Another Week Gone By...

Do you know it is May already... Where is this year going... Six weeks from today the boys will be on summer vacation... and I will be on vacation... It will be here before we know it... I don't mind the working 9-5pm but it sure makes for not much time to get things done outside of work... however hubby has been lacking on his end with working 7-3pm... sure he gets homework done, but that is it... this past week I had to stay til 5:30, that I don't like, and dinner has not been ready, lol... nor any chores by him or son2... I have been getting dishes and laundry done in the morning before I leave... we are still working on a new routine... plus even though we spend a lot of time watching tv and clicking through facebook... we haven't had any actual down time... It's go go go, with work, school, keeping up with shows and computer addictions... and we don't have a day where we are all off on the same day, so one of us is always in work mode...

I have been going all week at work... keeping up on all the boxes coming in and stocking the floor... supervisor was gone all week at another store... she came back on Friday and I crashed, spent the day getting nothing done but talking... I was due... we had a new associate start, work two days, have two days off and not come back... sheesh... heard several reasons, not sure which one was true from; too hard of work, not enough money, family emergency, got another job... however she didn't quit, just never came back...

Been doing a lot of day dreaming this past week... was my sentimental week of the month... week before was my grumpy week... now I'm climbing back up to my one some what happy week... lol... a lot of plans in my head for self improvement, just need to implement them, but it's so hard to step out of routine, especially when it's go go go all the time, to switch gears on a new routine... some I feel I have my head wrapped around though toward maybe implementing... reaching a new time in my life... I'll be 45 in six weeks... time to shake things up, nothing big, just lots of little... I told son2 that I wanted the lesson of him not doing cheerleading to be us all getting our buttes back in gear... we've become hermits as of late with all the working and school... I had said no vacation this year with keeping an eye on the economy but now I'm thinking maybe a weekend in June back to Monterey to the hotel on the beach... and maybe a weekend in July to Legoland for son3's bday... buy those are easy goals, it's the every day changes that pass my by while I sit on the computer and time flies... need enough day to work, have computer time, clean, organize, relax, hobbies, family, me... I think part of it is I see it all done in my head but can't seem to get it done for real, lol... but then when I do start something, it only stays done til the next day and then I start all over again, never getting to not everything on my list but everything that should get done in a day...


Today was the cheerleader try outs... son2's 'girl' friend made the team and she said another guy also... actually it is competition cheer and she also said 23 people made the team... of course we were not there, since we decided we are not a cheerleading family... Son2 seems to be taking it ok now... he was researching keyboards earlier and wants to change his elective for next year to piano... he and son3 just finished watching Ghostbusters... now they have started Ghostbusters 2... they are still in pjs and hubby will be home any minute... I was up early with hubby, spent a while on facebook, checked my email, showered, fed son3, trimmed the roses, took some pictures of the roses, ate lunch while I read some of my Nora Roberts book: Born in Fire, watched Ghost Whisperer from last night, made all the bday and holidays cards for May, just remembered I started a load of laundry that has been done for a while, posted pictures of roses on Facebook and http://notjustroses.blogspot.com/ and here I am doing an entry... Going to make scrambled eggs and sausage dogs for dinner and we have The Day the Earth Stood Still with Keneau Reeves to watch... Harper's Island comes on tonight instead of last Thursday and then I will be asleep.... Tomorrow I only work 6am-12:45 cause when I get home we are going to see Wolverine... I can't wait!!



Happy Journaling...

A whole week already...

Last Sunday was back to work and now here we are a whole week later... Sunday I went to work, 6am-2pm... It was an easy ad set, stocked the sale tables, went to lunch and opened boxes... Came home, don't remember what we had for dinner, hmmmm, we watched the second Harry Potter... We are watching them again getting ready for the new movie coming out this year... and then it was get the boys to bed as they were back to school on Monday...

