November Fifteenth

 

I wasn’t able to post this last night so let’s see if blogger will let me post this morning…

Watching Brave with hubby and the boys…

Had leftover hamburger and pasta again…

I’m stuffed once again…

Hubby took son2 and son3 to school this morning…

Then hubby and I spent my last day of vacation going to Walmart to return his heater… bought another one of the heaters he did like, some pants for son3 who is getting too tall and the movie above…

We then picked the boys up from school… was a fast day…

Son3 had no homework so he got to play with his friend for an hour…

Although we still need to study for his geography test and his spelling test…

Then he is off for a whole week for Thanksgiving break… son2 still has school on Tuesday…

Indy Anna, son2’s arm petting her… she sits on top of her cat tree waiting for someone to pass in the hallway so she can swat them with her paw for not petting her…

I did take a stroll through the back yard today…

The pictures above are vines on the far side of the back yard that are all tangled with the neighbors vines on their side of the fence… and they are out of control going up into the tree…

Son2’s strawberries and watermelon vines still growing… and the pumpkins from Halloween…

This is the side of the yard I want to cut back… to the right is the lemon tree… straight ahead are two rose bushes with a vine behind them… to the right is a purple flowered vine that is out of control…

That’s the big out of control vine with purple flowers… it’s also where I saw the humming bird… in the winter all the leaves will fall off and it will just be bare branches… so then hopefully hubby will be willing to chop it way back so it can come back better in the spring…

That’s the wisteria under the Crepe Myrtle tree to the left of the purple flower vine… All of these go over the fence into the neighbor’s yard… I want to cut the wisteria back and see if we can move it to the side of the back yard that looks over the street so then we can let it grow as much as it wants over our fence…

All the iris are coming back and growing again including the ones in the front yard… not many blooms this past spring though…

These mini rose bushes would have been trimmed back months ago but I discovered a whole bunch of baby praying mantis living in them… I’m sure they are all grown up by now so these will be trimmed back too…

Lots of leaves falling all over the back yard… with lots more still left to fall…

The mother of the kittens who lives across the street… she and Miss Holly were telling each other what for…

Lots more leaves…

The purple tree/bush that we are probably going to remove and replace with a rose bush…

The Mum kitty next to the alysium that recently came back…

Son2’s blackberry bush…

Son2’s pineapple…

Son2’s mandarin orange tree…

More leaves to fall…

 

 

Maple Lee in the backyard…

Finished the movie… studying with son3…

Back to work tomorrow… I’m ready but not… ready though cause next week is Black Friday and it feels very wrong not being at work getting ready…

Supposed to rain tonight, we’ll see…

Today

 

Mostly Cloudy 73° Precip 20%

Tonight

 

Scattered Showers 52° Precip 30%

Tomorrow

 

Showers 64° Precip 60%

Happy Journaling…

Roses and Clouds

 

A few things still blooming in my yard…

And a few clouds as we may have some rain…

Happy Journaling…

November Fourteenth

 

Today hubby and I were up and out the door to take son3 to school so we could go to the grocery store… it was a quick shop and we were back home in an hour including time to take son3 to school… why can’t all grocery shops be that quick…

And then what did I do…

I can’t remember…

I’m sure I was on the laptop, oh yes, I read some blogs…

I sorted through another paper pile of old instruction manuals…

I did the dishes and washed the counters…

I put in a load of laundry…

I threw away the rugs in the kitchen… actually they are bath mats, but I like them in the kitchen as the rubber bottoms stop them from slipping… however too many washes and the rubber bottoms are disintegrating and causing a big mess so in the garbage they went…

I sorted through some old posters that had come out of a closet with all the room moving… the two graphics I’m using today are two of the posters… the bear used to hang in my room in teenage years and the duck hung over my desk at work in the bay area… I took a picture of them and cropped them into graphics… and now the bear poster is going to Goodwill and son2 took the attitude poster… hubby had some posters we cleaned out too…

I had called my friend this morning to ask about making the schedule today and she called me back when she got into work… so off to work I went from 2-4pm to make the schedule for Thanksgiving week… I’m sure there will be changes plus I still don’t know my schedule for the whole week yet…

They also asked if I could come back to work on Friday so I can discuss schedules and putting a register temporarily in the department for Black Friday… I had a feeling I would be back to work on Friday… but at least I don’t have to close…

I also saw a humming bird in the back yard while I was on the phone with my friend…

Then when I came home from work sons3 was doing homework…

and Hubby was perplexed over a box that came in the mail… it was his heater he ordered but didn’t look like the picture of the one online… the description matched so I think someone put the wrong picture on the website… I was more concerned that it cost 12 dollars more then the little one that he bought the other day to use until the big one came… and the big one is the same size as the little one… so tomorrow we will be returning the one that came in the mail to Walmart… the one we have been using has been heating the family room just fine…

Dinner is finally ready… More on that after dinner…

Dinner was yummy…

Hubby and I were hamburged out after the last two nights, we aren’t used to eating beef, so tonight we had some pasta with marinara sauce and a green salad… and bread and butter…

Hubby is now fixing me a piece of chocolate cake with whipped cream…

I so need to quit eating…

I’ve gained ever so many pounds on vacation since last week…

I know I will drop some once I get back to work… but I want to lose even more… and that will only happen if I quit eating… I will work on that tomorrow…

Boys are getting ready for school and bed…

Hubby and I have DVR shows to watch… How I Met Your Mother, Raising Hope, Ghost Adventures, Beyond Belief, The Mentalist…

 

 

Today

 

 Mostly Sunny 72°

Tonight

 

