY another Numbers, I think, I'm not sure as we both fell asleep, lol... We had a fire in the fireplace last night...
Tonight is Sarah Conner Chronicles...
Hubby has been doing some repairs in our bathroom and a bit of painting fixes...
And I just wanted to give you guys a big thanks... I'm thinking it was a unanimous NO on taking the supervisor position, lol... after my grumpiness today, I'm thinking once the hormones give out then maybe I can go out in the real world, lol....
My burger is here!!! and hubby too...
Happy Journaling...

Pretty on Sunday

Make a Smilebox slideshow

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Saturday Wallows...

You guys are great! Thanks for all the words of wisdom... I was still way grumpy this morning and had no patience for hubby, realized it is my grumpy week and breathing is dangerous for him right now... I have succumbed to the idea that I will stay in shoes... Hubby's schedule is changing again next month and my schedule is changing due to the holidays and we just took son3 out of daycare so guess that is enough changes for now without me shaking everything up and applying for a promotion.... If I have to give an instant answer, my answer is no to be a supervisor... however it does feel good to be wanted... but mostly I feel guilty, cause when I tell them no my reason is to be home with the kids, well they all have young children too and they balance the kids and a career... actually when I was a single mom with son1 when he was 2-3yrs, I was a supervisor, how did I do it then... probably cause I just did and now I don't have to... just makes me mad too though that hubby didn't even bring it up this morning, as I knew he wouldn't discuss it unless I bring it up and this from a man who can talk about the weather and the price of gas for four hours but not important issues.... so we stuck to safe topics this morning of the boys and what they did at school this week and their plans for their four day weekend... It's the Gemini in me too, always needing to shake things up once in a while, changing my likes and dislikes, wants and needs.... So maybe in five to ten years when the boys are done with school, then I can figure out what I want to be when I grow up... With retirement age getting older and older every year, I'll still have a good twenty years left to work then, lol... I do wonder what the lesson is I am supposed to be learning each time I get all worked up over a supervisor opening... does it just bring back memories of losing my job four years ago and how thankful I am that I could keep my full time status and my benefits even though I lost a big chunk of pay... is it supposed to remind me to use better use of my time since I am able to come home early and I should do a better job of cleaning the house, lol.... or is it a lesson for hubby of some sort... I was feeling good about my shoe job lately even though the supervisor is annoying me with her unmotivation to be there, but I have been doing a better job of keeping my mouth shut, though I could still do better....

So today I put up the Thanksgiving decorations... I did a bit of cleaning... I read through everyone's blogs... I did a lot of thinking... Had many wise things to write but now it is dark and I am getting tired and can't remember what they were, lol... It was overcast today and even sprinkled a bit... I'm still a bit down but think it is safe for hubby to come home... We have some shows to catch up on for the week... The boys watched Kung Fu Panda twice today and Veggie Tales Lord of the Beans... Now they are back and forth on computer games and watching the Saturday Morning cartoons that I taped while we were having family breakfast time...
Tomorrow I work 6-2 I think, not sure as the schedule is never done when I leave on Fridays... Not as big an ad to set since I just set one up on Thursday... hopefully there is some coverage and I can finish catching up on the boxes and putting away the stockroom before we start getting the day after Thanksgiving shoe specials...
It is almost time for hubby to be home and I have a pile of laundry on the bed to put away and son3 is saying he is still hungry and son2 wants a turn on the Internet....
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