Monday was hubby's day off... we were all up early... son2 called us from the bus stop that son1 had text him asking to do laundry after work... hubby said yes... I said what time is after work... I got son3 off to school and went off to work myself, 9:30-4:30... I just opened boxes all day getting caught up from when I was on vacation... I got home at 5, hubby and son3 were still doing homework... Monday's spelling words: stood, nervous, dangerous, simple, laughing... Hubby had put a lasagna in the oven... I told son2 to text son1 that the lasagna would be done at 6pm and what time was after work... son1 text back that he was getting off in fifteen minutes and would be over by 6pm... We ate at 6:30pm, son1 arrived at 7pm... he was having a bad day... woke in the morning at 6am to his car alarm going off, his car was being towed, since it was too close to a fire hydrant but everyone parks there... so pay the tow driver and get his car off the truck... After leaving work he got a fix it ticket since the officer felt his muffler was too load, yes he has it modified to his liking, however he said he had been stopped before and that officer had checked everything and found it to be legal, so don't know why this officer disagreed... he then went home to take a shower and get his laundry and then to our house... also found out he quit his job on Friday with no notice to employer and took a full time job with his part time job with more pay... so he was coming from his new job in the next city over... asked how and he and girlfriend were doing... mumbled answer... he only had three loads of laundry to do but the dryer was still running at midnight... son3 had been asleep for hours, son2 refused to go to bed til his brother left, hubby was falling asleep on the couch, son1 was asleep on the couch... I finally sent hubby and son2 to bed and told son1 just to spend the night... he had to let girlfriend know... and then I went to bed....

Tuesday morning I'm up with hubby, get him and son2 off to work and school, get me ready for work, get son3 up, fed and dressed for school and then finally get son1 up twenty minutes before we have to leave... he has breakfast, finishes his laundry from the dryer and we are all out the door at 8:20am... He gets a call from one of his new co workers that they need a ride, they live all the way in the foothills... He had to be at work at 10am... Hope he made it on time... I work from 9:30am-4:30pm... Finish opening all the boxes and stock women's athletics... I get home at 5pm, hubby is still doing homework... spelling words: wrote, delightful, answer, traveled, interesting... We have left over lasagna for dinner and watch Castle, Reaper and Fringe... and go to bed early...

Wednesday is my day off... Get everyone off to work and school and spend the morning on the computer... It was about 96 degrees that day... I did not even wanna cook dinner so I sent hubby to Taco Bell when he got home... It was my day to do homework and we were done before hubby got home... Spelling words: Dodgers, Broncos, Forty Niners, Falcons, C.S.U. Fresno Bulldogs, White Sox... We had to make sentences with these words... they are not even allowed to wear team shirts to school... What the heck kind of spelling words are these... We watched The Secret of the Magic Gourd... had a good lesson in the movie but was a Japanese movie adapted by Disney with dubbed English... Boys to bed and hubby and I watched Criminal Minds...

Thursday got hubby and son2 off to work and school, got me ready for work and son3 off to school... I worked 9am-5pm... I scanned the reports for mens and athletic shoes, stocked the shoe accessories, opened all the boxes that came in on Wednesday, went to lunch and rearranged the stockroom... Got home at 5:45pm, homework was done and son2 was sulking in a chair from he and hubby having a heated discussion about cheerleading... Thursday was the information meeting to get the DVD of the routine for tryouts... Hubby did not take him... Son2 is not accepting our no cheerleading and desperately trying to persuade us to yes but not listening to our reasoning nor showing us the requirements that we requested of him to show that he really wants to do cheerleading, not just 'wanting' and 'it would be fun'... I thought he had calmed down so I asked a question that got he and I in a heated discussion, then we had Easter egg salad sandwiches, soup and cheese pizza for dinner and watched Smallville and Supernatural...

Friday off to work and school... Do you see a pattern here... I worked 9am-5pm... I stocked and stocked all day long between men's boots and athletics and then toward the end of the day organized the stockroom a bit more... no new boxes had come to open yet... we are caught up... Got home at 5:30pm, egg salad sandwiches again... and we watched Bones, CSI, Harper's Island... recorded Ghost Whisperer, Dollhouse and Numbers... and went to bed early...

Today is Saturday... Hubby went in late today... So we got to sleep in til 8am.... I made scrambled eggs, kielbasa and muffins... Then we made the mistake of bringing up cheerleading again and then that went back and forth between upset and discussion for three hours til hubby had to go to work... But I think we may have made some breakthroughs with son2... some actual understanding on his part... of why we are saying no, there are a ton of reasons... but that he wants us to understand that he is not going to let it go... fine, but we need to see the desire and not just the want... So got hubby off to work at noon, son3 on his games and me in the shower... son2 had three invitations from three friends today and was getting the details so he could make a plan... He decided not to go to a bday party, we said it was not in his best interest to be the third wheel and go out with his two friends that are dating, so he opted for the first invite and is spending the night at his friend A's... of course that was not til 4pm... So I did a couple of quick chores and started watching The Secret Life of Bees with son2 while he is waiting for it to be time to take him... It is now 6:15pm, hubby will be home soon and I have gotten nothing done today... and I work about 40hrs next week... I just can't seem to balance my time between work, home, boys, computer, TV and me... Is that too much, lol... of course if I gave up computer, TV and eating... the house would be immaculate and I would be skinny... no....
Happy Journaling...

