Raining...

The rain finally came in yesterday while I was driving home from work... By 9pm we had lightning and it rained all night through this morning til just about an hour ago the sun came out... there is a slight breeze with a high of 61 degrees...

The boys slept in til 10am this morning... Hubby was off to work before 7am and I have been off and on the computer ever since and it is now almost 1:30pm... A nice relaxing day off with no school for the boys... Son3 is playing zoo tycoon and son2 is unloading the dishwasher... He is hoping for a turn on the Internet while I am flying through the house getting all my chores done in one hour before hubby gets home, lol... I did put three pork tri tip roasts in the crock pot with a herb marinate... and the ham is now out of the freezer and thawing in the fridge so I can cook it on Saturday... I am also showered and dressed and I did a load of laundry... I was going to wash all the bedding but not enough laundry soap, oh darn... I even went outside for a bit and took pictures of the roses and clouds... All my email is cleared and I am all caught up on facebook... still need to catch up reading blogs but I have all day Saturday for that... and I'll be on vacation all next week for blogging time and spring cleaning... I just remembered I need to boil the eggs so we can color them on Friday.... And son1 text son2, something about taxes.... He better hurry and bring me his papers...

Work went really fast yesterday and yes, we were way busy with me all alone all morning... by time I went home at 5pm we had sold 96 pairs of shoes, mostly women's and kids for Easter... I was safely stocking Reebok in the athletic shoes, no one over there... then after lunch I opened boxes... I was going to do more stocking on Thursday and Friday but I think I will just open boxes both days since I will not be there all next week... Tomorrow I'll be alone in the morning again til the supervisor comes in and I can go to lunch...

Last night we watched Castle and Fringe... I don't even remember falling asleep... Son2 stayed up late watching Yes, Man with Jim Carey... I have the supervisor hooked on reading Twilight now, lol, she finished Twilight in a weekend and had to run right out and buy New Moon... She watched the movie like ten times already... She says it's all she can think about, just finishing the books... It's obsessive... lol... I said good, now you know how I felt for five weeks...

I'm off to clean the kitchen and clear the dining room table, put the laundry in the dryer, boil the eggs, straighten the family room and vacuum...

Happy Journaling...

Working...

It was 84 degrees here yesterday... I came home from work and turned on the air conditioner... Today it is only 67 with rain this afternoon and tonight... crazy weather...
Sunday was a quick day at work... Set the ad, lunch and open a few boxes and home by 1:30pm... So me and hubby went to Target to finish up shopping for the Easter Bunny... and to the grocery store for a few essentials and the fried chicken family pack from the deli... It was so good... I got all the April cards signed and sealed to go out in the mail on Monday... And we watched Stardust with the boys and then everyone was off to bed and hubby and I watched CSI which was the 200th episode and a weird one they picked plus it was mostly the new guy with everyone else just having a few seconds of screen time here and there...
Monday I was off to work 9-5pm... It was a long day... Not slow but I was working and working and working and it still wasn't time to go home... I stocked all the new styles of men's/women's work boots, that took all morning, back and forth from the stockroom to the sales floor... Went to lunch... Had planned to clear the hall of all the new boxes but just as I was half way done, they filled it back up with more... So cleared it back down by half and then it was finally time to go home...
Came home to find the yards all mowed and edged, sprinklers replaced and repaired, the boys playing computer games and hubby asleep on the couch... So I jumped on the computer for a few until hubby woke up and then we had left over chicken and watched half of Pirates of the Caribbean 3... Son2 went to bed to watch Twilight one more time before it goes back in the mail today and son3 went to bed watching Sinbad... And we were all asleep by 10pm...
Now I need to get the boys up and dressed and breakfast... Get a jump start on the dishes... and then another long day of work... Just me all morning til the supervisor comes in... We were not busy yesterday with all the kids out of school and Easter coming, so I hope they are not all waiting til this morning when I am all alone... My plan is to get all the men's and women's Reebok out, go to lunch and then back on opening boxes...
Wednesday is my day off!! Yay!!
Happy Journaling...

Thoughts...

The boys are on Spring Break for two weeks...

After this coming week I will be on vacation for a week...

Son2 is making a chocolate cake but having a little trouble...

The taxes are done...

I cleaned the master bathroom today...

Son2 still wants to tryout for cheerleading... The first meeting is April 23rd... The tryout clinic is April 29th... Tryouts are May 2nd... It's $1000 if he makes it...

We finally watched The Miracle Worker...

We are watching Twilight tonight...

I finally got the fixtures torn down at work, so I now have a new staging area for the receiving boxes instead of in the hallway...

With Mervyn's, Circuit City and Gothchalks closing, our sales have been good... A couple of weekend days we were 30% above our goal...

