Ahhhhh it's Saturday... and I have a chore list a mile long, lol.... and yet here I sit... I have been deleting pictures from AOL photos and photobucket, cleaning everything up for a new start... no need to save them for the journal that will soon be gone since I have them all saved on CD's... I have such mixed feelings though... It's sad deleting everything but I knew I did not want to migrate, besides there is no way all the pictures on my journal would have migrated and my entries won't make sense without all the pictures to refer too.... The main entries I will miss are all the photo scavenger hunt entries, lol... but then if it wouldn't have been for all the themes and entries to be written I would not have all the photos and memories to look back on in my photo cd's.... and with all the entries that were written and the loading and reloading of pictures into the journal the all the better to remember what each photo was, lol.... So I'm looking forward to the clean slate of all the new photo challenges and entries that are created not just cause life happens but cause if we 'did this' it would make a good journal entry, lol...
And yesterday the whole four hours wasn't spent just working with making slide shows but I was shopping.... I was over at Current Catalog, shopping for goodies for the trick or treaters and then to DoubleDay for new books for Christmas... Tomorrow we are going to start building the grave decorations for the front yard for Halloween and start putting out a few decorations... It has been way windy the last few days, which I was thinking it usually is this time of year cause just when everyone starts decorating for Halloween the wind comes and blows it all down.... Our temps have been so nice in the 70's but we will be back to 85 by Wednesday.... It was nice weather for the fair, I even wore long sleeves thinking fall thoughts... We got there about noon and started working our way to the food stopping at exhibits as we went... The Jr exhibit, SPCA, the Gem exhibit, then lunch, the advertising/business exhibits, agricultural exhibit, horticultural exhibit, waterfall, pirate ship and fort and then on to the animals... By 5pm I was pooped, so we headed home and had banana splits for dinner since we were still full from lunch, lol...
Did you notice the fried foods... would you or have you tried... poptarts, oreos, spam, frog legs, avocados, veggies, zucchini, twinkies.... I always have the zucchini and I would definitely try the veggies and probably the spam and even the frog legs before I would try the poptarts or oreos.... can we say heart attack......... 
Ok I'm getting the hang of putting in the pictures and dragging them, just have to do them one at a time as you write each paragraph... of course we all know that I am far from a one picture at a time kind of person, lol.... So lets see what have we been up to this week... I have barely been working with the supervisor but one day a week as we have no hours but it has been better cause I get so much more done as we are not talking... some management changes coming up again in the next month or so, not the supervisor but her boss... Still haven't heard from son1, don't know what's up... Son2 has been showing his teen horns lately... so grumpy and no patience for son3... Son2 has been wanting to go to the football games, paintball, friends house... I'm all for him going out, gives us a break from the grumpiness, lol, but he doesn't get all the information until it is too late to go... So we're working on his communication skills.... Son3 has been getting in trouble again... twice this past week, once in class and then in after school care... it's not so much the getting in trouble, just boy stuff of goofing around but the shutting down and refusing to come or go to punishment when the teacher tells him... puts fingers in his ears or turns his back on teacher... and we are learning it's not just the zero tolerance that the teachers are dealing with but the fact that their hands are tied when it comes to discipline too... can't be politically correct on discipline and expect zero tolerance... so hubby and I are still figuring all this new school politics out... so different from when son2 and son1 went to school... of course the school or teachers don't come straight out and say their hands are tied, just what we are seeing... I did however make a mistake when talking to the daycare teacher when I said son3 does not act like this at home and why he is pushing the teachers on defiance... cause hubby pointed out that son2 acts that way with us so that is where son3 is getting it... cause no matter what we ask son2 to do, he takes his time about it or just forgets.... so even though son3 is grounded again from video games, both boys are in trouble for rudeness and inappropriate behavior to adults....
Wow this is the most relaxed I have felt all week, lol... Actual time to just write.... I just wish I had more time than just once a week... As soon as I get caught up with all the new blogs to read then I might just feel organized... Of course all the new fall shows to watch, take up time... So far we are watching: Terminator TSCC, Fringe, Bones, Criminal Minds, CSI NY, Smallville, Supernatural, CSI, Ghost Whisperer and Numbers.... And then whatever comes from Netflix... We have the original Lost Boys to watch now and Don't Mess with the Zohan comes today and a Goosebumps for the boys... Plus homework, although son3 is doing good with homework and son2 never has homework although he is reading The Hobbit for a book report and he just finished a report on Edgar Allen Poe that he got a 48/50... His goal, not ours, this year is to get a 4.0... His progress report just came and it was 3.57; 5 A's and 4 B's... I haven't had any time for yard work or taking pictures... The pictures in Not Just Roses are from last month that I am just now putting in.... I need to do some serious house cleaning like dusting and bathrooms.... Son3 wants to make cakes, brownies and a cake today... He and son2 are watching the original Terminator movies today... Plus I want to cook some dinners for the week... So I best get busy with some chores, dishes, laundry and catching up all the reading of everyone's new blogs all before hubby gets home from work... I just work in the morning tomorrow to set the ad and then home to decorate for Halloween....
Happy Journaling...
Is it wrong that I am loving this new blog... I am just keeping it simple at the moment, waiting til the journals are gone and then I'll have more time to play with all these template choices.... I am so curious how some have different wallpaper backgrounds that I have been seeing around... It is so nice to have everything right on the blog or just a click away in dashboard... and I have not had more than twenty emails, lol.... the alerts were very stressful to me, lol... now right on my blog if I follow the blog then it tells me when they last updated.... I am concerned about how much room we have for photos though... it says we only are allowed 1024mb and I have already used 3mb between this blog and my photo blog.... I like clicking on as a follower in others blogs, I'm hoping not to be such a lurker, lol... so even if I don't comment, they know I am there reading.... So far I am up to 51 blogs though, lol... but then I had over 125 set to alerts in jland...