Friday on Vacation already...

Yesterday got away from me and all my bragging of being ahead of the day and the computer working were for naught... It was 1pm by time I got done with everything on the computer with all the loading and cranking it is doing while loading each thing... Hubby says I need more memory but I also think that the computer does a lot of stuff without my permission and I haven't completely figured out how to tell it to quit it...

But I am all caught up with reading about everyone and I feel good about that... I ignored the dishes yesterday and we had leftovers for dinner... I did finish paying all the bills and the checkbook is balanced once again... and son2 and I watched a couple of Emergency episodes...

Son2 is thinking he now wants to be a firefighter when he grows up... He was researching it online for a while yesterday... The city college in Fresno even offers a program for EMT/Paramedic... but he is thinking of just fireman... Did you know firemen only work 8 days a month, a 24 hour day with two days off in between... they make between $55000-$70000 a year and most have a second job since they have all those days off in between... Hubby says can we just get through high school... lol...

I did get a bit grumpy yesterday thinking of only two days til back to work... ssshhhhh... I'm not grumpy cause I did nothing on vacation, so that's a good thing... I did eat too much on vacation so now I'm thinking it's a good thing to go to work and not be near the food... I put the Easter candy away yesterday as son2 and I have each finished off a bag of jelly beans... So my chocolate Easter bunnies are safely hidden away in my room for an emergency... and the rest is in the pantry for the boys to forget about along with all the candy from holidays past... and that is why at Halloween and you get Easter and Christmas candy, it is called Trick or Treat...

We keep hearing thumps in the house of things falling... twice we did discover that it was something in son2's room that had fallen... but on Wednesday we heard a thud and couldn't figure out where it came from... I noticed in the yard a whole bunch of feathers and thought oh no, Holly got a bird, but we couldn't find a body... but then we realized a bird had hit the window and that was the thud and he ricocheted into the rosebush losing a bunch of feathers and hopefully flying off with just a headache.... But then yesterday Holly really did get a bird... Took out a bird feeder and a large branch off a rosebush in her accomplishment... Poor little birdie... I see his friends out there now, and Holly is out there some where too being all proud of herself...

Well I am off to get dressed and showered at only 10:20 in the morning and watch Fireproof since no one has wanted to watch any of my movies with me this week... I put in Life of Brian for hubby last night when he grumbled about watching Fireproof, so I went back on the computer... I also want to watch Twilight today and then all the other movies I had planned on watching will just have to wait til other days off... We did watch Bones and CSI last night and I watched Harper's Island while hubby was snoring...

The boys are off on their games... I told son3 he has to read his two library books today and tomorrow... such torture...

Happy Journaling...

Thursday on Vacation...

I'm so clever... Maybe... Yesterday I spent most of the morning at war with the computer... I have always had AOL and paid for it until the last six months or so it is now free... Everything is in my AOL screen name... However a couple of years ago when we got DSL it came through SBC although the ad was through AOL... I have tried using SBC mail, but I like AOL best... Since now getting AOL for free or maybe just a coincidence and my computer is getting old, everything keeps freezing up when I am on AOL, so I tried going online through SBC, same thing, web sites constantly freezing up the whole computer... A while back I even updated Internet Explorer to have the AOL toolbar but I couldn't do a blog entry on internet explorer so kept going back to AOL... Well anyway.... yesterday I was reading blogs on AOL and when I would close out of the blog I was reading the computer would default to internet explorer, yes I have internet explorer as my default as it is labeled Blank, but this has never happened before, and then the whole computer would freeze up with internet explorer trying to open the blog and a hundred blank tabs... So finally I said fine I will try using internet explorer again... So far I love it! I don't have to wait for AOL to load... my AOL mail is on the toolbar to check, along with Facebook, Blogger and a few of my other favorite websites... and I figured out how to close tabs without accidentally closing internet explorer every time I closed something... and the best part I figured how to do a blog entry with pictures.... just turn off the pop up blocker and ta da, allows me to do an entry with pictures.... I'm happy... :)

It has been so windy here the last couple of days... and I'm freezing... I had the heater on yesterday and I just turned it on now... Yesterday was only 60 degrees here in Fresno and today will get to 68, Friday 78 and Saturday 86, finally... but are you ready for summer cause Sunday and Monday it will be 93 degrees... That's the Spring weather we are used to in Fresno, lol...