I have stopped taking St. John's Wort... I was having heart palpitations and they have since stopped...

Vitamin D makes one constipated... I only take it three times a week now instead of every day...

Hormones make women evil...

I have no patience for customer service...

Lent did not go well... I only wanted to let go of some control issues... To not tell the supervisor what to do or complain... To not remind hubby and the boys of every little thing for just forty days...

Hormones make women evil... did I say that already...

Hubby's work may be changing his schedule again back to 9-6pm... So I would go back to 7-3pm...

If I would have continued with crunches since last year... I was doing so well for three months... five months later, nothing...

I'm always cold... I'm never cold...

Weather is weird this year... Wind, rain, 70*, 80*, 60*...

Roses are blooming...

Laundry is almost done... need to wash all the bedding though...

Dishes are waiting...

April cards are waiting to be mailed...

Bills are waiting to be paid...

Taxes are done... I feel so relaxed now that they are done...

I'll be making a ham next Saturday for Easter...

We're going to the zoo on Easter... I wonder if son1 can come...

We're going to Monterey the Monday after Easter...

Sears is open for Easter day, that is why I take vacation...

I'm making chicken with veggies in onion soup mix with scalloped potatoes and broccoli rice for dinner tonight...

Happy Journaling...

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Roses are Blooming...

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I miss my journal...

Hello! I'm here... and I now have two days off!! Inventory is over!! I haven't heard yet how we did... On Tuesday at 4pm I finished opening the last box, phew... Except for setting the ads on Sundays, all I have been doing for the last two weeks is opening boxes and boxes of shoes... Wednesday was inventory in our department... I only worked 9-1pm as it is my usual day off as son3 gets out of school early... The inventory team started counting at 6am and were done with the sales floor and almost done with the stockroom by time I got there... that included our associates checking counts behind them... Our department was completely done before 10am... last year we finished about 11:30am... with more people counting... we were way more prepared this year... So I did my weekly scan of the floor for our display reports... Worked the exception sheets for inventory... and straightened the displays as we couldn't move anything or take out any stock... time went quick though, I was worried it would go slow, lol... Thursday it was just me in the morning again from 9-1pm as son3 had early day all this week for teacher conferences, he didn't have one... So I stocked work boots the entire time and still have a lot more to bring out... But that will have to wait til Monday, as Sunday is ad day, and start on the boxes that have now come in on my days off...

I finished reading all the Twilight books... I don't know why but that was very stressful, lol... I just wanted to get to the end and see what happened... It took up five weeks of my life, I couldn't move on til I finished... I have since started another book and it is nice and relaxing and Bentley Little is a bit warped and freaky... I will say that the fourth book of the series was the best and yes I like the ending... They all live happily forever and ever and ever and ever... Which I figured, it was the how I needed to know...


Son2 got a text from son1 last week... Nothing extensive just that he was working a part time job three nights a week repairing motorcycles in addition to his full time job at Cycle Gear... well probably not too full time as his hours are cut according to budget with the cut backs this year... So I'm assuming he and girlfriend are still together or living together out of necessity or he left her and is at a friend's... Don't know until he is ready to tell us...

Son2 turned in his papers for cheerleading and found out he is not the only guy trying out... He has a meeting on April 23rd and then try outs are May 2nd I think... He got a 50/50 on his Call of the Wild report and a 50/50 on his Romeo and Juliet report... He was also asked by his construction teacher to join the competing construction team, he felt really good about being asked but after thinking it over through the weekend, he told his teacher it wasn't something he was interested in...

Son3 did not have a teacher conference this week which is for students that are possibly failing, so I guess I will accept that he is going to the third grade... However the teacher asked hubby to see her before school on Monday as there were some state testing results that she wanted to share with us so we could work on it at home while studying... He got his progress report yesterday: Reading C, Language B-, Writing C, Spelling C+ and Math B...


And I even started the taxes! My goal is to be done before April 1st... Just one more week and the boys have two weeks off for spring break and just two more weeks and I have a week of vacation for Easter... We are open Easter day.... The Easter Bunny is not even ready with the boys baskets yet... Today the boys are off at school, hubby is off at work and I have a whole day just for me... I am on the second load of dishes in the dishwasher, the third load of laundry in the washer... I have my list ready but two days to get it done; ecards and cards for April holidays and bdays, water plants, fill the bird feeders, son3 needs a haircut badly, straighten up, clean up some of son3's toys that were left outside too long so I can put them back in his room, sprinkle snail treats, balance the checkbook, taxes, vacuum, Netflix movies: The Miracle Worker, Open Season 2 and High School Musical 3, make some teriyaki chicken for dinner, read journals and get sucked into Facebook several times a day.....

Happy Journaling...