Partly Cloudy 42°

Tomorrow

 

Partly Cloudy 74° Precip 20%

Happy Journaling…

November Thirteenth

 

Today hubby and I spent the day at home…

He did take son2 to college and son3 to school…

He spent time on the computer applying for jobs…

I spent part of yesterday and most of this morning cleaning up all the blogs I follow… I deleted over a hundred that either didn’t exist, went private or hadn’t updated in over eight months… A few more may go if no new updates appear as some haven’t updated in almost six months… At first I felt guilty as most were friends from JLand… but I see them at Facebook… Then I realized maybe that is one reason I haven’t been posting as I needed to start my blog anew and dust off the old… I’ve also discovered I do have time to read blogs as barely a handful blog regularly…

My next step may be to clean up Facebook… A lot of friends I accepted for playing games however I don’t play games anymore so I’d like to unfriend them so I can concentrate on the friends I do know… but then I feel rude unfriending someone… so we’ll see…

I cleaned both bathrooms, washed the floors, vacuumed and did a load of laundry today…

Doing homework with son3 now…

He’s on the last page… He had 22 math problems, five English/language papers, two history pages and a geography page… it took him ninety minutes tonight… not too bad… I did coax him along though… not all of it's due tomorrow but now it’s done… he also has six reading workbook pages and two science pages that we haven’t done yet that are due later in the week…

We’re having leftover hamburgers for dinner… mmmmmmmm… Son3 picked pizza instead… son2 is still at college tonight…

Tomorrow hubby wants to go to the grocery store again to finish up Thanksgiving dinner…

I need to go to work tomorrow to see about making next week’s schedule… hopefully someone is there with a clue on how we are scheduling Thanksgiving night/Black Friday… we are open from 8pm on Thanksgiving all the way through Black Friday… that will be an interesting schedule to make… hopefully at least the staff schedule is made so I’ll know what days I work and what times at least…

What’s on the DVR tonight… 2 Broke Girls, How I Met Your Mother, Hawaii Five O, Ghost Adventures, Joyce Meyer… We watched Bones and Mike & Molly last night…

Below the weather is an article from AOL from this morning on lunar and solar eclipses occurring this month… I’m the Gemini and Hubby is the Cancer… Click on the link to check on how the eclipses effect your horoscope…

 

Today

 

 Sunny 68°

Tonight

 

Mostly Clear 42°

Tomorrow

Partly Cloudy 71°

 

How the Solar and Lunar Eclipse Affect Your Life

Powerful Celestial Events Might Bring Big Changes

By Kelli Fox, The Astrologer and Lifescript Horoscope Expert

Published November 07, 2012

Solar and Lunar Eclipse forecast for Gemini (May 21 – June 20)
Both the Solar and Lunar Eclipses are powerful triggers for you, Gemini. The Solar Eclipse falls in your sector of diet and fitness, so over the coming months put a new health plan into action. This time will be different as the influence of this eclipse is all about long-term success.

 
The Lunar Eclipse is in your sign of Gemini, which means a change to your appearance or how others perceive you will be inevitable. Your effect on people over the coming months will be powerful. Overall, the influence of these intense eclipses is one of personal transition.

 
Solar and Lunar Eclipse forecast for Cancer (June 21 – July 22)
Lucky Crab! The Solar Eclipse triggers your sector of romance and recreation, which means there's a promise of good times. Taking a risk or a gamble may pay off in spades. If single, this will be a time to settle into a long-term relationship. For coupled Crabs, this celestial energy is all about combining romance and intimacy.

 
Around the time of the Lunar Eclipse, your dreams may be vivid while your intuition is strong. Finding a balance between the details and big picture will play an important role over the coming months.

To see your sign and how the eclipse will effect you, click here<<<

Happy Journaling…

November Twelfth

 

Today

 

Partly Cloudy 64°

Tonight

 

Clear 39°

Tomorrow

Sunny 68°

No time for blogging yesterday as I had to work from 2-10pm… Special 6-9pm Friends and Family event, everyone’s invited… extra 10-15% off most everything… I felt it could have been busier but we had a good day…

Now I’m on another mandatory five days of vacation…

Today went by fast… we all slept in… boys were out of school today…

Hubby and I went to Target and Walgreens, hubby had already checked Wal-Mart yesterday looking for this shampoo that I had got him last Christmas… Ended up not finding it at the stores but able to order it online at Wal-Mart… so got two bottles and some work pants for me…

We did find a couple of Christmas ornaments for son1 and DIL… and some pumpkin bread mix and the turkey for Thanksgiving at Target…

Hubby made his famous burgers for dinner and I made potato salad… plus french fries, onion rings and baked beans… we are so stuffed…

 

 

We watched the Tenth Anniversary Special Reunion of Firefly…

The show was canceled in it’s first season but went on to make a movie called Serenity with the same characters…

We own the first and only season on DVD…

We love this show…

Nathan Fillion is now on Castle…

Son3 is in the shower, back to school tomorrow…

Son2 has classes tomorrow too and was working on homework most of today and part of yesterday… He had to write a 750-1000 word paper on the Cuban Missile Crisis… I’m sure he knew about it before now but it’s much better to save homework to the last minute… Right… He’s waiting for me to finish this entry so he can use my laptop to hook to the printer to print it out…

We’ve finally adjusted to the time change part of the time change of getting up and going to sleep, but this so dark so early is a bit of a shock… It seems like it’s 9pm at 6pm but it’s just really dark out… I need to turn on more lights but I don’t want to waste electricity…

I’m off to get son3’s backpack ready for school and put some laundry away…

A nice quiet day today…

Happy Journaling…