It is 9:30am, I've been up since 6:30am when hubby left for work... The boys are still sleeping in the family room, they camped out there last night watching Transformers... I'm munching on shredded wheat wondering if I'll get anything done today on vacation... So far this has been a very lazy vacation...

Yesterday in between fighting with the computer and refereeing the boys who are just about done with vacation and ready to go back to school... I cut up the bit of ham that was left and threw that along with the bone in a pot of pinto beans and let it simmer all day... We had it over rice with catsup and garlic salt, mmmmmm.... Hubby went to the store for milk and brought home a roasted chicken that we also munched on with a cheese pizza for son3 and some chicken strips... We watched The Tale of Despereaux... It was very cute! Son2 and I also during the day watched about four episodes of Emergency... I shredded some old files from the file cabinet and filed a pile that was building... did a bit of laundry and a bit of dishes... We watched Bones, it is on twice this week and hubby and I watched Criminal Minds and taped CSI NY... I also got caught up on reading journals... Other than that is was a pretty fast day...

The boys are starting to get movied and video gamed out on vacation... I can't get either of them to read any books... nor any interest in the paint sets they got for Christmas... They haven't gone any where as they have barely gotten showered or dressed, lol... Oh well we will be hopping once again next week once we are back to school and work... I was hoping to at least get the kitchen and bathrooms cleaned beyond the usual basics of upkeep but not there yet... and the checkbook balanced... and work in the yard a bit... and watch some of my movies... and write out an outline of all the things I would like to accomplish the rest of the year... for example I wanted to clean out one drawer a week since January... Here we are on week fifteen of the year and I've done two drawers... my sock drawer and son3's sock drawer... Well, still three days of vacation left... miracles happen... I'm off to check on journals... one more click on facebook and then showered and dressed and I'm ahead of the day....

Happy Journaling...

Tuesday on Vacation...

My fourth day of vacation... Hubby is off to work and I have been on the computer all morning... But I've done some dishes, laundry, fed the boys, fed me, showered and dressed... The boys are on their eleventh day of vacation... They've video/computer games a bit but mostly they have been watching movies... They are watching Meet the Robinsons right now...

We had a good Easter on Sunday... We were up early, had blueberry/chocolate chip muffins for breakfast with chocolate milk... Opened our baskets... Too much candy, lots of movies, new shirts for the boys... Showered and dressed and we were off to the zoo... We got there about 11am... Our zoo is in a park and I wanted to get there as early as possible as everyone and their Easter egg BBQ's would be there... We were lucky and found a parking spot right by the zoo... It wasn't too busy at the zoo but more people than I thought for an Easter day... We were there almost three hours, see slide show in previous entry, and when we left they already had the parking full signs up and only allowing people to walk into the park... Once home we watched Tin Man and ate ham, mashed potatoes, green beans, baked beans and green salad.... Son2 texted son1 to see if he was still coming over after work and he did about 5:30pm... Of course he brought his tax papers, so we got that done and in the mail on Monday... Son1 stayed til about 8:30pm and then he was off as he had to stop at the grocery store... We still didn't get many answers to our questions... He is still working two jobs, spending tons of time with friend A, still has both his dogs, 'working on things with girlfriend', wants to buy friend A's truck and rebuild the engine, friend A is buying a new truck, son1 wants to sell his perfectly running car, use the money to pay off friend who lent him the money to buy the car that he hasn't paid yet... He then called again on Monday to ask how to cook sausage dogs...
After son1 left we got the boys settled, put in A Haunting in Georgia, which was more of a documentary based on a true story then a scary movie, I finished watching it while hubby was sleeping... Then I finally went to sleep at 11:30pm...
Monday we didn't get to Monterey like we wanted as we were pooped from all our Easter adventures... We're pathetic... We were up early, had scrambled eggs for breakfast and proceeded to lecture to son2 for four hours to make up for all the Saturday morning family time we have been missing since hubby goes into work early now... A bit of the time was talking about how son2 changes everything we say to fit the moment and not the rules... To the point that after talking to son2 for a while we forget what we originally were talking about... Then the next three hours were spent talking son2 out of cheerleading... We went rounds and rounds of trying to compromise, show him different views, have him show us what he expected from cheerleading, which he couldn't, he wants to do it cause it looks like fun, when we ask him if he would still do it if friend girl wasn't in it, he says maybe, we latched onto that for a while, but then went rounds and rounds again trying to get him to choose other things he wants to do, like track and leadership class, finally it clicked to him that we were saying no to cheerleading and he snapped and got mad, things got ugly, we said straight out no and he slammed off to his room... Twenty minutes later he was watching a movie with son3 and laughing... I was still mad... well disappointed cause I don't want to say no to him and it seems we say no to a lot but he asks for big things... we want him to compromise and pick a few little things or a couple of medium things... to me cheerleading seems like a huge big thing that lasts for the whole year... where track for example would just be for a few months... hubby told him to continue to prepare for cheerleading and then maybe if he is still serious about it then when he is a junior or senior... son2 wants to just try out and if he doesn't make it then that will be the decision, I'm afraid he will get picked cause he is the only guy... Last night he was texting friend girl and finding out more information and asking me if he could still talk to the person in charge and get more information about criteria for a guy and we said yes but then I'm afraid in his mind we have said yes to cheerleading again... I told hubby, he said no, I said well then you better talk to him and remind him that it's still no.....

Meanwhile son3 is in vacation heaven, barely showering or getting dressed, playing games, watching movies, tells me he loves me, I remind him we need to read books, he says no, lol.... every so often he will go in the backyard to get some air....

Today I am in computer heaven with plans of catching up on blogs... In between laundry, dishes, cleaning the kitchen... Movies I have to watch: Australia, Fireproof, War of the Roses, Passion of the Christ, and shows: Castle, Reaper, Fringe, Bones is on twice this week, CSI and I'm not sure if I like the Harper's Island and a whole bunch of Emergency episodes....

The boys are done with their movie and are now fighting over who gets which computer and game... sheesh.......

Happy Journaling...

A-Z Photo Challenge Z

Make a Smilebox slideshow

A Trip to the ZOO!

To Play Visit Martha at Menagerie...

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Easter Morning...

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Coloring Easter Eggs...

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April Flowers

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Roses

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FRIDAY!

It's Friday! I am counting down the minutes til 3pm and I start vacation... Yesterday went so fast at work, I couldn't believe it... I scanned the floor for the reports for men's shoes and athletic shoes... and then I stocked the Wolverine work boots... Spent two hours and forty five minutes opening boxes til I pulled myself away to go to lunch at 2:15.... Came back and opened boxes til 5pm when it was time to go home... I could have kept going, I was on a roll, and I still have over a weeks worth to open... It was not even busy with customers til about 11am... I'm hoping today everyone is leaving on their long weekend, so I can get lots more boxes opened, as it is just me and supervisor all day today...
Then when we get home today we are coloring Easter eggs...
Son2 watched Quarantine yesterday, bad movie, so going back in the mail without hubby and I having to watch it... We tried to watch My Name is Bruce, a spoof on Evil Dead and Bruce Campbell... I was expecting bad, but we like Bruce Campbell but it was way badder then I thought it would be, so we fast forwarded through most of it... Watched CSI NY, Bones, and CSI and then we were all asleep... I still need to watch Yes, Man with son2 and we have A Haunting in Georgia to watch, hopefully it will be a good scary movie... Can't find any good scary movies anymore...
Now I am off to get ready for work and get the boys up and moving and start the dishwasher...
Happy Journaling...

Thursday...

I so look forward to Wednesday with all my plans of my day off and then I get to Wednesday evening and get grumpy.... grrrr... lol... I just have to get through this morning at work and then I think this afternoon and tomorrow will go quick... Friday I get off at 3pm and then I am on vacation for a week... Yay.... but then that will really go quick...
I sent son1 three text messages about his taxes and Easter but he never answered back... I can't help him with his taxes if he won't talk to me... and the only day I really have to do them is Saturday, as I am at work Thursday and Friday, Sunday is Easter, Monday we are going to the beach and Tuesday they need to be in the mail... So who knows what he is thinking...
Son2 is grumpy and bored on his spring break... I don't get why he only sees his friends at school... or that he has a whole room full of stuff but he rather bicker with son3 all day... and I am getting grumpy with him over this cheerleading thing... I don't want to make it about the money and say no, I want him to see that he is not qualified and not try out... I only signed the paper cause I didn't think he would make it since he doesn't have any gymnastic skills but then he is a guy trying out and who knows what the qualifications are... he was looking online yesterday on how to do a front flip... shouldn't you know how to do a cartwheel or handstand at least... poor son2, I don't want to be rude to him but can't he find something else that he likes to do... maybe I should bribe him with cable TV, that would be cheaper... bad mom.....
Son3 is loving his spring break... back and forth between computer games and video games and movies... told him next week we are reading books....
OK I am off to do the dishes, get ready for work and get the boys up and moving...
64 degrees today with rain tonight...
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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...

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